Howdy all....Its partly cloudy and warm here this morning..storms last nite mostly went north of us..I'll have a Windy city Dawg drag it thru the garden,onion rings,and a diet Coke please...Thank You..Havn't got much done on the railroad did run some trains...
Mike...Thanks for the heads up on the train show over at Altamont but its too close to the end of the month for me...We are going down to Robinson for a Grand daughter's birthday party Thursday and that will shoot the gas budget for the month...Have a big slice of apple pie for me and hope you find some good deals...
Jeff ....Hope thats the end of your internet troubles...Neet Gon load....
Here is my new power chair what do you all think....
You all have a good one....Jerry
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 All
I'll start with a cup of Java please and thanks
grayfox1119 wrote: FERGIE: It looks like your ship is headed back towards port!! And yes, Christobal has begun the swing to the NE away from New England and Nova Scotia, and if it maintains this course ( it should ) it would take it SOUTH of Sable Island, passing the EAST side of the island. But, you know hurricanes, they have a mind of their own.
FERGIE: It looks like your ship is headed back towards port!! And yes, Christobal has begun the swing to the NE away from New England and Nova Scotia, and if it maintains this course ( it should ) it would take it SOUTH of Sable Island, passing the EAST side of the island. But, you know hurricanes, they have a mind of their own.
Sorry to disapoint ya Dick! but... We are presently South of Sable (slightly South of the storm track) and finishing up the last of the Science stations on this leg. It is hot, humid but sunny with no sign of Cristobal on the horizon. The Barograph is steady and hasn't started to dip yet and we have very little swell as the winds are out of the South at 15 knots. They've down graded the Storm warnings to Gale Warnings and once we are finished here move move off to the SSE for 66nm before starting our next Science Station, which will be further away from the track. Storm is suppose to go post tropical in the next 12-24 hours.
So as it stands... We're good but thanks for the concern, See the "Old Man" isn't completely insane! His only concern is this thing doesn't pick up strength but this is unlikely as the water temps are cooler in these parts as We're presently on the convergence (edge of the Gulf Stream)
Tom: That's one huge kitty!!! 30 pounder I'd say. Glad Lowell is doing better. as to the gear case the Oil was as good as the day it was put in no signs of solidification. I've straightened out the shaft and alignment and put it all back together and placed it in the box before the storm hits later. I resoldered the wires to the motor (Canon can motor) so that may have been the reason the engine didn't do anything when I put it on the tracks. When get it home I'll fire it up again.
Ed: The Pie sounds good so save a piece for me. I also enjoyed the photos of the Locomotive, looks like you were have fun.
Anyway it's lunch time
Later All
Fergie (aka "The Old Man")
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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
Inch said ...... "Garry, Thanks for the info on the birds. From what we could see, they kinda looked like the eagles we'd seen along the Mississippi river, south of Alton. We sure enjoyed the visit with ya'll and again thanks. ".........
You're welcome Inch. It was very enjoyable seeing you and "Mother"........ I should day that anybody should take time to meet Inch and Mother if at all possible. They are two really good people. ........... Also........any of the diners here is more than welcome to have the same tour....I should have mentioned that Gus's locomotive fleet includes models of locomotives he operated during his long career with IC RR. He even has certain locomotive numbers to be correct. There are several paint schemes including CN to include the period after Cn acquired IC.
Jeff ....sorry you're having internet problems, and I would agree you should get the billing department to adjust the bill......
Happy Model Railroading
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Mornin, just an irish coffee please Zoe. Last nights storms missed us for the most part, but the areas north n east, sure got hit hard with damage again. Today's forecast is some betters, but still a chance for rain.
Rain and thunderstorms are again expected this afternoon and evening. Some thunderstorms may reach severe limits because of gusty winds and the potential for small hail. Temperatures will warm up into the mid 80's this afternoon with northwest winds. Rain and thunderstorms will move southeast of the Wabash Valley tonight as more comfortable and less humid air moves in. Expect mostly sunny skies for Wednesday with northeast winds and daytime high temperatures in the lower 80's.
Glad ya'll have enjoyed the pics I've posted so far. And for those concerned [DICK n JIM], yea my beard is a little longer than normal for summer, but not to worry none. Mother has already informed me I am getting it trimmed after some kid called me Santa in the store last weekend.
Garry,
Thanks for the info on the birds. From what we could see, they kinda looked like the eagles we'd seen along the Mississippi river, south of Alton. We sure enjoyed the visit with ya'll and again thanks.
Jim,
We've been having some trouble with our phone and internet here in the country, because of the bad weather earlier. We're stuck with Fairpoint since they're the only game in town, other than satellite or a cell phone and they both cost more here for some reason.
Tom,
Good to hear Lowell is home n doing betters now.
Jerry,
The layout looks much bigger with the mirrors. There's a MRR swap meet over at Altamont this weekend, along with the thresherman's show. It's not a big MRR meet, but there's been some good buys in the past. Plus there's lots of other interesting things to. Watch out for the pies though at the church stand
http://www.altamontil.net/Special%20Events/Mill-2008.pdf
We're planning on going over Sunday, hopefully without a bunch of kids to keep track of.
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Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
And my Zoe would like to add that if you're taking one of those naps, and someone should try to disterb you, the evil eye will usually make them go away.
Guess I'm buying breakfast now!
Tall glass of cool water, please & thanks.
***Tom, our Millie Kitty offers this one bit of advise for Lowell:
Sleep lots.
Getting a little rain here this evening with a chance for more tomorrow...YES!
Rob
Keep it up Lowell. Love the idea of a 20lb cat being little though.
ED/Garry: I just switched an NDeM into The Ball Glass factory at the club tonight. Kinda Ironic you mentioned it.
-Morgan
twhite wrote: Evening everyone. Beautiful day here, it didn't even hit 83 today. Blessed Delta Breezes. Just got Lowell home from his weekend at the vet. Boy, was HE glad to see me! And boy, was I glad to see HIM! He looks and seems to feel about 100% better than he was when I took him in Friday. Spent the weekend on IV's to get him stabilized. I'm going to have to hydrate him twice a day for the rest of his furry little life, and he's on a Gerber's baby food diet (which he loves!). I really want to thank you guys for your concern and best wishes for the little guy--it really means a lot to me. (Thanks, guys, you are Cool Dudes--Lowell )Fergie: Glad you're missing that storm--have you got the gearbox on that beauty cleaned out, yet? Inquiring minds want to know, LOL Ed: That's one little HONEY of a steamer in those photos. Man, talk about a HEADLIGHT! I think I remember that particular locomotive from a really fun film from the '70's called VIVA MARIA. Or at least a locomotive that looked suspiciously like it. Jeff: The baggage car's on its way, I mailed it this afternoon. Hopefully you'll have it before the end of the week. Can't wait to see what you do with it! Well, Lowell's staring at me for his Gerbers. The Beef, thanks, Daddy. I want the BEEF! Gotta go. Thanks again for your good wishes. You guys are TERRIFIC! Best to all and sincere prayers for those in need. I know your good thoughts certainly answered MINE!!Tom
Evening everyone.
Beautiful day here, it didn't even hit 83 today. Blessed Delta Breezes. Just got Lowell home from his weekend at the vet. Boy, was HE glad to see me! And boy, was I glad to see HIM! He looks and seems to feel about 100% better than he was when I took him in Friday. Spent the weekend on IV's to get him stabilized. I'm going to have to hydrate him twice a day for the rest of his furry little life, and he's on a Gerber's baby food diet (which he loves!).
I really want to thank you guys for your concern and best wishes for the little guy--it really means a lot to me.
(Thanks, guys, you are Cool Dudes--Lowell )
Fergie: Glad you're missing that storm--have you got the gearbox on that beauty cleaned out, yet? Inquiring minds want to know, LOL
Ed: That's one little HONEY of a steamer in those photos. Man, talk about a HEADLIGHT! I think I remember that particular locomotive from a really fun film from the '70's called VIVA MARIA. Or at least a locomotive that looked suspiciously like it.
Jeff: The baggage car's on its way, I mailed it this afternoon. Hopefully you'll have it before the end of the week. Can't wait to see what you do with it!
Well, Lowell's staring at me for his Gerbers. The Beef, thanks, Daddy. I want the BEEF!
Gotta go. Thanks again for your good wishes. You guys are TERRIFIC! Best to all and sincere prayers for those in need. I know your good thoughts certainly answered MINE!!
Tom
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
Good Evening Diners!
Tom, I was wondering today if things were going well with Lowell and I'm happy to hear there was a great result. The little(?) guy looks very comfy and content laying on that blanket. I guess he's full of baby food!! Say how many jars does it take to fill him up?
Our little Jamie appears to be doing much better since the dental surgery. He's still on pain killers but he does seem more perky and is eating better even with the stitches in his mouth.
Jerry that mirror backdrop looks really good and gives your layout more depth. A car lot is a good idea. I thought of doing one on my layout but can't seem to find any cars from the mid-fifties. I have several from the late and early '50's but I need a few from say '54 to '57 so I guess I'll just wait. Can't believe how much they cost, often more than a decent rolling stock kit.
Dick, I'm still waiting for you to send us some of that heat. Tomorrow would be good for me.
Well I'm just about to go downstairs to put the engine house on the layout now that its finished. At least a couple of locos won't get dusty!
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Good evening.....missed todays TS's they went north and south of us, but we did get a little rain, 0.23" worth, enought to keep the weeds growing in this very tropical air, it is very close to Amazon climate right now, high humidity, high dew points in the 70's, temps around 90F, and TS's every afternoon and evening.
FERGIE: It looks like your ship is headed back towards port!! And yes, Christobal has begun the swing to the NE away from New England and Nova Scotia, and if it maintains this course ( it should ) it would take it SOUTH of Sable Island, passing the EAST side of the island. But, you know hurricanes, they have a mind of their own. There is an upper level LOW over eastern Quebec, and this in concert with the big Bermuda HIGH that sits stationary over Bermuda, will steer the storm outinto the north Atlantic.
ED: Have a good trip Ed, what do you plan to purchase for the "N" scale layout?
JERRY: Have you recovered yet from the little ones??
TIFN
The NdeM box cars contain empty pie tins for Ed's famous key lime pie to be shipped to the diner.
By the way, I'll be out of town and probably off the internet for the next two weeks, starting tomorrow morning. We're taking the kids (Junior plus two nieces) on a short trip up in the central part of the country. Then Fran and I will wind up at what passes for the annual railfan and model railroad convention down here. Like I've said before, it's about as big as a small local train show up north, but it's the only game in town down here. The good thing about this year's convention is that it's being held in Cuautla, which is the home of the only operating steam locomotive in the country. So we'll get to see it fired up again.
Here are a few I took of her on some of my previous visits there.Smoking up a storm (oil burner converted to diesel)Yours truly in the cab (just posing, I don't get to touch anything...)Well okay, I touched something, they let me wipe the headlight with a rag.......Just building up steam during the warmup.Yup, that will be the highlight of the trip.Hold the fort.Ed
Hello...
Rob .... The moonshine still is in this close up, and the hilly billy is proppedagainst a tree sleeping. The moonhsine still is an old woodland scenics....
in a SOUTHERN mug, please & thanks.
***Mike & Garry, enjoyed the photos. Wow, that is some layout. Will have to study it more at night when there isn't a reflection on this computer screen. Couldn't make out any moonshine stuff, which I know my wife will want to look at.
***Jerry, how about the start of a building project, like pouring a foundation? Or simply one of those signs with "Future Home Of ____". Personally, I don't mind the openness of it as is.
Signed the contract today to start on the build. Wife added a good bit of decking since we had decided on the original plan. (don't like it when she does those things to me) Can't wait to learn how much that will add to the grand total...gulp!
Hope everyone is doing well.
grayfox1119 wrote: A stormwarning for our Nova Scotia friends....TS Christobal is headed up the Atlantic coastline and the center of the cone of probability to hit land is aimed right at Yarmouth!!!!! If this holds true, you guys are going to get your rain barrels and cisterns filled. FERGIE: I see you are at (approx) 42.5 N LAT, 60.4 W-Long. Christobal is taking aim at you guys, tell the Captain to get the Hudson back to port PRONTO !!!!Lunchtime !!!
A stormwarning for our Nova Scotia friends....TS Christobal is headed up the Atlantic coastline and the center of the cone of probability to hit land is aimed right at Yarmouth!!!!! If this holds true, you guys are going to get your rain barrels and cisterns filled.
FERGIE: I see you are at (approx) 42.5 N LAT, 60.4 W-Long. Christobal is taking aim at you guys, tell the Captain to get the Hudson back to port PRONTO !!!!
Lunchtime !!!
Actually Dick The thing is headed out to sea now tracking North of Sable. We're working East Scotian Slope and Storm Warnings have been issued. To tell ya the truth we're better off here then in the shallow waters so here we sit. Hopefully this will be a fast moving system so it will come and go quickly and as far as telling the "Old Man"... Nah that can wait
Lee: Good philosiphy re the decals. It's a hateful process. So would you tell the "old man' to head to port?
Tom: How's Lowell today? Hopefully doing ok!
Anyway must run
Fergie
How about a lumber yard, or a grain coop or something???
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
I sit down and label 3 or 4 cars then get fed up and go cut grass or something then I get back to them and do a couple more......
I still need to switch out couplers on them I may have to order another 40 these are easy and cheap to swap out.
inch53 wrote:Mornin, Zoe, could I get 4 chocolate milks, 8 doughnuts n 2 coffee's please. Got five of them today range from 18 down to a 2 year old, plus 2 more coming Fri for a week. It's only 33 more days till school starts.
Mornin, Zoe, could I get 4 chocolate milks, 8 doughnuts n 2 coffee's please. Got five of them today range from 18 down to a 2 year old, plus 2 more coming Fri for a week. It's only 33 more days till school starts.
Yeah, but who's counting, right Mike? You and Jerry watch out for yourselves today on the rain. This morning's weather looked like you (and our Indiana and Ohio folks later) may have a day of it with the rain. That one photo of all of you must've been in the operator's lounge, right, Inch? That was something else on your friend - wonder what the rider to cover underhood skunk damage would run?...
Dick, I thought Mike's beard was shorter than back in the winter. Am I about right, Mike? And the sad thing on Ma Bell was that they had a fiber optic line to my building... I called and told AT&T that they could cut off both my land line and the internet tomorrow. Of course, they'll stick me with a cancellation fee on the contract (even though I've been with them for many more years than that). I'll be glad when I get the last bill taken care of, and I'm totally done with them. I may just use my free night and weekend minutes on my work cell in the meantime until I decide on the phone part whether to go with Charter or not. Still not wild about anyone's cell plan.
Jerry, a car lot sounds good for the front - maybe the right-hand lot in your pic? Chance for some more detailing of stuff (signs, those flags on a (dental floss) line strung between some poles, etc.). There was somebody in another forum here who did those triangular flags on a line, but his was with a gas station (and in HO scale).
New Haven I-5, that Prairie's one of those nice medium sized locos (if you don't count Challengers or Yellowstones, that is ). I like that, as well as my Mogul (which I think is a former IHC perhaps). Best wishes on a fun project spiffing it up.
Better be heading back to work, now that my breakfast has had a little time to settle.
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
JimRCGMO wrote: New Haven I-5 (Luke) - do you have a steam loco in mind for a project, or did you buy that book for general reference? I saw it once in one of our LHS'es, and it looks like a good book.
grayfox1119 wrote:JEFF: Hey Jeff, tell us how you REALLY feel LOL LOL LOL.....give them the business Jeff !!!
JEFF: Hey Jeff, tell us how you REALLY feel LOL LOL LOL.....give them the business Jeff !!!
Good morning all....Its cloudy here this morning and We are under a T-storm watch till noon..I'll have coffee and a sweet roll please...Thank You...Havn't posted all week-end My Son and his family was here so We had lots of Grand Baby time!..They kinda tuckered Grandma and Papa out so I'll probaly spend most of day trying to catch up on rest..
Inch...I sure enjoyed your Photos! Garry and the others have some great layouts and the more I see the more I am empressed...Ky model Railroaders are OK!!
Jeff...Can't wait to see baggage car when your done..
I got the last of ground cover down Friday and things kinda put back together..I changed the locations on some of the buildings..I think it might look better with a car lot or maybe a 1 story maybe grocery store closer to the front? what do you all think..
Here is shot of mirror mostly blended in...I toof a green auto and painted the back of it red so its posta look like a 2nd auto in mirror works pretty good from the right angle...
You all have a good one...Jerry
Good morning !!! It is still hotter than a desert rats armpit here and humid!!!! Dew Point of 71F right now and headed for 75F which is as tropical as you ever get here in the far Northeast, the sweat drips off you doing absolutely nothing outside.
MIKE: You have your winter beard already??? As for tiller, I got the darn thing going again, I had to move the drive belt to the next set of pulleys which kept the tines turning. I think I need a smaller belt which would be tighter when engaged. Great pics !!!!! I think Garry need to get to the table first more often...LOL feed the poor guys will ya ??
CAPE JIM: Ahhhhhhh good old AT&T, got rid of them back in 1998, Charter Cable and no more copper lines makes a BIG difference, all fiber optic cable now. I was without service for a whole week, three times back then, and this was with no storms!
Good morning.......
I'm glad Inch (Mike) and Mother (Deb) enjoyed their visit. It most definately was good to meet them. The bridge photo Mike posted is very close to where Shelley and I live. The large birds nesting on the bridge are osprey. They are large, fish-eating birds with six foot wingpsans. In that photo crossing the bridge our location is just to the right. We are about a mile from the bridge as the osprey flies or about 2 1/2 miles by roads. Ospreys are very common here. So are blue herons. ...and zillions of geese. ....many wild turkeys.......etc.....it's really fowl here.
The picture of the guys left to right .... Me (w/ Brio loco), Dan, Gus, Mike
The picture of the ladies left to right .... Shelley (Me), Carol (Gus), Toni (Dan), Deb (Mike)
One photo on my layout shows my hillbilly making moonshine on banks of Mrs. Hippy River. Other photos do a fine job of displaying my clutter under the layout. The length of my train room is 64'. It has various widths, but it's mostly somewhat narrow. The layout operators lounge is much larger than the trainroom.