galaxy alexstan Congratulations TheBarnet!And I turned 18 today, so thank you all for your early birthday wishes last week! :D Oh no, another adult modeler in the forums! SInce it is your birthday, I WILL BUY ALLHTE DINERS on this page their orders! {it would be your responsibility sinc you got top posting!} So aith lots of and !!!
alexstan Congratulations TheBarnet!And I turned 18 today, so thank you all for your early birthday wishes last week! :D
Congratulations TheBarnet!And I turned 18 today, so thank you all for your early birthday wishes last week! :D
Oh no, another adult modeler in the forums!
SInce it is your birthday, I WILL BUY ALLHTE DINERS on this page their orders! {it would be your responsibility sinc you got top posting!}
So aith lots of and !!!
Good Morning!!
Rain be falling on our'n heads here..and cooling off....
Happy Birthday to the celebrants and congratulations to thebarnet for the marriage!!
Now...as to coffee..is there a 120 cup urn of the stuff that I can take wit' me? There is? Good!! I'll take that to go please!!!
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
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Morning
Flo, Bill sizes Coffee Pleases.
Happy Birthday Alexander.
Daughter should be in surgery by this time. She had to have a full Hysterectomy done. I am still going to work today, I am no good hanging around Hospitals and waiting. If there are any problems, I can be there in a half hour.
See you all later.
Ken
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I hate Rust
Howdy...
Barry ....... Looks like Bill T brought almost enough coffee for a Barry-sized cup!
Ken ..... I hope your daughter's surgery is okay.
Bear ..... Can you tell us about those interesting center cab switchers?
Lee ....... Have not seen you post in a while. I hope you are okay.
Ulrich .... I think you should have a whistle stop campaign.
Everybody..... Keep Smiling! ....
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good morning everyone,
Tuesday was not a very good day for me. When I got on the computer in the morning to check e-mails, etc., I was upset to find out I had been hit by another virus and couldn't do a thing. It was fine when I shut down Monday night. Anyway, I couldn't do any thing so I called this guy who advertises in the Yellow Pages. He came to the house, but as it was a version he hadn't seen before, he took my laptop back to his shop. He called early the next morning and I picked it up. Got it home and everything is fine and no problems. This was a lot better than when I got hit with a virus on a different laptop about 4 years ago. When I got that one back, they had wiped my harddrive and reinstalled Window. That was really a pain reinstalling all my programs, etc. This guy left everything intact except for removing the virus, so I will definately keep his phone number.
And yes, I use anti-virus software. The first laptop had Norton. So when I got the one I presently have, I had McAfee installed. The worst part is I just renewed the subscription. Oh well....
Rained most of the night here, and a light rain is still hanging around. Temperatures are lower than what they have been as well. We need the rain however, as the ground was getting a little dry and hard. I've been very busy all week with the "List of Chores", so I think I might just sit back and chill out a little. Got 2 new books from Amazon and might start on one of them.
Hope everyone has a good one...
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a couple sour cream glazed donuts to dunk in the Bill sized mug filled with dark roast coffee.
Harumph! Would have thought at least someone would have enjoyed the photo of the decal.... Maybe I was too subtle... A neighbor who is a rail fan just saw it and roared! I'll get a better photo later.
Ken, prayers for your daughters surgery today and for a quick and uneventful recovery!
Lets see, somebody had a birthday yesterday, I think, and I missed it... Hmmmmm... Well, whoever it was, a happy belated birthday to you!
I just paid for the new air conditioner. The installer came over and showed me all the ins and outs of running it. Took about 45 seconds actually...
Haven't been sleeping very well lately. I wake up sore and achy and have to roll over, then the other side gets sore and achy and I have to roll over again. Can't get comfortable. You don't think my 23 or so year old mattress needs to be exchanged for a new one do you? Hmmm.... Might just as well run up the revolving credit a bit more. I can only draw on it until mid July.
Have few things I have to get done today (Laundry and banking) so I best get moving. Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good morning. It's 67° with 93% humidity. It'll be cloudy with a good chance of rain. The high will be 80°.It's very wet here this morning. A larger line of thunder storms moved through last night and this morning dumping what sounded to be a massive amount of rain. The sound of it on my roof was a constant roar for nearly two hours. The power never even flickered but the cable internet was out for a while this morning that I'm aware of. If I was to sum up my thoughts on the storms in my native language, for polite conversation of course, some of my chosen words would be 'asdaya', 'ulosásdi', 'gadulida', 'anagalisgá', 'ayádakualosgá'. I hope we don't have another storm like that anytime soon. We're under a flash flood watch until 6pm Saturday. Right now the radar shows clear here but there's more ugly stuff making it's way across east Texas.I may work on getting part of the layout cleaned up today. On the other hand I may sit around and watch some movies. It just depends on what I feel like doing at the time. Good thing I got the grass mowed yesterday.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Happy birthday Alex!!
Thank you Bear, she is doing better.
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
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Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
Ray ..... LOL
V8 Vega Dennis ..... That's an awful story. A terrible death.
BN24 Gary ..... Glad Oma is better, and hope she continues to imporve.
Here is my repowered doodlebug on the branchline. I posted another picture of it on another part of the branchline in WPF.
howmus 73
But, but, but... I prefer Baldwins, so THAT decal would do me NO GOOD.
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
I see I missed top again! Whew!
Went and got my natural toofers cleaned...good for another 6 months 3000 miles {what's left of them anyway}.
That and load of laundry and dinner and I am doen for the day.
I think a nap is order after the mail comes and I see what bills I have to pay.
*yawn*
More thunderstorms. See y'all later.
Thanks heartland.
I love EMD but I'm afraid exposure to the SP&S has caused Alco-haulism issues for me.
Burlington Northern #24 Thanks heartland. I love EMD but I'm afraid exposure to the SP&S has caused Alco-haulism issues for me.
Groan....
I hope all went well in your daughter's surgery Ken.
Modelling HO Scale with a focus on the West and Midwest USA
howmus Burlington Northern #24 Thanks heartland. I love EMD but I'm afraid exposure to the SP&S has caused Alco-haulism issues for me. Groan....
....... and Ray is a groan man, too.
Heartland Division CB&Q howmus Burlington Northern #24 Thanks heartland. I love EMD but I'm afraid exposure to the SP&S has caused Alco-haulism issues for me. Groan.... ....... and Ray is a groan man, too.
Afternoon All,
Got the cover installed on my truck bed. Did my laundry and packed my suitcase. We depart tomorrow. I looked at the NWS for the temps in Northern GA and the Strasburg area. Looks like temps in the 60-70's where it has been almost 90 here for several days (pants and jackets). I will be gone for a little over 2 weeks so I will probably be MIA most that time.
Gary- Glad your Grandmother is doing better.
Ken- Best wishes and prayers for your daughter.
TheBarnet- Congrats on the wedding.
Alexander-Happy Birthday. Welcome to adulthood.
V8Vega- We just had something similar happen here but luckily the woman survived.
Hope everybody has a good night and prayers for those in need.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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ROFL!!!!! Now...who gonna hep me clean my monitor??
Evening guys
Work was a killer. I wound up working from 700 to 1700. ugh. reason being is I usually put the truck up on friday. Well the truck was 6 hours late (sounds like amtrak) because they apparently got in an accident on the way (the driver described it as some lady hitting the truck because she was on her phone).
Remind me to find the bix box of batteries I have. I want to take pics of my SP F-units, the 2 C30-7s, and the ATSF SD40-2 I fixed up.
Garry, not really. SP is my #2 favorite road because I grew up with it as a kid in Texas. I got the 2 stewart SP black widow units (F7A & F3B) for about 25 bucks a piece with the kato drives. I was going to use them for my F-unit project, but the F3 is the wrong for the BN units. Around the same time, I had bought 2 of the stewart sound/DCC chassis. I decided "what they hey" and stuck the shells on the sound chassis and started running them. I have another F3 that is wrong for the BN that's undecorated, so I may paint it black and red and use it as a 3rd. (F7A, F3B, F3B). It's a pretty nice groupping to run at the club, especially when pulling the PFE reffers the club has a bunch of. The F-units will make it up the helix, but they slow down alot. They crawl if I add the manuta metal reffer to the head end. A friend has an intermountain Cab-foward and he'll sometimes pull that out and push the F-units with the reffers.
Thebarnet, congrats
Alexander (can we call you Alex?), happy birthday
Ken, hope your daughter's surgery goes well?
dennis, Personally I think it depends on how they are raised. I had a pit-bull (well a pit-bull, great dane, and black lab mix) a few years ago. He was really friendly and obeyed commands pretty well, and played well with other dogs (even little ones), but a bit of a knuckle head. He was never aggresive, in fact I think he was more of a pacifist than anything. He grew up to be about 120 pounds or so and about 2.5-3 feet high. Depite that, he got scared of a neighbor's chiuaha. So much so, that when he saw it he would run the other way with his tail between his legs. Kind of wierd when the chiuaha was only about as big as his head. Unfortunately, he developed a bad case of lymphosarcoma (sp?, cancer of the lymph nodes) and he had to be put down (that or give him steroids to live for a few more months, I elected to end his suffering).
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Vincent, yes you guys can call me Alex, I get called that all the time.
Now, I have a question for you guys, what kind of compact camera, would you reccomend? For like general layout point-and-shoot? I'm looking at a Canon Powershot SX230HS..
Alex,I use a really cheap CanonPowershotA1100IS. Because that's what I've got.
Seems to work ok. If I was to submit pics to a Mag or something ,I'd upgrade. That'll never happen.
Facedbooked with PFC Son. He is good. Still at KAB, but things are moving along. I did pass along your comments and good wishes. He said" tell'm Thanks, Dad". So, Thanks ,Fellas!! Sometimes what he's doing gets shoved to the back burner, so to speak. You guys have NO IDEA what a few simple comments mean to him and his buddies.' Bout makes me cry. There was more that he said, but that about sums it up. Thank you. Terry in NW Wisconsin
Facedbooked with PFC Son. He is good. Still at KAB, but things are moving along. I did pass along your comments and good wishes. He said" tell'm Thanks, Dad". So, Thanks ,Fellas!! Sometimes what he's doing gets shoved to the back burner, so to speak. You guys have NO IDEA what a few simple comments mean to him and his buddies.' Bout makes me cry. There was more that he said, but that about sums it up.
Thank you.
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
alexstanNow, I have a question for you guys, what kind of compact camera, would you reccomend? For like general layout point-and-shoot? I'm looking at a Canon Powershot SX230HS..
Don'd know about the Canon. I primarily use a Nikon L20 point n shoot with an old Olympus D550Zoom as a backup.
I found my camera and the batteries for it. It's an old (and beat-up) Canon Powershot A610. The case is falling apart and the guts are trying to come out. It has duct tape holding it together, but it works great. Just look at my WPF post.
Curt Webb Afternoon All, Got the cover installed on my truck bed. Did my laundry and packed my suitcase. We depart tomorrow. I looked at the NWS for the temps in Northern GA and the Strasburg area. Looks like temps in the 60-70's where it has been almost 90 here for several days (pants and jackets). I will be gone for a little over 2 weeks so I will probably be MIA most that time.
SAFE TRIP CURT!!!! ENJOY!
Terry-Tell your PFC thanks for his service and we wish him well with no harm to come to him. Adn Terry...don't cry!
Well, ordered new shirts from Hawaii, they are all on their way. Will probably order a few more, though most in my size are of the "muted" variety{and I like the "bold print" variety}, or what I call the "redculous"{or as I like to say the "redickalus"} I mean who really wants surboarders with giant pineapple drinks on giant leaves on their shirt? Ordering here in the East Coast in the AM, meant they were shipped today in Hawaii by nightfall our time. Pretty fast witth them 6 hours behind us. Should be here mid-next week or late next weeek at the latest, 4-7 business days.
ALso on its way is the second collection from Keali'i Reichel Music CD and a DVD of him in concert with HULA dancing...should please MOH. We actraully found a HULA dance teacher in Ithaca who MOH is going to contact to find out aobut taking classes as MOH wnats to learn the proper techniques for HULA.
We aways enjoy the shipments from Hawaii.
Well, I guess i shoud say g'nite. or rather...Aloha ahiahi, {good evening} & A *** kaua {until we meet again} {remember ALOHA means "hello, goodbye, affection, love"}
Evening gang!
Whats that ya say Flo,, No COFFEE? Barry drank it all!! Well I hope his ride home was long and bumpy!! No matter, I'll take an ice cold
Got home from work at 4:30, and got on the mowers.(BTW, 2 weeks into it, and I don't miss the car biz at all!) After cutting and while I was trimming, I had the wife do something we almost never do,,,,,use the Cub to blow all the clippings into windrows, then piles. Then we picked them up in the dump cart and "donated" them to the neighbors grass/compost collection.(he "donates tomatoes to us all summer) . Had to, after 150 lbs of weed&feed last weekend,, that stuff was THICK!! Ordered Pizza for delivery as a cool breeze started blowing. By the time the pizza got here, BIG thunderstorm! Thank goodness it waited till the lawn was done! Delivery guy was kinda soggy,, but the pie was fine!Tomorrow is the littlest grandson's 1st birthday. Should be a riot! The last 2 were! Maybe Sunday I can get another "project engine" video taped and on youtube for y'all.
V8Vega That's an awful way to die. It's not the pits fault either. I know pit bulls I would trust around and infant. They are great dogs when raised properly. The animals that raise them to fight should be locked in a WWF cage and left to fend for themselves.
Alexander and about the camera. I use my trusty Canon Powershot A710 for most of the stuff you see here. I also have a new Fuji camera... No numbers on the case,, but It's 12 MP with a 30x zoom and a "super macro" mode , gets in real close. So close in fact, I see more flaws on the trains than before!! Not sure I like that!
Ray,, loved the bumper snicker....I'd have one myself but I have a bad phobia about stickers on painted surfaces.
Ken, I hope everything is well with your daughter
Gotta run for now, lightning again!!
Karl
NCE über alles!
Karl- Thank you! And 30X zoom? wow! :O
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer Pleases
Daughters Surgery went off with out a hitch today. If there is no computations she will be home Saturday.
Hum, Slave Front? Beginning to not trust the Services Writer and starting to wonder about his honesty as well.
Had a customer (Little Old Lady, well my age) come in with a 1998 Ford with 75,000 miles on it. She had let the car get real ow on gas before she bought some. After she bought the gas, car would die at idle unless she gave it gas and held the brake to keep it stopped. After she took her foot off the brake, car ran fine! It would only die if she did not give it gas at idle!
When we got the car in the shop, idle like a champ and ran fine. No check engine light and nothing in the computer's memory! My self, I would clean the throttle body first and look at the MAP sensor. Tell her if it started to die again, bring it back in!
Tom the Services Writer sales her a fuel pump and filter (and possibly some of stuff, I never saw the written ticket) for $900.00? Theory is the fuel pump picked up some junk when the gas was real low, I can sort of see that. But, if that was the case, why would the car drive fine and just not idle?
The Slave Part? Tom loves to take in late job's that will take to after we closes, then leave and stick me with the problem! Today I was to get off at 6:00 PM, asked him if he had things under control it was time for me to go! Tom said, "You Close Tonight". Told him I did not, got off at 6:00. Tom said "Check the schedule, Tyler changed it!" Went and grabbed it, still the same, I got off at 6:00!
So Tom wrote up a 3 to 5 hour job at 6:00, we closed at 8:00! Bet you he is still there! Boy, I hope the car dies at idle after the fuel pump is installed!
Vince's how long in 1:1 inches is a 100 ton HO coal hopper? My coal cars are the older 3 and 5 bay outside braced coal cars that are about 4 to 5 inches long.
Time to field strip the NIB SD 9 Rio Grand.
Later, Ken
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Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a cup of decaf please...
Been dark and cloudy most of the day with an abundance of thunderboomers late afternoon and most of the evening. I ran a few errands before the storms rolled in, then just sat back and watched the light show here this evening. We need the rain, so I was glad to see the storms.
Ken, glad to hear your daughter came through her surgery well and should be coming home soon!
Hope you all have a restful evening! Prayers for all!
Good to hear the good news about your daughter Ken.
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Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.