Good morning
Been busy with the rehab down the hall and just got back from going out of town.
So we're in Washington this month eh? Beautiful, Thanks everybody for all the contributions here.
BN, Seattle Washington Image courtesy of Pinterest.
Rocky Image courtesy of RailPictures.net
This one has my stamp of approval
gmpullman One of my favorite Washington state structures, the bridge-within-a-bridge (pretty clever engineering): BN, Rock Island, Washington, 1974 by Center for Railroad Photography & Art, on Flickr
One of my favorite Washington state structures, the bridge-within-a-bridge (pretty clever engineering):
BN, Rock Island, Washington, 1974 by Center for Railroad Photography & Art, on Flickr
The dual posts of Green Machines were enjoyed Thanks Ed.
The Bridge Within a Bridge has always been one of my favorites as well, ever since you first introduced it to us years ago. Never grow tired of looking at that one I'll tell ya!
Yet it makes me wonder if there was a second concrete pier on the other end at one time? Perhaps it was deemed unstable when they doubled the weight with that extreme reinforcement for heavier loads
I'd love to build a model of that one for sure. Not that there's any place to put it, but just for the sake of building it would be fun. One would certainly need a few more views or specs. It would look great in a shadow box on the wall
One for Ohio Guy.
Image courtesy of eBaumsWorld at Pinterest
Thought you might get a kick out of this one. In this situation, WM may stand for Why Me
Have a great Taco Tuesday gentleman
TF
SeeYou190So, it seems that Labor Day is the unofficial "bring your kids to Home Depot" day! I have never seen so many children in the store.
I never liked seeing children in the store when I worked at Home Depot. There are enough things that the adults can do wrong like overloading carts and ignoring the forklifts, but when you add in kids running and climbing all over the place and riding on the carts etc., things can go south fast.
Same with dogs. I witnessed a very scary situation where a German Shepard got separated from its master and the dog went berserk! It was growling and snapping its jaws at everyone. We had another incident in another store where a lady brought in a miniature dog. One of the staff went close to it to snuggle and it bit off a large chunk of the end of her nose!
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Good evening everyone.
So, it seems that Labor Day is the unofficial "bring your kids to Home Depot" day!
I have never seen so many children in the store.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Here's an excellent look at the labours of railroading in a snowy Canada:
For any modeler interested in 'ops' this film has some good insights. Get a load of that dispatcher's 'model board' in Wellington tower at Montreal! (24:20) Looks like it is from a spaghetti-bowl train layout!
Cheers, Ed
Good morning, diners. Chloe, I'll have bacon, eggs, and black coffee please.
The new dog is wearing me out. When I sit down to watch TV, she constantly bothers me to get up and do something with her. I wonder if my doctor had anything to do with us getting a dog.
The Tacoma shops for Northern Pacific: My great-uncle worked there during the 1930s - 1950s:
Have a good day, everyone.
York1 John
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
Good morning everyone. Chloe, please bring me two ripe bananas and a cup of coffee. Thank you.
There are no empty houses around me anymore. The new neighbors all seem like good people. Rents are coming down. The landlords could not get tennants with the prices they were asking for.
There are still way-too-many rental properties around for my preference, but there is nothing I can do about that.
gmpullmanHappy Labor Day to those folks who celebrate it.
I am working today, but every day at work is no problem at all. I get an extra days pay in all weeks with a holiday.
Things that go bump in the night:
MILW, Hall Creek, Washington, 1979 by Center for Railroad Photography & Art, on Flickr
Cicero loved his holidays!
Cicero by Edmund, on Flickr
Happy Labor Day to those folks who celebrate it. Every day is a holiday for me
I got to go to the 1964 New York World's Fair and the 1967 Montreal World's Fair. New York was just a train ride and a subway from where I lived, so I was there several times. By 1967 I was in college and I went with some college buddies to Montreal.
These were great events, but I guess they got to be too expensive to put on.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good evening, diners.
Seattle is an amazing city (as long as you know where you are going). At the foot of the Space Needle is the amazing Chihuly Glass museum. It is worth the wait in line and admission price.
At the time of the 1962 World's Fair, a monorail seemed like such a great image of future transportation. I loved it at the time. Now it doesn't seem like such a great thing.
Seattle Monorail by Bela Lindtner, on Flickr
Have a good Sunday evening and if you're in the U.S., a wonderful Labor Day holiday.
Attuvian1To me, the most amazing thing about the Brasstrains posting is not the price, but the "Item Sold"!
Brass trains really does an excellent job knowing what the market will pay for some of these items.
They had a brass model of the USS Missouri for $10,000.00 that was made by Fine Art Models. That was the most expensive item I saw on their site back when I used to browse it thoroughly.
gmpullmanI'd be willing to bet not a single one ever made it into a layout scene. Most are probably still in the box on a closet shelf somewhere.
I would bet that is true of 95% of all brass models.
As I have collected my fleet of models imported in the 60s through 80s, not a single one of them looks like it has ever pulled a train.
Brass models really seem to appeal to collectors.
— and I'd be willing to bet not a single one ever made it into a layout scene. Most are probably still in the box on a closet shelf somewhere.
Regards, Ed
gmpullman One of my favorite Washington state structures, the bridge-within-a-bridge (pretty clever engineering): BN, Rock Island, Washington, 1974 by Center for Railroad Photography & Art, on Flickr Overland once offered a brass model of this little guy. I'll see if I can recall what the price tag was on the little toy. Here it is, a mere $7,500. https://brasstrains.com/Classic/Product/Detail/120396/HO-Brass-Model-OMI-3386-1-3387-1-GN-BN-BNSF-416-6-BRIDGE-IN-A-BRIDGE-250-Pratt-Deck-Truss-Bridge-F-P Regards, Ed
Overland once offered a brass model of this little guy. I'll see if I can recall what the price tag was on the little toy.
Here it is, a mere $7,500.
https://brasstrains.com/Classic/Product/Detail/120396/HO-Brass-Model-OMI-3386-1-3387-1-GN-BN-BNSF-416-6-BRIDGE-IN-A-BRIDGE-250-Pratt-Deck-Truss-Bridge-F-P
Doughless SeeYou190 BigDaddy That's the most amazing thing I learned this week. Personally I don't know any Amish, but I see their horse drawn carriages, plows and riding bicycles uphill from town to home. I used to read the corporate newsletter when I worked for my previous employer. One of the articles that stood out was about an electrical application sales team making a multi-million sale to the Amish community of back-up generators, transfer switches, and paralleling/load-sharing devices. My first thought was that was like selling snow shoes in Columbia. What did the Amish community need back-up electrical power for? I honestly assumed they had no primary power. I have since learned a lot about how wrong I can be when I make assumptions. -Kevin Back when I was more involved with banking and lending, it was my understanding that the various parish's? of the Amish Church have slightly different rules about things. One of the more common unknowns is that a lot of the no-electricity stuff doesn't apply to their businesses. Some Amish are known as high quality cabinet makers that make it difficult for some high volume manufacturers to compete with. And no, the Amish aren't out-competing other busineses by using hand saws, hand screwdrivers, and mule-powered sawmills. Your order may have been for an Amish owned businesses. Some are known for being pretty shrewed and ruthless competitors. They also have access to telephones, but the phones can't be inside the building, or something like that. The rules have something to do with their personal houses, farms, transportation, being connected to the outside world via electricity and electrical wires. But many have normal jobs and go to work in normal factories...so the rules are a bit different when they are "on the clock" so to speak.
SeeYou190 BigDaddy That's the most amazing thing I learned this week. Personally I don't know any Amish, but I see their horse drawn carriages, plows and riding bicycles uphill from town to home. I used to read the corporate newsletter when I worked for my previous employer. One of the articles that stood out was about an electrical application sales team making a multi-million sale to the Amish community of back-up generators, transfer switches, and paralleling/load-sharing devices. My first thought was that was like selling snow shoes in Columbia. What did the Amish community need back-up electrical power for? I honestly assumed they had no primary power. I have since learned a lot about how wrong I can be when I make assumptions. -Kevin
BigDaddy That's the most amazing thing I learned this week. Personally I don't know any Amish, but I see their horse drawn carriages, plows and riding bicycles uphill from town to home.
I used to read the corporate newsletter when I worked for my previous employer.
One of the articles that stood out was about an electrical application sales team making a multi-million sale to the Amish community of back-up generators, transfer switches, and paralleling/load-sharing devices.
My first thought was that was like selling snow shoes in Columbia. What did the Amish community need back-up electrical power for? I honestly assumed they had no primary power.
I have since learned a lot about how wrong I can be when I make assumptions.
Back when I was more involved with banking and lending, it was my understanding that the various parish's? of the Amish Church have slightly different rules about things.
One of the more common unknowns is that a lot of the no-electricity stuff doesn't apply to their businesses. Some Amish are known as high quality cabinet makers that make it difficult for some high volume manufacturers to compete with.
And no, the Amish aren't out-competing other busineses by using hand saws, hand screwdrivers, and mule-powered sawmills.
Your order may have been for an Amish owned businesses. Some are known for being pretty shrewed and ruthless competitors.
They also have access to telephones, but the phones can't be inside the building, or something like that.
The rules have something to do with their personal houses, farms, transportation, being connected to the outside world via electricity and electrical wires. But many have normal jobs and go to work in normal factories...so the rules are a bit different when they are "on the clock" so to speak.
Years ago when I ran an Ace store in Indiana we were told by our rep that the store with the highest power tool sales in the state was the one in the very heavily Amish town of Shipshewana.
I live just north of Middlefield, Ohio which has a rather large Amish contingent. There were a few Amish members of our model railroad club and, yes, there was great interest in battery power for supplying DC to throttles. One of the members made several of these throttles.
One of the Amish businesses I deal with, a metal roofing supplier and installer use a gasoline air compressor outside his shop and all the machines inside are air powered. Many of the Amish construction workers here use both air tools and battery cordless tools. I just had an outbuilding resided by an Amish crew.
Presently there's an Amish group clearing and logging land across from me. They have two, two-horse teams and a skidder on each team. They work as every bit as efficient as any diesel-hydraulic machine.
Some of the younger Amish teens have some 'boom-box' sound systems in their buggies that would envy any tecno-nerd. After the teens officially enter the church they give up all those 'trappings'.
- Douglas
Good afternoon, everyone. It's getting closer to happy hour, so I'll just sit in a diner booth and wait.
Our lives have taken another drastic turn. My wife got a new dog yesterday. After our other dog, Daisy the Dachshund, died several months ago, my wife has been thinking "dog, dog, dog". Our town's dog shelter found a deaf miniature Australian Shepherd that had been abandoned. My wife scooped it up.
If I felt like I didn't get enough exercise, that is now taken care off. This dog is active!
Have a great day, everyone. I'm heading outside to walk the animal again.
BroadwayLion
Looks like our younger cat, Whiskey. He's affectionate and usually either asleep or hungry.
Neither he nor our lady-cat Snowflake ever tries to go outside, which we're happy about. There are foxes in the neighborhood, and some are probably rabid.
BigDaddyThat's the most amazing thing I learned this week. Personally I don't know any Amish, but I see their horse drawn carriages, plows and riding bicycles uphill from town to home.
There was a discussion in a NCE forum about battery power for a portable outside layout. In the midst of posts about amps, inverters and voltage, someone threw out the comment that he knows an Amish model railroader who use solar charged battery power for their model railroad.
That's the most amazing thing I learned this week. Personally I don't know any Amish, but I see their horse drawn carriages, plows and riding bicycles uphill from town to home. Imagining an op session with horses and carriages outside, their straw hats and kerosene lights running a consist of SD60's seems like the Twilight Zone to me.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Little TimmyI'll see your cats, and raise you a lapfull of tuckered out kittys.
My cats are all working cats:
Sixteen Paws by Edmund, on Flickr
Here they are working their way up to dinner time.
Little TimmyYou can thank the avalanch of adds for my last post. They pop up just when you try to post pictures.
The bottom pop-ups, and the new side-scrolling pop-up are both obnoxious.
crossthedogIndeed it is, and I cherish all such memories.
This 30+ year old picture of my middle daughter is one of my favorites. It is cropped out of a much larger picture, so sorry for the poor image quality.
She is a software engineer now.
one more time....
I'll see your cats, and raise you a lapfull of tuckered out kittys.
Rust...... It's a good thing !
you can thank the avalanch of adds for my last post. They pop up just when you try to post pictures.
Covering the screen...
Why bother?
howmusAnd raise you his brother sticking out his tongue at you!
SeeYou190I do not have any pictures of my kids with me and trains. I have a couple of them on trains that I took, but nothing like yours. Great memory!
Some of you guys who worked on railroads might find the piece amusing, having a perspective from the other side of the roundhouse door, as it were. But be warned about wandering to other posts -- that was a very personal blog. Please don't take me to task for any ideas expressed there about politics or religion, or even parenting for that matter. I won't respond.
-Matt
Returning to model railroading after 40 years and taking unconscionable liberties with the SP&S, Northern Pacific and Great Northern roads in the '40s and '50s.
I'll see your Kitty...
And raise you his brother sticking out his tongue at you!
Good to see you Brother Lion!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!