Water Level Route That sort of thing just doesn't happen in the NFL. Unless it's in Detroit.
Or the Jets. The last time they were in the Superbowl was with Joe Namath, who is now doing Medicare ads.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Alright, a little late but here's your coney islands - from the top of page 8:
Apparently my last visit was so long ago that I didn't remember that the mustard goes on before the onions. Historically, two lunch counters in Jackson (separated by about a half a block and a stone's throw from the MCRR/Amtrak station) vied for the best coneys. In either place you'd walk in and say "Four and a Coke". It was presumed that you were ordering these; anything else you had to identify. But as of a couple of years ago, they were available all across town - if you hunted them down.
It's not surprising that the Diner has posted scads of references over the years to iconic locations and menu items all over the country. This is but one from Southern Michigan. A couple of others from Jackson are/were Schlenker's (hamburgers) and The Dome (ice cream, at its original location).
John
tstageOn a positive note I would like to happily share that - as of today - one particular forum poster, who has built a reputation the past 20+ months for being disruptive, argumentative, surreptitious, and the main perpetrator for a number of threads going off course - has been shown the door by Steve.
Thank you Steven!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Good afternoon from Beautiful British Columbia where it is 16c and sunny.
Just got back from a 9.68km walk and have cracked open a nice merlot. It was stunning walking through the forest today. Partway through the RCMP chopper started circling overhead and we since found out they are searching for an elderly man with Alzheimer's who wandered away from the family farm. I hope they find him. My Dad wandered away from his care home once and they found him 16hrs later soaking wet from the rain in downtown Vancouver.
Sunlight through the trees makes for a perfect walk.
The movie/TV industry is really gearing up as Spring has sprung. On our walk we saw they have been building a set in the forest, it looks like some sort of fantasy thing as there were all these little houses everywhere.
The kid says that the new Star Trek movie is likely going to be filmed here as the last one was and all the major Enterprise sets are here in storage. He was offered a spot on the last one as a Redshirt but there was a conflict with University so he had to pass. He may take time off work this time as he is a major Trek fan. He is in if he wants it as he has maintained all his connections with those that count.
Glad to see Ed back, I had pretty much figured he was just taking a breather after all the nonsense that was going on. I am glad the #1 troublemaker has been shown the door as he sure dragged down the positive atmosphere around here. I was hoping his racist comments would be enough to make that a wrap for him. I am mad at myself for going off on him in TFs thread but when it comes to that there is no holding me back. Sorry TF.
I had a DUH moment on the layout. I have a spot where three tracks do a 180 and are nicely spaced with no conflicts..... Sooooo, I installed three Caboose ground throws on the curved turnouts and my Rapido coaches had a conflict with those. Back to the planning dept.
Spring has sprung in Vancouver.
Went for my shoulder X-Rays today and I was in and out in 15 minutes, didn't even get to sit down. What a great system.
While I was gone the wife signed us up to take some refugees from Ukraine that are starting to arrive in Vancouver, we live so far out of town that we will probably be on the reserve list but we are here if needed. We have a big house with only the wife and I and a train layout for some kid to enjoy. We may be able to get some sort of hockey program up and running for them as well. My son volunteers and works with an organization associated with Hockey Canada and is on the board of directors so we will see.
A safe place waits for these people and the cherry blossoms are out.
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."
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Thank you one-and-all. Brent summed things up pretty well, just taking a bit of a time-out but I was still certainly lurking
Say how about a bit O' the GREEN for old Saint Paddy?
Leadville roundhouse by Mike Danneman, on Flickr
Green caboose, check; green roundhouse trim, 10-4; Green SD9, you bet! The GE plant I had the pleasure of knowing for 38 years used to get molybdenum ore from the Climax mines in Leadville. I wonder if any was hauled behind the 6223.
One more for TF the Bridge Meister:
Missouri River crossing by Mike Danneman, on Flickr
Goin' for the Green!
Thanks for the BearToons, Bear Had a great chat with Dave this evening. What a rewarding feeling to know there are such good friends here
Our numbers have dwindled here of late, sadly due in a large way to the passing of some wonderful people. Let's stick together and make keep this the great forum it is!
Irish_Canadian_Rangers by Edmund, on Flickr
BATMANOn our walk we saw they have been building a set in the forest, it looks like some sort of fantasy thing as there were all these little houses everywhere.
I'd steer clear of any bunch playing with miniature buildings! Sounds creepy to me
[edit] Thanks for the round, Mike!
Cheers, O' Edmund (Yes, I'm mostly Irish)
Kevin was kind enough to add Jim Sacco (ctyclsscs) to the RIP track graphics and forward them to me.
Thanks Kevin.
Good morning Diners. A coffee on the go please, Brunhilda.
A challenging day ahead for us. The oldest member of our family is not 100% (shall we say). He is the last of a generation, then we come to us younger ones.
Try and call in later.
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
Attuvian1Alright, a little late but here's your coney islands
Good Morning Diners! Happy St. Patrick's Day! I've got my green on, and have corned beef & cabbage & Guiness Extra Stout lined up for tonight! Now I know the corned beef isn't really Irish, but it plays to my roots as both an American and someone with a lot of Irish in my family tree. Speaking of which, it's funny how genetics work. If you look at my family tree, I'm about half Irish. However, genetics don't pass down neatly like that. My DNA test I took shows I have about 20% Scotch-Irish genes. Genetically, I'm mostly English, but there isn't as much English in my family tree as Irish. Go figure.
hon30critterThank you Steven!
BATMANI am glad the #1 troublemaker has been shown the door as he sure dragged down the positive atmosphere around here.
BATMANthe wife signed us up to take some refugees from Ukraine that are starting to arrive in Vancouver, we live so far out of town that we will probably be on the reserve list but we are here if needed.
David, sorry to hear about your family member. I hope things go as well as they can.
It's a great day guys!
Mike
FURSDAY...
I have a Polar Bear, but I do not want to meet a bi-polar bear!
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Good morning
Good one Lion
Another beautiful day forecasted today. I think I'm going to put the tree mat away for awhile and set up the field saw out on the patio. I need to make some wooden piers and two abutments to finish the loose ends on Bridge #1.
Yesterday it was 58° F and I didn't even know it fiddling around with a rope tree experiment.
Sorry to hear about your elderly family member David. Alzheimer's or what it may be can be a tough thing. My thoughts and best wishes go out to you and your family.
Judy was watching Dr. Oz one day as he was talking about the unfortunate disease. He had a brain specialist on the show and was describing how a multivitamin in the pill form deposits blockage in your memory channels over time. The brain surgeon displayed a cross section of an actual human brain and pointed out deposits of a shiney silvery substance. Freaked me out. Since I seen that I threw away the Men's One-a-Day and I've been eating more fruits and vegetables to get those vitamins naturally.
Good to have you back and Thanks for all the Green for Saint Pat's Day Ed. Love the Triple Truss, Green Machine coal drag coming through the valley, -n- that BN Shanty & Caboose The broken balance of the time continuum has been restored again and things are almost back to normal around here
Kevin and a few more members back to our Train Club and it will be
Have a wonderful Saint Pat's Day gentlemen
TF
Good Morning, Hope all are well.
JUst checking in. not much going on here between Possum Trot and Monkey's Eyebrow. Having good weather the past few days. spring has started to arrive.
I am on call this week at work, luckily I have minions now that do my bidding during the day so I don't have to run every ticket.
I have been replacing fans in power supplies for medical carts here at work. It seems the fans sieze up and then the power supply cooks its self over time. The power supplies are $1K a piece, the fans $6. It takes me about 20 mins per cart because I have to remove siad supply, take it apart, remove the bad fan, put the new one in, repeat.
They look rather tasty, John, though I hope, against hope, the mustard isn’t that insipid stuff that seems to be popular in the US. Cheers, the Bear.
They look rather tasty, John, though I hope, against hope, the mustard isn’t that insipid stuff that seems to be popular in the US.
Altoona, Penna., on the old Pennsylvania Railroad. Still the place to see some oddball equipment:
Altoona_gun by Edmund, on Flickr
Then there's this guy...
220308_3_altoona by lmyers83, on Flickr
Photos are about 100 years apart but the locations are within a few hundred feet of each other.
220308_1_altoona by lmyers83, on Flickr
More on the Progress Rail JT42CRWM here:
https://www.progressrail.com/en/Segments/RollingStock/Locomotives/FreightLocomotives/JT42CWRM.html
Cheers, Ed
Good afternoon
I think I'm due for a nap after my rather interesting morning. Yesterday I had a stomach ache all day but it was tolerable.
Shortly after posting in the Diner this morning I got a sharp pain in my lower abdomen radiating into my back and bladder. The pain got so excruciating it was like someone had stuck a knife in my gut twisting it.
After heading to the sink two times I pretty much realized something wasn't right so I decided to pay a visit to the ER room. I was given some pretty heavy duty pain meds in the IV with whatever else was in there. The Doc said the CT scan showed the kidney stone had passed into my bladder.
That was the worst pain I had ever experienced in my life. I've had some pretty serious pain but this made that look like a toy. I'm at home now and the Doc said round two isn't as bad. So now I get to hurry up and wait for "Isn't that bad"
Bummer, TF. But at least they figured out what it was. Hope it is the only one.
You can have my nap.
Thanks for giving up your nap John, I'll take it! Unfortunately he told me there's another one in the other kidney. He said they can stay there 20 years or start moving next week, next year or at any time, one never knows.
Hope that one is stuck tight as I don't ever want to do that again.
Track fiddler . . . Unfortunately he told me there's another one in the other kidney. He said they can stay there 20 years or start moving next week, next year or at any time, one never knows. Hope that one is stuck tight as I don't ever want to do that again. TF
. . . Unfortunately he told me there's another one in the other kidney. He said they can stay there 20 years or start moving next week, next year or at any time, one never knows.
Track fiddlerThe Doc said the CT scan showed the kidney stone had passed into my bladder.
Been there — done that. Just one more notch on the totem-pole of old age
Bringin' em up proper-like...
Engineer_Canada-1944 by Edmund, on Flickr
Where's KEVIN?
Hulett_Iron-and-Steel_1915 by Edmund, on Flickr
We're having Chinese for this St. Patrick's Day Corned Beef will be on Saturday!
Hey TF!
Let's start a club - "The Kidney Stone Survivor's Club"! I went through that crap in 1989. The pain was horrible!!! They had me scheduled for surgery in a few hours when the stone finally passed. I had been told to pee through a sieve so I could show them the stone to prove that it had come out. I got the stone in the sieve and then promptly dropped the thing on the floor of the bathroom and the stone went skittering off to places unknown, just like model train parts do. I was informed that if I didn't find the stone, they were going to operate. This was before they could blow up the stones with ultrasonic waves, and I don't think that CT scans were available either. I know that they could see the stone on an x-ray so maybe they were just trying to scare the pee out of me! Anyhow, so there I was on my hands and knees searching the bathroom floor, which was as disgusting as you can imagine it would be in a ward with four beds. I managed to find the stone, thank goodness! Nasty little beast - it looked like a mini sea urchin! No wonder they hurt!
I don't ever want to go through that again either!
Cheers!!
Track fiddlerAfter heading to the sink two times I pretty much realized something wasn't right so I decided to pay a visit to the ER room. I was given some pretty heavy duty pain meds in the IV with whatever else was in there. The Doc said the CT scan showed the kidney stone had passed into my bladder.
Did you know that people are born with four kidneys ????
Yes, two of them grow up to be adult knees.
BroadwayLionDid you know that people are born with four kidneys ???? Yes, two of them grow up to be adult knees.
“Where's KEVIN?”
Well why didn't I think to look for the bloke in the Bowler
gmpullmanWell why didn't I think to look for the bloke in the Bowler
but then the only photos I’ve seen of you sporting a bowler when you were part of the locomotive crew for 4070!
Aye but those were some heady times, indeed!
4070_CAH_akron by Edmund, on Flickr
Thanks for the memories...
Ed_4070_fix3 by Edmund, on Flickr
Track fiddler Unfortunately he told me there's another one in the other kidney. He said they can stay there 20 years or start moving next week, next year or at any time, one never knows. Hope that one is stuck tight as I don't ever want to do that again. TF
Unfortunately he told me there's another one in the other kidney. He said they can stay there 20 years or start moving next week, next year or at any time, one never knows.
Having blocked plumbing is never a good thing, why did they not treat you for the other one while you were there? The size of the stone determines the course of treatment but the damage and complications that can result from leaving it jammed in there tell me something is not right. Obviously, we don't know the whole diagnosis but it sounds like a ticking time bomb that will either cause kidney damage or at best be another trip on the pain train once it leaves the station.
You may want to do some reading and decide a visit to your GP is in order.
My Brother in-law and a good friend of mine both had kidney stones at the height of covid when the hospitals were swamped. Like you, they presented with stones in both kidneys but the BIL had them zapped to dust and my friend had a surgical flush. Beats severe kidney damage.
I did a little work on the bathroom between phone calls today. I had another trouble maker phone me insisting he was promised that he would be a beneficiary in this ladies Estate I am looking after. I gave him the legal steps on how to apply to the courts to see the will. His eyes glazed over on step two, I could feel it over the phone, Moron.
The dogs have sure caught a lot of rabbits lately. They dutifully hand them over at the door and I take them (now deceased) across the road and lay them at the edge of the forest. Every morning they are gone, probably picked up by a coyote. If there was ever a food shortage our dogs deliver right to the door. There is no shortage of wildlife around here. I can easily pull a nice salmon out of the river as well.
Then
Now
BATMANYou may want to do some reading and decide a visit to your GP is in order.
YES. The Emergency Room is not the place for general surgery or consultation.
They will treat your immediate source of pain, but can do nothing else. An ER doctor doen not even have admitting privliges in his own hospital. If urgent, he can refer you to another practitioner who can admit you, but yes, it is time to consult with your regular doctor about this.
Your discharge papers from the ER probably refer you to a follow up appointment with your doctor. When you call for an appoinment TELL the appointments desk that you were referred by the ER and that will get you in this week instead of next month.
All those pain meds yesterday made me tired. I just grabbed my favorite maroon blanket and couched it all afternoon through the night. Thanks for your support, and good humor here gents.
Did kinda feel like a stray bullet from an artillery range John
They gave me one of those funnel screens too Dave. Now it's like I'm going agate hunting everytime I have to pee I bet you looked stoned crawling around on the bathroom floor looking for one
Funny stuff Lion I still think I have four kidneys, One with screws and staples in it, and one with a rock. I never did completely grow up all the way
Thanks for the passenger car hospice nurse Bear. Always love getting a Beartoon I Miss Garry too
You went through all that fun with the kidney stone too Ed? At least that leaves no room for anyone to envy you anymore, Inlight of that beautiful rural country setting you live in up there I had forgot about that picture. You sure looked tuff in that bowler when you were a young bloke
Brent, He told me they're both the size of a grain of sand and to follow up with my primary care doctor who I haven't seen forever. Judy has been harping on me about getting health insurance for years. I finally filled out forms and got them submitted last week but no confirmation or bill yet. I know that wasn't done in time.
I didn't really appreciate the size of the 'Bill' for that fancy bed we bought before Christmas, ..but at least we had something to show for it. Just wait till I get the one from the ER room
WHERE'S KEVIN???
Enjoy the weekend gentleman
Good afternoon Diners. A Pepsi Max please, Flo. No Ice.
I know the Indoor Cricket I play is to keep me fit and all that, but it is a nicer feeling when we win.
Hospitals and medical I have had more than my fair share. Everytime I see a 'new doctor' etc. and they examine me they come across my irregular heartbeat. A few days of tests and hospital food I am sent back home still the same as when I entered. Yes. I know I am fully checked over, but I have the worry of whether Dawn will cope.
I am now waiting to be admitted to hospital for an echocardiogram and other tests.
Visited my Uncle yesterday. Not good news.
My granddaughters both won awards at school. (Different schools.) I received a phone call from them both thanking me for the help I gave. It's not the help. That comes with love. Listening and applying the knowledge is the key.
Just a thought.
With Kevin missing because of the Forbidden notice, is there other Diners in the same error? If so, have they 'given up'. I know I have a few times it has happened to me. Trying to post three or four times without success. With looking after Dawn I have given up some days.
Stay Safe Everyone