LOL yeah the big 'wheels' are the Main engine throttles. Small one is Astern Steam and the large one is Ahead Steam.
Reel to reel? I think you might be dating yourself Jeff! :)
Dave Loman
My site: The Rusty Spike
"It's a penny for your thoughts, but you have to put your 2 cents in.... hey, someone's making a penny!"
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Well congratulations everyone!
2,813 views, 211 posts and 5 Star rating in only 72 hours!
That's 39 views every hour. If this keeps up we will wear this diner out before 2008. It's interesting that the posts and visits soared when the announcement came to close the old diner and with the announcement of opening a new place. Look at the new members we picked up and the old friends that wandered back in to see what was going on.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Well that had to be expected being new and along with it being a long holiday weekend we got bored sitting home staring at the 4 walls so we came here to chat a little with our great freinds that most haven't met some have but hope to meet at sometime.
I got 6 freight cars in today (been waiting scince the 13 of december) and got in a Coke Train set (new in box still has shrink wrap on it ) K-Line yeah I know you buy as is no warnety on it but still they did make some pretty good stuff. I have a K-Line Hershey train set coming in with a alco A&B unit set in it from 1991 I believe and I had one before and wished I never got rid of it it was a great set and the engine was pretty strong that should be here in a couple of days along with 2 coca-cola boxcars and thats about all I have coming in thru ebay I still haven't gotten my MTH Santa - Fe passenger cars in my local hobby shop said it could be tomorrow or it could be april he never knows with mth. Acually any of them wheather there in stock or over in china getting loaded onto a ship. Same story with a Williams Virginian train set (remake of lionels virginian train set from the late 50's with the 2331 Train Master set set. )I still have to pay for that one thou the rest is all paid for at this point. My trains are still growing so I need to put the brakes on I guess for a while as need to try and get this room in order to start working on it (had it about there until huricane christmas came about lol)
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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hey all, just popping in, cya
LSWrr wrote:Well I thought it was great to see and meet all these people. Anybody make a New Years Resolution?
Yeah to do the best I can for the coming year and try to help who I can .
Yup,not to make any resolutions,that way there's nothing to break!
Evening Gang:
I went to work for 1 hr. I got the stuff turned off and checked out and went home. I staid in bed all day and am headed there now. Tomorrow I'll go to the doctor. I do seel somewhat better. Mainly not sick to the stomace. I have a butt of a head ach and plenty of mussal achs.
Well of to bed for me. You all have a good one.
hey guys whats going on tonight?
Searching ebay tonight and I just missed out on a Athearn Genesis SD75 for $50.y dad couldn't decide in time.
-dekruif
Hey all. I'm back. I'm gone a week, and you up and move on me. Thanks for atleast leaving me a map. I really like the new digs?
Seriously, I lost my dial-up service and decided to wait to get AT&T/Yahoo DSL. Now I have it. Woohoo!, I've had a few probs with it, but it is faster.
NEWS BREAK: I have some really great news? My mom said "I could have the whole garage". That means I have a space of 19' 6" x 17' 9" for a layout, with a work room of about 10' x 6' (approx.). Not all of the layout space will be used. I have to make room for the backdoor in the house. More on this developing story later.
Happy New Year to everyone!!!
Until later,
G'nite, y'all. It's past my bedtime, and at my age it's not good to miss out on too many industrial-sized beauty sleeps.
Lynda
Good morning ! from Indiana.
01-04-07
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Morning All,
Yes my New Years Resolution is: To put together all the buildings and stuff I have picked up over the last 30 years before spending any money on new stuff.
Robert, that's good news about the space.
Dekruif, I'm sure there will be more and better auctions on eBay.
Speaking of eBay I didn't have much luck this year on selling stuff, maybe 2007 will be better. Well after (almost) 2 weeks off work I'm heading back. They should give you a half day on your first day back from leave, LOL.
Lee
Good morning and top 'o' the day to all of ye. This morning I'll have the cheese and mushroom omelet.
Today's Weather for: Sundown, La 71446-6114 1/4/2007
Sundown Fire Dept., Station 23 Wind Chill: 51°FHumidity: 91%Dew Point: 51°F So Far TodayHigh: 55°FLow: 54°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 12mph ESE High: 58 °FLow: 49 °F
Important Message Flash flood watch in effect through this afternoon. Now through 05:00 AM CST January 04, 2007 Through 5 AM...showers with a few possible thunderstorms will move northeast at 45 mph across portions of southeast Texas...as well as southwest and central Louisiana. Some of the heavier rain showers will extend from Woodville and Jasper to Orange and Deweyville to between Cameron and Lake Charles. Rainfall rates with these showers will be between one quarter to one half inch per hour. Over the coastal waters...showers with a few possible thunderstorms will move northeast at 40 knots across areas between Marsh Island and High Island out 60 nm. Some of this activity will produce heavy rainfall reducing visibilities below 2 miles.
Today High: 62 Showers and thunderstorms...some thunderstorms will produce locally heavy rainfall and gusty winds at times. Highs in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 100 percent.
Tonight Low: 52 Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Lows in the lower 50s. South winds around 10 mph.
Morning all, back at the old job. Egg. ham and cheese sammich if you will Zoe!
Jeff: More rain? Flash Floods? Doesnt sound like a lot of fun. To expand on your computer post a few pages back, I work at Army Research Labs up in Aberdeen, MD home of the original Arpanet and 2 of the worlds 13 root DNS servers! We are in the process of upgrading all of our SMP servers to newer technology as the buying freeze has recently been lifted. Some directorates were still running their Crays :) We are outing a ton of SGI Origin 2000 & 3000's machines and replacing them with quad socket Opteron Boards with 880 series CPU's in em. Since AMD plans to have their Quad Cores out this year, we are holding off buying all the server horsepower we need in favor the the 4x4 configs we can get off the quad cores. Half the hardware density is a definete plus. 5 years ago I never would have imagined that one could get 16 4.0GHz cpus in the same volume as a standard desktop case... amazing!
26 F this morning but we should see the mid 50's and sun most of the day. Better than 40's and rain predicted a couple of days ago.
Lousy couple of days here. Tuesday I got the first prep of the year done and the client on his way to Sebring and Homestead for some early races. That was the high point. Tues eve and yesterday were the wake and services for my friends son. Ryan Handy was fifteen. He had been helping his dad run their vintage tire business out of Danville Va. though I'd know them since they were from Redding,the next town over. Christmas day Ryan didn't feel well and ended up going in hospital. The next day his systems shut down apparently from a massive infection and he passed away. Ryan was a bright, cheerful, hard working young man, an avid and talented guitar player and active in sports. For him to have been taken from us so young is tragic, for his parents and the rest of us who work at the track with our children the loss is incomprehensible. I hope it was some comfort to the parents Dave and Erika that members of the racing community outnumbered the family at least two to one with people driving four or more hours and coming from as far away as Michigan to support and console them. Not a good couple of days.
Time to pick up tools - I'll try to catch up with posts later, CUL,J.R.
Good morning from Omaha.
It's a balmy 39 degrees here.
No meetings today, so I'll actually get to do some coding (yippee!)
GMT, my prayers go out to Ryans family. Thats a tough loss for sure.
Jeff, it's looking like rain around here for a while too.
Good morning everyone. A medium JR Regular and some scrambled eggs please Zoe. (Thanks Trainfreek) Slow work on the scenery last night, I’m into a section that requires thought, and that’s a major pain!
Dick:
I was watching one of Pentrex's DVD's on the 50KV rail-line that was built in the 80's in BC to the mining areas....
Lee:
Well I thought it was great to see and meet all these people.
Robert: Congrats on scoring the garage. That’s great news. Hope the budget comes in for those expansive plans!
RT:
I understand why people charge so much extra on S&H is to make up for ebay/paypal fees.
JR: We’ll be praying for Dave and Erika , the Handy family and for you folks too. That is a terrible shock, especially at this time of year. It’s good to see the support from their friends.
Fargo and Jeff:
Hey, the weather's wierd all over.
Derrick, care to tell us a bit about your mrr / railfan interests?
Got to go, TTFN.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
How about a tall cup of coffee over here Chloe!
Stayed up late past midnight watching LSU beat up on ole Notre Dame. The Luck O the Irish just was not enough to keep LSU from racking up 41 points. And it was nice to see the Sugar Bowl back in New Orleans too.
Philip, nice looking pancakes, thanks for providing the breakfast special yesterday! Also, that Berkshire is now on display at the Steam town Museum in Pennsylvania
Jerry, I bet that was a fun trip riding with the NPR #759.
Der John, what the snow won't stick? NS should be covered with the white fluffy stuff by now, huh!
Dick, enjoying the balmy temps in January, eh!
Jeff, got any of that beef stew leftovers for us hungry folk over here in the corner stool?
Paul, hope you are feeling better soon. Chicken broth and crackers might make you feel better.
The usual, loose weight, exercise, and eat right, drink plenty of fluids, and take Geritol! Just kidding on the Geritol part.
Dave, sounds like an interesting place to work. I currently work at the EPA National Computer Center here at the RTP in Durham, NC.
It is amazing how much processing power they can put into a CPU these days. Memory and drive space too is getting cheaper and cheaper every day. We went to Staples office supply the other day and next to the check out register is an impulse buy container full of small 40 MB USB thumb drives for $9.99 each. I just laughed and remembered my old 286 PC from 1991 with a whopping 40 MB hard drive, and I paid over $1,300 for that PC back then.
J.R., sorry to hear about your loss, that really is a tragic event. Our prayers and thoughts to you, your family, and the surviving families.
Lynda, what type of coding do you work on?
to the Diner Derrick!
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
hey guys! it's right before lunch in English. How many of you bleve that there is some thing after death?? because we had a disscussion about it in english class.
I'll have a Hawiian Pizza and a Root Beer