BATMAN
Aw.... So, so cute!
There is a story up at one of our local news sites about a dog in Turkey whose owner was sick and had to be hospitalized. The dog followed the ambulance to the hospital. Every night she would go back home (the man's wife would come and get her) and every morning she would walk back to the Hospital and sit at the entrance. After 5 days that man was brought down in a wheelchair to see the dog. They had a great reunion! He was discharged later that day and the dog followed them home.
I think humans could learn a lot from dogs sometimes. We had an old Beagle on the farm who was my Grandfather's dog. When he moved from the farm they couldn't take the dog with them so Chummy became our dog too. My grandfather worked for my father's cousin who owned a large farm equipment dealership next door to the farm. Every day Chummy would walk down to the dealership to see my Grandfather. After my Grandfather stopped working there the truck was used by another employee. Chummy still went every day to the place and sat next to truck waiting for my Grandfather to come back.
Chummy got hit in the road when he was an old dog one evening. He managed to crawl out of the road onto our lawn. My Dog Teddy stood over him and by his side until Chummy died the next morning (about 15 minutes before the vet arrived to put him to sleep).
Ok... enough of that! Hope you all are having a good day out there!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
We were camping along side a river in the Sandhills of Nebraska. We were sitting by the fire after a day of canoeing, and we got to witness a cattle drive.
The hills have too many gullies and steep areas to use pickups or 4-wheelers, so some cattle work is still done with horses and dogs.
I was amazed watching that the cowboys did very little actual "roundup" work. On horseback, they basically drove the cattle down the way to where they wanted them.
It was the dogs that did the rounding up. If cows or calves got too far off to the side, the dogs went and got them back, without any prompting from the cowboys. The dogs knew exactly what to do, and it looked like they were excited to do the work.
Amazing to watch.
York1 John
A quiet night in the Diner?
Some items arrived for the layout have arrived so a little arranging to do. Getting late here, so see you in the morning.
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
NorthBritA quiet night in the Diner?
Folks must be preoccupied with — something? Taxes, maybe
GMTRacingGoing north to go south is a lot like being upside down on the planet like Bear.
Windsor_Detroit by Edmund, on Flickr
I guess I stepped on some toes this morning by replying to Dave. Sorry!!!
Hope it is OK to mention taxes
Detroit River Ferries:
http://towns-and-nature.blogspot.com/2017/09/detroit-mi-1906-waterfront-skyline-and.html
Cheers, Ed
No worries Ed. You're among friends here. On the other hand the "t" word should be kept out along with the "w" (w**k). I am a little worried though that Steven O hasn't been around to ride herd on us. Hope all is ok with him and his family.
The club zoom meeting actually went well this morning. About 100 club members and we all behaved. Spent the afternoon boxing LP records and books. Still a ways to go. Also changed the box on the cable and tidied up wiring. Only took 2 hours including getting the new code sent to the top box. Tomorrow is regular chores and boxing more structures off the layout. Big fun! I'll just take my glass of wine and retire to the back booth again. Ciao, J.R.
Good evening everyone.
Less than a week ago, my kitchen was looking like this.
Tonight it looks like this.
The popcorn ceiling is finally gone! I am quite happy with this.
All three ceiling fans are up on the lanai. My new rear sliding door is installed. This forward motion is making me feel better.
I think I have settled on this stone for the border around the top of the lanai. I want to finish the rear wall with brick, but my wife wants flagstone. There is plenty of time to work that out.
The rear bedroom is coming along. I am going to work on doors starting tomorrow. This is the first fan I have installed that was designed as a close mount fan for a flat ceiling. This was a very easy fan to install, and I think it looks great. Hunter did a good job on this product.
The dining room has a new fan and the rest of the lights are back up. I still need to do the walls in the dining room, but that will wait until the rear bedroom is complete.
It has been a productive few days for me. I love it when the last bit of finish is getting done and I can move forward.
The World Is A Beautiful Place.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
gmpullmanHope it is OK to mention taxes
I must have missed something. Why would there be a problem mentioning texas?
maxmanWhy would there be a problem mentioning texas?
Are there taxus in Texas? If you sell taxus in Texas will there be taxes? If I arrive by taxi can I deduct the fare?
Taxus is a genus of coniferous trees or shrubs known as yews in the family Taxaceae.
Ya' never know
MM -yew gnu that was only a fare pun, yes?
Kevin - you have great taste in ceiling fans.
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J.R.
Ray Wylie Hubbard on Austin City Limits, with couple'a fingers of amber.
Mike.
My You Tube
I'm up a little late tonight, watching the weather.
There's a layer of ice on everything right now. I found out about the ice when I took Daisy the Dachshund out for a walk. I'm glad there were no cameras. "I meant to do that."
The predicted 8 inches of snow has now been updated to 12 inches. I think I will have to make a grocery run in the morning, and then we'll settle in for several days.
Kevin, the house looks great. I'm worn out thinking about all the work. It's good you're quite a bit younger than me.
JR, the same thing -- I get tired just thinking of packing and moving.
Ed, I continue to enjoy seeing the sights this month.
Brent, I'm in the same boat. I can wire a house, but remembering the computer language to program an Arduino is testing my brain.
Mike, Austin City Limits is on here yet -- it starts in about a half hour. If I'm up I'll have it on.
gmpullmanAre there taxus in Texas? If you sell taxus in Texas will there be taxes? If I arrive by taxi can I deduct the fare?
I heard that taxus in Texus require nexus in faxtus.
GMTRacingKevin - you have great taste in ceiling fans.
Of all the fans I have installed, that one was the best designed for ease of work. Your taste in fans is great also. I wish I could have found outdoor fans that looked as nice for a decent price.
York1Kevin, the house looks great. I'm worn out thinking about all the work.
Thank you. When I get some more work done and get the doors in I think it will really look like something. It is hard to believe that four weeks ago the guest bedroom was bare studs.
We have several fans, but we very seldom use them. No reason -- I just guess we're comfortable and don't turn them on. Of course, we're a little further north than Florida.
York1Of course, we're a little further north than Florida.
It was almost 80 today, my air conditioner is on right now.
Yeah, we use the fans all the time.
Good morning all.
Kevin. Some serious work being done. Looking good.
Fans. No good here. They would swirl the cold around.
Zoom Meetings. I only attend Ocean Liner zoom meetings that I am a member of. I miss cruising. We used to go on three or four a year, but this Covid stuff as put an end to it. We did manage yesterday to see P&O ship Azura in the Port of Tyne.
Coffee time. Muffins and cakes are on the table.
Thoughts annd Peace to All who Require.
BroadwayLion
Good morning
Look at him big beautiful kitty cat Lion. Him look bored to the bone
Charlie. You sure are correct about the mild winter this year. I think one of the mildest Winters I can remember. I don't mind the cold but it sure has been nice.
Brent. The water line to the refridgelator. I always drilled a very small hole upstairs where I ideally want the line. Then stick a straitened coat hanger down. A real long small drill bit if there is sheetrock downstairs, then just leave the drill and bit in the hole. You sure find either of those right away, downstairs or in the crawl space. Then it's easy to make sure that position will work. If not, no harm done from a little hole and you just took all the guess work out of where to reposition the water line.
Kevin. The house is looking really nice. Your hard efforts sure look like they have paid off. I'm very happy for you
I'm going to get back to the bridge project today.
Make it a great day all!
TF
Confucius say, "Those who run in front of car, get tired, those who run behind car, get exhausted", ... I've always liked that one.
Heartland Division CB&QWhile the Diner is in Ontario, let's meet with our good friend Dave (critter). Dave: Hi ! Good to see you!
Hi Garry,
Good to see you too! All of you are invited to visit whenever you are in southern Ontario!
Doctorwayne lives here too. He is about an hour south-west of us in Hamilton. David Murray lives in Oshawa which is just over an hour to the south-east.
Our winter weather has been pretty calm so far this year (touch wood!). We are about 20 minutes south of the snow belt and the temperatures have been tolerable. I guess that one of the pluses to the Covid quarantine is that we don't have to go anywhere. Suits me just fine!
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
26 degrees and sunny for the moment. We've been having sunrise sun pillars. Never heard of, or seen one before last week.
Computer wars for the last 2 days. Have an older laptop that overheats. Upgraded the Bios, blew the dust out of it and replaced the hard drive with the original HD. Still overheats. Then I decided to take the extra solid state hard drive and put it in my wife's laptop, that she hardly uses.
Despite numerous articles on the Internet, from PCMag and other less reliable sources, the 5 or 10 free programs that will clone and repartition your hard drive won't actually do what the articles claim, at least not for free. Or the instructions are so technical, I don't understand them.
I use Idrive so I am trying that, but first making a couple differnent backups to make sure nothing gets lost. It is fine for backing up or syncing between computers. However this computer has never been backed up and it's taking forever. It projects another 9 hours to go. I don't know if it's the hard drive or their server.
I forgot, I woke up this morning sure it was Monday.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Howdy ....
Dave ..... Thanks for the invitation. When we lived in Michigan, we did go to Ontario from time to time. After moving to Kentucky, we have not been going there. If I went back I would be glad to see you. It would be neat to see Wayne's layout.
Any of the Diners would be welcome here also. It would help to plan ahead if someone is thinking of doing that.
Henry .... The morning sky looks beautiful.
Kevin ..... You are doing a fantastic job with your house projects.
Everybody.... Have a nice day.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good Sunday morning. I made pancakes for breakfast this morning. I haven't made or eaten pancakes in years. The sausages were good.
The street crews have gotten the ice all melted from the roads. Driving is no problem. It's the ice on the sidewalks and parking lots that gives me problems.
I've got a good day of NFL on TV today. Since the Saints are out, my next favorite team plays tonight -- the Kansas City Chiefs. I don't dislike any of the four teams, so I guess I will enjoy the day regardless of who wins. I imagine we have a lot of Packer fans on the forum.
I have a situation I haven't faced -- we are getting low on firewood. I guess we enjoy the fireplace too much. I could get some more, but I like to have it sit and season over a summer before I burn it. I guess we'll just have to go a little less on burning.
I've never set foot in Ontario. That's another place I probably won't ever get to anymore, so it's good the diner is going through. For most of my life, I had the idea that there were many places in the world that I would eventually get to see. It's been in the past year that reality hit -- I'm old, and I'm probably not going to go that many places anymore. We will still get to Italy next year, and there are some other places I can go, but the reality is that many more sights will not be seen except in pictures.
I was in Ontario quite a few years ago. Nice city. When I was there, the tourist tower was over the railroad's roundhouse and engine service area. I just looked down at it for hours. Is that still there?
A bunch of us went to a Pakistani restaurant for dinner. I have always had a strong digestive system, but everything on my plate, and everyone else's, was just fire in sauce over rice. That night we were all just conduits, but by breakfast I was fine.
Italy, though, is a beautiful and memorable place. Go to the northern part, eat local food in local restaurants, and drink a carafe of local wine. We took a train from Florence to Venice and enjoyed every minute.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Hello Railfans!
Top of the day to ya! Sporting a sunny and warm day over here today. Were doing just fine, how bout yall?
Kevin) Im glad your so industrious construction-wise.... you just made the team if i get to building anything!
Dave, Garry) Hey folks i could go for seeing Waynes layout. matter of fact, id love to see anyones layout at this point. Im so layout deficient my docter has to give me benchwork injections.
Maybe not the hottest idear ive come up with, but i personally wouldnt mind if we used the ACME Shrink Ray on the diner and took a few trips across some of the Diner Patron layouts. Spend like a week on each one.
Give up the details on inception, then creation and building, ending with some good ole operation shots. Then hand off Diner to the next.
Henry) Imma send you a PM after this post.
Everyone else have a good day!
A#1 North!
Douglas
PS: Anyone seen Mel lately?
PM Railfan Hello Railfans! Maybe not the hottest idear ive come up with, but i personally wouldnt mind if we used the ACME Shrink Ray on the diner and took a few trips across some of the Diner Patron layouts. Spend like a week on each one. Give up the details on inception, then creation and building, ending with some good ole operation shots. Then hand off Diner to the next. Douglas
On the UK Forum I am on every other year or so somebody offers a carriage or whatever and it is sent around to all participants and photographed on their layout. After everybody has done that it is returned to the owner. Great fun seeing it on everyones layout.
Anyone interested?
NorthBritMaybe not the hottest idear ive come up with, but i personally wouldnt mind if we used the ACME Shrink Ray on the diner and took a few trips across some of the Diner Patron layouts.
That would be pure great fun.
How would we get a project started?
SeeYou190 That would be pure great fun. How would we get a project started? -Kevin
NorthBrit SeeYou190 That would be pure great fun. How would we get a project started? -Kevin See how many are interested. I can provide a small Piko carriage. As each entrant receives i they post two or the photos then sends the carriage to the nex person. Each entrant contacts the next by PM to post the carriage. David
Nice idea guys but um, consider this.....
The recent grand voyage of the RDC...... the scale at which we all use, etc etc. I love the idea. Doable though? hmmmm. Prolly take a bit of masterminding there.
D.
PS: interested yes, but RSVP me as a no - i dont have a layout.
Welcome back to the U.S.A.
Over night our diner was carried across the Detroit River by ferry, and into the city of Detroit. Later this afternoon we will catch a westbound Michigan Central train for Chicago. Because we have bottled propane on the diner we weren't permitted into the St. Clair tunnels:
Detroit_Tunnels by Edmund, on Flickr
One of the prolific photographers and film makers of the area was Emery Goulash. Green Frog has made many of his films available.
Later this afternoon we will pass through the quaint town of Chelsea, Michigan, home of the Glazier Stove Co.:
Glazier_Chelsea-Mich by Edmund, on Flickr
I have an appointment for a shingles vaccine for this afternoon so I'm headed into town for a while. Enjoy the "Motor City"
Greetings from Detroit [Michigan] - Large Letter Postcard by Steve Shook, on Flickr
Good afternoon.
Ed ..... Great job getting the Diner to Detroit.
I moved to Detroit from Kalamazoo, MI in the early 1970's to take a job in downtown Detroit with GTW RR.
Back then, I would take a bus to the GTW Royal Oak station and ride on the GTW commuter train from there to downtown Detroit.
I was still living in Kalamazoo when Amtrak was established. I recall seeing the first Amtrak train in Kalamazoo on its first day. It had a Penn Central E7 (still in PRR colors) and about five passenger cars from various railroads. The train ran on the Penn Central route from Detroit to Chicago which was previously a New York Central line.
This photo of the Kalamazoo station was taken a few years after I moved to Detroit, and Amtrak had its own equipment by then.
Ed showed a picture from Chelsea, MI which is just west of Ann Arbor on the Amtrak route from Detroit to Chicago. Another industry in Chelsea is the Jiffy Cake Mix Company.
BigDaddyDespite numerous articles on the Internet, from PCMag and other less reliable sources, the 5 or 10 free programs that will clone and repartition your hard drive won't actually do what the articles claim, at least not for free. Or the instructions are so technical, I don't understand them.
Yes, well... The best you can do is to use the "RECOVERY" option under the 'update and security' settings. IF that works it will reset everything to its 'like new' condition with none of your programs or other software on it yet.
I have tried loading a new copy of Windows from a DVD or Flash Drive, but it wil not accept it. I have even completely erased and reformatted the HDD and it come up trying to load Windows, but of course cannot find it.
I cannot put a new copy of Windows on the comupter. I even removed the battery and put a short across the bios cappacitor, but it still looks for Windows. The only way I could make such a computer accept a new operating system was to load it with UBUNTU.
As for overheating, there may or may not be a good fan in that machine, but you can get a cooled pad to set your laptop on. It does seem to help. Of course while some around here insist on having laptops, I discourage that, and prefer the good ole desktop. At least it is not a N scale computer.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Heartland Division CB&QI moved to Detroit from Kalamazoo, MI in the early 1970's to take a job in downtown Detroit with GTW RR.
I rember going on a trip to Kalamazoo with one of my railroad friends who needed some parts for his Checker Marathon station wagon. We drove right up to the factory where they had a parts counter. That was neat! We got a dime-tour of the factory while there
That afternoon we went to Michigan City and took the South Shore in to Chicago:
SouthShore_104-Michigan-City by Edmund, on Flickr
That was a neat experience and probably the closest I'll ever be to experiencing what riding an interurban line might be like.
Oh, look, there's an old Michigan Central caboose!
MCRR_Caboose-1837 by Edmund, on Flickr
We don't have time to run up north but if we did we would certainly visit Petoskey, which has some neat railroad presence:
GR and I_Petoskey_1908 by Edmund, on Flickr
Enjoy the ride through Michigan, Indiana and into Chicago, folks.
Regards, Ed