Evening Gang: Not much going on today. I really wanted to take it easy and maybe a nap this afternoon, but we had a bunch of errends and chores to do. It rained last night about 3/4 inch. we also had a cold front come through with high winds all day. I forgot what 45 degrees and wind felt like. Brrrrrrrrrr. Right now I'm yawning so I'd better get to bed before I fall asleep at the key board.
Good Night All
Hey, my website's back up again!
If you're interested, here's a view of my locomotive roster:
http://kc.pennsyrr.com/layouts/dvollmer/Roster/index.html
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
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Nice headlight Jeff !!!
Dave V ..... thanks for stopping in the diner. The maps are correct, our drought canditions are improved in this region. Rain today. It's a little late and farm production was cut in half this year. Too many hot, dry days ove summer.
Flashwave ..... that's a funny story.
Here's a story I remember... The most popular Indian Chief in the area was Chief Shortcake. Sadly, he ate too much of his favorite dessert, strawberry shortcake; he had a heart attack; and died. Upon talking with Chief Shortcake's wife, the Medicine Man learned that the Chief's death wish was for Mrs. Shortcake to bury him instead of the Medicine Man. Hundreds of Indians came to attend a funeral, and asked the Medicine Man why he was not the one who would be sending the Chief to the Happy Hunting Ground. The medicine Man responded: "Squaw Bury Shortcake."
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
I got the headlight installed in 422 early this afternoon.
Cederstrand wrote: Mille Kappe refill, please & thank you!"Trains & Locomotives" RFDTV tonight at 6:00pm EST (for those who have it) "Memories of Steam in the Northwest" Historic film features a collection of steam power in the late 30s and early 40s. ***der, that's a wicked head of steam on that photo of the 2-8-0 you posted. Cool!***Dave V, good to see you in the Diner again. Too bad about your website, even if it is just temporary. It is in my bookmarks and I have shared it with family & friends. Inspiring stuff! As for the weather, being in Northwest GA, our creeks are non-existent. It will take several tropical storms to "stall on top of us" to make any noticeable difference. Very worrisome for those of us with lots of animals. With todays rain, we're up to about 700 gal in the barn tank now and close to 400 gal in the house tank. That's progress, but need LOTS more. Perhaps tonight and/or tomorrow will bring additional wet stuff. Rob
Mille Kappe refill, please & thank you!
"Trains & Locomotives" RFDTV tonight at 6:00pm EST (for those who have it) "Memories of Steam in the Northwest" Historic film features a collection of steam power in the late 30s and early 40s.
***der, that's a wicked head of steam on that photo of the 2-8-0 you posted. Cool!
***Dave V, good to see you in the Diner again. Too bad about your website, even if it is just temporary. It is in my bookmarks and I have shared it with family & friends. Inspiring stuff! As for the weather, being in Northwest GA, our creeks are non-existent. It will take several tropical storms to "stall on top of us" to make any noticeable difference. Very worrisome for those of us with lots of animals.
With todays rain, we're up to about 700 gal in the barn tank now and close to 400 gal in the house tank. That's progress, but need LOTS more. Perhaps tonight and/or tomorrow will bring additional wet stuff.
Rob
And here I thought that I was the only one watching. Not impressed with the narrators, but the clips are good.
And you can HAVE our wet stuff. take all you need. Please. be my guest.
-Morgan
Good evening ! from Indiana.
10-22-07
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
From my friends at Re-enactments. we play a 1770s Britian Native tribe, and the war cry is "mille kappe" Sounds Indian right?
An Indian walks into a cafe with a shotgunin one hand pulling a male buffalo with the other.He says to the waiter: "Want coffee."The waiter says, "Sure, Chief. Coming right up."He gets the Indian a tall mug of coffee.The Indian drinks the coffee down in one gulp,turns and blasts the buffalo with the shotgun,causing parts of the animal to splatter everywhereand then just walks out.The next morning the Indian returns.He has his shotgun in one hand, pullinganother male buffalo with the other.He walks up to the counter and says tothe waiter"Want coffee."The waiter says "Whoa, Tonto!We're still cleaning up your mess from yesterday. What was all that about, anyway?"The Indian smiles and proudly says .."Training for position in United States Congress:Come in, drink coffee, shoot the bull,leave mess for others to clean up,disappear for rest of day.
PS:Mille Kappe means give me coffee in Lenappe
grayfox1119 wrote:ED: Are you awake yet or are you and JP still celebrating the Sox win????
ED: Are you awake yet or are you and JP still celebrating the Sox win????
Actually, my absence here is due to loss of ISP connection in our neighborhood since a storm blew through here last Friday evening. Still not sure when we´ll get it back. I´m on a rented computer in town, and just wanted to touch base and say that I haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
Hope they get the line back operating soon....
Fortunately, the cable tv line still works so I got to see both Saturday's and Sunday's games. Great stuff.
Later
Ed
Hi folks,
Just stopping in due to lack of motivation. I'm supposed to be revising a manuscript for a journal article, but I never like reading my own writing. So I'm waiting for that bolt of inspiration.
My model railroad website is down for the moment. Whoops! Jerry Britton's Keystone Crossings website, and his on-line hobby shop Merchandise Service, host my webpage for free. It's a great situation since I get to share my work and to be linked to a great Pennsy community of layouts and modelers, while my site has links to Jerry's business and sponsors.Last night I posted a large number of photos, linked directly to my site (on Jerry's server), and the large number of pageloads of those pictures (multiple photos in multiple threads in multiple forums) brought Jerry's comm pipe to its knees. So in order to keep things running, Jerry had to temporarily take my site offline. I hope to be back up tonight.
82F at the Raleigh-Durham Airport today.
Drought persists here in North Carolina, as we head for the hottest October ever on record by several degrees. The national weather pattern has been so "highly amplified" for several years now, with a strong Bermuda ridge in place influencing the eastern US. This has kept the North Atlantic Oscillation in positive phase almost constantly. That's in part why the eastern US and Europe was so warm early last winter and are again this fall. Fortunately, late last winter the pattern shifted, bringing the longwave trough over the eastern US. Long range models are just now signalling the possibility of the longwave trough shifting to the east two weeks from now.
Hopefully this will bring relief from the drought and some more reasonable, cooler weather. It's out there somewhere, dumping snow on Colorado. But here it feels more like summer than fall.
Granted, the 15-day forecast from the 12Z GFS model is wrong more often than right in terms of specifics, but hopefully it's getting the trend right on the planetary scale.
Short term prospects for rain here revolve around the placement of a cut-off low over the lower Mississippi Valley (from the 12Z NAM):
Unfortunately, none of the models agree about the track and speed. The idea is we in the SE US would get flow from the Gulf which would bring us a bunch of rain ahead of that low.
Anyway, I figured I'd share with all you weather fans! Now, back to work (and trains later!).
Diners. I’ll have a nice cup of Russian Caravan tea, and a couple of Voortman’s no-sugar added double chocolate fudge cookies please Chloe.
Dick: Bummer about the interrupted rail trip. We took the VIA eastbound from Vancouver to Edmonton. The worst of that was that the interesting mountain bit you missed, we missed too, because it was at night!
I like the way your sawdust groundcover looks, great idea!!
Also, the glue mix does bleed a little into rock castings, so there can be a colour change. That’s one reason I don’t pre-colour the mix. The natural brown isn’t too bad a mistake on the castings that are affected. However, taken all in all, I’m quite pleased with the result. When the stuff has really dried out, it’s tough as nails, and feather light. It’s easy to work with when wet, and can be adjusted for several hours after application, not that I have had to do much of that. It cuts OK when dry, as well. If you think about it, it’s papier maché without the middleman. The price is definitely right, way cheaper than plaster scenery or plaster cloth. ( got to try that stuff sometime.) Anyway, the New Year’s 2007 resolution to cover the blue desert is possible, with a bit over 2 months to go.
I’m experimenting with ways to stain the loose talus slopes. They are loose broken plaster casting pieces piled at the base of the rock faces, and I can’t glue them in place before staining or the glue will prevent the stain from getting to the plaster. (or am I missing something here? I read about broken plaster as talus, but can’t remember anyone commenting on staining it. Maybe they use pre-stained plaster, but I want to vary my colours. Thoughts anyone?)
For the sake of completeness, here in what I think is close to chronological order are the four remaining photos I have of Steam Expo in Vancouver 1986. Note the show off use of smoke and steam, a sure crowd pleaser. Probably couldn’t do that there now! Again sorry about the focus. It was a really cheap small camera, all we could afford at the time, and I knew squat about photographing trains anyway. So my attempt at “dramatic entry” from that underpass was a dismal failure!(pun intended )
Mark: Hope it works out for your dad, and that he gets the treatments he needs. He’s included in the prayers for healing.
Jeff: As always, your work, especially the loco painting, is an inspiration!
Mike:
A friend of ours stopped by and told us summer was officially over now. When ask why "he said because we'd brought the camper home for the winter". He might be right, it's cloudy, damp n gloomy today and temps in the 60's for highs this week.
Must get back to that staining thing.
TTFN
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Cederstrand wrote: [Idle hands become tools of the devil,]"""So can busy hands...Boohaha""" What do you have left to do on the 442? Rob
[Idle hands become tools of the devil,]
"""So can busy hands...Boohaha""" What do you have left to do on the 442?
inch53 wrote: PC,, did ya get to the fairgrounds for the train show?
PC,, did ya get to the fairgrounds for the train show?
Yeah, I picked up three tank cars for $3 each and two 40' wood sheathed BAR boxcars for $4 each.
Lunchtime, I'll have a ham n cheese, coffee n J Bird wants a grilled cheese n chocolate milk.
J CG,, like the football joke. Da Bears seem to be having the same trouble finding the chalk also this year.
DICK,, sounds like you had a rail trip even with the problems.
I read about a derailment up there and having to bus passengers over on the Train board. Wondered then if that was you folks. Looking forward to the pics.
COBLY,, sounds like ya had fun, even with the hard work. Great grandpa always said hard work never hurt anybody, once you learned how to do it right. Ya just can't to do as much of it when you're old. He was 80 and helping me on the farm.
LUC,, the joke was ok but still a good one.
MARK, hope your dads health gets better soon. We'll be thinking of ya'll
We got up to Charleston yesterday and went by the E.IL. RR small yard and found both their engines there, so got some pics. These were the best I could without really trespassing.
They've been doing a bunch of track work, new ties n such from Charleston to Metcalf, which it needed bad.
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309
Mark ............ sorry to learn of your Dad's health issues. Prayers for him.
Dick .... thanks for explaining the derailment. I feel badly for you because you missed out on an interesting part of the Rocky Mountaineer trip. Much of the CN line between Kamloops and Vancouver is built in cliffs and is really quite something.
grayfox1119 wrote: JEFF: I see you have been keeping real busy.
JEFF: I see you have been keeping real busy.
Morning all.
Gonna be another cold one over here in Seattle. Maybe even the typical rain.
Last night my dad told me and my sister he's going to go live with his brother for awhile to deal with some of his health issues. He says he'll come back every now and then to see us and such, but he has to deal with his health issues, so I don't know how long he'll be there. It's fine with me, just as long as he comes to see us every now and then.
Well guys, after the money loss of buying the passenger cars, I now have enough cash for that ol' big boy. Broadway Limited Blueline, #4017. I can't wait, they're supposed to ship on the 30th of November. As for now, it's time to save up for the Puyallup train show, which me and my bud are going to go see again. Sue and Gryphon, are you guys going?
Oops, gotta run.
Mark
Morning all!
I enjoyed a beautiful weekend in Indiana with lots of sunshine and temperatures above normal, but now a strong cold front will move through the state late today and tonight producing widespread rain and cooler temperatures. Some areas especially across the southeast half of the state may receive over 1" of rain during the next 36 hours.
Looks like a wet week for us this week!
Well, back to the daily grind!
Anything interesting going on with you all?
Cederstrand wrote: It has been raining much of the morning. Off to check the tanks and feed the critters.
It has been raining much of the morning. Off to check the tanks and feed the critters.
THAT ROCKS!!!! I know you've been needing it!
Luc, I don't know whether to laugh or boo! Good one!
in a Southern mug, please & thank you.
grayfox1119 wrote: Good morning, very tired this morning, we stayed up until 1 am watching the Red Sox win the ALCS and the aftermath. Where did all those leaves come from in my backyard???? Guess what I'll be doing today?GARRY: The derailment was about 25 miles west of Kamloops, the tracks are running together in that area, and of course the cars derailed on the "inside" so it tore up both tracks closing the lines for two days. 25 cars of an empty freight derailed. I did a search on the web yesterday and I am amassed at the number of derailments in Canada, especially in the BC province. The Canadian government is really po'd at the RR'ds it would appear, they want the problems fixed.Welcome to all the new members to the Diner since I was away, and new births as well, congradulations to the new dads and moms and grandparents of course.JEFF: I see you have been keeping real busy.RYAN: WOW, we have a photo of that young man now, I wonder if that was Monique's idea??ED: Are you awake yet or are you and JP still celebrating the Sox win????DER JOHN: I see you have made great strides on your layout......I like the way your sawdust groundcover looks, great idea!!FERGIE: I see you are doing deep sea scientific experiments once again off Sable Island, at least the seas are calm. Any MRR projects onboard?PAUL: Thanks for the welcome home in the Diner, that was real nice to have Blueberry pie and ice cream on our table.SUE: I tried to get to Olympia, but I could not get the bus driver to take route 2 and head south to your ranch, tsk, tsk, ohh well. Do you have all your projects done outside yet for Winter season? We had snow in Alberta at Lake Louise and all the Cascades were covered, so you might get an early snowfall in the NW this year. Later,
Good morning, very tired this morning, we stayed up until 1 am watching the Red Sox win the ALCS and the aftermath. Where did all those leaves come from in my backyard???? Guess what I'll be doing today?
GARRY: The derailment was about 25 miles west of Kamloops, the tracks are running together in that area, and of course the cars derailed on the "inside" so it tore up both tracks closing the lines for two days. 25 cars of an empty freight derailed. I did a search on the web yesterday and I am amassed at the number of derailments in Canada, especially in the BC province. The Canadian government is really po'd at the RR'ds it would appear, they want the problems fixed.
Welcome to all the new members to the Diner since I was away, and new births as well, congradulations to the new dads and moms and grandparents of course.
RYAN: WOW, we have a photo of that young man now, I wonder if that was Monique's idea??
DER JOHN: I see you have made great strides on your layout......I like the way your sawdust groundcover looks, great idea!!
FERGIE: I see you are doing deep sea scientific experiments once again off Sable Island, at least the seas are calm. Any MRR projects onboard?
PAUL: Thanks for the welcome home in the Diner, that was real nice to have Blueberry pie and ice cream on our table.
SUE: I tried to get to Olympia, but I could not get the bus driver to take route 2 and head south to your ranch, tsk, tsk, ohh well. Do you have all your projects done outside yet for Winter season? We had snow in Alberta at Lake Louise and all the Cascades were covered, so you might get an early snowfall in the NW this year.
Later,
Hey, you got here first.
YOU'RE PAYIN' !!!!
CPRail modeler wrote: Derrick Moore wrote: My friend Matt has apologised for putting Junk on the forum.As of right now, there are 4 teens looking at modelrailroader.com and laughing like crazy at us AND you guys AND are being exremely rude. 6. I'm a teen too, but I'm not laughing. Who are these guys anyway?Oh, and an ice tea please (haven't ordered in a while)
Derrick Moore wrote: My friend Matt has apologised for putting Junk on the forum.As of right now, there are 4 teens looking at modelrailroader.com and laughing like crazy at us AND you guys AND are being exremely rude.
My friend Matt has apologised for putting Junk on the forum.
As of right now, there are 4 teens looking at modelrailroader.com and laughing like crazy at us AND you guys AND are being exremely rude.
6. I'm a teen too, but I'm not laughing. Who are these guys anyway?
Oh, and an ice tea please (haven't ordered in a while)
Thats the problem..... I don't know them. I get bullied a lot for the way I look, think and act.
My Mom doesn't understand it, especially after I went on Ripley's Believe It Or Not,The Montel Williams show, and the National Enquierer(?spell.) in 1995 after the severe snake attack I suffered when I was 5 years old.
Oh well.
I live life anyway, and I do not care what people think about me. God gave me this life, and I am going to live it.
There was a painter named Wayne who was very interested in making a penny where he could, so he often thinned down his paint to make it go a wee bit further. As it happened, he got away with this for some time, but eventually the Baptist Church decided to do a big restoration job on the outside of one of their biggest buildings. Wayne put in a bid, and, because his price was so low, he got the job. So he set about erecting the scaffolding and setting up the planks, and buying the paint and, yes, I am sorry to say, thinning it down with turpentine. Well, Wayne was up on the scaffolding, painting away, the job nearly completed, when suddenly there was a horrendous clap of thunder, the sky opened, and the rain poured down washing the thinned paint from all over the church and knocking Wayne clear off the scaffold to land on the lawn among the gravestones, surrounded by telltale puddles of the thinned and useless paint. Wayne was no fool. He knew this was a judgment from the Almighty, so he got down on his knees and cried:"Oh, God, forgive me; what should I do?" And from the thunder, a mighty voice spoke?....(you're going to love this)........."Repaint! Repaint! And thin no more!"
(Luc running away quickly tru the back door hehehehehehe)
Good morning.Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 10/22/2007 Heat Index: 78°FHumidity: 94%Dew Point: 72°F So Far TodayHigh: 73°FLow: 72°FRain: 0.91"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 12mph SE Today Low: 65 High: 78 Mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms likely. Highs in the upper 70s. Temperatures falling into the mid 60s in the afternoon. South winds up to 15 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
Tonight Low: 48 Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain showers in the evening. Cooler. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.