Volunteer firefighter, model railroader, and dear friend to many.
Jeffrey’s Trackside Diner was formerly Elliot’s Trackside Diner. It was renamed with new management to honor our friend.
Jeffrey’s Trackside Diner is a meeting place for all who wish to join. We may talk on & off topic within the MR forum policy. Talk about ongoing or future model railroading projects, or simply share your day.
Beware of extreme off topics when blowing off steam. Surprisingly political, religion, and rude language. One man can crash it when it violates the rules of the house… Cousin Vinnie or his younger counterpart Steven.
This establishment is opened 24/7 for anything you desire to eat. The staff includes Janie, the twins Chloe & Zoe, Flo, Daisy, and Brunhilda.
I guess I have been elevated to regular status and have been given keys to the diner. It is open for business and friendly conversation. This month’s location will be near the Union Pacific tracks in Clearfield, Utah where my grandfather lived when he was a brakeman.
Morning all. Notice I didn’t use the word “good” in it. Started the day off by forgetting the work phone and having to turn around and retrace my ride to retrieve it. Three quarters of the way rear brakes locked up [sigh]. One good thing a shop that happened to be on my way in was open and took my truck right in. Bad news is the VP is roaming my site without guidance [banghead].
Steve - Thanks for opening the diner. Appreciate the effort ! Richard nice always wanted to go to Utah !
Reinhard you still around ? The heat on that concrete has melted you into the pavement?
Lion - still full from the wildebeast ? I thought you might open the diner ?
Garry - hope your okay.
Ken - Lowe’s started your fence yet ?
Jabear - Doing okay ?
Ulrich - hope to see you in here soon.
Gotta run the truck is almost finished.
TTYL
YGW
Hey everyone else wake up coffee is on and breakfast is on me since I can’t get to W**k this morning.
WHAT? June Already. I must be getting older. Calendar says something about 68 this month, I think 10 was much better.
OK, Wildebeest has indeed been eaten (if that is what it was). But the LIONS are all on retreat this week with a Prior from California giving the conferences. Very Intersting, even if he is a bit on the long side.
Tomorrow is our fancy festal feast this year featuring deep fried turkey and a selection of wines from our cellar (which I ought to get up to the kitchen today).
I have been working on the railroad during the retreat, since I can get a way from these computers.
Happy New Month to all. Just a quick stop before going into wk (14:30-23:00 today). We will have a guy from the LBA sniffing around at wk today (should be very entertaining).
YGW - Sorry to hear about the truck. Hope all is O.K. now and that it did not create too many problems. Where did you break down? You should have called, maybe could have helped you out. I did not melt in the pavement yet, that will happen maybe in July or August when the humidity is as high as the temperature.
Garry - how are the cats doing? Hope all is fine with you and your family.
Need to get ready for another 8.5 hours at the “Fun House”.
Just dropping by to say hello! A nasty pain in my right shoulder woke me up early this morning and I have been battling the pain since. I was so happy the pain had gone away, but unfortunately not for long. Went to see the doc about it. He gave me a couple of shots, but the pain has not yet gone away. Seems as if I am in for a night without sleep.
Typing hurts, so I will be quiet for a couple of days.
Ulrich, So sorry to hear you are feeling tough again. Do take a couple of days and rest that shoulder >>> Then get back in here, we need your expertise and experience that you share, and of course your Dear Wife, Petra, makes the best goodies ever. [dinner]
We are pulling for you to get back to a normal routine very quickly.
No bike ride today–I am taking it off as a recovery day. I have been pushing myself lately with the resulting improvement in my performance. On Monday, my average speed was the highest it has been in almost four years. Yesterday I felt the effect of the effort, so today I am resting the legs. I will be back out tomorrow.
I have learned the importance of a good solder joint, or rather what happens when you have poor connections on your feeders. I have been having intermediate failures that have been driving me crazy, about ready to swear off of this infernal hobby. Now it appears to have been caused by the increased resistance of poor solder joints. In my defense, this is the first time I have done any real solder work in my life. Now that I have fixed the problem, I will glue the track back down that I tore up to hunt down the problem.
This type of loco used to pull the famous “Rhinegold” Express train from Basel to Hoek van Holland. Her drivers are 7ft. tall, allowing for a top speed of 150 kph, not much for today´s standard, but quite a lot in 1918!
Heading for bed now, hoping I can find some sleep.
Chloe, a large glass of iced tea would be fine right now.
I have been running errands most of the day… Went down to Mother Earth Natural foods and bought my month’s supply of coffee (Seneca Lake Blend and Marrakesh Express dark roast), then drove over to Seneca Falls to a huge Menonite group of stores that is basically a large dept store complete with a major restaurant. I went into the grocery part and walked up to one of their young cashiers, who was having a bad day, I think, and asked her where I might find vegetable seeds (was looking for Parsnips). She scowled at me me and said, over there, around the corner. I repeated what she said with a question mark on the end hoping she might be a bit more precise. She wasn’t. I didn’t know whether she meant in that store or in one of the other ones. Since she said around the corner, I got in the PiP and drove around the side of the building to find the only thing over there was the restaurant… Stopped at my son’s house which was on the way home. He has today off from w*rk and was doing an oil change in his new Lawn Tractor (replacing the “break in” oil). I told him about the seeds, and He said he has to go over there tomorrow to buy the bottled water they use for cooking and drinking (they have a well of questionable quality…). He will check and get the seeds for me if they have them.
Last night I got a bit more done on the area that I am building on the layout. Put the second coat of plaster on some of the scenery area and painted what was already finished.
Here is one of the “earth” colored paint I use as a base for scenery. Actually did that before the second coat of plaster in the front.
Taking a mental break before I head west. Well after arriving three hours late it has taken all day just to get the mess sorted out. Phew glad that is OVER !
Steve - I laughed OUT LOUD at your comment. I think I may have felt the boot a time or too getting ready to [*-)] uh ah well you know what …
Lion - Do lions eat deep fried turkey ? If so which do you like wildebeast or turkey better ?
Richard - Glad we are here nice !
Angel - What ? Your phone hasnt shown up for five years ? You have lived five years with out a phone ?
Reinhard - I didnt call because it was one of those God things. I had smoke rolling out from the wheel wells and being at least an hour from home I started praying- God need some help about now…When I finished I looked around and low and behold there is a mechanic shop so I pull in and inquire about getting teh truck fixed. Wouldnt you know that they were able to take me right in !!! God is so amazing ! An hour or so I was on my way to work. I broke down east or Centreville on 29.
Ulrich - I like your miss June too 1 I sent you an email with an old photo of the N&W Roaboke yard.
Mr B - Is the J that calender ?
Howmus - Speaking or Hot and Steamy did any thing develop between you and the lady friend from church ?
Jeremy - How is the foot ?
Has anyone who has Galaxies address sent him a letter ?
It would need to be someone who communicated with him very recently, seeing as he moved a couple of months ago. Do you have the new address from when he sent the funds for your SIL?
Day Off Spent around 4 hours running around today. I took the cordless phone home last night by mistake. So I had to get to work before Jerry got there, that way he would not feel Threaton by me! [:-^]
Stopped at Harbour Freight and bought a 11 foot electric pole saw and some saws all blades. I have a lot of dead branch over the piatio I need to get rid of. Soon as the wind blows, sticks all over the places. By the time I got done with other running it was 4:00 PM and I was beat.
Had Liberty Fence come out to give me a bid. Was not inpressed, total stumped him when I said I wanted the post sunk 3 foot, not 2 foot in the ground. Said he would E-Mail me the bid Thursday.
Wife is mad at me, and I don’t blamer her much. Now she did start the problem by calling aminal control and that is what started Yard Wars with zoning. (I had been cleaning up the mess before she called aminal control) So all I do on my days off is running and working on the yard. She’s mad I won’t take a day off and take her to lunch or dinner. While I hate eating out, she loves it. So I guess I will make the time to take her out to eat. I suggested she meet me after work on Sunday for dinner, but NO. They will be busy and she does not want to waite to be seated!
Credit Front I have Discover card coming with a $3000.00 limte and no intrest for 12 months with 13.24% intrest. Guess I will be shutting down my Capital One card, it like 24% intrest. Wife is mad about that was well! She wrecked her credit by not working and catalog shopping that offered her credit that she could not pay. Now this was 24 years ago, when she could work. When I bought the house the only way I could get the loan was if she was not on it.
I lived way longer without a phone. It comes up time and time again in the back of my mind. I decided to get a phone when I started college 10 years ago. Just in case something happened. It’s my EP/ET. (Emergency phone/telephone).
Brunhilda, I’ll have an Earl Grey tea with cream and honey, please.
Utah is UP country. I’m liking the choice for this month.
I worked as a section hand for the UP for a month right out of high school. Second hardest work I’ve ever done, right behind bailing hay. But then, I was 14 when I first bailed hay.
The job we were doing was raising track. A couple of guys would be out in front about 25-50 yards and clear away the ballast so the tamping machines could see which ties were new and or needed extra attention. The inside of the rails were marked with a stripe or something to indicate which ones. Then the rest of the crew would follow behind the machine with tamping rods and spike mauls to give an extra manual tamp and drive in any spikes sticking up. They do that periodically because the track will eventually settle. That’s partly why some siding tracks are varying heights, have dips, and have lateral shift. So, they raise track to keep the mainline level And in guage. We would start work at 5:30 am and have lunch around 9:30 am. The day would end about 2:30 pm. I still have my employee handbook.
this coming weekend is the Dupage train show. MOH is visiting her sister so I get to look for some inexpensive deals.
Hello to everyone, YGW, Ulrich, Ken, Ray, Lion, Ride on, Mr. B, Angelo, v8 Dennis, and I’m sure I’ve missed someone.
