Afternoon all. Been real busy at work. I finally have some time for the trains before work tonight. Sure glad I replaced my sump pump. The new one (3/4 hp.) has been running every 5 min for 1 min. The footer drains have an unbeleivable amount of water exiting them into the sump. My center drain ( when I replaced my sanitary drain out to the road i ran a piece of 2" perforated pipe next to it threw the middle of the basement) is like a gagden hose running wide open.
Wes- My sump is ran to the to the street same as yours. I dont have storm water connection at the street for the house. I have 2 back ups for my sump drain the first one was approved by the building inspector. (1) Just before the pipe goes threw the curb I have a plus shaped fitting. The drain passes through it to dump the water on the street, the other 2 ends are verticle, the top has a cap for a clean out, the bottom extends down to the footer drain ( in to the pea gravel above it)for the street.This allows the water to compleatly drain out of the pipe into the footer drain if the exit to the street freezes up. (2) I can divert it into the sanitary if by chance it woild ever totally freez up. I have never had to do this since I made the changes.
Jason
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Warm temp sure does sound nice, won't have that here for a long time. Snow started just as the rush hour began cars and snow have all the main roads clogged up. A lot of late suppers in the Detroit area tonite. Church service and Awanas cancelled along with lots of others. I ran the new boxcab again today,still not impressed with its performance. It runs but I think I have been spoiled by all the better engines.
I'm supprised that you guys are allowed to run sumps to the storm drains, around here thats a no-no. we have to pump into our yards and that includes the drain tiles around the foundation.
LATER ALL,,,,,,,Sir James
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
Charter Member- Tardis Train Crew (TTC) - Detroit3railers- Detroit Historical society Glancy Modular trains- Charter member BTTS
Sir James- The inspector only approved the line going to the street. Around here we have two sewer lines out under the street (storm, sanitary) the house storm(gutters, footers, and draintile) and the street drains are all tied together.All new construction has tieins to both, my house is 104 years old and was never tied into the storm. All new construction has the footer and gutters go into the storm tiein. I added the line to the sanitary after he left, just incase it decided to freeze up one day. It froze up all the time before I made the changes out at the street. All I have to do is open and clothes 2 ball valves. This is for an emergency only. I have never had to dump into the sanitary. (yet)
Jason-understand I was only saying how it is here.as we all know rules are different from place to place.
K-Line repairs--Brasseur electric trains,saginaw Mich.
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989-793-4753 for some reason two phone numbers 989-793-6887
Stormwater....What you do with it depends on the type of soil in the vicinity. If we took our storm water and poured it on the ground, we would have another lake. When I lived in South Bend, you could dump a tanker truck of water on your front lawn and due to the sand, it would be absorbed in short order.
88...I thought it was your turn to run off fife.
Doug...That is not the Chief in those photos. He's too old to get under the table so he uses a cardboard cutout left over from the campaign for his photos. Look closely and he never changes his shirt.
Another early morning meeting tomorrow.
Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum.
Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..
Jelloway Creek, OH - ELV 1,100 - Home of the Baltimore, Ohio & Wabash RR
TCA 09-64284
Buckeye Riveter wrote: 88...I thought it was your turn to run off fife.
dbaker48 wrote: Forgot to mention, on my wiring last night I completed 4 of the 5 remaining power drops. RAN OUT OF WIRE AGAIN !!! However, I found a solution this morning.There is this long 16 awg extension cord in the living room behind the couch. Can't remember the last time the light was turned on that it goes too. (Some silly lit knick-knack) So I FOUND the wire I need. 5th power drop will be history soon !!!
Forgot to mention, on my wiring last night I completed 4 of the 5 remaining power drops. RAN OUT OF WIRE AGAIN !!!
However, I found a solution this morning.
There is this long 16 awg extension cord in the living room behind the couch. Can't remember the last time the light was turned on that it goes too. (Some silly lit knick-knack) So I FOUND the wire I need.
5th power drop will be history soon !!!
So when we hear reports of copper theft in San Pedro area...is it Don pulling wiring out of street lights?
Started out at 32 today and made it to 55. Nice and sunny!
Prayers for those in the Tennessee state area where the tornados ripped through last night.
Not much to report here - long day (as usual).
Regards, Roy
Morning Folks,
I made a fresh pot. The rain volume here was just tremendous last night. I was reclinerizing and it woke me from a dead sleep. Sounded like a freight train passing. We didn't lose power. Terrible shame about all the death and destruction from the tornadoes.
The Mrs. is officially feeling better. How do I know you ask? When she starts making a Honey-Do list I know she is better. Came home last night to a list of about 4 things that needed to be done. Glad she is better and my nursing duties are complete .
Don Baker - You asked about "normalcy". I suppose for me things will get more normal work-wise after the interview process is finished. Hopefully we will finish by the end of this month. These 12 and 14 hour days are getting to me. I come home and all I want to do is reclinerize. After February/March, things should slow down until June/July when we start taking deliveries of furniture, equipment, and instructional materials. Then August will be real crazy until the kids actually come to school and then I should be able to breathe for a little bit.
Bob Mitchell Gettysburg, PA TCA # 98-47956 LCCA# RM22839
HI GIZ,
Well we hit 66 officially yesterday for new record. This global warming is something? Now over weekend only to get to 28.
BRENT, Built in ANTI PILE UP FEATURE, in LEGACY. Never have a Major PILE UP AGAIN.
Played trains last nite for an hour NO PILE UPS of course.
All is good in my world.
B good or B gone.
laz57
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a cold and windy 30 degrees. A few snow flurries today. Going up to only 36 today. A lot of water on the ground. No flooding.
Today, I am taking it easy. Have a few chores to do around the house and then, I will spend some time running trains. Not much else new here. Looking forward to Spring.
Dining car is here and it's breakfast time. later.
Y'all have a great Thursday.
Chuck
jmkk wrote: Afternoon all. Been real busy at work. I finally have some time for the trains before work tonight. Sure glad I replaced my sump pump. The new one (3/4 hp.) has been running every 5 min for 1 min. The footer drains have an unbeleivable amount of water exiting them into the sump. My center drain ( when I replaced my sanitary drain out to the road i ran a piece of 2" perforated pipe next to it threw the middle of the basement) is like a gagden hose running wide open.Wes- My sump is ran to the to the street same as yours. I dont have storm water connection at the street for the house. I have 2 back ups for my sump drain the first one was approved by the building inspector. (1) Just before the pipe goes threw the curb I have a plus shaped fitting. The drain passes through it to dump the water on the street, the other 2 ends are verticle, the top has a cap for a clean out, the bottom extends down to the footer drain ( in to the pea gravel above it)for the street.This allows the water to compleatly drain out of the pipe into the footer drain if the exit to the street freezes up. (2) I can divert it into the sanitary if by chance it woild ever totally freez up. I have never had to do this since I made the changes. Jason
My house was built in 2000. There are two PVC runs through the curb, and then down the street into the storm drain. It's amazing how much water crosses in front of my neighbor's driveways on the way down to the storm drain. My water actually blasts out of the pipe into the street. I like your idea of the + at the curb. I will emplement that one for sure.
This was my first new build, and I didn't really take yard grade into consideration. Like many new builds, they just take a big field, chop it up into .25 acre lots, attempt to move some dirt around to move some of the rain water in between the houses, and let the swimming pools, I mean basement's sump pump system do the rest. Before finishing my basement, I just had the issued 1/3" HP sump pump plugged into house power. Power went out twice over a couple of years and I had 3" of water in my basement within 15 minutes. Before finishing the basement, I kind of went overboard with my sump pump backup. Initially, I took 6 car batteries and powered a 4000 watt inverter for the biggest sump pump I could find. My primary pump is a 7000 GPH 3/4 HP flowtec. Then, I came accross a pair of 3KVA UPS that do a much better job of providing power, and also have the ability to tell me when the power is out by email. Much smaller footprint too. Now I run two big pumps (the 3/4 and a decent 1/2 HP) in piggyback fashion. I can clear the sump pit out in 3 seconds. On really bad storms, it still cycles ever 25 seconds. I sleep better now.
The difference is night and day between my two pumps. That 1/2 HP runs for 30 second cycle times if I make it the primary. It just doesn't move as much water. That 3/4 of mine is a cannon. It's also smaller. I just found a link.
http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10051&langId=-1&catalogId=10053&productId=100033457&categoryID=502426
I love to talk sump pump talk. Email me if you want to gap for a while.
Wes
Good morning all,
It is cloudy and cold in SE Indiana with temps in the 20s and 30s. I guess we had a bunch of straight line wind do some major damage in my home county Tuesday night. Nobody hurt, but a lot of wind damage. Last night was busy, but I did not accomplish anything. Went to Ash Wednesday services, got some supper, went to the funeral home and packed up the trains off the back porch. All this talk of sump pumps makes me glad I just have a crawl space that only occasionally gets wet. I have a litte 1/3 HP pump that I toss in the water if and when any water appears. I had a little more than the usual fare on the dining car this morning. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
GOOD MORNING ALL
Well I just had my workout for today. It rained most of yesterday till rush hour, then it dumped about 4/5 inches of snow by 8pm. I cleared the driveway and walk but left my p/u for this morning. BIG mistake: under the snow I found an iceburg. Doors froze shut used a little warm water and got them open, cleared the snow and wiped off the water before closing it up. I think this could be a train day once I recoup.......Sir James
CSXect wrote:Wes, dude you made it into the weekender section of the Columbus Dispatch today a big article about this weekends train show.
Yea, I was super excited about it when they called me about the piece. Not as cool as doing a spread in CTT, but man, it felt pretty cool to see my name in there.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
OK, I know you're too humble there, Wes, so I posted it for ya. Nice article....
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/weekender/stories/2008/02/07/9_TRAINEXPO07_ART_02-07-08_T13_FA991TO.html?sid=101
Geez, next time, don't make me look for this stuff....
Up to 60 today cloudy....lots o' pollen in the air, the cars are GREEN!!!! But alas, this is normal.
Got my KW fully functional, just awaiting my CAB-1....Saturday, hopefully, then during the afternoon, onward to Daytona for the Shootout. I'll bring my camera and hopefully a Dodge will win. If not, crashing a few Toyotas will make me happy....
A little family DRAMA last night, so I didn't get much sleep...can we skip the teen female and parent female battles and just go on to college years........at least my son was sorta normal...
Late!
Rich
I am the monster in your head...And I thought you'd learn by now, It seems you haven't yet.I am the venom in your skin --- Breaking Benjamin
Congratulations, Wes...........
That was a great newspaper article and story.
Wes - Congradulations !! That's really great. Another Ambassador
Had a GREAT meeting at our train club last night. I gave a presentation on setting up a Kids club, (modeling after the one Doug dagrump is in at San Diego). Really went well. By the end of the meeting we had appointed a Chairperson, secured a volunteer sign up sheet, resolved facility and equipment questions, have people developing flyers, securing materials. AND, surprised that the western regional sales manager was at the meeting. (From one of the big 2 mfgr's) and he guaranteed a donation of 2 or 3 RTR train sets!! So really good meeting!!!
I'm happy & excited!!
Don
anjdevil2 wrote: A little family DRAMA last night, so I didn't get much sleep...can we skip the teen female and parent female battles and just go on to college years........at least my son was sorta normal...
Hey Doug - look - we have someone to commiserate with! Rich - welcome to the mid-teen parents club - where drama prevails! We have the law of conservation of drama - drama never dissappears - it just changes form!
Don - glad the Kid's Club is getting off the ground there!
Doug M - it looks bad there. I have a Chicago work acquaintance that has been stuck in Vegas trying to get home for the last 2 days (is there a better place to be stuck?).
Congrats Wes!
Sunny here - headed to 60! Maybe 70 by the weekend.
Have a great day all!
Afternoon all. Been talking to a big group of third graders about government. Now at Town Hall. Got to go back home as carpet cleaers are coming to re-do thier work of yesterday.
Doug, look real carefully. Duck under/ dropdown. Easy to do.
edited from home at 1:42 PM.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
After working on the layout and really thinking things through, I decided to redo the second level...What we have now is the ability to run 3 trains on the second level. There are 2 switches under the Atlas 2 track Pratt Truss bridge, the first is the switch up from the 1st level and into the passenger station. The second switch is the second level or 1st level transition switch. The blue track is at 7" above the 1st level, and has a reverse loop to send trains back so they can be diverted down to the second level. The black track is grade from 7" to 14" and the 14" 'third' level.This is what it looked like before:I like the full lenght wider valley. Before I would have either had a double decker bridge along the bottom, or a long tunnel for the 1st level. Now you will see the trains on the 1st level for a short distance between the mountains. I think this will simplify the scenery and make it more realistic as well.
Thanks guys!
Don - Congrats. Sounds like your preperation paid off in trains...
Thanks Sir James and Doug! Nice to sleep in my own bed again. Got home about 11PM (Midnight on Orlando time). Cost about $190 to get out of the parking lot, glad I'm not paying for it! On the plus side, I got a great deal on the cab from the hotel to the airport, so saved a little there. I had 138 new emails to download, then the ones I didn't read from last week since I couldn't reply back out. Took a few hours to read them all. I forwarded a few, but most seem to have already made the rounds once or twice?
Wes, congrats!
Glad your wife is doing better, Mitch - better get to work!
I'm only half-way through my laundry from the trip and still want to run trains before I have to pick up daughter from school (son is home sick), so I'll be back online later - ttfn!
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
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