Brent What expresso machine did you buy? I've been thinking of one for years. I think steel roofs are cool they are building a house down the street that has an arched roof above the front door with a steel roof. I am unlikely to live long enough to make a steel roof nor solar panels worthwhile.
Virginia auto inspection is $20. They had a referendum to eliminate the inspection a couple years ago and it lost!
At lunch I had the laptop on the table and was only half sitting on the chair. Bella the beagle jumped on the chair and had her forepaws on the table. Donna has found her standing on the table with all fours.
It was 82 today.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
This look at the East Broad Top is really worthwhile:
I was at the EBT in 1960 with my dad shortly after it reopened as a tourist line. I was only four and just remember bits and pieces.
EJT_EBT_20 by Edmund, on Flickr
I'm glad to see that the EBT not only remains in operation but is making plans for expansion!
Cheers, Ed
BigDaddyBrent What expresso machine did you buy? I've been thinking of one for years.
Henry, the boss did a lot of research and made me look over her top three choices and we settled on this one. She keeps bringing me cups of expresso, we have created a monster. Not only won't I sleep tonight I never got around to my Scotch.
Attuvian1 BATMAN Hey, Brent, how about keeping the cardboard boxes up? They give it all a bit of . . . piquant character! (Nice job, by the way) Attuvian John
BATMAN
Thanks John.
It is quite time-consuming painting all those nooks and crannies on that foam, I was ready for a break by the time I was done. That's when the expresso started being delivered and I was saved. I never, ever, ever have to get up and pee in the night, that may change tonight.
Canucks won 7-2 I have an untouched glass of scotch around here somewhere, I will use it to celebrate.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Good Morning Diners. Chloe, an english muffin and black coffee please.
Today is the first day of spring break for the schools around here and we are under a winter storm watch. Predicting 7" of snow as of this morning. Bummer for those of us not going anywhere. My youngest has been complaining constantly as we know a lot of people heading Kevin's direction.
Brent, your mountains look good! The little section of layout I'm working on right now has an exposed rock face (cast plaster) that I struggled with. After many attempts I finally hit good enough for me. The scene will have a little river through it when I'm done. My first ever attempt at a water feature. I don't have high expectations at this point. We shall see.
Happy Friday everyone!
Mike
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
Good morning everyone. Chloe, it is close enough to lunch time. Please bring me a bacon and cheddar sandwich on dark rye, toasted.
Today I need to drive to Naples and see my friend's widow. She wants me to go through his hobby stuff and figure out how to handle it all.
Not looking forward to this. He was a very serious fantasy gamer. There is a ton of stuff.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Killing time before my 2:15 appointment.
Got the Wordle in three tries Just lucky.
Rolling Stock — B&O style.
B&O - Baltimore, MD by d.w.davidson, on Flickr
Good afternoon, everyone. It's late in the day for me -- I'll have a BLT for lunch.
BATMANJohn, where are you going in Europe?
We land in Munich and will rent two vans to fit us all. We'll drive to see some places in Germany for several days, then through Austria into Italy. In Italy, we'll get rid of the vans, and for a couple of weeks we will use the trains, since they will go to most of the places we want to see. I'm along for the ride. My daughters have done these trips several times, so I guess I trust they know what they're doing. (I hope)
SeeYou190Today I need to drive to Naples and see my friend's widow. She wants me to go through his hobby stuff and figure out how to handle it all.
I agree with you, I think this will be difficult. You want to help her as much as you can, but you also have to do some things because of time or situation. Good luck!
They are building a new bridge near us, and our house is shaking all day from the pile driver. I went down to watch them for a while, and those pilings are not going down real easily.
Have a great Friday, everyone.
York1 John
Good evening
Hope everyone's been well. Judy decided to bring some kinda bug home from the hotel. As bad luck may have it, one got much sicker than she did for the better part of last week.....YUK!
Feeling good again, and doing some catching up with things. Good to see ya guys
Hold on and I'll go fetch some strange rolling stock
Found one!Image courtesy of Hackaday
TF
Thanks Brett, that is quite a contraption.
Anyone see the Northern Lights last night? They were visible here at 11 pm but I did not know they were coming. Tonight it's cloudy.
BigDaddyAnyone see the Northern Lights last night? They were visible here at 11 pm but I did not know they were coming. Tonight it's cloudy.
We were told they were visible here in Nebraska, which is very unusual. It's cloudy tonight in our area.
Track fiddlerHold on and I'll go fetch some strange rolling stock
Transformers....more than meets the eye.
gmpullmanGot the Wordle in three tries.
I just got the new one in three tries tonight.
York1I agree with you, I think this will be difficult. You want to help her as much as you can, but you also have to do some things because of time or situation. Good luck!
It was actually a very pleasent visit. I shared a lot of stories about Chris that she had not heard.
We have a plan. I am going to try to take all of the collection (there is a ton of stuff) to the Historical Miniature Gaming Society convention in Orlando that will be in a few weeks. I will try to sell everything there and she wants to donate everything from the sale to Hope Hospice.
When I saw this piece, my eyes lit up. It is a Chaos Cauldron Of Blood from 1995, the golden age of Warhammer 40,000 when things were a lot more whimsical.
She insisted I take it home with me.
-Photographs by Kevin Parson
His memorial will be on April 30th at a movie theater in Naples.
SeeYou190 -Photographs by Kevin Parson His memorial will be on April 30th at a movie theater in Naples. -Kevin
I got an update from Ulrich a couple of days ago.
They are now in their new apartment. They had a few minor issues during the move but apparently nothing serious. He didn't provide any details.
I have encouraged him to ask to rejoin the forums and he said he would consider it once they were settled in to their new home. I hope MR would be amenable to that. He did break the rules but he was in a pretty dark place mentally at the time.
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Well!!! Good Morning everyone! Fine day here in the Finger Lakes Region even if the weather is YUK!
Why am I so happy this morning? Glad you asked!
Yesterday my Sophomore Granddaughter who plays Bassoon recieved a large packet of music in the mail..... I think she was up all night practicing. Today she is at The Smith Opera House in Geneva (very famous theater) rehearsing for a concert at 2pm. She and several other students from schools nearby are playing in a concert with the 198th United States Army Band!
The 198th is stationed in Rochester NY and plays all over the Northeast US.
Papa Howard didn't get much sleep last night. LOL I will be meeting the rest of the family in the lobby of the Smith before the concert.
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good morning
Judy watches TV quit a bit, usually while I'm doing something else. Sometime I'll switch the idiot box on in the background just to keep me company while she's at work.
Couldn't help but notice all they have is Insurance, drug, and lawyer garbage for commercials anymore. Remember the commercials in the 70s, which at least had a little humor or entertainment to them?
Ran across this one with a bit of that old world charm. Thought it might bring one of our well liked friends here, out of hiding
Wow! Yep, I am old enough to remember when we had 30 second commercials! That was a while ago!
Today you get 30 seconds of program followed by 4 minutes and 30 seconds of commercials!
That is why I DON'T watch the idiot box any more!!! ;)
Congratulations on your granddaughter's musical achievement Ray
Think I'm gonna travel back a few pages here to push the Bridge Button in the elevator, to see those giant mechanical mosquitoe ships again. That one kinda reminds me of the old Beatles Yellow Submarine video. And Umaguma, Narrow Way with Grand Visors Party, is still a tough act to follow...
Good morning everyone. I just placed an order with Chloe for some orange juice and bacon. I should have ordered a stack of whole wheat toast as well.
Attuvian1Kevin, I'm thinking that the color of the material is not at all familiar to MRers. Is it something different than what our kits and cars are cast in? Or the same material but in a tone that is perhaps more common for gaming items?
The resins that Armorcast and Forge World use are both more flexible, and smoother than the resins used by Westerfield, Yarmouth, and Sunshine.
They are more durable, but more difficult to drill. The soft material clogs drill bits. They are also much easier to cut, which can be a blessing and a curse.
Attuvian1How quickly might you be painting it? If you do, be sure to post some photos on line. We love seeing your work in this genre.
It will be a while. I still do not have my painting desk set up.
Good morning all. Just finished moving about 6" of wet heavy snow out of the driveway. While I am ready for spring, it was absolutely beautiful this morning when I got up. Gorgeous heavy snowfall. I do love that. Ray, congratulations on your granddaughter's achievement. That is very cool!
Hope everyone has a good Saturday!
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Well, I clicked on one of those clickbait traps. This one was titled "25 Hobbies To Leave Off Your Dating Profile".
I wanted to see where my hobbies came in.
Wargaming did not make the list, but "Action Figure Collecting" was #22, and it included Warhammer 40K in the description.
Photography was not on the list at all.
Model Railroading came in at #3, beat out for the top spot by weightlifting and sports card collecting.
This is the picture that was included for Model Railroading:
What is happening there? Who wears a hard hat to play with their model trains? I think this poor guy has a "Bob The Builder" cosplay hobby overlap.
By the way, cosplay did not make the list either, but Larping was #25. How is Larping less embarassing than Sports Card Collecting?
Greetings from southern Command, man what a night with severe weather, A relaly bad torndao went south of us last night. We were driving to go hear some blues music and drove thru the side of another severe storm with tornado. sidways rain etc. had to slow down to a crawl to see. Major flash flooding occured. there was a car lot that was 4 ft under water, they were trying to get the cars out at midnight last night. Our road tothe southern command had been under water, but the water was gone when we got back,
Glad to hear you are okay MLC
Here are a few more unusual pieces of rolling stock.
This one looks like it has been in front end collision:
Not quite sure what this is:
Is this a creation by a scale modeller who lives in a really rainy part of the country?
Half way through the repaint process:
I wonder if the railroads still burn off the weeds next to the track? I can't see that being a very good idea these days.
I have never seen one of these before. It is a British Railways kerosene powered GT-3. It was a bit of a failure:
Jay Leno would want one of these:
Talk about an oversized boiler!
Just try lifting this beauty off of the tracks to avoid an oncoming train!
This steam turbine is a real monster!
An armoured train:
Another Michelin rubber wheeled experiment:
Time to start thinking about where to take the Diner for April. Any suggestions?
BroadwayLion Who wants a Frosted Flake?
Good Evening,
TF, that was funny.
My wife does Wordle every day. She has it set to difficult mode, has a 60 second time limit and does it in 2 or 3 tries. She has even done it in one a few times.
Today I ran the mike with a freight. It is now in the engine house and the pacific with the local is ready to leave the station.
Had our usual Saturday pizza while watching Endeavour. We avoid commercials by recording on the pvr.
CN Charlie
Forever getting 403. Annoying. Cannot post what I wish.
Beamish Museum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eLpVzsh5ow&ab_channel=preservedrailway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DARIpykpmwg&ab_channel=JohnSmailes
IMG_1253 by David Harrison, on Flickr
My son (in the brown coat) as tram conductor.
IMG_1282 (1) 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
Good morning, diners. Just coffee this morning -- it's donut day.
Well.... just when I thought Spring was here, we woke up this morning to a blanket of snow. Not much, but enough to turn everything white again.
I really have no ideas or preferences for the diner's next stop. I enjoy whatever anyone can post, so where we go doesn't really matter to me. The Gulf Coast of the U.S. has quite a few railroads that could be interesting.
Today I'm still working on a control panel for some turnout lights and switches. The way I thought I would do it didn't work well and didn't look good, so today I hope to get that straightened out.
It's time to head out the door -- I hope everyone has a great and relaxing day of rest Sunday.
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Pusser's rum from Gibraltar. Jack Daniel's given to me yesterday as a belated birthday present
Help yourself. (The Gunpowder Proof is strong.)
IMG_2613 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Where to take the Diner for April?
I do not know how it would work, but I like scenery.
Would trains operating through scenery work for a month?