Warm and humid out today. I hope I can get the grass cut tomorrow as its getting long and thick, might have to throw on the bigger if it's too thick. Last week it was 12c today it's 31c but feeling closer to 37c, where did spring go,lol
i don't like it when it jumps that quick in a short period of time. Im not a huge fan of the heat and humidity.
Good Evening!
Kind of quiet in here today!
Janie, I´ll stay here at the RC and have a Barry-sized burger, fries, a side dish of salad with blue chesse dressing and a , please!
When I woke up this morning, my back was not only yelling insults at me, but made getting out of bed a chore! I somehow managed to get out, crawled on my knees into the shower. A hot shower helped just enough for me to get dressed and go to the next pharmacy. A large dose of Ibuprofen took good care, so I am now feeling better. I did mange to finish the last module joint, though. Now all track is securly fastened to the sub roadbed, all feeder installed and all joints made. Ready for the next step - wiring! How I love that! We are out of burn ointment, so I´ll wait till Monday to do that job!
I need to work out how to control the switches. I am thinking of incorporating a little drawer into one of the modules and use push buttons to actuate the switch motors. That´s not that difficult to do, but I need to figure out how to get the DC power to it. The Kato powerpack I am using has no decent spearate outlet to power accesories .
The predicted storm was not as bad as we feared, so we can settle for a quite evening today!
Have a good one, everyone!
Hey diners,
Train News: Kato announced their new ACS-64 pre-orders, but their announcement is going to be on Monday with Amfleet I cars. I hope they're planning on making a few more paint schemes with the Amfleets. BLI NY Central boxcars pre/post 1955. I was thinking of getting some for my NYC layout.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Hi Gang,
Chloe, when time permits, I'll have a chocolate malt shake, please.
I don't know how many of you have checked out a site called "Toyman TV" but do google it as it is a great site and lots of vidios of real fun stuff. such as,
The Port of Los Angeles,
The Barstow Yards,
A travelogue on the Salt Lake and Fort Douglas Railroad
A Hot Wheels layout, thats truly remakable, etc., etc., etc.
Also model cars, but real hot rods and land speed cars as well..
You won't regret it.
The trouble is, that it is like eating your favorite food, you don;t want to stop..
Have fun and enjoy, especially if you haven't visited there already. You can also subscribe to it and get his new video each week end. This doesn't cost anything, you just have to sign up for it.
Johnboy out...................and back at work. Will check back later.
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Well! THis is my first foray into wifi away from home. I had trouble and expect trouble when I get home again connecting back to our wifi.
Mr. B:we are NOT in Baltimore YEt. WE are outside Boo-fell-oh, NY. MOH wanted to go halfway here to MOLs gravve for mothers day, and has wanted to go to the big giant greenhouse in Eire county, so I suggested since MOH had the weekend off, we make a trip of it.
Is romance in the air? we will see. I hope so, but one never knows.
There is an indoor pool, but no jack-ooze-ee, bummer, Not that i swim much, but after a hot day...
We picked the wrong day for this- an 80s-degree day to go to a plant hot-house, and in the hot sun, MOH burned quicker than i did, but i got sun too, unusual for me not to burn first. Aloe to the rescue!
well, If there is to be romance, Id best get off here NOW!
Later!
PS I MAY not be on in the morning either!
-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.
Evenin'......................
Oh! Janie, a cup of decaf and an Advil please.... Man! What a day! I rolled out of bed at 6AM this morning to get myself ready for the day, feed the cats and make sure Blackie had his insulin injection... Got in the car at 7:20, put in the address of the Conesus Lake Sprotsman Club in Lakeville, NY and headed out the driveway. Arrived at Lakeville around 8:30 in plenty of time for the safety briefing/meeting with the crew of the LA&L and our volunteers. Signed on train at 9:15 and then helped 300 passengers board the coaches. The Air-conditioners were working (not great, but still functioning) at that time... Collected ticket stubs and pu ched the tickewts they had (tradition you know), and then stood and talked to passengers for the trip to Mortimer Junction! Yep, the same Mortimer Junction that is the namesake of our Convention next week.
Stood and walked the car for the trip back. Answered a lot of questions and had a great time. Lot and lots of very happy passengers on our old Buddliner Empire State Express Coaches. Those are the Coaches that were put in service on Dec. 7, 1941. After helping the passenegers detrain back in Lakeville I headed to use the little room in the Sportsman club... Then went right back back to the train as the next 300 passengers were starting to arrive and I had to stand and discourage them from sneraking on board. Second trip was also packed with 300 more passengers (both trips sold out a week ago!) so once again no place to sit so I stood and did my job for the entire round trip. Signed off trian just before 5PM.... My back felt like someone was jabing me with a sword by the time the day was over! No matter how I shifted my weight or stood I was in agony! Eight and one half hours and never sat down... Getting too old for that! Most of the feedback from passengers asked "Why aren't you folks doing these more often (Two a year). I think they are a popular experience! Had all the way from a baby in arms to a 95 year old gentleman who worked for the NYC and had ridden those same coaches many times when they were new! Absolutely cool! He was all grins for the entire trip!!!
When we reached Mortimer Junction and during the time the train crew switched cabs, we showed the passengers how to flip the seats for the way back. I told many of them, "Just try doing this on an airplane! In fact if the airplane starts going backward, you're in big trouble...."
Oh....! We had a newsreporter form Time Warner Cable on train for the first trip. She took several clips of me (evidently I look the part or something...) and I was in several still shots she took (helping passengers board). Of course I don't have cable and so far I haven't seem anything up on their website.... Who knows?
If I sound like I'm on an adrenaline high.... You bet!
Have a great one.
73
By the time I arrived home
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
RAY; HOPEFULLY you can answer this BEFORE we get to far to home:
Where IS this RR you work at? We are off i-90 thr thruway in Williamsville ny. {exit 49} Now. WE would like maybe stop by on the way home?
Well, Dinner is over, ice cream was had {hit the spot} abd romance was sorta in the air.
at least I got out Dodge CIty for a while!
I will look up {try to}the RG&E {?} Online
MAYBE I will see you there RAY.
well, as per usual, its about bed time.
later.
Evening Dinners
Flo, Please
Work That pretty much cover that! We had plenty of customer, ones with money where far and few in between. May thing is I beat Dave again by $800.00.
Should have came straight home! But I stopped at Shop & Save to buy some hamburger buns. They have some great deals on meat. They had T-Bones steaks for $5.99 a pound, cheaper than there ground chuck. I think this is the first time I have ever bought T-bone steak in my life. I have had plenty of them when we could afford to eat out but I never spent the money on them for home grilling.
John Boy Thanks for the tip on Toy TV! While I found the Hot Wheel layout sort of lame it did have HO Trains in it. There is something wrong when a Artist gets a grant to build a hot wheels layout. But I like the idea of the show!
Later, Ken
What started the sickness
I hate Rust
Hi Galaxy, unfortuately we will not be open for the public this year until the 3rd. weekend in June. We are not working with the New York Museum of Transportation Sundays like we have for many years. (Long and complicated story and some is not public information.) So at our end we are going to be open one weekend a month and will give longer train rides and a much more involved tour of the property including the restoration shop.
Complete information can be found here: http://rochestertrainrides.com/
Would love to have you come for the experience some weekend. Today was the first of two major trips on the LA&L for this year. We have developed a good working rappor with them and they should be bring a good chunk of $$$ to the museum. Our Museum is very focused on education and restoration. The other end of the line appears to be more interested in entertainment...
The problems were supposedly about the switch this year we wanted to make to use the NORAC rulebook for operations. That puts us using the same rulebook all the Northeast US is using. That is good for knowledge of other railroads and for our own safety and insurance at the museum. We take safety and conformaty for operations seriously. The other museum can't see any reason why the old, out of date, and at times contradictory rulebook we have been using for several years can't be used.... Too confusing for the "old" people that volunteer up there and they "only run a little one mile long railroad anyway"... What could possibly happen??? I'll leave the conversation there except to say the new rules class is much more consise and easier than the old one, has no contradictions written into it, and just makes better sense....
Oh, and the Railroad Museum I volunteer at is the Rochester & Genessee Valley RR Museum in Rush, NY.
Good evening ...
CN Charlie ... Good to see you. Sounds like an interesting trip. ... Tell more about it if you want.
Galaxy ... Hope you are enjoying yourself.
Ray ... Sounds like quite a day. If you get on TV, will you be handing out autographed photos of yourself?
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Heartland Division CB&Q Galaxy ... Hope you are enjoying yourself. Ray ... Sounds like quite a day. If you get on TV, will you be handing out autographed photos of yourself?
Garry: It has been GREAT to get of Of Daoge city FINALLY,. I have waited since January, and it was a looooong cold winter to wait through! I just wish it could have been a 3-dayer instead of a wo-dayer, but I'll take it.
MOH has unfortunately developed "traveler's D...", unknown why, as We ate the same things coming up here,and usually I have the upset system as I tae meds to keep it "calm" so to speak. MOH is not feeling so well now, thinks its "rich foods" we have had?
Enough of that. We are in no rush to get out of here as check=out time is noon. They have "breakfast here" but we are thinking of going to Friendlys nearby for breakfast too. We went there last night for Ice cream,but since I forgot my lactose intolerance pills, we had to go buy some!
I've got the only tooth left upper left side starting to bother me yesterdya. The dentist will have to address the issue and hopefully once again save it,as it is all I have to anchor the partial there, it goes abd so do the other 3 upper teeth in favor of a full denture, bummer on trouble and bummer on cost!
Garry RAY seems to get his 15 minutes of fame every year on a train!!
RAY:After I hunted around online for the LA&L, and The RG&E or the like, I foudn out that at this time likeyou saud, no train rides.
Bummer. I cannnot promise any other weekend as we are usauly destined for far-off places when MOH has off from work. MOH already got a "message"from the assistant MGR vicariously through the head cashier at job #2. It was "boy taking a lot of time off", and head casher said " well, a minister needs time off for weddings, it IS wedding season you know" Good thing the head casher LIKES MOH!
here it is 4am, i slept only marginal as I got up twice when NOH did to see if MOH was alright, unusual for MOH not to sleep straight through the night, I am hte insomniac/awake one.Thats how I foudn out MOH is ailing slightly. I WILL probalby try to snooze again befor breakfaast though... not much sense in just sitting here. The TV will disturb MOH'S sleep and rihgt now, MOH needs sleep.
well, heres to a safe trip back home! we will prbably take the thruway and drop down 81 throough syracuse, dunno if we head straight home, or try to do somehting along the way..probably home since MOH isn't feeling so well.
have a GREAT day-hopefully I will too!
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Happy Mother´s Day!
JaBear - my son also rang this morning - without getting nudged to it! He finally starts to grow up...
I enjoyed both videos very much, especially the one with the two Rogers loco, which reminded me of the famous V&T "J.W.Bowker", a 2-4-0 starring in the 1939 motion picture "Union Pacific". It was built by Baldwin, but to a very similar design.
It would certainly make a fine G scale live steam loco!
My back is continuing to improve - it only whispers insults at me each time I get up or sit down. I guess all the pain will be gone by mid of next week!
No MRRing in the next days, though - I am out of supplies. I don´t need much, but as I can´t get the stuff locally, there is a shipping charge which is double the amount of the merchandise I need to buy. So it has to wait a little...
Have a good one!
Galaxy, your OH may be experiencing problems from the heat. Quite often, MOH has similar problems. Also, ice cream can exacerbate this problem in some people. I hope you have a safe trip back from Miss Phoebe's western terminus.
Ray, I'll have to look for that story. We're you on YNN, or one of the Rochester stations?
Time for Mother's Day activities, followed by a recon run into the shed to see how big our yellowjacket nest has gotten. I can hardly wait!
Afternoon folks,
Chloe I'll have a tall glass of ice cold Lemonade (with a sprig of fresh picked mint) please.
Currently 84°F under mostly cloudy skies here in the Finger Lakes today. I managed to get up this morning and headed to church. I actually feel pretty good compared to how I felt last night. Back is fine now, but my feet are still sore. Took and Advil this morning and it helped. The Granddaughters and my DIL sang in the Moms and Childrens Choir this morning. Did a great sone complete with Orff instrument accompaniment. Tonight we will be eating out at a nice local restaurant to celebrate Mother's Day in the family.
Uncle_Bob there is an article with a short video on the Rochester Time Warner channel I guess. Since I don't have Cable they won't let me access and play the videos even on line so I have no idea what they used in the video clip, but there is a nice write up of the trips here: http://www.twcnews.com/nys/rochester/news/2015/05/9/livonia--avon--and-lakeville-railroad-50th-aniversary.html
I am trying to get all the nametags in order to be given out at the Convention. I still need to print one more page and laminate/assemble two pages.
Have a great one folks!
well,
good to get away, finally, but good to be home at last!
Ray: I have TWC, and wouldn't even begin to know how to access videos?? Didn't know you needed to subscribe to do so? dunno, maybe later I try.
Well, I am back on the home wifi network and hopefully none the worse for virus wear. I managed to get set up at the hotel. I am now initiating myself in the world of the miracles of modern tech.costing me enough money sometimes for some things,, but ah well.
NAP TIME!
MOH went almost directly to nap. SO I wonder how MOH's "gut" feels? MOH doesn't noramlly eat as much as we did, or as "rich" as MOH put it, so MAYBE that was it? dunno, I came out fine. and food is my enemy in weight loss, but I paid no never mind for the weekend, I wouldn't have eaten but salads all the days! work twice as hard the next week.
The pharmcist, who KNEW I was leaving out of town, called and left a message that he managed {finally after a week and a half of being jerked around} to fill the script!! he said " I guess you have already left?"on the answering machine {old tech}. uh, DUH! I guessI should be greatful he called???
well, I think I join MOH for a nap....
RAY:too bad I didn't get to see you on the train, maye next time i am in the area, and then, maybe by then you will have retired form it, too!
It was very hot this weekend, apparently breaking records! but it will not be in the 80s on wed next, will be only 60 if lucky, big shock, but "seasonal".
later
It's a hot day today. I confined my exercise to taking an hour's walk down the old Bedford & Billerica right of way. I overdid it a bit yesterday with my bike ride.
That turntable isn't getting power to the rails. I'm not sure where the problem is, and I'll have to dismantle something to get inside. Foo.
So, I took some quick videos of my two grade crossings. The first is a pair of Oregon Rail Supply crossbucks with flashers:
The other one is NJ International gates with flashers:
For both of these, I used Rob Paisley's detection and activation circuits. For the gates, I added a single Tortoise machine and Circuitron linkages to each of the gates.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Flo, Beer Please
Been under the weather most of the day. Cannot say I feel real sick, but not just right. Around 9:00 AM I decided if I felt this way when it was time to open the store I was not going in. Ate and felt a little better so I went in to work.
Work was dead as a door nail (Why Is A Door Nail Dead?) and Dave was luicd so at 2:50 PM I came home.
Mr B What kind of Steam Engine was in the first video? It sound great, was it a Bachmann by chances? I have heard good things about there sound value steam engines.
Ulrich What you have got done looks good. Guess you like switching from the looks of it. So you are DC again?
cudaken Mr B What kind of Steam Engine was in the first video? It sound great, was it a Bachmann by chances? I have heard good things about there sound value steam engines.
That's a Walthers Proto 0-6-0. It's one of the first run of them, with the QSI sound decoder in it. It was my first sound engine, and I'm still very happy with it.
I do have a Bachmann steamer, also, and I think that's also a fine locomotive.
Evening guys
i was able to clean the lawn and get the grass cut. just as I finished it started to rain. It only did it for a few minutes so I just sat on the swing and waited for it to pass. I changed the oil in the lawnmower also. The headache/tooth pain has almost left which is good because I work Tuesday to Saturday for 10 hours each, yuck. I had ribs and chicken at my parents tonight and am just sitting on the iPad watching the Simpsons, will flip to baseball after. I am thinking about doing more yard work tomorrow then working on the railroad in the afternoon. I am in the market for a new airbrush. I might go double action after using single action for so long. I have a badger now that is great but want to give the double a go I think.
iwata and paashe make good products don't they. Any recommendations
Its been a great week end.
Good night all and sleep well.
Hope the new week goes well for everyone.
Johnboy out..................till later
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
Sir MadogI enjoyed both videos very much, especially the one with the two Rogers loco, which reminded me of the famous V&T "J.W.Bowker", a 2-4-0 starring in the 1939 motion picture "Union Pacific". It was built by Baldwin, but to a very similar design.
Good Morning Diners,
Flo, my usual giant cup of coffee with lots of cream, if you please.
Hope everyone had a happy and peaceful Mother's Day yesterday.
MOH and I went to son and DIL's place to help them pack for their upcoming move. Had a pleasant visit. Got home late, went straight to bed.
No MRRing over weekend. That's ok though.
I hope everyone is OK, safe and warm.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Good Morning
Another muggy, boggy day here...gonna get to 77F later on with the ever popular chance of thunderingkaboomers and showers.
Had an interestiing past few days here...not much done outdoors but we managed to get the basement/attic/storerooms cleaned out...now we have no more gubbage than we normally end up with here.
Well....gotta run...need to buy some basic survival foods here...
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/
75F at 9 am and very humid already! But Wed cold front comes in and will be "seasonable" on Wed...in the 60s only! Hazy, Hot and humid here today.
Had the only tooth on upper left break clean off at the gumline. doesn't hurt though, I have an appt next friday {not this one} for a crown insert, so they willl try to ull whats left then. I will have to have a new upper partial made, if not have the last 3 remaining teeth up there pulled and a full denture inserted. dunno cost is aobut the same.
Took the kia sedona minivan in for the repairs frm the accident. GOta Dodge Journey rental instead. Its OK, but why do all these suv thingys have such small rear windows? it was that way last year with the Jeep Compass rental too. The Sedona has a BIG Panoramic rear window comparatively! This one will take getting used to on the no key needed thing? All new ones have it I guess.
Well < I will have tie to try it out later as I go to the Credit unions, I think, SHould have done that while out already.
I have a feeling today will be an indoor a/c day!ITS NOW 78HERE.
I should get out the lawn mower and TRY to mow the lawn as MOH just hasn't had time. Nah, MOH has some things to do this morning, then maybe can mow it. the has work later today.
We have the intake for marriage counselling tonight and naturally MOH is now balking at going. Got all huffy when I mentionedit. We will see if MOH actually shows up.we will have to go separately as MOH will come directly from work,I will ararive separately in hte Journey.
well, I'd best figure out the day. MOH finished the dishes for me,that was nice.. I got laundry to do though, so off I go to it.
Good morning! Gee, we just got consistently over 60 degrees a couple of weeks ago, and yesterday was almost 90. I've still got the flannel sheets on the bed, but I had to run the AC last night. Today I'll wait until mid-afternoon when it's supposed to cool off before I go for a bike ride.
Galaxy, when I swapped cars with my daughter I had to go back to the old days of using a key to open the door. My last couple of cars had remotes, so this is a throwback. Carol the Corolla sleeps in a garage at home, so the only time I lock the doors is when I go out. I'm growing quite fond of this car, actually.
Doctor's appointment tomorrow. Hopefully the numbers will look good and he won't put me on any more medications.
Mornin' everyone,
Zoe, need another refill on the dark raost coffee please...
Five days from now the convention starts.... I only have about 3 weeks of work to do to get ready for it. Last Friday i sent the Registrar an email asking if he wants the nametags sorted by last name or by registration #? I figured Registration # would be the easiest so yesterday I spent 3 hours getting them in order by number. This morning I get his answer... Well, you all know what his answer was! I will be resorting them sometime before the convention I guess...
Contractor was here early today getting the exact measurements for the oak molding he is putting on the new window, around the window frame though to the kitchen, the doorway into the kitchen, and to clean up the edge of the brick where the wood stove used to be.
I will be spending the day working on convention items except for the Doctors Appt. early this afternoon and doing some grocery shopping sometime.
Catch you all later!
Italian roast coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
Behind again on reading posts. Heading back out on the ol' farm to chip away at some of the projects. Have been making great progress as of late.
Hope everyone is doing well these days.
Cheers! Rob
Good Evening
Raining here now, and the temperature dropped a bit. We are on a severe thunderstorm watch here though.
After getting groceries we spent the day putzing in our garden getting some stuff planted and talking to neighbours.
Hope everyone has a good evening...