JimRCGMO wrote: PC, I was figuring I could reach to the turntable side area from either the bottom right (where the door would open) or the upper middle (above the sidings). Besides, when I have a 36" reach (35" inseams), I don't have as much difficulty with the reach, even at about 50 or 52 inches elevation. When I get more time today, I'll play with the design some more - Adding a spare track in there, plus moving the factory to the leftmost track and the elevator to the middle/right one might help. That, or move the elevator to the upper siding and the oil dealer to one of the lower tracks...
PC, I was figuring I could reach to the turntable side area from either the bottom right (where the door would open) or the upper middle (above the sidings). Besides, when I have a 36" reach (35" inseams), I don't have as much difficulty with the reach, even at about 50 or 52 inches elevation. When I get more time today, I'll play with the design some more - Adding a spare track in there, plus moving the factory to the leftmost track and the elevator to the middle/right one might help. That, or move the elevator to the upper siding and the oil dealer to one of the lower tracks...
That might do it!
SilverSpike wrote: Philip - Maybe the boss has plans for you to take on more duties with all that training coming your way....hummm...
Philip - Maybe the boss has plans for you to take on more duties with all that training coming your way....hummm...
Ya know, I USED to like you!
It's either comfort food or comfort toys: I found my wife brought home the following NewRay animal set:
Does anyone happen to know what scale these things are? I do not see a scale on the box anywhere, unless it is in the tiny print I cannot read. They are way too huge for HO. Perhaps O scale or Garden RR? Surprisingly they don't look half bad, especially for the cheapo price.
Rob
pcarrell wrote: SilverSpike wrote: Philip - Maybe the boss has plans for you to take on more duties with all that training coming your way....hummm...Ya know, I USED to like you!
Hey, a true friend ain't gonna sugar coat it for ya!
And, like I always say when the w**k load gets tall...."it puts food on the table" and "gotta love that job security"...
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Cederstrand wrote: It's either comfort food or comfort toys: I found my wife brought home the following NewRay animal set: Does anyone happen to know what scale these things are? I do not see a scale on the box anywhere, unless it is in the tiny print I cannot read. They are way too huge for HO. Perhaps O scale or Garden RR? Surprisingly they don't look half bad, especially for the cheapo price. Rob
refill, please & thanks!
***Corey, you guess correctly. She has dozens of Breyer horses. Have never counted them but they seem to be everywhere. The one good thing about those Breyers is they don't require feeding like all our real horses.
I did a dumb thing: Thought I had purchased HO scale EZ track for wife's table layout, only to discover I clicked on N scale by mistake. No problem, as I can use it. But as tight as funds have become presently, I would not have spent that money on myself right now. Guess I didn't have enough caffeine in me that day...or too much!?!
Off to do water rounds bfore it gets dark.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
JimRCGMO wrote: Colby, once you get the 'puter fixed/replaced, do get one or more of those antivirus and anti-spyware programs on it - and keep the antivirus updated daily. No fun having an infested PC...Jim
Colby, once you get the 'puter fixed/replaced, do get one or more of those antivirus and anti-spyware programs on it - and keep the antivirus updated daily. No fun having an infested PC...
Jim
I think we'll only keep one on, because when the pewter place called and said that our comp was ready to be picked up they said there were 5 different anti-virus programs on there and they were all 'fighting' each other. and the memory was way below what it should had been. so they added more memory, and there was a bunch of different viruses on there that the fighting anti-virus programs missed while they were fighting.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
PC and hoople sad thing is the closest Hobby shop to me is probbaly ashville N.C. and I'm in Tn its about 65 miles away the next hobby shop is probbally nashville which is other direction about 185 miles knoxville doesn't have a decent hobby shop that does O gauge from what I've been able to find.
Cox or other n saclers what size nscale track do I need to run a 4-8-4 nscale engine with a 16 wheel tender.
Pc you can come visit anytime but what I can run will be very limited I can't even run my 72' passenger cars as not enough room so a big boy would never make it here especially in O gauge.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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rtraincollector wrote: sad thing is the closest Hobby shop to me is probbaly ashville N.C. and I'm in Tn its about 65 miles away the next hobby shop is probbally nashville which is other direction about 185 miles.
sad thing is the closest Hobby shop to me is probbaly ashville N.C. and I'm in Tn its about 65 miles away the next hobby shop is probbally nashville which is other direction about 185 miles.
So I'm driving down the road, I 69 out of Indianapolis, and I'm fighting all this rush hour traffic. It's cool, I expect it at 10 after 5 in the afternoon, right? So anyways, I'm cruising along, and up in the next lane is something you just don't see everyday. There's a train on the hiway! Actually, to be more precise, a train on a truck on the hiway. (No, this isn't going to turn into some kind of Dr. Suess thing here.)
Now I had taken my camera to work today because I knew of this old caboose that I wanted to get a pic of on my way home. OK, it's not on the way really, but thats all academic, right?
Seizing the moment, I reach over and grab the camera and, while trying desperately not to drive off the road and become some sort of weird statistic, squeeze off a few pics.
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Prototype%20Train%20Photos/11-28-070.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Prototype%20Train%20Photos/11-28-071.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Prototype%20Train%20Photos/11-28-072.jpg
Oh yeah, and I did make it to the caboose, though the sun was quickly fading.
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Prototype%20Train%20Photos/11-28-073.jpg
rtraincollector wrote: Cox or other n saclers what size nscale track do I need to run a 4-8-4 nscale engine with a 16 wheel tender.
If it's guaged properly it'll go around a 9 3/4"r curve, but it'll look like an elephant on stilts doing it!
jeffrey-wimberly wrote: rtraincollector wrote: sad thing is the closest Hobby shop to me is probbaly ashville N.C. and I'm in Tn its about 65 miles away the next hobby shop is probbally nashville which is other direction about 185 miles.Sounds like the problem I have. The nearest LHS to me is in Alexandria, sixty miles one way. The next nearest is in Lake Charles, almost ninety miles one way.
I know where lake charles is I use to live in Kinder and worked at the casino (grand casino cashutta )
Evening Gang: I had to go to Ft. Worth to the VA clinc because I ran out of one of my meds. Since I was in the city I went over to my friends house. He's the one with cancer. He wasn't there so I checked at the hospital and he had been released so I left a note for him to give me a call. I hope that he does, since I worry.
Jeff: I'm glade that you liked the card. I couldn't find one with a train. I like the photo there. It looks like late twilight.
Lee: Talk about falling in it and coming up smelling like a rose. Now I expect that you won't take advantage of the situation or the lady, will you? I saw that the Calumet has been tied up for the last time. Another of the old ladies gone.
Well I better get going.
Good Night All
Hello everybody:
I worked some more on the layout today. I layed track for a small freight yard to provide room for cars to/from Blackhawk and to/from the steel mill.
Paul: Do you still have a friend planning to build a C&S narrow guage 2-6-0. While visiting my mother I picked up a set of mechanical drawings that were with my late Dad's stuff. He purchased them in 1978 from Conway Locomotive Company in Burbank, CA. You may let me know if your friend is interested.
Another set of drawings with my Dad's stuff was for the "Titfield Thunderbolt", a small english locomotive that was in a movie with the same name. How many of you have heard of that engine?
Happy Model Railroading.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Just a tall cool glass of H2O tonight, thanks!
***Corey, fortunately my wife doesn't keep the Breyer boxes. Funny you mention wedding dress, as my wife will not bring her old one (from 1st marriage/deceased) into our new home. She said it would be bad luck. Personally, I would like to sell it and buy trains with the proceeds. We never did the offical wedding thing. Our marriage was spur of the moment after 10 years together. I figured I knew her well enough by then it would probably be alright.
***Lee, I'm thankful there are good folks like yourself to serve on ships. (I would remain green indefinitely I suspect) Hope you get the 140' you put in for.
***RT, my Bachmann 4-8-4 does manage to make it around the 9 3/4r test track, having a tougher time of it than my old Concor S-2 Northern That said, both would do considerably better on much larger radius track. If the Bachmann was pulling cars, all bets are off. My worth.
***Philip, NICE job on catching those photos. Neat sighting!
I've had nothing but good things to say about Norton Anti-virus, it's saved me a few times.
Nice pictures of the locomotive on the truck, I never have my camera ready when something like that happens.
I have the ice house almost complete, once it's finished only 20 some odd more buildings to put together, LOL.
Ok well you guys have a good night.......
Good Evening All!
Just in from shoveling that snow that Johnboy sent from Regina. Thanks! Well the Riders may have won but we didn't do too bad considering our #1 QB was out with injuries. Oh well at least the U of M Bisons won the Vanier Cup. For those south of the border, that's our university football championship.
Think I'd like that hot cider about now. Didn't realize this was a licensed establishment!
Jim, I have started negotiations with the CFO/CEO on increasing the trackage rights for the Mortimer sub. They are very delicate and must be approached carefully. I have suggested that a better place for the layout would a small upstairs bedroom. Out of the way,etc.,etc. So far though she has been very understanding and indeed generous. She gave me a Spectrum Consolidation with sound for my recent birthday and suggested another loco would be good for Christmas. When I suggested one that doesn't have sound, she said " Oh no! You must have one with sound". I think I'm on the right track here! I'm thinking of one of those PK2 GP7's that are coming out soon. Only Canadian road though is Algoma Central. I guess I could say it got lost and wound up in southern Ontario.
I'm at the starting scenery stage on the layout but doubt I'll get much done until after Christmas. Put together some of those Woodland Scenic trees and was surprised how well they turned out. They certainly didn't look like much in the package.
Read Jeff's weather report. As he has denied my request to stop posting them I have decided to be happy for him basking in that warmth. Never mind, hibrination has its advantages-more time for model railroading.
Good Night,
Dave(CNCharlie)
pcarrell wrote: rtraincollector wrote: Cox or other n saclers what size nscale track do I need to run a 4-8-4 nscale engine with a 16 wheel tender. If it's guaged properly it'll go around a 9 3/4"r curve, but it'll look like an elephant on stilts doing it!
Okay let me put this better what is the proper track radius . I'm a little confused here anyway if its 9 3/4" radius does that mean a 9 3/4" circle or is that 19 1/2" circle I forget its been so long I like my o gauge O-27 = 27" circle O-31 = 31" ect,ect,ect.
any way I have the engine now need track and transformer for it was thinking buying a cheap bachmann set basicly for the track lol.
Good evening all
Welcome back Jeff glad to hear your all right.
CNCharlie Welcome I have to agree Jeffs weather reports can be depressing but look at it this way. We can bundle up from the cold but do you do in the summer when it is hot and muggy? ood luck with the negotiations (bribery works wonders).
Fergie If you are going to Sunday River to ski you could go to Vermont and ski and be that much closer to Conway. Bethel is about 45 minutes from Gorham NH and then Conway is about another 45 minutes to the east. Have had to go down there many times over the years to take kids to Storyland big kids(2-12years) amusment park. When you come down if you go thru Farmington you will go past my house I live beside Hammond lumber.
Phillip never have that kind of luck when I have a camera always see intersting things when I do not have the camera.
Rob I hope your wifes luck turns around it stinks to watch friends and love ones when they are sick
Lee only one who has had to survive at sea would know what it takes to get some rest.
Paul hope you hear some good news from your friend soon
Weather hear does not sound to good. Tommorrow have to go to High School my 15 year old daughter is freshmen student of the month and she gets a plaque. The teachers vote in one from each class. Had one of the most uncomfortable experience in this adoption process today had to go to county jail to be finger printed. To finger print us had to go into booking one at a time, wife is in there being printed and the sheriffs bring out a bloody and banged up inmate right past her and into another holding area while the guy he was fighting with was on the other side of the room yelling at him. And I am behind two locked doors and the sheriffs are taking her prints like nothing is going on. When I go in they bring in a women wrapped in a blanket and put her in the showers. I have a new respect for what those officers deal with. At least the baby is worth it.
Night all Kevin
Good evening Folks: Kris has just made some awesome 7 grain and Rye, Date and Sunflower Seed bread, so get the butter out and enjoy!
Thanks for the kind comments on the layout progress. The “driver”, Dick, is that New Year’s resolution I made, to cover the blue desert this year. It may actually happen, which would be a life-time first for me as far as NYRs go. There’s only the upper level yards and a bit at the mid-level from the river bridge to the city left to do. CapeJim, I think I’m about at max as far as time available goes…there are a whole slew of indoor projects, some of them Honeydos, that haven’t been looked at in a while.
CNDave: to the Diner. Glad to have another CNR-o-phile aboard.
I see you’ve met Johnboy…He’s a bit heady with the RR’s win, as this security camera shot shows! (Sorry Johnboy, couldn’t resist.LOL, have a little feed of this to make up. )
Lee: So you like the peace and quite of the lakes eh? Can’t say I blame you after having to sleep like that!
RT:
PC: Really nice sunrise shots. I wondered at first if the loco was a “Green Energy” one, then I pulled myself together and realized it was just an energy company one!
Whoever it was admiring the staff...wasn’t you was it
Johnboy? You should know that the twins, Zoe and Cloe have a cousin Vinnie.
MarK: Missed a couple! LOL.
Dick: DER JOHN: Bring more wood in, you will need it this weekend.…got to do that tomorrow anyway, and it’ll be milder than today for doing that, I’m glad to say.
DER JOHN: Bring more wood in, you will need it this weekend.
JR: Didn’t know that AMI did anything but the basic track roadbed. That’s all I’ve ever seen advertised.
CapeJim: painting the roadbed after it's in place. That would make sense, since the AMI roadbed always seemed a bit sticky to me, and I was hesitant to use it because of that. Lets me use up the roll of the roadbed that I was wondering what to do with. Before you paint, see what I said about filling in the rough surface with some thing or other like FlexPaste, Scuptamold, etc. Just painting it will give an unrealistically rough finish, even in HO! On the AMI, beware getting a drill bit anywhere near it… the dreaded sticky-ness has “undesirable side effects” if you are doing wiring holes for instance.
painting the roadbed after it's in place. That would make sense, since the AMI roadbed always seemed a bit sticky to me, and I was hesitant to use it because of that. Lets me use up the roll of the roadbed that I was wondering what to do with.
By Dick.. BTW, what is on your Christmas wish list?…Walthers’ Track Bumpers, bag of 5. I’ve circled the itm in the catalogue, attached a card from the LHS, and left it on Kris’ chair!
By Dick.. BTW, what is on your Christmas wish list?
Must get ot bed. Goodnight all, and God Bless. Prayers for all in need of healing, comfort and peace.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Ya know, the things ya see when you DO have a camera! Like kittens here there and ever'where!
LSWrr- So THAT is where she went! I had heard rumors that there was one good looking female working for them! Semper Paratus!
The TSA fellow we had was 50, acted 90 and laughed 0. But all of us that had been in police work for the last 25-30 years were so grateful that the federal government could send someone who had hired in a few years back to let us know just how badly we are screwing up. Our tax dollars at work!
inch53- I will indeed take you up on the Effingham RR tour! We, well, I used to run to St Louis (O'Fallon) about every 3 months, but I haven't made the trip for 2 years now. I took a few shot at the yard that you see from 70, had some time to kill so I kinda drove around, but it's always good to have a local who knows the area. And it's neat to meet other forum members. The next time we plan a trip that way, I'll let you know, and thanks for the offer!
pcarrell- Great shots! Did you catch the name on the loco? My eyes aren't as good as they once were, and I can't make it out. Also, where is that caboose? I've seen it before, just can't place it. I used to live just off of 69 at the 40 MM exit, and when i was there the track just north of the exit was a very busy NW main. The strangest thing I ever got a pic of was a 5" 38Cal Destroyer gun mount on it's own special train flying- I estimate it was running 70MPH at least- west. I figured the Russkie's had made it to Illinois and they were gonna try to hold them at the line!
Well, Amyjo is calling on the tx, better go now.
heres just a couple more you missed I have those plus about a dozen including
Evening, Chloe - I'll have a cheeseburger,
cheesey fries,
and a root beer float for dessert/beverage.
Thanks!
pcarrell wrote:So I'm driving down the road, I 69 out of Indianapolis, and I'm fighting all this rush hour traffic. It's cool, I expect it at 10 after 5 in the afternoon, right? So anyways, I'm cruising along, and up in the next lane is something you just don't see everyday. There's a train on the hiway! Actually, to be more precise, a train on a truck on the hiway. (No, this isn't going to turn into some kind of Dr. Suess thing here.)...Seizing the moment, I reach over and grab the camera and, while trying desperately not to drive off the road and become some sort of weird statistic, squeeze off a few pics.
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PC, that looks like you've found a cross between an SW-7 and the prototype for Athearn's old Hustler loco! Not - as you said - what you expect to see going down the road!
Oh, here's a variation of one layout design I'd been playing around with a long while back (for taking over my current bedroom), modified to 11 X 11 (my room is about 12 or 13' tall, actually). Main drawbacks for me are the shortness of the run from the top part to the other town, and the 3-1/2' reach for the lowermost tracks from the inner area. Guess until I get a house with a basement (or is that a layout with a house covering it?), I won't have all that I'm looking for on my layout expansion... Ah, well.
Colby - I meant one antivirus program and one anti-spyware program (not any more of each), but I think you would need the first to protect against infestation by some of those viruses (virii?), and the latter to protect some advertiser (or worse) from sending along your personal information/password keystrokes, etc. to somewhere out there on the 'Net. You're right that you don't want more than one of each, and I'd agree with Jeff that Norton isn't strong enough for your antivirus program. I think AVG has been one of the good antivirus programs that isn't highly expensive, but some of our PC-using Diners can suggest more recent programs that might be better/affordable. Don't economize too much on the antivirus program or anti-spyware program, for the reasons that others have already mentioned. (My )
Lee, at least you're finishing some of your buildings! (More than I can say...)
CNDave, yeah, it sounds like you have a keeper, if she doesn't want to 'just' get you another loco for Christmas, but thinks it has to be with sound!
Paul, hope you hear back from your friend fairly soon.
DerJohn, thanks for reminding me about the AMI 'pre-painting prep.' Nice thing is, I have a bag of Sculptamold (unopened) that I could use for that. Does Walthers just make the N scale bumpers in 5-packs? The HO ones are in a pack of 12, if I'm remembering right. I'm still assembling my first package of them and I'm not all the way through yet. Liked your cat shots, too.
Well, got to get ready for bed, so I'll head for home now. Everyone take care of yourself and loved ones (furry or otherwise, Colby ).
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Jim CG....... is that one of those light, healthy, bed time snacks??? Wow! The layout plan looks good. I might add a run-around track at each industry so the engine is not at the wrong end of a cut of cars. I don't know if you have room for that. Other than that, are you behaving yourself, Jim?
Cheers to everybody!
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
My 2 cents on curves: I went to Home Depot and dug through the pile and picked the best 1"x2" I could get. I drilled a hole in one end and laid out 42" mark (from the hole) 38" mark 36" mark and then a 22.5" mark. Then I drilled a hole in each of those marks large enough for a pencil or a felt tip marker to sit in. Proto type mainlines back in the days of steam used 41 degree radius curves. The NMRA web site has a chart that translates degrees to radius inches (half the circle) and it's broken down in several scales from O/TT to Z scales. My last big HO layout I used 36" curves, the long passenger cars and my mallets handled them no problem and the passenger cars looked natural as they went around the curve. Anyway I use a short deck screw to hold the end of my stick in the bench work as I swing my arc. On the curves where the stick extends out past the bench work I took a 2"x4" with 4 short 2"x4" legs as a base and secure the stick to that while I swing my curves. If the mallets can do it a big boy can do it.
Why is it when I volunteer information it costs me 2 cents for my thoughts and when asked it's only a penny for my thoughts?
Pretty rough out on the lake this morning, well I should say looks rough from my office window, LOL.
90% of the Ice house is assembled. I left a pile of lumber stacked up in the basement with some hand tools and power tools. Hopefully the dog, 2 cats and/or the 2 snakes that lounge around the house all day while I'm at work will take the initiative and build my bench work.
L.S.&W. Stands for the Lee, Samantha, & William Railroad (Me, my daughter, and my Son).
I guess since I took up half the page I have to buy lunch today.....
Lee