Hello my brothers of the rails,
I just wanted too check in and say HI and to let you all know that I'm still in the hobby and will be here more often when the good weather returns and I can play with my layout.
I still have the passion for it and miss it very much, if I had finished the train room before winter set in I wouldn't have been away from it for so long but I did learn that I love this hobby because my interest only grew in the absence.
Hope all are well, As Arnold S would say..."I'll be back"!!!!
It's good to see you back. I hope you're doing alright.
MadSinger
Good to see you're still around!! Hope to hear from you soon!!!
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Glad to see you're still kicking Jesse. Been missing seeing your posts, and your layout.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Right back at ya brother!
Glad to know you are still breathing, was getting worried there! and yes it will get warm soon, i hope!!!
Chuck & Heather
I saw daffodils in bloom, and they're getting the local excursion train ready for its season! Spring is comin' soon!
Good to see you posting again.
Jesse, miss talking with you. How the box I did for you doing?
Ken
I hate Rust
Hi Jess, It is great to hear from you.
Is the snow down below the top of your windows yet after all the snow you Easterners had. ?
Not much has changed since you last checked in. The battles still rage between the Not Normal scale and the HOnorable scale.
Then there is the continuing war that is raging between the DCCers and the DC crew. As I grow older it all looks like so much fluff.
I enjoy my Railroad and the way I do it. I believe the same as you do. Everyone is intitled to their opinion. And I think for the most part we are all interested in how the other guy does his. Yes I am interested , that doesn't mean I want to copy.
Tom and several others and myself have made a decision that we are not moving to DCC, and that decision suits us and we are happy with it. And so it goes. I don't think you have missed much other than not being able to get into your train room because of the cold. I hope it all weathered the winter OK for you.
I will be looking forward to your progress in pictures and word.
Get-r-dun my Brother of the HO nation.
Johnboy out..............................
May the Rails never be Silent.
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Hi Jess!! Did you get to do any more artwork on your cars? Looking forward to more freight cars for the "Jesse Chief"!!
Ken that box car is used for my standards when I rework one, I bought a diet type scale that is used when people diet and it weighs the cars down to fractions of an ounce so that is how I'm weighing them.
I love that box car and the first thing I need to do in the spring is get metal wheels and better couplers on all my best box trucks.
Greetings John Boy,
Yup my train room is doing better than last winters catastrophe, at least the layout is dry and not under a mountain of ceiling debris.
Well you can sign me up too the "Not going too DCC", can't afford to do that and I don't mind the DC, it is more traditional too me.
Wow guess I really didn't miss that much!
Thanks for the update.
Hi Lou,
Well I haven't been able too get anymore artistic cars done yet this winter but that might all change now that I'm laid up for a month with a shoulder problem that came up due to my work as an Emt.
Happy to see you replied to my post, I do miss the brother hood here and I'm going to catch up now on some posts and check out the newest pics here.
Thanks for thinking of me brother.
Well my friends, no sign of flowers too be seen up here in the "Frozen Hell" we call New England yet,
I have the usual 6 feet of snow all over the place and these are not snow banks just the accumulations from the past few storms, I'm still trying to get too a warmer climate and I will never give up the fight until we do.
I do have plans to finish the heat delivery system in the train room if we are here for another winter, the housing market is really bad right now and to sell it right now I'd lose my shirt, pants and shoes in the deal.
I've been planning a few changes to my layout come spring and one of the things I want too do is finish my back drop and replace the military Quonset huts with real building kits, kind of update my buildings AND I'll be trying to start my first passenger train and I'm sure when it comes time to buy some passenger cars that I'll be able to find some good advice here.
Well my friends, I'm off to go lay down, these darn pain killers really take the wind out of my sails, I tried going without them and boy was that a stupid idea, I have a month of PT ahead of me but so far no surgery in my future.
Be well my Brothers of the mini rails, I'll check in more often now that I'm a shut in...he he he !
Jess Red Horse.
Hello Jesse yep spring is on it way. Its here in northeast Ohio it was in the 70's over the weekend and rainy. And now it's 43 and rainy the rain has stop for a day and now it's back. The snow is not the problem now it's the high water from the snow/rain. If you guys still have that much snow. I would get ready for the water when it starts to warm up. And to help with the shoulder lift one boxcar 10 times a day for 5 days then add one boxcar a day till better. Hope you feel better soon Frank
I like the idea of using boxcars for rehabilitation for my shoulder...LOL!
We had two warm days in a row and the water was flowing like a river through my back yard, it is amazing how fast the white stuff can melt and turn into another problem all together.
And when it refroze it forced a lot of things on my property to split open due too the wetness refreezing, my wifes planters bench split right in two because the water soaked into the frame of it and when it froze it was done for.
My drive way went from a swimming pool too an ide skateing rink and my wifes tiers are now frozen in 4 inches of ice, I'm going to chip them out before she tries to move it and rip the rubber from the rims.
Hope everyone is warm and well.
Don't you just love freeze thaw cycles--meanwhile we are having more rain and lots of wind--neighbour down the street from us has two poplars down that we just got cut up a bit so he can get out into his backyard--had to drag one of the trees down off his garage--luckily the garage didn't cave--it has a lean that was such that the tree couldn't do any more than it did!!
As for rain well--we had 3" three or 4 days ago, then a 2" rainshower in one hour a couple of days ago then yesterday we had 3" again and today another 2"----and I'm getting a pontoon boat at this rate!!
Have a good'un--and please watch that ice!
Hi Jess: Good to have you back. I'm looking forward to more of your posts also.
Four inches of ice! You are going to have to do alot of chipping there. My Jeep station wagon got frozen in way back in my youth. I tried to get it out but finally gave up and waited for a thaw.
Having one bad shoulder I decided too use my propane torch to melt the ice around the rubber and I didn't even set the car on fire!!!!
Red Horse Having one bad shoulder I decided too use my propane torch to melt the ice around the rubber and I didn't even set the car on fire!!!!
Dang that's cold-----
blownout cylinderDang that's cold-----
I guess! With 6 feet of snow in his yard, and vehicles stuck in the ice, it's like he lives in another state than I do. I still have a 6 foot high snow bank from plowing, but our driveway has melted clear for the past couple of weeks, especially with the 50 degree days since last Saturday in the upper part of New England.
What a difference just being 70 miles west can make.
I'm trying to model 1956, not live in it.
sparkyjay31It's okay Jesse. I live about 2 hours from you and the snow is still better than knee deep. But the sun will be out tomorrow! Yes it will, even after Ma Nature dumped another 8" of the white stuff on us today! Spring is coming.
Sparkjay and Jesse, why don't you guys take a break fron that frozen north country and check out our club Show and Open House this weekend Mar 21-22 in Hingham, MA www.ssmrc.org or event info http://www.ssmrc.org/events.htm Sure to have a great time, I know I always do.
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org