Hi all,
Wishing everyone a good upcoming weekend.
Going to try again with painting my steam engine tomorrow. I put the primer coat on this morning. Going to put on the final coats tomorrow.
I used acetone to clean the airbrush. Wow! Great idea, I don't think the airbrush has been this clean for sometime. I'll not use the acetone for thinning the paint, as Tru-Color doesn't recommend it, but it's great for cleaning the airbrush after a paint job.
I've been riding my bike more and more. I'd like to bike to work on days the weather is nice.
-Alvie
Evenin' folks!
Janie, I see the place has been all scrubbed up and clean after the move. Where the heck is this place???? Oh, OK, I'll Google it and see what I find out.... A cup of decaf would do me very nicely right now. Oh and an advil as well please.
Spent most of the week out at Boy Scout Camp trimming the grass and weeds (and leaving the poison ivy for the camp Ranger to hit with weed killer tomorrow) around tents. I sure have a bunch of muscles that I have forgotten about. An old friend in Scouting who used to be Properties Chairman for many years was also out there trimming in other areas of camp. The first time I came out with my little battery powered Black and Decker trimmer (about a decade or so ago), he started to laugh and asked what I expected to do with that? I just replied we shall see what we shall see. Turns out the smaller and lighter electric while not having the power of the big Gas ones, is much easier to handle in and around the tents. No way I could handle the big heavy ones today and keep at the job for 4 or 5 hours. Well, Guess what that guy is using out at camp now???? Yep he decided he liked the little light electric ones and got himself one of the new models with li-ion batteries. He told me he was amazed at how much they can do and how much easier they are to handle in many situations....
Good to see a bunch of new faces in here.....
I need to give my sister (in Canandaigua) a call. Her lawn mower is fixed. May not be able to pick it up for her tomorrow as I will be attending the Memorial Service of the Mother of a dear friend who passed away last Monday at the age of 90.
Oh! Hope you folks North of the Broder had a great Canada Day today!
Catch 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!
Evening Dinners
Flo, Please
V8VegaI have to keep my friend Bill happy and we probably won’t go again for awhile as he has to take care of his girlfriend and neighbor as she is getting a hip replacement.
Dennis Something just does not sound right in the above quote! Girlfreind and hip replacement should not be in the same sentence. Getting old is not for the faint of heart, that is for sure!
Work Front Well the good news I get to work 6 days this week, I need the Over Time big time. Fence bill is pilling up. On the 4th Of July I get to work with the Co-owner Nancy. While she is a ding bat I rather work with her than Jerry.
Yard Wars I got some of the old fence down before I went to work. I did enjoy cutting up the old gate! It was a ture wreck and I had rigged it many time's over the years. Took me longer than it should. I was trying to save some of the better wood that I patched it with by taking out the screws. Darn Srew Bit for my drill broke? Could not find any that would fit in the screw bit holder so I broke out the Death Saw! It cut up the gate in short order!
Cut out 20 feet of fence and the 4 foot gate in about a hour. Spent 15 minutes looking for a new screw bit and 5 minutes re-installing a new Death Saw Blade. Seems I did not have it in just right and it fell out after 10 minutes of use. Only 48 more feet to go!
Ulrich I need to do more bench work design then have you do a track plan for me if you would. I have one idea that will let me fit a good sizes layout in the garage with my 68 Road Runner. But, I want to try some other ideas first before I post it.
Dave Glad you like my car photos. With any luck and being done with Yard Wars I will get my 68 Road Runner back home.
Later Ken
I hate Rust
cats think well of me Hi all, Wishing everyone a good upcoming weekend. Going to try again with painting my steam engine tomorrow. I put the primer coat on this morning. Going to put on the final coats tomorrow. I used acetone to clean the airbrush. Wow! Great idea, I don't think the airbrush has been this clean for sometime. I'll not use the acetone for thinning the paint, as Tru-Color doesn't recommend it, but it's great for cleaning the airbrush after a paint job. I've been riding my bike more and more. I'd like to bike to work on days the weather is nice. -Alvie
I had a good time last Friday in Syracuse. Traffic seemed down from past years, though, and there was grass or weeds growing between the rails. On the mainline of CSX's Chicago Line. Never thought I'd see that!
A GP40-2/slug/GP40-2 set popped up in the early evening, but my vantage point was mediocre at best. There was also a pair of SD40-2's on a freight, one a rebuild from an SD40. I think the only foreign road power was some BNSF GE's on a westbound that snuck past behind another train.
I'd post pics, but there was, uh, an incident last week where I got an e-mail from a friend, or so I thought. I opened it and got a message saying the computer now has a virus. I couldn't do anything, so I hit the power switch. Using the dreaded Kindle to go online, I learned that someone hacked my e-mail account, so I changed passwords. The hacker supposedly logged into my account from Looozianna, which is another good reason for me to dislike LSU. (Guilt by association -- good enough reason for a Jaw-juh fan to take umbrage!) Hopefully this can get fixed because my wife has a lot of pictures on it, including pics of her former house, her cats (including the one who died last year), and our wedding.
yougottawantaMoneyBucket - What happened to the mining buisness ? Dig out all of the ore ? Is the AMRA part of the NMRA ? LOL Motion Actuaters ! Love it keep em coming !
Gday all...any hot apple pie on the menu...Sounds good could I'll get some fresh whipped cream whith that?
yougottawanta ...The iron ore mining industry is overun by a pile of players trying to make a buck...There is so much ore being pulled out of the earth that supply and demand has kicked in and China(the major consumer of ore)has too much and no longer needs as much... this trickles down the line and ore prices have now hit an all time low...major companies arn't making money any more so all the proposed projects have been shelved leaving thousand out of work... Thats business...
As for the AMRA being part of NMRA? I'm not sure but I am taking the young fella down there today so I will ask around. I think there is a NMRA special interest group withing the club though.
Sir madog... those pics are amazing...my father was born in Berlin after the war...his family were Ukraine farmers that moved to Australia as refugeees. He spent his youth growing up in a Queensland refugee camp. I would expect when his family left Europe the suroundings would have been a little like what your pics portray.
Howmus... I wouldn't touch the poison Ivy either...
And Happy 4th July weekend to all that are on that part of the world.
Ooroo...
Cheers...
Chris from down under...
We're all here because we're not all there...
P&Slocal Sweet! I can physically stop at there every day this month! :) It is a shame how run down the NP Station has become. While Miles City may be a small town, it was a hub of railroading activity. Both the Northern Pacific and the Milwaukee Road ran through Miles City. The Milwaukee had shops, a turn table and roundhouse here. Many of those buildings are still in use by a company called Transco, a railcar rebuilding company. If you are in Miles City to watch trains, just don't blink, as the BNSF rolls through here at 60 mph!
Sweet! I can physically stop at there every day this month! :) It is a shame how run down the NP Station has become.
While Miles City may be a small town, it was a hub of railroading activity. Both the Northern Pacific and the Milwaukee Road ran through Miles City. The Milwaukee had shops, a turn table and roundhouse here. Many of those buildings are still in use by a company called Transco, a railcar rebuilding company.
If you are in Miles City to watch trains, just don't blink, as the BNSF rolls through here at 60 mph!
Talking about the Milwaukee yards don't forget about the transfer table as well between the two main shop buildings. (edit: I forgot to mention I got to see the table operate once many years ago back when I was in grade school.)
As an aside, the whole yard area is a SuperFund site. The Milwaukee wasn't exactly the cleanliest when it came to fuel. I don't know if this is true or not but there was an old story that at one point many years ago someone bought a house in that area and had a well dug down to the aquifer to tap the oil that was sitting on top of it for heating.
As for the speed: I have noticed it somewhat depends on the particular train. Some of them seem to be going slower than 60 mph. Coal trains probably not.
Cudaken- Nice ride! I have a 91 Formula that I have rebuilt the firewall on and now moving onto floor pan replacement. Once that is done I can go on completing the LS1 swap awaiting it in the garage as well. Have a 91 GTA to go along with it. The Queen of the fleet though is my 1989 Turbo Trans AM.
I think the boy and I had our first flawless session at the club today. He wanted to use his engine, so we had a Proto U28B pulling three 50ft plug door Scaletrains cars as our stand in express cars, with a 9 car passenger consist behind those mostly a mix of older and newer Walthers streamlined cars. No tracking issues, coupler issues, programming issues, made it a lot less annoying than it can get sometimes. Makes me happy when I spend time checking couplers, adding resistors for signals and checking wheel gauge.
cudakenUlrich I need to do more bench work design then have you do a track plan for me if you would. I have one idea that will let me fit a good sizes layout in the garage with my 68 Road Runner. But, I want to try some other ideas first before I post it.
I sure will, Ken!
Good Morning!
This Summer ain´t no Summer, no Sir! It´s wet. just wet! I hope Sunday 10th will be nice or at least dry. There is a steam train passing through our station and I´d like to go see it!
Shortly after WW II, "experts" estimated that it would take a minimum of 20 years just to remove the rubble and in total 60 years to rebuild the cities. How wrong they were! The rubble was gone no later than 1950 and the reconstruction was finished in the early 1960s, though I still remember using empty lots as a playground. With the exception of the major cities, i.e. Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, Magdeburg and some others, the East of Germany saw less destruction than the West, but 40 years of communism did as much damage as the allied bombing, albeit killing less people.
It was mainly my grandparents´ and parents´ generation who did all the work, but leaving German cities with the rather uninspiring, uniform look of simplified Bauhaus architecture. It was my generation who started out to make the cities look nice and colorful again, but the old charme is gone forever. Although much of the old part of Dresden has been reconstructed following the "tumbling of the Berlin Wall", the city has not (yet) found its way back to the former pace of life. It´s been degraded to a Disney-like tourist attraction - a big
Stopping by the diner before boarding. Just about to board the flight back to DC from Vienna. It was a short but enjoyable stay in this beautiful city. I just hope that my next return to Austria will be for pleasure instead of business. A trip to Austria is highly recommended to all my friends in the diner. Will stop by when I am over the pond again.
All the best.
Joe F
Have a safe trip, Reinhard!
I can only echo what Reinhard said - Vienna is a great city to visit, may be not as great as Hamburg
Thank you to those who posted good wishes for Canada Day. Unfortunately, here in Ontario at least, the weather was lousey. Thunder storms, rain off and on all day, high winds and cold. It got down to 58 degrees F last night. Not great for the fireworks displays.
Hopefully next year will be better as it will be our 150th anniversary!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
hon30critterHopefully next year will be better as it will be our 150th anniversary! Dave
We´ll be celebrating our 32nd this month - how did you manage to get that old?
Oh, I see - you meant your country
This morning's ride was one with wildlife, living and dead. I had a lone coyote run across the road about 200 feet in front of me. They really are a beautiful animal and run with grace. The other member of the animal kingdom was a diamondback, the slithering kind not the baseball sort. It was in the middle of the road where it had an unfortunate encounter with the tire of a car. The highlight of the morning was pushing 37 mph down on of the hills. I feel the need, the need for speed.
For reference here is a picture of a diamondback I took when I was out hiking with Mrs. ROR. It was enamored with her--as she walked around it, it would turn to keep looking in her direction. It never coiled, so she was not at risk. It would appear that venomous varmints have a natural attraction to Mrs. ROR.
Richard
V8Vega . JEREMY CENTANNI wrote the following post 11 hours ago: Cudaken- Nice ride! I have a 91 Formula that I have rebuilt the firewall on and now moving onto floor pan replacement. Once that is done I can go on completing the LS1 swap awaiting it in the garage as well. Have a 91 GTA to go along with it. The Queen of the fleet though is my 1989 Turbo Trans AM.
. JEREMY CENTANNI wrote the following post 11 hours ago: Cudaken- Nice ride! I have a 91 Formula that I have rebuilt the firewall on and now moving onto floor pan replacement. Once that is done I can go on completing the LS1 swap awaiting it in the garage as well. Have a 91 GTA to go along with it. The Queen of the fleet though is my 1989 Turbo Trans AM.
Completely rust free cars of that era are a dime a dizen here but rare models would take a little time to find.
Calif. has all but killed engine swaps like your LS1, you have to go to a BAR referee approvial that all smog equipment is working as original and its such a hassle most just don't do engine swaps anymore.
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Yes, but you are in California and I am in NW IN
On my list within the next few years is a west/south road trip that might involve a wad of cash and seeing what I can find car wise lol. Pole barn and house addition first.
Ulrich
Sir Madoghow did you manage to get that old?
Some days I feel 150 year old!
Chessie reinhard JK10 - you have been to two countries which have been on my list to visit for a long time; Ireland and Poland. My wife and I are planning the UK for October to visit our daughter so a side trip to Ireland would be in order. Have to run, will stop in later for a late (or early in the states) coffee.
JK10 - you have been to two countries which have been on my list to visit for a long time; Ireland and Poland. My wife and I are planning the UK for October to visit our daughter so a side trip to Ireland would be in order.
Have to run, will stop in later for a late (or early in the states) coffee.
I worked in Poland for 3 years as szef zarządu - that´s President and CEO of a large shipbuilding facility in Szczecin. Don´t even try to pronounce that. Behind this tongue twister is the German city of Stettin, which had been German for 700 years until Mr. Ill Church decided it should be Polish.
I found the younger generation to be open minded, eager to learn and pleasant to be with, but those older folks who grew to fame in the communistic regime were quite difficult to deal with. All of them tried to play tricks on me, but, although I never admitted it, I had picked up enough Polish to understand them talking to each other in their language, so they never caught me off hand. Without my loyal secretary Renata I would have been still lost.
What really got them is that my last name is Polish, but I am a 6´5" man of girth, with (formerly) blond hair and steel blue eyes - not really Polish looking.
Back across the pond and a quick stop to the diner.
Ulrich - I was thinking of you as my flight passed very close over Hamburg this morning. The weather must have been bad since it was completely overcast. The flight was great. I have many friends from Hamburg that say the same about the city and the people, must visit Hamburg the next time I am over in Germany.
Good to be back in time to realize that I finally adjusted to European time. Time to adjust again.
Sir Madog I worked in Poland for 3 years as szef zarządu - that´s President and CEO of a large shipbuilding facility in Szczecin. Don´t even try to pronounce that. Behind this tongue twister is the German city of Stettin, which had been German for 700 years until Mr. Ill Church decided it should be Polish. I found the younger generation to be open minded, eager to learn and pleasant to be with, but those older folks who grew to fame in the communistic regime were quite difficult to deal with. All of them tried to play tricks on me, but, although I never admitted it, I had picked up enough Polish to understand them talking to each other in their language, so they never caught me off hand. Without my loyal secretary Renata I would have been still lost. What really got them is that my last name is Polish, but I am a 6´5" man of girth, with (formerly) blond hair and steel blue eyes - not really Polish looking.
My Polish friends enjoyed going out and about with us because they could translate what others were saying. I found the same with my experience, younger generations are excited to learn and get to know us, older adults were more willing to make the rude comments. I was located in Nowa Rude, very close to Wroclaw (or German Breslau during the war).
JEREMY- I just got my first SCALETRAINS 50 footer- Great looking kit Need to get K-D's before putting it together. How do yours behave on the rails? What couplers did you use ? Any suggestions?
FLIP
Evening all.
Chloe, a butterscotch sundae please.
W**k: Store manager is now retired, her last day was Friday. No one was happy to see her leave, but all of us wish her a happy retirement. No interim or replacement manager has been named as yet. Had a horrendous numbers day, making less than half our sales goal, getting zero accounts, zero anything numbers wise, and did $800 last half of day.
Weather: Warm, 80 today, sunny, and nice for the day. Tomorrow is forecast as sunny, 85, and warmer for Monday.
Dad: Doing much better, home, and all is well.
Hobby: Finished a batch of trucks for the kits I am finishing, all have the base coat of paint, now will be getting bearings colored, then a black wash to tone them down.
Well, gots to go, DAYTONA Coke 400 is on tonight. Hope the finish is as close as last nights Xfinity race. So far it's been competitive, and crash free up till now. (Good IMO.)
EDIT: Nevermind.... Huge crash taking out half the field now, Including many big names, took the lead pack from 38 strong down to 17.... So, very possible to have a wild card winner now.
All have a good night!
Ricky W.
HO scale Proto-freelancer.
My Railroad rules:
1: It's my railroad, my rules.
2: It's for having fun and enjoyment.
3: Any objections, consult above rules.
Flo, Beer please and one for the new GM guy. Hum, I can put up with the Buick Guy guess Pontiac Guy cannot be any worse.
Jeremy Welcome to the dinner. I all so had a Firebird, bought it for the wife. It was a 1984 Formula 350 with a 350 Bow Tie Engine. Had the T/A susption with the Gator Back tires. Think the code was WS 6? It was nimble but in a turn it was on rails! From 0 to 60 my slowest Mopar would clean it clock. But, none of my Mopars are stock so what can I say.
Far as the LS motor's, only time I wished I was a Bell Button Guy. I have watched a lot of videos about LS engine swaps and I am impressed. Try buying a new Gen Hemi from a junkyard on the cheap.
Later, Ken
Friends 68 Charger I did, he is a PBR lover.
That's not me, I am 6'3".
Some of you will know that I still don't have a layout. I have deferred to my son's use of the layout space for his exercise equipment.
However, things are really looking up! He is actively searching for a house despite it being a tough buyers' market, and my better half and I have decided to install a decent sized garden shed so we can get more crap (is that word allowed?) out of the garage!
Unfortunately, my hobby funds have totally dried up, partly because of the investment in the shed, and partly because I promised my son I would give him a "New Home Starter Package", i.e. all, or at least most of the stuff that you need to establish a home when you don't have anything to start with. Today I spent $450.00 on a basic tool kit such as a cordless drill, several different pliers, hammer, drill bits, box cutter, and more. Included in that were a few things for their kitchen like a cutting board and strainer, as well as a garden hose and nozzle and some tote boxes. WOW does that stuff add up in a hurry!!!! There's still lots more to buy. His girlfriend is thrilled that we are doing all that grunt work for them.
Just to add insult to injury, my wife spent about $2000.00 on three pairs of new eye glasses today! No, that is not a missprint!! We will get about half of that back from her benefit plan, but I was still shocked at the prices! I think the industry, at least in Canada, needs to be regulated. No matter where you go the prices are ridiculous.
There, rant over! Thanks for listening.
All the best everybody!
Just a chocolate ice cream/orange soda float for me tonight.
W*rk: What a weekend. Slammed on Friday (Triple whammy: 1st of Month, A Friday, and holiday weekend). Still busy today (Saturday) but not as bad. Thankfully next two days off. (Unthankfully 4th of July weekend has everything closed! Got to get creative for real world dinners the next two days. Most likely I will have to break down and cook on Monday. Not that I don't like to, I just haven't done it in quite awhile.)
Found out I have to help Mom & Dad with unexpected things this week. Mom's car has a tire that's leaking badly. (Tubeless tires so stop leak won't work.) Mom is thinking that she might take the car to a tire shop on Tuesday so they can check what's up. Thankfully I work a later shift on Tuesday. The other car seems to have drained the battery again without the ignition being on. The last time it was used I know the ignition was turned off, as I was the one that moved it down to the shop to fill the tires. (And of course, I'm not a mechanic.)
Maybe I'll get some train work in, who knows. (I don't even think The Shadow knows this one. Yes, I'm familar with the old radio show but it obviously predates me.)
jk10Wroclaw (or German Breslau during the war).
Not only during the war - the city became Polish by the same stupid act of Mr. Churchill, the at the time of decision already terminally ill Mr. Roosevelt and a Russian bloke named Josip Vissarionovich Jughashvili. My mother´s family had been living there for 500 years. Nearly all of them were killed in the bombing of Dresden on February 13th, 1945, where they had seeked refuge from the onslaught of the Soviet Red Army.
The Polish have an interesting way of creating a Polish history for cities and towns which were genuinely German. Nowa Ruda´s name is Neuenrode.
Sorry I had to correct you!
Chessie reinhardThe weather must have been bad since it was completely overcast.
It´s been bad the last 4 weeks - with only one really nice day - the day we went to the zoo in Hannover!
Give me a holler should you come to Hamburg - it´ll be a pleasure to show you around!
Evening,
Been busy with work (yesterday & today). Work tomorrow as well. (12-9pm).
Got Mon-Thurs off, plan to spend time on this board or work on my trains.
Just purchased an HO Atlas #7003 Alco RS3 Locomotive lettered for Cotton Belt #357.
I have seen a SSW RS3 pulling 5 Daylight passenger cars in East Texas in the 1950's.
Might get some MTH Daylight cars or run a "pike sized train" with it.
Anybody model SSW/Cotton Belt?
Our Module Club is setting up a 16x20 layout at Discovery Cube in Santa Ana, July 9-10.
Well off to bed now, might come by tomorrow.
Anthony
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Ulrich - don't know when I will be in Germany again, but I will make the effort to visit with you in Hamburg. Many thanks. I agree with you about what happened toward the end of WWII; "Saint Franklin" handed over half of Europe to "Uncle Joe" instead of "standing up to him" ( All puns were intended ).
Made people mad because I think something like Bluerail will kill DCC.
I'm 39, pretty tech savvy, set up and fix all my own stuff PC wise at the house, set up my networks and entertainment.
All DCC manual are garbage and finding complete correct information is about impossible for a new user.
Something plug and play that is an "app" will eat it alive, just depends on the "when" and "who" version it is.
Off to practive some more, write cheat sheets and start walking the 6 yr old thru it.