Late Evenin' FellasI've been very busy caring for a sick little girl. She seems to have turned the corner so all is well.Today I was down in the train room building the new christened 'Christina's Hill' it got it's name because said little girl actually helped me build it... yes after watching me dip the plaster cloth into the water she decided she could hand it to me. So I would cut some strips, put them in the water, then she would pull them out and hand them to me - one at a time. Here are the progress photos:I did lower the radio tower about 3 inches. So far I am please with the progress in this area. Before I started with the plaster cloth I got the rest of the main level's ceiling tiles cut and placed, then the foam roadbed cut and placed, then the track screwed down. I did forget to put the foam roadbed under the second level track as it goes into the tunnel and get that track screwed down, but I can still do that without having to destroy any of our work today.
Kev,Before I forget - I may have a main board for a docksider. I had mine upgraded to TMCC a few years back and if memory serves me correct that is one of the boards that gets replaced. I will try and check tomorrow and let you know what I come across. If you aren't finicky you could probably pop it and replace it yourself.
And before I head to bed... here are some shots from Thanksgiving.Hmmm... I wonder what is in here?"Christina. Did you find anything?"Not yet! It is really dark in there!Sure wish I had a light!Would someone PLEASE get me a light!?!?!I think there is a monster in there!Dad! I am trying to concentrate! Please! Stop with the pictures.OK FINE! Take the picture already!Who said litte girls aren't expresive!?!?
Brent, outstanding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good night all. Sleep tight.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Looks like everybody had a reasonable Thanksgiving. Was just my wife and I here this year. Nice day except for the turkey that took foreeeever to cook. Was 65 degrees for the downtown lighting and fireworks show.
Sunny and mid 30's today.
Just putzing around picking up after some projects so we can get on to the next. I did stop by the LHS today. The Halloween spot light car had arrived - ready for next year now.
All for now.
We just got back from a visit with one of the other people on the Xmas Walk tour. A lot of people showed up inspite of the weather....
Going to spend tomorrow in the basement...doing a reprise of my 'creature' routine....
Have a good night!
Brent: Great shots!!
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
88 - Wifey took one look and shouted, "Ahhh-door-ahhh-bull!" Wave hi to us around 0900 as we head west towards the Cracker-Barrel.
anjdevil - I'll post them in a few weeks when "the brain" comes home from college. Still trying to incorporate the bathroom sink.
Buckeye must be a little under the weather...
Good Morning
Kind of dull outside, snowing and cold. 29F going for a high near 34F later on
Today is the last day of the Xmas Walk...should be a little less busy as it finishes around 6pm....but I still will be in hiding...in the basement...like all good 'creatures' should be....
Good Morning from Blueberryhill RR....
It is a cold 28 degrees. Going up to a cloudy 46 today.
Today I am relaxing and watching some games on TV. Not much else new here. Lots of turkey leftovers.
Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Sunday.
Chuck
Cold and cloudy for us as well.
Moving some stuff to the barn's attic outside so we can get to the Christmas decorations more easily.
Hope it goes well. Hope to have a two loop railroad around the tree this year. ALWAYS kept to a one loop line by some shortcomings (a.k.a., space concerns, equipment shortages). Hopefully using some tighter curves will get me those two loops. An inner 0-36 loop, outer 0-54 loop spaced just so I can get the loops. Always used to have a large 0-36 loop.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
Morning all. Sunday School and then decorate tree at Church at 1. Wifey volunteered me.
Was below freezing. Bet that killed the tomato and pepper plants. Leaves from pecan trees are "raining" down. Trees will be empty by night fall.
Have a good week ahead.
It's 32 and cloudy. We woke up to our first visual sno$ for the season. White rooftops but just wet streets. A good chat with some of the guys last night. I enjoy their company. Today is not planned so it could be a Laz-y one..S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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lionroar88 Kev,Before I forget - I may have a main board for a docksider. I had mine upgraded to TMCC a few years back and if memory serves me correct that is one of the boards that gets replaced. I will try and check tomorrow and let you know what I come across. If you aren't finicky you could probably pop it and replace it yourself.
That would be great Brent. let me know. I have had this thing apart so much we are like old friends. Then I can let SubmmBob look at the old one. best i can tell my Dockside is from 2007
BTW Great pictures of your work and your helper. Hope she in felling better.
Rich, you can shop for a car on Sunday?? Can't do that in this state. Sounds like you have been plenty busy.
Lehigh, I have one dummy N gauge engine. A Southern pacific SD40 # 9727. Don't know where it came from but I keep it on my desk. At my age I would need a magnifying glass just to run them
Well Bright sun with a light breeze and Yankee crisp at 38 degrees.
Not much going on today I may clean up some parts for the mower repair. The parts should show up this week.
You guys have a good day.
Prayers for all in need,
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Aloha. Sunny and 32-ish. Looks nice from inside. Bears game today - then the big kids are off back to colleges. Or maybe that'll be reversed and they'll leave first. Nice chat on the TARDIS last night. Going to work more on the layout later too...
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Good morning. It's 53° with 48% humidity. Ground was white with frost at 7:15. It'll be mostly sunny with a high of 68°.Went down this morning and looked after my mother for a couple of hours this morning. Nurse arrived at 8:45. By that time she'd had her breakfast, morning meds, blood sugar check, blood pressure check. That's pretty good considering I feel like crap today. We went the Buffet City last night for dinner. After I came home I took my night meds an dwent to bed. Half an hour later I was on the throne and spent most of the night there. Neither of my parents got sick and we all had the same things to eat. So I just have to believe it was a side effect complication of one or more of my meds. I got less than an hours sleep all night. So the plan for today is to go back to bed. The computer will be off so if anybody calls they're gonna get nothing but a message stating the number is not in service. I don't care if the world is burning down, the fire depts can put it out without me. I'm retired anyway!
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
Kev, well said about every man's layout versus the ones that make the headlines. Mine is flat also and is basically around the walls of my garage with an island in the middle for a passenger terminal. However I get hours of enjoyment out of it regardless of lack of scenery although I do have a little.
Brent, your little princess is precious. Great photos!
Jeffrey, best wishes on returning to normal after the upset. Take it easy today.
Got news yesterday that the well known former owner of the Train Shack hobby shop here in Burbank passed away on November 15th. Gary Keck was also formerly National President of TTOS and President of TTOS Southwestern Division before that. Sincere condolences to his family.
Went out for some Mexican food last night to take a break from turkey. It was good but I call it ballast because it is heavy. Have to take it in small doses for diet.
Church in about another hour so must get ready.
later,
Ray
SPMan
Ray, I think you've got a great layout. Mine is flat also, but yours is bigger than mine. I've got a little scenery and a backdrop, always planned to do more but the ambition gets less and less each year.
Need to do a final leaf roundup but the weather has turned nasty, won't get out of the 30s today and probably not for a few days, also very windy. Not my kind of weather for outdoor work.
Hope everyone has a great week ahead.
John
Brent, Forgot to comment on your pictures of Christina, they are great. Your house should be a happy place at Christmas this year. She is the perfect age. Glad to hear she is feeling better.
Ray and John, Yep, nothing wrong with flat lines. Don't get me wrong I like them all and love looking at all of the little things on a person's layout. I always wanted to do one of those neat layouts. I am a wrench, not too good with wood, but now that I know Christina can teach Brent how to do a mountain I may try one on my addition with the grand daughter's help
Anyway this post is for the Deer hunrters in the group, Chief and Laz, about 20 min ago, not 50' from the house this 7 point buck was pushing a doe past the house.
Forgive my crappy Sony Cyber-shot pictures, I was in kind of a rush and afraid he would bolt but you get the point.
Have a nice night.
Brent,
Hope Christina is feeling better. She's probably doing the same thing I am at the sight of the VCR. I am trying to remember what a VCR is. Kinda like a payphone... Really like how that section of your layout is progressing.
Not much going on today. Christmas tree is up, but not decorated yet. That won't stop me though, because I've got several boxes of Flyer roadbed ready to go. I've got tomorrow off, so I might go to an LHS in West Mifflin that had a case stuffed with Flyer the last time I was there. The LHS in Bridgeville would be closer, but I wouldn't set foot in there even if they were giving stuff away.
The 322AC that I scored last week should be here tomorrow as well.
32 trips to Home depot later, I managed to get my control center built and the first coat of paint on it. I don't know what was wrong with me today, I even made a detailed list of what I needed, and just plain didn't get half of it the first trip.......
The wife will be home from Florida some time this week (I have no Idea when) and I'll use her camera phone to get some pictures posted of my progress on the new layout. Apparently, my phone came with the crappiest camera Sprint could possibly find.
Ryan
green97probe Hope Christina is feeling better. She's probably doing the same thing I am at the sight of the VCR. I am trying to remember what a VCR is. Kinda like a payphone... Really like how that section of your layout is progressing.
I've often wondered what a future archeologist would think upon digging one of these up.
Evening all. Sucked up leaves in the dark. Lady in charge of the Church thingy was a -----------. Took 3 1/2 hours to do a 1 hour thing. I walked out. Had errands to Tractor Supply and Walmart to do. That is why leaves got sucked up in the dark. Wifey got home 1/2 hour ago from the Church decorating detail.
This afternoon before going to Church thingy, took pictures of two buddies in the house sleeping.
It's 39 and was cloudy all day.
I'm sure nobody here will be surprised to read that I recorded a show on our VCR last night. I do have a DVD player. As expected we had a quiet day. Looks like I shared my cold with Granny so here we go again.That's 2 times each. Banilla is ready and I will wait for the thingy...S.J.
Did some space checking for my Lionel Christmas 2 loop layout. I think it will work very well. Lowest branches hit the floor, so I will see if I can't get my parents to leave them off for the inner loop.
P.S., the outer loop actually has 0-42 track.
V8Vega Chief that small dog really blends in with the carpet,
Chief that small dog really blends in with the carpet,
LOL I didn't even see the small dog...........
wrconstructionLOL I didn't even see the small dog...........
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Haven't been able to get much rest today. Seems like every time I close my eyes my head starts spinning like an E ride at Disneyland! Yeah, I still feel like crap and I don't see things being any better tomorrow.Time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Good evening all,
Mulched the last of the leaves today. If anybody wants any more done, I will be happy to direct them to the lawn mower. Busy last three days. Thanksgiving at older daughter's. Friday at wife's sister place and visit with younger daughter. Saturday at train show and Jingle Rails at Eitljorg Museum in Indy. Long days. Wife's BIL has stopped treatment. Will not be long now. Did make it to Thanksgiving. Sorry I have been away so long. TBIL and I can drive. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Hiya Dudes! Nice work on the layout, Brent! Nice pics Brent, Chief, Kev and Jeff. Floodlights
Well, today I did a bit more work on the basement bathroom. I measured and cut out a sheet to cover the back of the stub wall for the shower. I cut it out for an access panel and it fit fine. Then I lifted the sheet and crack, splat, it all broke apart. Apparently the sides were not wide enough around the panel. Soooo - recut out a new sheet and put it in place, then marked up and cut out the access hole in place. This was tricky as I didn't want to cut into the plumbing, so I basically just scored it over and over with the razor knife until I got it all cut out. The panel cover went in fine and it's all done and trimmed to the corner as well. That all took longer than expected, though. I have one more full sheet to put up in the closet, but first I need to stub in another stud next to the furnace. It's a small job, but it will take a full sheet of drywall. Then I have to do a little trim work here and there, add the corner beads, and the drywall is all up. Then it will be mud and tape time.
TARDIS is ready and we have banilla and chocolate chip cookies, so lets' go!
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Hello all
Another quiet night here on the mountain.
Went through bills and address changes last night. I now have a PO box at a local mailing place for my mailing address. Apparently some government sites don't understand a PO box outside of a post office
Anj - well I'm no longer having to deal w/ my former landlords, but I now have a few roomates, so I'm not exactly alone
Chief - I realized when I got up this afternoon that your 10 pointer is in my bedroom. The room I typically stay in @ the 'scope has a painting w/ a couple of deer
Kev - I though about getting one of those docksiders when I was looking for a switcher. Trouble is due to their size, they'd look kinda funny sitting next to some of my PW steamers that are "mainline" engines. So I now have a 1615 that will pull switching duty when I get a yard someday.
Jeffrey - I spy something vaguely familar behind that SP diesel
The 2035 looks good sitting on the desk in my room. Will miss seeing it on the kitchen table. Will stay at the telescope for a bit.
Bob
Tucson, AZ (aka the Ol' Pueblo)
Home of the Mt. Graham & Arizona Eastern Boiler Shops
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