Mornin' boys. Very wet and 49 in the Potomac Highlands. Spent yesterday picking up some posies at a local farm, and gardening with the girls outside. Pizza from Little Ceasar didn't have much flavor.
anjdevil -
Buckeye - No, but if you launch your layout, please take some video while you're out on the lake. Oh, and .
Thanks for the kind kudos, everyone.
Morning all
Nice work there Fife.
Not to much going on here, been putting up some shelves, and rearranging some trains around. ( in SPF )
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Morning. Western omelet cooked just right. Had rain early before daylight. Garden plants happy. 21 tomato plants and 11 peppers planted yesterday. Tomato plants have blooms. Church on TV at 11. Stay well and safe.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Hello there,
another rainy day in the 40s. Gonna be a lazy day here. Helping Mrs make Gobs later.
From Roy
Trainworld Virtual York Day 1 - April 22, 2020 - 7 pm EDT approx 2 hrsyoutu.be/78z1GSNpymkDay 2 - April 23, 2020 - 7 pm EDT approx 2 hrsyoutu.be/paq-aSxuMes
It is pretty much an infomercial. The Lou Palumbo interview was interesting. He talked about the early days of York. The Trainworx segment was good too. Both the 1st night. The rest was fast forward.
Best move on.
Prayers for those in need and this pandemic to end.
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Just checking in.
Cloudy and 50's today. No news, hoping the grass cutters will show this week. It will be their first week out and with some rain in the forecast I'm wonerding if they will show. Watched the church service from Facebook, Wife more than me. I'm glad it's there for her as we don't have a fancy phone.
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
Morning/afternoon folks!
Sunny and low 80's today. Had a nice evening outside yesterday. Grilled some chicken.
After more work sorting, trashing, rearranging stuff from the 'junk' room, I took some time and repaired an AF 785 coal loader that I picked up for a very nice price at York years ago. I thought it was in worse shape than it actually was. Good news is all the parts were there. The roof was cracked and had been glued, but not badly. The coal clamshell trolley was put together wrong and would not go into the structure when going up to dump. I studied a lot of photos on Google and figured out what the issue was. The trolley is a Gilbert HO freight truck (I think) and contrary to what one might think, it is to be installed upside down.
The wiring had been cut from the controller and was filthy. I used some denatured alcohol and cleaned the gunk off the wires, tidied them up, soldered and heat shrink. Lubed it up and it runs/operates great!
Regards, Roy
Good morning all,
Watched the Indycar Irace Saturday. Did very little either day. Nice work, Fifedog! I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
M orning. 65 and warming fast. Chores today if I can get past helping Wifey with her gardening.
Hope all are doing well.
10:00 phone food security meeting.
Stay safe.
Good morning team!
Sunny, windy today, allergy time, and may hit 84 today. 66 right now
Nice family dinner last night. We ordered Italian takeout from a restaurant one of our son's best buddy/HS friends owns.
Still working on house clutter clean out. Got 5 boxes of stuff cleaned and thrown out for today's trash/recycles pickup. Got two closets sorted and rearranged after getting the boxes out. There is way too much stuff packed in here! It is crowding my trains!
Morning all.
Hope it cools off a bit today, have had to run the ac two days in a row. 97* two days in a row is to hot for so early. Getting a bit stir crazy between the lockdown and forbidden to do amy yardwork on the hill in the backyard, that's where I got my pelvic fractures. Can you say graceful ? Rightnow it looks like it would take a herd of goats at least two weeks to eat all the weeds.
Time to move on, later all.
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Good afternoon, and THANK YOU for the Birthday Wishes!!!I was on the Book of Face Friday night - late and picked up a #97 Coal Loader from NY Electric Trains live sale for $47, shipped. It needs help, but I bought for the building, to replace the bent up one I have from a neighbor. So I'll have an"extra". I'll expect that at the end of the week.Saturday we went to get my Harden China Closet out of storage and into Jenni's house - she traded the artwork of 3 portraits to have it moved 15 miles to the house. I "helped", but there were 2 younger guys in a pickup truck that basically did all the work. It looks great. We agreed, it goes with the house if the house is ever sold. We put up some curtains and got more boxes removed from the house. Jenni made baked chicken for dinner, had cupcakes with Jenni and Mom.Went to Jenni's parent's house yesterday - rainy and crappy for the most part, took a side trip to Long Beach Island (I haven't been there in 20+ years) took a quick peek at Barnegat Light (the park is closed by out illustrious "governor") had dinner and picked up her grandma's china.Stopped and picked up some essentials at the ShopRite (yes, they were cleaned out of all paper products, save for napkins), cleaned the mirrors and the glass shelves in the China Closet and started to clean and oil the wood inside the cabinet - this so Jenni's can start getting the China in there. I'll do the rest of the cabinet another day, it's gonna take a bit of time to do.Rain - Breeze 50s - Saturday was night in the AM and cold in the PM I'm done with this crappy weather.
I am the monster in your head...And I thought you'd learn by now, It seems you haven't yet.I am the venom in your skin --- Breaking Benjamin
66 degrees with a stiff wind and full sun,,,NICE!!! Perfect for me! Rain tonight so it will not dry out.
Hope you had a great birthday Rich.
Dennis, did the dog make you fall or did you just fall??
Wife just got home from Krogers and got TP and other paper products.
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Good Evening,
Happy Belated Birthday Angdevil !
Dennis, Hope you didn't get hurt from the fall!
Dougdg, My next door neighbor's weeds are actually over 6' tall! If he had some goats in there, they would be lost. I can actually see the weeds over the wall that borders our property.
Spent the day on Gate #2, Kay "helped" me today, didn't get a lot done, too many questions, "What do you want me to do?", What was this nail for, hundreds of questions, I couldn't think. I believe I'm going to go buy me a bunch of clamps, (hence a silent partner).
All is well, we are speaking again tonight.
Take care all and be safe.
Don
Mornin' boys. Drizzle and 43 along the Patterson Creek cut-off. First it was 15. Then 30. Now it's Day 43? By nature, I always suspect, never simply accept.
Did spend some time in the train room yesterday. I toned down the yellow construction paper windows with white acrylic "glare" streaks. Improved the appearance. Then I grabbed the fan brush and started popping out highlights on several bridges. On my black Bachmann bridge, dry brushing white really brought out the rivet detail. Added some foliage around the new warehouse, but I'm running out. I simply can't order what I need from Michael's or Hobby Lobby, as it's either "in store" pick-up, or I can't tell from pictures how an item might "fit" my garden. I did run all 4 lines, still with Postwar fleet. Just a few minor derailments; no pile-ups.
Stay sane.
Good morning from Jelloway Creek,
Dennis....Please be careful on that hill.
Don.... I put the last section of track in on the upper layout. Did a test run and then cut a 3 ft. section out for the Hells Gate Bridge.
Fife.... Would like to see a photo of the rivets on the black bridge when you get a chance and are not going anywhere.
Have a good day.
Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum.
Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..
Jelloway Creek, OH - ELV 1,100 - Home of the Baltimore, Ohio & Wabash RR
TCA 09-64284
73 and warming fast. Chores and vampire visit for blood draw.
Gardens look great.
Off to farms tomorrow to try and bear proof three feeders. Refill them with corn.
Buckeye, way to go.
Enjoy the day.
I have 2 spotlights working this area, with the main one coming from the upper right of this view. Dry-brushing with all top-down strokes, on all crossmembers, plates, and rivets. The rivet plates on the top side get a slight side-to-side "dusting".
Morning folks!
72 and headed to 89 today. Sunny, but potentially violent storms late tonight (11pm). According to the Mrs, a boomer came through around 5 am, luckily I did not wake up!
Dennis, very happy the fall did not injure you. Be careful! Always enjoy your posts!
Fife and Buckeye - layouts looking great!
Buckeye - you need to model the piers/approaches and cantenary on each side of the Hell's Gate. Of course this would take up all the layout space you have
DonB - my wife only participates with strict guidance - to me!
Chief - nice you are giving blood! I am sure your blood is loaded with sweet tea antibodies!
Work continues on the junk room clean out. Progress is very slow. Argh!
Fife - that looks great !!!
Buckeye - Very Nice!!
Hey all, still working what amounts to part time, but I'm working, so, yeah.....
Waiting for the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds fly over later today, we are on the flight path so we might get a double shot of both teams.......
No work on the layout - still - Spent after work at Jenni's putting the china in tha cabinet. Need to dispose of the boxes and many gavew up their usefulness yesterday. Jenni is at her house now, getting the fireplace up to code so she can burn things in it. I should make an appearance at my layout later today, I have to pull some things out and ship, some other things are heading West to Jenni's house. Then to fix the dishwasher and replace the broken handle $30 - then hopefully home. Not sleeping well and it's taking a toll on me....go figure....
Bright sun and maybe hit 60 today, I'll take the breif respite from the rain.
Back to work - and it is getting a bit busier and that, my friends, is a good thing.
Fed-Ex guy just left a package!
It's from Hobby Lobby!
JTT cattails, mini-trees, and flowering tufts!
Heh-hmmm. Yes. Well. I'll be in the train room if you need me.
Good afternoon all,
Got the Escape back yesterday. Looks brand new! Went to Aldi's for some items and then mowed wtih the John Deere. Finished up about 7 PM. Rested the remainder of the evening. Good weather yesterday and today. I hope everyone has a good day.
Spring weather arrived today. 70. Morning sun in the back of our house was nice and warm. Our neighbors were out as well. Said Hello to all. The mowers came so the grass finally got cut, there are sounds of mowers up and down the street. The fresh cut grass smells good.
Fife... The way you did the rivets looked great. On a bridge that old you need small streaks of white on the top chord to simulate where the pigeons sat for their needed break.
Bridge in position and the mainline is open to traffic.
The Tom turkeys are back cleaning up under the bird feeder today but no showing off in this steady cold rain. This time of year we wake up every day to a new place. The forest is changing so much so fast that today looks nothing like yesterday.
Did some yard trimming last night. Wet weather today. Busy day at work yesterday. I hope everybody has a good day.
Afternoon fellow distancers!
Big rain storm last night. So many lightning strikes the weather guy had to turn the feature off as the lightning symbols completely covered the rain level color plots. Son and I went outside - never heard this before - all the lightning made for a constant rumble that did not diminish for over an hour. The storm line on the national radar was solid bright red all the way from west TX to upper MI. Wowzers! Anyhoo we got about 1.5 in of rain so can avoid watering lawn and pool fill for a few days. Low 80's today - will grill some salmon tonight - sit out on the porch.
In the junk room now working on boxes of photographs. Three+ moving boxes full. Realized we have been through them once as most packages (4 x 6 prints, many with CDs or 3.5 floppy's + negatives) are annotated. Was hoping to find a bunch to throw out. Need to find a different kind of box to store them in - sort by years. I admire someone who is able to sort pictures and narrow down to a select representative few..
In the picture mess I ran across an envelope of old photos (1920's/30's) from my grandmothers stuff that she had labeled - folks that were not part of the family. I realized the woman was her best friend from early years as neighbors in Houston until the other lady's passing in the 80's. Their son's (apparently an only son) photos were labeled - infant (born in 1930) until an adult with 3 girls. Found the son's obit (2016) at a Houston funeral home and found the daughters names (would be near my age). In the process via LinkedIn to contact one of the daughters (had a unique name vs the other two) and if no response in a few days planning to call the funeral home to see if they could contact the family to see if they would like to have these photos. I got a positive family confirmation as the funeral home had a photo in the obit of the man as an infant in a baby carriage on a patio - I have the exact same photo. Very cool - hope I can make contact.
Anj - Yes - living room receptacles for a fire - if it hadn't been for SJ!
Buckeye - layout looking good!
Dennis - dust doesn't show up on TV!
MikeC - glad the Escape repairs came out well!
Back from down east. Was hot and windy. Setting tobacco on the farms. Tow big JD's with 8 row setters each. Trying to beat the guessed rain tomorrow early AM.
Hope we bear proofed timer boxes. Drill holes through the box and the adjusting slide. Put bolts through so boxes can't slide down.
Buckeye, where is the little roller thing under the bridge on piers? You showed us something when you built a bridge.
Resting now.
Mornin' boys. 53 and 100% rain today. Will be working in the train garden. Glad I was able to mow the lawn yesterday.
Buckeye- That is one impressive span! What will be underneath, river?
Roy - Good luck with the photos.
sirjames - Does your lawn service haul away the grass clumps?
Chief - Last night Jeopardy showed a picture of a Cinnamon bear. Wifey wanted to know what kind of birdseed they preferred... She is pretty.
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Fife, that was quite a list of names from the past. Not too many of us left.... Did some more outside work and planning more projects. Rested a lot. Very quiet at work but Friday will be busy. Cold around here today. I hope everyone has a good day.
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