TF: That is a beautiful little church picture you posted.
Ed: Down here in Florida we do not have very many bridges with low clearance heights. Our biggest problem is drivers not folding the stick of an excavator correctly when they load it on a low-boy so it is higher than 14 feet.
Excavators on trailers hit bridges almost every month down here.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Entertaining Ed
Beckoning me for a new found vacation spot.
I sure hope those rental truck guys got the extra insurance that was offered. I wonder what was in the last truck that caught on fire. Too bad the guys going the wrong way realized they were going the wrong way. In this situation the wrong way was the right way
I could watch those four hours
TF
P.S. I'm going to move down there and make a living becoming an aluminum scrapper. I'll go to the bridge every day and camp out and say, "I'm so sorry that happened to you, let me help you clean up this mess"
Track fiddlerThe 14 ton weight limit Bridge My daughter said last week an Amazon truck topped out on this bridge destroying the cargo cube. The bridge is still fine. Ain't the first time
When I get bored I like to peek in at 11 foot 8 inches and see what's new:
I imagine this bridge has ended a few truck driving careers pretty quickly.
This one actually caught a fire engine! Now that had to be an expensive repair. (1:09)
Just when you thought you were having a bad day
Cheers, Ed
My wife just made an unpleasant discovery in the back yard. A rat has moved in under our garden shed. I don't want to put out rat poison because that will also likely kill the chipmunks, so we are going to buy a live trap. If that doesn't work, I'll hire an exterminator.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Nice pictures! It would be nice to be able to scratchbuild some of those for my layout.
York1 John
I'll take the standard Breakfast Brunch. I don't really like pig feet with extra salsa, just a strange sense of humor.
Love the old stone and brick, hilly Rivertowns you posted a while back Kevin. And I'm due for a BLT myself.
Enjoyed visiting my daughter in Faribault Minnesota yesterday. After lunch we walked the whole hilly Town taking pictures
Faribault Minnesota.
It's a Crying Shame they painted the whole thing, the bricks can't breathe. Just the painted sign in the middle would be fine
The River Stone buildings
You can see where the egress windows used to be before the street and sidewalk came
Just love this little church
The Brick ones
It is said there's a ghost on the third floor of this building and not a nice one. I believe it. It was a very large antique store before a Distillery. A mirror fell off the shelf and busted over my daughters head about 5 years ago. She was not hurt or cut.
Coke, Coca-Cola
The Mills
The 14 ton weight limit Bridge
My daughter said last week an Amazon truck topped out on this bridge destroying the cargo cube. The bridge is still fine. Ain't the first time
The Depot
The Victorians
Most well over a 100 years old. The Old Buildings in the Old Town's sure pass the test of time. It must be that the brick/stone Masons and Carpenters cared about what they did. Thier Work outlasted thier lifetime.
York1 I'll pay for everyone to join me this morning with bacon, eggs, bacon, bacon, coffee, and bacon.
I have not had bacon in weeks... this just occurred to me. We had BLTs the second or third week of lock-down back in March. Other than that there has been no bacon.
I should get some.
Hello again,
Just got my first 1.6 mile run in this morning. Probably will do the second half this evening when it gets cooler again. Only about 78°F out there at the moment so it wasn't too bad running.
York1I'll pay for everyone to join me this morning with bacon, eggs, bacon, bacon, coffee, and bacon.
What??? No Spam!!!
"Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;"
"Wonderful Spam, Wonderfull Spam!!!"
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Yesterday morning I felt great. Today I feel terrible.
I am taking my wife to an eye-doctor appointment today. She has a big problem with her left eye and is feeling nervous about it.
I am going to start working on the Lanai Ceiling next. I bought a drywall crane and am going to try and tackle this task myself.
No fried feet for me, thanks, Flo. I'll take the Hardy Railroader's Breakfast.
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
ah you said credo instead of cerdo in your first post , which means feet a creed.
York1Edit: Top of the page. I'll pay for everyone to join me this morning with bacon, eggs, bacon, bacon, coffee, and bacon.
Mike
Posta Cerdo Posta Cerdo
Puliendo mi Espanol para Mexico
Puedo ser el interpreter para nosotro alla abajo
Senor Violinista De Pista
Thanks, Ray. It's too bad we didn't have a good camera and tripod with us. I think we could have gotten a good shot in that clear air at 10,000 feet.
TF, I'll skip the salsa on the pig feet. Just get me a regular taco.
Edit: Top of the page. I'll pay for everyone to join me this morning with bacon, eggs, bacon, bacon, coffee, and bacon.
Mornin' folks!
Janie I'll have a bowl of organic bran flakes with a bunch of blueberries on top. Oh, need a pot of dark roast, fair traded, organic coffee to get me awake this morning as well. Thanks!
York1I know the photo makes it difficult to see, which is too bad, because it was impressive to the naked eye.
Hope you don't mind York1, but I played a bit in Photoshop with your photo. Hope you like the result!
Gonna be another hot one here in the Finger Lakes Region of NYS with a high around 85°F
Have a great, but safe day out there!!!
Frito pies de cerdo si
You want extra hot salsa on your feet.
Buenos dias
Si vamos todas a Mexico y tendremos mucho grande tacos el martes
Posdata Salsa extra cliente en mis pies de cerdo por favor
moelarrycurly4Tarta frito
You mean as opposed to 'fried foot'. Sounds much better!
hon30critterInstalled doors are not cheap! By the time you add in all the extras like paint, capping and hardware the price is a bit scary. We could do it much cheaper if we went with a local contractor but that is a crap shoot. The odds on getting messed up are too great to even consider.
My new lanai doors and kitchen window are sitting in my garage waiting to be installed.
The crap shoot is serious.
I had a major company install the three windows on the north side of the house. A post about how unsatisfied I am with that experience would take hours to type.
The lanai door and kitchen window are being handled by a local contractor... they will not even add me to the schedule even though the parts have been delivered. I have no idea how long the door will be sitting in the garage.
The new front window, yet to be delivered, is being handled by a third contractor. That window is delayed at the factory again. I knew the front window would be a a probelm because an engineer and architect had to be involved.
Still, this all started in March, and nothing is done yet. I am over $10,000.00 out of pocket with another $5,000.00 or so still yet to be paid for windows and doors, and it is all dragging on.
I hope you have better luck.
Tarta frito
Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a please and Dirk a dog treat.
Work was normal, just fixing mistake Jerry the made and fixing them. I was under the weather Saturday so I called off.
Dirk has messed up his foot again ny chewing on it. All the vet has told us to use is over the counter stuff so his feet does not react to grass. Off to the vet we go again.
TF That sure is a good looking garage from what I can see. I sure wished you lived with in driving range of my house.
Later, Ken and Drk says woof, woof.
I hate Rust
Dianne and I just spent some serious coin today! We ordered a new front door and a new patio door. Both are original to the house (in other words they are 42 years old!), and while they still work well they are showing their age. There must be 15 coats of paint on the front door, and the patio door requires constant lubrication. The screen is torn too.
The front door will be red with a 3/4 light and matching sidelight. The rest of the house is done in sandalwood so the door will stand out!
Installed doors are not cheap! By the time you add in all the extras like paint, capping and hardware the price is a bit scary. We could do it much cheaper if we went with a local contractor but that is a crap shoot. The odds on getting messed up are too great to even consider. We are going with a larger company that has an 88% overall satisfaction rating, and perhaps more importantly, has a good reputation for solving problems quickly. Incidentally, we looked at Home Depot but their own website shows that 28% of the reviews are 3 out of 5 or less, and based on the comments it was obvious that they aren't very good at addressing problems.
Getting the doors replaced is actually the last thing on the list of major improvements for the house. Everything else has been done. From now on it will only be routine maintenance. The roof will be the next major expense but's 20 years down the road. We may not even be here.
Now all we have to do is wait about 8 weeks. That's like telling a kid that Christmas is in two months!
Cheers!!
At Breckenridge last week, we just had a phone camera, but the comet was very clear and visible.
I know the photo makes it difficult to see, which is too bad, because it was impressive to the naked eye. The comet is towards the bottom of the photo, between the two middle trees.
About the time we took this photo, a moose walked by about twenty yards away.
Steven Ottemay I suggest we honor former editor Neil Besougloff with a visit to the land of his retirement, Mexico. There's a lot of railroading south of the border, and as an added benefit, I don't remember the Diner ever going there.
Mexico seems to be a popular choice. I had thought of going there too. Let's do it!
Next question is 'who wants to open the diner?'. I will volunteer to start it, but I know nothing about Mexico railroading. I'll have to do some reading. If there is someone with significant knowledge maybe they could offer to do a post on Mexico railroading history to accompany the opening posts.
Vamonos!! Salut!!
gmpullmanOh, I want one of these
I made one. The tracks are a bit modern but the rest isn't too bad:
BigDaddyApropos of nothing, except the recent expensive hobby post, these are prices for the 1969 World Series
— and a look at the Buffalo YMCA 1968 menu for railroad employees. I've had some excellent meals here
Penn-Central_Menu_Buffalo68 by Edmund, on Flickr
Humm, now I'm getting hungry! Enjoy —
Ed
Maximizing storage in my garage.
I built a special shelf to house my small hardware drawers. These drawers are industrial parts bins, and very heavy duty. I had to keep these. We used these for brass fittings at work before we switched suppliers.
Beneath the drawers I plan to put the garbage can and recycling bin. I also wanted the plastic sawhorses to hang on the wall there.
I attached two by fours to the wall, and painted them to match, to hold the hanging tool hooks.
I added hooks to hold the garden/yard tools that would not fit on the other side of the garage. Hanging these tools allowed for me to get rid of a tool rack that devoured six square feet of floor space.
Tools are also easier to access like this.
The refuse cans, ladders, and work platforms all fit exactly as I planned.
Success!
Apropos of nothing, except the recent expensive hobby post, these are prices for the 1969 World Series
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley