Good evening ...
Maxman ... Your Dragnet video is hilarious!
MLC. ... Thanks for posting a picture of my gas station. As everybody can see, it is one of my buildings where I did not have enough space for it, but I placed it there anyhow. I recall the gas station was fun to build.
Ray ... That sounds like a good bike ride.
John York 1.... Glad to hear about your good times in CO.
TF ... How are you doing with the Zephyr you purchased?
Everybody.... Have a nice evening.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Evening all.
It was a decent day today but did very little other than have a good workout. Burned about 1200 calories off on the bike and spent most of the rest of the day with my old dog. I went to do some pushups while I was down on the floor with him and something popped in my shoulder. I have already had one surgery on that shoulder, so I hope it is something minor. I will take it easy for a few days. Situps only.
When the wife and I are on the road she finds deli's to eat at on her phone that have rave reviews and we go there as they will have fresh healthy ingredients that have not been soaked in chemicals. I can't remember the last time we ate at a chain restaurant, we will also go to a better hotel and eat there as the food is so much better. I went to a Dennys about three years ago with a hockey team I was with down in Seattle. I could see in the kitchen from where I was sitting and watched a guy dump a fifty-pound bag of hashbrowns onto the counter. No doubt with lots of chemicals added to keep them fresh. Not exactly appetizing.
Ken, I would forget about the flame thrower, it is asking for trouble.
I keep getting invited to go on a bike ride with this road group. I need to get the Supercourse shipshape but that will be a $500.00 bill and I am not sure how I will hold up with my Arthritis. I prefer to ride alone anyway as I really like to motor and have a workout. I guess I am antisocial. When I mountain bike I enjoy doing that with friends but for some reason when I am on the road bike I like to be by myself. It is amazing how many miles you can peel off once you really get going. I use to do 50 miles just to unwind after work.
There are three movies or TV shows being filmed in the park where we go walk. One is some space thing with lots of big props. Might be Lost In Space as they are always around here. One was Batgirl as we saw her in her costume. They have a lot of catching up to do after being shut down.
Off on a train stood a lonely goat heard HO DA LADY HO DA LADY HO HO HO
I hope posting this pic doesn't violate forum rules showing hobo's.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Today was the tenth day of our quarantine since we returned from our trip to Ohio, Michigan, and back.
So far there are no signs that we picked up anything along the way.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Heartland Division CB&Q TF ... How are you doing with the Zephyr you purchased?
Good morning
Great Garry! That Silver Streak passenger set is so unlike any thing else I have as far as locomotives and rolling stock. I've only seen it run back and forth on two pieces of flex track though. I have my PECO track and turnouts ordered and on their way, so that'll change soon.
I liked your Gas Station on MLC's layout. What a nice gift! Does he pay you a franchise royalty percent?
Brent, The goats cracked me up. I wouldn't want to walk through that deep snow either is the understatement of the year Are you sure Canadian Pacific is not affiliated with Great Northern in any way?
Kevin, Glad to hear you and the wife's health is good and you didn't catch anything on your trip
Have a great Saturday everyone
TF
Good Saturday morning, everyone.
Kevin, I hope we are in the same shape after some days. We are just beginning our quarantine. We stayed in the same rooms with at least one person we know had the virus, and we were in some large crowds. We ate at restaurants with outdoor areas, but we used gas stations and public bathrooms. Time will tell if all the mask-wearing and gallons of hand sanitizers worked.
I think today will be another stay-inside, do-nothing day. When working, that sounded like heaven, but now it seems like a jail sentence.
Have a good, healthy day everyone.
Edit: Top of the page -- a cold Bloody Mary on a nice quarantine Saturday for everyone.
York1 John
Good morning .
TF ..... I'm glad you like the Zephyr. By any chance have you been to the Illinois RR Museum where they have the only surviving Burlington E5 locomotive? They use it to pull their Nebraska Zephyr train. ... Also, the gas station is here on my layout. MLC and Kevin visited here a few montha ago.
MLC ... After seeing your photo, I looked at my gas station, and saw I did have room to move it farther from the road. It may have been out of position for a very long time.
Brent ..... We can CP gets a lot of snow in the winter. That looks like the train is emerging from one of the spiral tunnels.
Everybody ..... Have a nice day.
Good morning Garry
I haven't been to the Illinois RR Museum. Should have, ...Judy and I would go to the Windy City every early sping just for something fun to do years ago. One time we took Amtrak down there for darn near free. They had round trip train ticket coupons on Wheaties cereal boxes.
The ride down was much more enjoyable. We enjoyed the observation car most the way down but it was a little overrun with a loud and obnoxious younger crowd on the way back.
Apparently I had gas station reversal confusion this morning What's funny is I had it turned the right way when I first posted and then went back in and made corrections to the wrong way What's that saying? "You should never second-guess yourself"
I'm going to make it a point to visit the Illinois RR Museum next time I'm down there. Always have enjoyed a good RR Museum.
Good afternoon, thunderstorms north of us caused flooding in Baltimore the last two days. One wizard who videoed a full size transit bus with water just below the side windows and said "There is no telling how deep the water is" As the bus wasn't floating down the street, I think we know exactly how deep the water is.
Taking the legs off the modular layout today. I still hate packing.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Heartland Division CB&QMLC and Kevin visited here a few months ago
One of the best days ever! Started out with a relaxing drive to Kentucky, then a great homestyle breakfast at a local restaurant with good conversation.
We toured two beautiful HO scale home layouts. Garry's layout is a true masterpiece, and that is not typical Kevin-style-hyperbole, it is a factual observation.
When I left Garry's home, the sunlight and sky were perfect and I captured some amazing pictures of the area around his Kentucky home. Kentucky is just staggering in the beauty all around.
I ate dinner at a good barbeque place called Triplets, and I don't care what anyone says, good barbeque is the best way to end a great day.
The drive back to Tennessee was easy.
My wife did not mind spending the day without me. We had been travelling together for a couple of weeks, so she took a car ride to a park in Nashville and had a peaceful day reading outdoors in the perfect weather.
York1Time will tell if all the mask-wearing and gallons of hand sanitizers worked.
We started our trip without hand sanitizer. It was impossible to find down here.
When I stopped in the first Menard's of our trip, in Merillville, Indiana, they had plenty of hand sanitizer in stock, AND N-95 Masks, and ... disinfectant wipes!
JACKPOT!
A couple of beautiful homes. One in Michigan and one in Ohio.
The rain is really coming down here right now. I looked at the live radar, and it is just Cape Coral getting heavy rain, the rest of the area is only a light rain.
Yes Kevin that was a good day, and the breakfast was good there at the "greasy spoon". I keep trying to make excuses to go back to it but with the current conditions I can wait.
I got the black IC engine fixed. I found where insulation had scraped off of the hot wire on one truck and was causing a dead short on that side. I replaced the control board with a 1 kv 35 amp bridge recitifier.( junk box find) It will only go forward direction but that was all we need at the museum anyway. So now I have three engines repaired. now to get track power separated and a control panel so we can run multiple trains.
Back to work on radios before the next on call week and the next wave of radios.
So far the cv has had minimal impact on our hospital.
POST HOG
Kevin : those are neat old house photos.
Brent: me thinks the goats are photoshopped on.
"......and now back to Gangbusters and the case of the carnival caper...."
Howdy ...
Kevin .... Oh, you went to Triplets afterwards. We should have done with you. Good food. As you can see it is connected to Harper House which has fantastic prime rib on Friday and Saturday nights. ..... I like the house photos you took on your trip.
MLC ... It would be good to have another get together. The virus has kept us from doing things.
Some of you might recall the eye surgery I was going to have in the winter was postponed. Next, it was delayed becasue of the virus shut down. ... It is now scheduled for this Monday for one eye and the following Monday for the other eye. It will be done in Nashville. It certainly is needed after waiting this long.
Evening
Always liked the Victorians Kevin, ...Nice pics. Sounds like you three had a really good time, that's always good to hear.
Well, I sure am refreshed for a Saturday after a nice long couch nap. I swear I need to make some nice long audio recordings of Golf for my night sleep.
A Golf game in the background never fails for a good Saturday or Sunday afternoon nap on the couch. It's almost as good as Nap Car.
I wish you well with your eye surgerys Garry
These are some views of the Age Of Steam Roundhouse that I just luckily stumbled into while driving through rural Ohio.
It was closed when I was there, but I was able to get a few pictures through the fence. Again... Oh how I wish I had my 300mm lens with me.
I will make sure I see this while it is open when I loop back through Ohio in October.
Kevin are you taking pictures of Atlantic Central's home?
Garry almost a piece of cake. I remember nothing, which I regret, because my uncle was a world famous cataract surgeon. While any surgery has risks, it's benefit is huge and the risk is really low.
In packing I looked at a few random boxes of slides. I will be excited to unpack and really take a look at what I have. I remember going to Cumberland MD and there was a yard full of old B&O GP7-9's
I got the latest Walther's catalog in the mail today.
Even though I buy very little lately, it is still exciting.
It reminds me of when I was a kid, and the Monkey Wards or Sears toy catalog came out before Christmas. I looked at every page and dreamed of being rich.
I hope paper catalogs don't completely go away.
Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a please and Dirk his dog treat.
Trains are being mean to me tonight. PRR GG1 is picking like Roy Clark! PRR 1sa and B&O F7's are running great!
Flame Thrower Front. Yep I bought it! I have yet to use it, and when I do I will have the garden house at hand. The area I bought it for is 40 feet from the house plus the house is all brick. I have to work at it to catch the house on fire.
Done with the BBQ and time to sit out with Dirk.
Later, Ken and Dirk says Woof, Woof Daddy, can I have the rib bones?
I hate Rust
At least it cooled off a little bit outside. Until tomorrow at Ken's place
Ken, Have fun with your Pyroglyphic De-weeding program tomorrow. Wish I could come join you with some of these leftover Roman Candles
I saw an article yesterday where some "expert" claimed we have pieces of alien space hardware. Given the quality of news today, who knows.
I walked down to the waterfront and my nextdoor neighbor's kid, 20 something, was carrying a totally unconscious girl from his boat. He borrowed a neighbors golf cart and he and his 4 or 5 friends loaded this woman in the front seat of the golf cart, where her head bent backward, further than I would trust mine to bend.
They pushed her head forward and she almost fell out of the golf cart. We then had a discussion about alcohol toxicity, drug over doses and aspiration. I have had more than my share of alcohol, but I've never been that drunk.
cudaken Flame Thrower Front. Yep I bought it!
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Good evening ....
BigDaddy Garry almost a piece of cake. I remember nothing, which I regret, because my uncle was a world famous cataract surgeon. While any surgery has risks, it's benefit is huge and the risk is really low.
Henry .... Thanks for saying that. My eye surgery will be at Vanderbilt Eye Institute in Nashville, TN. I have other medical issues cared for at Vanderbilt, too. Their doctors and other medical professionals are top notch.
TF .... Are you spaved out this evening or what ?
This evening, I was running trains. An SD9 is serving local customers on a branch line.
Everybody .... Have a good night.
Good Sunday Morning —
Here's an interesting look at a railway overpass replacement in time-lapse:
Kind of looks like the way we do it on the model railroad. Build the whole thing and slide it under the right-of-way, or "permanent-way" in the UK. The railway line was only shut down a little over three days on Christmas Holiday. What they don't mention is that it took another six years to get the highway portion straightened out.
Here's another look at a "pre-fab" assembly done in Osberstown, Ireland on the Cork-Dublin line. Kit-style.
Fascinating to see the load-compensated counterweight trolleyed around as the lift is needed.
I've seen a few similar bridge replacements done like this in North America as well. Neat to watch!
Regards, Ed
Heartland Division CB&Q BigDaddy Garry almost a piece of cake. I remember nothing, which I regret, because my uncle was a world famous cataract surgeon. While any surgery has risks, it's benefit is huge and the risk is really low. Henry .... Thanks for saying that. My eye surgery will be at Vanderbilt Eye Institute in Nashville, TN. I have other medical issues cared for at Vanderbilt, too. Their doctors and other medical professionals are top notch. TF .... Are you spaved out this evening or what ?
A little bit. I was bored last night surfing extraterrestrial and UFO sites on the internet. I find that stuff interesting. Most people don't believe that kind of thing unless they have seen something for themselves.
And it's funny Garry, I thaught I was going to add a new word to my vocabulary, (spaved) until I realized C is right next to V on the keypad
I have to go along with Henry on your eye surgery. My Grandfather had laser surgery done to remove his cataracts in the late 70s. It was a piece of cake procedure back then and Technology sure has come a long way since I don't know exactly what procedure you're having but they're all state-of-the-art.
No worries mate!
Ken, I can I appreciate your plan of getting rid of the weeds in the brick cracks is an easy one. Them weeds are tough though. I tried what you're doing with a propane torch with Mapp gas. Whenever the weed Roots stay intact they just come right back quickly.
I used weed killer the second time around and waited a few days until they turned brown. Then took the propane torch to them. That worked for quite a while.
Post Hog! Morning post Hog!
Ed, ... I really enjoyed the time lapse photography of the underpass. I always liked time lapse photography as it keeps your attention. No boring narrator flapping his jaws as you can see what's going on for yourself.
I watched on megastructures once how they moved a giant truss bridge that way. I especially found it interesting how they put those black slabs on the ends so the bottoms of Abutment supports don't give in towards the center.
Interesting, Thanks!
I'll be watching the other one while I finish my coffee this morning.
Track fiddler I especially found it interesting how they put those black slabs on the ends so the bottoms of Abutment supports don't give in towards the center.
I noticed those, TF, they looked like giant dominoes. Are they some kind of composite? Like Trex or maybe scrap tires?
I like watching the pile driver. They wasted no time getting those rammed in Somebody did their homework on those jobs!
Cheers, Ed
Yes, It makes one appreciate today's engineering Ed. Some of the things you see are just plain Common Sense after you see them. Perhaps Common Sense was many of the things missed years ago. I would imagine many of today's building tactics they learned from past mistakes that were overlooked. Structures in the past that didn't stand the test of time and now they see why. I always liked the common phrase in construction. "Hindsight is the best site"
I'm very curious what those large Domino slabs were made of as well? Interesting stuff!
Great videos Ed ! Thanks!
Hot and humid in SE. WI. yesterday and today. Big storms going on in the north. I'll be going back up there the first week in August.
Now that half of the garage is living space, I need to build a 12'x16' shed/3 season shop.
Have great Sunday!
Mike.
My You Tube
mbinsewi Now that half of the garage is living space, I need to build a 12'x16' shed/3 season shop.
I may have missed something Mike. The garage living space isn't your occasional dog house is it? Just kidding.
That 12 by16 shed sounds like a fun project. Are you going to tackle it?
I watched the second time-lapse video Ed. I have to say again I really enjoy those.
I have to admit they kind of lost me on the sub grade slab they buried. I can only speculate which is a guessing game that it's some type of buffer to better minimize the movement of lift and settling that they know they know is inevitable. (Below frost line slab Maybe) Just a guess, ... Very curious for the reasoning though.
Thanks Ed, Enjoyed!
Track fiddler The garage living space isn't your occasional dog house is it?
My wife used to threaten to make me go live in the garage.
Now that the garage is tiled, painted, cleaned, and comfortable, she does not make that threat anymore.
Good one Kevin.
Some men are well prepared From what I've seen, after all your hard work on your man cave I would spend the night out there in a minute, ... I bet you would too. Do you think she may possibly know that?
Have you surfed eBay for any futon shopping?