York1and fried foot"
Much of the time Google translate is pretty lame, but I get something different:
Fried feet is Pies Fritos, not pronounced like apple pie, but pea-ace
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
All right, MLC, I ran your post through Google translator, and this what came out:
"take the restaurant to mexico.
many railways
and fried foot"
I'm OK with the many railways, but I'll pass on the fried foot.
York1 John
lleva el restarante al mexico.
muchos ferrocarilles
y frito pie......
Mexico sounds good to me.
Steven Otte If you're still looking for suggestions of where to park the Diner next month, may 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.
If you're still looking for suggestions of where to park the Diner next month, may 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.
I was thinking the same thing and often thought we should go to Mexico.
Rail map of Mexico.
https://www.openrailwaymap.org/?lang=en&lat=53.083301544189&lon=9.6000003814697&zoom=10&style=standard
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Bob Keeshan, the TV personality who played Captain Kangaroo, was also the first Clarabel the Clown on Howdy Doody.
When I was a very little kid, I actually was in the Peanut Gallery on Howdy Doody.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I spent about three hours one day photographing this one small town in Ohio.
This is exactly what I want the city of Centerville to look like on my layout. I have found my inspiration.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Hi Everyone,
I too remember Captain Kangaro. Thanks for refreshing my memory on Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel. That was a good story. There was also one on a snow plow that was good too.
How about The Horse in Striped Pajamas and Flatfoot Flugie and the Floy Doy. There was another song about ..all you hungry children, now eat it up. Don't remember the title of that one.
There was Bunny Rabbit, Grandfather Clock, of course, Mr. Greenjeans and all the animals he brought to see. One of his frequent guests was a guy called the Banana Man, who had a coat with lots of pockets and he would fill up three or four large crates with stuff he'd pull out of his pockets.
The best was when he would have this gigantic Lionel O-guage layout set up on the set and run trains. Well, it seemed gigantic at the time.
Great stuff for a child back then. I'll leave you with this.
Look there Daddy, do you see
there's a horse, in striped pajamas
No, that's not what it is, at all
Thats an animal, people call a zebra
I see, but it still looks like a horse in striped pajamas,
To me!
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Kevin, I won't give you any advice. Neat car, though!
I imagine Garry will have much better sight in several days. My brother had it done and said he hasn't seen that well in years.
A branch of the old Kansas City and Omaha Railroad, later part of the CB&Q, came through our town. This old station originally sat beside the tracks, but was moved back about a hundred yards. It's now a storage building for a contractor. The tracks were taken out about 25 years ago.
I thought it was neat for the square that held a clock above the door. No one I know knows what became of it.
Good Morning,
I guess Garry has had his surgery by now and trust all went well. I'm guessing it was cataract and if so they usually are just fine. A good friend had it done a short while ago and it meant no computer for a week or so.
Kevin, I think you owe it to yourself to buy that car. If you don't, you will always regret it as I imagine such cars don't come around often. I've never seen one. I have a soft spot for '66 cars. My Dad had a '66 LTD that had a 390 and it was quite quick. He sold it eventually and we know it went for about 300k miles.
Nice day here so I think I will go wash the car.
CN Charlie
gmpullman You had to be an octopus to pull all the levers and work your feet, too. Loads of fun, though (for a couple of hours, anyway)
Watching a skilled operator manipulate a Lima 2400-B Dragline was better than any circus act. It was something I knew I could never do.
Track fiddler Mike put me in the front end loader to remove the excessive piles of snow up over the curb.
I am no good at running front end loaders. I can crash them into the material pile, and raise the bucket, but the bucket is never more than 50% full. Working the bucket through a pile of gravel to get it full requires a lot of finesse to do it right.
My favorite thing to operate are those 6 wheel drive articulated off road dump trucks. I don't think you can get one stuck, and they are a blast.
The seller has dropped the price of this car to $14,000.00! A genuine 428 big block muscle car for under 15 grand? I guess that collector market is plummeting.
I paid $600.00 for mine in 1983. I got around $1,000.00 for it from the insurance company when it was totalled in 1987.
I am soooooooooooooooooooo tempted now.
Track fiddlerI remember Captain Kangaroo John. Dancing Bear and Mr. Green Jeans.
Yep! And I still remember how to make a Paper Plate Clock.....
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
I remember Captain Kangaroo John. Dancing Bear and Mr. Green Jeans.
Well, not a lot of chit-chat going on around here.
My daughter called this morning. I'm going to head down south to Faribault, go for a nice long walk and buy her a patio lunch.
It's a beautiful day after another hot humid heat streak. High of 80 and low humidity today, ...Nice
Have a good one guys
TF
Captain Kangaroo used to read Mike Mulligan and His Steam Stovel every so often when I was a little kid in the 50s. That and Make Way for Ducklings and The Little Red Lighthouse were my favorites.
I'm going out to walk, even though the rain hasn't quit.
I haven't been in the Diner too long. What states or provinces have not been done?
Thanks Ed
Mike Mulligan, ...Irish. That makes sense my Grandmother had those books. My Grandmother was so pure Irish she could wear red in lieu of green. Her name was Edith but my Grandfather the Scotsman always called her Irish. That was one of my most favorite books of many. I appreciated your post with the history behind it of which I never knew before
There seems to be a lot of Mike's this morning.
Hi Mike, I envy you get to build that 12 x16 shed. It's always a more enjoyable experience building something for yourself than for money. I wish I could.
This is the last garage I was building for my friend Chuck's brother. It had a pull down stair access to the loft above.
Chuck's brother was a building scientist. It was going to get windy the day after the trusses were set so he wanted an angled support apparatus in the backyard as a precaution. You can see it through the back windows. I knew it wasn't necessary but he paid me extra so I didn't argue.
I always put the OSB so the seams were'nt on the roof truss seam as a deterrent from a storm blowing off the roof. Chuck's brother liked that.
Judy took the pictures at the end of the day of me fiddling with my ladders. She's kind of a tomboy and liked to help me with my jobs sometimes.
Track fiddlerMy Grandmother used to read me a story book when I was a little guy that had a red steam shovel like the one you posted.
Yep, that was one of my favorites, too.
Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel!
https://www.rmichelson.com/illustration/virginia-lee-burton-2/mike-mulligan-and-his-steam-shovel/
On MY best seller list!
Cheers, Ed
Good morning
It looked like that steam shovel operator liked to go round and round. He'd be almost there, then stop and go the other way.
I never was very good at operating Machinery with a lot of levers Ed. I guess I didn't have that kind of coordination. It would take a long time in the seat before I'd somewhat get the hang of it but never completely did.
I used to work with my friend Mike removing snow from parking lots up here in Minnesota. In this particular heavy snow storm one of the guys didn't show up and Mike put me in the front end loader to remove the excessive piles of snow up over the curb.
He told me you're going to feel like a God operating this thing but trust me, you can get it stuck so don't get too crazy. Man that thing was fun, you wouldn't even have to pay me to operate it. After I somewhat started to get the hang of it, I did get my superiority complex and got the thing stuck.
I didn't want him to come back and catch me in my greenhorn state. So I shoveled frantically one side at a time as it would lean over a bit and then go shovel the other side. I did get it unstuck before he returned, sopping wet with sweat. I didn't get it stuck again that night.
It's funny how far back a memory can serve you. My Grandmother used to read me a story book when I was a little guy that had a red steam shovel like the one you posted. I don't remember the steam shovels name though. Another one of those books was the Little Engine That Could. I remember how old those books looked. They were probably the books that were read to my uncle Stewart when he was little.
It was sad to hear about Neil yesterday. I'm sure he will be missed.
Well time to make some coffee. Go juice I call it.
Oh, I want one of these
Sure wish the operator would have dressed the part. Just aint' right.
I used to work the manual band clutch clam shell bucket when we would coal the 4070. After a while I got pretty good at it. You had to be an octopus to pull all the levers and work your feet, too. Loads of fun, though (for a couple of hours, anyway)
Heartland Division CB&Q sadly, we may include Neil Besougloff on the RIP track. Definitely!
Heartland Division CB&Q sadly, we may include Neil Besougloff on the RIP track.
Definitely!
Yes, quite deservedly.
Heartland Division CB&Qsadly, we may include Neil Besougloff on the RIP track.
Definitely!!
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
hon30critterWow guys, it's almost August!! Where do you want to go next month?
hon30critterThanks for the update on the EBT. I haven't looked at their site for quite some time so I wasn't aware that there was so much progress being made.
There may be some prophesy in your reply, Dave?
East Broad Top, March 1971 by Edmund, on Flickr
Wow guys, it's almost August!! Where do you want to go next month?
Thankfully the Diner is free of Covid-19 so we can go wherever and do whatever we want! I'm trying hard to think of a location but so far my mind is blank (nothing new there!). Let's hear your suggestions. I would particularly encourage those members who don't post all that often to give us some ideas, and maybe even step up to the plate and host the Diner!
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
It has been a long day.
I managed to get all the stucco around the front entryway primed with Kilz-2. Tomorrow I will puit on a coat of paint.
Painting stucco is a royal pain.
We are trying the colour we chose for the house in this one area first to see if we like it before we have 20 gallons of it mixed.
Jimmy_Braum I have been watching the constant work at the East Broad Top Railroad and am amazed and figuraitvely crying tears of joy.
August sounds ambitious. I wonder what they will use for motive power?
https://tinyurl.com/y5uqdxv7
Garry, I know everything will go smooth for you tomorrow so we'll see you when you see us with your new peepers
Or peeper, I think you said you're doing one at a time, so you'll look like this for a while
Nighty Night Railfans, I'm gonna hit the rack
Hello again
Jimmy ... Good to see you. Thanks for the update on yourself. Feel free to post more often but not like Ken did. LOL
Ken ... LOL you post hog.
Everybody... I will bein Nashville TN for eye surgery tomorrow and the next day for follow up. ... So I will not be a post hog.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Heartland Division CB&QSadly, we may include Neil Besougloff on the RIP track.
That's really too bad. Thanks for letting us know.
Jimmy_Braum I received two NMRA evaluations yesterday- the Golden Spike award, and the AP Volunteer certificate. I passed both
Congratulations Jimmy! Well done!
Thanks for the update on the EBT. I haven't looked at their site for quite some time so I wasn't aware that there was so much progress being made.
Sadly, we may include Neil Besougloff on the RIP track.
OK, that is how to be Post Hog!
It has been hot and today I tried to buy a bigger Window A/C for the bedroom. Seems there is none to be had in the $300.00 to $400.00 range near me. Home Depot had a 7500 BTU unit that is $499.00 and offred to sell it to me for $399.00 but it weight is 70 pounds. Now, I can lift 70 pounds with no problem. But installing a winow A/C by my self is another thing. Problem is closing the window while holding the A/C unit.
Have not played with the flame thrower yet. Just to hot. Bear like the Beartoon!
Kevin Liked the photos of the houses. Far as living in the garage. My old house I could. Had a rest room, running water and central A/C. Plus it held 3 Mopars, Desk and Couch.
Running some old friends. My Bachmann DCC with sound F7's. I have forgotten how well the run and pull. They are pulling 22 cars with not a hitch.
BBQ tasted great!
Time to sit out with Dirk.
Later, Ken and Dirk says Daddy is a post hog, Woof, Woof
I hate Rust