Howdy ....
Ed .... The Chevrolet truck plant also produced GMC's.... Except for name plate, they looked very much alike.
John York1 ..... Glad you could see the Big Boy in action !
Ray ..... Good to see you here.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Heartland Division CB&QEd .... Your link to industril history about hauling new vehicles by rail is interesting.
Thanks, Garry!
Hey, you caught my red & white GMC in that second photo (well, GMC not a Bow Tie)
GMC_1984 by Edmund, on Flickr
Anybody remember when trucks and automobiles came in a variety of colors? I just bought a new Chevy pickup. Here's the interior color choices:
[ ] Charcoal
Please choose one.
Exterior choices aren't much better, Ten shades of silver, white or black, plus red or blue. I remember the dealer having a book bigger than the Manhattan phone directory with all the color choices, plus you could choose vinyl, cloth or other combinations of fabrics, too. Then the vinyl roof was another option offering several styles, textures and colors.
OK, I'll stop being a grumpy old man now.
Enjoy the weekend folks!
Cheers, Ed
I'm a little late for breakfast today.
This morning I drove up to the UP mainline to see Big Boy come through on the way to Railroad Days in Omaha.
After seeing the train come by, I drove to the next small town where the locomotive stopped for about 15 minutes. I believe the entire town's 3,000 people were out to see the locomotive. Hundreds of kids there, and they really loved it.
Very good day!
York1 John
Mornin' Folks!
Janie, I could use a refill for my Dark Roast, Organic, Fair Traded Coffee this morning...
BATMANRay, glad to hear you're still walking. If you are flatlining on the weight loss you need to shock your body out of its memory pattern. Either try to change your diet just for a few days or look into "HIT" training or do both. The "HIT" training can be done with your walk/run routine. It wakes your body up from stagnation. There are lots of good You-Tube videos on HIT training (watch more than one). I have my own routine that has me changing what I do every time I exercise. My body doesn't ever know what's coming and prepares for the worst, makes me feel great.
I looked it up, Brent, Sounds like what we were doing a couple days a week back when I was a sophmore at Eastman School of Music in 1970... During the swimming units in PE, some of us opted to work out in the weight room after passing the swim test. I got into that to the point where I could do 6 reps lifting 550lbs. on the power rack with my legs! I forget what I was lifting on the rack with my arms back then (wasn't that impressive). I was working out every other day in my dorm room and was lifting 115 lbs. for presses, curls, and backhanded curls. I did 120 presses, 100 curls, and 80 backhanded curls back then without stopping. Today, I wouldn't do anything like that without having someone right there to call 911 for me! LOL
I did add some more calories to my diet for a few days and am once again losing a bit more weight. I am nearing my ultimate goal so weight loss is now slow. I love the reaction from people who haven't seen me in a few years! Was out at Boy Scout Camp yesterday and the "temporary" Ranger who is an old Scouting friend had no Idea who I was until I said hello and shook his hand. The reaction was great and made me feel very good. You should have seen the look on his face....
Have been spending some time building some "modified" kits for the layout. Have a massive amount of stuff I want to get done before Fall when my layout will be open for the NER NMRA Convention.
Have to leave in a couple minutes to take my Granddaughter to her Basketball camp in Waterloo. Catch you all later or at least will be sitting in the back listening.
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good morning....
Ed .... Your link to industril history about hauling new vehicles by rail is interesting.
Here are some photos I took in the 1970's in Flint, Michigan at the Chevrolet light truck assembly plant served by GTW RR.
Hello, folks—
Glad you liked the film, Ken. Neat stuff back in the day.
Here's a few other photos showing various loading of autos and a few American LaFrance apparatus into box cars. I'd say they needed a longer ramp in Elmira!
http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2016/03/carrying-automobiles-in-boxcars.html
NYC_25-Ani-5-6 by Edmund, on Flickr
Enjoy, Ed
Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a please.
Well Work Sucked Rail Spikes this week. In 3 days I had a whole 5 customers! Wht really stunk was Wednesday and Thursday I had 2 custmers come in 15 minutes before closing.
ROR Good for you and bad on me. I remember when I could do 100 sits as a warm up before I started lifiting. When I got in Management I just did not have time to work out like I use to. Plus getting married did not help either.
Good News? Credit score is back up to Good with a 700. In 2017 I was at 740 but stuff happens.
Ed Watched the video and thanks for posting it.
Later None Smoking Ken
I hate Rust
SeeYou190I found the building used as "Bo's Diner" in the movie Baby Driver.
The waitress is cute, but it's hard to see the building with a big "mug" in front it.
Mike.
My You Tube
up831May I be so bold as to inquire what brand she got?
I have no idea why my compootor decided to quote you 3 time's.
My wife bought a "USED" stove.....
a 1938 Chamber's. It work's pretty good ! Im up to 236 pound's because of it....
Rust...... It's a good thing !
Good afternoon, everyone. It's 3:00 p.m., hot, and time for a cold beer.
The discussion about car factories reminded me of a tour I took several years ago.
Corvettes are made in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It was an amazing tour of the factory.
You start the tour at the start of the line. There are big bins full of parts, and they start putting it together.
You walk following the line, and finally, at the end of the line, they put gas in the Corvette, start it, and drive it off the line.
Amazing to see a car built from scratch!
If you go, be sure to see the Corvette museum across the street from the factory. If I remember right, they have one of every model of Corvette made. They also have a nice big hole in the floor!
I found the building used as "Bo's Diner" in the movie Baby Driver.
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TOP OF THE PAGE! Have a Coke from Bo's Diner!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
York1. . .I should start with sit ups and pushups. . .
That's how I started. Last year my daughter was in Basic Training and, as a way of supporting her, I started doing push ups and sit-ups, part of her PT tests. When I started, I was lucky to do 10 of each. I have increased little by little to where I am today. One added benefit from the sit-ups, or rather the improvement to my core strength, has been a positive effect on my bicycle riding. A solid core has allowed for improved power transfer to the pedals. (Plus, my pants hang a little better.) Perhaps there would be a similar benefit to walking.
Richard
RideOnRoadFollowing my daughter's example, I have added pushups and sit-ups, along with a some free weight lifting, to my regimine. I am up to 3 sets of 45-50 sit-ups. I never thought this was possible, at least for me.
ROR, I'm impressed. I do walk two miles every day, but I have been told I need to add some weight work for good health. I should start with sit ups and pushups.
As with everything, it takes doing it, and sometimes I just don't do it.
BATMAN. . .other than the illegal border crossers looking for a ride. . .
Bwahaha. Lousy Americans.
We are under an "extreme heat warning." It was a balmy 85 at 5:00am when I left for my ride this morning. The ride wiped me out a bit. I pushed myself harder than usual--of the hour and twenty minutes, I spent 22 minutes with my heart rate over 154 bpm, topping out at 167 bpm. At 59 1/2, I am in the best shape of my life. Following my daughter's example, I have added pushups and sit-ups, along with a some free weight lifting, to my regimine. I am up to 3 sets of 45-50 sit-ups. I never thought this was possible, at least for me. Mrs. ROR asked if she needed to be concerned that I might run off with a younger woman. I told her a younger woman would be nearly as impressed with my physique as she is.
Tinplate ToddlerIf I am not wrong, Ford turned out over 2 million Model T´s in 1923.
Nine to ten thousand cars — a day!
From what I understand there was little room at the Highland Park plant so those cars had to get moving off the property, fast.
Fascinating logistics. I was always amazed at the River Rouge plant where the actual raw materials, ore, lime, raw rubber, silica for glass, leather, etc. entered one end of the plant and finished automobiles out the other. Ford was a believer in self sufficiency and made nearly everything at the plant, even his own concrete.
(note at 15:25. Would you like a little DDT on your lettuce?)
An amazing feat. Regards, Ed
Thanks for the pictures, Ed.
If I am not wrong, Ford turned out over 2 million Model T´s in 1923. I was just wondering how they transported this massive amount of cars to the customers all over America. There must have been "Ford" trains.
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Tinplate ToddlerI just wonder how all these cars made in the Midwest were brought to the West.
This link shows a photo of Fords being loaded, circus-style but these certainly aren't North American rail cars (scroll down)
https://myautoworld.com/ford/history/ford-t/ford-t-5/ford-t-5.html
I have seen photos of "SKD" Model Ts packed into crates and another photo of Ts as stripped-down chassis loaded into box cars in a diagonal fashion, four autos to each half of the car.
I'll post a link if I find it. There is a Model T fan club that has several photos on the website but it is currently down.
This 1913 Hudson Touring car is destined for Argentina as is the one behind which is fully crated.
Car_crate by Edmund, on Flickr
An early 1903 Overland sits on a street in San Francisco ready for "Dealer Prep" which, for the most part you bought your automobile direct from the factory back then and had "your" mechanic uncrate and assemble it for you.
Car_crate_0003 by Edmund, on Flickr
Good Morning, everyone!
Stormy here in NE Ohio.
"Operation Chastise" took over 2,000 lives - mainly women and children and old people. What´s even more bitter - repairing the busted dams took only a few weeks! It had no effect at all, other than killing civilians.
On another noten- I watched a documentary about the Ford Model T - fascinating history of the first mass-produced car in the world. I wish today´s car makers would have more of Ford´s philosophy of providing cars accessable to the man in the street, instead of aiming at ever bigger and more powerful.
I just wonder how all these cars made in the Midwest were brought to the West. I have never seen a picture of a trainload of Model Ts being brought ton, say, California.
Ed, my wife was looking at video surveillance cameras but other than the illegal border crossers looking for a ride, crime is a non-issue as we are pretty rural and the B&E types are too lazy to come this far.
My neighbour got the whole nine yards installed as he has reasons to because of what he does. He was away and was looking at his new cameras on his phone one day shortly after it was installed and saw a fire in the shrubs right next to the house and called the fire dept and his kids to tell them to get out of the house. He had a party at the house and someone had thrown a butt in the garden and two days later up she went. The cameras showed him the culprit as well.
My Dad died in 1993 and a week after the service I went over with two tickets to England and told my Mom to pack her bags. It was what she needed after dealing with my Dads illness for the previous four years. Her close family was still back there and she was thrilled to be going. Two days later we were on the plane.
I stayed for ten days and got her settled in with the relatives and then came home. Before I left she asked me to take her to a church cemetary in the small town of Buxton, so off we went. It was quite emotional for her and she told me it was the grave of her cousin and being an only child he was the sibling she never had. She casually mentioned that he was killed in the Dambuster raid and he was a pilot of one of the planes that didn't return. He had been repatriated and buried in that churchyard. Imagine my surprise when I heard that, as I had watched the movie many times.
I hope I got run times of my Hudsons close, I was just guessing after all. I'd be curious to see how close I got. It takes about six minutes to do a lap so that is more or less how I calculated the time.
Henry, I remember those double hose regulators. I also remember how cool I thought they were as it was just what Loyd Bridges used in Seahunt! Loved that show, couldn't wait to strap on the tanks.
My bar fridge is also stocked with Heinekin.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Good evening, folks.
Pretty warm and muggy here on the south shore of Lake Erie.
BATMANSomeone tried to steal our truck a couple of nights ago. Most likely someone walking in over the border as we are quite close.
I've had a video surveillance system for the past fifteen years, Brent. These days they are very economical and very versatile as well. My system started out as four very cheap ($15. ea.) cameras that I used on the layout as hidden staging "eyes".
Well, before I knew it I was adding cameras and upgrading the recording system. Today I have 16 cameras and can go to 32 if desired. I just upgraded a few cameras to network IP cameras and these are incredibly sharp image-wise.
Many of the systems will allow you to access a live view on your portable device. I don't have any portable devices but I used to access the system from w**k when I was there and was nice to be able to see what was going on "back home".
BATMANMy wife and Daughter have just taken my second Hudson to UPS, with the holidays the back and forth between Rapido and myself was on the slow side. I'll be glad to get it back.
I was surprized to see a "delivery attempt" pink slip from Post Office yesterday. I wasn't home to sign for the delivery so went to P.O. today to pick up the repaired Hudson. Hopefully they checked the decoder, too since mine barely had ten-minutes of running time on it. 30 days door-to-door for the repairs. Not bad.
FYI, there is a record of the operating hours embedded in ESU decoders. With a Lokprogrammer you can read the elapsed hours of operation.
Now, time for another Heinekin and a visit to the layout to get the Hudson on the rails for a little spin.
I really enjoy all the British war movies and have several collections on DVD. The Dam Busters was one of my favorites along with several others. I really enjoy seeing anything regarding the life and times of Churchill, too. I'd give anything to have been able to sit and listen to the wee-hour chats that Winston and FDR had, over cocktails and cigars, aboard the Ferdinand Magellan during one of Churchill's North America visits.
Cheers, everyone! Ed.
Just been chatting with a life long friend online and he sent me this. When we were kids we both knew and had family members that flew in the second world war including a handful that fought in the Battle for Britain. It started July 10, 1940 and lasted to October 1940.
His family escaped to Russia, then to Africa and made their way to Canada. Some of the Polish pilots were his family members that escaped with their aircraft to Britain.
My favourite war movie is The Battle Of Britain.
BATMAN. . .Richard when I did my Scuba course we had to do a swimming proficiency test that included swimming at least one length of an Olympic size swimming pool underwater holding your breath. Also, we had to swim something like ten lengths without fatigue. It was a long time ago in a life far far away. . .
I may have used a little editorial license. She was required to pass a swimming test, but she was slow and not very skilled. She accomplished the bare minimum to qualify. She is not a strong swimmer by any stretch of the imagination.
We recently decided to upgrade our family room so we now have new couches and a new rug. (The old ones were about 20 years old.) We were going to get a new TV but those plans have been put on hold. My scuba-diving daughter, who is still a student, has a very sick dog. She doesn't have the money for the vet bills, so we stepped in. (I'm a dad; it's my job.) $1500 later they still haven't figured out for sure what is wrong. Goodbye TV. We also had to step in and help my youngest who used up their baby-to-be savings account for another sick dog. Unfortunately, that dog didn't make it.
My scuba class, back in the days of double hose regulators, and single and double stage single hose regulators, and the fins were duck fins, started with us swiming laps everytime, albeit with mask and snorkels.
I once surfaced from a wreck dive and there was no boat. You can't see over 2' waves in full gear. I could see a couple heads so I swam over to them, sitting on what was probably a WW2 surplus life raft, those rectangular things that had a web bottom. The captain tied the anchor to the raft and went to retrieve someone who came up way behind the boat.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Good afternoon, nice to see the doors aren't locked today. It has been a rainy couple of days which is fine as last year at this time we were choked out with smoke from the fires. Even though it is rainy we have all the doors and windows open as it is quite pleasant. Spent the day in the trainroom yesterday and as usual, that put a smile on my face.
We have a batch of puppies arriving Sunday or Monday so that means there will be even more people coming through the house than usual for the next few weeks. X-Ray showed six or seven.
Richard when I did my Scuba course we had to do a swimming proficiency test that included swimming at least one length of an Olympic size swimming pool underwater holding your breath. Also, we had to swim something like ten lengths without fatigue. It was a long time ago in a life far far away.
Ulrich, glad to hear you have a little more energy with the reworked plumbing. My Mom said the same thing and after a couple of months doing the exercise program at the hospital, there was no holding her back. That house in Denmark reminds me of my cousins house outside of Portsmouth, so peaceful.
Someone tried to steal our truck a couple of nights ago. Most likely someone walking in over the border as we are quite close. That's the usual MO anyway. They ripped out the ignition to no avail as we have an immobilizer in it. We had all the doors and windows open all night and a house full of Golden Retrievers that didn't hear the would-be bandit. They were very stealthy to be sure. We have a Volkswagon Tiquan for a rental, not a fan, wouldn't buy one.
My wife and Daughter have just taken my second Hudson to UPS, with the holidays the back and forth between Rapido and myself was on the slow side. I'll be glad to get it back.
Our good friends are trying to get us to go on a cruise with them to Alaska, they go on the same cruise over and over again. We want to do the Panama Canal and head over to the Mediterranean or the South Pacific. The South Pacific cruise is about the only way to get to Easter Island for a visit for a reasonable cost. We have been on one cruise and to be honest I wasn't won over. I'll give it another go but I am a bit of a free spirit when I travel and just go where I feel like when I feel like it. If you find a place you love it is nice to be able to stay until you have had enough. Or if a place is not as expected pack up and go.
Speaking of stoves, My wife has been trying to scoop one at the auction houses. The one she wants is about $8000.00 and go for under a $1000.00 when the auction house gets them in, all brand new. We have done really well at the auction house on many things, got a brand new $4000.00 lazy boy electric reclining loveseat for $350.00, still in the box.
Ray, glad to hear you're still walking. If you are flatlining on the weight loss you need to shock your body out of its memory pattern. Either try to change your diet just for a few days or look into "HIT" training or do both. The "HIT" training can be done with your walk/run routine. It wakes your body up from stagnation. There are lots of good You-Tube videos on HIT training (watch more than one). I have my own routine that has me changing what I do every time I exercise. My body doesn't ever know what's coming and prepares for the worst, makes me feel great.
Well, it is almost 1600hrs and the house is quiet except for some snoring dogs. To the trainroom.
All the best to all.
cudaken Eveing Diners Flo, give the gang and I a please. You know that you are getting old when you visit a Nursing Home and they are playing Music that was at the clubs you went too to pick up chicks. That happen yesterday when I went to visit Dwight and Joe. Later, None Smoking Ken
You know that you are getting old when you visit a Nursing Home and they are playing Music that was at the clubs you went too to pick up chicks. That happen yesterday when I went to visit Dwight and Joe.
Later, None Smoking Ken
I only go out to clubs that play older music. If they are playing today's over-produced disco-pop, I won't even go inside. I've got a doo-wop station selected on my car radio.
I play oldies when I'm modeling the 60s, and Big Band when I slip back into the steam era.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good Afternoon!
A quiet day, not really nice outside, but mostly dry. I went for a walk and it went pretty well. Less huff n´puff than before the surgery, but I still need to get rid of some of the extra pounds in my bag!
Jimmy_BraumMy town is celebration our 250th birthday,
Jeepers, that´s young! My town was first mentioned as a settlement in a document 914 years ago and has been seat of a judicial court since 1625 - 5 years after the "Mayflower" sailed for Plymouth Rock.
Keeping my fingers crossed for the job hunt!
I loved the Daytona International Speedway, even if the food vendor prices were OUTRAGEOUS for the Daytona 500. 8 dollars for an adult beverage, 5 for a plain burger.
Well, hopefully I will not be unemployed much longer, after a long and painfully tiresome search, I have a phone interview next Monday for a receptionist job in an insurance office. Entry level position, and exactly what I'm looking for. Well I'm also leading my division's bring and brag, with only four more contests, hopefully I'll be able to finally win "Modeler of the year" for the NMRA Division 2 Mid Central Reigon. The groups I am involved with are keeping me on my toes currently as well.
My town is celebration our 250th birthday, so the whole place is putting on a "homecoming" with a parade, a 5K through the streets, digging up a time capsule, celebrating the Native American Tribe's history with actual Native Americans camping out at what was an Indian burial grounds called "The Mounds". What I am involved with is, a Street Fair put on by the youth of town (13-33). Guess what the theme of the fair is? Railroad, so Im in my element here. I'm also going to be playing live acoustic "Busking" for the fair as well.
The NMRA Division 2 MCR T-Trak modules will be at the Monroeville Greenberg train show coming up, and I'll be spending that saturday with another member showing them off, explaining the positives of T-Trak,etc. Both of my modules will be there.
The Club will be having a public display at a local park fair in August.
So yeah, I'm pretty jampacked for awhile.
My town of Monongahela has been doing outdoor concerts during the summer as well, over the course of a few years Ive seen quite a few different groups such as: Local guys Joe Grushecky and the houserockers, Poverty Neck Hillbillies, Local band but nationally known The Clarks, National Touring tribute bands like Hollywood Nights (Seger Tribute), Bruce In The USA, 7 Bridges (The best Eagles Tribute band in America), and last week a former member of Boston- David Victor played.
House: Done, just general upkeep and waiting for a gas can to be delivered so I can cut grass
Club: We decided to redo one whole section of layout, so thats under construction.
Home Layout: Haven't done a thing yet, minus figuring out what railroad locations I want to model between (Rook yard in Greentree to Belle Vernon PA, with Connelsville being a yard in the next room). Also working on getting more rolling stock ready to go.
Hope everything has been cool with everyone here.
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
Tinplate Toddler GMTRacing Page 5 if you start at 0 and page 6 if you start at 1, I think. Can there be a page "0"? Doesn´t everthing start with a first page?
GMTRacing Page 5 if you start at 0 and page 6 if you start at 1, I think.
Can there be a page "0"? Doesn´t everthing start with a first page?
No... in the world of computers we typically sart with zero. That way all ten digits 0-9 can be represented with a single carachter.
Doesn't help in counting things, but for numbering them or for any other digital porpoise they work just fine.
Your first hard drive is always called dev0
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Good morning. Rainy again.
If the grass dries out a little, I will try to get through it with the mower. If it doesn't dry out, then I guess I will be forced into working on the layout all day.
Music of your youth? How about the cable TV channel Turner Classic Movies? All day they are showing 1960s beach movies. Right now, while I work on the modern layout, I'm watching 1963's Beach Party with Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon.
I know it's probably not true, but it seemed that we, as teenagers, were much more innocent than today's teens.
cudaken You know that you are getting old when you visit a Nursing Home and they are playing Music that was at the clubs you went too to pick up chicks.
I was at the Daytona International Speedway recently, infested with old people, might as well be a nursing home, and they had Van Halen videos playing on the jumbo screen.