Good Evening All !!
First of all, just how many a years "Do You" celebrate, Buckeye ? But its OK with me, I'll just wish you another anyway. And hope you have many more. (Would suggest you spread them out some, you would benefit more.)
Jack, (et al). The next page of the "Headlight Saga", as it turned out I had to remove the car battery to get to the bulb. So after replacing BOTH bulbs, and putting it all back together, figured I would get a lot of "Thanks Dad!". Buttt Noooooooo ! I get instead,....... You know Dad that the Radio, CD Player doesn't work anymore since you disconnected the batter! The radio needs a "code" number and I dont know where to find it." Heck, I didn't even know they had those things! So I got an old transistor radio I had and hung it from the mirror.
Now don't anyone get upset, a little "Primer" on the "Log engines". It took me practically a year to get them straightened out as to which is which. So you old hats just ignore.
I didn't bother looking up the history on them, but it is VERY enteresting for them all. I thought Laz drives one in the summer for tourists. But here they are:
The one I just got is the Climax - Probably my favorite. The Cylinders are at an angle, and there is a "Flywheel thingy" that rotates backwards. It turns a set of gears mounted on an axle between the two wheel sets. The gears inturn drive a drive shaft, that connects the trucks. The tracks have another set of gears and of course axles. It is extremely fun to watch. The wheel and side rods are going backwards, and the drivers are turning forward.
The "Shay" has pistons on the right side, and they are connected to a drive shaft, which in turn is on the right side wheels. (Only) It too provides for a lot of excitment when running, (from one side only.) MTH has put these below as 3 truck and 4 truck units.
And the Heisler,
The drive is from the Center of the engine, and appears like a big crankshaft in the middle. The drive shafts are connected to that. Also impressive. Im not aware of anything being built in O scale.
This is a HO image.
Don
Hi GUYZ,
27 and gonna be a nice day today getting up to 50? Did some work on the tunnel last nite, put up sides. Tonite maybe homesote on top?
TRAINDOOD and FIFE tanks for the suggestions.
BUCKEYE, hope its good one.
stay frosty,
laz57
Mornin' Fellas.
Needless to say I'm quite disappointed with a certain establishment in Georgia. Seriously, these things shipped from Lionel TWO MONTHS AGO!!!!!!---Need to get back to work... will check back later.---LAZ - nice layout. Are you able to run all of the scale steamers on all the loops, or are you restricted to outside loop opperation for the Big Guns?
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a clear and sunny 36 degrees. Going up tp 55 today with sunshine.
Today is an easy day. I have a little paperwork to do and the usual chores. Then I will read the copy of Classic Trains mag, I just received. Had a filler with it called Classic Train Stations. Looks good.
Dining car is here with the usual Cheerios breakfast. Then, off to all "Points West".
Y'all have a great Wednesday.
Chuck
Morning all. Sunny and into the high 60's.
What makes us Southerners better than you Yankees? We share our nice and warm weather with you to help melt the snohio and make your country side bloom. You send us cold and snohio with laughter.
8N, prayers for the Wife's surgery. Good to hear from you.
Shake and Bake, good little engine there.
Busy day. Dentist and meeting.
Later
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Buckeye Riveter It is not my birthday today. Thanks anyway. Obviously somebody's records are not too accurate. Facebook tells the truth.
It is not my birthday today. Thanks anyway. Obviously somebody's records are not too accurate. Facebook tells the truth.
Buckeye, Facebook does tell the truth----that is where I got it!
Pat
RFD-TV --- Rural America's most important network!
Aloha all. Nice class last evening. Grey and warmish - anything slightly above freezing is warmish. Good news about your son, NavyJack. Got a new RMT/Aristocraft catalog in the mail yesterday, Lotsa of nice stuff, Beeps, Peeps, RDCeeps, and Aristo's R/C control.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Good Morning
34/40s today
Just checkin in, egg sandwich for breakfast..S.J.
"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
Hey Navy Jack: saw your post on wanting an S-2. just so happens i have a brandy new one,just run a few times to make sure it worked.doesn't fit my themed layout. gimme a shout out if you 're interested.
Buttons must be poppin' off your shirt being proud of your son! congrats.
Think good thoughts, do good deeds!
Hey Don: Idea about radio. i don't know what kind of car you have but, most modern cars have a code acessed through the radio buttons. make sure your radio has power and just find the sequence it requires. it's either several buttons pushed together or some other combo. easy to find on the net.
Mature fellas like us( read older) still have a few tricks up our sleeves!
hey traindood, is it the little black nyc electric. if so what is your asking price.
Morning all,
Cloudy here but headed to 75 today!
Lot's of meetings today so just a quick check-in.
Have a great day all!
Regards, Roy
lionroar88 Mornin' Fellas. Needless to say I'm quite disappointed with a certain establishment in Georgia. Seriously, these things shipped from Lionel TWO MONTHS AGO!!!!!!---Need to get back to work... will check back later.---LAZ - nice layout. Are you able to run all of the scale steamers on all the loops, or are you restricted to outside loop opperation for the Big Guns?
BRENT,
All the loops are 0-72 fasttrack. All the switches are 0-72 switches. One section of curve off of one siding is 0-48, because I ran out of the 0-72 curves. But it is where I will have the Trackmobile jockeying loads so it won't matter much.
TRAINDOOD,
Are you watchin JEOPARDY? WATSON is cleaning up, but didn't understand his answer for final jeopardy category US CITIES. He answered What is TORONTO? Toronto isn't in the US is it? Still rootin for the humans.
Greetings Ya'll From Sunny and Warming Taxachusetts,
Got down into the high teens last night, was windy too. Thirties now and low forties later today, then high 40s for the daily highs through Friday. The good news......major snow melt is upon us. The bad news......too many street drains are sealed off with packed ice and snow. Street flooding expected. Meanwhile, it is pothole hell. The roads are in deplorable condition. Road crews can't keep up with the temporary patching Tire dealers and wheel repair shops are busier than one-armed wallpaper hangers (Fife's timeless description) with blowouts and bent/broken rims. Bent suspension components? That too. Wife wants her car washed so that it can look exactly the same post wash as pre wash by the time I get home.
"You promised to get my car washed!" "I did." "No you didn't, it looks exactly the same, putrid." "I told you it would." Then why didn't you simply do something to avoid all of the wet roads and puddles on the way home?" "I tried, but all of the flatbed towtrucks were tied up hauling off the pothole victim's cars."
NavyJack....... let me join the others by congratulating your son for this major step forward in his life. You must be beyond proud of his decision and even more proud he is following in Dad's footsteps. Gulfport Miss is where my FIL was stationed about 68 years ago during WWII prior to getting shipped off to the Pacific theater. While living in the Chicago area, I am certain you spent some time watching the planes take off and land at the Glenview Naval Air Station before it was closed and the land sold off.
Buckeye.........just to be on the safe side through all of this, . 59? Ouch!!!!!!!!!!
Brutus.........sorry to hear about Char's valiant but unsuccessful attempt yesterday. Today will be a better day. Even with this extraction she will have more wisdom than you.
8N........that was some great news on the wifey's check up. One repair down and one to go. PT? She's got the drill down too. Prayers for continued progress.
DonB........your family dynamic sounds exactly like mine. It is never about yesterday's major victory (that receives no recognition). Always about what remains on the list. I had to chuckle about your ingenuity with the transistor radio. I still use daily a Magnavox, circa 1962, AM only!!!!!!!! A call to the dealer will also get you the unlock code......had to do that with my daughter's car after she got a new battery and didn't have the unlock code. I really like your Climax (?!). They are just as fascinating to watch In person because of all of the driver action.
"The White Mountain Central Railroad at Clarks Trading Post in Lincoln, New Hampshire operates Climax #6 built in 1920 (builder number 1603) on its tourist line. Clarks also has the last remaining Shay in New England. The Shay is non-operational but in storage. Clark's also has a 32 ton Heisler Locomotive that is awaiting staybolt replacement." Chief......if you are feeling left out, SJ and I still have tons of free snow we can ship to you. We even have a vast array of colors still available in stock and ready for immediate shipping. Classic Arctic White. Grimey Grey. Dog Poop Brown. And several shades of our famous Dog Pee Yellow. When ordering, please specify if you also want our available but optional special Northern blend that also contains sand, salt, and cinder.
"The White Mountain Central Railroad at Clarks Trading Post in Lincoln, New Hampshire operates Climax #6 built in 1920 (builder number 1603) on its tourist line. Clarks also has the last remaining Shay in New England. The Shay is non-operational but in storage. Clark's also has a 32 ton Heisler Locomotive that is awaiting staybolt replacement."
Later, gang.
Jack
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
Lunchtime,
Don, After all of that gratitude for your efforts on the headlamp replacement, I think next time I would refer them to the dealer.
Navy Jack, Good luck to your son. Your grandson is some fisherman. Jack, you might as well drop ship to my house. I am on a first name basis with the UPS guy.
Chief, It is my daughter's influence on my wife about multiple dogs. She lives across the street. she has a Ridgeback/Pit mix, that is an alpha female and has to be the boss. Our Lab/Pointer mix is about the same size, doesn't have an aggressive personality, loves to play and tease, is much smarter than my daughter's dog and he works her over. She is stronger, but he is more agile. The 2 get along great and my daughter's dog gave up trying to boss him around. My wife wants to get him a playmate. A few new additions are arriving tonight. Read what I tell Ray (My wife's brother) and I can not wait for his reaction.
Ray, Guess what is scheduled to show up at my house tonight. A 55 gal tank with 3 turtles. I wonder who they are for?
Brutus, Char just can't get a break. Whoops wrong use of words. Teeth can be painful.
Thoughts and Prayers for all in need, a special one for Char.
Back to work,
John
laz 57 TRAINDOOD, Are you watchin JEOPARDY? WATSON is cleaning up, but didn't understand his answer for final jeopardy category US CITIES. He answered What is TORONTO? Toronto isn't in the US is it? Still rootin for the humans. laz57
Watsons Toronto was supposedly for Toronto Iowa. Jon - is there such a place?
Afternoon all been raking leaves for 2 days finally done. did make it easier thou normally to empty the leaves from the back ( where most of them are) we put on a tarp and pull to front by the road for them to come pick them up. this time I took tarp and lifted it and dumped it in back of truck and then drove truck down there with like 6 tarp loads so saved about 15 trips lol. 2 1/2 truck loads
did do some running around in the middle of all that raking yesterday. and did get front raked yesterday so thats not to bad really should of gotten some of them up last November but guess we just didn't do it lol.
well was told today that titled was mailed out on the 11th for the truck so should be getting it any day now thats such a good feeling. And no plans to replace it.
Navy Jack Congrats on your son's decision. Best of luck on your deck shame Laz isn't closer to you he could build it for you.
Not much else going on getting ready to plant some more rose's today its in the mid 60's here and not suppose to go below 45 at night for next week at least so went and bought some yesterday. that will give us 5 plants along the drive way in the flower bed there that I built and will probably put 2 more in there befor we are done .
talk to you all later need to go plant rose's
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Evenin' boys. Forgot to mention...I was on POTUS detail on Monday.
RT...........raking leaves and planting roses?!? Re the leaves, you've got the rest of us (combined) beaten in the procrastination department. Curious......were these 2009 leaves or 2010 leaves? Did the Tardis accidentally drop you off in the future or in the past
Fife..........cheers!
thanx : nuff said!
Hey Laz; layout is sweeeeeeeeet!! as far as Watson goes; my humble opinion is that Watson is just teasing the other players as well as us. why? because we humans would like to think we're just as smart as a computer. if Watson won all the time, who would watch? ever play chess on a computer at the higher levels? i have. good luck trying to beat it. most i did was stalemate.
One time i will tell the story of when my refrigerator told my oven to go on!! Just part of Traindoods "believe it or not'. lucky my house didn't burn down! later.
RI Jack just 2010 leaves just didn't get them all did rake like sept or Oct but more fell after that, that I should of gotten lol.
Well all done now. tired but felt good getting out there and doing some yard work ( I need the exercise )
hope to paint fence out front either Monday when off or the following weekend when off . Also want to run tiller in small truck patch garden we have beside drive way and remove hedge along house/driveway as tired of fighting with it to get out of truck people who owned house before should never of put it there. hope to dig deep enough to get most of the roots then cement over the area. make drive way about 18" wider and would be a nice break for getting out of truck lol.
Well I should have no problem sleeping tonight lol.
JimSP,
If you could let me know the measurements of the cradle in the 595, I'll report back about the reproducer for the postwar 755/799 talking stations. I haven't put the 755 that I was using on the Christmas layout into storage yet.
Brent,
That place in GA used to be great, but lately more and more are saying otherwise.
Not much going on right now. If anyone is looking for a movie to watch, Reno 911: Miami is great. I've watched it several times this week. Still waiting for the DVD and tunnel portals to get here so I can get started.
Hudson#685 - John - It's not her first 55 gal tank and maybe not her last! Keep it close to the fireplace !!!!
Ray
Bayville, NJ
Life is what happens to youWhile you're busy making other plans - John Lennon
Good Evening
Sun and 50 today, way above normal. We get 2 more days. You rebs can still order free snow I got a special on fresh made yellow snow. No artificial color added. Went to a bachelor's house today he still had his christmas layout running. All the wiring and plugs a fire marshal would have gone nuts. Banilla is ready for the thingy so come on by...S.J.
Traindood - Just a caution - you should consider deleting your post with your e-mail address. There are "crawler" data mining programs roaming internet websites looking for e-mail addresses which then subject you to massive amounts of spam.
Use the private chat feature on the forum to send that kind of info to another forumite.
Hey Roy: thanx for the heads up. still learning about this new fangled contraption! would appreciate knowing how to "chat" option. don't have a grandkid around all the time. besides, tired of being called; Oh !Grandpa, your so LAME! It' easy, do it like this.... UGH! later.
Char got a break when I married her Everything went fine this morning and she is just fine. PT went well yesterday and even with the anesthetic effects and meds she was able to get back in the house on her own two feet, so that is real progress She thinks she might be able to drive soon - we'll see! She's doing so much better these past few weeks, I think she might!
8N - prayers for your wife's surgery and glad to hear her PT went so well.
RT - that's a heck of a job man! Bet you are sound asleep already! We'll use the Tardis and go back a week so you can do it over again (I mean back then) and not have to do it today. Oh wait, would that work? Hmmm.....
Train Doc - thanks man!
Temps in the 70s in Saint Louis today and didn't get anything done except take care of Charlene. She needed soft foods, so I got her some goodies from the Bread Company and made chili for dinner. We have ice cream in several flavors, but cookies are gone now. Tardis is ready, so let's hit it guys!
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Good evening all,
Well the temperature reached 74 today; it's hard to believe we were shoveling snow a week ago. I had a busy day at work today and it looks like tomorrow will be as well. We had Bible study tonight and now it's time to hit the sack. It seems as if today was a very long day.
Don Baker - Thanks for the tutorial and photos. Young folks like me who are paying for some of the geezers' SS are very appreciative the lessons.
Fife - When I was stationed in Hawaii I was able to work on security details for President Clinton as well as Chelsea. A couple of years ago while in Iraq I was able to work on VP Cheney's detail. Those jobs are not as glamorous or as cool as some might think, but I'm thankful I had those experiences.
Good night,
Joe
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