Ulrich,
I’m glad to hear that Petra came through the surgery in good shape. Best wishes for a speedy recovery!!
Dave
Hello, Folks
Ulrich—
I hope that you can find some time to “decompress” and find comfort and solace with this very exasperating experience behind you. It is more than just the surgery you have to recover from, it is the stress and anxiety as well.
I wish for you both a peaceful time together…[angel]
Regards, Ed
Hey,
Let’s have another look at some neat B&O stuff, too! Shall we?
See 'ya later,
Ed
GOOD morning everyone!
Of shortly to mee the employment counselor about getting back to work.
Then train nut friend is coming to help with some things, for about 3-4 hours, will use him well, I think.
If we stay together and retire to Georgia, wiht no basements, wonder if we will give up the trains? We ahve been discussing that, as well as whether or not and where, exactly in the cluttered 750 sqft basement to build my new HO layout. sigh it may never get built is the sad part. I have long thought of Z scale, and MOH has thought of Z scale as well, It is compact and a nice coffee table layout would be cool in Z scale! So I have been perusing the ZSCALE MONSTER site. Expensive little buggers, aren’t they? AZL has apparetnly stopped making DCC locos, you have to install a decoder yourself, or do with good old DC. A simple layout in a small space wouldn’t require too much wiring or thought of wiring. LOL, I am thinking of a breif case layout or an under the bed box for a starter, nad maybe a finisher! If I start aquiring things now, I will be set for the odd retirement years to build it.
For now, though ALL extra funds nad even some not so extra are geared towards the MAUI trip. ALOHA!
well, I’d best get started I HAVE to trim my beard it IS a bit unruly before I go. Gotta get in the shower or I’ll be late, not a good sign for an employment counselor!
Have a great day!
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Gidday Chloe, a nice cold ginger beer for me please, and could you please put whatever the other Diners want on my tab.
Ulrich, I too wish Petra a swift recovery, after the previous fiasco I’d wondered if our District Health Board had expanded into Germany!!! Actually, come to think of it, I wish you both an easy recuperative period.
Douglas, yes please. I enjoyed your museum photos, guess it’s going to be the only way I get to see it.
YGW, aahhh the good and bad news scenario. I’m pleased about the good news, [tup] as for the bad news, that just seems to be part of getting older! [sigh] Still we can just keep on, keepin’ on!! [(-D][(-D]
Tucker
Morning all
Just stopped by to get a cup of Joe and decompress for a second. On a scale of stress w**k is about 99 out of a scale of 1 to 10. So if my eyes are popping out, ny hair is every which way, steam is blowing my ears like steamer pulling 100 loaded hoppers up a steep grade you will at least understand why I look the way I look …
I will be in the corner booth for a bit leting off extra steam
TTYL
YGW
Well, the cortisone shot has helped my knee a lot, at least for now. I was able to play a decent game of hockey last night - not good, but decent. I was not fully into the game mentally, still concentrating too much on the knee, but that will get better. And, this morning there is no particular soreness or pain.
Now, if the next activity, taxes, could only be as painless…
Good Evening!
Your thoughts and prayers for Petra are doing a marvelous job! She feels much better today and if nothing happens during the night, I may take her home tomorrow afternoon! I think she will be much happier at home, being taken care by me instead of those dreadful nurses. I gave the place a good clean-up, re-stocked the groceries, bought a bouquet of flowers for her and also some of the sweets she likes so much. I am a little exhausted now, but much relieved!
Bruce - good news about your knee! Just be careful not to overdue it, though. Wearing a brace for a while may assist the healing process!
Blessings!
Lunch time.
Flo - set me up with a T-Bone cooked meduim, baked potato with LOTS of butter, sour cream, salt and pepper, bowl of slad with blue cheese dressing, some hot fresh made bread again with butter, tall glass of ice tea with lemon…
Very stressful start to the day. I scheduled haul off with about ten dump trucks at $85 dollars an hour to start hauling off. I scheduled the loader to start at 7:30. I get a call that there is no operator on site at 7:30 ! I start calling his boss to find out where he is at ! No one knows. I then head to the site to see what can be done. I arrive at the site and BY THIS TIME THE OPERATOR HAS SHOWN UP AND HE IS STANDING THERE DOING NOTHING !!! He could have gone to the next lot and and started loading from there I again insturcted him to do so and he did NOTHING!! Ignored me. Had to call his boss and wait for him to call me back and then to call his employee. And to TOP IT ALL OFF the stubborn capernters had filled the lot we have to excavate with an entire lumber package of at least three tractor trailer loads !!! They had been order NOT to put anything on the lot ! I order the capenters to move their stuff and then the stinking fork lift tire explodes and their machine is now down and the material has to be moved by hand WHICH they REFUSE to DO. Now I am calling their supervisor.
So FINALLY an hour and half late the operator goes to start his machine and it is BROKE ![banghead] [banghead][banghead][banghead][banghead] The incompetent operator and the stubborn carpenters and broken machinary has cost us three hours of trucks sitting around. Total cost for NOTHING being done $2550 !!! I will strongly recommend to our office that these cost be passed back to them.
No wonder I am having issues with my heart ! Stress is a major factor in heart problems.
JaBear - THANKS ! Lunch was teriffic thanks for picking up the tab ! Yea it is good news and not so bad news deal. At least I live in a country where they have real doctors vs. wit
You are a good man. (But now I am craving some chocolates.)
YGW, it seems you have a whole lot of people out there in the trades with little or no basic work ethic, not only from your last post, but also from many of your other post I have read. as well.
Good luck man, I feel your frustration. Maybe you’d be better off, work, family and health wise, if you put on your tool belt, and left all those problems to another guy! [swg]
Mike.
YGW—
You Are Correct!
The B&O was catually trying to attract passengers in the late 1960s, just prior to Amtrak. Through the efforts of Paul Reistrup and Bill Howes at B&O they tried to make passenger travel on the B&O an enjoyable experience.
Five coaches were outfitted with projectors and movie screens to help attract passengers.
Here’s the “playlist” from an April, 1966 timetable:
The B&O even made an early attempt at an “Auto-Train” where you could take your automobile along with you using a bi-level auto rack tacked to the rear of the train!
Oh, those were the days, indeed!
Sorry to hear of your headaches at the job-site, YGW. It seems in every line of work there is NO Accountability in the workforce anymore… Sad but true. Somehow you have to distance yourself from all that stress. I know— easier said than done.
Cheers to all—
Ed
Good Wednesday afternoon Diners, and 
to those who have joined us since I was last in. It being tax season, I’ve been busy with ours – and it proved more complex than usual. However the wretched thing is in the mail (yes, mail – I don’t trust he electronic filing ever since “they” totally screwed up our first attempt at that years ago. Haven’t used computer filing since. It wasn’t easy to sort out and I’m not going there again any time soon.) However, co-incidentally, while I was working on the forms, Revenue Canada popped an unexpected refund from 2015 into our joint account! Not a huge amount, but every little helps! Since it looks as if there may be a usable refund for both of us this year, I’ve pushed the boat out and am in the process of ordering a Marklin Z steam 0-6-0 starter set from an outfit in Paris, France. If the price is firm from their web site, and they hold to their shipping quote
Checking in and catching up, I have been busy with w*rk and some house renovations on top of my radio restoration side “business”
Ulrich : glad Petra is doing better3,
YGW: glad they found your issues.
Garry: have fun in the Sunshine state.
I have a strange condition where the mesentary (around your guts) gets inflamed and causes discomfort. First they thought it was a block blood vessel but surgeon got another opinion and said, nope not it and we are not doing surgery just to confirm that yes that is, it. I found that with a few ibuprofen and some probiotics it goes away. They have done numerous CT and noted no chnages so they say. Take ibuprfen and probiotics when it flares.
It only flares about once every 6th months , stress a big factor along with long work hours and such. We did a lot of renovating the past two weeks and flare it did.
Now doing better back to normal today…[:P] as normal as one can call me!
Check with you all later.
Ed: (GMPullman), thanks for the ads out of the B&O Public TT. Brings back fine memories. I actually got to see a movie in the coach on the George Washington, between DC and Cincinnati. (This, of course, after the National Limited was defrocked). Also recall riding in the Dome on the Capitol, Eastward approching Harpers Ferry. The B&O, (and C&O), did go after the passenger business. Today’s railroad is quite different.
Hello Railfans!
Flo, draw me a sasparilla whilest I fires up the slide projecting device. Fellas, sit back and enjoy the show!
Hard to believe at one time this loco was visionary…
A beautiful string of cars. Not that Im partial or anything, [:-^]…
The outside G scale layout I mentioned…
Some of the exhibits are open to walk through…
And for those who dont like alot of walking…
There is a very interesting story behind this car, and the dozen others like it sent to America after a war. Know which war, or the story?
Ya think modellers are the only ones with coupler height problems? Heres the prototype for your woes…
You could eat off this loco, though Id kick you in the shins (twice!) if you did…
Back again - for a night cap only! Janie, something to make me go to sleep again, please.
Got up after only 3 hours of sleep. No chance to get back into dream land for the next couple of hours. There are just too many thoughts in my head, keeping me awake.
Although everything went fine with Petra´s surgery (at least so far), it made me contemplate the way we live. We are wasting too much precious time and urgently need to change directions. I don´t know how, as our means are limited, but I don´t want to continue wasting the few years we may have left.
Big thoughts for an exhausted mind!
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Evenin’ folks!
Janie I’ll have Sweet Italian Sausage on a hard roll, fruit cup, and trip to the salad bar… Oh, a pot of decaf would be good as well. What? No! Regular this time of night can give me PVCs. Huh? Oh those are Premature Ventricular Contractions…
“Premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) are extra, abnormal heartbeats that begin in one of your heart’s two lower pumping chambers (ventricles). These extra beats disrupt your regular heart rhythm, sometimes causing you to feel a flip-flop or skipped beat in your chest.” (Mayo Clinic)
Yep, one of the only times I really had any surgery, I was under a spinal block and I threw 18 of them in a row. Man, doctors and nurses were running around all over the place getting all kinds of stuff to stop them… My heart started beating back properly all on it’s own by the time they had the stuff drawn up to hit me with. They did insist that I make an appointment before I left the Horsepiddle the next day to see my regular doc. He looked at the strip they sent him and then at the EKG he had in his file, listened to my heart, then looked at everything again several times. He finally said, "I refuse to think there is anything wrong with your heart! This Horse Hockey happens often when you have been nailed with the pre-op stuff they give you. Now back when I was 40, too much coffee did give some PVCs every once in a while, but I would get one followed by several regular beats. Doc. said that is actually very common and not to worry about it… Unless I feel them often. And to cut down on the coffee! I told him I only have one in the
Evening all,
Douglis, the French box car in your pic was a Merci car [thank you] sent from France in 1949 as a thanks for all the relief packages people from the US sent after WW2
For more: http://www.mercitrain.org/
the french box car is also the symbol of the
la Société des Quarante Hommes et Huit Chevaux [40 n 8] for more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_and_Eight_veterans_organization
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Hello all. I don’t stop in here much, but I popped in for a quick look around and saw Ed’s B&O passenger material. I recall riding the Capitol Limited and seeing the remake of “Stagecoach”. This was way back in the days of film reels. A screen was pulled down from the ceiling and the film was shown in the dining car after dinner.
That film was produced in 1966, and starred Ann Margret, Bing Crosby, Bob Cummings, Alex Cord, and others. The original was better, but Ann Margret made it quite enjoyable.
I don’t remember the date, but I’m guessing it was around Christmas time, 1966.
Glad to hear everybody’s health is improving!
Tom