Afternoon Diners
Flo, Ed, Gary, Brent, Inch, Ulrich, Galaxy, Angelob, UP 831, Jan and I will have a glass of Boone's Farm Strewberry Hill Wine please.
And You Folks Did not think I know wine! To be honest, it is the only wine I have had that I liked, not that I have had much wine.
Beatuful Day Today! High was 68 degrees and not a cloud in the sky.
Brent I went to your U-Tube link and watched The Un-Stopable video. If I am remembering correctly it is in your living room? Boy, either you have a Great Wife or you are a heck of a conman! Either way What is the sizes of the layout and grade? Do you by chance still have a layout digram? Can each line be ran as a seprate line? What engines where you running and how many cars where in the diesle train? Have you added any more details? Would love a more current viedo.
Link to the Video I hope.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Spatchedcocked turkey was a success. The gravy was not. I didn't have enough liquids in the bottom of the pan and the drippings and sliced apples burned, so I could not use that. My gravy was lump free but not much different in color or texture form the mash potatoes.
Pumpkin cheesecake was outstanding.
Video on the news tonight from Australia. A blonde in a bare midrift top is walking across the tracks in a subway? station. Gets to the wall of the elevated platform and a couple guys pull her up and out a second or two before the incoming train pulls in.
They don't say but I'll bet alcohol was involved.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
cudaken Afternoon Diners Flo, Ed, Gary, Brent, Inch, Ulrich, Galaxy, Angelob, UP 831, Jan and I will have a glass of Boone's Farm Strewberry Hill Wine please. And You Folks Did not think I know wine! To be honest, it is the only wine I have had that I liked, not that I have had much wine. Beatuful Day Today! High was 68 degrees and not a cloud in the sky. Brent I went to your U-Tube link and watched The Un-Stopable video. If I am remembering correctly it is in your living room? Boy, either you have a Great Wife or you are a heck of a conman! Either way What is the sizes of the layout and grade? Do you by chance still have a layout digram? Can each line be ran as a seprate line? What engines where you running and how many cars where in the diesle train? Have you added any more details? Would love a more current viedo. Link to the Video I hope. Later, Ken
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If one could roll back the hands of time... They would be waiting for the next train into the future. A. H. Francey 1921-2007
Not that I have an issue with it, wine is good!!
Fergmeister,
Wine----
About the time I started up the machine that makes painkiller medicine---among other things, it can also be used as a fuel in an internal combustion engine, embalming fluid, sterilize medical instruments, paint remover, a marinade for veggies, or an astringent for after shave. I make it in several flavors, and various strengths, and volatilizations.
herrinchoker
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of organic granola with skim milk, and a pot of Marrakeesh Express Dark Roast Organic, Fair Traded Coffee to start my day. Thank you Ma'am!
Oh my Gosh... Fergie!, that is you sitting back there. Nice to see you sir.... I take it you are back on shore for now. Hope you are finding some time for the layout. Yes all "legal" beverages are served in the diner these days. Since it is virtual it doesn't lead to brawls and such. Frankly I rarely touch the stuff, but do like a nice glass of Finger Lakes Wine once in a while. I only go for the best you know! Anyway, good to see you, and do tell us what you've been up to these days.
After a nice sunny day yesterday the sky is once again dark and grey outside. Not gpoing to break any records for solar energy this month..... and year. We don't need any more rain here in the Finger Lakes. I have never seen a pond out in back of my gouse between mky property and the neighbors in November before...... I is a swamp out ther at the moment. Water has stopped seeping in the basement at least.
I am supposed to get together with my son today to get the lights working on my small trailer (which sits out at his house right now) so I can get it inspected after the 1st. of December. Then I have to get it registered again. Hopefully after inspection we will get it back parked in my driveway for the winter. I have a lot more driveway room than he does.... That will ingratiate me to my DIL..... LOL
I have just one more day of being 70 years old and want to make the best of it. 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!
cudaken Link to the Video I hope. Later, Ken
Nice video. Even NYCT will not allow a train to come up that close to its leader. Especially at speed like that.
On Railroad of LION there are WORKING block signals and you would be cooling your brakeshoes behind the redball.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Good morning from the dry but dreary West Coast.
Ah yes, Unstoppable, When the movie came out in the theatre I loaded up the truck with a bunch of kids and told them we were going to see a movie I wanted to see this time. With a little apprehension, they agreed, after all, they would be getting a big bag of popcorn and drink out of the deal. The whole lot of them thoroughly enjoyed it and looked at my trains a little differently afterward.
Ken, I think there were about forty cars behind those two Atlas Trainmasters. I think those Trainmasters could pull my house down the street if I hooked them up. I remember we had a lot of fun filming that. At the end when I finally hook on to the back of the train just like in the movie, I was really worried about string lining the long freight. I was flipping back and forth between the two trains like crazy on the controller. Captain Kirk would have been proud (Qapla) that's success in Klingon.
Here is the camera car, it is so top heavy and rocked back and forth it made my trackwork look terrible.
The layout is in what is suppose to be a Nanny or in-law suite. It is 15' x 24'. Those two doors you see are bedrooms, one is my trainroom office, the other the guest bedroom. I moved our Grand Piano into the living room while my wife was away at a dog show. When she walked in the door she said: "I see you started on your layout" and smiled. She's the best.
It has about 200' of mainline with three to four dozen turnouts. No grade is over 2% and that long climb up the spline hill is probably about 40' long and is not a steady or set grade the whole way. The climb through the Rockies isn't a set grade the whole way so that climb on my layout probably varies between 1/2 to near 2%. Not sure but, I think that gives long trains a bit of a breather along the way. I have also tried to make some of the curves flow by adjusting or changing radiuses through a turn. I think it helps make it look less stamped out or toy like.
Sorry, I don't have a track plan of it and our Mac is closing in on a trip to the recycle centre as it is on its last legs. It can't seem to handle video uploads anymore as it is so outdated. They will come eventually though. Thanks for taking an interest, it has been fun building it.
In other news, the kid got a call from a casting director in Ottawa who is making a movie there, the guy was talking to a director in Vancouver who told him about my kid. Experienced help is hard to find in Ottawa as it is not a movie mecca like Vancouver. They wanted him to be a bad guy running from the cops, or something like that. It is being shot near the University as well. The kid turned it down as he had a lot of school work to do, but wishes he could have done it.
The wife is still painting, I think she is obsessed.
Think I'll go grab my axe and play for an hour or two. Eenie meenie miney mo.
I'll get a couple of trains runnin (san's sound) and serenade them, if that doesn't cause them to derail or break down nothin will.
All the best for a great weekend to all.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Hi gang. I hope everyone had a nice thanks giving. I'm happy to report that we had a good one. However when we got home later that night we got a call from the sheriff's department that there was a cop killer that was armed and on foot in the neighborhood. The police helicopters were flying around spot lighting the ground and there were over twenty cops on foot with dogs looking for the guy. They told us to stay inside and pull the shades. They had all of the roads out here blocked too. It was kind of scary for a while. We then got a call that the guy had been found in a hay field and arrested not far from us. I'm glad they caught the guy and am really sorry about the state trooper he killed who was married with three little kids...
I haven't had a chance to run trains lately but may go out tomorrow and put a little time in.
I assume that was the DPS trooper killed in TX.
Unstoppable, missed that one, and yet here is a piece on Youtube
Good morning. Coffee and a donut please .
we are still busy. I hope to be back on a regular schedule by the end of today.
I remember seeing the unstoppable movie. I rarely waste time with movies, but saw it. I would prefer watching trains on You Tube . ... or better yet watching real trains in person.
Fergie. nice seeing you here again. You may be the best to ask this question . Why do ships have crows nests instead of gulls nests.
Cheers
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good morning Diners,
Flo, I'll have an extra large coffee with lots of cream, please.
Wow! Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill wine. Haven't seen or heard that in a lot of years. It is/was an apple based wine that didn't have a bad taste. The price point made it accessbile to young and poor man back in the day. It was the focus of many a date back in those thrilling days of yesteryear.
MOH and I were invited to Thanksgiving with my DIL's family. 30 plus people, food galore, and a family touch football game tradition that could involve any and everyone. Had a very good time. There was a sweet potato casserole that had cranberries in it. That's a combination that sounds dreadful, but was quite tasty.
MOH is off the phone with sister, need to run.
Hello to everyone, and I hope everyone is OK, safe, and warm.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Afternoon Diners,
It's been busy for me for a while.
A lot houses now are decorated in lights and Christmas air balloon characters. Hopefully I will start tomorrow.
I watched Unstoppable. It was going to be my favorite movie. After watching it three times. I found mistakes and some scenes were over the top. I loved it but I got tired of the rotating camera scenes, just to much.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Afternoon folks!
Chloe, just a cup of decaf. I'm heading over to my son's house soon for my Birthday Party... Yep gained another year today... Now 71 years young. Only good thing is another lady at church (a retired minister) told me that I look much younger without the beard.....
Unstoppable.... Complete piece of Hollywood rubish! While based on a "Real" incident, what they did with it had very little to do with what actually happened. The train company was in control of everything in it's path the entire time. No schoolbus full of little kids, no famous actor running along the top of the cars (even he can't jump into the wind at 70 mph from car to car.....), no other horrible made up stuff that was real. The train never went over 40 mph as well..... I have read the Legal document about the incident that had all the stuff in it about what really happened. Just another piece of garbage from hollywood. kinda like the movie "The Train" That one again was based on a real incident but the train never actually left the paris yard! There was a whole lot of "lost" paperwork again and again, that prevented the train from ever leaving for Germany. Just another reason why I don't watch TV or go to the movies. Last movies I actually liked were the "Grumpy Old Men" comedies....
Yep I'm just a grumpy old Phart, I guess.
Dark and gloomy again here in the Finger Lakes. Going to be the worst month for electric I have had for a November I think.
angelob6660 It was going to be my favorite movie. After watching it three times. I found mistakes and some scenes were over the top.
For more fun, and even more mistakes, watch Silver Streak.
Jill Clayburgh helps to distract from the plot holes.
Ray!
Hollywood = fantasy world
Model Railroad = fantasy world
That's how I see it any way. Both are purely for entertainment.
Have Fun!
Ed
Happy Birthday Ray & best wishes for the coming year...
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
howmusLast movies I actually liked were the "Grumpy Old Men" comedies....
That´s a liking we share!
Happy Birthday to you, Ray!
Evening Diners,
Ed- I have seen Silver Streak. I do like it is ridiculous and funny. I don't believe it going to be that serious. I also saw the original Silver Streak. I could have wrote half that movie for being realistic.
Ray- Happy Birthday!
I like the sequel to that movie Grumpier Old Men.
I went into the garage to get out the Christmas lights and ornaments. So I decided to decorated the tree. Each year I test the lights to see if they worked. Last year I lost a set of lights. Now this time I lost the other set of lights. I have a pair of color and clear lights and use them together. And now I don't have any. I will probably go sometime this week.
Good Evening All, a Newcastle and some chips would do me a treat just now.
Happy Birthday Ray. Beat me by a couple of years and four days. No shaving for J.R. though.Good to see Fergie came by as well.
Now that race season(s) is winding down and we're not extending it by going to Australia or New Zealand, I've been able to spend some time on the layout. Been struggling with the 90' turntable kit and roundhouse I got some years ago. I think once I get it done I'll be happy even if it doesn't work at all. The yard area is done with 2" foam over plywood. It shouldn't have been so hard to make a round hole in foam but by the time I got done the hole was oversize enough that the flange wasn't enough to keep the pit stable. With the plywood underneath it wasn't possible to use a hot wire so I used my foam knife which even with care tears extra material. I finally used my trammel bar to score a proper sized hole in a sheet of styrene and secured that over my home made grand canyon and then started the fun of aligning the tracks on and off the turntable. Today was spent gluing the tracks onto the roundhouse foundation (the short roundhouse of course) and prepping the floor for paint. With luck once it is all assembled the motor will still turn the bridge and the bridge will still have continuity to the main bus and I'll be able to get things lined up enough to run a locomotive on. Next is figuring out how to wire the whole mess for DCC. Do i get to use a dpdt momentary center off switch or what? These questions and more next time. At least I finally have some time to play with trains. Cheers, J.R.
Eveing Diners
Flo, Ed, Gary, Inch, Angelob, Brent, Jan, Ulrich, Galaxy, Ray The Birthday Boy and I will have a please.
Weekend Wok Front With Nancy (owner's wife The Ding Bat). It was slooooow this weekend and thank goodnes! I am praying she will loes intrest in helping me! I am guessing she has lost me $225.00 in spiffs in the last two weekends! Yea, her gross is higher, but profit margin is straight in the trioliet bowl! She does not understand higher Dollar amount does not mean higher profit?
Brent You said it has about 200 feet of main line, that does not count passing spurs and spurs correct? My main line is only around 90 feet. Your 15' x 24' is close to the sizes of my garage. With your Mac getting ready to take a dirt nap is there anyway you could post a over head view of the layout? Just like a idea of the over all main line. Can the layout out be ran as two seprate lines?
While I have enjoyed my layout for 10 years, it maybe time to start over. Many short comings but a lot of pluses.
Train Front Giving the Mighty CB&Q F7's a much needed rest. Been running them for all most 11 months now. Time to crack them open and do some lubing. Running the Bachmann Sound Vaule F7 a's and they are dragging the CB&Q's 35 car train with no problem. Not like the Mighty CB&Q F7's was hurting pulling the same train. Been playing with the Bachmann CV's getting the sound more the way I like i Yea I like the BLI F units better but I bet it is unkely I can buy a pair of BLI F Units New In The Box With Sound for $180.00 plus shipping.
Later Ken
J.R. - It's good to see you back here. I've missed your updates on your racing endeavors. So how did the season go for you?
Good evening all from a very, very soggy West Coast.
First off, to Ray! A forum member I admire for all the community work he does, and for just lookin so good sans beard. Drinks, (probably nightcaps) for you easterners are on me tonight. I come in late so it won't cost me so much.
Did a really good very mountainous 20KM on the recumbent bike this morning, the last couple of months have kicked the crap out of me in the Arthritis department, my blood pressure was up to 135/88, it is usually around 110/70 when I am fit. So I loaded up on the pain pills and got to it and feel great for doing so, both physically and mentally.
For me, movies are fantasies that help me to escape for a couple of hours, I have yet to see one that resembles reality. No one would go see them if they came across like documentaries.
We did go see "Wonder" last weekend as it is the first movie the kids signed up for and we saw them both. #1 son is way off in the distance and daughter is front and centre just as she said. First (and only) movie she did she spent three days chit chatting with Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson between takes. They shot it back in July 2016.
cudakenBrent You said it has about 200 feet of main line, that does not count passing spurs and spurs correct?
Ken, this video from 2011 gives a better look at the track plan. Yes, the 200' is not including the sidings and spurs. I took pics, but the computer won't take them anymore. I will dig up some older ones tomorrow and post them.
I can run separate tracks sort of. At the beginning of the video, you can see aT/O just past the crossover where the train can be diverted to the inner loop and go back up the grade without going around once. If I do this I can run a train around the outside loop, however, there is the possibility of them meeting at that crossover, though it hasn't happened yet. I usually just have a shorty running the loop when I do that. Maybe a 4-4-0 work train.
More tomorrow, time to go watch something spooky on the tube, that's about all I can handle at the moment.
All the best to all.
howmus Yep I'm just a grumpy old Phart, I guess.
Happy Birthday to an "Old Phart" from another Old Phart.
All the best to you Ray, thinking back over the year, you have had a real Dandy.
Also a great big Howdy to J.R. and Fergie. I sure have missed you fellas.
Johnboy out....................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Hobby Front: Got a lot of little things done recently. Got the nose on the 45 a little further along. (Got another shim glued in. Cut the hole a little too deep for the detail part. Hopefully it is filled in enough. PLan is to work on that engine later today.) Got some paint on the SD40-2. (Ended up having to repaint the green as I ended up removing paint when I tried to remove the number and the excesssive amounts of CA that someone had used.) Got the new decal sheets sprayed. (Boxcar and SW 1200 lettering. No matter what the age of the sheets, I always put an coat of a decal sealer on them, especially when stripes are involved. If I don't, it seems like stripes always break up. The boxcar won't get any further until probably April or so as I need paint and it's too cold to mail order from far away and I can't get it locally.)
Hi Guys!
"When Winter comes...!
As the first snow of the season is about to come to my neck of the woods, here is a video of steam trains plowing through deep snow!
Enjoy!
I'm back from Thanksgiving vacation! I ate so much while I was gone, we're going to have to get the springs checked on the Diner car.
Today's special is turkey casserole. Likely tomorrow's and the day after's, too. Dig in!
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Good sunny morning from the West Coast, it is 10c and a good day to start on the Christmas lights.
Steven, hope you had a good break and mais ois on the Turkey dish, merci.
Wife is still painting and my greatest fears are coming true. She is heading in the direction of the front entrance hall that is open some 6 metres to the second-floor ceiling, I may have to get involved yet. I am not as young as the last time we did it, so it could be interesting.
Ken, I managed to get new pics on the computer by E-Mailing them to myself so here they are with a brief description.
First off my yard will never make it into the "Better Logistics of Railyards" magazine. The whole thing is meant to be a Rocky Mountain pusher station with the ladder tracks meant to be parking for locomotives more than anything. I can justify having lots of loco's and not many rail cars this way.
You can see a balloon track around the roundhouse that lets me turn bigger steam loco's that won't fit on the turntable, plus I can also turn my passenger trains for return trips. The balloon track serves as a yard lead and I build my trains on the two A/D tracks at the far end. Not textbook but what to do with a small space.
If you look at the turntable/roundhouse, the foam they are on can be easily lifted out and moved into my office to be worked on as a whole, you can see the seam of where it sits into the other foam. Also when I move I can lift it out and keep it whole and place it into a new layout easy peasy. The bench in the foreground is 6' x 18'.
In this pic, the hole in the middle will be a pond for the grazing cattle. I will place brush around the shore to hide the crack. I saved the piece of foam as it fits perfectly back in the hole.
Here you can see the T/O just this side of where the tracks cross. By switching the train immediately to the inside loop it goes back up the grade without having to go around first. I can then run a train around the outside loop as long as I watch for possible "train interaction" where the tracks cross. By getting the speed settings right they will run all day without meeting. The two tracks on the inside are the A/D tracks.
My office rearranged with my brand new Costco shelves on the left.
Well better get going on the Christmas lights.
A good day to all, stay safe.
Hey guys
RAY...
Another night at the 'tel. Im hoping for a slow night as my heart isn't exactly cooperating. Its rather errratic now. Making me exhausted and tired. Midnight is 7 hours away, hope I can make it, hate going home sick. I only have tonight and wednesday before CARDIOVERSION on Friday. Hopefully that will return my heart to normal. I'm not liking the way t's been feeling this last week.
MR.B. where are you? have you completed a move yet? Are you lurking?
Smoking...I quit for 10 years, but the stress of the relationship, buying hte house, maintaining the house and going back to work, has caused me to start again. I know, it doesn't help my current heart situation....but its a definite crutch. WE are working on quitting, and the ROYAL WE doesn't want to, if you get me.
WIne, I only have like 2 or 3 glasses a year, Like White Zinfindel and Blush wines, also Pino Grigio. Boones farm strawberry hill, well, havent had that since I tired it as a teen to get drunk, and its so low in alcohol it didn't do the trick. Tastes great, filling if you drink enough of it, lol.
The plumber comes wednesday to install the washer hookup in the kitch, and the electrician to move the dryer hookup on tuesday. That way we can order the washer adn dryer on tuesday for delivery the following week. Then, I won't have to trail the stairs to the basement to do laundry anymore.....
speaking of the steep stairs, that may mean I WON"T set up any trains down there.....I may hae to give up and quit the hobby. Not even room for an under the tree layout. Might go to z scale adn do a coffee table layuout...but so expensive!
If thats the case, I may have to sell off my HO trains.....
Ok heart, settle down......
later dudes.
Have a great one
-G
-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.
Howdy ...
We are gradually getting back to normal after a very busy 10 day period.
I spent a little time on the layout today. Ran some trains. Corrected a problem with some track where trains would sometimes derail. ... Getting ready to install the wood truss bridge which means first doing the scenery that will be beneath it.
I hope each of you are doing well.