gmpullmanWell, I think it's been a while since we've had Taco Tuesday:
OK... that sounds great!
Ed, you just helped me decide what we are having for dinner tonight.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
This train trip is on my bucket list! There are two parts to the video:
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Good morning
Wow John! I'd have to say I'm very surprised to hear you say you had such troubles and was dissatisfied along the way of your bridge build. One certainly couldn't tell by looking at it.
All this time I've been under the impression of your original interest to try one, is that you had fun with it and great success. You must have had a great sense of accomplishment by looking at the beautiful results
That's too bad and I'm hopeful you realize that any scratch build of something new is a learning curve as the first one is always the guinea pig. You already learned from all that and should be a Pro, if you ever did decide to give-er another go.
Didnt realize that Pratt truss of yours was that large, and I'm not at all hesitant to admit it turned out much more impressive then my first build of bridge #1. I'm on bridge #8 and each of them had to be put on the back burner at one time or another.
Edit: 1/19/23 Unanswered question retracted, thanks.
TF
York1I hope it plays -- this is my first attempt with Vimeo:
It played A-OK for me. Congratulations on your success.
I am glad the SGRR was part of the event!
York1THE FIRST TRAIN HAS CROSSED THE BRIDGE WITHOUT INCIDENT!
Hi John,
Congratulations!! The bridge looks great, and the structure obviously works because there was no visible deflection as the train rolled over it.
It sounds like you are a bit (a lot?!?) frustrated that you made so many mistakes, enough that you don't want to do it again. I would suggest that, now that you have learned from your mistakes, the next bridge will be much easier to get right if you choose to make another one. Even if you decide not to do another bridge, I would hope that you don't give up on scratchbuilding.
I'd like to ask if you did a full sized drawing of the bridge before starting to build it. If you didn't, then you might consider drawing the structure full size and then using it as a pattern to cut the individual pieces. If you put a sheet of waxed paper over the drawing you can use it to make both sides of the bridge and the glue will not stick to the paper. I hope you don't find my suggestion to be condescending.
At times I have been pretty frustrated with my rotary snow plow project, but if I were to do it again, the second plow would take 1/4 of the time and be a much cleaner build.
hon30critterYou can post anything related to trains, real or modeled, that suits your fancy! This should be a very interesting month!
Colorful Locomotives:
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
I normally try to avoid power lines in pictures, but they make a neat pattern in this one.
Good morning, diners. Bacon, eggs, and black coffee, Flo.
Dave, thanks for the info on Ulrich. I hope he and Petra finally find some peace. I may try to write him today.
Another snow storm is on the way, so it's a day to go to the grocery store. This is predicted to be bigger than we've had this season, with about a foot of snow. The amount doesn't bother us -- the wind with it makes things bad. I got the snow blower running yesterday. It's actually pretty nice that this will be the first time running the snow blower this season. This is late for us.
After a long time of cutting plastic beams, measuring wrong and cutting them again, re-cutting them, gluing (glueing?) them, cutting them apart again, re-cutting them, buying more styrene since I ruined most of what I had, cutting them wrong again, ...
THE FIRST TRAIN HAS CROSSED THE BRIDGE WITHOUT INCIDENT!
There's more news from me: I will never build another N layout bridge! If I need one, I will buy a kit. Better yet, all future railroad tracks will be on level ground with no need for bridges.
Here's a 30 second clip of the first BNSF locomotives (pulling an SGRR boxcar) testing the new track.
I hope it plays -- this is my first attempt with Vimeo:
York1 John
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
NorthBritA minor thing regarding the film. It is from 1954.
Hi David,
Thanks for correcting me on that. I have edited the post. I was guessing that it was pre WWII.
Your nose gets red when it is cold out:
ATK SDP40F 548 Lakeshore Trn 48 Amsterdam NY Jan 1978 by Geoffrey Hubbs, on Flickr
Even colder 'up North':
CN FP9A 6529 Quebec City PQ Jan 1976 by Geoffrey Hubbs, on Flickr
Top 'O the Page, Again!
Well, I think it's been a while since we've had Taco Tuesday:
Tacos by Bruce Gage, on Flickr
IMG_0682c by Ann Hudspeth, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
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.
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
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.
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.
Track fiddler it fascinates me how some would believe that we are the only beings in our galaxy
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
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.
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...
BroadwayLionSo where was the train : )
Is this a possibility?
If you plan to visit:
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Ninh_Binh#Q33929
Not much better riding in the cab......
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!
BroadwayLion Anybody wanna guess where this inw was taken:
Anybody wanna guess where this inw was taken:
Ahhhhh.... Hmmmmm.... Outside? In the Flat Lands??? Maybe one of the Dakota's???
Does this go past your monestary?
Track is nice and straight....
BATMANClose to Lion's den?
Well I was in my room, but this was pulled off of Oooo Tooob.
So where was the train : )
Close to Lion's den?
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
They usually seem to come from under the porch.
I had no idea that's where kittens came from.
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.