Nothing RR related, but in 1949, the 3 network television stations built a triple antenna tower on a hill (TV Hill) in Baltimore. Because of changes in the bands they transmit on, they are replacing the 3 antenna by helicopter right now. 3pm eastern
https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2020/07/21/watch-live-antenna-removed-from-wjzs-candelabra-tower/
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
I see I have tops, cold beer in a Vancouver Canuck mug right out of the freezer for all. It is in the mid-30s here today so I will need a few myself.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Good morning, I have been weed eating the dog run for the last couple of hours, so it was time for my third cuppa.
Charlie, here is a pic of my old house off Google, it had a lot of paving stones and once a year I used a pressure washer to blast the dirt and weeds out, it didn't take long. I just had a small electric one back then. Moving to the country required a much bigger one.
I went out at 2330hrs last night to try and see the comet, however, the sky was still light enough to the NW that the Big Dipper was hard to see never mind the comet. If I stay up later I will be sure to have another look.
The cedar shortages in the U.S. have more to do with trade issues than covid. Canadas softwood market has turned to Asia and to a lesser extent Europe. It is not complicated to understand why the change. We get plenty of ships like these car carriers coming into the Port of Vancouver with cars from Asia and they are filled with lumber for the return trip.
Ulrich has left us again, I feel bad for him as nothing will sideline you faster than health issues, I am speaking from experience. I was lucky to have many safety nets in place so my standard of living did not suffer in the least.
My wife also is unable to work as she developed serious neurological issues. It hit her out of nowhere right in the middle of delicate surgery, fortunately, there was another surgeon at the hospital at the time and was able to finish up. She had a good disability policy as well so we are in good shape. I do worry about her though as I see a slow but steady decline in her health.
It is funny that smiles should be mentioned, I was at Home Depot yesterday and as I walked out the girl at the door said thanks for the smile. I said how do you know I was smiling under my mask? She said I can see it in your eyes. Must be those big wrinkles.
Most everyone had a mask on yesterday even though we have the virus under control here, there are only 2 people in the ICU in the whole Province. Makes me not worry much about the kid having to go to Ottawa.
Well, I think I'll take a break from the weed eater and ride the Deere for an hour and then go back to weed eating.
All the best to all.
1947
MisterBeasleyI miss smiles
I miss seeing people's smiling faces too. It really bothers me when I am talking to someone, and I am smiling, but they do not know I am.
It feels like some happiness is missing from conversations now.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
MisterBeasleytake a step back and remove your mask so you can take a few deep breaths.
I'm not allowed to do that. Everytime I try a mirror breaks.
CNCharlieI see Ulrich has left us again.
Sigh. Dejavu all over again.
hon30critterDianne and I finally went out to see Comet Neowise. It took us forever to find it even though we knew where we should be looking. The problem was that we were looking for a very bright, well defined object like the photographs of the comet depict. That is not how the comet appears to the naked eye. The photographs are time exposures, usually around 3 seconds. Your eyes only see the amount of light that the comet is reflecting in the instant which makes the actual appearance quite a bit fainter. It is about the same brightness as the surrounding stars, but once you spot the tail there is no mistaking it. . .
We, too, went out to see the comet and also struggled to see it. The trick for us was to find it using our peripheral vision. Rods are more active in peripheral vision than in a direct view.
Richard
cudaken Garry is it the diners Mr B? I hope not, he has all ready been through a lot in the last few years.
Garry is it the diners Mr B? I hope not, he has all ready been through a lot in the last few years.
No, it's not me. In fact, I actually got a negative Covid-19 test just a couple of weeks ago.
Please, everyone, we are all angry over this mess and the various ways our governments have botched up the response, but when you're feeling this way, take a step back and remove your mask so you can take a few deep breaths.
I miss smiles. The people at the butcher shop and a couple of other places have started wearing plastic face shields. I'm not sure what value those have for stopping viruses, but my guess is they won't get Kadee coupler springs flying into their eyes. And, they can smile at us customers.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Track fiddlerMr. Sandman Musta gave me extra sleep time this morning to make up for yesterday's early bird specia
Me too...
I slept like a rock last night. Went to bed about 3:00 AM and slept until 11:30!
I feel great. I only got a couple hours sleep the night before.
More trains from Ohio:
Good Morning,
Nice day here, sunny and warm but could get showers this afternoon.
I see Ulrich has left us again.
Well yesterday we finally got that privacy screen put together and set up. I think it looks good and it does give us some privacy for our patio. Next up is a new fence and a couple of new trees.
Today I will be tackling those driveway weeds again. That propane weed roaster looks good but I don't think it would be ideal for our driveway as it has about 5,000 paving stones in it. The dirt collects between the stones and then the weeds grow. I scrape out the dirt with a screwdriver. A labourious process but it works.
TF, I don't think the inavailability of cedar is due to the border issue as it is open for commerce. Perhaps the mills aren't running much due to covid. Cedar sure is expensive though. Our fence certainly won't made with it. We had an exterior wall siding replaced 20 years ago and the tongue and groove cedar cost $900 wholesale for close knots. Clear was double that.
More coffee is in order. I got up at 10 to 6 to put out the feeders and stayed up. We have to take them in every night as a racoon visits every night. My wife saw it and was surprised at how large it was.
CN Charlie
Steven Otte Ulrich, saying this may cause you to stomp off in a huff again, but I'm sick of having to tell you this. I will NOT have you posting ethnic slurs in my Forum. Don't do it again.
Ulrich, saying this may cause you to stomp off in a huff again, but I'm sick of having to tell you this. I will NOT have you posting ethnic slurs in my Forum. Don't do it again.
I am sick and tired of being bullied by someone like you! Delete my acoount!
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Good morning
Mr. Sandman Musta gave me extra sleep time this morning to make up for yesterday's early bird special
I liked the old black and whites Ed. Looks like the steam engineer's gave that railroad engineer an ape hanger
I didn't know bladder infections affected the brain. The few times I've had one, Judy's cranberry juice remedy has always worked to wash it away. Not the sugar cocktail, the 100% stuff you mix 50/50 with water and tastes like battery acid. I'm sure a very serious one takes a little more remedy than that. I hope your mother gets better soon Henry.
I haven't changed my bass guitar strings since I bought it Dave. I do notice I'm having to tune it more frequently and it doesn't stay tuned for long. I suppose the strings are stretched out and it's time to buy new ones.
There are 120 decks on the building I live in. The first floor decks are cement but I have 80 Decks that need rotten boards replaced at my leisure. These decks were built with 1 by 12 Cedar skirt boards. A very popular poor design. With fall leaf debris getting trapped between the seam, the water had nowhere to go over the years and rotted the ends out. I always built my decks with the decking ran wild over the edge, then snapped a line to cut.
I always knew 95% of the Cedar comes from Canada. But I didn't know the lumber yards are out of stock.
Canada has the coronavirus thing under control as the US doesn't. Shipping Cedar to the US is on hold. This is the story I have heard anyway. Regardless of the reason, this does put a damper on my future job security here Oh well, I may have to find something else to do. There always seems to be a sporadic flow of inside work.
There's a wall cloud of storms approaching this morning. Judy and I love storms. Not the kind that are destructive of course. Just a good friendly summer storm to be enjoyed. We are hopeful it doesn't split and go around the city like it frequently does.
Have a great day today guys
TF
Look where the throttle is:
Century_life13 by Edmund, on Flickr
Then see where the needle is:
Century_life20 by Edmund, on Flickr
Yes sir! The Century is on time tonight.
Century_life28 by Edmund, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
Tinplate ToddlerI don´t know how many bubbles have burst recently, but I know for sure there will not any bubble bursting in thefuture - I simply give up dreaming.
Hi Ulrich,
Please take a couple of days to recoup.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Good Morning!
It´s quite nice outside, not too hot, not too cold, not too dry and not too wet, not too windy and not too bright, but not too dark, either.
Is it a beautiful day? Well, not really -at least not for me. I fell into a deep black hole after finding out that there seems to be no way for us to live the life we want to have. I don´t know how many bubbles have burst recently, but I know for sure there will not be any bubble bursting in the future - I simply give up dreaming.
Evening all.
Dave it is still not dark here but I will go out and have a look see for the comet in a while.
It was a scortcher day today and I floated around in the pool with my two kids for a couple of hours, it was wonderful to just sit and talk with them. Hardly see my son these days as he is working so much. His temporary position that started sitting in on advisory sessions with the Feds on this covid thing has now turned into sitting in with Government and UN officials and he prepared a couple of reports for them on data that they did not even ask for and they were so impressed he now has a staff of three assigned to him. He took down all the hockey posters in his bedroom as that is where he works from and thought a more conservative background would be better. He continues with his hockey writing and has had three more job offers from that. He is also rewritting and updating exams for University level finance students to take as the regulations change constantly so they need to be kept current.
He needs to go back to Ottawa for some one on one meetings, I am glad this virus is mostly under control here so he should be safe.
Rob, sorry to hear about your dog. My old dog is still hanging on and seems happy but is very weak and it won't be long I don't think. The wife did a blood draw and it was just the most horrible blood you would want to see, it looked more like cool aid as you could see through it. She ran a full panel and the results made one wonder how the dog was still alive.
Went and bought some guitar strings today, $51.00 for two sets. The times they are changing. I have had my two guitars for 50 years. I wonder what a new set cost back then? I change them quite often, every month or two, but my tiny brain doesn't remember them being that expensive a couple of months ago.
Henry, my Mother-in-laws brain stops working with all her bladder infections as well. My wife makes her a home made tumeric concoction that keeps her pretty sharp most of the time. It is quite noticable when she misses a couple of days.
Dave I have one of those weed torches as well, it's from Lee Valley. It works well if you do a weekly patrol and don't let things get away from you. Burning fosil fuel is better than pouring chemicals into the groundwater I guess. My driveway is concrete and 126' long as well there are the sidewalks and patios and a quick blast with the torch where the greenery is growing out of the cracks works.
Seeing all these great photos everyone is posting makes me realize how overdue I am for some Rocky Mountain time. I need some quiet hikes in the mountains to recharge.
Lastspike, is that the HMCS Victory in your avatar? I went on that, what a memory. My cousin commanded some of the Royal Navys better known ships and I use to stay with him when I went to England. I got the VIP tour of the Portsmouth Navy Yard. Including a couple of submarines. We would go to a pub just off base and the floor beams were worn down about 8 inches over the centuries. It was an officers hangout and I sat in a seat in the corner where Captains like Cook and Vancouver had tipped a few.
Speaking of England I just read that British Airways is retiring their 747s years early due to the covid 19 issue. Man I had lots of great flights over the pole to Heathrow on BA 747s, a lot of fond memories. A couple really stand out including a nine hour flight back to Vancouver where I really hit it off with this drop dead gorgeous girl. The middle seat was empty and the flight crew kept walking by dropping 300ml bottles of wine on the seat between us. There is more to the story but we will leave it there. I often wonder how many days I have spent on 747s. They are the best.
Winnipeg
Dianne and I finally went out to see Comet Neowise. It took us forever to find it even though we knew where we should be looking. The problem was that we were looking for a very bright, well defined object like the photographs of the comet depict. That is not how the comet appears to the naked eye. The photographs are time exposures, usually around 3 seconds. Your eyes only see the amount of light that the comet is reflecting in the instant which makes the actual appearance quite a bit fainter. It is about the same brightness as the surrounding stars, but once you spot the tail there is no mistaking it.
Anyhow, we did manage to spot it. For those of you who would like to see it, look for the Big Dipper. The comet is below the two stars that form the right side of the 'cup', about half way down to the horizon. The tail points straight up in a shallow 'V'.
When Comet Hale-Bopp (sp?) crossed the sky in 1997 we took the kids out to see it. It was much clearer and easier to see. We were observing it from a Conservation Area after hours. The police drove up to find out what we were up to. It wasn't long before they were sharing our binoculars. They had never heard about it. They said we could stay as long as we wanted.
Ken .. It is Neil Besougloff , former MR editor, who has the virus. Prayers for him.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a please and Dirk a dog treat.
Heartland Division CB&QI just posted in the thread about Neil B having Covid 19.
Pretty boring day at work. I was OK with that, no head bang trying to figuer out what Jerry the did.
Train's are running petty well tonight. Broke out the B&O I1sa and for a change it's not being a pain in the caboose. I need to learn how to power my turnout frogs. If I am running at speed it stalls, the starts up again. I know I can get a better Stay A Live cap, but I have to pull the decoder out and send it to BLI.
Later Ken and Dirk say's Woof, Woof.
I hate Rust
gully washers finally ended. They just popped up out of no where this after noon and suddenly flash flood warnings.
i went for about 1/2 bike ride it was as nuch as I could do I am out of shape. I will try longer on next ride, If not too hot I may ride to work one day this week.
OOPs time to feed the guinea pigs they are rattling the cage.
Got a call from the nursing home. My mother is acting more confused than usual and they are testing her urine for infection.
"They found strange things in her Depends"
Me: "Like what?" Thinking the obvious
"Socks and masks, she has no idea why they are there"
Can't say I would have guessed that. Urinary tract infections in the elderly can do that.
Rob, I missed the post about your dog. I'm sorry to hear that. My condolences. They are family.
Mike
Howdy ...
Ed .... Those EBT pictures must be of a branch line.
Here is a sunset this evening.
I took the picture from our house about 10 minutes ago. Actually, that is the sky after the sun went down.
Evenin' Folks,
Janie, I could use a diet Ginger Ale please..... Had enough caleries for today. Did just finish my 5k for the day, but the next couple of days are iffy at best for me to get any running in. Calling for some nasty, think severe, storms possible. So, I will likely get done some of the other stuff that has been sitting here waiting to get finished like the next issue of the Lake Shores Limited ( the newsletter for the local NMRA Division). They want it to be ready to publish by Friday so I have some work to get done...
Ed, I think those cars have been sitting there for a while... LOL At least judging by the size of the tree growing in the track.
Very nice sunrise photos there, Bear!
The "Biker Chick" I am dating (Well bicyclist) called this morning and we are planning on riding bikes on the Erie Canal Bike Path on Friday. That trail was originally the roadbed for the Rochester & Eastern Trolley Line that went all the way from Rochester to Geneva NY way back in the day. There is even a Trolley Station still in existance along the path. That has been repurposed to another business, but still looks like the station did in many ways around the turn of the 1900's. Just outside of Geneva there is the last remaining catenary pole from the line in the front yard of a house. I'll have to see if I can find the photo I have of it...
Stay safe and don't do anything stupid out there! It is a dangerous world!!!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
There are certainly some great photos being posted.
Track fiddlerNice sunset Bear. Peaceful
Actually, Mr. TF, it's sunrise, and I haven't seen one quite like it since.
I'm not sure of the time frame, but this one was taken some (?) minutes earlier, the sequence being ...
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
RideOnRoad SeeYou190 Here is an Ohio barn losing the fight with the surrounding nature. I wouldn't say it is losing the fight, I would say it is becoming one with nature.
SeeYou190 Here is an Ohio barn losing the fight with the surrounding nature.
I wouldn't say it is losing the fight, I would say it is becoming one with nature.
East Broad Top:
Ghost Trains 149 by Todd Dillon, on Flickr
Narrow Gauge Jungle by 95wombat, on Flickr
A large toad strangler.
gulley washer
a sod saoker
Sheep drowner.
Its coming a Toad strangler here.
Hah! I am being a post hog again!
We have a few days left on our tour throughout Great Britain, so lets see some more spectacular steam action!
And a nice toy for the boys still playing with trains!