TrainFreak409 wrote: Y'all had better be careful when your dealing with the turbines...Jawn Henry is rumored to have a foul temper.
Y'all had better be careful when your dealing with the turbines...
Jawn Henry is rumored to have a foul temper.
Ah yes,....the Jawn Henry,.......very possibly the ugliest thing to ever ride a rail, but thats just my opinion.
Hi
Just dropped in to wish everybody a Happy New Year, from Norway.Up here the new year is already 1 hour old.
Regards Rune
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Good Evening All
Well ain't this fancy shmancy. Not for long! Once we get the coal dust dug in and grease rub into those fancy tableclothes the place will look as good as old!
Anthracite...mmm I think I'll paint the ceiling with anthracite!
Everyone have a happy and Healthy New Year
Fergie and Family
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If one could roll back the hands of time... They would be waiting for the next train into the future. A. H. Francey 1921-2007
pcarrell wrote: TrainFreak409 wrote: Y'all had better be careful when your dealing with the turbines...Jawn Henry is rumored to have a foul temper. Ah yes,....the Jawn Henry,.......very possibly the ugliest thing to ever ride a rail, but thats just my opinion.
You are not alone there!
Chuck - you have the right idea.
Thanks for all the posts and pictures. You guys and gals have been like an extended family.
To one and all I wish a wonderful Happy and Healthy New Year.
Flip
p.s. I'm leaving early as Zoe told me Vinnie is on his way . Goodnight Party Hearty.
soumodeler wrote: pcarrell wrote: TrainFreak409 wrote: Y'all had better be careful when your dealing with the turbines...Jawn Henry is rumored to have a foul temper. Ah yes,....the Jawn Henry,.......very possibly the ugliest thing to ever ride a rail, but thats just my opinion. You are not alone there!
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James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
I'll have a fried Spamwich, onion rings, and a Rolling Rock beer.
BURP!
Evening all, I'll have a barley pop Floe, new place be bouts to fancy for the likes of me. I'm like FERGIE, sure be glad when the place get broke in. I see the snooker table was even recovered
HEY RT did your cat bring a buddy,
Well, Christmas is done for us now, had 4 of the kids and theirs's here this morning. Think Mother said there was 22 here, the 2 oldest girls families didn't make it along with 3 step grandkids. Our house just be just not big enough anymore. Thankfully the weather turned out for the better, so me n boys hung outside some.
Nothing much been happening here, so think I'll watch DA Bear/Packers game, if the cat will let me
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{Tap, tap, tap}
{Scuffing toe of shoe on floor}
You fellers mind if a newbie steps in?
Well, I wish y'all a big fat happy new year anyway.
Looks like more than one or two look what Ifound in the corner.
The band is here
Okay enough to many strangers getting in here
Lynda wrote:{Tap, tap, tap}{Scuffing toe of shoe on floor}You fellers mind if a newbie steps in?Well, I wish y'all a big fat happy new year anyway. Lynda
Lynda
No problems Lynda, Have a seat, and order something from our lovely waitresses!
Hope to see you often!
Oz
Time to take a break from the Pennsy layout, and join my buddies!
I'll have some ham and eggs, raisin toast, and an egg nog to celebrate the new year!
Happy New Year everyone!
Ed
I like this place and so does my bulldog, Hannah.
She's on dry food but I'll have a steak, eggs and some hashbrowns please. I know it's futile to ask for grits..
JaRRell
jacon12 wrote:I like this place and so does my bulldog, Hannah.She's on dry food but I'll have a steak, eggs and some hashbrowns please. I know it's futile to ask for grits.. JaRRell
I like that order you've put in there JaRRell, so much so, i'll have the same! with a strawberry shake on the side, thanks.
Can someone cut up some steak for my dog please.
Not so much to tell, really. I grew up in Washington (GN country), spent a bit of time around Portland's Union Station, and I'm old enough to remember all the SP&S Pullman-green heavyweights in "reserve" just south of the Broadway Bridge.
My father was a serious model railroader, and he got me hooked on it before I was old enough to peer over the top of a layout table. I was a model railroader until I was married. He was in the Marines; so, we moved around quite a lot; and what with that, two children, and various careers, there wasn't much time for hobbies. My son and I did piddle around with N-scale, but railroading didn't take with him and I couldn't warm up to those itty bitty little trains (I'm an HO-Scale gal).
About three years ago, I finally settled in Nebraska, bought a house and spent some serious time remodeling (it's good to be handy). With that done, and working from home, I found I had enough time on my hands for a hobby. Naturally, I started thinking about railroad layouts again, and here I am. Regrettably, management decided to promote me and I can't work from home; so, I'm an apartment-dweller probably until I retire in about ten years. My house is about a hundred miles distant. I don't like it, but it's still close enough to go there on weekends.
Layout-wise, I'm very much in the planning phase - trying to overcome the challenge of constructing my layout modularly. I'm prototyping 1955 Great Northern passenger/freight operations in a fictionalized Rocky Mountain setting.
Besides model railroading, I write short stories, poems, and novels. The bulk of my work appears under the pen name "Janet P. Hildreth" in a variety of U.S. and European literary magazines (alas, I may occasionally end a post with "Janet." I'm not trying to be sneaky). I'm currently working on a romance set in 1931. Backdrop for the book is The Empire Builder, and the story climaxes with the May 27, 1931, destruction of the train by a tornado. I've done a ton of research for the book, including riding much of the route between Portland and Chicago via Amtrak. I rode the same route on the real Empire Builder as a little girl, but that was obviously a while ago. The research was a labor of love.
Okay, well, I s'pose that's more than anyone wanted to know. I'm terribly glad to have found this forum, and I look forward to the benefit of your knowledge and friendship.
Well at least the fire is nice and cozy . Makes a great place to sit and write or read . My brother lives outside tacomma the rest of us are on the east coast.
Hey guys, What happened to the guy who created the orginal coffe shop havnt seen him in a while (i forget his name but wasnt he the guy who had the most posts?) Ill have a popu platter please. How many people ordered Chinese today? Cliff- congrats on making it to GMRR 06. Not really into that area of the countrys trains but you did a great job on it.
I'll have another barley pop dear,
The #$%^ bears are lossing, sure hope they play better the next half. Grossman's playing normal, gross, one fubble 3 intercptions
Welcome to the new CS,,,, LYNDA, hope ya enjoy all your visit here. Right good bunch round here. Sounds like you have enough to keep you busy even without a layout right now.
JACON,, the girls bout always have gritts on, most not have gotten that far along today, maybe in the mornin.
Back to the game,
Good evening Lynda and welcome. Draw up a chair by the fire and get comfortable. Boy you are sure a busy bee, Sure seems like you could use a clone.. I'm surprised Lisa hasn't dropped in yet. Must be partying.
Happy New Year to you. Don't be a stranger, drop in anytime. Great group of folks in here.
Waiting for midnight does wonders for the layout. Since there is nothing else to do, why not work on it? I cast some rocks and placed them on the layout with Sculptamold in the last hour or so and added a gravel drive for a store plus a little grass. Now I think I'm gonna go add some more rocks and see what else I can do!
Good New Year’s Eve everyone. I started this some pages back in the Coffee Shop, as I’ve been away. So I’ve answered a bunch of stuff from there.
Nelson: Care to say something about yourself; mrr interests (steam we guess, but what?) part of the world and so on…
Hoople:
For new years, I want to get some scenery down on the layout, because it's been the big blue wasteland for about 1/2 a year now.
Hey gang, Flip’s been practicing
I'll wear boxing gloves so there won't be any chance of me pinching any of the girls.
DaveInTheHat: Care to tell us a bit more?
Yo! Lupo: Really great to see you join us again! All the best for 2007 to you too!
Fergie: See you over in the new TD, and A Happy New Year!
OK, I’m now in the Diner…quite the place!... and a great crowd with new faces everywhere!
Major all round, and especially to you, Lynda. I hope you find everything to your liking. Same house rules as the Coffee Shop, Top of Page pays for everyone’s order for the page, but new folks are exempt for their first go at that. It’s now about 11: 10 Atlantic time, and I see that the party is under way! We should take note of what CapeJim observes
café sounds almost too upscale for some of our parties in here.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Cliff and Lynda: Please have one on me. The ladies will take your order.
The place just opened and already there are 3 pages. At this rate David Voss will be asking us to start again in no time.
First the bad news, I have to work tomorrow. Now the good news, 33 days to RETIREMENT. I'm not looking forward to it, much!
Speaking of working tomorrow, I'd better get to bed. Mary Anns truck is having problems, so I am going to start it up before I leave and let it run for a few minutes. For some reason it is getting air in the fuel system. If it will start when I get home we'll take it over to the Ford house.
So our wishes for everyone to have a happy and prosperous new year.
WOW, this place has gotten crowded since I dropped in earlier!!!! I don't think I will make the midnight drop of the ball on the track signal stand.....just too tired.
Hey LYNDA!!! Welcome to the Trackside Diner ( formerly the Coffee Shop for three years ) I know what you are going through with travelling to work, most of my working career was spent at hours drive away from home, and several years it was 1.5 hours. Quite a change living in Nebraska compared to Washington, to you miss the Northwest? Beautiful country, but a lot of rain. I have been to Seattle, but I would have liked to visit longer.
DER JOHN: You still up??? I thought you would have hit the sack by now??