TwofootjimDon't have much to say, just wanted to say hi.
Mike
Hi Everyone,
As stated yesterday, my wife and I went to Trainfest. Here are a couple of pictures taken of layouts. I took video of most of the layouts, but here are a few stills.
These are of an N scale modular layout. I think it's a Chicago area club called N-Trak. One of these mods was posted last month for fall colors, but the picture was taken in 2019. These were taken last Sunday, 11-13-22.
N scale modules at train fest 2022 by Jim S, on Flickr
Here is the previously posted module from a different angle. You may notice the freight cars have moved, but the trucks haven't.
This one ties the last two pics together
N scale was well represented at the show. I'm flat out amazed at the detail some of these guys can do in N.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Good morning,
I'll try the ham and cheese omelet, with coffee, please.
Snowing again this morning, very lite. Yes, Minnesota drivers can't remember how to drive in it for 6 months. They have to learn allover. Mostly the hard way. The snow makes me appreciate our townhouse. The association is responsible for snow removal.
Don't have much to say, just wanted to say hi.
Jim
Thanks for all the videos and photos. I really liked the Lamborghini video.
I'm waiting for another funeral to begin. Hopefully this will be the last one for a while. I'll try to check back later when we get home.
York1 John
More Friuli Venezia Giulia -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch8vdVVQppY&ab_channel=DRONEREPORTAGEFabioPappalettera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzIygxAcUTI&ab_channel=MorganTrevisan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkZWRV_Xh7E&ab_channel=MovietexMikeTessari
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
Track fiddlerItaly....Land of Fast Beautiful Cars.
Car??? What car? I don't see a car!
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OK TF! Where did the photo go? I liked that better than the replacement.... LOL
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Benvenuti in Fruili Venezia Giulia, Italia.
A large glass of Pinot Grigio delle Venezia please, Chloe.
Friuli Venezia Giulia was the first region in Italy I ever visited. That was back in 1967.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6igWMfU_U8&ab_channel=Luigi%27sTravelTips
Trieste Train Station.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cRmjvp1GoI&ab_channel=swissclimber1
Trieste.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ABuyZdcKfE&ab_channel=RokGoesAround
Friuli Venezia Giulia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpRxdIUFJvs&ab_channel=DRONEREPORTAGEFabioPappalettera
Good morning
Did a little slip-n-slide fish tailing to get my snow legs on in the truck yesterday Just a couple inches but those are the slippery ones when the snow isn't deep enough to somewhat hold the sides of your tires. Everyone should break the tires free where it's clear with no traffic to get the feel of things so reaction is instinctive when they might need it. The fancy lads in their SUV's apparently don't do that. They think four wheel drive is invincible and that's why you always see those putzes in the ditch
Don't know why Minnesotans forget how to drive every year. Those who don't know how to drive when it's slippery should just stay home to keep everyone else safe. 161 in the ditch and 357 crashes yesterday.
Used to plow snow all night back in the day but never plowed trees Job security as tow truck drivers plow cars all day. Body shop owners certainly love the snow shortly after the tow dudes do
Yes, everyone has a Hey Day. I'd call it a Snow Day but that's when the Kids get to stay home from school.
BATMAN TF, it is nice to get those Hilton getaways.
TF, it is nice to get those Hilton getaways.
That it is Brent. Judy likes to get away for those extended weekends frequently. She gets Free-B's often but otherwise rooms are only 35 - $40.00 as one of her employee perks. We've been to so many places near the area to explore that we're running out of ideas here. Are you kidding me, not my Judy, she never runs out of ideas
We love to go to Duluth as you never run out of things to do in that town. Even things you did last time are fun again. She wants to go there to see all the Christmas lights at Bentleyville and also the display in Somerset Wisconsin. Once that woman gets a "Bee in Her Bonnet" That's It! Now I know where I'm going in a few weeks.
My favorite shorty trip was to Dodgeville Wisconsin to go through The House On The Rock. It takes about 2 1/2 - 3 hours to walk through that place and longer if you stop at the cafeteria in the middle of it. I want to go back there again as that place was disturbing and fun at the same time. It's like walking through a delightful nightmare. If there is such a thing, that place is it. Only way I can describe it.
Italy.... Land of Fast Beautiful Cars.
https://youtu.be/n2IP42fVttM
Have a great Taco Tuesday gentlemen
TF
gmpullmanWhy don't these guys have to glue the grab irons back on after a trip like this?
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Good Afternoon,
A pleasant day here, about 25F, sunny with very light wind.
The CPR Hudson finally left the station today. Sure is a smooth running loco.
Mr. B, sounds like a fun trip you are on. Not partial to Bourbon myself, was always a Rye drinker back in the day. My favourite tipple was Wisers Deluxe but has been many years since I've had any. Just stick to wine now.
No plans for today but I rarely do.
Time for another cup of tea.
CN Charlie
BATMANAs a shareholder, I wish these guys would learn to drive around the trees so they don't scratch the paint!
Or at least blow the horn so that the trees could get out of the way.
They probably have a plow sticker reading "I speed up to run over small trees".
gmpullman Sing along — Dashing Through The Snow... After the first big snowstorm of the season in central BC, an empty grain train plows through fallen trees on its way eastbound into the Canadian Rockies. "Get your smash glasses on!" Why don't these guys have to glue the grab irons back on after a trip like this? Cheers, Ed
Sing along — Dashing Through The Snow...
After the first big snowstorm of the season in central BC, an empty grain train plows through fallen trees on its way eastbound into the Canadian Rockies. "Get your smash glasses on!"
Why don't these guys have to glue the grab irons back on after a trip like this?
Cheers, Ed
As a shareholder, I wish these guys would learn to drive around the trees so they don't scratch the paint!
It reminds me of driving up our street after a snow.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
I found this on YouTube and since this song comes up often cause it's a good one, I thought I'd share.
https://youtu.be/kmZoQFYYx8U
MisterBeasleyI really don't like places that make you use your cell phone to view the menu and order. I want a paper menu and some college-age waitress working her way through school.
I'll second that!!! The cell phone I have because it is needed to drive the Tesla! Well, I can use the "loids" that come with it, but much quicker to just walk up to the car and get in. If a restaurant made me order using the "dumb" phone, I would find some place else to eat! And, personally I appreciate nice scenery when I eat out as well. Much of the time I arrive with nice "scenery" but a bit older than the waitresses.
Monday on the Bourbon Trail and we are in Loisville, Kentucky. We went to the Buffalo Trace distillery yeasterday. Actually, we went to a candy factory that makes bourbon balls candies, and found we were 5 minutes from Buffalo trace. They had an opening for a tasting, so we took advantage of it. I sampled everything, but the GF is the bourbon drinker.
It snowed here in Kentucky yesterday. Saturday we left the Delaware beaches at 70 degrees.
And I really don't like places that make you use your cell phone to view the menu and order. I want a paper menu and some college-age waitress working her way through school.
Sunday our free hotel breakfast was garbage. Today it was much better.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Woke up to light snow this morning; supposed to snow most of the day, although it is not supposed to accumulate more than a couple of inches.
Spent the better part of yesterday afternoon putting up the "first wave" of Christmas lights on the house. It took us two ladders, seven strings of 50' LED lights, and three hours to outline the house. In College Station, I could reach the roof line and gutters without assistance, and could outline the house in less than an hour (I am 6'7"). I am sure that my wife is going to start decorating the inside of the house today. Next week we will wrap the trees in more lights, but that is not nearly as difficult as doing the house.
I got to spend some time last night in the basement, continuing the organization project. Made a lot of progress, but still some work to do. I put up a trial balloon, telling my wife that my daughter is going to help me with benchwork next week; she didn't shoot me down. We are going to Texas Friday night to work on our storage units in College Station, to condense two units into one. I hope that we can make decisions on what needs to come north and what can go into the dumpster. Plan is to return to Kansas on Sunday, with my daughter. She will fly home the following Sunday.
Brunhilda, coffee with cream, please.
Yesterday, I was able to convince my wife to go to Trainfest. I hadn't been there before and really wanted to go since I had the time available. It didn't disappoint. Most of the manufacturers were there including some I hadn't heard of. There were several historical societies represented and of course vendors selling everything from locomotives to pink engineer's hats. There were even a couple of booths selling stone countertops and leaf gutters. But then,.... there were the modular layouts. Lots of them! O gauge 3-rail, HO, S, N, traction, narrow gauge, LGB, even 1 1/2" to the foot scale. Obviously, that one didn't have a layout set up. I think the modular idea for clubs is a good idea. It allows those of us who don't have much space to model a small area and put it together with other modules to make a much bigger layout. There was some very good modeling on display at the show. I'll try to post pictures later.
Ciao for now.
Good morning. It is just getting light and the green dark forest is too silent to be real.
Mr. Moon is about to turn in after working the night shift.
Time to grab a dog, head out and enjoy the solitude.
Good morning, diners. I'll check back for food after I get home this evening, so I'll just have coffee this morning.
SeeYou190
Kevin, that church has an unusual roof on the steeple. I can't quite tell if it's a round roof or an octagonal one. Neat picture.
I've missed some days so I'm not able to comment on everyone's posts, but I will try to catch up later today. Thanks to everyone for keeping the diner open and the waitresses working.
I'm off to get dressed for another funeral.
Good Morning Diners. Chloe, coffee in a large Mercitalia mug please. Good luck finding that one.
Busy weekend here, and in the diner as well I see. I've got some catching up to do.
I see David has become a Top of the Page Hog! Intersting twist he has put on it with a delayed drink offering each time.
Some Italian freight trains to go with my Mercitalia mug.
Top of the Page -- Italian Wines from Liguria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dkzmNpuBAw&ab_channel=Mamablip-ItalianWine%2CFood%26Cooking
Genoa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byaFh2fPjh8&ab_channel=LauraBronner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KHgm8QAhlg&ab_channel=CityExplorer4K
Benvenuti in Genova - Welcome to Genoa
Trains around Genoa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VVswcmU72M&ab_channel=denniscallan
Zecca Righi Funicular Railway, Genoa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mKWlgpeSXE&ab_channel=WooWooMad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hCo1OvNGiQ&ab_channel=renzooroboncoidi
The World Is A Beauiful Place
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
A bridge on the mothballed “Stratford- Okahukura Line.”
That is a wonderful scene Bear. Thanks for sharing.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Good Sunday evening from the land of endless sunshine. We had five months of no rain over the summer and after a few days of heavy rain and wind, it has been sunny. Not good for the snowpack that gives us all the best water you could want dirt cheap. Makes for perfect hiking weather though.
Bear, enjoyed the "Canadas Oldest" video, watched it twice, and will watch the other videos the guy has on tap.
November 11 is always a whole day of reflection for me. As a child I heard the stories of Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins that served in WWII and how my Grandfathers life had changed as a result of gas warfare in WWI. I still have most of my Grandfathers kit from WWI. Not caring and/or not bothering to vote is the ultimate insult to these heroes in my book.
I like the BNSF locos with the multi logos. We get a lot of BNSF traffic through here and I will be keeping my eyes open for these.
I think we are done painting. We painted the whole house inside in the last few months except for my trainroom and trainroom office. Maybe some other day for that. My Mom loved art and I inherited a few really nice pieces that she bought back in the 60s. I looked into selling them but the art galleries insist on reframing first and taking a big cut when sold. For what we would get in the end we decided to just hang on to them and enjoy them, which we do. It just bothers me to have that much money hanging on the walls. They got a very thorough, careful cleaning.
TF, it is nice to get those Hilton getaways. When my son was doing movie work and went out of town he got put up in some pretty nice digs. He went for a ten-day shoot once and got a penthouse suite all to himself. They brought him breakfast to the room every morning 90 minutes before his call time like clockwork. Even the booze was paid for. They had some whopper parties on that shoot.
When the wife was working we went to some conventions that were all paid for. A few times at the Hyatt in Maui and Kaui and four-day weekends in Whistler. I married the right woman.
I was just going to bed late Friday night (midnight) and noticed my son was on FB so I asked him why he was up so late. He said he was sitting in a plane on the ramp at the airport. Two hours earlier they decided to fly to Toronto to see his girlfriend's grandfather who lives 3 hours North of Toronto. They saw there were seats on a flight leaving in two hours and hopped the train to the airport booking the seats as they went. The old guy is not doing well and his GF wanted to see him. He was grumbling that the only rental car they could get was a minivan when they got to Toronto.
He is a chip off the old block when it comes to last-minute travel. I had my own parking spot at the terminal at the airport and months of banked time off available. I would get burned out and just tell the boss on a Friday that I would be back in 6 weeks or so and go climb on a plane Friday night without even going home. I always had my passport and a packed bag in the car. I remember once hopping on a plane to Sydney and was scuba diving on the barrier reef 56 hours later. Oh to be young and single again.
My neighbour and I went over to our other neighbour that has gone back to Taiwan to see his family as he was diagnosed with Parkinson's and has gone downhill a lot in six months. We both had the John Deeres going and mulching the leaves and cutting his 2 acres of lawn. Only took about 90 minutes but the joint looks lived in again. He will have to get a landscaper to look after the place or move, I hate getting new neighbours, especially when the one leaving is great.
I am enjoying Italy. The best train trip I ever took was from Zurich to Venice with a real babe I had met in New Zealand. It pays to travel.
All the best to all.
Hello everyone.
I am back at home, but need to go to work.
I will catch up tonight.
I hear ya John. It used to be weddings we'd go to frequently when we were young. Now there's just too many funerals. Judy and I try to keep our chin up when we have to say goodbye to our loved ones is about all you can do.
Liked the Italian steamers David.
Haven't seen Brother Elias for almost a week. Perhaps him don't like the cold lately. Maybe some rare pot roast will entice him out of his den.
The potatoes are in there somewhere That ought to be good around 5:00 tonight
If that don't do it, perhaps the Northern Pacific Bismarck Bridge just to the east of him. That bridge has alot of history over there.
A really interesting video gentleman. I learned things I never knew about the construction of piers over a river. The job was hell as many men became permanently ill and even lost their lives building the pier foundations.
https://youtu.be/23dQrf6aSU4
Gotta be my favorite bridge I visit.
Have a great Sunday gentleman
P.S. Thanks for the link Bear. I would have never thought they'd come out with those in N scale but seen the release is April 30th, 23. That anniversary loco will look incredible with my pair of Green Machine SD40-2's pulling double stackers.
Remembrance Sunday
f8bb09374941da4b8a15f868558f17e2--remembrance-sunday-deep-thoughts by David Harrison, on Flickr
Poppy Flowers Desktop Wallpapers 9 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Good morning, everyone. Just black coffee, please. Donut Day.
Another busy day and busy week coming. It seems like the past week I have not had any free time.
It's 12°F this morning, but no snow. East and west of us it was white, but we stayed winter brown.
Two more funerals this coming week. I don't believe I've ever had this many funerals to attend in such a short time. Of course, my friends and I have never been this old, either.
About fifteen years ago, I had my parents, my in-law parents, and my oldest brother all died within 18 months of each other. That was not an easy time.
Hope everyone has a great day today.