Weird, this post was not at the top of the page yesterday... anyway... let me fix this...
Have a delicious bottle of Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Peanut Butter Stout.
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
We don't get those "fall colors" down here.
This year, thanks to a hurricane, we did.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Good morning Diners. Tea and toast please, Zoe.
Yesterday was our first day without rain in what seems ages. Hopefully it went to where MLC and TF live.
A busy morning with household jobs. Oldest grandson visiting this afternoon. Then into the train room and see where my granddaughter has put the road vehicles and little people.
Stay Safe Everyone.
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
Good morning
Been having some really good Fall weather up here for the last few days. Right after Charlie's Chilly Streak he sent down from Ontario...
Sunday when I met with my daughters it was 69, yesterday was 72 and today they say it will reach 80°...SWEET! ...I'll take it!
Bet that Colour Tour you and the wife went on was fun Dave
gmpullman Local Color CVSR 6777 by Todd Dillon, on Flickr
Local Color
CVSR 6777 by Todd Dillon, on Flickr
Cool pic! We're doing Local Colours today Ed? Sounds good to me
Here's one from the North Shore Scenic Railroad.
Similar to your Loco but no cigar.
Here's a couple from the Osceola and St Croix Valley Railroad.
With Green Machine
Always a good time on both those scenic Train rides.
Taco Tuesday!
Tacos with chips and guacamole dip from the El Camino is on me today...
TF
Good morning, everyone. It's almost lunchtime here (people in our area call this noon meal 'dinner'). I'll have a bacon burger with fries.
It's a windy day, with dropping temperatures. The wind will stir up all the pollen.
Here's another SGRR boxcar. It's good that this one was sitting on a siding in Nebraska when the Florida hurricane hit. It's in perfect shape.
This is what happens in our area when the grain elevators are full and there aren't enough covered hoppers to haul the corn. The corn will sit out here for months until it can be loaded and moved. These piles are larger than you can imagine. You see this sight in almost every little town around at this time of year.
Have a good day, everyone!
York1 John
I asked my doctor if I gave up delicious food and all alcohol, would I live longer? He said, "No, but it will seem longer."
NorthBritThen into the train room and see where my granddaughter has put the road vehicles and little people.
When I was taking pictures on my 30 by 30 photo-diorama, my wife was always rearranging and vandalizing the scenes!
York1Here's another SGRR boxcar. It's good that this one was sitting on a siding in Nebraska when the Florida hurricane hit. It's in perfect shape.
Oh good! Glad to see it was safely out of harm's way!
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
BEFORE
AFTER:
Nice new photo processing program Affinity Photo
ROAR
Good evening
CHUGGY
THE END
Nothing like a good Burger and a Beer on a Train Ride
A Burger and a Bear on a train ride ???
I think that could work.
Gotta like that Big Ol' Bear around here
https://youtu.be/sc2xsxlNlRc
Speaking of big ol' beers on a Train ... I mean big Ol' Bear
https://youtu.be/d-fdRYxVXao
H..........E..........L..........L..........O
Slower than Molasses in January while only in October here.....
Track fiddler H..........E..........L..........L..........O H..........E..........L..........L..........O Slower than Molasses in January while only in October here..... TF
Huh? What??? Ok... Back to sleep....
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Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good evening Ray
Sometimes I like to make a lot of noise in here. Sorry to have disturbed ya...
https://youtu.be/zfT7xx7yuTs
Gotta trust those rails if you want to deliver dat cargo really really fast Kids!
https://youtu.be/PmxOvtFYzeQ
Now that's a good place to stand. Gotta trust those rails under the double stackers if you're going to stand dare!
https://youtu.be/kN7rPZj5a8U
Nothing like three Smokey Shay's in a row! Now how often do you see that?
https://youtu.be/GZjyzmA15lQ
Nighty night then... I'm hitting the rack
Housatonic Line (former New Haven Railroad), north of Brookfield, CT, October 2014.
In my Conrail days, we would run from Danbury to New Milford. The big customer was Kimberly-Clark on the south side of New Milford -- you could easily take 30 cars up and bring 30 different ones back in a single trip.
CR sold out to the Housatonic Railroad at the end of 1992. By then I'd gone over to Amtrak to stay.
Good Morning Diners. Flo, a large coffee in a Milwaukee Road mug please.
TF, I hope you feel better soon! Funny story about Judy.
John, that's a heck of a corn pile! I'm surprised there aren't issues with the wet grain self igniting like hay will. Must simply be more resistant to breaking down?
Well, the deal went through yesterday. Drove home in this yesterday-
Blazer by Michael, on Flickr
Mike
Water Level RouteWell, the deal went through yesterday. Drove home in this yesterday-
Nice looking vehicle Mike! I hope it serves you well.
We have a 2014 Honda Odyssey and I absolutely love it! It drives beautifully, and on our recent trip to the SOO it averaged less than 8 litres per 100 kms. It is just about to go over the 200,000 k mark, and we have had to spend a bit of money on it this year, but I hope we can get a few more years out of it.
Never the less, we will have to face the reality of having to replace it sooner or later. I don't intend to buy a brand new car (read: Odyssey) because while we do have the money, buying a new car just doesn't make economic sense. Since we have retired we are putting very few kms on the van so if we buy something with 100,000 kms or less on it, it will take us 10 years or more to come even close to wearing the vehicle out.
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Thanks Mike. Nice looking ride you got there! Sure wish I had some fuel economy instead of the Ram Hog to ride around in Ya Did Done Good!
That big grain pile reminds me of the huge taconite pellet piles in Duluth John. Seems like they're always ahead of the game on the volume they can ship out fast enough. Especially in the Winter time when the ice freezes too thick on the shorelines of Superior.
Not too often that Lake freezes completely over, only if it gets cold enough long enough. And the water temperature doesn't get too much more than a few degrees above freezing, even at the hottest time of the summer
Looks like money in the bank man!
Well, Feeling almost like my normal self again just in time to go up to Northern Wisconsin tomorrow. That Zicam my Brother-in-law recommended really did seem to speed things along.
Oh Oh! Now Judy's got it. Started feeling under the weather last night. Her Mom's more likely to allow her to come up there with a bad cold. That's different! ...It's her Daughter for crying out loud. Mother-in-law would have told son-in-law to take a number and stay the heck home, if I was the only one with it
Hopefully leaving at 6:30 to beat rush-hour tomorrow morning.
Have a great Weekend gentleman
I was looking out the breakfast window this morning.
Trees are all bear.
Here is a detail thata we are missing on our layouts!
Oh Oh! ...Yum Yum, ...Lake Bird eggs must be a delicious delicacy to Mr Bear sometimes
Perhaps a blue heron or something I see looking a bit concerned in the tree to the left?
Reminds me of quite a few years ago when the Blue Heron population was declining in quite a few wetland areas here in Minnesota.
The DNR put up cameras directly in the nesting areas and soon found out why. It was the raccoons, climbing the trees and eating all the Heron eggs.
This was really a problem and no one quite knew what to do about it for a significant amount of time. Sometimes solutions are too big of a problem and far too difficult to find. At that point, usually common sense is the answer and that's exactly what someone came up with.
The idea came from outside the department and the DNR put up aluminum sheet metal around the trunks of the trees. Far enough up off the ground so the raccoons couldn't jump up over them or sink their claws in the metal to climb up the trees.
It wasn't too many years after that, the blue heron population started to make a comeback.
I really like blue herons and egrets. They're a very cool bird to watch in flight. Those things look kind of prehistoric like a pterodactyl or something the way they fly. Lofty wings with their long legs straight out behind them like some kind of rudder.
Good Evening,
A bit cool here, only got up to 40F and not expecting more than 45F for another 5 days, and there are showers too.
Started boxing up the rest of the N scale layout. Pulled the DCC system, a Bachmann infared wireless. Next are the buildings. I will take them to the LHS for a consignment sale. I might get something for the turnouts but the track will be trash. I liked building the layout but I guess I'm not a n scale guy. I built the layout as we had planned on moving to a condo on Vancouver Is.
Dave, I hear you on not driving much. For the last 4 years we have been averaging 5k km/year. Our 2010 Volvo only has 131k on the clock. Will need brakes and some suspension work next year but it is still in great shape.
Time for some dinner.
CN Charlie
CNCharlieDave, I hear you on not driving much. For the last 4 years we have been averaging 5k km/year.
I just checked my odometer on my 2019 Chevy truck. 8175 miles (13,156.39km) in a little over three years. Most of that was driven by Dee Ann while hauling "stuff" for her various projects. I think I drove it to three different train shows within a hundred miles from home.
2019_CHV3 by Edmund, on Flickr
Fall Foliage and a Geep by Craig Sanders, on Flickr
For all you diesel detail nuts, don't forget to stick some yellow and brown leaves on your carbody intake filter screens!
Cheers, Ed
nice pics!
Evening
Image courtesy of Reddit
Coffee 4:30 Highway 6:30
Time to hit the rack.
Nighty night.
Have a nice weekend gentlemen
Good morning all...
We are heading to Orlando to spend the day with our baby. It is her 27th birthday today.
Hard to believe this was 20 years ago... where did all that time go?
gmpullmanI just checked my odometer on my 2019 Chevy truck. 8175 miles (13,156.39km) in a little over three years.
My wife's 2015 Impala just turned 40,000 miles. Most of that has been trips to Orlando, Tampa, or Miami.
We are taking it to Orlando again today.