Good afternoon Crew,
Chloe, I would like your best New England clam Chowder in a big bowl and lots of crackers please, Cranberry juice on the side.
Weather Forecast for Regina text forecast -7°C Cloudy periods TODAY -16°C Cloudy periods TONIGHT -7°C / Lo: -14°C Flurries Pop: 60% WEDNESDAY -9°C / Lo: -11°C Flurries Pop: 60% THURSDAY -8°C / Lo: -13°C Sunny FRIDAY -10°C / Lo: -14°C Sunny SATURDAY Updated: 1630 UTC DEC 11 2007 Text Forecast:Today: Sunny with cloudy periods. High minus 7. Tonight: Cloudy periods. Increasing cloudiness near midnight. Low minus 16. Wednesday: Cloudy. 60 percent chance of flurries in the evening. Wind becoming northwest 30 km/h gusting to 50 in the afternoon. High minus 7. Thursday: Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 11. High minus 9. Friday: Sunny. Low minus 13. High minus 8. Saturday: Sunny. Low minus 14. High minus 10. Current Conditions: -9.4°CClear Humidity: 78% WInd Speed: WSW 8 MPH Barometer: 1018 mb Dew Point: -12°C Heat Index: -9°C Wind Chill: -15°C Sorry to here of all the damage with the ice storms. I was caught in 1988 in Ontario and Quebec during that ice storm. Was trying to put on a load on a steel flat deck in Lindsay, Ont. Had to keep spreading ice melt on the deck so I could stand up but the rain just kept washing it off and then freezing the deck again. Couldn't move the truck in the staging yard as you have NO control over it . It would just go in whatever direction it wanted. Was sure glad to get out of there a day later. But then saw all the broken trees and power lines, boy what a mess.
All of you that have had difficulties lately, be it health, family or finances. I pray that 2008 will shine brightly upon you and that these items you have been dealing with will only be a slight memory.
Got to get to work as my "HONEY-DO LIST" is getting mighty long.. RR is going to have to wait for a few hours anyway.
Keep Smiling it looks good on all of you.
Inch will leave the tip today girls...........
Johnboy out...............
James:1 Verse:5
The "Wobbly" is wobbling on.............
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
in a SOUTHERN mug, please & thanks. And some cheese enchiladas with rice & beans. May as well clog up my arteries with something yummy.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LEE!" Go do everything you have wanted to do but haven't (providing you still can), after all you can use your birthday as an excuse.
Yesterday was hay day, today was water day, which took forever using gravity feed. Still, way better than using our well water. Wife is feeling a little better and is halfway through her antibiotics now and done with those other meds. Not much else to report on, just a beautiful sunny day here in the 70s. Sorry for those getting hit with all that ice and cold, especially those who are without power.
Rob
Happy Birthday Lee!
Well gang this is the bright and sunny outdoors I see as I look out my front window in northeastern Indiana this afternoon. What do you think guys, maybe put a "G" scale layout around the tree, and make the neighborhood look a bit more cheerful!!!
Well back downstairs and work on the Pennsy!
TheK4Kid
Hi Gang: Just a quick one for me, Cloe. I'm about to get on with looking for a Medicare Supplimental plan. I thik that this is the worst part of getting old. I'd like to find a plan that includes part D. So far the AARP part D looks good I need to find out if they can include it with a supplimental. We want to get a PPO not a HMO also.
Lee . I hope that you enjoy it.
PC: I'm sorry to hear about Mrs. PCs problems. I thought everything was going well. Here's hopping that she gets better soon on the bed rest.
Well I guess I'd better get to work. The boss just looked over my shoulder.
See you all later
Hey Lee, I like your math! Using your same formula and method I've been 30 for the past 15 years.....
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Next week, though, big changes. You on the East Cost (including Al Mayo) may expect, of the GFS model pans out, a Nor'Easter come Sunday-Monday timeframe.
Oh, yes, and Lee!
Enjoy!
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
Good morning all, Still crummyweather in northeastern Indiana.Slightly warmer today, 34 degrees mayhit 40 by tomorrow.Out in my frontyeard, the bottom brances of my big pin oak still are touching the ground, still full of ice !
I should snap a picture of it.
Have a good day !TheK4Kid
secondhandmodeler wrote: ModelTrainLover wrote: secondhandmodeler: here are some things I think could help save for a house. limit spendingrecycle bottle/cans if you can. try not to take out a monster sized loan.Thanks for the advice. My wife makes good money, just not enough to bail out my store. I have a new job lined up making between 35 and 40 thousand a year to start. We have had to learn to live cheap the past two years. I haven't taken home a paycheck in over a year. With the new living configuration, I'm figuring we can save between two and three thousand a month. That gives me two years to save around fifty thousand dollars. This may actually be on the low side, but I don't want to be too ambitious. I already negotiated track-age rights to the second bedroom in the apartment. I have to share it with the computer and a couch, but at least it's something. By going broke, we'll actually come out way ahead. I just have to get through the process. On a modeling note, I can't wait to be able to plan for larger steamers. I'm truly fascinated by the war years and the fifties. I'm thinking a troop train will have to be in the cards. Anyway, thanks again.
ModelTrainLover wrote: secondhandmodeler: here are some things I think could help save for a house. limit spendingrecycle bottle/cans if you can. try not to take out a monster sized loan.
secondhandmodeler: here are some things I think could help save for a house.
limit spending
recycle bottle/cans if you can.
try not to take out a monster sized loan.
A E I O U and sometimes Y
Lee ........ Happy Birthday.
Corey .......... Model RR'ing can be inexpensive, too. Freight cars, in particular can be really cheap when used. Fixing up junkers can be fun, too. Last year I bout some Athearn Geeps with dual flywheel drive for $10.00/each. They were decorated for a private road, but repainting was fun.
Der John..... yesterday you said you went to Canada in 1967. Where are you from?
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GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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Philip ........
I'm truly sorry to learn Mrs. PC's appointment did not go well. Total bed rest over the Christmas holidays is not good either. Mrs. PC is fortunate, however, to have her devoted husband to help her through this. Blessings to your family.
ModelTrainLover wrote:Jeff: eating out at McDonalds is cheep especially when you buy from the $1 menue
Jeff: eating out at McDonalds is cheep especially when you buy from the $1 menue
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ModelTrainLover wrote:secondhandmodeler: here are some things I think could help save for a house. limit spendingrecycle bottle/cans if you can. try not to take out a monster sized loan.
Diners:
Lee: Hope it's a good one. Don't recall the 40's especially (and there is quite a lot of the 1940s I'd rather not remember either [clown]) Certainly life doesn't come to a grinding halt at 40something, unless you want it too, it seems to me.[2cents]
On the knockouts, here's a couple Isaved from the electrical box from Rosie-the-dog's house wiring recently. They are screw hole knockouts. Don't know quite what they're good for except model junk, or maybe roof vents. In Normal Scale they are about 30" across.
CapeJim:
Bad compass back then, DerJohn?
We're off to the Harbour, TTFN.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
ArtOfRuin wrote: Never posted in this thread here. I'm assuming its about how you day went, new MRRing news, etc. so if I'm way , feel free to correct me. I just need to vent.Looks like I'm not buying any new MRRing stuff for a while. Or Christmas presents. I lost control of my car when I hit a patch of ice on a freeway exit overpass and smacked a guardrail. I'm OK, the car... eh, not so much. Because of Taxachusett's communist insurance system, they're calling it a "driver at fault" accident instead of an act of God as they should, and since I can only afford basic coverage, I'm going to have to eat the costs of a new radiator (which, hopefully, is the only mechanical part that needs replacing) and a new headlight. A new grill, bumper, and frame straightening are too expensive for me right now. The timing couldn't have been worse, since I start a second job during the graveyard shift this coming Monday morning, and I still work at my current job on weekends. Once the radiator's fixed, I'm going to have to drive with the left front of my car missing until I can earn some extra scratch and find time to go car shopping. I guess on the bright side, my car is still driveable other than the radiator, no one was injured, and the last bit of MRRing equipment I can expect to see for a while just arrived (an Athearn GP40-2 bashed into a NS GP40 HH).Apologies again if this is the wrong place or I put a downer on anyone's day. Hope all is well with the rest of you.
Never posted in this thread here. I'm assuming its about how you day went, new MRRing news, etc. so if I'm way , feel free to correct me. I just need to vent.
Looks like I'm not buying any new MRRing stuff for a while. Or Christmas presents. I lost control of my car when I hit a patch of ice on a freeway exit overpass and smacked a guardrail. I'm OK, the car... eh, not so much. Because of Taxachusett's communist insurance system, they're calling it a "driver at fault" accident instead of an act of God as they should, and since I can only afford basic coverage, I'm going to have to eat the costs of a new radiator (which, hopefully, is the only mechanical part that needs replacing) and a new headlight. A new grill, bumper, and frame straightening are too expensive for me right now. The timing couldn't have been worse, since I start a second job during the graveyard shift this coming Monday morning, and I still work at my current job on weekends. Once the radiator's fixed, I'm going to have to drive with the left front of my car missing until I can earn some extra scratch and find time to go car shopping.
I guess on the bright side, my car is still driveable other than the radiator, no one was injured, and the last bit of MRRing equipment I can expect to see for a while just arrived (an Athearn GP40-2 bashed into a NS GP40 HH).
Apologies again if this is the wrong place or I put a downer on anyone's day. Hope all is well with the rest of you.
nothing is off topic.
Morning all!
Well looks like we might see some of the ice storm after all. It's hitting up north of here now and it's due to move south. It's too warm right now. It's in the 40's and it's supposed to go up a little before the front hits. Thats when the ugliness starts.
Yesterday didn't go so well at the doctors office. Things are on the fence. They aren't really bad, but they aren't really good either. They may have to redo the surgery. They put her on absolute bedrest for the next 2-4 weeks. They'll see how things are in 2 weeks. I feel so bad. I just wish I could take this from her and do it myself.
Oh well, gotta hit it!
philnrunt wrote: pcarrell- The one pic looks like the (now) CSX line along SR67. Where did you take those, and what RR was running the F unit? Good pics.
pcarrell- The one pic looks like the (now) CSX line along SR67. Where did you take those, and what RR was running the F unit? Good pics.
Thanks! Yeah, it was right along SR67 around McCordsville. Didn't see an F unit though.
Lee, I can't beat that cake, so I'll just say
Good Morning, Zoe. Had to drive through some fog to get here this morning. We have some area schools on late bus runs because the fog's so soupy thick. Think I'll have a glass of Ed's OJ, cup of coffee, and a slice of Lee's cake, please.
Thanks!
Congratulations, Lee - your post reminded me of a bumper sticker I saw on the truck ahead of me (while back) that said "Over the hill - and picking up speed!" Hope you have a great day! I took a look at your webpages, and like your most recent ones (the dairy and the icehouse) - they both look great. Let me know what figures you find that are suitable for the icehouse, as I will be getting one of those kits later, I suspect. Are you checking what figures Preiser or others have? What type of turntable is that in your earlier pics, by the way?
Der John wrote:NZ was where we were headed in 1967, but we ended up in Canada!
NZ was where we were headed in 1967, but we ended up in Canada!
gear-jammer wrote:HINT: All three of our Roundhouse locos were wired incorrectly at the socket where the jumper plug connects. Larry fried 2 sound decoders before he caught that. A simple multimeter check should help you figure that out. If you have any questions let me know.The little guy in the signature pic is our slowest, steadiest, and strongest loco on our 6% logging section. I believe that both of our shays are the older RH ones, too. It was worth the investment of the improvements.
HINT: All three of our Roundhouse locos were wired incorrectly at the socket where the jumper plug connects. Larry fried 2 sound decoders before he caught that. A simple multimeter check should help you figure that out. If you have any questions let me know.
The little guy in the signature pic is our slowest, steadiest, and strongest loco on our 6% logging section. I believe that both of our shays are the older RH ones, too. It was worth the investment of the improvements.
Sue, my Shay's motor appears to be turning okay currently, but the rods connecting the rear truck to the front one has slipped off or loose or something. More of a mechanical than an electrical problem so far. But I will be keeping your suggestions for future reference - I've heard good things about NWSL's products.
to the Diner, Jonathan! As the others have said, there are only a few things considered off-topic in here (compared to some other forums), so you feel free to come have a cup and chew the fat anytime. Bummer about your car and the repairs. Might be time for assembling any spare kits you have, or weathering existing cars, locos, etc. with paint colors you have in stock. Several of us in here can probably give you some tips on MRR'ing "on the cheap", so to speak. Hang in there!
Need to get myself going - might take a bit longer than usual to get to w**k this morning. Everyone drive careful out there - looks like our Ice Belt residents may be getting a break from the ice today, though.
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Good Morning all,
Today is the 20th anniversary of my 21st birthday. YOU IN THE BACK BOOTH, I'm 41, stop trying to do the math on the napkin.
My mom called this moring and said "it's all down hill from here" if that's true why does it feel like I'm still traveling up a steeper hill?
Breakfast is on me today. I uploaded 12 new pictures to my WWW button below in the LS&W album. The "Kvasnok Creamery & Ice Cream Company" is modeled after pictures of various Creameries' and is a kit-bash of 3 building kits. I'm using family names for everything on the layout, Dorothy and I spent our first date walking down the street to the ice cream stand. After 2 years of dating we still walk down the street to have some ice cream so I thought it was a fitting facility on the layout. The building is 19"x 10" the bricks are red, but the camera flash made them look a little pink. I mixed Pacemaker red and aged concrete to get the brick color.
The Ice House is a Walther's kit, I haven't found the right people to work the decks, but those are coming. Today I will be enjoying the blistering hot 43F temp today as I build some modular sections out in my garage and continue work on the downtown shops for Fox Creek.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Evening folks-just stopping in for a few minutes before zzzland.
Not a bad day overall-had a mostly "train workbench" day. Started stripping paint on my latest project to get underway, An older Athearn PS 5344 boxcar lettered Corinth & Counce to be repainted & relettered..."Corinth & Counce." Reason being the prototype car I'm modeling's paint is much more faded, & the herald size is incorrect. But the funny thing is the lettering for "Cushion Service" on the right side of the car -is- correct, & the decals aren't. Oh well-plan on browsing the decal dealers to see if I can find a set. The proto I'm modeling I caught pics of summer before last here in town, & as of then it was relettered for the Alabama & Gulf Coast RR. I did notice too on the proto-& recently restudying the photo-barely visible on one side, is the herald for the New Orleans Public Belt RR. It appears that was the original paint scheme, & Corinth & Counce was the 2nd, as that is the only trace visible of the NOPB.
Also got work done on the ATW ex SM car-trying something new I haven't seen before on a model-as it goes now it just may work. I'll let you all know if it's successful in the end.
Phil (& everyone else affected) good luck with the ice. We've lucked out so far, but we've had it in the past & "living hell" is a correct definition. (had one hit suddenly on the interstate about 20 years ago & at the same time the wipers on my '71 Monte Carlo gave out. Oh what fun!)
I also wholeheartly agree on your opinion on PC locos. I got into trains in 1978 when CR was fairly young, & of course there were hundreds of them passing our school. Hated them then, but as a "weatherer", they look awfully "tasty" to me now!
Well, I better hit it-want to hit the LHS tomorrow for Solvaset & paint, & the craft store for a few supplies. Nite all!
Hi y'all. Just sittin' here waitin' for the rain to turn to ice to turn my night into a living hell. Just a sittin' and a waitin'. Weehaa.
JimRC, Lee and Paul- Usually when someone gives me computer advice, I get that glazed donut look in my eyes and go to my safe place in my mind, but this time, you made sense! I can get CD's with my pics, why, by golly, I've even done that before! And I already have a photobucket account, just never uploaded anything. Why, this just might be do-able!
Today the forum, tomorrow ZE VORLD!!!! Uhh, errr, I mean, Thanks guys, I'll certainly try to attempt to endeavour to persevere.
And Paul, I don't have a laser on my AR, it's pretty much a stock, triangle foregrip, bayonet lug dinosaur, but I sure do love her. We have Aimpoints on a couple of AR's here at the PD, and I agree, they are great help when it comes to putting the rounds on target. They almost take any work out of getting good groups. Almost. And I wish I had 80,000 hours left on me! Isn't it amazing the stuff thats available today?
You take care with those tests, hope you get an A+! Oh, and did I ever mention that I know a fella (he's a former Indiana State Trooper, but I never held that against him!) who was a door gunner in Nam? I was lucky enough to go to dinner with him and another DG, they went in on the buddy plan, got drunk one night and a capt. pitched the "Don't walk, ride everywhere" speech and they fell for it. It was a very sad and funny night. They laughed alot, and teared up alot, but it was an honor to just sit with them and hear their stories. I thought of you, but back then- it's been a few years ago now, I could only remember your first name. They said, "Yeah sure, we knew him and he owes us money". Like I said, it was a pretty good night, and we all got so tanked that if the capt. had come along, we just all might have signed up for a ride!
secondhand- That really bites about your house, but in todays world there's lot's of that happening. We all hope the best for you, and if there is a silver lining, you at least have an idea about what you don't want in a layout now. Hang in there, and I hope things take a turn for the better soon.
Sanded drywall today, without a mask or goggles, won't do that again. The whole time I was thinking 'if I just set some open gons on the floor, this stuff would look like some kind of load, and it would be quick weathering'. My entire in-law family knows about my obsession, the other day my BIL handed me a bunch of knockouts from the new breaker box and said "Can you use these on your trains?' I said you bet, they make great weights! Livin La'needa Loco, I'm tellin' ya! And speaking of locos, Atlas is coming out with a GP-7 in good ol' Penn Central black. Might just have to get one of those! I absolutely hated that scheme when I was young, but now I sure do like it.
If the ice doesn't put out the lights, we'll see y'all tomorrow!
Corey;
I built a large 2x4 modular layout in 2000. It didn't survive the divorce in 2003, but I learned allot! Currently I'm building another modular; 3'x4' sections (I found the 2x4 just a little too confining for big steam HO-scale). The curves will be 4'x4' sections with 41" and 38.5" mainline curves and a local track with 36" curves.
If you look at http://www.nmra.org/standards/consist.html#module they have diagrams for modules I found very helpful.