Good morning...cloudy and 52F right now, but the sky is clearing and the tmeps will rise to near 70F later. Catching up on some reading today, model RR and Trains mag as well as a new DCC book from MRR. Also trying to select decoders for Atlas S-4 and an Athearn GP35 that have both sound and motor control. I really don't want to use two decoders under the hood if at all possible. NCE makes decoders for motor drive, SoundTraxx makes a nice sound decoder and QSI has a new decoder due out in 4 weeks that does combine both , but there is some doubt as to whether it will fit in the S-4.
JEFF: I was surprised to read that you have steel pipes as part of the plumbing for the pool. Chlorine does a number on metal. When we installed our pool way back in 1972, we used what they had out then, which was that stiff black plastic pipe and worm gear clamps. The worm gear clamps would always loosen a bit over Winter ,at the underground elbows to the inlets, outlets and skimmer. Of course that meant digging up the area, re-tightening or replacing the clamps. Trying to draw water from the pool with air leaks was always maddening to say the least. When we had to replace the liner in 1992, we replaced all the lines with flexible acid pipe. NO ELBOWS at the pool!! The pipe was glued directly onto fittings at the pool. No more leaks in 16 years! The only elbows are ar the pump and filter, and they are also glued. When I do any other job that has threads, I use teflon tape, and never had a leak yet. I can certainly feel your frustration, been there many times.
JERRY: Watch out for your Cholesterol with all that red meat good buddy !!! Once a week only, then eat Alaskan Salmon. Try that with Ryan's hot Bar-B-Q sauce!!!
FERGIE: I see you are at 46.7 N Lat, 53 w long. Stay close to shore, the seas are going to be rough, keep your eyes out for Polar bears floating on the bergs. You still have your side arm, right? Any pics of the Berg ?
RT: Hey, that is Great news!!! I hope you get a 6.25% mortgage rate.
If any of you guys subscribe to Trains Mag, you can click on the video by the editors and see the Clinchfield RR "N" scale layout and the history behind it from the '70's. Very interesting video.
Time for lunch..
Howdy fellers!
The CFO and I walked 3+ miles this mornin and then I got the yard cut and sprayed some Roundup on the areas that needed "roundin' up".
Drum roll please............................
I have lost 26.5 lbs since February! Here is my weight ticker....
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Good morning All...Its sunny and 55 here this morning...Our Son, His wife and kids came yesterday evening...Had a big cook-out on deck..1/2 pound fresh pork burgers and Brots,He is helping His cousin roof his house today and tonite were gonna grill up some Bar BQ pork steak...and grill some Valdaila onions..they got Sallie a phone that She can carry with her when she goes to dailisiss...
You guys talking about figures I read over on another Forum were a feller ordered some of the figure deals you see on Ebay from China 100 for 3 or four bucks painted he had a photo and they looked good..I think I am going to try to order some sure beats ever the unpainted ones from Preisner[sp]....
Jeff hope you get you Dad's pool pump problems taken care of...Do you get to swim in the pool when you get done.....
You all have a good one...Jerry
Good Morning All
Well we saw our 1st Iceberg this morning as we rounded Cape Race, the SE corner of Newfoundland. Weather has been good so far as the fog lifted yesterday at lunch and hasn't come back... yet! Just a matter of time. Though i must admit this Nor Easterly swell we are presently punching through is getting to be a bit taxing.
Lee: Sorry you've been in the "Office" too long and now it's time to get your feet wet and toughened up! This is the perfect place for that!!
Jerry and Garry: Yes I've been in very little as of late but I really had nothing much to say as I was digging and moving dirt, painting and sawing and getting the house back in order. Now that I'm back to sea i should have a bit more time on my hands though I'm looking at having to do appraisals and learning plans for the crew
JimRCGMO wrote: Fergie, hope your ship's rocking and rolling stops long enough to get some of your MRR'ing done. How long are you on the briney seas this time out? And have you heard from Luc or DerJohn? I've received some email forwards from Der, but have seen neither hide nor hair of Luc...
Fergie, hope your ship's rocking and rolling stops long enough to get some of your MRR'ing done. How long are you on the briney seas this time out? And have you heard from Luc or DerJohn? I've received some email forwards from Der, but have seen neither hide nor hair of Luc...
I'm doing, slowly but surely. ope to have my erie Steam Shovel and Erie Steam Crane finished by mid trip!
I get the odd occasional e-mail joke from luct and got a reply back from John last week and it sounds if he's real busy these days with other commitments.
Anyway it's lunchtime!
ater All
Fergie
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Good Morning!
I'll have oatmeal and OJ.
There was a discussion about wildlife moving closer to human locations in the diner recently. I thought of that as i watched the news this morning. (Jeff may be familiar with this story.) A bear has located on the grounds of a state prison in Louisiana. There have been no attempted escapes lately!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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A glass of water, thanks. Guess I jumped the gun last night and still needed a "small dose" of pain meds afterall. Woke up in a pool of sweat with an aching tooth, but nothing like it was a couple days ago, thank god.
***Lee, back trouble can be such a pain. Have you ever done wrestlers bridges for it? Doing them has literally given me (my back) a new life, as it has for a couple friends of mine who are now doing them.
Bought some of those cheapo figures & lamp posts from those "we honest" folks. Will let y'all know what I think of them when they arrive. Will need lots of extra people for the future factory I have planned.
A couple thunderstorms rolled through here in the wee hours. Got up and enjoyed watching the show. Looks like more tonight into tomorrow, with a chance of severe weather. YeeHaw!
Rob
Good morning all,
Fergie, you can keep the ice and bad weather, I'll just watch from my office window, LOL.
Jerry, nice passenger car project.
Rob, sounds like you got some good deals.
Back is doing much better today, so maybe after my friend's funeral I can get the grass cut and do a little work in the basement.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
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Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
GMTRacing wrote:Jeff - nothing like brittle plastic pipe, no? Do you need to install an accumulator to take the pressure spikes out of the line from when the pump starts and stops ? Were you trying to use one of the teflon sealants on the threads or did the adhesive fail you ? Inquiring (nosey) mind want to know...
Jeff - nothing like brittle plastic pipe, no? Do you need to install an accumulator to take the pressure spikes out of the line from when the pump starts and stops ? Were you trying to use one of the teflon sealants on the threads or did the adhesive fail you ? Inquiring (nosey) mind want to know...
Good Evening All.
Just dropping in for a second before turning in. Was at w..k til late but got a couple of minutes in on the layout. Added more glazing this time to the Howlands department store and started to figure out window displays. My aunt used to do the window displays at the Howlands in Bridgeport before she got the same gig at Macy's in Nueve York. Man she could wrap gifts better than anyone - it was almost a shame to open the stuff she and my uncle gave us at Christmas except it was usually American Flyer stuff and oh so much appreciated. Mental note to self - find out name of uncles typewriter shop and add to layout.
Whilst I'm here I'll have a Root Beer float please Janie. Haven't heard from Sue for a while, perhaps she got sticker shock at the last diesel fillup. At 4.55 per I hit just over 200 filling the Excursion and I don't want to think of the 120 gallons the Kenworth takes. Have we all bought locking gas caps yet?
Oh and the CFO approved an addition to the fleet and I have an RSD15 coming from FDT. Don't know what I'll do with it yet as the New Haven never had any but at not much more than a good sound decoder how can I go wrong - and it's an ALCO besides.
Jerry - nice job on the coach. Ditto on the passengers with Tom.
Enough for one night. I'll catch y'all tomorrow. J.R.
Hello ....
Tom said: "Garry--WHERE did you get that cute little station? Wow, that is COOL! Oh, BTW, I just discovered that it IS the Cloverfield Creature behind my coaling tower, and not a scenery bottle like I thought. OOOPS, LOL!" Tom, the station was made from an old Magnuson Models kit of the Burlington's Highlands station. It was a suburban Chicago station, and I grew up near it. The shelter across the tracks is scratch built from Evergreen plastic pieces.
Jerry .... I like the coach very much, too.
Paul ... Good luck with the downstairs tile project.
We were at the church meeting this evening, and we heard more about our friend who learned she has cancer. It's very bad news.
Well, I'll have some ice cream and be on my way. Good night.
Evening Gang: Another busy day. I mowed the back again to get the stuff I missed and get the cuttings kind of rounded up. It's easyer doing that with the mower then rakeing. Of course I'll still have to rake it up and haul it away. The hauling is done with the railroad so that part is kind of fun. It also justifies the railroad kind of.
The guy that we are going to have lay the tile downstairs came by to give us an estimate and talk about how and all. His estimate was lower then I expected. We've seen his work and it is quite good. Our sister in law had him do her kitchen. Tomorrow it's to Lowe's to get the tile. Sorry Dick HD didn't have anything that we liked.
I must get to work on cleaning ut the garage tomorrow. We have to have someplace to put the furniture and some other stuff that has to come out to make way for the tile. I guess I'll have to use the bed room for TV and reading .
Well I think that I'll head out and get to bed.
Good Night All
JimRCGMO wrote: Did you get that in writing from your doctor, so your wife will believe you, Ryan?
Did you get that in writing from your doctor, so your wife will believe you, Ryan?
Nope! And I been on my feet most of the day too with errands and chores....tired now. Been up running around since 7:15 this morning....
pcarrell wrote: twhite wrote: Have my 94 year old mother down for the weekend, so I don't know how much I'll get done with anything in the next couple of days. She keeps telling me "Now you just go about whatever you normally do--" and when I start, I hear, "Tom, do I have any money left in my savings?" "No, mother, you're absolutely Destitute (she could buy a small European country, LOL!)." "Oh, that's nice, dear." Could she buy one with lots of trains so we can all come over to play?
twhite wrote: Have my 94 year old mother down for the weekend, so I don't know how much I'll get done with anything in the next couple of days. She keeps telling me "Now you just go about whatever you normally do--" and when I start, I hear, "Tom, do I have any money left in my savings?" "No, mother, you're absolutely Destitute (she could buy a small European country, LOL!)." "Oh, that's nice, dear."
Have my 94 year old mother down for the weekend, so I don't know how much I'll get done with anything in the next couple of days. She keeps telling me "Now you just go about whatever you normally do--" and when I start, I hear, "Tom, do I have any money left in my savings?" "No, mother, you're absolutely Destitute (she could buy a small European country, LOL!)." "Oh, that's nice, dear."
Could she buy one with lots of trains so we can all come over to play?
Philip--
How about Switzerland? I've heard a rumor that the reason the Swiss built the Alps in the first place is so they'd have someplace to run their trains up and downh, LOL!
Rob--I have heard that if you buy the unpainted Preisers, they're about half the price of the painted ones. But with MY eyesight, they'd probably end up looking like little flesh-colored blobs. However, the big pack of seated figures has about 38, no duplicates. I got them for around $34 at my LHS--but you're right, that is kind of a chunk of money just to look at people through windows.
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!
***Jeffrey, good thing you at least got the refund, even if that doesn't help any with the extra work ahead.
***Tom, you mentioned those Preiser figures. They sure have a lot of nifty circus offerings, too. My wife already wants more of them. I do prefer the HO offerings to those in N scale, as in HO it is easier to see what they are doing. Probably a good thing the wife & I each have different scales.
Anyone know where the cheapest place is to buy HO Preiser figures?
While here, I'll have arefill, please & thanks.
Evening, Chloe - how about some beef stew and a root beer float, please!
Thanks!
SilverSpike wrote:Just got back from the doc and he says that my knee pain is from tendonitis from all the exercise I been doing. He said to take it easy this weekend and rest some, no arguments from me....
Just got back from the doc and he says that my knee pain is from tendonitis from all the exercise I been doing. He said to take it easy this weekend and rest some, no arguments from me....
Rob, hope you get some sleep now that you're on the new meds. Uh, Rob? If you needed an excuse to run trains, I think you may have found one when you take your meds.
Jeff, at least you shouldn't have to work on your folks' plumbing for a while, by the time you replace the rest of it. You do sound very much like the handyman, with all the stuff you fix around your neck of the woods. I'd have a ways to go to come near that level.
On-call tonight, so by tomorrow morning the rest of the weekend will be mine for MRR'ing. (My mother died in '77, so Mother's Day for me doesn't have much meaning.)
But for the rest of you, I hope you've lined up your Mother's Day gift or other arrangements for you Mother and/or your sweetie. Score those brownie points this weekend, and who knows what might be possible by Father's Day...
I'll grab a seat in the corner booth (without waking Rob...) and work on my dinner and float. Prayers for healing and rest (and a productive Saturday for MRR'ing).
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Afternoon all--
Gonna be fun until Monday,LOL!
Garry--WHERE did you get that cute little station? Wow, that is COOL! Oh, BTW, I just discovered that it IS the Cloverfield Creature behind my coaling tower, and not a scenery bottle like I thought. OOOPS, LOL!
Jeff--oh man, I hope you don't have to lay in new pipe for the pool pump. Those things are a nightmare when they start leaking--ask me, I know.
Cox--populate that nifty coach, okay? Preiser has very NEAT people, I've populated two trains so far, and haven't had to cut any legs off, yet.
Oops, better get back to Mother, she's wondering where her bank book is. Oboy!
Cederstrand wrote:***Jeffrey, OOPS, I spoke to soon. Did the goop require some "setting time" or what? Sorry to hear there is more work in your near future on this project. Dang! -Rob
***Jeffrey, OOPS, I spoke to soon. Did the goop require some "setting time" or what? Sorry to hear there is more work in your near future on this project. Dang!
-Rob
***Jerry, looks fine to me. Ever considered putting little passengers inside the car?
***Jeffrey, good job getting the pipes replaced and the new motor installed. Use to opperate several pools way back when myself, and the old ones always seemed to need something replaced. The only time one of my pools was written up was for filling the pool with a hose without having a backflow addapter. I asked her "How is water from the pool going to physically jump up into an elevated hose?" She had no answer to the obvious, but still wrote it up. Some regulations are created to keep clueless inspectors employed.
I quit taking the pain meds this afternoon. I cannot stand that drugged, dizzy feeling. If the antibiotics are working, then Motrin might be enough now.
Spent a half hour running the new Berkshire & Yard Goat. (can't lay down for 30 minutes after taking this antibiotic) Both are running quite smoothly and the Yard Goat is becoming very quiet. I like em' both very much. Nice upgrades from those I sold.
Healing thoughts to those in need.
Afternoon all...Its cloudy and rain all day ....I'll have a diet coke and a ham salad sandwitch on toast please...Thank You...Sallie just got home and is eating .....
JR....Thanks for the tip on Testor's plastic cement..seems like I can always manage to smear glue on "glass"....
Fergie...Good to see you checking in here at the Dinner!.....
I stripped paint for the 3rd time and got Passenger car painted...Don't have any decals so gonna hold of on that.also gonna stick with the old couplers to save a little probaly always be run as a train and not switched anyway...Gotta a combine to match it that needs to be stripped and rebuilt...
You all have a good week-end..I think we will have some of the kids and grandkids coming in....Jerry
Hello everybody ...
Lee ... glad to learn the back is better. Take care of it.
Fergie ... good to hear from you ........out there...
Ryan ... Interesting about your Dad. My Dad spent his career in the oil biz. He was a chemical engineer.
Rob .. Gla to know your FIL is okay. Continue taking care of your tooth.
Tom posted Yellowstone loco pix in WPF. It's making me drool over his engine facility. We've got to do something about him.
Speeking of WPF, I posted my new station there. My "new" 1957 T-bird is in a photo.
HAppy Model Railroading!
Luke warmin a SOUTHERN mug, please & thanks!
Wife was right, once pain is under control, the BP returns to normal. Only downside is feeling tranquilized. At least I can finally get some sleep.
Hope everyone is doing well.
If I doze off in the corner booth, just let me sleep. Rob
Yep Dick, we were watching those storms while on our evening walk last night and could see the lightening and hear the thunder, it was just over Durham which is about 25 miles west of us. The tornado hit near Greensboro in the middle of the night. We did get just under 1 inch of rain as my rain checker measured this morning. Seem we might get some more later this evening too! We need the rain but the wind and such can stay away....
Hummm....what's for lunch today Chloe! Oh, I'll have the Shrimp Etoufee and slide on over in the back booth for a spell......