Ed, I can't believe how few people were out watching that train. I would hope that every kid that lived for miles around would be watching that locomotive come through.
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It's getting close to dinner time (supper time for those of you living in my area). How about a roast beef sandwich for everyone!
York1 John
York1How about a roast beef sandwich for everyone!
I'll take one... Thanks John... This is delicious!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Evening my friends
I've always been a big fan of the French dip and the full meal deal. For instance, the Beef Philly cheese steak with Swiss. At that point, why not add a slice of mozzarella.
Onions, peppers and mushrooms with thin sliced 14-hour beef that don't stick in your teeth.
Add the right creamy horseradish sauce makes it or breaks it
You can know the place you go and have a good one of those as I do or roll the dice if you're brave.
I had that good sandwich experience in Eau Claire Wisconsin last weekend
I could tell what I wanted to order because I saw it at the next table over from me and sometimes that's how I roll while everyone else is looking at the menu
Next time I'm in that town, I'll order another one of those as it was worth every last bite
TF
Evening again my friends and I won't even say Post Hog.
So much for the sandwich but I think my Judy is going a bit Wanky.
She must have got another one of those quarterly Casino dividend checks because I can't remember the last time I've been home in my recliner for the weekend lately.
She keeps saying life is short and you got to live life while you can.
I should be happy with a woman like this because we had no longer got back from 3 and 1/2 weeks in Wisconsin to go back up to Eau Claire Wisconsin and now she wants to go 4 hours north to Bemidji Minnesota.
She's the boss at the new hotel she works for and I'm starting to think she's my boss as lately I have fallen back to saying yes dear all the time just because it's easier with so many treats
I don't ever want that woman to quit her hotel job as she gets Hilton hotel rooms for $35 a night.
Bemidji it is and she showed me pictures of the third story deck overlooking the Lake.
I'm raising heck trying to get my work done around here but I don't care if it's done by Friday.
Bemidji it is!
Good evening everyone.
I had a complete do-nothing day today, and I have loved it.
The World Is A Beautiful Place
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
I am putting together a list of items to order from Precision Scale in Washington. There are a few items I know I will need for projects, and locating detail parts is becoming harder and harder in hobby shops.
Besides all that, where has my manners been tonight.
Thanks Ricky, Thanks Henry
I'm all good here now and I love all you guys for thinking of me
gmpullman"MY" shortline was the Indiana Northeastern. A friend once had his caboose kept on a siding in the town of Pleasant Lake, Indiana. I spent many hours there. Recently the Nickel Plate 765 has been running on the line:
Ed, thanks for posting. Having lived in Indiana for 27 years, I'm familiar with the INE and its knock off NKP paint scheme. I guess I'll have to find another shortline in GA to post about.
BTW, I thought this was a video of a well-done model layout if I hadn't seen the people move. It think the viewing angle has a lot to do with it.
TF: Belated condolences. I know that when I lost my father, there was this sense of protection and security that he provided that also left my soul. Even when I was an independent 40 and his death at 74, I missed that person that I simply looked up to my whole life. An emptiness that won't ever be filled.
- Douglas
Track fiddler I have fallen back to saying yes dear all the time just because it's easier with so many treats
Treats or threaths? In either case saying yes dear is just self-prerservation.
Music at night
I need to get off this Pink Floyd kick infatuation since high school I know there's much more music I could find that is decent
Until then, I'll leave you with this
https://youtu.be/5uiVpxDuAhc
Just an old guy still having fun! Remember, when you're doing it just right, you need to have tongue in cheek
maxman Track fiddler I have fallen back to saying yes dear all the time just because it's easier with so many treats Treats or threaths? In either case saying yes dear is just self-prerservation.
And so is trick or treat but it isn't Halloween yet Richard
Every weekend while I have fun I feel I'm preserved like a special Egyptian mummy, with my 28 year mommy
I only bet you wish you had a gal like that...
Late evening
Half hour past my bedtime and I'm switching to the Locomotive Man!
https://youtu.be/kMjWr3YdFIc
In my book there's no better than Johnny!
Rack Time!
Good morning, diners. Bacon, eggs, and black coffee, please Flo.
Another beautiful sunny day on the Great Plains. It would be nice to get some more rain, though.
The New Orleans & Gulf Coast RR has 32 miles of track, connecting with UP. It hauls a variety of industrial materials. It follows the Mississippi River on the Westbank, ending downriver at Myrtle Grove.
Have a good day, gentlemen.
Good morning everyone.
Since Covid, I still cannot taste very much. Salt is one flavor that breaks through. As such, I have been eating too many Planters Dry Roasted Peanuts, just because I can taste something when I eat them.
It is another Thursday already. I need to get out into the yard and trim the Royal Poinciana. Tomorrow is trash day, and I need to get the horticultural stuff out there too.
We seem to be in our early summer weather pattern. Its rained here for 4 straight days after a fairly dry July. Feels like June more than August. Sunny days. Clouds build in the afternoon. Then short downpours in the evening.
The SANDERSVILLE RR has been around a long time. Its main purpose is to serve the Kaolin clay mines in middle Georgia that run along its Falls Line (Wiki is your friend here).
SW1500s and slugs painted white (hides the kaolin dust ya know):
pic from American-Rails.com
"Hey Bobby, are you sure the crossing gates are supposed to go there?"
Douglas: That traffic circle bisected by a rail line is one of the craziest things I have ever seen. Would make a great point of interest on a model railroad, although putting in that many operating crossing gates would be crazy expensive.
Dry and hot in Dodge City. We had a tenth of an inch of rain last week, but we were in Colorado at the time. We need rain, badly.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Tin Can IIThat traffic circle bisected by a rail line is one of the craziest things I have ever seen. Would make a great point of interest on a model railroad,
Looks like a good way to disguise a turntable.
Good evening
I wish you guys could have a chance to meet my Judy.
She's like a little kid from the time she wakes in the morning and has always been that way.
She makes me smile and laugh every day. I guess that's why I've been by her side for 28 years.
I just found out why she wants me to drive four hours to Bemidji. She explained it to me tonight.
She went to Paul Bunyan amusement park when she was a little girl and didn't know the speaker guy was informed by her parents of her name and thinks Babe the Blue Ox was magically speaking to her back then.
I guess my silly woman wants to re-live her childhood and have Babe the Blue Ox talk to her again...
I will pay for the park and tell the speaker guy what to say for her Birthday tomorrow.
Gotta love that Girl!
Where's my manners again?
Coming back and catching up here from vacation I was very saddened to hear about Mel.
I shared conversations at times with Mel through the years. There was never a kinder spoken man I exchanged words with.
My condolences go out to his Family and Friends
Long Live Mel!
John
Here's a song of my liking for my friend Mel.
https://youtu.be/TeyHPAdxuy0
Where has this day gone? As I sit here, it is after 11:00, and Friday is almost here.
I did get my yard work done, and the grocery shopping for the week.
Good Morning Diners. Brunhilda, a large coffee in a East Broad Top mug and an order of cinnamon raisin toast please.
TGIF. Been one of those weeks at work that just drags on. Yuck! I might not make it the whole day. We'll see.
Went out to try to see some of the Perseid meteor shower last night. The weather was perfect, but we didn't see much. The supermoon is a major hindrance. Still, they are supposed to peak tonight, so if it isn't cloudy we may head out again.
Marquette Rail (owned by Genesee & Wyoming) is based in Ludington, MI and runs on former Pere Marquette/C&O/Chessie/CSX rails.
Mike
Good morning, diners. Black coffee, eggs, and bacon please, Flo.
It looks like Lion is warning that the condors are gathering -- not sure a bunch of old men should be hanging around when the vultures are circling.
We're cleaning the house -- we have a daughter's family visiting. The granddaughters will want to see the trains running, so I need to make sure everything is OK.
Douglas had an interesting picture of a train crossing through a traffic circle. As if life isn't complicated enough. It reminds me of an intersection in Lincoln, Nebraska, with a busy road intersecting another busy road, and a train crossing the intersection diagonally.
Luckily, the track is not real busy, but when the train does come through, traffic really backs up.
The Bogalusa Bayou railroad in Louisiana is only six miles of track serving a paper plant. Most of the shortlines in Louisiana are owned by Watco, headquartered in Kansas, operating over 40 shortlines in the U.S.
I hope everyone has a great Friday!
BroadwayLion
Good morning everyone. Chloe, I will have some granola and coffee to start the day, thank you. I think I will also have a glass of orange juice as well.
I slept terrible last night. My sense of taste has not returned well, and now I am eating very spicy foods just trying to taste anything as all. My stomach was very upset last night. I need to straighten this out. I would have thought that not beeing able to taste would make me eat less, but the opposite has been true. I have been eating constantly because I crave everything, but nothing satisfies me.
Kevin, I hope your sense of taste straightens out soon. My wife's sense of smell was altered by covid. Most things smell normal to her, but a couple are WAY off. For example, laundry coming out of the washing machine has a horrible chemical smell to her. We use detergent that is perfume free. You can stick your face in the bottle and not smell anything. She called me down to the basement when it started, convinced something was horribly wrong as she said it had a strong chemical smell. It didn't smell any different (and no it doesn't normally have a chemical smell!). She read that covid can actually destroy the nerve connections between the nose (and maybe mouth?) and the brain. It takes time for those nerve connections to rebuild and for the brain to adjust until things are back to normal. Her sense of smell is starting to shift, I'm assuming back to normal. She still says the basement and laundry smell like chemicals, but not as bad as they did.
Just waiting for LIONs to leave the "dinner table"? An artfully disguised visual metaphor for something by our dear Brother Elias?
Did you click on the condor?
ROAR
BroadwayLionDid you click on the condor?
Ahhhhhhh........ Brother Lion, you made my day! El Condor Pasa was a standard in my repertoire way back when!!! Ah yes, love that song!
73, 73, and 73 my friend!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
BroadwayLion Just waiting for LIONs to leave the "dinner table"? An artfully disguised visual metaphor for something by our dear Brother Elias? Did you click on the condor? ROAR