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February may be the month of love, but every month is filled with amazing snacks and treats at Disney Parks! Disney just announced all of the delicious desserts available at Walt Disney World all February long. We can hardly contain our excitement (or our appetites), and we bet you’ll be just as eager to try these sweets as we are. Keep reading to check out the special Walt Disney World desserts available now. Spoiler alert: they’re almost too cute to eat!
Disney’s Animal Kingdom has to be one of our top Disney Parks, and one of the main reasons why has to be the food. You can find amazing food at this park, including these epic cupcakes.
The purple lotus flower cupcake is a yellow vanilla cupcake filled with strawberry mousse and topped with a blooming purple buttercream lotus flower. This gives us major Pandora vibes! After riding Flight of Passage, head over to Creature Comforts or Restaurantosaurus to pick up this beauty. Bonus points if you bring your cupcake to Pandora’s moss wall and take a photo wearing your Potion Purple ears!
Also available at Disney’s Animal Kingdom is the Simba cupcake. This is the perfect treat for every “The Lion King” fan (and anyone who loves a cute dessert, for that matter!). It’s a yellow vanilla cupcake filled with white chocolate mousse and topped with buttercream, an edible portrait of Simba himself, and a mane of orange and yellow icing. You’ll find this dessert at Isle of Java and Pizzafari.
Heads up: the waffles at the Tusker House breakfast buffet are now themed to Simba and Nala! We love Tusker House, and with “The Lion King” anniversary this year, we think these waffles are the perfect tribute to our favorite lions. Make a reservation on the official website here.
It’s the anniversary of “Sleeping Beauty,” so what better way to celebrate our favorite sleepy Princess Aurora than with a themed cupcake? It looks like they couldn’t decide whether to go with pink or blue for this one (just like Flora and Merriweather!), and this treat is just as magical as Aurora’s ever-changing gown. You’ll find this vanilla cupcake with cotton candy buttercream at the Intermission Food Court at Disney’s All-Star Music Resort.
We love “The Little Mermaid,” so anything inspired by Ariel and her friends is definitely a favorite of ours. This beautiful cupcake is almost too pretty to eat, but we’re up for the challenge. This mermaid tail cupcake is decorated with colors inspired by Ariel herself. It is a vanilla cupcake filled with pineapple compote and topped with coconut buttercream, crispy pearls, graham cracker crumbs, edible glitter, and a white chocolate mermaid tail. Find it at Landscape of Flavors at Disney’s Art of Animation Resort.
Like most Disney fans, we love everything “Frozen”-themed. So when we saw that Epcot’s Norway pavilion was serving up a dessert inspired by Sven, we knew we had to share it. Head over to Kringla Bakeri og Kafe to pick up Sven’s apple cheesecake. You won’t regret it!
Disney couldn’t share the February sweets without mentioning Epcot’s International Festival of the Arts! Sunshine Seasons is known for having an incomparable array of food, from savory dishes to sweet dishes and everything in between. This quick service location in the Land pavilion at Epcot is always offering interesting dishes, and you’ve got to try this cupcake. It is multicolored vanilla cake splattered with edible colors and topped with peanut butter buttercream and a miniature paintbrush. Grab this dessert and head over to check out everything else the festival has to offer before it ends on February 25.
Last but not least is the most important Disney Parks character of all, Mickey Mouse! Amorette’s Patisserie in Disney Springs is always baking decadent desserts inspired by Disney characters and seasonal events. This time, they’re serving a pastry inspired by our favorite Disney Parks snack, the Mickey Premium Bar. This dome cake is the most beautiful pastry we’ve seen from Amorette’s (but that’s probably because we go crazy for everything Disney snack-inspired). You won’t want to miss out on this beauty!
Which of these delightful desserts are you most excited to try on your upcoming Walt Disney World vacation? Let us know in the comments!


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BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, NOVEMBER 9TH 2011 (CUOPM) – Sri Lanka’s Southern City of Hambantota, bidding to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games, hosted a Gala Dinner, which showcased its tasty culinary, but also a splendid cultural performance in the court yard of the posh St. Kitts Marriott Resort on Tuesday night.
Hundreds of delegates to the Commonwealth Games Federation General Assembly and locally invited guests attended.
Dinesh Weerawansa writing for the Sri Lanka Daily News said Sri Lanka has been allocated No. 9 for the electronic voting to select the host city during Friday’s Commonwealth Games Federation General Assembly.
Australia’s Gold Coast City which is the other city bidding for the 2018 Games has been allocated No.4. The number allocations were made after a lucky draw between the representatives from the two candidate cities. Sri Lanka was represented at the draw by the Secretary General of the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka, Maxwell de Silva.
Both camps are making their last minute attempts to woo the 71 eligible votes but many independent observers feel that Hambantota takes a slight advantage due to various reasons. “Gold Coast has better infrastructure facilities but Hambantota’s proposal to have a complete newly constructed sports city looks more impressive,” a member of an African nation with voting rights, who wished to remain anonymous, said.
Hambantota 2018’s chances of making it the winning bid would be boosted by a guaranteed vote base from the Asian, African and the Caribbean regions. In contrast, Gold Coast would pin its hopes on voting that they lobby mainly from European, Americas and Oceania regions.
Out of six continents, Africa has the highest number of 18 member states in the CGF with the Caribbean having the second highest number of 15. The other member countries which will be eligible for voting would be 13 from Oceania and eight each from Asia, Americas and Europe.
Former Sri Lanka Test captain Aravinda de Silva, who was a household name in the Caribbean and the other cricket-playing nations, is a big attraction at Sri Lanka suite situated at the Marriot Resort here in St. Kitts. The Commonwealth Games Federation office at the Marriot is located between the two exhibition cabins of the two bid cities.
The Hambantota 2018 Bid Committee, headed by the Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal and Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage, hosted a gala dinner at the Marriot Hotel poolside for the delegates of the CGF. Sri Lankan contingent was dressed in their traditional attire. Live performance by popular band ‘Doctor’ and Budawatte Dance Troupe, specially flown down for the big occasion, added colour to the Gala Dinner, prepared by special chefs from the Cinnamon Grand, Colombo.
Aanarkali was the popular compair while 2010 Miss Sri Lanka sang a popular English number.
Following a welcome by the distinguish audience, Aravinda de Silva said the hosting the Games would be a big inspiration to future sports stars. He recalled his playing days and described how former West Indian captain Sir Vivian Richards became the inspiring factor of his batting style.
Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage and Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa joined the Sri Lanka contingent in St.Kitts yesterday. They were seen speaking to foreign delegates who attended last night’s gala dinner, explaining what Hambantota would offer if the city gets a chance to host the Games in seven year’s time.
NOC President Hemasiri Fernando, AASL President Major General Palitha Fernando, AASL Vice President Prema Pinnawale are making use of their good offices to woo votes to keep Sri Lanka’s Hambantota 2018 dream alive. Most delegates who visited Sri Lanka’s suite at the Marriot were highly impressed and they were guaranteed that there would be ‘free smiles’ if Hambantota secures the right to host the 71-nation Games.
Co-Chairman of the Hambantota 2018, Cabraal, who is also the Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, met the Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, Sir K. Dwight Venner at the ECCB headquarters here yesterday.
Sir Venner said that St. Kitts and Nevis is fully supporting Sri Lanka’s bid and that Hambantota 2018 fully deserves to host the Games. Cabraal made an impressive presentation and pointed out that Sri Lanka has the right political leadership, stability, economic growth and ability to host the Games.
Meanwhile, the Global Tamil Forum, a front organisation of the now defunct LTTE, is spearheading another sinister campaign to disrupt Hambantota’s chances.

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@devsnek Is that a blocker for you for this PR?
@addaleax I think so. would it be unreasonable to move this back to fs/promises or at least add that as an alias?
I think so. would it be unreasonable to move this back to fs/promises or at least add that as an alias?
That is blocked on scoping Node's modules, so it would need to be @nodejs/fs or something similar. That's why fs/promises was reverted to begin with.
Please make this property enumerable: true now that it's no longer experimental.
It also no longer needs to be a getter.
@jasnell @Trott I’m also okay with completely moving it out of experimental status, yes.
I’m not sure about the scoping thing. It doesn’t feel to me like we should block features until we’ve figured that out, it’s been a long time and there hasn’t been much movement on it recently.
I marked this as author ready. It seems we can still revise the actual experimental status in another PR and that should not block the message from being removed.
@targos @Trott Yes, thanks – this should be fixed now.
I’ve also aligned this PR with what #26592 did, i.e. moved the API to Stable rather than just removing the warning.

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No matter what the circumstances may be, moving on to a more positive, engaging or challenging position means that you have to resign from your current job. Putting a sincere and professional spin on your letter of resignation will keep you in a positive light . Writing a sincere resignation letter helps you leave your job gracefully. Your employer and coworkers will remember your positive attitude, especially when you need a reference.
Give your employer at least two weeks notice when you hand in your letter. State the date of your resignation in the letter. Address the letter to your direct supervisor and make a copy for human resources.
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You may give a brief explanation for your departure but this is not necessary. A simple statement such as getting a new job offer or leaving to pursue an advanced degree is all you need to say.
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Close your resignation letter by thanking the company and your supervisor for their time and the opportunity to work them. Even if you're not leaving on the best terms, writing a professional letter of resignation can help you move forward in your career.
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Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Favourite, Green Book. Peter Farrelly having a way with flashing people. Not to mention Farrelly (whose other credits include There’s Something.
The Monkees singer and bassist Peter Tork has died at the age of 77. a movie, and even a comic book series. Alongside the TV series, the studio released their first album The Monkees, which stayed.
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FORTUNE — “Ninety-seven percent of Fortune 500 companies have been hacked,” says Peter W. Singer. their new book Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press).
Singer, Peter 1946-. Provides a good introduction to the whole of the discipline, from discussions about the relationship between bioethics and law, culture, gender, or religion, to a survey of the different approaches available in ethical theory. "Rethinking Life and Death is a book that only the distinguished philosopher Peter Singer.
(Mother’s name withheld to protect idenity of victims) yesterday filed a $1.25 million damage suit against folk singer Peter Yarrow after claiming he seduced her two teenage daughters and tried to get a third daughter to live with him.Yarrow, leader of the Peter, Paul and Mary singing group, pleaded guilty March 26 to taking indecent liberties with the Washington mother’s 14-year-old daughter.
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The most comprehensive book on animal rights out today, The PETA Practical. Give a Sh*t: Do Good. If Peter Singer's Animal Liberation is considered the “ Bible” of animal rights. Prefer a gradual introduction that's kind, not shocking?
He was best known for. midst of chaos.” Peter Hince, who worked on Queen’s road crew from 1975 to 1986 and wrote the book.
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Why is First Peter so important?. Jesus modeled that lifestyle. Peter therefore pointed his readers in the best possible direction, to Jesus Himself. View Chuck Swindoll’s chart of First Peter, which divides the book into major sections and highlights themes and key verses. Related Resources.
Peter Farrelly’s "Green Book" was the surprise winner Sunday evening at the 91st Academy Awards, taking home best picture, along with two other. under fire One of the anonymous accusers in the R&B.
May 8, 2008. Peter Singer, perhaps the best know living moral philosopher. list of links to online articles and interviews by and about Peter Singer.
none of the "Rhapsody" winners thanked Singer, who was accused of sexual abuse in January, allegations that the filmmaker has denied. Academy Award winner Julia Roberts abruptly wrapped up the Oscars.
Peter Singer is professor of bioethics at Princeton University and laureate professor at the University of Melbourne. His books include Practical Ethics, Rethinking Life and Death, Ethics in the.
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In this intimate and affectionate book, Peter recalls the highlights of his years with the band. My Life With The Greatest Rock Band of the 20th Century. By Peter Hince. the show will just have to be cancelled!’ Freddie Mercury, the singer with rock band Queen, often expressed to his beloved live audiences that he’d like to have sexual.
Lee was overlooked for Best Director that year in favor of Oliver Stone (“Born on the Fourth of July”), Woody Allen (“Crimes and Misdemeanors”), Peter Weir (“Dead. tweeted the video of Basinger’s.
“Green Book” also won best original screenplay. It was written by Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie and Peter Farrelly. there was a mini-medley from Queen — whose original singer, Freddie Mercury, was.
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May 20, 2013. But, asks philosopher Peter Singer, what's the most effective way to give? He talks through some surprising thought experiments to help you.
Jul 29, 2014 · Peter Drucker’s 2001 paper, “Will The Corporation Survive?” is a great introduction to his thinking and still remarkably fresh. There were however some things he couldn’t have foreseen.
Amazon.in – Buy Marx (Very Short Introductions) book online at best prices in India on Amazon.in. Marx: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions). Peter Singer identifies the central vision that unifies Marx's thought, enabling us to.
The Leading Brain is a fascinating book merging leadership and science. The book has done a masterful job balancing scientific insights about how we think with how to use this practical knowledge to become better leaders.
Putting the final exclamation point on an unusually tumultuous and unpredictable Oscar season, "Green Book" — the period road movie about a black virtuoso pianist and his white chauffeur and bodyguard.
Have our booking experts help find you the best speaker for your event. Name * Name. Email * Phone. Budget. Once you have submitted your booking request, our booking agents will work on our behalf to book Peter Singer, but in the occasion Peter Singer is unavailable our team will provide you a roster of other business speakers that can.
Lady Gaga, winner of the award for best original song for ‘Shallow’ from ‘A Star Is Born’, is overcome with emotion in the press room at the Oscars Bohemian Rhapsody, the biopic of rock band Queen and.
Peter Dougan Capaldi (born 14 April 1958) is a Scottish actor, writer and director. He portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who and Malcolm Tucker the spin doctor in The Thick of It, for which he has received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010. When he reprised the role of Tucker in the feature film In the Loop.
Oct 26, 2018. Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton. editor of fifty books on a range of topics, he is best known for Animal Liberation, with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction.
Alas, it appears my book reviews come every other year despite my best intentions to do so yearly. It’s absolutely fascinating to learn how Peter Thiel took down Gawker Media, and the third parties.
Apr 2, 2015. With it Australian philosopher Peter Singer initiated one of the highest. in the far future, very few other moral aims can produce a similar or greater good. Animal Liberation is a non-academic book targeted at the general public. There are compelling arguments to the conclusion that we should treat.
For those who prefer to click through online links, rather than books, most of the same essays from. Peter Singer: The Drowning Child and the Expanding Circle; Eliezer. Holden Karnofsky: GiveWell's Top Charities for Giving Season 2013.
Bring your well-mannered, leashed dog or cat to pose with Peter Cottontail. All pets must be leashed or in carriers to participate. Attendees should enter through the north parking lot, near Best Buy.
Jul 06, 2016 · Peter Singer specialises in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular, utilitarian perspective – and few people are better placed to advise on what actions we ought to take to.
But Peter Farrelly’s “Green Book” weathered criticism that. assault allegations against its director, Bryan Singer, who was fired in mid-production for not showing up. Its star, Rami Malek, won.
LOS ANGELES – Road trip movie “Green Book” triumphed over “Roma” to win best the best picture Oscar on Sunday. and in January accusations surfaced of sexual impropriety by director Peter Farrelly.

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Raceline Pirelli Suzuki’s rising star Jay Wilson finished third in the Under 19s Main Event at Toowoomba’s third round of the 2012 Australian Supercross Championships in Queensland at the weekend.
Wilson (18) led early on in the reduced 10-lap final, contested in difficult and muddy conditions that challenged the sport’s best throughout the evening. He eventually placed third aboard the RM-Z250 and maintains that same position in the series with one round remaining.
New Zealand Pro Lites Rookie Scott Columb was ninth in the 15-lap Main Event on his RM-Z250, battling through the final and into the top 10 despite a number of crashes during the race. Columb is now ranked an impressive fifth in the standings after three of four rounds.
Last year’s Under 19s champion Errol Willis broke through for his first Lites class heat race win, but his night soon turned pear-shaped with a number of mistakes in trying conditions during the Main. Willis is 18th in the series entering Newcastle’s finale this weekend.
The Australian Supercross series will wrap up this weekend at Newcastle’s fourth and final round on Saturday.


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text: "What I love is that each necklace tells a story; Whether it holds the names of those dearest to your heart or a phrase or a verse...It is inspiring." One Hand-distressed 1" sterling silver disc with 3 names right justified. List the names in the order you wish to have them hand-stamped (top to bottom/first to last). This is a custom order and typically ships within 2 weeks.


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Santa Claus melons are a cultivar of Muskmelon with a mild, melon-like flavor that is very sweet.
Also called Christmas melon and Piel de Sapo, a good-quality Santa Claus melon will be fairly large and firm with a small amount of softness at the stem end. The coloring will be mottled yellow and green.
Santa Claus Melons are low-fat, low sodium, and cholesterol-free. They're also a good source of Potassium.

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Hopefully you will find the answers to any questions you might have below, but if not you can contact us at hello@southbristoltoylibrary.co.uk or volunteer@southbristoltoylibrary.co.uk depending on the query you have.
How much is membership? Membership is £15 a year, if you are in receipt of benefits it is £7.50.
How much is toy hire? It depends on the toy as each is priced individually but they range from 20p – £2 per item for a fortnight (or month for certain items like scooters and play kitchens).
Why do you charge a membership and hire fee? We find it encourages people to bring things back or keep in touch about when they will return them, which in turn keeps things in circulation. Also, we are a not-for-profit charity and the membership and hire fees help with the running costs.
When are you open? We run fortnightly swap and play sessions on Tuesday and Saturday mornings. See our where page for upcoming dates and times.
Where are you based? Our sessions are run from the United Reformed Church hall off West Street.
Can I borrow items for more than a fortnight/month? Ideally we only hire items for that length of time to keep toys in circulation but please just speak to one of our volunteers if you need an item for longer or if you’ll be away and unable to return it on a certain date.
What happens if my toy is going to be returned late or is already overdue? It is really helpful if you let us know when borrowing an item if you are unable to return it in a fortnight so we can book it out for longer. If it is now overdue please bring it back to the next session you are able to. You will simply pay that item’s hire fee for the additional period. One of our committee members might be in touch with you in the meantime to ask when you are returning something, especially if it has been requested by another member.
Can I reserve items? Not currently, but we do take reservations for soft play party hire.
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Who runs the toy library? South Bristol Toy Library is run by volunteers. A committee of six trustees are responsible for all aspects of the library, brilliantly supported by over 20 volunteers who make our toy library sessions happen.
How can I help/volunteer? Either speak to one of us at a session or email us at play@southbristoltoylibrary.co.uk. You can find out more about volunteering with the toy library here.


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Last year we acknowledged that the Honor 8 had qualities of a real killer flagship. However, one flagship in particular had to watch out: the Huawei P9 from the same manufacturer, which offered very similar qualities in many respects, but was 100 Euros (~$118) more expensive than the Honor 8. How did Shirley Bassey say it in her song? "It's all just a little bit of history repeating." And so this year once again, the story repeats itself. The Huawei P10 appears and is compelling in the test, and then the direct-sales subsidiary company Honor brings the Honor 9 to the market, offering a model with similar features that is clearly more affordable by more than 100 Euros (469 Euros/~$553 recommended price, but currently the manufacturer itself sells it for 429 Euros/~$506; around $470 in the US). The SoC is similar and the display resolution, battery capacity, and according to the specifications the dual cameras appear suspiciously similar. However, the Honor camera has to make do without the Leica branding.
Does the Honor 9 come even closer to the Huawei P10 this year? We will out in the test and in addition will compare it with last year's predecessor, the Honor 8, which you can currently purchase from the Internet for less than 300 Euros (~$354). The Sony Xperia XZ and Asus ZenFone 3 are additional comparison devices, as well as the OnePlus 5, which can also only be purchased via direct sales.
Update 11/28/2017: new firmware B150 released. Details can be found in the Software section.
Compared to the Honor 8, there are only detail changes in the case. The fingerprint sensor has moved from the back to the front below the screen, and the back is now rounded at the edges, which is pleasing to the eyes and also improves the handling. The Honor 9 fits well into the hand and with just 2 grams extra, has the same weight as the predecessor, but is slightly heavier than the Huawei P10. The color variations are the same as the predecessor: black or blue, and according to the manufacturer, the silver-gray is a new color. The design highlight in all colors variants is again the back, which distributes light reflections around the back. The small bezels on the front continue to please.
The battery remains built-in and the device cannot be opened. The case is once again very stable and can only be twisted minimally, if at all, making a slight audible creak. Pressure on the back does not reach the liquid crystal in the front, but strong pressure on the front becomes visible as waves on the screen.
The storage equipment is sized similarly to the Huawei P10. The standard version of the Honor 9 has 4 GB of working memory and 64 GB of storage. Supposedly, for about 50 Euros (~$59) extra, there will be a premium variant with 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB storage. However, the 64 GB ROM in our test unit were only eMMC flash, and not fast UFS-2.1 storage as in the Huawei P10, even though for a long time it was a matter of luck which kind of storage you would receive.
The Honor 9 handles two SIM cards. However, you will need to decide between the second SIM card and a microSD card of up to 128 GB, since both cards use the same slot. Although the microSD card can only be formatted as external storage, you can still move apps to the SD card.
The USB-C port at the bottom now also supports USB-OTG, but it can still only communicate at USB-2.0 speeds.
On the Honor 9, Android 7.0 is installed and overlaid by Huawei's EMUI 5.1 surface. During our testing, there was an update which installed the security patches from July 5, 2017. This makes the patches relatively current at the time of testing. Huawei adds a global search, which extends over the whole device, including the settings, files, and data and online content, so that only one search screen is needed. Machine learning is also supposed to improve the storage utilization and make scrolling more smooth. You can display an automatic slide show in the Gallery app or search the photos for a particular person.
Unfortunately, Huawei has also pre-installed many additional and advertising apps, such as games or the app of a large travel portal. Anyone not wanting these apps will be busy for a while, uninstalling them. Among the useful tools are the Phone Manager, which can perform a virus scan and clean the storage, a separate app for applying various designs, and HiGame, an additional shop for new mobile games. Huawei's own VMall online shop is also linked to an app.
Update 11/28/2018: Honor has released firmware STF-L09C432B150 (3.13 GB) with user interface optimizations as well as support for VoLTE (Voice over LTE) and VoWifi (Voice over Wifi), assuming respective support by the network operator. Google’s security patches have been updated to 08/05/2017, and the new firmware comes with the Quik app as well as a video editor by GoPro preinstalled. Both can be uninstalled if necessary.
The featured LTE bands show a first clear difference to the Huawei P10. While Huawei's flagship shines with the support of a multitude of LTE bands, the Honor 9 shows itself as more conservative. The European version supports merely six LTE bands, so you should not go too far from the European continent, if you still want to use the LTE net. Similarly priced smartphones such as the OnePlus 5 are more compelling with 19 LTE frequencies. There are conflicting reports on the speeds on the Internet, and there are no official specifications by the manufacturer. Upon our request, Honor tells us that the smartphone receives data at 300 MBit/s and sends at up to 50 MBit/s. This corresponds to LTE Cat. 6 and is considerably slower than the Huawei P10 with LTE Cat. 12. In the well-developed German D2 net, we also had a decent reception indoors. At least half the signal strength was available most of the time.
All the usual current WLAN standards are supported, which includes the fast 802.11 ac networks and the 5 GHz band. The speeds are slower than the Huawei P10, and during sending they were even reminiscent of the P10 speeds before Huawei applied a patch that increased the speed considerably. Even though the Honor 9 also does not reach the speeds of the very fast OnePlus 5 overall, the WLAN speeds are okay by and large. We also check the reception and site rendering speeds near and at 10 meters (~33 ft) away from the router in our practice test. Near the router, the reception is fully there and the sites are also rendered quite fast. Further away from the router and separated by three walls, both values remain the same – perfect.
Even indoors, the GPS module locates us quickly down to an accuracy of 8 meters (~26 ft). Outdoors it is still slightly more accurate at up to 6 meters (~20 ft). That is an average value.
Now we look how accurately the smartphone can trace our route with its GPS module. We pack the Honor 9 into our backpack, also taking the Garmin Edge 500 professional navigation device, and take our mountain bike for a spin. After 11.8 km (~7.3 miles), our trip ends and we check how both devices have measured: the route measured by the Honor 9 is 90 meters (295 ft) shorter. Over a distance of 11 kilometers, this is a deviation that is not too high. You have to look for the detail differences with a magnifier: from time to time the Honor 9 measurements are slightly less exact and it draws a straight line where the Garmin Edge 500 displays the route more accurately. However, this is only the case in some specific, very short sections of the path. Elsewhere the accuracy is really good for a smartphone. Thus, the Honor 9 can be used for navigation purposes without a second thought.
Huawei has adjusted the Phone app slightly compared to Google's original, but all in all the operation is very similar. Contacts and Favorites can be selected via two tabs in the top right section, and at the beginning the list of recent calls and a keypad are displayed.
The voice quality in the Honor 9 cannot really convince us. Even though the earpiece and the speaker are sufficiently loud, there is an audible boom in the earpiece at maximum volume. Moreover, our conversation partner always sounds quite far away and not as clear as we would like. The microphone also records our voice when we speak quietly but booms when we talk too loud. In addition, we come across as slightly muffled and with little presence at our conversation partner's phone.
As with its predecessor, there is an 8-Megapixel camera in the front. Given the right distance, the sharpness is decent, but in the detail the color areas do not appear cleanly. The color representation appears quite cool. The quality is sufficient for a quick selfie, but there are better front cameras. If you like, you can activate a Bokeh blurring effect for the background and a Beauty filter which softens skin blemishes for portraits.
At a first glance, there is only little that has changed in the back as well. The dual camera with the 20 MP black-and-white lens and 12 MP color lens that is familiar from the predecessor and also the Huawei P10 and P9 still remains. The combination of phase and laser auto-focus also continues to be present, the same as the dual-LED flash. The software offers all the options that you get in the Huawei P10, such as a mode with blurring effects in the background or a manual mode. There is also a 2x optical zoom, which is made possible by the different focal distances of the two lenses. In addition, the black-and-white sensor collects more information about the image in order to improve the images of the color sensor.
As with the Huawei P10, we like the pictures of the main camera, the image sharpness is compelling; the colors merely appear slightly cool. Even in enlargements the edges fray only minimally, and the dynamic in dark and bright areas are also pleasing. In weak light, the Honor 9 cannot keep up with more expensive smartphones such as the Samsung Galaxy S8+. But the performance is decent and still extracts something from the available light.
Videos can be recorded in 4K quality with the main camera. However, then you will have to forgo the image stabilizer, which only works up to Full HD and 30 FPS. The video function brings good results, colors appear vivid, and the exposure adjusts to the light conditions well and quickly. Anyone who likes to record short videos will be pleased about the cooperation with GoPro. Via a special function, short videos can be recorded when you press the shutter release and can be automatically combined into a longer video later via the appropriate software.
The main camera also has to prove itself under controlled light conditions in the lab. Here, we notice that the image sharpness is reduced slightly towards the edges, while it is very good in the center. Text in front of a colored background is not reproduced completely cleanly, but now we are nit-picking. The color reproduction is slightly spotty and too oversaturated from time to time, but overall, we also like the representation of the main camera very much.
ColorChecker: the target color is displayed in the bottom are of each field.
The box includes a quick charger and a USB cable, and there is also a tool for opening the SIM tray. Currently, you cannot find any special accessories for the Honor 9 in Huawei's VMall.
Honor or Huawei offers a 24-month warranty on the Honor 9, which is another small difference compared to the Huawei P10, where you can extend the warranty to 36 months free of charge. Please see our Guarantees, Return policies and Warranties FAQ for country-specific information.
The Honor 9 uses SwiftKey as its keyboard app, but you can change to Google's GBoard or install a new keyboard without any trouble. SwiftKey is a very widespread and well-liked keyboard app which you can also download yourself from the Google Play Store. As well as many setting options, it also offers extensive statistics on the past inputs. You can use several languages with the keyboard at the same time, change the size, adjust word predictions, and so forth.
The touchscreen is very pleasant to the touch and can be operated smoothly. It is also very responsive at the edges. There is also an option for a glove mode, which allows you to operate the touchscreen with thin gloves in winter. The navigation keys for the Android system are touch-sensitive areas below the screen, and the fingerprint sensor is used as the Home key. If you like, you can also only use the fingerprint sensor, where a long press activates the Home screen, a short tap goes back one step, and a swipe activates the overview of all the open apps. After a brief familiarization, this works very well, so it is a matter of taste as to which way of navigation you prefer.
If the screen is too big for your hands, you can activate one-handed operation, or you can use movement gestures to take calls by raising the phone to your ear, or mute the phone by turning it over.
Huawei provides the Honor 9 with a Full HD display with the slightly unusual diameter of 5.15 inches, which is 0.05 inches larger than that in the Huawei P10. The screen is based on the LTPS-IPS technology, which is energy saving but also quite expensive. The OnePlus 5 is the only one of the comparison devices that has an AMOLED screen with organic light diodes, which can be completely turned off and manage without a background light.
With an average of 535 cd/m2 the Honor 9 can be quite bright, but the Huawei P10 and Asus ZenFone 3 can shine even brighter. At 92%, the brightness distribution is quite even, so that even large color areas are lit up evenly.
The black value of 0.42 cd/m2 is decent, but of course the OnePlus 5 with its AMOLED screen and absolute black value has an advantage here. At 1310:1, the contrast ratio is very good, and colors appear vibrant on the display. The white balance can be manually adjusted with an onscreen slider, but you can also select one of three profiles or activate an eye-saving blue filter.
We are testing the display in more detail with our spectral photometer and the CalMAN software, and for our tests we use the AdobeRGB and sRGB color spaces and the DCI-P3 color space that is used for movie projections. In the Standard setting, we measure a clear blue tint, but it disappears to a large extent through the Warm white balance setting and the color deviations are also considerably less. In the Warm mode, the color space coverage of the DCI-P3 is quite good, and also almost 92% of AdobeRGB are still covered in the Standard mode.
For outdoor use, the brightness sensor can be made more sensitive via the settings, which can make the brightness slightly brighter when it detects bright sunlight. In general, due to the very bright display, outdoor usage is easily possible.
If you tilt the smartphone, the image becomes slightly darker, but in general the viewing angles are good from any angle.
As with the Huawei P10, the Honor 9 also uses a HiSilicon Kirin 960 SoC, developed by Huawei. It has 8 cores and a maximum clock speed of 2400 MHz. With that, the Honor 9 is on the same high performance level as the P10, and the Honor 8 predecessor is in parts clearly surpassed. Apparently, the OnePlus 5 can pull ahead, but you should also bear in mind that OnePlus has optimized its smartphone here for many benchmarks, so that the results do not necessarily speak about everyday usage.
In terms of graphics unit, an ARM Mali-G71 MP8 is used. It also has 8 cores and a maximum clock speed of 900 MHz. In graphics intensive benchmarks, the Honor 9 is capable of a similar performance as the Huawei P10, and with that it can keep up with many current smartphones of the high-end.
However, while surfing on the Internet, the Honor 9 is slightly slower than the Huawei P10 and also slightly slower than the Honor 8 predecessor. At the same time, it is considerably faster than a mid-range smartphone such as the Asus ZenFone 3. Demanding HTML5 games such as those at letsplay.ouigo.com do not need long to load and then also run quite smoothly.
We test the read and write speed of the microSD reader in the Honor 9 with a Toshiba microSD card, the Exceria Pro M501, which has very high maximum transfer rates. The result is okay and even slightly faster than in the Huawei P10, but the card would even allow for considerably faster access rates.
During access of the internal storage, the difference to the Huawei P10 which has the fast UFS-2.1 storage becomes quickly apparent. Huawei's flagship can read and write data considerably faster. Yet the Honor 9 with an eMMC flash is still above the level of its predecessor and reads data fairly quickly. Overall, the loading times are not too long.
At this point we would not want to 100% affirm that the Honor 9 is a real games smartphone, since in "Asphalt 8: Airborne" it only achieves frame rates of 29 FPS, even in very low detail settings. On the other hand, in "Dead Trigger 2" it achieves 45 FPS on average. So it probably depends on the game, whether you can play smoothly or not. Of course simpler games such as "Angry Birds" run without any stutters, as you can expect from a smartphone of this price range.
Operation via position sensor and touchscreen works without a hitch.
At 36.9 °C (~98 °F) already in idle mode, we can detect a slight warming in the area of the fingerprint sensor. The back remains cooler. However, under load noticeably higher temperatures are reached: up to 45.4 °C (~114 °F) on the back during the maximum. In summer, this can become uncomfortable if you put the smartphone into your pant pocket.
Can the SoC maintain its performance even during prolonged load? We test this with the GFXBench-Manhattan battery test. In fact, the initial good calculated frame rates drop significantly to about half the performance. There, they remain there with a continued slight downward trend. Thus, anyone who puts high loads for prolonged periods on the Honor 9 should not count on the full performance.
(-) The average temperature for the upper side under maximal load is 43.9 °C / 111 F, compared to the average of 33.1 °C / 92 F for the devices in the class Smartphone.
(±) The maximum temperature on the upper side is 45 °C / 113 F, compared to the average of 35.6 °C / 96 F, ranging from 22.4 to 51.7 °C for the class Smartphone.
(±) In idle usage, the average temperature for the upper side is 34.1 °C / 93 F, compared to the device average of 33.1 °C / 92 F.
In terms of sound, Honor has made quite an effort cooperating with the Monster headphones manufacturer and inviting the Grammy winner Rainer Maillard who produced many classical recordings to optimize the sound. The Huawei Histen technology bundles all the setting options such as the equalizer and also adds an option for 3D sound. However, all this is only valid if you connect a headphone or speaker to the smartphone via a cable. There are no setting options for the internal speaker included.
The small mono speaker on the bottom edge has improved slightly in comparison to the predecessor as our test with the ARTA software shows. There are clearly more low mids and the sound reproduction is linear in general. The speaker is also slightly louder. And indeed you can listen to a piece of music at times, the sound is well mixed, not emphasizing the highs too much, and does not boom even at maximum volume.
But now we would like to see how all the improvements benefit the sound of the headphones. You can either select the 3D sound or use the equalizer, and there are profile presets for various headphone types, but unfortunately not for speakers. The sound output is good and very warm. It is hard to see whether all the cooperating is more than an advertising stunt, but at least the 3.5-mm audio output produces clear sound that is not distorted. The audio signal is also output cleanly via Bluetooth.
Overall, the power consumption is a bit higher than in the predecessor and slightly lower than in the Huawei P10. Under load in particular, the Honor 9 uses considerably less power than Huawei's flagship. The OnePlus 5 is also slightly more power hungry under load, but uses less power than our test unit in idle mode. Perhaps Huawei could have optimized the overall power consumption of the Honor 9 even a little more. However, it achieves values typical for its class and is quite efficient, particularly under load, but then throttles the performance after a short time, as we saw before.
Even though the Honor 9 comes with a larger battery which can now offer 3200 mAh or 12.16 Wh of power, the runtimes are only slightly above those of the Honor 8. The Huawei P10 with a similarly powerful battery can clearly move ahead in the WLAN test in particular, where it achieves a runtime that is 87% longer than our test unit. Overall, the Honor 9 remains within the standard of its class and achieves a solid result with 8:36 hours in the WLAN test. During regular usage, you can get through the workday without any problems, and when using it frugally, you can even get through two days. There is also an Ultra-Power-Saving mode, which can significantly prolong the runtime.
Super Charge is also supported and recharges the smartphone completely within a little over an hour.
In the test: Honor 9. Test unit provided by Honor Germany.
Yes, that is life with beautiful daughters: sometimes the mother can become jealous. At least, Huawei does not make it easy for its P10 flagship to stand up against the slightly slimmed down Honor 9. For over 100 Euros less (~$118, depending on the price of the day), you really get a lot for your money with the Honor 9. Even the OnePlus 5 has to watch out.
Compared to the Honor 8, the pretty case has improved again, the performance is at the same level as that of the Huawei P10, and the cameras also take pictures that are almost as good. Only in the fast storage, the battery life, and the multitude and speed of the LTE connections, the Honor 9 remains behind Huawei's flagship. In addition, Huawei offers a 36-month warranty for the P10.
You could blame Huawei for not giving more attention to the call quality, since that is mediocre at most. The high case temperatures and the throttling SoC during prolonged loads are annoying. However, other than that, we have to pay tribute to the Honor 9. It is a great offering in the mid-range that those interested should not pass.
For those who want to save, the Honor 8, which basically offers the same camera modules and is not far behind in terms of performance, is a great bargain for about 100 Euros (~$118) less.


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I have discussed previously the locomotive assignment booklets used for a number of years by Southern Pacific, and commented about how to use such a booklet for choosing my 1953 locomotives to model (you can see it at: http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2011/04/choosing-1953-locomotive-roster.html ). But I didn’t say much in that post about the assignment booklets themselves. I want to say more in this post.
Shown below is the cover of a typical booklet, this one for March 31, 1950. These were issued quarterly, and naturally describe all locomotives on the Pacific Lines part of the SP system (the summary shows system-wide totals for all Pacific Lines divisions). You can click on the image to enlarge it.
Within the booklet, each division had a separate listing. I show below the two pages for the Coast Division, which is the division within which my layout is sited. Of course this division extended far beyond the area I model, from Santa Barbara in the south, to San Francisco, and thus included the entire Peninsula commuter district (at that time, spanning San Francisco-San Jose). Here is page 11 of the March 31, 1950 booklet.
Note here that at this time there were 13 diesel switchers and 26 steam switchers, along with nine Consolidations and a Mogul also assigned to yard service, to do the division’s switching. In addition to large yards at Bayshore and Santa Clara, division point yards at Watsonville Junction, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara had to be worked.
The second page, page 12 of the booklet, shows the remaining engines.
It is interesting, looking at these two pages, to see the large number of Consolidations, and the relatively small number of cab-forwards at this time, and only five A-B-B-A sets of F units. That would change as dieselization proceeded, because the new F units were preferentially assigned at first in desert and mountain regions, where their tractive effort and absence of water consumption made them big advances over steam power. Meanwhile, the displaced steam gradually migrated into California on the lesser gradient areas, including Coast Division.
Commute service on this division accounts for the substantial number of Pacifics, Mountains and GS 4-8-4s on the roster, relative to most other SP divisions at the time.
I have chosen my locomotive numbers from these assignments, combined with examination of yard and roundhouse photos at San Luis Obispo, the nearest locomotive facility to my layout’s mythical Santa Rosalia Branch. Among the Consolidations listed on page 11, you can see numbers 2592, 2752, and 2829, all of which are on my layout. I also have an S-2 diesel switcher no. 1389, which as you can see was also on this division. The booklet shown above is for 1950, but in 1953 these same engines were still at San Luis Obispo.
I discussed these same issues, and showed a San Luis roundhouse photo, in the post cited at the top of this post, along with showing a 1952 locomotive assignment sheet. One of the truly distinctive locomotives assigned for years at San Luis Obispo was Consolidation 2592. In the last years of its active life, it had a “whaleback” tender inherited from an early cab-forward. Here is one view of the engine switching at San Luis Obispo, taken in January 1954 by Rod Crossley. Note that the road name on the side of the tender is smaller than was standard after 1946.
This locomotive is Class C-9, built by Baldwin in 1906, and like many Harriman Consolidations, so useful that it remained in service when newer and more modern engines were going to scrap.
Here is my model of SP 2592, switching on my layout at Ballard. This model combines a Key brass SP 2-8-0 with a Westside brass tender, making this a distinctive locomotive. Today it also has DCC and sound, thanks to Al Massi.
This single locomotive example illustrates one way to use the assignment sheets, combined with photographic evidence of how locomotives were configured and even lettered, to provide a realistic part of a layout locomotive fleet.
I have written several times about the variety of commodities carried in tank cars, and the fact that certain commodities required special cars. Of course, many edible products and many simple chemicals can be carried in general-service tank cars, AAR class TM and ICC class 103, or even in non-regulated tank cars of classes like AAR-201 and AAR-203. But many corrosive, flammable, dangerous, or poisonous commodities have regulatory limits to how they are shipped, and must be carried in certain types of tank cars suitable for those cargoes.
A fairly complete table, occupying 14 book pages, was issued by American Car & Foundry, and was published as an Appendix to Edward S. Kaminski’s book, Tank Cars, American Car & Foundry, 1865 to 1955 (Signature Press, Berkeley, 2003). But of course not everyone has that book on their shelf, even though as a partner in the publisher, I think they surely ought to own the book <grin>.
A comparable table was published and distributed by General American Transportation Corporation, in several editions over the years. I have a copy of the one published in 1961. It is a most informative document, filled with operating directions, general arrangement drawings for complete cars, and also detail drawings of specific parts. Here is the cover (a little worn with use).
Anyone can download the PDF for their use, or print it if desired.
In an upcoming column in the “Getting Real” column series in Model Railroad Hobbyist, I will be discussing tank car construction and details, as well as usage, and this commodity table will be one of the tools to identify cars with cargoes.
It’s my hope that this table will be use to modelers who wish to correctly marry their tank car models with appropriate waybills for suitable cargoes. That is the main way I use either one of the two tables (from AC&F or General American), and there are only a few differences in detail between the two.
Among the refrigerator car owners from which Pacific Fruit Express borrowed cars during the PFE peak harvest months was Fruit Growers Express. These borrowed reefers could be any available cars from the entire FGEX fleet, including associated fleets from the Burlington (BREX) and Great Northern (WFEX), fleets which were operated by Fruit Growers as fully part of the FGEX fleet. For this reason, I need to model some of these cars. I already have on my roster a steel BREX car and wood-sheathed cars from WFEX and FGEX. But I could use one or two more.
A number of years ago, at a swap meet, I saw a fairly nicely assembled reefer from a Red Ball kit (or I believe that was the origin), for one of the Pennsylvania Railroad R7 refrigerators. It had been painted in a layout owner’s paint scheme of white sides with a horizontal blue frame stripe, but didn’t look too bad otherwise. The price was right, just one dollar as I recall, so I bought it.
I knew that when the PRR had joined Fruit Growers in the 1920s, the existing R7 cars had been transferred to FGE ownership. This car, as many know, was the refrigerator version of the X23 box car, with a complex pressed-steel exterior frame, built starting in 1913. This makes the exterior of the R7 visually striking, and I thought this would be an interesting addition to my FGEX fleet.
I should quickly interject that I know perfectly well this model falls far short of the beautiful Westerfield kit for these cars (kit 1160x, with the “x” being a number for three different roof versions available), and these are in stock as far as I know (you can check availability on their website, at http://www.westerfieldmodels.com/ ). But this is not a central part of my reefer fleet, so I’m willing to accept the compromises of this version. You may of course reach the opposite conclusion for your fleet.
It was easy to mask the boxcar red roof and ends and repaint the sides a golden yellow, as Fruit Growers used. Lettering was the next challenge. Although I am not aware of a decal sheet exactly for these R7 cars, the excellent Speedwitch Media set D119.1, for 1948-era paint, looked like it would work. These cars had been put into the FGEX number series 43500–46999, and even in the 1950s, some of these cars soldiered on in Fruit Growers service. Below is a prototype photo, taken in Sioux City, Iowa on September 30, 1952 (from the Bob’s Photo collection, used with permission). The car at left is notably taller. The R7 car height was not unusual in 1913, but cars gradually got taller and taller in the ensuing 50 years, up to my modeling year of 1953.
I chose a car number within the series noted above, and applied the decals, then weathered the model to suggest a car with lengthy service since it was last painted. In the photo below, notice how much shorter the car is, compared to the PFE steel reefer to its left, just like the photo above.
In service, these cars were limited by their small interior height and lack of floor racks, plus relatively thin insulation. They were accordingly used for dense cargoes like potatoes, or cargoes not requiring low transit temperatures, such as onions. I will waybill them accordingly on my layout, and am pleased to have one of these distinctive cars in my freight car fleet.
Most of us have a stash of kits and materials, sometimes impressively large (I’ve known modelers whose stash rivaled a small hobby shop), others much less so. And most of us know that an awful lot of the stuff is not going to get built or the materials used. That’s more obvious with a huge stash, where a program of building at a rate of a kit a week might require a decade or more at that rate to make a sizable dent in the total. But even a smaller stash may contain a fair amount of stuff that no longer fits your needs or interests.
I should say right away that I have no problem with kit collectors. I have known some, and was truly impressed with their encyclopedic knowledge of kit manufacturers and history. But sometimes you are surprised when you run into one. I once bought a couple of Authenticast slag car kits in a convention sales room, and when I let slip that I was looking forward to building them, the seller practically tried to grab them back from me. “Build them . . .” he said in dismay. I got out of there as fast as I could (by the way, they still aren’t built, as the smelter I once contemplated hasn’t materialized). But really, I’m sure I’m not a collector.
Here’s a photo of what these kits look like.
But when I say I’m not a collector, what I mean is that I really intend (at the time) to build or use the stuff I buy, though I will concede that some of my purchases have been with the thought that someday I might need that item. And we have all learned in our years in the hobby that if in doubt, buy it. It will likely cease to be available, either out of production or the kit maker out of business or something else. Buy it now or regret it later, the saying goes. I have certainly followed that injunction in some cases.
Naturally many of those purchases, made with the best of intentions, somehow slip out of contention for building or use, like my slag cars. And certainly freight car kits, of which I once had a truly serious stash, can pile up on you in the most unnerving fashion. The question is how you evaluate this. Maybe you are turning into a collector and haven’t realized it yet. A clue is when you really like owning “that kit” or “that brass engine” but have no interest in building or painting it, and certainly no interest in selling it. Nothing wrong with that, though I do advocate facing up to the reality that is right under your nose.
Or maybe you have just let things get out of hand. You know perfectly well that some of those kits were bought with objectives in mind that are no longer operative. I used to pick up structure kits all the time, when I lived in Pittsburgh and my layout had several sizable areas which were undefined, and thus could conceivably host any one of a number of structures. Now those areas are far distant in the rear-view mirror, and the kits, though still kind of nice, are clearly surplus. And there were plenty of freight car kits on my shelf which, when I looked at them objectively, really were not needed for my freight car fleet nor were sufficiently “fun” just to build. That makes ’em surplus.
I have written in earlier posts about the gradual change in my freight car fleet, with the disposal of older models as well as unneeded kits (for example: http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-right-size-freight-car-fleet.html ). The process continues. I never planned to replace the older models which were the best I could do at that time (remember when Athearn “Blue Box” box cars were the starting point for all 40-foot steel box cars?), but that’s what has been happening over the last two decades. I have now disposed of close to 350 cars, in the form of kits and of older, complete models, and have acquired or built about 275 new cars, in kit or ready-to-run form. The net effect has been to reduce my stash of car kits substantially. Resin in particular has been addressed very thoroughly, with more than 125 resin car kits either built or sold.
One good effect of car kits of various kinds passing through my hands is that in many cases I have made a Xerox copy of kit instructions to keep, as the information can be pretty valuable in itself, not only the prototype data but model-building techniques. I even like to look at the instructions for kits owned for a long time, as a reminder of what I once wanted to do, and that can refresh some of my present planning. So even keeping your stuff moving can leave you with something of value.
Practically every modeler has a stash of some kind, whether it’s structure or car kits like I discussed above, or brass engines that you “might need,” or materials like brick paper or basswood sheet or flat brass wire or . . . you recognize the pattern. This can be an asset when you need something out of that collection, but may need to be dealt with when it starts to overflow the storage space — or overflow what you are comfortable holding on to. It just needs to be evaluated from time to time.
Over the years, I have accumulated a few older models that continue to serve as “mainline” freight cars, that is, cars which normally do not get switched to or from my on-layout industries, but simply pass by in the mainline freight trains (this was discussed in the last paragraph of this post: http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2010/12/upgrading-old-models-3.html ). Some of these have older trucks I had never bothered to replace, and recently I got to looking at a few of them and decided they needed to be upgraded. If nothing else, this can be seen as a response in accord with my freight car standards (see for example: http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2011/03/model-freight-car-standards.html ), but also reflects problems like oversize flanges, out-of-tram truck behavior, or other operational issues.
As an example, I will use a Mantua reefer. Minimal upgrading had been done to it, retaining its molded-on grab irons and sill steps, but with a reasonable paint and lettering job, as well as weathering. I have been working on some other “mainline” cars also needing new trucks, including some old tank car models and two Athearn metal house cars, but will just describe the Mantua example.
Shown above is the car body, prepared as described. Notice the route card, located right outside the black rectangle identified as the location for such cards. This card location is often seen in photos, no doubt deliberately done by car clerks who didn’t wish to be dictated to. The car is intended to represent the MDT cars with steel ends and wood-sheathed sides built in 1941.
The problem with the trucks can be seen in the view below. The Mantua truck is assembled as two cast metal sideframes, with a sheet steel bolster inserted into each sideframe. The sharp “cookie cutter” wheel flanges are an artifact of the 1950s. You can click to enlarge.
I first tried to disassemble the truck so the wheelsets could be replaced, but could not separate the parts. Also, I could see that the axle ends of the Mantua wheelsets are very narrow, so that the sideframes would not readily accept modern wheelsets. I decided to just replace the entire truck.
The original truck screws are very short and work only with the sheet-metal bolster shown above, so I simply tapped the hole deeper with a 2-56 tap, and chose new screws.
One can of course apply a generic AAR truck to cars like this. However, there are plentiful resources in existence to provide prototype information. In the case of MDT, the book Merchants Despatch, by Roger C. Hinman (Signature Press, 2011) is the relevant example, and I examined a number of photos in the book to choose a suitable truck for this model. I ended up using the Tahoe Model Works truck TMW-106, an ARA sideframe design with spring planks, produced by Buckeye.
The kind of job shown above on the Mantua reefer is almost trivial, except that it brings another car into conformance with standards, and also makes for better operation, when the oversize flanges of the Mantua wheelsets are replaced. In actuality, this kind of task goes on all the time with my fleet, and I only mention this instance here to use it as an example of the process.
I’ve just returned from a visit to Cuba on a licensed “People to People” tour, and there were plenty of interesting aspects to the trip, but here I will just write about the railroad and modeling aspects of interest.
First, a little history. Cuba developed a rail network very early, plenty of it to serve sugar mills and plantations, but plenty more to connect cities. By 1958, Cuba had the most rail mileage per square mile of any country in the world. After the 1959 revolution, the existing railway companies were nationalized as Ferrocarriles Nationales de Cuba, which they remain today. An unfortunate aspect of a single national railway entity on an island is that there is no need to letter the name or even the initials of the owner on any equipment; there is no interchange. Rolling stock thus has a rather bare look, often bearing only a number and some very minor dimensional data.
The FC, as it’s often designated, dieselized its main lines in the 1960s, and sugar operations gradually followed suit, eliminating steam on even the most backward plantations by about 2000. But many small steam locomotives have been preserved, and a few restored for tourism. Because of the U.S. embargo, new locomotives and rolling stock have been purchased elsewhere throughout the world, from the Soviet Union and China, to France, Germany, Britain and countries in eastern Europe, and in recent years, even freight cars from Iran. The resulting fleet is polyglot, to say the least.
I will only show a few photos, and apologize in advance for not knowing more about the prototypes. I searched a number of Cuban bookstores for locomotive or train books, and found almost nothing. The internet coverage is spotty and sometimes contradictory. I hope anyone with a more substantial knowledge of the subject can help. But these are only intended as illustrations.
In Camaguey, the old railway station is terribly decrepit, though restoration is in progress, and a small replacement depot was very crowded. I was able to watch and photograph from trackside considerable switching activity, including adding cars to a departing passenger train, without attracting the least attention. Here is one of the Russian-built locomotives, no. 81001, I believe type TEM2, of which I saw several on our trip, in the red and yellow scheme which seems to be for freight power. These things sound a lot like Alcos.
The passenger power largely seemed to have an attractive scheme of dark and light blue. Passenger rolling stock ranged from stainless cars built by Budd, to very run-down standard steel coaches, to newer center-entrance cars looking much like box cars, and apparently built new that way. Note over the door the initials FC, not visible on many cars or locomotives.
The Chinese company, formerly called China North Locomotive and Rolling Stock Industry (CNR) sold a fair number of locomotives to Cuba, and if I correctly understood the halting English of a trainman standing alongside one of them at Camaguey, they are hard to keep running.
In a couple of places there were switchers in a pleasant orange and gray scheme, like no. 38063 here, but I have not been able to find out where they were built. It was picking up this head-end car.
But enough about rolling stock I didn’t understand very well. The most stunning thing about Cuba, speaking as a modeler, is that walking in every city is like being in a 1950s movie. New American cars stopped arriving in Cuba in 1959, so there are 1950s American cars just everywhere. I knew they were there, but really had no idea how prevalent they are: they are not exceptions, they are the dominant car on the street. And even cars from the late 1930s and the 1940s can be seen too. I will only show a few of the many photos I took, and I can tell you, I plan to duplicate some of these models (though not the colors) on my 1953 layout.
Many of the restored cars have been repainted in brilliant colors, and few have that many original mechanical parts. Suspensions are visibly altered, almost every car has modern wheels, and I was told that engines are rarely original (as was often evident from the sound). Many Russian and European parts have kept the cars running, and even homemade parts are used, attempting to replicate the unavailable American originals. There are lots of convertibles, partly because many of the cars are in use as privately-owned taxis, but there are also “classic car club” stickers on many cars. Owners are usually very proud of their car, and most speak English and are delighted to speak to an American.
I am interested in correct model years, partly for modeling reasons, but I found car-spotting in Cuba to be a challenge. Not only may such spotting features as chrome trim as well as tail lights and other items be missing or replaced, even major visuals like grilles may be swapped. I saw an early 1950s Chevrolet with an unmistakable Buick grille, and a 1940s Ford with a unique homemade grille. This makes one a little cautious about identification of an individual car. So I will just show a few of the photos I liked. The massed taxis at places like the Parque Centrale in Havana are one good illustration, of the variety, the frequency of convertibles, and the bright replacement colors.
Another street scene in Havana found my wife Mary alongside what I think is a 1951 Chevy sedan, clearly with replacement paint though otherwise looking more original than most. But like nearly every car, hub caps have vanished over the years.
Here are a couple more that I really liked seeing, first a handsome 1955 Ford at a cafe on the road heading for Havana.
Last, a superb Studebaker on the main square in Cienfuegos, I think a 1951. We also saw Edsels, International and Dodge pickups, and many more . . . but I digress.
You can see that it was a visually interesting trip, and of course fascinating in many other ways too, most enjoyable for us both.
I have alluded in prior posts in the “Waybills” series to the extremely valuable publications issued by many (maybe most) railroads, called a Shipper’s Guide, Industrial Directory, List of Industries, or some similar title. These documents list all on-line shippers and receivers, and are obviously superb resources. These are quite rare in the field of railroad paper items, in original form, and tend to be hard to find, even at railroad museums and archives, but luckily a number have been reprinted in recent years for modelers’ use. I am using reprinted Shipper Guides from Ted Schnepf’s “Rails Unlimited” business, for Great Northern, D&RGW, Union Pacific, Mopac / T&P, and Milwaukee Road. All these except the D&RGW one are available through Rails Unlimited (and here’s a link to their website: http://railsunlimited.ribbonrail.com/Books/shippers.html ; click on Books). There are several posts in which I have commented about these documents (for example, this one: http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2012/02/waybills-18-resources.html ).
Inside are 258 pages packed with irreplaceable information about both shippers and consignees throughout the sprawling Rock Island system. I will just show a single page to illustrate the kind of information presented. You can click on the image to enlarge it.
The information is self-explanatory except for the far-right column, headed “SWG” (for “switching”), which shows whether sidings are accessible by reciprocal switching arrangements (called “open”) or not (“closed”). The five towns listed, each in a different state, are evidently small and have only a few industries each. By contrast, cities like Houston, Kansas City, Denver, or Minneapolis require dozens of pages to list all industrial customers.
In fact, this 1971 Rock Island Directory is so comprehensive, it now joins my Great Northern Guide (also from Rails Unlimited) as my favorite useful and wide-ranging source of traffic information.
There is another source of this kind of information about shippers and consignees, namely the large list compiled by the OpSIG group (Operations SIG of NMRA), which is available at their website, www.opsig.org, under “Online Resources,” and then “Industry Database.” This collected information is a fine effort by OpSIG and continues to grow, but be careful, as it is for a wide range of eras. Usually the date for each entry is shown, so it is possible to choose only the ones that fit your era. And though very extensive, it is in general less complete for a specific place than a Shipper Guide.
In place of the process just describe, one can of course “imagineer” company names for either consignees or shippers if desired, but I like to find authentic ones where possible, partly because the “real names” often sound particularly realistic, as in this case. I cannot praise enough the value of a Shipper Guide in assisting you in that process, should you wish to work in that direction.
Several years ago, I posted some comments to this blog about how I manage the flow and storage of the rolling stock on my layout (you can read it at this link: http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2011/12/operations-car-flow-and-car-storage.html ). I have a fair number of freight cars beyond what is needed to operate the layout, partly to create variety in operations, but certainly not least because I am a freight car enthusiast. I have always enjoyed researching and building new freight cars, and the result is a car fleet rather distinctly too large for the layout, even with extensive staging capacity.
One change I have made is to add some of the A-Line storage boxes. (These products are shown on their website, at: http://www.ppw-aline.com/hobbytote.htm ), though I have never bought the sleeve which makes them into a “tote;” I just buy the boxes.) These do a good job of holding about 16 cars each (for 40-foot cars), and they are well protected. Here is one such box, with the lid set aside.
I continue to use my paper-carton boxes with trays (as described in the post linked at the top of this post), though because these are less quickly accessible than the A-Line boxes, they have become a kind of “deep storage” option. Gradually the cars which are less frequently used are migrating into the paper-carton trays. Those cartons and trays were shown in the previous post, a link to which is at the top of this post.
The most active “pool” of cars is on the staging table, either made up into mainline trains, or simply in place on the storage tracks. This pool varies over time, with cars migrating off and onto the staging tracks as layout operations continue. Here is a shot of the table as it is at the moment.
The table is not quite fully extended, as the furthest track visible is the 11th (there are 12 in all).
The other part of the active “pool” storage is the shelving in my adjoining room (the kitchen, when this space was a sub-size apartment). These cars supplement the cars on the staging table. The top and bottom shelves are not really curved, the lens focal length just makes them look that way.
How is this managed? I have a chart laying out the sequence(s) of car movements at each industry or other car spot (this procedure, a version of what can be called “demand-based car flow,” was described previously: http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2011/11/operations-demand-based-car-flow-2.html ). From that chart, I make up a list of the movements which are the next sequence of operation, and go to my “pairs list,” described in an earlier post ( at: http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2012/02/waybills-17-pairs-list.html ), and thereby find the cars with waybills for each of those car spots, along with the overlay bills for each spot. The waybills are filed by industry, so are readily retrieved. Then the car itself is located in storage by a (searchable) roster of all cars in active service. One of the entries for each car is its location, in a paper carton, in an A-Line box, or in the pool. I summarized an earlier version of this process in a blog post a few months ago (see it at: http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2015/07/waybills-part-42-flexibility.html ).
Obviously the car roster is a critical part of this process, and I have learned that the roster has to be kept up to date as cars move around between various storage locations. I usually indicate such movements with pencil corrections on the most recent print-out. When a page gets too heavily marked up, I just update the electronic file and reprint the page.
All in all, the process described above does work, and seems to provide good operational movement of cars, while permitting some selection of cars for each movement (because there are multiple waybills for every industry and car spot). I am always experimenting with ways to make the process more efficient, but for now, what I’m describing works well.

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Lately, I don't know how I have been feeling.
Confused? Oh, very much so.
All I seem to do is fiddle.
Do I have a point? Not really.


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Scott McLaughlin continued his strong start to the CrownBet Darwin Triple Crown at Hidden Valley by leading the way in Practice 3 on Saturday.
The Shell V-Power Racing driver turned a 1:06.1410s to set the pace, with Red Bull Holden Racing Team driver Jamie Whincup his closest challenger.
Friday pacesetter McLaughlin first moved to the top of the order after eight of the 45 minutes with a 1:06.2096s to displace initial leader David Reynolds.
They remained first and second, followed by Rick Kelly and Fabian Coulthard, for the bulk of the session.
Running was halted with just under 15 minutes to go, when wildcard runner Macauley Jones crashed at Turn 11.
Jones lost the rear end turning in, the ensuing left-rear corner contact with the tyre barrier damaging the DrillPro Commodore.
The Dunlop Super2 Series driver was 13th in the order at the time and took no further part, falling to 21st.
A host of drivers made gains immediately after the restart, entering the final 10 minutes, including James Courtney, Anton De Pasquale and Scott Pye jumping up into the top six.
With three minutes to go, McLaughlin lowered the benchmark to 1:04.1410s, as Whincup jumped up from 14th to second, 0.1747 seconds adrift.
That was how the order remained, with McLaughlin topping two of the three practice sessions ahead of qualifying.
“There’s a little bit for me to work on just in regards to driving,” the championship leader said.
“There were a couple of differences with Fabian [Coulthard] taking the corners, so I’m working on myself.
“We spent a lot of the session doing that, we only did a couple of little [car] changes.
Reynolds had to settle for third place, the Erebus Motorsport driver making a mistake at the final corner on his last effort.
Courtney remained fourth, ahead of lead Nissan Rick Kelly and Brad Jones Racing’s Tim Slade.
“There’s a significant shift in the track yesterday to today, which we’re fighting a little bit,” Kelly, who first and second in Friday’s sessions, said.
“We’re fifth at the moment and we had a car good enough for first yesterday.
“The biggest shift I think is in the wind, it’s pushing us into Turn 1 and it gets under your tail mid-corner and brings in a bit of oversteer, and it’s the same at 5 as well.
“We’re trying to combat those things and trying to calm the car back down, while trying not to upset other areas where it’s really good.
Shane van Gisbergen moved up from 13th to seventh with his final effort, while Craig Lowndes also made late gains to be 10th.
The Triple Eight stablemates were split by Fabian Coulthard and De Pasquale, who was the best of the rookies.
Chaz Mostert led the way for Tickford Racing in 12th, with team-mates Mark Winterbottom 16th, Richie Stanaway 20th and Cameron Waters 22nd.
ARMOR ALL Qualifying starts at 1:05pm local time, before the 42-lap, 15th race of the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship at 4:15pm.


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from afar, like big cities.
a thing weighs more than I.
for the women in the kitchen.
of playing football and riding bikes.
and eggs in hot fish soups.
Women have been always winning.
there’s a faint reminder of who I am.
when life is condensed to a trolley bag.

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