Elliot's Trackside Diner XXV- Milepost 25

[tstage]

Given that it's a brand new month, it seems apropos for the diner to move to a new location.  Here's the newest address.  Happy conversing...

Tom

[jeffrey-wimberly]

 Good morning. It's 46 and cloudy with rain imminent. The high will be 50 with a 90% chance of rain.

Gonna be a wet one today! And why not? This is the day I gotta go out and pay bills. Yesterday I put up four more of the solar Tiki torches. That's a total of eight now. On two of them I took out the factory installed NiCd batteries which are rated at 1.2 V, 600 mA and replaced them with Eveready NiMH batteries rated at 1.2 V, 230 mA. Just after sunset all eight lights came on as they should. Six ran down during the night and went out but the two with the NiMH batteries were still lit up at 6:45 this morning and didn't go off until sunrise. Take a wild guess at what kind of batteries are going into the others. I figure the NiCd batteries will work OK in my remotes, postal scale, LED tester and magnifier. Nothing much on the schedule today except paying some bills that can't be paid by mail or internet and I have to get the grocery shopping done before my cupboards look like those of Mrs Hubbard. I may be able to get some more weathering practice in today but it'll probably be late.

[Robby P.]

 Good morning.  Its coll, but no snow.  Maybe a inch or so tomorrow night.

 Well I have to call a job and see about a interview.  Hopefully I can get one.  Its not closer to home, well its actually right below FedEx.  Just more money.  The draw back......Its mainly 2nd shift.  UGH!!

 I gotta mail out a car to United Kingdom this morning.   The shipping is normally $10.00, but the box is off a inch and its $25!!!!!!!!!!!   A INCH!!!!!!  So I will have to "tweak" the box. 

 Jim....I guess the best thing for me to do at that hobby store is, to just inspect the car all over!!!  

 Ulrich.......That is a list you have going.  I didn't know that many of us come here.  No wonder we move ever other week.

 Rob....That's a nice looking engine.   I've been wanting to do one for myself.  Kinda like the one on the cover of "Done in a day".  The book is by Kalmbach.

 Jeff.......I've been meaning to say, the boxcar looks pretty good.

 Well I guess I better make a phone call, and get a box ready.  Have a good morning.

[Anonymous]

fireman216

 Ulrich....you forgot little old me...Tim.....The guy buried under all of Rays snow!!

 

I knew it - I blew it! Yessir - I´ll go back and correct the list.

(You know what it means for an old man to run all the way from downtown to Milepost 25? Puff, puff, wheeez, puff - this running back and forth makes me feel like Scooter from the Muppet Show - a horse, a kingdom for a horse, of course, an iron one!)

Anybody else I missed? Well, there is still Mark, although he only very rarely shows up, so he is not gonna go on the list - oh, well, not again ...

[blownout cylinder]

Good Morning

Ulrich:--You're going to need a large directory if that list keeps growing!

puddlejumperoz!!(OzRay)---I got on this morning and saw you posted here and somehow missed you earlier----my weird weekend schedule does this sometimes

It's a nice sunny morning and it appears that our temperatures are going up this week! We will see the daily freeze thaw cycle as well as pothole formations developing---but we will SEE SUN this time!!

Had a very busy day yesterday. Ended up at another fellows place from the seminars and proceeded to rebuild a computer for him---not that I really know what the ------- I'm doing but I think something must've clicked as it appears that he had it up and running all night last night and everything SEEMS to be workingAs for the rest of this week I'm attempting to get some modelling time in

Chloe, I'll have a breakfast bagel and a coffee please. I'll be over at the window booth watching the mains---

 

[fireman216]

 Ulrich....you forgot little old me...Tim.....The guy buried under all of Rays snow!!

[pcarrell]

Mornin' All!

I see Ulrich has been doing a head count.  Did ya get everyone?  Did ya welcome the newcomers?

I need to do that yet..........

Well, time to get the coffee going........

And get moving off to the job.

I'll tell ya.......it's like, too quiet around this house with everyone gone.  I'm ready ffor them to come back, but thats still a week away!

Later all!

[Anonymous]

fec153

Good mornin' , y'all. Herr Ulrich, haven't you overlooked Inch [Mike] ,Dick,[Silver 60] ,JR,[GMTRacing] and pc[Philip] ? Fergie, who is our Canadian C.G. officer, has been at sea and not in as often.

Coffee is perking so I'll C U L. ttfn

Flip

 

OMG, this list is getting a mile long.

Thank you, Sir - I will go back and update the list!

[fec153]

Good mornin' , y'all. Herr Ulrich, haven't you overlooked Inch [Mike] ,Dick,[Silver 60] ,JR,[GMTRacing] and pc[Philip] ? Fergie, who is our Canadian C.G. officer, has been at sea and not in as often.

Coffee is perking so I'll C U L. ttfn

Flip

 

[Anonymous]

 Hi,

just little ol´ me again, for a short stopover. Chloe, make that a bucket of coffee for me, somehow I can´t get going this morning.

My final copy of MR was in today´s mail. I wish I could renew it, but that won´t work without a credit card. I guess I will have to do without my monthly reading pleasure until better times are back again. I talked to my dad about it some time ago, but he did not catch on, sponsoring the next year´s subscription. Oh, wll, relation -

Keith - sorry, I did not go to my LHS - I just can´t afford the gas for this trip anymore. But there is still that "Dream, Plan" - thing - just forget the "Build" for the moment.

[Blazzin]

  "Good Morning to you my friend Ulrich~" 

I was wondering if you were going to wake up.  Just the man I'm looking for~

   Ulrich I just wanted to say to our new members.. Mondays are 'Show and Tell' day~

  Be ready.. its usually a trip back from the Hobby store or the hardware store the day before (sunday).

[Anonymous]

 ... shame on me - I will go back and amend the list!

[Cederstrand]

Turkey stew, please. 

***Ulrich, at a glance, I believe you missed Rob (me) and Robby (weathering pro). May be others!?!

I splurged......might need a C449W down the road to keep it company. Would have prefered SANTA FE, but the price was right. Not a mention of any of this to my wife though.

Finally spent some time in the train room. Started making rocks (with tile mortar stuff) around part of the little canyon area that overlooks the carnival/circus grounds on the wife's layout.

Past time to do late night critter rounds. Have a good night y'all.

Rob

[Anonymous]

 Good Morning,

I see we have a new member in our Diner community! A big  to you, Ray from OZ!

Now, let´s see, whom we have here:

1. Barry
   
2. Chris
3. CNCharlie
   
4. Dick
   
5. Duke
   
6. Garry
7. Flip
8. Jeff
9. Jerry
10. Jim
11. Joe
12. John
13. Johnboy
14. JR
    
15. Keith
    
16. Mark
    
17. Mike
18. PC
    
19. Philip
20. Ray
21. Oz-Ray
22. Rob
23. Robby P.
    
24. Sam
25. Sawyer
    
26. Sue (occasionally)
27. Teen Steam Fan
28. Tim
    
29. Todd
    
30. Calif. Tom
31. PA Tom
32. Vincent
    

Edit: Names in bold are the ones I initially forgot to put on the list - Dinner is on me, folks!

Wow, what a long list! Have I missed anybody? I hope, not! Whatever the guys (and gals) are having, Chloe, put in on my tab for the day!

Oz-Ray, let me give you a little background on this place here. The Diner is owned by a chap named Vinnie - the guy, who is sleeping in the corner booth. Psst - don´t wake him up - he is a mean fella and a no nonsense man. Chloe and Zoe - they are twins - run this place, with the occasional help of cousin Flo and Janie. They serve you any food you like, if you treat them kindly and stay polite.

This is the place to go for your morning coffee, lunch or supper. The place to have a chat with your buddies (that´s us) after w*rk  (we don´t like this word in here), just like in a real diner or a mrr club. If you have read some of the posts in here, you have noticed, that not all our posts are model railroading related... . As long as we stay somehow in the framework of the forum´s policies, this is being tolerated by our host, Kalmbach.

Once we have run through about 50 pages (takes us about two weeks) , the switcher moves the diner to a new track in the yard. Right now, we are out of town at Milepost 25, but I am sure, we will soon be moved to a more convenient location (and without all those critters).

So make yourself comfortable and enjoy your drink - it´s on me, y´know!

Have a good day!

 

 

 

[puddlejumperoz]

It's a bit like my family in here. My late father in law was Ray. My wife's niece's husband is Ray and there are two more in my family....I guess there's a lot of smart mothers around to choose such a wise name

 

Well up to this point, apart from spilling plaster all over my car, I'm just starting on doing some basic scenary practice on some small pieces of board before I get into the "real thing" and I have some more hardware to purchase, namely a couple more loco's and some decent rolling stock.

 

Ray

[howmus]

TMarsh

Aaaah Ray, doesn't he just have the life? Roast Beast, blueberry PIE, fire in the fireplace, monstrously heavy coffee tables. Doesn't have to remember all sorts of different names for his siblings. Boy he's got it made.

 

And don't forget the Vanilla Ice Cream.......   My usual answer when anyone asks me how I am is, "Life is Good!"  Might just as well enjoy it while we can.

What is the news from your neck of the woods today?  Good I hope!

73

[ns3010]

Evening all. Just doin a little catching up...

Garry, very funny! With all the snow we've got, I'm starting to feel like an eskimo...

Todd, I have no clue what you said about colors, but OK!

What, Ulrich, did you say spring? Pfft, I wish...

Sam, I can actually believe that. They have to pay those older guys more, so they may wanna get rid of them first to save some $$$...
Are you still running out of Bay Head? I was down in that direction over the weekend, and saw 4372 leaving for LB Friday evening and X233 rolling through PPB today, and was wondering if you had either of those trains.
X233 was cool to see. It had 4031, 4032, and 4029 pulling a  6 car Comet salad of IIMs, IVs, and Vs. It would have been neat to see at full speed, although it was crawling because it was coming off Brielle Draw. With 12,600 hp and the PL42's acceleration, that would have been pretty cool!

Chris, I guess if she likes the colors, and you like the trains, then THAT's fine!

puddlejumper!

Well, I got about half of my chem/algebra paper done, so I'm in pretty good shape.

I'll be in the back.

[Blazzin]

  We've got new people here?  Yes yes.. of course.. Welcome~

 Now tell us all about your RR hobby.  I'm all ears.

[TMarsh]

Flip- Nope not just you.

Aaaah Ray, doesn't he just have the life? Roast Beast, blueberry PIE, fire in the fireplace, monstrously heavy coffee tables. Doesn't have to remember all sorts of different names for his siblings. Boy he's got it made.

Prayers for those in need.

EDIT: Looks like night time snacks and probably Ulrich's breakfast will be on me. I've no idea what they're doing in the land of Oz at this time. 

[howmus]

Evenin' folks!

Chloe just a decafe for me tonight.  I'll go sit in the back booth by the fire and get warm.

I had no sooner gotten done posting this morning when the phone rang.  It was my son calling to ask what I was doing today.  He finished unloading the trailer ans was ready to go get the last load out of the storage unit.  Most everything was "light and fluffy".  The exception was a monstrously heavy coffee table they got a few years ago.  Has a solid marble top on it and very small edges to get a grip on and move......  Art had troble driving the truck and trailer up the grade at the storage unit place.  I finally gave him a few pointers on handling the two together, got him backed up onto some gravel not completely covered with snow and ice, and told him to "give it ****".  She walked right up to the top with no problems once he had some momentum.  He decided to let me take it back down the hill as I have more experience handing the manual brakes on it (I like to use the trailer brakes first to keep it from jackknifing on slippery surfaces.

Anyway, we got her back to his house, got the heavy stuff unloaded and into his living room, and then sat down to a delicious Roast Beast Dinner with all the trimmings including Bliueberry pie and vanilla ice cream for dessert.  Then we all settled in for a word game in front of the fireplace which he had a commercial log lit in.  His wife's family were over for Sunday Night Dinner as well.  I also had to spend some time playing with two pretty little girls who both love their grandpa (me) a whole lot!!! The littlest one will turn 1 year old next Friday.  Parties are planned for Saturday (Friends) and Sunday (Family).  Little Emily may be walking by THAT time.  She is very close right now. Pulls herself up and walks along holding on to things. 

So, I just got back home here a while ago.

(Pssst, who's the "new guy"?  Oh really?)

Hi there Ray!  Allow me to introduce myself, I'm, Ray.....  Oh, and this here's my brother Darrell, and this is my other brother, Darrell.  (Sorry, I just can't help myself sometimes.)

"Doot Doo bah Dooba..."

Best get moving on, I still haven't started on the agenda for Deacons this Wednesday.

Later!

73

[fec153]

Welcome Puddlejumper. You're the fourth from Oz land recently.

Todd- Yes! Thatb was the thread. But tarnished gives with one hand and takes back with the other. His critique was accurate but could have been stated better. Maybe its me? I'm predudiced. Soon as I see his name, I know he is going to knock something/someone.

Blessings and prayers for all.           Goodnight.

Flip

 

[TMarsh]

Nope, I didn't. The workbench is still there. Just buried under stuff. Can't work on models until I get some more benchwork put up to hold the things I put on the workbench. Then I own't be able to work on the layout until I clear it off. Vicious circle.

Say somebody wouldn't have need for a 25 inch Zenith console TV would they? It's in my way now that the old benchwork is down. Free. Just come pick it up. What's that Janie? Well yea it's old. Does it work? Well no not really. Ok Vinnie, I'll leave.

[TMarsh]

I think I might have missed something. 

der5997

Kris and I are a total jinx to any team or individual sports person we root for.

Me too! If I watched a one horse race and all he had to do was cross the finish line 5 feet from where he started......,the horse would die before he took a step. Falling 2 and a half inches from the finish. I put $5 on both teams at the World Series a couple of years ago. First time in history no one won.

 

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

  Welcome Puddlejumperoz 

[puddlejumperoz]

Thankyou everyone for the warm welcome *gobbles lamingtons*

 

My main focus will be on recreating a branch line here in Sydney around the 60's and 70's era. There was a abbatoir there and so that will involve a bit of kitbashing and scratchbuilding as well. I'm looking to purchase a model of one of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_Wales_C32_class_locomotive, when the missus approves of the price $500 or so for a full DCC sound included job, and lot's of sheep wagons....phew...stinkers.

 

Ray

 

 

[Packers#1]

 Puddlejumperoz, welcoem to the diner!

Vincent and John, thanks! yeah John, penalties suck. that's one thing that kills us in rugby.

Chris, I didn't watch much of the race (too hyper today lol), but I saw the end. GOOOOO #48!

[der5997]

Keith:

Nice pics John.. can I copy? .. lol. 

  That's what I did!

CapeJim:

You may not have had acid rain up there

..Only in my little "Kingdom" of the Maritime Trunk Jim. Nova Scotia is the tail pipe of North America (with the highest per captia cancer rate of any Canadian Province BTW there wouldn't be a connection  of course!) and all 65 salmon rivers south of a line from Digby to Canso are essentially dead. The West River, Sheet Harbour being the exception because of a liming study begun about 5 years ago. The pH at the river mouth is now 5.5 - 100TIMES less acid than 5 years ago! The know how was brought in from Norway - they are in a similar tail pipe position vis-à-vis Europe, and have been liming their rivers with great success for 25 years and more. I wouldn't have been able to bore you all with that except I stayed awake at the Town Hall meeting yesterday morning!

Those CP Photos are from RT via Flip (Jeff and TrolleyRob have them too.) and he got them from someone near Calgary, They are in the CPR Intermodal yard 25 miles outside Calgary at Shepard. Early Feb this year to answer your question!

Jeff:

Close but no cigar

...Good, as I gave those up a year or 40 back! Car's really coming together now.

Sawyer:

john, true. A lot of the guys that will be on the ice play in the NHL though.

  It's the standard of play that's different, and that shows up in WAY fewer stupid penalties, and a noted retention of gloves! King Furniture is really impressive.

OZRay: Welcome!  Hope you like it here. A polite and knowledgeable gang of  mrr friends awaits, and virtually anything you'd like to order - Hey, we even have Lamingtons. Tell us more about your layout plans while you enjoy those.

well as clean as an ex-sailor can anyway

...my dad was a merchant seaman who ended up in Australia, went on to a sheep station, then became a priest and joined the Bush Brothers...so I guess there's hope!

Chris:

(I heartily disagree with the notion THAT money I no longer have to send to a credit card company is "income")...

...No, I don't get it either. You spend money out of income, fair enough. Purchases you didn't make...how are they "income"?

Our part in the Hockey game tonight was NOT to watch! Kris and I are a total jinx to any team or individual sports person we root for. All we have to do is turn on the TV and skaters start falling over, putts are missed, passes fumbled etc. To show you how this works, let me illustrate from tonight's game. We stayed away, especially when we learned the score was 2:1 at the end of the second period. Then when we thought it might be safe, we checked again...2:1 with less than a minute to go! Well, you all know what happened after that. Just think, it would have been all over WAY earlier if we hadn't heard THAT. LOL. Anyway, I'm glad Sid-the-kid scored the winning goal. There's going to be a huge party in Cole Harbour, NS when he brings his medal home for a parade - the Stanley Cup was quite the celebration!

Back to putting railings on the top of the bulk sand bin. Pics when I'm done. TTFN.

 

 

[AmanaMedic]

teen steam fan

The guys here are something else.

THAT's probably a very...polite way of describing us! "something...else."

PUDDLEJUMPEROZ: Welcome sir!

 

Welp, for probably the first time ever since I've started following NASCAR...I was hoping Jeff "eyebrows from outer space" Gordon would win. Instead, Jimmie won...again. BUT, Matt Kenseth pulled-off a solid top-5 finish (finishing 5th)WOOT! WOOT!. I see J-Mac done went and turned his teammate Juan Pablo Montoya...guess the man-crush the media was hyping a week or two ago is over now... Was interesting hearing Montoya crying about drivers being "reckless" out there, kinda like the pot calling the kettle black! IF Juan Pablo wrecks somebody...he's being "agressive." IF somebody dares wreck him...they're "reckless." Send him BACK to Columbia PLEASE!

And THAT gents is Lucky's NASCAR round-up.

Congrats to the Canadians... sounds like it was a helluva match.

Hey, NOW my goofy computer is receiving updates to repair Internet Exploder 6! I got rid of 8 and 7 last night, got rid of another one...guess I had all three! SHEESH! It's finally stopped trying to repair/update 7 and 8...now I gotta convince the BORG I don't want to update 6 too!!!!!!!!!!

Ah well, back to the roundhouse....I'm actually making some kind of progress. Haven't gotten to THAT gap yet...I keep finding other bits to w**k on while I continue to ponder, cogitate, and stew about it!

Later.....

Chris

 

[Packer]

Evening ya'll, RBF for me 

I fired up my airbrush for the first time, and it works. But I have a long story to go with it:

I though mixing the paint and getting the laquer thinner out of the big jug would be the hard part. That turned out to be the easy part. The real fun started when I tried to spray. For starters, the hose (I bought a badger hose) kept falling off. I fixed that by filling the plug so the hose could thread on by more than 2 turns. But then the rubber ring inside the badger hose went missing. I compensated by cranking the air pressure up to 40; however, that may have did something to the hose since some goop is coming out the sides. It also stopped drawing paint up alot. Then when it started back up, it wanted to shoot a stream of paint straight up into the air. I probably should use a paint filter from now on. I probably have more paint all over the garage patio than anything I painted. When cleaning it afterwards, I noticed most of the o-rings were missing (no, I never checked in the first place). Luckily I managed to get some that fit out of my box of carburetor parts.

I don't think it's too bad of a job for enamels on the 1st try. I will note that cleaning the enamel paints out of this airbrush may be self-destructive. Most of the parts are plastic, so it could end up causing it to break. If it does I'll get a badger since getting parts for a Japanese airbrush would cost more than a new one.

New projects regarding that are to adjust the paint on the RI (the darker one) and NW (the almost white one). The DRGW one looks close enough to me.

Puddlejumperoz,

Sawyer, nice job.

Todd and Jeff, color matching is a pain. Especially when using spray cans since they rarely match the cap.