Good afternoon all: A dry sherry and some shrimp and dip before lunch please Zoe.
rrnut:
Florida orange juice too; Better than oj from anywhere else; no offense
Now drinking room temperature orange juice is something altogether different.
Jeff: That park is exceptional! Thanks for the progress pics.
Hope you get your water supply restored soon Jerry and everyone else stays safe and dry.
Sounds like lunch is getting ready TTFN.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Good morning All....The sun is shining this morning and its hot and humid...weather guesser on TV says no more rain till tuesday but he didn't see the flood coming!!We can't even use water here even after boiling so they brought a tanker of water in from Casey and our neighbor brought us in a 2 gallon jug...Store sold out on bottled water before noon yesterday...Church services have been canceled all over...
On the brighter side I got a IC GP 18 on Ebay...Hope its a good runner...You all have a good one...Jerry
Good Morning!
I have some new aquisitions to the layout. I'll post pictures later.
In the meantime, a cinnamon bun from Zoe would be just great.
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good one inch! A christian bear, who knew.
Good morning. It's cloudy and 76 degrees in the Sportsman's paradise. A high in the mid 90's is expected as conditions change to partly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 6/8/2008 Heat Index: 82°F Humidity: 96% Dew Point: 75°F So Far Today High: 77°F Low: 75°F Rain: 0.00" Rain Rate: 0.00"/h Gust: 6mph NNE Now through 07:00 AM CDT June 08, 2008 Through 7 AM...isolated showers will affect much of southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana...including the coastal waters out to 60 nm. Rainfall amounts of a few one hundredths of an inch are possible as this activity moves off to the northwest at 35 mph. Today High: 95 Partly cloudy. Isolated showers in the morning...then slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 20 percent. Tonight Low: 75 Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds around 10 mph.
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Evening all, a Cold barleypop please Janie. Just dropped in to say we got power back about 6 pm, after 15 hours without. Most the roads are open again, but many are closed still due to damage. CSX has started repairing the blowouts across North Fork now, even though it's not back to its banks yet. At 8 pm, they already had a dozer and ballast there. Me n Mother followed a payloader and big track hoe in and see more ballast being delivered. They're dumping rock next to the road there, then moving it with the hoes and dozers. Trying to build the grades back up while pushing what they can back under the tracks for now. Heard they might have it open enough for some light traffic Sunday, if the bridge is still usable [they haven't been able to get to it yet].
Hopefully I'll get some more info and some pics posted tomorrow.
Here's ya'll a joke for the day
An atheist was taking a walk through the woods, admiring all that evolution had created. "What majestic trees! What powerful rivers! What beautiful animals!", he said to himself. As he was walking along the river, he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him. When he turned to see what the cause was, he saw a 7-foot grizzly charging right towards him. He ran as fast as he could. He looked over his shoulder and saw that the bear was closing, He ran even faster, crying in fear. He looked over his shoulder again, and the bear was even closer. His heart was pounding and he tried to run even faster. He tripped and fell on the ground. He rolled over to pick himself up, but saw the bear right on top of him, reaching for him with his left paw and raising his right paw to strike him.
At that moment, the Atheist cried out "Oh my God!...." Time stopped. The bear froze. The forest was silent. Even the river stopped moving. As a bright light shone upon the man, a voice came out of the sky, "You deny my existence for all of these years; teach others I don''''t exist; and even credit creation to a cosmic accident. Do you expect me to help you out of this predicament? Am I to count you as a believer?" The atheist looked directly into the light "It would be hypocritical of me to suddenly ask You to treat me as Christian now, but perhaps could you make the bear a Christian?" "Very well," said the voice.
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twhite wrote:I remember my first garage layout had a mis-calculation on a grade that caused me to have to include a short section of 4% in order to keep the gradient that I needed.
I remember my first garage layout had a mis-calculation on a grade that caused me to have to include a short section of 4% in order to keep the gradient that I needed.
I remember about 10 years ago my layout then had a grade so steep I never even bothered to figure it out. What I didn't know couldnt hurt me. I've made many a planning mistake, even going so far as on layout #3 of my career not even having a plan of any kind. But completely not measuring my available area correctly, that's something I've never done before!
Fortunately I was given the go-ahead to do whatever I need to do to use my plan. The exact wording was something like "as long as one of the cars can go in the garage and the whole thing is still moveable." I scavenged a 12"x10" metal L bracket, and I hope I can find three others where that came from. But its not like those are expensive. Certainly less work than building some sort of brace. Now, my secret plans for a staging cart, that's something else all together.
That's what I'm working from right now. At least two of the spurs are subject to change, and I assure you that the top-most track on the right side is not that...angular in the full size drawing. Chalk it up to something weird during resizing the picture. All the turnouts are #4s and I plan on using flextrack. Not really interested in handlaid track right now, for my sanity. Power will be a lone SW1000 and the longest rolling stock would be a 65' mill gon, but the average will probably be closer to 50'. I'm not anticipating any trouble there. Minimum radius is 30" too, so no problems there. Staging is projected to be on a mobile cart (to eliminate the footage required by a ladder) docking at the right side. Industries are more or less TBA but the big empty space at the top is the "city."
The plan is very heavily inspired by the Port Kelsey trackplan that appeared in the August 1997 MR. I've always liked it. Although my plan is more late 1990s and beyond than that layout was (was? I heard its not around any more).
Evening,
CN Charlie, I was using Pettit EZ-poxy bottom paint, but you're right it was drying pretty fast. I'm use to painting 40-44 footers in a boat house during the winter. The weather wasn't the best, but it was the only day I could do it. The owner called me and said 12 people at the yacht club wanted my number for next spring. This boat had an uneven waterline and I fixed that, plus I've been painting boats for 21 years now and I guess I do good work, LOL. I bought a yardmaster box car for the first time this week, I hope things will settle down so I can assemble it.
Monday evening I'm painting another 30' boat.
I use the dull coat from Wal-Mart, my LHS recommends it. I've used it without any problems, but don't use it on metallic silver.
I hope inch is doing ok, did he get flooded out? My Dad said they had 60 mph winds when the storm hit Toledo. I hear IN had 80 mph.
We have a fishing festival going on this weekend, so I had to work 1000-1400 I'm so glad my boss loves me middle of the day, 97F, 87% humidity walking the docks doing courtesy exams on boats. Tomorrow I have to work the launch ramp doing the same thing 1000-1400 then inspect 4 fishing boats. I love my job, I love my job, I love my job..........
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good evening....still at 80F here at 8:15pm in central Massachusetts, not a record, but the humidity is very high at 76% with a Dew Point of 72F. We were at a graduation party all afternoon, and the "sodas" were really going down easy.
JERRY: 9.5" of rain overnight???? No wonder there is big time flooding, the ground is already saturated from all the storms over the past weeks. It will be very interesting to see Mike's photos of the washed out areas of CSX.
DER JOHN: You make a good point, I must admit I have never had a brew from England, but it is so hard to fathom any room temp brew when one is hot and thirsty.
ED: The bats were humming today....Wake was "ON" also. I could go for a Peachtree schnapps with your OJ right about now, how about you....OK, Zoe, two for Ed and I.
JEFF: How is the pool today? Good day to cool off. BTW, you might want to add a pool to your park.
Later guys,
Dinnertime! Time for some steak and onion.
Mustn't forget the Tabasco.
BURP! Oh, I mean bump. Please forgive.
Flip
I don't think so, but we do get the all over of the steamers! I'm really excited to see 3713- the B&M 4-6-2. I do believe we get to run the NKP GP9, and get a tour of CP's Binghamton Yard.
Cheers!
Alex
Morning all--
Supposed to hit about 83 here in SunnyCal today, with north winds. Which means POLLEN! Which means that it's going to be a sneezy time in the garage today, but I've GOT to re-lay the bridge track on the viaduct, or I'm going to have Articulateds taking nose-dives! I still can't believe I put a track-joint in the MIDDLE of the darned thing. Must have been having a real DUH! day when I did that one, LOL!
Jerry--NINE INCHES of rain? Holy Catfish, I hope you guys are all right out there. Nine inches out here would be HALF of our yearly rainfall, though we sure could use some. But not all at once like that!
Jeff: I see you're planting trees. Looks really nice. I like the way the park is coming along.
Jim: The New Girl on the Block is running pretty nicely, thanks. She's a little 'grindy', but I think that's probably because I'm the first person that's ever RUN her. PFM's have a very strange gearing in their articulateds, an exposed double-reduction gear that has a real whine to it until they get broken in. I could probably clean that up with an enclosed NWSL reduction gear, but that means pulling the driver and re-gearing the whole thing, and I'm not THAT mechanically minded. She'll smooth out over time. Pulls like a team of oxen, though. I'm pretty happy with her. She's as long as my Yellowstones, and TALLER!
Alex: Congratulations again on Railcamp. I think you're gonna have a lot of fun at Steamtown. Does this mean that you'll get to drive that ex-CN Mike? That's one pretty loco!
Nittany: Ah, from Plan to Reality! Come join a HUGE club, my friend--I don't think there's any of us who have not had to make some kind of adjustment between Paper (or Computer) and the actual space. I remember my first garage layout had a mis-calculation on a grade that caused me to have to include a short section of 4% in order to keep the gradient that I needed. Needless to say, THAT layout didn't last too long! Even the present one has caused me to have to put in a curved viaduct in order to get from one spot to the other, and it was a BEAR to build--and I STILL have to re-lay the track on it. Grr!
Well, time to get to work in the garage before the pollen count gets too high. Have a great day, everyone. Best to all, and prayers to those in need.
Tom
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 Morning Diners!
A cup of strong coffee please Chloe.
Well it seems that rain was the order of the day yesterday as we too recieved a good soaking. It is sunny today but very windy and cool. I don't think it is supposed to get over 65F today.
Lee, painting the bottom of a 30 footer is a lot of work. I assume you were using an anti-fouling paint too. I hope it wasn't VC17 or you would go through a lot of it at that temperature. It evaporates before your eyes when it's warm out.
As it was rainy last night I decided to put together a Yardmaster box car kit as they are easy and I don't tackle anything difficult when I'm tired. I guess I was too tired even for that as I managed to get glue on my finger and you guessed it, on the side of the car too. I managed to get it off but it did leave a mark. Oh well, I guess it could be some sort of weathering.
Well it's errand day today and I hope that will include a visit to the LHS. I need a few things, Dull Coat being one for that box car.
See you soon,
CN Charlie
Good morning all, another hot day ending with more thunderstorms today. I'll be down at the docks inspecting vessels today and Sunday.
I hope our Indiana neighbors came out of the storms ok last night, we had 2 tornadoes touch down around the Maumee River Looked like the head of the river in FT Wayne, IN got a good downpour as well.
I had to work for my new lawnmower, I got a 2005 Troy built self propelled mower in exchange I had to paint the bottom of a 30' cabin cruiser. With the Temp at 97F and 87% humidity I was beat when I got done, but wow, the boat looks really good.
Maybe after work I'll walk around the layout with the camera and show off some crazy electrical nightmares in DC and some new buildings that have been completed on the L.S.&W railroad.
grayfox1119 wrote:JEFF: Nice job on the box cars, I still say you shold consider a business, you do nice work!
JEFF: Nice job on the box cars, I still say you shold consider a business, you do nice work!
der5997 wrote: Brit beers, by contrast are, generally, brewed quite differently from lagers, and are designed to be consumed at room temperature. As such they are IMHO, and probably Gav's as well, without parallel.
Regards
Ed
Well, one of the stupidest mistakes one can make, I have done.
After months of hemming and hawing (I think this is a regional term so bear with me), I finally managed to creatively reference a trackplan I liked and turn it into something I liked. Space for my layout had been granted as "half of the garage." Of course, other factors prevented me from immediately envisioning something that devoured the entire space, as a significant fraction of that is otherwise devoted. It really works out to about a third of the garage. The space my car would occupy. Given that its spent the last eight or so winters sitting outside, a few more probably won't kill it. In this space is an old counter/shelf thing that can be best described as preexisting benchwork and storage space.
The wiser among us may already be starting to see the thing I have done begin to coalesce.
As one of the millions of people recently told to leave college because we had amassed enough credits and the university was no longer interested in taking our money in compensation of education (now they just want it outright with no return on my expenditure)(for being some with a fancypants book-learnin' this passed run-on sentence a long time ago; clearly I am not a shining beacon unto my alma mater), what was I talking about? Oh yeah, various factors have caused me to seek refuge in the ever embracing arms of mother. The rest of the family conspired into tricking me into thinking I needed a hobby, which brings us here. Now, ideally, I'll be able to find better work and move out within the year, so any layout I constuct must be small and portable. Able to fit in the spare bedroom of an apartment, as it were. Which bring us back to the shelf.
The top of the object is 32" deep. I cut this off to 30" in my planning phase, as I assumed two inches would provide suitable space at the back of the layout for a backdrop and its supports. After printing out the fullsize plan this very evening, I was quite happy as I noted the industrial spurs were as long or longer than I predicted. One that I projected to be suitable for one 60' boxcar could likely support two, albeit tightly. My runaround track turned out to be a whole car longer than projected too. Everything was coming up roses.
Until I looked at the sheets of paper on the garage floor and noticed "this seems awfully long." The consultations of a tape measure were employed, and it was indeed 120" long as my measurements of the top of the shelves had been. The crafty of you may have already begun to have a sly grin. Somewhere between the garage and the computer, the shelves grew two feet in length. But only in my head.
Now I am faced with attempting to negotiate modifications to the shelves. I'm sure grafting the needed extensions will be permitted, as it does not exceed the bounding box of my land grant. Oh such folly. Fortunately it was caught before any sort of construction had begun, as I clearly would have failed at "measure twice cut once" because I failed the measure part at least three times.
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Quick drop by before bed. I'll have a tea please Chloe. I really came in to say that I've been able to get a couple of Kato RDC cars to replace the ConCor clunkers I had before, and the decoders will be mailed to me on Monday. Let's hope they are truly PNP.
GAV: Warm suds??? How do drink that pee??? When it's 90F outside, I want a nice cold one.
BTW, I had a message from Krump today, for those of you who would remember him from the Coffee Shop. It was on his Facebook site, and he sounded kind of low. Why not drop over there and cheer him up? If you can get in, here's the url I used. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=581040648
Goodnight all, and God Bless. Prayers for all in need of healing, comfort and peace.
Good evening gents.......cloudy, foggy day today after rains in the morning, but.......a heat wave is fast approaching. Forecast is for 90's on Saturday through Monday, with record temps on Monday. Life is full of extremes these days, heating oil is $4.15 a gallon, gasolene is $3.99 a gallon, and a barrel of oil was up $10 more today.
COLBY: Remember all those snow days last Winter when you were all excited here in the Diner???? Well this my lad is called "payback"....I hear you get out on June 30th in Maine....
I hear they are looking for people to work on the RR up in Alaska, railcamp is open. You have to demonstrate your abilities by using a spike hammer, the DIME end!!!
J.R. : Many of the codes have changed over the past several years. Get ready for a few surprises. However, from my personal experience, they are all for the better safety-wise.
DUKE: Sneak over that fence and fire up that boiler on the locomotive !! Congrats on the RED WINGS !!!!! What ever happened to the Canadiens ?? Ay?
GUILFORD GUY: What camp are you going to ?
Later guys, I'm hungry and thirsty now...
Alex is buying! I'll have a ham sandwich.
ModelTrainLover wrote:Alex you lucky son of a gun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alex you lucky son of a gun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yepz I am speshul!