GOULD TOWER, Maumee Ohio (near Toledo)
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
New Haven I-5 wrote: PC, ......I have always wondered what kind of beds they use in Hospitals. I was thinking they use tempur-pidics (did I spell it right?). Of course, I've never been in a hospital bed so I don't know.
PC, ......I have always wondered what kind of beds they use in Hospitals. I was thinking they use tempur-pidics (did I spell it right?). Of course, I've never been in a hospital bed so I don't know.
They fold up 9 ways to Sunday, go up and down, the whole 9 yards, but the mattresses are just cheap ones covered in vinyl. They put sheets and stuff on them of course, but they aren't the most comfortable. I suppose if you put a good mattress on it they would be pretty good. I know the frames are a couple thousand bucks apiece.
Gerry, that really is quite a setup you have there!
All,
BTW, I'm here at the hospital now. My son looks worlds better then he did yesterday and they said if he continues to improve they're sending him home tomorrow. Here's to hopin'!
Tom ... thanks for the remarks. I'm gald you are enjoying the chocolate bunny. I still have my chocolate Santa Claus to eat.
Lee ...... Here are other views of the steel mill. It's all from Walthers kits. The rolling mill is two kits end-to-end. The coke oven (last picture) is in a separate location and has some scratch made machines and structures added. I heard a rumor that Walthers might re-release the blast furnace, but now they are very expensive at train shows and on ebay.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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Garry, awesome steel plant!!!! I have a 4' x 4' area reserved on my layout for a blast furnace. Who made the blast furnace kit in your pictures? I was going to buy one last train show but they wanted $250 for the kit. Not really in my price range. How much space did your BF and rolling mill take up? Our steel mill here has re-painted their switchers as dedication to our troops. I'll have to post a few pictures here later.
PC, all this will catch up with you, be careful out there.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Moring everyone!
I'm getting ready to drive to Burbank Int. Airport to catch my flight to Phoenix. I think I will be able to go on the forums but I'm not sure.
PC, Glad to hear PC jr. is doing better. He is always on my mind. I have always wondered what kind of beds they use in Hospitals. I was thinking they use tempur-pidics (did I spell it right?). Of course, I've never been in a hospital bed so I don't know.
Hope to see you soon!
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
Morning all--
I should order a Mocha just to celebrate, but I already ate some more of the bunny this morning--I had NO idea how GOOD chocolate is--but I've got to take it easy, that bunny was a foot TALL, (NOT ANYMORE, LOL! ).
Philip: Good news on your son--I sure wish the Pharmaceutical companies could come up with a pain-killer that doesn't plug you up, though. I remember my broken rib and the Percoset and all the fun I had trying to get something to move. Whew! But I'm glad to hear he's getting better. Continued prayers for you and your family.
Sue: Apologies for not chiming in earlier on that spectacular river-bed of yours. As someone with a few mountain rivers on my own Yuba River Sub, you've really inspired me. Just BEAUTIFUL work!
Heartland: Love that steel mill--that's really CHOICE work, buddy!
Well, Mom's announced that she wants to watch some musicals today, so I'm dragging out all my Rodgers and Hammerstein DVD's, which is going to give me a really good excuse to go out into my California Basement and work on my loco servicing facilities. Which means emptying the yard of a couple of Yellowstones, LOL! So while she watches "Sound of Mucus (sorry, 'Music'), I'll work on my sanding tower.
Have this week off, also. Catholic schools get TWO weeks for Easter, thank God! I'll get back to school just in time to take my Chamber Choir to the Golden Empire music festival here in Sacto. First time our high school has ever entered a choir in the competition, but I think we're ready. We're doing Doo-Wop and Beach Boys (you ought to hear them rip into "Barbara Ann"--WOWSER!). Plus the required Renaissance a-capella piece, of course. Gotta keep them Adjudicator's happy.
Well, time to get out the DVD's and get ready to go into the garage.
Best to all:
Tom
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Heartland Division CB and Q wrote: PC .. If it were real, you would not want to smell it.
PC ..
If it were real, you would not want to smell it.
True that!
Good to learn your son is recovering. That's major surgery, and recovery at home will take quite some time. Are they telling you there will be some physical therapy involved?
He'll be in his casts for about 6 weeks and he'll have braces on his legs for 3 months after that 24/7. Then he just wears the braces at night for a year. And we will have a physical therapist coming to the house every day to work with him (THANK YOU Muscular Dystrophy Association!). If he doesn't grow a lot more then this may be the only time he'll have to have this done, but if he grows then they may have to do it again once or even twice. They might have to do it again in two years and maybe three years after that......we'll see. I kinda hope he doesn't grow a lot more. He's 5'5" now. My wife is 5'9" and I'm 5'11", but my dad is 6'2" and my brother is 6'3", so who knows.
Morning, Zoe - some of Ed's OJ, cup of coffee and I'll have some of the breakfast buffet, please. Thanks!
rtraincollector wrote:hope all is fine with pc haven't heard from him yet this am. thought he would of posted by now.
I'm hoping that that means PC's sleeping in today... Oh, I see he's up and at 'em already! At least you're able to help your wife get some sleep, PC. Pace yourself, and you'll get the big stuff done today (and the smaller stuff will still be there tomorrow).
My annoying car chime is still there. Oh, well. Need to take the money by the tow company office today, and figure how to cover everything else (which is too much$). Next payday's probably not going to have much for catchup. May have to wait a bit on MRR purchases (Hmm...I do have all those kits I could see about assembling, don't I? ).
Hoople, remind yourself that there was life before you ordered the Big Boy, and you can survive until it gets there. Just remind yourself that it will be so cool to play with that when it arrives, and don't neglect your current locos - they might get jealous and decide to quit working!
Lee, you were one busy beaver last weekend, with all that roadbedding and tracklaying. Way to go!
Blessings on everyone's Monday,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Lee ....
The ore arrives in Jennies and is unloaded on the hign line behind my Walthers blast furnace. Coke (Walthers coke hoppers) and stone (2 bay hoppers) are unloaded there also.
My steel mill uses second hand baldwin switchers from SP or GN.
The port listing would be interesting. I recall the big transloading facilities on Lake Superior.
Hey all!
Crazy morning around here! Lots to do!
RT, I hit ya back! Thanks buddy! I know he'll be happy about that.
Ryan, I'm passing that on to my son....thanks!
Lee, I was up and running at 6am. Got a ton to do today to keep everyone happy! The phones never stop ringing at the phone company you know.....or at least you hope they don't. If they do, then your problems just got MUCH worse!
OK, here's the latest.......everything seems to be getting better. The main surgery was no problem and the pain from that has been under control for a couple of days. The thing is, pain meds have a tendency to constipate you. With the big pain meds that my son had it just jammed him right up. That is getting better though. And I still stand 100% behind our doctor. If you need and orthopedic surgeon and you're in Indiana, Dr. Carlos Barrios is your man. You know, that guy took time out yesterday from his family to stop by and see my boy and make sure he's getting better? And he has 3 kids himself! We thanked him and then sent him home to his kids.
Oh well, gotta run!
Later!
(Oh, and I'm doing a half day at work today and then I'm off to the hospital. I'll let the wife take a few hours to catch up on sleep, then I'm off to school. Later!)
Garry, (or anyone) If you're interested I have a Great Lakes map (PDF) listing the ports and the commodities that are received or shipped from those ports (including Canada).
Garry, what type of hoppers are used on your line for iron? Jennies or 3-4 bay hoppers?
Good Morning,
32F, NNW Winds @ 10Kts, 30% chance of snow.
Had a busy weekend on the layout: Installed 152' of roadbed, laid out 27 turnouts for the LS&W East-West yard, and built the bench work for the bridge/creek section of the layout. Not to mention I updated my RR web site.
I imagine PC is still sleeping, he had a heck of a weekend!
Good morning everybody ...
We were in Louisville (200 MI NE of here) yesterday afternoon and got back late.
I had to get on the computer this morning to learn the latest on PC's son. It's good the boy has a great Dad to get DVD's, hide Easter eggs, help with "personal" stuff, and (most importantly) pray with him.
Lee .... meantioned the modeling of iron ore transport by rail and by water. I really am impressed with the lakeside transload facilities for that. However, my railroad hauls ore entirely by rail. There was a big movement of ore from upper MN to the Granite City, IL steel mill that moved via GN to St Paul and connected with CB&Q to Granite City, IL (near St. Louis, MO). The prototype cjhanged from GN units to CB&Q units at interchange, but I normally have GN units running through to the steel mill.
Bill T .... I like those depot photos.
Sue ... the river bed scenery looks real! Great!
Bobk .... it's good to hear about your daughter's phtotgraphy. Too bad about the wreck. Did they dispatch "the Big Hook" to clean up the derailment?
Tom ... thanks for sharing the Eastewr mass experiences, and how much chocalte bunny is eaten now? The city annex story was interesting and sounds typical of local politicians.
Mitch .... The RailBox car looks real.
Mark ... I'm glad to hear you are working on the layout. I hope the superelavation works okay.
Colby ... Also, good to hear you are working on the layout.
My scenery project has been delayed by the dreaded non=model-railroaded-stuff. I hope to get more done gain, however, this week.
Happy Model Railroading.
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Just coffee this morning, Chloe.
Thanks, guys, for the encouragement. I managed to get all of the cowboys and their horses painted this weekend. I have next week off and hope to get the stockyard planted. Larry needs to stain the bents and then he can start assembly. It will take a while because he plans to hand lay the turnout on the trestle.
Well, I had better get ready for work.
Sue
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Hey Guys
I've been busy with school and the like. I'm also working on fixing a spot of track that has kepted my NYC GP7 sidelined because it keeps derailing. So I'm taking up the track in theupper left hand corner and the mine siding so I can make room for the secret industry that I'm planning.
That's all for now
Colby
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Morning All. Hope everyone had a great Easter.
Hoping to work on the renovation on my layout this week.
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KEEP WORKIG ON YOUR LAYOUT WILL KEEP YOUR MIND OFF IT take care
cheque please girls. see u all tonight
Gav
woot, I'm bored...
Did a little layout work. Mom found her Ace cutters, and I promptly stole them to go to some trackwork on the back side of the 4x8.
I nipped out this bit of homasote which held the track in an odd position, getting closer to the edge, so now the track is straight and it is in place. Once I did this, there was a gap in the tracks. Big enough to derail rolling stock, small enough so that fitter pieces wouldn't work. So I grabbed the cutters, some steel track (wish I had some nickel silver lying around) and cut a couple small pieces and put them in the rail joiners, then tightly clamped 'em in with the cutters.
Next I went about superelavating my curve on the left hand side of the layout. Basically I grabbed some WS riser stuff left over, and got some not-so-thick pieces and put them under the ties on one side, and ta-da, it's superelavated.
I haven't tried running trains over it just yet, but I will soon.
On other news, walthers is trying to tempt me. Union Pacific GP7 with sound, $130...
While I also have the choice of buying a new vandy tender for my mountain, and buying a couple decoders, one for my black widow GP9 and one for my big boy, and maybe some rolling stock.
I'll probably get at least the big boy's decoder (if it doesn't work so well with the one I've got sitting around from my mountain)
If it doesn't, I'll order the decoder, and wait and see if the price on that geep sticks around...
This is one huge post, lol...
Well, anything else I can say... hmmm... Oh yeah, I just looked on my tracking. Big boy came from Ithaca NY, to Erie PA, to Wilimington OH, then back to Erie... Gonna say, why the heck did it do that... It's gonna drive me nuts for a while... Maybe a typo?
Anyways, later,
Mark
Evening folks-just a quick coffee before bed.
I know I haven't stopped in much lately, just trying to do too many things & neglecting some other things.
Mom & Dad are still OK-they've resumed their habit of bickering over silly petty things, but from what I understand from my co-workers that also have elderly parents, that is pretty much normal. (still hard for me to deal with & get used to when I'm over there though)
Everything here's pretty much ok though-after that heavy snowfall & then heavy rainfall, I'm pretty much ready for dry & WARM weather! I've been studying the ground & trees for green shoots & buds. It was so deceiving today-it looked like 60's & 70's out due to the sun but it was only in the 30's! I know it's not far off, but I'm overly itchy-maybe because of getting this house in September, & not really having a chance to do much outside before it got cold. (& also due to the fact my favorite months seasonwise are coming up, April-June. It does my heart good to see things get GREEN again!
Update on Dawn's job-well, the other place still hasn't said they need her yet, HOWEVER! she has FINALLY been promoted to a cook at her current job! She starts pretty much this week, & the pay is equal to the other job. (& more secure) &! there's a possibility (& I stress possibility) that come this summer I may get the chance for a better paying position where I work also. Our maintenance guy is retiring in June, his assistant is more than likely taking his place, & I may get the chance to get the assistant position. As far as I'm concerned that would be great, as I pretty much know (& do) 25-50% of what he does, only afternoon shift, but the hours would be early morning, & a hopefully (& needed) RAISE! The more I think about it, the more the idea appeals to me, as I'm getting very tired of working 1-9 PM & also dealing with the public. I'll have 26 years in there in June, & "hopefully" this may carry me thru to retirement within the next 10 years or so (knock on wood)
Model RR-wise, I'm still putting finishing touches on my latest weathered Railbox. I wanted it done by this weekend, but I keep finding things that need touch up. Oh well, maybe by next weekend I can post pics. In the meantime, I got out & got some proto pics today-& caught my 1st Railbox since last summer-she may be on the list for a future project:
I was able to get a lot of detail pics also, so we'll see what happens.
Blah, it's late, better hit the bed-hoping everyone here is all well & safe. Nite All!
calm down Hoople or you'll end up a nervous wreck before you get it
OI! Dreams of big boys?
Jeeze, I'm going to go crazy before I get this thing...
When I was a youngin, I could doodle a track plan at the drop of a hat. Now I can't get a darn thing drawn up if I had to.
Last week, I went out to Ohio to visit my brother. Fairly heavy rail traffic where he lives. Saw a lot of NS power in his town and CSX when we drove down to near Akron on an errand. His town still has the old Pennsy station from back in the day, but the weather prevented me from going and taking pictures of it. And from going against my better judgement and measuring it when I shouldn't be nosing around anywhere near it in the first place. He's got some pictures but I forgot to get them from him. He's a airplane and armor model builder himself, but plans on building a diorama of the station some day.
Also took a day to drive out to Dayton to indulge one of my other hobbies and visited the USAF museum at Wright-Patterson. My brother had been trying to get me to go out there for a couple years now but its a really, really long drive. It was around four hours from his place and I used to live around five hours from where he lives, so you do the math. Not really a "there and back in one day" kinda thing. Pretty awesome collection they have there and I recommend it to anyone that's got even the tiniest passing interest in such things. Although I did like the US Navy's aviation museum, despite having a smaller collection of aircraft. Very glad I got a new camera last month. Would have been nicer if I had figured out how the thing works before I went though. Now that I came out for that, he better hold up to his end of the deal and drive out to Altoona with me in June.
Mom's trying to get everyone to go on vacation together this year. The whole family hasn't gone somewhere in a while and now the kids are all adults (mid 20s) so she wants to do something where we can go and do whatever we want. If that makes sense. I'm sure you, gentle reader, are already seeing that selecting a location for this is nearly impossible. I want to take Amtrak from Pittsburgh to Chicago ($134 round trip for one adult me vs 926 miles in a Honda Accord that gets 25 mpg with a 13 gallon tank working out to $130 in gas assuming an average price of $3.50/g tells me spend the $4 and not have to drive). Everyone is intrigued about the idea of taking the train somewhere, but I'm alone in my desire to see parts of Chicago that can't be viewed from O'Hare.