APRIL, 2021
For the APRIL Diner our host David will guide the Diner patrons through the beautiful environs of Scotland. This is sure to be an enjoyable ride!
Please join in and suggest or contribute ideas for locations or trains to ride in your favorite locale.
Mr. Randy Rinker added retroactively.
Ed: Thank you for opening the new diner in Scotland!
The painters have the entire house covered in primer. My house is no longer pink! They painted the soffet and roof trim. It looks great.
The main paint colour goes on over the next few days.
The World Is A Beautiful Place.
-Kevin
Good morning all. Plenty of toast, tea and marmalade.
Thanks Dave for Last month.
Ed. Thanks for setting things up for our trip around Scotland.
Today we start our journey in Glasgow.
For those with jetlag (or whatever) a walk around Glasgow whilst I sought out our train journey.
Glasgow Central Station
Our first few days will be in the area controlled by The Glasgow & South Western Railway Company
Thanks X 3.
#1, Dave, for hosting last monthās Diner.
#2, Ed for moving the Diner.
#3, David for hosting this monthās Diner.
A musical interludeā¦
Thoughts and Best Wishes to All that need them. Kia Kaha.
Settle down with a glass of whisky for a little trip from Glasgow Central to Largs. Then to Wemyss Bay Station and Gourock.
Thoughts & Peace to All who Require.
David
Good morning, diners! I must have slept on the plane flight to Scotland ā I donāt remember a thing.
Dave and Ed, thanks for last month and for getting us here safely.
David, thanks for the videos. Great scenes so far.
Itās another busy day for me. But, today is the last day for things to do. Tomorrow I settle back into retirement with full days of nothing scheduled.
I wish for everyone to enjoy April 1st.
Yesā¦ another thank you to Dave for the very interesting diner trip last month and all the interesting information that Ed added along the way. It was a lot of fun.
David, thank you for the trip to Scotland this month.
-Kevin
Howdy everybody.
Scotland should be fun. I have ancestors from there. Thanks, Ed, for starting the thread, and thanks David UK for your posts so far this month.
I just saw in Facebook, HO models of Grand Trunk Western GP9Rās will be made in Detroit, MI by a small company called Motown Models. Remarkable.
Everybody:ā¦ Have a nice day. Watch out for April 1st pranks.
Various Railway Companies had their own stations that had landing stages for the ships to travel to islands and other ports on the coast.
The Caledonian Railway had one at Wemyss Bay. I made many a trip from there to Rothesay.
Enjoy.
Stay Safe
David
Thanks for hosting this monthsā tour, David and hats off to you, Dave for last months enjoyable ride!
I found rooms in a quite agreeable little place here in Dumfries:
Dumfries_Scotland by Edmund, on Flickr
Now what do you suppose this little trolley is used for?
Dumfries_Scotland_crop by Edmund, on Flickr
Looks like it could be for carrying 120mm mortar shells? Flower vases?
Iām looking at schedules to fit in my visit to the Forth bridge.
19960606 08 Firth of Forth Bridge by David Wilson, on Flickr
Our April foolsā joke is about two inches of snow outside [^o)] Looks like Iāll be forced to spend another night in the train room!
Cheers, Ed
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We had a ācold frontā go through today. It gave us the first rain we have had in over three weeks. The temperatures are not changing, still 70/90 down here, but the humidity will be lower tomorrow.
-Kevin
Iāve had a traumatic change in my life:
Two weeks ago, I was in Florida. It was 90Ā°, high humidity, I wore a T-Shirt, and I sweated like a cook in a hot kitchen.
Yesterday, for my morning walk, I had on a T-Shirt, regular shirt, coat, gloves, and hat, and I was still cold.
My schedule has cleared up, and Iām going to work on my Arduino crossing signals. Iāve spent a lot of time on getting the materials, making the crossing signals, and learning the Arduino programming. Sometimes I wonder if itās worth it for some small crossing signals that most people wonāt notice. But ā¦ what else do I have to do? Itās not like Iām overloaded with an actual job.
Howdy
David UK ā¦ The Wemyss Bay Railway station is amazing. Glad it was restored.
Ed ā¦ The Forth Bridge is remarkable, and I agree we should see it this month.
Weather? ā¦ Colder than normal here today.
Happy Model Railroading.
Good Evening,
I got my first covid shot today. The process was quite smooth considering the size of the facility.
David, Robbie was asking me when we will be visiting the Highlands as he is hoping to see packs of Westies hunting badgers. I told him his ancestors did that but not now. Besides with his bad leg he would just have to watch from the train window. He was disappointed but a treat soon made him happy.
Ken, where are you? Maybe heās having computer trouble.
Since I was in a facility with hundreds of people my wife has me in a 2 week basement quarantine. Everyone was 6 feet apart and wearing masks but that doesnāt matter I might be contaminated.
Time for tea and some Scottish short bread. One of my favouite combos.
CN Charlie
Temperaturse skyrocketing to 60Ā°F on Sunday!
KBKL_April2 by Edmund, on Flickr
Low of 23Ā° tonight? Brrr.
Thatās April around the Great Lakes.
19960606 06 North Queensferry by David Wilson, on Flickr
Homemade pizza tonight [dinner]
The dough has risen, time to punch 'er down, then open a Heinekin [B]
Cheers, Ed
Eveninā folks!
Just a cup of decaf before I hit the hay for the night, Floā¦
Tuesday I put in a little over 5 miles of running and walking. Beautiful day in the high 50ās low 60ās and I finished up 5,000 miles according to Fitbit with two weeks to spare to get it done in 3 years. That is the equivalent of from my house (In the Finger Lakes Region of NYS) to close to San Francisco and back again. Today, I stayed inside as I donāt like to run when there is a blizzard of little white things out there and a 25 MPH windā¦ LOL [:-^] I only walked to the mailbox at the street and back again and wore my winter coat to do that!
Vaccinationā¦ I am now āFully Vacinatedā having been more than two weeks since the second dose and got the great news that the lady I have been dating (if you can call it that during a pandemicā¦ Although we did power walk about 4 miles on the old Erie Canal Trail where the tracks for the Rochester and Eastern Trolley line once were a couple weeks ago) did get her first dose and will get the second dose a week from Saturday!!! We have already started planning some places to go during the summer. I plan to take her on a Helicopter Ride and she want us to visit a museum near Buffalo, NY (might be a train museum I have been to many times but wouldnāt mind seeing again).
Hope everyone has a great Easter or whatever you celebrate and stay safe! Great to hear of many of you having gotten the vaccine!!!
73
I was weeding dandelions today, in this storm, a first for me to weed in the snow.
The miscellaneous mechanical doo-dads on the South side of the house have been masked off and painted.
The house should be done next week. Not much happened today because of the rain.
The new garage door should be installed withing six weeks. 170 MPH Category 5 insulated garage door with new track and springs was less than $1,600.00 installed. That was a nice surprise.
Things around here are going in the right direction, but still way behind schedule.
The World Is A Beautiful Place.
-Kevin