Thanks for the compliment Garry
I've been enjoying all the great photos being posted here I sure like those old timer 4-4-0's! Those old steamers are like a fine piece of art.
Ed, Interesting cow catcher on that one. Liked the video, I would have never noticed what you pointed out on the passenger cars but I see what your saying
Sorry to hear the terrible news Kevin. I will say a prayer as well.
TF
Thanks for all the well-wishes and support about my sister-in-law.
There is nothing new to report, they expect her condition to be more or less constant for a few days.
There are some beautiful 4-4-0s on display in the California Railroad Museum, but getting good pictures is very difficult.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Good morning from the slightly smokey West Coast. We have really been spared the smoke this year but are getting a little up from Washington and Oregon.
Heartland Division CB&QBrent .... I saw the big wooden trestle you posted in the Show Me thread. Remarkable!
Garry, that is quite the bridge indeed and I have a spot on the layout for either the wooden one or the updated steel one. Keeping with the pre-1900s theme here are photos of the real one in the 1880s.
Some pics of 1893 when the change to steel was underway. Building the new bridge around the existing bridge must have been quite the puzzle.
More modern times.
The Countess of Dufferin Charlie Mentioned arriving in Winnipeg in 1877. She was towed up the Red River from St.Paul.
We have many good friends working in the medical field. Two of our closest are an ER Doctor and his wife an ER nurse. We use to see them weekly and have not seen them in well over a year because of the hours they put in due to Covid and plus they will not go around anyone else in case they are infected which has a higher than most probability due to where they are spending 14 hours a day. At the end of their shift they shower at the Hospital change back to their own clothes, go home, take their clothes off in the garage, have another shower in the shower in the basement, and put on more clean clothes, They have been doing this for 17 months.
It is very frustrating that this is still going on, it is like reading a Stephen King horror story where a burning plane is slowly going down and someone is standing by the door handing out parachutes and some people are saying "I don't trust parachutes", and proceed to jump out of the plane without one. Darwin's theory is alive and well.
All the best to all.
A Train arrives in Vancouver in 1898 (just under the wire)
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Good morning, diners. Nothing for me today -- I just got back from the dentist .
SeeYou190There is nothing new to report, they expect her condition to be more or less constant for a few days.
Very sorry to hear this, Kevin. Hopefully everything will work out and she can be restored to health. Will pray for her.
Nothing new to report from the Great Plains today. Concerning towns founded by the railroad -- out here on the prairie, virtually every town was originally laid out and land sold by the railroads. There are some interesting names as they struggled to find something different to call each settlement. We have several named by French fur trappers and some with American Indian names.
This is Sidney, Nebraska, on the transcontinental line. UP built quite a nice shop here before there were even many people here. Sidney later became the home of Cabela's Sporting Goods, started by a guy selling fishing lures in newspaper want ads.
Not a good picture, but this is UP737 taken in 1890:
The county fair starts today, with several of the grandkids coming to Nebraska later this week to take in the fair.
I know it's a trite saying, but I hope everyone has a good day today.
York1 John
Kevin,
While I haven't posted much at all, I have enjoyed reading yours over the years, and I would just like to wish the best to your wife's family and to you as well.
If I had any clue how to post a picture in the diner this month, it would be one from the Cedar Point and Lake Erie. (Ed, help!) One of the earliest memories I have with my dad was him taking me for a ride on it. It was the first train ride I ever had. It used to be very nice, traveling thru different animated settings, with woods in between. When I was a young kid I thought being the engineer of that train would be the best job in the world. Now that the park has a roller coaster in every square inch of it the railroad is no longer secluded like it used to be.
-Tom
Hey Tom, let me help you with that posting pictures thing because years ago I had a hard time with that. You have to have a picture posting host.
Google Imgure and set up your free account
To add pictures on your new account you click the green add images bar
A box like this will come up and you click browse
Then this will come up and you click files to select a picture from your computer or phone.
When you select a picture on your imgure account to post on the forum it'll appear like this.
You click the bb code bar and then click copy.
You go back to the forum and click paste on your cursor bar
A goofy crip code will come up and look something like this.
If you want to see what your picture looks like before you post, you click the double papers with the folded corners and hit copy and it will show you what it looks like.
Hope this helped.
Oops double post
Good afternoon gentlemen
I got done with my chores in the building early this afternoon!
Judy and I have been trying to have some fun since the extreme heat subsided along with the Smoky Haze. Last night we went for a chicken and potato salad picnic over at Bush Lake down by the water. Tonight we're going to a quaint little town for a car show that is so big it fills the whole town.
I'm looking forward to this one!
I'm sure the heat and haze will return and then I can get back to the bridge I've been building. Until then, one has to take advantage of this beautiful weather while you have it
Have a great evening everyone
P.S. Those certainly are some impressive looking Bridges you have and also had up there Brent
Sparky RailWhile I haven't posted much at all, I have enjoyed reading yours over the years, and I would just like to wish the best to your wife's family and to you as well.
Thank you very much for these kind thoughts.
It is appreciated.
Sparky RailIf I had any clue how to post a picture in the diner this month, it would be one from the Cedar Point and Lake Erie. (Ed, help!)
I've ridden the CP&LE several times. Fun Stuff!
Springer-East-IL8-06-18 by Center for Railroad Photography & Art, on Flickr
More later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Point_%26_Lake_Erie_Railroad
Cheers, Ed
Perfect, thanks! Even shows my favorite seat, right behind the tender.
Heres one for you Brent
Last night I found the Bat Mobile at the car show
The elaborate measures this guy took building his engine sticking up through the hood looked like a Hot Wheels car
This Corvette pops a wheely and we seen him do it! Incredible is all I had to say but it still made me laugh
What's so cool about Henderson Minnesota is it's almost like New Orleans You can legally walk up and down the street with a beer in hand and grab your favorite food of your choice at any Roach Coach you like
I found some other cool cars I took pictures of but there was just too many to take pictures of them all
With that I'm hitting the rack!
Nighty night Kids
I just watched the finals for the Women's Park Style Skateboarding in the Olympics.
Park Skateboarding is much better than Street Style. They can drop Street from the Olympics and it would be OK with me.
I am not a fan of the scoring where each competitor gets three attempts and keeps the best score. I like the one-shot format most events have.
No change in the status of my sister-in-law. Thank you again for the kind thoughts, support, and concern.
The World Is A Beautiful Place.
Good morning all. Tea and toast please, Chloe.
A warm, sunny day ahead.
A quick visit has I have a busy schedule today.
Belah Viaduct
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belah_Viaduct
A scene from our recent vacation.
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
Good morning
Welcome back David. Quite the bridge. I trust your Holiday was a good one A beautiful lake you were at.
Continued prayers for your sister-in-law Kevin. Keep the Faith.
Good morning.
Today is house cleaning day -- kids from out of state coming this weekend.
This is North Platte, Nebraska, in the 1870s. This developed into one of the largest train yards in the world:
Union Pacific #1 in Omaha. It was brought to Omaha on a barge up the Missouri River from St. Louis in the 1860s. The General Sherman:
Along the Transcontinental RR in the middle of Nebraska in the 1860s:
Have a good day, everyone.
All morning my pop-up ads on this site have been for tattoo removal services.
I do not have any tattoos.
How is this happening? Why can't the ads be for custom decals, undecorated freight cars, floor tile, landscaping, or any of the countless things that are actually in my search history?
This is so random.
SeeYou190 All morning my pop-up ads on this site have been for tattoo removal services. I do not have any tattoos. -Kevin
Probably seen a picture of you with your guitar.
I know this has been discussed before, but this scared us.
A while back I hurt my knee.
Neither my wife nor I looked up anything online about it -- we had merely talked about me making a doctor appointment.
Within several days, some ads appeared about knee braces.
Is some computer in some dark basement listening in on the cell phone, even though it is not being used at the time?
Your phone does listen to you John. That sort of thing happens to Judy and I all the time. It's some sort of robotic artificial intelligence advertising scan thing.
Just the other day Judy and I were talking about going back to Branson Missouri because everything was closed around Christmas time when we were there. All of a sudden the Titanic and all the other tourist attractions started popping up on Judy's phone when she went to use it.
If you have a smart TV with internet connection someone can actually hack their way through and look at you in your living room while you're connected
Kinda spooky
York1 Is some computer in some dark basement listening in on the cell phone, even though it is not being used at the time?
Got one of those Alexa things? They are always on, always connected and always listening.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good morning from the beautiful West Coast. It has been over two months since we have had a drop of rain, sure could use some. We have actually started watering some of our vegetation as it is looking pretty grim. We have rarely ever watered anything in summers past.
TF, love the Corvette Batmobile, maybe it is a Hotwheels copy, or maybe Hotwheels might make it. Either way, it gave me an early morning smile.
Your phone has a tracking device in it (that you can turn off) and when it senses you are out of your usual stomping grounds it gives you hotels, restaurants, and tourist attractions. We find it very convenient when we travel.
We have Alexa in the house and it is always listening. We do test by talking about really obscure things just to see how fast the ads come up on the computer. Pretty fast. I love Alexa and would never be without it and if a real person was listening they would find my life pretty boring. The Government knows how much I make, how much my house is worth, and all about my investments through my income tax. I do nothing illegal or dishonest so why do I care.
I read a lot of business publications online and because of the online snoops knowing that, I get a whole lot of additional information I did not know was available. So let them snoop. I have a separate Mac computer that is used for financial things only, banking and investment companies. I do not even click on the weather site never mind anything else with that computer. I have never had so much as a scrap of unsolicited info come up on that computers screen.
I use to golf every Sunday morning with two of my stockbroker friends and another friend that made a good living day trading. After our round of golf, we would have lunch and our toast when the beer arrived was always "may we have to pay lots of income tax this year". People sitting around us thought we were nuts and some would ask why we would ever want that? Our answer would be that it meant we made a lot of money that year. My tax dollars give me a very good quality of life and I don't mind paying taxes.
Vancouver in 1865. Amazing computer clean-up on these pics.
The first "passenger" train into Vancouvers new CPR station. May 23, 1887.
I am loving all the old pics you guys are posting. I think this will be my favourite week of this month as the older the better for me when it comes to trains.
NorthBrit Dave, just wondering what your top three cruises were? I am willing to try cruising once more down the road long after this covid thing has dried up. Don't know what part of the world we should try one in. I know I would go on a two or three-week sailing trip on a 50' or 60' boat in a heartbeat, but the wife is not as keen at our age.
I better shut up before you all nod off.
Kevin, hope your SIL is showing signs of winning her battle.
BATMAN NorthBrit Dave, just wondering what your top three cruises were? I am willing to try cruising once more down the road long after this covid thing has dried up. Don't know what part of the world we should try one in. I know I would go on a two or three-week sailing trip on a 50' or 60' boat in a heartbeat, but the wife is not as keen at our age.
That is a hard question, Brent. I have enjoyed every cruise. If I had to choose three I suppose ----
Number 1, being on SS Uganda (my favorite ship of all) and visiting Israel (Haifa, Jerusalem and Bethlehem) and sailing into Venice, Italy.
Number 2 A World Voyage on Queen Mary 2
Number 3 On Queen Victoria sailing the Norwegian Fjords
The other 57 cruises were all memorable visiting some places many times.
Gibraltar is very special to us. As is Jamaica, New York, Dubai etc. etc.
As for yourselves, take the wife on a short cruise. If it is not for her the journey is short. If she likes it, I bet she books the next one and the next and ---
Once I managed to get Dawn on a cruise I have never booked another one since. Dawn is forever looking at 'the next cruise'.
NorthBritNumber 1, being on SS Uganda (my favorite ship of all)
Looks like my kind of adventure!
When were you on her?
A smaller ship for us might be better. We only went on one cruise and were worn out by the end of it. We went on a dive at one-stop and it was the worst day trip dive I have ever done. I can't even remember where it was.
We found that getting on and off the ship was such an ordeal either with the tender or at the dock that cruising was not for us. Plus always keeping your eye on the time to be back to the ship before it left. We travel in a very relaxed fashion at our own speed leave a place when we are ready or stay longer than we thought we would. We like to go to Kaui and check into the Hyatt, sit in the Sun for a few days, eat some great meals and decide where we go from there. We might just get on a plane and go somewhere else or stay. Depends on our energy level, which is getting lower these days.
But like I said maybe we will give it another go as our adventurous side has wained a lot these last very few years due to health issues and a cruise ship may be fast enough.
MisterBeasleyGot one of those Alexa things? They are always on, always connected and always listening.
No, no Alexa or anything else like that. The only "tech" thing we have is my wife's cell phone and my laptop, both of which were not being used when we were talking.
Strange.
It looks like we're getting another kitten tomorrow. We dropped by the pet shop and there he was. He's been there a while, but he's friendly and happy to cuddle or play. I think he was just waiting for us to come along.
Track fiddlerHey Tom, let me help you with that posting pictures thing because years ago I had a hard time with that.
Thanks for the hand TF, I'll give it a try soon. Fair warning, if I do figure it out, I might have to counter your next Stang picture with one of my 69 Camaro...
John York) Naw, not strange at all these days. Highly immoral and I personally would call it illegal and a total decimation of your right to privacy. But stealing from you (or anyone) via 'tech' is not even frowned upon BY ANYONE! In your case - 'eavesdropping', but thats still ok too.
Matter of fact, you can make a pretty darn good salary writing code that steals or listens covertly. Those kinda jobs are in high demand. Especially in places like DisgraceBook, Crapple, Microshaft, anything Google related, well heck, anyone running a website these days to be totally honest.
Even this site is running 'analytics' on you and everyone else here. Logged in or not. Its SOP in todays society.
I suspect your wifes phone. Take it and put it somewhere about a mile away. Then say something total oblivious like "Peaches with Snail sauce". Go retrieve the phone. Wait a bit and see if you get any clepto ads regarding fruit or seafood. If you do, it wasnt her phone (this time). If you dont....
Try same thing with your laptop. Try it with both a mile away. There could be a third culprit in your house. Your brand new IOT refridgerator for example. Your 60" widescreen CV possibly. Anything electronic made in the last 10-15 yrs would be suspect.
Good luck living in the limelight with everything you say..... heard!
Douglas
PS: just because you turn off a cell phone dont think for a second its really off! Even yanking the battery wont help. Remember, PC's have batterys too (incase you didnt know) so you CAN unplug them. But they still keep the time/date and BIOS settings. SO DO LAPTOPS and PHONES! Yank their main batteries, they still stealing!
MisterBeasleyIt looks like we're getting another kitten tomorrow.
That sounds fun. Kittens are the best.
I watched the finals in the Men's Park Course Skateboarding. It was an excellent event. The top riders were incredible.
I have warmed up to skateboarding in the Olympic games. Maybe it will be better in 2024.
My Sister In Law had an MRI today. They said she had three strokes before she was brought into the hospital. I don't know if they determined that from the MRI or some other tests.
No changes in her condition.
Good morning Diners. A full English please, Chloe.
Garry Thanks for the compliments on my pictures.
TF. We had a relaxing vacation in lovely scenery.
Brent. I traveled on SS Uganda way back in 1969. A short 8 day 'taster' to see if I would like cruising. I traveled on her again in 1974 and 1977; both Mediterranean fly cruises.
The picture you have posted must have been from around 1986 when she was renamed Triton and went to Taiwan to be scrapped. She did not go willingly. She keeled over before reaching the beach at Kaohsuing.
A picture (from a postcard) I bought in 1969.
A model of SS Uganda (and other memorabilia).
Mister Beasley. Some animals know where they are wanted; and want to go to.
Kevin. Continued prayers and thoughts for a speedy recovery of your SIL.