York1I didn't know Florida had rock like that. I'm not sure why I thought Florida would be all sand.
Where I live in Florida is barely above sea level, and is naturally a swamp.
Everything has to be filled before you can build. All the rocks and debris are from that fill that was trucked in. My house is filled higher than almost all the other houses on the street. When I bought it, it was the highest.
Fill is very important because of the flooding possibilities. My house should stay high and dry.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Another year gone by... so quickly! Thanks for the great setup for 2023, Dave
A photo worth further study. A classic B&O P-3 Pacific on a special passenger extra to bring harvest help to Batavia, New York from Richwood, west Virginia in September of 1942.
B&O_5123_P-3 at Richwood, W. Va. by Edmund, on Flickr
The first thing that catches your eye, of course is that washing machine pulley coming out of the trailing wheel journal box. Most logically an arrangement for a speed indicating device (not a Loco-Valve-Pilot). Then the soot-covered light bulbjust under the cab floor. There's always been speculation about the use of "ground lights" especially on steam locos. This one seems to have lost its protective outer globe.
Happy New Year to all!
Cheers, Ed
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
SeeYou190Look at all the rocks and debris I pulled out of the ground.
I didn't know Florida had rock like that. I'm not sure why I thought Florida would be all sand.
York1 John
Last month I was very busy with the finishing off my irrigation project. This was something I started last year when they were predicting we would have a "100 year drought", then we had one of the wettest Summers on record.
It took three full weeks of back-breaking manual labor to complete the installation, but it is finally in, and it works.
-All Photographs by Kevin Parson
Digging trenches takes forever! I foolishly thought I could get the trenches dug in a day, it took weeks. Even digging a shallow trench is very hard work.
All the main piping for the 8 sprinkler zones is 1-1/2" schedule 40. There is over 600 feet of 1-1/2" pipe in my yard now. Pipe size only drops to 1" and 3/4" if there are three or fewer sprinkler heads on a branch.
I hit a lot more buried rocks than I was anticipating.
Some of the trenches contain as many as five pipes all bunched together as the runs go towards their zones.
Most of the sprinkler heads are fed with a 3/4" run coming off of the 1-1/2" mains.
All of the sprinkler heads are installed on some sort of a fully articulating swing arm. These make adjusting the height and angle of the sprinkler head a very easy operation. This was well worth the time and expense.
I found the remains of the fort/castle that the kids used to play on. Getting these old six by six timbers and concrete out of the ground was a real bear.
This rock was about twice the size of a bowling ball. No fun here.
Look at all the rocks and debris I pulled out of the ground.
SUCCESS! Even with the pressure dialed all the way down to 15 PSI all 20 spray heads in each zone will pop up and do their job.
I triple-overlapped everything. Each blade of grass in my yard is serviced by at least three different sprinkler heads. I get good saturation with only a 20 minute duration. With this system I should be able to keep the lawn green all Winter long and still be compliant with the city's watering restrictions.
My yard looks awful now. I hope the sod all fills in soon and it gets back to good.
hon30critterWe are going to throw things wide open so you can post anything related to trains.
OK... here is a picture I took around 1990:
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
I will try to share an image per day.
New Year's Eve. A doubleheader in hockey with Canada playing Sweden in the World Juniors and then the Canucks vs the Flames. Could life get any better? I guess a little of the Captain finishes things off nicely.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Hmmmm..... Almost THAT time I think! Wishing all a great New Year (when it gets to where you live)! I'll be heading over to my son's house soon to see 2023 arrive.
And one more for good measure....
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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!
Thanks for setting us up for next year Dave.
Happy New Year to Bear and anyone else that has made it to 2023 already.
It has been hectic lately with the weather we have had over the Christmas period but will take it easy tonight watching hockey and drinking rum.
Happy New Year's to all in case I don't make it back later.
Hello everyone and Happy New Year!!!
Welcome to Jeffreys Diner for January, 2023!
This month we are going to try something new. Instead of choosing a particular place or theme, we are going to throw things wide open so you can post anything related to trains, real or modeled, that suits your fancy! This should be a very interesting month!
By the way, I have taken the liberty of moving the Diner a bit early because we will be entertaining friends this evening. Hope you don't mind.
So, what interesting items do you have to show us?
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!