BroadwayLion LIONS do not have credit scores. but we do score wildebeests from time to time. ROAR
LIONS do not have credit scores. but we do score wildebeests from time to time.
ROAR
You are the Lion, someone's the Eggman and someone's the Walrus, Koo Koo kachoo.
I watched the crocodiles snagging wildebeest off the shore on the Quest Channel tonight. Nature is really something else.
I did reserve a compartment under the plane to Laughlin tomorrow morning for you. We will be leaving at 2:00 in the morning to get to Rochester Minnesota to board the plane by 5:30. I tried to get you aboard on Coach but they said the last time they ran out of beef sticks and you got a little rambunctious
If you can make it down from North Dakota in time we will see you there. We will be having prime rib in the prime rib room tomorrow evening and I have ordered a special wildebeest lunch just for you the following afternoon.
Track Fiddler
CNCharlieBrent, that photo isn't a Victoria Beach train.
Charlie, I just copied and pasted the caption that was with the photo so I can't say for sure.
Had a bunch of people in tonight and we were talkin movies as they always are asking the kid things. I asked about Baby Driver and they all said it was good, so we'll see.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Evidently, everybody is sleeping in today.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Heartland Division CB&Q Evidently, everybody is sleeping in today.
Just waiting for some puppies to arrive. It is a beautiful day to do nothing, so it is hurry up and wait. Played my guitar out on the deck for three hours and made lunch for the gang. It is very quiet here right now, inside and out, very ominous.
Afternoon Flo, where are the other customers? What, I am the first customer of the day?
Flo, give me a please and if any of the gang show up give them one as well.
Have not felt like doing anything today. I tried not drinking any coffee today to see if felt better. Well that sure did not work. Spent maybe 45 minutes working on the rear patio.
Tried of talking to my self so later.
None smoking Ken
I hate Rust
Heartland Division CB&QEvidently, everybody is sleeping in today.
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I did not sleep in, but I have had a busy day.
I spent the day (yesterday too) working on my "proof of concept" layout project. A new update is over in the Layout Building section of the forums.
I need to be up at 4:30 AM tomorrow and then drive to Orlando for a meeting at 8:30 with Lynx Transit, so I will be going to be in bed early tonight.
Wow, four posts in ten minutes. I guess Garry just needed to give us a nudge.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Hello again .
Good to see Brent, Ken, and Kevin.
Everybody else: I hope you find some time to visit here.
actually, my day has been full also. However , I did just now spend about 15 to 20 minutes in the train room. Hoping to do more this evening . .. Tomorrow will be very full for me too.
Heartland Division CB&QEverybody else: I hope you find some time to visit here.
Hello!
Does anyone know where the diner finally wound up? Somewhere between Ottawa and Philly (or was it Harrisburg?) last I heard.
I'm checking on the progress of the Eastbound Lakeshore Limited. I am picking up son and daughter-in-law and two grand kids when they arrive in Cleveland at 5:38 this morning. So far, fingers crossed, they are ON TIME! No. 6 was six hours late into Chicago. **
They took #5 west last week and arrived in Salt Lake City, seventeen hours late.
Amtrak_Capitol_CLE by Edmund, on Flickr
OK, this is the Capitol but close is good enough.
Happy Monday, everyone!
Donuts are self-serve this morning. Flo is taking the day off.
donuts by Edmund, on Flickr
I'll take a custard-filled Bavarian cream eclair, please. Never cared for that white, fluffy, sugary stuffing you find in some donuts. I guess that's imitation Holland cream?
Cheers, Ed
** Update:
#49 was ON TIME to the minute at 5:38 this morning. From my experience this is a one-in-ten thousand chance for Amtrak!
BATMAN...I asked about Baby Driver and they all said it was good, so we'll see.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Good morning ....
Ed ..... Thanks for the donut. I selected a powdered sugar one. Yummy. .... We never did decide where to visit this month. ... I like the photo you posted.
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I'm only here briefly this morning. .... We are leaving for another trip to Nashville very soon.
Cheers.
Good Morning
Post Card for you guys
I don't know what the chances of four of a kind twice is but I'll take it.
120 degrees feels like your eyes are bulging out and cooking in your head, I'm staying inside by day for the most part. It cools off to a 100 degrees at night, I go out a little bit more then.
Be Cool TF
Good morning from a warm and sunny West Coast.
TF, stop teasing me with photo's out the window of airplanes it really makes me want go somewhere. Good on ya for getting four of a kind. I remember once we were in Vegas and I was putting my last few shekels in a slot machine while we were waiting to board the plane and won a pot big enough that they had to call the attendant to come pay me. I was the last one on the plane and apologized to the crew for holding them up and they laughed and said it happens quite often.
Between 8 and 10 last night we landed six puppies so we will be hearing the pitter patter of little feet around the house again.
It means the house will be full of visitors for the next two months with people coming to see them. The wife will keep four of them. Two will be kept here, the other two will go to show homes and campaigned by whoever gets them and two will be sold to other show or pet homes.
It makes for an interesting social life being married to my wife but the whole dog thing does nothing for me. She has the same opinion about my trains and that is why we get along so well, we both have our own interest and both fully support the other. Life is good, except when a puppy eats a hole through the drywall, but then I am now an expert drywall repairman so there is an upside to everything.
I was playing basketball with the kid yesterday for about 2 1/2 hours and really hurt my foot. I just kept playing thinking it would go away and last night it really hurt and today it really, really hurts. I hope I can get on the bike an peddle or I will go through serious withdrawl. It could be a few nights of TV ahead of me, oh well I have hardly had it on since I finished Game OF Thrones so I should be able to find something. I'll see if I can find Baby Driver. Its been 20 years since I have seen Lawrence Of Arabia, that's good for four hours. I have never seen Gone With The Wind, I have started it a couple of times and couldn't get more than half an hour into it. Maybe now I have matured a little more I'll get through it.
Having to sell my wife's stepmoms condo as she has been put in a home with advanced dementia. I am staying out of it. Her half brother is handling it and he is quite disfunctional and clueless so I had to whisper in my wifes ear about a couple of things he was doing that were just stupid financially. She got on the phone to him and he is back on course. He spent most of his life hanging out in the punk rock world and now thinks he is so hard done by. His brother and my wife chose to go to University and become highly educated proffessionals instead. "Work" isn't in his vocabulary.
Okay, now my foot really, really, really hurts. Maybe it's BONE SPURS! I hear you can get out of anything with those. Oh the pain....Oh the agony...... Woman I need more coffee! Where's my little bell?
I am getting restless, can you tell? That reminds me of a song, where's my guitar?
Can you spot the train?
Winter is coming.
All the best to all.
Good Afternoon All,
Just dropping by between trips. Back from Mt Tremblant and off to Elkhart, Wisc and Road America tomorrow. Blues Festival was at Mt Tremblant and some of the bands were good. Lots got rained out by big storms that caused the outdoor stages to be vacated. We dodged the rain racing as it only showed up at the end of out days. Did lose a 20 x 53 awning though over Saturday night. Only drowned one car which we managed to get dried out enough to work though the data system isn't 100% yet.
Flight is at 6am tomorrow so we leave the shop at 3:30 to make Bradley by 5 and hope for the best. Ciao, J.R.
Afternoon Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a please.
Ulrich are you still here?
Rain, Rain I am glad you are here today, I did not feel like doing yard work anyway!
Little sad tonight. Ran into Mary, Joe's wife that are our neightbor across the street. Wife and I visted him and Dwight last Monday (Dwight is my next door neightbor) Asked Mary how Joe and Dwight are doing. Told me "Dwight is doing fine, but Joe is not going to make it." First time she has emitted that to me. Joe is a great guy and will be missed when he is gone.
Broke Down And Gave In To My Wife today And Going Off Diet. She been crying all I eat are sandwiches and you don't take me out to eat. Humm how is this my problem I don't buy your food? But I gave in and bought a large pizza. I love pizza but Tuesday my blood surger will be well above 180 when I get up. Well my 30 day avg has been 95 so I don't think it will kill me!
Trains Night is good! Running 4 SD 7 / 9's and F 7 ABA so life is good.
Later None smoking Ken
BATMANHe spent most of his life hanging out in the punk rock world
Me too, maybe we crossed paths somewhere along the way.
I hope his hearing faired better than mine has.
BATMAN TF, stop teasing me with photo's out the window of airplanes it really makes me want go somewhere.
TF, stop teasing me with photo's out the window of airplanes it really makes me want go somewhere.
Okay no more plane window shots Brent. Sometimes you get a good picture but watching that wing bounce with those three fuel tanks is never comforting to me when I'm sitting right behind them It wouldn't make any sense to take a wing shot on the way home. That isn't quite the same is it?
I had an experience of almost missing the plane in Vegas about 20 years ago when I put the Rock on my Judy's finger. The reason we were late was not as good as waiting for a boatload load of cash though.
I liked the pups I will quote your quote..... All the best to you Brent.
Another postcard to you all. A morning cruise down the Colorado River before it got too hot today.
I'm checking out the sky colors down here. I think Kevin was right..... It is a darker blue
A little over a hundred degrees when we started taking pictures of the West Bank this morning. Over a hundred five when we returned. It was good to get out a little bit today before it actually got hot.
Be Cool. TF
I am glad to fit this trip into my Four Days of Summer..... It's going fast isn't it
Post hog. TF's on the top, literally, 23rd floor of the South Tower. I've always been a late night dinner eater. Just had Krispy krunchy Chicken with layered mashed potatoes and gravy You can only justify eating that here, inside in 68°.
You got to remember it's only a quarter to nine in Nevada right now. 10:45 MR time.
I'm thinking of taking a late-night dip in the pool before I hit the rack. Talk to you guys tomorrow..... Maybe
Track fiddler Sometimes you get a good picture but watching that wing bounce with those three fuel tanks is never comforting to me when I'm sitting right behind them
Those fuel tanks are actually "flap track farings", they cover the mechanism that controls the flaps.
Here is a video and you can see right inside at the end.
The wings do bounce a lot, if they didn't they would break off, just think of them as being big springs.
People tend to fear what they don't understand, the best way to get over the fear of flying is to take some flying lessons. I kid you not.
Brent, that's a neat video of the various parts of the wings doing their thing on take off and landing.
I have never been afraid to fly. When I was an Air Cadet I was afraid of getting airsick, which I usually did. Now I'm afraid of turbulence because it bangs my back around. However, I do have to give the airlines credit. My back gets banged around far more on the shuttle trips between the airport and the hotel/parking. I have learned to sit in the front of the buses. It still hurts, and the other riders look at me funny when I vocalize the pain, i.e. scream in agony. Somebody needs to design a suspension for the buses that doesn't break peoples' backs!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
BATMANThe wings do bounce a lot, if they didn't they would break off, just think of them as being big springs.
LION was in Beastmarck for some Nursing CEs. Avter a visit to the Zoo, him went toJack's Steakhouse.
Him had a RED, RARE, JUICY PRIME RIB, salad, fries, pop and a nice tip all for $30.00
ROARING
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Good morning ...
Bear ... That was quite an adventure regarding wings flexing.
JR ... I hope all goes well with you at Elkhart and Road America. ...
Brent....You posted a nice photo of CP locomotives on the bridge.
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Yesterday was a long day. My wife had minor out patient surgery in Nashville in the afternoon. We returned home last night. It went well, and she is resting at home while following doctor instructions.
on the layout, I just completed ballasting about 21’ of track.
Good Afternoon!
Just stopping by to say hello, sit quietly in the backbooth and sip on my coffee. Life is actually quite kind to me right now, which means there are no downs, but also no ups. Most of our noisy and rude neighbors are gone on vacation and we hope they stay a little longer, wherever they are!
Nothing else to report! Our friend has put one of her apartments on the market yesterday and we all hope she is able to flip it quickly! The proceeds are destined to buy the property in Denmark. We will schedule a visit once the sale has been done.
No model railroading related activity at the moment. The layout is collecting dust, that´s all.
Have a good one!
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Good Morning.
Interesting video Brent, thanks. All these years I was led to believe those aerodynamic cylinder things under the wings were fuel tanks as I have been told the fuel is stored in the wings. Thanks for clearing that one up for me.
It only makes sense now after watching the video, the high velocity of wind coming over the wings would need some kind of stabilizer than just a flap on a hinge.
I always did understand the wings are supposed to flex. I just don't like sitting behind the wings. I have heard that is the worst place to be if something goes wrong and statistically if something does go wrong it's usually during the landing. I don't like the idea of sitting behind the line of fire so to speak.
I never have been a big fan of flying. I look at it as strapping yourself into a passenger missile and giving up all your rights of controlling your own destiny. I'm pretty much at ease after take off when we're up in the air and function normally, it's The landings I get nervous about I've experienced some rough ones.
That was a funny airplane story Bear, you did get a chuckle out of me
Sorry to hear about your back problems Dave. Back pain is the worst there is. I hope you can find some kind of relief. I wonder about that Teeter Hang Ups Contraption I've Seen On TV, if it's a gimmick or helpful.
TF
Last time I flew as we were getting closer to the ground descending to land, we hit a downdraft. The plane sunk so many feet you could feel it in your stomach. It was a good pilot, he hit the throttle hard and pulled up. We swung around about another half hour to come in for another landing. I thanked the pilot on the way out of the plane. That was a little freaky that time.
In a time long ago----at a place far away---I worked on auto-pilot systems for B-52 and F-106 aircraft. The wings on a B-52 will flex nearly 15 feet from takeoff configuration untill they reach flying speed. Quite a thing to witness. On the ground they have outrigger wheels to help support the wings.
herrinchoker
I have to admit I nearly wet my pants during my first flight, when I saw those wings flex, but then I was a lad of mere 16 years of age and that flight took me from Germany to the Pacific Northwest, so I was a nervous wreck only for that reason.
I was on a flight to Florida once that hit a lot of turbulence. People were uncomfortable but I had to point out that they would have to wait on line for an hour at Disney for a ride like that.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Ulrich: Glad to hear your a having a mediocre day. Sometimes those are the best days.
Richard
Good afternoon Diners.
Another postcard for you, a good one. Had some good luck after brunch early this afternoon on two machines. I played Grand Lions, Judy played Wild Horses. We both won.
I have to be honest, we haven't got back to breaking even yet but we're getting closer it's all about having fun though right?
Judy didn't win on Wild Horses, she put her winnings back in but she jumped over to my machine with 20 bucks after I cashed out and won again. It's all good, we split everything.
Good afternoon ...
TF ..... I'm glad the two of you are having such a fun vactation !
Ulrich ..... I am getting a feeling that your situtation is improving, and your worst problems are in the past. Also, I sense the favorable trends will continue. ... Smile !
Herrinchoker .... You mentioned the B52. It reminds me of an old movie about Statigic Air Command. I wish today's movies were that good. .... I have seen a B52 in a museum.. Awesome plane.
Flying is not my favorote activity. However, I do it because traveling long distances makes it necessary.
Everybody .... Have a good day.