Hi Rick,
By the time you read this you will have had your surgury. I hope that everything went well and that you have a speedy recovery.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
My heart surgery was over 4 years ago, and I'm still here as far as I know.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Rick good luck tomorrow. You are not going to be interested in your Iphone for a couple days.
Brent, I'm behind on the news, but I am sorry to hear about your wife.
CVS is dumbfounded by my gabapentin prescriptions. In chronological order:
They don't know what to do with the older prescriptions 1,2 & 3
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Best of luck Rick!!
Likewise, Rick. Thinking and praying for you.
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
Rick, thinking and praying for you tomorrow morning.
York1 John
Good luck tomorrow Rick, I'll be thinking of you and your family.
Cardiac issues run on both sides of my family and some have had interventions that gave them a much better and long-lived quality of life.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Good afternoon from sunny and hot Northeast Ohio! Just got the phone call, have to be at the hospital by 6:00 am for the open heart surgery. Will not have access to my phone until my wife gets it to me in the ICU or my room the next day. Will keep you all updated when I can.
By the way Brent and David, sorry to hear about you wives. Had to deal with my wife's ovarian tumor removal right at the beginning of the covid pandemic, she was on the operating table for 6 hours with a lot of problems. Hope all gets better.
Rick Jesionowski
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
Rule 3: Illuminating discussion of prototype history, equipment and operating practices is always welcome, but in the event of visitor-perceived anacronisms, detail descrepancies or operating errors, consult RULE 1!
Good morning, diners.
A busy day ahead.
I will check back later to see if the waitresses are busy.
Thank you, everyone, for all the neat vacation train photos.
Good afternoon Diners. A coffee on the go please, Brunhilda.
It has been raining every day for days and days. I hope it stops for the Platinum Jubilee Celebrations on Friday.
Seen at Beamish Museum, County Durham.
IMG_0303 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Seen whilst on the Panama Canal Railway.
IMG_0874 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Seen at Santa Apolonia Train Station, Lisbon
IMG_2157 by David Harrison, on FlickrSeen on the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway, Ravenglass, Cumbria.
IMG_2218 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Thoughts and Peace to All who equire.
CNCharlieWe do our Remembrance Day here on Nov.11.
I messed up and intended to have written Decoration Day.
I corrected my post. Sorry for the confusion, 'twas I who was confused...
Cheers, Ed
November 11th is Veteran's Day in the United States.
We have had heavy rain nearly every day for several weeks. This is perfectly normal for my area.
I hope everything is OK for you.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Had to get up and go outside just now to pump some water out of the pond as it was starting to overflow. Yes it us raining hard again and watwr is coming in the window well too. Guess I won't be getting much sleep tonight. The ground is too wet to absorb more water more water. Now the power just went out.
We have had the second wettest spring on record. The wettest since 1897. May rainfall was twice normal.
Power is back, out for only 15 minutes. Wife is mad at me for not buying an emergency light for upstairs, I have one down here in my lair.
Sounds like the Diners south of the border had a good holiday. We do our Remembrance Day here on Nov.11.
Tomorrow, I guess it is that already, we are expecting, rain, what a surprise.
Supose I should have kept the sailboat and just parked it in the driveway. In the 25 years we had it I never did get it to the house. It was on a highway trailer but I never had a vehicle that could pull 7500 lbs. It only went a few hundred feet each year from the crane to the boat yard. We had an old farm tractor to pull boats at the club.
Time to empty pails again,
CN Charlie
gmpullmanOur Remembrance day was quite quiet and enjoyable.
Great pictures Ed. My Memorial Day was a "work" day, but that was pretty easy. I have enjoyed the evening for sure.
The World Is A Beautiful Place
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
I opened a package of terrycloth rags tonight to damp-clean the walls to get all of the residual sanding dust off of them. They seemed a little musty, but I used them anyway.
It was worse than I realized. Now my house has a noticeable musty smell to it. I put the rags in the washer. I hope this smell goes away.
Trains on Holiday: Bellevue, Ohio
2006 photos 664 by Edmund, on Flickr
2006 photos 676 by Edmund, on Flickr
2006 photos 704 by Edmund, on Flickr
2006 photos 728 by Edmund, on Flickr
2006 photos 713 by Edmund, on Flickr
And recently the 767 has been on display there —
NKP 757 by Todd Dillon, on Flickr
Stuffed and mounted
Our Remembrance Decoration day was quite quiet and enjoyable. I hope yours was, too.
Hello everyone. Happy Memorial Day.
Brent, praying for your wife. I'm sorry to hear she isn't doing better.
Ed, congratulations for your granddaughter! I was doing precisely the same thing with my own daughter. Friday night was graduation, Saturday was the open house, Sunday was recovery , and today catching up on all the housework that didn't get done before the week starts. Good thing it's a holiday weekend.
John (York1) - Please share pics of Petra! I would love to see that myself someday!
Well, the sun is shining, it's a beautiful day, so train room time is not likely, but that's okay. It will be a great afternoon none the less. I've got steaks salting right now destined for the grill this evening.
Have a wonderful rest of your day gents!
Mike
Hi Everyone,
Just dropped in to say hello.
Newfoundland sounds fine.
Good to see everyone feeling well,...for the most part.
Really enjoying this month's content from all contributors.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
York1Thanks for all the great vacation photos.
One more...
Trains I Have Seen On Vacation #46
Time to go to "work" for the day.
POST HOG!
One for the Lion.
Good Noon or close to it.
There came a point last night when my Judy got Mean To Me. Probably my fault for feeding her all those cheap Millers
I told her she can make it up to me by taking me out to Clive's Roadhouse for some of that chicken fried chicken
You can never have some too much good chicken you know
TF
Good morning
Nice to hear from you guys on the Memorial Day weekend. Yea, those things were all over the place last night at the hotel John but the chicken was excellent. I cheated and put some Kingsford and Mesquite chips in there
Judy kept asking me if I was going to grab my phone to take pictures at the car show Saturday. I told her No, I just want to enjoy this one myself with my own eyes for once.
Didn't stop me from fishtailing the car around to go back and take a picture of that neat Grader on the way home though.
My head a little heavy checking out of the hotel this morning so I think we're going to go do another one of those other expensive lunches again
Good morning on Memorial Day in the U.S. My mother called it Decoration Day, and we had to take flowers to the cemetery. I loved watching the veterans fire the 21-gun salute.
Today is a good day to rest and recover. Kids wore me out.
TF, that looks like a nice one night vacation spot. I noticed that someone left you a gift on the kitchen counter -- I hope you enjoyed it.
David, that's a pretty nice photo of you on the balcony of the ship. I wish I could go again. My wife doesn't want to.
Speaking of that, I will be going to Israel and Jordan in a couple of months with my daughters. My wife doesn't want to go, so I will be the lone grandparent on this trip. I'm looking forward to finally seeing one of my bucket list places -- Petra.
Ed, congratulations on the graduation. Looks like you had a good time. Your photo of the locomotive parts reminds me of the Corvette factory in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Taking the tour, you start walking past big bins of parts. The workers start putting it all together, and at the end, they put gas in the Corvette, start it, and drive it away. I was totally in awe of the process.
Kevin, I hope the rest of the construction comes out looking as good as the work you've done so far. Thanks for all the great vacation photos.
Dave, thanks for your efforts to keep the diner rolling. I had never heard of Newfie Screech. I will try it in the diner, but I'm not a rum fan.
Brent, hope your wife is doing better, and that all the people can pick up the dogs on time. Your life will calm down quite a bit when the puppies are gone.
Bear, I had never heard about that Tangiwait train disaster. Very interesting story.
Charlie, I hope your wife can get back to the point of living a fairly normal life. It must be terrible to be so afraid of the covid, and I feel sorry she is going through this.
Lion, are you able to get up to the subway room at all? I know you were using a walker, but I hope you can navigate the stairs.
Ray, I don't blame you for how you handled your sister's situation. I hope she can do OK and get back to normal soon.
Henry, hope the shoulder and arm are doing a little better. It sure is taking its time healing.
For everyone not mentioned, I hope you have a great day and your health is OK.
Not a good photo, but I snapped this on the wall of the Grand Canyon Lodge on the north rim:
Yesterday my two granddaughters attended a 'Princess Party'.
The had a great time with games and dancing. Afternoon tea as well.
IMG_0936 by David Harrison, on Flickr
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Good morning Diners. A full English and a pot of tea please, Zoe.
Some photographs are taken and for some reason there is something about them.
A train arriving at Leamington Spa 2018. Had it been 1908 or earlier, apart from the train would have a steam engine, the scene would be identical. The lamps. The GWR seating etal. Then the sultry looking sky. Magical (to me).
SAM_0853 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Then we are at Birmingham New Street Station. I was after a picture of the freight train, I did not notice the white 'litter'. I still do not know what it is, but things are not perfect. Just as I like things.
SAM_0858 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Kevin is hard at work. Seeing him covered in dust I need a rest.
IMG_1149 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Thoughts & Peace to All who Require.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Thank you for the congratulatory wishes for my granddaughter's graduation, everyone
Haven't seen any presence of our favorite moderator Tom Stage in almost a month. Hope he's doing OK.
Did you know the Pennsylvania Railroad built their locomotives from great big Bowser kits?
PRR_Juniata Shops_all parts of H6b 2-10-09 by Edmund, on Flickr
I can recognize just about every piece there. Gimme a helper, a big alignment drift and some big wrenches and I'll be ready to fire up in about a week!
I just caught the tail-end of the "old way" of factories doing everything "in-house" as the PRR did in the photo above.
Our GE plant had a pattern maker, a full machine shop and gangs of laborers, painters, sweepers and chip pullers. That all ended in the early 1980s when the Wall Street forward thinkers got into the game. Why run a dirty, old factory and settle for a 4-5% return on investment when you can take that money and wheel-and-deal in securities, reinsurance and futures, mergers and acquisitions and pull in 15 or 20% or more ?
Well, of course all that blew up in 2001 and again in 2008. GE couldn't get out of the money game fast enough.
Vacationers:
Budd_Stainless by Edmund, on Flickr
Trains on Holiday:
P1130062 by Edmund, on Flickr
Touring the BNSF Business Car shops in Topeka, Kansas.
P1130068 by Edmund, on Flickr
P1130066 by Edmund, on Flickr
More Here:
Cicero by Edmund, on Flickr
Joseph Ambrose, WWI by Edmund, on Flickr
Time to call it an evening.
I will be back tomorrow for more.
Trains I Have Seen On Vacation #45
I am writing checks and paying bills.
Booo for the first of the month.
The deal this morning was instead of just sitting in the parked lot, was to help with the grocery shop and a room would be purchased for the night.
Sounded good to me.
Staycation half a mile from home.
Got a little kitchen too.
View of Best Buy eminent domain Regional Offices.
And a glass railing deck overlooking the city with two gas grills to cook a chicken
All to ourselves as everyone else went out of town.