Anybody wanna cop a donut?
I’ll take one Lion, thanks! I love Krispy Kreme.
Been swamped lately with the usual work and family stuff. My oldest graduates high school at the end of the month. Luckily, she wants a dessert themed party and my wife has basically ordered everything, so I don’t have to cook a darned thing! I just show up, put things where told and keep the water and lemonade stocked up. I never dreamed I’d get off so easily.
Unfortunately, the only vacation train picture I have is of the Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disney World from the 1980’s, in a box somewhere in the basement. I won’t be much help this month, but love looking at what you guys have for train pics.
Take care guys.
Good morning
Drove to the Diner this morning all excited to indulge in some of those Krispy Kremes but CN Charlie took my spot.
I think just because he has a leaky window he thinks he can park wherever he wants so I took his spot.
I just hope the cops coming in for a donut don’t have me towed as I don’t have a maple leaf on my plates eh.
I noticed Kevin followed the rules but ALL the donuts were GONE by the time I got in there[:'(]
Well that explains it all!!!
I’m having Beartoon withdrawals! I wonder if they have a pill for that? [(-D]
TF
Maybe you giva da cop a donut, but he still gonna giva you da ticket.
Good morning, everyone. Bacon, eggs, and black coffee, please.
Wow, I’m gone for a couple of days, the diner has moved, and we’re on the second page already!
Dave, thanks for keeping all the info for the diner up-to-date.
Kevin, thanks for all the work on keeping the diner on track, and for all your photos of trains on your trips. I’ve mentioned to you before that in New Orleans, the weather people were the same as yours. Every day, they seemed to make it sound like the weather was the most extreme it had ever been. Every hurricane was the ‘big one’ and we were all in danger if we didn’t listen to their channel constantly!
Charlie, I hope your basement has dried out by now. Is any wallboard or furniture damaged?
Lion, my wife’s father grew up in North Dakota, and he told us about the water table there. When he died, he was cremated, and my wife and I took his urn to the ND church cemetery for burial. When we got there, the cemetery caretaker was there, but he had hurt his back. Therefore, with a posthole digger, I dug the grave. He said he wanted it deep, but after about a foot, water started seeping into the hole. I got it about two feet deep and told the guy I wasn’t digging in the water anymore. It was her father’s wishes to be buried back in his home state, even though he had left there after high school. My one and only experience digging a grave.
Ed, we got our first oriole on April 30, so we beat you by a day. Ours return, but not nearly as much on a calendar date like yours.
Brent, hope your daughter does well.
Bear, how did you get to be friends with someone who has a house on a private beach? Ask them if I could be their friend, too! All my friends have houses downwind of feedlots
Don’t ask me. I’ve never seen her with clothes on.
That is a perfect description of our weather forcasters.
Not every weather occurance can be “the big one”, and you can only cry wolf so many times. Then people stop taking weather seriously. When the bad one does come, we don’t know what to believe.
I have lived in Florida 97% of my life, but still it seems every year the weather reports get more over-the-top.
I had a customer tell me that every tree in Florida is less than 15 years old because hurricanes keep killing them all. I told him the Mohagany trees right in front of our store were all 31 years old.
He did not believe me.
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
That is what I want! I lived in Baton Rouge for almost a year, and I have been chasing that flavor for 40 years!
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Trains I have seen on Vacation Picture #3:
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We are selling Damp-Rid by the pallet full at work right now.
It turns out the seasonal residents leave in their houses when they go back up North for the Summer. When Damp-Rid sales go up, the Snowbirds are leaving.
I learned a new
That picture was taken of a tourist line that I visited when near Las Vegas. Those are the actual, but not accurate, colors of the locomotive.
The train was not running that day, but instead they were renting two-passenger bicycles that ran on the rails. We rented one and saw some amazing terrain that was otherwise not accessible.
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Trains I Have Seen on Vacation Picture #4:
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I will be back later.
-Kevin
Hi John
Your red beans and rice looks really good. Ol’ New Orleans Judy cooks a mean red beans and rice, It’s delicious. She soaks her red beans for two days and I don’t know what else she does.
I tried these railroad beans once just because they had Great Northern on them[oX)] Prepared them for a side while cooking cheese burgers over Kingsford outside. They weren’t too bad but prefer the Great Northern trains more[(-D]
You too! I may be the wrong person to ask as I’m quite indecisive and had the same problem deciding on colors for the bridges. Perhaps one of my defects of character from my marine sergeant Stepdad pounding perfectionism in my head for so many years[(-D]
I know the most common railroad colors through the years has been black, silver, grays, brown, rust, and they have a new modern light gray/green because they’re painted with epoxy and it’s a very durable paint. There’s also this hybrid type of steel that surface rusts and then it stops.
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The Warren through truss is going to be medium gray.
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The triple Warren pony truss is going to be traditional black.
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The curved girder bridge is going to be DMIR brown like in Duluth.
3 1/2) The ore tipple the same.
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The through Gator truss is going to be silver.
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The double Viaduct stones are already treated and complete.
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The culvert bridge stones are painted and complete as well.
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The timber trestle is going to be shades of creosote and wood tones, lighter colors sprayed from the t
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Good afternoon from the cloudy Pacific Rim.
Just tore it up on the bike and once I stop sweating will hit the shower and do 10k with my bud.
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I also think that being able to retain a sense of humour helps!
I’ll go along with that one
Speaking of which, that smoldering campfire doesn’t look like it was lacking good friends, good conversation, or any laughter around it from the night before. It looks like just the right kind of sett
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Here is one I took while visiting my son in Colorado, picture is taken near Nederland, CO.
Rick Jesionowski
The problem for me with crap like that is a full box would only last about 45 minutes before it would be empty! I don’t allow that stuff in my house anymore…[:-^][;)]
I heard someplace that the phrase, “Hurray for our side” came from the day Lady Godiva rode down that street in Covington side saddle… not sure how true, but…[:-^]
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Ya, we don’t bring anything into the house that is crap either. Before the wife chucked them she pushed them across the counter to me and said with an impish grin, “here have a cookie”, I said, “ya, no”. There are 4830 calories of nothingness in that box of cookies, good for a pound and a half of weight gain. That is two days of calorie intake for me with no nutritional value.
Only went 7.72km on the walk today. Took a different trail that took us down a 137m elevation change in short order and right back up again. So we came to a spot where the trail went three ways and the dog chose the shortcut, the deadbeat.[:-^]
First back to the front door as usual.
Long way down.
According to the Garmin, I Burned 610 calories on the walk and 804 on the bike today plus my daily doing nothing burn is about 2500 calories. I have not eaten a thing today yet so I see a huge bowl of hot air popcorn in my future drowned in butter right after the huge steak the wife bought yesterday. Bring it on! We have no booze in the house right now so life isn’t quite perfect, but close.
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Somehow that GP30 at the Nevada Southern museum got repainted using the wrong grey.
Union Pacific EMD GP30 UP 844 Nevada Southern Railway Museum - Boulder City, Nevada, USA by Tomás Del Coro, on Flickr
ScaleTrains is sort of taking some heat as they are offering the model done in the “correct for the museum” but wrong for Harbor Mist version in HO.
Storms coming through Ohio right now.
I may repaint one of my steel bridges in the lighter green color just for variety. I like the look.
Cheers, Ed
I lied, the wife just brought me a glass of Cab. She had been shopping.[dinner]
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Not a chance. I got a deal with the State Patrol. I don’t bust their laws, and they don’t bust my chops.
Good evening everyone.
I just ate the left-over red beans & rice from a couple of days ago. It was much better today. Still not as good as I usually make.
Imgur is acting up right now, so no train picture with this post. I will be back later.
-Kevin
Good morning
I found it amusing that universities did studies after a famous 1970s TV commercial. Some of the college students wanted to find out.
Apparently some of the thousands of dollars parents funded for their childrens college education, paid for nonsense[(-D]
Courtesy of tootsie.com
Here’s the classic 70s commercial.
Have a great hump day gentlemen[;)]
TF