General Discussion (Model Railroader)

To all Vets----

Our personal thanks to all vets as well.

We shall not forget-----

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Just stopped by to poke my head in the door and wish all our Veterans here a happy Veteran's Day. Thank you for your service to our country...

 Ray: I know, 10W solid state is nothing. Crate is dark, but Blackheart is a division of crate. They make all tube amps. I hate my dads Crate 15R Flexwave-too metallic, clean isn't clean. But these blackhearts are GREAT! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNpBr3K38Do, this is a demo of the 5W head and 12" cab. Blackheart makes a 1W head, a 5W head, a 15W head, and a 100W head. The last 3 have a switch to toggle wattage, 3/5, 7.5/15, and 50/100. I'll probably go with a 5W head, the 1x12 cab, and add another 1x12. When I get enough cash, I"ll probably get the 15W head.

    "Morning Chloe~"  "Any coffee at 3 am ?"

 Well, I couldn't say Good morning or night.  I fell asleep at 9 pm or so. and here its 3 am. But let me tell you whats going on lately.  Ttwo nights ago, Jeanne was playing some On-line poker.  She asks me what to do.  Well of course .. this is a man's game.. "Texas HoldeM?"  Well in short, a few discussions broke out from time to time... from hand to hand.  I tell her, I don't like talking this way, not after 3 decades of being together.. and thats it.  "You're on your own."~  She plays a few more hands, asks me again what to do, she loses.  She then tells me to 'take over'  .. she's got to go to the store.  So I do,  and I win it.  I won the game so bad, (came in first) I get to play just one more round.  If I make it to the final table, just make it within the 9 players, I'm / we're on our way to the Bahama's for a cruise?  LOL.. I told Jeanne,  "Yeah.. they offer a 15 thousand dollar package.. that means you pay 10 thousand to gamble.. and you get all this wonderful stuff... Don't beleive it~"  Of course I still have to make it to the last table... but only one more 'playoff'.  If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is..~  too good to be true.

Keith

  Jeff, I dropped a Loco the other day.  Fell about 4 feet, and landed on semi hard flooring.. and sorta bounced.. with a thud.  I don't even want to try to see if it works.  What exactly happens?  What is the breakdown on it working after a drop?  Is there any hope?  What could happen?  A magnet breaks?  So whats the breakdown...? 70/30 chance of not working?  I even hate to think about it, more or less try to see if it runs.

  Rob, and T Marsh..?   The painting of the model station..with the brick flooring.. with my antique method .. well, that seems to work for me.   I like to use the materials that I am used to working with.  And I always like to experiment... always have.  I've never cooked the same meal twice... always a tad different.. thats how you perfect something.  As far as placing great pain, pang, to detail.. well this is one of 4 train stations I am building.. and I want and hope it will look nice.

Someone also was kind to post a site about weathering.. and I shall take a look. 

Keith

Blazzin:

  Jeff, I dropped a Loco the other day.  Fell about 4 feet, and landed on semi hard flooring.. and sorta bounced.. with a thud.  I don't even want to try to see if it works.  What exactly happens?  What is the breakdown on it working after a drop?  Is there any hope?  What could happen?  A magnet breaks?  So whats the breakdown...? 70/30 chance of not working?  I even hate to think about it, more or less try to see if it runs.

90 percent of the time it's just some part or parts jarred loose, a shaft out of place or a gear broken. I had a Proto 2000 E6 fall off the display rack a few years ago (5 foot drop) and bent the metal frame beyond repair. I boxed it up and put it in the closet. About a year later a friend sent me a couple of Proto 2000 E6's  that had been stripped of all their inner workings to make them into dummies. One of them is still a dummy unit. Even though the new frame was of plastic that didn't stop me from stripping everything off the bent metal frame of the damaged unit and putting it all onto the new frame. I checked it all out to make it was working then hard wired a Lenz 1014 decoder into it, programmed it, ran it a bit then put it up in the display rack. A couple of days ago I got it down again, over a year after it had been rebuilt, and ran it again. It runs just as smooth and quiet as a factory built unit.

Good morning all,

Not much going on here, I have the diner model almost finished, hopefully I’ll have pictures posted this weekend.  Also I bought a 6 pack of the B&O time saver, LCL box cars, and won 3 Suydam kits for the coal mine module of my layout.

 

Coffee, slice of Garry's Kentucky ham, eggs over easy , hash browns with gravy and a biscuit with strawberry jam please.

HAPPY VETERENS DAY!!!!! Thank you Veterens for ALL you have done. Without you who knows were we'd be now. God Bless you and watch over you, each and every one.

Garry- Too bad about the loco. I tried to keep my track far from the edge but that didn't end up so. I think I'll either make my facia taller in those spots or use some plexiglass. Hope you can find the parts.

Robby- Nice job on the box.

Ray- Good news at the docs I see! We sure could use a few more good reports from others doctors around here. Luckily, my...... bought with the Gout, (chuckle) didn't last but a couple three days. Maybe four at the most, but only 1day with that pull the toe apart feeling. Oddly enough, if I applied pressure to the bottom of my toe, as in standing and rocking forward on the toe, the pain would be severely reduced. Too much and the pain returned though so it was like a certain pressure. Only on the bottom though, pressure on the top would send me over the top.

CNCharlie, Johnboy and Paul?

Gotta go, the fields await.

Have a Great Day!!!

Good Morning

It is Remembrance Day today and we are having a brilliant sunny morning for the services this morning. A friend of mine called me up and told me he was going with a mutual friend to do some fly by's around this region. Hopefully I'll get some pix of the plane---a Sopwith of some sort--not a 'camel'(?). All I know is that it is a bi-plane

Chloe, I'll have a cofee and a toasted bagel as well please---I'll be at the RC----

Good morning. It's 56 and sunny. The high will be about 72 and it will be partly cloudy.

I started yesterday on the cataloging of all my rolling stock. Ordinarily this would be a long tedious business but the program I'm using makes it very easy. Most of the fields (33 over 4 pages) are already provided and all I have to do is select what I want or enter a short description such as 'Boxcar' or 'Gondola' for model then select '40 ft', '50 ft', etc. Yesterday I entered  30 pieces of rolling stock in an hour and I was just taking my time and taking a couple of breaks to work on another project. On the health front, the Home Care nurse came by yesterday and changed my dressings and applied the salve the doc prescribed on the surgical incisions which seem to be healing nicely. This morning I started on the new iv antibiotic that was prescribed. I have to infuse two of these a day for two weeks. At least it's easy to do. I just run the tubing up under my shirt, hook it up, put the vial in my pants pocket and continue to do whatever I was doing before, then 45 minutes later unhook the vial and throw it away. Nothing to it.

 Good morning.  Another good looking day, and maybe all week.

 Thanks for the comments on the boxcar.  I've gotten away from weathering.  Just took a break from it, and just slowly getting back into it.  

 Got a letter yesterday saying house/city taxes are due by Dec.31.  If not a collections agency will be contacted.  GREAT .  We owe a total of $1,000.  So that means................It will be very tight here.  The wife said we could do it, but just watch what we spend.  Its always something .

 Other than that, not much planned.  

 Everybody have a good day, and thanks VETS  

  Garry, thank you for the kind words.  I happen to like it too!

  But is that what this is?  I thought it was a Southern Pacific.. LOL.. well the colors anyways.  But when you said Chicago North Western.. I had to blow up the pic and see.  I couldn't even put the front wheels on correctly.  This Shovel Nose happens to be one of my favorites.  The other... is..

  this baby.  I really like it.  Now don't go poo pooing it.. click on the pic...  its done real nice.  I know nothing of this type other than it was used as a 'Selling Floor Model' ..?  .. and it would go around places.. demonstrating.. and thats why they were called Demonstrators?  Jeff?

Blazzin:

  this baby.  I really like it.  Now don't go poo pooing it.. click on the pic...  its done real nice.  I know nothing of this type other than it was used as a 'Selling Floor Model' ..?  .. and it would go around places.. demonstrating.. and thats why they were called Demonstrators?  Jeff?

Nice GP60 you have there. I just recently cut up an old shell from one the get the dynamic brake housing for use on my GP42X. The first GP60's were produced in 1985 and it was EMD's first third-generation locomotive. It has a 3,700 gallon fuel capacity and can generate 3,800 hp with it's 16 cylinder 710G3A prime mover. Production stopped in 1994 with 294 units having been produced in the line of GP60, GP60M and GP60B (23 GP60B's were built. These units were cabless, all for Santa Fe as were the GP60M units. All the dynamic brake equipment on the cabless units was at the nose end). A list of the original owners shows Santa Fe with 40 GP60 units, 23 GP60B units and 63 GP60M units. Of the remaining GP60 units, the US dept of Energy took 1, D&RGW took 3, EMD had 3 as demonstrators (all 3 now owned by CSX), NS took 50, SP took 100, St Louis Southern took 95 and the Texas Mexican Railway took 2.

Now as for my favorite locomotive type, it has to be the F7. Here's one of mine.

Happy Veterans day, and thanks to all of our veterans.

Garry, sucks about the loco. For the steps you might be able to carefully bend them back into shape (I've done that with a GP9 that hit the floor, then got stepped on; and the recent GP20 I got) and glue them together. A-line is supposed to be getting brass steps for the RPP SD7/SD9 which might work. I don't have any good ideas for the trucks other than find a unit for parts, or try to modify an atlas SD24 truck to fit.

Chris, the red/gray scheme is nice. Unfourtantely by my era many of those locos were starting to look a bit pink... I do have an SD24 in the scheme that is patched for the BN. I would love to have a patched engine from every pre-BN road.

Jeff, I like the Fs too, I just wish someone would make them in BN. I do know a guy who has a bunch of undec stewart F-unit shells, so if I can get athearn F7 chassis, I can make it work. I don't know if you'd count the cowl units as true Fs, but my favorite engine is the F45.

 

THANKS TO ALL VETERANS!

Good morning all...Its a sunny morning and 47 here...I'll have coffee and a sweet roll please..Thank you..I got Foundry on layout...

Planning to pull fiddle yard off next week and put in rest of caboose Industries ground throws and ballast rest of track..

You all have a good one...Jerry