CLOSED!!!
Thank you for your support!
-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.
THIS DINER IS CLOSED!!! NEW DINER IS HERE:
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/218130.aspx
Well, erm
It IS the 31st, so I guess the diner should MOVE.
Where to? where to?
Oh, I know!
See you in the NEW DINER!
Evenin' folks!
Been a busy day around here (what else is new) and I figured I should take a time out for some supper. Chloe I'll have the BBQ chicken dinner with potato salad and some fresh grilled asparagus please. Oh and a tall glass of lemonade to go along with it.
Paul, Galaxy, and Tom (and maybe some others I missed) thanks for your thoughts and prayers for my sister. This is her second bout with cancer as she lost a *** (you know one of those terms we can't say here. A part of the female anatomy that they usually have two of...) to cancer many years ago.
Currently 91°F here in the Finger Lakes, so I have been w@rking outside for a few minutes and then finding my way back into some air conditioning for a few minutes. Got half the lawn mowed so far (will finish this evening), drove over to the plant place outside of town and bought some peppers, Broccoli, and Cauliflower for the fist raised bed garden. Went grocery shopping and was hoping to get an extra 20¢ off my next tank of gas and found I didn't buy exactly the right product for the extra discount. Walked by the manager on the way out and asked him why I didn't get it. He checked out the produces I bought and the Store Brand Tall Kitchen Bags I bought needed to be the smaller packages... He went and got me the right ones and then the service counter both gave me the 20¢ discount and a $2 refund for the difference in the cost of the different bags.... Of course I went and left my store card with the clerk. didn't realize it until I got home. I recharged the PiPs battery and went back downtown on a different errand, then stopped over to the store and picked up my shoppers card on my way to the lumber yard to buy 3 more 2 x 6 x 8' to start the next raised bed garden. managed to get them inside the PiP with no problem much to the suprprize of the clerk at the Lumber yard. he noticed my bumper decal and asked what an ALCO was... I had fun explaining it to him!
Still have a lot to get done today, so I will catch up with you all later.
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
It's been a miserable day for me. Went to town this morning to pay bills, buy gas and buy groceries. Had a hard time getting the van started twice. Seems like it just floods out and the starter is too slow. First time I got it to start. Second time I had to get it jumped. Fired up the first try when the cables were connected. Went back home and got my fathers Marquis for the grocery shopping. He could drive the Pontiac G6 (what I call the roller skate) to work today. So went and got the groceries, came home and put the stuff away. Then I took the Marquis back and picked up my van. Now I'd been feeling bad since I got up this morning and it wasn't improving any as the day went on. I went down a little while ago to feed my fathers dogs and I was dragging pretty bad by then. Got them fed (several hours early but I really didn't think I'd be able to later). By now I was almost at the end of my rope. Legs shaky, energy about zero, vertigo running rampant. I had to do something or I never leaving that house on my own. Only one thing could help and it was a dicey gamble. If I was wrong my problems would be over. I ate the one thing that's at the extreme top of my taboo list. A banana! I was down for a little while with cramps but they passed. I was feeling a little better but not by much. At least some of my strength was returning and I could get back home. Now I'm going to get something else to eat. That banana will be ripping me up later if I don't add something to it. Afterward I'm going to do whatever it takes to hold my bed down.
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
Ray - We extend our very best wishes to your sister and our hopes for a complete cure and recovery. They do such remarkable things in medicine these days compared to years ago, so there is reason to stay positive.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
so now I need to get a GP35, white face it renumber it, dirty up my Con Cor Ext. vision caboose and I'll have a close match to the actual BN green consist in town.
watch?v=J0dEta5BNRI
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
I guess I haven't singed on the last two days? One day up and OUT early, and this AM an early visitor..the train nut friend came by for some time before going to surgery, so PRAYERS ARE needed there.
RAY- I lit an extra candle for your sister.
Jeffrey- you mood swings sound like my MANIC ANGRY OUTBURSTS...no one wants to be near me then..MOH has to put up with it though. Maybe you have some manic in you?
ULRICH- good luck on two fronts..the family and the campaign! I am sure your mother has filled your brother's head all kinds of bad things about you! let it roll off you now. Focus on the campaign..you almost can't afford to lose as then that will put you out of another job! GOOD LUCK!
i did a LOT of running around yesterday and today to the dentist for a impression for my new bottom partial.
Well off to the mailbox then to put away the new quilt rack that FINALLY CAME..that was the package I was so steamed about!
Hey guys, I caught something so rare it's almost similar to bigfoot.
I also picked up one of Kato's New BN SD40-2's and will get the other after I get my check. it's gonna be good to have a 3 unit all EMD BN SD consist, I think I may have just bolstered my roster for when I switch to the BN.
Got the Varney F3B today. It's the plastic version. No problem as I can still use it. I have another on the way (City of San Francisco) that is all metal. I made sure I saw that in the item description. It should be here on or before the 5th.
Morning All,
Currently it is 46 with an expecter high of 83 under very sunny skies.
I have an opening shift today and this is my weekend off, so after w**k tonight I will plan the layout benchwork completion and buy whatever lunber I need tomorrow and get to it. Still not sure if I will do a drop down or duck-under. Well actually a roll under. The layout is quite high and I may be able to use an old office chair to roll under it.
Ray Special prayers for your sister. I hope she can beat it.
Prayers to all in need.
Paul
Living in Fernley Nevada, about 30 miles east of Reno, also lived in Oregon and California, but born In Brooklyn NY and raised on Long Island NY
Heartland Division CB&QLion ..... Was that a recent derailment?
Yup. That was the broadside hit of a UP against a BNSF train at the diamonds. It took out a highway bridge somewhere west of the Hudson River. (All of those little mid-western states look the same to me.)
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Good Morning!!!
Coffee and something dry please….thanks.
Showers and thunderstorms. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. High near 82. Imagine that. Supposed to start after noon so that means any time now.
Paul- Good luck with the CC.
Ray- Oh that’s sad….I sure will add her to my prayers.
OH! Game time!
Ok Jeffery, You say metal, Garry says plastic , I’m gonna say pla…no , metal. Just kinda looks metal to me. Though oddly enough to me, the stirrups tend to look like it may be plastic. But overall, I’m stickin with metal. My final answer is metal.
Jake- Congrats on the awards.
Cars. I found years ago w**king on the car I have as a main driver wasn’t all that much fun. You know, on second thought I had a blast. So much fun I still have that car in my garage and smile fondly at it from time to time remembering.
Well I must get out and dig some little berry starts. I know, I know. I’ve said that all week, but with other things and the rain….well today I must because I can get rid of them tonight at w**k.
Hm, clouding up. Maybe I’ll finish the dishwasher install.
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.
"Good Morning!" from Tipton IN
5/31/13
TIPTON IN
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good morning. It's 75° with 97% humidity. The high will be 88°.I think today I'll be doing some cleanup on the layout. I have to locate some things that are missing and I'm pretty sure they're under the pile of stuff in the work area. That's where I last saw them before things were shifted around.
Good morning.
Had an awards ceremony last night. Got four awards. Not that BIG scholarship (Bennet Trust Scholarship), but I did get the CDK Perforating scholarship (for seniors who are going into an engineering field). Not big, but quite a bit bigger than the average scholarship. $3,000 lump sum, so it's still quite a bit. Also got the President's Education Award, Musical Excellence Award and American Association of University Women Award.
Today is graduation practice, some time to rest, then work. Also got the Mustang assembled yesterday. Look to get it painted during the weekend.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
Heartland Division CB&QJeff ..... Looks like a plastic Varney F3 to me because the horn hook couplers were from the plastic era. ....
It's Friday! Good morning everyone! We are in day 2 of what's predicted to be 4 days of 90-degree weather here in New England. We did fine yesterday just closing up the house in the morning and not opening it until dinner time, by which time it had cooled off enough to eat our first meal of the season outside on the deck. We had snow in the western part of the state last Monday. And by most standards Massachusetts is a very small state.
I'll be pouring Envirotex for the carfloat base this weekend. Sealing up the base around it took longer than expected last weekend, so the pour itself got delayed. I've opened up the Empire Leather Tanning Company kit, and that will be on the weekend agenda as well. If I get up early enough, I'll be on my bicycle before it gets too hot.
Vince, when I was younger I did alll my own car work. I took great pride in my Triumph Spitfire (1969) and later my MGB (1975) and I applaud your efforts to keep 'er running. I decided, though, that it was time to get a new car when I was spending more time under the old one than in it. When I die, I will know I'm in Heaven if St. Peter gives me the keys to that red MGB. If someone gives me the yellow Sunbird station wagon, though, I'll know I'm in the other place. Where better for a model railroader than a warm basement?
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
For the past hour we had a winged visitor IN our house...a bat. All three cats jut spent the entire time leaping, jumping, clicking, mewling and all else after this bat... I had to get my trusty squash racquet out and clobber the poor thing out of the air and into a little bag...and take the poor fellow outside...whereupon it flew around me then took off elsewhere....
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...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
Howdy...
Been busy with non-mrr stuff ....
JR ...... Glad to see you stopped by! ..... Keep in touch as often as you can.
Jeff ..... Looks like a plastic Varney F3 to me because the horn hook couplers were from the plastic era. .... Also, Jeff ..... Congrats on 23,000. .... I don't pay attention to that anymore now that we do not see the count with each post. ..... I like the vehicles you did.
Curt ..... I'll have to catch up, but I hope your trip wa good.
Lion ..... Was that a recent derailment?
Cheers!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Ray, Looking at wikipedia, It's more than a superficial 2nd degree, but not a major 2nd degree. A mild 2nd I guess. It doesn't hurt much... I'll ask my friend who is a doctor to save the trip and expense...
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.
According to USPS tracking my Varney F3B is in Shreveport as of 7:09pm. It should be here tomorrow, a whole day early. Then I'll have the answer to my big question. Is it plastic or metal? Well today wasn't a good day for me. Violent mood swings. There are many days where I get along with everyone. Then there are days when some things tick me off a bit. Then there are days like today when for seemingly no reason at all my temper just explodes and I'm just plain mad at everything and everyone for hours on end. It's not a good time to come knocking and certainly not a good time for a telemarketer to call. I wonder if that poor guy will ever be the same.Didn't get anything done on the layout today as I probably would have destroyed anything I touched. Watched a few movies today and got some sleep. That improved my mood some. One movie I deleted after only thirty minutes because it kept shooting into senseless flashbacks accompanied by very irritating and corny dialog. I hate flashbacks that come every few minutes. I hate corny dialog even more. Name of the movie was 'The Crowded Sky'.Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Janie, just a decaf for me right now.
Vincent, sounds like a 3rd/ degree burn... get thee to your doctor, son!
Just got an email from my Sister in Florida (The Rev.). She now knows why she hasn't been feeling well for the last several months and has been losing weight. She had a swollen lymph gland in her groin. Biopsy was positive for an invasive (metastasized cancerous tumor. Further tests show she has multiple small tumors throughout her abdominal cavity. Surgery is not an option so she will be seeing an oncologist to see what comes next... Her name is Janice, and for those who do, please keep her in your prayers.
I spent most of the day getting odds and ends taken care of. Did some MLK Committee banking, then popped over for my allergy shot on the way to the Hearing Center (next door in the same building). The tech there reset the hearing aids to the last parameters I had, and there was no improvement. Did it a again, and still no change. He was going to send them in for repair under warranty for me but then said, "let me try and clean the mics and dry them first. About 10 minutes later he came in, I put in the aids, and yep they now worked! So I left with a new and better dryer for them. I set it up tonight and my hearing aids are already in it for the night.
After the Hearing center, I drove over to Lowes East of Geneva and bought some 1 x 4 x 10' cedar boards for around the first raised bed garden. The first one is now finished and waiting for some plants to be set in it tomorrow (I hope). Have one more I hope to get done this spring. Still have to buy the 2 x 6 x 8' lumber for that one. Here is what the first two look like at the moment:
I should have a lot more done on the second by tomorrow night as well. Oh, BTW, I was able to transport the 3 boards in the PiP with no problem. The overhang was going out the passenger side front window, well wrapped in a towel with the window up just gently keeping it in place.
Have a good night all! Prayers for all who are in need! (Though most will be for my sister.)
Evening Folks
Flo, pleases
Vince's Sorry to hear about the motor. Funny how people will tell to get rid of a car just because it needs a new motor!
Sues SSI New's? Well they where wanting money sent back to them because she was over paid! But guess what they did today? They sent her another $420.00 and it is Not For June? I am sure that some how I will be going jail for this! If BoS was ran by SSI I would be being paid to live in the house!
Cuda Ken
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I hate Rust
Evening guys
I'm a bit bummed out at the moment. Have been for the past few days...
Yesterday was a really, really bad day. Started with work. The previous shift just took off when I got there. Didn't it it was crazy-stupid busy. Nearing the end I was cleaning up the grill and burned my hand (really ring finger) really bad. I was using one of those plastic scrubber things and it broke and the handle rolled foward, sending my finger into the grill cleaning solution that had been on the grill for a bit. So it's like a hot grease burn... My ring finger between the 1st and 2nd knuckle got burned the worst. Most of the skin came off without me touching it... All I could do was spray it with burn ointment and cover it with a band-aid and a finger cot...
Then it got worse when going to see my sortof lady friend. I was idling in traffic when I heard a pop and a bunch of steam started coming out from under the hood. I could smell anti-freeze, so I limped it carefully to the nearest gas station. But it started overheating most of the way there and I had to pull over and dump the drinking water I had brought with me into the resivor tank. I waited for 10 minutes and started on my way, again. I kept the heater on (it was already 90 something outside...), the hood ajar, and kept in open air (not getting behind anyone) and made it to the nearest gas station... I repeated the water thing since they had a spigot and called my father. He came and looked at it, but we couldn't find where it was leaking... So he bought 2 gallons of anti-freeze and dumped them in, then I went straight home. The leak was soo bad that in the 20-mile trip I lost almost half of the anti-freeze he put in...
After work today, I took a look at the hoses. I replaced one cause it had a hole and pushed the other oone further onto the thing for it and tightened it. Then topped it off with more fluid. I ran it for 5 miuntes to see if it'd leak and got nothing... I made it to my work meeting driving but when I got almost home, it started steaming again... Looked again, and it's leaking between the timing cover and the block... After much debating with myself, I decided to try some stop-leak or whatever. The reasons being I'm going to replace the engine in a few months, it was a HUGE butt-pain to remove and reinstall the timing cover a few years ago, I'd only be out a few bucks on a sealer that is gaurenteed to work, I'd have to buy another gasket set, and did I mention it was a HUGE butt-pain... I'm gonna let the radiator cool till tomorrow after work then I'll try the sealer... If it doesn't work (I'm even praying to god, allah, and anyone else I can think of that it works and; I'm agnostic) then I'll have no car for the next few days...
On a side-note I found out why my car has no air conditioning. The header that I though bent the A/C line (note to self, BBK equal length shortys do not work with A/C in 94-95 Mustangs with 5.0s)enough to have a small hole didn't bend the A/C line. IT MELTED THE A/C LINE.... The line is melted around the header. So I have to buy new headers before I buy the A/C line, which waits for tires (waiting for a tire-rack special), etc.. ugh...
A co-worker said I should get a new car. I looked at them like they were crazy, and told them they were crazy... I just need a new engine, and tires, and headers, and an A/C line. The A/C line is like 15 bucks...
Trainwise I haven't done much. I may have just enough styrofoam and wood to finish the walther's gons... The USPS says they'll be here tomorrow...
Good Evening,
Well it is still raining here and I can't even blame CDN Dennis since this one is a Colorado low.
Today our neice graduated with a Social Work degree. Hard to believe it as it seems not that long ago we were putting her in a car seat to go to MacDonalds for lunch which she loved to do. Brought back some memories of my own cap and gown time which was only 43 years ago. Yikes, that means I'm an old f**t !!!!
Well I did manage to fix that Pacific. I was right it was a tender pick-up problem. The power pick-up wire to the front truck had come un-soldered so it wasn't much to fix. I really like the sound as it is the first sound steam I've had where the chuff intensity really increases with added power and the drops off as power is decreased, just like the real thing. The QSI unit in my U2g does it to some extent but not as much as the Pacific.
I may get back to my weathering or more than likely it wil be flop time in front of the TV. My wife taped an old movie from TCM so we'll have a look.
CN Charlie
Hey! Looks like somebody has been in MY junkbox!
NOT ON MY RAILROAD!
Curt - Great videos of #765 at Horseshow Curve as well as the Pennsylvania RR heritage unit. I've got a pre-order in for an Intermountain PRR heritage unit. I resisting, but still thinking about ordering a Monongahela unit.The Curve is still a nice place to railfan, but it was so much better before they allowed the trees to grow so tall and obstruct the view of the approaches.
Other than the Veteran's unit, I haven't caught any of the heritage units. Everytime we go railfanning, I tell the wife I'm sure one of them is on the next train after we leave. Well last Saturday, I had to drop my laptop off for this guy to remove another virus. GRRRRR. Anyway, I had to pass the spot we usually railfan to get to his house. So we decided to railfan for a couple of hours on the way home. Stopped at a Subway for a sandwich and something to drink first and then watched trains for about 2 hours.
Sunday we go back for some more railfanning and another fellow who has been there quite often this year drove up and told me we left too soon the day before. It seems that about 10 minutes after we left on Saturday, 2 of the Heritage units were on a consist headed into Conway Yard. One was the Virginian and he wasn't sure about the other. I knew it, I just knew that's the way it was going to work out. Now I'm going to want to always stay to see just one more train.
Got my laptop back on Tuesday. Wow, I was going crazy without it. I was thinking about going out and buying another one when he called and said mine was ready. What in the world did we do before computers and the internet.
We went out to the "Mall" this morning after stopping for breakfast. I wanted to get a pair of slacks to go with a blazer that I have. That's all I wanted, one pair of slacks. Now I really don't like to shop for clothes, but every once in awhile, I must get in the mood or something. Cost me over $400.00 to get out of there today. Ended up with 2 pairs of slacks, I sport coat, 2 dress shirts, 2 ties, and I casual short sleeved shirt that looks very nice with the sport coat. It would have been a lot more, but they were havaing a great sale and I did save quite a bit. I don't wear a lot of dressy stuff these days, but there are always funerals, weddings, anniversaries, etc. If I didn't keep putting on weight, it wouldn't be such a problem. My fault, I just like to eat.
It's around 90 outside and suppose to get even higher tomorrow. We will probably go railfanning on Saturday, as Sunday we have tickets for the Civic Light Opera. I think it "42nd Street". The wife has gotten season tickets for years and we see 6 different plays every season. Although she can't see the production all that well, she really enjoys the music. She also enjoys going to a nice restaurant after the performance. It's a nice day out for her and she deserves it for putting up with me.
All that shopping and spending money has tired me out, so I guess a nap is in order. Hope everybody has a good one.