Good Morning Diners. Janie, a large coffee and some cinnamon toast please.
Edit: Top of the Page! Not sure if anyone else is a cinnamon toast fan, but I'll have Janie make more just in case.
Was looking forward to a nice weekend of nothing coming up. That changed yesterday creating work for me, but it will be good. We want to cut down a flowering cherry tree at our house that I need a friends help with and we figured out Friday will actually work for both of us. Only took two months to find a day where our schedules matched up. It's a beautiful tree, but it has to go. Whoever planted it placed it too close to the house so it has to constantly be trimmed to keep it from rubbing, it is growing up through the power line to the house, and it's roots have found the sewer. It is also right against the driveway and walk to the front door (which we rarely use, but still) and with really low branches it makes it a bear to walk or park under. Trimming won't help that either as the trunk basically ends at about 5 feet and it becomes branch city after that. The last straw was it actually producing fruit, which it did not do the first seven years we were at the house. Last year it produced a little, this year it produced a ton and it was a massive mess.
The Kalamazoo, Michigan train station. Formerly that of the Michigan Central Railroad. This was the station I took my first ever train ride out of, riding the train to Battle Creek if I recall. The train ride was a birthday present a couple years after getting into trains as a kid. I hope I never forget it.
Mike
Water Level RouteNot sure if anyone else is a cinnamon toast fan, but I'll have Janie make more just in case.
Just have time to drop in real quick and say hi, but I will certainly share in the cinnamon toast.
Thank you.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
For some reason, the opening forum page on my computer shows no one has posted in over seven hours, but I see posts here. I may have to clear the computer and restart.
Mike, thanks for the toast. Good luck with cutting down the tree. Be careful! (Do I sound like your mother?)
York1 John
Water Level Route it is growing up through the power line to the house,
Hi Mike,
Have you considered having your utility company remove the part of the tree close to the power lines? They would be able to shut the power off to make the job safer.
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Haven't had cinimmon toast in years, same for raisen bread.
The house next door is a rental. Dead and badly overgrown shrubbery. I complained to the HOA which is operated by the realty company that manages the rental. The new renters also balked at the clause that they were supposed to "maintain the property". Landscapers have been there for the last 3 days. If it was my home, I'd also cut down 5 or 6 trees that are plastered to the side of the house.
The Orioles Camden Yards is next to an old B&O warehouse and Camden station:
now SportsLengensMuseum.com
And the first shots of the Civil War happened when Mass troops were marching from President St Station to Camden and Confederate sympathizers decided to bring rocks to a gun fight.
courtesy of baltimoremuseums.org
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Good morning Diners. I think things are slowing down. Although posts have been posted they are not shown on the main page. Oh well!
Playing Nurse to Dawn this week.
Hope to get some railway modellung done.
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
Good morning everyone. Chloe, I will take a toasted bagel with butter and a cup of black coffee.
We are still getting rain storms several hours earlier than normal for our traditional seasonal weather pattern. The meteoroligists say the extremely high Gulf of Mexico water temperatures are causing this.
We passed the "doomsday" water temperature already. Where it was predicted long ago that if the Gulf of Mexico reached this temperature it would turn into a constant weather machine churning out endless hurricanes. It did not happen.
That prediction was made by a hack trying to sell books decades ago, but people are using it as proof that climate change is a myth.
I don't understand how some people reach the conclusions they arrive at.
NorthBritPlaying Nurse to Dawn this week.
I hope things will get better for you and your wife.
SeeYou190 NorthBrit Playing Nurse to Dawn this week. -Kevin
NorthBrit
Hi Everyone,
Brunhilda, coffee with cream, please.
I would echo the sentiments on the cinnamon toast, but I became G free 9 years ago; however, I'll share a method of making it that my mother taught me. She would butter one side of bread and place the buttered bread in a baking tray. Then she'd sprinkle sugar on it and then the cinnamon. She'd put the tray in the broiler at I think around 450F, wait until the sugar started boiling, then flip the toast over and let them brown. That was a yummy treat. Later on I modified the process. I'd spoon on the sugar to get a thin layer. Then let the sugar boil to make a crust like Crème Broule and did not flip the toast over. That made it both crunchy and chewy. Yes, the process was a little involved, but it tasted great!
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
SeeYou190 York1 I used to hate Mondays. The day I always hated was Friday. That was the day that I could not put anything off until tomorrow. I could not leave the office on Friday until everything was done and filed. I remember several Fridays being stuck in the office until after 9:00 with no end in sight. Those days are not missed at all. -Kevin
York1 I used to hate Mondays.
The day I always hated was Friday. That was the day that I could not put anything off until tomorrow. I could not leave the office on Friday until everything was done and filed.
I remember several Fridays being stuck in the office until after 9:00 with no end in sight.
Those days are not missed at all.
I hated 4:00pm, the parent company was in Chicago and it was 3:00 pm there, and they always wanted something done before they left for the day which meant we would be at the office till 6:00 pm or later.
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!
I just had a really great day.
No traffic problems, no angry customers, no drama at work, no bad news, nothing went wrong.
AWESOME!
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”- Douglas Adams
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
I hope that things go as well as can be for Dawn, David. Cheers, the Bear.
Thank you Bear (and others). Like I have said, Dawn has good days and not so good ones. I hate it when the days are not good. I feel powerless to help.
Today she is much better.
A favourite railway station of mine is 'Skagen Station' in Denmark. Simple and functional. It also helps that it is near the port.
IMG_2421 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Good morning everyone.
I seem to be having trouble in the forums today. I could not paste my entry into the test box, and recent activity function does not seem to be working.
Oh dear!!! by Bear, on Flickr
Are we back in business?
Fire up those coffee urns! Stock the bar with fresh ice...
Ophir, Colorado:
Ophir_Colorado_RGS by Edmund, on Flickr
From the other side:
Ophir_Stereo-view by Edmund, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
NorthBrit I hate it when the days are not good. I feel powerless to help.
“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.” -Douglas Adams
We are up and back running!
Good morning Diners. A full English and a pot of tea please Flo.
The grandchildren have all gone home. We might get five minutes peace now.
Thanks Bear.
A good day for Dawn today.
Reedsmouth Junction (Just up the road from home)
http://disused-stations.org.uk/r/reedsmouth/index.shtml
Thoughts & Peace to All who Require
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That worked.
Hello diners! I feel like I'm pushing my luck typing anything in here right now. I wanted to wish Dave a speedy recovery from his knee surgery, but couldn't comment in that thread. Dave, I hope you see it here.
The messy flowering cherry tree is down. It all went well, except for getting the stump out. That was really stubborn. In using the trunk to try to pry the stump out we ended up pulling the sidewalk over about 6 inches from the roots not breaking but simply bending with the trunk. My friend that helped me has taken loads of trees down and said this one was the toughest one he has encountered. He said he has taken trees down with trunks 50% larger diameter than this tree had and had an easier time getting the stump out on the larger ones. At least its done.
Good morning, everyone! I haven't had a good diner breakfast in several days, so I would like bacon, eggs, and black coffee, please.
I hope Dave is doing well. I'm sure he will have to endure lots of physical therapy, but it will be worth it.
Last week I commented that we were having cool weather. I never should have said that. Because of my careless comment, we are having five days in a row of over 100°F with very high humidity. Even that wouldn't be so bad, but it's worse coming so soon after the cool weather. It's time to move to a cabin by a lake north of the border.
If you click on this Flickr account, there's an interesting story behind this track geometry BNSF train route:
Eastbound BNSF Special Unit Train at Unadilla, NE by Zach Pumphery, on Flickr
Not a train station, but a Pony Express station about 70 miles west of me. The Pony Express route passed a short distance south of my town.
Pony Express Station, Cozad, NE by Robby Virus, on Flickr
I hope everyone has a great day, and I hope the forum continues to keep us all connected.
Still having trouble replying.
Cannot reply to the incandescent lighting thread at all. Had to try several times to respond the Show Me Something.
To your stations, everybody!
SOO_2225-A by Edmund, on Flickr
New York Central terminal in Buffalo
Buffalo again, from the 'working' side:
PC Alco 9365 Buffalo by Edmund, on Flickr
The Penn-Central years were anything but glorious. At least there was still some trackage and activity around the station.
Regards, Ed
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
BroadwayLion
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Two pieces of good news!
1. The forum is working again.
2. The Lion in North Dakota has posted again.
The Burlington Depot in Omaha:
The Burlington Depot by Benjamin Dziechciowski, on Flickr
Whale the world is changing. We do not get floods here, ant even flash floods. Those are things that beloing in the valley, we are on a watershed divide. Rain in the back yard flows north to the Knife River, abut twenty miles away. Rain in the front yard flows south to the Heart River about twenty miles away. Anybody want to play king of the mountain with us. The highest point on our land is 2400' above sea level.
gmpullmanTo your stations, everybody!
Spike Maul by Bear, on Flickr
Danged if I'm doing, danged if I'm not. The condor brass, has still been working me silly! ...
Haven't had time for when the Forum sometimes works, but sometimes don't!
The truth if the matter is, last year the Milwaukee GateKeeper made friends with me in the parking lot, and haven't been the same since
Been abiding my spare time at the hybrid steel bridge, that starts to rust into a beautiful patina, and then rests
Been finding my time very calming and relaxing there
TF
PS Quite pleased to see you're still prowling around, my good freind Lion Glad to see your knee surgery went well, brother Dave
I've had six on my right one, and have been knocking on wood with my PRP treatment three years ago, ever since