***Dick, I often wonder if Patches the Horse is still around. Saw that video years ago and was blown away by it. One difference between those fellas and myself is I would never feed my horses hamburgers, as our bottle baby miniature cows might find out and would surely have a fit. Thanks for posting it.
Wonder how (and how much work) it would be to do this for the wife's carnival rides? Anyone know what they are using for lights? http://www.tjscarnivaloflights.com/ Sure looks mighty cool. Perhaps I shouldn't let her see these video clips.
Found a place not all that far from us we simply must go visit, providing it's still there: http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM3W4Z Wife wasn't that impressed with the photo, but I suspect in person she would enjoy it and perhaps return home with a few new ideas.
Rob
Heartland Division CBandQ wrote: Packers said his dentist is a model railroader. Is he the one who extracted a horn from a GP-9 becasue it had "toot decay"? ..............ooops ....oh good morning diners!
Packers said his dentist is a model railroader.
Is he the one who extracted a horn from a GP-9 becasue it had "toot decay"?
..............ooops ....oh good morning diners!
Nice. It's actually nice, b/c the waiting room has about 3 to 4 model railroad mags, including model railroader and the NMRA bulletin. And we'll get to talking about trains while he's doing my teeth.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Autumn is definitely here, snow on Mt Mansfield, and Killington Mtn, VT, and the White mountains of NH, down to 3500 foot levels. A very Fallish 53F today, as we brought in more firewood for storage. With heating oil at $4.16 a gallon ( #2) , you burn a lot more firewood!!!
ROB: I am totally blown away at what you have been able to teach your horse!!!!! Absolutely amassing!!! When do you teach "Patches" to run your MRR trains??
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JIM: No frosted Flakes...the window project is DONE inside and out, and none too soon, it is getting mighty chilly around here, the winds have been blowing constantly for days now, yielding a wind-chill factor that is 20F below the day temperature.
RT: Glad to hear that health issues are getting under control....diet is the main thing, after age 40, all men really need to control fat intake from ALL sources...keep up the good work RT, it will pay great health dividends.
Later guys,
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Diners: ...and a bright sunny one it is here on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia! Breezy however, as it's been blowing for three days straight now. Again, waiting for things to dry. In the basement, the mainframe of the crane has it's undercoat drying, (I can already see where more sanding will be required, but it looks better grey than white with wood and paper portions.
(by CapeJim) Good to hear that you got your wood rods thing figured out.
Fergie:
Ahhh Yes I know this joke all too well... You see when I worked in the office several years ago,.... And I couldn't retract the email before she read it Funny how life can be
You see when I worked in the office several years ago,.... And I couldn't retract the email before she read it Funny how life can be
Looks like it time to feed Rosie-the-not-so-active dog. Dinner time will give a good time for the things to set up. TTFN
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Hello ...
This is to express appreciation to those who expressed concern for our church friend, Diane, and prayed for her. We received the following in an email today today from her husband, Wayne. Prayers work. ..
"It's Sat. AM at 11:45. I just came in from Nashville for a short time ....Diane is doing great!!!!!!!!!............Her surgery went well last Tuesday afternoon. Her mass was some smaller than the doctors anticipated. Good news. On the flip side, they found some enlarged lymph nodes which they removed. As of now they have not gotten the pathology test completed on them. ..............her spirits continue to be optimistic. .........We don't know when she will be coming home .........
We both know and appreciate all of your prayers thus far. We know this progress could not have happened without them. Please continue to do so........Wayne......"
Thanks everybody.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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Good morning All .....Its sunny and cool here this morning....I'll have the Farmers special Breakfast with coffee please...Thank You...Had a good time at Football game last night Casey rolled on ranked # 1 they won 56 to 0....they have only have had 19 points scored on them..
I took a Atlas caboose apart yesterday gonna Decal it for IC...
You all have a good one...Jerry
in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please & thanks.
Does anyone have some new train or layout pics to share?
Will be in a corner booth working on a coffee trying to wake up. Rob
Morning all!
Got lots to do today. Gotta teach tonight, and have lots of schoolwork to catch up on too. Somewhere in there I have to go to my son's basketball practice. I don't like to miss that.
rtraincollector wrote: Packers#1 said hey RT, I just noticed, you're only about a 45 min. drive from me, lol. I accually went by a exit on 20 that said Aikens today. Remember reading it as there was a gentle man in the room from there but don't remember his name. I'm at exit 70 on interstate 20. Not too much happening tonight just woke up from nap was tired earlier still am acually but not like I was.
Packers#1 said
hey RT, I just noticed, you're only about a 45 min. drive from me, lol.
I accually went by a exit on 20 that said Aikens today. Remember reading it as there was a gentle man in the room from there but don't remember his name.
I'm at exit 70 on interstate 20.
Not too much happening tonight just woke up from nap was tired earlier still am acually but not like I was.
Cool. My dentist is actually in Augusta. And he's a model railroader, so it's actually fun going to the dentist 9and i've never had a cavity, so that's better).
Morning All
Gee TOM I can relate to the reaction to the drugs thing as i am the same way with any of the Terramycine family Hives and all
Hope to get some more fence work done today so better get a bowl of hot oatmeal
i'll be in the booth in the back waiting to see who comes in
TerryinTexas
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Morning all been a while scince I had breakfast here and seeing Rob is buying figured why not.
Hey Chole I'll just have my small breakfast if you remember Its 4 strips of bacon, 2 sausage patties (the small 4" ones) 2 slices of ham, Hashbrowns 6 pancakes (don't want the big order 12 stack) 4 slices of toast 3 eggs over med, 3 slices french toast, LRG OJ from eds place, LRG glass of 2% milk (got to watch my fat intake) Lite Regular syrup (Go all out a little this am) and a bolw of mix fruit. Boy glad I'm not real hungry don't want to ruin my diet.
Morning all hows it going not bad here decieded to take today tomorrow and monday off as doc said I could go back to work but no lifting over 5 lbs so figure just take off as it would be boring and drawn out working that way they find dumb things for you to do.
Oh cloe forgot bring me 3 of Bill T.'s doughnuts.
Well take care all talk to you all later
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
pcarrell wrote: JimRCGMO wrote: Hey, PC - wanna treat me to a brownie a la mode, and a cup of coffee? Just curious, but how often you planin' on milkin' that cow?
JimRCGMO wrote: Hey, PC - wanna treat me to a brownie a la mode, and a cup of coffee?
Hey, PC - wanna treat me to a brownie a la mode, and a cup of coffee?
Just curious, but how often you planin' on milkin' that cow?
Probally as often as you will do it
Tall glass of lemon water, please & thanks.
***RT, sounds like some very good news there, especially considering many of the alternatives.
Wife's popcorn cart arrived via UPS today. It's adorable (IMO) and will be a nice little addition to her circus/carnival layout.
Killer headache and backache tonight. Perhaps paying for that MIL's birthday cake I gobbled up earlier. I knew better and did it anyway.
Night all. Rob
Good evenin' all,
The rain is still coming down like anything, I looked at some of my post from the summer, and I got a lump inmy thoat I miss summer already!!!! Alwell, I like the stromy weather,we usally get alot of wind from the Pacific this time of year. I just saw a website on making pine trees and I think it's going to help alot. Anyway My wife and I are goin' to enjoy our evening and watch a movie, Have a good night all!
-trainsrme1
Hello Diners! An Earl Grey tea, and a slice of Wasa crispbread with quince jam, Zoe, if you would be so kind.
Ryan: Most of what you need to know about Cassia is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamomum_aromaticum , the lead paragraph of which is:-
Cassia (Cinnamomum aromaticum, synonym C. cassia) is an evergreen tree native to southern China, Bangladesh, India, and Vietnam. Like its close relative, cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum, also known as "true cinnamon" or "Ceylon cinnamon"), it is used primarily for its aromatic bark, which is used as a spice, often under the culinary name of "cinnamon". The buds are also used as a spice, especially in India, and were once used by the ancient Romans.
It's the buds we use, buy them dried and grind them up. More on the similarity of Cassia to Cinnamon at http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/Cinn_cas.html I found the time to find out while waiting for the glue to dry on some railing uprights for the catwalk that hangs beneath the cable house for the container crane. I've worked out how to model it, and am about half way through.
Rob: My experience is that layouts eat light. I'd not be thinking about a black ceiling as that would absorb much of what you really want bounced down onto the layout. Darker blue at the top of the walls, shading down to pale blue/white at the bottom seems to be the way most folks go for general sky, and the ceiling is left white. Anywho, that's my
RT: That's great news, and I'm reading things the same way as JR. A real cause for thanksgiving (which for us is when you have your Columbus Day).
Bed time yet again. I'm leaving the railings and suspension uprights to set overnight. I hope they set straight! I can't put on the horizontals and attach the cable house until everything is firmed up. Goodnight all, and God Bless. Prayers for all in need of healing, comfort and peace.
Evening Gang: I spent the day over at the train meet. I didn't do any running but spent the day on my tractor with the grapple. Terry's hired hands made a trash pile right where the entire world could see it. I spent about an hour moving it to the dump site. After that Terry asked me to clean up the old ballast pile so that area could be mowed. I used the ballast for a gravel road to the dump. The ballast was too full of dirt and grass to use on the railroad. Tomorrow I'll be able to get in some running. I'm leaving the tractor at home.
RT that's great news even if you were put through a bunch of trouble over the year. For that kind of news I'd have driven myself too.
Jeff you keep on doing some great work. I like Ezra's trailer too.
Well I need to hit the showers. There was a bunch of rag weed out there.
Good Night All
Okay, thanks, Ryan - I see you're covering for PC this afternoon/evening.
C&O Terry, don't overdo - get your rest as you're healing up.
Jeff, I like that Ezra's 'doghouse' trailer. Might just get one of those sets next time I'm by WallyLand. Or, I think maybe that Model Power may still carry a set with a trailer like that one. And do let us know your thoughts once you get the Digitrax system in and installed and test it out.
Dick, will the state's RR there have reporting marks for their cars? That doesn't sound like your average arrangement when trying to get passenger service, but then again, there may not be that many states that are doing that, either. Oh, I guess if you hadn't have finished up the window work, you would have had (ahem...) 'frosted (oak) flakes'??? (Grrrrreaaaat!! )
Rob and Paul, my ex-FIL (now gone home) always used to work on repairing his machinery for his farm during the winter months. I think the only 'cheap' farm equipment is the stuff you've already paid for and have had for several years, from what I had heard. 'bout right?
Rob, I don't know what to suggest on your walls/ceiling, as I've never seen a layout where they used black for either. Saw somewhere one time where someone had holes in the backdrop (minimized visibly by painting, and for 'night' the main lights were dimmed/off, and lights behind the backdrop made it look like stars in the sky. Maybe someone else has seen or tried that, and will have suggestions for you.
DerJohn - I sent that one to a cat-loving friend from church. Now, if I don't ever post again, you'll know that Rae did me in... Good to hear that you got your wood rods thing figured out.
Tom, your doctor sure knows the HARD way to get you rid of an illness, doesn't he/she? Congrats on getting some rain (finally), and I hope the hills and mountains don't wind up in your backyard as a mudslide... On Gizmo, just watch out for Spooky and Lowell whispering to her when your back is turned, giving her all their tips on cabeese-stealing. Are you going to have travelling cages for your cats (and Gizmo?), or are they well-behaved enough while you're playing?
JR, if your insurance company got the last contractor, I'd be speaking up (rather loudly) about my thoughts on any contractor for the real work. That's kind of $#%^& - can someone go after the contractor for shoddy workmanship and failing to complete the job in a timely (and even halfway-decent) manner?
RT, kinda great that your body got itself healed (and/or the doctors before messed up on their diagnosis, not that that ever happens with doctors, right folks? ). Did (or will) the doctor be un-installing the defibrilator, with all of this new discovery? That'd be even better. Sure would simplify your life in a lot of ways!
Well, I need to get heading for home. Want to see a couple of TV shows (one new show, one new season). Everybody take care of yourselves, and Tom, TrainsRMe1 and our other Northwesterners, watch out for the rain flow around your places! Prayers and best wishes for healing for those who're ailing or recovering.
Blessings and healing prayers for all of ya,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
rtraincollector wrote: LSWrr wrote: RT, nice looking locomotivesI'm partial to the NS one myself Paul W. Beverung wrote: RT: Let us know how things go. You know how anxcious we get around here. My prayers go with you.Well found out more today but first the great news! They will come to my house and drive me to Augusta, GA. They have gotten me a motel room at the Quality INN in Augusta. There is transportation aranged for me to be at the V.A. by 6:30 the next morning. Then when all is done in Augusta, GA. they will drive me back to Colunbia, S.C. to my house and drop me off. I'm going down for a heart cath but while I'm there there going to try and check my difrilator out and if they deem it necasary there going to change out the one lead that is on recall by the company. Ran my trains again tonight no wrecks, I still have to get it to a acuall layout not just a big loop on the floor.
LSWrr wrote: RT, nice looking locomotives
RT, nice looking locomotives
I'm partial to the NS one myself
Paul W. Beverung wrote: RT: Let us know how things go. You know how anxcious we get around here. My prayers go with you.
RT: Let us know how things go. You know how anxcious we get around here. My prayers go with you.
Well found out more today but first the great news! They will come to my house and drive me to Augusta, GA. They have gotten me a motel room at the Quality INN in Augusta. There is transportation aranged for me to be at the V.A. by 6:30 the next morning. Then when all is done in Augusta, GA. they will drive me back to Colunbia, S.C. to my house and drop me off.
I'm going down for a heart cath but while I'm there there going to try and check my difrilator out and if they deem it necasary there going to change out the one lead that is on recall by the company.
Ran my trains again tonight no wrecks, I still have to get it to a acuall layout not just a big loop on the floor.
Okay first things first the ride there and back got dropped and had to drive my self but I still got motel room for free. They ended up keeping me overnight basicly because they wouldn't let me drive home as didn't want me driving for 24 hours.
Now for the part that gets interesting if we go back about 3 coffee shops and dig up where I went in the hospital because I went into Lower Dibrilation we'll come up with the statement that "the doc did a heart cath on me and found a small blockage where an artery conects to a main artery and couldn't put a stent in because of where it was as it wouldn't hold that close to the joint" Well heres the real interesting part the heart cath I had done yesterday showed that my arteries were clear no build up at all. Blockage doesn't desolve with or without medication only way is for them to operate and remove it.
I've been taking medication for about 2 1/2 years that probally didn't need and I probally also didn't need the defirilator as I found out that my papatations and probally my lower defibralation was brought on by all the caffine I was drinking/eating. prior to all this which was never brought up od asked how much I was drinking or eating until I moved and saw the cardiolgist in Knoxville, TN although I had stop drinking cokes as trying to loose weight and the amount of sugar in them in fact I stop drinking sodas completely at that point.
I have an appointment with my new cardiolgist on the 3rd of November. Then I'll find a lot out.
Good Afternoon,all!
Just got back from having a late breakfast at another place with my family, (sorry Zoe Chiole Flo and Janie and Laurel,) I still love the food here, espcially when Ryan has his famous gumbo cookin', anyway I hope to find out if I won the garage makeover contest soon, that would be so awsome!!!!! the weather here is well umm er, I thought I saw Noah buiiding an ark next door, in other words, it's raining cats and dogs!!!! we have company from out of town this weekend, so I might not get to do some MRR work, but then again I might sneak in some time, like I said awhile ago,"it's not the gettin' time it's makin'time!" Jeff I use the Zepher, and it's cool by me, I'a still lerning some of the features it has, and I'm QUITE satisfied with it!
Take care all, I'll talk to ya later tonight-trainsrme1
der5997 wrote:How to wash a toilet 9. Both the commode and the cat will be sparkling clean. Yours Sincerely, The Dog
How to wash a toilet
9. Both the commode and the cat will be sparkling clean. Yours Sincerely, The Dog
Ahhh Yes I know this joke all too well...
You see when I worked in the office several years ago, one of my co-workers was an "avid" catlover, where I was a dog lover. So one day I got this joke by e-mail and of course sent it through to her at the end of the day. Of course, as luck would have it, when I went to her desk the next day to "rub" salt in wounds she wasn't there... She took the day off because she had to put her cat down the night before And I couldn't retract the email before she read it Funny how life can be
She took it well ... Thank God! Boy did I feel rotten over that one.
Fergie
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If one could roll back the hands of time... They would be waiting for the next train into the future. A. H. Francey 1921-2007
Heartland Division CB and Q wrote:Jeff ... I will be interested in how your new DCC equipment is working. I'm still thinking of converting, but it will be a while if I do.
Jeff ... I will be interested in how your new DCC equipment is working. I'm still thinking of converting, but it will be a while if I do.
Afternoon All..Its sunny and 68 here...I'll have a root beer float please..Thank You...We had over night company my Niece and Her Husband stopped by on thier way Home to Northern Indiana..They are not sure what they will find when they get there ..Thier Home was in the flooding in that area..They lived right on the river...He has HO trains and is hoping water didn't get in to them...
I'm getting out tonite..My Son is coming up and I am going to Casey's football game tonite..He was on a Final 4 team 10 years ago that will be honnored at 1/2 time..I'm looking forward to it havn't been to a High school game in 3 years...Casey is # 1 ranked in the state...
I have been running trains..got a coal drag out on the main now....You all have a good one...Jerry
Oh by the way..We have a cat that has been hanging around our front deck as per John's plan I am going to see how that works!I'll let you know!!