Good morning.
I’m showing off my model of “Skookum” in Weekend Photo Fun, and I’ll show another picture here. Shelley gave it to me for my birthday over 30 years ago.
I will be sharing my birthday cake with you today. [^] Lots and lots of candles. LOL
Happy birthday, Garry! I have a feeling quite a few of us in the diner have lots and lots of candles on our cakes.
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Happy Birthday, Garry!!!
Gidday Chloe, could I please have my morning coffee down in the back booth where I’ll be perusing the goings on in the Diner.
WARNING!!! More of the Bears holiday snaps, and none are railway related!!!
Christchurch, and its port, Lyttleton have long been associated as departure points to the Antarctic Continent. “Operation Deep Freeze” the aerial resupply, is currently conducted by ski equipped LC-130 Hercules operated by the 109th Airlift Wing Scotia New York, based from Christchurch International Airport.
The celebration of heroic failure is a curious part of the British psyche, two examples that have direct links to New Zealand are the ill-fated Gallipoli Campaign of World War 1, and Robert Falcon Scott’s fatal expedition to the South Pole.
[bday] Garry!
Bear: I love all the Antarctic equipment pictures. It is all very interesting to see.
One of my former employees spent a year in Antarctica. He did not have very many stories. Apparently it was very boring 99% of the time.
I survived my first real eight hour day at w**k. So far I have not been thinking about it at all. It better stay that way. As soon as the stress follows me home, I am out of there.
Another depot, and again, I do not know where this one was photographed. My only note on this photograph says “Depot Today Number 2”.
-Kevin
Evening Fellas,
Sharing an older photo of the old PM train station in Ludington, MI. Honestly doesn’t look much different today. Just more boards over the windows. The tracks in front of it have been pulled up and that area is now a gravel parking lot for a next door factory. My old neighbor got us permission to go in it one night so I can say I’ve at least seen the inside. It had long since been converted from a public station to yard crew facilities that had also been torn out. Still, you could make out where the old ticket counter was, and where the agent would have been in that bay window, there were still the old telephone plug-ins labeled “Roundhouse”, “Yard Master”, etc. That was pretty neat. Found a bunch of old bills of lading and other related paperwork. Nothing worth anything. There was still an old bagagge cart in there with a builders plate dated for 1938 (I think). That was cool, but I didn’t figure I had anywhere to put it, so didn’t bother asking about taking it. It obviously hadn’t been used in decades. Where the boxcar is sitting is a long shelter that I’m honestly not sure if it was orinigally intended as some sort of sheltered location for freight, or a passenger platform. There were no clues to point me either direction there.
Howdy …
John York 1, Bear, Kevin … Thank you very much for the birthday wishes.
Bear… Those are interesting photos of Antartic transportation.
Mike … I like the Ludington station.
Kevin … I like that station also.
Cheers.
Good morning, diners.
It’s sprinkling out – I will wait with my walk until I see what it decides to do – clear up or rain.
During the summer, I sleep in our basement. It’s dark, cool, and quiet. This morning at 4:00 a.m., I had a loud cricket act as an alarm clock. I could not find it. Everytime I turned the light on, it went quiet. I guess I will have to have a nap today.
This is kind of a neat Rock Island station in Lincoln, NE. It is now a bank:
While living in New Orleans, one of our favorite places to go was the plantation Oak Alley. Its 28 Live Oak trees planted in two rows perfectly framed the house. The house was open to the public, and it was a great place to relax, have a drink, and enjoy the views. The row of trees directly overlooked the Mississippi River.
This is the before and after hurricane photos. The house had very little damage, and the trees will recover, but it sure looks sick right now:
Have a good Saturday, everyone.
Good afternoon Diners. A large coffee please, Janie.
A belated [bday] Happy Birthday, Garry.
Love the Beartoon
Lovely pictures of stations.
A Station Building I like. Brechin, Angus, Scotland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brechin_railway_station#/media/File:Brechin_City_railway_station.jpg
David
Garry, how did I miss your birthday?! [bday][^] Sorry. Happy Birthday!
Bear, those are cool equipment pics. Thanks for sharing.
Ready to watch some college football today, and then take my youngest daughter driving later.[:S] Have a good day everyone!
Garry, isn’t it still September 3rd somewhere? [:$]
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Rich
BEAR !!! … That is HILARIOUS ! …
THANK YOU !
You must have spent a lot of time on that Bear Toon. Nice job of adding smoke and steam, too. I hope you don’t mind, but I copied the image so I can show it to other people.
Rich, Mike, and David: … Thanks for the birthday greetings.
Wow, I went to a club open house and train show this morning!
The show was outside in the parking lot. Beautiful day. The layouts were inside. They had just moved into this slightly larger building over the summer. It’s a small club with more interest in O scale than HO or N.
Good morning from the left side.
Happy Belated Birthday Garry here’s to many more.[^]
Just got off the bike and need to stop dripping so it is a good time to hit the diner for re-hydration. Six mugs of coffee, please.
Got my Daughter to Victoria and all moved in and stocked up. I visited my cousin overnight and had to leave early so did not get out on the water. I did enjoy as I always do the trip back and forth to the Island. I just park my butt on a life jacket locker and take it all in. I was booked back on the 1800hrs ferry but was ready to come home early. Checked for space on the 1500hrs sailing and it showed room so I made a beeline to the terminal which Google maps showed as 34 minutes away. I drove through the ticket booth and right onto the ferry and the ramp went up seconds after I turned off the engine. Perfect timing.[(-D]
B.C. Ferries has 35 boats and it was a busy weekend for them, our boat was full of U-Hauls taking the kids back to school.[(-D] It felt like the first day going to Hogwarts.
Had to pick a mutt up at the airport yesterday that is in town for a good time with one of our dogs. I will be taking her back in a few days.
Does anyone want to guess where this is?
I am going to hit the shower and then the trainroom.
All the best to all.
A few months ago I posted about custom pieces being made for the board game Ticket To Ride.
The artwork used on the tins for these pieces is available from the artist, Julianne Griepp.
None of this represents actual trains, but I love the style she used.
I ordered prints of The Mercury and The General.
-Kevin
Gidday Garry, I certainly don’t mind, in fact I’m rather flattered.
Besides it’s your original photo which I stole took liberties with!![:$]
I generally use GIMP to add the effects to a photo, and the length of time, generally not too long, required depends on how out of practise I am using GIMP.
I’m pleased you got a laugh.
Cheers, the Bear.[:)]
It’s a “Sweet” photo! [ip]
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I had this little snipet from long ago and my cousin in England asked me to send it along as she wanted to pass it to a train-nut co-worker. Most of you have seen it, but for those that haven’t…
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That’s an exceedingly odd number.
Why was that gauge used?
Well, because that’s the way they built them in England, and English engineers designed the first US railroads.
Why did the English build them like that?
Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the wagon tramways, and that’s the gauge they used.
So, why did ‘they’ use that gauge then?
Because the people w
Bear … Thanks again. I have never used GIMP.
Mr. B … Did you purchase any good stuff at the train show ?
Brent … I like the photos of BC. Also, that’s a long, funny joke about track guage.
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