Terry,
There was a chilly wind out of the north, so we went north. It made the ride nicer on the way home. We have a 750 Katana. It is a fun ride. The original goal is to get a second bike, but that takes money, so for now we are riding together. It may be a month before we get out again.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Just had a bad storm pass through; thunder, lightning, hail about ½ a golf ball size, and a bunch of rain. Been raining all day and some strong winds, lost the vent cover for my chimney, have a leak in the garage and the computer room, and we lost power for a little bit. Other than that we are in good shape. Everybody east of me duck!
Worked most of the day on Fox Creek (downtown section of the MRR). I have everything laid out with the exception of 2 more DPM buildings that need some assembly. I cut sidewalks today and have one coat of paint on them. I also laid 13' of cork road bed.
I have several brass turnouts for the layout and I may have to try the gleam on those to keep them from becoming a pain in the neck. I assume gleam is similar to flitz (I've used flitz a lot at work).
Has anyone tried the Aztec cleaning car? All the local MRR clubs are using them during the shows.
Jeff, you need to get a B&B crew out there to clean those gutters out. It's a very nice attention to detail on your part.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Evening, Janie - just a cup of hot cocoa for now.
Thanks!
DerJohn, I guess I could run a parallel track (on the east side) that would run off the rightmost of the three mine sidings. Then I could pull the mine cars into the righthand track, let the switcher escape on the 'passing' siding, then come around to pick up the mine cars and pull forward to put the string into the middle track (and then pull out the full cars from track 1 (leftmost), move them to track 3 (easternmost/rightmost) or the passing siding. Then I could shift the empties from track 2 to 1, go back and run the engine around the loaded cars to put the switcher downhill from the cars as it heads back down the mountain. I'll make a modified layout design and post it tomorrow. Oh, you're right about the switching layout part. One thing I've noticed is that I need some track on either/both ends of it unless I'm just switching one or two cars at a time.
Garry, shame on you, taunting us with rock cornish hens and not bring us any. Hope it was yummy!
Ed, I got the ATSF covered hopper done this afternoon - it seemed like getting the (tiny) screws in to hold the covers on the coupler boxes took the longest time of any of it. I've started on another cov. hopper (this one's a D&RGW), and I have another one of each - different road numbers. Yeah, i'd seen that article in MR on the industries too, but those ones all looked a lot alike (maybe because they had track in the removable section - Iain didn't on his, just swapped the industry next to the track out).
We just had a fair amount of wind in Cape G.. today - some gusts up around 45-50 mph, warmed up some (in the 50's). Didn't notice any rain after I got up; it had come through last night. Supposed to drop down to 32 F (0 C) tonight, and not warm up much tomorrow (38 F), but still windy. We still have some thousands of people without power in our area (most at this point are in more rural areas, except for a handful in-town).
Well, I'd best finish up my cocoa and head out. About my time... Prayers continuing for those in need of healing, comfort, help and peace.
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Good...Morning??? Time for bed!
Here's my tutorial, or part of it, on decals. GMT, if you'd like to have a read and go for it, or I can see what more you'd like. Der, just about done with yours, those cab numbers giving a bit of a fit due to color.
http://www.trains.com/trccs/forums/1360573/ShowPost.aspx
Nice pics peeps. No work on the layout, but dad and I are cleaning up to be ready by spring. here's hoping. Looks like the levels are gonna be about 33" and about 50. A little low, but we can't go higher buy cieling slant... Found these wonderful stacking cubes at Target. come with sides for 6 cube shapes in almost any setup you can imagine, and easy to assemble with these funny shaped caps for corners. Deep enough to hold almost any HO in box.
This GLEAM thing intrests me, And might be easy if we do it BEOFRE the track is installed and impossible to reach...
-Morgan
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
GMTRacing wrote:PC - Lennox Ave is two blocks over from where my dad grew up. My grandmother later moved to Colorado Ave (across State Street) where she lived for over 40 years. J.R.
Small world, huh?
Good Morning All,
Low fifties, raining and windy this morning. Still lots to do to finish loading for the trip including mounting and balancing tires as there is no service this weekend. Not too much else to report on the layout front - painted in some tie ends and cleaned the rail where the ballast and ground cover went in, touching up a couple of spots.
Flashwave - thanks for the link - I'll see what i can do with it.
Sue - at least the weather was good enough to ride in.
Hope the rest of you have a good day. I'll try to check in later. J.R.
LSWrr wrote: I assume gleam is similar to flitz (I've used flitz a lot at work).
I assume gleam is similar to flitz (I've used flitz a lot at work).
Regards
Ed
Good morning!
I'll have a large glass of Ed's OJ please!
Raining here still from last night and this morning, 2" and boy do we need it again! I hope it rains for a week or two.
Jerry that mirror effect looks great, and I didn't notice that flash in the photo at all!
Welcome back to the Diner Nick!
egmurphy wrote: I see the "profanity filter" took exception to something on the menu?!
I see the "profanity filter" took exception to something on the menu?!
Ed you noticed that too, it's supposed to be the "white meat" portion of the chicken.
Duke thanks for the heads up on the Weathering thread, going to check it again. It's nice to see so many TS Diner regulars participating, congratulations to you all for the superior work.
JR nice to see the city scenes taking great shape!
Mark I like your new plow video! Maybe the crash test dummies will show where you need to add some air bags!
Johnboy that Grand Central Station "freeze" prank was classic!
Jeff keeps them night light photos a coming!
Garry with Rock Cornish Hens and PC with the pizza keeping us all fed over the weekend, thanks guys! And Ed with the shrimp and stone crab claws, you all are eating like Kings of the Castle!
Flash thanks for the decal tutorial link! Word is a great tool for making decals. Did you use decal paper from Micro Mark?
President's Day Lunch and Dinner Specials
(Columns Hotel Specials circa July, 1986)
~ Starters ~
Italian Pasta Plate
Prosciutto, Ricotta and Parmesan Cheeses layered into a
Spinach Pasta Wrap and served with Italian Marinara Sauce
Shrimp Veracruz
Fresh Gulf Shrimp sautéed in the classic Mexican Sauce
Oysters Trois Facons
Oysters baked on the half shell a sampling of each Bienville, Rockefeller, and Duxelles of Mushroom
Crawfish Bisque Soup
Crawfish tails and crawfish stuffing quenelles in a creamy broth with brandy finish
~ Entrees ~
Roast Ducking with Plum Sauce
Poached Norwegian Salmon with Sauce Americaine
Veal Forestiere
Sautéed veal with cream and cognac sauce with Morel Mushrooms
Rabbit and Mushrooms in Red Wine
Sautéed boneless rabbit with fresh herbs, wild mushrooms and red wine sauce
Rainbow Trout Bretonne
Sautéed with mushrooms, crawfish and brown butter sauce
Thoughts and prayers to all in need, healing, and recovery.
Now, I'm off the train room for little while and then to run some errands...
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
saronaterry wrote:JEFF: I, for one , CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH for the gleem method!! It works!! I used Blue Magic as the polishing agent and wasted ALOT of old cork, but it was worth it!Also used an 11/2 "steel washer as the burnisher. Works GREAT!You are absolutely correct, a quick wipe occasionally with a scrap of bath towel and THAT IS IT. No Brite Boy , even after ballasting, just cork and towel. I AM a believer.
JEFF: I, for one , CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH for the gleem method!! It works!! I used Blue Magic as the polishing agent and wasted ALOT of old cork, but it was worth it!Also used an 11/2 "steel washer as the burnisher. Works GREAT!You are absolutely correct, a quick wipe occasionally with a scrap of bath towel and THAT IS IT. No Brite Boy , even after ballasting, just cork and towel. I AM a believer.
LSWrr wrote:Jeff, you need to get a B&B crew out there to clean those gutters out. It's a very nice attention to detail on your part.
SilverSpike wrote:Jeff keeps them night light photos a coming!
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I'm not liking the looks of this!
Oh well, it beats the tornados down south!
Morning, Diners! Zoe, I'll have a coffee and some of Bill T.'s breakfast buffet, please. Thanks!
Got an abrupt start this morning for w**k - didn't get the alarm reset from the weekend, so woke up an hour later, and I hadn't got to sleep until a bit before midnight. Been doing too much of the latter lately......No, just another cup, Zoe. Anyway, got myself out the door, through the BK drive-thru to pick up a little nourishment on the way, and got to work early. (How'd I do that? )
Looks like they're talking a chance of snow for us by Friday (and maybe some icy stuff on Thursday. Hopefully this run will be lighter than our last one. The predictions are for only 30 percent chance of the ice and 40 percent the next day's chance for snow, so we might luck out. Now, your mileage may vary (in Indiana and Ohio), as they say.
Jeff, I like that station - what building did you use for that? Can you email me a link or info on the Gleam method? I haven't done much of anything on my track since last summer/fall, so once I get it wired up, I figure I'll need to do some track-cleaning. Thanks!
Flashwave, thanks for the link on the decals. I've bookmarked it, since I'll be starting on some before much longer.
And I forgot to look up, but thanks to whoever (Flashwave?] posted the link on the Grand Central "freeze-out" video - that was choice!
Don't think I mentioned last night, but I also yesterday put KD's on a D&RGW 'Cookie Box' car and on my NP SW900/1200 (yep, Sue, I still haven't re-painted it ). I need to get a camera soon - I feel soooo behind everyone else, because I haven't posted any pics in way too long of a time. Want to correct that!
Better get myself back to w**k for now. Ryan, I'll be back later for that salmon. Yum!
Ryan -
Stop teasing me with the food!
Speaking of which, Chloe, can I have the Crawfish Bisque and the Shrimp Veracruz, with a side of fries, please? Thanks!
DerJohn -
Your ‘rehab' project would have been a nice scene for a MoW crew and a local Dept of Public Works crew to be at. Either way, nice pics of the repair process...
Jeff and GMT -
Nice pics of your layouts as well.
Flashwave -
Read you post for making ‘homemade' decals. Thanks! But what's this link I'm hearing of from JimCG? Or is this how Jim intends to use the post for reference? I myself just printed it out.
Well all, my tax refunds came on Friday, and of course I've spent them already. Tune-up, Inspection, and tire rotation and balancing for the truck will be done this week and new glasses and contacts for me that I purchased on Saturday. Any left over, will go toward TRAIN stuff.
Ok, time to go and eat.
Take care!
//signed// John Powell President / CEO CNY Transportation Corp (fictional)
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Hunter - When we met in January of 2000, you were just a 6 week old pup who walked his way into this heart of mine as the only runt in the litter who would come over to me. And today, I sit here and tell you I am sorry we had to put you down. It was the best thing for you and also the right thing to do. May you now rest in peace and comfort. Love, Dad. 8 June 2010
I love you and miss you Mom. Say hi to everyone up there for me. Rest in peace and comfort. Love, John. 29 March 2017
JimRCGMO wrote:Jeff, I like that station - what building did you use for that? Can you email me a link or info on the Gleam method? I haven't done much of anything on my track since last summer/fall, so once I get it wired up, I figure I'll need to do some track-cleaning. Thanks!
JPowell wrote: Ryan - Stop teasing me with the food! Speaking of which, Chloe, can I have the Crawfish Bisque and the Shrimp Veracruz, with a side of fries, please? Thanks!DerJohn - Your ‘rehab' project would have been a nice scene for a MoW crew and a local Dept of Public Works crew to be at. Either way, nice pics of the repair process...Jeff and GMT - Nice pics of your layouts as well.Flashwave - Read you post for making ‘homemade' decals. Thanks! But what's this link I'm hearing of from JimCG? Or is this how Jim intends to use the post for reference? I myself just printed it out.Well all, my tax refunds came on Friday, and of course I've spent them already. Tune-up, Inspection, and tire rotation and balancing for the truck will be done this week and new glasses and contacts for me that I purchased on Saturday. Any left over, will go toward TRAIN stuff.Ok, time to go and eat.Take care!
Iput a link to the thread here in the Diner for those rightly afraid of the outside forum. Not sure about this Grand Central Freeze
As for decal paper, I don't honestly know. See, I kinda, err, lost it. I said I made them, said nothing about I printed them out.
SilverSpike wrote: Mark I like your new plow video! Maybe the crash test dummies will show where you need to add some air bags!
Maybe they might. I don't know if we could pry them from the trains, though.
Anyways, I uploaded a third last night. http://youtube.com/watch?v=VFqytKSSa28
The HST plows into a stopped freight at 70 MPH.
After reading comments on using sand paper and polish I wanted to share some Boatswain Mate tricks with you:
Never-Dull "magic wading polish" is probably the best product out there to non-abrasive polish. Try it, you'll love it, but the tick of the trade is to dump the cotton wad out and put it back in the can upside down. You tear off a piece of the cotton and start rubbing. Similar to basso but not as messy.
Instead of sandpaper or emery cloths try a scratch pad. 3M makes scrubbing pads in several colors according to roughness. Red is the harshest, if you want to prep something for painting or to remove old lacquer use the red. Green is the middle coarseness and is good for removing heavy oxidation from non-ferrous metals. White is pretty soft and will remove light corrosion or oxidation from metal objects. Want to turn an aluminum towing bit, handrail, or other object into chrome? Wash the object then wet scrub with the red pad dipping it in soapy water often until the oxidation is completely removed only use this step if the object has pitting. The red pad will sand the pits out and give you a rough smoothness. Next step is to the green pad, same evolution as the red pad. Next use the white pad and attach it to a pneumatic (never use electric around water) vibrating sander, rinse the object with water, apply a lemon dish detergent to the white pad and start sanding. Stop as needed to rinse the object with water, this and the soap lubricate the white pad and removes the oxidation. Then we start using flitz or never-dull. Flitz is good because once the object shines like chrome all you have to do is rinse and towel dry and will maintain a mirror like shine. My buddy did this to his stainless tail pipe on his truck and everyone thinks it's chrome.
Hi again, Zoe - I'll have that salmon now, please, and a Dr. Pepper. Thanks, Flashwave!
Jeff, I meant the station (with the early morning pic) that you most recently posted. I thought that was a kitbashed RR station/office; my bad, if that was the gas station.
Hi, JP! I just meant that I added a bookmark to the topic Flashwave had posted in here. Once I went by and looked at it, yeah, it would've been quicker just to print out. Got ahead of myself there. Hope you have some TRAIN funds left over after the car stuff.
Sunny day today here, and already up to 43 F (which I think is higher than predicted). Not quite at Ed's paradise levels yet, though.
Flashwave, I went back and looked, and it was Johnboy who posted about the Grand Central 'freeze' prank. You should go check it out - kinda funny.
I'll be working on my salmon over at the window booth for a while.
in a SOUTHERN mug, and Poached Norwegian Salmon with Sauce Americaine. Thanks!
***Hoople, can you do a head-on with two sets of several SD90MACs (or similar locos) at full speed, meeting inside an industrial complex?
We had enough rain to double the level of our big pond (now only down about 5' or 6' from full) and Goose island IS and island once more. Now we only need warmer temps to get the grass in the pastures to start growing again.
The trains I have out on display are looking a bit dusty so it's probably time to clean them (and the desk they reside on).
Have a great day all. Rob
Iput a link to the thread here in the Diner for those rightly afraid of the outside forum. Not sure about this Grand Central Freeze As for decal paper, I don't honestly know. See, I kinda, err, lost it. I said I made them, said nothing about I printed them out.
Was there anything different in it than what you posted on the outside?
Dan
CNW 6000 wrote:You guys are lucky in here. Over in the Trains General Discussion forum we were told our Diner was too big at 96 pages and had to start a new one.
Yeah, we've had to do that multiple times. We started two just last year! Yeah, we're blabbermouths (if you all want to opt out of that, I'll take the blame).
Cederstrand wrote: ***Hoople, can you do a head-on with two sets of several SD90MACs (or similar locos) at full speed, meeting inside an industrial complex?
ES44s at 74 MPH... I dunno. I'd have to program one of them to be an AI train, becuase I can't drive two at once. Hopefully it will work without signals.
JimRCGMO wrote: Hi again, Zoe - I'll have that salmon now, please, and a Dr. Pepper. Thanks, Flashwave! Jeff, I meant the station (with the early morning pic) that you most recently posted. I thought that was a kitbashed RR station/office; my bad, if that was the gas station. Hi, JP! I just meant that I added a bookmark to the topic Flashwave had posted in here. Once I went by and looked at it, yeah, it would've been quicker just to print out. Got ahead of myself there. Hope you have some TRAIN funds left over after the car stuff. Sunny day today here, and already up to 43 F (which I think is higher than predicted). Not quite at Ed's paradise levels yet, though.Flashwave, I went back and looked, and it was Johnboy who posted about the Grand Central 'freeze' prank. You should go check it out - kinda funny.I'll be working on my salmon over at the window booth for a while. Blessings,Jim in Cape Girardeau
Good Evening Coffee Clubbers,
Another beautiful day down here in Paradise. Never got above the low 80's today, and mostly cloudy, so the sun didn't make things too uncomfortable. We actually turned off the a/c last night and it looks like we'll get through tomorrow without it too. There's a chance we'll get a bit of rain either tonight or tomorrow. We could use some. It's not too dry but this is an agricultural area, so regular rainfall is important.
We took advantage of the nice weather to head out to the orange grove and pick some fruit this afternoon. Today we were cutting oranges of the "Monica" variety. These are probably our best eating oranges. Unfortunately this year was a bad year for this variety over the whole region, and the crop is much less than normal. But we still have enough for the family and to keep the Coffee Shop supplied. Don't worry.
Kept "Little Mo" going today and finished painting the ties in the small section of the layout that I'm working on. Man I'll tell you, it's a good thing that I have a small layout and virtually unlimited time. Brush painting ties after track installation is just a bit time consuming. I still have to go back tomorrow and drybrush some gray on top to give them more of a faded look. Then it will be onward to try and paint the sides of the rail. That's going to be a real pain.
Ryan - Shrimp Veracruz? Sounds familiar.....
Jerry - glad to hear that you made it to the Mattoon show. Even better to hear that you found some stuff to pick up. I miss not being able to get to shows. They had one in Houston this past weekend.
That's about it from down here. I'll catch up with you tomorrow.
Hasta mañana,
Evening all -
Just a quick stop in this evening. Girlfriend just left and while she was here, said that this spring, we need to go to Scranton to Steamtown What a woman she is!
Evening Gang: It's been a busy day. John, Micheal and I hauled dirt all day. We got one pile moved and got a good start on the other. We did stop for lunch mainly because the battery on my dump trailer ran down. We went to the house and put the charger on and went in to get lunch. After that we spent another couple of hours hauling.
Right now I'm worn out. John and Micheal are going to give me a hand raising the layout if I get the beer, piza and munchies. Good cheap help is hard to find. Has anyone prised beer and piza lately?
Well I'm going to bed.
Good Night All
Good Evening Fellow Diners!
I tried to drop in during the day over this past long weekend but never seemed to manage it. Always something to do and little of it RR related but I did get to run some trains. I did a short session with CPR equipment and then due to the magic that is model railroading, I transformed the trackage into CNR as never the twain shall meet.
On Saturday we had a heat wave here as it got up to -2C so we nearly broke the freezing barrier! I actually saw some water running down the gutter. But then it is back down to -30 tonight with windchill warnings and a long range of -20 highs for most of the week. That is decidedly below normal as we should be around -7C at this time of year. It is getting depressing.
I just thought I'd stop in while waiting for my wife to finish her cooking class. Then I get to hear from her about all the great food they prepared and ate. Lucky me. It's not all bad as she did make a couple of the dishes from last week's class- a Risotto and a Tarte Tatan. To make the Risotto she had to make a stock that involved cooking a chicken, onions, etc. for 4 hours. I'm sure Ryan can relate. No wonder meals cost a lot at a good restaurant. The work that goes into creating the dishes is really amazing.
Well I expect to get the pick-up call any minute now so I'll sign off and say good night.
CN Charlie
Hello everybody,
That Ryan is just terrific. His menus have converted the diner from the local beanery into a five star restaurant. Elliott's will have to hire a Maitre D'. Next thing you know there will be a dress code. ........ ...(kiddin', Ryan, Kiddin'.........appreciate the menus.)
I'm moving right along with scenery on the layout. We have our local model railroad get-together this thursday, and I need to get this section completed before the guys arrive.
Jerry. It's good to learn you could get to the train show. Gald you got some good stuff.
Happy Model Railroading
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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