CHIEF,
BIG CONGA on the nice buck you got. Hope I get one this year?
laz57
Good morning. It's 65° and mostly cloudy. The high will be 78° and it will be partly cloudy later today. The wind is from the SSE at 8 mph.Nothing much planned for today. I may get a start on ballasting the new turnout and adjoining straight track sometime during the day. I have to dig the jar of ballast out of the closet first and that can sometimes be like an archaeological expedition. The deeper I dig the more 'lost' things I find. One day I even found my army discharge papers and my high school diploma.Two Atlas 70's era GP40's with Bachmann GP40 shells.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Good Morning
55 and cloudy, 60 today.
I had a good time at our club meet. 17 in attendance last night. It's good the club is growing but some of us don't have room for many more than that. Granny's at church and I'm getting hungry. Ok where's the toaster..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
DougDG--
We watched the entire series on Nam, painful at times but it answered a few of the questions I had about the nuts and bolts of the whole mess. I pray that we never have another decade like the 60's, horrible.
Jon
So many roads, so little time.
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is 40 degrees and cloudy. Going up to 60 today with some sunshine.
Today is a lazy day. Nascar race this afternoon from Phoenix. I hope # 14..... Tony, wins. He has been trying hard.
Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Sunday.
Chuck
Doug - I know a couple Vietnam vets who have watched and recommended the shows, but I haven't watched it.
PS - Chewy is doing well. She is eating and drinking, and she's not fighting us too much on all these pills
PPS - V8 (edit, sorry SPMan, lol) - gargraves makes little blades for just this purpose. Cut out the switch and remove the pins. Insert blade and then you just push the new switch or piece of track down over the blades and it locks in place just like with pins. #910-4 Fit-Up Connectors.
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Evenin' All.
Great day here, if you're a snail or a slug.
No museum yesterday, spent the time with the munckin. They grow to dang quick.
Have any of you guys watched any of the Vietnam films on the History Channel this past week. I haven't been able to bring myself to see them, to many unresolved issues for me.
Work continues on tearing down the halloween layout, the easy part is done now is the pain in the butt part of repacking all the Lemax stuff.
Nite all.
Remember the Veterans. Past, present and future.
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Howdy guys - pretty chilly in Saint Louis today. I put a gauge on the water to see how much pressure we have. With the hot water running for just a few seconds the pressure went from like 100 psi down to about 60. After that, I ran the water and dialed up the pressure on the house to 60. I reset the "high pressure marker" arm down even with the current pressure and we'll see how much it bounced up for the high pressure in 24 hours. I'm not sure that putting the gauge on and then opening the valve on the discharge didn't give a false reading, as it's hard to believe that there would be that much pressure. My guess is that I'll be adding an expansion tank, but that's a small job.
Checking out micro-layouts - think I might build one just to have something better than a circle of 027 to play with.
Had no luck at all with that spray insulation - just glopped up and dropped down to the bottom of the gap I was trying to fill. Must have got a bad batch or something?
Nice chat with RT today and tonight. SJ - tell Granny that we are still praying for her. TARDIS is ready, so let's go get some banilla, I know where he keeps the key to the locker
Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Bachmann 4-8-4 Northern 'Niagara'.
LAZ this is for you. Seven pointer, 1 1/2 year old 95 lbs. Ran in front of my stand at 30 minutes before dark in the thicket. He is now at the processor's.
dwiemer Chief, I have dealt with such people. They need to be shown before they believe. With regard to the "WSM" rounds, I don't see doing it wigh anything smaller than a 300. Just my bias.
Chief, I have dealt with such people. They need to be shown before they believe. With regard to the "WSM" rounds, I don't see doing it wigh anything smaller than a 300. Just my bias.
.243 95 gr. Shot placement.
Fred shot a spike this moring. Small mangement deer. He shot a big doe and we could not find it in the dark. He has a "blood light" and it works well. Going back tomorrow AM to find it. Cold tonight so will be OK.
Now to clean up.
Later.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Evening all!
Long couple of days. Yesterday evening was our last HS football game. A bunch of us parents of seniors got together for the final send off pep rally and then we went to dinner before the game. Our team lost unfortunately but we had a great time.
Tired and calling it a night. Have a great evening all!
Regards, Roy
rtraincollectorbut the instructions which I thought they forgot was on the bottom of the box under everything so I guess they made box then added instruction booklet and then first piece of Styrofoam the drill it self and the pole it sat on
Well train station and Drill Press arrived this am. The drill press had to be put together ( not that hard to basically figure out except the chuck) but the instructions which I thought they forgot was on the bottom of the box under everything so I guess they made box then added instruction booklet and then first piece of Styrofoam the drill it self and the pole it sat on then next piece of Styrofoam the base and then the plate you place your item to be drilled on and a box with the chuck in it and a little bag with chuck key and a couple of bolts and that was it lol. anyway got it together and after reading the book looks like I need to change the speed on the press ( moving belt up or down) as it states the smaller the drill bit the faster you want it to turn so by the size I plan on using most of the time ( drilling preholes in track) it needs to be in fastest speed. For the money it seems to be a good little drill press will find out when I start drill some items. Need to get some type of clamping system for it also. Well not much else going on here the train station is by Walthers and looks great I really like the look of it. May look into buying some other building by them if they come up on ebay for a good price.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Good evening everyone. Long day as I Amon calla shad to go in for a case earlier. Prior to that, had to make some stuffed shells for a friend of my brides who just had a baby. Also made a bourbon chocolate pecan pie. After dropping that off this afternoon, we took the kids to pick out some new fish for the aquarium. Hope to make an early night of it as I am on camera at church tomorrow.
Jack,yeah I missed that chance, but I am sure they will be back.
Gotta run. Hope everyone has a blessed weekend.
Dennis
PS: little edit, through the special children's hospital, they have a video on you tube and we were able to our son being fed and having fun...it was quite a moment.
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VegaV8 I believe its walley world, but he doesn't use pins in his track he solders them together or it might be lionelsoni but there is one in here that does it that way. and I think they use tublar O or O-27 track
Good morning friends,
Another cool Gray day here. Got a little rain last night but not much. Just enough to make the ground wet.
Chief, good luck on your second try at the deer hunt. We drove back to Raleigh on Tuesday night and I saw a lot of places I thought would be occupied by deer but thankfully we didn't see any in the road. I was with a friend years ago when we hit one in Northern California at night near the coast. Knocked out our headlight on the right but deer ran off and we couldn't find it. Went to see my niece's husband's hog farm while in North Carolina. That's a lot of Bar-B-Que on the hoof. Lots of woods and land around the farm for deer too. One of their kids (age 15) is raising goats for sale. Doing pretty good at it too. Been a long time since I was around any livestock.
Water pipe underground in street in front of the house is still leaking and getting the street all wet. City knows about it but probably won't work on it until next week. Meantime they tell me to continue using my water as usual. Hope I don't get any sand in my pipes.
Went for a walk for the last couple of days but might have to back off for a while until my back gets better. Need to let Doc know what is going on. Also have appointment with Gastrointeroligist next week.
Firefighter neighbor just came over and gave us some homemade potato salad he made. I asked him if that was one of his talents cooking at the firehouse but he said his mom taught him how to do it.
Wife and I had a small pizza last night with chicken, bacon and cheese. Didn't sit too well. Had to keep getting up and drinking water all night. God knows what they put in these things nowadays.
Time is flying. Thanksgiving is right around the corner and Christmas not long after that. Thinking about cooking a Turkey this year. Wife and I were out of town for the last two years at Thanksgiving. Price on turkeys a little higher here this year for some reason but still not too bad.
Might get out in the garage today and run some trains. They need a workout.
Have a good weekend everybody,
Ray
SPMan
Granny ask me to post this , it will take me 30 minutes.
To Jim's train buddies
I sincerely want to take this time to let you know how much I appreciated all the encouragement and well wishes I got. And for those who took the time to send up prayers. I'm not a person who likes to sit around, but I am learning what I can do and what I can't do now. Also I want everyone to know that Jim took good care of me and we never lost our temper once.
Good job and God's love,,,Granny Pat
Posted as written...S.J.
laz 57 JEFF in LA. LOVE the photos of your eggspert work, makes my day. Keep up good work.
JEFF in LA. LOVE the photos of your eggspert work, makes my day. Keep up good work.
Good morning. It's 48° and partly cloudy. The high will be 71°. It will be partly cloudy. Last night I reworked the jammed turnout I replaced yesterday and made it good for manual operation only. The action is a bit stiff but it locks in the position it's set to. I'll save it in case I need a turnout for a little-used spur sometime in the future. This morning I'll be cleaning up the mess left over from yesterday.
A sunny but chilly 36, into the 50s today.
Our train club meet is tonight, I am ready to go. But first, Gotta take granny out for lunch as we didn't go yesterday. I haven't seen the last Harry Potter movie yet but it's on it's way. To lazy to go buy one so I ordered it on line. Have a great day...S.J.
Hi GUYZ,
Pheasant huntin today with BRO and MINNIE DOG. Hope we see some and the corn is down? Ran trains last nite for an hour and a half, NO PILE UPs. Then watched half of GOLD RUSH fell asleep.
BRUTUS hope CHEWY is doing better.
Stya frosty,
It is a cold and sunny 40 degrees. Going up to 60 today with sunshine.
Today is an easy day. I have some reading to do and a few chores. Exercises. Then I can relax. Not much new.
Y'all have a great Saturday.
Mornin' boys. Sunny & 38. The "loyal" leaves are waiting for me outside. I am growing to dislike Maples.
Plans are still to have the boys over to the yatchet tonight for cards. I'll check with momma2b around noon.
LawsonFarms- You are correct on all points, reference to KB. But, he and his brother are not very embracible fellows, with their continuing borish behavior. And I, too, am rooting for the 14.
Morning all. Off to the deer woods.
Prayers for Chewy.
God bless all.
Well, I had a lot of plans for today, but I wasn't feeling well and just sat around watching tv and playing some videogames until after lunch. I got cleaned up and did feel better then, so did the grocery shopping. We had an early dinner after picking up the dog, who seems to be doing okay after the surgery. She will need some time to recover, but we're glad to have her home. Two of the stones were really big, like the size of a dime or so. Then we watched the new Harry Potter movie and Captain America - both were great!
Jack - not a lot is allowed, she's not to do a lot of jumping up and down, but that's not a problem. She's an indoor dog anyway. She's adapting to the cone of shame, but it will be a while before she's back to her old self.
TARDIS is ready, so let's hit that road boys! Fuse = Lit.
Good Evening
37 now
It was a chilly day here, didn't seem to warm up any. So we just stayed in. Well I did, granny did go visit with a neighbor for awhile. Banilla is ready so if Brutus can find his lighter he can light the fuse and we can blast off..S.J.
Time for me to head for the bed. See y'all tomorrow.
This afternoons project was a bit tougher than most. I had a turnout fail after ten years of service so of course it would have to be replaced. I'd been putting it off for about a week but today I looked at it and decided it was time. The part that I was hesitant about is that it's located on the east side of the main part of the layout. For those who remember what the layout looks like that's to the left of the Shell station where there are such classics as a 55 Chevy, a 72 Gremlin, an Olds 442 and the infamous AMC Pacer. Well, the turnout is about one foot to the left of that scene. The whole scene drops out from the bottom leaving an access hole. Getting to that hole requires going under that side of the layout and standing up in the hole which puts the top of the layout at waist level. I managed to get to a standing position and leaning against the layout to use it for support. From there I used my Dremel to cut the rails and roadbed of the turnout then cut out some of the area around it then pried it up with a screwdriver. That was the easy part. Next I heated the soldered rail joints and pulled the cut rail stubs out with my pliers then vacuumed up the mess left behind. Now I had to prepare the new turnout. I cut the locking and index tabs off the ends of the roadbed then put it in place starting with the main and diverging tracks first. Those weren't too hard. To get the other end in I had to lift the end of the next piece of track and managed somehow to pop half of one the rails loose. Well, that means I had to replace that straight section too. No problem, It actually made getting the end of the turnout in place. Now all that remains is to securely anchor the new sections and solder the rail joiners then ballast those sections. That however is a project for another day. The new turnout is in, wired and tested and it works flawlessly.This is the old turnout. The points are locked to the main route and will not move to the diverging route. They start to then snap back. And here is the new turnout and adjoining straight section in place.Maybe anchoring the pieces will be tomorrows project. That depends on how I feel tomorrow.
Evening all. Did not do a lot of what was planned. Met friend Fred at BoJangles for breakfast. Then to range to shoot in his .270 Short Mag. Told him scope was touching the barrel. No listen. Then it would not zero. Sure the rings and mount were not tight. Went to Hunters Haven and remounted scope on high rings. Then had to drive to a neighboring gun shope [a biggie] to get more ammo. See, .270 Short Mag is not a popular round anymore. Ammo costs about 1/3 more than regular center fire ammo. I'd buy another rifle for the cost of ammo. Anyway. Finally got zeroed about 3:45. Rush Neddles the cat to the vet for her checkup. [they close at 5]. Off to the hunting woods down east tomorrow morning early. Back way after dark.
RockIsland52 Chief........as my Dad used to say, "You don't get to pick your relatives and neighbors." Later, gang. Jack
Chief........as my Dad used to say, "You don't get to pick your relatives and neighbors."
Later, gang.
Jack
Especially my Son-in-law.
Later
Good afternoon all,
Gray sky today and expecting rain tonight/tomorrow. Covered up my old 87 Buick with car cover account leaking window. Took it out for a spin today to charge up battery and keep the tires from getting square from sitting too much. Went over to neighbors house today to thank him/her for keeping an eye on our place while I was gone and being nice to my wife with food etc. Also visited for a minute with the three collie dogs over there. They are very curious of strangers in their yard but love you to death after they get to know you.
Trying to watch my diet now and it's a real job. Ice cream is public enemy #1. I can deal with the rest of it.
Called an old train buddy and close friend today. He is the one that just got out of the hospital before my trip. Seems to be doing better now.
later,
IIABSDISEI with temps in the 40s. Work has gone well the past two days. Met with my old boss from the factory today for lunch. Had a nice conversation. Met with a local HO person about possibly doing an article about his layout for MR. Did a three mile walk at YMCA last night in a little over 45 minutes. Not the best speed in the world, but not the worst. Going to a local TCA tomorrow. Not expecting to find anything, but feel like I should support the local club and see people I know. I had bacon and waffles this morning for breakfast on the dining car before sending it on to "Points East". TBIL. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
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