Afternoon Gang: It's about 20 degrees cooler now then it was at this time yesterday. There is rain in the forcast for tonight and for tomorrow. I hope that we get some good showers, we need it.
I saw Tony this morning. He's still hanging in there. They had him sitting up and have been taking him out in a wheel chair. He's good for a visit of 15 to 20 minutes and then needs to take a nap.
I don't know what I'm going to get into today. It's not good weather for working outside. I may go ut to the shop and see if I can get a couple of grease guns fixed. I tried to do the greasing the new tractor Wednesday and couldn't get one of them to work worth a darn.
I also need to get down to the basement work on the plans for the Clark Gardens and maybe work on raising the layout.
Well I guess I'll head out.
Jerry Happy belated anniversy to you and Sallie.
Cox 47 wrote:Jeff .....Great job on the photo of the Brando billboard and auto at crossing...You did the lites in auto on your computer?
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Der, nice how-to corner on the ballast, If I may add my 2 cents; I add a small mix of coal and iron ore to my ballast to give it the "dirty" look.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Welcome back Nittany!
Afternoon, Zoe - I'll have a root beer float, please.
Thanks!
back, Nick (Nittany)! What've you been doing with your MRR'ing since last time?
Hoople, I'd hate to think what your virtual insurance rates for your RR would be, based on that pic! Enjoying that program, huh? That'd be a good one for those who have younger brothers or sisters in the house who want that type of 'training'...). Less wear and tear on the real life locos and cars, for sure!
Best get myself back to the 'w' thing - got another hour until I leave for home. Everyone have some fun with the trains this weekend. Ed, I plan on finishing that ATSF covered hopper. .
Blessings and a good weekend,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
JimRCGMO wrote: back, Nick (Nittany)! What've you been doing with your MRR'ing since last time?
You're one of the ones I remember, actually. I used to make sporadic but length posts about nothing in particular under the name radivil back then. However, since then I forgot that password and no longer have access to the email address tied to that account. They don't let us keep that fancy .edu email address after graduation.
In the interim since I dismantled my last layout in 1999/2000 and dabbled with a return in 2004, I have done literally nothing. The grinding poverty of college life and lack of space prevented much of anything. Other interests, namely college football and golf, got my funds. As well as squirreling away tiny tiny bits so I can save up for my twin goals of owning a motorcycle and getting that private pilot license before I'm 30.
However this past Christmas, my parents wanted something under the tree. So I dug out what I could easily find. A few weeks ago, I decided I needed a hobby for the cold months again. I dug out more and found mountains of old issues of magazines. And I was back. Now I'm trying to round up everything and figure out what I have, what I can get rid of, what needs fixed, and what should go into permanent storage (the few remains of the toy train stuff). I've been tearing the place apart looking for a box that contains little more than a few sides of a building I'd worked on in 04 and some SD40-2 sideframes. It eludes me at every turn. I'm trying to work out a track plan for my new space and negotiating for more (not much more but anything is more). Letting the creative juices flow and try to engineer my made up prototype (go back to the Western PA regional I came up with in 2004 or head out to Central PA where theres much bigger terrain?)
So yeah. This is what I meant by lengthy post.
GMTRacing wrote: Good Morning All,Thanks for the kind words on the layout. I was in the ig room reading Concrete Lackeys thread on logos and will try some of the advice Flashwave and others gave as the buildings could really use signage. Being computer challanged I haven't really tried to get to grips with paint or other programs though the CFO and #1 son are very good at the graphics we use on the race cars. Guess it's time to learn.
Good Morning All,
Thanks for the kind words on the layout. I was in the ig room reading Concrete Lackeys thread on logos and will try some of the advice Flashwave and others gave as the buildings could really use signage. Being computer challanged I haven't really tried to get to grips with paint or other programs though the CFO and #1 son are very good at the graphics we use on the race cars. Guess it's time to learn.
Did somebody say Signage? Fire me off a messege, and let me see if I can work my magic
Oh yeah. And If you see a blue Pontiac 6000le, honk and wave at me.
-Morgan
JimRCGMO wrote: Hoople, I'd hate to think what your virtual insurance rates for your RR would be, based on that pic! Enjoying that program, huh? That'd be a good one for those who have younger brothers or sisters in the house who want that type of 'training'...). Less wear and tear on the real life locos and cars, for sure!
Insurance rates...?
BOING!
Not sure what happened here, I hit the buffer and the cars exploded and flew everywhere...
ES44s make good plows.
As for the younger ones, my little brother can't figure it out. I told him the controls, he just doesn't get it.
See ya later.
Mark
Edit:
ES44s also make good snowboards.
If there was snow.
Good Evening Coffee Clubbers,
Another beautiful, if warmish, day down here in Paradise. In fact, by mid-afternoon I gave up the fight and just turned on the air conditioning. Based on the forecast for the next week or so, I suspect I'll be running it a lot. And by the beginning of March it's almost a forgone conclusion that it will be on 24/7.
It was also very lazy out today. We had to run a few errands in the morning. Then a couple days of minimum naps caught up with me and had a good one through the middle of the day. So nothing else of importance got done.
I forgot that Monday was a holiday for those of you NOB (not north of the Medicine Line). I'll assume that most (unfortunately not all) of you will enjoy your 3 day weekend. I miss out a lot on those holidays since all my weekends are 7 day..........
Phil/Ryan - nice photos. That's certainly a strange looking creature in the middle photo. I see the "profanity filter" took exception to something on the menu?!
CG Jim: I'll get back to that Bowser kit - I'm too stubborn to just let the other three sit.
Not too much else to add tonight.
Hasta mañana,
Ed
Jim's root beer floats look yummy.
Rob, We are getting a load of hay tomorrow, too. The weather has not been very cooperative. I hope the rain is gone by morning. I think that you have more critters than we do.
Garry, Thanks for sharing some different views. I wish that we had as many cars weathered. Time will tell.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Evening Gang: I didn't get to the basement or the shop. I exersied my ORF rights and took a nice nape.
On the way home from the hospital Tuesday we stopped at Borders book store to pick up a book I had ordered and they had a large ( and I do mean LARGE ) book on the history of the U.S. Army. It's a good book and only cost $20. It's not a book that you can read in an evening or two.
The weather is cold here. This going up and down with the tempurature is for the birds. The only up side is we are supposed to get some rain.
Nick it's good to have you back. So you are going for your pilots license? Have you considered the Army? I went into the Army for flight training and became a Warrent Officer and rotory wing aviator. I've never regreted it. I spent 7 years flying helicopters and still hold my commercial license. Unfortunately I can no longer pass the flight physical. With a college education you would be a shoe in.
Well I guess I'll head for bed.
Good Night All
Good evening fellow diners!
It's been awhile since I have been here but I just couldn't resist Ryan's latest menu. If its not too late Chloe I'd like some of that Cajun Seafood Combo please. Just when I thought that it would be impossible for the food here to get better, Ryan went and did it again.
It has taken me some time to go through all the postings from the diners since I was last here. I see that I missed Jerry's anniversary. Forty years! Wow! Congratulations.
As far as sending snow south, actually we don't have that much here. When it is really cold as it has been we don't get much snow. This morning when I started the car the temperature readout said -32C. Needless to say the tires were squeaking as they do on snow when it is that cold. In fact it has been hard to be quiet at night when I have to let the dogs out as my boots make so much noise. Count yourself lucky if you've never heard it.
Well I finally got the roads done on the layout. It seemed to take forever to do them but I don't get much time to spend at it so that's my excuse. I'm quite pleased with the results but I must say that the grade crossings gave me some diffuculty. I think I'll put together that Atlas house kit I have as it's a long week-end and in fact it's the first time we've had a holiday in February as the provincial goverment here just passed the law last year. It's called Louis Riel day in honour of one of the founding fathers of the province. I'll also finally be able to give that new RS3 a proper run-in.
I've been looking at all Jeff's posts with his new building lights and have to say that they look really good. I've also enjoyed his weather posts too since they are so much nicer than the weather forecasts here.
Even though it is late the smells coming from our kitchen are really getting the dogs and myself hungry. The better half is making some stock to make a Risotto. She's been taking a cooking course here run by a French chef conducted in the kitchen of his restaurant. He's the real deal and actually ran a Michelin starred restaurant in Burgundy. I'm looking forward to each lesson as the wife has to practice on someone. Lucky me!
Good night all and see you later in the week-end.
If you haven't taken a look at the weathered model thread,you should. Some of our regulars here in the Diner have done themselves proud. Sue(and husband Larry),Jeff,Mitch,and Garry.
WELL DONE!!!!
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
Oh Hoople where's your humanity? Even in virtual reality all that crashing - tch tch.
Got a couple of hours in tonight putting down some ballast and plaster to start around the industrial area. Decided to make the narrow street between the factories and elevated track gravel covered (easier than cutting and fitting all that pavement). So here are a couple more progress pics.
The back corner with the switcher pushing a couple of cars to the back siding.
Had to add this shot of the area between the building and the factories.
I still have tons to do detailing and tidying up the area but you can get the flavor.
Flashwave. I tried to get the graphics package to work on the computer tonight but failed miserably. What I need right now is fairly simple - A rounded rectangular sign in Rexall colors that reads Eldorado Pharmacy HO scale to fit over the window of the corner store.
I'll keep trying but really need to spend some time learning the package.Shouldn't be that hard to do.
Evening folks- just stopping in for a few.
Latest update on Mom & Dad-Mom is doing well & getting restless to get back home-The doc said at 1st possibly next Thursday, but then backpedaled a bit & said it'll be a "wait & see" thing. She's still weak & needs therapy for strength. Dad's feeling better, & went out for the 1st time in several weeks today-I can see definite improvement!
Duke, Thanks for the compliments-weathering is my main strength in the hobby, & I only hope to improve as time goes on!
Hoping all here are well, safe, & warm-I better hit the sack. Nite All!
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Thanks to Bill for setting up the buffet guess the tabs on me so crowd on in. Chilly again this morning but the overcast appears to be burning off so it should be a good day to load spares and support equipment in the trailer. I'll have a coffee to go when I finish here so I can keep it going whilst w..king in the trailer. Got to skedadle - i'll check in later. J.R.
Good morning,
GMT, Your industrial area looks good, very crowded = very prototypical. There is a stretch of track here in Cleveland that might be 8 miles long serving 20 small facilities that required switching services every night. The sign you need is that DPM "the other corner café"?
Hoople, that software looks neat, but have you considered installing airbags on the locomotives, something like the mars lander, LOL?
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Morning everyone!
Another beautiful morning!
Well, the wife is down to using a cane after the surgery a few months ago. That right leg is doing pretty good. Now the doc wants to do the left. He's talking about two weeks from now! Here we go again!
My boy's basketball team is doing a fund raiser. They're selling pizzas. So far he has the most sold. He's sold close to 40 of those things!
Oh well, I'm outta here!
Later!
Lee,
Yes the other corner cafe will be a pharmacy, the Rexall affiliated Eldorado Pharmacy which used to be in Bridgeport on oddly enough Eldorado Avenue. My uncle was the pharmacist. The sign was the sort of blue and orange Rexall colors and read Eldorado Rexall Pharmacy. With a matching border stripe and rounded corners. I started messing with the paint function last night but haen't made much progress yet. J.R.
Man, I wished I had brought my camera with me yesterday when I was in DeRidder. I saw 2 old SW9 at the Boise Cascade mill there. They were ISCX 163 and WAMX 921. ISCX 163 was built in September of 1951 on order #4098-10. This is the closest I could find to it on the web. This is #160.
Couldn't find a photo of WAMX 921 but here's one of WAMX 910 in the same paint scheme.
all: Nick, good to see you "come in out of the cold"! back! Three years is a long lurk!
JR: Layout's looking better all the time. That between-the-factories shot...I was there a little later in the day, 'cause we don't stay up all night like Jeff has lately.[:^)]I think Mark's just having a "smashing good time, what" with that RR game Thanks for the coffee and banana bread, BTW.
PC: 40 Pizzas? that lad sure has an eye for sales. Terrific news about your wife's knee. We'll keep her in prayer as the time approaches for the second op. Don't let us forget now!
More track cleaning yestreday, and more turnout glitches, most of which have been resolved, but two are stubournly resisting correction. It's a continuity problem to one side of the turnout in each case. I may have to break down and hard-wire from the stock to the closure rail. That's a bore, because the rail is already painted, and the track ballasted... I found yesterday that the Atlas loco I was using for the testing had too sharp a flange on the wheels. Other locos would take a particular turnout fine, but that one kept derailing (checked the gauge, and that looked identical). I took the edge off the flanges by running at max speed on a 150 grit sandpaper (started at 600 grit, but it wasn't doing much of anything). That has done the trick, and the result is a bit more towards RP25 profile.
Colder here today, (and far colder than Edmonton Alberta, which isn't fair!), so I have to go and tend the fire, and get some more kindling cut.
TTFN
Coffee To Go, please & thanks!
***Sue, how many critters do you have there? We are down to 8 Paint horses with plans of getting down to 4 (2 of which are old). The other critters are all miniatures, so don't take much. Once spring hits (providing there is not another drought of the century) the pastures will easily take care of all the minis, providing most of the big horses have found new homes. Oh yea, I found some square bales so for the moment we are OK.
***JR, neat story about your uncle and re-creating the Pharmacy. I like those personal touches on layouts.
Well, the wife is getting over one of those nasty 24 bugs, not what she needed. She said last night, "Every year gets worse than the year before." She has a LOT on her plate to deal with these days. Wish I knew how to help her more.
Have a good day all. Rob
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
Cederstrand wrote: ***Sue, how many critters do you have there? We are down to 8 Paint horses with plans of getting down to 4 (2 of which are old). The other critters are all miniatures, so don't take much. Once spring hits (providing there is not another drought of the century) the pastures will easily take care of all the minis, providing most of the big horses have found new homes. Oh yea, I found some square bales so for the moment we are OK.
Rob, We have 4 steers under 1 year in age. They don't eat as much as they will next winter. Usually the end of March or early April there will be enough grass that they will turn their noses up to the hay.
Is you wife still working on her HO project? Hope she feels better soon.
JR, Somehow I missed your layout shots earlier. I like your colors. They photograph well.