Hello all
Socked in for weather this morning. We are in the clouds and frosting up like a TV dinner.
Dennis - Never messed w/ a glue gun before. Tried to wipe off a gob of glue with my finger and found that wasn't such a good idea...I'll keep the soda can trick handy though.
8N - Yeah these things can be a bit fragile, but it's amazing that they start from just a few sheets of paper. I'd love to try to make a stick and tissue model of an airship, kind of like how they really made them. There's not much in the way of kits like that on the market though.
Jeffrey - hope you are feeling better today
Charlie - someone playing deer thumper, eh? We have to watch for that on the mountain. Hope everyone was ok and there was not too much damage.
Well the Norge continues to "fly" in the control room. I've got a couple of more models I want to try. What with steam engines, tube radios, and now airships the house is going to look like the 1930's. Been called a "renaissance man" by a few friends, guess I could be more accurately called an "art deco" man.
Time to find some breakfast.
Bob
Tucson, AZ (aka the Ol' Pueblo)
Home of the Mt. Graham & Arizona Eastern Boiler Shops
Good morning. It's 70° and cloudy. The high will be 79° with variable clouds. There's a chance of rain ranging from 10% to negligible.I'm not feeling much better this morning than I did last night so I will attempt again to get some rest. If someone calls with some asinine request I might just tell them to go fly a milk bottle. I still have some cleaning up to do on the layout so I'll try to get that done today. While I was at Wagon Master yesterday I saw most of the last quarter of the Redskins/Packers game. Final score 35/26 Packers. Don't take that to mean I'm a Packers fan because I'm not. I'm simply saying what the score was.
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
30s & 40s today
Going out this morning with my toy train friend. Of course a stop at Wild Bill"s trains is on the schedule. Good chat with Brutus, Charlie and RT last night..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
Hi GUYZ,
Rainy day here for the next few days. I have Parent Teachers conference day today then off til next Tueday. Buck season starts on Monday of next week.
Saturday took my MINNIE DOG out for pheasants with BRO. Got to our first spot and MINNIE was working the up corn working back and forth then roused two deer, a nice buck jumped up and she took off after it. She chased about 150 yards then came back, good dog. Hunted and saw nothing for rest of day. Got to our last place and low and behold there's posted signs up. For the past 29 years we hunted this fields and hollows and got most of our birds from the corn and switch grass and now its gone. Big time farmer there is leasing all the land and posting it all up. We were dejected. Might have to go back up on the mountain for grouse now? Bummed us out big time. Dog had fun though.
Not much of a NASCAR fan but saw the race on ESPN this morning and looked like a good one going back and forth. The second place guy was definity a good sport about being the first looser. Great race though.
BEARs WIN!!!! Don't know about what happened to CUTLER? Rumor has it he broke his thumb? How bout it DOUG? Whats the latest?
CHUCK keep on doing those exercises.
JEFF in LA, hope your pain is getting less. Prayers for you.
Stay frosty,
laz57
MichRR714 Made it home from hunting. Filled a couple tags. Back up north and more hunting over Thanksgiving. Thought you all might appreciate this pic of a buck killed by a car near my house over the weekend.
Made it home from hunting. Filled a couple tags. Back up north and more hunting over Thanksgiving. Thought you all might appreciate this pic of a buck killed by a car near my house over the weekend.
WOW MITCH!!!! What a beauty. I thought you had that one tied up for yourself. Officer looks real happy huh? Who got that one? Hope you had luck? Ours don't start til next Monday.
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a cold and rainy 36 degrees. Going up to 44 today with more rain. Really nasty.
Today is a busy day. I have a bunch of things to do and maybe I can grab a nap this afternoon.
Yes, that was a great Nascar race yesterday. I'm glad Tony won. He sure tried hard.
Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Monday.
Chuck
Cloudy and 40's today. Cold wind out of the north.
Where were you when the lights went out? In the basement eating sourkraut.
Bob - those lessons you've been learning are the same ones I learned by building stick and tissue airplanes. An additional lesson I learned was that if I dropped one of the balsa skeletons that I was working on, it was better to let it fall than to try and crush - er- catch it.
Donated yesterday and half of today to work. Since I was donating my time, I didn't feel bad about using my AutoCAD there to draw and clean up my Polar Express layout.
Turns out that I only need fourteen 1 3/4" sections to get the layout to close. For the kind of money that is going to require, I figured it was time to try to custom cut some Fastrack.
A quick check on the internet revealed that the general method to custom cut Fastrack is tocut a piece out of the middle of the section of track. I also found references that a power saw with a carbide blade works.
Not wanting to put my good woodworking blade at risk, I borrowed the well abused general use carbide blade off of my circular saw. It worked - but can be better. I am going to build a crosscut sled to clamp the track section and I'm going to get a finer tooth carbide circular saw blade.
Turns out that pieces of 10 penny finish nails are just right to make pins to connect the rails together in the splice.
I'll post pictures of the rig when I get it done.
All for now.
Blueberryhill RR SMOKE beat the DUCK !!!!!!
SMOKE beat the DUCK !!!!!!
Chuck/Pat - that was the best Chase finale I have ever seen. From as far back as 40th place - amazing!
Regards, Roy
Cold and rainy in Saint Louis today. All I did was go to church and do some laundry, today. Some xbox and some reading filled in the rest of the time after I stayed up way to late last night watching that movie. What kind of pies did you get, SJ? Pumpkin and Apple?
TARDIS is ready, so let's get moving
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Charlie a.k.a. MichiganRailRoad714 (Charter Member TTC)
I'm hurting bad so it's time for me to call it a night a bit early. See y'all tomorrow.
Good evening everyone. Been fighting some kind of funk. Knocked the stew out of me since Friday. Slept a good bit of Saturday away. Had a great church service this morning that went about a half hour long, so Sunday school was cut a little short. After our usual fare for Sunday lunch, we came home. Bride and daughter hit the mall, son and I made a white chocolate and caramel cheesecake for a heart team Thanksgiving party tomorrow.
Bob, great job on the airship. Enjoyed your "lessons", was a hoot! I am sure we could all confirm some of them. I keep a cold can os soda handy for when I re-discover the one about the hot glue gun being hot. I just make it a point to grab the can instead of letting on that daddy just did a dumb thing!
Jeff, hope the thumb is 100% before too long. I dislocated my thumb on a tractor one time and it was quite some time to get back to normal.
Gotta run. May each of you have a blessed week ahead.
Dennis
TCA#09-63805
#14 Tony Wins NASCAR championship! Way to go Tony!!
Pat
RFD-TV --- Rural America's most important network!
Good Evening
43 degrees
Well I went to church, then we had the potluck dinner with more than enough to eat. I was a good boy and just filled my plate once..BUT I had two small pieces' of pie. Watched the Lions win, boy they got off to a slow start but a fast finish..Banilla will be waiting for the thingy...S.J.
Evening all!
Wife and I went and saw "MoneyBall" last night. Really enjoyed it. But it is such a low key quiet movie it was hard to eat the popcorn and not make too much noise as the theater was full.
Busy today. Mowed back yard; once to mulch the leaves and then a second time to vacuum them up. Ended up with four big bags of leaves even after hitting them with the mower twice. Watched Cowboys game and OT win over Redskins and fliped back and forth to NASCAR. Then went out and dug up and replaced a broken sprinkler head (We are now on twice a month watering restrictions) so I can run sprinkler syste tonight. Came in and back watching NASCARdue to the rain delays. Watched Stewart come from way back to fifth and then to lead a couple of laps prior to the latest caution.
Chuck - also rooting for #14. He just made an incredible 4 wide pass on the restart for 3rd place.
Jeffrey - sorry about the thumb.
Fife - was that Don Ho music?? Annnnd where you wearing a Hawaiian skirt too?
Chief - for your friend
Ray, Dennis, & Kev - glad you made it to your respective meets/shows
SubmmBob - nice model "a) they call it a hot glue gun because well....it's hot" - at least there are no burn marks on the model
Jack - nover put up decorations when the weather permits - it would not be normal.
Doug M -
Brutus - great about Char and Chewey!
Mike C - I never shop much before the week before Christmas - with less selection it is easier to pick out something
Have some homemade soup tonight that our daughter's boyfriend made for us. He is a professional
Have a great evening all!
Good afternoon all,
Went to Cal Stewart today and met D.Baker and Dennis V8 Vega. We had a little reunion of forum members there. I found the second B unit I was looking for to go with my Norfolk Southern WBB executive set. Now I have an A-B-B-A like the prototype. Good price too as dealer was blowing them out. I helped run trains at the carpet central layout off and on today. Didn't fire up my Empire stationary steam engine today though. Need to run some vinegar through the boiler and sight glass to clean out hard water deposits. When I left the meet this afternoon it was raining pretty heavy at times but got home without any mishaps on the freeway. Saw a couple of other friends at the meet too and compared notes about chasing Union Pacific #844 on Thursday. Don Baker and I had a good discussion and talked about civilizing my layout so old folks can get around on it. We might get together between now and Christmas to eyeball the situation. Nice to have met V8 at the meet today. A big thank you to RAK at the carpet central layout for includiing me as part of the operating team even though I can no longer do set up and tear down due to physical issues.
Good night all,
Ray
SPMan
Well I had a good day of rest going then my mother called. She wanted to go to Stage to do some shopping to add to the mountain of unused clothes she already has. That was at 10:15 this morning. I just got home. It's 4:48 pm. I least I got lunch at Wagon Master out of it. A half rack of ribs and a ten ounce sirloin and all the peanuts I could eat. So much for a restful day. My ankle is hurting and my back is trying it's dangdest to kill me.
NASCAR Champion time!
Go TONY!!
48 and low 50s today.
Spent an hour talking to Brutus last night and then Charlie popped in, back from hunting bare. Oh no strike that, he went deer hunting. I gotta get goin soon as the church is having a potluck Thanksgiving dinner today. Have a great Sunday..S.J.
Just a quick splash and go as we will be headed out for the day up to New Hampshire.
Fife.......hope it is nothing too serious with the Little Princess. My son has dodged some shoulder and knee surgery so far with a lot of time in the gym.
Jeffrey........thumbs up hopefully, and I also hope you are feeling better. Tape it for support for a couple of weeks.
MikeC..........the early bird catches the worm and lives with less stress around the holidays. We have to get out and ramp up the Christmas shopping. The wifey got started, though, on the internet.
Chuck.......hope your leg soreness is tapering off a bit. Soreness=progress.
RaySP.....you should repost that photo of you running around on that carpet central layout. Last year was it? You looked like an Olympic track star, albeit out of uniform.
Brutus.........no leaks I hope. Rumor has it the plumber was not certified, bonded, licensed, or insured.
Later, gang.
Jack
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
Hey Bob did you think of putting a small balloon with a little propane or other flamable substance in the middle of it as you built it as if you got tired of it you could have an reinactment of the Hindenburg
Okay sick mind here but your model does look cool.
Morning all another beautiful day here at the V.A. Hope all having a great weekend. was 32 yesterday when I got here to work today about same time it was 54 hmmm the difference of one day.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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It is a mild and cloudy 48 degrees. Going up to 58 today with rain.
Today is an easy day. I plan on watching the last Nascar race. Hope #14 wins. Not much else new.
Y'all have a great Sunday.
Good morning. It's 70° and cloudy with a 40% chance of rain throughout the day. The high will be 78°.My thumb is a bit stiff this morning but seems all right otherwise. No more popping when I move it. I don't think I'll be doing anything today. I've been busy enough the last couple of weeks that I could stand a day off.
Mornin' boys. Mostly cloudy and 49 here in the Mid-Atlantic region. Having dinner with friends up in Stewartstown later. Will have to DVR the race. Go 14.
Been a roller-coaster week @ fifedom. High point being the grandson being here. Fifepops had him all to hisself for a couple hours last night. Broke out the ukulele and Hawaiian music to teach the lad how to chill . He didn't cry so I guess he liked it. Littlest princess will probably need back surgery in the next year or two. Middle princess is sad because she's missing out back home.
Went down to the marina to hank the sails down yesterday. A bit breezy, and took me a little while by myself. Haul out Monday afternoon.
submmbob - That is a cool piece.
PS - Awesome model, Bob!
Good evening all,
Well, I got myself down to the Cal Stewart meet about 10:00 AM today and helped out a litlle at the carpet central layout. Tested out my stationary Empire steam engine and it ran OK. However the water sight glass doesn't seem to work and may have to flush it with vinegar or semething to disolve calcium build up in the glass. Shut it down before water ran too low. Took a stroll around the hall but did not buy anything today. Lots of stuff for sale but nothing reached out and grabbed me yet. Several other layouts on display in HO, S and O gauge. I particularly liked the S gauge layout. They had a neat lift bridge to allow access to inside of layout. Took some notes on how the hinges were made for future reference on my own home layout. Did not pay much attention to prices but they are usually better on Sunday when sellers are more willing to make a deal so they won't have to take it home. I did look at some Third Rail scale passenger cars. They had some of the SP triple articulated dinning cars but too high for my budget.
I had been planning to go back on Sunday but will wait and see how I feel in the morning. If it's raining I will probably stay home. I only stayed about 4 hours today.
My two sons and grandson got some pictures of U.P. 844 going over Cajon Pass today as she was leaving town heading for Las Vegas. Nice to see some steam here again.
Jeffrey, hope your thumb is better.
Chief, hope you are doing OK too.
later,
A mild day in SE Indiana. Did a lot of Christmas shopping today. Very successful. Spent much time on the phone talking with the kid to make sure we got the proper items. Bran muffins for breakfast. TBIL and I can drive. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Time for me to call it a night. My thumb is still popping a little and my back is letting me know it doesn't like me very well right now. See y'all tomorrow.
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