just had my grandson's friends over and Ii ran my 2-10-2 with sound. Should have heard the oooooooohs and ahhhhhhs..they dropped their Power ranger game the secong I hit the "run" button.. Mrs Ta152h0 is out shopping so I am using her dinner table ( shhhh don't tell her ) ;D
Leave the trains on the table - to heck with dinner.
I really like the Bachmann EZ track for that is exactly what it is
I agree with Woody, and the wife won't mind at all. Just be prepared to take her out to dinner, works every time.
We have a great arrangement in our house, I take her out to dinner twice a week, and cook dinner at least once a week, and she doesn't ask me to do dishes. And when I cook, boy do I make a mess. :D
Bob
The quickest way I know of to get anyplace with a woman is to cook dinner for her. If you can read, you can cook good. Oh, by the way: the "mess" can wait til morning...
Well,
I can't cook, at least not past grilled cheese or eggs and pancakes, and sometimes my wife wishes I could, but, we have a saying in our house -
"Our favorite thing to make for dinner is reservations!"
We eat out 3-4 nights a week, eat the leftovers we bring home for lunch or dinner the next day and she cooks about 3 times a week.
The rest of the time I am on my own and thats just fine.
As for kids, they are a grown and gone - thank goodness!
The grandchildren love the trains - even without sound!
Sheldon
love to have a pushbutton steam whistle sound for my pickup truck and blast it at stop lights, and clang the bells as I move thru the intersection......there must be a kid still in me ;D
I was looking into getting a K5LA for my car. ;D Couldn't figure out where to mount it though...plus the cost
Now that's what I need - a nice loud steam whistle sound istead of a horn. Imagine the effect when you hit two shorts and ring the bell as you back out of a parking spot!
Gene
Quote from: Atlantic Central on April 06, 2008, 11:52:23 AM
I can't cook, at least not past grilled cheese or eggs and pancakes, and sometimes my wife wishes I could, but, we have a saying in our house -
"Our favorite thing to make for dinner is reservations!"
My dad always said, A man will never go hungry as long as he knows how to fry an egg. ... ;)
Dear Rich,
I once heard of a man who invited a lady to dinner and informed her that they would have to go dutch. To which she replied, "OK, Buster. I'll to to dinner and you go to Holland!"
In the rural communities of Pennsylvania the nooning meal is called dinner and the evening meal is called supper. Dinner was a term used by the city folk. Thus was told of a young secretary who called her Mother to say she would not be coming home for supper as the boss was taking her out to dinner.
Best Wishes,
Jack
Dinner for lunch and supper for the evening meal is common throughout the South, as well. When I was in military school in Virginia our meals were BRC, DRC, and SRC for breakfast, dinner, and supper roll call.
Gene
Quote from: SteamGene on April 07, 2008, 02:46:40 PM
Dinner for lunch and supper for the evening meal is common throughout the South, as well. When I was in military school in Virginia our meals were BRC, DRC, and SRC for breakfast, dinner, and supper roll call.
Gene
It's things like this that remind me that Northern Virginia is basically a different state from the rest of Virginia. I've never heard anyone use the word 'supper' in conversation, and indeed I totally forgot it even existed until I read this thread.
On a related note, I've heard 'supper' is (or was) used pretty widely in Ireland (but not in Britain, of course).
Timothy
Dear Tim,
Since this thread has be co-opted, here goes. Living in Altoona, PA we are very familiar with the merger of Conrail and NS. Does Conrail Quality equate with NS quality? :D
Best Wishes,
Jack
Well Jack, to answer that question, one must look back, back to an age of myth and legend. An age where the great GG-1 still held rule over the northeast, and an age where the legendary race of steam had just been vanquished...
Or just look back to 1976. Conrail inherited a pitiful system, where the dark lords of bad maintance and poor mangement had left the lands in chaos. But by 1999, Conrail was a strong, healthy railroad, a far cry from the dark years of before. There is no better railroad to be called 'Quality' than Conrail. Thus, for NS to claim it is 'quality' would be a defilement of the scraed memeory of Conrail, an offense to nature in the highest degree! And though the age of Conrail has passed, it will live on in our hearts and in our minds.
Timothy
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Dear Tim,
Very poetic prose! Sort of like Peter Jackson. It is a sad statement, I suppose to have lived in Altoona, PA since 1991 and not know much of Pennsy, PennCentral, or Conrail history. However, I have several acquaintances, friends and clients who have worked for the Pennsy, PC, Conrail and NS. Good and bad stories. I try to focus on the good stuff. Our local Altoona Railroaders Museum is a good one, with lots of memorabilia. One should see it sometime, just to get a glimpse of how it used to was. Deep mechanical and technological roots, not to mention plain grit that fathered the westward expansion past the Allegheny Mtns to the western frontier that was western Pennsylvania!
Best Wishes,
Jack
Jack
When Horace Greeley said (earlier John Soule wrote) "Go West Young Man", I believe he was thinking a little ways past "western Pennsylvania". :D
Couldn't resist it. LOL
Bob
Dear Bob,
"Much more furder, lak fo' or tree mo' stats, HAH?"
For me it is now a long hike to get to the loo! ;D
Best Wishes!
Jack
Quote from: Conrail Quality on April 07, 2008, 03:30:18 PM
On a related note, I've heard 'supper' is (or was) used pretty widely in Ireland (but not in Britain, of course).
Timothy
Of course. In Britain they have "high tea," which an Anglophilic professor once told me really stands for "high time we got something to eat"! ;D
Quote from: jsmvmd on April 07, 2008, 10:29:31 PM
Dear Tim,
Very poetic prose! Sort of like Peter Jackson. It is a sad statement, I suppose to have lived in Altoona, PA since 1991 and not know much of Pennsy, PennCentral, or Conrail history. However, I have several acquaintances, friends and clients who have worked for the Pennsy, PC, Conrail and NS. Good and bad stories. I try to focus on the good stuff. Our local Altoona Railroaders Museum is a good one, with lots of memorabilia. One should see it sometime, just to get a glimpse of how it used to was. Deep mechanical and technological roots, not to mention plain grit that fathered the westward expansion past the Allegheny Mtns to the western frontier that was western Pennsylvania!
Best Wishes,
Jack
Dear Jack,
I suppose I'm in the same boat. I lived my childhood in a town outside of Pittsburgh on the old Pennsy mainline, yet I was born too late to see anything but big blue GE Dash-8's. Now, living in Virginia, whenever I see the rusting catenary posts on the old Pennsy line to Potomac Yard, I wish I had been there to be able to see P5's, E44's, and GG-1's hauling long freights under the wires...
But then, I suppose that's the effect of technological advancement. I'm sure many who saw the GG-1's racing down the corridor wished for the days when Atlantics were the big new thing, and many who saw those remembered when the 4-4-0 was cutting-dege. Well, I'm rambling, but my point is that we'll always yearn for an idealized past without realing knowing much about it. Not that there weren't great things in the past, but there are great things in the present too, if we just look for them.
Timothy