Hello folks!
Once again it is time to move the diner. The theme that we have chosen is unusual rolling stock, both locomotives and cars. I am a little bit afraid of what will show up because I have a bad habit of wanting to build oddball projects!
Let's see what you can come up with! I would really like to see some scale models as well as the real McCoy.
Cheers everyone!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Thanks for the flawless move, Dave!
I guess to start off in the Diner I'll present a few photos of, a diner!
Diner_patrons6 by Edmund, on Flickr
Diner_patrons7 by Edmund, on Flickr
Diner_Erie8 by Edmund, on Flickr
NYC_Diner_Rockwell by Edmund, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
Dave, I will have the new RIP track graphic ready by tomorrow night.
Sorry.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Good morning Diners. A busy day today, so a large coffee on the go please, Brunhilda.
Consett Iron Company was well known here for its iron ore wagons.
IMG_5113 by David Harrison, on Flickr
It is not known for its tank wagons.
One seen here at Beamish Museum.
consett tank wagon by David Harrison, on Flickr
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
NorthBritConsett Iron Company was well known here for its iron ore wagons.
A few in the US Messabe and Great Lakes regions have some classy "Ore Jennys":
Rolling through Wales by Mike Danneman, on Flickr
Aren't they all pretty in matched paint like that!
BLE_ore by Edmund, on Flickr
Good morning, everyone. Thanks for the diner move, Dave.
It's a busy day -- I'll try to check in tonight when I get home. Have a good day, everyone.
York1 John
Good morning, everyone. A new month, eh? Glad to see it -- February was rough. Anyway, I'm supposed to be cutting down on carbs and sugars, so I won't be bringing donuts that often any more. So instead...
Enjoy! (Someone else get the eggs, they're too spendy for an editor's salary.)
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Steven Otte (Someone else get the eggs, they're too spendy for an editor's salary.)
(Someone else get the eggs, they're too spendy for an editor's salary.)
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
Good morning everyone. I slept like a rock last night. I feel completely refreshed this morning and I am ready for a great day.
Steven OtteAnyway, I'm supposed to be cutting down on carbs and sugars, so I won't be bringing donuts that often any more. So instead...
Mmmmm... give me a whole plate of that bacon! Thanks Steve!
Steven OtteSomeone else get the eggs, they're too spendy for an editor's salary.
We have not bought eggs in a few months. I hope whatever is going on gets resolved.
My dining car is an old metal streamliner from Tyco. It's probably from the 50s and had no specific prototype. The windows are a thin, cloudy plastic strip, so I haven't put in any interiors for my streamliners.
I named my diner Alferd G. Packer after the only American ever convicted of cannibalism.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
SeeYou190 -Kevin
Bird flu. In December it was reported that in the latest outbreak the US has lost over 50 million chickens so far. If they each averaged one egg a day, that's over 18 billion eggs per year.
It isn't going to be over with any time soon.
Steven OtteGood morning, everyone. A new month, eh? Glad to see it -- February was rough. Anyway, I'm supposed to be cutting down on carbs and sugars, so I won't be bringing donuts that often any more. So instead...
GREAT LIONS like lumps of meat!
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Farmer brings us eggs every week. And on Sunday, I can eat at least six eggs.
Tonight, being a Wendesday in Lent, we will have fewsh homemade speciaity bread and homemade soup.
I do not know if this will work:
NOPE, I guess it will not work, anyway a big passenger train wrect in Greece.
Some station master has been arrested. Carriges all over the place.
Cannot post URL either. They are tightening up access tgo their site.
GRRR
Somehow, we have eggs. Our mailman is a local egg farmer, small scale, and to keep enough healthy hens he sells eggs to his postal patrons in our community. He delivers us a dozen eggs every week for the princely sum of $3. These are farm-fresh eggs from hens that get to go out and peck in the garden, so the yolks are bright golden yellow. We have bacon and eggs every other day, alternating with yogurt and fruit. In not too many more weeks we'll start getting fresh fruit from the farmstand. We have a freezer still mostly full of a quarter steer we got from an organic grass-fed place last fall, and our fish market gets right-off-the-boat fish in season. A local butcher supplies our bacon and pork.
So why can't we lose weight?
Bi-monthly check in so I don't go on the list.
I have a friend who sells me all the eggs we want at $2 a dozen. We have to save the cartons for them, though!
All is well in NW Wisconsin. Son moved from Kalifornia to Nevada to take care of his FIL.
Daughter and SIL are flourishing.
#1 Grandson plays juniors hockey for the New Mexico Ice Wolves, they made the playoffs their first year in the southern league. Starts in a week. Stanley Hubbard owns the team. Track Fiddler probably knows that name.
Daughter's brain cancer seems to be under control. I hope it stays that way. Docs found a mass at the base of her neck at the last scan, but it hasn't grown. They seem unconcerned. I do not.
I've been following everyone's postings, hope all is well.
Terry
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
Rolling Stock:
The Century's 1948, 5 BR-lounge observation Hickory Creek is in Philadelphia and New York City this week:
23-1368 by George Hamlin, on Flickr
Here's her sister, Sandy Creek, on my layout:
Century_Sandy by Edmund, on Flickr
Quite possibly my favorite pieces of Pullman rolling stock. Thankfully both survive.
HAY, I got som of those! I bought them in Japan back in the 60s. Never able to make them work on my layout. Looks like they need 30 or mor for the curves. A and B locos and a whole string of cars. All need tender loving care. You can have the lot of them if you want them (Lion@broadwaylion.com)
Here is the updated RIP track:
Thanks Kevin! I appreciate your help. I just updated the first post.
Cheers!!
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
saronaterryDocs found a mass at the base of her neck at the last scan, but it hasn't grown. They seem unconcerned. I do not.
Mike
Chloe, please keep this cofee cup filled while I wait on my bacon and hashbrowns.
There is another roofing company coming by today to give me an estimate. I got an uneasy feeling about the previous company and decided to look elsewhere.
I want this to be the last roof I ever buy.
Good afternoon Diners. Dawn has come down with symptoms of Covid although the tests say no. Therefore a large coffee on the go please, Janie.
Terry. As my daughter would say, "Knocked sideways. Never backwards." I know it is difficult, (Dawn and I have been in a similar situation with our son,) but remain positive.
Try and call in later.
NorthBritDawn has come down with symptoms of Covid although the testd say no.
I hope that recovery will be speedy and this is nothing serious.
Good morning
Hi Terry, good to hear from you. Stanley Hubbard, sure, he played hockey for the University of Minnesota and made his fortune in the TV and radio business. Didn't know about the Ice Wolves in New Mexico though. That's cool your grandson plays for his team.
Glad to hear your daughter's condition stabilized and she is doing better. Certainly can understand your concern from her last CT scan as having two daughters myself, can only imagine your worry. Rightfully so, that's just what a good father tends to do. Continued prayers and best wishes from Judy and me over here
Still hold on to that fun memory, the day we ran trains on that impressive basement layout of yours. Remembering all the cool consists of trains that came out of that neat staging room with the window overlooking the layout. The only thing I'd do differently that day, is take some pictures of the great ideas seen in your modeling.
Judy and her sister had a ball at the bar where they got dropped off in Spooner for beers and lunch, so everyone had fun that day.
Hope you don't mind me posting our pic that your lovely wife took. I'm thinking that'll be okay as it was posted the day it was taken.
Hope to have an afternoon like that again one day.
TF
From the Te Papa Archives this 1908 photo shows loading, (the bloke closest to the camera is too cleanshaven, but I do notice he is in one of the Bears favourite poses; standing around with his hands in his pockets!)… Westport coal by Bear, on Flickr
Terry: Hope your daughter remains stable. My brother is a transplanted Texan living in St. Croix Falls; that is where his wife is from.
David: Hope Dawn feels better, soon.
My journey to better vision takes a big step on Monday when I will have cataract surgery on my right eye. I have been in my new job for 25 months; and I have not been able to see out of my right eye for 18 of those months because my original corneal transplant "died" and then I developed a cataract in my newly transplanted eye. At some point, I will probably have to have a second transplant on my left eye as it is experiencing issues, as well.
Good morning, diners. Bacon, eggs (no matter what they cost), and black coffee, Chloe.
Our egg prices here are down to about what they were before the price increase. I paid around $3.00 a dozen yesterday.
Terry, I also hope the doctors are right. Modern medicine can do so much more than even just a few years ago. Praying.
Ed, the detail work and your photography of your passenger cars is excellent. Your photos remind me of Mel's passenger car interiors. I can't imagine the time and effort you have put into that work.
Bear, what exactly is the state of ownership of trains in NZ now? Does the state have outright ownership, or is there a combination of private and public operation? I didn't know that background of NZ's trains.
Kevin, good luck with the roof. I know what you mean about hoping for a roof that you will not have to worry about in a few years. With my latest roof put on this past summer, and my age of 71, I have high hopes this is my last roof.
David, I hope Dawn feels better soon with no side effects.
TF, I hope your hectic work schedules calm down and you can post more in the diner. We missed you.
Tin Can, I hope the eye surgery goes well.
MisterBeasley, you have a great system with your food supply. I wish we had the same. We do have fresh beef, chicken, and eggs available here, but everything else has to be frozen or canned before it gets here. At the start of Covid, when there was a shortage of some things, I kind of wished I had the system some people have of storing enough food for a year.
Instead ... I make a trip to the grocery store at least four times a week. We have enough food to last us about two days before we would have to start borrowing some of Daisy the Dachshund's food.
Growing up, my parents and grandparents grew and preserved almost all the food we ate. Our basement had a "fruitroom" that stored all the home-canned food. There were also large freezers for the meat. One of my prizes during butchering was finding the bullet that killed the hog.
After the fall harvest, all the days of cleaning and canning food drove me crazy. I was so sick of chicken feathers, corn husks, and canning jars. Maybe that's why I don't store any food anymore.
After living in New Orleans so long, I really miss the fresh seafood. We had a place near our house that was stocked each morning with fresh shrimp and oysters. I loved it.
Well, I started out with a short message and now find I've written a book. Sorry about that. I'm headed to the grocery store before the snow starts. March came in like a lamb, but the lamb didn't stick around too long.
For everyone mentioned and not mentioned, I hope you have a great Thursday.
York1Kevin, good luck with the roof. I know what you mean about hoping for a roof that you will not have to worry about in a few years. With my latest roof put on this past summer, and my age of 71, I have high hopes this is my last roof.
I hope this is my last roof too, but I am only 56.
A steel epoxy coated hidden fastener white roof is $32,000.00 which is about double what a shingle roof will cost.
I think it would be worth it. That should get me to 76-81 years old.
Things to consider...