"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Good Morning all. Flo, coffee in a large Michigan Central mug please.
What a nice weekend. Between my college team winning, my NFL team winning, and my fantasy football team winning, it was a great weekend for football! Spent Saturday on the road for a soccer game for my youngest. Beautiful day, the girls played well, and won 3-1. Came home to a birthday dinner for my wife with her whole family over. Saturday was long, but good. Yesterday I was...wait for it....on the road all day for a soccer game. Absolutely crummy weather. Downpoured for the game (most of the day in fact). The game was great though. Evenly matched teams, no dirty play, good officiating. It was fun to watch. Our girls ended up getting a little out of sorts at times, and ended up losing 2-1, which is unfortunate, but how it goes sometimes.
Mike
Good morning, diners. I'll have an omelet with mushrooms from Bear's Frisco dining car menu. I'm not happy they don't serve bacon, but I imagine I can make it one day without.
Mike, I've said before that I hope you enjoy and savor every minute of the time spent with your kids. In the blink of an eye, they'll be off on their own. My daughters did not play soccer, but I spent a lot of evenings and weekends at volleyball and basketball tournaments.
The most enjoyable sports that I liked watching the daughters play were tennis and golf. All three played those in high school, and the games were low key, and the crowds were quiet and respectful. No arguments, no anger, no complaints about refs.
I'd love to have some of those days back.
It was another cool morning for a walk, but later in the week we'll hit the 90s again.
It's a day to cut grass, clean rain gutters, visit the store, and a church meeting tonight. No layout time.
Hope everyone has a healthy good day.
One of the problems of grain elevators is the grain dust causing explosions. Here's one that was in South Sioux City, Nebraska, several years ago. The reinforced concrete silos and elevator were so badly damaged they took the whole thing down. This elevator is on the BNSF line:
York1 John
Good morning
Huh! Do you suppose it would have been a better idea to send Joe's track crew out to do the maintenance on line number 9 ten/twenty years ago?
Probably!
TF
Appeared to be a brief photo of a bridge .... I will just leave this here
Track fiddler Good morning Huh! Do you suppose it would have been a better idea to send Joe's track crew out to do the maintenance on line number 9 ten/twenty years ago? Probably! TF
Probably not.
I suspect the track was left that way because they needed a reason to blame their PA units for being the cause of derailments.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
I just got a bundle of pictures in the mail of me as a youngster and my dad from my step Mom Marlene.
Bless her heart for sending the good memories.
York1 I'll have an omelet with mushrooms from Bear's Frisco dining car menu. I'm not happy they don't serve bacon, but I imagine I can make it one day without.
Maybe the diner can make a side trip to the Ohio State Fair?
Bacon by Bruce Gage, on Flickr
That ought to make up for a day without pork bellies
Free blood pressure screenings two booths over
Cheers, Ed
gmpullman York1 I'll have an omelet with mushrooms from Bear's Frisco dining car menu. I'm not happy they don't serve bacon, but I imagine I can make it one day without. Maybe the diner can make a side trip to the Ohio State Fair? Bacon by Bruce Gage, on Flickr That ought to make up for a day without pork bellies Free blood pressure screenings two booths over Cheers, Ed
I'll have one of everything on the menu! This looks like another good reason to visit Ohio. I think I've told you before that my wife is from Euclid, and we want to get back to look at her childhood home.
Good Morning Diners. Flo, I'll pass on the chocolate covered bacon. I will take some bacon with a couple fried eggs though.
A local restaurant & ice cream parlor/manufacturer has a sundae consisting of butter pecan ice cream, caramel, waffle cone pieces, and bacon. My wife tried it and liked it. Said it was a sweet and salty kind of thing. I refuse to try it.
Hope everyone has a good day. I'll try to check back later.
Good morning, everyone. I'll have eggs, some of Bear's Union Pacific dining car bacon (skip the liver), and black coffee.
Water Level RouteA local restaurant & ice cream parlor/manufacturer has a sundae consisting of butter pecan ice cream, caramel, waffle cone pieces, and bacon. My wife tried it and liked it. Said it was a sweet and salty kind of thing. I refuse to try it.
I've been buying peanut butter ice cream. At first, that sounded like a terrible idea, but I actually like the sweet and salty taste. I'll skip the bacon ice cream.
Track fiddlerI just got a bundle of pictures in the mail of me as a youngster and my dad from my step Mom Marlene.
That's pretty neat! If you're like me, when I see old pictures of parents, grandparents, etc., it always seems like those people look so old in the photos and the pictures were taken when they were younger than I am now. I really don't picture myself looking as old as them. I am, but I picture myself as an 18-year-old.
Photo from Salina, Kansas:
Bear: You might not believe this, but getting a Chocolate Milkshake from Five Guys, and mixing in Bacon Bits is a rocket powered dream on wheels.
Chocolate and bacon go together so well!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
If you google it you can find recipes to scratchbuild your own.
Doesn't look as bad as it sounds:
Hi Everyone,
John: I like the picture of the elevator mishap in Salina. I'm trying to figure out exactly where that elevator is. I thought I knew where most of them are, but I'm a little baffled with this one.
One thing I haven't mentioned about grain elevators is loading and unloading cars. One way to do it is to have a locomotive either railroad or elevator owned push cars through the loading area, which of course takes fuel. One thing I've never seen is a locomotive going through the loading shed. I can speculate that there's too many things to hit and damage, or they don't want diesel exhaust contaminating the grain, or the weight of the locomotive, or all of the above. Whatever the reason, it seems they just don't do it.
The other way they would load and unload cars is with winches. They'd attach the cable to an end of the string and pull the cars through either from the front of the string or the back, depending. I have seen this done. It's a little unerving to look at a string of cars and all of a sudden they move on their own so to speak.
Sorry I couldn't find any pictures of this.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Jim:
In Dodge City I have seen diesels, trackmobiles, and front-end loaders moving cars at the local grain elevators.
SeeYou190 Bear: You might not believe this... Chocolate and bacon go together so well! -Kevin
Bear: You might not believe this...
“If you google it you can find recipes to scratchbuild your own.
Doesn't look as bad as it sounds:”
To set the context, my Grandma who as a young luckily employed woman lived through the Great Depression could not abide wasting food, not only were we to eat everything on our plate, but we were to be grateful too! So I am Not a fussy eater. But that said Gentlemen, as much I as I value your contributions to the Forum, I’m afraid that you can’t convince me otherwise, on this matter!
Good Morning all. Chloe, just a coffee this morning, in a CB&Q mug please.
Not much news worthy from my neck of the woods. Found a video about a "Bopper Car". Interesting concept. Not surprising it didn't take.
Have a good day everyone.
Good morning, diners. I'll have the usual, Flo.
Mike, that is a neat video of the bopper cars. I'd never heard of them. It was a good idea that didn't work out.
Jim, I'm not sure that elevator is standing anymore. I believe the picture is fairly old. It was from a newspaper, but I couldn't find any more information.
After moving to the midwest from Louisiana, we were very interested in all the land and things to see here. We are surrounded by huge areas of cornfields.
However, when we first drove our daughter to Kansas State University, we saw that after about 70 miles, the corn fields disappeared, and we were in an area called the 'Flint Hills'.
The old buildings, the farm houses, and a large part of Kansas State U buildings were made of stone.
Since our part of Nebraska has no stone at all, this was quite a change so close to us. It really is a neat part of Kansas.
This kind of stone would make great landscaping supplies, but it is not cheap to haul it up to our area.
The farm fields in the Flint Hills grow mostly wheat, with very rocky fields and thin layers of topsoil.
Have a great day, everyone.
Brunhilda, coffee with cream, please.
The Flint Hills make up a band of hills in the eastern part of Kansas, in which Manhattan (Kansas State University) is right in the middle of them. There are a lot of buildings made of limestone in the state. KSU and KU both have most of their buildings made of limestone plus many towns west of those locations have limestone buildings. Where my recent ancestors homesteaded is an area called Post Rock country. There you would see fence posts made of limestone. My Dad had said that he thought everybody had limestone fence posts only to find out that it was unique to their corner of the world.
Speaking food and Salina, KS, one has to mention The Cozy Inn. I tried to get some pictures, but they wouldn't show up in my photos. Anyway, the Cozy Inn is a little hole in the wall place that seats six. All they make is little burgers (sliders) and they also offer pies. The burgers start with a little ball of ground beef, they're placed on the grill, flattened and seared. Then they place grilled chopped onions on them, flip them, and sear the onions into the meat. The buns are put on top and allowed to finish. The grill these delights are cooked on is 100 years old and has never been cleaned. They only scrape it and oil it. I can just about guarantee that these will be the best burgers you will ever eat.
Once a friend of mine and I went to the Cozy, had some burgers, then 3 hours later went to our local hobby shop. Someone in the shop said, "Who's been to the Cozy Inn?" The aroma is that potent.
PS: No cheese is available on the burgers and no fries, only chips and a can or bottle of soda pop.
Edit: Thanks Bear for the video of grain hoppers being winched.
up831I can just about guarantee that these will be the best burgers you will ever eat.
Someone much smarter than I once said — "All things must come to an end..."
Erie & Penn Central McCook IL 1977 by Mark LLanuza, on Flickr
I see a lot of air horns in there that could sure use a home. I remember seeing scenes like this quite often in my railfanning days around the Rust Belt.
Regards, Ed
I made a huge mistake tonight.
Scrounging for something to eat, I found an old box of Eggo waffles in the freezer. I do not remember buying these.
They were terrible. They toasted up soggy and limp. I don't remember Eggos being good, but this was just plain bad.
SeeYou190 They were terrible. They toasted up soggy and limp. I don't remember Eggos being good, but this was just plain bad.
Kevin,
Hope you won't have to pay for this in the middle of the night. Reminds me of that old expression (I think) from California: "Gag me with a spoon." 'Cept maybe a fork in this case. Comfort yourself by thinking of German pancakes.
John
SeeYou190Scrounging for something to eat, I found an old box of Eggo waffles in the freezer. I do not remember buying these.
Hi Kevin,
You have my sympathies. Long overdue frozen foods can be pretty gross.
Dianne and I are risking the same fate. We have a large freezer and it is full to the top! We have declared many times that we will only eat what's in the freezer for a couple of weeks in order to get rid of the surplus. It never works. As soon as we have some clear space along comes another bargain which invariably fills the freezer to the top again!
The truth is that we are spoiled. We can buy whatever we want whenever we want. Long gone are the days when we went from paycheque to paycheque (thank goodness!!!). We simply have to develop more resolve!
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Dianne and I went on a cruise on Georgian Bay on Wednesday. The TripAdvisor had given it two stars out of five. They were absolutely correct!
It would take me half an hour to list all the negatives, and the only positive was that we had some good conversations with people who Dianne already knew. I won't go into the negative details (that would be too satisfying), but I can sum it up by saying the whole thing was a waste of time and money! Very disappointing!