gmpullmanThat calls for a photo in his honor:
https://www.shorpy.com/node/14521?size=_original#caption
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Good morning Diners. The usual tea and toast please, Chloe.
Anyone want any rain? More than enough here. I'll send a few buckets of the stuff for some warm weather.
Pastor Bob. Never knew him, but it is still sad to here the passing of anyone in the modeling railroad fraternity.
Kevin. More lovely photos. Thank you.
A busy day collecting a few items before any chance of seeing the train room, so better get started.
Thoughts & Peace to All who Require.
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
SeeYou190 From what I have read, he was an ATSF modeller. "JaBear"And a darn good one , at that, IMO.
"JaBear"And a darn good one , at that, IMO.
That calls for a photo in his honor:
SantaFe_103 by Edmund, on Flickr
Regards, Ed
SeeYou190From what I have read, he was an ATSF modeller.
And a darn good one , at that, IMO.
SeeYou190Is this OK?
Perfect.
Cheers, the Bear.
MisterBeasleySadly, the RIP Track gains another entry. The Pastor Bob thread gives some details. He set the last signal behind himself in November.
It is up to the diner members if he will get added to the RIP track. His last post was before I joined the forum. Let me know what to do.
If he is to be added to the RIP track, I need to make him an appropriate and respectful avatar. Please let me know what would be most representative.
From what I have read, he was an ATSF modeller.
Is this OK?
One of my favorite bands, Bleachers, just performed live on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon. I can't remember the last time he had a live band in the studio.
It really looked like they had a great time, and the music was fantastic.
One more thing getting back to normal.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Sadly, the RIP Track gains another entry. The Pastor Bob thread gives some details. He set the last signal behind himself in November.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
maxman "Home"? I thought that was the place you sent neighbors, other peoples' kids, relatives, and their pets when you were tired of them.
"Home"?
I thought that was the place you sent neighbors, other peoples' kids, relatives, and their pets when you were tired of them.
Now myself, I heard home is where the 'hearth' is. However, since im a Railfan, I prefer the homage.... "Home is where the HACK is". Which would make me homeless right now as i dont have one in my backyard.
- D²
One terrible thing about this vacation... I missed all my mangoes this year!
I told my neighbor that she could harvest all my mangoes while I was gone. I am sure she enjoyed them.
There was just this one mango left on the tree. It became ripe today.
I brought it inside and enjoyed it. This was a 100% perfect A+ mango. It was sweet and delicious.
The lady down the street has an old purple mango tree that has a lot of fruit just becoming ripe. I think I will stroll down and ask for some tomorrow.
moelarrycurly4Nice shots!
Thanks MLC. I have had a lot of fun sharing my trip this month.
Still 74 degrees and a beautiful evening outside.
We have a Tropical System off the coast of Africa with a 60% chance of forming into a cyclone. Hurricane Season... That is all the weather will talk about down here. The news has not even mentioned what you guys are going through.
My friend just sent this to me, he had to go East from the coast about 500kms to help look after his elderly parents in the heat. He sent me this from the drive.
There is a town 160kms NE of Vancouver that was hotter today than any recorded temp in Las Vegas history.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Evenin' folks!
Well...... It has dropped about 20°F from what it was earlier this afternoon. At the moment looking out the window I see a driving rainstorm and hear a few thunder-boomers as well. 'tis good as we also need some rain!
Lady that lives across the street a couple houses down at the corner from me. Had just walked outside to walk her little doggie when we both heard a ......BOOM!!! She headed back in the house quickly! So did I....
This morning I loaded the defunct gas grill parts in the back of the Tesla and went to the recycling place here in town. Yesterday I was there with a car fuill of old chains and some other rusty stuff. It all came from the farm I grew up on and most belonged to my Grandfather and Great Grandfather. My son didn't want any of it so...... Got recycled!
OK, back to watching the storm out the window....
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Nice shots!
Still going through vacation photographs.
Plenty of good natural scenes.
These look like backdrops to me.
And some dilapidated buildings.
it is opressive outside today.
Garry , It would just be me. we can see what we can work out.
Working split shift today and tomorrow as the great phone upgrade of 21 happens this week at work. Not sure what my role needs to be, pick up a phone and dial test prob.
Good evening Diners. A large coffee please, Janie.
Temperature. If it is too hot over there send some over here.
Teriyaki Beef, Jasmine Rice with Cucumber Pickle.
Stay Safe Everyone.
SeeYou190 I feel sorry for all you guys roasting in the heat. It is 75 degrees here right now! My daughter is dealing with 100+ in Seattle. So strange. -Kevin
I feel sorry for all you guys roasting in the heat.
It is 75 degrees here right now! My daughter is dealing with 100+ in Seattle.
So strange.
Is that your pregnant daughter? I hope she has air conditioning so she is comfortable. Has she lost power at all?
If we lose the furnace in the cold, we can always go out back and chop down a tree for a fire, it is pretty hard to find air conditioners growing out back.
It is much cooler today 26c/79f right now, a more normal temp where all the doors and windows are open all day long and we have a gentle breeze blowing through. Our need for A/C is hopefully over.
I never turn on the furnace until October (hockey season) so I hope we are back to normal and most of our time can be back outside enjoying the great outdoors.
Good (HOT!) afternoon all.
Zoe - A great big RBF please. Thanks.
Weather - 92F curently, with a "feels like" of 102F. Bit warm for my blood...
Kevin - Glad you made it home safely from your travels. Thanks for all the neat pics!
Next Month's Diner - I really like that idea. I will have a few to share.
Trains - Was working on a locomotive and placed it on a test track to check the programming adjustment. Somehow, I programmed the lights wrong, and the only working lights were the front ditch lights... Yet I was not working on that CV set???
A Decoder reset got the lights back, but now I need to (again) speed match her to her siblings, as well as adjust the sound levels to where they sound good in the layout room. (Easy enough, just fire up DecoderPro and copy the Speed tables from her sister units she runs with.)
Seems the Last Microsoft Windows update does not like my DCC Programmer having an "Unsigned" driver.... Took me an hour of fighting to finally get it back online.... Microsoft has "forced dummy mode" to "prevent mishaps" but that creates issues with 3rd party equipment, like a DCC Programmer...
Layout room remodel - Waiting on some lumber price drops before continuing, and the furnace guy will be here tomorrow for the other remodel project we have going currently, to hang the garage furnace, and scope out how to best replace the whole house furnace, and add central air with the new furnace. So little progress on the layout room, and no layout progress at all for now.
Glad TF is only absent from his ongoing internet issues.
What is this "Cable Internet" you referred too? I have two choices - Cell signal WIFI box, or Satellite. Satellite service is overpriced, slow, and data capped. Cell signal WIFI is quicker, but more prone to "throttling" than it should be. (Verizon does offer unlimited Home WIFI though.) TV Service is Antenna, Sat, or Internet Streaming.... Would LOVE cable, but they do not offer it here. Was informed that if I pay for install charge they will do it, but it was greater than $15,000 so that was a non-starter.
Contact - If ever I disappear and stay gone, my profile has a email listed, but for those who can't access profiles, just add yahoo to my profile screen name.
If anyone does atempt to contact me through that, please use something in the subject line about the forums. (Like "This Email From {ScreenName} from MRR Forums" or something along those lines.) That is the email I use for "online" purposes, and stuff will get burried under the avalanche of "online" emails... Any place that requires an email to register to purchase, accounts here and other forums, Magazines, store "loyalty" programs, etc... I have gotten 53 just since 12:01AM..... And my "unread" is several thousand long. I periodically go through and mass delete emails simply for that reason.
So if I don't recognize the sender, and it is not anything that looks like "Read Me!" it might get missed...
Hope all are well, and all enjoy the day!
Ricky W.
HO scale Proto-freelancer.
My Railroad rules:
1: It's my railroad, my rules.
2: It's for having fun and enjoyment.
3: Any objections, consult above rules.
BATMANI put out a bunch of big Tupperware chest size containers and smaller trays full of water in the front yard for all the wildlife as the small stream across the street in the forest is dry. We set up a camera and are getting lots of visitors in the night. The water levels in them are down a lot in the morning.
You are good people!
I just delivered two more boxes (6 years worth) of National Geographics to the local library. The tesla said it was 101°F outside. National weather service says it is only 93°F..... It feels like the Tesla is likely the closest to being correct... (whew!) Thermometer in the shade on my porch also says 101°F........
Good morning from a slightly cooler left side. It is 6c/11f cooler than yesterday at this time.
The wife went to Costco and I put a large cooler in the highlander with lots of ice packs for the cold stuff, normally we would never need to do that.
The boss has been in close contact with a lot of local vets and the Animal Emergency Hospital and the number of pets that have died in this heat is staggering. Only 40% of homes have A/C here and pets have been just collapsing dead in the homes or yards.
Another increased cause of animal fatalities is Xylitol poisoning. These always go up in the better weather for some reason. Pets are not people so don't feed them people food from the table. Giving them a frozen sweet people treat because it is hot is not being nice.
https://www.petmd.com/dog/emergency/poisoning-toxicity/6-dangerous-and-surprising-items-contain-xylitol?fbclid=IwAR1gnmAnV_TEKMkWtqsQMZ8lQwQTL-SLu05yE83JO6jBGshcfVQXpdIJArk
The agricultural industry has been slammed with massive crop destruction everywhere. The power grid just over the border in Washington State is falling to pieces, we have a lot of friends that live there, some on farms and they are in a tough spot. The Province still has plenty of power and is exporting vast amounts South but the Washington infrastructure is failing in the heat.
Our local emergency dept fire/ambulance usually averages 14 medical calls a day yesterday they had 280.
We moved from Winnipeg when I was 2 and I have lived in three places within an hour of Vancouver since then. I am not crazy about where I live now as far as location as I prefer to live nearer the mountains where there are many more rivers and lakes a short walk out the front door. I can open the door here and walk out with the dogs and go for hours through the forest without seeing a soul which is perfect, there is not a lot of (inviting) water around though. Not like where I grew up. But like they say home is where you hang your hat and have a layout.
We could swim, fish, and play hockey here in the winter. Living in the farm belt isn't quite the same. At least I live on the edge of a forest.
We have these cooler blankets for all the dogs, you soak them in cold water and they lay on them and wear them, they stay cold for a long time.
I put out a bunch of big Tupperware chest size containers and smaller trays full of water in the front yard for all the wildlife as the small stream across the street in the forest is dry. We set up a camera and are getting lots of visitors in the night. The water levels in them are down a lot in the morning.
Well... since we're on the subject, how about one with a train? From Wolfe:
"Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. At any rate, that is how it seemed to young George Webber, who was never so assured of his purpose as when he was going somewhere on a train. And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt he was going there." "All that he knew was that the years flow by like water, and that one day men come home again." "You Can't Go Home Again."
"Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. At any rate, that is how it seemed to young George Webber, who was never so assured of his purpose as when he was going somewhere on a train. And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt he was going there."
"All that he knew was that the years flow by like water, and that one day men come home again."
"You Can't Go Home Again."
York1 John
"Home is that place where, when you have go there, they have to take you in" - Robert Frost
hon30critter Heartland Division CB&Q Question .... How do we define "home" ? ... I lived in several states is why I ask. Hi Garry, I don't think that we need to restrict 'home' to where you are living now. If you have called several places 'home' then I think you are free to post comments about any of those places. In fact, I encourage you to do so. It will add more interesting information to the Diner. Cheers!! Dave
Heartland Division CB&Q Question .... How do we define "home" ? ... I lived in several states is why I ask.
Hi Garry,
I don't think that we need to restrict 'home' to where you are living now. If you have called several places 'home' then I think you are free to post comments about any of those places. In fact, I encourage you to do so. It will add more interesting information to the Diner.
Cheers!!
Dave
It will probably be an interesting month if everyone participates ! ...... For me it is TX, TN, MO, IL, CO, MI, and KY. Most of my childhood was in IL, and most of my adult years are MI and KY.
Everybody.... Have a good day.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good morning, everyone. Black coffee, please, Chloe.
David, those are great pictures of your cruise ships. You have had a lot of interesting travels. I love the trips I've taken on cruises. However, I don't think anymore are in my future -- my wife has turned into a homebody.
Kevin, that's interesting about the Buffalo Soldiers. In my own state of Nebraska, there was Fort Robinson. From 1885 to 1907, the majority of soldiers stationed there were Buffalo Soldiers. The Ninth Cavalry was there first, and after 1900, it was the regimental headquarters of the Tenth.
A Ninth Cavalry squadron at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, 1892. Each of the four troops had their own color of horse:
If you are every traveling through the state, Fort Robinson is one of the neatest places for frontier history, and one of the best preserved Forts from the 1800s.
https://history.nebraska.gov/blog/buffalo-soldiers-fort-robinson-nebraska
https://history.nebraska.gov/buffalo-soldiers
Have a good day, everyone.
Something else neat from my trip I had not shared before.
I saw this statue outside a courthouse in Sayre, Oklahoma. I thought the statue was just an American Civil War Union Cavalry uniform on a buffalo, but fortunately I checked with a military history expert before posting.
The uniform is actually a US Cavalryman during the Indian Wars from the 10th Cavalry Regiment, also known as the "Buffalo Soldiers".
Of course I had heard of the Buffalo Soldiers, but I always associated them with the Spanish American War, and much different uniforms. I had no idea the regiment and nickname went all the way back to the 1860s.
I also always associated the Buffalo Soldiers with Kansas, and this was in Oklahoma, so the connection was not obvious for this reason as well.
I am still not sure why this statue was in Oklahoma, but I learned a lot after asking about its details.
Hi Everyone,
Brunhilde, coffee with cream, please.
What defines home? I think it's sort of a relative thing. There's home where you were born, home where you grew up, home where you currently live, and probably a few others. I currently live in Chicago Metro, but I never liked it from the day I got here (long story). In one respect it's home because that's where my current domicile is. I was born and raised in Kansas, so from that angle it's home. I lived in LA for several years and even though there was plenty not to like, if home is where the heart is, then that too is home.
ive talked to people who were born, raised, and still live in the same area. They still know and communicate with people they went to Kindergarten through high school with. I can't imagine what that would be like. Plus, growing up, a lot of my friends were military brats. You learn that people enter and exit your life and they're still often thought of, but you've moved on and so have they. It's kinda funny how that works.
I know, this was a bit long winded, but it is an interesting topic.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Good morning Diners. A sunny day here in the land of the former North British Railway.
Tea & toast please, Flo.
London Arches Fire. (Update) Firefighters are still at the scene. Making sure the fire does not flare up again and inspecting the cause of the fire. The Elephant & Castle Railway Station has reopened after repairs to departure boards, signalling etc.
Kevin Liking the scenery photographs. Thanks for posting.
July Diner. Liking the idea of everyone posting pictures, so long as we do not all post on the same day.
We were on our World Voyage on Queen Mary 2 when we saw a favorite of ours, Independence of the Seas, of Royal Caribbean Line. She had just left Gibraltar and passed us on her way to Villefranche.
Heartland Division CB&QQuestion .... How do we define "home" ? ... I lived in several states is why I ask.
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!