Welcome back, Gang!
This month´s diner has arrived at its new location and is now open for service.
You wonder where we are? Well, after a few moments of thinking to go abroad again, it was moved to a rural place in central Ohio. Coshocton is the place, home of the Ohio Central RR, now belonging to the Genesee & Wyoming Inc.
To help you locate the place, here is a map:
This month, we are in for some classic American short line railroading! I hope you´ll enjoy it!
Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
GOOD MORNING!!!
[8] And I’m floating in a most peculiar way…This is Major Tom to Ground Control… [8]
Bad news Folks.
My father called - my mother was taken to the hospital again. From what I know so far, she is getting ready for her final journey.
Petra and I will be going up there in a few moments.
Best wishes and God Speed for your mother Ulrich.
An extra special Prayer Candle will be lit for her .
Take care of yourself, first, so you can be of good to others…
My MIL is taking another turn for the worse 2 nights ago too. THey now have her on Oxygen as well.
Ulrich and Galaxy: [angel] 's for both you and your families…take care, both of you…
Good Morning…
We are now at 53F going to a high of 78F…and getting sticky today…tomorrow will be the real sticky day as temperatures will go to 82F and feel like…108F
Today I find out if we are going into summer mode with things going on…I may not need to do on-call this weekend…[:-^]
Oh…and being that it July 1st it is CANADA DAY!!! [^][D][B][<:o)]
Good Morning all.
Galaxy and Ulrich. Your MIH and Mother I wiLl be praying for. Dear Heavenly Father please grant these men and their families comfort , lift them up, give them strength to carry them thru this difficult time. We pray that you will ease their pain, encourage them help them to carry this burden at this most difficult time. We pray and ask these things in Jesus name. Amen.
Ok, who moved the diner…oh wait, it is July, isn’t it[:-^]
Prayers for for everyone in need of them.
[8]Ground Control to Major Tom, your circuit says there’s something wrong! Can you hear me Major Tom…Can you hear me Major Tom…[8]
Good Morning All,
Prayers for Galaxys’ and Ulrichs’ mothers.
A breezeless 58 and sunny today yesterday was good as well with the temps staying below 80F. Not much to report on from the layout but I am painting the retaining walls for the elevated section of the layout and picking at the corner building kitbash that hides the column adjacent to the yard.
Brilliant choice of location Ulrich even today the area is loaded with tracks and sidings. By odd coincidence I went right through there on my way back from Mid Ohio last week as the road through Akron was all backed up. You can see much better from the Kenworth but you just can’t hop off the highway and stop when you’re 70 ft long. Just wouldn’t have been comfy in Japan for 4th of July. If I can suggest a time, spring and cherry blossom time is gorgeous or maybe around January when it used to snow and snow and snow in Misawa where I was stationed. There was a 4-6-4 in the center of town on display in a park but I am pretty sure THAT slide got destroyed along with most of the rest of my stuff in the attic. Also had slides of the train trip from Yokohama to Mt Fuji but there you go. Nothing like a house fire to simplify your existance.
Lots to do in the shop again today so I best get to it. Catch y’all later, J.R.
Good Morning!! Coffee and a breakfast burrito please. Didn’t sleep well again last night. Odd too. This is twice this week. Oh well.
Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 95. Heat index values as high as 105. Local guys say 108. Wonder if I could tell the difference. I usually post the weather off of Natn’l Weather Service website. Local guys usually do things like say “gee that was a surprise pop up thunderstorm we had today” refering to a storm the NWS had been predicting for 3 days. I could be a Local Weatherman. “Good morning! Today we’ll see…weather. I would take an umbrella with you today because it may rain. But I wouldn’t cancel any outdoor activities because it may not. Join us again this evening at 6 so I can tell you what it did in case you didn’t notice.”
So this is Ohio. Say, we’re close enough we can all stop by Lee’s for coffee and some Sponge Cake.
Jerry- Wouldn’t a thinner cushion be not as……cushiony? Also have they talked about how it may last in comparison to the old ones?
Lawn mowers. (Now you watch, I’ll regret saying this as I have to use them today. Or at least the push mower). I have two mowers that I think are great. 1 is a IH Cub Cadet garden tractor 1250. Good tractor. The deck ain’t that good though. Condition wise it’s great, cut quality it stinks. Always has. But, it was given to me by my Dad who bought it new in 1977 back when the garden tractors were built like little tiny farm tractors. No stamped steel frame on these and enough cast iron on the hydrostat and differential and front axle to well…, I don’t what. Has had nothing but tuneups done. Oh except for a muffler and a seat. The other is a John Deere push mower. This was bought out of desparation over my old Lawn Boy that had a bolt seize in a cast aluminum part that, thanks to the US Governments all out prejudicial attack on two cycle lawn and garden equipment
Well Todd, you must live in a different universe than I. Lawn equipment never starts in the spring unless stored with fuel stabilizer (and no, I haven’t run surplus race gas in them for years). Once running, usually no problems, but the wearout rate on parts is phenomenal (think maybe the kids run over everything in their paths?)
As for quiet hours, We were serenaded by AC/DC until almost 11pm last night along with PA announcements from the Little League field adjacent to the house. Used to be the park had a ban on PA’s and crowd noise wasn’t a problem. There was a meeting where the league officials and their #1 enabler swore blind if alllowed to put in PA’s so they could host tournaments, they would be off by 9pm weekdays and 10pm weekends and not used for regular league play. Now every field has a PA and they blast away to all hours. Call the cops you say? The PAL is the biggest offender so no hope there. Here Vinnie, you may have the soapbox back and no we’re not anti sport. The CFO and the kids all played and now coach but really, this is too much. Yeah, yeah Vinnie, I’m moving along, sheesh. At least the macarena is passee now. J.R.
Morning Folks
Flo Scrambled eggs, bacon, toast and a Diet Dew
Ulrich and Galaxy your loved one are in my [angel] as well.
Rob Thank you for the complement!
Yard Wars The Next Day Hum, my right arm is starting to itch a little. Maybe the Poison Ivy did score on me. I don’t see any red yet so I am crossing my fingers.
I used a rake to pull the vines off the house, cut the vine at the root and carried it with the rake. Dumped them over my fences into a area of the front yard I don’t do anything with, big bunch of evergreen bushes.
Far as the Lawn Mower I am guessing the belt slipped off the pulley that drive the front wheels. I will have to admit I was pushing it pretty hard last night. I hope there is instructions in the owners manual for replacing the belt.
Good Morning everybody.
2011 is now half over!
Happy Canada Day!
HI HO It’s off to Ohio we go! …Thanks for the move, Ulrich.
Ulrich and Galaxy … Prayers for you Mom and MIL.
Todd … Those good old Cub Cadets will last forever. It was great when Made In The USA meant high quality. …Made in the USA? What’s that?
I mentioned I had been working on my SD7’s and SD9’s. For each of teh six, I added extr headlights, sunshades, spark arrestors, and antennas. Here is one of them. I have bothe Burlington Route paint schemes (red and black).
Back atcha Jeffrey. [yeah]
Morning All,
I’m pretty tired. I spent the night with a flashlight looking for the diner, I’m glad I finally found it.
Flo I would love a cup of coffee please.
Happy Canada Day
My plan for the day is to start working on the turtles.
Maybe I will make a side trip up by Cleavland to see Lee or over by Youngstown to see my relatives.
Ulrich- Your Mother is in my prayers. Please take care of yourself and Petra.
Galaxy- Prayers for your MIL. Hopefully it is a temporary medical setback.
Everybody take care.
Heh, heh, heh… Good Morning Diners!!! (sings, “It’s a Lovely Day Today…”)
Mornin’ Zoe, i’ll have the #2 special, over easy on the eggs, bacon, home fries, and a double order of Sour Dough Toast and leave the strawberry jam please. What? Oh yes, lots of good old dark roast coffee as well. i sound happy this morning? THAT’s because I am… [:D]
Ulrich, my prayers to you, Petra, your Father, and your whole family during this time!
Galaxy, my prayers are also for you and your family with the MIL in the hospital.
It’s a bright sunny day here in the Finger Lakes region this morning. Currently 71°F on it’s way up to 79°F later today.
Oh, nice place for the move Ulrich! Easy drive for me to get here. I just have to get on at exit 42 of the NYS Thruway, stay right on I-90 until I get to Cleveland and then head South. Hope we can do some serious rail fanning this month.
Got some more detailing done in the engine house last night… Photos at 11…[;)]
HAPPY CANADA DAY!!! to all of our diners North of the Border!
Best get moving as I have stuff to do today…[:D] [:D] [:D] (Go’s out the door singing…)
"Happy, Happy, Joy Joy Happy, Happy, Joy Joy*!"*
73
Good Morning,
Oh yes the Ohio Central RR was owned by a former Cleveland anesthesiologist who started a collection Steam Engines. He acquired some abandoned rail lines and long story short several grain elevators and 3 coal mines re-opened and he was making a huge profit. Now a millionaire he started building a roundhouse for his collection of steam engines. http://www.ageofsteamroundhouse.com/Report%202010-02.html
Did I mention he has a Berkshire?
The Toledo and Ohio Central RR (TOC) operated between Columbus and Toledo and primarily hauled Grain and coal through all the little grain elevator towns until leased by NYC and then by PennCentral. The L.S. & W. connects with the T.O.C. and the C&O in Walbridge, OH.
Happy Canada day to all you people up above the USA!
Well, slept well, thankfully. Ahhhhh how I love Fridays [:D]
Anyways, I had to take adavantage of this morning to snap some progress pics where you can actually see the landforms. I’ll post all three in WPF, but in the meantime, here’s an overview shot
Nothing much on the schedule for today, mainly figuring out my highway bridge and abutment builds and maybe starting on a diorama so I can do some painting tests before I mess with the big river. Ohhhh, and the NATIONWIDE SERIES is racing at 7
Good to see you Back Sawyer, Nascar back at daytona this weekend [:D]. Do you plan on going out for the football team this fall? hopefully there will be a NFL season this year. Around this time of year I start getting ready for football as NCAA football will be out on the PS3 and XBOX soon and the CFL season just started last night.