***Philip, that is OUTSTANDING news. So happy for your and yours. Sending healing thoughts your son’s way.
***Alex, great shots in that video. Some real well used workhorses & equipment.
[#ditto]
It’s amazing what medicine can do!
Alex, I reconize the RS units, what are the low hood units?
Lee
Did Bergie kick us out again?
Geeze, that’s like twice in two months…
Hello again, everyone…
PC … That’s absolutely outstanding news! Prayers do work miracles. Please pass on our well wishes from Elliott’s Diner. If you let us know in advance when your son is to be discharged and is to go home … We will call out the marching band to celebrate. …maybe have fireworks, too.
Lamoille Valley Rostered 7 locomotives. 5 RS3’s and 2 RS11’s. In the late 80’s 1 of the RS11’s and 4 of the RS3’s had their noses chopped. The roster at time of death was 4 RS3m’s (7802-7805), one original RS3 (7801), 1 Chopnose RS11 (3608), and one original RS11 (3612).
Should be fairly easy to represent in HO, although getting loksound decoders for all of them may be difficult…
Hi Chloe, I see Zoe’s working on that recipe that BridgeTom dropped off, huh? Oh, I’ll have a Dr. Pepper and some popcorn, if you have any to fix. Want to watch Alex’s movie. Thanks!
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Hey, Alex! That was a great video - but who was the musician/group on the soundtrack? I like that tune, too!
PMeyer, aren’t you glad the windows in the bathroom can be opened from the inside? I don’t think it was anything you did, but as I pulled up to the Diner III, I thought I heard Bergie saying something as he walked away, about “If they’re gonna serve an all you can eat Mexican buffet, for safety’s sake they ought to serve Beano, too!” Guess somebody had one too many burritoes… [:O] But maybe I heard Bergie wrong.[swg]
PC, that is great news on your son’s surgery! [tup] and [bow][bow] for the surgery team, too! (and the Big Guy who watched over the whole shebang). [:)] I’m sure this is a load off your and your wife’s minds, right?
Hey, Bob K., every so often Bergie comes by and has us clean the place up (by moving it a few tracks down). The twins must’ve called for a swi
Hey, Mark, what can I say? We’re just very chatty! [swg]
Jim in Cape Girardeau
All,
My son and I were talking this morning before we left and he was reading all of your posts of support for him. He read all of your words of encouragement and your promises of prayerful support. He was visibly moved by it. Now understand, he’s 12, so he’s way too cool to cry or anything, but he was really moved by your words…words from people all over the world who he’d never met or even conversed with. It really did mean a great deal to him. I’ll be showing him around the new diner so he can see all that you’ve said when he feels up to it. Right now he’s in a lot of pain, but the Morphine helps. It makes him real sleepy though. UPDATE I just got a call as I was typing this from my wife who’s staying the night with him in the hospital and she said his breathing monitor keeps going off. Seems he’s not breathing deep enough in his sleep and he’s not getting enough oxygen. They may put an oxygen tent on him. Looks like we’re not out of the woods yet!
Gotta go!
PC - That’s great news! We’ll keep you and the rest of your family in our thoughts and prayers for a quicker recovery! [angel]
PC one step at a time before you know it all will be A okay and the best wishes for your sons fast recovery and he’ll be shocking you befor you know it. This is such great news of the operation and the final out come to come unbelieveabls this may sound wrong but you can really thank - jerry lewis and great doctors like you found . Jerry has been a real big suporter of MDA for decades and youir son is an example that we can all be a part of.
Phillip, I hope the best for him! With luck his breathing will resume normally soon. Its great that with modern medicine, many difficulties can be corrected.
Jim, the music is “Everything Changes, by Staind”
PC -
I know I don’t ahve to tell you as you know it already, but… We’re all here for you, the wife and your son whenever you need to chat! We’ll make sure the [angel] don’t leave a minute too soon too!
JP
Good evening gents, got some work done outside today before the gales hit, 50 mph!! With temps hovering around 34F, that was enough for me, got to do some layout design before heading off the church after supper for Holy Thursday services.
PC: I am so happy to hear that your son did so well with his operation. As for the O2, that is a function of being under anesthesia for so long, the gases are in every organ of his body, he needs to expel the gases. When I had my Prostate surgery, I remember that I was under for quite a while. The next morning the nurse had be blowing into this tube thing that had a bellows and a float. I had to try to get the reading up to some high level. It was an exercise to clear my body of the anesthesia gases. Man, that was not easy, so your little man will have some trouble for a while, but he will be just fine, Jesus is with him.
JIM: The record for Cape Girardeau is 48.5 feet, you are over 43 feet now and rapidly closing in on the all time record for major flood of old muddy. You should see the high water mark on Sunday barring any more rain upstream. They have been showing all the flooding devastation in the midwest on the local TV news here in New England, really sad to see what people go through.
DER JOHN: A little stormy on the coast tonight is it ??? That was one intense LOW, the pressure hit a low of 29.38" here, so I can just imagine how bad it was up your way. Good thing that Fergie is in port.
JEFF: Don’t have to worry about the Feds inspecting your RR, they got got in the flooding and cancelled the trip!!
I was talking to a friend who lives in Missouri, the entire yard of his 12" gauge club is covered in a foot of water… That cannot be good for livesteamers…
Evening Gang:
PC: I’m so happy for your son I’m dancing on the tables. Oops I’d better get down I see Cloe going to get Vinnie. Seriously I can imagine how you and the Mrs felt during that very long time in the waiting room. Been there, done that. I’ll still keep a prayer going for him untill he gets it all together.
Bergie could have had us moved a page earlyer. He left me holding the bag on the one.
No MRRing today as usual. I had to put out hay this morning and then run water for the heifers in the corral. After that I put the new pressure washer together so I could clean out the concrete that had stuck in the dump trailer. That load of washout from the cement plant was real wet. By the time I got all that done and a trip to the Wally World I was beat. Then we took John and Diane and the baby out to supper. Now it’s after 11pm and I’m bushed.
Before I forget WELCOME to the new guys.[#welcome]Tell us some more about yourselves. We’re a noisy bunch here besides being blabber mouths.
Good Night All
Howdy every body. Hope everyone’s doing okay.
pcarrell, that’s great news about your son. However, I’m sincerley sorry he had to go through the surgery and all to get there. Tell him when I was a kid I had a neighbor that went through something very much like what he is braces and all and that he got through it just fine. Today he walks better than I do…
These last two days have been fun… Yesterday while clearing my fence I got stung in the palm of the left hand by a red wasp. I’ll learn to wear work gloves one of these days. Today I spent all day on my riding mower mowing my property. Now every bone in my body hurts. The best thing about it all was the Santa Fe MoW crane I won on eBay. I also made an old Coke box for the front of my Gulf gas station, as well as a common sidewalk for my main street buildings instead of having individual sidewalks that I kept having to try to match back up every time I disturbed one of the buildings.
Tracklayer
Flashwave: And you thought Florida would be bad! Shame on you! Everythings great since it isn’t hurricane season.
Evening all–
Philip–my continued prayers for your son. And yes, it does take a while to get all that anathesia out of the system. I remember it from knee surgery some years back–I kept having to do that balloon trick for a couple of days after, myself.
I was just thinking about carping about our early Spring weather out here in SunnyCal and how the Sierra could sure use some more winter, and then I read about the midwest getting clobbered in the worst storm that some areas have EVER seen, so I’m never going to complain about the weather again. Ever. Now someone hold me to it, okay?
Zoe–no, you CAN’T use turnips in the vegetable sauce, you have to use parsnips, like I said. Very finely chopped. Oh, and when it’s done, give Bergie a slice or two of it, okay? I mean, after all, he IS from Milwaukee, and they love Sauerbraten up there. At least they did the last time I visited. Or maybe it was Bratwurst. Make sure you serve it with DARK beer, though. Maybe he won’t switch us off the siding for a while. Besides, this is a NEAT siding–just saw a Yellowstone clatter by with about 430 ore cars behind it. Tres cool–we should stay here, by golly!
Tom [:P]
Well at least jim had some answers.
Hey, Bob K., every so often Bergie comes by and has us clean the place up (by moving it a few tracks down). The twins must’ve called for a switcher when they saw him coming, 'cause the place got moved in record time tonight! As you can see, we come trickling into the new location after we see the sign on the old track that Bergie left us. Almost as good as a bread crumb trail.
I noticed two diners last night. Must part of the clean up with so many having problems with the forum.
For a while now I have been just peering in and checking up on the diner happenings.
Many of you already know about my loss last year of my dear wife April. For those that don’t, last March 29, my wife lost her battle with cancer. Quite devastating, to say the least, I had been already quite active here in the forums. Philip, a quite decent and honorable man, saw my pain in posts out in the big board and invited me into the diner for some fellowship. Lately I can say that I am feeling very good. I am so grateful for the support and compassion from all of you. The great people here and my friends at my club have had so much to do with helping me through such a horrible time in my life. I am happy to say, I am getting back into participating more with the hobby. I know it was tough to bury myself in the trains. A hobby is a pastime to fullful idle hours, especially when fairly content. I had been far from that. Many at my club were counting on me to direct and continue with hthe scenery. This aspect of the hobby is an artform, at least to me, much of what I do just happens, it needs to come from the heart. I am an artist in many ways, even my work. I have been getting out more, socialize, dance and all the things I had missed.
Again, I can’t thank you all enough.
So now that we&
Sorry, the caboose was bought by the B&O Railroad Museum… We did manage to find a wooden cupola caboose for sale in Winchester Massachusetts. With luck we will soon come to a verdict on the caboose… Plans are to install small tables int he cupola so you can watch your trains, and drink your coffee… No more than 2 bottles of alcoholic beverages shall be sold to the customers in the cupola for obvious reasons…
Good Morning from Tipton IN ! [:D]
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