And would ya just look at that! Top of the page again!
Chloe, warm up that credit card of mine! I'm feeling good and I want to treat my friends to a great lunch!
When was the last time you all had a good shish ka bob? How about today?
Or maybe a good gyro lunch?
Or maybe some Santa Fe Chicken?
You pick, I'll buy!
Thanks for ending the tab PC!
Looks like its back to the usualness of PC with to TOTP...
Wonder if today is going to be the day. Maybe. It hasn't shipped, they usually ship about noon eastern time.
That's all for now.
Mark
Morning all!
Well, I'm a little more bright eyed and bushy tailed this morning as my dad would say. I slept a good solid 7 hours last night. Took a nice long hot bath at 11pm last night with the new model railroader magazine (great issue BTW!) and got real relaxed, then hit the bed at about midnight and was out like a light. I'm still a little tierd, but I'm not the zombie I was yesterday.
Which reminds me, i'm sorry if I was a bit testy yesterday or Monday. Lack of sleep will really mess you up, ya know? My appologies. I'm not usually like that.
So, the weather guesser says it's going to be pretty nice today. Low to mid 50's and sunny. I'll take it!
And speaking of great things, the wife continues to improve. She gets better every day. Thanks for all the prayers and support.
Speaking of prayer, hey Paul, I don't know if I mentioned this before, but I've been praying for Tony. He's had it real tough from the sounds of it and my heart really goes out to him. Your friendship is a real example to us all of the way we're supposed to treat one another.
Well, I'd best be off for now. Check ya later!
Good Morning, Zoe - hey, since Mark's buying... I'll have a glass of Ed's OJ,
cup of coffee,
and a stack of pancakes with some maple syrup on 'em, please.
Thanks, Hoople! Hey, Bill T. - like the new breakfast menu you got the ladies to print up.
'Nuther beautiful day today - supposed to hit the 60's or low 70's today here, with sunshine and breezy. At this rate, I'd better track down that bottle of sunscreen soon.
Lee, I'm not sure what Webshots has done - with Firefox (2.0.0.12, Mac version) I get the "Forbidden" like the others did (even after reloading), but with Safari (Apple's browser) it pulls the images up fine. Nice woodwork there, and you make me feel better about my w**kbench area (on my DR table). On your tracks heading for that corner, was there a reason for the one kink in the track (had to avoid a knot in the plywood underneath, etc.)? Glad it doesn't bug you, but on my layout if I had that, I'd have to re-lay that track to straighten it out. Again, that's just me... You're right - you do have a lot of buildings assembled. I can see several of the ones you'd mentioned in earlier posts in the recent pics. Hope you find the backdrops you're after.
Looks like I have a full schedule today (if they all show up). Of course, with the nice weather, some might want to go outside somewhere instead of coming to see me today, huh? I got one intake dictated and to the transcriptionist, and one discharge finished up yesterday. More to go...
Ed, more good photos - like that mural, with how the artist worked the train into it. Anyone ever try to graffiti a Smurf pic on the side of one of those cars (don't figure anyone would get nervy enough to try a loco)?
Better get my breakfast finished and get going - one of my co-workers is having a birthday today, and they'll be cutting the cake in a little bit. There's also salsa and chips (and I think cookies - there's something on a plate covered with foil), too.
Blessings on your 'hump' day,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Greetings From Sebring,
Just a regular to go please Zoe. Sunny and in the 80's with showers on and off yesterday - typical South Florida. Today should be more of the same. I tried catching up posts last night when we got back from dinner but kept nodding off and didn't get to the end. Got our tents up and things sorted out so we can get to it this morning tech inspection then practice today, the first race tomorrow late. Not sure when I'll check in next as w..k comes first. CUL, J.R.
Jerry - probably no train stuff this trip, no time.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Paul, the first Polish freighter bound for Cleveland is being loaded as we speak. Locks open 22MAR08.
The paneling in the basement and the upstairs of my house is solid 1" tongue and groove white pine. It's pretty common in my town for these 1947 bungalows. The backdrops on the layout are mounted to the bench work. The town backdrop is from realistic backgrounds glued to a .25" double tempered Masonite panel. I had a bunch of .25" birch plywood left over from some book cases I built last fall so I have that in the corners to be painted Tuscan Sky and then some paper backgrounds will be glued to those. The last train shows they had a background titled "rail yard". It's just a picture of a switching yard I hope to find it again for the back drop on the north wall.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
(((BUMP))) Burried on page 2...where is everyone? It's only 1:35am here.
Got the table legs glued & screwed. Tomorrow they get primed & later painted black.
Good Night All. Rob
Good Evening Coffee Clubbers,
Another beautiful day down here in Paradise. Overcast and temps in the mid 70's, so that was just fine with me. Looks like another night without needing the a/c coming up.
The coffee is good and strong tonight. I'm on the second mug now, and more to come. No, caffeine doesn't keep me awake.
Dick: Have any of you guys noticed that each year it takes longer and longer it seems to get re-adjusted to the change of clocks in Spring and Fall?
Ryan: ...hope it was not going to fast though, I guess safety rules are a bit lax in Acambaro...Yeah, pretty slow, especially up the grade and into the yard limits. I'm not so sure I'd phrase it as "...safety rules are a bit lax..." as much as I would note that this is a different country, and they don't view everything the same way as people do up north. It's different down here. Not necessarily worse, not necessarily better, but different.
Ryan: ...hope it was not going to fast though, I guess safety rules are a bit lax in Acambaro...
Jerry - what happened to the trailer photo? It was there when I looked earlier today.
Flashwave - sounds like you were lucky to find those cops nearby when you needed them.
Paul B: Thanks to Ed for posting some pictures of my railroad.
Here's the last of the trip report and photos. Our next outing isn't until late May, so I won't have much in the way of new photos to post between now and then.
Most action at Celaya is Ferromex, as it is their main line. Here we have a couple of locomotives pulling a short container train as they approach the crossing of the KCSdeM line. They are FXE #4531 (AC44CW) and #4652 (ES44AC). To me they look the same, but my sources say they are two different locos. Diseasels, who can tell?
Fran got into a better position and got this shot of the same two locos, with me blocking part of the view. It is a nice paint scheme.
Here we have FXE #3101, an SD40-2 still in the two tone blue "Pitufo" (Smurf) paint scheme, running light back towards the Celaya yard.
Last train shot we got was this one, FXE #4655 (ES44AC) and #3107 (SD40-2) pulling a train of containers northbound.
I'll finish up the trip report with this shot of a mural in the city hall at Celaya. It is part of a series representing historical moments in the city's past. This one is of the Battle of Celaya during the Mexican Revolution. The large face in the mural represents Venustiano Carranza, who was president at the time of the battle. Note the use of the pilot as a beard, the face drawn over the smokebox cover, roadbed shapes as shoulders and the brown smoke representing hair. The mounted soldier at the right is General Alvaro Obregon, who defeated the forces of Pancho Villa at Celaya. Railroads played a key role in the development of military campaigns during the revolution, especially in the northern half of the country
That's about it. I took more photos, but a lot weren't worth uploading. Our group is talking about having another outing late in May. I can't wait.
That's about it from down here this evening. Catch up with you tomorrow.
Hasta mañana,
Ed
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
Evening Gang: I went to see Tony but he wasn't doing well today and the weather was not good for going outside. I did help him out eating some breakfast. He didn't want to eat but I managed to get him to take some food.
Since I seemed to join the insomnia gang the last couple of nights I didn't get much sleep again last night. I also had to get up very early ( 6am ) so I'm really beat. Thanks to Ed for posting some pictures of my railroad. Some one of these days I'll get the picture posting down and then you guys will probably want me to stop.
Lee I went back and tryed the refresh button and the pictures came up. I still can't get over the paneling, it sure looks nice. It's a shame to cover it with backdrops. The city scenes look good. I like that city industrial setting. By the way they are filling the Poe lock today. Won't be long and the season will be going strong.
Well for Now I'll say Good Night All
Thanks, I'm glad you guys liked the pics
Rob, the corners are 4' x 4' the other sections are 4' long and 3' deep.
If you have trouble seeing the pictures you can go to my WWW site and click on construction pictures then flip back 8 pages or so.
All I'm using for a work area is a card table and a clamp on light, nothing fancy.
I hope to pick up some new backdrops this weekend at the train show. I do have 3 blast furnace back drops and one small town backdrop, but I want to pick up a few wooded hills backdrops, and I'll be searching for the "rail yard" back drop I saw last year.
I've been locked out too many times; I have 3 keys hidden on the outside of my truck.
One last cup of, this time in a UNDECORATED mug, please & thank you.
Lee, I hit the refresh and this time it worked. You can tell that city scene with the background is going to look real sharp when it is completed. How deep is your layout again?
Well, back to work here. Rob
Hey all.
Pile on a stack of roast girls, thanks.
So here's my day. I went to activate my ATM card, so I can fetch money until I get a paycheck. On my way back, I hit a few errands, and notice I'm low on gas. After arriving at the pump, and stick in the gas card, I realize, I;ve just locked myself out of the car. worse, the door is only just shut enough for the lock to catch. Fortunetely, There were two nice officers having a break. They told me they didn't have lock-outkits with them, but the Supervisor was coming and had his. I was talking with one as his partner took a phonecall. He asked wahat I had.
"Pontiac 6000."
"Oh. One of the newer ones. I can't get into those."
"No, nono. Not a new car. It's only 17 yrs old."
"OH! those I can get into. Let's take a look."
so we head out, he pulls on the door, I can see it on his face as the door pulls oall the way to the latch. This isn't locked... Oh, I see. I stand there and try not to be noticable as he heads for his trunk. He comes back with a wedge and 4 feet of some pipe or wire. He pulls the door, slips the wedge in, hits the unlock switch, and the door opens. And I've never been more happy for some officers to be taking the "donut break".
-Morgan
bjdukert wrote:They worked for me after I clicked on the refresh button.Duke
They worked for me after I clicked on the refresh button.
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
Hey hey! Lookit here! Hoople has the top of the page!
I'll have a big order of ribs.
Cederstrand wrote: The links don't work. All I get is:Forbidden Rob
The links don't work. All I get is:
Forbidden
Rob
Rob.... Were you around when the last ditto was used... Last time it wound up making a 20 layer ditto tree. Not good.
Anyways...
I just recieved an Email from FDT that the big boys have shipped. Nothing from my dealer except that they changed the bb's to "Future Release" and bumped the price up. 2nd run is what BLI is planning, I guess.
That's it for now.
You don't have permission to access /564/9/82/30/2594982300029441264GwOlWd_fs.jpg on this server.
Ok as promised some construction pictures of the layout.
To be kind to our dial-up diners I'm only posting links.
My "well lit work area"
http://image64.webshots.com/564/9/82/30/2594982300029441264GwOlWd_fs.jpg
Downtown Fox Creek
http://image64.webshots.com/564/0/12/10/2202012100029441264OTSBNm_fs.jpg
Mainlines running through Fox Creek
http://image52.webshots.com/652/9/34/90/2936934900029441264AKFxpC_fs.jpg
You can see the "Nicholas gap" I had to deal with on the corner section as the main lines deviate a little just before the curve. For power I'm soldering in power feeders every 4 feet or where there is a rail joiner. This layout has 2 main lines and 1 local freight track. The 4th parallel track in the picture is for the passenger station.
***So Jeffrey, you model the inside of your structures as well, eh? Nice work on the weathering...looks so darn real.
***Jim, the pic is of our old miniature donkey jenny, "Jellybean". She is retired and lives with the miniature mares now.
Afternoon, Zoe - how about a frozen yogurt concrete, please? And I'll treat for the concretes if anyone else wants one (no Big Boys or Challengers, however! )
Nice day at w**k - mostly caught up on some of the paper stuff. One call out to a jail, but that didn't need much to be done, luckily.
Lee, can I take that well-lit workbench back home with me if I come there? That's one thing I really need, is to have a set place where I can leave projects without feeling guilty about the mess, but have good lighting and be ready to get back to it.
Rob, that's a cute burro (right, or is that mule? I have trouble telling them apart, except that I think of mules as being bigger than burroes are.) Ever read Brighty of the Grand Canyon? Yours reminds me of how I kind of pictured Brighty. Read that when I was (much) younger. Ah... the "good ol' days"...
I'll be working on my concrete if anyone else comes in, Zoe.
Don't even get me started on social services; we've had a couple three rounds with thanks to ex-spouses and their families. Also by a very incompetent doctor.
But we shouldn't worry none, just remember our educational, social, governmental and judicial leaders with the "I'm smarter than you paper" will led us to their correct ways of behaving and beliefs, no matter how much we resist.
After all just look at the way things have improved in the last 3 decades.
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309