Gday all, posting from work, as I still cant from home :S
I got my N scale GP38-2 last sunday, its BN Proto model. I also picked up 4x atlas trainman 2 bay hoppers for $12 each.
I'm fairly certain where I want to model :) I would like to model the Tehachapi loop and then some industries on the other walls. If I was in HO scale I couldnt do this! the layout will be around the walls (4) so I will have plenty of room, now I just have to come up with a plan...
Ozjim
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
Evening Gang: I see that an emergency exorcisum for OZ is needed. It seems that he has secumbed to the dark side. Really good to see you back OZjim.
Dick I thought that engineering challanges were a great part of the hobby.
Nothing new since this afternoon. Mary Ann just climed into bed so I think that I'll join her. It's early but I didn't sleep through last night so I'm tired. I have to go back out to Clark Gardens tomorrow and pick up the track. There wasn't room on the trailer for it today. Actually there was space but I didn't want to take the chance of the track panels shifting and damaging one of my locomotives.
Good Night All
Howdy!
Hello to OZJim in particular.
Is Fergie in? I don't think he is. Good. Shhhhhhh. I'm sneaking in my new P2K Heritage 2-10-2. Don't tell Fergie. (The other locomotive is Bachmann 4-8-2.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
another tea please
strange night tonight last night bedlam tonight peace their up to something
Gav
Evenin' Chloe - Since Ryan's the 'lucky dog' tonight, I'll just have the steak part of that surf'n'turf that I hear Jeff wolfed down. You can toss the surf part to Jeff. Just don't get too close, so you don't lose a hand...
last mountain & eastern hogger wrote:Cape Jim, hope that new Grandson (Grandfireman) is doing great. Sounds like he is indeed a keeper. Now you must continue to work on getting a step Gramma for him. Happy hunting.....
Cape Jim, hope that new Grandson (Grandfireman) is doing great. Sounds like he is indeed a keeper. Now you must continue to work on getting a step Gramma for him. Happy hunting.....
Sounds like a nice idea, Johnboy. Now to go find her...
Gav, you and Johnboy better quit bragging on your weather, or everyone else will want to move your way for all that outdoor fun! Should I mention that we hit 70 F (21 C) this afternoon and I got out my short sleeve shirt for this evening? Nah, you'd just feel sorry for us and want to send another train of snow and ice!
Rob, I sure hope your wife doesn't know how to get to the Diner. Hope you have fun sneaking all that MRR stuff into the house while she's gone!
PC, good to hear the news about your wife and your son. Hope things continue healing up like that!
Jeff, you could probably do that new KCS paint scheme - you just need some masking tape and paper to get the areas painted.
Well, I got told today by our clinical director that I'm pretty much off of seeing clients for therapy (and back on handling crisis and walk-in clinic, with all the very unscheduled-ness of that) until I get my exam and licensure out of the way so they can get me on boards for the various insurance companies. Hard part is, I have to transfer my clients over to someone else now. Ah, pooh...! Need to remind myself that this is temporary until I can get things taken care of. Just don't want clients thinking they've been dumped/passed along.
Hi Duke, OzJim! Good to see both of you again. OzJim, have fun with all that room.
Better get to my steak so I can get back home to bed at a decent hour. I'll see you all in the morning.
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
grayfox1119 wrote: RT: Here is the info you need to pay your Fed taxes...I did some research for you, no charge of course, and I authored a letter that you can send them.Dear Internal Revenue Service: Enclosed you will find my 2008 tax return showing that I owe $3,407.00 in taxes. Please note the attached article from the USA Today newspaper; dated 12 November, wherein you will see the Pentagon (Department of Defense) is paying $171.50 per hammer and NASA has paid $600.00 per toilet seat. I am enclosing four (4) toilet seats (valued @ $2,400) and six (6) hammers valued @ $1,029), which I secured at Home Depot, bringing my total remittance to $3,429.00. Please apply the overpayment of $22.00 to the "Presidential Election Fund," as noted on my return. You can do this inexpensively by sending them one 1.5" Phillips Head screw (see aforementioned article from USA Today newspaper detailing how H.U.D. pays $22.00 each for 1.5" Phillips Head Screws). One screw is enclosed for your convenience. It has been a pleasure to pay my tax bill this year, and I look forward to paying it again next year. Sincerely, RTA Satisfied Taxpayer How is this letter RT, does it solve your problem?
RT: Here is the info you need to pay your Fed taxes...I did some research for you, no charge of course, and I authored a letter that you can send them.
Dear Internal Revenue Service: Enclosed you will find my 2008 tax return showing that I owe $3,407.00 in taxes. Please note the attached article from the USA Today newspaper; dated 12 November, wherein you will see the Pentagon (Department of Defense) is paying $171.50 per hammer and NASA has paid $600.00 per toilet seat. I am enclosing four (4) toilet seats (valued @ $2,400) and six (6) hammers valued @ $1,029), which I secured at Home Depot, bringing my total remittance to $3,429.00. Please apply the overpayment of $22.00 to the "Presidential Election Fund," as noted on my return. You can do this inexpensively by sending them one 1.5" Phillips Head screw (see aforementioned article from USA Today newspaper detailing how H.U.D. pays $22.00 each for 1.5" Phillips Head Screws). One screw is enclosed for your convenience. It has been a pleasure to pay my tax bill this year, and I look forward to paying it again next year. Sincerely, RTA Satisfied Taxpayer
How is this letter RT, does it solve your problem?
Nothin personal you see but I believe I'll stick to the letter I drew up and the check I'm sending I really don't look good in stripes but thank-you anyway
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
http://rtssite.shutterfly.com/
PC great news glad to hear it. I'm heading to sc in morning to get finger printed and to check a couple of places out. will talk to you all thursday night most likely
Evening,
Jerry, yes they are the china group wehonest. $2 for 100 people is a great deal. I wouldn't want to try painting N-Scale people, LOL. I hear from a friend their street lights are very nice as well. If they sold track signals I'd be all over it.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Found this old photo of a long deceased Aunt of mine. Have no idea where or even when it was taken. On the tender is says: "EDAVILLE RAILROAD". Anyone have any idea? Sure is a pretty little steamer, I think.
Good Night All. Rob
Guess it would help if I included the photo, eh?
see you all tonight
tops on me keep it running
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good morning all,
Rob, it was (is) a tourist railroad opened in 1947 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edaville_Railroad
There are several websites about it if you Google the name of the railroad.
Looks like the weather is going to be decent all of a sudden! We may just remain in the 60's all week. I'm not sure what happened but the grass is looking really good and needs cut badly, so I might take some time off to take care of that today.
I haven't seen ED around, did we run out of oranges????
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
Morning folks!
I can support Jeff's claim on the 42 F feeling cold in Louisiana. With the high humidity typically at 100% year round, and when the cold temps arrive you feel it go straight to the bone! For some reason 30 F in Louisiana feels much colder than 30 F in the northern climates, high humidity makes a difference.
Hey Dick, I love your letter to the IRS. I would even throw in a dozen toilet seats to keep my balance in "High Cotton" for a few years!
So what's for lunch today?
Did you all notice that I posted my TOPS notification in "Hot Pink" yesterday? That was in honor of one of our old timers who used to frequent the Diner, Fergie mentioned him a few days ago!
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Rob
Eda ville railroad was a tourist RR in Mass. the gentleman that ran it bought some of the narrow gauge stuff from Maine, I believe that the Sandy River RR last engine went there. When it closed some of the narrow gauge stuff went back to Portland Me. Narrow Gauge RR Mueseum. It was located near the Cranbery bogs in Mass
Glad to hear your wife is doing better PC.
Kevin
Good Morning, Zoe - just a go cup for me, please. Thank you!
Umm, Dick - is that a copy of the letter you sent in with your tax return this year? I'd probably go with RT - don't know that I'd really mess(tm) with them Revenooers...
RT, fingerprint them all over the SC office. Tell 'em time's a wasting, and you're ready to get to w**k.
Ryan, now that you mention 'pink', that does bring to mind... let's see, a pink house and pink cows, somewhere in Texas if I recall correctly... Amazing what a fella can do with a nice Lancaster, huh?
Warming up here again today, and supposed to reach 70 F. Didn't get as cold last night (upper 30's), and I'm happy with that!
I'd best go - my 9:00 client will be here shortly. First client to inform that they'll be transferring to another therapist. No offense if there are any in the Diner, but bean-counters! [rant]
Blessings and a warm day,
Thanks Lee & Kevin. To have collected the real thing, now that must have been fun. Checked out the Edaville site http://members.cox.net/edaville-rr/index.html and along with some History of the place, there are some wonderful photos under the postcards link. The Inspection card (page #16) is a hoot. Would be interesting to model one of those, but not in N scale. Also among the pics is the Flying Yankee, old autos, horse drawn fire fighting equip, and assorted trains. Fun stuff!
Good morning everyone, another clear day here today, in fact, it looks like great weather all the way to next Monday before showers arrive again. 55F here now at 10am after a low of 32F overnight, not bad for April 16th. Class 4 fire danger today with highs in 60's and low humidity, winds from the NW at 10mph backing around to the SW by afternoon.
RYAN: I just threw away an old toilet seat, I wish you had told me earlier before your taxes were sent in! LOL
JIM: Nope, that was indeed for RT, after reading about his amount due after early IRA withdrawal, I figured this was a perfect way to pay them back. Of course he could also ask for a Pentagon Credit Card......like the young woman that just bought all sorts of "personal" items with our tax dollars...thousands of dollars worth illegally.
Hmmm, what is all this pink coloring in the Diner, was Fergie in here this morning ?? Man he gets up early !!! Lisa has him out in the yard before dawn I think.
See you guys at lunch... Jeff, paint that loco the new scheme !!
I'm not having any problem with Photobucket. Just uploaded a photo like I do everyday.
Been out cutting the grass. It could have probably waited a bit but the forecast for Friday is rain. I wasn't taking any chances. If it gets too far ahead of me it'll be a real bear to cut.
Good afternoon gents, a little late getting in for lunch, it is so nice out that I lost track of time. Already up to 60F at 1pm, so we will hit about 65F by 5pm
I see the upper Ohio Valley is having flood problems with rivers at max and more showers coming with two storms.....what a Spring these folks are having. The Weather Channel did piece on their flooding this noontime.
JEFF: No cutting grass here for another month yet, and I don't mind one bit. BTW, did you see where Intermountain is coming out with FP9's this month? It has been a long time since anyone produced an FP"9". Plenty of FP7's.
See you guys at Suppertime.
Hey Dick, thanks for the offer....but I found this one that might work for next years tax time....
Notice the hue...
BTW, I like your new avatar!
After a few months of talking about it, my family decided to throw me into the pool. Last monday was my birthday and my brother and sister-in-law gave me:
They also gave me a book I kept almost buying myself (Rails to Penn State, about the Bellefonte Central in Centre County PA). My brother additionally tracked down something special. After hearing my complains about kits being harder to find and undecorated kits even harder, he found an undecorated three bay hopper kit for me. Even though I'd be building a modern day layout, my sorta-prototype still has vast fleets of the things (a few still sport the remains of their original Rock Island blue). Got a subscription to MR from my father too.
There's the other five of those RD4 hoppers. I dug out the track that goes under the Christmas tree because I wanted to play with them. So I guess I'm actually back in the game now. On one hand, there's the part of your brain thats like "well, these don't really go with the layout I was planning" but that's not to say that I'm not grateful. If I eliminate the toy train rolling stock that's still in the boxes of my stuff from my younger years and the damaged beyond repair Athearn, MDC, and Walthers kits the seven hoppers I got on friday constitute a third of my fleet now. And another third of that fleet doesnt really work for a 30"x10' switching layout. So on the other hand, this could force me to actually focus a on planning more.
refill, please & thanks!
***NittanyLion, sounds like a nice haul there and those cars look sharp!
Well, been trying different arrangements on my little 37" x 81" door layout and feeling like it is almost hopeless to work in a mountain, which I REALLY want to have. Also realize I am going to need more track and not just switches. Coming up with a plan that works could take awhile. And as for the Bigboy idea, probably the only part of the layout it could run on would be the outer-most loop. Gurrrr!
evening gang
tea and a bacon sarnie please
its a nice 4c and dark here
David Parks I am the terror that flaps in the night!
I got a better one for you:
This Friday: 1/2 day. Prom Preview Day. Teachers dress up in drag and try to sing modern music.
Next Friday: Flex Day, no school. Botcon in Cinncy Ohio. Anyone know of good layouts around Cinncy open on Saturday or Sunday?
-Morgan
A tall cool glass of water, thanks!
My replacement power supply for my computer arrived today. Unfortunately, it did not have enough connections to hook up all my hardware. So, when I e-mailed newegg for a ROM#, they responded with a "refund" to my account & "just keep it". WOW, now THAT is service. They have won me over as a future customer. Now I just need to figure out how to use it like Jeffrey does to control layout lighting!?! And Jeffrey, do you also use your PS for switches?
So far, 4Nscale place has not responded to either of my e-mails!?! I do not take that as a good sign, unless their Internet or e-mail service is down. If anyone knows a "trusted" online store that has an N Atlas Shay available & accepts Paypal, please let me know. Think I'm ready to bite and pick one up now.
Well, I'm beyond tired so "Good Night". Rob
Evenig Gang: I went out to Clark Gardens today and picked up the track. Mr. Clark is insisting on giving me something for doing the train show so he's going to give Mary Ann and I a night's stay at the Gayloard Inn on Lake Grapevine. A very swank place. I keep telling that it's not necessary but if it makes him happy. After I got back I went over to the track and loaded a train with stuff to work on the track at West Fork.There wasn't time to get anything done but I got everything in position for tomorrow. On the way out and back I had 3 derailments. So that's 3 more places in the track that will have to be checked out.
Rob that locomotive looks like one of the ones Argent Lumber down south used. They were running into the 60's I think.
Pink Cows? Mary Ann is still burning over that. They have fadded out so I hope that Fergie has returned that Lancaster.
Well I'm going to head for bed.