CNCharlie wrote:Jeff, I sure have enjoyed the photos of the baggage car and find it amazing that they just abandoned it on a siding like that. Here CN would have seen dollars and sent it for scrap long ago.
Jeff, I sure have enjoyed the photos of the baggage car and find it amazing that they just abandoned it on a siding like that. Here CN would have seen dollars and sent it for scrap long ago.
Well, looks like I'm buying for the night crowd. I just had white fish and hush puppies with a side of fried okra.
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Good evening ........
Flash ...Good plan there. i always thought it would be neat to have a transfer table.
Fergie .... before you make a mess of the MESS, are you really sure about that 2-10-4.... I actual nave a brass CNR loco. It's a United CNR 2-6-0. Neat little engine. But oh, go ahead with that 2-10-4........
I'm still finalizing plans for a section of the layout that will have a double deck reverse loop. My 2-10-2's and 4-8-2's can handle 30" curves with no problems, and that's my mainline minimum radius. I am envious of the Yellowstone king, but I'll be glad to see his engines in the Forum.. ooops.........oh, Hi, Tom..... I really should look st the corner booth before saying anything......
Tom, baby food, eh.......sounds like Lwellenjoys it.... glad he'll be OK.
Our Little Kitten is still the same. i must confess that I though of her whe nI saw the fox resting between the house here and the road for a while this afternoon......... ...That's a way to reduce vet bills.........
Anyhow, I'm about to cut up wood in the woodshop for my next layout sections.
Jeff ... The KCS could have sold the track rail as well as the car for scrap... Thanks for the pix.
Happy Model Railroading...............
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Evening Gang: The trip to the doc went well. He said that everything looked good and to come back in seven weeks. At that time if I want glasses hell give me a scrip for them. I don't know if I'll get glasses since I need them for reading only. I'll have to see if they would help my distance sight.
It's really late and I'm pooped.
Good Night All
Hey guys,
I decided to drop on in for a quick update. I haven't been here for a while, so I might as well spread a bit of news.
Last Friday, I was watching the news when I heard something about the sale of BCRail. I quickly tuned in and apparently the government is reinvestigating the sale of BCRail to CN. There was also some talk about the possibility of there being an "inside man" in the deal. Oddly enough, I haven't seen any topics regarding the sale on this forum.
I just thought I'd spread the word (just incase no one knew).
CPRail modeler wrote: Hey guys,I decided to drop on in for a quick update. I haven't been here for a while, so I might as well spread a bit of news.Last Friday, I was watching the news when I heard something about the sale of BCRail. I quickly tuned in and apparently the government is reinvestigating the sale of BCRail to CN. There was also some talk about the possibility of there being an "inside man" in the deal. Oddly enough, I haven't seen any topics regarding the sale on this forum. I just thought I'd spread the word (just incase no one knew).
Huh?
-Morgan
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Morning.........
Hello Jeff........ Sounds like you needed some firefighter breathing equipment. You certainly don't need smoke inhalation. I salute your work as a volunteer firefighter!
CPRail modeler ....Good to hear from you. I like the red and white loco in your avatar. The "news" report In My Opinion would be something to be skeptical about Our US media is bad enough, but I recall the "news" when we were in Vacouver. Certain events in the USA were highly distorted, and as a USA visitor I felt like the Canadian media was insulting the USA. Fortunately, it's not lthat bad with media in other parts of Canada. As for BC Rail and CN, there would have been lots of insiders because railroad people communicate with each other all of the time. I doubt there wasany sort of scandal.
Paul ... That's really good news about your eye. I'm gald to hear about it.
Happy Model Railorading!
Flashwave wrote: Ferg: it's a brave, if not fool-jhardy soul who dissassembles a steamer on a bobbing (understatement?) boat.
Ferg: it's a brave, if not fool-jhardy soul who dissassembles a steamer on a bobbing (understatement?) boat.
But Alas my young man this is no mere Boat! This is a ship!! plug CSS Hudson or CCGS Hudson into the internet and you'll be amazed what you will see. She is resonsible for the first of many discoveries and ventures and it will be a sad day for many of us when she is sent off to the Breakers.
Besides if you ever saw some of my brass work I use to do when I was a Model Ship builder and working on an Icebreaker that was real talent!!! A soldering iron in one hand and holding on for dear life with the other!!!
Yes Tom I know what your saying and deep down I have been looking for an excuse to start from ground level. I figure 40% of the layout is salvagable or so I think and I might be able to twin the main line and lengthen it.
Dick: just looked at the most recent update on Bertha and I'd say she is well free and clear of where I am and will be for the next week.
Anyway must run
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
in a SANTA FE mug, please & thanks.
OK, not a great topic for the Diner, so appologies in advance. One small section of the old septic tank caved in, leaving a dangerous hole in the middle of the yard. On one side runs the phone line, on the other side runs both the power & pipe from the well to the studio. Will need to very carefully dig around until I locate the exact location of those. Then I hope to use the tractor for most of the filling. Looks like it might be a home-made septic (out of bricks) and is quite large (can't even spot two of the sides). Wonder if it should be pumped out before trying to fill it or if dirt will absorb all that liquid?
Been contemplating our designated train room. Will be nice for the wife to have a place to develop her circus/carnival and redneck town ideas. Was looking at HO EZ-track for her....that stuff is EXPENSIVE! What is a good "affordable" HO track I can use to lengthen strait sections between EZ-track curves & swiches? Or will we save anything at all by the time I lay roadbed for it, ballast it, etc? (((psst: My N scale Unitrack doesn't seem so pricey after all)))
3 nights in a row of little sleep is taking a toll. Just can't shut off the brain at night. Going to take it easy today.
Rob
rtraincollector:
If you are moving to Columbia, S.C. there is a really nice Hobby Shop in West Columbia. At least there was several years ago. The New Brookline RR HS. Say hello to Joe. At one time got a lot of stuff for the previous road when I lived in SC.
Dr. Robert Sylvester (He knows me that way)
WTRR
Cederstrand wrote: What is a good "affordable" HO track I can use to lengthen strait sections between EZ-track curves & swiches? Or will we save anything at all by the time I lay roadbed for it, ballast it, etc?
What is a good "affordable" HO track I can use to lengthen strait sections between EZ-track curves & swiches? Or will we save anything at all by the time I lay roadbed for it, ballast it, etc?
Good Morning, Zoe. You're right, I didn't get back yesterday. One of those days - went a little late in the afternoon. Also, have been trying to stretch my gas until payday (Tuesday), so I don't have to dip into Dick's retirement contributions...
Train Master wrote:Today I did something that I never did before. I drove a car, legally! I got my learners permit yesterday and I cannot wait until June when I can get my license.
Today I did something that I never did before. I drove a car, legally! I got my learners permit yesterday and I cannot wait until June when I can get my license.
(In keeping with Flash's warning...)
Okay, Jeff - have you warned everyone in David's parish (county) there about this? Best wishes on safe driving, David - and watch out about a carfull of friends distracting you from your driving. Careful driving keeps your insurance rates down lower, y'know.
Jeff, sounds like you need a good rest, after yesterday's hard work (topped off by that meeting). I'm sure your weather is worse than ours here is, on the heat & humidty.
Ryan, I'm just missing the good stuff on lunches lately - now I missed the turtle soup, too? Hey, Zoe, if you do have any of that turtle soup left, I think I'll have a cup of that and a ham & cheese sandwich please, with a Dr. Pepper. Thanks!
Tom, good to hear things went fairly well at the vet's. Hopefully, Lowell will be able to heal up for many more months/years with you. With your neighbor, that could be a pretty good trade for the use of your creeper!
Don't want to offend any of our Big Articulated Lovers in the Diner, but I never had a hankering for anything bigger than a Mikado or a Pacific (or a six axle diesel...). Different strokes and all that...
Dick, careful there - talking about Jill, or your CFO'll clean your clock! Sounds like your weather is as hot and humid as ours (maybe more humid). We've got 83 percent RH today, it's been creeping up on the humidity, with it also warming up in the evenings. Only got down to the 70's (F) last night. But hey, hot soup (or some of Jeff's hot sauce) will clear out the pores, Dick!
Rob, you taking care of yourself and not over-doing, right? Hope the FedEx folks show up today with that check. How're your critters doing with the summer?
Fergie, my condolences on having to redo your MESS(tm), but then again, I've heard about model railroads that they're never really 'done.' Good to hear you had (in your absence) a good turnout for the garden show. Congrats on getting your hands on the new loco, and (once you get things re-done) hope you get it into running order soon. Meanwhile, back to being a 'cork in the ocean,' eh? And that other hand wasn't holding the same soldering iron as the other, was it?
I have more done on the MRR'ing this weekend (like the basic wiring, for example); want to be able to run trains this year, by golly! Now, if I could do like Jerry and get my workbench cleared off (more often...), that'd be good, too.
CN Charlie, maybe the polar bears are stealing your early tomatoes because they're thirstier this year and all...?
Flash, that's a good plan there (and not your everyday one, either!). Hope you can build it with the new transfer table once it's available.
CP Rail, thanks for the word on the (possible) sale - not sure if it's the same up NOTB there, but down here they worry about antitrust, monopolies, etc. (unless it's Micro$oft, of course...)
to the Diner, Dr. Bob (if I may be so casual) and have a cup on me. Very good Great job on your town/city there. Got more photos of the layout? We can always use more good examples to motivate us slackards like me... Fill us in on your layout, please.
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
***Jeffrey, that is kinda what I figured. Know any good discount online sellers of EZ-track?
***Jim, it arrived this morning and wife already deposited it in the bank. Funds will become available next Tuesday, so work can begin anytime after that. One small step closer to a train room. Critters are all doing well except for Sandy (oldest, mostly blind mare). She is really heading downhill, but as long as she can eat and knows her way around the paddock, I'll give her the best of care and attention. I really really really dread that day, which I know is coming.
Wow is it hot and getting hotter and more humid each day. Still have to do the work outside, if not, things will get OOC ( Out Of Control ) very fast.
FERGIE: There is a TD off the Florida coast near the SC border, it bears watching, it may intensify. As for new layout, do you have the room to add another mainline outside the existing mainline? Can you add to your benchwork with some creative carpentry? If so, you can have the best of both worlds. BTW, Lisa will love the weather headed her way this weekend, 90's are going to spread all the way up into NS, and almost to Sheet Harbour.
PAUL: Glad to hear the eye exam went well, hope you keep sun glasses on when outside.
CAPE JIM: Spicy cold soup is just fine with me on these dog days of summer. And not to worry about the CFO, all is in control, you see, at age 69, do you really think our wives do much worrying about us? Now if I were a young man like you once again, that would be a different story. As the old saying goes, you can look at the menus, but don't order. LOL
GARRY: Bad news lad, I was watching the TV news at noontime today and they said that the results were in for the states with the most Obese people. Mississippi was #1 followed by #2 Alabama and Kentucky was #3 !!!!!!!! Colorado came in dead last with the least Obese people percentage-wise. I believe that Mississippi was something like 38% Obese. What are these people eating down south to make them so darn fat!! I know that southern food is real good for sure.
Time to get back out,
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But now that Ryan is living in NC, that state must be moving rapidly to the top of the list! I suppose I should have stayed in CO (Caboose Hobbies is there, too.)
The best "cold soup": is a Root Beer Float. JimCG is good about supplying those. MMMMMMMM.
Fergie..............any chance of obtaining blind drivers to install on those big locomotives for your existing curves? .......... The MESS's mechanical department should have known about this issue ahead of time.....Anybody get fired at the MESS for this problem?
Cederstrand wrote:***Jeffrey, that is kinda what I figured. Know any good discount online sellers of EZ-track?
Cederstrand wrote:***Jeffrey, that is kinda what I figured. Know any good discount online sellers of EZ-track? ***Jim, it arrived this morning and wife already deposited it in the bank. Funds will become available next Tuesday, so work can begin anytime after that. One small step closer to a train room. Critters are all doing well except for Sandy (oldest, mostly blind mare). She is really heading downhill, but as long as she can eat and knows her way around the paddock, I'll give her the best of care and attention. I really really really dread that day, which I know is coming.
Rob, try these results of a search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=EZ-Track+discount
Good to hear the check is no longer in the mail (but in your bank) now...
Dick, good to hear we won't have to have you go to the ER to have your wife's foot removed from your aft side... Me, young? I'm just this 20 or 30-something kid trapped in this 61-year-old body...
And since Garry reminded me, how about a nice RBF? Looks like Garry tricked me - okay, set 'em up for everybody, Zoe. Thanks!
***Dick, here in GA it may be too much fried food & sweets. My wife is guilty of both and with high cholesterol, I really worry about her long term health. Me, well fried foods are not the least bit appealing to me. I admit to being guilty of having a sweet tooth though.
Turntables: There is a part of me that likes the idea of that Walthers TT, but the cost is a bit insane. Was thinking of the excelent work done with paper print outs (that's you, Jeffrey, right?) and wondered if an Atlas TT couldn't be doctored up to look like wood using that approach? Also, how accurate/effective (and easy) are the Atlas TTs to set up and use? Any thoughts? (((with a train room, I WILL have a TT somewhere, so locos can be left out for visual enjoyment, rather than kept packed away in boxes)))
Afternoon Gang: Thank you to everyone for all the well wishes about my eyes. It certainly has helped.
The kids were looking at a house about 2 miles from us that they really liked. It was on 2.3 acres with 5 bedrooms and 2.5 baths. A real nice place. They had been going to make an offer untill they saw the restrictions from the town. They wouldn't even be able to spit without approval. Some people have to control everything.
Rob you could fill in the old septic tank with the water in it but you would probably have sinking problems for sometime. We are having problems like that on the well sight where the drilling wast ponds were. I had it filled in again just yesterday. If you can pump out the water and let it run soak in some where that would be good. If it has tobe hauled away it may cost some. We have our tank pumped every couple of years and it runs around $100.
Well I must run the gang wants to go somewhere.??????
See you all later.
Paul, glad to hear your eyes are doing better.
Rob, the Atlas TT's are easy but they model the closed pit turn tables and they come indexed. You can pick them up pretty cheep too. I think my LHS has an HO in brass for $12.
Ok, time to go back to work I hope to have time to stop in later this weekend.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Well this will be the last time I post... for a while.
Starting tomorrow I leave at 6am to go to the Scout Hut; It will be a trip to a Scout Camp in North Carolina for a week. Friday night, my parents will pick me up en route to Cape Cod. We will stay in Brewster for around 10 days.
Then we leave for home with a stop in New York City on the way. I may stay a few extra days with my uncle and cousins and post from Northern New Jersey. At the end of it all I will have been gone for about 4 weeks with 1 week left to enjoy summer at home--so worth it though!!!
robert sylvester wrote: rtraincollector:If you are moving to Columbia, S.C. there is a really nice Hobby Shop in West Columbia. At least there was several years ago. The New Brookline RR HS. Say hello to Joe. At one time got a lot of stuff for the previous road when I lived in SC.Dr. Robert Sylvester (He knows me that way)WTRR
I acually live here now have been scince end of may .
I plan to try and get there one of these days.
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Hi TxRailnut.
Went out to dinner at a local Mexican place with my sister and her family tonight. I had Carne Asada. My sister asked me why didn't I just order fajitas, it's the same meat and all. I told her that I like to build my own fajitas, I don't like the way the restaurant makes them.
Coffee refill, please & thanks.
***LilRob...hello and greetings from TiredRob.
Brain storm: Siphoning the liquid out of the old septic tank using a couple sacrificial garden hoses. Have it running into the mega-deep trash pit. Added a couple gallons of clorox for good measure.
Hope everyone is doing well. Healing thoughts to those in need.
Hi new guys!
Thanks fgor the comments on Northern, maybe I will build it. Just gotta come up with an Ops reason for stuff to go OUT... or, not.
Sad news today: We had to bury a beloved pet (Plush) skunk. His name was Stinky, born from a litter of Ty's some 14 years ago. He was one of dad's healers during the last bout of cancer, and had a wonderful seat up onm the rear view mirrors. A very expressive lil' skunk, with lots of posturing. He passed while trying to soothe Dad's tender caboose while he had "waste disposal problems" today, somehow getting under dad and not being able to get out. we decided to end his miisery and buried him by the Mulberry Bush. His star pupil, a Pokemon Plush called Oddish, will take his position, probably from a nice shelf beside the bed. We're looking at adopting a Stinky Jr, and I need styrafoam for a headstone.
Dad's doing alright, no real news, but he's out of the rotisserie bed (The docs hate us now, we have THEM calling it that) and they called off the GIs from him, so progress is good if not slow.