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"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Good morning Diners. Tea and toast please, Brunhilda.
Thank you gentlemen for your kind messages for Dawn. She sends her thanks. She has an appointment at the Hospice today.Hopefully I can catch up on the posts here when we return.
Stay Safe Everyone.
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
Rush hour on Bennington Curve... 1977
GM’s Everywhere by Doug Lilly, on Flickr
I'll take that Sedan de Ville right there
I hope everyone had a good day today —
Cheers, Ed
TF, I looked at all your bridge pictures.
Nice work!
I have ordered some Plastruct I-beams in various sizes. When I get them, I will start construction on the first bridge.
Here are the two temporary sections that will be replaced with my first bridge. I built this temporary bridge because I'm anxious to get a train running again.
Thanks for all your help! If I run into any issues, I know who to contact!
York1 John
Post Hog?
Man has it been quiet in here. Typical for a Monday I suppose.
https://youtu.be/h81Ojd3d2rY
I'm glad you had fun on your family retreat John. I hope those pictures posted last week are a help when you start your bridge. Welcome Back Kid
They even have a Crane Guy for the crane guy!
https://youtu.be/RR8nD_BgF1Y
TF
The screen on my phone has been fluttering and shifting to a different frame posting the last few days. This is nothing new and I'm glad it don't happen all the time. I've noticed the problem subsides almost completely when the pop up adds that take up half the screen are deleted. They have to be as it's physically impossible to post from a phone with them there.
I think I need to give my eyes a break today.
Hope your wife feels better soon David
Track fiddlerP.S. I read the history of Italian Monk Saint Benedict of Nursia and learned of Monte Cassino Feast Day. Found his life history interesting. Perhaps this is celebrated July 11th as well?
YES! The church moved tehe feast day to July 11 so that it would not occur during Lent. So we, as Benedictine Monks simply kept both of them. Today's feast has morphed over a variety of names, but this is the date of his passing or transitus as the Franciscians would say.
Good morning
Had too much of Don's motor oil this morning and my head's spinning like a top. Perhaps some of Lion's delicious-looking Eggs Benedict might do the trick. I never knew there was a Saint Benedict and often learn something new from Brother Elias
P.S. I read the history of Italian Monk Saint Benedict of Nursia and learned of Monte Cassino Feast Day. Found his life history interesting. Perhaps this is celebrated July 11th as well?
Liked the beartoon Bear I've never been a fan of buildings to close to railroad tracks in case something happens, especially at Crossings. At least the one next to the High-Rails was brick and on the inside of a curve.
I knew they shouldn't have used the equivalent of an 18 inch radius for HO on that
Sunday is the busiest day in the hotel business and rather trying for Judy. They have a large breakfast buffet and yesterday there was a spat and the cook walked off the job. She observed the rest of the staff couldn't keep up with replenishing the food. She said it was disgusting as people became rude to one another and started hogging the food so the next person in line didn't get any. It ain't like one couldn't go up and get some more when they brought more out.
Reminds me of two different times back in the day when Tickle Me Elmo and Cabbage Patch Kids were so popular. The supply could not keep up with the demand and both times on Black Friday people were actually hurt fighting over those stupid dolls
Well, she was dropped off at work a while ago so I think I'll get out the modeling mat. Got some different tree materials so I'm going to try something new today.
Have a good Monday gentleman
Good morning, everyone. I'll have bacon, eggs, and black coffee, please.
It's good to be back in the diner! There's a lot of mileage on the Ford.
I haven't had a chance to catch up on everything going on in the diner; I'll try to get through all the pages later today.
We had a great time with all the family together. The park was great, and the place we stayed was nice.
I'm tired. I think my age might have something to do with it. These family hikes used to be easy. This time, not so easy. One day it was pretty rough ground with lots of sharp, uneven rocks. The grandchildren all love the hiking, and now don't complain about the difficulty.
Here are some of them up ahead of me. We hit a sharp uphill stretch, but the waterfalls and rapids at the top were worth it.
I hope everyone is doing well. Is Kevin back yet? I guess I will find out when I sit down later to read all the diner news.
If I don't check in later, I hope everyone has a great Monday.
Good Morning,
Up early today as my wife had a doc appointment at 7. We got there early and she was out by 7. Our doc starts very early. He will take you at 6:15 if you can get there by then. She is still having a bad time with anxiety. We are now in quarantine from each other for 5 days as she is afraid she got omicron by visiting the doc. I'm in my basement lair. At least I have my trains down here. I have a fridge and microwave so I can feed myself.
David, hope your wife is feeling better soon.
The first Ferrari I saw was on a dealer's lot in Toronto the fall of '71. It was a Daytona model with a 25k sticker, brand new. A Dino was 12k. I had just moved to Barrie that year and was working for GE.
Expecting rain today which will make a real mess as there is still 3' of snow in the yard. Not looking forward to spring. My wife is afraid there are clouds of omicron wafting from the neighbours and is afraid to go into plant nurseries.
There is a gray squirrel looking in the window. Although I'm in a basement room, there is a 20' row of windows so it is a very bright room. The ground is 3' below grade along the windows.
Say Lion, those eggs bennie sure look good. One of my favourites. Has been a long time since I've had them.
CN Charlie
Good Morning Diners. Flo, I'll take the special, with my eggs over easy. Wheat toast.
So I came down with a cold on Friday. Crummy as they can be, what made it even more fun was my youngest was in a soccer tournament on Saturday at the university where I went to school. No worries I thought, they have a beautiful indoor facility with three full size fields where she played in a spring tournament 3 or 4 years ago. Imagine how thrilled I was to find out that this tournament was outdoors. Oh, and it was about 40 degrees F and rainy all day. I was miserable.
David, sorry to hear about Dawn not doing well. Praying for better days.
Not railroad related but another mode of transport that I associate with Florida, through the 80s TV show “Miami Vice” is the cigarette boat.
Have a good day everyone!
Mike
hon30critter Hi David, I'm sorry to hear that Dawn is not having a good time these days, but I am glad to hear that she is able to keep her spirits up. Take care, both of you! Cheers!! Dave
Hi David,
I'm sorry to hear that Dawn is not having a good time these days, but I am glad to hear that she is able to keep her spirits up.
Take care, both of you!
Cheers!!
Dave
Thanks Dave for your concern and prayers from your previous post.
Most days it is an uphill battle, but there are days we are at the top.
Good Morning All,
Just a regular to go please Zoe. The white ground cover is all gone now and the lake I go over daily is now ice free with the first hardy souls boating already. Got the temporary shelter up yesterday so we can move the lawn stuff out of the garage making room for the 2 x 3's for the basement stud walls - the first part of finishing the downstairs where the layout will go. One step at a time.
David - sorry to hear Dawn is continuing to have problems with pain. The CFO is similarly troubled and tries to just ignore it.
We launch the truck to Ca. this week and the second one for VIR outside of Danville the week after. The Cali cars are all done and ready but of the ones for Va one is done the second will be ready in a day or so and we are still waiting on two motors to be done so we can assemble those cars. We shall see. Ciao, J.R.
Like what else would you serve on the Feast of St. Benedict!
NorthBritDawn is in a lot of pain lately. An ongoing battle that gets her down sometimes. As she says, "She'll not let the xxxxxxxxs grind her down."
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Good morning Diners. A frosty start to the day, so a Full English is the order please, Chloe.
A busy day with deliveries of groceries etc. etc. so not going out.
Dawn is in a lot of pain lately. An ongoing battle that gets her down sometimes. As she says, "She'll not let the xxxxxxxxs grind her down."
Try and call into the Diner later.
gmpullman Looks like its going to be another one of those Mondays...\ Center sill by Bob Anderson, on Flickr
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
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!
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
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.
All the best to all.
GO CANUCKS GO!!!!!!
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
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
Attuvian1Thanks, 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!
BATMAN 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Forest Park, St. Louis, MO aka WORLD's FAIR.
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?
John
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?
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?