Hello Railfans!
Top of the day to you! I had typed a whole page out and tried to post. Dunno what i said but apparently something wasnt appropriate and MR denied me. ME! of all people. The only thing in danger around me is a german chocolate cake or a brunette!
So, all ya get now is this dry, bland, and to the point.... Hi - doing fine - hope you are same. Ed - all i got was a passenger car. Garry - i second what you said about Dave our British friend.
Have a nice day,
Douglas
Howdy .....
Thankfully, 2020 is nearly over. Yay!
That said, David NorthBrit, you certainly improved an otherwise dismal year as you posted many photos and videos of British railways !.Thank you!
What about January ? Where will the Diner visit ? ...
I think I heard an origanal idea suggested. Couple the Diner to a famous Name Train and post pictures along the route.
Who has thoughts and suggestions?
Have a good day, everybody .
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Afternoon tea.
Afternoon Blend Tea.
Christmas Cake with Cheese. Sweet Mince Pie with Brandy Cream.
Christmas in Wartime England
A more peaceful film -- The Yorkshire Dales.
Enjoy
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
What did I get for Christmas. Nothing railway related that is for sure. What I wanted is not available until late 2021. Many items are delayed because of Covid. My list for then is made.
Earlier in the year my wife, Dawn took a bad turn for the worse. Fortunately she recovered. Finding my long lost 'brother' on 26th December. Two presents that mean more than railway items.
I did get items of clothing etc. plus the obligatory box of Chocolate Brazils.
Good morning all. Icy cold rain is falling. Another miserable looking day.
Thanks for the rum and coke, Ed.
The tea, toast and marmalade is on the table.
A little time in York, then a trip North to the Dales. (The County where I was born.)
Steaming back to Marylebone
Thoughts and Peace to All who Require.
SeeYou190My Christmas present spent several days in Cleveland, Ohio
Only several days? Count yourself lucky!
USPS_Track by Edmund, on Flickr
I have six packages all shipped in the first week of December. Today the first one arrived after only a month!
The news station here reports on the number of trucks lined up on Orange Avenue waiting to get in the sorting plant. There would be more room for trucks if it weren't for the high-speed sorting machines rusting away in the parking lot.
I bought some street lights from WeHonest in Guangzhou that were shipped on Dec 9th and they arrived at my door on the 19th. UPS SmartPost. (UPS dropped the package off at my local post office and they delivered it the next day).
Hey! Top of the page (for now, anyway. That may change?
Happy hour is still going — Josh here has a Rum & Coke and a Highball at the ready! The Dome car scenery is beautiful at night.
At Your Service by Edmund, on Flickr
Happy Times! Ed
gmpullmanAnybody else have a Christmas show-n-tell?
I do not.
My Christmas present spent several days in Cleveland, Ohio before finally making it to the post office. I think the seller just did not want to ship it, then it took six more days to make its way down South.
Hopefully it will be here in time for the next Weekend Photo Fun.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Greetings all —
BATMANI have not seen the usual "what did you get for Christmas" thread this year. It must have been a very slow year in the MRR goodies department this year.
Is it too late to start one?
I had been keeping an eye on these big PRR locos ever since they hit the market about two years ago. Originally they were going for $2400
So two weeks ago one shows up on eBay and the bidding gets around $900 and I thought, naah, I don't need one of those. Still that little voice was echoing in my head... you shoulda' — you coulda'. There were only 30 made of each of the three paint styles.
Eisenbach_ff1 by Edmund, on Flickr
Then, like an omen, the engine gets relisted. The seller says the top two bidders backed out of payin' up, ya see! Well, yep, that's a sign all right.
As usual I wait until the last ten seconds (people call this sniping?) The bids are up to about $600. I figure I got a chance. I make my top bid at $888.88 and tap the mouse. Bingo! I got it for about $765 plus shipping and tax.
It is coming from Vancouver and the seller is using UPS
I seem to recall reading that the PRR had about 30 of these "Big Liz" FF1s. Some were third rail and some were overhead catenary (I think a couple were switched from one to the other). Anyway, I thought it would make a neat model to have. Mrs. Pullman was glad she didn't have to hitch up the sleigh and go to town for a shopping spree. I told her this was the right color and right size
Sure hope UPS doesn't send it to Australia
Anybody else have a Christmas show-n-tell?
Cheers, Ed
Good evening all.
Had sushi for dinner and it was really good and the fish was fresh.
Henry, that movie Airstrike with Bruce Willis was an awful movie, it was so bad I watched the whole thing.
One of my wife's Veterinary publications had an article on animal nutrition once and how to deal with what the general public believes versus what is good for the animal. It had a cartoon about Noahs Ark and said something along the lines of if the Ark only had two elephants and no other animals on board it was not large enough to carry enough food for the two elephants for the duration, never mind feeding two of the other 30 million species on board.
I loved the series Lost as it was a good mix of fantasy and sci-fi. It was like a dream that you hope carries on the next night, lots of adventure that doesn't quite wash in the real world.
When my kid was working TV and movies he would often play multiple characters in the same show. In a show called "Legends of Tomorrow," he was some sort of superhero dressed up in a $5000.00 costume and five minutes later he was a drunk in an old western bar that they time travelled to. He made good money on those ones. In the movie The Predator, he was in and out of so many costumes his head was spinning. They would have him through makeup and wardrobe at warp speed and back on set with a new wig and change of clothes. That is one movie we have not seen yet and neither has he though his friends have told him he got some good screen time in it.
TF, I think you may like the RVing thing. I never saw myself an RVer, but I must admit I found it really enjoyable as long as it was off the beaten path. I absolutely hated pulling into a paved campsite armpit to armpit with your neighbour. Couldn't get out of those fast enough.
Watched the series finally of Supernatural last night and one of the main characters died and went to heaven. The next scene showed him in the mountains on the North shore of Vancouver where I grew up and spent all my time hiking and playing in as a kid, walking distance from my home. The character looked around and said, "yep, I am in heaven". Brought a tear to my eye knowing I spent most of my life right there. I sure miss living there.
David, the area where you live is very pretty indeed. I visited and stayed with relatives in small villages like that and I always liked walking to the pub in the evenings and home again, it was so relaxing.
The kid got asked if he wanted to do a hockey ad that would be appearing during the Hockey Night in Canada broadcast. It is not the first time he has been asked to do hockey ads, he will see if he can fit it in. He is pretty busy right now and the shoot always takes way longer than they say it will.
The wife turned down a shoot using our two pups last week due to covid, she has to be very careful as she is high risk. She has done several ads over the years including one for Mattel toys that I helped her with and we were wrangling nine pups for six hours. With her being a Vet she gets paid for being the set Veterinarian as well as they don't need to bring in a separate one.
Time for a wee bit of Scotch and it is early to bed.
I have not seen the usual "what did you get for Christmas" thread this year. It must have been a very slow year in the MRR goodies department this year.
All the best to all.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
I'm hitting the rack
Pleasure talking to you with the key word to, ...No harm no foul
Nighty night
I may rent a brand new truck and go for a southern stroll. A buddy of mine offered a pull-behind camper I think would work good in the mild temperatures of the South
I would be prone to start out in Branson Missouri that I really liked two years ago and branch out from there
TF
SeeYou190 MisterBeasley Remember the Russell Crowe version of NOAH? I was unaware of this movie. It has been added to my NetFlix queue, I will watch it when I am in the right mood. It actually has one star on NetFlix... it must be terrible. -Kevin
MisterBeasley Remember the Russell Crowe version of NOAH?
I was unaware of this movie.
It has been added to my NetFlix queue, I will watch it when I am in the right mood. It actually has one star on NetFlix... it must be terrible.
Kevin, I can tell you that you should not waste your time on this move. At the end, you will kick yourself for using up two hours of your lifetime on it.
York1 John
I watched a Bruce Willis movie last night I had never heard of: Air Strike. Produced in conjunction with a Chinese film company, his daughter got the 3rd top billing for a 30 second appearance. Mel Gibson got credit as a technical advisor.
The plot is Willis is an Army Airforce advisor to the Chinese in WW2 as they are being invaded by Japan. His pilots are flying Brewsters, they didn't do so well against Zeros or anything else.
It had really bad computer game graphics, bad dialog, a confused plot, a P-40 with it's wheel shot off, landing on a truck, that happened to be carrying a British secret code machine. The two of which stopped, just before going over a cliff at the end of an airstrip.
I was going to say it looked like a US WW2 propaganda movie, but according to one review I read after I watched it, there was tax evasion in the production of the movie in China and it never showed there.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
SeeYou190 NorthBrit And you want to watch it? Yes. Sitting down to watch a terrible movie that I know is going to be terrible is actually something I enjoy if I am in the right mood for it.
NorthBrit And you want to watch it?
Yes. Sitting down to watch a terrible movie that I know is going to be terrible is actually something I enjoy if I am in the right mood for it.
Sometimes preparation for an alternate state of mind or mood to analyze a bad movie can be somewhat entertaining, ...I understand.
One can find humor being in somewhat of a critic mode watching all the flubs.
A Siskel and Ebert state of mind if you will Some people used to get paid big money for that sort of thing
Kind of like the old movie Life Aquatica with Bill Murray. It got many bad reviews and most people thought it was terrible and hated it. I could see it was quite different but I thought it was rather entertaining and humorous. It must have been the oddity of the film that fits right into my humor department.
NorthBritAnd you want to watch it?
GMTRacingI think unless a film is listed as a documentary it's nothing more than entertainment.
When films try to be completely historically accurate, they usually wind up being terrible films, but when a film makes no attempt at all, it becomes laughable and I cannot lose myself if the story.
Great past period films according to me:
Enemy at the Gates, The Green Book, Saving Private Ryan, Free State of Jones, Cold Mountain, Unforgiven, Midway (2019), Excalibur (1981), Godfather 1 & 2, Titanic (1997), and A Christmas Story.
I never watch films looking for anachronism or continuity errors, but when they jump off the screen and smack me in the face it ruins the experience for me.
Braveheart, Fury, The Patriot, Glory, Gods and Generals, and Dunkirk were all bad for me, for different reasons.
MisterBeasleyDo they use one of those annoying ratings packages that won't let you give zero stars?
Yes. On NetFlix the lowest rating you can give a movie is one star.
Howdy ....Just stopping in for a minute. Now we have family visiting from out of town. So, I don't have much time for the forum.Everybody: ..... Have a good day.
SeeYou190 I was unaware of this movie. It has been added to my NetFlix queue, I will watch it when I am in the right mood. It actually has one star on NetFlix... it must be terrible. -Kevin
Do they use one of those annoying ratings packages that won't let you give zero stars? The ones where somebody always comments that they would have given zero stars if they could?
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I think unless a film is listed as a documentary it's nothing more than entertainment. Case in point was Ford vs. Ferrari. We went to the premier while we were at Daytona for the Classic 24 reenactment. In a scene at the 24 in the 60's Shelby decides to give Ken Miles a signal to speed up and gets a little 2' x 2' chalk board chalks his message on and strolls across the pitlane (all three lanes), the grass and up to a barrier at the edge of the track to give the signal to the driver passing by into the braking area at 200+ mph. First of all you wouldn't get jthree feet into the blend line area in the pit lane before someone had a cow, the driver even with the board 20' or so from track edge would never see it (at 200 on the front straight you are looking up the track not across towards the pits) and even if it was seen you are going way too fast to read the sign. Plus, the signal pits for the 24 are on the back side of the track in the road course area where the cars are going much more slowly and these days at least, someone from the team is stationed there with a radio to make the signals. But other than that, no problem. We won't mention brake discs glowing red in the rain on the straight at LeMans either, but if you dislike the machinations of corporate America or Leo Beebe in particular it was a great movie. Ken Miles was robbed of a brilliant victory at Le Mans. Just sayin.
Good morning all from the sunny West Coast.
I get a real laugh out of movie flubs, how stupid do they think we are? I was watching an episode of Supernatural last night and the one actor called the other by his real name in a scene and it wasn't picked up in post.
Speaking of movies, my son was complaining about the cost of getting a haircut. When he was doing movies they always cut his hair in makeup and he never paid for a haircut for a good three years.
David, thank you for being a terrific host this month.
Ed, Loved the Chinese trains.
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MisterBeasleyRemember the Russell Crowe version of NOAH?
Remember the Russell Crowe version of NOAH? I don't recall Transformers or Mech-warriors in the Biblical version, but they were in the movie.
NorthBritHadrian's Wall near where we live.
Hadrians wall is an interesting historical border that in many ways was more effective than the Great Wall.
I laughed when I saw the 2004 film King Arthur and how they portrayed the wall in that movie. I think I laughed the whole way through that movie.
But, I laughed harder when I saw the oar-powered Higgins Boats in the 2010 film Robin Hood.
This scene is not a joke... it was really in the film!
Afternoon, Gricers' (A well known expression here in the UK.)
Afternoon Tea, Sweet Mince Pies with Brandy Cream. Christmas Cake with Wensleydale Cheese.
Hadrian's Wall near where we live.
A short film of 'home'.
Good morning
Never been familiar with the term gricer either but I guess I've been one for years. Looks like a Hot place to work Ed!
Yesterday I had somewhat of a Car Care seminar day. I was attempting to remove the shells on my train show locomotives to give them a probably overdue lubrication maintenance.
Since I got the MRC Tech II Transformer. It has a pulse switch that is my understanding of momentum that gets your engines to creep. Some of my older locomotives are glitchy because I'm sure they need oil at the worm gear ends and the spindle ends of the motor.
A video showing how to prop up the atlas GP7 on the edge of the plastic lid and give it a smack to remove the shell. It worked but on the other side I busted a repito coupler draft box housing off.
After I bummed out a little bit I realized I had the micro trains 1155 coupler conversion kit I bought a few years ago that is body-mounted. You're supposed to cut the coupler draft boxes off anyway.
I never was successful at getting my Atlas RS1 body shell off
As soon as I give my magnification visor a cleaning, I will attempt this microsurgery on my GP7
Good day, Monday!
I could watch this for hours (well, actually I did )
The mighty consolidation lives on.
How many of you out there have come across the term gricer?
I had never heard of it in my 65 years! Saw it in the comments of the video.
Last week of the year, whew it was a rough one
Regards, Ed
Good Morning All,
Thanks for the coffee David. Just a drop of milk please and we're good.
Having trubs signing in from my laptop at home. It should remember me but it asks for a sign in repeatedly and some evenings it won't cooperate at all. More of the pending revisions to the site perhaps?
Still house hunting. We have found two we like, one more than the other. The first got sniped from under us and the second we are waiting on an answer to our offer. The longer it takes for an answer, the more likely the answer will be no. We are still looking as well and I drove by a couple of "fixer uppers' yesterday for giggles. One has "potential" i.e. it won't need to be leveled and started over. Both were on slopes one with a nice view if there was liberal use of a chain saw.
On the train front, I have started putting everything away and yesterday moved all the rolling stock to our storage facility. I had no idea I had so much stuff! It just multiplied while i wasn't looking.
All for now, we are on holiday break until the beginning of next year and I am in the shop doing projects I had no time for during the season which even during all this craziness has stretched from February to December. Ciao, J.R.
Coffee Time.
A compilation of footage of the 15 inch gauge railway at Longleat Safari Park featuring both Steam and Diesel locos, Longleat Safari Park call it the 'Jungle Express' Longleat Safari Park & Old Stately Home are near a place called Warminster, in the county of Wiltshire in the uk, it's approx 100 miles west of London.
Make an extra cup of coffee.
Open weekend at the private Stapleford Park Miniature Railway. A really nice weekend with lots to see, not just the trains. Farm machinery, tractors, steam engines, vintage cars. military vehicles etc. Plus the railway, with its long picturesque 15-minute journey.
The video ends with an unedited single-shot record of the entire journey on the railway. Enjoy!
Good morning all. Jack Frost has been really busy overnight. The village s all white.
Tea, toast and marmalade is ready. Help yourself.
A compilation of film mainly taken near York and posted today (28th Dec.)
Despite the current situation, West Coast Railway Co. still ran their weekly Scarborough Spa Express excursions (almost) every Thursday from late summer into Autumn. This year's stream loco was 45699 'Galatea', masking as 45562 'Alberta', along with a number of WCRC's diesel fleet. Locations filmed at in order are: Scarborough Bridge (crossing River Ouse) Holgate Sidings Haxby Road Level Crossing Dringhouses Scarborough Terrace Footbridge Dringhouses Junction
Thoughts & Peace to All who Require.
PM RailfanDunno if i missed it or not but did the missing RDC ever turn up?
Hi Douglas,
The missing RDC has not shown up yet. I continue to be optomistic that it will suddenly appear in the mail.
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Hi Everyone,
just putting in an appearance, been away for awhile.
trying to catch up on the posts.
Ed: thanks for posting the video of Bowser mfg. I had wondered how the mfrs do their processes. The inserts into master dies for variations makes a lot of sense, and you're right, there are some major bucks invested in those machines and molds to the tune of several hundreds of thousand dollars. And, I don't think that Bowser is really considered a major mfr.
ill be checking in again soon.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)