Well my father called a while ago and said he had a watermelon to cut up. So I had to put in an appearance to eat my share. An eightieth of a watermelon later and I had had all I wanted. My sister asked how I would handle a hornet nest. I said 'AI'. AI? Artificial Intelligence? No, Avoid It. Pouring a bucket of scalding hot water down into it can help too. Wasp spray can work wonders on it.My problem FP7 quit running today for some reason. I opened it up and that a wire had come loose from the motor. I wonder if that was because of a poor solder joint or was it that hot. That chincy little motor gets so hot you can cook bacon and eggs on it. I soldered the wire back in place and the loco is running again. It still has that annoying hum which I'm sure is from the gears. The sight of red gears set off all kinds of alarm bells because of the cheap Mexican made Con-Cor drives back in the late 80's and early 90's that hummed, screamed and squealed, same time period this loco was released.
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
Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
It's 76 now.
We had a good club meet, ran some long trains. One of them had 102 ore cars. Another had 37 scale pacemaker box cars. With some help from a few sneaky friends my wife showed up with a birthday cake. Add food from the grill and potato salad that equates to being a good time.
S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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Good Evening...
I had a wonderful day of doing a lot of train stuff..no HD listie things, no groceries to buy...nothing but train room today... we will see about tomorrow when it gets here...
Going to head off to get some now...g'night!!!
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Happy Father’s Day!
It rained overnight and earlier this morning but the sun is out now. My Father’s Day started earlier than normal as the older boy woke up around 0400 not feeling well. The wife woke up and made French toast stuffed with cream cheese and berries, bacon, and sausage for breakfast. She also made a caramel sauce to pour on to the French toast. It was an amazing breakfast. The wife and two boys stayed home from church while the princess and I attended. I came home from church and the wife had already made my Father’s Day meal: meatloaf, mashed potatoes, green beans, homemade rolls, and peach cobbler for dessert. I am sure to gain some weight today. The wife and older son are now at the urgent care clinic as he was feeling worse. He has some odd stomach pain and I’m hoping it’s not appendicitis.
AF Ray – I hope the Yankees can keep playing this way. I just read about the Sox placing Beckett on the DL.
SJ – Happy Birthday! I presume it was your birthday. It sound like you had a great day. I hope Charlie posts some photos or video of the trains.
Sayonara,
Joe
Hello all
Funny how it seems Joe and I often post next to each other. Guess we are on different schedules than everyone else.
Got our first monsoon type storm of the year this evening.
Went down to the "big city" (Safford) this afternoon to get a couple of prescriptions filled. Didn't realize before I got ready to leave on Wed. that a couple needed doctor's authorizations. Fortunately the Walgreens in Safford has been able to help me out the few times this has come up. Took the camera and drove down 8th street along the tracks, but there was no action on the Arizona Eastern RR today. Sometimes they have equipment parked at the old station, but it was just the work car of odds and ends which is less than photogenic.
Looks like I may be taking the Southwest Chief from Flagstaff to La Junta, CO in a few weeks to go to Colorado Springs where the family is. Then we will be off to South Dakota for a few days to do some work on the Pine Ridge reservation. Have never taken the train thru Raton Pass before. When I did this trip before one Christmas I got off in Raton, NM and a bus took us to Colorado Springs.
Kev - the CT90 before the right handlebar switch got repaired (got your message btw)
It's an interesting bike and I've always had an eye on it when I visited my friend. She broke that switch a number of years back and it has basically sat w/ an occasional attempt at repair by someone. I once saw a bike at the Mt. Graham Market near basecamp just like it and really liked the way is sounded. Last summer she sold it to me for $75. If I can get it going again I should try riding it just to see what I think.
John - I guess the right switch for this year (1975) is less commonly found. The one for the earlier series is still available and is the same cosmetically, but the kill switch functions differently. When the instructions started off like this :
"FIRST OFF THERE IS NO WAY FOR THIS TO WORK AS THE STOCK TYPE KILL SWITCH DID."
The battle flags were raised! I love a challenge! So I took both apart, switched out the electrical contacts, and voila! "New" CT90K6 right hand kill switch!
In the next couple weeks, I'll stuff all the wires back in the headlight/speedo housing, see if I can get some spark out of it, add some gas, and then the kick starting/leg workout will begin!
Bob
Tucson, AZ (aka the Ol' Pueblo)
Home of the Mt. Graham & Arizona Eastern Boiler Shops
Good Morning
And a Happy Father's Day to you all!!
It is currently raining to beat the band out here..monsooning more like...going to a high of 85F feeling more like 95F out there ...in the rain and those ol' t'underin'boomers....
Going to be a quiet day today with Audrey and the little Spring...no visitors cropping up..so I get to run my choo choos for another day
Good Morning from Blueberryhill RR....
It is a cloudy 59 degrees. Going up to 80 today with a chanceof rain.
I sat outside for a while with a cup of coffee. It was peaceful and quiet. There is a Nascar race today from Michigan. Ballgame at 1pm. I may watch them from the train room. Need to run the trains and relax.
Where is Buckeye ???
Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Sunday.
Chuck
Happy Father's Day!
Good morning. It's 74° and partly. The high will be 92°. There's a 20% chance of isolated showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Cleanup on the layout continues. It's just picking up an item from here, another item there but it's progress. I can see the gravel surface of Labicht Drive again! Wonder how long that'll last. I'll be keeping an eye on my problem FP7 today. I soldered a wire back onto the motor yesterday. Whether it's coming loose was due to a bad solder joint or heat in the connection I don't know. If it comes loose again I'll know it's due to some insane heat buildup in the connection. I'd think that kind of heat would destroy the motor but I've seen stranger things. The next time I have the loco opened up I need to take measurements of the motor and see if I have another one I can shoe horn in there. I'm going to run the existing one until it fails.
Happy Fathers Day
I get a double header, today is also my birthday. I am not happy about being old though. I wasn't ready for this yet. It's 76 degrees and cloudy. We will spend the afternoon at # 1 sons house with our family and DIL's family it will be a very nice day.
Yesterday's club pictures are posted on the Sunday photo thread if you would like to see the video..S.J.
From one old guy to another.......
Happy Birthday, S.J.
SJ!!!
Happy Father's Day everyone!
Cool today, I don't think it will hit 75. Nice time yesterday at HudsonJohn's house as we opend up some boxes. Nice stuff! Not much doing today as the kids are coming over for dinned. My son it smokiing some ribs as I type.
SJ - and many more!
JoeD - I didn't hear that about Beckett. Boy Jack's probably very depressed as they have alot of problems.
Blownout - Rest easy today, you deserve it.
Later
Ray
Bayville, NJ
Life is what happens to youWhile you're busy making other plans - John Lennon
Happy Birthday SJ !
...and Happy Father's day to all you Dad's
Charlie a.k.a. MichiganRailRoad714 (Charter Member TTC)
Happy Birthday S.J.
SPMan
Happy Father's Day to all you Dads out there !
A big to SJ to be followed by many more !
All of this extra work on the kitchen plus kinda blowing the diet on friday gave me a bit of a scare very early saturday morning, BP & HR not what they should have been. Thought I would have to wake the better half for a visit to the ER, but things somewhat came back to normal, ended up making the day just a veg-out/snoozing day.
Had a good run at the museum on friday, SWMBO gave me a day off to play. Need to start taking some photos of run days.
No plans for today, may do some more work on the cabinet doors til the energy runs out.
for all our friends & family in need.
Later all.
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Happy birthday Sir James
DougDG be carfull with that stuff. Hope all you Dads had a great day. I did Grandfather’s Day for me.
DougDG be carfull with that stuff.
Hope all you Dads had a great day. I did
Grandfather’s Day for me.
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Good Evening, or late afternoon I guess.
Everything is all quiet here. We played a bunch of CD's and stuff here..and had a bit of an interesting time watching some youtube vids of some train runby's..
Oh...and it rained and poured for a good portion of the day as well...
Gonna see what is up on the layout tonight....
Happy pappy's day to you all.
Hey S.J. Happy Birthday.
Not a lot going on here. just relaxing. Off tomorrow but still have to go into work for an appointment.
Hope all have been having a good day. Went in and laid on the bed and started watching TV well about hr later woke up to different show lol didn't take me 5 minutes I think lol. Oh well
Not much on the train front here.
Wife is killing me with the names she calls the wild cats/kittens around here. she has butter bean ( an orange color one) Pickles a tabby, Mc kenzie there mother, then theres a couple of other new kittens she is calling milo ( from the movie ottis and milo ( cat and dog) and then theres turtle she will stick her head out from under a like dog house I built until it see us then ducks back under like a turtle sticking its head in and out of its shell.
Talk to you all later.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Went to KFC today with my parents. Three all-u-can-eat buffets, three senior discounts, take home snacks for the dogs.The noisy FP7 isn't so noisy now. After I returned from KFC I made sure to get the bottle of disc brake caliper lube out of my van. It's plastic safe as it's made for use on rubber seals and plastic rings. I used it on the plastic parts of the vans wiper transmission rods last year and they're doing great. So I popped the truck side frames off and put a little on three of the gears in each of the trucks then put the side frames back on. They pop on and off similar to the ones on Bachmann locos. I've had the loco running for about twenty minutes now and while it still hums a bit it's a lot quieter and it isn't running as hot as it was. The shell still gets warm but not hot like it was.
Good evening all,
It was cloudy but no rain in SE Indiana and continued hot. It was a nice weekend. Milwaukee race was rain delayed so I only got to watch part of it. Just as well as SFHR and AJ had bad days. At least Penske and Ganassi did not win. Went to Batesville yesterday to see a wood carving place, a bookstore, a kids' toy store, and a hobby shop. Wife got a carving, and I got some books and ordered an Alaska reefer car that was new this year. Also got some teaching aids for daughter to help her with home-schooling. "Snow White and the Huntsman" was good. Took it easy today and caught up on some financial details. Went to a graduation party yesterday for one of "my" soccer girls. It was outside and hot even in the shade. TBIL and I can drive. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Happy Birthday Ancient Old man. We are not going to do all the candles or the internet will melt. Many more SJ.
Fathers' Day meal last night started with a surprises.
1. I had to bar-be-que the chickens.
2. My two "kids" and their better halves came. Just thought it was Pam's folks coming.
Off this afternoon early to SIL's and her hubby cooked a pork loin. Great meal.
Meetings tomorrow.
Later.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Well I put the brake caliper lube stuff in the gear boxes of both FP7's and they've been running just over two hours. The older unit still runs flawlessly and quiet. The newer unit, the one I've been having problems with is running much better but the gears still hum a little. The motor is running much cooler. Hey, I think I've found my new lube for loco gears. This stuff is expensive, like $12 a bottle but with the little bit required for a loco that eight ounce bottle will literally last for years.
Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes. It seemed more like Fathers day so getting a year older kinda just eased it's way in. Being with our little family made it a nice day. I even got home made Banilla from our DIL. We got about an hour of rain this afternoon and a 10 minute downpour about 8 o clock. Not near enough but something, finally..S.J.
Sunny, hot and muggy here today.
Brutus - we were in Columbia yesterday too. My wife was having trouble getting her laptop to talk to her embrieroidery machine. We went to the sewing shop there to get that problem sloved. We stopped at Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, Hobby Lobby, and dinner. Drove through a heck of a rain storm on the way home.
Not much interesting at the swap meet yesterday. All I came home with was a 1957 Motors Repair manual. Spent a whole $10 on it.
On the train front, an older gent has donated his 12' by 16' HO layout to the KATY museum. We picked it up today. The museum will use it as a temporary display. Looks like the easiest way to do that is to convert it into a modular layout. Looks like I'm going to be in the HO business for a while, as my wife has palns for the layout this fall.
Back to work tomorrow to contribute to the SS fund, since the number of people to be supported is now larger.
Happy birthday SJ.
All for now.
Good Evening
Got some train running in tonight..and we are currently going to get ready for tomorrow afternoon's appointments...yay.
Have a good night all!!
Happy Birthday, SJ - sounds like you had a great day plus an extra "party" yesterday with the cake at the train show
BoC - prayers for healing!
Dad is having issues due to smoking again with his COPD and CHF - Mom threw out all HIS cigs this morning and told him he quit, but she still has hers in the house. More Drama
Sounds like a nice trip, 8NT. Char picked up Kevin and dropped off Hannah - she said she was good on her own, so I stayed home and did the laundry and took it easy here at home. I did find my tub with a lot of my fastrack, so I can do a temp loop on the floor. Pizza Hut pizza and wings for dinner .
Nice chats with John, Charlie, and the birthday boy tonight
TARDIS is ready, Mike - let's fly
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Another quiet night here on the hill.
Happy Birthday SJ!
I'm going back to the rez in two weeks! Just got my ticket on the Southwest Chief. Bus to Flagstaff then via train over Raton Pass and family will pick me up in La Junta, CO. We will we driving up to South Dakota the following Saturday. This will be the first time I will have been back on the rez in 3 years. I went every summer for 5 years and it became kind of a pilgrimage for me. Will be good to get back there and see friends.
Thought about riding the CT90 to South Dakota, but thought better of it...just kidding.
Will be an interesting next few weeks. I have a group campout next weekend and then I come back up for a day or so to run the telescope for Astronomy Camp before we shut down. Then a week in town getting things done around the house and garage (hopefully get the push rod seals done on the car, get the motorcycle started, and get some work done on the van) and then off to points north.
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