Hello folks!
Once again it is time to move the diner. The theme that we have chosen is unusual rolling stock, both locomotives and cars. I am a little bit afraid of what will show up because I have a bad habit of wanting to build oddball projects![swg]
Let’s see what you can come up with! I would really like to see some scale models as well as the real McCoy.
Cheers everyone!!
Dave
Thanks for the flawless move, Dave!
I guess to start off in the Diner I’ll present a few photos of, a diner!
Diner_patrons6 by Edmund, on Flickr
Diner_patrons7 by Edmund, on Flickr
Diner_Erie8 by Edmund, on Flickr
NYC_Diner_Rockwell by Edmund, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
Dave, I will have the new RIP track graphic ready by tomorrow night.
Sorry.
-Kevin
Good morning Diners. A busy day today, so a large coffee on the go please, Brunhilda.
Consett Iron Company was well known here for its iron ore wagons.
IMG_5113 by David Harrison, on Flickr
It is not known for its tank wagons.
One seen here at Beamish Museum.
consett tank wagon by David Harrison, on Flickr
David
A few in the US Messabe and Great Lakes regions have some classy “Ore Jennys”:
Rolling through Wales by Mike Danneman, on Flickr
Aren’t they all pretty in matched paint like that!
Cheers, Ed
Good morning, everyone. Thanks for the diner move, Dave.
It’s a busy day – I’ll try to check in tonight when I get home. Have a good day, everyone.
Good morning, everyone. A new month, eh? Glad to see it – February was rough. Anyway, I’m supposed to be cutting down on carbs and sugars, so I won’t be bringing donuts that often any more. So instead…
Enjoy! (Someone else get the eggs, they’re too spendy for an editor’s salary.)
They are on ration here in the U.K… Along with a list of other foods.
Or to put it another way; Another reason to ‘whack the price up and make more profit.’
Thanks Steven for the other goodies.
David
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
Good morning everyone. I slept like a rock last night. I feel completely refreshed this morning and I am ready for a great day.
Mmmmm… give me a whole plate of that bacon! Thanks Steve!
We have not bought eggs in a few months. I hope whatever is going on gets resolved.
-Kevin
My dining car is an old metal streamliner from Tyco. It’s probably from the 50s and had no specific prototype. The windows are a thin, cloudy plastic strip, so I haven’t put in any interiors for my streamliners.
I named my diner Alferd G. Packer after the only American ever convicted of cannibalism.
GREAT LIONS like lumps of meat!
Farmer brings us eggs every week. And on Sunday, I can eat at least six eggs.
Tonight, being a Wendesday in Lent, we will have fewsh homemade speciaity bread and homemade soup.
I do not know if this will work:
NOPE, I guess it will not work, anyway a big passenger train wrect in Greece.
Some station master has been arrested. Carriges all over the place.
Cannot post URL either. They are tightening up access tgo their site.
GRRR
Somehow, we have eggs. Our mailman is a local egg farmer, small scale, and to keep enough healthy hens he sells eggs to his postal patrons in our community. He delivers us a dozen eggs every week for the princely sum of $3. These are farm-fresh eggs from hens that get to go out and peck in the garden, so the yolks are bright golden yellow. We have bacon and eggs every other day, alternating with yogurt and fruit. In not too many more weeks we’ll start getting fresh fruit from the farmstand. We have a freezer still mostly full of a quarter steer we got from an organic grass-fed place last fall, and our fish market gets right-off-the-boat fish in season. A local butcher supplies our bacon and pork.
So why can’t we lose weight?
Bi-monthly check in so I don’t go on the list.
I have a friend who sells me all the eggs we want at $2 a dozen. We have to save the cartons for them, though!
All is well in NW Wisconsin. Son moved from Kalifornia to Nevada to take care of his FIL.
Daughter and SIL are flourishing.
#1 Grandson plays juniors hockey for the New Mexico Ice Wolves, they made the playoffs their first year in the southern league. Starts in a week. Stanley Hubbard owns the team. Track Fiddler probably knows that name.
Daughter’s brain cancer seems to be under control. I hope it stays that way. Docs found a mass at the base of her neck at the last scan, but it hasn’t grown. They seem unconcerned. I do not.
I’ve been following everyone’s postings, hope all is well.
Terry
Rolling Stock:
The Century’s 1948, 5 BR-lounge observation Hickory Creek is in Philadelphia and New York City this week:
23-1368 by George Hamlin, on Flickr
Here’s her sister, Sandy Creek, on my layout:
Century_Sandy by Edmund, on Flickr
Quite possibly my favorite pieces of Pullman rolling stock. Thankfully both survive.
Cheers, Ed
HAY, I got som of those! I bought them in Japan back in the 60s. Never able to make them work on my layout. Looks like they need 30 or mor for the curves. A and B locos and a whole string of cars. All need tender loving care. You can have the lot of them if you want them (Lion@broadwaylion.com)
Here is the updated RIP track:
-Kevin
Thanks Kevin! I appreciate your help. I just updated the first post.
Cheers!!
Dave
Gidday Chloe, would you please give Kevin a beverage of his choice for updating the RIP Track.
Yes, Br. Lion, no good about that crash in Greece.
Good to see you drop in Terry, I also hope that the doctors remain unconcerned regarding your daughter for many many years!
Sighted in the Ferrymead Heritage Park was this “Q” coal hopper car. There were 11 variants and for all my “digging” I haven’t found out how many were actually built between 1899 and 1954, except the number was in excess of 500. Some of these cars remained in revenue service until 1987. They were mainly used on the South Islands West Coast, taking coal from the mines to either Westport or Greymouth where the coal was loaded onto colliers.
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