BATMAN North Brit David, welcome to the forum, I am enjoying your photos, you can never have too many pics. Where in the "old country" are you at? My family comes from Ipswich, immigrated in the late 1700s and Buxton, immigrated right after WWI. All the best to all.
North Brit David, welcome to the forum, I am enjoying your photos, you can never have too many pics. Where in the "old country" are you at? My family comes from Ipswich, immigrated in the late 1700s and Buxton, immigrated right after WWI.
All the best to all.
I am living in South Tyneside now.
Born in Leeds. Moved to Tyneside. Then spent a little while in NYC. Moved back to the UK to near the border of Scotland next to the North British Railway (as was) to look after the family house. Now someone else is looking after it as I have retired from work. Now I am back on Tyneside.
Love the steamer in the snow.
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
I am the Post Hog today.
Had my day sort of planned out but now I have to take my daughter to get her learners license. She may be going to Burma next spring for school and needs to be able to drive the vehicles connected with the Anthropological group she will be working with. She had no interest in getting her DL until now. Transit into and around Vancouver is excellent and even my son takes it when he goes into Bigtown. I guess I will be giving more driving lessons. I think she will be a good study. I teach car control in a controlled environment before we hit the public roadway. We just happen to have an area a short drive away that is acres of pavement. Hard to lose control in new cars with ABS and traction control but we will have lots of fun in my old truck.
I also need to go food shopping as the wife is busy, can't remember the last time I did that. I see lots of prime rib and roast lamb in my future.
Puppy update.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Afternoon, everybody. Monthly check-in so you guys know I'm still upright and breathin"!! Ha!
Love Goldens, Brent! We're on our third, Labs before that.
Sorry to hear about the trials and tribulations, but seems the good news stuff evens it all out.
I'm in the train basement. Refreshing scenery, making and planting more trees( need a TON to model NW Wis!) and running trains in the background. A relaxing afternoon of Nascar will follow.
Unfortunately, I also have a bit of not-so-good news. My daughter will be having brain surgery November 6th to remove a tumor she's been battling for 11 months.Docs say it's pretty straight-forward, but you can't help but worry when they're cuttin' open your little girl's head. ( She's 40, but you know what I mean! Ha!)
Anyhoo, back to trains.They always make me feel better!
That's all for now! Prayers for those that want 'em!
Terry
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
Afternoon folks!
Welcome to the diner David. You appear to be about a 5 hour drive from where my son lives at the moment. He is residing in West Berkshire and rents an old home said to be somewhere between 400 and 600 years old (photo below). Nice pad I would say. If the world ever reopens again I hope to fly over for a couple week stay sometime. He says I would enjoy the countryside where he is.
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Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Eveing Diners.
Flo, give the gang and I a and Dirk and Robbie a dog treat.
Boring day and I like it! Dirk did get to go to the park again. I dropped something in the Maryville Library yesterday so I had to go pick it up, and the Library is in the park.
Daughter health is bad right now. She may me promise not to tell her mom.
Time to sit out with Dirk so later, Ken and Dirk says Woof, Woof.
I hate Rust
Howdy ...
I'm still posting with iPhone instead of with the computer. we are now waiting because the guy who works on our computers had surgery on Thursday. He should be okay soon.
Terry ... I am very sorry to hear your daughter needs surgery for a brain tumor. I am praying for her. Please keep us informed.
Ken ... I'm sorry to hear your daughter also has health issues.
David ... Good to see you here in the Diner.
Brent ... I enjoy seeing the puppies. Best wishes teaching your daughter to drive. Kevin... I have seen those foam castings for house exteriors and they look nice.
everybody ... Have a good evening.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Thoughts and Best Wishes to both Terrys and Kens daughters.
Cheers. the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Some thing to watch while you savour your first Sunday morning coffee.
saronaterryMy daughter will be having brain surgery November 6th to remove a tumor she's been battling for 11 months.Docs say it's pretty straight-forward, but you can't help but worry when they're cuttin' open your little girl's head. ( She's 40, but you know what I mean! Ha!)
Hi Terry,
I hope your daughter's operation is a success. My aunt Ruth had an orange sized brain tumor removed when she was in her early 60s. She lived to be 92. There is hope.
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
cudaken Dughter health is bad right now. She may me promise not to tell her mom.
Hi Ken,
Best wishes for your daughter.
NorthBritRubby! Rubby being English? No. Never heard it before, or is this a new word added to the (UK) English language that has come from the States.
Hi David,
I guess that the term 'rubby' might be a Canadian original. Our friends from the USA don't seem to recognize it, and obviously as you say, it isn't a British saying.
Without wishing to offend the moderators, the real issue is that these people need our help.
Good morning all. First ---
Thoughts and Best Wishes to both Terry's and Ken's daughters. Been there when it happened to my son.
A new engine arrived. A London Midland & Scottish Railway Coronation Class locomotive. , So gave it a run on the layout. Will post pictures later.
Take care all
Good morning.
Ken and Terry -- prayers for you daughters.
It's cold out, but we didn't get the expected snow.
I seem to be in a bouncing around mood. I started my model railroad with N Scale in a small corner of a guest bedroom. About a month ago, I started questioning myself if I wanted to switch to HO. We have a large, fairly flat backyard with lots of trees, and I now find myself watching garden railroad videos, thinking G Scale is really neat. I need to quit watching videos and just concentrate on what I have.
Have a good Sunday (or Monday, Bear), everyone.
York1 John
Ken, Terry, best wishes for your children.
Jan
Mistaken post.
We are going to see my youngest daughter today for her birthday.
Her fiance had to fly to Orlando to do some sound engineering for a new album, and she is going to be on the cover art. This is the first real work they have had in a couple of months, so this is good.
We are taking her out to eat at Charley's on International Drive. This is one of my favorite steakhouses in Florida. We have not been to a sit down restaurant, or had a steak, since the quarantine began.
We will quarantine ourselves for another 15 days when we get back. We have all the supplies on hand already. This will be our third post-exposure quarantine since this began, but I need to see my baby. L.A. is too far away, so if she is in Orlando, I am going!
Also, I really need a steak, loaded baked potato, and lobster macaroni and cheese!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
ROARING~!
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
We have a restaurant in town that has an old steam engine on display, plus two parlour cars available for dining. There used to be another restaurant there, I believe, but that was before I got here. I saw one reference that said the building was a former railroad station. I looked at satellite photos, but can't see any evidence of train tracks around. I know it's been quite some time since trains ran in many of the local towns. We have some trains nearby, but they mostly deliver covered hoppers of chicken feed to to poultry producers around here. The chickens go out by truck.
I started looking at this because the restaurant has announced it's moving. The owner said she would "miss the trains," so I assume they aren't going to move them. It would be a huge undertaking with no tracks anymore. I would imagine they lease the building and the trains are part of the property. Their new home will be a restaurant that never reopened this year, perhaps a Covid victim. It's bigger and has more parking.
I hope the new tenant is another small local restaurant, and they keep the train car dining. It's a good location and even now the parking lot is usually full. The current restaurant is an Americanized Mexican restaurant. I like it, but the GF doesn't, so we don't go there often.
They make tacos the way I like them, ground beef in a spicy chili sauce, with cheese, lettuce, tomato and onion of a crisp corn tortilla. A lot of restaurants have done the California cop-out, serving fish tacos on soft flour tortillas with some kind of salad dressing sauce.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good Afternoon,
Another very cool da here, only 32F.
Using rhe tablet so spelling might be a little off
Go the pacific back from the brass guru. He fixed the tender cnnector so now goes around 18" radius just fine. I have about the cost of a new Rapido steam in this engine but it is worth it to me. Rapido is supposed to do a J4e but it will be years if ever and time isn't on my side. Anyway I doubt if their's will be any better. The piping detail on brass is amazing.
Brent, I spent 1 year in Coquitlam from summer 1964 to 1965, My parents house was a twin of the one you pictured,. Dad's business venture didn't work out so we moved to Manitoba. My last 3 years of high school were in 3 different provinces.
Yard work is coming along. Have to get the fish out of the pond before it freezes.
CN Charlie
Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a please and Dirk and Robbie a dog treat.
Thanks for the concern for my daughter health. She is a asthmatic and is having real problems. She has coughed so much one of her rib's is out of places aagin. Sadly it is not the first time. Her blood oxgen level was down to 96%. She is back on steroides and muscle relaxer's so it is helping the rib pain. Monday she is getting tested again for covid, I think this is her 3rd time. With her health problems I understand her being paranoid.
Trains hate my guts tonight! Only good news is I have resat the PRR Sharks abbress back to 3 and they with both run togather. After that things just went down into the ash pit! Nether the PRR GG1 nor the PRR Sharks can get the PRR Heavy Weights around the bench. Not the car falut because I added a Reefer between the led coach which I have never used before.
Ok, I will run the Bessimers, they worked fine! But some how my RS 3 was in reverse and hit a parked freight train? After that I was done!
Time to take Dirk out so later.
Ken amd Dirk says Woof, Woof.
SeeYou190 I really need a steak, loaded baked potato, and lobster macaroni and cheese!
OK, I swapped out the loaded baked potato for mashed potatoes, but I got my steak and lobster macaroni & cheese!
It was an amazing and delicious meal. I have not had a good night out in so long.
And... I got to be with my baby! Look at how cute we are in our Corona Masks! The look of 2020:
She is almost as old as her mother was when we met, and it is unbelievable how much she looks exactly like her mother. Our middle daughter is a copy of me, and the baby is a copy of my wife.
I am so lucky.
Now I get to have a 15 day quarantine.
Thanks for sharing your good times, Kevin! I hope we are able to have a small gathering with my boys and their great kids when the Holidays get closer.
Here's a pair of "motors" from Henry Ford's Railroad:
DTI_motor by Edmund, on Flickr
Those must have been some impressive monsters to see!
I hope everyone is doing well and I especially hope those dealing with health issues of loved ones are doing better.
Cheers, Ed
Good morning all. An icy cold day here in the UK. Due to Covid 19 we are in the vulnerable group and have to be very careful what we do and where we go. In fact we have seen our grandchildren four times since March and then only at a distance. The oldest is 7, the youngest now 4.
We love to go cruising and have been on 60 of them. Baring our circumstances to the fact we 'struggle' to leave our village a holiday company keeps sending us emails regarding cruises to China. As Queen Victoria once said "We are not amused."
Ah well! Back to railroad modeling.
Good morning. Bacon, eggs, and coffee please.
It snowed last night, but nothing stuck -- it melted as soon as it hit. That's my kind of snow!
Prayers for all of the people with health probems mentioned in the diner.
Kevin, that restaurant sounds great. When we're there in March, I don't tnink we'll be leaving DisneyWorld to go eat anywhere else. My daughters have everything planned -- I'm just along for the rides.
NorthBrit, my wife and I love cruises also, but we have not taken anywhere near as many as you. You are real experts.
Ken, I hope your daughter's asthma improves. I would be worried about the virus too if I had that condition.
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You can all join me in breakfast. It's on me.
gmpullmanThanks for sharing your good times, Kevin! I hope we are able to have a small gathering with my boys and their great kids when the Holidays get closer.
It was a great time Ed. As of now, I have only seen 2/3 of my daughters since this Covid thing began.
I do not have any grandchildren, but I can imagine that if we did, not seeing them would be devastating to my wife.
I hope you can have your get-together with the family.
York1When we're there in March, I don't tnink we'll be leaving DisneyWorld to go eat anywhere else.
John, If you can make a trip to the Walt Disney World Resort, and never leave the resort, you could have the best time of your life.
The resort is truly a self-contained feature that completely escapes reality. You absolutely can just leave the real world behind while you are there.
I did it once, for a big wargaming event. The event was three days long in one of the resort hotels, and my daughter and I went there two days early and stayed one day later.
This was one of the most relaxing times of my life. Almost a whole week submersed into Walt Disney World.
Have fun!
MisterBeasley I saw one reference that said the building was a former railroad station. I looked at satellite photos, but can't see any evidence of train tracks around.
Railroads want to get disused building off of their propoerty. BNSF frequently sells the building with the proviso tht you remove it from their property.
The artist studio in Taylor used to be the station houase in Richardton.
BroadwayLionRailroads want to get disused building off of their propoerty.
barreplains_crop by Edmund, on Flickr
Sure enough! This is the Barre Plains, Massachusetts, depot where my dad grew up, his dad and brothers all worked for the B&A. The station went up for sale at a $1.00 minimum bid back in '65.
barreplains60 by Edmund, on Flickr
Alas, dad didn't buy it and move it to Ohio. A local builder got it for the dollar and knocked it down to salvage the bricks. I'll bet a lot of folks have a fireplace in their home made of B&A RR bricks.
Here's my sister and granddad in front of an RS2 with a FULL crew!
Barre_Plains-1955 by Edmund, on Flickr
SeeYou190John, If you can make a trip to the Walt Disney World Resort, and never leave the resort, you could have the best time of your life. The resort is truly a self-contained feature that completely escapes reality. You absolutely can just leave the real world behind while you are there.
I agree. The last time we were there, we stayed at the Grand Floridian. It was great, but we spent so little time in the hotel, we won't pay the extra rates again. My daughters stay in a different resort hotel each time they go. When the time gets closer, I'll find out which hotel the girls have gotten for us.
When does the album cover get produced with your daughter?
To be honest, I never realized that restaurant had been a train station. I suppose it could have been moved there, but it's not a building with any particular character. My guess is that moving that building any significant distance would cost more than building a new one.
One of the dining cars is painted for the old Cape Cod Railway in Massachusetts. The other says Baltimore and Ohio. Again, transporting them plus the old steam engine would have been expensive. My guess is that it was originally a depot or station and the line got abandoned, but they had enough time to bring the train cars in before the tracks were torn up.
I've got to research this. It's frustrating that in today's information age I can't get much information here on my computer.
Afternoon Folks!!!! A good one I hope!
NorthBritDue to Covid 19 we are in the vulnerable group and have to be very careful what we do and where we go. In fact we have seen our grandchildren four times since March and then only at a distance. The oldest is 7, the youngest now 4.
I think a lot of us are feeling the same... I do consider myself lucky that my son and his family live close by and I am considered part of their Group for gathering together. The lady I am dating has the same safety net with her family and does her best to stay out of harm's way, so we do get together (mostly outside to meet and share time together without masks and such). I am hoping a good vaccine will be available in the next few months and life can get more back to normal! Getting to the time of year where bike riding and long walks are not as much fun......