"Sailing, sailing over, the bounding main." Or should that be MOUNTING main?
Fergie , keep your Mae West on. I guess the EPA would frown on the idea of pouring oil on sea to calm the waves down. Your a better man than me, swabby.
Flip [ex grunt]
Good Evening All
With all this talk of weather I think we should have a weekly contest of "Who's had the worst weather of the week!"
I win Iwin!
Some how I don't think I'm the winner here, maybe whiner, but no winner. Anyway here we be on the Tail of the Banks as it blows 50 kts with 30' seas and building should die down to a mere 40 knots over night. Good thing is we're hove too and making about 2 knots. The Old Girl makes for a nice gentle ride with the odd occassional snap to keep you on your toes.
Lee: A bos'n eh! I'd be lost without mine one of those jobs that is indispensable but without the credit. How many years you have punched in total? I'm on my 27th.
Der John: If you paying as much attention to the dock as everything else it will look awsome. I guess NFLD got about 2' of snow today. We had squalls go through all afternoon.
Bob: Loved the picture of the layout the other day have anymore?
Needless to say I'm not getting any modelling done .
Later All
Fergie
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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!
It's still cloudy, but it heated up a bit so it rained. Got rid of most of the snow pretty quick. I just hope it hovers at 32* tonight, because we're supposed to get record flooding...
C'ya all later.
Mark
Paul, I'm right here waiting for you to pay the bill!
What up all!Man, it's been rainy and dreary around here today. Perfect day for napping in front of the fire!
Oh, and Rob, a 30 degree curve is gentler than a 45 degree curve.
Afternoon Gang: It is so warm here that we turned on the A/C last night. What can I say it's Texas. We're cleaning out the old hay barn so we can get the new machines in out of the weather. John and a young friend of ours are doing aoo the work so it's easy on Mary Ann and myself.
Mitch: I can relate to your sink problem. The only parts of the house that we've had problems with are the ones that I contracted out. The vent pipe running in the attic came apart and the rain water running in the pipe opening cause the sheet rock in the bathroom ceilling to rot. I got up there and found that the joint had never been glued together. Rush and Run.
The boys went out to get lunch and they should be back so I'd better get going.
Top of the page. PC where are you when I need you. Well belly up and get'er done.
der5997 wrote:
I can really appreiciate that cartoon, get so used to nail guns these day, when you start pounding nails everyone wonders what's that noise.
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CapeJim:
Maybe I need to find some partially worn down batteries to use in mine...
Fergie: Glad your skies are clearing. Ours cleared last night by about 9 or 10 p.m. The barometer rose this morning a noticeable amount between 8 and 10 a.m., but he winds are just as nasty as they were yesterday. Do you guys get cocoa, or is that only in the movies?
It took just about al evening, but I at last found a photo I needed of a dock on the Fundy shore at low tide. I needed it because I want that effect for my container dock, but couldn't remember how the tide mark looks and how the weeds go. The test peice I did from memory the night before last just didn't look right.
Probably little time for the layout today. Early lunch and off to a concert and dinner in New Glasgow.
TTFN.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Good morning from the frigid Northeast. After Saturdays cold wind, today seem like a heat wave. Good thing too, my Dodge van is sitting in pieces all over my driveway. The wind chill was so bad yesterday- couldn't even last 10 minutes out there. The new engine is sitting waiting to be dropped in. Torches are on there way over today, those rusted lumps resembling the exhaust bolts got to go. So today is the only shot of doing this, tonight that storm moves in with snow and freezing rain. Would loved to use a shop, but this PITA project would tie up friend's shop for too long. Used to be an easy job on the older trucks, not so on this one....
Jeff: I always liked the BB, for years they were the backbone of all my kitbash and detail projects. Rework the pilots, body mount the couplers, all those detail part and Smokey Valley rails sure made some real great looking locos. Just don't seem to have the time anymore and get spoiled w/ those RTR offerings.
Dick: Would have liked to do the show sometime this weekend, but wrestling with my engine job is keeping me busy, need to get it back in service.
eeyore: Don't you just love some of that let's patch it up and "looks good from my house", work. I hope that the house doesn't have things like this buried all over the place. Never liked any of that cheap plastic- should ck into a good brass tailpiece if at the strainer or a PVC union trap if the trap itself. Too many times the cheap threads on poly can strip out or pop apart from any whack from under the sink. As a contractor, specializing in kitchens these days, all I seem to be doing lately is undoing and putting to right all the screw ups and hack work of years past repairs. Even some of the fairly new building doesn't mean it's right or done with quality. No pride in the work anymore, get it done and run with the check....
Fergie: I really shouldn't be complaining about the cold- It's only cold in the driveway- the warmth of my porch and kitchen is only steps away. A little bit tougher to do when a job on the water has to be done.
If you really need to use 18" for a radius, I would seriously recommend using a piece of flex for an easement into such a tight turn. Really makes a difference allowing some of that marginable stock to negociate the turn. Of coarse your overall distance will widen from 36" to more like 38-40" pending the easment.
Well need to get back outside, that 5.2 V8 isn't going to jump out the front of the van by itself.
Later..
Good morning,
Mitch, my baby (154 pound black lab) knows how to spell and tell time.
Fergie, ya I've been a Bosun for almost 21 years, I know how it is. I just got lucky with the office job the last 4 years. We shall see what I get for the next 4 years. How is the ice up there? NOAA predicts we will be iced in mid January. 20 years ago I would have to get up at 4am to fire up the MLB to bust out the slip between 23NOV and 15 DEC.
All this talk about curves has me re-thinking some of my plans and drawings for a 42" curve on my west bound mainline.
All our snow turned to rain over night.
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Mornin, coffee and a farmers special please Janie.
Weather was strange here yesterday, we had a few snowflakes, then later a very cold light rain with some sleet mixed in and a 4 pm a temp of 34. We went into town for Leroy's 6th and KC's 2'nd birthday party, got home bout 8 and the temp was 42, this morning it's 52.
Been busy with kids n such, so I'm not got going to try n catch up much, but I didn't get in to wish JIM CG a happy birthday yet, was that your 39'th again.
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Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
grayfox1119 wrote: FERGIE: Get that ship out of there !!! You have two more storms headed your way between now and Wednesday and another by Friday.Your ship will take a pounding !!!
FERGIE: Get that ship out of there !!! You have two more storms headed your way between now and Wednesday and another by Friday.Your ship will take a pounding !!!
No can do Old Man. We are over 300 nm miles from St John's so we can run... but! 55 knot winds are actually pretty good here. the odd couch will get relocaterd from time to time but nothing out of the ordinary. What I'm told is that it starts getting ugly when the wind hits 100kts. The winds are NW 35-40 at present and expected to peak this evening. Skies are clearing and the coffee is hot!
CNCharlie wrote: I was sitting at my desk today in my nice warm office thinking of Fergie bouncing across the briny and wondering what I had to complain about with the weather. About the only tilting I get is if I lean back in my chair. Not warm enough, just turn up the heat!
I was sitting at my desk today in my nice warm office thinking of Fergie bouncing across the briny and wondering what I had to complain about with the weather. About the only tilting I get is if I lean back in my chair. Not warm enough, just turn up the heat!
Ya I had a good laugh over this one as any timer I lean back I land up sprawling accross the deck! Not pretty! Not a wise move here!
Rob: Ya I here ya. Nothing like a good Roller Coaster Ride!
Paul and Jim: If it gets too bad out here we just heave too or or turn tail and run with it. So it isn't too bad and it's not January.
Lee: Want to switch! P-l-e-a-s-e- It's times like this I'd ratehr be somewhere else but it's all apart of the trade.
Anyway must run
Just stuck my head through the door here to wish you all a good night. No time for a night cap.
Didn't want to miss wishing Cape Jim a very Happy Birthday, What is it Jim #39 or #21?? , I can't remember.
Also good luck to Fergie out there on the "Briney" Hope it doesn't turn out as rough as it looks like it could. I don't envy you Pal, I don't think this Prairie Boy would live through it.
Thanks for the good wishes on our anniversary, I spent the whole day with the lady today so didn't get much accomplished on the LM&E.
Will check in tomorrow night after the football games NFL, now that ours is over.
Prayers and blessing to all and to all a good night.
Johnboy out.........
James:1 Verse:5
The Wobbly is headed for the shed.
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Evening folks-just some coffee (black & strong for me)
Lee-just 50 miles south & we 1st got snow about 7 something this evening, just enough to lay a very light coating, & then it turned to freezing rain. Untreated surfaces are a bit treacherous, so I had to grudgingly explain to Logan that there would be no W-A-L-K tonight. (pretty sad when you have to spell out words around a dog ) So I let him out on his tie out & to make up for it, I made sure he got his C-O-O-K-I-E (Milk Bone) He's now content.
All-Had a minor household mishap this afternoon. I was down in the basement at the train workbench, & Dawn was at the sink doing some dishes. I heard water start dripping on the other side of the basement, & then Dawn go "YIKES!" Here the PVC gooseneck under the sink wasn't fully tightened at the connection by the previous owner here & decided to come apart as she drained the sink...into the cabinet below & drip into the basement. No problem though-we pulled out of the cabinet what got wet to dry, & tightened the connection. Previous owners of this house bought this house at a Sheriff's sale & planned on renting it, updated things (new furnace, ductwork, some electrical, & cosmetic) but then teaching jobs got them called to Saudi Arabia, so they decided to sell. Needless to say, since they didn't plan on living here, some of the updates were done a little half you know what. Oh well, could've been worse. It could've let go over the future layout, but doing some figuring, it would've just missed by a foot or so the lead to the future helix!
Blah-back to work tomorrow arvo (Australian for afternoon) & then work thru Thurs, & then off for the next 2 wks. (need to get my time in before the yearly deadline on the 22nd.)
Have a good night/day all!
***Jim, I already have the 4' glass, so that is what she will have over her HO table. Depth can be whatever is needed to fit what she wants. As long as there are no circus rides (ferris wheel...ugh) it should easily fit a very small pond, some shade trees and gentle hills for her little horses and cows to roam around, along with a farm and small house.
For my (N) layout, I'm looking at some more Kato unitrack. So pardon my ignorance but which of these gives a more gentle turn (for larger wheelbase locos):
Curve R348mm (13-3/4") 45 degree OR Curve R348mm (13-3/4") 30 degree ???
Thanks and Good night all. Rob
Evening all,
It just started snowing here.
Yesterday I decided I couldn't leave well enough alone and bought a second industry kit. I'm kit bashing the 2 together to build a dairy for the layout. I had to run back to the LHS to pick up more Pacemaker Red and a bottle of Soo Line red for the bricks. This building will be about 40' x 80' and 2 stories tall with an 80' loading dock and two 10' loading docks. Dorothy is working on printing out pictures to glue onto the windows and loading dock doorways so we don't have a "hollow" building.
Jim, The link to the Church was cool; most of my town will be brick and stone, so I was looking for a brick/stone church for the layout. Your wood sided church would look out of place, but it is a cool looking church.
Paul, I lived in TX for 3 years (Corpus Christi) and I missed the snow and the four seasons. We did have 4 seasons in South Texas; summer, still summer, fall, almost summer.
Well back to work, I hope you all have a good evening.
Lee
Cederstrand wrote:***Jim, I like that idea...adds some interest to a basic oval. I want to persuade Barbara to let the coffee table layout be for her farm & perhaps little zoo concept. Then save her circus stuff for a separate Christmas layout. Why? Well, seems like it could get pretty cramped trying to do everything in that one small coffee table area. Also, a farm scene would be a whole lot easier for me to make first. Final decision is ofcourse all hers to make. Although I will make it, SHE will get to place all her little animals & wee folk on it. I must be getting very tired tonight, which gives a more gentle curve, 18" radius or 22" radius track? Need to go lay down for a bit. -Rob
***Jim, I like that idea...adds some interest to a basic oval. I want to persuade Barbara to let the coffee table layout be for her farm & perhaps little zoo concept. Then save her circus stuff for a separate Christmas layout. Why? Well, seems like it could get pretty cramped trying to do everything in that one small coffee table area. Also, a farm scene would be a whole lot easier for me to make first. Final decision is ofcourse all hers to make. Although I will make it, SHE will get to place all her little animals & wee folk on it.
I must be getting very tired tonight, which gives a more gentle curve, 18" radius or 22" radius track? Need to go lay down for a bit. -Rob
Rob, when I was designing that one (above), I was thinking that you probably will only be able (staying on one level and not much/any vertical changes - other than possibly some cuts and the tunnels) to have a little amount of stuff in the visible part. So yeah, your wife may need to pick the farm or something else simple for the viewable part of the coffee table (unless she wants to get more elaborate on height variations and/or go to a rectangular glass cover instead of the circular 4' one).
Oh, the 22" would be more be a more gentle curve - I think I used around 19 or 20" radius on the curves in my design, since I thought having it non-parallel to the sides would look better. General rule of thumb is: larger radius = gentler curves. And have you been forgetting to eat your Wheaties today?
If your wife has any other suggestions or questions, just post 'em or email them to me through the forum, or directly (I think you do still have my email address, right?), and I'll see what else I can whip up for her and you.
Nighty-night for me - see everyone in the morning!
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Evening Gang: Not much since this afternoon. We went into Aledo and did some shopping. Mary Ann got a couple of ornaments for the great nieces first Christmas. We then went and had supper accross the tracks at a great Mexican resturant. After supper we left we were going to go and see the sights but there were so many people that it wasn't worth it. This area is just getting too crowded.
The weather is typical for Texas winter. It's warm enough to be out without a jacket and wet. I guess you guys up north of the border are getting real winter. I kind of miss the snow and such back home in Milwaukee. I can remember a couple of times that we had to stay over at grandmas on Thanksgiving because of snow. I got to sleep in two chairs shoved together. I was young and smaller then. One winter Dad had to dig a tunnel to get out of the front door. Fun, fun, fun.
Rob, 22" is the easer of the two curves and I usually go with the widest curves, but in this case I might go with the 18" radius. Try the train on the 18"r and see how it runs. If it does allright then go for it. I also might go with sectional track. When it's laid carefully it will give you a smooth curve with out the hassel of bending and alighing flex track. Of course solder the joints and use plenty of leads to the track. Use flex between the curves and bend slightly.
Well I guess I'll head for bed.
Good Night All
Evening.
Jim: I don't know, it's still going strong out there. It's sticking on the roads, and the forcast for 5 days is mostly snow... Ya never know I guess.
Well, I guess I'll order some passenger cars to ease my waiting on the big boy.
Later all.
Well, I will probably hit the TOP with this (unless someone else posts before mine slips in), but what the heck. Janie, how about a nice cup of eggnog, please?
In fact, if you have any of those sugar cookies, I'll have a couple of those to go with my eggnog. Thanks!
Whew! Looks like Dick beat me to the TOP tonight - Thanks, Dick! Oh, to answer your question, nope, didn't get the P2K 0-8-0 (yet). They haven't come out with a ATSF or SP version of it so far (just Eastern roads, it appears). If I get a look at one, I might go for the unlettered one in the DC version, unless Santa surprises me with one, of course.
Rob, just playing around some with the dimensions you gave me and the sketch, how about something like this?
I was thinking you could put some simple station inside the oval at the top or the bottom, scenic the other area, and have tunnels at both ends. But you could fiddle around more with it, I'm sure. Hey, you might have scored a bonus point or two with your wife by putting up the train. The one I have like that runs too quickly, and falls over when it gets to a curve. Maybe I need to find some partially worn down batteries to use in mine...
Hey, Mark - build us all a snowman (well, snow women for Sue, AmyJo and the other ladies)! But darn, with it being the weekend, the streets might be clear by Monday (when you get to go back to sch**l...).
Anybody else getting snow? Yeah, we'll count Fergie, even though if he is, he probably doesn't feel much like making a snowman on the deck.... How about it - who's getting snow? Here in Cape Girardeau, it's still in the 50's for tonight, so we won't be getting any snow - won't even be cold enough until tomorrow night.
I'll be munching on my cookies and sipping my eggnog if anyone's looking for me, Janie. That, and looking to see if there are any snowflakes outside of the Diner.
Blessings and prayers (including for snow? Yeah.),
Good frosty evening to all......14.9F (-10C) here right now in central Massachusetts, and winter storm is approaching from the west, and a secondary will form on the coast Sunday and turn into a Nor'easter ( hang ON Fergie !! ). We are due to get 6" here and much more to the north of us, freezing rain in J.R.'s territory.
CNCHARLIE: Thanks for the updates, it has been real windy here today, and the cold has really settled in...a two dog night tonight ( only a few of us really know what that means ). So I see you enjoy "Num3ers" also !!! I see you are a short drive from me, about 2000 miles to the wnw.
PAUL: Really sorry to hear about your friend Tony, that must be really tough on his family, our prayers are certainly added to the long list.
DER JOHN: I really like the new Windows Mail that comes with Vista, no issues in over a year of heavy use, nice features too.
CAPE JIM: Happy Birthday young man ...., and did you get that new 0-8-0 from P2K?
Time to go throw a log in the stoves, talk later guys,
We don't have a tree, we'll probably get one in 2 weeks or so.
It's cold still, although it stoped snowing, except those clouds are looming about. I suspect I'll wakeup and find a winter wonderland...
Jim I mean Rob: If I had G scale, I'd be running it in the snow right now. As for HO, if my friend were over, I don't think he'd use his athearn plow for any plowing...
Well, see all y'all later.Mark
Hello everyone:
We had some visitors today. They must have decided they had enough cold weather up north. They are on their way south.
The Lionel train is set up under the tree and performing annual Christmas duty.
Happy Model Railroading
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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***Fergie, just two works...YEE HAW!
***Mark, when there is enough snow to work with, how about building a Snow Plow Train?
After reading that forum topic in recent days about switching scales, I decided to do the same. Gone is HO & N...it's all about these larger cheapo battery-operated shiny plastic trains.
Put up the little tree the other night to cheer the wife up a bit, with all she has been having to deal with lately. I believe she appreciated it. Although it has been many years since putting up a proper real tree, one day I hope to have time and energy to return to doing that. Already have a gazillion boxes of Christmas ornaments collected over my adult lifetime, stored away, waiting for "one day". At least this year I took a baby step in the right direction.
Hope everyone is doing well tongiht. Rob
IT'S SNOWING HERE!!!
Snow is coming down in a nice torrent here, and it's sticking.
WOOOOOOT!
I hope it sticks around a couple days!
C'ya guys!
Evening, Janie - just a root beer float for now, please. Thanks!
Fergie, I'm kinda with Paul - do you have to sit there and just take the storm on, or do you have other (like a 265 or so) options? We'd miss you if the storm laid you up in the hospital (to say nothing of your LHS and some major loco manufacturers...) Really, watch out with that kind of storm out there.
der5997 wrote:CapeJim, were you talking about Firefox? Does it have a mail utility? Is it possible to copy folders like Explorer Favourites, or MS Outlook Address books into Firefox? I'm not too keen on Explorer or the Outlook mail. The reason I was on Netscape 7.1 was that the 7.2 didn't have any mail (at least that I could easily identify).
CapeJim, were you talking about Firefox? Does it have a mail utility? Is it possible to copy folders like Explorer Favourites, or MS Outlook Address books into Firefox? I'm not too keen on Explorer or the Outlook mail. The reason I was on Netscape 7.1 was that the 7.2 didn't have any mail (at least that I could easily identify).
DerJohn - Firefox is only a browser, but the same overall group (open-source teams working on both) also makes Thunderbird (their email client), and I'm sure you should be able to import Favourites (they might call them with the US spelling, but they'll work the same ) and contact information. Here're the one main link - for both Firefox and for Thunderbird:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/
There're links off that page for each product. Firefox (IMHO) is more secure than Explorer, and you can set your Options/Preferences so the program asks you first if you want to install an update or not (mine is set to ask me, so if I'm in the middle of something with Firefox, it doesn't slow me down or interrupt). Thunderbird is good also, but I needed some other features in my email client than what it had (and, I wasn't needing to import Outlook info). Take a look around their descriptions on the respective websites and see if you think it's what you want/need.
Hope that helps,
Jim in Cape Girardeau (your friendly Macintosh person, but sometimes able to help my Windows friends...