Cox 47 wrote:Welcome Back Jeff.........Sure good to see you back in the Dinner.....How are you doing?.....
Welcome Back Jeff.........Sure good to see you back in the Dinner.....How are you doing?.....
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jeffrey-wimberly wrote:Nice to see you again too.
Darn, I was hoping to mug for quarters. But anyway, it is good to see you posting. Means all is well.
-Morgan
Evening all.....Its been a cloudy cold rainy day here.....I'll have a Diet Coke and a double cheese burger with onion rings please....Thank You...and anything Jeff wants.....
I got 2 bachman passenger cars today combine and a coach..Trucks are boogered up on them but I think I can fix them...Also got 6 cars saturday from Ebay.....A Ball line wood box, Wabash hopper,NYC box...and more....I think we are going to leave cover on Railroad till after New Years...
Derjohn....Looks like some more great progress...Looks good....Thanks for photos...
JR......Nice job on Nscale houses....Couldn't help but notice the "2 hole Biffy" in the middle..Is that scatch build and detailed?
Spend most of day got email going on new computer,printer and camera...that much piddlin' gives me a headache.....You all havew a good eveng...Jerry
jeffrey-wimberly wrote:Guess who?
Jeff, nice to see you back and in one piece I hope....
Just came home from the Oral Surgeon today, had the have the remaining teeth taken out for dentures. The remains of novacain are just wearing off. I think I'll be in for a real "fun" evening.
grayfox1119 wrote: I see that southern CA has yet another forest fire....I wonder how one would model those if you were doing the Cajon pass routes to southern CA?
I see that southern CA has yet another forest fire....I wonder how one would model those if you were doing the Cajon pass routes to southern CA?
Dick, I quess you would have to use Woodland Scenics "really, really burnt grass.
eeyore9900 wrote: Dawn brought the mail in today, & I had an envelope from Walthers, since I was expecting some Details Associates boxcar tackboards for one of my projects. The parts were intact fortunately, because I noticed this on the other side of the envelope. (look close)Someone at the post office was definitely not on the ball!
Dawn brought the mail in today, & I had an envelope from Walthers, since I was expecting some Details Associates boxcar tackboards for one of my projects. The parts were intact fortunately, because I noticed this on the other side of the envelope. (look close)
Someone at the post office was definitely not on the ball!
After seeing this, you have footboards/ roofwalks as well.
I'll pop back later, I think these perosets have me going a bit goofey.
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
The Tooth fairy?
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Afternoon all, just a to-go cup Zoe.
The house is quiet right now, no kids, and Deb won't be home for a couple hours yet. Worked on the layout some yesterday while watching the games, since the rain came in bout 10 hours earlier than forecast. I did manage to fix a couple bugs even and started laying out the yard tracks.
der5997 wrote:Mike: Good to see the tracks in the yard without all the traffic. Makes a change for those wanting to get those details! What’s the newly ballasted track separate from all the others (lhs of the first photo.)?
Mike: Good to see the tracks in the yard without all the traffic. Makes a change for those wanting to get those details! What’s the newly ballasted track separate from all the others (lhs of the first photo.)?
That's the 1,100-foot inter-change track for the Effingham RR and IC/CN. Built bout 4 years ago or so.
Best get back to some chores so I can play tonight some
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309
Jim,
My fiance, Judy, is a Master Gardener. She is interested in the Master Gardener aspect of Garden Railroading. She thinks my yard has "potential." I.e. get out the big check book!
Steve
JimRCGMO wrote: PC, I'm surprised that corner reach is only 30" in the upper right corner. I figured it was closer to four feet or more...
PC, I'm surprised that corner reach is only 30" in the upper right corner. I figured it was closer to four feet or more...
I made the assumption that those were 12" squares. By moving the sidings the table edge could be closer to the back corner and therefore the reach would be shorter. It looked close to 30" to me but I didn't measure it exactly.
COLBY: Do you have an antivirus program on your PC? If so, is it up to date? Also, do you have WEBROOT SpySweeper, or similar program on your PC? If not, you had better get one. Many people don't think they can afford to spend $29 for this program, but just think of what it will cost to fix your PC when you get a Virus or a Trojan Horse Malware on your system?
An ounce of Prevention is worth a pound of Cure!!!
Good afternoon Folks: A green tea please Zoe, Thanks. Looks like it's my round, so folks, what's your pleasure?
Johnboy: Many congratulations on The Rough Riders’ Grey Cup Victory! It was a good game to watch, and that insurance interception in the dieing minutes was a beautiful thing. Sounds like I was watching, but I was upstairs working on the layout and listening to Kris’ whoops and hollers at every RR touchdown. Saw the last three minutes (clock time), so that included that interception. For once the “Wood Sports Jinx” didn’t kick in (denizens of the Coffee Shop may remember the Green Bay Packer curse) which is a good thing as we were rooting for the RRs because of our friend in Edmonton, as well as knowing that you were somewhat interested in the outcome!
Fergie:
Our weather station is giving erroneous info as it has to be repositioned away from the mast.
62º 27’ 32.13” W for as close to our place as the resolution will allow for now. Maybe they will publish some higher res. Scans sometime soon.
PC:
Found this place on page two! For shame!
Kris says it’s time for us to take MIL to the village. TTFN
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
oh and btw.
my 3.5x5ft folding table is comming along nicly. I have the frame of half the table all put together but it's missing the bracing. It looks bigger than I thought it would. when it's done I'll get pics. up here. I'm liking the way it's comming together!!!!
afternoon.
well my home comp is on it's last legs. It's got a second virus and had a minor crash if you can it that. it's up and running but not very well.
in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please & thank you!
***der, don't know if a 3rd stack will be required, although visually 1 or 3 is usually more appealing than 2, from an artistic stand point. Trying to remember, does the Woods Furniture kit have a stack also? I'm using that for the main plant structure. Regardless, thanks for the kind offer. Time will tell I guess.
Cold & wet here this morning with more rain on the way. Need to go give out the last of the hay. Have a great day all.
Good Morning, Diners! Everyone stuffed like the Thanksgiving turkey was on last Thursday? Sounds like several of you had a good holiday/weekend. Zoe, how about a cup of coffee and one of those chocolate donuts, please? Thanks!
Paul W. Beverung wrote:JimCG: PC's ideas sound good. Try shortening the industry sidings a bit and moving the switches to the TT and the pasing siding by the depot to the right so they are off the entrice area. You could also move the turnouts at the other end of the passing siding and the second TT lead to retain the siding length. By the way, I like the idea of 2 leads for the TT. I hope all this second guessing isn't getting to you.
JimCG: PC's ideas sound good. Try shortening the industry sidings a bit and moving the switches to the TT and the pasing siding by the depot to the right so they are off the entrice area. You could also move the turnouts at the other end of the passing siding and the second TT lead to retain the siding length. By the way, I like the idea of 2 leads for the TT. I hope all this second guessing isn't getting to you.
Paul, if I'm understanding you right (I'm visually oriented), your suggestion is to move the mainline and turnouts further right, right? I'd been wanting to not move them too far to the right so that I could have a swing-out section (door in lower right corner), and if I move the track much further to the right, I may not have room to open the door and get to the swing-out. But I think I would agree with you and PC about trying moving the turnouts (that lead off the mains)to the upper end so the reach to the mine area isn't so far. I like the 2 leads to the turntable just so engines don't do lots of backtracking to get to one or the other end of the passing siding. Not a problem with the second guessing (other than my trying to understand what's meant at times, as I said - I'm visual, you sometimes have to draw me a map...).
Probably what I'll need is to strip everything out but the turntable, mainlines and the existing track that I have on that one end, and sketch a bit to see what changes (as you and PC mentioned) I could do that would balance decent curves on the main and then arrange the rest of my industries where the easiest way to get track to them would be. We'll see what I can do. Tonight is MRR club, though, and I have an order coming in.
Cold and damp today - about 41 F when I got up, with 7 mph NNE winds and slight rain. Supposed to be 60 percent chance of rain today. Paul, how's the rain over your way? Stopped yet?
Better get back to the grind here at w**k. See you all later.
Blessings on your week,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Evening Folks-since the coffee's been dumped for the night, I'll just grab a Pepsi out of the machine outside. Can I drink it in here? Thanks.
It's been raining pretty good here most of the evening. (.32" at this point by my rain gauge) One of the things I noted when we 1st looked at this house was it was on top of a small hill (on top of a big hill that leads to the river valley through town) so basement flooding (or worse) "shouldn't" be a problem here. Not only that, the earth was banked very slightly in the backyard close to the house to ease even more runoff. (glad I cleaned out the gutters of leaves last weekend too.)
Got done paying bills earlier (house payment, car insurance, cable, & trash pickup) now feel totally broke. But on the brighter side it motivated me to work the rest of the evening diligently on my ATW ex SM & RBOX cars, which I'll hopefully sell early next year. I'm on VACATION this coming week, work next week, & then off the following 2 weeks (benefits of being at the same job for 25+ years) so hopefully I'll get some time to make some significant progress on my weathering projects. Also, found some more useful proto info for the future Hocking Valley Southern on another forum that I might be able to put to good use. (Seems I've found the best info by happenstance searches. Hope I can continue to do so!)
*Finishes Pepsi* Nite all-stay safe, well, good, & "dry!"
Last call for coffee on the East coast guys.....Der, Luc and the NS guys on Atlantic time are all in bed now, and Fergie is being tossed in his bunk by 20 foot seas.
ROB: Glad to hear the rains have finally come, God knows the SE needs rain.
JOHNBOY: Congrats on your team winning!!!!! Way to go!!!!!
GARRY: I can tell you about Gangarene and Diabetes, my dad had type II since he was 50, he died at age 88 back in 2000 . He had open sore on his toes that we had to clean and dress every day. The reason it doesn't heal is because the effects of diabetes gradually destroys the veins. When I saw the dye test on my dad's legs, I could not believe my eyes, there was no dye getting below the knees. This obviously means that no blood is getting there either, therefore no ability to heal any wound. Gangarine finally settled in and he had to go to the hospital for antibiotics. He didn't want his legs removed ( which I can understand after seeing what his brother went through ), and I prayed that God would take his life before he died of gangarine. I was his health proxy and he gave me strict orders, no operations on his legs.......God answered my prayers and I didn't have to make that decision, his heart stopped one night at the hospital while returning to his bed with two nurses. One of the ways you can tell if your circulation is good in your legs is the amount of hair on your legs. You need good circulation for the hair follicles to grow. Man, am I glad I have lots of hair there!!
JEFF: We all pray for your recovery buddy, and a speedy healing of your wound.
Bon Soir mais amis
Evening Gang: I'm back. It was earlier then I thought when I signed off. I did sleep for a bit until Mary Ann woke me up to fix the TV. For some reason the DVD turns itself on at 9pm. I've checked the programing and can't find anything. The fix is simple trun the DVD off. Anyway I'll keep trying to figure it out.
I see by the TV that El Paso got snow. I guess we'll be in for a night of rain and then a couple of days of dry. Yes we needed the rain. The dry wasn't as bad as the drought period but needed to end.
Rob good to hear that you are going to get some more rain. It may take a while for there to be enough run off to fill the ponds. Except for the rain falling on the pond ours isn't getting added water yet. The creek is high again so I'll have to clean out the crossing again, a small price to pay.
OK this is really Good Night
Be patient with me gang. I'll have a long tall rootbeer Chloe.
I am really excited here right now as the Saskatchewan Roughriders just won the Grey Cup, our Canadian edition of the Super Bowl.
This is only the third time in 97 years that we have won it. The whole Province is just going nuts.
Hope everyone had a great week end as well. Some got the water they needed, others had a good train show and I hope that Fergie had nice gentle swells that would let him do some modelling and restful sleep. Of course we are praying that Jeff is healing up and will be back in the saddle soon.
To old to party much, to celebrate the win my wife (Sandy) and I had some key lime pie. It is green as you know and green & white are our team colors.
So off to bed for sweet dreams of the win, got to savour it as it hasn't come around very often.
See ya all in the morning. First one in buys the round.
Johnboy out.................
James:1 Verse:5
The "Wobbly" can hardly stay on the rails tonight.
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Cederstrand wrote:***Jim, all our troughs, barrels, tubs & buckets are FULL. This is great because it isn't sucking on our well to water all the critters. However, I doubt there is any water making it into our aquifer so our drought has not changed in that respect. The ponds around our duck & goose islands remain dry with only a miniscule amount in our big pond. So, let it overflow all over the farm...PLEASE! 80% chance of rain tomorrow. Took a more serious inventory of scrap lumber in the workshop for the wife's RR table project. Not sure what to do for legs yet. Might have to find some ready made or an old beat-up table at a yard sale I can yank some off of, then sand and paint. Because her layout will be a coffee table under glass, it needs to look halfway nice. I'll find something.
***Jim, all our troughs, barrels, tubs & buckets are FULL. This is great because it isn't sucking on our well to water all the critters. However, I doubt there is any water making it into our aquifer so our drought has not changed in that respect. The ponds around our duck & goose islands remain dry with only a miniscule amount in our big pond. So, let it overflow all over the farm...PLEASE! 80% chance of rain tomorrow.
Took a more serious inventory of scrap lumber in the workshop for the wife's RR table project. Not sure what to do for legs yet. Might have to find some ready made or an old beat-up table at a yard sale I can yank some off of, then sand and paint. Because her layout will be a coffee table under glass, it needs to look halfway nice. I'll find something.
Rob, if I had any say, I'd send the rain over to you! On your wife's layout, if you have some good 2X4's you could rip them to 2X2's and (carefully) sand it to a fine finish and stain it really nice. If you hide the screws well, you could run the bottom ones from underneath and camoflage the top ones with some inlays on top of them. But then again, I'm not a woodworker, just the former art major speaking... YMMV...
PC, I'm surprised that corner reach is only 30" in the upper right corner. I figured it was closer to four feet or more... I like the idea of having a live interchange, though I'd agree; I wish I could do it so as to hide more cars in it. I may have to play with that one for a bit and see what I can do with that. That, or more pencil doodlin'..
Der, you're making great progress there on your layout/scenery, I'd say. Like your roads, too - what are you using for the road materials?
Well, 'bout time for me to start getting ready for bed, so I'll mosey on off for now.
Blessings and a good night for all,
Good evening Diners: I’m starting this before I’ve checked the Diner pages to see what’s what over the weekend. I’ve ben busy covering some more of the blue foam desert, and to paraphrase the song “Battle of New Orleans”, “There isn't now as plenty as there was a while ago!”
Here’s what it was like,
and then how things look tonight.
The white plastic sheet against the wall is preventing the sawdust glue mix from sticking to the wall, and cannot be removed until the mix is quite dry, at which point the sheet will pull away quite cleanly.
The retaining wall beside the road is made from strips cut from sheets of Ratio Plastic Models’ Ref 308 Flagstones. (That’s a UK product) The top of the wall is thin strips of a flat plaster cast I made in case I ever got a photo of those large “Mayan Temple” looking concrete blocks used for many modern retaining walls on highways. I never did get one, and gave up.
About the only large area of blue foam remaining this side of the river is the station parking lot. That will get covered fairly soon, I hope.
JR: Thanks for the wealth of info on the shingles. I like the sound of the peel and stick ones. I was going to ask about ridge strips…sounds like one is pretty much on one’s own in most cases. Filing down the over scale molded shingles on kits had never occurred to me, thanks for that too.
Rob:
***Der, have those same two models sitting on the drawing table here. My plan has been to tie at least one into the Soylent Green factory complex. " style='width:11.25pt;height:11.25pt'> " border="0" width="15" height="15" /> Still not sure I will keep both, depends how long it takes me to figure out "exactly" what I do and do not want and/or need.
Fergie: Bummer on being called away, but will you be back for Christmas? Love the C-Liner they are a very nice running engine.…I refined that dreadful long piloted thing that was on the market about 20 years ago (can’t remember who made it, was there a manufacturer beginning with “R”?). Anyway, got it to look quite respectable, I thought, and it finally ran reasonably well. I rather think it’s this one here.
Love the C-Liner they are a very nice running engine.
Dave:
Doing rivets in N is...
RT:
I don't know and didn't mean to come across that way
Well, it’s suddenly quite late, and so I’m off to bed. Goodnight all, and God Bless. Prayers for all in need of healing, comfort and peace.
Hello from Nashville. We had rain driving here from Birmingham.
I saw my Mom in Birmingham. I was razzing her a bit. I said she's remarkable with all the latest technoloy considering she's 88. She uses a computer, a digital camera, a cell phone, a microwave, a high definition TV, and a rotary dial telephone.
My sister in Birmingham is doctor, and I asked her what to expect for someone with diabetes who gets gangrene. Without knowing the particulars, she, of course, will not comment on the little I know about Jeff's case. I'll just say it's my understanding that bad things can happen to diabetes patients. It's been several days since Jeff's surgery now, and I'll keep praying for our favorite KCS fan.
I should be home tomorrow night. I should get back to layout work.
I just read that Texas Steve has an NP 4-6-6-4. The are one of my favorite locomotives.
Happy Model Railroading!!!!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Rob
Jim, the plan is evolving nicely. I like the new mine run much better. I had some thoughts on some of the other issues. I hope you don't mind my meddling.
It could maybe use some further refinement, but it's an idea.
The backdrop in the lower left would probably not be a full backdrop as you'd want to be able to reach over it to retrieve cars and whatnot. Maybe a good sized (long and low) building flat or a low treeline would do it.
Anyways, just some thoughts......