Post Hog!
You wouldn't believe the guys that don't remember to flip their windshield wipers up for an April Snowstorm?
Does one need to say anymore?
TF
That's better
Henry, please accept my condolences. Your Mom deserves to be remembered for the good things you've already brought up. As long as our loved ones remain in our memories, they are still with us.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Evening Railroad Fans
We are in Rogers Minnesota, hopping towns since Wednesday.
Rogers had the Railroad picture on the wall in my hotel room for my most comfortable room.
We had Judy take a picture with the Bear at Cabela's
And the April snow storm is starting, to adventurously try to drive us home, for maybe tomorrow...
Good to see ya Kids, I'll catch up with you on Monday or so
My favorite memory of my father was that he took me to a Baltimore Clippers hockey game. It was ok but neither of us were real hockey fans. On the way home he let me control the radio WCAO 600 am. I remember they played the Sounds of Silence and Paint it Black.
My mother died on Monday. She suffered from Alzheimer's for the last 8 years but I think she just died because at 94 her mitochondria gave up. She was among other things, an outstanding seamstress.
She made my clothes and I think hers when I was growing up. She made my George Washington outfit for my second grade play. She also made the window treatments for my 3rd home, when I was 50. One of my partner's wife was an interior designer. Mom didn't like her and called her "that woman with the sprayed on pants" That was an accurate description.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Good evening Diners. A glass of Pusser's Rum please, Janie.
As it is the last day of the month, settle down with your favourite drink and watch the following.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O6UI8fSvAM&t=2s&ab_channel=BirminghamMAG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHWWkVZi1p8&ab_channel=GeRik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxN_2TkzAyk&ab_channel=DavidMerrifield
IMG_3461 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
mbinsewiJust seen that picture on Face Book John, something about free shipping. Mike.
I found it on the Duck Duck Go images page. Sorry to say, I haven't been on Facebook in five years. No reason -- I just don't use it anymore.
SeeYou190I really hope they share a painted picture if it ever gets completed. I am picturing bright red with Black & Yellow dags!
That would be great! I imagine it would take a while to paint all that cardboard.
York1 John
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
Hello everyone! Chloe, please bring me a big juicy cheeseburger, fries, and a large vanilla Coke. Thank you.
Here it is, the last day of March. Another month has gone by and 2023 is 25% gone.
Wow, that was fast.
York1An unusual boxcar:
I really hope they share a painted picture if it ever gets completed. I am picturing bright red with Black & Yellow dags!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Just seen that picture on Face Book John, something about free shipping.
Mike.
My You Tube
Good morning, diners. The diner will be a little quiet for breakfast with only a couple of people eating breakfast today. I'll have bacon, eggs, and coffee, Chloe.
Tin Can, I hope your daughter enjoys the trip and your brother recovers quickly.
Not much else going on today for me. I'm sure that will change once my wife gets up -- she is very good at finding things that I should be doing.
Kind of a neat caboose:
Auto-Train Caboose
An unusual boxcar:
Have a good Friday, everyone.
Tin Can ll I hope your brother is now okay. As for your daughter seeing Stonehenge? An impressive site imo.
Quick note to David. My baby brother took my daughter to London last Saturday. He is a retired batchelor who tends to spend his money on his nieces and nephews. He has made dozens of trips to London, and wanted to take her for her first trip. She is loving it. He had a slight mishap on Wednesday, falling on the steps to London Tower. He got to visit an English ER, where he learned he had a slight concussion. He was advised to rest. Daughter is continuing to sightsee; she is on a bus trip to Stonehenge and other places today. They head back late Sunday night/Monday morning.
Been a really busy week at work. We finally got current on our annual audits; not a problem I created, but one that I (and my staff) got fixed. That is a great feeling.
Water Level Route I also found out that the Bachmann Hudson I've had on pre-order for over a year has been delayed again. When I first placed my order with Trainworld, they showed an arrival date of 12/31/21. Then as each quarter came and went, they pushed the arrival date out to the end of the next quarter. Now, they simply removed the arrival date. That's not a good sign.
I also found out that the Bachmann Hudson I've had on pre-order for over a year has been delayed again. When I first placed my order with Trainworld, they showed an arrival date of 12/31/21. Then as each quarter came and went, they pushed the arrival date out to the end of the next quarter. Now, they simply removed the arrival date. That's not a good sign.
I have the same challenge with Cowans Sheldon 15t crane. On pre-order a year before Covid. Still no word of when available. Annoying.
Good Morning Diners. Chloe, coffee and wheat toast please.
The wife and I are taking our youngest out for a fun lunch today at a Mexican restaurant before she has to go to work tonight. One last attempt at having some fun before her spring break is over. They have pitchers of margarita for $10 at lunch. Should make for a fun day for me too!
Waiting more and more impatiently for the weather to turn so I can start redoing our stairs. The polyurethane I want to use on the treads and risers needs temps above 50-55 to apply, and I have to prep the treads and risers in the garage which has no heat, so the neverending temps in the high 30s to low 40s is getting very annoying.
Mike
Good morning Diners. Rather quiet in the Diner.
I'll have a Pusser's Gunpowder please, Flo.
In fact give everyone a drink on my tab.
IMG_2613 by David Harrison, on Flickr
A works train on the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway.
IMG_2229 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Good evening Diners. Just a quick visit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C541mlZjMEA&ab_channel=DestinationTrainsPlanes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt4npGrhAiU&ab_channel=DestinationTrainsPlanes
Rolling Stock:
The Michelin rubber-tired rail car pauses at Akron, Ohio:
The Michelin railcar in Akron, Ohio in 1932 by Historical Railway Images, on Flickr
Note the arrangement of the 'wire brushes' ahead of the tires to insure signal activation. traction tires, anyone?
23 April 1932 - "Gasoline motor-powered railway coaches, capable of maintaining speeds of up to 100 mph, are a present-day development through the application of pneumatic "rail tires". The first of which have been manufactured in the US by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company which received the first license to make them under Michelin French patents
The Michelin rail coach made its first visit to midwest cities during April, including Youngstown, Akron and Cleveland, where a group of prominent railroad executives took ride on the various demonstration trips that it made"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd%E2%80%93Michelin_rubber-tired_rail_cars
Cheers, Ed
Good morning. Another busy day, and now the weather says we'll have temps in the 70s today, but cold front and snow by tonight. Time for me to move to Arizona.
It's good to see Bear back in action.
I'm heading out the door right now for a meeting in a town about 50 miles away. Nothing big, but it will chew up a good chunk of the day. Retirement! Long days of leisure time! When does that start again?
Have a good Thursday, everyone.
Good Morning Diners. Brunhilda, coffee and a raspberry danish please.
My youngest is having a real bummer of a spring break. I won't bore you with the details, but yesterday was a very bad day for her. The trials of being a teenager. Don't miss that one bit.
Missed out on the loco I was bidding on. Oh well. Like I said, I wasn't really that into it. Problem is the particular paint scheme is not common. If I ever think I'm going to get one, I'm probably going to have to try a little harder. C'est la vie. I also figure I'm going to learn in the next day or two that the Bachmann Hudson I've had on preorder for forever, that was originally due in a year ago is going to have it's arrival pushed off again. Annoying.
Shorty passenger cars anyone?
Good morning Diners. Tea and toast please, Brunhilda.
Welcome back, Bear.
One Military train with a Special at the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqA1NjIrC4U&ab_channel=jfreelan1964
"Yep! That's where that thump-thump-thump was coming from. I'll put in an order to Athearn for some replacement gears." A Proto Proto.
Rebuilding a Blomberg truck by Mike Danneman, on Flickr
Hey, Bear - nice to hear from you. Been hibernatin'? Or did you find a tank car full of honey?
Scrum down - All Blacks . . .
Nurse-Bear by Bear, on Flickr
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Mr. B, Coopers eat birds so it may have been hunting. We see them here even in our yaed. A couple of days ago there was a Sharpshinned hawk sitting in a tree but the crows are back and they drive off the hawks.
CN Charlie
There's a Cooper's Hawk outside our back windows. It's a bird we've never seen here before. We used to occasionally eat at a high- end restaurant in Virginia by that name.
Good Morning,
Mr. B, great story about you and your Dad, made me think back and I have a vivid memory of crashing my little 2 wheeler when my Dad was teaching me to ride. I wasn't hurt too bad but he said let's go see a movie, so we got in the car( '51Morris Oxford) and went to see Robin Hood. It was a summer evening in 1956.
Stiĺl cool here. We have set a record for the first March in 120 years where the temp never went above freezing. The snow is still there but luckily there isn't a lot as we could get a fast melt.
My wife wanted to watch some old trip videos that were shot on 8mm and then transferred to VHS. I dug out the player and hooked it up. It works except there is a tape in it and the eject mechanism doesn't work. I found several players on ebay for around 50 bucks so will order one.
We don't go anywhere or see anyone, not even into stores. I have to put on a mask to put the garbage bins out as someone might have gone by spewing covid. My wife's anxiety hasn't gotten better despite weekly sessions with a psychologist. Going on 5 years now. Actually he has been a big help. I won't explain why here.
Think I may run that brass Pacific today. It is a little beauty and runs great since the can motor and Tsunami sound was installed. Hard to believe it is 46 years old. The detail is really amazing.
Time to check the bird feeders. The racoon has started stopping by again every night so he thinks spring should be here. He cleans up the sunflower seed we put out for the squirrels. Putting seed out for them keeps them off the bird feeders. Besides we like them, they are very entertaining especially the red ones.
MisterBeasleyI ŕemember one birthday when my Dad got off easy like that. We lived out on Long Island, NY, and my Dad worked in the city. He had a monthly pass and I think I was young enough to ride the LIRR for free. We took off and just rode the NYC subways all day, back when they were clean and safe. Our fare was 15 cents each. I do think we got off for a hot dog at Coney Island.
MisterBeasley,
That is indeed a wonderful memory!
My favourite memory of my dad from when I was very young involved a huge box of black licorice. We had a family cottage that was water access only and the trip in was about 24 miles. I wasn't allowed to go into the cottage until I was seven years old. On my first trip 'down the bay' I was having the time of my life, and then my dad sweetened the experience by reaching behind the boat seat mid trip and pulling out a commercial sized box of black licorice! I was in heaven!!! Open boat, beautiful calm sunny weather and a fist full of black licorice!!!!!!! I will never forget!
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
York1 When we lived in New Orleans and my parents would visit us there, one of our favorite things to do was ride the ferry back and forth across the Mississippi. The best part to my father was that it was free. The ferry gave a great view of the city from the river.
When we lived in New Orleans and my parents would visit us there, one of our favorite things to do was ride the ferry back and forth across the Mississippi. The best part to my father was that it was free. The ferry gave a great view of the city from the river.
I ŕemember one birthday when my Dad got off easy like that. We lived out on Long Island, NY, and my Dad worked in the city. He had a monthly pass and I think I was young enough to ride the LIRR for free. We took off and just rode the NYC subways all day, back when they were clean and safe. Our fare was 15 cents each. I do think we got off for a hot dog at Coney Island.
Almost 70 years later, and I still remember that day. Thanks, Dad.
Good morning everyone. Chloe, I have no appetite this morning, so just black coffee for me today. Thank you.
For next month, I kind of like the idea of big scenery that someone mentioned. I might even have a couple of suitable photographs to share for that category.