Terry the roads and the road lines look really good, but I can tell those are not Ohio roads; Ohio you would have a dead possum or skunk on the edge of the road with the painted lines going around it, LOL.
Was the quake the other day caused by the "new Madre fault line"?
Dick, I've found HD is convenient, but not cheap! I went into a little hole in the wall pluming shop to buy brass connectors, HD price 35 cents each, Hole in the wall price 10 cents each. It all adds up.
Those connectors you see in my pictures are only $4 for 50 connectors; RS wanted $3 for 4 connectors. It pays to shop around.
Ok, time for bed.....
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
***Lee, nice job on the duck-under. Train room looks like an ideal size with a floor that would allow you to find dropped parts.
Thought I would drop off these eggs (for breakfast) before turning in for the night. Yup, goose, turkey & chicken eggs, all laid in the corner of a horse stall. Can you imagine the confusion for one mother bird after seeing that assortment hatch out?
Found a neat poster among one of my boxes of art stretchers (have been sorting/organizing art supplies). It shows all the GM E & F type Cab Units that were still in service as of Sept. 1, 1978. Something I'll definately want to frame & hang one day. I don't even remember where it came from anymore, but happy to have found it.
Well, going to go watch TV until I fall asleep. Night All.
Rob
OOPS, forgot the eggs...
-Rob
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
LSWrr wrote:Was the quake the other day caused by the "new Madre fault line"?
Good morning.Cloudy and 54 degrees this morning. Expecting a high of 82 and partly cloudy.Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 4/20/2008Wind Chill: 53°FHumidity: 87%Dew Point: 49°FSo Far TodayHigh: 58°FLow: 53°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 3mph NNE Today High: 82 Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds up to 10 mph. Tonight Low: 62 Increasing clouds. Warmer. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds around 10 mph.
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Good morning all,
Today: Showers likely, mainly before 9am. Cloudy, with a high near 53. South wind 6 to 9 mph becoming east. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. Tonight: A chance of showers, mainly before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 46. Southeast wind between 7 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
The weather here has been very nice, cut the grass yesterday and my furnace has been turned off almost all week.
JR:the stuff dries flat. I first painted the roads to get them to look how I wanted,then used a fine tip sharpie to draw the tar/crack lines,then the center and shoulder lines.BTW,up here those are the correct colors. Might be different in your neck of the woods.The centerlines are 11/2" with a 2"skip.Works out to about a 10'stripe and a 15' or so skip.That's pretty close to the road out front of my house.
ROB: nuttin' wrong with repaints ,just wish I hadn't messed up !
LEE: I've been thinking about a dead deer or two with an eagle having lunch.See that ALL the time here!
GARRY: Nice engines and bridge!!
40f and REALLY foggy this A.M. It's supposed to warm up to 70.We'll see. The CFO really wants to hit the road today,Still working on her bike.
Terry
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
Morning all!
Been having fun this weekend so far, but now I've got to hit the schoolbooks. Yesterday the wife and I went to lunch and did some shopping. Then we came home and took a 3 hour nap! My kind of weekend! We went to church last night and had a good time there, then out to dinner and home to just hang out. This morning I have to hit the books, and then I'll probably take another nap (I love weekends!). Grilling out and Bible study tonight and that should call it a day.
So what's up with you?
Good Morning!
Some of you mentioned my post in WPF..... Thanks for the kind remarks.
Chuck .... Good luck with decoders and small shay type locos.
Lee .... Nice pictures of layout and duck under. I hope you have wiring to provent a loco from running onto an open duck under and hitting the floor. It reminds me of my friend here who is still waiting for replacement parts for the P2K Illinois Central E9 he ran onto the floor. Now he has it wired to prevent another disaster.
Paul said: "Garry you really Quack me up. See what you started?" Okay, Paul. I'll be carfeul. I beleive MR prohibits "fowl" language in the Forum anyhow.
Speaking of such .... Rob is egging us on I see. Perhaps the "yolk" is on him. Thanks Rob.
Happy Model Railroading:
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Garry, well I have 6 Atlas re-railers and the lead in tracks from the west are bridge track. I hope nothing hits the floor. Can you shoot me link to your WPF post? Thanks.
Is there a free website that has MRR projects that an 8 year old could do off layout?
Hello Jeff ..... I think the engine you showed a day or two ago is an RSC2. From Walthers website is the following: http://walthers.com/exec/productinfo/920-31299
Good morning All....Its cloudy and temps in the mid 50's posta get up near 70 latter today...I'll have the Breakfast Buffet please...Thank you and YES! some coffee...Not much going on here on Pearl Street this morning ..Sallie and I are watching one of our favorite programs Sunday Morning on CBS...I am looking forward to my Brother coming down latter and maybe watching the Card-Giant game...
JR...Thanks for the photo...I'd like to see more of you kit bash on the Merchants Row building....Your city area is looking good....
Terry....nice stripping and I like your DPM building ...how about some more photos?
Rob....Hope you folks are getting over poison Ivy!.....
Lee....Your drop leaf is neet and the rest of your layout looks great..
You all have a good one...Jerry
Hello Lee ........ My friend actually uses a swing gate, but it does not change my concern. He forgot one time that he left the gate open. Next he start running a passenger train. The A units and the B unit landed on the floor. He could repair the B unit easily. He could note repair the A unit without getting new parts. He's been waiting for parts for about 4 months.
Now, he has contact switches on his gate to shut off power on tracks leading to his gate. That way, trains will lose power as they approach an open gate. I think the wiring was simple to do.
in a SOUTHERN mug, please & thanks.
This talk about crashing locos from bridges to floor...OUCH! What is considered a "safe distance" to place track from the edge of a layout? Making a door-size layout is not giving me much space to play with.
Sunny & beautiful day here. Rob
Cederstrand wrote:This talk about crashing locos from bridges to floor...OUCH! What is considered a "safe distance" to place track from the edge of a layout? Making a door-size layout is not giving me much space to play with.
Today I've put decoders into two locos. One (Bachmann item #44915) went into what I'm calling my ALCO RSC-3 (and yes, it is set up to run long hood forward) and the other (Lenz LE1014-JST) went into my rebuilt Proto 2000 E6.
It's time to stop now as my hands are getting a bit too shaky to be handling sharp tools.
Rob ... Some of my track is next to the edge, but I always have fascia on the sides of the layout with the fasica height one inch above laout height or more. Photo illustrates.
While I'm at it, it's time to dispatch more country ham to the diner.
Hi guys,
My compliments to the weekend forum moderator today for quickly "zapping" a potential troll thread that appeared. Bergie chose well
"I like my Pullman Standards & Budds in Stainless Steel flavors, thank you!"
Not much work on the layout this weekend, been to busy watching the Pope. Little hard to understand at times, you can tell he's German. Whats with the brown shoes? Everythings white, rope, hair, eyebrows, but brown shoes. Thats like some old guy in the summer with the sandals and black socks. I want to try to model myself one of those Pope moblies for the layout, now thats class.
Well back to the Pope, I hopeing they show the address again to buy some of that Pope on a rope soap, I used my last one.
***Garry, having a facia is probably a wise idea. I can see bumping my table one day and the unthinkable happening. It would also allow me to bring the tracks closer to the table edge and therefore utilize my limited space better.
Another question: Who has a (N) Life-Like Berkshire and just how good is the detailing? Thanks!
Off to do evening critter rounds. Rob
Cederstrand wrote: Another question: Who has a (N) Life-Like Berkshire and just how good is the detailing? Thanks!
They're real nice loco's (I don't have one, but I've run them before), but they're an absolute nightmare to put a decoder in! Definately not for the faint of heart! Check it out: http://www.trainweb.org/nrmrc/dccconv/ll284.html Good puller though, and nice looking. If I was DC I wouldn't think twice, but with DCC you might be better off either buying one already converted or paying someone to do the conversion if you aren't comfortable tearing down to the frame and then milling it.
***Philip, I am a diehard DC guy. From what you say, might just have to try one. Do you know if something under $100.- is a reasonable price? Already ran my vintage Berk to make sure it still runs. Will put it up on the-bay later this week. Might also put up a nice running 0-8-0 (remotored with a 5-pole), to help bolster the train funds. Besides, it's not one of my roadnames. Then there are still some diesels left in that box on the shelf that I could dip into for futher funding. All in the name of "upgrading".
So, how's everyone doing this evening?
Good Evening All,
Looks like a slow day in the diner today - probably all the construction going on downtown. Spent the day doing chores and sneaking down to the basement to work on the layout. Mostly doing structures and a little track polishing here and there. At any rate per Jerrys' request here are some shots of the Merchants kitbash in context. The idea was to use my hotel and Post Office not necessarily as those entities, and to fill the space in between compressing right up to the tracks in the rear. The green building will be Howlands Department Store, the ones in the middle are yet to be designated, and the one to the left will probably end up a barber shop since the Miller animated barber shop pole is calling my name (just need to sneak it past the CFO). At any rate the overhead shot shows the space to be filled. I widened the right side and added a piece of sign backerboard to stabilize the walls. the left side is a piece of textured polystyrene sign material to represent a stucco wall. I moved the turret to the middle of the front walls so I could butt th3e buildings together, and cut the back walls apart to move the windows and door from the original side wall to the rear to lengthen that wall to suit. There are a couple of bits of styrene sheet to brace the splices, and some square and round scrap to brace the corners. So without further ado here we go.
Here's a shot at street level with Elliots' Diner (the original) in the foreground.
And there you go. It bears mentioning that the pictures would not be available were it not for the tutoring of Ed in Mexico who has great patience with the electronically inept. J.R.
Good evening, Flo - I'll have a cheeseburger,
some of those cheesey fries,
and a root beer float. Great day for a float!
Spent yesterday helping a friend get moved (well, a bunch of us - I didn't do it all by myself ). We did decide that we weren't going to try moving her spinet piano... There were a minimum of two or more steps down any way out of her house, and a rather rickety (about to be replaced, the new landlady told her) outside stairway to the 'new' second floor apartment. Yeah, I'm out of shape (but I wasn't the only one). We had one van, three or four cars, and one guy got his work's truck with a lift bed on the back (that helped!). Finished up in about 3 hours altogether. Nobody appeared to be having sore muscles this morning when I saw the other singles at church. Oh, I also got some walking in this afternoon (about 30 minutes on our local trail, using a walking music tape I have). My lower back is a little sore, so maybe I should've waited until tomorrow on that.
I also got some more done on my kitbash of the Roberts building. Here's a couple of (fuzzy cell phone camera) shots. First, the side/back view most people will barely be able to see:
and here's more the trackside view:
Yeah, and both pics are of it in the magnetic gluing jig. I hope that my next pics I can show it out of the jig, since I now have all the walls (and the floor on the track part through the building) glued together. Next step will be some painting, so I'm hoping for a few more nice afternoons...
Lee, were you teaching Alex the finer points of the Diesel Spotter's Guide while he was there? Sounds like he has definite potential as a MRR'er. Keep that up, and we'll let Scott advise him on how to apply for a job working with the 1:1 diesels! Great start getting Alex on the way! Oh, and I wouldn't ask too many questions on the drop leaf - just be thankful it's a'working.
Liked your pics of the dropleaf (and of your layout - nice spread there, Lee. Oh, I see that Jeff answered your question about the quake. My guess is, I'd have been awakened quicker if it were closer to me (like New Madrid). Did you get your connectors at that plumbing place, or where?
pcarrell wrote:I'm in an accerated program, so no breaks for me. No summer break, no spring break, nothing. The only time we get a break is if a major holiday falls on class night or we also get 2 weeks for Christmas.
I'm in an accerated program, so no breaks for me. No summer break, no spring break, nothing. The only time we get a break is if a major holiday falls on class night or we also get 2 weeks for Christmas.
Well, pooh! But I guess you'll be happy once you get it all finished up, right?
Rob, I guess I must have been dreaming about the emails to you - I was thinking I sent PM's or emails to you, but when I went back to look, my last email I sent was about a month ago, so that wasn't it. Checked if I'd sent it from here instead of through the forum, but no luck there. Must've been dozing, I guess... I'm surprised that all the birds would lay their eggs in the same place, though. I'd think they'd be more territorial or defensive about the other birds coming around. But then again, I grew up in the suburbs...
Terry, that roundhouse looks good - was that scratchbuilt, or what kit did you use as a starting point?
Garry, I'm not sure they'd close us down for less wear and tear on the servers. D'ya think? Now Vinnie, I'm not so sure about his take on things... Oh, and about that Chocolate "Quake"? Grrrooooooan! Nice pics in the WPF topic!
Paul, your derailments sure sounds like the pits. But at least you will have security nailed!
I'll get to my dinner now.
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Evening Gang:I finished up the swithc at West Fork. My knees and back were just about worn out. All it needs now is ballasting and I'd still like to replace two more ties. I ran the loco around the loop at Rio Vista and no derailments, however I did derail the lead truck of the tenderjust west of West Fork and then the lead truck of the loco on the way back. I haven't had trouble there before. Oh Bother!
Garry just go on punning away.
Tomorrow I guess I'll work on some of my cars that need couplers and maybe I'll try and paint one of the new flats so I can replace the flat that is very sway back.
I thought I would have heard from Ed by now. He's planning on being here for the meet this weekend. Hey Ed give me a call.
I'm going to hit the showers.
Good Night All
Great pics, folks. Keep 'em coming. Inspirational for those of us still staring at blue foam.
***Jim, birds get territorial once they set on the eggs to incubate and hatch them out. Until then, they tend to show up at the nest only to lay an egg and then leave again. Will be most interesting once one of the female birds decides to set and another comes in to lay. In the meantime, I marked all the older eggs with an "X" and am collecting the fresh eggs for cooking.
Good Morning All,
Moderate temps and no rain just now - the official stick your nose out the door forecast. Back at the shop and trying to catch up some more this week - we have one rig to Atlanta in a week, and one to Lime Rock the end of that same week. Busy, busy.
I'll have a regular to go and a donut in a sack please. Gotta get going - I'll try to drop in later and catch up on news. CUL, J.R.