Track fiddlerDo you live in Antarctica, Greenland or the Klondike
Did someone say Klondike?
Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Post Hog! Post Hog!
Track Fiddler's on top. Lion why don't you come up here and take over.
Another Treat.
GN SKY BLUE for you.
They sure do a good job on upkeep and paint in Osceola Wisconsin. I always did like this boxcar, how about you? They use it for a work shed I think but it sure does look nice.
TF
My Conductor friend told me to come back in July and he would make sure that I operate the train
RideOnRoad 100 is tolerable, but once it clears 105 it is just hot, I don't care how dry it is.
100 is tolerable, but once it clears 105 it is just hot, I don't care how dry it is.
Swell...... Thanks for the heads up Richard. I'm sure they have Gatorade down there but I might just stick to the Vampire Theory...... Stay inn by day, go out at night
Well the main question Bear?
Did you get the Floatplane matter resolved?
Track fiddler. . .They say it's a dry heat. I must say I do not like hot and humid but hot is hot isn't it? I'm very curious about this one. . .
It is true that a dry heat is more tolerable than when it is humid. As was mentioned, the body's evaporative system does a very good job of cooling. The sweat evaporates almost as quickly as it surfaces, give the illusion that you are not really sweating. After a while in a dry heat, try rubbing your forehead. It will feel almost gritty. That is all of the residual salt from the sweat. One of the biggest mistakes visitors to the desert southwest make is not to drink enough, and not to replace the lost electrolytes. Since you are never "sweaty," it is common to forget to drink. Two words -- Don't forget!
As to your question, "Hot is hot isn't it?" my answer is at a point, yes. When it is dry, as long as there is a breeze, 95 is comfortable, 100 is tolerable, but once it clears 105 it is just hot, I don't care how dry it is.
Richard
PS. We’ve just had seven days of frost, though with sunny days, but spent a cold, and frustrating day trying to sort out a recalcitrant float plane on the lake. It was great to get home last night to be greeted with a toasty fire, a bowl of corn chowder, and a couple of bacon butties. Luxury!!
Thanks Bear.
I just read the bottom of your page and I must say...... I'm confused. I'm confused
What?........ Do you live in Antarctica, Greenland or the Klondike?
Weather can be pretty freaky sometimes. Judy told me a week or so ago after she had watched the morning news, that it was snowing in Colorado. I think a couple of weeks before that she said it was snowing in Montana???
Cool. My Judy just brought in my August MR magazine.
Chicago and Northwestern in Appleton Wisconsin. SWEET.
I stayed at a friend of the family's Mansion for the weekend in Appleton when I was in 10th grade in high school. Wow what a weekend that was, I lived Like a Rockstar.
I haven't been back there since but that town knew I was there when I was there
Time to go read.
Track fiddler...but hot is hot isn't it?
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Ken ... Congratulations on 60 days....
Everybody .... who is starting the July Diner and where are we going ?
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Afternoon Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a and Ulrich what he wants.
Man I am tired and my shoulders hurt! Cut off 4 large branches that where 4 to 5 inches in diameter that where hanging low. Cut them up and dragged to the front of the yard for pick up. Hacked some more out of the over grown front pourch. Starting to look like real people live here again. All so got the front yard cut!
Best news for today? Dwight my 92 year old neighbor got to come home today from the nursing home! We where going to go see him Sunday but don't have to now.
Train Front. Well I am done with steam for a while. Just got sick of the current lack of traction problem due to smoke fluid. The PPR I1sa could not drag 15 coal cars and a caboose last night! So tonight on the main line I am running all SD 7's and 9's!
Ed Running the B&O SD 7 #784 and she is a champ! It is dragging the I1sa coal train with not a problem!
Well it is now 60 days with out smoking! Later none smoking Ken
I hate Rust
Yeah, it was nice to wxxk inside today at the dummy grouting job. Wasn't so bad after all because I was working inside with AC. I like AC on days like today, what a great guy
When I stopped at Wine & More Warehouse to get a 12 pack of Amstel Light on the way home, I did spend a little more time in the cooler than I normally do.
Had I had a deck of cards and a small card table, I would have set up shop and played Solitaire in there for a while
Nothing like a cold one on a hot day
Erie1951I lived in NOLA for 12 years including Mid-City and don't recall mosquitoes being bad, but I do remember humidity so bad that it was like breathing in water.
It's always good to talk to someone from there. I worked at a school on Canal Street. What got me sometimes was that you could get up at 5:00 a.m. and it would be so hot and humid you wanted to stick your head in a refrigerator.
York1 John
I lived in NOLA for 12 years including Mid-City and don't recall mosquitoes being bad, but I do remember humidity so bad that it was like breathing in water.
Russ
Modeling the early '50s Erie in Paterson, NJ. Here's the link to my railroad postcard collection: https://railroadpostcards.blogspot.com/
Very hot and humid again today -- temperature 95°, dew point 77°, heat index 110°. We're surrounded by thousands of square miles of corn fields, with center pivot irrigation systems spraying water into the air.
Went to the small town of Deshler, NE (Population 750) for a train show today. The train store, Spring Creek Model Trains, gets the show together. It's pretty amazing that this small town, with the nearest city of more than 50,000 people a hundred miles away, puts on a train show that draws people from several states.
Came back a little inspired and with some good ideas for my layout.
Normally we visit one of the daughters for Independence Day, but this year I think one of the families will come here. The grandsons love blowing things up with me on the 4th. It's funny that I get upset spending a few dollars at the grocery store, but will spend huge amounts of money at the fireworks store to buy things to light on fire. And our dachshund is deaf, so the fireworks don't bother her. Lots of fun.
Stagnant water, small ponds and swamps. People stack old tires outside, that's where you're really bad mosquitoes come from.
I never fed my goldfish and koi in the Little Pond I made in the backyard. They had plenty to eat.
I couldn't believe how big they all got by Fall when I brought them inside and put them in the pig bin in the basement.
That's when I learned you never take a koi out of the water. You coax them into a bucket to transfer them. It creates Havoc with their air sac if you take them out of the water.
They jump out of the water for air to try to get there air sac back to normal.
My dog Nellie came upstairs like Lassie and told me one of them was outside of the pig bin on the floor.
She was jealous of the fish but still she came upstairs and told me. I'll never forget that
York1 moelarrycurly4 I don't know I was just in NOLA last week and it was heat index of 105. No mosquitos to speak of but you could cut the air with a knife. Most people wouldn't believe it, but in all the years I lived there, mosquitos were never a real problem. Of course, I lived in Mid-City, and I imagine the mosquitos are much worse in outlying areas.
moelarrycurly4 I don't know I was just in NOLA last week and it was heat index of 105. No mosquitos to speak of but you could cut the air with a knife.
I don't know I was just in NOLA last week and it was heat index of 105. No mosquitos to speak of but you could cut the air with a knife.
Most people wouldn't believe it, but in all the years I lived there, mosquitos were never a real problem. Of course, I lived in Mid-City, and I imagine the mosquitos are much worse in outlying areas.
I would bleive it, because mosquitos don't breed in the river ( moving water)
Nola? Nolans? New Orleans?
I don't know either. I've never been down south in the Summer, only in the Winter.
We're going on our second free trip to Laughlin July 14th through the 18th. It's supposed to be 110+F. It's 95 and humid as can be in Minnesota right now. Maybe 110 and dry is better
They say it's a dry heat. I must say I do not like hot and humid but hot is hot isn't it? I'm very curious about this one.
Maybe I'll switch to vampire mode, stay inside during the day and go outside at night I like The Nightlife sometimes.
ROARING
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
It's almost too hot to come to the diner. 93 degrees, not a breath of wind, moderate humidity.
Found out on Facebook that one of my former coworkers is now a widow in her mid 40's. Lost her husband to stomach cancer. They were both from Iceland and she was your ideal of a Scandanavian blonde. I haven't seen her in years, but her facebook pictures look like she has hardly aged.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
gmpullmanOften it was just a little oval to peek out of!
My '68 MGB was the same way! In the winter, the further you drove the smaller the oval got. I always carried a small hand scraper to use on the inside of the windshield.
It never occurred to me to get upset about the foggy windshield. It was simply a given fact that the defroster was pretty much useless so I had to make do. It's called "learning to cope", and I loved every minute of it! That car gave me more pleasure than most things in my life despite the occasional engine failures and the rust! I put more than 200,000 miles on it!
Geeze, now I'm getting all nostalgic!
Cheers everyone,
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
RideOnRoad ("Brakes?! We don't need no stinkin' brakes!")
Maybe I had better check! Perhaps the master cylinder or "balancing valve" might be keeping the rear axle brakes from applying? Still, you see the trailer I'm hauling, and it has brakes, too, and I don't seem to have any trouble getting stopped.
cudakenEd Nice truck.
Thanks, Ken! Today was the first time I did any "real" hauling in it. I'm going to need some kind of bed liner. Anybody know about the spray-in bed protection? The 2009 had a factory GM liner that was nice.
hon30critterOne of my customers had a Civic without AC. In the winter she had to sit until the car fully warmed up before she could see out the windows.
I started out driving my mom's '66 VW Beetle. No heat to speak of. Helped my dad change the octopus muffler, and "heater boxes" several times. They would last a year maybe. We kept a 12V. plug-in heat gun to try to keep the windscreen defrosted. Often it was just a little oval to peek out of!
IMG_0005 by Edmund, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
Just love you guys.
Nighty night and sleep well.
gmpullmanThat used to happen to a few of the cars I had. It usually meant that there was a leak in the heater core. I've changed a few of those in my day.
Every Civic owner I talked to had the same problem. One of my customers had a Civic without AC. In the winter she had to sit until the car fully warmed up before she could see out the windows. PITA.
Thanks Henry. I do have a copy but there's something about enjoying it on the world wide web while you know other people hear it too. I like that one just had to share it. Thanks for helping me out. I do appreciate it
Garry, you're definitely in the part of the Northern hemisphere where you can enjoy a good Green Machine too. Thanks for the information..... enjoyed.
I loved the day I found it. It made my day. I stood and walked around with a big smile on my face before I took pictures of it.
Track Fiddler
Track fiddlerI wonder if one of you Forum members could do me a square.
Never heard of that expression before. I think you want a link to Lakeside Park?
Howdy ...
TF ..... Thanks for the photo of BN 6234. ... It was originally an SD9 owned by Colorado and Southern which was a subsidiary of CB&Q. It was C&S number 839. A unque feature of C&S SD9's was the short hoods were taller than the long hoods. BN 6234 still has that feature as can be seen in the picture. C&S 839 had extra headlights consistant with CB&Q practice. BN removed the extra headlights, and the remaining headlights are positioned lower than on other SD9's.
York1 / John .... I'm glad you liked my whimsical scene. It was fun putting it together.
Ken .... Good to hear the good news about Sue's eye exam.
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July Diner ..... Who is planning to ope the Diner for the new month. Also, where do we want to visit ?
Evening again Diners.
I wonder if one of you Forum members could do me a square. It would be very much appreciated considering I don't know how to do it.
Last night I posted something about Lakeside Park, Canada. I will go into a little bit of detail and let's just leave it at that.
Lakeside Park is in Ontario Canada. I went to see it and stayed there once when I was a young teenager.
I lived on a resort in Voyageurs National Park about 33 miles south of International Falls. Kabetogama State Forest.
Back then I was pretty much of an adult at a young age and helped my parents all the time..... my job was tending the docks.
In the summertime back then, which was way more than the four days of summer now, I would break away on my break from the resort and (go figure) go with a group of friends fishing in Canada.
Nestor Falls and more so Sioux Narrows Canada was our favorite spots. We did go to St. Catharines, Ontario to Lakeside Park one time. I really enjoyed my stay there. It was beautiful.
Kirk from Arrowhead was always the best cook. He was always there on our ventures.
Well let me get to the point. Back then, Lakeside Park, I do believe was owned by Saint Catherine's and Toronto Railway. I don't know if that railroad still stands today. That was a lot of years ago.
I saw Lakeside Park years after Neil Peart did. He grew up very close to there and worked there when he was a young teenager years before I ever saw it. He wrote the lyrics for the song from his childhood memories, and Geddy Lee orchestrated it. One of my favorite bands when I was young.
This leads me to say, this is one of my all-time favorite songs. I would like to share this memory and song with you guys but I don't know how to post it.
If one of you could help a brother out..... Appreciated
Lakeside Park
Rush Caress of Steel
I hope you enjoy it as I have.
Thanks TF