yougottawantaUlrich - Why 3 days.
That´s how long it takes for the replacement to arrive, as I accidentally had ordered the N scale version of the bridal pair!
Gentlemen, last orders please!
The Diner will be getting ready for the move to the August location, so "sup it up, lads, and git going"!
Quick set concrete is not as strong as regular concrete, but it is plently strong enough for ordinary fence posts where its quick setting properties can make a difference in construction time. Great strenght is not required just to hold a fence upright.
Ooooooooohhhhh Man....... Ah, ouch! Evenin' I guess...
Janie a hot cup of decaf and a bottle of advil please!
I decided to mow down the weeds in the place where grass normally grows... I think it is called a lawn. I got about a third of the lawn done and lo and behold it started to sprinkle out. Since it was also lunch time I left the mower on the back porch and headed inside. Did a few hours on the computer getting a bunch of needed items out of the way and then went back to hopefully finsh the lawn before supper.... Going around the raised beds I decided to trim around one of the raised beds by pulling the mower backwards... Wasn't looking where I was or what was behind me and tripped over one of the smaller concrete stone raised beds... Luckily I let go of the mower when I fell so I didn't cut off a leg..... Whirled around as I fell, racked my left knee on the side of the concrete and slammed my left elbow down hard on the top of it. Have a large bloody bruise on the elbow , a very sore back (spinal stenosis made itself very known as I twisted), both knees sore, and wrenched my neck..... Ended up flat on my face on the lawn! I will likely recover and survive and nothing is broken just hurts a bit! Will see if I feel up to finishing the lawn tomorrow....
Oh, the sprinkle earlier didn't amount to anything even measurable so the drought continues. There was rain to the North of us, rain to the South, heavy storms to the West and East, but only dark foreboding clouds right here. Finished the Month of Juily fairly good with the solar panels though. Made 575.5 kWh in July. Second best July in the 4 years I have had the panels in place.
Did manage to get some time on the layout and tonight I took a few photos of what I am doing. Posted over in the Photo Fun thread. Did more scenery on the hillsides. This will eventually become a pasture for a dairy farmer.
There will be wooden fencing near the top. Here is a shot of where I have started building the fencing at the other end of the pasture area. The cattle will cross the tracks twice a day when the farmer is using the pasture for them.... May end up with a interesting scene I hope.
Have a safe and pleasant eveing folks!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good evening all.
Zoe, a butterscotch sundae please. Thanks.
YGW - F1 is short for Formula 1 racing, a open wheel racing series that travels to many countries, with cars that are more technical and electronic than NASCAR ever will be. They use custome built open wheel cars made by Mcclarren, Mercedes, Ferrari, and the like. Some well known drivers have done F1, such as current drivers Kimi Raikkonen, Felipe Masa, Lewis Hamilton, and others. Former drivers include the likes of Juan Pablo Montoya, and this years Indy500 winner Alexander Rossi. Many people follow it, myself, I prefer NASCAR. Contact is permitted, and, depending on the track, encouraged, in NASCAR, is not permitted in F1, as when it occurs, if the damage does not knock them out of contention, the penalty for contact will. The courses are road-course style, where it is a street circuit, or a track with both left and right turns. Their only "good point", IMO, is the speed, and that they will run even in rain.
Weather - Wet and warm. Lots of r**n which we need.
Trains - Got to see 6 different CSX trains today, Cleveland/Collinwood Yard area, as I was there for other reasons, but, no camera was with me.... (Except cell phone, which did not get good shots, should have done video...) First trains I had seen for several days, so were nice to see.
Hope all have a good night, and that all are well.
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.
yougottawanta FRRKid - wrote "every paycheck and that allows me to save for big stuff or I can get small stuff as needed" that looks like a good plan !
FRRKid - wrote "every paycheck and that allows me to save for big stuff or I can get small stuff as needed" that looks like a good plan !
Starting doing that so that I could afford a pair of ExactRail flatcars (in NP paint) for my railroad. At $45 a car, I had to save my money to get them and I knew I couldn't do it by any other means except by the automatic method.
cudaken FRRYkid More than likely it will be the wires. They are just laying on the floor and I do walk on them. I need one of the things used in a offices where the cord is hidden by a matt but you will not trip on it.
FRRYkid More than likely it will be the wires. They are just laying on the floor and I do walk on them. I need one of the things used in a offices where the cord is hidden by a matt but you will not trip on it.
If all the wires are in one bundle, sounds like what you need is a cord keeper that an office chair can roll over. I've got a couple of pieces from a roll as I have cables running through a couple of doorways in my apartment that I kept tripping over. A tad expensive as I recall but well worth it.
Hobby Front: Got the 30 and the "new" RBL car out to the layout this morning with a minor hiccup. The box holding the RBL fell off the stack I had and one of the couplers and covers popped off. It took me a minute but I did find the pieces and got it put back together.
Of course I also finally decided to begin to put a small expansion to my layout. It will be 16 or 17 sq ft. (2' x 8' with the possibility of a triangle on one end that is a foot tall by 2 feet wide.) It is sized to allow me to complete a turnout wye that I have for my tourist railroad, expand an industrial yard to handle one additional car on the track after the unloader (2 cars to 3 cars. Fits better with the planned number of that type of car. I have 7 numbered and two that don't have numbers yet. I haven't come up with numbers for those last two. Those cars use birthdates for the last two numbers of the series and I've run out of family for the moment.), extend a river a little and, with the triangle, expand a service track for the steamers on the tourist road. Not bad for only 16 to 17 square feet.
Didn't get the bulkheads I was bidding on so I will use the funds that I had dedicated to the bulkheads to getting the plywood for the top. (I will go talk nicely to one of our local lumber yards tommorow and see if they have any damaged sheets that they would be willing to let go for a reduced price. The framework is standard 1x4s and 2x2s which can wait.)
Afternoon Diners
Flo, please.
Really a boring day today over all.
Work Front Only thing sort of intresting today was I met a Semi or Pro Football player at work today. Not sure if he was a St Louis Ram or not. He played yesterday so I am guessing Semi Pro. He was pretty beat up today so he will come back later, well that is what he said.
Fence Front Contractor called me a work today and wanted to install the new fence this Wednesday, I said No! They told me 8-11-16 and I took some extra time off so I could be here when it is done. Contactor wanted to use Quick Set for the post, and I said No again. YGW, I have read that quick set is not as strong as normal concret, am I correct?
While the old fences is down and the new one could go in tonight, I still want to do some more clean up that will be easier with no fence. Besides, I am not in a hurry.
yougottawantaKen - DUCK I see another frying pan coming ! Did you get any of the B&Os put together ?
YGW Guess Steve has not been in the diner this weekend. Far as the B&O's are you talking about the coal cars? If so, yes they are all on the layout as we speak. If you are talking about the B&O engines, till I get the turnout back on line it is a mute point. Glad your Farther is doing some what better!
Train Front Thanks for the tips on using meter Herrion Chocker. More than likely I have the booklet that came with the meter, just no idea off hand where it is. I may test it yet tonight.
Well BBQ is done, so later.
Ken
I hate Rust
Howdy
Sorry to see the news about the flooding in MD.... Reminds me of the Nashville flood a few years ago.
Lion !.... Very funny !YGW ... Still praying for your Dad. Thanks for keeping us informed.
Ken ... Any updates about your daughter ? ... Praying for her too.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Maybe I am not allowed 2 videos in one post or maybe i've limited out on my life time video limit. The video link that let me post the first video does nothing for me now. You can figure it out from here
https://youtu.be/-uO7mKilwjI
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Evening Diners,
yougottawanta Angel - Did watching N&W pick up your spirits ? Did you get to see the J ? Boy I watched it run by here one time. Videos do not do it justice !
Angel - Did watching N&W pick up your spirits ? Did you get to see the J ? Boy I watched it run by here one time. Videos do not do it justice !
Watching the NW did make me happy also raised my spirits. I saw a few videos of 611 doing some passenger service, but I wish I could see in person.
Giving your father some prayers.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
BroadwayLion Is there a LION in the house? LION been looking at manufacturing. ROAR
Is there a LION in the house?
LION been looking at manufacturing.
ROAR
LION,
That's hilarious...LOL. I like how He fell off the roof......Is that the way the other Lion fell off the ladder?
Take Care!
Frank
At last, a lion I can see!
Spent several hours with the AVG computer virus people Saturday and Sunday. I was running Avast and it couldn't detect a virus, though it gave popup warnings on this forum from time to time. Avast updated their program and it wouldn't work at all so a switched to AVG and it found the virus right away. Getting rid of it was not so easy. I needed to buy their program and services and they ran about 8 different programs, some multiple times to get rid of it.
6" of rain last night in Ellicott City MD, historic home of B&O's old main line, back when trains were powered by horses. The yuppyized downtown of old stone buildings is surround by hills on all 4 sides and has a river perpendicular to Main St and a creek parrallel to Main. It is small, but 170 cars were destroyed, 5 buildings and two people died. The guy in the blue shirt is a hero but easily could have died himself as he broke the chain to rescue the girl
YGW Toby used to have more and softer fur than beagles or coonhounds have and he lowers his belly to the ground to go to the bathroom, much like my wife's last lab. He hates the water though.
I glazed the windows of two caboose shells this weekend. I had planned on installing my 1st DCC board, but the virus business took way longer than I expected.
This will give you a better picture of Ellicott City, I do not know the status of the museum after the flood, but it was said to be worse than hurricane Agnes in the 70's.
Hey y'all
Quick update on my father. He is slowly improving. He has been started on food mush, tires very quickly at the slightest effort, they have been moving him out of bed into a special chair, His pain level is 8 or 9 out of 10. Looks like its gonna be about 8 weeks before we get him home. Please continue to pray for him. His white blood cell count is up and they think there might be an inefection somewhere.
V8 - How was church ?
Ulrich - Why 3 days. Love the way you detail. Really neat with a story added !
Howmus - I know what you mean about can do vs. cant do !
Lion - What are you manufacturing ? Wildebeast jerky ?
Ken - DUCK I see another frying pan coming ! Did you get any of the B&Os put together ?
Garry - it is hard to believe Rock Island went out of buisness. Heck even Johnny Cash sang a song about them ! Thanks for praying for my Dad.
ATSF - The count will come just keep pop keep popping in here we love having you here !
Jim - Thanks appreciate the prayers
Douglas - Did you move to Fredericksburg ?
Jeremy - what are f1 races? Hey stop in more often we enjoy your company.
JaBear, MrB, Galaxy, DER....Howdy
Dinner time, Mrs. YGW is a Great Cook !
TTYL
YGW
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Sunday, July 31st, 2016 is wedding day for Beat Andermatter and his beautiful bride Heidi Imhasli. While the ceremony in the little chapel is still in full swing, the village photographer Urs Zurbriggen has already posed himself on the bridge for a surprise shot of the newlyweds leaving the chapel. He doesn´t know it yet, but he will have to wait at least 3 more days for the couple to emerge ...
While he is waiting, strange things cast their shadow on the layout further down. Unknown objects, looking like giant-sized steel pins keep growing from the underneath! Are they emissaries of doom? Time will tell!
Picked up my static grass applicator from my friend and started prep work for "letting the grass grow". Going to be a little messy, so I have to find the right moment to do the job without getting SWMBO´s "look".
JeremyBulrich I have asked before but forget, how close are you to the hockenheim ring?
I just checked the distance, it´s 344 miles! Not really close by....
Just getting ready to watch the f1 race from Germany. Light rain here today but calling for sun later, we really need some rain.
ulrich I have asked before but forget, how close are you to the hockenheim ring?
jeremy
Good Morning!
What a night and what a morning! I could hardly find any sleep, as somehow a bunch of mosquitos found their way into our bedroom. The noise of an insect zooming in for the kill kept me awake, but finally I could not keep my eyes open and fell asleep - waking up with about a dozen mosquito bites, while Petra has got none!
Right now it´s raining cats and dogs. I had plans to go the that museum railway today as their are having their 50th anniversary celebration, but that´s no fun in this type of weather. They have celebrations all week long, so maybe coming weekend will be another chance - weather permitting. As my plans for today don´t turn out, I might as well have a lazy day - just hop over to my friend´s place to collect my static grass applicator I had lent him, say, 10 years ago? To be fair, I hardly need it and he has been using it a number of times now.
I have worked with static grass only once, as I am not particulary fond of having static grass everywhere but the place you want it to stick, so this will be nearyl anew experience for me. I hoipe it turns out nice! I will go over it twice - a basic cover with a mix of short fibres and then a final one with longer, yellowish fibres, but only in certain spots.
It´ll be a messy job and I will surely get "the look" from Petra!
Talking about post counts - quite a lot of my posts came from my role as a user moderator and a few only from participating in other topics, the balance from being a patron to this place. The number of posts is not at all important, it´s the quality and of them and the friendship they contain which really matters!
TTFN - I´ll be back later!
cudaken Confusing Lost power to all of my turnout switch machines? OK, must be the Life Like transfomer AC side. (thought I left a screw driver a cross the Atlas power switches wires.) Replaced the Life Like Transformer tonight! Sill none of the turnouts will work?
Confusing Lost power to all of my turnout switch machines? OK, must be the Life Like transfomer AC side. (thought I left a screw driver a cross the Atlas power switches wires.) Replaced the Life Like Transformer tonight! Sill none of the turnouts will work?
The other thing to check: Check to make sure that your wires have continuity. (Edit: That setting is the symbol that looks like the Greek leeter omega. Set it to the largest number possible.) I have a setup where the turndrive drive can be powered by the main power packs as well as the local toy transformer. I discovered that the remote wiring wasn't working so I moved the power pack to the local panel and it worked at the local panel so I ended up replacing the wiribng from the main panel to the local panel.
As to the post numbers gumble, I've been on here since '08 and I only have (counting this post) 685. I only post if I have a question or happen to feel that I can help someone else when I happen to be on the fourms.
Ken,
Your meter should have a hole marked VOA, volt, ohms, amps. Put the black lead in the hole marked ground, and use the red lead as per---You should also have scales marked AC volts/DC volts, with the graduations 0-12, 20-50, 120-220, etc. When I measure a known voltage I will set the appropriate scale. If I don't know the voltage I will set the meter to the highest value, (60 VDC when checking for 12 VDC but not sure what the voltage is, and don't want to burn my meter up)
herrinchoker
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a tall glass of lemonade for me at the moment... Thank you Ma'am.
I spent part of today calming down the Scoutmaster of the Handicapped Troop. One of the Mommies (a complete wacko and trouble maker) was harrasing another lady in the leadership about getting her son's medical form. The lady told her she has it in the folder from camp. It seems the Scout is being sent by mommy back out to camp this week for a program the kid could care less about, but has to arrive with the health form. Mommy insisted that the other lady could not go to church tomorrow morning because she needed to pick up the Health Form on her way to camp. She was NOT going to drive today to Geneva to pick it up (lives about 17 miles away) so the other lady would HAVE to be there. A major argument over the phone ensued (complete with yelling and name calling), and the lady who has the documents drove over to the Scoutmasters house and gave it to him, still in a foul mood! He has to work tomorrow morning and won't be home. In the mean time the Idiot Mommy calls me and leaves a message about needing to get the documents and could I please help! I got her message just minutes before the Scoutmaster calls me in a complete snit and asks if he can now drive to Geneva and leave the stuff with me! The lady who dropped off the stuff to the scoutmaster lives right around the corner from me, BTW.... Anyway, I now have the Health Form in an envelope with the Mommy's name on it and have called her back to let her her know she can find it on my door on her way through town. Being a commissioner is definetly fun at times.... I wish people all up and down the line would start to think in terms of how something like this can be done, and not why it CAN'T be done. Seems to be a very prevelent problem these days.... (Nope, not gonna mention politics! Opps, just did!)
Hey! Something is on Time Warner News today from the museum. I bet Lion might be interested in this one! http://www.twcnews.com/nys/rochester/news/2016/07/30/rehab-underway-for-sole-surviving-rochester-subway-car-at-rochester-and-genesee-valley-railroad-museum-.html
Time for me to head out to cut some wood (ZZZZZZZZ), see you all tomorrow. Have a safe and pleasent night!
Evening Diners
Flo, Please.
Over all today was a pretty good day, but a little confusing?
Work Front Not a busy day in anyway, but the way I like it. Only had 7 customers but 4 of them bought. I made around a extra $115.00 so that is good! Semi high lite of the day (I see a frying pan heading my way) was a young woman that came in. It was sort of hot outside, the store has AC and she did not have all of the possible under garments on that she could have. OK I will shut up, ouch!
Train front, the good, the bad and the confusing?
Good My Atlas B&O GP 38 seemed to have died a few days ago. Ran real slow and shut down the Digitrax DB 150. Pulled it from the track and the layout worked fine again. Last night I tested the engine on my DC test track and it ran slow, only pulled .91 amps but smoke was coming from the brushes? That could not be good!
I then sprayed the motor with CRC contact cleaner. Let it sit over night and tried it when I got home. It ran a little faster, but there was no smoke. Kept running it running it and it ran faster and faster with no smoke! .
Bad Well a small bad. Thought I had a Tyco Old Dutch Hopper coupler pocket fixed! Soon as I tried to lash it up, Kadee fell out?
Confusing Lost power to all of my turnout switch machines? OK, must be the Life Like transfomer AC side. (thought I left a screw driver a cross the Atlas power switches wires.) Replaced the Life Like Transformer tonight! Still none of the turnouts will work?
Question I have a cheap Harbor Freight volt meter. What setting do I use to check AC volts? I only use it to test amps drawen to check engines motors power draw.
ATFS Don't worry about the post count, it is what in the post that counts! When I came to this board I knew nothing and everything I had was de-railing, breaking down or buring up, and that was when I was DC only! Only reason I have over 8000 post is because of all the stuff I messed up!
Later, Ken
Jervis Langdon took over from Oct 1964 to July 1970.
Don't forget Henry Crown and John Ingram in the final years.
He was the largest bondholder for the Rock Island from 1946-1980
Rock Island enterd banckruptcy in 1975 because of the way the ICC handled the UP/RI Merger Case.
The RI made a bad choice cutting expenses and paying dividends instead of putting money back into the railroad.
The Rock was in terrible shape after 1974 with slow 10-15 mph speeds plaguing the whole system.
ATSFGuy Rock Island was healthy from 1948-1956 under John Dow Farrington. After Downing Bland Jenks took over from 1956-1961 is when revenue began a dissapointing steady decline (except for 1964) (the last profitable year) it just kept getting worse and worse.
Rock Island was healthy from 1948-1956 under John Dow Farrington. After Downing Bland Jenks took over from 1956-1961 is when revenue began a dissapointing steady decline (except for 1964) (the last profitable year) it just kept getting worse and worse.
Ben Heineman chairman of the CNW feared about losing revenue from the UP and asked Nathan Klitenic (law judge ICC) to delay procedures until they got caught in 1974. They tried to split up the railroad with other roads. If the Union Pacific was successful with the merger in 1964 we wouldn't have the Iowa Interstate.
Edit: The paint scheme of the Rock Island suits the Grand Trunk, because their close same colors.
ATSFGuy James Moon: Rock Island was healthy from 1948-1956 under John Dow Farrington. After Downing Bland Jenks took over from 1956-1961 is when revenue began a dissapointing steady decline (except for 1964) (the last profitable year) it just kept getting worse and worse.
James Moon:
The entire rail industry in the US was suffering financial problems in the the period you mentioned, 1956-1961. These problems continued until 1976 when Conrail was created by Congress from several failing railroads and 1980 when deregulation of railroads took effect. After deregulation, the railroad companies consolidated into a few large systems. They implemented numerous operating efficiencies while restructuring the physical assets.
Rock Island Railroad went out of business in 1980, and its assets were sold to various railroads.
Here is a Rock Island Passenger train departing from Chicago.
Here is a former Rock Island GP38-2 purchased by Grand Trunk Westerm and still in the final Rock Island paint scheme of blue and white.
I still think the number of posts is too tight, like a radio playlist
800, 850, or 900 songs is better than 400 or 450.
More tiles, more variety, and less repetition.
ATSF Guy, truly feel sorry for you if you feel like the Rock Island. Delt with CRIPRR as a shipper in the early 70's before the Rock finally folded. It was a miserable existence.
Jim
I purchased a free game on my phone called Lara Croft Relic Run. It's fun I spent a good one to two hours playing, but almost tiresome and frustrating. Be warned it drains the battery really fast.
YGW- I did want you suggested, watched some NW Y Class locomotives. But I can't find much on YouTube pulling coal around Blue Ridge.
Ulrich- I really like your layout. Basically all that detail and precision. I mostly like looking at the pictures.
ATSFGuy- I had the same problem you had, so some years ago. I noticed the forum to discuss around 2011, but the profile didn't start until 2012.
ATSFGuyIs there any was to change the number of posts under my Avatar pic? I want it to say 800, 850, or better yet 1,550 posts instead of a pathetic 161 or 162.
Sure is! Get busy and post more often....
P.S.- See I got another one just from replying to you........