Wow - we got up to 25 pages!
All new tablecloths this time around. Notice all the 'fallen flags' heralds!
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Thanks, Larry. The tablecloths look great! I especially like the C&O tablecloth.
I would have been back in earlier, but kind of went back to sleep; so just now making it back in. (Wonder how many pages we'll end up with on March 1st!)
I just stopped smelling the fresh paint in the lounge from last time.
Larry, your picture in the last lounge of your grandbaby and her dad came up again in the strangest way: daughter and grandchildren will be meeting us for lunch today at the Bass Pro Shop in their town. Having never been in one, I suspect we're in for an experience.
Mookie, there's fresh upholstery in here for you!
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
The place does have that new smell to it, it is grand.
Off today due to working last Saturday, chores and errands all over town.
Seems to me that the idea Bergie has is for us to have a monthly run on the Cafe.Then stop and remodel for a new run at our favorite topics of general interest. I hope that Bergie sends a piper for one of the opening occasions.
Off to the running around,
PL
I've gotten the kitchen reorganized, and have fixed the following for the rest of the afternoon:
1. leftover mild chili from last night, with your choice of grilled cheese sandwiches or PB&J sandwiches
2. open-face roast beef sandwiches w/mashed taters & brown gravy, green beans and your choice of garden salad or Caesar salad
Everyone have a good afternoon, stay warm and take care!
Good day, everyone. The place looks great!
Two Cheese and one PB&J please, that should last me the rest of the day.
Hope all you folks have a Happy Groundhog Day!Take care
Paula, thanks for the groundhogmeat on Ground Hog day.
Sunny, with gathering murk (we need a strong wind to blow it out, but a strong wind makes walking difficult), and mid-twenties this morning.
Johnny
nanaimo73 Good day, everyone. The place looks great! Two Cheese and one PB&J please, that should last me the rest of the day. Hope all you folks have a Happy Groundhog Day!Take care
Good to see you posting in here, Dale- don't be a stranger!
We've got sunny skies and a cold temp of 22 degrees here- groundhog or no groundhog, I think it's safe to assume that winter will last a little while longer!
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
well buckeye chuck said 6 more weeks of winter to go.Like the new booths and tablecloths.Cw thanks for supper.Matt is finishing up his homework.Time to get ready for work.
stay safe
joe
Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").
Dale, was wondering if you were around, don't be such a stranger!!
Larry, really like the "New" table clothes; especially the C & O ones.
Where did you find both the "Old" Logo and the "C & O for Progress" ?
Being Crazy,keeps you from going "INSANE" !! "The light at the end of the tunnel,has been turned off due to budget cuts" NOT AFRAID A Vet., and PROUD OF IT!!
Wow.... I'm liking the new place! Just a cold Pepsi for me thanks.
May I suggest that instead of naming after seasons as it looks like this may be a monthly move, call it the month and year. So next month call it "Flat Wheel Cafe - March 09. Then it would be able to reference them later on.
Deggesty - Are you headed up to Ogden for the show this weekend? I am going ot try and get there on saturday and hopefully get in the photo contest this year.
Today in SW Wyoming it's 35 degrees, and windy. Really sunny though.
Wen snowshoeing saturday, and didn't even put on the snow shoes. It has been melting like crazy!!!
RJ
"Something hidden, Go and find it. Go and look behind the ranges, Something lost behind the ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go." The Explorers - Rudyard Kipling
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miniwyo May I suggest that instead of naming after seasons as it looks like this may be a monthly move, call it the month and year. So next month call it "Flat Wheel Cafe - March 09. Then it would be able to reference them later on.
I almost did just that, but it sounded so.... chronological.
I've done the redecorating honors two months in a row - next month it's someone else's honor!
^~^ ..... ooooo looks nice.
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Cool, always liked Chessie's Road.....
A good source for a lot of railroad memorabilia is Shrader's Catalog, I believe their website is www.railroadcatalog.com . Good site, they also have lots of Chessie memorabilia.
Speaking of Chessie, if my employers did not have a no-pet policy, I would have Chessie and Peake riding with me.
See everyone later.....
Randy Vos
"Ever have one of those days where you couldn't hit the ground with your hat??" - Waylon Jennings
"May the Lord take a liking to you and blow you up, real good" - SCTV
miniwyo Deggesty - Are you headed up to Ogden for the show this weekend? I am going ot try and get there on saturday and hopefully get in the photo contest this year.
Redecoration of the Cafe--I am looking for a "The Southern Serves the South" tablecloth, and haven't found it yet. Please don't tell me there is a "Look Ahead, Look South" one instead.
rvos1979Cool, always liked Chessie's Road.....A good source for a lot of railroad memorabilia is Shrader's Catalog, I believe their website is www.railroadcatalog.com . Good site, they also have lots of Chessie memorabilia.Speaking of Chessie, if my employers did not have a no-pet policy, I would have Chessie and Peake riding with me.See everyone later.....
Randy; had to look around for a bit to find the "Chessie" Table Cloth,
seems it was in a back corner; at least the C & O and B & O ones
were in plain sight.
Besides my model railroad, there's a bunch of C & O and Chessie
memorabilia around this house.
(books also, even have one autographed by a Forum Member!)
Hope this weather and roads have not been Too Hard on you!
Johnny; didn't see the one you were looking for, but thought I
saw one that said: "Gives a Green Light to Southern Innovations"!
Thanks, Mutt. I'll look for it especially the next time I'm in. After so many years of "The Southern Serves theSouth," the crossbuck just didn't look right. The Innovations emblem was better.
These Fallen Flag tablecloths are quite intriguing.
Walt, I hope you don't mind that I've surrounded your C&O tablecloth with those of the Erie, Nickel Plate, Pere Marquette and W&LE, in honor of the aborted 1947 merger. (Couldn't find one for the Hocking Valley) I've often wondered how that merger would have turned out.
Perhaps soneone could come up with a different grouping for different days?
Brian, how about an Iowa theme?
Good Tuesday morning, everyone. Cold here this morning: 27, 28 degrees, and temps is to be dropping throughout the day. We're supposed to get some snow flurries/snow showers off and on all day. May see an accumulation of 2 or three inches. Very nice, with our schools opening back up this morning, after being closed for a week!
Dale, good to see you come back in!! Don't be a stranger, now, o.k?
Coffee, juices, hot chocolate, hot cider and hot water for tea are ready.
All the regular breakfast menu on the warmer bar: turkey bacon, pork sausage patties & links, scrambled eggs, hash browns, bagels, bear claws, homemade buttermilk biscuits w/sausage gravy, and some clementine tangelos. Really love them: they don't give me indegestion like oranges have a tendency to do.
Guess we'll have Tuesday Produce today, even though no one has showed up out front, yet. Just looked out the door, and we're getting some light snow coming down. (Had to look at the street light, in order to see it!)
I'm going to let you all tell me what you'd like to have for our lunch and supper menu today. Just do me a favor, though, and don't make the menu too extravagant, all right?
Everyone have a very good morning, stay warm and take care.
Thanks for serving breakfast this morning, CW. I think I'll grab a bear claw to go with my coffee. It's a cold morning here in Sioux Falls, right now we have a temp of somewhere between 3 and 6 degrees below 0. Not supposed to get above 7 or 8 degrees today.
CW, for dinner tonight, how about buttermilk biscuits topped with creamed chicken or turkey? That has always been one of my favorites. Swanson, a division of Campbells Soup CO. makes a product called "Chicken 'a'la' King", I don't eat it very often because it's got so much sodium in it.
Sarah called me yesterday morning just before I had to leave for work, CW. She told me she was getting ready to leave for Philladelphia to visit her grandmotherDid she make her flight??
Ray
nanaimo73 Brian, how about an Iowa theme?
That would be pretty easy- put together tablecloths for Milwaukee Road, Rock Island, C&NW, Burlington/BN, CB&Q, and maybe throw in ones for DM&E and IC&E, although CP says they're not going away anytime soon. I'm probably forgetting a couple...
Good morning, it's Tuesday. Paula, thanks for breakfast, and good morning to you too, Ray. Currently 35 and partly clear at the jetport, headed for 51. The weather boffins say tonight, 29 and snow flurries. Everybody stay safe and warm
Tom
COAST LINE FOREVER
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A contentious woman is like a constant dripping! (Solomon)
good morning
train items around the house?? Um someone wanted to expand the layout into the hallway.I told him he would have to clear it with mamma first.We also have a chessie book autographed by one of the authors.I still would love to have the time to go into the dungeon and do research.Cw thanks for breakfast.Grilled cheese and soup will do for supper for us.Time to take a nap.I hear a mookie coming in from the cold.
blhanelnanaimo73 Brian, how about an Iowa theme? That would be pretty easy- put together tablecloths for Milwaukee Road, Rock Island, C&NW, Burlington/BN, CB&Q, and maybe throw in ones for DM&E and IC&E, although CP says they're not going away anytime soon. I'm probably forgetting a couple...
Brian, three of the roads you mentioned; Milwaukee Road, Rock Island and the C&NW also served Sioux Falls, South Dakota at one time or another, along with the Great Northern and the Illinois Central. I've been told that the Rock Island had a pretty good sized yard not far from where I am presently living. The Great Northern in a sense, is still here in the shape and form of BNSF, but sadly the rest of it is all gone. I have a close friend who had worked as a depot agent and telegraph operator for the Milwaukee Road and he once told me that the Milwaukee Road might still exist if it had not been so badly miss-managed. I could probably say the same thing for the Rock Island.
nanaimo73These Fallen Flag tablecloths are quite intriguing. Walt, I hope you don't mind that I've surrounded your C&O tablecloth with those of the Erie, Nickel Plate, Pere Marquette and W&LE, in honor of the aborted 1947 merger. (Couldn't find one for the Hocking Valley) I've often wondered how that merger would have turned out. Perhaps soneone could come up with a different grouping for different days? Brian, how about an Iowa theme?
Dale; don't mind at all, especially since the Hocking Valley and Pere Marquette
were part of the C & O in later years; and the others were "Kissing Cousins"
during the Van Swearingen (sp) days.
Ray; Sarah's original flight was cancelled, but she was able to get a later one.
(maintenance issue)
She DID make there by about 6:30 yesterday evening.
Brrrr.... 7 above. Going to find a warm blanket!
I know it has been a while since I stopped by. Had to go around the block a couple of times to find the place. Looks nice.
It is that time of the year when our business is running full tilt. Tax refunds are running quite good this year. Maybe there will be a little boost in spending and the economy will start to come out of its funk. That's for everybody else. We actually have to send some the other way, so I will shortly have to go out in the cold and make my way to the office. Both the tax man and the gas company are making a pretty good hit on the family coffers.
Speaking of cold, it finally looks like it is going away soon. The ten day forecasts a couple of mid 40's. Heat wave!!
"We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo Possum "We have met the anemone... and he is Russ." Bucky Katt "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in physics
Don't want you to be left out. Bring your books around an I'll sign them.
........This has turned out to be a snowy seasson so far....It's 20.1 degrees now and the streets were dry as the day started, but now after almost an inch of snow squalls this morning the streets are white again....It's brighter now and radar shows us remaining just on the edge of it's passing.
Later in the week will climb into the 40's for serveral days....Should get rid of at least some of this stuff.
Quentin
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