RockIsland52 Banks and Ryan......I PM'd you with the link to my granddaughter and the March For Babies info that you asked for. Can you PM your email address back to me. In my disorganization I don't seem to have them. Thank you so much for considering this!! Jack
Banks and Ryan......I PM'd you with the link to my granddaughter and the March For Babies info that you asked for. Can you PM your email address back to me. In my disorganization I don't seem to have them.
Thank you so much for considering this!!
Jack
Jack Hook me up too.
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Here is a bit of train news on the train forum. From the North bluff.
This morning.
This afternoon. Everything off and sound deadening material is on. Enough for today.
HudsonJohn and KEV......I also PM'd you the link to Victoria's page for the March For Babies as requested. I am stunned and humbled by the POT response, guys. Thank you so much!!!
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
Jack - I will never claim to speak for the other guys, but for me I have to be very selective in what organizations I donate to. The March of Dimes has been one that I have always donated to when I have 'extra' funds. Back in Jr and Sr High I used to do the Walk every year. Helping children, in any way I can, will always be a Life's Mission for me.I only wish I could have done more.----Today I am a man of few words. Still trying to wrap my brain around the events from yesterday. 9/11 was hard. The start of the first Gulf War was hard. The spat of school shootings were very hard. But yesterday just took on a whole new meaning of the word 'senseless'. The Boston Marathon??? The Boston Marathon???All I can say is when you get home tonight, grab your spouse, loved ones, children, mother, father, who ever you hold dear in your life, and give them a hug. Tell them how much they mean to you, even if they don't understand.
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ChiefEagles Hope to go to the lake house tonight and stay a few days. Safe trip to all the Yorkie travelers. Jack, agree with Fifey. Send me the info on your Daughter's walk thingy. Prayers for the Boston killed/injured. Have a good one.
Hope to go to the lake house tonight and stay a few days.
Safe trip to all the Yorkie travelers.
Jack, agree with Fifey. Send me the info on your Daughter's walk thingy.
Prayers for the Boston killed/injured.
Have a good one.
Warning all going to York this was the same thing he said the last time he did a great grits raid
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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I got three of the FP7's decaled and numbered today. That was a little tricky cutting out those number boards.Tomorrow, if I have the time I'll see about getting the other two done.
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
RockIsland52 HudsonJohn and KEV......I also PM'd you the link to Victoria's page for the March For Babies as requested. I am stunned and humbled by the POT response, guys. Thank you so much!!! Jack
Jack, I wish I could of given more. I am glad I made a sale and had some cash in my PayPal account. Give the granddaughter a hug for Sandra and I. God's speed.
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Jack. Send me a note also. I do not have Paypal if that is required. Could send you a check.
Well the big news is American Airlines network went down today stranding everyone and guess who I am flying on tomorrow? Wish me luck.
Regards, Roy
Need a serious dose of the pot this afternoon. things at work didn't go all that well and of course I brought it home with me. After being home for about a half hour me and the wife are in an argument that I more or less started. I hate the slow transition from winter to summer. I guess I'm just feeling some depression from not being able to work on the house and train layout.
Guess it is time for me to get off my arse and just get past it. Other than that nothing new to post except we have rain coming in for thursday and friday. Of course the weekend is dry but colder temps.
Kev - what radius curve are you running on the new addition?
We had supper in York Pa. Some rain early this morning but the 78 degees at Horseshoe Curve made up for it....Brutus knows where the Banilla is... Some news from home about the new Lionel catalog made Charlie smile.....S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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Good Evening...kinda late for this'un but oh well....
Had actually quite a bit of sun today...after the dull start...and rain/drizzle/mizzle we got this morning..
Going to be somewhat busy tomorrow...staff meeting pretty well all day....oh joy...
Anyway see you all later!!
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...
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charliebrown Kev - what radius curve are you running on the new addition?
RJ,
027 profile Lionel and K-Line track in,042",054", and 072" R. With 042" switches. The smallest curve is a Marx 034" on the old side.
Have a good night guys.
Well he told me he would wear his PJ's if we made a stop here. I made good on the deal.
Charlie a.k.a. MichiganRailRoad714 (Charter Member TTC)
About 5:45 I went down and mowed the front and back yards. I found the optimum throttle setting on the tractor (they all have one, you just have to find it) and I did it all on one tank of gas. The grass wasn't high enough to make a bunch of clippings and I wasn't going to wait for it to get that high. We're expecting rain Thursday, maybe as early as tomorrow so I considered it a good idea to stay ahead of it. If we got a heavy rain on uncut grass it would be a big job to cut it. I don't feel like going through all that.Tomorrow I'll see if I can get the other two FP7's decaled and numbered. Certainly not a big job. Just slow and tedious.Well, I'm tired so time to call it a night here. See y'all tomorrow.
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-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
MichRR714 Well he told me he would wear his PJ's if we made a stop here. I made good on the deal.
Charlie, Please button up his shirt. What would granny think???? She must dress him everyday.
Cloudy, drizzle and 40's the last couple of days.
We had a pretty active thunder storm this morning while I was on the way to work this morning. A card activated security turnstile has recently been installed to increase the security of the plant. While I was walking from the parking lot to the turnstile, I saw 6 or 8 pretty good flashes of lightning. The thought passed through my mind while I was passing through the metal turnstile that I didn't feel very secure with all the lightening activity about!
Safe travels for the Yorkies.
All for now.
Good evening all,
Stormy in SE Indiana. Can't remember if I posted today. Work was a long hard slog today. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Mornin' boys. Cloudy & 57 here in the Mid-Atlantic region. Did "splash" the yatchet yesterday , but not without a little embarrassment. Seems I neglected to clean out my raw water engine intake, which was sludge filled. Anyway, she sure looks good back on the creek. One of the ol' timers at the boatyard inquired about my old CSX jacket I was donning. He retired from them, and was with B&O originally. We had a nice talk about rails. Also, we have a nice man from the Bronx, who travels back and forth 4 hours each weekend to work on the Beneteau he bought, right before Sandy. Still so much damage up there. Lots of folks want to replace their lost vessels, but not many places to keep them.
RockIsland - Thanks for the link. Will get on that today.
CWFY (gotta get through next 2 nights...)
Good Morning...
Sun!! We have sun!! And clear blue skies!! And mild as well!!!
And, because today is sunny I got w**k to do...inside....sigh
Oh well...it's either this or get a pile of 'stuff to do' stuff done...you see, we do have a choice here...
Have a good day!!
Hi GUYZ,
Rained in middle of the nite woke up. Got run done and weights. Gotta do walk to river and grocery shopping today. Do some paper work this afternoon.
1 more day til YORK!!!
Stay frosty my friends,
laz57
Good Morning from Blueberryhill RR....
It is a cloudy 55 degrees. Got a big thunderstorm last night.. Hail and wind. Going up to 72 today with a little rain.
Today is a busy day. Wife is grocery shopping. I have a few phone calls to make and the usual chores. Put groceries away and have lunch. Then, a nice nap.
You Guys have a good time at York.
Indians need some new pitchers.
Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Wednesday.
Chuck
Konbanwa,
It’s been a busy past couple of days. The boy from our church was released from the hospital yesterday afternoon. He still had a high fever but the doctors felt he would improve just as easily from home. Unfortunately, he had to go back to the hospital today. I don’t have all the details at this time but I hope it’s a precaution and nothing serious.
Jack – I try to teach my kids many things and one of those things happens to be compassion. I’m sometimes not so good at it myself so the trip to the hospital was just as good of a lesson for me. Please send me your granddaughter’s walk information.
Jim – I hope you receive a positive call on the job.
I hope all the Yorkies have a great time.
Sayonara,
Joe
Cloudy and mild on the North Bluff. Rain this afternoon and then the next two days. So they say.
My friend is coming by this morning to pick up one of the chainsaws I worked on and drop off a gen set that needs some work.
After that I am going to Menard's to get some supplies for the train layout addition. My neighbor Brian is going to help me lay the grass mat this afternoon.
8N, how are you doing on your duel motor 200 series B unit???
I need to have some Cheerios and get going.
Have a good day.
Going to be in the lower 50's here today. Tonight starts a couple days of rain. Friday we are supposed to have 40mph winds. I could do without that!
Here is a question for the more experienced layout people. Can I mix my 031 curves with other radius curves to cut back on the complete radius or should I look to just changing over to wider curves?
Hope everyone has an awesome day!
from the thumb of Mi
wrmcclellan ]RockIsland52 HudsonJohn and KEV......I also PM'd you the link to Victoria's page for the March For Babies as requested. I am stunned and humbled by the POT response, guys. Thank you so much!!! Jack Jack. Send me a note also. I do not have Paypal if that is required. Could send you a check.
Hi Roy.........I sent you an email with the link and donation options, whichever is easiest for you. JoeyD.....PM'd you the link as you requested. I don't have your email address.
Victoria will be ecstatic!
charliebrown Here is a question for the more experienced layout people. Can I mix my 031 curves with other radius curves to cut back on the complete radius or should I look to just changing over to wider curves?
I see no reason why you could not mix and match radius I do it and have no problems and I like the way it looks. you can also add straight sections into curves to lessen the tightness. For example. In the picture below the middle track coming off of the switch it comes out of a R42 switch to straight then into a R72 then a R54 then a R42 and back into R72.
KRM charliebrown Here is a question for the more experienced layout people. Can I mix my 031 curves with other radius curves to cut back on the complete radius or should I look to just changing over to wider curves? RJ, I see no reason why you could not mix and match radius I do it and have no problems and I like the way it looks. you can also add straight sections into curves to lessen the tightness. For example. In the picture below the middle track coming off of the switch it comes out of a R42 switch to straight then into a R72 then a R54 then a R42 and back into R72.
Another option is to put a 1/2 straight between each piece
Aloha. Grey and cold again.Spring must be here if Fife's pleasure craft is ready to splash! Great photo of SJ enjoying Horseshoe Curve! He must've taken the TARDIS with him. RJ, I've mixed and matched curves over the years - even cut up track to make my own. Right now, I'm using a custom sharper curve into an engine house. My engine has such a short-wheelbase that it works. Jack, I would also appreciate a link to Victoria's info for the MoD walk to honor your grandson.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Good morning. It's 73° with 92% humidity. We might have some rain today. It'll be cloudy with a high of 85°.Today I hope to get the last two FP7's decaled and numbered so I can move on to other things. There's this little Lima CP 0-4-0t that I want to take apart and try to get running again. All it's going to do is sit on a display shelf but I'd like to say that it runs. Another steamer I have is somewhat more ambitious and may be a complete waste of time. It's a Tyco 2-8-0 Consolidation. It's tender drive and the motor is toast.
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