Who could ever forget those word sang by Dinah .
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
Great ad for the 1959 Chevy Biscayne:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrCxbsQJT5M&feature=related
(You may need to turn your volume up for this one).
Quentin... Found these old films. You may find this interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zAcOLugGWk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ1EwjfeALY&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL3622BBB6777412FD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hehgAHvk6fI&feature=related
....Looks like a nice day forming....Temp rising up from earilier 45 we had here.
Partly sunny.
I enjoy the "back in the 50's" auto stories in the last several posts. Suppose it's appropriate for us to actually discuss such subject in the "Diner"...why not. It's certainly a normal conversation for rail fans who happen to be "car guys", as well.
The 50's were a great time in the "car guys" world....Lots of changes and "performance" offerings becoming available. Example: The big change for Chevrolet from it's long history of reliable 6-cyl. engines to the brand new {and innovative} 265 c i V-8.....{that was to become a classic in design}....Thanks to Ed Cole. And quickly becoming a performance engine in some of it's forms. Pushed on by Corvette developement...Engineer / developer, Zora Arkus-Duntof.
Quentin
morning
house guest is here.hopefully her owners don't get snowed in in michigan.time to take matt to sunday school.Cw thanks for breakfast.Back to work tonight.
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").
Good Sunday morning everyone. Nice outside, with a temp of 45 degrees right here in the Louisville area. Some areas are down in the upper 30s. Believe our high today is to be in the mid to upper 60s, with plenty of sunshine.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. Breakfast is on the warmer/serving station: some doughnuts, pecan rolls, coffee cake, bacon, sausage, eggs, biscuits & gravy.
Bruce, really enjoyed reading your post from last night. My first car, back in 1975, was a 1971 Plymouth Duster. Later on, I'll try to post a picture or two of it. But don't know how it'll turn out, because the only pictures I have of the car, are Polaroid shots.
Everyone enjoy your morning, take care going to Church, work, railfanning, whatever it is you have to do/go this morning.
Murray A Fabulously ’50s Way to See the U.S.A.
A Fabulously ’50s Way to See the U.S.A.
CW, first time back to Pizza Night in a month. I will have a Supreme to celebrate. 48° right now, with a high in the mid-fifties today, and a low of 34° last night. It is forecast to drop to freezing tonight, but it is clear.
Murray, that is a great story. My sister, who is eleven years younger than me, was already married when I told her and her husband that our Uncle, who had worked for the CPR, had a '56 Chevrolet Delray 2-door Sedan, or post as some called it. They couldn't believe such a stodgy old Uncle could have such a cool car, but I explained that that was just a normal car, back in the day.
My Uncle, who was the Ditchrider, had a "60 Plymouth Belvedere, the base model full size Sedan. The tail fins on that year were as high as they every got on a Plymouth. Those cars didn't last well up here, because of rust issues, and I would love to see and ride in one of those again. His had a 313 engine, before they became the famous 318 a year or so later, with a push-button automatic. Because he was out in the country before there was much asphalt, there was no salt either, to start the rusting process, so he never had that problem. Before he passed away in the mid-eighties, we had a talk one afternoon about all of his cars. He said that car was the most amazingly reliable car he had ever owned. Before he was a Ditchrider he had been a semi-truck driver, hauling cattle and hay, and he used an expression I now forget, but it meant that he had never had to put a replacement part on that car for the 100,000 miles he drove it, that wasn't a normal routine maintenance item (plugs, points, filters). Everything was cheaper then, but he couldn't believe how few actual dollars he had spent on that car. You just couldn't comprehend it in today's money. By 1965 though, people were really beginning to notice those tail fins, and he didn't know how much longer his luck was going to hold out, so he traded in on a 1965 Plymouth Savoy. He never owned a car that worked anywhere near as well again.
No new local RR news this weekend. I guess that is all for now.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
"A Train is a Place Going Somewhere" CP Rail Public Timetable
"O. S. Irricana"
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Well, except for one pair of gloves, I have our winter outerwear all washed, dryed and ready for the cold weather. Been a busy, busy afternoon, as I was also baking more sugar cookies and other desserts to put in the freezer and pie/cake safe.
Here is our Saturday Night Pizza Fest menu:
1. Anchovie
2. Canadian bacon
3. Cheese
4. Chicago style
5. Goetta
6. Ham & green pepper
7. Hawaiian
8. Italian sausage
9. Pepperoni/mushroom
10. Supreme
Dessert: Sugar cookies, peach cobbler, blackberry pie, strawberry shortcake.
BTW, Mookie, congrats on Nebraska's win this afternoon. And everyone have an enjoyable evening and take care.
.....Yes, Murray....The "Stove Bolt" was the heavier engine. It was "old school" by then....Around since about 1929.
ModelcarNew V-8 engine....All new suspension / frame.....And of course, all new body. Ed Cole's famous V-8 {mouse motor}, introduced in that model, basically is still being produced yet today.
Quentin, what really amazed me was that the 6-cyl was actually 40 pounds heavier than the V-8!
Those were really great cars!
.....And Johnny, what a tragic story.....Terrible.
Murray Quentin...You'll appreciate this: A Fabulously ’50s Way to See the U.S.A. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/automobiles/autoreviews/a-fabulously-fifties-way-to-see-the-usa.html?ref=automobiles
Quentin...You'll appreciate this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/automobiles/autoreviews/a-fabulously-fifties-way-to-see-the-usa.html?ref=automobiles
Yes, Murray....that I do appreciate. Just by coincidence, I happened to have {back then}, one almost exactly like the beautiful 55 in the picture. The difference being: Mine was a hard top model, but it was the same color, and even had the {chevy installed}, continental kit spare. And "power pac" V-8 engine., 180 hp via 4-bbl carb. and dual exhausts.
And true to the article this model was very different from the '54 Chevy. I traded a '53 Chevy Bel Air hard top on the '55 model.
New V-8 engine....All new suspension / frame.....And of course, all new body. Ed Cole's famous V-8 {mouse motor}, introduced in that model, basically is still being produced yet today.
Thanks for sharing.
Good Saturday morning everyone. And Joe, thank you for fixing such a nice breakfast this morning. Checking our pizza inventory in the freezer, think I'll be preparing pizzas later this morning. Always keep a supply made up and in the freezer, just in case someone gets a hankering for a pizza, instead of anything else.
Started out at 6:30 this morning, with a temp of 37 degrees, and have some frost. Believe they are saying we could see our first freeze tomorrow night. Which means, we'll probably be into Indian Summer next week, when we'll see highs at least in the 70s.
Everyone enjoy your Saturday activities, take care and see you all this evening.
good saturday morning
breakfast is ready.Juice and coffee are ready.matt is getting ready.need to go to town.today is our turn to clean the church.It doesn't take long with everyone pitching in.will tak a pepperoni & mushroom pizza for tonight.
joe
There was another sad incident in Utah this past week. Three teenage girls (two sisters and a friend) were out by the track that runs through Spanish Fork Canyon (near Provo). A Utah Railway train came by, and they waved to the engineer. Apparently they were standing between the two tracks at the time, and a UP train came by in the opposite direction. I do not know how fast the two trains were running, but it seems that the backwash from one train threw them against the other train, killing two of them immediately. The third girl (one of the sisters) survived the impact, but the damage done to her was so great that her parents agreed that she should be taken off life support about two days ago.
Johnny
.....Agree Bruce. Proper care and maintenance and proper use of mechanical anything should add to its usefulness.
Success......Yard work finished, for this go around. Mowed and mulched. With the 3" of rain we've had this week, the yard is so green. And, still growing. But the next several weeks, it's going to be leaves blowing in on us....Depending which way it's blowing.
But we'll keep after it with mulching, and finally that will finish it.
Mudchicken, try looking at them, when you 4'6" tall: they really look like huge monsters then!
Been doing some more baking this afternoon. You'll have sugar cookies, chocolate chip, and oatmeal/raisin cookies for dessert tonight. But first, you have to eat something from the Friday Fish Fry menu. Everything is ready, and on the warmer/serving station.
You all enjoy, have a very good evening and take care. See you all tomorrow.
Mooks: You can put away the net for now. Snuck back through and landed back home safely. The corn cuttin/shuckin/huskin monsters were out in force the past few nights. Had to duck a few on US-36 going between jobs. (even without the cutting heads, those rascals are HUGE)
....Finally, sunshine...! The first this week. Well, since Monday. We've had a big Low spinning on top of us all that time, and now it's finally moved on. My rain gauge had 3" accumumated in it for those several days. And some areas were really treated to some nasty winds. Here it was just windy {maybe up to 45 mph or so}....no damage that I know of.
40 degrees at 7 here this morning, and still only 45. I know Jen's 70s are on the way and we'll be glad to see some of it.
Since a major servicing of my tractor / mower, I've been waiting for the rain to stop so I can get to work on the lawn mowing and mulching.
If it's to be today, we'll wait for all the warmup we'll see by later this afternoon. If not today, certainly tomorrow.
The Ohio wild animal incident was the bad side of people trying to keep wild animals in captivity. In this specific case, it was somewhat more involved than just keeping some "pets"....It shouldn't be allowed.
Going to stay home today and play domestic goddess, but tomorrow and Sunday, will be out - 70's both days. Only 30 this morning, but the sun looks very nice.
Must include wreaking havoc on Houston Ed's e-mail. Seems it is a talent I have that I didn't know I had.
Joe - Ohio scares me every so often. And that is all I am gonna say!
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Morning CW! Biscuts and gravey are good this morning!
What a fridigid morning it is. I think it was in the upper 40's with a nice 25 mph wind whipping across the countryside. I thonk that fall is upon us.
Have a good day all!
-Justin
The road to to success is always under construction. _____________________________________________________________________________ When the going gets tough, the tough use duct tape.
Good Friday morning everyone. 41 degrees here in Louisville right now. Think we're supposed to get up to about 60 degrees for a high this afternoon.
Gee Joe, when I went to the library yesterday, I didn't get to hear any scary stories: bummer.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. On the warmer/serving station this morning: bacon, sausage, biscuits, eggs, toast, sausage gravy.
Everyone enjoy your breakfast, have a good morning, take care,and I'll see you all later.
busy friday today.after school matt and I are going to the library to hear about scary Ohio.(films about travel on I-75??) Cw thanks for breakfast.Have a great day.
Hello again. We have some nasty looking weather coming in tonight. It is 36° with a windchill of 28°. Before this front came through, like Mookie, I also got my annual flu shot today.
And for those that requested them, I found some photo's of the Lloydminister, SK bridge wreck from the nearest city paper, the Saskatoon StarPhoenix:
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Reader+photos+Lloydminster+rail+bridge+collapse/5539236/story.html?cid=megadrop_story
I also wanted to get back to the discussion about reliability of vehicles, and how it is hard to make generalizations. A bit of family lore. My Grandfather and then my Uncle worked for the Eastern Irrigation District, near Brooks, AB, as Ditchriders. This job entailed driving around in pickups turning on and off the water to the farmers in their area. They traveled about 20,000 miles per year, almost entirely on gravel roads and field trails. The EID was broken down into five divisions with from four to six Ditchriders per division. It would work out that by trading in five or six old trucks per year, each Ditchrider would get a new truck about every fifth year. The best of the old trucks turned in wouldn't be traded in, but instead kept as a spare truck in the HQ yard in Brooks.
From a 1956 International through to a 1982 GMC, EVERY truck turned in by my Grandfather and Uncle became the spare truck for the following year. In fact, in either 1977 or 78, all of the trucks turned in were in such bad shape that my Uncle's truck became the spare truck for two years in a row! We are talking about one Ford, one Dodge, the cornbinder, and the rest were GMC's. The trucks were all the same each year, so how it is driven and maintained has a great deal to do with the alleged reliability of any one model or year. In our family we have always though it was more the man than the machine.
I guess that is all for now.
cherokee woman Here is our menu for tonight: The leftovers from last night: Beef tips w/noodles, scalloped potatoes, garden salad or slaw; Fried chicken w/your choice of mashed taters and milk gravy, green beans or broccoli w/butter sauce, choice of dinner rolls, homemade buttermilk biscuits or cornbread.
Here is our menu for tonight: The leftovers from last night:
Beef tips w/noodles, scalloped potatoes, garden salad or slaw;
Fried chicken w/your choice of mashed taters and milk gravy, green beans or broccoli w/butter sauce, choice of dinner rolls, homemade buttermilk biscuits or cornbread.
Well, finally made it to the library today, returned my old books, and got a fresh supply. We even coached Little Mookie into the house this morning. Of course, that was after we couldn't take listening to her meowing, and climbing half way up the security door! She stayed content to be in the house for a couple of hours, then she started meowing to go back outside. Guess we'll probably go through the whole scenario again in the morning, as we're to get down until to upper 30s tonight/in the morning.
Everyone enjoy your supper/dinner, have good evening and take care.
Yes I am getting my view of the Transcon back aka the Farmer is Combining his Corn. Be nice to Railfan the BNSF from my computer chair again.
afternoon
mookie brings the song title"owe my soul to the company store" to mind.Still breezy and sprinkles.Matt's afterschool putt putt golf game was canceled.Course is an 18 hole water hazard.Time to go to town.Cw thanks for supper tonight.
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