Afternoon all.....Its sunny windy and cooler here today...Storms passed us by last nite....I'll have a Polish sasauge,onion rings and a diet coke please...Thank you.....Its a nice cool saturday here on Pearl street....Plan on watching the Cards-Cubs game from St. louis latter..Cards beat the cubs in 13 innings with a homer last nite....
Lee....Ditto on state Farm..I have had it for over 40 years and never had any problems...I have had the same agent all these years too....
Rob...Hope you get your toothache taken care of...
Took a photo of NKP caboose this morning...Its not a good photo ...I could get grey band to show up very well...decals could have been better but decal sheet was old and decals came apart and i had to peice them back together...kinda ruff in N scale..Caboose is old Roco-AHM out of rehab box...It has pretty good detail when I got old paint stripped...
You all have a good one....Jerry
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
Good Afternoon all, Just in for a snack.
Chloe, next time by the kitchen see if they can rustle me up a BLT and I'll give it a swish with a cranberry and 7. Thanks.
Jerry, great job on that cab out of the parts box. I know what you mean with older decals. I have read all of the suggestions about that and I have yet to get them to work properly or it is just me. Anyway you succeeded pretty well and even though the Nickel Plate kept most of their vans looking good, there had to be a few tougher looking ones in all those miles behind coal drags and steamers. Hit it with a little more weathering and it will look like a true veteran.
Rob, You are old enough to take better care of yourself than that. Get that tooth looked after, you don't want that infection to set in and get worse and it could you know. Your Mama told me to say that........
Lee, Up here in Saskatchewan, we have the Provincial Govenment that runs the Automobile insurance. It insures that every vehicle on the road has basic insurance and then you can either go with them or other line companies for your package policy to up the liabilities and such. There is more competition in the house insurance market, but for the last few years SGI, (mentioned above) has had the best rates.
Not much railroading today, I have some outside trim on the house that I have to start painting now that spring seems to have finally reached here.
Cape Jim, We never got that next report on that Grandbaby, at least I didn't see it. Hope all is well there.
Jeffery, I'm very sorry to hear of your loss. Those are tough times, and darn it all it seems as we get older they happen more often. Very seldom now when you check the obits that there isn't someone there that you know of.
Well I had better get at it, Hope you all have a great week-end, and keep smiling.
Johnboy out.....................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Coffee in a VIRGINIAN mug, please & thanks.
Train news: While walking up to the PO door this morning, I hear a train coming. Hop in the car and race around the back of the building, only to find the usual access road (which leads to the tracks) is blocked by a parked semi. No time left to drive around, so these are the only shots of of the locos I could get from there. Seems an unusual consist to me.
***Lee, YUCK, does sound like a mess. What kind of imbosile does that sort of thing? As for Insurance, we've also always been with State Farm for everything.
***Jim, I would assume the book is the first edition. Chapter Six covers "Livestock", which I thought might help figure out how to set up my own version of that industry. If you could, how about incorporating that into the layout plan? That would be great!
***Dick, even with Insurance through my wife's employer, root canals are bloody expensive. A tooth extraction is around $75 and unlike a root canal, it will never bother me again. My MIL has spent thousands over her lifetime on tooth work and she still has problems with them. I do need all four wisdom teeth removed and we found a teaching hospital out of state that can do them all in the $500 - $700 range. Eventually I will have that done, just can't afford the time away yet to make the trip.
***Johnboy, if you are talking to my mama, ask her what it is like "on the other side" and what she has been up to since she passed on.
More Train News: The Virginian (N) Berkshire arrived. This one is a smooth, sweet running loco. Will take some comparison photos of it next to the vintage Berk tomorrow, to share in a day or two. Also got the (N) Kato Unitrack I ordered and the (HO) pickup truck for the wife. Success, it put a big smile on her face. She calls it "Jessie Jame's Truck", and it really does look like our distant crazy neighbors truck. All it needs now is a talking dog in the back.
Only 2 hours sleep...going to go veg-out for awhile.
Rob
Hi all
Just a tea for the mo please
JIM yep should have the main in and running, the station loop also.
Rob hpoe the tooth bsorts itself out ,but it dont sound like it , GOOD LUCK AT THE DENTIST
I, ll be at the counter drinking my tea if anybody wants me
Gav
Evening gang!
Just a quick stop in before heading off to shower and bed.
Jeff - My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family in this time of loss. You know where we are if you need to talk. I'm sure everyone here will listen if need be.
Well all, take care!
//signed// John Powell President / CEO CNY Transportation Corp (fictional)
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Hunter - When we met in January of 2000, you were just a 6 week old pup who walked his way into this heart of mine as the only runt in the litter who would come over to me. And today, I sit here and tell you I am sorry we had to put you down. It was the best thing for you and also the right thing to do. May you now rest in peace and comfort. Love, Dad. 8 June 2010
I love you and miss you Mom. Say hi to everyone up there for me. Rest in peace and comfort. Love, John. 29 March 2017
Hello everybody:
I've returned from Nashville, and I'm pleased to say my heart surgery went exceptionally well. Just prior to the surgery I was having significant heart rhythm problems that were worrisome to say the least. Evidently, the rhythm problems were due to a generic heart medication that was recalled. The manufacturer doubled the dosage in each tablet. The surgery was really not related to that. I needed to have my Medtronic device replaced due to low battery, and it's my 4th and easiest heart surgery.
I just skimmed over some posts. I saw some terrible news from Jeff, and I'm sorry to learn he lost his cousin.
RT evidently is getting relocation and job stuff squared away. Good news for sure.
Speaking of basements in the South, we have one. It would be called a walkout basement in the North. Here it's just called the lower level. It's a hillside house and foundation walls are on the uphill side of course. My train room is a long room against the foundation walls.
Good to see everybody.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Hello all.
I'm talking to you from my dad's house today. Spending the weekend with him, and I'm using his laptop.
He has a couple spare rooms (Spare Oom!) so one will be my train room. It currently has a table (Maybe 2x8-2x10) where I have a small switching layout with bachmann e-z track. It has 6 switches, two runarounds, and a couple spurs. What fun electric switches are, completely forgot about that while working on my layout. I also brought my S-3 and 8 freight cars, so I could do some switching.
Oh and Twhite, I saw your pictures in the WPF. Darn impressive bridge, would love to run on that layout.
Mark
Welcome back Garry
glad everything went ok
Evening Gang:
Garry good to have you back and well.
Rob don't fool around with that tooth. Bad things can happen from a tooth that is infected.
Not much going on today. I got the test area mowed in the hay field. I'll take the lawn tractor and run over it again to get the cuttings moved over to the side. I really think that it's too late in the season for the test but I'll let the DuPont guys deceid that.
I'm still trying to find trim molding like the stuff I got along time ago. Mary Ann isn't worried about matching it but I'd like to.
Well it's bed time.
Good Night All
New Haven I-5 wrote: Just wating on 2 videos titled Steam To The State Fair: The Story Of The Nickel Plate Road #587 ......
Hey! NKP No. 587 is right up the road from me now! She's getting a boiler refit at the moment. here's a couple of shots from the shop.
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/NKP%20No%20587/NKPNo-2.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/NKP%20No%20587/NKPNo-1.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/NKP%20No%20587/NKPNo.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/NKP%20No%20587/aeb.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/NKP%20No%20587/aef.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/NKP%20No%20587/aed.jpg
Chloe, Zoe, get ready, 'cause here they come!
Alright folks! Line up! It's time to play "Kill The Credit Card" again!
What'll it be?
Evening all,
I received my Model Railroad incentive check yesterday! So I went over to my LHS and bought a Centerline Products track cleaning car.
Ugly little thing, but the center roller is a solid brass and the body is cast metal with spring loaded Kadee trucks and couplers. The frame is also designed to accept almost any short car body shell (home-made or commercial) with an inside width of about 1.21 Inch to 1.25 Inch (30.7 to 31.7 millimeters) and an inside length of about 3.91 Inches to 3.95 Inches (99.3 to 100.3 millimeters).
PC, that black beauty stacked up in front of the locomotive will do a good job for you guys, I've used it several times and it's great. Thanks for sharing the pictures.
Garry, good to hear all went well, glad to have you back!
Rob, ever since Conrail went to the wayside we have those "shared motor power" trains running through here as well. We had a KCS locomotive run through here twice this week. It's no surprise to see a BNSF-BN-CSX-CR consist.
The locals around these parts don't care for the foreign motive power (anything outside of the Great Lakes or west of the Mississippi river)
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Philip
Check your Pm.
Cheers Gav
A tall glass of cool water, thanks!
***Philip, pardon my ignorance (I couldn't make out the wheel arrangement), is that a Mike or Pacific?
***Lee, seeing the BN loco brought back memories from when I lived in WA. Saw them perhaps twice a week out my back door at one of the places I lived there. Always ran out back to get a good look at them.
While working in my studio this evening, our farm was buzzed by a couple of these. Took this pic out the window:
Glad they're on our side.
My steam locos on the-bay auctions finish tomorrow and are not selling for much at all yet. Penty of folks watching them, so I remain hopeful.
Don't know how I'm still going on two hours sleep. Should sleep very well tonight. Take care all.
Just heard on the radio
going to be in the 70'S here so i'll have a coke with you Philip
gav
SUMMERS HERE
Thanks Gav, Paul, and Lee for the comments. I actually worked on the layout.
Rob... Nice pix of CSX train. We see those military copters here too becasue we are close to Ft Campbell.
On the layout I'm back to working on the scene for my new station.
Good night.
***Garry, we mostly get the transport helos, although fewer in the past couple years. Perhaps flying on real missions elswhere. You know, the ones that vibrate your innards.
Well, been jammin to music, organizing my studio. About 90% finished and although I'm running on fumes/3rd wind/whatever, I'm glad I finally tackled this overdo task. Wife should be home from work shortly. Good Night!
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Laters all
got 12 days orf now so will see yall when i get back
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
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Cederstrand wrote: ***Philip, pardon my ignorance (I couldn't make out the wheel arrangement), is that a Mike or Pacific?
She's a Mike.
Here's a couple more pics of interest. It's quite dark in the shop, so those other pics I had to fool with to get it to where you can see them much. This next one I hadn't fooled with yet, but it's a cool shot of the cab......
(There's something goofy going on with this pic. Photobucket is acting strange. Look for this pic in my next post two down from this one. I got it to work there. )
And here's 587's tender sitting just outside the shop.......
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/NKP%20No%20587/Picture223.jpg
and sitting just outside the yard limits on a siding is an auxiliary water tender that is awaiting restoration. Once thats complete she'll have a pretty good range between refills.......
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/NKP%20No%20587/aax.jpg
And here's one last one that'll give you a little perspective on the size of her. I'm 5'11".......
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/meand587.jpg
Thats odd.....it's there on photobucket.
Lets try this......
(Dark in there, huh?)
Good morning everyone, almost noontime here, still cloudy, had a downpour this morning, 0.30" and over 1.25" since May 1st, the reservoirs are full. The sun may make it out later today, as clearing skies are approaching the Berkshires in western Ma.
I sure hope that none of our friends were injured or suffered damage from all those Tornados that struck the middle of the country this past few days. Lets have a roll call guys, please report in if you are OK.
GARRY: Very happy to hear that your heart surgery went very well. Regarding basements in southern states, is it common or rare?
ROB: Yes, taking care of teeth is extremely expensive these days. I would not spend one dime on wisdom teeth. They are absolutely useless to modern man, and they only gather one cavity after another because we can't get at them very easily way back there, which means that eventually they have to come out. If we took a poll of all us guys in the Diner who are over 50, it would surprise me to see any with their wisdom teeth remaining and in good condition. I have had three root canals done over the years, and never had one problem. Modern procedures are even far better now. Expensive? YES ! But, I don't want to have to gum my steak to death at age 70. LOL
GAV: Glad to hear that Summer has arrived in merry olde England!!! And please enjoy your days off. Are you planning any trips to LHS ?
JOHNBOY: I hear you are still freezing up there in Saskachawan? Do you still believe in Global Warming...? LOL Sorry, that really isn't funny......hehehehehehehehe
PC: Thanks for sharing the photos, very interesting to say the least. You are fortunate to be able visit shops that are not that far away....I would have to go to Scranton, PA, a 4.5 hour ride from here.
JEFF: How are doing my friend?
Later guys, time for lunch,
grayfox1119 wrote:JEFF: How are doing my friend?
JEFF: Keeping busy is a good way to keep your mind off things, it will take some time and I am sure you are well aware of that. The stress of the last few days has a lot to do with headachs too.
An off topic question, the steam engine;'s gorgeous, but who;s the diesel sitting in the shop nearby?
-Morgan