RYAN! TELL ME THE DAY BEFORE IF THERE IS A MEAT SPECIAL!!!
I gotta go fetch some reefers... and some steaks...
Mark
Hello again ....
Here's the bird's eye view.
Jeff, many of the cars and trucks were from Walthers mail order. The red convertable is also a '57 Chevy. The male figure driving the convertable is all smiles over the female figure in the passenger seat.
Ryan thanks for the remarks. There's a 1/87 chef in my restaurant looking just like you. Anyone can PM to me if they are interested in the Friday evening "church meetings". I like the progress on the roundhose very much.
You might imagineer a use for the BN ex-GN dome car. The BN used one in exuctive trains in the post Amtrak era. You'll have to dream up a reason why they are in North Carolina. I kit-bashed a Bachmann Santa Fe dome into a GN dome, and a year later Walthers announced they would produce the Empire Builder with such a dome. One of Murphy's Laws pertaining to MRR'ing is that the products are announced susequent to weeks of kitbashing a model. Oh well.
Jerry, the station was a kit. I think it was an Atlas main line station or something like that. I recall it's really a B&O prototype.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good Morning all. Coffee please.
Finally some sun and warmer weather. It's supposed to hit around 60 today.
Started working on another small structure.Had a pack of blank DPM wall units plus a couple of unit left over from other bashes.I deceided for the roof that I would use V-groove plastic applied in sort of a random pattern to go along with the bash theme.I'll post a pic when I can borrow a camera.
Ryan-thanks for the comments on the pics I posted. I appreciate it.
You're roundhouse looks great and the other pics are good as well. What era are you modeling?You could use corregated metal for the roof.
My wife made another batch of chocolate muffins so I brought some in for all to enjoy.
I'd like to stay and chat a while but I have some important business to attend to so I'll catch up with all of you later.Have a nice day. NJ Bob
Ever feel like this?
Flashwave wrote: I looked, only saw 1 wheelchair. Saw an Oxygen hose, but now leg cast. I had coatsleeves velcroed across my shoulder, maybe we passed.
I looked, only saw 1 wheelchair. Saw an Oxygen hose, but now leg cast. I had coatsleeves velcroed across my shoulder, maybe we passed.
Don't know who that was, but I know who it wasn't!
afternoon
Hey guys! I'll have a RBF (root beer float) and a pineapple and ham pizza.
I have layout pics on my new (really used) digital camera. My mom got a new one over the holidays and scence I used it more than she does I have her old camera. I just need to upload the pics.
JimRCGMO wrote: Avenger, as for Chloe - nope, usually she just works the evening shift and lets Zoe cover the daytime. She must've just been slow getting away that day to head for home, I guess. That, or you're confusing her with her twin, Zoe. They're almost identical - when Flip comes by the Diner, ask him and he can tell you how to tell them apart...
Avenger, as for Chloe - nope, usually she just works the evening shift and lets Zoe cover the daytime. She must've just been slow getting away that day to head for home, I guess. That, or you're confusing her with her twin, Zoe. They're almost identical - when Flip comes by the Diner, ask him and he can tell you how to tell them apart...
Well, from what it seems, this story will probably bring up a sore spot from some of you.
Have any of you watched "24"? You know, Fox?
No?
avenger wrote: JimRCGMO wrote: Avenger, as for Chloe - nope, usually she just works the evening shift and lets Zoe cover the daytime. She must've just been slow getting away that day to head for home, I guess. That, or you're confusing her with her twin, Zoe. They're almost identical - when Flip comes by the Diner, ask him and he can tell you how to tell them apart... Well, from what it seems, this story will probably bring up a sore spot from some of you. Have any of you watched "24"? You know, Fox?No?
Terry
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
Afternoon all
Paul and JR I have been in but just sitting in the back booth listen'n and watch'n.
Ed 50's and 60's huh,well now you know that is shirt sleeve weather up here and how about going to Port Huron and watching the ice flows since we are having the warm up for a couple days. Remember what it was like???
Flip had said that what Deb doesn't know won't hurt him.
To all with the pics. They really look good!!!!
That's about it
Best to all on sick call and those recovering
Talk to you later
Duke
"Don't take a wooden nickel,because it isn't worth a dime" by my Dad
"There are only 3 things you need out of life:A gentle grade,the wind in your face,and cinders in your hair.....But keep an eye on the water glass!" Jack Evans
saronaterry wrote: avenger wrote: JimRCGMO wrote: Avenger, as for Chloe - nope, usually she just works the evening shift and lets Zoe cover the daytime. She must've just been slow getting away that day to head for home, I guess. That, or you're confusing her with her twin, Zoe. They're almost identical - when Flip comes by the Diner, ask him and he can tell you how to tell them apart... Well, from what it seems, this story will probably bring up a sore spot from some of you. Have any of you watched "24"? You know, Fox?No?NOW I get it!!!!Good one ,Avenger!Terry
Struck Gold!!
Chloe, some cooca and a slice of apple pie.
Torn between a T55 and a Kato SD90/43 MAC...
Ryan, Merchant's row I came out good. I'm going to wait until I get a full sheet of signs before I print them then I'll take some pictures to share.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Just a tall cool glass of water for me tonight. Already ate at Longhorns (Salmon...Yum) and I am still stuffed. Paid for half the total with those winning raffle tickets from a month ago.
***Garry, do they make "screaming people" sound tracks? I am going to need something like that for my Soylent Green plant, even if I have to create my own.
***Ryan, for most of the time I lived in WA state, there were tracks right behind my appartment and several times a week trains would rumble buy, usually laying into the horns if they saw me. Sometimes they would go under the highway to the rock quarry. Always BN freight locos. Still have some pics of them.
The Wildlife Wonders gal finally dropped off her trailer this afternoon so I can start getting our 3 older Zebu heifers use to it. What a sweet girl.
My borhters finger (bone infection) is still a mess, but otherwise he is doing fine. Still on IV antibiotics for another couple weeks.
The MIL managed to manipulate enough folks to go get herself a car. Wonder how long it will be before she crashes & burns, literally & figuratively. Nice to know there is now a manic nutcase with ealy Altzheimers & a stroke victim (who only makes right turns) and who both live in an assited living facility "out on the road". The daughters have done ALL they could for them....they are truly on their own now. (Rant is over)
Hope everyone is doing well tonight. Going to go unwind now. Rob
Today I was out on patrol with my camera when I found the old REA building in downtown Cleveland. I posted a few pictures of the building in my WWW button below in the "Railfanning Ohio" album. I also took 2 pictures of the Essrock Cement plant, only 2 rail cars were there waiting for a load of cement. Then the battries went dead in the camera.
St Mary's Cement had 20-30 rail cars waiting to be filled and 7 more just off the property staged to enter the plant.
We were also stopped by a train load (40) of empty corn syrup tankers leaving the chocolate factory (Solon, OH).
Evening Gang: Well the doctor said that I'm in great shape for the shape I'm in. NO kidding he said that I have no heart problems and should see him in 6 months. That was really great news. So now that's another worry off my mind. I spent the morning at Six Flags taking my CEU's for my electrical license. I have to do this every year at this time. It was a bit of a job getting up a 5am and making that drive again. I must say that it was good seeing the gang again. I spent about an hour talking to and answereing questions from the guy that took over from me. I think that he is realizing what I had to put up with. I almost feel sorry for him. Boy, am I glad that I got out of there.
Lee I just read on the boatnerd site that the Hollyhock pulled the last bouy. I guess that wraps up the shipping season except for the few last attempts to get one more paying load in.
No MRRing today. Tomorrow I maybe able to get to the basement. If I get in Mary Ann's way a bit I'll be bannished there. It's a plan anyway.
Good night All
Good evening Diners: I trust you all have had a good New Years'; and may I wish you a Blessed Christmas, if you are on the Julian calendar!
I've a few update photos, as the battle against the blue desert progressed over Christmas, and a massive ballasting offensive is in it's third day.
First of all, this area now has roadway, but lacks paint on same.
Then the yard and loco service area has ballast and gravel. These pics are of the pre-glued ballast, and the tower is the one from another part of the layout!
Between the end of the yard, and the mobile module with the viaduct that spans the train room door, there is a strip of foam that carries the main line, but is not part of any scene. It simply carries the track, that's all. I've now painted it to match the white walls of the room, and I hope it's less noticeable than when it was blue foam. I couldn't get the photo to come out matte. Here's the strip, and with a loco in transit.
DCC question. Can decoders lose their programming if not used for a few months? Several of my small fleet of locos no longer respond to the Recall button. I can't believe the wheels are that dirty they are not getting any signal.
Here's a puzzle. I priced a small packet to send to Palmyra, NY. $8.20 Air, $6.90 surface. The chap who wanted it never replied to this cost info, so I told the 2nd. String fellow in Omaha he could have it, and I'd price the mail for him. $6.20 Air, and $4.85 surface! I think the PO makes it up as they go along!
NJBob:
Where do you guys get all those animated smiles and train gifs?
The transfer caboose reminds me of the WSOR one that Noah showed us in the old Coffee Shop. I like the wood loads too! The uneven pilasters on that brick building add a lot of interest to it.
Ryan: Any chance of adding that Brisket of Beef to t he main menu?
Rob: Sorry to learn of the baby goats. Disappointing, but in the long view, maybe they wouldn't have made it anyway. You feel so helpless, because if you had been there, you would have prevented it.
Midsomer Murders in about 15 minutes, so I'll close.(do you get that too, CNCharlie?) Good night all, and God Bless. Prayers for all in need of healing, comfort and peace.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
***Der, in your photo (below) it looks like a pretty good grade? Is it, or is it just a trick of the camera? Curious. -Rob
Paul,
I'm glad the Doc gave you a green light on health, I go in tomorrow for my second blood test, doing a 3 month blood monitor on me to see what the heck is going on. I get a physical every year to monitor me for health issues due to working on pollution clean ups and freighter boardings. My blood work last november said my scores were all over the charts.
The Canadians and the Americans will run up until there is a hard freeze on the lower Great lakes or they are forced into dockside availability (down time for maintenance, but no dry dock time). Rumor control central said: mid January the first few will go into dockside availability. You ever read the Dune novels? "The taconite must flow", Ohio ports recieve 790 million tons of taconite a year. I know here in Cleveland the steel plant can consume a freighter load (approx 26,000 tons) of taconite in 24 hours and they will welcome any freighter.
We still have buoys out there; we swap out the regular buoys for "ice" buoys. Less cross members for the ice to build up and capsize the buoys.
Der-nice shots of your layout.Good work,I especially like the grade you put in.Thanks for the compliments on my pics.
I brought some chocolate muffins to the diner this morning-did you get to try one? Talk to you later-NJ Bob
Garry, I love that station. Your city scene is so great. We haven't designed our town scenes yet. Your detail makes me realize how little I have thought about ours.
Goal #1 is to finish the scenery that is holding up track laying.
der, I enjoy your updates. That must be a large room. I can't imagine how long it would take if one was working alone.
I had less trouble getting online this evening.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Good evening Coffee Clubbers,
Another beautiful day down here in Paradise. Warm but bearable during the day, has probably cooled off into the 60's this evening. Just great, wish it would last longer.
"Big Mo"-mentum is still missing, but at least ‘Little-mo"-mentum is back. I ran more loops with the train yesterday and today. I fiddled with the lead truck but couldn't find anything amiss. Screwed around with the switch and couldn't get any progress either. So I finally took the easy way out..... and turned the locomotive around and ran laps in the opposite direction!! That worked great.... Until the loco found another (different) switch to pick. This time a little adjustment with the needle nose pliers applied to one of the points did the trick.
Duke: How about going to Port Huron and watching the ice flows since we are having the warm up for a couple days. Remember what it was like???
What I really remember about river freeze-ups was from Ft McMurray, Alberta. The Athabasca River flows through there (the Clearwater River joins it at Ft Mac) and it freezes up solid (probably 6-8 feet thick) during winter. "Breakup" usually comes around April 15th, and is quite a spectacular event, with huge blocks of ice being thrown up and jumbled on top of one another. Then there's a moment where the ice starts to run out and chunks continue coming downriver for about two weeks or so.
They actually have a lottery to pick the exact moment of the breakup. They have a large weight (like a barrel filled with sand) sitting on the ice right under the main bridge. It has a wire leading up to some type of recorder on the bridge. When the ice breaks enough that the barrel sinks, it trips the recorder and that's taken as the official moment of breakup.
Der - The layout's looking real good, John. You're putting me to shame.
That's about it from down here. Catch you tomorrow.
Ed
Thanks, Ed. Just rub it in for those of us who are freezing our backsides off up here.
Boy, you guys write alot! I'm not even gonna try to go back and catch up, the last page I read was 78 or something.
Took Hawaii Boy back to Indy International Sat AM around 0544, we drove right by the track where CSX had there big crash. 24 hours later and we might have seen it. He got off the ground at 0705.
I had it planned that we would go to the Odyssey Map Store when it opened at 0900 Sat, then head to the WGH train show at the fairgrounds after. We hit Starbucks around 0738, as we were eating one of the best blueberry muffins I've ever had, the Boy texted and he was already on the ground in Detroit, took about 45 minutes total. Amazing. Anyway, we headed to the Map store, and Amyjo asked what's that sign in the window about new hours? Without even looking I knew what it was going to say, and sure enough, they are closed on Sat now. So we went to the fairgrounds, got there around 0840, figured if it opened at 0900, we could relax and still make it, but it opened at 1000. So we ate at the Waffle House in Anderson-scattered, smothered and peppered- and came on home. Ah well, still plan to hit the show in Ft Wayne on 2-16.
We are still getting back into our regular routine after all of the holiday guests, today I picked up my Atlas SW1500 (Frisco) and brought it in, need to get some measurements of it with some cars attached to see how long my trains can be, and how long my sidings need to be. Also, I just like to see it sittting around with cars behind it, even if it isn't running on live track.
Amyjo chased down an NS freight today, snapped some pics of it with her phone-that is still weird- and e-mailed them to me. They turned out pretty good, they were the same units I shot the other day, ex-CR SD40-2 6163 (the CR on her still shows through the black paint) and SD70 2537. I told her she is a good wife. On 6163, the running lights on the nose are either covered over or have a large square of black paint over them. I never noticed this on NS units before, gonna have to check some pics to see if that is normal.
Take care guys and gals.
Oh, hey everybody- check out Ed's pictures on the link he has on his posts. Pretty neat stuff. Especially the Route of the Scorpion shot, reminds me of the 50's SciFi flick "The Black Scorpion". Come to think of it, it was based in Mexico too. Looks like Ed could do a sequel, and even if he films it in old 8mm, it can't be any cheesier than the original! But boy, I sure do love cheese!
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Morning All,
32F this morning and very damp. Made for an interesting drive as the windows all froze immediately I started to move. I'll have a regular and one of Bills twisted donuts and while we're about it, how about one of NJBobs' chodolate chip muffins for a snack later?
Tidied up last night in the hobby area while I worked on making a Bralick building 3" higher witha spacer of kydex. Kydex is polystyrene sheet with an embossed finish that looks sort of like cast concrete which will work for this application. I am having trouble getting the sheet to bond to the plastic so I've tried some of the racebond ACC we use on the glass bodywork at the track - we'll see if what holds together at 150mph works on buildings as well.
Ryan - that round house is going to be outstanding. The pits look just like the ones that got filled in on our museum roundhouse - just deep enough to make working under a locomotive a real misery. we're still trying to figure out how they had the transfer table installed as it is all gone, but we have hopes of reinventing it. I love the detailed interior girders you've done.
Der - you are putting the rest of us to shame with your progress. I borrowed Eds' ambition brick wall and haven't touched the track or ballast in months. Just waiting for inspiration, right?
Paul - glad the report from the doc was good. Six Flags lets you do your CEU's there or do they entertain a hope that you'll come back and consult?
Wish me luck I go to the kidney doc today to see what if any progress I've made. Hate going right after Christmas because of all the sweets my massive sweet tooth couldn't pass up. at any rate it's time to pick up tools and get on with it. Laters, J.R.
Holy Smokes and good morning! All
CaN'T BELIEVE HOW PROLIFIC EVERYONE HAS BEEN THIS PAST WEEK...
Der: Excellent progress and looking very good
Bob: again excellent work and beautiful scenery
Garry:
Jeffrey: Where did you get that depressed flat car? I've been looking for those for some time.
Paul and Lee: Did you guys check out the Youtube link I posted the other day?
Well I have to say how envious I am of all the good work, as I am presently relegated to under the table. Yeppers, Before Christmas and when I was at sea, Lisa said she would not go under the layout to get all the decorations in fear of ripping out the wiring. I said don't worry when I get home I'll do it. Sure enough I ripped out the wiring! So before I put all the gear back under the table I have some wire to replace and reconnect
Anyway that's life
Later All
Fergie
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=5959
If one could roll back the hands of time... They would be waiting for the next train into the future. A. H. Francey 1921-2007
morning guys!
*yawn* I think I'll take the back booth and catch soem ZZZZZ
Good morning. I will have just coffee this morning. I have a few more things to do before I head to work. We had a light dusting of slushy snow that started falling early this morning. There could be more in town.
Ed, Our summers are mostly dry. Once in a while, we have a wet August, but after July 4, usually there is not enough moisture to keep the lawn green. Last year was an exception. It got watered once a week.
I got my cowboys and horses primered, so one of my next projects will be to paint them.
I will check in tonight.