Good morning train lovers,
A nice bright start to this Tuesday. Should be in the 40s today.
My daughter was photographing at the club last night. It was mostly a lot of odd shooting just to test out various techniques and to get familiar with her new D200. These first sessions are part of her senior portfolio. She is going to use some of the more abstract stuff for a thesis. Once she gets what she needs and more proficient with this camera, we will take some staged shots for me. BTW. During our show, we had 2 young ladies from Harvard filming from Fri evening dealer/ show set up right through Sunday breakdown. This is part of a senior project also.
The train wreck pics are being emailed to me. 3-4 members took pics and from different angles. Heck, the way I was running, I could have been shooting pics myself. I surely wasn't watching my train...
GARRY: Great looking steel mill. Are those backdrops full sheet w/ sky or did you trim and cut out the facilites for mounting?
Wow, just noticed the time. I have to run. I'll finish up later.
Have a great day,
Philip: I'm glad you're presence at the hospital was just for guy stuff. That will be great to all to get back home. You both must be getting pretty worn out by now.
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Good Morning All,
I'll have a regular to go please Zoe - no time today to linger. 24F outside just now, but the suns trying to break through the overcast and the wind has died.
Nice work Sue and Garry. The blast furnace expecially is impressive. Jeff nice pics - if you cab figure out how to pan the camera with the locomotive you get the front stopped and the streak as well but you'd probably need a tripod to pull it off.
Jerry - you've really been spending some time on the layout and it shows. I'm trying to get back to the museum N gage but between cleaning and the new O gage layout there hasn't been time. On top of that, it's just about time to start ouside work again in the rail yard.
Just a progress shot of the Hudson Wire complex. The last big unfilled area on the lower level.
Lots to do again trying to keep up with the shop load so I've gotta run. CUL, J.R.
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Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
cheque please girls
off for 4 days now . Hope your son is home by the time i'm back in Philip and hoople hope your bb has arrived also.
take care all
Gav
Good to know I'm not the only one that remembers that song!
Paul W. Beverung wrote:PC it's good to hear that your son is doing better. Was the emergency at the hospital because of him or because your wife needed a break?
PC it's good to hear that your son is doing better. Was the emergency at the hospital because of him or because your wife needed a break?
Yes
It was a little of both. Dad was needed to help with "guy stuff", and mom needed a break too. I actually took her down to the smoothie bar they have this evening for a break. It was only 15-20 minutes, but it was needed. We're hoping for a release tomorrow, but we'll see.
Hello again ....
Sue asked: "Garry, I am enjoying your steel mill photos. Do you use chalk for your weathering?" Actually, no to chalk. The steel mill, most of the steel mill cars, and the Baldwin switchers were weathered with spray paint, but don't tell "Spray Can Rembrandt".
We're going nuts once again this year with income taxes. Drives us crazy. This time we are using "TaxCut" software. We may go back to "TurboTax" again next year. Actually, both of them drive us insane. If Uncle Sam wants to replace income taxes with sales taxes, he certainly has my apporval of that. We''l keep at it and get it right, but the entire process is really excessively arduous. There are better things to do with our time. Oh, never mind........
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Evening Gang:
I hauled rock and busted up concrete down to the creek from my sister in laws place most of the afternooon. Then tonight I went to the basement and set up the C$NW passenger train and the Milwaukee Road passenger train for the grand girl. She is 2 and a train freck. She loves to watch the trains go by. I hope that it lasts.
Well it's late and I'm tired and aching. We are really a yacking bunch. 3+ pages since last night.
Good Night All
Finally got to Phoenix at 2:30 pm after the Southwest Flight #699 was delayed Chicago. Got on the Shuttle U to Prescott & arrived there at aroun six.
PC, great news about PC jr. Hope he is feeling better.
Food on me on this page!!
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
SilverSpike wrote: Looks like dinner is on me, Chloe, here's the plastic...
Looks like dinner is on me, Chloe, here's the plastic...
I will have the special, Chloe. Put it on Ryan's tab. I was in such a hurry this morning that I didn't notice that it was my turn. Maybe next time.
Jerry, Standard Oil. What a flash from the past.
Garry, I am enjoying your steel mill photos. Do you use chalk for your weathering?
Tom, Are you modeling the Sierra Nevada's? The Yuba River should give you lots of riverbed choices to model.
Rob, You are sure dedicated if you have to borrow a computer to stay in touch with us.
Philip, Hope that your son is doing better.
Jeff, I was voting for back to the future.
der, Did you dry any of last season's bushes for trees on your layout?
Dick, How is bowling?
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
pcarrell wrote: jeffrey-wimberly wrote:Oh yes they call him the streak.......(Anyone besides me remember that song?)
jeffrey-wimberly wrote:
Oh yes they call him the streak.......
(Anyone besides me remember that song?)
Hey ethal you get your clothes back on you hear me you *(&^$#@
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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I know what you're talking about, Mark. Been there done that. Nothing works. You'll know you are advancing when everything works perfectly unless you are showing the layout to company and all that stuff happens.
PC .. thanks for keeping us posted. I know it's hard on your whole family as well as for young PC. Prayers continue.
Jeff's neat photo almost made me think he got one of those old Athearn rubber band drives going. I think the Athearn hustler did a scale 400 mph.
I've been working on scenery, again
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I had a good modeling day. MoW crews replaced aging rail on the Clarksville Sub, in preparation for a diversion down the div this weekend (Greenburg Show). The Switch to the station has been rebuilt, and new rail on the siding. more work is still needed due to a dip towards the end of the siding. Rutland Paxton & Southern Gas Electric 1180 has been returned to service. The veteran took a tumble into a creek a couple years back. In addition to cosmetic which has been repaired, the locomotive's truck mount, snapped, the driveshaft wasn't recovered from the stream bed. The Engine and traction motors suffered water damage, not to mention the controls. The locomotive had been OOS until a couple weeks back, when we finished wiring, and fired her up! The driveshaft arrived today and was installed in the unit. The motor mount has been welded. While its great that she is back in service, her years on the road are dwindling. After RP&S sent her into the creek she was traded with MNER for a 44 tonner. RP&S went out of business last year and the 44 tonner was returned. Plans are to keep an eye on 1180. The locomotive has had so much work it can't take anymore... If the driveshaft were to break, or the truck mount break again, she is dead, and will probably be sent to a museum. Anywyas... Today she moved for the first time in a couple years. Off the main where she had been stored, and onto the station siding. It was great to hear her rev up!
Cheers!
Alex
pcarrell wrote:Oh yes they call him the streak.......(Anyone besides me remember that song?)
Hoople wrote:Today is just one of those days...I tested the tracks. Switch needed some work. Tweak, test, tweak, test, no avail. Then the challenger's right side traction tire fell off. That was SOO much fun to put back on. Then I ripped up the switch, and re-layed it. Still no luck. Then every, yes EVERY piece of rolling stock I own derailed at least twice... I guess it's just one of those days.Mark
Today is just one of those days...
I tested the tracks. Switch needed some work. Tweak, test, tweak, test, no avail. Then the challenger's right side traction tire fell off. That was SOO much fun to put back on. Then I ripped up the switch, and re-layed it. Still no luck. Then every, yes EVERY piece of rolling stock I own derailed at least twice...
I guess it's just one of those days.
Mark
pcarrell wrote: Oh yes they call him the streak.......(Anyone besides me remember that song?)
yes about mid 70's if memory serves
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While I ged over thid code, I'm re-doing my programming and test track. Here's what it was ...and here's the re-build so far today. Yes, the track is very close to the edge, but if I'm careful.... The greater test was getting the curves to take my longest 6 axel locos without jamming the trucks, or hitting on-coming traffic. Very tight tolerances there, about 1/16th inch passing space!
I'll drob by when I'm semi-huban agaid.
Prayers for all in need of healing, comfort and peace.(eg. PC jr, and family)
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Yup!
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jeffrey-wimberly wrote:I was playing around with shutter settings today and got this shot.
You sure that ain't scientist Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown's De Lorean with the flux capacitor doing about 88 MPH and going back in time....
Nice 1 jeffrey looks like an F at serious speed
another tea please girls
Evening all
tea and a breakfast sandwich with sausage please girls
P. C. glad your son might be home tomorrow my fingers and toes are crossed for him.
Hope you all had a nice easter and didn't overindulge with choc.
Sue that river scene is just great!
And Garry has an amazing series of photos too! I must have gotten the Jesus obit email from a handful of folks, thanks for sharing it here too!
PC thanks! Hope he liked it!
And Bill thanks for the continued images from your archive!
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