Tracklayer, Sorry to hear about your fish encounter.Hope your feeling better soon. As an ex-over-the -road truckdriver, I've had a few encounters with bad food!Waking up in a rest area or truckstop late at night, sick as all get out simply isn't a picnic!
Been there done that, have the t-shirt!
As for everyone else, I wish all a Merry Christmas and say a prayer for those wonderful men and women in uniform, a long way from home this Christmas protecting and defending our freedom.Being a vet myself, I was once far from home at Christmas.
MERRY CHRISTMAS to ALL!
TheK4Kid
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Morning All,
I'll have a regular coffee and one of Bills' donuts please Zoe. A brisk 7F this morning with the predicted high in the mid thirties http://weather.aol.com/main.adp?location=USCT0046 . At least it is supposed to be mostly sunny today.
Lots to do today again with our Christmas shut down looming large so this will be another run through the diner morning.
Grayfox - good to see you back. Are you planning another trip to Tuckers as well this evening? Rumor has it we're to get a new road racing circuit in Palmer in the next few years so perhaps I'll soon have a good excuse to stop in there.
Der - I hadn't realized the Peco adaptors worked above the layout as well though it makes sense of the extra do-dads cast into the piece. Did you make your own linkage or is it available as well? That could solve my whole problem as the actual turnout is far enough in the corner that hiding a switch machine would be easy. Clever these Brits.
Well gotta run - lots to get done today but I'll try to pop back in at lunch time. CUL, J.R.
Good Morning, Zoe - how about a glass of Ed's OJ, cup of coffee and a nice egg croissant, please?
Thanks!
Prayers (as Garry said last night) for PC's wife and the doctors, nurses, etc. on her surgery team today, as well as for all those ailing/recuperating/getting treatments/physically/emotionally healing. And for comfort and chances to celebrate this season with your family and loved ones.
DerJohn, best wishes on the airbrushing going where it's supposed to, and not going anywhere else. You sure you're not also doing proxy MRR'ing work for Ed, too? Good that your kids/grandkids are all grown enough to not need 'shields' around the layout.
Dick, it's always good to have a meal with friends (and if you get a side trip to the LHS, that's even better, right?). Nice snowman, by the way.
Got in my order at MRR club meeting last night, including some of the Frenchman River awnings. Have to keep that afternoon sun out of our store's customers and staff, right?
Better get myself going this morning. I have an older (no remote - never had one) TV that I need to haul to work, so one of our case workers can take it by a client who can use it. Hopefully, the client's grown son will be there to help bring it in at her house.
Everyone take care of yourselves and watch the food, and finish up your special shopping (if you - like myself - haven't yet done that. ). PC, when you get time after the surgery, let us know how your wife's doing.
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Morning folks!
Cinnamon bun and some hot coffee please! Thanks Chloe!
15° F this morning in the back yard temp gauge! Chilly, but temps should rise into the mid 40° F today.
Hope your foot heals soon Jeff.
Sounds like a great dinner you are going to Dick, and it reminds me of the La Posada Hotel in Winslow, AZ. The dining room windows face the BNSF Winslow yard lead tracks and at lunch a few years ago I counted about 20+ trains that passed by while we ate.
Sorry to hear about that fish Mark and hope that you are feeling better now.
Yea Sue, most of the earth is lumpy too, so a lumpy ground goop is only a smaller version of the prototype.
Phil, looking forward to seeing some of those pictures you are talking about.
John Der, nice update on the progress report! Okay, so I guess a transfer truck load will have to do for now!
I'll join in with the prayer offerings that Garry started and Jim added to as well. May the healing powers of the Holy Spirit be with you always!
Cheers,
Ryan
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Hello All,
Chloe , please bring me a Bromo.................
I don't know what is going on around here. Maybe we are catching something off this forum. I was up most of the night, very upset stomach, lots of belching and beating a path to the latrine. What is up here anyway.
I did come to work this morning but the belly still isn't right. Just dragging myself around.
Prayers and blessing to all in need. We sure seem to be doing lots of this lately. Hopefully we will find that 2008 will be kinder to all.
Don't know how much I will get back on in the next week or so, but will try. In the meantime I want to take this opportunity to wish each one of you and your loved ones a very Merry, Wonderous Christmas (Politically correct in my book) and a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.
Wouldn't it be great to all get together and have our own "Party" at the Diner. What a blast that would be. (Toast and all) hahaha..
Well I got all the snow moved and it looks like it should stay that way for a while (I hope)
Our Christmas Cantata went really well and was well attended. We had a young lady there from a reserve east of our city who was accompanied by her Father on the guitar and she sang the "Huron Carol" first in Cree, then in French and finally in English. It was marvelous, everybody claimed they had goose bumps and there were many tears flowing. What a beautiful voice and haunting melody. The two choirs did great and even the kids primary choir were right on. And no mistakes on my readings either. Good Job----Well done.
Not much railroading getting done right now. I always plan but seem to forget how much time is taken up at this time of the year. But the "Wobbly" will wobble when it can.
Johnboy out........................
James:1 Verse:5
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Just a quick stop by for now. Zoe, could I have a cup of the hot cocoa, and put those little marshmallows in it, too, please? Thank you!
Jerry, sorry to hear about your neighbor, but as you said, his struggle and/or pain is over now and he's feeling much better. Still not one of any of our favorite things, even when it's maybe time for that person.
Ryan, got your note - thanks! Looks like your weather is finally catching up with the Midwest's. Not sure if that'd be something to celebrate or not...
Johnboy, hope you rid yourself of the queaziness thing that you've had, and get feeling better. Sounds like the Cantata was excellent and enjoyable for all.
Time for me to get back to the paperw**k - the stack is actually getting where the end is visible! Hope to have none left by Friday, when I go on 'Christmas vacation'.
Blessings and prayers for those in surgery, those ailing, and for a warm place out of the cold,
Flashwave wrote: ModelTrainLover wrote: Thanks to all for the happy birthday wishes.and the BL2 is all wheel drive. here is what the box says." Powerful motor with 5 pole skew wound armature, dual fly wheels and bronze oil-less bearings and all wheel electrical pick-up and all wheel gear drive. Heavy diecast chassis for maximum traction and pulling power, universal coupler pockets" BTW: check the gears on yours. Some of the Lifelike BL2's had a bad set of the gears going form motor to wheel. they can be replaced with Athearn gears for ~5 bucks. But if you notice your engine jerking like it;s going over a nonexistant rock and making a funny click, that;s why. Mine did.
ModelTrainLover wrote: Thanks to all for the happy birthday wishes.and the BL2 is all wheel drive. here is what the box says." Powerful motor with 5 pole skew wound armature, dual fly wheels and bronze oil-less bearings and all wheel electrical pick-up and all wheel gear drive. Heavy diecast chassis for maximum traction and pulling power, universal coupler pockets"
Thanks to all for the happy birthday wishes.
and the BL2 is all wheel drive. here is what the box says.
" Powerful motor with 5 pole skew wound armature, dual fly wheels and bronze oil-less bearings and all wheel electrical pick-up and all wheel gear drive. Heavy diecast chassis for maximum traction and pulling power, universal coupler pockets"
BTW: check the gears on yours. Some of the Lifelike BL2's had a bad set of the gears going form motor to wheel. they can be replaced with Athearn gears for ~5 bucks. But if you notice your engine jerking like it;s going over a nonexistant rock and making a funny click, that;s why. Mine did.
yes I wounder why it was doing that. I thought it needed some lubing cause this is the first time it's been used scence I don't know. though I'm really worried that I might mess up directional headlight. that sits ontop of the motor.
I took Mrs. C to the hospital this morning for surgery. 4am came early! We just got back. She is HUUUUUUURRRRRRRRTING! Got her in bed on pain meds. Looks like all went real well. Think I'm going to nap in a chair or something for a while.
Later!
Philip, really glad to hear you have your sweety back home with you and that all went well.
Hopefully with a couple of days of rest she will enjoy the rest of the Season.
Thats is great news. Rest well both of you.
Johnboy out.............
hey guys.
PC: best wishes for your wife. (now you can go out and buy trains while she is asleep)
so does anyone ahve suggestions for a track plan for a 3.5ft by 5ft folding table?
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ModelTrainLover wrote:so does anyone have suggestions for a track plan for a 3.5ft by 5ft folding table?
so does anyone have suggestions for a track plan for a 3.5ft by 5ft folding table?
Colby, have you checked in the Layout Planning and Design Forums (in the Model Railroader Forum, but not in the General Discussion forums/fora)?? There might be some possibilities in there for you (remember to check HO scale ones for 7' X 10' or so). Are you modeling in iNvisible or Horribly Oversized scale (I was thinking you were in iNvisible, right)?
TheK4Kid wrote:Hi Jeff, Sorry to hear about your foot injuries. I broke a bone in my left foot back in June(while at work), and it is just now healing totally. I have been out of my walking cast since about a week ago, and doing home therapy on my foot.I still feel a bit of pain from where it broke, but the Doc says that will subside.I've been out of work since June.My former employer let me go over my injury, and I am suing him, since in the state of Indiana it is illegal to terminate an employee on a workmens comp injury.Plus he refused to file first report of injury with the state.I have had to hire legal help to handle the whole matter, and have lived off my savings since June, and have received no compensation since, and payed all of my own medical bills, so train purchases have been cut way back.
Hi Jeff,
Sorry to hear about your foot injuries. I broke a bone in my left foot back in June(while at work), and it is just now healing totally. I have been out of my walking cast since about a week ago, and doing home therapy on my foot.I still feel a bit of pain from where it broke, but the Doc says that will subside.I've been out of work since June.My former employer let me go over my injury, and I am suing him, since in the state of Indiana it is illegal to terminate an employee on a workmens comp injury.Plus he refused to file first report of injury with the state.I have had to hire legal help to handle the whole matter, and have lived off my savings since June, and have received no compensation since, and payed all of my own medical bills, so train purchases have been cut way back.
ModelTrainLover wrote: Flashwave wrote: ModelTrainLover wrote: Thanks to all for the happy birthday wishes.and the BL2 is all wheel drive. here is what the box says." Powerful motor with 5 pole skew wound armature, dual fly wheels and bronze oil-less bearings and all wheel electrical pick-up and all wheel gear drive. Heavy diecast chassis for maximum traction and pulling power, universal coupler pockets" BTW: check the gears on yours. Some of the Lifelike BL2's had a bad set of the gears going form motor to wheel. they can be replaced with Athearn gears for ~5 bucks. But if you notice your engine jerking like it;s going over a nonexistant rock and making a funny click, that;s why. Mine did.yes I wounder why it was doing that. I thought it needed some lubing cause this is the first time it's been used scence I don't know. though I'm really worried that I might mess up directional headlight. that sits ontop of the motor.
Nope. Jsut turn the engine upside down in a foam cradle, or the packaging it came in. There's a couple of screws holding on a metal plate. Undo that. The gears will come out with little issue. Wheels and all. And there won't be any damage to the engine. Note that YOU may be caked in grease. And a decent lubing could be useful.
-Morgan
Happy birthday, modeltrainlover!
Down right cold here in SC, I thought it would be warm. Woke up to 27F, what the heck?? I thought it would be flip-flop and shorts, LOL. Oh well. Hope everyone is doing well. Looks like I have a bunch of reading to do when I get home thursday night.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Colby,
If in fact you have the cracked gear, Walthers (who own LL now) should ship replacements and probably under warranty. If you have the time, try that way though the Athearn gears work also. J.R.
please & thank you!
***Philip, sending healing thoughts to the Mrs. Be sure to get some rest yourself along the way, too. Very glad to hear the surgery went well.
***Colby, I forgot to compliment you on that sharp looking BL2. Probably the nicest scheme I have seen on one, IMHO.
Had bad insomnia last night so come morning, I turned on the TV just in time to catch a show on Penn. - Long Island RR covering late steam (including a real cool 2-10-4 with a massive tender) to early deisel. One of the best series of old film clips I've seen.
Saw the sun rise over white pastures (deep frost), then about 40 vultures circling the farm midday, and a beautiful sunset this evening to cap things off. Rob
Well, nap time is long over and dinner is soon. Meds are doing their job and she's comfortable. She thanks you all for the prayers and well wishes.
Hey Rob, that coffee looks good. Any left in the bottom of the pot? BTW, drinking coffee this late might be why you're up half the night?
GMTRacing wrote: Colby, If in fact you have the cracked gear, Walthers (who own LL now) should ship replacements and probably under warranty. If you have the time, try that way though the Athearn gears work also. J.R.
I don;t recal if they would. The gears were an issue on all the Protos of that era. But the issue is 10 years or so old. And they may not have the proper gears now. I think there was a reason I went with the Athearn parts. besides the fact that it was faster, and cost as much as postage. your LHS should know the right part.
Evening Gang: Not much to say tonight. It's been a stresfull day. We finnally got the paperwork from AARP for the insurance. We faxed it to them so we should be allright. I'm on happy pills right now and ready for bed. Our sister in law came up and brought presents for us and the family in New Mexico. She also brought a Model Power all metal train set that has something wrong with it. I guess that they don't want to fix it so gave it to me. I'll see what I can do. I've been woundering what those Model Power trains were like.
Good Night All
Evening, I'll have a barley pop Cleo
Thought I'd drop off some, sugar, oatmeal with butterscotch chips and some chocolate cake cookies with candy morsels, along with some chocolate n peanut butter fudge. Mother's had lots of help between Leroy and 3 granddaughters on the cookies.
And some more candy, bottom left are chocolate hay stacks, next is chocolate with Andes crème de methe chips, divinity, chocolate covered cherries
We're still not done with it all yet.
Oh and no need to worry bouts my waist line, my weight runs between 150 and 160, and 32 waist pants. 30 years ago I weight bout 125 to 130 and wore 28 pants. Besides we give most all of it away.
On almost local news, Mattoon has been selected for a low emissions coal power plant. That should bring a lot of coal drag on the IN/CN tracks through there.
http://www.wthitv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7514439
PC,, good to hear your wife is doing ok and resting now. We'll keep ya'll in our thoughts still.
JEFF, hope your foot has started healing up some those stress fractures are painful.
Hope all you others on sick call are feelin better too.
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Hello all. Yup, I'm still around. With work and all, I find plenty of time to come here, but, don't really have much to say.
I haven't gotten any rr'ing done. I've been pondering a superdetailing job though. I have an undecorated Athearn bb GP38-2 and would like to superdetail it. I will need your guys help. I want to get all the parts before I begin. My favorite RR is the 'Santa Fe'. So, I'm gonna base it on one of theirs. Any suggestions for detail parts for these would be appreciated.
So, how have everyone been? I've been good, even gotten 1 year older ("33", Dec. 2nd). My job is going well. No major mistakes, and most there like me, including the managers, which is good. I've also started a new associate degree program. I'm now studying "PC Maintenance Technology", which I will use to become a PC repair technician. So, I've got alot going on.
I bought me a Dremel cordless (4.8V). And, a 150 piece accessory kit. I'll use it on the project mentioned above. Any comments on using one of these will be welcome.
Ok, guys. Guess I'll say bye for now. Will return soon...LOL....I've said that before.
Hello and wow! I clicked in for some scrumtious goodies from Inch..... Thanks, Inch.
Jerry .... Sorry to learn of the loss of your neighbor.
PC ... I'm glad Mrs. PC is home. The heeling process from surgery sems to always take too long. We'll keep the prayers active.
We had dinner at the state resort park lodge with some friends. Christmas decor was beautiful (even if the policital correct folks make them leave out the word Christmas)
Colby asked about a track plan. I recall MR's "Turtle Creek Central" project that might work. I think that was a couple of years ago. The final plan should have some road switching work for the BL2. Perhaps, some of those red white and blue Maine Potato box cars from the 1950's would be good.
Those goodies from Inch are great. Yum!
happy Model Railroading
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Evenin', Chloe - just a cup of hot cocoa for me. Thanks, Garry!
back, LilRob - I was checking the Kalmbach book I have on detailing diesel locos, but I think it's the other one that has the GP-38 in it (that's the one at the in-town LHS). I'll check it this weekend and post/email you if it does have it in there. Good to hear that you have your Dremel - the MRR'er's key tool! Belated , too! Best wishes on the PC repair program - a good career field to go into, I would think.
Paul, careful what you wish for! Did I miss one of your posts, or did you get injured (so that you have the happy pills)? Hope you get rested up tonight.
PC, keep taking care of the Mrs. and let her know (as was said) we're keeping the coming for her healing and recovery.
Lee, looks like you had a frosty morning... We had some this morning, too, but I think it warmed up to the low 40's by this afternoon. Supposed to go down to freezing tonight, then tomorrow night it's only supposed to get down to 33, so maybe we're having a warming trend. No sign of Paul's heat wave of the 70's yet, though.
Time to shuffle off to bed for me. Oh yeah, got the older TV given away today. Still a while to go until I manage to get a digital TV for me.
Blessings and a good night's rest for all,
Howdy all!
Went to the local lumber yard today, to pick up what I desperately hope will be the last drywall mud we see for many years to come. BUT, and there is always a but, isn't there? - Amyjo mentioned to her brother today that she was thinking of drywalling the bedroom we are moving out of. It's good enough to sleep in, but not to run trains or scrapbook?!?!? The look on my face as she told him must have conveyed my overwhelming joy at hearing this, as the subject was quickly switched to another subject!!
We have a Super Wal Mart in the same town, and I'm sure they have mud there, but it's probably made in China of melted lead, or some such stuff. I try to avoid shopping there as much as possible, but since they moved in, there aren't many competitors left. Oh well, we all lie in the beds we make, huh? Give away the future to save 15 cents on a 2 dollar item.
But on the other hand, they did have my pictures developed, and I can't fault them there! The pics of the KCS units came out just fine, and if all goes right-HARHARHAR, it just kills me when I say that, 'cause we all know how silly that is- I'm gonna try to figure out how to upload them to photobucket, then hyperlink them from here to interface with a priority modem overide request.....Dave, what are you doing? Don't do that, Dave. Sorry, slipped into HAL mode there for a bit. Anyway, we'll see if I can do it, if not, we'll get help. One way or the other, maybe we can show what the RR engineers of today have to put up with as far as working conditions. I don't know how they do it. The Barca-Lounger driver's seat didn't even have heat OR vibrate! Silverspike mentioned he was looking forward to seeing the pics, and so am I!
On the way back home from W-Mart, saw the Trackmobile at our new ethanol plant tugging 5 covered hoppers to the NS main. Of course, I had thought about taking my camera, but got distracted and forgot it. Maybe next time.
Cox47- John Kelly, eh? I'll ask my in laws if they remember him. We have a state trooper based out of the Redkey Post named John Kelly, but he's a younger fellow. And one of the few ISP troops worth anything.
Paul B- Let us know how those metal cars are, I, too, always wondered how good they were. Probably hard to superdetail, but the ones I saw looked pretty good, and they have the weight to track well. You gonna try to repair the engine or just replace the motor with a new one? Keep us posted.
concretelackey- I saw where you sent me an off forum mail, but when I tried to open it, it wasn't there. I'm hoping it was saying that you had plenty of cherry cheesecake and you were going to ship a boxcar load my way!
OK, oh, BTW, I checked back in on the post I was whining about the other day,and JimRC was right, hurricane33 is getting some decent help from people who have actually had experience with that type of track. Now THAT'S the forum I'm proud to be a part of. We have a good group of people here, and I feel very lucky to be a member.
Gotta go, w**k rears it's ugly head.
Evening folks-just coffee thanks!
Haven't been in here for a few days. I see that health issues are plaguing a number of the regulars. My best wishes for everyone who is under the weather in any way-we've been fortunate here as the only health issue is with one of our dogs Logan having an upset stomach off & on, but he's doing ok & lets us know he's happy by "grinning" (baring his upper teeth while wagging his tail.) Dawn took him to Pet Supplies yesterday to pick out his Christmas present (bag of pig ears-chew chew) & a couple more squeaky balls for Magick the border collie.
Went to a college grad party for one of my railfanning buds Sunday-a good number of the folk I encounter where we go (Sterling) were there, & it was good to see them since I haven't been up there since the last of Sept. Also nice to talk trains 1 on 1 with someone again. One of the younger guys from a Cleveland suburb was there & we got to talking-he's an N scaler, NKP & steam person. We were talking about Berkshires in N, & I mentioned that there was a fella on the forums here that was doing a great job kitbashing a PRR Mountain in N scale by the name of Dave Vollmer. Once he heard the name, he laughed, "MIDDLE DIVISION!" I laughed too, & said, "I take it you know of him." "OH yeah!" he laughed. He was a fan!
(Looks at clock) I better hit the sack folks. But I did want to share this-found it on youtube a few nights ago. These guys are as well known in this area as anyone known nationally-they hosted old late night movies for over 40 years here & did some silly (clean) skits in between. The one in this I thought would be appropriate here is about a minute into the video-I haven't figured out yet how to make a link active here yet, so apologies since you have to cut & paste.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWBPt4cM4JE&feature=PlayList&p=F02AFE9576247D2A&index=6
Gnite folks!