I´ll second that "motion"!
Good Morning All...Its cloudy and cool here...I'll have coffee and a sweet roll please..Thank You...Not much moving on the Illinois and Southern..got a couple of small things going on work bench..gonna slip into back booth and see who drops in..You all have a good one...Jerry
Good morning ...
Ulrich... OK, fingers are crossed. .. Also, I know it takes a while for ribs to recover, so I know you have trouble sleeping comfortably. Best wishes.
JR ... Sacramento would be fine with me, too. It has been a few years since I was there. I think my last trip there was the last time I used a 35 mm camera instead of digital as I do now. I was in the cab of the SP Cab Forward, too. I recall so many great displays. ....... The Santa Fe diner had place settings and menus from numerous railroads. .... The pullman car display was really neat! A museum volunteer in a conductor uniform explained what it was like to travel in a pullman sleeper. The car is on a hydraulic system, and its motions simulate going down the track along with sound effects.
Speaking of CA ......... Where's Keith/ Who wants to volunteer for a search party?
Chris ... Glad Rerun was on his good behavior.
Ken ... With layout planning, I would suggest not getting to ambitious and complicated. Even the $3.0 million layout in Chicago Museum of Science and Industry has a 2 track mainline and not a 4 track main line.
Todd ... Great idea fo devilled eggs. ... Interesting that you are changing your layout plan, too.
Barry ... Glad you will have that surgery soon. I'm confident it will go well, but prayers will make it certain.
Ray ... Cookies were great! .... You just had to show off the big one you were going to eat, didn't you?
Jerry ... Have a good one!
Robby ... Tried the powders already. I used them on a GN express reefer.
As the diner is about to depart, AZ...... Shelley and I are actually going there. We leave tomorrow afternoon to see our daughter in the Phoenix area. .... Evidently, we will see or friend, Pat Down, at the airport....... oh, never mind..... sigh.....
Edit ... Good morning Brakie ... thanks for the Buckeye report.
Second edit ... Hello also to Bill T, Lee, Jeff, and Steven.... Busy diner today, and that's great.
Let's round up some of those MIA's.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
Mornin'.... er, ah.... Afternoon everyone!
Zoe, I still need breakfast! I'll have a Breakfast Bagel with cheese and my dark roast coffee in a FGLK mug, please and thank you!
Sacorementoe? Where the heck is THAT? Oh. someplace in Clownifornia, huh? Sounds OK as long as they get lots of snow so we all can go skiing! Nothing like new snow on the ground to say "Christmas" just like THAT first one back in Bethle.... What? No! They don't get snow there??? There goes another childhood myth!
Oh, I don't care where we end up as long as they don't serve only THAT woosey Cafe Lattedum chocolate creme Vanilla crisp coffee substitute stuff! Gotta have REAL Coffee ya know! Opps here come the
Ya know, I got relatives out in Clausetephobiafornia too. Another reason I don't go there.......
Heartland Division CB&Q Ray ... Cookies were great! .... You just had to show off the big one you were going to eat, didn't you?
Yep! But I only had one!
I went on line 2 hours ago and have been dealing with emails most of THAT time.
Best get moving!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
howmus Oh, I don't care where we end up as long as they don't serve only THAT woosey Cafe Lattedum chocolate creme Vanilla crisp coffee substitute stuff! Gotta have REAL Coffee ya know!
Oh, I don't care where we end up as long as they don't serve only THAT woosey Cafe Lattedum chocolate creme Vanilla crisp coffee substitute stuff! Gotta have REAL Coffee ya know!
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Dinner time!
Chloe, I´ll go for a steak dinner with all the works, and a Ray-sized cookie to finish it off!
Played a little with that track plan this afternoon, introducing some minor changes, like adding a track to Kenville yard and a crossover on the mountain part. If I only had the means to build something like it. This would be my layout for watching big steam hauling long trains, snaking slowly through some spectacular scenery!
I also learned a lesson. Those two "operators" are just about the right size, especially when considering the fact that most of us don´t walk down Slim Gage´s way . Those 2ft. minimum aisle width is not big enough to feel comfortable working on or operating a layout! I´d say that 3 ft. is the minimum...
Garry - congratulations on having your picture featured in the January 2011 MR Trackside Photo section!
Ray - I am with you on that coffee issue - I like it plain, hot, no sugar, just a bit of milk - no flavoring, no macchiatos, only an espresso dopio e una Grappa after a nice Italian meal!
Ken - drop me a line if you want to have the RTS file to play with.
I´ll be calling it a day now - see you all next month in Sacramento, Ca., should the move take us there!
Just a quick stop.
I've been working on the new layout all morning, but since last night.....I haven't been feeling to good. Just not much energy.
The layout is coming along. Well the main part is about done, and I'm playing with a few track plans. The middle table alone is a 4x8, and the other tables are 2x4. So it will be a half decent size.
Barry.........No problem. Just let me know when you a ready.
Garry,,,,,,,,I'm glad you are putting the powders to use. I need to do that myself.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Still raining, I guess I’m going to have a few friends over Thursday afternoon to run trains at my house, ok well maybe just look at what I’m working on. I still have stuff everywhere due to the scenery work on the layout…
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
While digging through the boxes of stuff under the layout I came across a Bachmann hopper I got back in the early 80's. It originally had truck mounted horn hook couplers. I later changed out the frame with one that had coupler pockets. I've also run across a few old cabooses, an Athearn bay window type and a Bachmann SF wide vision type. The last is an old drover caboose (no platforms) that's so old I can't remember when I got it. It has Fox trucks and body mounted horn hook couplers. The coupler box covers appear to be glued in place. There's no manufactures name to be found. I also found 11 sections of 18" radius nickel silver track, all curves that was made in Slovenia. There's still more stuff to go through.
Sir Madog,
OK on Sacramento, it was 3 below 0 in Arizona last night, enough already!
Ernie C
Evening AZ, now lets get the heck out of here!
Flo, a few beers please and I settle in to the train watching mood!
First the job interview seemed to go well. I had to take a IQ test, had 12 minutes to answer up to 50 questions. Think I did OK, I answered 38 of them. Would have done better if I could read the darn questions. Font was around 6? Then I had to take a typing test, boy that sucked! I came in at a whole 14 Words Per Minute. I was smoking!
But, April told me we are not looking for typing skills but sale ability. Interview ran long, I was scheduled to be there at 12:00 Noon, I was there at 11:40 and April meet with me right away. I was told it should take a hour. I left at 1:45 so it all most lasted 2 hours, I take that as a good sign. Made her laugh a lot and I think I got some key points about sale across. She does not do the hiring, a store manager will, lets hope I get the second interview.
Plus side is the store I was applying to is only 6 miles from me and only a 40 hour work week! Down side is base is only $10.00 a hour, but I can all earn commission. I have to sell $38,000 a month to start making commission but depending on traffic that may not be a big deal. Heck, I sold $70,000 worth of Mattress in a moth.
Oh, it is Ashly Furniture, so I would have a lot more I can sell than just mattress.
I talk about the new layout Wednesday.
Ken
I hate Rust
Ulrich ... Thanks for the comment. So far, I don't think anyone else noticed the photo in Jan. MR. ..... I had help from MR forum members including diners. Previously,I posted a similar photo in the forum asking for constructive remakrs to improve it. The replies helped. ... ... The story of the prototype, C&S 700D, can be found by Googling it. Colorado and Southern was owned by Burlington Route in the 1950's and the F7-A looked like many other Burlington units. After rebuilding, it looked like an F9-A and was called an F9-Am. Burlington had no F9-A's, and so this unit and one other were a unique locomotive. ...... The tragic wrwck of the original 700D was head-on collision with 3 fatalities. Some of 700D's crew fell asleep, and the train failed to stop for an on-coming passenger train. ...... In the 1950's train crews would be on duty for very long days, and sleeping was a hazzard because of that.
Gentlemen - last orders, please!
This place is about to close for the move to Sacramento, Caleeefornia.
The Big Boy has coupled to the Diner, the brake test has been done.
All aboaaard!
The new place is here