Oh oh, Something already came up for the weekend like it always does.
It was my darling little great niece CC who wants to go to Dave & Busters to play games. That little girl jumps out of bed and has a smile on her face the whole day until she retires at night.
I told her of course Auntie Judy and I will take you to Dave & Buster's.
TF
Post Hog!
Man it's quiet in here tonight. Still been really tired today.
Had fun with CC and she did too. The points went quick at Dave & Busters.
Took her for ice cream after a cheese burger.
And a horsey ride. Just love my little Ceajah
Thanks for sharing your good-times with CC, TF! I'll see my clan on Sunday It's been years since I've been to Dave & Busters but I remember it was fun
I don't often post music videos here but a while back I stumbled across this bunch called The Analogs and they do some pretty good Beatles covers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY5Twpy_Lmc
I like the vintage gear they're playing on.
What's not to love about a purple switcher?
ACL switcher portrait, 1984 by Fred Clark, Jr., on Flickr
I wonder if it was nicknamed Goofy Grape?
Cheers, Ed
If I hadn't been watching the video and just listening to the music I would have thought I was listening to the Beatles. Very much sounded like them.
Looks like you and CC had fun. I would have went to D&B if I was there.
Track fiddlerThanks for the passenger car hospice nurse Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Good morning Diners. Another coffee on the go please, Zoe.
Just in and out today.
This time of the year for us is not so good. Through time a large number of our family have 'passed to the other side' between the 10th and 20th March (including my mother, father and twin sister). My Uncle and a cousin have passed this week.
TF Good to see the pictures. Looks like fun.
Ed. That purple switcher looks rather cool.
A busy day ahead. I hope I get time to run trains. Passengers on the platforms are complaining of 'late trains'.
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
NorthBritThis time of the year for us is not so good.
Hi David,
I am sorry for your losses, both recently and in the past. I wish there were words that would truly comfort you, but alas, there aren't any that can take the feeling of loss away. All I can suggest is to do what you are already doing. Enjoy your family, and your trains, and all the other things that you and Dawn do to make you happy.
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Morning Gents (and gals if you are here)
Stuck at the dealership this morning as they inspect my mother's car.
But the good news is I have time to look at train videos. And there's free coffee...strangely taste like 10W40. Same consistency too.
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!
DigitalGriffin . . . And there's free coffee...strangely taste like 10W40. Same consistency too.
. . . And there's free coffee...strangely taste like 10W40. Same consistency too.
Good afternoon
Judy and I have been making vegetable beef and potato soup for the week today.
Thanks for all the nice comments about my little CC
I would have been pleased for you to join us going to Dave & Busters MLC. Usually funner when "the more the merrier".
Sorry to hear your uncle isn't doing well David, and also for this unfortunate time of year with repeated family losses. I certainly hope that pattern doesn't continue.
I have an irregular heartbeat as well like my father. He had to have heart surgery in his late 70's which went well but not very comforting as I'm a chip off the old block. Hopefully your tests go well and they come up with a non evasive solution for you.
I wish I would have had that purple switcher when I lined up the three locomotives for that picture for Fat Tuesday Ed. I had the green and gold one but not the purple one
Thanks for the kind words Bear. I did a lot of reading when I was young and developed a reasonably large vocabulary. Now and then I find a word that my definition understanding was a bit off from the start.
I stand corrected as I always thought hospice was the hospitality of a nurse. Sometimes my incorrectly understood definitions are close enough, but apparently not this time
With that said, I'm still a bit tired, I think I'm going to get an afternoon cup of motor oil.
I think that's what I'm going to call coffee from now on. It does get you running smoothly in the morning and keeps you from seizing up later in the day
Have a great rest of your afternoon gentleman
Good afternoon from the warm and sunny West Coast. It is Rum and Pepsi time after cutting the lawn for the first time this season. Had to jump-start the Deere as the battery is getting old. I have a spare battery if it is really shot but I don't think it is there yet.
Went for a long walk with the dogs and came across this early 1900s town they have built for a movie. They have big tents everywhere and one of the crew said they are bringing in hundreds of extras this week to populate the town. You are looking at the back of the false fronts of the town. Didn't want to get in the way so did not go any closer. Forgot to ask what movie it was.
TF, CC is a real cutie.
Speaking of the Beatles, I watched that Peter Jackson documentary on the Beatles, it was so good. I think it is on Disney.
I watched "The Adam Project" last night and enjoyed it, kind of goofy but lots of friends worked on it so I like to say I watched it when they ask.
The wife and I stopped at the butcher and she grabbed two big fat juicy steaks and then we stopped at the wine store and got two nice bottles of Cab-Merlot. The Canucks are playing tonight, life couldn't be better. It has been a full day.
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."
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Good morning
Lions secret egg sauce???
Sunnyside as well with a cup of motor oil if you would please, ...Thank you
Morning all,
Lion I'll steal...errr, borrow some of those eggs off you. I'll throw in bacon. (Turkey bacon if you want)
Attuvian1 How long have you been sampling 10W40?
Good afternoon Diners. A large coffee and blueberry muffin please, Janie.
WD40 and the like is not for me. I try to keep away from anything mechanical. My son is different. Many a time he would be under a car fixing something or other. 'Helping' would be one of our cats (we had). The cat would be 'everywhere' around the car. Brake fluid was his favorite. Licking it at every opportunity. My son trying to push him away; often unsuccessfully.
The cat was a tough old 'un. He feared nothing. The eighteen years of his life we seldom saw dogs. Most dog walkers took another route.
Tough as he was he had a soft side. Any of us poorly he would stay nearby 'keeping an eye on us'. Off he would go when he knew all was well.
Off to make a late lunch.
BroadwayLion
Sunny side up, spooning hot bacon fat over the eggs to cook the top?
Those were less health-conscious days. Now I do them over easy in butter.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
DigitalGriffin Attuvian1 How long have you been sampling 10W40? John, I'm sure I tasted WD40 at some point as well. I always got dirty helping my dad restore antique cars.
John, I'm sure I tasted WD40 at some point as well. I always got dirty helping my dad restore antique cars.
Don,
I posed the question as someone who's been down this road.
When I was a lad I found an open 7 Up bottle on the workbench in the basement. Liking the stuff and being unconcerned that it had probably lost its fizz, I took a swig. Glad I didn't swallow - it turned out to be brake fluid. That swig was splatted on the bench top in about nine nonoseconds! As I recall, it took a couple days to get the lingering "flavor" out of my mouth, regardless of the kind of rinse I used. And then I was introduced to the concept of memory taste. Dad was on the road and Mom never knew. Some things are better learned in private, don't you know.
Got flashbacks about 15 years later in the Navy. A sickbay corpsman gave me a little bottle of mineral oil to take in prep for check of my GI tract or something. He said to get down as much of it as possible and that using a Coke as a chaser would help. Not even close. I'll spare the rest of the details . . .
Hey, LION, should we integrate all this? Can you do eggs in motor oil?
John
BATMAN
Since no one else has asked, I guess I'm the only one who doesn't know.
What exactly is the purpose of that contraption under the loco and how did the loco get up there? I don't see anything that looks like an overhead crane, at least not large enough to make the lift.
Or is it just a turntable with the pit photoshopped out?
maxman BATMAN Since no one else has asked, I guess I'm the only one who doesn't know. What exactly is the purpose of that contraption under the loco and how did the loco get up there? I don't see anything that looks like an overhead crane, at least not large enough to make the lift. Or is it just a turntable with the pit photoshopped out?
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Forest Park, St. Louis, MO aka WORLD's FAIR.
BATMAN 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Forest Park, St. Louis, MO aka WORLD's FAIR.
Thanks, Brent. That pretty much explains the display. Alco, Baldwin or other?
The PRR/Westinghouse also had a DD1 "motor" hoisted up onto a turntable bridge for display.
PRR_DD1_Exposition by Edmund, on Flickr
This was at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. I'd venture that there were enough proposed turntable replacements (enlargements) planned that "borrowing" a bridge for a few weeks for the expo wouldn't be a problem.
Of course you would have to support both ends of the bridge while placing the locomotive with timber and blocks. Better be sure the hand brakes are set!
Attuvian1Thanks, Brent. That pretty much explains the display. Alco, Baldwin or other?
Interesting stuff with Brents turntable contraption.
All this excitement in the Diner today started my cogs turning. I think it would be neat having a double decker Roundhouse with a Piston Turntable
Might be a little freaky but I don't have room for all my favorite locomotives in the area allotted for the service faculty. If I could figure out a way to make the second floor removable so it doesn't always look like a circus sideshow, maybe...............
That would be fun though
Good afternoon from the quiet West Coast.
Didn't get up to much today, played my guitar for a good two hours, and had my son and his GF in for eggs benny/Blackstone. Blackstone is eggs benny with smoked salmon on it. We decided to go to the Canucks game tonight while eating our brunch so I'll be leaving shortly. The kid needs some Dad time.
TF, you could get really creative with multilevel parking for your engines, a turntable that goes up and down to different floors, now we're talkin.
GO CANUCKS GO!!!!!!
I'm the kind of guy that's probably crazy enough to do that Brent
That big train show is coming back to town soon and I could get one of those heavy duty N scale cranes and be Crane Guy
I could hook that thing up to a joystick and a crank to lift the added floors off one at a time. I'd have the Roundhouse back to normal in no time when it's time to put my trains away
I wish your team well and good luck at your hockey game tonight
Track fiddler I think it would be neat having a double decker Roundhouse with a Piston Turntable
I can picture a concept like that, TF. Kind of like one of those mechanical parking garages for automobiles where they stash your car in a slot using an automated elevator-like affair. We had a garage in Cleveland for a while where the cars were stored on a chain conveyor thing that would index sort of like a Ferris wheel.
Speaking of dual turntables:
Ivy City Roundhouse Turntable by Edmund, on Flickr
This is the Ivy City engine terminal in Washington D.C. shared by PRR, B&O, Southern (maybe), RF&P that had dual turntables.
Ivy City Roundhouse Turntable Crop by Edmund, on Flickr
You can tell this one was a PRR design as the operator's cab was in the middle of the bridge, a PRR trademark. I have to believe you could run an engine from one turntable to the other by how close the pit walls meet but I'm not exactly sure on that. There are several Amtrak E-60CHs in the stalls so this dates the photo to post 1974.
I enjoy looking at aireal views. Here's a closer look at the car shop RIP track. I see a B&O coach and maybe an old business car in there. I imagine the building in the foreground was the crew dorm? PRR called these "welfare buildings". Also a bunch of old PRR B60b baggage cars.
"Let's hide in the roundhouse, boys — they can't corner us there!"
I went to a train show in Mt. Hope, Ohio, yeaterday. Great fun it was and a treasure trove of great deals. Two-hour drive each way for me but worth every minute
"Snowbirds" on their way to sunnier climes:
The Southern Crescent -- 5 Photos by Marty Bernard, on Flickr
I'll bet the aroma was wonderful in that dining car. I miss the days when the dining car stoves were fired by "Presto Logs" and the cooking aroma was blended with the wood smoke to make a mouth-watering bouquet of memories!
Looks like its going to be another one of those Mondays...\
Center sill by Bob Anderson, on Flickr
and, to everyone that says you have to have lots of soot and oil on the roof of your F units:
rr4733 by George Hamlin, on Flickr
Seaboard System.
Have a better one Ed