General Discussion (Model Railroader)

 Well, as Bergie said, I'll open a new place.

Lee: Thanks for sending the SM card. I can't get enough of them.

What happened to my diner?

 Whoa!!!  Ah, Good morning Jeffrey!

I came in to get my morning coffee at the old place and the doors were locked.....  For a moment I thought the place got raided, but as I read all the posts since last night when I left I didn't see any reason why???  Then I see Bergie needed the other track to move freight I guess.

Anyway the new place was easily found.  Thanks for getting it started Jeffrey!

Chloe, I'll have a cup of Dark Roast Coffee in a FGLK mug and a bran muffin, please.

32°F and cloudy here in the Finger Lakes this morning.  The high will be around 34° with a few snow flurries this afternoon.  Good day to get some odds and ends done. I have to get the agenda done for Deacons (Wednesday) and e-mailed out to the board, Martin Luther King Committee meeting tonight. Need to do some banking (deposit money from the concert last Saturday), and pay some bills.

Hope everyone is recovering well this morning from the big party last night. Did the Bills win???

New Haven I-5:

What happened to my diner?

 I think Bergie nixed it. Can't have two open at the same time. You can rest assured I had nothing to do with it. I was busy answering your PM.

Well darn! We have to move over every month now, how about that! Not much time to collect any dust at all! I'll have to go back and catch up from Friday in the old thread before it dissipates in the MR forum ether...

Model Railroading Update:  This weekend I made my first attempt at weathering rolling stock using acrylic and enamel paints, Bragdon weathering powders and Testers Dullcoat. The hopper is an Accurail kit and it took about 4 hours from initial kit building to finishing up the weathering. This is an Airslide Center Flow (ACF) Kansas City Southern (KCS) hopper that was put into service in 1994 and is showing it's 15 years of use on the rails.

Here is the before shot...



The image below is a High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) and it is meant to approximate an early morning splash of orange sunrise. This is the After shot




Here are a few more with some other weathered rolling stock too...

I also started a renovation on my grandfathers old Rock Island Pulpwood car. This piece of rolling stock is the only known surviving piece from his old HO layout from the 1950's, he took it down in the mid 1960's and donated it to a local Boy Scout troop in Alexandria, LA near where he lived in Pineville, LA.

The decals had long since fallen off and it has some peeling paint and such, so I took the load off and sanded down the peeling paint, removed the trucks and repainted the shell. The pulp wood load is a bunch of old wooden matches that were cut to about 5' to 5 1/2' HO scale lengths and stacked and glued.

I'll post some photos of the renovate and after when I get em sorted and loaded online.

This is the Pulpwood car before I started the overhaul...



My grandfather had this piece on display on top of his dresser in his bedroom for years, I guess it was his only reminder of days gone by.

jeffrey-wimberly:

New Haven I-5:

What happened to my diner?

 I think Bergie nixed it. Can't have two open at the same time. You can rest assured I had nothing to do with it. I was busy answering your PM.

Oh, okay. I'll buy that decoder as soon as possible.

jeffrey-wimberly:

 Well, as Bergie said, I'll open a new place.

You beat me to it Jeffrey. I was thinking about it anyway. Must be I'm psychic or something.

I'll step back to the kitchen and help back there get things going!

Well, Steelers won. I said that too. Must be I'm psychic or something.

I have another dental appointment today. They will clean my teeth and I will be achy after that I predict. Must be I'm psychic or something.

Warmer here finally, but cold snap on the way again. Darnit. The tub drain will freeze again. Must be I'm psychic or something. {There really is no way to get to it to wrap more insulation around it now}.

Well, everybody have a great day!

Wow!  Half an hour ago it was on pg 92!  Good thing I saw the diner car pull away!  At work, not much else going on.  That crawfish looks mighty good!  I'll have some tea, unsweetened when things get settled down in our new spot.

oops, here comes the boss!  later, Eric

 I'll have the biscuits and gravy this morning.

Playing catchem ups from the locked Diner....

Paul, sorry to hear about Mary Ann in the hospital again, hope she recovers quick, thoughts and prayers.

Barry:

Hello and a good frosty morning to all of you--Chloe can I have an egg on a muffin and a coffee to go please---Here we go ---off on a trip around town---gotta go to Forest City Surplus now--BIL needs more camping gear for winter---yeeesh

The above quoted piece by Roggie reminds me of a certain grump I know at work who cannot stand me or this other fellow. If either one of us mentions anything about even one band we even saw--let alone anything else he would have a bird on our heads about it---LOL!!! It got to the point that one time I came in with a photo of Neil Peart and I standing by a bike he had at one time--and the guy just flipped--saying it was digitized--it was all a lie--blah blah blah ---got to the point that the mgr came out and told the guy to basically shut his pie hole---I thought at the time --boy, some people are awfully sensitive about things and such

Barry and Unca Roggie, your stories reminds me of some of my experiences with celebrity types and folks reactions when I tell them the stories behind the meetings. Over the years I've met with and talked with in person the likes of Dan Rather, Paul Simon, Stephen Stills, Rob Schneider, John Goodman, Art, Aaron and Cryil Neville of the Neville Brothers, Chastity Bono, Alex Lifeson, Jack Klugman and Katey Segal.

Lee, thanks for the info on the cancer patients and their medical histories.

Eric, thanks for the input about the cancer and I too send my thoughts and prayers for your mom and dad.

Garry, sorry to hear that you got part of the ice storm in your area and hope you get back to normal real soon. I was thinking about you last night when I watched the Weather Channel and they mentioned Kentucky and the ice.

Cederstrand:

Everyone always talks about New Orleans. What about the flooding that happened in Iowa? Why was there no 24/7 media coverage or outcry from the Hollywood crowd about that catastrophy? My two bits.

And everyone talks about New Orleans like FEMA and the govt fixed everything...I got a NEWS FLASH!!!! They are still in need of help too! Most of the $$$ they said would go to fix up NOLA and the Gulf Coast is still not seen, most of it so far is the local govt's and businesses fixing it up! So don't feel left out or that the regime change has or will make anything different... might have gotten a lot of press, but New Orleans East is still a disaster zone!!! And the local NOLA economy has been on a landslide ever since then too.  For those of you who really know me, you also know that our family lived through Katrina on that fateful day of Monday, August 29, 2005....I could go on...., but as they say "Rome was'nt built in a day!"

Superbowl....GO SAINTS!!!!! Oh, that's right! They didn't make the playoffs this year...oops!


 Trainman Sam!

Good Morning all...Its sunny and 26 here this morning...looks like they have moved the diner....I'll have the same as Jeff and coffee please...Thank You...Got Sallie off to Dialysis our caregiver who is filling in for our regular one came with a bad rash sent her home as didn't think we wanted what ever she had..

Garry..Don't know if you have power back yet but You an Shelly are in our thoughts and prayers...

Ryan...Nice weathering!..I like the pulp wood car is that a kitbash?

My son got layout and comupter moved into bedroom this week-end...New layout will be to the left in this photo...They are  posta bring hospital bed today...

You all have a good one...Jerry

Cox 47:

Ryan...Nice weathering!..I like the pulp wood car is that a kitbash?

 

Thanks Jerry! My grandfather built that pulpwood car in the 1950's, not many 'kits" around then but some folks have told me that it looks like it might have been an old Ulrich kit. The flatbed is made of wood and the side walls are a thin metal and it looks like some form of galvanized when I sanded off some of the paint . The ladders and grab irons are metal too.

Ryan, those cars look great.  I have some of my grandfather’s and my father’s rolling stock and locomotives.  Those I keep on the shelf in the living room.

Jeff, I had that card in a canon and my GF decided to erase all thus loosing the format.  To use it in the camera again I needed the fake floppy and software that was way over priced.  So that chip has been sitting around for over a year now without use.

Lee

 

LSWrr:

Jeff, I had that card in a canon and my GF decided to erase all thus loosing the format.  To use it in the camera again I needed the fake floppy and software that was way over priced.  So that chip has been sitting around for over a year now without use.

I thought all digital cameras could format their cards. Both of the ones I have do plus I can format them in my card reader if need be.

in a SOUTHERN mug to start and some of Ryan's Grilled Salmon, please.

***Jeffrey, nothing quite like the sound of a hail storm. 1' think...wow, that was indeed a heavy duty one.

***Ryan, those weathered cars are impressive. Very cool!

***Sue, are there finger prints on your WS water or can you tell when it's still tacky just by observation?

***Lee, ah yes, the Bee Keepers. My wife has eyed that set as well, but I fear the little critters might fly up off the layout and sting me. That's great you can interest the extended family like that.

It's a soggy day here and the temps will be dropping into the 20's so it will be back to the ice breaking routine for the critters soon.

Inlaws are staying another night, so I'll be working in my dungeon, out doing chores, or here in the Diner.

Healing thoughts to those in need.

Rob