Good Morning ! from TIPTON IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
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BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Lee: Nice haul! That 50' auto/furniture boxcar sounds interesting.
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jeffrey-wimberly Lee: Nice haul! That 50' auto/furniture boxcar sounds interesting.
I agree there!!!
Good Morning! And we are very SUNNY today--gonna be like that for quite a few days too!! With temps going to 15C. Perfect bike riding and jogging weather!! We's be going out for a good ol' walk by the park today---
All those train/loco photos has me thinking about going out the next few days and collecting pix of some yard stuff around here-----Have a good'un
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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Good morning guys!
A cup of Hawaiian Hazelnut cafe in a C & O Mug, please.
Well, warm this weekend but supposed to rain a lot. Right now sun is shining and not a cloud in the sky that I can see. Would be nice if we missed the rain as we are just recovering from some slight flooding last week.
OH OH OH! COULD IT BE???? DO I hear what I think I do???? Yes!! YES!!! I hear Geese flying North!!!!!! Oh, ANd look! I see pussys on my *** willow tree! Sure signs of spring!
EDIT: oh look....what a shame... they blocked out part of the name of a tree because the word has a dirty connotation. Just for clarification.....the pussys are those gray fuzzy things that appear on the stalks of that type of willow tree every spring.
Whew, I need to calm down and take a breather...too much excitement not good for my heart...
jeffrey-wimberly AmanaMedicThank you, Sir... not quite up to the level set by some others around here...but I'm happy with 'em. Like I'm happy with my BB Athearn's. I don't really care for a bunch of detail. That's just that much more to get broken. I get my locos to run them, not treat them like fragile egg shells.
AmanaMedicThank you, Sir... not quite up to the level set by some others around here...but I'm happy with 'em.
Oh, I agree, Jeffrey, I have trains to run, not sit pretty in a display case. Details are very nice, but if I wanted a Faberge Egg, I'd have bought one! {Like I could afford one!}.
Lee sounds like you made out like a bit of a bandit. Too bad the one show is getting so "pricey" just to attend. $18.00 is $18.00 less to spend at a booth. And they wonder why turnouts become lower. Parking should be free. But around here if we go to the Arena to see any type of event you pay for parking in the city's parking ramps {$6.00}.
Well, guys have a great Sunday!
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Mornin' all!
Well, yesterday the wife headed off to Florida with her Aunt to go visit her parents, so now I'm a bachelor again. Figure I can get a few things done around the house, and maybe catch up on some schoolwork too. Today though, I teach, so it's about time to start getting ready for that.
Whats up with you all?
BTW, nice haul Lee!
Good morning. It's 47 and cloudy (what else is new?) and there's a chance of rain today. The high will be in the upper 50's. Didn't get much done yesterday as I was battling some kind of bug until the early afternoon. I did get a couple of new structures placed on the layout. The Bachmann Plasticville machine shop is now across the street from Ezra's gas station on the layout extension and the Bachmann Plasticville gas station is next to the Shell station on the main part of the layout. It will become the 'Pak-A-Pig Barbecue' when I get a chance to work on it. I got my sister's new Acer notebook computer up and running yesterday and got her online last night with a cell modem. It's not much faster than dial-up but it's more than she had. Now she can send emails to her husband in Iraq without having to go to my parents house to use their computer or going next door to use her daughter's laptop. Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 3/15/2009 Wind Chill: 46°F Humidity: 95% Dew Point: 45°F So Far Today High: 47°F Low: 46°F Rain: 0.00" Rain Rate: 0.00"/h Gust: 6mph NNW Today High: 58 Cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the morning... Then a 50 percent chance in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s. Northwest winds around 5 mph. Tonight Low: 48 Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph in the evening becoming north after midnight.
galaxy week. OH OH OH! COULD IT BE???? DO I hear what I think I do???? Yes!! YES!!! I hear Geese flying North!!!!!! Oh, ANd look! I see pussys on my *** willow tree! Sure signs of spring! EDIT: oh look....what a shame... they blocked out part of the name of a tree because the word has a dirty connotation. Just for clarification.....the pussys are those gray fuzzy things that appear on the stalks of that type of willow tree every spring.
week.
Cabin fever does that everytime---tend to forget those subtle signs of spring----
Hi,gang!
Sunny and mid-50s today.Almost time to pull out the bikes!
Rob, I use drywall mud for my roads and For Sale sign styrene for crossings:
Terry in NW Wisconsin
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Mornin' everyone!
Zoe I'll have the #2 special this morning, over easy on the eggs, with bacon, homefries, and some of that sourdough toast ya got. Bring the ketchup as well......
A fine morning here in the Finger Lakes. The sun is burning off the frost on the roofs and lawns right now. Currently 36°F with a predicted high of 49°F this afternoon.
Galaxy and Barry, signs of spring are everywhere. The guy across the street is raking the area by the street to repair the damage done by the city snow plow crews and i expect to hear him start the lawn mower any time now. (No lawn to mow yet but........ well that's the neighbor across the street. Sometimes he mows his lawn twice in the same day.) There have been many flocks of geese around here for the last week (Geneva is on a flyway for them and Seneca Lake is an overnight stop, except for those that now live here year around...). And a few days ago I saw a pair of robins in my yard. They have been here every day since then, so I figure they will be nesting in one of my trees.
I have 3 guys coming over this afternoon to run trains (practice for next week - we want to be able to know they will work then ) And I still have to do some big time cleaning.
Ah! Breakfast has arrived. I'll be in the front watching the switcher working.
See you all later!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
*Loiks up from homework* Geese? Thjat's nuthin. We've been hearing Sam Hill Cranes fly over.
-Morgan
Rob, I used watered down paint, that was years ago, but coloring it before hand is an idea. The asphalt roads here tend to turn grey after a few years and the striping fades fast from the amount of traffic.
Making progress on the factory walls. I'm going to do some test painting on some spare walls to get my touch back. It's been several years since I did any painting.
Jeff, Glad you are able to put those buildings to good use.
Eric
blownout cylinder Cabin fever does that everytime---tend to forget those subtle signs of spring----
No,No....I didn't/don't forget...just got Overjoyed at noticing the first signs of spring....I also noticed the grass is starting to green up nicely too!!
ewl01Jeff, Glad you are able to put those buildings to good use.
Good Morning All...Its sunny and 49 here...I'll have a big slice of Gary's Kentucky Ham on a biscuit,fried taters and coffee please...Thank You..Didn't get any railroading done yesterday maybe today..
Jeff...I can't wait for a photo of "Pack a Pig"....I'd like to see a photo of the real thing...Is Bar-B-Q good?
Lee..Sounds like a good haul at train show..I think Inch was going to try to make big show down by St. Louis this week end..Some body posted some photos of it out on main forum..
Has anyone heard from Ed? Wonder how the Oranges are coming?
You all have a good one...Jerry
Coffee in a Large SANTA FE mug, please & thanks.
**Eric, thanks for the tips. Roads back in AZ usually faded to that gray as I recall.
***Terry, what did you use to color your roads? They look excellent!
***Lee, nice catch. (CK&S...funny nickname for it) $18 at the door seems steep and might prohibit some folks from discovering the hobby, let alone buying stuff. My worth.
The rain stopped. Tank overflowed. Hopefully no flooding under the porch. Time to go do critter rounds. Rob
Rob, diluted flat black house paint I had laying around.I had to experiment to get the color. It's more of a wash than paint. Before painting I used a wet sponge (going with the traffic lanes) to smooth out the surface and didn't worry about cracks, real roads have cracks.Here is a little longer section:
Well, beginning the planning of my switching layout today (I've decided that if I can get the around-the-room run, I'll be happy w/ either a switching layout bit or a small yard. planning the switching layout now, yard next).
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Afternoon Gang: Not much going on today. I put out hay and range cubes for the cattle and came back in. I did do a little bit on the journal boxes for the new narrow gauge trucks while the tractor was warming up. I'm thinking today I might try and get down to the basement and unearth the layout some.
Mary Ann is feeling better today. She slept most of yesterday after coming back from dialysis. The dyalysis does make you tired. I napped a bit also but did manage to get out to the shop for a bit. As for me I think that if anything I'm feeling a little worse. Not mush though. I'm still doing better then Mary Ann.
Well I'd better get going.
See you all tonight.
Afternoon,
The problem with the WGH show wasn’t the prices….
The advertisement stated 200 booths and 100,000 Square Feet of train show.
The only way you can say there was 200 booths is if you count the parking fee booth, the ticket booth, the coat check booth, the police booth, the coffee booth, the nacho cheese booth……
The only way there was 100,000 sq feet is if you counted the entrance area and food court.The WGH show was shoulder to shoulder people. You couldn’t hear the presenters over the people talking and the kids screaming. The people were so packed in that you couldn’t look down the tables of the vendors. Kids were pulling the manufacturer’s trains apart or shooting them off the rails and onto the concrete floors because the parents weren’t watching their kids. It wasn’t just Father and Son’s going to see the train shows, it was Father, mother, son, daughter, grandma, grandpa, the kids next door going to see the train show. Most of the vendors thought a TYCO brown box caboose was worth $45 because its “VINTAGE”. I know why there wasn’t a gun show until next week, lets just say the guy selling the wood train whistles to the kids probably made enough money to retire and buy an island in the Caribbean. If you do go to the WGH show I highly recommend ear plugs and bring your wallet; 12oz bottled water was $4 and a 6oz cup of coffee was $2.50, we won’t even talk about a bag of chips or any other food. Most vendors had a sign that read “you break it you bought it” I had to laugh at the astonished parents whose kid just used an 80’ Walther’s autotrain car to beat the table corner or the one that was picking up box cars and just carelessly tossing them to the floor for entertainment.. However the best was the kid that grabbed a $400 brand new Lionel steam engine by the front hand rails and made a wish.Jeff, the furniture-automobile car is a round top double-door offset 50’ box car. Lettered for the Southern Pacific. It has a wood bottom and the old pin style Kaydee couplers.
So Rob's plannin' on some roads, huh? Well Rob, check this web site out. I found it a few years ago and thought it was brilliant. I'd just add a row of toothpicks glued end to end down the center of the road before you lay the foam so the road will have a natural crown to it.
Let me try that again.
Just had garbage detail to attend to--right in the middle of attempting an attempt at posting this--I posted and it went into the ether---
Had a busy day in the back yard. We spent it clearing brush of all things. After all the knock downs and cutting up and snow melt turning everything into giant mud puddles, it is dry enough for moi to go out there and try to make the yard look a little more tame---or so I think---
PC--you just gave this puppy some more ideas too---
Galaxy-We have in our back yard-Snow Drops and 3 Crocuses out, a couple of cardinals and a bunch of just arrived Red-winged Blackbirds singing much. It's good to see and hear them first thing in the morning--
Evening All!! A Stromboli and a Pepsi please! Thanks Flo.
Made some headway on the plant walls. Gonna by big, 19x16 just for the car section alone. The factory is getting it's own 3'x3' module.
Top picture is the rail car front and the back. Second is one of the sides which actually isn't visible on the module. I know I could have just made it plain but when it come to buildings I like the whole thing unless it's a backdrop building.
Afternoon, Janie - I'll have a RBF and cheesey fries, please, 'n' ThankYou!
Well, my memory's must not be functioning too well today. I think I stopped by last night, was in process of posting some comments, answers and questions (and a pic of my current layout for a question), but then either I was getting the OOPS, or else my WiFi connection was screwy, I had some bad food (oh, no, Janie - I'm sure not in the Diner!) or maybe all of the above. I come in today and can't find my post I thought I'd written lask night. So if I'm repeating myself, please excuse me - I preparing for being an official ORF, I suppose (except I need to get those naps in that I keep hearing about...)
to the Diner, Steve! Sent you an email about your Cape area LHS question (hopefully, if I didn't dream that one up, too...). Have a glass or mug of your favorite beverage on me (since we both live in Mizzery...)
Rob, I'd say those industries you mentioned for your layout sounded good (so long as they weren't the only ones - you want somewhere to ship those lava bars and such, right? You might be able to justify shipping some tankers of tar, if you have some tar pools near the volcano, I would guess. If someone else hasn't already mentioned it, find yourself some discarded plastic signs ('For sale' or whatever - ah, I see that SaronaTerry beat me to it on that), and if they're thin enough, cut them into the right width for your roads and glue them down with that other stuff Eric mentioned. You can paint it whatever you need for asphalt, concrete, or such.
And SaronaTerry - love your lumberyard - that looks like a busy and thriving yard (and love your mill, too)! You can post more of your pictures anytime you want to!
I was intending to start this weekend (but haven't yet) on burying my Kadee delayed uncouplers, but was wondering about the best spots that would be good for them. Here's the layout sections so far, and I'm thinking that the 'rightmost passing track' (connecting to the back industrial tracks) should have one for dropping cars at the junkyard dealer/transfer facility (may have changeable industries on that track) that goes off to the right about midway back from the front. But I wasn't sure what location to put the other uncoupler (for switching the back industrial tracks). I'm hoping later on to extend the lead for those - off to the right into another section, if that makes a difference in the meantime. Any ideas?
I have been w**king some on my Walthers transfer warehouse (which will be a bit too big for my transfer/junkyard location - will have to put it somewhere else on my layout when I get to expand). I had it pretty far along, but when I went to put the caps on the walls, I found out that there was way too much variation in the 'centering' on the columns that connect the wall sections together (so I had to remove all of the wall columns, without hopefully taking the sections apart from each other). Oh, whoever it was that mentioned the color of the Walthers brick, I agree - while I've seen some yellowish brick, I think that's a newer development in most parts of the country (including on my freelance layout!). So I'll be painting mine 'brick red' also. Here's the foundation (top), the wall caps (circled in red), and the two halves of the walls (with the columns mostly stripped off).
Sam, your field day sounded like a fun one.
Jeff, wanted to mention that you may need a few more of those oil tankers to keep up with refilling your Shell station's tanks. I'm looking forward to seeing what your Pak-A-Pig-BBQ turns out like.
Garry and Sawyer, nice photos of those E-units.
RRNut, good to see you in - we've been suggesting some MRR-related things to do when you don't have much/any available layout space (so you don't forget all about MRR'ing - as if we could do that!)
Chris, you may need a heapin' dose of 'artistic license' for your bayside yard, also. That's a lot of trackage, all right! And those CNW Geeps would help you remember the fun stuff, I'd think. Also, (except for that back one, which might be a bit too clean ), I think Robby would approve of those locos... And nice shot (and story) of the F-unit's view. You wanna do like one MRR'er did, and have the front of an F-unit (A) as the centerpiece of your layout room, when you build it?
Barry, I'd like to find some yardsales in my area like those ones - great score on those! And echoing Johnboy's question - does your wife know about your thirteen (count 'em, 13) additions to your motive roster? (Just wonderin'...)
Ray, sounds like your schedule needs a few more things on it, eh? Was Big Al a Dixieland player, by any chance? I'm sure he was smiling to hear you all play. Your report on getting the layout ready for your train demo matches up with what I've heard from my fellow MRR'ers. I'll let you know once I get wiring on mine done and try to show it for someone.... I'm surprised your neighbor doesn't use one of those mechanical push mowers - we had one neighbor a while back whose front yard looked great (and he used the old-fashioned push/non-powered mower).
Bill T. - NEAT OL' SHOT of that Wig-Wag signal! (Where'd you find that signal, by the way?)
Lee - Sounds like the Railfest was definitely worth your while. You didn't happen to get a second one of those team track kits (HO scale), did you? I've about decided I'll have to make my own from a pic of the old box cover shot that I snagged a while back. Too bad the WGH show didn't match up to Railfest, though.
Galaxy, hang in there, if the geese are heading north, can spring be far behind? Here, we had sunshine and temps in the 50's (I know, that's short sleeve weather for you, and sunbathing weather for Barry and Johnboy's latitudes). Supposed to hit upper 60's (F) tomorrow, too (and 70's by St. Patrick's Day). Must be about spring, with Diners posting about cleaning up their yards, eh?
Eric, good progress on your building - is it almost square? From the photos, it looks like the two are about the same length across.
Wonder how Inch and Deb are doing? They were combining celebrating their anniversary (and getting away from the young'uns for the weekend) with going to the Boeing MRR club's show in St. Louis. Guess we'll hear back from him tomorrow.
Well, I'm about caught up; now, if I can get this thing to post okay....(We'll see - saving the text now to my drive)
Prayers for healing, comfort, and a good night's rest for all you Diners and yours. I'm gonna head for home and maybe do some more on that warehouse to get it ready for painting.
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Cox 47Jeff...I can't wait for a photo of "Pack a Pig"....I'd like to see a photo of the real thing...Is Bar-B-Q good?
saronaterryJeff, watch your mailbox for a big box.
LSWrrJeff, the furniture-automobile car is a round top double-door offset 50’ box car. Lettered for the Southern Pacific. It has a wood bottom and the old pin style Kaydee couplers.
JimRCGMOJeff, wanted to mention that you may need a few more of those oil tankers to keep up with refilling your Shell station's tanks. Yeah!! I'm looking forward to seeing what your Pak-A-Pig-BBQ turns out like. Smile
Jim - Looks like we're both using Walthers modular kits! My building is actually 3" wider than it is deep. The front and rear have a half wall section inserted. .
JimRCGMO Barry, I'd like to find some yardsales in my area like those ones - great score on those! And echoing Johnboy's question - does your wife know about your thirteen (count 'em, 13) additions to your motive roster? (Just wonderin'...)
Yes she did know--I suspect a couple of them might go for her steel mill diorama---turning layout--kinda sorta--
JimRCGMOChris, you may need a heapin' dose of 'artistic license' for your bayside yard, also. That's a lot of trackage, all right! And those CNW Geeps would help you remember the fun stuff, I'd think. Also, (except for that back one, which might be a bit too clean ), I think Robby would approve of those locos... And nice shot (and story) of the F-unit's view. You wanna do like one MRR'er did, and have the front of an F-unit (A) as the centerpiece of your layout room, when you build it?
Good evening Jim, and everybody else in here...
Yeah, "artistic license" would be a must for just about anything I come up with. The original theory was instead of a bay...the "water" would be Cedar Lake. I suspect whoever drew it up never actually BUILT it. I've got a few other 'round the room designs I've found that I'm gonna start looking at closely. The CNW 6801 is rather clean. It doesn't show in the pic, but the top is well-sooted, and has some rust. I'm claiming the Marshalltown shop scrubbed it down when it was in for it's FRA periodic inspection...
By contrast, the CNW 6934 has faded Zito yellow, and the green is faded too. It also has a LOT of road grime and places where the Zito was chipped/rubbed off, revealing the TRUE CNW yellow. I've got to do a little re-work on it though. In pics, the "road grime" looks more like RUST than mud/dirt/munge.
I remember the article you're talking about. Seems like the guy was a cancer doc. I doubt I'll ever pull down the kinda bucks he makes. While I like the F's...I'd really like to have the cab and nose (complete of course with the gong) of a CNW SD40-2. That's my favorite locomotive.
Busy day here, had to go into CR with a fellow firefighter to get stuff for next month's pancake breakfast. Then, brother-in-law showed up with 3 of his 4 kids. Then had to do some maint. work on my pickup. Finally got to eat "breakfast" a little before 5 this evening!!!!!!
I think we need a buffet here in the Diner. Tonight though, I'd probably wipe it out!!!
Have a good-un!
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
JimRCGMOGarry and Sawyer, nice photos of those E-units.
actually, mine are pictures of an F9. It's all good though; they're both hood units, and I didn't really have good shots of the trucks.
ok, so I've got a thread going for my current track planning bit, and here's the current version (not going to scenik in MS Paint until all bugs worked out):
thread: http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/t/149994.aspx