Not much new around here. I did stop in at the heating & a/c company on Tuesday afternoon and requested an a/c check up. I also told the service manager about a lot of corrosion around the humidifier. They installed the new furnace and a/c about 13 years ago, so he had all the information. He said that particular humidifier turned out to have some leakage problems over time and he recommended it be replaced. He also said they move them over to the cold air return side of the furnace now. Anyway, Wednesday morning a young fellow showed up and replaced the humidifier. He also cut out all the corrosion and patched the sheet metal. Did a very nice job. He then did an operational check on the a/c and everything was fine there. Can't beat service like that.
Got up early today as I had to get some blood work done. Then we went for breakfast and ran a couple of errands. Came home and called and made appointments with the Doctor for the wife's annual exam and my 6 month exam. I have a load of laundry to get done, and then I'm calling it quits for the day. Well, maybe I'll go down in the basement and practice my soldering some more. Who knows, I might even get good at it some day. I know I'm getting better because I didn't burn myself last practice session. Guess I shouldn't have bragged about that because now I'll probably set myself on fire...
Hope everybody has a good one...
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Will be working this evening. Some more money for those old Lionels, and looking for an Atlas RS-11 decorated for the Valley in N scale.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
Lehigh Valley 2089 Will be working this evening. Some more money for those old Lionels, and looking for an Atlas RS-11 decorated for the Valley in N scale.
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
http://www.youtube.com/user/SGTDUPREY?feature=guide
Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
Italian Roast coffee in a SOUTHERN mug, please.
***Jeffrey, finally made it to Radio Shack to buy those 1K (1,000 ohms) resistors. What I didn't know is that there are many watts to choose from. I bought the 1-Watt pack. I hope this is what I was supposed to get for the DCC programming track???
Turns out my MTH loco does not come with the DCC/DCS swtich, for the reasons stated below by the MTH folks. Whew, it had me worried there!
[The product your customer purchased should not and does not come with a DCS/DCC switch. There is a hole for said switch and instructions in the manual because both the tooling and the manual are generic for our regular Protosound 3.0 as well as our Protosound 3E+ models. The PS3E+ models run on AC power & are Marklin stud-rail compatible, so need the DCS/DCC switch. The regular Proto-3 engines can only be run on DC power and automatically receive both DCS & DCC signals, therefore making the DCC/DCS switch unnecessary.]
Hope everyone is having a good day. Rob
Burlington Northern #24Lehigh Valley 2089 Will be working this evening. Some more money for those old Lionels, and looking for an Atlas RS-11 decorated for the Valley in N scale. http://blwnscale.com/atlas-rs11.htm here you go Jake!
Howdee folks!
Lookin for storms tonight, and temps to drop til Saturday,,,,its ok,,,its been 80+ most of the week
Ray,,,,Grand daughter is a cutie.I'd buy cookies from her! .Hopefully I'll have one someday. But after 5 sons,and 3 grandsons,,,its not lookin good!
Ken,,,,,your boss is an idiot Yup,,,you got your own special kind of meathead there. My condolences.
Ulrich. I'm still filling out those blank ballot sheets.....You want them mailed individually or just shipped in one big box??
Got to replace the hot water valve over the washer tonight,,,,new washer comes Saturday,,,,it would be nice to be able to shut the water off while we swap machines Then its onto money paying projects for other folks.
catch y'all later!
Karl
NCE über alles!
Lehigh Valley 2089Burlington Northern #24 Lehigh Valley 2089 Will be working this evening. Some more money for those old Lionels, and looking for an Atlas RS-11 decorated for the Valley in N scale. http://blwnscale.com/atlas-rs11.htm here you go Jake! Thank you!
Burlington Northern #24 Lehigh Valley 2089 Will be working this evening. Some more money for those old Lionels, and looking for an Atlas RS-11 decorated for the Valley in N scale. http://blwnscale.com/atlas-rs11.htm here you go Jake!
I've been working on the Athearn F7 shell today. It's painted for the most part in the black and gray of the L&A. I still need to get windows and headlight lenses for it. I'll be adding the horn either tonight or tomorrow. I'm not doing too badly considering I have the full use of only five fingers including my thumbs and next to no feeling in them.Talk about handicap modeling. I could probably write a book on it.
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
Evening guys
Well today's been kinda weird...
I got about 1/3 of my thrall loads shaped. 2 lost a bit much in the sanding phase and had rather large gaps. Eventually I'll do the wax paper and black beauty (media blasting material) trick I picked up somewhere... I also started work on my first commissioned car. A club member is paying me $15 to weather his cars, per car. First up is a intermountain 52'6" AAR flat in PC. I have the trucks done and the wheels half done. I'll do the body tomorrow after work...
That was all before 1pm. I took a nap, woke up at 3 and went to my appointment.
Seems kinda slow in here today...
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.
At last..... after 4 days and nights of cloudy really windy weather it's finally settled down and is now raining. Boy do we need it too as things a really dry dry dry. Can't say I'm sorry the howling wind has finally stopped because it was driving me around the bend I hate the wind with a passion.
Got busy and put decoders in 3 more Locomotives today and fixed the headlight foul up on another one. I then fired up my dedicated laptop with JMRI on it and once again, I get the dreaded "No port found" message. Just once I'd like to be able to actually use JMRI to do the programming. Of course, my son in law set it up running under Lynx which I know nothing about so now what? I have another spare/old notebook that runs Windows XP that I'll try JMRI on I think.
Well, I think I'll go read some of the other posts and call it good for today.
Take care all
Dennis
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
Evening Folks
Flo, pleases.
Today went OK till I got home.
1 Wife called me at work and said she could not turn her car key to get it started. Told her to "Shake the steering wheel". Said she did! I got home, lifted the steering wheel just a tad to the right, car started? Then she got mad at me?
2 She wanted a Pizza Hut pizza tonight, so I tried to order on line. Would not take my order for some reason. Called the store, they would only give me the discounted prices if we order on line which I could not? Wife got mad at me again?
I just to beat to type anymore, see you all later.
Ken
http://s83.photobucket.com/user/cudaken/media/Real%20Trains/S_663_jh_001.jpg.html]
I hate Rust
Today we got a lot of thunder and lightning but not much rain. One of the neighbors likened it to a visit from his in-laws. A lot of noise and arguing but very little positive result. He always sleeps very well after they leave.I got the Athearn geep horn mounted on the F7 shell this evening. That means I won't have to do it tomorrow. Speaking of tomorrow, it's time for me to call it a night.
Hey guys, well I'm officially 19 as of 4 minutes ago!
well, I'm gonna visit oma tomorrow, order #750, and probably just run some trains or something.
Good Morning Folks!
Well, our weather is not really Spring-like. It´s way to wet. Got about 3" of rain last night - too much for the soil to soak it up. No improvement in sight!
Janie, strong coffee in an IV bag, please!
I am up since 5.00am - I was not home till 1.00am, so I am still sleepy. Party work kept me busy this morning - I had to answer 50 emails that came in last night.
Gary - congratulations on your 19th birthday. So you are now exactly 1/3 of my age ...
Not much planned for the day, other than adding finishing touches for my two speeches for the Sunday conference. I may start on the "benchwork" of that little layout. It has to be a lightweight construction, so I may use that foam board I still have. Actually, with some bracing, this material is quite strong!
Have a good day!
Edit: I got TOPS - so Gary´s is on me! Add to that the various poisons you´d like to have during the day!
Thanks Ulrich!
I can't wait to see your layout, you're a master of illusions and if I didn't know any better I'd believe your layouts are far bigger than they really are.
Gary - that layout is just over 1 ft. by 1 1/2 ft., so it is really tiny.
The size of a layout does not correlate with the fun you can have building and operating it. Actually, I find it much easier to build small layouts, focusing on a specific scene. It´s just like a slice of the real thing.
Looking at your regular 4 by 8 layout, I find it difficult to out up a plausible scenery. Most of the ones I have seen have scenes cluttered all over the layout, but not necessarily in a context.
Small layouts also nicely fit your budget...
Morning all
the English weather is being it's usual self wet,cold and cunning it was nice and warm yesterday followed by a bout of hail , in may has meant i have to start wearing my winter coat
Yesterday was a good day one of my other hobbies is tabletop war-gaming both historical and sci-fi/fantasy Flavors and yesterday me and a few friends finally managed to have the Napoleonic era game that we have being trying to have for the for the past few months bear in Mind this game was planned for my batchlors party in April (i got married on the 4th of this month) the sides were France and allies Vs everyone who opposed them the game was run in my local games store by a friend of mine who was playing the role of umpire.and lets just say i haven't had that much fun in ages.my Highlight was My Swiss regiments getting mistaken for British units By the non french allies as there both in red
i think today i am going to rest yesterday was tiring i think i may do some layout planning and a bit of work later (one of the perks of working for yourself)
Apologies in advance for any use of UK RailRoad Terms
"there is the wrong way the Right way and then there is Great western railway Way"
Morning Coffee in the diner with friends..
GOOD FRIDAY MORNING!!!
Today is Friday, May 24th, 2013!!!
I will light the prayer candles at 10 AM for those in need...
MAKE it a GREAT day!!!
ON CLOUD NINE:
For some odd reason, the number 9 has always been considered by mathematicians to have some super power? Some say it goes back to the Holy Trinity since 3 x 3 = 9. And later in Victorian times, a person who was all dressed up was said to be "dressed to the nines." So what does this have to do with clouds?
It was believed that clouds existed on a successful level of layers, and the ultimate high layer was 9. So anyone who is suddely super happy was said to be soaring in the clouds and naturally the level of the cloud they were assumed to be on was the highest...level 9. Today another way of saying you are very happy and even in some cases, in love, is to say that you are on cloud 9
-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.
Gary Duprey...
Calling Gary DuPrey...
Where IS Gary DuPrey???
Oh., Gary DuPrey is out celebratin'!
celebratin' what?
well, Celebratin' his BIRTHIN' day!!!
Gary, may you have lots of
and lots of train 's!!!
HAPPY 19TH Birthday Gary DuPrey!
Oh so young, and having the world by the tail....and to know everything at that age...
Happy Birthday Gary.
galaxyOh so young, and having the world by the tail....and to know everything at that age...
If I knew then what I know now, I'd probably still make the same mistakes
Thoughts and Best Wishes to All that need them.
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
"Good Morning!" from Tipton IN
5/24/13
TIPTON IN
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Happy Birthday Gary!
Modelling HO Scale with a focus on the West and Midwest USA
Gary: Happy 19th! (Man, before I know it I'll be there, already almost 18.5 myself!)
Good morning.
Same plans as before, but after today, my finals will be finished, and high school for me (on the learing part) will be completely done.......................................................................................................man, that time already?
Good Morning!!!
Coffee and an order of bisquits and gravy please. Thank you.
Sunny, with a high near 66.
Gary-
Thebarnet- Late congrats on the marriage! Gaming……a guy I wo*k with plays those games. Warcraft and something else….can’t think of it. Anway, he talks about this and that and it’s like talking Greek to me. He tries to explain how it works but I guess I just don’t get it. There are things I do he doesn’t get either so, each person has different likes and interests. BUT, he does make “figs” as he calls them (short for figurines for those reading who missed it like I did the first few times he said it…duh!) So we get to talk occasionally about modeling and weathering as he does that to some of his people and machines. Mostly he’s talking about goorocks or something and pixies taking hit points and loss of all power and how he skillfully returned 3 times by a smork with 50 and some character that looks like a rhinoceros who throws pies and annihilated everyone. I don’t know, he plays several of these games and I get confused what he’s talking about.
Well the yard never dried enough to mow yesterday. I’ll try again today, but with this drop in temperature and cloudy days it’ll never dry before it rains again. No wonder everybody is messed up in the head. It’s not gonna hit the 70’s again until Monday and then Tuesday back in the mid to upper 80’s through at least Thursday (they say). Then what??....back to the 60’s again? Yeesh. Oh and I gotta dig up some black raspberry starts too.
Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!
Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
How about Love Potion Number 9? It's not a song that's heard much anymore, but I put on real oldies from the 50s and 60s in my train room, to go with my Late Transition Era railroad, and that's one that comes on now and then. And "cloud number 9" is in the lyrics of Neil Sedaka's "Right Next Door to an Angel."
Happy Birthday to all that have them and are willing to admit it. I'm already enjoying senior discounts at movie theaters, ski resorts and yes, train shows. Amtrak also has great deals for us.
Great modeling weather for this long weekend here in New England - chilly, clouds, rain, fog, thundershowers....what's not to love? After last weekend's graduation, I've got some catching up to do on layout work. It's time to get the water done around the carfloat terminal, so I'll be filling, sealing, painting and finally adding Envirotex to the bases of the carfloat and the apron, which are separate so that the carfloat can be removed as a casette and used as a sort of staging.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Happy birthday Gary. Congrats on making it to 19. You're only about 1/3rd my age.
TMarsha guy I wo*k with plays those games. Warcraft and something else….can’t think of it. Anway, he talks about this and that and it’s like talking Greek to me. He tries to explain how it works but I guess I just don’t get it. There are things I do he doesn’t get either so, each person has different likes and interests. BUT, he does make “figs” as he calls them (short for figurines for those reading who missed it like I did the first few times he said it…
Good morning. It's 69° with 97% humidity. It'll be cloudy with a small chance of rain. The high will be 88°.TGIF I guess. Just another day to me. I don't know why but I'm very tired this morning. I think I may just go back to bed. No plans for today.The word for today is tsisdu which means 'rabbit'.
Happy B'day to Gary!.... When I was 19, trains looked much different than they do now.
I heard about the major highway bridge collapse near Seattle last evening. It reminded me of the US 68 bridge near here that was knocked into the water by a large river freighter in January 2012.. A new span was completed and installed by May 2012. The entire bridge is outdated and too narrow. It will be replaced by a new one. Workers are jus tbeginning construction of it.
Here is the bridge in January 2012. Our neighbors on our road were on the bridge on the second span away from the one that fell, and they were headed toward it. They and other drivers were able to stop without going in the water.
Here is the brdge in May 2012 being repaired with a new span.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Chris .... This photo is for you. ... It shows THAT C&NW GP7.