Going on a trip? I see you've packed your trunk!
B&M GP9 1738 WB Ringling Bros train Mechanicville NY May 1979 by Geoffrey Hubbs, on Flickr
Pachyderms! by Doug Lilly, on Flickr
Rainbow Era? A good excuse for modelers, yes?
Amtrak - Taylor Street by d.w.davidson, on Flickr
Looks like We're at the top of another page What sounds tasty for a Sunday night?
I'm going for a hefty slice of Boston Cream Pie!
BC_pie by Edmund, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
gmpullman Going on a trip? I see you've packed your trunk! B&M GP9 1738 WB Ringling Bros train Mechanicville NY May 1979 by Geoffrey Hubbs, on Flickr Pachyderms! by Doug Lilly, on Flickr Rainbow Era? A good excuse for modelers, yes? Amtrak - Taylor Street by d.w.davidson, on Flickr Looks like We're at the top of another page What sounds tasty for a Sunday night? I'm going for a hefty slice of Boston Cream Pie! BC_pie by Edmund, on Flickr Cheers, Ed
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Ed: Thank you for the Boston Creme Pie! It was delicious.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
I think we might be crossing the line into the Prototype forum a bit this month, but I will leave it up to the moderators to decide if the Diner's content is appropriate.
I find the process of welding rails together to be fascinating. Here is how it is done:
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
hon30critterI think we might be crossing the line into the Prototype forum a bit this month,
Nearly all the photos and videos I submit in the Diner are prototype (real-life) scenes. There's Show Me Something and WPF for model photos. I never really thought there was a problem with posting real-world photos in the Diner?
What am I missing?
Waxdale 1965 by NAPM Model Railroad Club, on Flickr
A model scene to help balance things out...
SeeYou190Ed: Thank you for the Boston Creme Pie! It was delicious.
Glad you liked it, Kevin. That filling was a little too "fluffy" for me. I like it to be like real custard. I asked for a custard-filled donut once and was handed one with some kind of bright-white, sugary, marshmallowy, fluffy filling and had to turn it down.
Don't mess with the custard!
Speaking of donuts —
donuts by Edmund, on Flickr
Here's a real custard filling:
St John Custard Donut by euwen teh, on Flickr
Good afternoon Diners. Some Boston Cream Pie that Ed left please, Chloe.
Industrial Railways.
Amberley Museum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JnFRbIG4SM&ab_channel=AmberleyMuseum
Monorail at Amberley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSp9xvE_H_Y&ab_channel=MrOnethirtytwo
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
Good morning
Spent the day with my Daughters yesterday. They know my interest of extra terrestrial and tried out the War of the Worlds series. Too much gloom and doom. An interest in E.T. yes, but world extermination doesn't really suit my fancy. We watched an older movie, Fly Away Home, instead. A bit more upbeat of a choice.
Liked the Morthren Bridge film David. Some really cool old world arch bridges in that one. Looks like the truck drivers of the UK, have to know how to pick their delivery routes well.
Speaking of bridges, you have my vote of confidence John. Your new bridge will pass the stress test in flying colors. Definitely hear what your saying. Placement of those things on their abutments and, or piers can be quite tedious and a bit trying at times.
Would have been more than happy to have helped the Bear with his garden Ed. Got a pack of wild blueberry seeds that were mailed down from a friend on the Canadian Border. Never planted them as we live on the shady side of the building. Those sure were good in Moms Sunday morning brunch pancakes. Out picking em, it wasn't unusual to see a bear indulging at times.
Those would go good in your garden Bear. If it wasn't for the possibility of a continental invasive species violation, one would have already licked a stamp. As far as your reference to mastering phone skills, my thanks for your kind words But I'm afraid this Ol' Dinosaur is just treading the waters of already old device technology. One could say, two steps from the drop off shelf has already been well surpassed. Any step further screws up my phone now, until untangling the new formats that jibe with an internet site...
The pups sure are growing quickly Brent. No other word for them but cute! And a man can get away with using that word, just as long as he has a power tool in one hand
We had a hybrid, silver-red fox visitor for years Charlie. We'd see him walking in the flower gardens by the sway fence in our backyard. He only showed up very early at the crack of dawn. We didn't really know why he came, but it just seemed that he liked it there.
Speaking of Green Machines over bridges Attuvian John, I'm looking forward to another Spring visit to my childhood Trestle. Haven't seen a train go over it since back in the day yet. One of these years if one keeps going back there though
Have as good of a Monday as you can everyone
TF
Good Morning All,
A regular and it looks like there is a whisker of Eds' Boston Cream Pie left so that also please. 21F with flurries this morning but a much nicer start to the week than the constant overcast and intermittent showers we had last week.
Ed, I don't think I'd worry about the pics you post. Both the layout and the prototype pics are of great interest to me. You seem to have quite the gallery of photos as well.
Yesterday ostensibly was my day off but I spent almost all of it cleaning and doing some light maintainence on the house. Funny how some actually insignificant things can poke at you until you act. It was warm enough that I was able to mask and paint the one window frame that didn't match the rest. No one will notice but I feel better now. Also put a second coat of primer on the sills where we changed out the original windows last year.
I'll try to catch up posts later if I can. Hope you are doing well. Ciao, J.R.
hon30critterYou can post anything related to trains, real or modeled, that suits your fancy! This should be a very interesting month!
Today I am sharing a picture of the Norfolk Southern as seen in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 2019.
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
Good morning!
Good morning, diners.
gmpullmanDon't mess with the custard! Speaking of donuts —
I was about to ask for bacon and eggs until I saw Ed's donut display. I'll have one of each kind. Ed, in the early 80s, living in New Orleans, our house was close to a seldom used siding. One day, the circus train cars were all parked there after unloading the circus as the Super Dome. Neat pictures!
hon30critterI find the process of welding rails together to be fascinating. Here is how it is done:
Dave, I have a friend who is retired from BNSF. He was on the crew section that welded rails. Just last week we went our for breakfast and he told me the process. Very neat! Especially out here where we have -35° F in the winter and 110° in the summer. Their job was important.
TF, I'm with you. I don't need to spend my time watching a depressing movie, especially one with mostly computerized images.
Good to hear from you again, JR.
Kevin, I've been wondering how your house work is coming. I imagine outdoor work from the hurricane slowed interior work. I've never put up soffit -- I've painted it and know that working over my head on a ladder is no picnic. Hope yours goes well.
I have a full day with nothing scheduled. I hope it stays that way.
Ogden, Utah:
Have a great day, everyone.
York1 John
I had no idea that's where kittens came from.
They usually seem to come from under the porch.
Good morning from a soggy West Coast. It's nothing like what they are getting down the road in California and I still got out yesterday for a quick 5km with the dogs and the wife which made it even better.
We get our eggs from a lady in the area that just gives them to us as she often has too many. They come in many colours which is something we don't really think about. We had a guest staying with us once and we asked if she wanted bacon and eggs for breakfast. She said yes and when she saw the eggs were not white she said there was no way she could eat them. After seeing Brother Lions' pic I now understand.
I think Dave was being somewhat tongue-in-cheek with his prototype comment, at least that's the way I read it. I enjoy everything I see in the diner and forum generally.
John, how about a video of the first crossing? Or better yet a live stream broadcast.
TF, some of the work my daughter has done with the Feds is Forensic Anthropology involving visitors from elsewhere. As she says there is nothing secret about it, and it is real. It doesn't matter one way or another how much interest people have in it (which seems to be little) as it doesn't change a thing, facts are facts. I understand you can go on the CIA and FBI websites and read documents on the subject. I have gone onto the CIA's website a few times in the past looking for other things, it makes for some interesting reading. For a long time, the top three supernatural beliefs have been Gods, Ghosts, and UFOs. My daughter said that UFOs have not been on that list for a hundred years for most countries. It is also discussed and treated as "matter of fact" as part of Anthropological studies at Universities everywhere.
I haven't been on my bike for weeks as I have had a bug off and on for well over a month. Some of the strains of covid and other viruses have been unkind to the heart muscle so being smart I heed the warnings. I will still take it easy for a while though. I did not test positive for covid so it has been something else. Didn't slow me down too much but I am ready to get back at it.
All the best to all.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Our mailman is also a local farmer and he raises chickens. So, he gets a lot of eggs, and sells them to his mail customers for $3 a dozen. That's a very good price for farm fresh, yard roaming chicken eggs, and they are even delivered! Sizes and colors aren't uniform, but they are always tasty.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Can't remember where I was, Australia perhaps. We ordered an omelet for six that was made out of one Ostrich egg. It was tasty.
John1; thanks for posting the pictures of Spring Creek Hobbies. I have been purchasing from them at train shows in Texas and in Kansas for years. I hope to be able to make the big Free Mo event in Dreshler this April.
Anybody wanna guess where this inw was taken:
BroadwayLion Anybody wanna guess where this inw was taken:
Close to Lion's den?
https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/tag/suicide-curve/
BATMANClose to Lion's den?
Well I was in my room, but this was pulled off of Oooo Tooob.
So where was the train : )
Ahhhhh.... Hmmmmm.... Outside? In the Flat Lands??? Maybe one of the Dakota's???
Does this go past your monestary?
Track is nice and straight....
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Evenin' Folks!
Thought you might like some fresh air out there in cyberspace......
Ahhhhh.... Take a nice deep breath! Oh for the good old days!
Not much better riding in the cab......
BroadwayLionSo where was the train : )
Is this a possibility?
If you plan to visit:
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Ninh_Binh#Q33929
BATMAN TF, some of the work my daughter has done with the Feds is Forensic Anthropology involving visitors from elsewhere. As she says there is nothing secret about it, and it is real. It doesn't matter one way or another how much interest people have in it (which seems to be little) as it doesn't change a thing, facts are facts. I understand you can go on the CIA and FBI websites and read documents on the subject. I have gone onto the CIA's website a few times in the past looking for other things, it makes for some interesting reading. For a long time, the top three supernatural beliefs have been Gods, Ghosts, and UFOs. My daughter said that UFOs have not been on that list for a hundred years for most countries. It is also discussed and treated as "matter of fact" as part of Anthropological studies at Universities everywhere.
Again, all interesting stuff indeed Brent. A quest of curiosity in research has almost been like another hobby at times. Would have loved to experience that part of your daughter's career. Sounds like a never a dull moment type of job, but I'm sure it has its negative sides like any.
No convincing needed as I've been fortunate to see three sightings of them in Northern Minnesota. The first one was a formation of five outside the atmosphere. The one across our lake near Lake Namaken could be heard and was convincing enough. But the one a couple years later, right across the bay over the Grassy Islands was quite freaky.
One could see the detail on that one. When your belief becomes 100% concrete in a split second, that perception is impossible to describe. Immediate excitement, anxiety, adrenaline, and a feeling of panic from fear of the unknown, all mixed together with an accelerated heart rate nearly sums it up. One wanted to keep looking, but it's time to go as you already wondered if they were looking at you.
Although people are a lot less skeptical than they used to be, it fascinates me how some would believe that we are the only beings in our galaxy, universe or areas of space that haven't been seen or named yet.
If you shine a line of light out into space and it ever ended, what would be beyond that? Perhaps a shell of another sphere we're inside of, would just be a spec in the vastness beyond that. To think we're the only life forms in that little speck of infinity, ...well..
Would love to have a part of Area 51. Reverse engineering certainly has to be about as interesting as it gets. It's fascinatingly interesting just to speculate how those things tick from what is known.
It makes a lot of sense that Electromagnetic Propulsion is how they work, somehow tapping into universal magnetic fields and using them to draw the craft. The field inside the craft would have to be different than the one outside, or near light speed or better G-forces would squish one like a bug.
Wonder if those things have a set of three Gyros of some kind, in a triangular pattern which is the most significant geometrical shape known. If one holds a spinning Gyro in their hand and disrupts it from its centrifugal axis, it pulls your arm quite persuasively. Three of those working together in some kind of movable symmetry might have a lot to do with it.
Have you ever wondered about a black hole, wormhole or whatever you want to call the fold shortcuts in space. One would think the aliens intelligence that makes ours look like that of an ant, had some kind of probe to see what the black holes were about before they went through them.
But some being had to eventually go through the first one. Can you imagine if one just went through by the seat of their pants and found there was only one way of travel. Then stranded some ought teen billion light years away from where they started. How would they find a different one to get back? Where would that one be?
Area 51 Yes. Drones are neat but a disc that defies gravity sure would be a fun project to jump into with all fours...
Track fiddler it fascinates me how some would believe that we are the only beings in our galaxy
York1Kevin, I've been wondering how your house work is coming. I imagine outdoor work from the hurricane slowed interior work. I've never put up soffit -- I've painted it and know that working over my head on a ladder is no picnic. Hope yours goes well.
The interior remodel has hit a dead stop.
I did finish the irrigation system I began last winter. I am probably going to finish the landscape walls in the back yard, and maybe get something done on the rear patio.
Until the soffit and roof are replaced, nothing can really be done inside.
The insurance company finally reached a settlement and payout. I had so little damage that I was way down the list.
Getting a roofer is not easy either, since I have no leaks or immediate issues.
Ulich just sent me this video of passenger service in Great Britain before WWII in 1954 (thanks to David for the correction). The narration is really strange but the footage is good:
For those who might be interested, Ulrich and Petra will be moving into their new apartment in Zittau in southern Germany in mid March. They are currently in the process of getting rid of all of the clutter that they have accumulated over the years. Ulrich sounds quite happy these days. After what he has been through he deserves it.
Good morning Diners. A cold day here in the U.K.. The temperature is still below zero C. A shot of rum in a large coffee please, Zoe.
Dave. Thanks for the update regarding Ulrich and Petra.
A minor thing regarding the film. It is from 1954. Things were beginning to get back to some resemblance of normality after WW2. Rationing of food etc. had nearly finished. (Ending 1955.) The name 'Elizabethan Express' was the beginning of the Elizabethan Era of Queen Elizabeth 2. 'A new beginning'.
People on trains still admire the view of Durham Cathedral, the crossing of the River Tyne and seeing the North Sea on the Northumbrian Coast. Always a lovely journey.