Switzerland
Gornergrat Bahn. - The Matterhorn Railway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMSq_ldQ16k&ab_channel=Timsvideochannel1
and again. This time from a carriage window. Enjoy the views.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPQCUO55hFY&ab_channel=TheFlyingDutchman
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
Good morning everyone. Chloe, please keep my cup filled with hot black coffee.
hon30critterYou can post anything related to trains, real or modeled, that suits your fancy! This should be a very interesting month!
Today I have a picture of Consolidation Number 630 on the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum railway.
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
York1I hope that feeling continues for a while! As I get older, those days seem to get fewer and fewer.
I have noticed that too. I still feel good almost all the time, but yesterday everything was perfect.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Good morning, diners. No breakfast this morning. I'm heading out the door for another funeral .
The past six months have been a rough time for funerals for me. I've got another one Thursday. I can't see any reason for the large number except that as I get older, so does everyone else I know.
When I get home today, I will spend more time on the layout's bridge. I'm determined to finish that before I get to some other things I will enjoy more.
Brent, I've never attempted to fix, let alone build, a computer. My work with computers involved me talking to the school's tech guy. I could turn my office computer on. That's as much as I could safely do with it.
SeeYou190I am not sure what is going on, but I feel great today. Hopefully I can carry this feeling into tomorrow.
I hope that feeling continues for a while! As I get older, those days seem to get fewer and fewer.
Water Level RouteSlightly depressing day in the Water Level Route household. Getting ready to drive my daughter back to college after an extended stay at home for the holiday break.
I know the feeling. Watching everyone leave our house after Christmas brought back the same kind of feelings. For three days, the house was a bustle of fun and noise. Then, it got quiet and peaceful again. I prefer the hustle and noise of family.
For everyone in the diner, I hope your Monday goes well!
This is on the shortline Nebraska Central Railroad. Why there's a caboose between some grain cars ...
York1 John
Model Railways U.K. style.
Industrial Model Railways.
Eight layouts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYPVwvZbgKw&ab_channel=44668Rail
Enjoy
Good morning Diners. Tea and toast please, Brunhilda.
A film about Industrial Steam Locomotives. A time no longer.
Around the 12 minutes mark there is mention of the locomotive works at Philadelphia, County Durham (UK). Although the site had closed several years ago, in late 2022 the site was totally demolished.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVTQhpkAITo&ab_channel=AshleyHill
Enjoy.
I am not sure what is going on, but I feel great today.
Hopefully I can carry this feeling into tomorrow.
A classic from Leslie Ragan:
NYCS_Unfailing by Edmund, on Flickr
There's some nice piccolo Trumpet work here:
I hope everyone had a good weekend —
Cheers, Ed
BATMANI'll have Eggs Blackstone Ray. Thanks.Smile, Wink & Grin
Personally I prefer Lobster Benedict....... Doesn't have Tomatos! Yuck! But eat hearty!
73
BTW, those pups are adorable!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
I'll have Eggs Blackstone Ray. Thanks.
Water Level Route BATMAN 11 days. Brent, my youngest was asking me about 1/2 hour ago how the puppies were doing. Now I can update her. BATMAN IT WORKS! Looks good too. Seems like each time it comes time to replace my desktop I end up considering building my own. Each time I start to get serious about doing it, I end up finding a great deal on a very capable prebuilt one and so never have. Someday maybe. Slightly depressing day in the Water Level Route household. Getting ready to drive my daughter back to college after an extended stay at home for the holiday break. We all fell right back into our old routines quickly and it was so nice having her home. A few more months. Sigh. Hey, at least the Chiefs secured the top seed in the AFC yesterday! Woohoo!
BATMAN 11 days.
Brent, my youngest was asking me about 1/2 hour ago how the puppies were doing. Now I can update her.
BATMAN IT WORKS!
Looks good too. Seems like each time it comes time to replace my desktop I end up considering building my own. Each time I start to get serious about doing it, I end up finding a great deal on a very capable prebuilt one and so never have. Someday maybe.
Slightly depressing day in the Water Level Route household. Getting ready to drive my daughter back to college after an extended stay at home for the holiday break. We all fell right back into our old routines quickly and it was so nice having her home. A few more months. Sigh.
Hey, at least the Chiefs secured the top seed in the AFC yesterday! Woohoo!
My Daughter has been home for over a month and it has been great, I will miss her. She started gaming with a group of other people working in the Medical/Anthropological Forensics field who are located in Australia and New Zealand. She met them when she started work with the Feds last summer. She was only supposed to work for six weeks with the Feds but they were so impressed with what she had to offer they kept her on as an advisor while she is at University. So she has been making really good money and decided a $5000.00 gaming computer is just what she needed.
I'll try and get some video of the pups at some point. We have a live cam in there for the two future owners in Europe so they can watch for hours to help them see how they develop and helps with the decision when it comes time to pick.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Hey! Hey! Hey!!!!!
The Bills just scored on the OPENING KICKOFF!!!!!
YES!
BATMAN11 days.
BATMANIT WORKS!
Mike
Mornin, goin overseas today, twice. Just getting ready to make our way to the ferry to take my daughter back to Victoria. Normally I just do a drive-by and dump her off and she walks on, then takes the bus on the other side, however, she has so much stuff going back I will take her.
Two of the pups from this litter are going to Europe, one to the Czech Republic. We just found out that the future owner is coming over for a first look at them. She can't take it back until the mutt is four months old due to flying regs on a trip that long. She will come again to take it home at that time.
Time for another cuppa while the women of the house pile up the stuff that goes in the Toyota.
Have a good Sunday all.
Mornin' folks!
Don't exactly know what these are. Some kinda diseasally thingies I guess, but thought they might be appreciated by those of you that like those kind of things....
Actually 2304 is a GE B23-7 built as: SOU 4016 back in 1981.
Today I have a picture of CSX rolling towards Tampa, Florida in 2014.
The sky was at that point about 30 minutes before a thunderstorm when the clouds are amazing.
Good morning Diners. A large coffee, some Christmas Cake and Wensleydale Cheese please, Janie.
Lisbon, Portugal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-a4F_x8WwY&ab_channel=viennatramway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tiTp581IqU&ab_channel=nieosvid
Santa Apolonia Train Station. The oldest train station in Lisbon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpTFTNCFNBo&ab_channel=WorldOfTransit
IMG_2157 by David Harrison, on Flickr
SAM_0949 by David Harrison, on Flickr
IT WORKS!
Plugged it in after spending last night and today building this thing and not having a clue what we were doing, success!
crossthedogI'm always looking for supporting documentation for all the nutty prototype infractions and temporal anomalies I gleefully aid and abet on my pike.
I do the same thing, Matt. I've had a few experts visit my layout and after giving them some leeway and hearing a few "You would never see THAT on a real railroad" I could produce photo evidence of something odd happening at least once.
How about a little bit of before & after.
Erie before 1976 & after 1982 Crown Point Ind by Mark LLanuza, on Flickr
I'm frequently amazed at the desolation of some of the old railroad hangouts of my youth.
This guy's job is to adjust those low-hanging Kadee trip pins:
Car Inspector Pit_Juniata Scales 1-17-30 by Edmund, on Flickr
What color do you want to ride in today?
Metra Heritage Fleet at Chicago by Mark LLanuza, on Flickr
Good Saturday all. It has been an exhausting couple of weeks. We keep saying next Christmas in Hawaii but it never happens. A few years ago on Dec 21, we said to the kids Hawaii or Disney land after Christmas and they both yelled Hawaii! We were on the plane on Dec 26. For twelve days. That was the best.
I have had my Rapido coaches since Dec 21 and this pic is as close as I have been to them.
They are still in the boxes.
My daughter ordered $5000.00 in computer components and they finished arriving Friday. I am lucky if I can get a computer to turn on when I want it to, but we have been building this thing today and so far so good. Thanks to Youtube. I take her back to Victoria tomorrow for University and she wants it up and running. I never get tired of that ferry trip, hopefully, it will be a wildlife extravaganza.
We lost two friends this month, one was a very good friend of mine I met in 1970. We played a lot of sports together and he was a tremendous athlete. He retired 12 years ago at 55 got married and got fat. He was vacationing in Mesa Arizona and broke his ankle, got covid in the hospital, and died 10 days later due to complications from obesity. I will miss him.
All this talk about security cameras and lights reminds me I have not checked out my new trail cam to see what four-legged hoodlums have been invading the kingdom. Give me a week, maybe I'll have some photos of a sasquatch or something.
There has been a plethora of great photos this month. I like the variety of subject matter.
11 days.
Time for a snort.
All the best to all.
gmpullman A "Pike-Sized" passenger train passing one of my favorite stations, Point of Rocks, Maryland: Thomas Underwood Coll B&O038 by John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library, on Flickr Quiet day here at the homestead. Cheers, Ed
A "Pike-Sized" passenger train passing one of my favorite stations, Point of Rocks, Maryland:
Thomas Underwood Coll B&O038 by John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library, on Flickr
Quiet day here at the homestead.
-Matt
Returning to model railroading after 40 years and taking unconscionable liberties with the SP&S, Northern Pacific and Great Northern roads in the '40s and '50s.
There's times I miss the early eighties:
Chessie System:
9/1/76, CS GP79 6507 by OHFalcon72, on Flickr
Thomas Underwood Coll B&O396 by John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library, on Flickr
Early Conrail:
8/7/77, CR GP30 2177 by OHFalcon72, on Flickr
CR 6780 at Columbiana, OH by Bruce Gage, on Flickr
And Amtrak still in its infancy:
A Really Nice GG1 Shot by Marty Bernard, on Flickr
Plus the GG1s were still running
Don't forget, the mail has to be delivered....
Interior of a mail car back in the day. This one is at Steamtown in Pennsylvania.
Today I have a picture of a simple speeder trailer in a field.
I took that picture in Kansas while travelling in 2017.
York1I remember once I had PARE with the last letter needed. I guessed an S, then a D, and the correct letter was R.
I remember the day "parer" was the word, and I lost that one too. What a stupid word. It was like that puzzle was intended to reset half the user's streaks.
That is why I prefer not to have letters in the right places. When you are just missing one or two, it becomes a guessing game of chance.
Good morning, diners.
SeeYou190Got the Wordle tonight in less than thrity seconds.
You're much better at Wordle than I am. I will sit and stare at the puzzles for a long time. I hate it when I have two guesses left, with only a single letter needed, and I guess wrong both times.
I remember once I had PARE with the last letter needed. I guessed an S, then a D, and the correct letter was R.
I'm headed out the door for a busy day. I hope everyone has a great Saturday.
Got the Wordle tonight in less than thirty seconds.
I like it when they solve like that, with no letter in the correct place until the final guess.
gmpullmanAll the above locomotives are now residing in the dustbin of history... Makes a fellow feel old. I remember when these were new (or in the case of the Es, nearly new).
Wow, same here. I remember when the F40-PH locomotives were being written about in the model magazines. I think that was about the time I started reading Model Railroader.
I saw one in a railroad museum I visited. That made me feel old.
SeeYou190It is currently on zone 5, and everything is working perfectly.
I celebrated too soon. Zone five just had a fault and shut down.
Great... now I need to do troubleshooting.
How about some vintage Amtrak scenes?
Altoona, four Es on the National Limited with sixteen or seventeen cars! Wow, that must have sounded great climbing up the Allegheny slope
9/3/77, AMT E8A 453 by OHFalcon72, on Flickr
Conrail has weathered the old Penn-Central trackage nicely.
Why do they call them Puzzle Switches?
10/29/76, Amtrak's "Lone Star" by OHFalcon72, on Flickr
I like seeing private cars being carried. I like to do this on my model RR, too.
After the Es, I like the SDP40Fs, too.
9/12/77, AMT SDP40F 579 by OHFalcon72, on Flickr
Finally the F40PH.
7/23/83, Amtrak F40PH 370 by OHFalcon72, on Flickr
All the above locomotives are now residing in the dustbin of history... Makes a fellow feel old. I remember when these were new (or in the case of the Es, nearly new).
Attuvian1Glad you got some sleep, Kevin. Ever figure out what it was that was robbing you?
Are you talking about the security lights activating in the back yard? If so, no, I never did figure it out. I trimmed the foliage away from the cameras and security lights, and then cleaned them up. They have not tripped since, but I have no way of knowing if one thing had anything to do with the other.
I finally got the Orbit controller programmed and wired into the sprinkler system control valves.
The system is going through its very first four-hour full cycle right now. It is currently on zone 5, and everything is working perfectly.
YAY!
Good evening Diners. A whisky and cola please, Chloe.
As it is a 'anything month'.
Dubai. Dawn and I love the place. Visited it four times.
Dubai Metro.
SAM_0922 by David Harrison, on Flickr
'Take a journey on the Metro.'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbIDerj-3Gs&ab_channel=WorldWalker
SeeYou190 -Photograph by Kevin Parson Not too sure about those silver journal covers. -Kevin
Not too sure about those silver journal covers.