Turning colder. Back from a busy day of shopping, partying and then visit In-laws. Good to be home. Rest and TV.
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Good morning all,
Chief, FDR said it was a " date that will live in infamy." I will never forget even though I was only 5 years old at the time. How many points was the buck you got?
We're getting a little rain here this morning and probably snow in the mountains. Temp. was 42 when I got up.
Son is visiting a friend this weekend in Oregon. Called yesterday and said it was snowing in Portland.
TTOS Christmas meet and open house tomorrow. Will probably go.
later,
Ray
SPMan
fifedog Mornin' boys. Chile today, icee tomorrow. Have to rework my weekend plans, so going to Greenberg Show today. Brent, I'll send you a text. Redfire - Good advice. Not placing anything high-tec on the loop. SirJames - This LW doesn't have a whistle throttle, just two red buttons for direction and whistle. Thanks. [View:http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=lionel+lw+transformer&qpvt=lionel+lw+transformer&FORM=IGRE#view=detail&id=001E3FBF7D4CF1774DAD27DBD43F2F52D2AC8F12&selectedIndex=6:600:0] A little research revealed that Bob Nelson offered advice concerning a ZENER diode, but I ain't going under the hood to install one....
Mornin' boys. Chile today, icee tomorrow. Have to rework my weekend plans, so going to Greenberg Show today. Brent, I'll send you a text.
Redfire - Good advice. Not placing anything high-tec on the loop.
SirJames - This LW doesn't have a whistle throttle, just two red buttons for direction and whistle. Thanks.
[View:http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=lionel+lw+transformer&qpvt=lionel+lw+transformer&FORM=IGRE#view=detail&id=001E3FBF7D4CF1774DAD27DBD43F2F52D2AC8F12&selectedIndex=6:600:0]
A little research revealed that Bob Nelson offered advice concerning a ZENER diode, but I ain't going under the hood to install one....
Fife,
What SJ said should still work. I've never had an LW on the bench, but the whistle controller in every other PW Lionel transformer that I've worked on has has a pickup and holding position.
As the lever/button is moved, it contacts the pickup position (halfway point that SJ mentioned, and then the holding position at the end of it's travel. You'll get more DC output in the pickup position, but it can shorten the lifespan of the copper oxide rectifier disc.
The purpose of a Zener diode (aka Transient Voltage Suppressor) is to absorb voltage spikes that can damage sensitive electronics. They can be placed across the output terminals, or across the center and outside rails. No need to open the case if you don't want to.
If you're feeling adventurous, you could open the case and install a modern diode in place of the oxide rectifier, but that can be tough on the smaller transformers like the RW and 1033.
Jim
Morning. Yesterday was 79. Today high was already 63 and diving. Yankee raid of cold rain. Some icing west and north of us.
LAZ, one buck at processor's.
Now to run errands and Hunters Haven.
Big birthday party for Wifey's cousin tonight [where there will be REAL moonshine].
Lets not forget. Today was a date that will live for infinity. After 9-11 we seem to forget Pearl Harbor Day. Lets don't forget.
Later.
Good Morning from Blueberryhill...........
It is a cold 23 degrees. Got about 3 inches of snow last night. Going up to 27 today. Big deal.
Today is an easy day. We are not going out today. A few chores and then, relax and do some reading. Lunch and a nap, later.
Usual breakfast on the dining car.
Y'all have a great Saturday.
Chuck
Hey Y'all.
Don, I'm not going to the train show tomorrow, this #$%#@ jury duty has my meds and diet kinda screwed up so I plan on using Saturday and Sunday to try to get things back in order. Hoping that Monday will be the final day.
Popped in on the webcam at the museum, someone goofed and didn't turn on the public link, they appear to be rather crowded tonite for "Christmas on the Prado".
Roy/Ray/John, for family members as well as for all our friends and family.
Buckeye, I plan on using it, Cab-1L, only at the museum since we already have a Legacy base installed. If it works out well I might go for the new base unit as well for home use.
Supposed to a bit wet and cold out here but at least it will be staying above freezing(not by much). Stay safe and warm all you Easties.
Nite all !
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Good evening all,
It is still snowing in SE Indiana!! 24 hours. Fine powdery stuff with not much accumulation, but we did get over 6 inches of the white stuff at least. Stayed home today. Good thing. Did do some shopping and went to see "Frozen". Excellent movies with excellent songs. A movie you can take the kids or grand kids to. Watched "Grimm" tonight. Definitely not for kids. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
fife, trying moving the whistle handle slowly to the middle instead of all the way. That's the only spot my HW whistle will blow.
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fifedog Mornin' boys. rt --> . Mornin' English. Raining and 54 here in the Mid-Atlantic region. Gotta get to the bank to work on their train garden, before work. Finished the North Pole display. Looks great. Need to tweek the O-31 curvature to allow the front truck of the Santa (Hogwarts) Flyer to keep from "walking" off. Just for grins, placed my new TEXAS General (the one I call GINGER) on the rails, and low and behold it looks right at home, and runs and sounds great. I love the feel and retro-glow of the LIONEL LW transformer, but I have discovered the whistle button won't activate the whistles of either the new edition of the General or the Hogwarts steamer. Any suggestions? Roy - for Mrs. SPMan - for sister.
Mornin' boys. rt --> . Mornin' English. Raining and 54 here in the Mid-Atlantic region. Gotta get to the bank to work on their train garden, before work.
Finished the North Pole display. Looks great. Need to tweek the O-31 curvature to allow the front truck of the Santa (Hogwarts) Flyer to keep from "walking" off. Just for grins, placed my new TEXAS General (the one I call GINGER) on the rails, and low and behold it looks right at home, and runs and sounds great. I love the feel and retro-glow of the LIONEL LW transformer, but I have discovered the whistle button won't activate the whistles of either the new edition of the General or the Hogwarts steamer. Any suggestions?
Roy - for Mrs.
SPMan - for sister.
For conventional running of newer equipment, I prefer MTH's Z1000. The whistle issue is one thing, but relying on a postwar transformer's circuit breaker (which is designed to protect the transformer itself from overheating) is not something I like to do. Circuit boards cook long before the breaker in postwar transformer opens.
Hudson - Thanks. I shall see if I can locate one this weekend at the Greenberg Show.
Fifepup helped me with the bank layout. Up and running in a little over an hour. So much easier since they agreed to store it there.
Off to the people mill.....
Good morning all, cold morning at least for here around 38 degrees. Rain or showers forcast for tomorrow and a little snow in the mountains.
Made some succatash corn and lima beans to go with ham last night but did not set too well. I think the corn was too tough. It was frozen called petit corn and the limas were canned. I think canned corn works best because it is more tender or fresh corn from the cob and frozen baby limas are better than canned too.
My friend Larry called last night after getting home from his jazz band gig in Sandy Eggo over the holiday weekend. Said they had a good frestival and attendance was as good as last year. He says they will go on for at least another year down there which is good to hear. I think the whole thing is on life support because the audience is all getting old and younger people have no interest in the music.
Good Morning! 56 and Rain on and off at the Jersey Shore.
Getting ready for the Holidays here. The outside lights are up and now for the outside decorations. They have to wait because of the rain and I am going to help my wife get ready for the Christmas Bazaar at Church. Mom is doing good with the cancer but she had a setback. Last week was supposed to be her last chemo treatment but she did not have it because the MUGA scan she had the weeks before showed a minor heart abnormality. She has a doctor's appointment on Tuesday so we will learn more. The layout that started as a test loop in my Mom's basement has evolved into a 4x8 50's retro layout with Plasticville and an Atlas O trolley. It works as therapy for her because she comes down to talk as I work on my repairs and we run the trains. She said that it brings back great memories of us kids growing up.
Roy: Prayers for your wife.
Don: Sounds like a great get together. Good luck with therapy.
Brent: Good luck with the Train Garden.
Chief: I agree with you on Lionel's Service and Warranty Policies. I was told by my LHS that Lionel goes by build date not purchase date on warranty work. That is ridiculous.
SPMan, Ray: Prayers for your sister.
Fife: I like the look and feel of the LW transformer also. In fact I am using on on my layout at Mom's that I call the Branchline. I run postwar there but try adding the Horn Activation Button. I had to use that with my ZW with "Modern Lionel".
Have a Great Day!
John
Good Morning from Blueberryhill..............
Good Morning, Joe...........
It is a very cloudy 34 degrees. No rain. No snow, yet.
Today is an easy day. I have a few chores to do and some paperwork. Not much else new here.
Buckeye & LAZ.................TGIF
Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Friday.
TGIF...........We have ice and a forecast of 8" of snow in Buckeyeland. Chuck will be able to reload the ammo supply. Although Chuck and I live about 60 miles apart, I think he is only going to get 2" of snow.
dougdagrump Broke down and ordered one of the new Cab-1L units, just the hand held but not the base. Since the original Cab-1's are starting to get a little short in supply. Got a dead one that my normal fixes didn't help, hope it gets here pretty soon been kinda anxious to try it out on the club layout.
Broke down and ordered one of the new Cab-1L units, just the hand held but not the base. Since the original Cab-1's are starting to get a little short in supply. Got a dead one that my normal fixes didn't help, hope it gets here pretty soon been kinda anxious to try it out on the club layout.
Doug....Looking forward to hearing about the Cab-1L. My original Cab-1 are needing some TLC so the Cab1-L may be my best option
Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum.
Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..
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Konbanwa and Ohayo Chuck,
I had a productive Friday at the office and was able to leave about 45 minutes early. The older boy has a club function at the church tonight and the rest of the family and I will go out for a quick dinner while he’s there. Perhaps the wife and I will watch a movie after we come back home; I’m in the mood to watch a Christmas themed movie but I’m not sure what she’ll want to watch yet.
SP Ray – Your sister and your family are in my prayers.
I’ll pray for Roy’s wife as well.
Sayonara,
Joe
Good Evening,
Talked with Roy this evening, his wife had some surgery and is home recuperating, a few prayers would help. (Hope he didn't mind me posting)
Had a GREAT evening last night with the guys from Knotts, at the "Foam Fest". Running G Scale steam on the patio floor, had DVD's playing, and a lot of train talk. Everyone was really surprised to see me walking. My leg was really cooperating as well. However today was a little bit of a payback. But all is well.
Tomorrow, Friday, is the first day of Therapy for the leg, so looking forward to it.
This Saturday, Kay and I are going to go for a drive to Sandy Diego, to the Del Mar fairgrounds for a train show. MAYBE we might see Doug.
All for now have a great evening.
Don
Chuck you got the snow cannon aimed at us, turn it around quick!!!! I am taking off tomorrow due to the weather so it is not too bad. Wife watched the Carrie Underwood version of the Sound of Music tonight. i watched some of it. Not too bad. Work was busy today. All caught up on case reports, and there is supposed to be an all day meeting Friday so I should not be too far behind on Monday. I hope everyone has a good day,
Evenin' Y'all.
Been busybusy with Thanksgiving followed by Friday & Saturday at the museum, spent Monday cooking for the BetterHalf's Monday nite henparty. But the worst part is Tuesday I got stuck with jury duty, ugh. Hopefully it won't go to far into next week.
This Friday & Saturday is Christmas on the Prado, at least that's what most of us call it. The PC folks refer to it as December Nights.
Anybody looking for a last minute Christmas gift for your significant other ? How about : http://www.sciplus.com/p/DOCTOR-WHO-TARDIS_54030
If I screwed up the spelling & grammar I'm trying to watch "The Polar Express" while typing, I don't do that very well w/o distractions much less while trying to watchTV.
Time to call it a nite.
Prayers for all in need.
Evening all not a lot going on tonight time to relax as off tomorrow. Did catch up with Fifedog the other day while he was taking a break
Hope all have a good weekend talk to you all later
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Good afternoon all,
Well, my sister in Florida got her evalution at the dentist yesterday and we all got sticker shock. The price is just about double what we thought it would be. It is one of those chain outfit dentist with offices in 20 states. They have had some bad press on the internet but there are always some bad apples in every business. Checked with my own private dentist and they thought the place in Florida was in the ballpark on prices. Just don't know how ethical these places are. Put off decision until I see the paper work.
Sorry to say my sister in Virginia who is recovering from surgery has been found to have more cancer spread to the lymph nodes. She is too weak for anymore surgery or chemo. Don't know how much time they give her yet. I just found about it today from another sister. In the meantime she is enjoying a better quality of life than she has had since this whole thing started several months ago.
On a brighter note, I got up the outdoor Christmas lights yesterday with my son's help.
Went out to eat last night for a break. Restaurant was uncrowded the week after Thanksgiving.
Picking up grandson from school today for his mother who is busy.
Might try running some trains this afternoon.
Aloha. Here comes the cold air. Before grocery shopping, I browsed the holiday and clearance aisles at our local super-Walmart and picked up a few things I could use on the layout. I like looking for odds and ends I can turn into something.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
ChiefEagles PS: UNC beat Michigan State.
PS: UNC beat Michigan State.
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Morning. FOGGY and misting rain. Real warm. Low tomorrow morning is 62 and high tomorrow is 77. Then it falls but stays above freezing. That will be the Yanks attempt to retaliate for the Reb snow and ice cannon blasting states around Ohizo with main aim on Ohizo.
Doing some chores and then leaving for a meeting down east and then on to deer camp. Hunting tomorrow with return tomorrow night.
Went to "Miss Edna's" yesterday with a poinsettia. Got back a Legacy engine that had a bad motor [should have been under warranty] and a tracmobile [which was new and failed and should have been under warranty]. Paid for both as Lionel was denying her warranty work. Lionel has "gone to the dogs with service".
Have a good one.
Good Morning from Blueberryhill..........
Good Morning, Joe...Glad you are feeling better.
It is 59 degrees and raining hard. Going up to 62 today with more rain.
Today is an easy day. A few chores and some paperwork to do. Then, I can relax and do some reading. Lunch and a nice nap, later.
Y'all have a great Thursday.
Mornin' FellasI need to find a masseuse! I slept wrong on my right side the other night and did something to my neck! OUCH! Real tight and sore. Fife and MikeC - any chance we'll get to see some pics of the train gardens?I've been given the green light to redo the under-the-tree layout next year (as long as I get it done and it isn't just wood and track). So as soon as the holidays are over I'll be starting on that... over the next couple weeks I need to get my big garden wired so I can run trains on Christmas. Not much to do on that as I have almost all of the drops wired, just need to build the control panel and get the drops wired to the single throw and rotary switches. The hard part is going to be transferring the track plan to the plexiglass, painting the plexiglass and then back lighting the panel. Maybe have it done next weekend (hopefully).
We’re feeling a little better today, enough for me to head in to the office. I should be 100% tomorrow. We don’t have a lot going on this evening, so I’ll definitely have some more Christmas train time.
Reception was fun and filling. Roast beef on buns was great. Got home to see end of Hallmark movie I had wanted to see. Reclinerized. Kids out and in.
Sleep tight.
Good day at work. Upgrade went well. Lots of easy case reports to do as we prep for year end. Played for an hour and a half with "my" soccer kids. It was fun. I have now been involved in some sort of soccer event every month of this year. Supposed to get nasty weather wise tomorrow evening. May stay home Friday if roads are bad. Will only miss an all day meeting. Track is laid for standard gauge Christmas layout after cutting the one piece I needed. Will have to fine tune the buildings, scenery and accessories over the next few weeks. Thank you, Doug M. and Frank for the comments. I hope everyone has a good day.
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