And now for something different...
Try... http://dagobah.net/flash/hestekor.swf
Its an old one, but I love going back to it.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
That tender looks like it is one of the Big Four style with the inset coal bunker. One thing about much of the early NYC steam is that it has a quite varied heritage. LS&MS, NYC&HRRR, Michigan Central, B&A, P&LE, P&E, CCC&StL, Rutland plus maybe a half dozen more all had locomotive designs that were folded into the New York Central "System" of the late '20s.
Makes for some interesting sleuthing to figure out the heritage of particular locomotives.
https://www.railarchive.net/nyccollection/nyc1162.htm
I like the toolbox on this example:
https://www.railarchive.net/nyccollection/nyc1153_morris.htm
Cheers, Ed
gmpullmanNot always. Note the step on the front of the valve chamber and a small one above coming off the running board.
Well, I had no idea.
I guess the model is correct.
Your picture shows a slightly different tender than the model comes with. I love the "inverted trapezoid" extended coal box.
Thanks for that information.
The World Is A Beautiful Place
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Happy Earth Day, everybody!
22-2616 by George Hamlin, on Flickr
Curving through Tunnel 29 by Mike Danneman, on Flickr
SeeYou190I assume NYC locomotives were supposed to have these.
Not always:
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=4384319
Note the step on the front of the valve chamber and a small one above coming off the running board:
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3597170
York1We bought our house 30 years ago, and it was about ten years old at that time. A six foot tall cedar fence had been put in -- I assume when the house was built.
When I bought my house, it was 10 years old, and had a ten year old cedar fence.
Hurricane Charley destroyed the fence, but left all the 6 by 6 (yes, 6 by 6) posts standing. I brought home a truck with a service crane rated at 7,500 pounds to pull them up.
Whoever installed the fence had no consistency at all. Some posts had a bit of concrete, but some had 50 yards! At least that is what it seemed like.
I thought the project would take a half-day or so, it took a whole week!
Thank heaven I had access to that crane.
Long day.
We bought our house 30 years ago, and it was about ten years old at that time. A six foot tall cedar fence had been put in -- I assume when the house was built.
Last week, some wind broke one of the 4x4 posts.
I thought I would quickly remove the damaged post and put in a new one. At least, that's what I thought.
I didn't realize that whoever put the fence in put the posts in concrete. Not just a little concrete. Each post got about 50 yards of concrete. (At least that what it seemed like!)
I tried to pry the broken post out, but the break was into the concrete, so I had to dig the whole thing out.
I know now I'm too old to do this work -- I am sore as heck. If another post breaks sometime, it will probably just stay broken, and I will be happy with it.
York1 John
maxman Track fiddler this popping pills, sleeping on the couch and farting around on my phone OMG, the medications have turned him into a hippie.
Track fiddler this popping pills, sleeping on the couch and farting around on my phone
OMG, the medications have turned him into a hippie.
BrassTrainsDotCom listed this NEW YORK CENTRAL consolidation today. I was almost ready to buy it, then I noticed it is missing both ladders from the pilot to the walkways.
Nothing mentioned about missing pieces in the grading.
I assume NYC locomotives were supposed to have these.
gmpullmanPeaceful day here, today. Will be near 80°F here on Sunday
Yes and we on the otter hand (otters always have two hands) are expecketating big snowy blizzard.
The Wizard conjured a blizard from the gissard of a liserd.
DigitalGriffinAnyone care to guess
The 4859 looks a little dusty!
GG1_4859-Harrisburg_11-11-87 by Edmund, on Flickr
Long live the great Pennsylvania!
Anyone care to guess where I just dropped the wife off at?
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!
BroadwayLionDoes anybody have a nice Diet Dr. Pepper???
Be a Pepper, too!
Pepper Time by Edmund, on Flickr
In my area black oil sunflower seed is 63¢ a pound. I get it with the hull. There are lots of ground feeders, especially mourning doves that like to pick through it, plus the chickens scratch around in it. Once a month or so I bring the tractor 'round and scoop up the spent hulls and add it to the compost pile.
Yesterday I had a bluebird, an American Goldfinch and a bright red Cardinal all sitting next to each other. They were gone by the time I got the camera ready, of course.
Glad you had fun with my Ed Toon, Bear
Peaceful day here, today. Will be near 80°F here on Sunday then high of 40°F on Monday.
I hope all are well...
Good Afternoon,
Kevin, birds that eat insects as a rule, don't eat seeds and seed eaters don't eat bugs.
Dave, we use feeders with trays on the bottom for niger but the sunflower feeders are Squirrel Busters and you can't use those trays.
Picked up more Bird Seed! What a surprise. We now have 130lbs.on hand. Went through about 10lbs. today so far.
Nothing new here.
CN Charlie
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
SeeYou190Lion got the top, but I will buy the drinks. New Belgium Trippel on a Thursday afternoon!
LIONS do not drink beer... Does anybody have a nice Diet Dr. Pepper???
Track fiddlerthis popping pills, sleeping on the couch and farting around on my phone
Lion got the top, but I will buy the drinks.
New Belgium Trippel on a Thursday afternoon!
Enjoy!
SeeYou190Our local birdies ignore our feeder all the time. They prefer to walk the lawn after a rain and eat stuff down there. I am thinking there must be all kinds of yummy bugs, grubs, and worms there for them, and bird seed is less appealing
You gotta keep things cleaned up else they will not come back.
SeeYou190Now that they are all adults, I concentrate on landscapes.
That is the problem with little kids....
They all grow up next thing you know and you are a grandfather.
I cannot be a grandfather... I did not pass the enterance exam!
Not knowing and just guessing here.
Our local birdies ignore our feeder all the time. They prefer to walk the lawn after a rain and eat stuff down there. I am thinking there must be all kinds of yummy bugs, grubs, and worms there for them, and bird seed is less appealing.
CNCharlieDave, we buy the shelled sunflower birdseed so it is more expensive.
Okay, now I understand why your seed is so pricey! We do not seem to have a big problem with seed shells building up. Granted, we are not feeding near as many birds as you are. We used to have a huge problem with nyger seed, both whole and just the shells. The buildup was enormous. We went like that for years until we decided to try a new style of feeder. Suddenly there was almost no waste! As an additional bonus, the new feeder rarely clogs up whereas the old feeders got moldy very quickly. This is the type of feeder that we are using now:
Any spilled seed lands in the tray and the doves eat it right up. We put an additional rain guard on it and that seem to keep the seed quite dry.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
York1 Track fiddler If it does come to that, you guys may have to bust me out of there Oh what I wouldn't give for a hearty hunk of the Bears rack-of-lamb or a thick slab of the Lions rare wildebeest right now My wife and I get a colonoscopy every five years. For the day before, you aren't allowed to eat anything. That is the day I can't quit thinking about cheeseburgers, supreme pizzas, and spaghetti. Good luck, TF! I hope this is over soon for you.
Track fiddler If it does come to that, you guys may have to bust me out of there Oh what I wouldn't give for a hearty hunk of the Bears rack-of-lamb or a thick slab of the Lions rare wildebeest right now
My wife and I get a colonoscopy every five years. For the day before, you aren't allowed to eat anything. That is the day I can't quit thinking about cheeseburgers, supreme pizzas, and spaghetti.
Good luck, TF! I hope this is over soon for you.
York1 TF, hope you feel better.
TF, hope you feel better.
Thank you John for both your kind wishes. I hope to start feeling better soon as well, to become more productive getting back to the layout instead of this popping pills, sleeping on the couch and farting around on my phone. It's giving me this bad feeling like some past teenager complex sort of thing
I'm glad you had fun on your road trip visiting family and happy to have you back
TF
John and Lion:
Thank you for the compliments on my landscape photography. I have been very blessed to have a wife that does not get mad when I stop every five minute to take another picture of the same rock formation "just from a different angle", or sit and wait an hour "for the light to get better".
She even listened to me rant for a whole day once when I drove past so much beautiful scenery to get to the Rocky Mountains National Park, only to have the conditions so bad in the park that photography was almost impossible.
My favorite photography subject was always my daughters. These poor kids spent way too many hours being subjects for my hobby.
-Photographs by Kevin Parson
Now that they are all adults, I concentrate on landscapes.
I very often try, and fail, to photograph birds. They simply just refuse to sit still while I frame the perfect shot. Trees are much more cooperative subjects.
York1Ed, that intermodal train would be exciting out here where I live. Our sixty trains a day are of two kinds -- full coal trains heading east and empty coal trains heading west.
Akkording to BNSF parlance that would be Coal East and Hoppers West.
We get coal and hoppers, we also get Frack Sand, Oil Cars (Tankers laid up), Ethanol Cars, (Empty in, Loads out) and Corn Hoppers (Loads in Empty out)
The Frosted Flakes are just a teaser... We do not get them here at the Abbey.
Good Morning,
Dave, we buy the shelled sunflower birdseed so it is more expensive. We do it to cut down on the mess in the yard. When we first started feeding birds we had a mess of sunflower shells in the shrubs, beds and lawn. I had to use an old shopvac to get them up which eventually killed rhe vac.
Mr. B, Yes alerts have been issued about the spread of avian flu. It is mainly in waterfowl and raptors but not songbirds. We clean our feeders every night, some go in the dishwasher, others are washed in a tub with hot soapy water. Dirty feeders are the risk and as most people don't clean them every 48 hours, there have been notices to take down feeders. If we did that now the hundreds of birds coming to us would starve due to the very late spring. The Redpolls should have gone up north by now and I expect they will be gone in a week or two.
I see Bear now has a dirigible. That should cut his fuel consumption.
Have a few errands to run today before we get hit with another Colorado low which means rain for 2 days. At least it won't be the 24" of snow the western part of the province is expecting.
Speaking of gas stations and historic building sites.
My favorite gas station was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and a historical marker in Cloquet, Minnesota.
I make it a point to stop there anytime we take an extended weekend get-away to Duluth.
Frank Lloyd Wright, one of my favorite architects, was ahead of his time and designed a whole city by the name of Broadacres that unfortunately never happened.
I've often thought how I'd like to see what's under the outer facing of the cantilever to see how it ticks.
Built in 1958 is quite a fascinating design considering the cantilever subjected to deflection from high winds and storms since then. It seems no wonder the glass in the observation room has never broke or cracked points to superb structural engineering.
Good morning, everyone.
Lots of outdoor work today, so there probably won't be any bridge-building on the layout.
Ed, that intermodal train would be exciting out here where I live. Our sixty trains a day are of two kinds -- full coal trains heading east and empty coal trains heading west.
Kevin, I always enjoy your photos -- your expert train layout photos or your interesting landscapes. I have never spent the time or the effort to get the kind of photos you post here.
Charlie, I haven't done like you and switched to shelled sunflower seeds. I still buy the 40 pound bags of in-the-shell seeds. Our bags say they are a product of North Dakota. Not sure if that's where they are grown or if that's where the seeds are packaged. Maybe Lion knows if ND grows sunflowers.
It's sad to have to point this out, but please check with the bird authorities in your area for advice on feeding wild birds. In some regions, they are advising people not to feed birds at feeders, because that concentrates the population and makes them subject to bird flu infections.
It's a bad time for our feathered friends. Their habitat has been taken from them. Our region raises a lot of chickens, so those high concentrations of birds are subject to infection. At the same time, people are building summer homes near the beach, many unoccupied for most of the year, but woods and fields have become permanent lawns and asphalt.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good morning
gmpullman Dunkle's Gulf by Brandon Bartoszek, on Flickr
Dunkle's Gulf by Brandon Bartoszek, on Flickr
CNCharlie TF, hope those meds are doing their job. My wife developed an abdominal infection after some minor surgery and was on intravenious antibiotics every 8 hours. We had to go to the emerg dept for that. Be careful as abdominal infections can get dangerous.
TF, hope those meds are doing their job. My wife developed an abdominal infection after some minor surgery and was on intravenious antibiotics every 8 hours. We had to go to the emerg dept for that. Be careful as abdominal infections can get dangerous.
Thanks Charlie, I certainly hope so too. Been trying to remain positive not to dwell on the seriousness of it. With exception of doing everything I'm advised, I've been keeping my sense of humor as the outcome is basicly out of my hands. Hopefully everything pans out well
Make it a great day gentlemen
SeeYou190 The World Is A Beautiful Place -Photograph by Kevin Parson I have the next two days off, and I am going to do my best to get the walls textured in the living room by the time I go to bed on Friday. -Kevin
I have the next two days off, and I am going to do my best to get the walls textured in the living room by the time I go to bed on Friday.
Someone is a very good photographer! : )