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Good Morning All: Today is a good day and I'm feeling good since we had a get together last night. Every Tuesday we gather at Steve Barkley's and play trains. My job was to clean track and the best way to do that is to get one of the 'ticks, since they have the most pick-up wheels, and drag several track cleaning cars around - gives me a chance to start operating first. Steve is throughly convinced that he is helping us live longer because he is reducing our stress level and introducing laughter in to our lives. We really have a good time. Ya'll may have heard of Steve as he is now a published author. He wrote an article for MR that was about the "high tech signals", it was in the same issue as the "mexican hat canyon" article by Malcom Farlow. LUPO: I was showing Mrs T the differance in the color of the trucks last night and that was when I noticed the difference in the red on the locos. I've owned these locos at least a year and never noticed the difference before. The red on the Intermountain is a darker red the the one on the Genesis. I guess maybe I am not the one to talk to about color, but I do know somethings. I would know more, but my halfthimers kicks in every once in a while. Just out of curoiusity what is your language, isn't english your second one? As Ed pointed out with all of those steam locos do you worry "Let's see, does this black engine with white letters match the black with white letters on the rest of my roster?" Several weeks ago some one started a post about the bright axels on the BLI 4-8-4 and how he was upset about the axel not being painted. What ticked me off was he didn't even own one, I've got two of them and it doesn't bother me. When I've got a loco with nine to fourteen cars behind it I'm in hog heaven and I can't see the axel ends. John: We'd like to meet your brother from "across the pond", how's that for an English expression. The last time I met someone from the UK, they kept referring to me as "the guy from the colonies". We planned a tour to England, Scotland, and Whales, had 17 ladies signed up and then along came "desert shield" and in two days everyone took their money back. We never planed another trans-atlantic tour. The nuts sound good to me, I need something to munch on that doesn't go to my waist. I'm starting to sound femine, too much housework I guess. ED: Why do you think that track should only be laid once? I've laid the same piece of track up to six times because it didn't suit me. I use Elmer's white glue mixed 50/50 with water to hold the track down since Atlas code 83 doesn't have spike holes, in about a week or two I go back and drill holes and put the spikes in. Sometimes I have to use glasses of water to make sure that it lays smooth on the cork. If I want to move it all I have to do is slide a putty knife under it and it comes right up. Look at Noah's last couple of post. In my yard that I laid in the last couple of weeks the track spacing goes from 2 1/4 to 2 7/16 but you can't see it because the cars get your attention. I didn't want to shorten the radius on the leads so wherever the 30" rad went, thats where the stub was laid. I did find out that kadees uncouple on a 30" rad just like it was a straight track and will also work as delayed uncoupling. This is my first layout with this big of a radius and it sure is nice, I'm used to 18" and thinking 24" is large. Tom: I enjoyed talking to you last night and look forward to seeing your layout as you've got about the same size train troom as I do. I always enjoy other peoples layouts as they solve problems different then me and a lot of times I didn't even think about that as a solution. Over the years I've been able to gleen a lot of information like this. Big_Girl: Mrs. T's sister called last night and they are comming over for the weekend so that puts the new recipe on hold. I don't try anything new with company in the house - it's too expensive to pay for all of their eat out dinners when supper is a feasco (SP). Boy, I sure am wordy today. Let me get off and go to work. Have a blessed day and remember SANTA FE ALL THE WAY Bob
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