Hi Jim,
Thanks for moving the Diner! You did a great job!
I look forward to learning about grain growing operations in Kansas. My family grew grain for five generations just outside of Barrie, Ontario. They were the second pioneer family in the area. The property was solid bush when they began in 1823.
It wasn't a huge operation but it paid the bills. I spent almost every weekend at the farm when I was young, but I was too young to do any of the work. I clearly remember being in the barn when the crops were harvested.
Cheers!!
Dave
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. Chloe, I'll have a jelly donut and a large black coffee in an AT&SF mug please. Thanks!
I got the impression that there was a vast amount of FLAT!
It's Friday junior. Tomorrow is my Friday off with the holiday coming on Monday. Hallelujah!
Have a good day guys!
Mike
Good morning Diners. A large coffee please, Chloe.
Trying to get a lot done this week, but others want my time.
On the layout front I have dismantlesd the bridge. No more ducking under. It was getting harder on the knees. It meant rewiring the layout somewhat and another controller purchased. Youngest grandson was not impressed at the dismantling. That was until he took control of part of the layout and I another. The fact that he had six locomotives under his control soon changed his mind.
Grain Elevators of Hutchinson,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8TcZy0jqko&ab_channel=nickhemphill
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Good late evening
There was that one time we were on Wooden Frog cliff.
Me, Dale Hayes, Lori and Melissa.
Plenty of time to screw around but I needed to take it a bit higher.
Lovely. We were on the top of the cliff. At that point nobody cared about formations in the sky until we seen them.
It was how well you were doing with the girl next to you until things went South that night.
A 5-point symmetrical grid like the center of a star appeared over Wooden Frog cliff.
Appeared and spun and one of the five took off across the sky fast after the next and the next and the next.
That was the first time I seen them but I must tell you it got Better! In other words, WORSE ... It got WORST!
TF
MisterBeasleyIt's the individuality of the hobby that keeps me looking at other layouts, particularly at shows or layout tours where I get a chance to view layouts as they're built. There is so much variety in construction techniques and scenery that it's great that every modeler develops his own niche and let's us see it.
I absolutely love seeing layouts built by others.
Having built so many layouts myself... 5 of the SGRR, the N scale portable layout for Scale Rails of Southwest Florida, the store layout for Reynold's Trains, and my friend Randy's Norfolk Southern layout... I know what goes into building a layout.
Seeing any layout that is nearly completed is something to behold, no matter how it was built or what it represents.
Even Lego layouts amaze me!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Utterly Delightful as well
Thanks for the great job of opening the September Diner, Jim!
Children of the Corn or, well, Amtrak in the corn!
Passing corn and Ancona by Mike Danneman, on Flickr
One for Brent:
Blurred at Barons by Mike Danneman, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
Hi Everyone,
Brunhilda, coffee with cream, please.
This month we get to study grain, how it gets to elevators and most importantly the railroad's role in the process. it is true that wheat harvest is past except for maybe Saskatchewan; however, fir those states who grow winter wheat, September is planting season. We'll be adding more as the month progresses.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Hi Everyone!
Time to move the Diner! Thanks to all who contributed to the tour of short lines in August.
For the month of September we are going to take a look at grain operations in Kansas and general ops in the KC area. Here goes:
Jim