York1 As I was about to say, that as I look out my layout room window, the Nebraska countryside looks pretty flat. There is about a five-foot drop down to the creek south of our house, if that matters.
The Lion must know that the earth can NOT be flat. If it were flat, CATS would have long ago knocked everything off, and it would be barren.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
It has been one of those days. I have been on my butt putting out fires all day.
The MIL is in the hospital and if she gets well enough to be released she will need to go into a care home. The FIL phones me and tells me he has called a real estate agent to list his house so he can pay for the care home. I say no, no, no, the Government pays for the care home, do not list your house. He says yes I am, I will live in my trailer. He does not believe that the Government pays for the care home. I call the wife, she calls social services who immediately call the FIL and tell him, yes the care home is covered. He finally believes us. He has a beautiful home and needs somewhere to live so I am not sure what his thinking was. Old age sucks.
I had my Rapido D-10 order canceled as the company that I had ordered it through decided to no longer deal in North American trains. So I ordered two from Otter Valley Rail in Ontario. 15% off retail with free shipping. Good enough for me. PWRS gave me a good break on the Hudsons but would not budge on the D-10s. Their loss.
Time for a nice glass of red.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
gmpullmanMy wife and I both got vaccines on our own volition. It seemed like the logical thing to do. Health agencies promoting the idea didn't particularly push my anxiety any higher. Maybe I missed it?
My wife and I had all the vaccines and all the booseters with no anxiety attached. When we did get Covid, we both breezed right through it, and she has too many of the "danger group" boxes checked.
I also get flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Nothing for anxiety to get to me about.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
SeeYou190I also get flu and pneumonia vaccines.
I added a shingles vaccine to my list as well. My neighbor wound up in the hospital four days due to a shingles outbreak. Extremely miserable condition.
Something to consider if you haven't yet.
Regards, Ed
gmpullmanI added a shingles vaccine to my list as well. My neighbor wound up in the hospital four days due to a shingles outbreak. Extremely miserable condition. Something to consider if you haven't yet. Regards, Ed
I had Shingles in 1995, it was awful.
Good morning Diners. Tea and toast please Brunhilda.
Flat Earth. 'Thought of the Day'.
If the Earth is round the Oceans of the World would disappear.
Thought of the Day 2
Here in the U.K. influenza is the number 1 killer. In 2020 not one person died of it. Yet thousands were diagnosed as died of Covid, (even a man who fell off his roof.
Thoresby Colliery Pit Bottom Pony Loco.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5AdvQ3lqCI&ab_channel=TADTalbot
Clayton Equipment Gedling Colliery Motorway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu6AX3C0euY&ab_channel=ClaytonEquipmentLtd
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
Good Morning Diners. Zoe, biscuits and gravy please.
Tired this week. Not sure why as I've gone to bed a little earlier than normal the last couple nights. Maybe it's the BS at work.
My youngest has been keeping us posted about all things relationship related in today's day and age. The most incredible of which as that youth don't necessarily communicate with each other with phone calls or text messages (the modern day equivalent of passing a note in class), but with SnapChat. What picture you send, how quickly you send it, how quickly you read one sent to you all mean something different, but not in all cases. It's like it's own language and no wonder my wife and I have trouble making sense of it all. They don't even understand it entirely! It's mind boggling. For example, responding to someone with pictures that show basically nothing but the ceiling of the room you are in communicates that you are upset with them. That is unless you are simply using it as a background for a message that you add to the photo in a text box. Or not opening a snap sent to you quickly enough could tells the person you are upset with them as well. Unless you were just really busy, but of course the sender doesn't know that. Routinely makes my wife and I glad we met well before this was a thing!
Now here's a train race I've never heard of before, much less a bicycle built for 6!
Mike
BATMAN gmpullman I added a shingles vaccine to my list as well. My neighbor wound up in the hospital four days due to a shingles outbreak. Extremely miserable condition. Something to consider if you haven't yet. Regards, Ed I had Shingles in 1995, it was awful.
gmpullman I added a shingles vaccine to my list as well. My neighbor wound up in the hospital four days due to a shingles outbreak. Extremely miserable condition. Something to consider if you haven't yet. Regards, Ed
According to my doctor I don't need the Shingles Vaccine as I had the Shingles already. I had some pain in my chest and was concerned about a heart or other problem and by the time I got an appointment it was determined I had the Shingle. They were upset that I came to work with the Shingles all that time but with my tolerance for pain I really did not notice them.
I have had all the other vaccines and will be going for the latest booster next week.
Rick Jesionowski
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
Rule 3: Illuminating discussion of prototype history, equipment and operating practices is always welcome, but in the event of visitor-perceived anacronisms, detail descrepancies or operating errors, consult RULE 1!
Good morning
Did you know Flat Earth People only play catch with a frisbee?
More gas to drive to Canada then on the way back eh?
TF
Good morning, everyone. I'm getting ready to go out to clean off the driveway, so I'll have bacon and eggs later.
Thankfully, we got only six or seven inches of snow. There is about a quarter inch of ice under it, which is a bigger problem than the snow. My driveway is easy work -- flat and even. I also clean off the driveway of my neighbor who is a widow. Her driveway will take me a while. It is curved and goes downhill a ways, which always gets deeper snow with the drifts.
Our school's kindergarten teacher had shingles, and after seeing her suffer, I made sure to get both kinds of the shingles vaccines.
Strangely enough, going to the Mid East in December, we had no vaccine requirements. I still got them just to be careful, but I was surprised that there were no requirements and no one ever checked or asked about them.
Well, it's out to work up a sweat in freezing weather.
York1 John
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 "The Olde Town Express" in Fort Madison, Iowa some time in the early 1990s.
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
Fort Madison was a surprising little town. They had a river cruise ship, frontier themed amusements, and I saw REO Speedwagon live there.
My ex had shingles twice. Maybe there is justice in the world. The highly trusted CDC recommends Shingrex after a shingles attack.
Paul Offit MD, who voted against the Covid booster on the FDA panel, sat one row in front of me in Med school. Even he recommends old guys, with risk factors like mine should get the booster. He is on youtube videos produced by U of Penn nearly every week.
The wait in Virginia is 6-9 months for a colonoscopy. I called my Maryland gastro group and they gave me an appointment in less than 3 weeks. I have no explanation for the geographic disparity. Tomorrow I start a low fiber diet in preparation. Yuk.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
I asked my doctor about getting the Shingles vaccine last month, and he told me to wait until January. Medicare now finally covers these shots, after putting the burden on the consumer for all these years.
Singles: We got some caxccine but still had to replace the roof.
YOU CAN get shingles again, just not in the place that you got them the first time. It is a desease of the nerve as it branches from the spinal cord. One branch gets it, the others do not. The branch that had it will not get it again but another branch sure as scatchy little fingsrs can wiggle will get it in its time.
Today is a lab for next Monday's appointment, I also have a PT appointment. It is just a six week follow up, to sea if I have been keeping up with my8 exercises. YES the bask *IS* good, unless I have to stand up or walk for more than six minutes.
Br. Placid was taking pictures of me in the train rloom, so I returned the favor.
This 'thing' will become the 7th Avenue subway stop at 34th Street Penn Station
And this one is supposed to be Smith-9th Street, but I moved the bridge outside of the station. In reality the station is squat right on the bridge.
Does anyboyd recognize this station. It is Avenue H on the BMT Brighton Line
This one is also on the BMT Brighton Line: Courtelyou Road
Staying on the BMT, here is Parkside Avenue.
And finally, this one is outside our diningroom window!
BroadwayLionLION in the TRAIN ROOM
That is great!
Ten minutes ago I did not even know this exisited... now I simpy have to have it on my layout!
SeeYou190 BroadwayLion LION in the TRAIN ROOM - - - - - - - - - - Ten minutes ago I did not even know this exisited... now I simpy have to have it on my layout! -Kevin
BroadwayLion
LION in the TRAIN ROOM
You can't have portals like that without archers.
I am listening to a new Dan Carlin podcast about the Vikings. Not a homogenous group as we think of them today but vicious pirates.
In MR news, I had a NO switch attached to my PSX circuit breaker. Somewhere in my move, the nut that holds the push button switch to the fascia went AOL. It's a weird size nut, possibly it could be found in a Radio Shack or Heathkit store, but they no longer exist. I had to buy a bunch of new switches on Amazon.
Ebay had them in "packs of 4" but when you click on the link, it is different prices for 1,2,3 or 4 and at best the "advertised price" is only for 1.
Good morning Diners. A cold, frosty morning. A drop of whisky in a pot of tea and some toast please, Flo.
Kevin likes the Faller tunnel portals. They look good. They remind me a little of Bramhope Tunnel, near Leeds which is still in use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bramhope_Tunnel
Another castellated railway tunnel portal I like is at Villefranche-sur-Mer, near Nice, France.
SAM_1099 by David Harrison, on Flickr
BigDaddyThe wait in Virginia is 6-9 months for a colonoscopy. I called my Maryland gastro group and they gave me an appointment in less than 3 weeks. I have no explanation for the geographic disparity.
Maybe there are a lot more "you know whats" in Virginia that need "looking into"?
Good morning, diners. A late start this morning, so I'll have just coffee before lunch.
David, that is pretty neat to find some tunnel portals that are similar to the ones shown in Lion's and Kevin's posts. I hope Dawn feels better.
Lion, it's good to know you are able to get up to your layout room and can work on it. Post more photos! I love seeing the subway system.
Mike, reading posts like yours about your child's communications, I am reminded once again that life has passed me by. I remember our battles back in the early 2000s over allowing students in classrooms with their phones.
Nothing much going on today. I expect there will be a nap after lunch while I watch reruns of Columbo.
In Montana:
Have a great Friday, everyone.
BigDaddy The wait in Virginia is 6-9 months for a colonoscopy. I called my Maryland gastro group and they gave me an appointment in less than 3 weeks. I have no explanation for the geographic disparity. Tomorrow I start a low fiber diet in preparation. Yuk.
I have read that the wait in Canada for a colonoscopy can be many months. On a brighter note, the wait for doctor-assisted suicide is only a couple of weeks. So, don't feel bad about waiting.
York1 Mike, reading posts like yours about your child'ls communications, I am reminded once again that life has passed me by. I remember our battles back in the early 2000s over allowing students in classrooms with their phones.
Mike, reading posts like yours about your child'ls communications, I am reminded once again that life has passed me by. I remember our battles back in the early 2000s over allowing students in classrooms with their phones.
In my last job, I was in a classified room doing defense work. We could not take our cell phones into our offices for security reasons. Just like in elementary school, we had little "cubbies" outside to store our phones. I was kind of surprised to hear that people were concerned about phone theft in a building where everyone including the custodians was cleared to Secret.
MisterBeasleyI have read that the wait in Canada for a colonoscopy can be many months.
The way it worked for me was, the DR. (GP) punched a colonoscopy for me into the computer in his exam room. I went home and went online to book. I could go to any hospital I wanted to, the wait times were different at each one. The soonest I could book was 3 days at one, I chose 8 days later at another. I also chose the Dr. who I knew personally and he had done previous surgical repairs on me. I booked online and picked up the magic juice at the pharmacy, also paperless, and as they say, away I went.
After living with a damaged shoulder for years I finally had to wave the white flag and go see the DR. about it. I had a four-day wait for an MRI of my shoulder and a 17-day wait for the surgery. Living the kind of active life I have, which has had its fair share of mishaps, I have never had one complaint about the healthcare I have received. The best part is I never took my wallet out once and don't have to pay for insurance.
It took about 8 days between the time my doctor requested a colonoscopy and when I had the procedure. However, don't be fooled by that. The health care system in Ontario is under real strain thanks to underfunding so not everything works that well. A friend of ours will have waited one full year from the time her knee replacement was approved last October to when she actually gets the surgery.
On the plus side, the treatment for Dianne's recent heart attack hasn't cost us a penny out of pocket.
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
MisterBeasleyIn my last job, I was in a classified room doing defense work. We could not take our cell phones into our offices for security reasons. Just like in elementary school, we had little "cubbies" outside to store our phones. I was kind of surprised to hear that people were concerned about phone theft in a building where everyone including the custodians was cleared to Secret.
When my kid was doing TV/Movie work, cell phones were banned on set and many got fired for breaking that rule. They would leave their personal belongings in the tent on a remote shoot (sometimes he had his own trailer) or a room at the studio. My son worked through High School and University and could be on set for as long as 19 hours so he did all his schoolwork at the set. When called to set he would just leave his Macbook and phone sitting on the table and it never went missing and he never heard of anything getting stolen from anyone else either.
The funny thing once is that on one movie they handed out 650 fake cell phones to a crowd for a scene.
hon30critterOn the plus side, the treatment for Dianne's recent heart attack hasn't cost us a penny out of pocket.
My Mom had a heart attack here at the house. The ambulance was here really fast and the paramedic flipped open his laptop which had all her medical info on it including her meds. He asked her if what he had was correct and she said yes. An American friend was staying with us and was surprised the ambulance company would have that personal information. I told her, well the ambulance is run by the Government and doesn't cost us anything and her meds are paid for by the Government so, of course, they know what she is on as they are paying for it.
I can't take credit for this:
Generational weather check