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Posted by York1 on Tuesday, August 13, 2024 9:05 PM

I contacted the Assumption Abbey.  Brother Michael reported that Lion was going to vote in the primary election and fell.  He broke his shoulder on one side and his arm on the other side.

The result is that he could not continue at the Abbey, and he was moved to a nursing home.  He should be able to move back to the Abbey next month.

Br. Michael said Lion has a computer at the nursing home, but he may be like the rest of us and got discouraged trying to enter the forum.

 

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Posted by richhotrain on Tuesday, August 13, 2024 9:15 PM

AEP528

I'm not a forum freeloader spending all of my time complaining about the forum hosts and continually writing self-entitled demands that the magazine owners conform to exactly what I want.

Still looking forward to your first photos of your layout.

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Posted by richhotrain on Tuesday, August 13, 2024 9:21 PM

York1

I contacted the Assumption Abbey.  Brother Michael reported that Lion was going to vote in the primary election and fell.  He broke his shoulder on one side and his arm on the other side.

The result is that he could not continue at the Abbey, and he was moved to a nursing home.  He should be able to move back to the Abbey next month.

Br. Michael said Lion has a computer at the nursing home, but he may be like the rest of us and got discouraged trying to enter the forum. 

Thanks for posting that information, John. It's entirely possible that the guy who posted that an unnamed forum member had passed away a couple of months ago was tossing a red herring. That wouldn't surprise me in the least given his reputation on the forum.

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Posted by CNCharlie on Tuesday, August 13, 2024 11:36 PM

Good Evening,

John, thanks for tracking down the Lion. Hope he is recovering well and that we hear from him once he is back at the Abbey. 

Have trained a red squirrel to take a peanut from my hand which indicates how busy my life is right now. He stashs the nut in his garage hideout and is back for another in about 60 seconds flat. Red squirrels sure are fast and agile. 

Dave, sounds like you had a nice time at that cottage. Nothing like the sound of a loon on a still evening. It has been a long time since I have heard one. 

TF,  does your Mustang have a four speed, manual ?

Time to turn out the light.

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Posted by "JaBear" on Wednesday, August 14, 2024 5:51 AM
Gidday Chloe and ffolkes, just a quick visit, because there’s a bit of catching up to process.
 
Thanks John, for taking the time to track down Br. Lion. At least, he won’t have had to eat pureed wildebeest!  
 
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Posted by NorthBrit on Wednesday, August 14, 2024 8:42 AM

Still getting Forbidden 403.

Still this side of the 'Great Divide'  having treatment etc.

 

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Posted by hon30critter on Wednesday, August 14, 2024 9:35 AM

Does anyone have any idea who the person who passed away that AEP528 was referring to is? I would like to see him added to the RIP track. AEP528 seems to want to keep the information to himself. Why, I don't understand.

Cheers!!

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Posted by richhotrain on Wednesday, August 14, 2024 10:04 AM

hon30critter

Does anyone have any idea who the person who passed away that AEP528 was referring to is? I would like to see him added to the RIP track. AEP528 seems to want to keep the information to himself. Why, I don't understand.

Cheers!!

Dave 

 

As far as the secrecy, it is just AEP528 being AEP528. The recent passing of a forum member may or may not be true. If it is true, shame on AEP528. If it's not true, then it is repugnant, to say the least.

It seems that we always have a single forum member like this. My hope is that the new forum software will contain a feature that allows a member to block another member. I can only think of one member that I would block.

Rich

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Posted by York1 on Wednesday, August 14, 2024 11:09 AM

We got rain last night!  In the plains farming areas, any rain makes a great day.

Flo, I'll have bacon, eggs, and coffee, please.

I hope everyone is doing well today.  It is cleaning day at our house.  Sigh  I will be better after the chores are done.

How about another Union Pacific fire train working on wildfires:

 

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Posted by snjroy on Wednesday, August 14, 2024 4:16 PM

hon30critter

Does anyone have any idea who the person who passed away that AEP528 was referring to is? I would like to see him added to the RIP track. AEP528 seems to want to keep the information to himself. Why, I don't understand.

Cheers!!

Dave 

 

Hi there. I searched the Web... Could it be Paul Dolkos?

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Posted by maxman on Wednesday, August 14, 2024 4:41 PM
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Posted by hon30critter on Wednesday, August 14, 2024 4:49 PM

Thanks maxman,

Paul will be missed by the modeling community.

Cheers!!

Dave 

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Wednesday, August 14, 2024 5:22 PM

hon30critter

Thanks maxman,

Paul will be missed by the modeling community.

Cheers!!

Dave 

Does anyone know if Paul Dolkos was forum member?  I don't think there's a firm up/down vote on forum membership in any case.  He's been a credit to the MR community in any case, and deserves to be honored if that's the forum's choice.

When I scan down through the RIP Track as each new month starts, I think of the friendship and camaraderie we have all developed through this hobby.  That should be our reason for inclusion here.

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Posted by CNCharlie on Wednesday, August 14, 2024 5:26 PM

Good Afternoon,

John, please send that rain north. We could use some here. 

North Brit Dave,  how are you doing?  Are your treatments going well?

I have been re-reading Ian Wilson's books. I'm on To Stratford under steam. Another 8 books to finish the series. They are all set in August 1954 and involve mostly the CNR.

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Posted by Attuvian1 on Wednesday, August 14, 2024 7:22 PM

CNCharlie

Good Afternoon,

John, please send that rain north. We could use some here. 

North Brit Dave,  how are you doing?  Are your treatments going well?

I have been re-reading Ian Wilson's books. I'm on To Stratford under steam. Another 8 books to finish the series. They are all set in August 1954 and involve mostly the CNR.

CN Charlie

 
Charlie -
 
Would that be Stratford, Ontario?  In 1956 my dad hauled me over from Michigan to the Shakespearean Festival there.  It was either that year or the next that we saw Christopher Plummer and Julie Harris in Romeo and Juliette, among other things.  And HMS Pinafore (the D'Oyly Carte production) in the Avon Theater.  Heady stuff to a very young teen.  I had no idea that Stratford was a railroad town.
 
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Posted by maxman on Wednesday, August 14, 2024 7:37 PM

hon30critter

Thanks maxman,

Paul will be missed by the modeling community.

Cheers!!

Dave 

 

I am not stating that Mr. Dolkos is the party in question.  Someone else mentioned his name and I just did the Google thing.  Could very well be someone else.

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Posted by CNCharlie on Wednesday, August 14, 2024 11:20 PM

John, yes that Stratford. It was a big CNR town and the location of their major steam overhaul shop. The last regular overhaul was in the winter of 1959 and it closed down later that year. The shop building was huge but it is all gone now.

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Posted by Attuvian1 on Thursday, August 15, 2024 1:57 AM

CNCharlie

John, yes that Stratford. It was a big CNR town and the location of their major steam overhaul shop. The last regular overhaul was in the winter of 1959 and it closed down later that year. The shop building was huge but it is all gone now.

CN Charlie

 
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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, August 15, 2024 3:38 AM

Thanks for checking in on The Lion, John!

CNCharlie
John, yes that Stratford. It was a big CNR town and the location of their major steam overhaul shop. The last regular overhaul was in the winter of 1959 and it closed down later that year.

I was really fortunate that my dad brought me along on a CN fan trip around 1962 or so to Stratford. I still have fond memories of that. If I recall we went from Windsor to Stratford and on the way back went to Sarnia before returning to Windsor. Here's an 8mm film that dad shot during the trip:

A while back a fellow did a documentary on the Stratford Shops and he used some of this film.


 

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Posted by NorthBrit on Thursday, August 15, 2024 4:38 AM

Good morning Diners.   Keep the coffee going please, Flo.

John   Thanks for checking on Lion.

Charlie    The treatment is working as expected.  The heartbeat still misses a beat every so often; but then it always has since I was born.  It 'scares' a new doctor though. Laugh  Should have checked my records first.

I have to have a big examination on 10th September  to see 'how well I am'.

 

Other matters.   

Dawn is much better.   (Cannot have both of us down.)

She sent me off on a three days holiday staying at a railway station in Scotland.  Watching trains.    It was on my 'bucket list';  one I thought I would achieve.

 

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Posted by "JaBear" on Thursday, August 15, 2024 4:43 AM

MisterBeasley
Does anyone know if Paul Dolkos was forum member?

While Mr. Dolkas was a very talented model railroader, a stalwart contributor to the Model Railroader, (I used to look forward to his articles), and probably a good bloke to boot, having used several search criteria, I cannot find any evidence that he was a Forum member.
 
So, in my opinion, despite what I’ve already written, he is not eligible to be included on the RIP track. My reasoning being that we are not being honest to ourselves and the Forum if we start claiming “allcomers”!
The Forum may be ailing but I would not like to see it accused of False Pretences!
 
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Posted by "JaBear" on Thursday, August 15, 2024 5:30 AM
Gidday Chloe, time for a catchup.
 
Mike, a very belated congratulations to your daughter settling on a school, is a scholarship involved?
 
York1John, it is my habit to drop into the Forum every evening, before hitting the hay, and I too found it rather strange and slightly off putting that I couldn’t see what was going on, and how ffolkes were doing.
 
David, a father, and son friends of mine, commercial pilots both, have a congenital heart defect, which also missed a beat every now and then, gave the CAA medical examiners conniptions, and made it harder to keep their licences. That said the father who recently passed away just shy of his 85th birthday, having gone out and done some aerobatics, six weeks prior to passing. (It was the Big C that got Neville, he, another friend, and I were going through our respective treatments at the same time and would regularly talk to keep ourselves “geed up”! I miss him.)
So, all the best to you and Dawn.
 
Dave, that cabin sounded like a good place to be.
 
Good to see you’ve got your firewood in Ed, I’ve just started on my last pile, we’ve had a series of “cracker” frosts, but with the days noticeably getting longer, should have ample firewood to get us through.
 
Don’t think it’s affecting your “blood pressure” Rich, but don’t let that character bug you, It’s not even worth a torn in half Fiji war bond!
 

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Posted by snjroy on Thursday, August 15, 2024 7:16 AM

 

 
MisterBeasley
Does anyone know if Paul Dolkos was forum member?

 

While Mr. Dolkas was a very talented model railroader, a stalwart contributor to the Model Railroader, (I used to look forward to his articles), and probably a good bloke to boot, having used several search criteria, I cannot find any evidence that he was a Forum member.
 
So, in my opinion, despite what I’ve already written, he is not eligible to be included on the RIP track. My reasoning being that we are not being honest to ourselves and the Forum if we start claiming “allcomers”!
The Forum may be ailing but I would not like to see it accused of False Pretences!
 
My 1/8 My 2 Cents Cheers, the Bear.Smile
 

Agreed. I just did not know if he was a member or not - most of us conceal our real names.

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Posted by richhotrain on Thursday, August 15, 2024 8:42 AM

FWIW - 

Saw this on Facebook:

Hi all!

Sorry for the short notice, but we have put a freeze on the Trains.com Forums. The Forum is not going away, but we are in the process of updating it and need to temporarily pause posts to the Trains.com Forums. While the forum can be accessed and viewed, you cannot log in, add posts, or create new threads.

Of course, you’re wondering when access will return. The Trains.com Forums are huge, and we want to make sure that all of that information is preserved and threads maintained. So this is not something we want to rush. We will continue to work on the updates for the rest of the week. The team will keep us apprised of its progress, and we will post here whenever we have new information, no matter how small.

Thanks for your patience and support, and we will have the Trains.com Forums open and ready for business as soon as can be.

The Trains.com crew 

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Posted by Tophias on Thursday, August 15, 2024 9:32 AM

Rich, is this "Breaking News" or something from a couple of weeks ago that explains why it was down 12 days? Regardless, the communication is a breath of fresh air!

Regards, Chris 

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Posted by richhotrain on Thursday, August 15, 2024 9:35 AM

Tophias

Rich, is this "Breaking News" or something from a couple of weeks ago that explains why it was down 12 days? Regardless, the communication is a breath of fresh air!

Regards, Chris 

 

Chris, it was posted 16 hours ago. 

18 hours ago, a very similar message was posted for Fine Scale Modeler.

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Posted by BATMAN on Thursday, August 15, 2024 11:09 AM

Good morning from the Pacific Rim. 394 fires in BC, 95% lightning caused.

It has been (so far) a relatively smoke-free summer for a change which has been nice.

I took my wife to see a specialist yesterday and then we did 6.4km along the ocean with two of the dogs we took along. We only saw one person the entire walk, it was spectacular weather and scenery. 

John, thanks for checking on Brother Lion. I would have eventually phoned the Abbey but was hoping someone Stateside would shoot them an Email.

Tourism in Hawaii is down 22% and the deals are starting to show up, we booked Kona for $369.00 return in January. After covid, the prices went through the roof but are now returning to normal. My whole adult life Hawaii was the place where you could just get on an airplane when you hit the exhaustion wall and go. When I was single I never booked ahead, I would just walk into the office and tell the boss I was taking a month or two off and go get on a plane. Having my own parking spot at the airport where I worked made it easy to do. I always had a small go bag in the car.

Fall is in the air and I have seeded the last area of lawn I was putting in, should be looking good by October. Now through to November is my favourite time of the year as the snow is mostly off the mountains and the hiking is good. The mountains on the Northern edge of Vancouver are filled with lakes which the dogs love. The bears are fat and happy and just give a tip of the hat as we walk by.

I have to take the wife to do a consultation of the Veterinarian kind for a good friend out even farther in the sticks than we live so best get going. 

All the best to all.

 

 

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Posted by hon30critter on Thursday, August 15, 2024 12:17 PM

Hi everyone,

The question has come up as to whether or not Paul Dolkos' name should be added to the RIP track. He was not a member of the forums but most certainly was a highly respected modeler.

I am of the opinion that we should include him in the RIP track. The RIP track is intended to honor modelers. I'm not comfortable with excluding someone who's modeling was excellent just because they didn't post to the Forums. That seems a bit petty to me, but that's just my opinion. I'm not trying to disparage anyone who's opinion differs, and I am not suggesting that every person who laid a piece of track who was not a forum member should be added to the list, but I will point out that many organizations recognize people of note who are not part of the organization.

I hope others will voice their opinions on the matter but please let's not turn this into a huge fire storm!

Cheers!!

Dave 

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Posted by AEP528 on Thursday, August 15, 2024 1:12 PM

I was not refering to Paul Dolkos.

That nobody else seems to know shows that the forums are not a place of real, personal friendships or relationships. 

https://coegenungfuneralhome.com/tribute/details/846/Raymond-Howard/obituary.html

 

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Posted by richhotrain on Thursday, August 15, 2024 1:21 PM

hon30critter

I am of the opinion that we should include him in the RIP track. The RIP track is intended to honor modelers.

I hope others will voice their opinions on the matter 

I guess it depends upon the purpose of the RIP Track. You indicate that it is intended to honor modelers. Mr.  Dolkos was certainly a prolific modeler.

The RIP Track almost exclusively contains names and avatars of deceased forum members. But there are one or two exceptions. Perhaps the RIP Track should include members of the Kalmbach "family", so to speak. That would certainly include Mr. Dolkos as well.

Just my thoughts.

Rich

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