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Jeffrey´s Trackside Diner March 2020 - This Month in Texas!

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Posted by Track fiddler on Thursday, March 12, 2020 11:34 PM

SeeYou190

 

 
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Looks like everything in the country is shutting down.

 

Yeah, Adepticon just announced it is cancelling. The next two train shows in Florida have cancelled. Walt Disney World Resort is shutting down.

-Kevin

 

 

Too bad.

Appears the powers-that-be are always winning. SadSadSad

Wouldn't be the first time and won't be the lastSad

Or is that...Won't be the first time and wouldn't be the lastSad

Don't know,  Do care thoughSad

 

Just to badSad

 

 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, March 12, 2020 11:25 PM

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Looks like everything in the country is shutting down.

Yeah, Adepticon just announced it is cancelling. The next two train shows in Florida have cancelled. Walt Disney World Resort is shutting down.

-Kevin

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Thursday, March 12, 2020 11:07 PM

Howdy ...

Looks like everything in the country is shutting down. Hopefully, this stops the spread of the virus. .... I pray none of you and nobody in your famlies is infected. 

Brent .... Nice looking Mama Dog and Pups. Expensive, however. 

Ed ... I like the GMC truck you had. I still have a Chevy truck purchased in 2002, and it never has any mechanical problems. 

John / York1 .... Thanks for commenting about my Flint, MI pictures. 

Everybody ..... Have a good night. 

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Posted by Track fiddler on Thursday, March 12, 2020 10:22 PM

I always liked a good pup Brent.  The pups look a bit young to be cute yet.  I like the 3-4 week ones.

Mama golden retriever sure looks like a good ol dog.  What's her name?  She sure looks very happy and proud of her new pups.Smile

Your wife's work is admirable.  I'm sure you are proud of her as you should be.

For now let's get the Glenfiddich or the Glenlivet out and I'll toast one to the new pups and the lovely wife you have been blessed with.  Just as I have been with my JudyYes

 

Cheers

 

 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, March 12, 2020 10:04 PM

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Geez Kevin, thanks for the tear jerker! I've had the songs picked out for the Daddy-Daughter dance for when my girls get married for years now

My middle daughter and I danced to "Butterfly Kisses" at her wedding.

That was a bad choice and an absolute tear-jerker.

York1
Kevin, last night I noticed the same thing with the quote button on certain threads. You could not insert a quote. This morning, it's working fine again.

I am glad to hear it was not just me. It was strange, but it all seems working again now.

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Posted by BATMAN on Thursday, March 12, 2020 6:43 PM

Had puppies last night (C-section), only two. Needed five to break even so these two cost about $7000.00 a piece at this point. I get trains the wife gets puppies, I'll take the trainsLaugh.

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Posted by Track fiddler on Thursday, March 12, 2020 6:35 PM

My favorite pick-up truck was the 1972 Cheyenne 350.  Two tone, medium metallic blue and white.  I had her when I worked the Docks in Voyagers National Park.

Now, I think I was the only one on the lake that never hit a deer or even came close.  The truck got the muffler rust flu years before.  It got pretty seriousLaugh   

You have to be careful about that in Minnesota ya know.  There's lots of salt on da roads up dare.  If you don't wash your undercarriage often, you could very well be infected tooTongue Tied

Everyone knew when I was coming down da road, way before I got dare,  even da moose and da deer got out of the wayPirate 

The Bears usually cleared the dump when I got dare with da garbage run ya knowLaugh 

 

I love old school pickup trucks!  The older the better applies as the oldest ones had the most characterYes

 

 

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Posted by BATMAN on Thursday, March 12, 2020 5:46 PM

SoapBox deleted.Laugh

Brent

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, March 12, 2020 4:16 PM

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Ed .... Thanks for sharing this video. It brings back memories.

Glad you liked it, Garry. No one can deny the close ties the railroads had with North American auto manufacturers.

Looking at your photos of the Flint output made me long for my old GMC:

 GMC_1984 by Edmund, on Flickr

I wonder if two-tone paint will ever make a comeback? Remember when you could choose from dozens of interior colors, too? Today you get your choice of charcoal, charcoal, or graphite black.

GMTRacing
Good ol GM. they made Conrail raise all the bridges between Tarrytown and Albany to clear the tri level car carriers

I recall back in the late NYC or early P-C days when a freight was re-routed somewhere near Toledo, Ohio, and a few auto racks with Cadillacs had the tops cut off due to low bridge. I'll have to do some digging for that one Whistling.

 

The crocuses have bloomed here despite cooler temperatures.

 crocus by Edmund, on Flickr

I hope everyone is in good health and fine spirits and Angel for those not so much — I hope Mr. Otte is recovering well.

Cheers, Ed

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Posted by GMTRacing on Thursday, March 12, 2020 3:35 PM


Good ol GM. they made Conrail raise all the bridges between Tarrytown and Albany to clear the tri level car carriers and then a year after the project was finished, they closed the Tarrytown, NY plant and left eveyone hanging.  

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Posted by York1 on Thursday, March 12, 2020 11:26 AM

I agree, Ulrich!

 Garry, your experiences are very interesting, and great pictures, too.  There are a lot of auto carrier cars coming through Nebraska on the UP.

Kevin, last night I noticed the same thing with the quote button on certain threads.  You could not insert a quote.  This morning, it's working fine again.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Thursday, March 12, 2020 10:50 AM

gmpullman

 

 
SeeYou190
It will not let me include a quote in my reply.

 

Humm, maybe a "browser" issue?

 

How about a pack of Cadillacs?

Some neat concepts here from the "Vert-A-Pac" era!

I wasn't aware of the "three-pack" container idea. (5:50)

Cheers, Ed

 

 

Ed .... Thanks for sharing this video. It brings back memories. I worked for GTW RR  as a business analyst in the 1970's and 1980's. We did a lot of work with GM Logistics.  I recall seeing Cadillacs loaded into the containers shown at the Detroit assembly plant.

GTW served the following GM assembly plants: Oldsmobile in Lansing. Pontiac Motor Division in Pontiac. GMC Truck in Pontiac. Chevy Truck (small trucks) in Flint. 

Oldsmobiles and Pontiacs were shipped on tri-levels. Chevy pickups and suburbans were shipped on bi-levels. GMC big trucks were shipped on saddleback flat cars. 

As an analyst, I calculated costs associated with various prototype enclosed multi-level cars being proposed at the time.  Southern Pacific favored the container cars in the video. I recall an experimental enclosed flat car that was tested to haul the GMC motor homes (Remember them?) produced in Pontiac. Southern Railway had an articulated, three section enclosed tri-level that was tested with Oldsmobile in Lansing. Several designs for end doors for enclosed multi-levels were tested. By the end of the 1970's, railroads and GM Logistics agreed on the type of enclosed multi-level which continues to be used to this day. 

I recall all multilevels were assigned to specific assembly plants. Vehicles were shipped to the destination, and all empty multi-levels were returned to the assigned assembly plant. The result was a lot of wasteful empty railcar miles. I worked on a project with GTW and CN for two-way hauls between Lansing and a GM assembly plant near Tornoto. It saved money for the railroads and GM. Eventually, all railroads pooled the multi-level cars to reduce empty railcar miles. When a multi-level was unloaded at a destination, it would be sent to the nearest assemply plant to be reloaded. 

Later, I was transferred out of Automotive Marketing for other work. 

Information you probably don't need to know. LOL 

 

SOme of the ptictures I took at Chevy Assembly in FLint: 

GARRY

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Thursday, March 12, 2020 10:47 AM

drciesel

If the nurses in your area have no concern with the Cronea [sic] virus but bedbugs are the hot button issue, please let us know your locale.

There are actually a few large billboards I drive by here advertising bedbug removal services.

I have no travel plans for a while and I'm glad.

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Posted by Tinplate Toddler on Thursday, March 12, 2020 10:45 AM

York1

Good morning, everyone.

It's a beautiful morning outside.  I was able to walk the trail, but I did have hooded coat and gloves on.

The robins are going nuts fighting and chasing each other -- establishing territory.

Still working on a grain elevator for the layout.  Once it's done, I think I need to reorganize how I store things and how I work on things.  I don't have much room (wife allows part of a guest bedroom for this), and I'm tripping over myself.  When I started my first layout two years ago, I didn't realize that storage and work areas are just as important as the layout itself.

Don't lick any public handrails or kiss any coughing strangers in the stores.

 

 

I don´t intend to!

The world has gone nuts and crackers over the virus! I start to believe it´s a giant hoax!

Off to something more pleasant! Remember Dave Vollmer´s beautiful N scale PRR Juniata Division layout? Well, Dave has built a new layout since he retired from the US Air Force. It´s a very nice little HOn3 layout based on the RGS in Colorado!

My stuff!

Stay safe!

Happy times!

Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)

"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"

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Posted by York1 on Thursday, March 12, 2020 10:08 AM

Good morning, everyone.

It's a beautiful morning outside.  I was able to walk the trail, but I did have hooded coat and gloves on.

The robins are going nuts fighting and chasing each other -- establishing territory.

Still working on a grain elevator for the layout.  Once it's done, I think I need to reorganize how I store things and how I work on things.  I don't have much room (wife allows part of a guest bedroom for this), and I'm tripping over myself.  When I started my first layout two years ago, I didn't realize that storage and work areas are just as important as the layout itself.

Don't lick any public handrails or kiss any coughing strangers in the stores.

 

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Posted by Water Level Route on Thursday, March 12, 2020 6:39 AM

SeeYou190
Then Taylor Swift wrote this song, and everytime I hear it I cry. The second verse contains everything I know about raising girls.

Geez Kevin, thanks for the tear jerker! Laugh I hadn't heard this song before.  So much value in a long drive!  I've had the songs picked out for the Daddy-Daughter dance for when my girls get married for years now (in the case of my youngest, since before she was born).  I can't listen to them now and maintain my composure.  I have no idea how I'm going to do it when the day comes.  My girls are obviously still at home and I'm dreading the day when they're not.  I'm going to feel exactly like you, I know.

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Posted by GMTRacing on Thursday, March 12, 2020 6:30 AM

Good Morning All,

   A regular to go please Zoe. I have drifted in and back out of the diner a few times last couple of days but been busy enough that I haven't stayed or posted. 

   Got my physical yesterday and sent my approved competition license paperwork in so that is done and dusted.

We have enough clusters of the flu around the area that we haven't seen any sanitizing stuff on the store shelves for a couple of weeks. I think if you are reasonably cautious you should be ok. The thing that freaks people out is the lack of real information and the prevalence of out and out false information. Some things seem over reactions but until we all understand more about the facts erring on the side of caution is ok to me. Travel outside the country seems to have been a trigger for most of the clusters of illness we have around here (all New England is urbanized and even the 'burbs are closeish). We shall see. In the meantime we can only trust that test kits and responses if needed are being planned properly. There is a happy medium I think between ignoring it all and blind panic. None of our race meetings have been cancelled or postponed yet so we shall see how this all goes.    Have a good one.   Ciao, J.R.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 10:45 PM

York1
I don't care about the house. It's all that green grass!

Ah yes, the great thing about living in Florida, green weeds all year round!

I used to have grass, then there was a bad draught in the early 2000s, and everyones lawns died.

Now we all have weeds.

Its good to touch the green green weeds of home.

I have a Madagascar Palm, and two Crape Myrtles in my front yard, specifically because even in Florida they will lose their leaves in the Winter time.

That is the only way I can keep track of seasons.

The Mohogany Trees are strange. They will drop all their leaves in about a week at the beginning of Summer, and immediately grow them all back with the most bright light green leaves you have ever seen. It looks plastic.

Maple Trees are evergreen down here, but they will not produce any syrup.

-Kevin

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Posted by cudaken on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 10:19 PM

 Eveing Diners

 Flo, give the gang and I a Beer please and Dirk his dog treat.

 Work and Corona Virus Scare. This may just do the company in. In 3 days I only had $180.00 in sales? I think things are getting blowen up way out of proportions. I could be wrong, but my gut says no. It is something new so the messes are afraid of it! Remeber the Bird Flu, it was going to kill everyone! I blame the media qust for rattings!

 I get the run on spary disinfectant, hand wipes and hand sanitizes. But a run on Toilet Paper? Whistling Does the Corona Virus cause the run's? While I perfer not to run out of T/P paper, I have soap and a shower so what is the big deal!

 Tax refund I filed last Friday and today I saw a state income tax refund in my checking account? Dang that was fast!

  Dirk Pip new trick. Bang Head OK 3 days ago he was sick as a dog, hum seems fitting with him being a dog. He would not eat Sunday or Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday he will only eat if I am with him? Had food on the floor all day and would not touch it. I get home, walk him and sit by his food bowel, he will eat.

 My wife call's Dirk, he comes to me? I have to tell him to go to Mommy, then he will go to her. Hum.

 Later Ken and Dirk say's Woof, Woof.

I hate Rust

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Posted by mbinsewi on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 7:45 PM

CGW121
 FYI I almost never read this thread and even post even less, so dont expect any reply

Well, good for you!  I'm soooo happy for you! And thank you for stopping by and letting those of us that do post in here,  know EXACTLY how you feel! 

Now we know!  Laugh

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Posted by drciesel on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 7:38 PM

CGW121
So what scares nurses? Not this Cronea Virus or h1n1 but bedbugs will bring out the hasmat suits in a New York Second. 

 

If the nurses in your area have no concern with the Cronea [sic] virus but bedbugs are the hot button issue, please let us know your locale.

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Posted by CGW121 on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 5:39 PM

Track fiddler

With this,  I am going to hit the rack.

I'm watching the news with Judy right now.

I can't believe people buy into this media crap.

History repeats itself.

I remember when my dad caught the Hong Kong Flu in the seventies.  He was so sick,  he coughed so hard.

Guess what?  He was just fineSmile

$$$$$$   On the other side of things.  I'll see you on the Dark Side of the MoonLaugh

We're all okay here!   We Are All Good! 

Us Smart people believe on our own side of things and that's half the battle, ... don't forget your mind is a powerful thingPirate

All you have to say is NO,  I don't buy in-to this crap!

 

RUSH  "All the world indeed a stage and we are merely players"

 

 

And guess what?   You'll never have to worry about catching anyting ever again, ... Mind SetBow 

 

Don't catch much without negitive receptaclesIndifferent

 

 

 

TF

 

 

A bit of background here

My family and extended family are loaded with medical professionals, me I have trouble spelling, but I know a lot of people in the med biz, my wife is an RN with over 30 years experience, so I am not blowing hot air here. A nurse has one of the most strong immune systems, they have been exposed to al most everything. So if the nurses start getting co ncerned then you need to pay attention. So what scares nurses? Not this Cronea Virus or h1n1 but bedbugs will bring out the hasmat suits in a New York Second. Unless you have respitory problems or in otherwise poor health you are probably ok. But if you get your jollies woring about the flu well have fun.  FYI I almost never read this thread and even post even less, so dont expect any reply

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Posted by York1 on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 5:38 PM

SeeYou190
I raised three daughters, and I have no great parenting advice. However, I found the best parenting tool when they were stressed over school/friends/boys was the car.

Another father of three girls here.  Agreed!

We got through everything, and they are doing well.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 3:38 PM

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Had a late night with my oldest daughter last night. She has herself wound tight as a drum with worries a 15 year old thinks are monumental.

I raised three daughters, and I have no great parenting advice.

However, I found the best parenting tool when they were stressed over school/friends/boys was the car.

I would toss them in, and drive to Orlando or Miami, anywhere three hours away will do the trick. Then we do something fun for a couple of hours, shop, mini-golf, or whatever. Then we drive home.

Somewhere along the way we start laughing, and all the problems seem to be less of a matter. This always seemed to fix the world for a while.

Then Taylor Swift wrote this song, and everytime I hear it I cry.

The second verse contains everything I know about raising girls.

I miss my girls so much.

-Kevin

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Posted by York1 on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 12:34 PM

SeeYou190
 The house across the road is done.

-Kevin

 

I don't care about the house.  It's all that green grass!  I'm not used to seeing anything green for another month.

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Posted by hon30critter on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 9:44 AM

MisterBeasley
There's a big bald eagle out by the creekside about a hundred yards from my house.  I haven't seen him so close before. 

That's cool!!

Dave

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Posted by Water Level Route on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 7:56 AM

MLC, you reminded me about my favorite song with Texas in it.  One of my favorite country songs ever.

 

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Posted by York1 on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 7:32 AM

Good morning.  Same as always -- black coffee, bacon, eggs, hashbrowns.  I'm in a rut.

Another day of not doing much.  We have church for Lent today, but outside of that, I probably won't even leave the house except to walk the dog.

Hope everyone is doing well today.

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Posted by moelarrycurly4 on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 7:22 AM

Since we are in Texas

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Posted by Water Level Route on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 6:45 AM

Flo, I'll take the special with a large grape juice please.  And a black coffee.  Gang,  well wishes to all that need them.  Been relatively healthy in my neck of the woods.  Hope it stays that way.  Had a late night with my oldest daughter last night.  She has herself wound tight as a drum with worries a 15 year old thinks are monumental.  Of course, they're not.  She just doesn't have the experience yet to see that, and a personality that just can't let some things go without knowing the nth detail.  Fingers crossed today will be better.  Some of the solutions really are simple.  

It occured to me over the weekend that I might be a bit backwards from most model railroaders.  I tend not to get as much accomplished on the layout during the winter as I do during the warmer months.  I think a few things are at play here.  First, I don't have a paint booth, so painting structures, etc, is pretty much out.  Then, the basement is chilly.  The space heater helps, but takes some time.  Winter is usually limited to quick projects and train running.  Summer, on the other hand, is obviously warm enough for painting outdoors, and the cool basement is a wonderful respit from the heat.  I'm starting to get the itch to work on the railroad, so the weather better cooperate and heat up! 

Cheers,

Mike

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