Welcome to Jeffrey´s Trackside Diner for the month of July 2018!
It’s the place for you to go to relax and talk off topic about most anything - as long as you stay within the forum rules, which means certain hot button topics are excluded. Please refer to Steven Otte´s post on Forum Policies.
The staff - that´s Zoe, Chloe, Flo, Janie, and Brunhilda - is very friendly and will serve up plenty of virtual food with a smile. Just don´t forget to leave a generous tip!
Each month, the Diner will be parked in a different location at places all over the world. This month, the Diner is located in
well, no particular location has yet been chosen, so Vinnie and his staff are still open for suggestions! Mine would be Colorado, hoping that the Durango & Silverton RR has commenced steam services to Silverton! I went on this trip in 1974, when the line was still operated by the D&RGW, but don´t mind reliving that wonderful experience!
At the begiining of each month, it is also the time to pay our respect to friends no longer with us
The RIP Track
Barry Arnold aka BlownoutCylinder
Jerry Cox aka Cox47
Wolfgang Dudler aka Westport Terminal
Bob Hartle aka cmr
THE KITCHEN REMODEL IS DONE! Yes, finally it is complete!
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It came in on budget, but 3 months late.
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Next phase is the guest bathroom and guest bedroom. That will be followed by the Master Bedroom Suite, and then the trainroom. Somewhere along the way we need new windows, a garage door, and paint.
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After all that, the STRATTON & GILLETTE will be under construction.
We are starting a major renovation on Tuesday. We are having the wall taken out between the kitchen and the dining room. It is a supporting wall so that complicates things a bit. I won’t be able to have a continuous ceiling as I had hoped. I am not doing the work. 15 years ago I would have done everything myself but, alas, no more. I had a hard time just taking down the drapes.[|(]
Moving the Diner made me hungry! It´s sunday - time for my wholesome, unhealthy, high-cholesterol, greasy but tasty breakfast of scrambled eggs, fried bacon, buttered toast & jams, a stack of pancakes w/maple syrup, OJ and coffee in an IV bag, as I did not get much sleep last night! Thank you, Brunhilda!
Kevin - that´s a nice looking kitchen and an excellent job you have done! When we moved into our apartment, the kitchen furniture was falling apart, the refridgerator had died of old age and the range was covered in grease and dust, yet the landlord thought it was still OK. I made him rip it out and I put a new one in - at my expense, which ate up whatever money we had left at that time. In Germany, apartments usually do not come with a furnished kitchen and it is up to the tenenat to take care of that. When we eventually move out of this place, we will leave the kitchen furniture and appliance in the apartment. It just doesn´t make sense to take the stuff with us - after more than 10 years of service.
No plans for the day - only to stay afloat in this hot weather we have again!
Kevin … The kitchen looks great. Have you prepared breakfast yet? [C=:-)]
Ulrich … Thanks for moving the Diner… Colorado is a good idea. …
I just looked at the Durango and Silverton website. They have resumed operations following the devasttning wildfire. They will use diesel power for now.
It’s not a good year to ride the Pikes Peak Cog Railway. It will be shutdown for the 2018 season for major repairs.
The Georgetown Loop Railroad is operating which is very nice.
In past years, I have been on all three of those.
I model the Burlington Railroad which had extensive operations in Colorado.
The Denver Zephyr was a great way to get to Denver, CO from Chicago, IL. … Photo in Illinois of DZ headed to Denver.
The fox was back on the deck. I can tell by the poop he deposited. Not happy with that.
Dave … You were asking if we are in the country. … Yes, we are in the country, and are located on a large man-made lake. It is the Cumberland River with a dam to make the lake. The nearest town is 12 miles away with a population of 2600. There are two larger towns if we drive 30 or 40 miles.
Here is a view from our property to the lake. You can see a tow boat pushing barges in the distance. The Cumberland River flows from eastern Kentucky through Nashville, TN, and connects with the Ohio River in Western Kentucky.
Good Canada Day Diners! We are having (at last) warm weather for the celebrations here in Nova Scotia.
Kevin, that kitchen is indeed something of which to be proud. Very impressed.[bow]
Track Fiddler:
thanks, I tend to get carried away and forget that at any rate in N Scale, anything more than 3’ away is not clearly visible. However, a couple of things from the former layout I did place more to the foreground. This ended up as a load for a pick-up truck, and was sold when I thought I was abandoning the hobby:
and closer up
then there was a modern sanding system which is made by Dynamic Air. I thought it would look different on the layout and since it didn’t sell, it’s been rehabilitated on the new layout
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Lobster this evening, with Chibata bread and a salad; with strawberries from the garden and ice cream for dessert. So we have a more-or-less Red and White theme going through the day (wore my Canada Day tie to church which was fun) Better go get changed from gardening clothes for dinner eh!
Busy day, went to church, went to the local drive in for lunch, went to Home Depot, got some fence boards, went to an estate sale, bought some furniture for when I move out of the house, put the fence boards up, two and a half sections, did some yard work, mowed the grass, trimmed a few limbs, and now I’m going to go in for the day.
Tomorrow I have to drive and rain is in the forecast![(-D]
The only thing wrong with your choice for dinner is that you didn’t invite me! I’m sure several other members are feeling the same way![swg][(-D][(-D][(-D][:o)]
I love noodles, pasta, whatever you want to call it and whatever forms it comes in! Fettucini with meat balls and bolognese is my favourite, although squid ink pasta with shrimp in an Alfredo sauce is pretty good too.
Interesting day at w*rk. Electrical blip in the morning soured everything for the rest of the day. Managed to knock out the refrigeration system and we lost a lot of foodstuffs. When I left we had a refer trailer and were trying to save some frozen stuff. (I won’t know exactly how bad until probably Wednesday.) This is the worst refrigeration failure that I ever remember and I have worked there for a number of years.
Hobby Front: If everything goes right, I should have layout sections in town tomorrow. As I have mentioned previously, there are 5 sections of various sizes. (Three aren’t even ccompletely assembled.) I also got the leveling feet on Saturday. (The T-nuts should be here tomorrow as well.)
Canadians. … Happy Canada Day . I heard you celebrate on Monday because the first is a Sunday.
Kevin. … Thanks for the noodles.
Track Fiddler … I saw your DW&P locomotive and caboose in WPF. . I recall when CN’s US railroads did a three way locomotive swap. The DW&P Alco RS11’s ( like your new locomotive) went to Central Vermont. CV sent EMD GP9’s to Grand Trunk Western. GTW sent SD40’s to DW&P. The SD40’s were a better choice of engines than RS11’s on the DW&P. DW&P was entirely a bridge railroad between its junction with CN at the Canadian border and Duluth where it interchanged with US railroads . That was before CN acquired Wisconsin Central Which had been one of the connections at Duluth.
You underestimate us if you think we will only be celebrating on Monday! Most everyone gets the Monday off but the real reason (that the officials won’t admit to) is that we started partying on Friday afternoon and continued right through Saturday and Sunday. They give us Monday off so that we can recover!![swg][(-D][(-D][(-D]
We are having (at last) warm weather for the celebrations here in Nova Scotia.
