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Good Morning All: Tom: I can identify with that idea about being the labor to redo a room and let the better half be the boss/decision maker. We have a house that we are trying to get ready to rent, the mechanical things like wiring or plumbing I get to choose. Where the light switch goes - Ho Ho Ho. She wants it here and I want it their because of easier to do - you know where it goes - here. I ask "You want it WHAT color?" But that's the color that it gets. The "off peach" looks a lot better on the whole outside then the color chip looked in Lowes. I've learned that it is a lot less stressfull just to do it her way first time around, that eliminates having to do it twice. (ARE YOU YOUNG GUYS LISTENING/READING THIS?) It isn't disgracefull to admit that you wife is the boss. I saw a guy in Wally World the other day trying to tell his wife what to buy, all he did was make her mad and I bet he still doesn't know why he is all of a sudden celabent (SP). But in the train room I'M GOD. I can paint the house/industery any darn color I want. I guess I'm lucky. I bought the new Walthers/Athearn Santa Fe Chief ABBA yesterday off eBay for $295.00 including shipping and insurance. I purchased the drive units about six months ago just in case I found a deal that I couldn't walk away from. Caboose Hobbies wanted $358.00 PLUS $7.75 shipping. Phil: I thought that was very nice of you to give those decals to Krump. It's things like that make me proud to be a model railroader. Ed: It sounds like you and I are in the same boat - my optiviser is the first thing I put on when I go upstairs. I now own two of them, one is a "4" lense and the other is a "10". The "4" has a worn out sweat band and I had to order one the other day. It cost more then the whole thing cost me 15 years ago, but then that's progress. Have you thought about 1:1 scale? I can just see my 4-8-4 running around my house - neighborhood - city. The mayor would sure like that. I inherited an "N" scale layout and after I relaid the switches with Atlas, then relaid track with Atlas, bought Kato engines so it would run and Micro trains cars to stay on the track, I found out I still couldn't see it. Three months of messing with that layout got it done but I just couldn't enjoy it. The up side was that it made the HO a lot easier to work with. It's in the garage in the rent (?) house with sawdust all over it. Maybe the saw dust will protect it. Don't tell me about the sawdust in the engines I KNOW ALL ABOUT THAT. Besides, they are all back in the boxes. Noah: If you'll look back several pages in this topic you'll see a post from me about using the BB's and coke cans as buildings and tanks. Using the boxes makes them re-cycleable, you can set them long side down or short side down for a tall building. They also tape together for longer or taller buildings. My first layout had almost all of the building made out of kit boxes. To me they are good visual planners that I use even today. Construction tip for the youngies and I guess oldies also: When drying out sand on the stove, don't go out and put bird seed in the feeder as you forget about the sand and when you get back, the pot has stuck to the burner. But if you just let the pot and burner cool off normally they will become un-stuck. DON'T USE A TEFLON PAN AS THE TEFLON WILL BURN OFF. I'm not going to tell ya'll how I found this out. BIG_GIRL: QUIT LAUGHING, Not all boys learn how to cook at an early age - some not until their wife has had a stroke. At 64 we are slow learners. Sometimes you have to tell me something three times. U-MMM isn't that the way it is with teenagers? Maybe old people are just teenangers again. I agree about the lack of taste about the toy but remember, when news of the disaster was spread in Iraq and Iran - they were jubulent and had street parties about our misery. They were not the least bit upset or compassionate. BIG_BOY: About the four verses six wheel trucks; real railroads were not above spreading the rails a little on the curves to accomadate the longer wheelbase, but their was a limit as they didn't want the cars to come off. FERGIE: The trip is still in the go stage and we are looking forward to it. I sure am wordy today - I think now that my second cup of tea is just about gone that I'm going to get a third cup and mosey upstairs. Ya'll have a blessed day and remember SANTA FE ALL THE WAY Bob
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