Well good evening gentlemen all and happy hump day (?)… Right then Leon-as its a cold and generally horrid night out there (gales,driving rain and a 7.8 metre tide doing a mini New Orleons to the cottages along the river bank ) how about a round of winter warmers,just to get us all in shape-Newcastle Brown for the first shout,Marstons Pedigree after that then the rich dark tones of Belhaven 90 shilling ale ( a pint of heavy ) to see us through the evening…[^] So then,lots to do-but first,a small wager…I will stake a weeks drink for the house ( oh yes) against a small bag of unsalted nuts that the new Can-Am steam fleet will NOT make it from the boxes to the display case without a wee scamper round the line-I defy our generous host not to be entranced by the whirling con rods & valve gear,and,once tried I would further wager that room might be found in the confines of Union Station for a fantrip special working of one of those beauties with a set of green C.N cars… In fact,I am gonna post this now so that the man himself has a chance to respond… [swg][C=:-)] |
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G’day Gents!
Just happened to be looking “in” and caught Nick’s challenge . . . Save your wages! But of COURSE each of those steamers will get a fair “test” run of the mainlines - both directions! [swg]
Something special about a rainy night at the Pub, eh [?] Aw what the “H” - have another - A drink for our man from Wales 'n serve the house one on me as well! Ring the bell Boris!
Tom [4:-)] [oX)]
Right-all still here-jolly good,now where was I-oh yes beer-Leon-same again please old thing-plus a tray of snacks if you would be so good,top man [^] O.K-post time- ROB-How goes it mate ?-glad you enjoyed the trip pix-was a grand day out ,generally,I am excused singing duties -opinion is divided on my vocal skills,I think I sound like Keef,everybody else thinks I sound like an accident in an abbatoir…(a fine distinction I feel) Was a good train shed moment-H. has her own Thomas ,Annie & Claribel but much prefers Daddy s and Grandads trains (smart kid) nice C.N pix-the R.D.C seems to have an unusual orange colour on the ends-is this just fading ?<br><br><br><br>[oX)][4:-)]TOM-Old Mother London-well mate ,to be honest ,I didnt recognise most of it-hugely changed since I was last there-all shiny new and completely without character-my dear old gran (rest her soul) would be completely lost (she was a true Cockney)-I think (but am not sure) that the pub in one of the pix is the old Marquis of Granby,-a true east end villains boozer (the bodies could be dumped straight into the river,to go out on the tide)-now its full of thousands of Tobys with pink shirts,B.M.Ws and important deals to be done…Speaking of Tobys-small Hannah was completely unprompted in her destruction of his ego-which made it all the better [^] and yes-she is growing like a weed in summer-she gets her looks and charm from her mother and her height from my side ( at 6 dead,I am the shortest male on mums side-the average is about 63" topping out at my cousin John at 6`7")PETE-Fine pix of the U.S 2-8-0 and the B1 [tup] TOM-a fine piece on the C |
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Apologies for not showing it earlier…
Right-now to model time:- some pix of Alans Swiss trains running on the layout
No-sorry-looks like I havnt loaded them in yet and as its 3 A.M I dont think its gonna happen tonight-gotta do the whole parent thing in the morning `cos herself is off to North Wales for a meeting…
Right-be with you when I can tomorrow,sleep well
all the best ,
Nick [C=:-)]
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G’day Gents!
Thursday has arrived - that day before the work-week’s ending! Fill up those mugs with our freshly ground ‘n brewed special blend coffee - grab a pastry or three from The Mentor Village Bakery case ‘n of course order a or breakfast from our Menu Board! [tup]
The rains from the remnants of Gustav have arrived - skipped us on Wednesday, but making up for it today. Another “test” for the basement wall . . .“They” say it will be out of here by night fall . . . nothing to worry about 'n in fact the low temps (70s) are MOST enjoyable!
Petrol is below $3.40, but only by a tenth of a cent.
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PLANNED ABSENCES:
(1) Eric is in Sweden ‘n returns home on the 7th . . .
(2) Allan is in Aussie-land ‘n will be gone another week or more . . .
(3) Rob will be gone for the last week of September . . .
(4) Pete will be gone for the month of October . . .<
Hi Tom and all.
A round please RUTH[tup]
TOM It has slowed to just gentle rain just now[tup] after many hours of quite heavy rain[tdn]. Really hope your basement stays dry[yeah] we have had a bit of water in ours but not bad and not from the place it was before[%-)], still having seen the flooding in Arkansas on the news,[:(] where they had 12 inches we have got off light I feel.
Great selection of classic steam locomotives for your display case[tup][tup][tup]. Clicking on the model photos shows the great detail on them[bow]. It will be a great sight to see them on test on the Can-Am.[^]
Yes I had found the link to the Granite Railway it is very interesting[^] and it is good and deserved that the incline and railway have been included on the National Register of Historic Places[tup][bow]. I was a bit[%-)] by the term ‘frost line’ though.
Yes I guess St Louis Union Station lost a lot of its culture when Hooters closed[:D], but seriously I am glad that I was able to see the classic locomotives and cars that was a great and pleasant surprise when I was first there in 2001[yeah].
Many thanks for the link to the train display cases [tup]it is good to deal with people who have a good recommendation[yeah]. A display case is something I am certainly giving some thought too after my trip to England, perhaps I may be able to pick up a couple of models while I am there.[^]
I agree about
Good Afternoon Barkeep and All Present
Just a quick note to let you know that we are back online in our regular quarters. There’s still a lot to be done but the roof is completed and the electrical work in my area is done. There is still some furniture to be installed but it’s not enough to slow things down. So, tomorrow we go to the end of the building and begin to retrieve boxes, move and unpack them. Gonna be like Christmas at Boris’s lift the lid and watch out for what might appear.
Will post more tomorrow. In honor of Lars, Go, Giants!
work safe
G’day Gents!
After a most unremarkable morning, we have Pete 'n Shane aboard for the afternoon! [bow] Hope springs eternal . . . or something like that! [swg]
Been manning the towel-brigade in the basement as the water has been cascading down in the areas thought to have been corrected. Arrrrrgggggghhh. Here we go again - have another “specialist” on the way . . . This MUST be corrected sooner rather than later. Gone too far with it, so it’s time to belly-up 'n part with that stash beneath the mattress . . . they are sooooooo insistent on destroying the basement rather than attacking the problem from the outside.
Okay - so, since those visits have “enabled” me, here’s one for this rather wet, but most comfortable Thursday . . . this one has not been seen at the bar!
Now Arriving on Track Number Two
Classic Locomotives
Number Two - NYC Hudson
[quote]
Hudson was the name given to the 4-6-4
Good evening Leon , just a quick Keith’s tonight and I’ll leave a twenty for the morning or afternoon crew.
**Tom-**To bad to hear about the leakage again, I was hoping that you had it licked.A fine looking stable of steam, there’s a little there for just about everyone’s fancy I should think.Not a bad RR among them should add [tup]
Nice read again on the NYC Hudson’s,that size and wheel arangement have long been a personal fave , espeacially with the beautifull Hudson’s that once ran up here the Royal and regulars on the CP and the five green Hudson’s of the CNR.Even a pair of J1E’s graced the rails of the TH&B as well.
**Pete-**Good to see that you found your lost post [tup] You must pay Vito his removal of computer gremlin fee’s and you should not be bothered. ( he’ll make you pay anyway )[sigh]Another fine round of steamers as well.Thanks for the info on that war built steam switcher as well [tup]
I’m glad that you have also ben enjoying Jeff’s site. He’s one I’ve tried to lure here to hang and caht with us but he’s declined,between work his family and maintaining that site he’s a bit tapped for time.
**Shane-**Good to hear that you are out of the toxic waste zone ( unless of coarse you go digging around Boris’s shed.Many things he does and posesses also creates green looking smoke [:O] )
**Nick-**Seems you’ve had an active couple days.The RDC was probably faded mind you the photo’s old too so it could be a bit of both.
Rob
WIERD TALES FROM THE BARN # 4 MISSHAPS ON THE MTC
Good evening again there Leon, lets see another Keith’s a round for the hearty individuals still at the bar.Here’s something from the basement archieves.
As we all know streetcar companies by their nature have often had derailment or other problems that would effect their day to day operations. Here’s a few examples of some of the miscues that slowed down services on the MTC ( Montreal Tramways Co )These are all old excerpts from the Montreal Gazette.
Enjoy Rob
Automobile didn’t get the blame this time
Westbound tramway traffic on St James street near the intersection of Inspector was delayed 20 minutes yesterday morning when a horse, drawing snow for the city,partially slipped down a large manhole. Traffic and work was delayed while a Montreal Tramways Company towing car equipped with a hoist was pressed into service and the horse lifted out.
Montreal Gazette Wed , January 12, 1944.
Someone is attaching stickers to posters advertising woman’s wear so that part of the models body is covered. Attached mostly to the sweater- girl type of advertisement, the stickers are in French. Their message translated ; “Respect Womanhood” , " She is your wife " , “She is your sister” , " She is your mother " , " she is your fiancee ".
A spokesman for the Canadian Advertising Co, said last night; " Yes we know about it.There haven’t been many stickers. Some crackpot I guess. There is nothing offensive about the cards. We promptly replace any that are defaced. "
Officials of the Sacred Heart League here could not be reached for comment. The stickers bear no identification as to their sponser or printer. It is believed that the person applying the stickers has placed his own interpretation on Quebec regulations that frown on nudity or semi nudity
<VIA Rail LRC-2 at ExpoRail - personal foto>
Friday’s Grin
Lines To Make You Smile
I used to have a handle on life, but it broke.
G’day Gents!
“They” say our rains have departed - leaving over 3 inches as Gustav’s remains headed elsewhere . . .
Friday has arrived ‘n y’all know the drill! Coffee - pastries ‘n breakfasts are ready for ya! [tup]
I’ve been in Email contact with Fergie lately ‘n he’s above 70 degrees north - which has put him out of sat comm reach. So, he sends his regards . . . they were heading to Thule, Greenland - not sure if they were putting in, or just doing their “thing” in the vicinity. Anyway - thought some would like to know! [tup]
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Hi Tom and all.
A coffee and a bacon sarnie please RUTH.[tup]
A lot less busy basement wise this AM[^] so I thought I would drop off a couple of photos from the Narrow Gauge railways in North Wales.[tup]
A locomotive shown at the bar before by Nick, Welsh Highland Railway ‘Russell’.
A half-size replica of a Darjeeling & Himalayan Class B 0-4-0 ‘SHERPA’. The locomotive runs on the Fairbourne Railway near Barmouth.
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Back later.[tup].
Pete.
Good Afternoon Barkeep and all Present; coffee, please; round for the house and $ for the jukebox. Just another quick stop today as they are running emergency power test here this afternoon and our connections are tenuous at best. All of the boxes have been moved and unpacked. The next next step is to organize everything but it will be here Monday with better electrical backup, I hope.
Twas a good night for the Giants last night and also for the SEC as Vanderbilt took it to SC.
Rob - I enjoyed your stories from Montreal.
Pete was by with comments and narrow gauge pictures.
Nick was by with comments and insight as well.
OSP - They forecast the end of the world over here for tomorrow but now it’s been changed. West Virginia is set to play at East Carolina tomorrow; not only a good ball game but also it may be subject to some interesting weather.
I am truly sorry to hear about your basement situation. Hope you don’t have to do a teardown as that dust gets into everyhting and everywhere (yuck!)
Excellent piece of the Hudson; I will have more comments later. Staufer’s Thoroughbreds is a good one - the covers are about off of mine.
That’s about it from here for now as I want to post this b4 we are darkened again.
Have a good weekend all.
work safe
Hi Tom and all.
A pint of Bathams please RUTH[tup].
TOM It was great to talk with you yesterday[^][tup] but real sorry to hear about the basement[tdn]. It was great deal of rain yesterday and the day before here, the weatherman said it set a record for the amount of rain in one day at Columbia Airport[:O]. It seems that some parts of Britain is having heavy rain which is causing flooding[:(][tdn]
Many thanks for the Classic Locomotives #2 on the NYC Hudsons[tup][tup][tup]. I think the name ‘Thoroughbreds’ would have suited them well[^]. Reading the Wikipedia link, I was a bit surprised to see they had trouble starting a train until a booster was fitted.
As far as I’m aware, the only tender standard gauge Hudson/ Baltic in Britain was an LNER experimental high-pressure compound with a water tube boiler, introduced in 1929. It was rebuilt and a conventional loco in 1937.
Great photos in the other link[^][tup], one of the sites has photos from railways from Britain as well as America.
Thanks for the regards from Fergie.[tup]
What a great idea to have a company’s caboose with those models in the display case[^][bow], looking forward to seeing them on my visit.[yeah]
Yes I will try to keep the Western names to just ten at a time[swg].
The week it is just me in England Alan has booked me for a run behind another Duchess, No 6233 Duchess of Sutherland, on a mid week trip from Crewe to Carlisle[tup] the old stamping gro
G’day Gents!
Good to see Pete ‘n Shane make it “in” to help keep the bar afloat during these slack tides . . . Without either, we’d be hurting fer sure, fer sure. [bow] [tup]
Been a logn 'n hectic day - best I can say is my display case for the steam locomotives arrived in good shape! [yeah] All that’s needed are the locomotives!! [tup]
Okay - here’s mine for this day . . . It’s getting rather ridiculous trying to figure out who is going to come in ‘n when . . . so I’m gone-zo ‘til the ‘morrow . . . .
From the sub-basement archives room . . .
PASSENGER TRAIN NOSTALGIA #19
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http://cs.trains.com/forums/129/991587/ShowPost.aspx
Here’s something to enjoy regarding the RDC’s from Budd from a 1954 advertisement found in my personal collection.
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Good evening Leon , I think just a Keith’s tonight.I’ll leave another twenty for the morning again as there seems to be some life then.
**Tom-**Well it’s a bad thing that your basement dampness came back.I’m wondering if it ws just teh volume that was dumped on you that caused it [?] The ground is still probably heavily saturated after how wet a summer we have a had. Gustov arrived over Ontario today we’ve had about an inch inch and a half, but it’s come in bands,not all at once.
Nice to know that Fergie got that email off as I imagine being that far up even email contact would be spotty.
I wasn’t sure if that Hudson piece was new or old, I think that you must have put some of it up before on one of our many theme days from back in the day.At any rate it was top notch stuff [tup]
Hopefully the occupants for the new display case arrive as safely and as intact as the case itself.That was pretty quick turn around time on that getting to you.I’m glad that the Montreal Gazette stuff was to your liking.It has been a long time since I put that up, the original posting of it was page 3 hundred something of the first bar ( would be nice to even hit a hundred on the bar before the next plug pulling )
**Pete-**That was a couple neat pictures today thanks for sharing.Too abd about yoru basement wetness as well. Perhaps the same people built both of your houses.
I’m thinking that you are a wise and brave man for always supporting H&H’s culinary escipades.I’m not sure what the quicker death would be their food or not ordering it.I know which way would be more painfull[:O][B)]
Good morning Captain Tom and Gentlemen!!
Sorry, Leon, I didn’t mean to wake you up. I just would like a cup of coffee and a cheese danish, please.
Sorry for being away for so long, but I have been out of an ineternet connection for a long time now. I am still in the old country but is flying home tomorrow morning, Sunday. It is a rainy day here today. I am renting an Volvo S60 and it runs nice.
I’ll be back here at Our Place on Monday, when I will start catching up on everything.
A rainy day in Boston.
Have a nice weekend!
Round for the house.
<VIA Rail LRC-2 at ExpoRail - personal foto>
G’day Gents!
Saturday at the Saloon by the Siding! A glorious day here in mid-continent USA with blue skies ‘n temps expected to get no higher than lo-70s (F) today . . . yesterday’s high was 64!! That’s amazing for this time of year . . . but we’ll take it! [yeah]
Coffee ‘n pastries are fresh! And our breakfasts are ready for ordering! [tup] So, what’s the delay [?]
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PLANNED ABSENCES:
(1) Eric returns to the bar on Monday!
(2) Allan is in Aussie-land ‘n should be back with us in a week or so.
(3) Rob will be gone for the last week of September . . .
(4) Pete will be gone for the month of October . . .
. . . and we have Fergie at sea in perhaps poor to no sat-comm conditions - Dan “lost” in Sherwood Forest . . . Calling upon ALL who CAN to do so during daylite! [bow]
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Hi Tom and all.
A full breakfast this Saturday please CINDY.[tup]
TOM The arrival of the display case in good condition is good news[^] after the problems with the basement. [tdn]
Many thanks for the Budd advert from 1954[^][tup].It seems they were very successful for the Canadian Pacific as well[bow]. I wonder if many photos exist of the RDCs in service in Australia and Saudi Arabia[?]. I dare say they are still use in Cuba.
Yes the steam engines were very labor intensive in their maintenance and infrastructure like water towers etc. To think back in the day a great majority of workers in some towns earned their living on the railways, certainly in the UK.
That does sound a lot of fun looking for cabooses to match the steamers[^]. I guess they do them in the same era as the steamers but may be more difficult to find. With the BR models it would have to be different wagons and passenger cars as the brake vans would be the same.
I think the Southern Railway of the U.S. really got the tender design right behind their green painted Pacifics like the one in the Smithsonian[bow] whose photo as appeared a the bar a while back.
I had forgotten those Sacred Heart Ladies in the photo[:O]; I recall they even turned BORIS to drink. [:D]
I must agree with you in your comment to CM3 about Pay Per View[yeah], they used to do this with certain soccer games in the UK[tdn] not sure if they still do. If they are not careful they will kill the Golden Goose, people won’t pay to see it then when it is on without PPV they have found something else to do or watch[yeah], serve 'em
G’day Gents!
It’s just the Wolfman ‘n Moi keeping things together during daylite at the Bar by the Ballast . . . [tup] Some fine fotos from our Interim Governor General in mid-Missouri! [bow]
Here’s a spate from my collection of Random Fotos for this Saturday . . .
(1) “Our” TTC streetcar
(2) CNR FPA-4 #6765 at ExpoRail railway museum <2007 Canada Rail Adventure w/Pete>
(3) Northbound ARR Denali Star w/cruise ship cars at the rear <2006 Alaska Rail Adventure>