*Turns the lights on*
Looks like the staff is asleep. Must be from boredom. I'll get a pot of coffee started. And while nobody is looking, I'll grab a cheese danish from the case. I'll leave a couple bucks laying there so Vinny doesn't throw me out when he wakes up if I'm still eating it. Maybe I'll get some toast going. Or better yet start frying some bacon in a second. Maybe some of these smells will draw someone in.
Yakima & Pacific Coast Railroad bridge. Circa 1891.
Mike
Welcome back, Kevin.
up831Going out of town to Montana tomorrow. Plan to see Little Big Horn among other things
That is a neat place to visit. They have it so that you can really get a "feel" for what happened in the battle. Have fun. Enjoy the 80 mph limits on the Interstates!
York1 John
Hi Everyone,
Dropped in to say hello.
Going out of town to Montana tomorrow.
Plan to see Little Big Horn among other things
Hope everybody stays safe warm and dry in the meantime.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
I am back home from Orlando. I have to catch up and unpack. I wiill be back later tonight.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
York1 Good morning, diners! Chloe, I'll have bacon, eggs, and black coffee.
Good morning, diners! Chloe, I'll have bacon, eggs, and black coffee.
For me, the day starts with feeding the cats. Not that they need it immediately, because they're happy and well fed, but they won't leave me alone until their breakfast is served.
Be happy when your physical labor is kept short by other events.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Another morning of hurrying to get outside and do some painting. It seems like I can't get a full day of work -- there are always some interruptions or other obligations that shorten my painting time. It has already taken much longer than I thought. I can't seem to find a full day of painting time.
I hope everyone is in good health.
The Amtrak Coast Starlight along Washington's Puget Sound:
the Coast Starlight along Puget Sound by t55z, on Flickr
Long story, short, my Mum kept and used the foot stool which was one of the items I made there, and gave back to me just before she passed away. I still use it.
Must be a rite of passage, Bear. I have the stool I made for mom in grade eleven (1972) 'wood shop' finely crafted strips of walnut, cherry and maple:
Stool Sample by Edmund, on Flickr
Today the grandkids use it to see the trains, although I admit, none of them really need it any more as several of my grandkids are taller than me
I’m not up to what species those trees are, but surely those logs would be straight and clear enough to make for good millable timber?
Oh, the Amish trucked away thousands of board feet of workable timber. I get to pick through the leftovers and gladly split and stack to my heart's content, and the cats don't complain much when the wood stove is glowing red!
Timber by Edmund, on Flickr
This is about a tenth of what they harvested.
MILW, Tacoma, Washington, 1978 by Center for Railroad Photography & Art, on Flickr
Cow Creek sure required a lot of steel to get over it!
BN, Benge, Washington, 1973 by Center for Railroad Photography & Art, on Flickr
Another one for the bridge guy...
BN, Wishram, Washington, 1978 by Center for Railroad Photography & Art, on Flickr
Speaking of woodworking, I enjoy watching the talents of Grandpa Amu and the things he comes up with:
I hope everyone is holding up well these days —
Cheers, Ed
Good Morning Diners. Flo, a coffee please in a New York Central mug.
Not much for news from my neck of the woods but I though I better support the diner staff. The coffee is cheap, but I'll tip well. Sat down and made a prioritized list of the house projects I need to get done before the weather turns poor. What started out feeling overwhelming became quite manageable when I got done. That's good. I could use manageable. If it comes down to it, I have vacation left to burn at work so I could always do that. I just hate to use up the last of it with three months remaining in the year. Never know what could come up.
SP&S bridge over the Klickitat River. Completed in 1908.
Hello by Bear, on Flickr
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”— Terry Pratchett
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
BigDaddy I need to figure out how to run a bus line to the extension and a separate line to the reversing section. How close can they be to each other?
I need to figure out how to run a bus line to the extension and a separate line to the reversing section. How close can they be to each other?
I've always just run parallel wires an inch or so apart for my bus lines, with a bit more for multiple bus lines. Some users suggest loosely twisting the lines of a bus around each other to reduce RF interference, but I've never found that necessary.
York1 MisterBeasley, I hope you can stay high and dry through the storm.
MisterBeasley, I hope you can stay high and dry through the storm.
We did. It was just wind, mostly, with occasional periods of heavy rain. We were supposed to have 3 days of heavy rain but only ended up with one day of intermittent showers. Typical weather guesser hype, i guess. Neither of us is a big drinker, nor do we use anything else, so "staying high" is really not in our active vocabulary. All the beach towns have opted out of the mad rush to have cannabis shops everywhere.
Hi John, your comment put a smile on my face, Thanks Neat building.
The Twin Cities Model Railroad Museum used to be in the Bandana Square, Northern Pacific passenger car repair facility.
A huge medical conglomerate bought the building and raised the club's rent so they were forced to move the huge O scale layout.
That was quite a few years ago. There wasn't much of a choice but to move, as the high rent would have forced them to charge too much for admission. Years before, the admission was only a requested donation.
TF
Good morning, diners. Donut day! Just black coffee from the diner, please.
Have a great Sunday!
The Northern Pacific building in Tacoma, Washington:
Northern Pacific Railway Headquarters Building (Tacoma, Washington) by cmh2315fl, on Flickr
Good morning
The three month weekend is finally over...
I'd never thought about that Bear, but CC must stand for all you said We certainly enjoy our time with her as she's always so happy and full of life. It's always our thing, that she gets an extra set of crans for me to color with her, when we go out to lunch
Can't imagine moving a big layout like the Twin Cities Model Railroad Museum that was moved years ago. Not just cutting it up and putting it back together again, but labeling all the wiring to be rewired correctly must have had its challenges. Club members like you are definitely appreciated.
My daughters took me to see that layout earlier this year for Father's Day, and then to Cecil's for one of their famous Reubens for lunch. That was one of the greatest Father's Days for sure.
The footstool is a thing of beauty. It goes without saying, it has some great memories stored in the grain of the wood. It's certainly nice it's still around after all these years
My Judy and her sister Kelly were each given Bell Telephone foot stools when they were young and worked at the phone company. I've used Judy's stool quite frequently doing projects through the years, so unfortunately it looks terrible. After I'd seen her late Sisters stool at their house, still looking in like new condition, restoring Judy's foot stool is definitely something in the planning now, as the subject is brought to my attention here
The sites quite glitchy today. Spent the better part of the hour over coffee this morning, typing some good things to say, and phoof, all was gone. Got the dreaded 403 forbidden. Guess I'll try again later.
Ophelia rain all day. The wind blew over my rain gauge so I don't know how much. Once upon a time I wanted a weather station, but you can spend $1,000 on a decent one or $79.95 for a crap station.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Good evening, everyone. Brunhilda, I'll have an ice cold beer.
TF, it looks like CC and you had a great time. You're a lucky man! She sure looks happy to have you around.
The out-of-town relatives left this morning, so I was able to get out for a some prep work on the back of the house before painting. Little did I know that some bats had taken up residence behind some of the shutters. I had to clean up about three tons of bat cr*p. Not a pleasant way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
The Royals are playing Houston, so I have a good night of baseball watching ahead.
I hope everyone has a great Saturday evening.
Near Washougal, Washington:
Big Builder in The Shoug by Greg Brown, on Flickr
Good tune Mister B.
My CC likes that song, and she really likes Vadalia onions.
And her soft blankie Auntie Judy got for her.
My life is of the fullest. I'm blessed with dolls.
Blue Moon:
Love the old song by the Marcels.
The beer used to be better. It might have gotten ruined when they were taken over by Miller/Coors.
As for the tides, we have water under our house right now. It's from the tropical storm moving up the coast right now. The back of the house is on stilts, so we're good. This happens about once a year.
BigDaddy TF geez pulling your own teeth? My experience with hitting my nail is it immediately throbs with every heart beat. I have never had a hole bored into it, but the only thing that happend was the nail would fall off a couple weeks later.
TF geez pulling your own teeth? My experience with hitting my nail is it immediately throbs with every heart beat. I have never had a hole bored into it, but the only thing that happend was the nail would fall off a couple weeks later.
Hi Henry
All my dad's teachings were respected, except for that one. Pulling a tooth once didn't work out so well for me. That was enough of that...
Yup, Blue Moons are a drag! When the real ones comes round pulling the tides, there's something about us being made up of 70% water. Those Blue Moons keep ya from sleeping good for a few nights
Never liked Blue Moons...
Good afternoon
Home again.
Nice, our niece and great niece CC want to go out to lunch at the RoadHouse, for some Chicken Fried Chicken...Haven't seen CC for a while, sounds good to me, I'm buying
Thinking about hitting the rack Kids.
Image courtesy of obscured by clouds
Camel stain, a no, Camo Stang
POST HOG!
Gilmore slides everything
Evening
She didn't get a hotel overlooking the lake, but so what, didn't have to drive that far.
We found a hotel and good food in the surroundings, and our waitress was very nice.
RideOnRoad Track fiddler ... With that in mind, and some more recent calculations ran, you're probably one of the good eggs here. Aren't you...... TF I try.
Track fiddler ... With that in mind, and some more recent calculations ran, you're probably one of the good eggs here. Aren't you...... TF
... With that in mind, and some more recent calculations ran, you're probably one of the good eggs here. Aren't you......
I try.
Trying is everything, Welcome to the group
Water Level Route Howdy again diners. Janie, I'll take a french dip please. I appreciate the input guys. BigDaddy Money matters. Just because everything is paid off, doesn't mean you are saving enough for retirement. I hear you Henry. While I'm not maximizing my contributions, between what I contribute and what my employer contributes, plenty is getting put away. In fact, the little retirement income calculator in my account currently says I will be able to retire a couple years earlier than I am planning on. MisterBeasley Think about when you will have to replace your truck and make sure the kind of truck you want will still be available when you want it. I actually wouldn't mind going with an electric truck except for two issues. As you say, the infrastructure is one. The other is towing. We camp every year throughout northern Michigan. Sparse population means less infrastructure as a whole, much less electric vehicle stations. Couple that with the drastic drops in range while towing (especially something like a good sized camper) and that leaves me nervous about them for right now. Both problems I expect will get addressed in the future. I'll be honest. As much as I love vehicles, I loath buying them, even when I've needed a newer vehicle and found exactly what I was looking for. It always makes me feel really nervous. Almost like I get buyers remorse before I even buy them. Eventually I always end up happy with them. Guess I just have to get used to them or something. SeeYou190 Tin Can II The diner is titled "Jefferey's Trackside Diner." The graffic is "Jeffrey's Trackside Diner. In the "in Memoriam" section, above Jeff's picture is the header Jeffery Wimberly; below the picture is the tag "Jeffrey-Wimberly." My middle daughter made the offending graphcs for us. Anyone can replace them any time they like with corrected graphics. -Kevin Kevin, I think you need to re-read Tin Can's post. He wasn't saying the graphic is wrong. He's simply stating the name is in several different locations and spelled three different ways. He's just asking if we know which is correct. It's also in the welcome paragraph as Jeffrey. Given the RIP track appears to be a screen grab of his avatar with his spelling underneath, I would say the graphic is 100% correct. Whether it's spelled his way or not, I think we all approve of the graphic as is either way.
Howdy again diners. Janie, I'll take a french dip please.
I appreciate the input guys.
BigDaddy Money matters. Just because everything is paid off, doesn't mean you are saving enough for retirement.
I hear you Henry. While I'm not maximizing my contributions, between what I contribute and what my employer contributes, plenty is getting put away. In fact, the little retirement income calculator in my account currently says I will be able to retire a couple years earlier than I am planning on.
MisterBeasley Think about when you will have to replace your truck and make sure the kind of truck you want will still be available when you want it.
I actually wouldn't mind going with an electric truck except for two issues. As you say, the infrastructure is one. The other is towing. We camp every year throughout northern Michigan. Sparse population means less infrastructure as a whole, much less electric vehicle stations. Couple that with the drastic drops in range while towing (especially something like a good sized camper) and that leaves me nervous about them for right now. Both problems I expect will get addressed in the future.
I'll be honest. As much as I love vehicles, I loath buying them, even when I've needed a newer vehicle and found exactly what I was looking for. It always makes me feel really nervous. Almost like I get buyers remorse before I even buy them. Eventually I always end up happy with them. Guess I just have to get used to them or something.
SeeYou190 Tin Can II The diner is titled "Jefferey's Trackside Diner." The graffic is "Jeffrey's Trackside Diner. In the "in Memoriam" section, above Jeff's picture is the header Jeffery Wimberly; below the picture is the tag "Jeffrey-Wimberly." My middle daughter made the offending graphcs for us. Anyone can replace them any time they like with corrected graphics. -Kevin
Tin Can II The diner is titled "Jefferey's Trackside Diner." The graffic is "Jeffrey's Trackside Diner. In the "in Memoriam" section, above Jeff's picture is the header Jeffery Wimberly; below the picture is the tag "Jeffrey-Wimberly."
My middle daughter made the offending graphcs for us.
Anyone can replace them any time they like with corrected graphics.
Kevin, I think you need to re-read Tin Can's post. He wasn't saying the graphic is wrong. He's simply stating the name is in several different locations and spelled three different ways. He's just asking if we know which is correct. It's also in the welcome paragraph as Jeffrey. Given the RIP track appears to be a screen grab of his avatar with his spelling underneath, I would say the graphic is 100% correct. Whether it's spelled his way or not, I think we all approve of the graphic as is either way.
Thanks, Mike. I made an observation, certainly not a criticism.
Richard
7,500 feet, I took my sons to Bomber Mountain WY, site of a WW2 crash of a B17 that was only discovered after the war. I had never backpacked that far and the top of the mountain was 11,000' Another 100 feet and they would have missed the mountian top.
People have scavenged this war grave. A propeller sits in Sheridan WY. The tires were hacked apart by souvenier hunters, but they looked brand new 60 years later.
RideOnRoad Track fiddler ... Hit the nail on the head, or whatever you're swinging at, ...not your finger stupid ... I am confused. To me it looks like you did a perfect job of hitting the nail. (What? Not that nail? Oh, never mind.)
Track fiddler ... Hit the nail on the head, or whatever you're swinging at, ...not your finger stupid ...
... Hit the nail on the head, or whatever you're swinging at, ...not your finger stupid ...
I am confused. To me it looks like you did a perfect job of hitting the nail. (What? Not that nail? Oh, never mind.)
You are exactly correct Richard. There was in fact two nails, wasn't there?
You're one of those guys out there that sees more than anyone else sees, or more than the average bear does, don't you?
With that in mind, and some more recent calculations ran, you're probably one of the good eggs here, ...aren't you...