Elliot's Trackside Diner V, at the diamonds

[LSWrr]

Good morning,

Jeff, is that a store bought car or one you painted?  It's getting hard to tell.

Rob, fine catch you got there. After painting a few figures by hand I figured out why those painted figures are so expensive; THEY ARE WORTH IT, LOL.

Jerry, Garry and Jeff's Mom; thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery.

Ok today is publishing day for the Local Notice to Mariners (LNM) for D9, maybe I can assemble everything and send it to the publisher before lunch.  If anybody wants a copy shoot me an email here [e-mail] and I'll send it right out to you.  If you want on the weekly mailing let me know.

Lee

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Jeff, is that a store bought car or one you painted?  It's getting hard to tell.

I'll take that as a compliment to my modeling ability. That one is store bought. I got it at the not so local HS in Alexandria.

[SilverSpike]

Ryan, we will keep Joe Boudreaux in our thoughts and prayers, I wish him a speedy recovery. 

***Ryan, sending healing thoughts Joe's way.

Ryan: Speical prayers for your father. Tell him that I'm pulling for him.

Afternoon all

First,best to all with the health problems.

Thanks Lee, Rob, Paul and Duke! Your thoughts and prayers are much appreciated.

We will find out more information tomorrow afternoon and I will let you all know what the docs have to say.

Glad to hear the surgery went well for your mom Jeff!

Great progress and photos Ozark!

Garry, so sorry to hear about your ordeal, thoughts and prayers for your rest and recovery.

You all have a great day!

 

[LSWrr]

Jeff, is that a store bought car or one you painted?  It's getting hard to tell.

I'll take that as a compliment to my modeling ability. That one is store bought. I got it at the not so local HS in Alexandria.

It was intended as one, I always look foward to seeing pictures of your projects.  How big is your train room?  I liked the one shot you posted about 6 months ago of your room with the stone work on the celing, kinda looked like a train tunnel.  Very cool.

Lee

[jeffrey-wimberly]

It was intended as one, I always look foward to seeing pictures of your projects.  How big is your train room?  I liked the one shot you posted about 6 months ago of your room with the stone work on the celing, kinda looked like a train tunnel.  Very cool.

8' x 13'. The layout is bolted to the east, north and west walls. It extends 6.5' along the east wall, 8' along the north wall and 10' along the west wall. Here's the basic trackplan:

[NS Luc]

Good morning

[C&O Fan]

Morning All

Gonna try an egg and waffle this morning

Looks like rain all week here

I made a second roof for my station

you can see photos here

http://cs.trains.com/forums/1509431/ShowPost.aspx

Prayers for all in poor health

[GMTRacing]

Good Morning All,

     Almost home - we're in San Jose to catch the flight home today. I'll have a regular and a waffle please Zoe.

Ryan - my prayers for your father. Hope the tests help.

Jeff - my prayers also for your mother - best wishes for a speedy recovery. And that is good news from your doc. New shoes and all sounds like the feet are doing fine.

Garry - that's some scary stuff. Our prayers for you and we hope any damage is minimal at worst. Hang in there - we.'re all with you.

Ozark - that's is some nice work you're doing. My favorite is the special passing the station. With you, Jeff and Lee sending updates we'll all keep inspired.

Duke - the Northlandz stuff is TOTT! How many years did all that take? Is it sill being updated/reconstructed? Oh yeah and do you have any idea who's stuff he uses for rolling stock?

Lee - haven't gotten your pics to open yet - maybe when I get back home and can use my less crotchety desk top.

Got some touristy stuff in yesterday. Went to the Golden Gate Bridge as my daughter has wanted to see it in person forever. Toured up rts 1 and 116 nice roads and gorgeous scenery and got back to San Jose last night to leave later this morning. San Jose now has some electric light rail running and you can scarcely hear it as it passes by. catch y'all later,   J.R.  

[OzarkBelt]

Ozark - that's is some nice work you're doing. My favorite is the special passing the station. With you, Jeff and Lee sending updates we'll all keep inspired.

Station? I'm confused. All there is a paper mill and office. Are you reading my mind or something? Cause, I actually am planning to add a small flagstop station by the offices of the papermill for the commuters who want to save gas, so they take the commuter train:

Thanks for your comments though!

[pcarrell]

***Philip, I can understand "checking you out", but I would think anyone with half a brain would be able to discern the difference between a raifan and a terrorist.

Indeed, check me out, but that was rediculous.  I don't go near that yard any more.

 

Ryan, praying for your Dad!

[LSWrr]

GMT, Try clicking on my WWW button.  The FC tower is on page 11 of the construction pictures and the Cabooses are the last 5 pictures of the locomotives and rolling stock section.  Are you using a MAC?

 

Jeff, I really need to draw my layout to scale someday soon.  I've been working off drawings of each table, but nothing on the whole thing. I need to find a friend that has a track CAD program to hook me up.

 

Keeping you motivated, I have friends that help out; Dale has been bored since his wife said no more models cluttering up the house, so I supply him with paint, glue and buildings and he assembles them.  Some I do on my own, but he digs through my model box and takes several at a time.  He has a second job sitting in an office overnight with nothing to do so it helps him make the time go by faster.

 

 

Lee

[jeffrey-wimberly]

It's nice to have friends like that. I have some who tghink I should PAY them $50 or more to put a model together. Nothing doing!

[Cox 47]

Afternoon all...Its sunny and warmer here today....I'll have a Pork burger,Onion rings and a butterscotch shake please...Thank You....I have been running a coal drag this morning,working on a tank battery kitbashed from a tank car for our oil well and a little coupler maintance..seems like about 75% of my time is spent fiddling with these  tiny N scale couplers and I use to think HO couplers were small!!...Gotta get back to work on the Rix building yard office to grocery store kit bash..I showed it to Sallie and She says it needs 2 doors a in and a out so looks like back to the xacto and see if I can "whittle" out another door..You all have a good one...Jerry

[LSWrr]

Jeff, yes it's nice when friends help you out.  I felt a little guilty having him do all that work so I have given him some of my "modern" rolling stock and first pick in my "the bay" box I have started.  I think it all works out in the end.

You know, if they want $50 to put a model together for you they should buy it, build it and sell it, not charge a friend.

Lee

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Jeff, yes it's nice when friends help you out.  I felt a little guilty having him do all that work so I have given him some of my "modern" rolling stock and first pick in my "the bay" box I have started.  I think it all works out in the end.

You know, if they want $50 to put a model together for you they should buy it, build it and sell it, not charge a friend.

Lee

My feelings exactly. I can build most of the bigger models but those with a lot of small detail parts are beyond my abilities. I have to find somebody who's willing to do that now being that my model builder moved to Florida.

[bjdukert]

Afternoon all

Rob All of the last pics I have posted are from Northlandz in New Jersey and I believe on his web site it is a 65,000sq ft building. There is a pic of him standing in some of the scenery and there are areas that are at least 10ft high or better.

JR I didn't ask him what brand the rolling stock is or locos are but they do run good and didn't see any derailments at all. Although there was one loco down in a canyon that did do a lot of growling,so I think it was probably ready for some maintenance. I did ask what he used for the mountains and he said it was hydrocal and some plaster and about 33,000lbs of it.

That's about it

Best to all on sick call and those recovering

Talk to you later

Duke

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Hello .... Sorry i've not had a chance to catch up on recent posts. Briefly scanning thru, I see there is some interesting stuff from many of you guys.

I appreciate all the kind responses to my post last night. As I mentioned in some of the direct correspondence, I was breif about what happend. In addition to the one incident where my heart was restarted 3 times while I was unconsious, there were three times when the heart device restarted me with a single jolt. The treatment seems to have improved the rythm, but I'm still really tired.

have fun everybody.

[Cederstrand]

Tall glass of lemon water, please & thanks. 

***Lee, that's the kind of friend who can really come in handy. I'm already dreading building the few models my wife and I have still in boxes. It will really help to have a place designated to such stuff so all can be laid out on awork table with a good light and magnifier. 

Today we went to the not-so-LHS where the wife picked up a W.S. cops & robber type shoot out. They didn't have the moonshine still in, or she would have got that one too. I picked up some conversion couplers for her circus cars, so her Bach 2-8-0 could hook up to them. Retrieved my two locos they still had not worked on and considering how long they have had them, probably never would. Oh well.

Other train news, my SP Daylight loco came and it sure looks pretty pulling that passenger car set. If I had any complaint, it would be that the simulated mars light doesn't look like a real mars light, rather just a blinking light, IMO. The Intermountain F7A SF Bluebonnet unit I recently picked up on the-bay also arrived. That thing is quiet and smooth. All is well in the world of trains here.

Construction workers won't be back until Thurs. At least the tractor is finished and will be delivered tomorrow.

Off to do evening critter rounds. Rob

[JimRCGMO]

Afternoon, Zoe - just a RBF, please. Thanks!

OzarkBelt, nice photos (and [ditto] about your engine shop's weathering), and good to see you found your way back to the Diner.

Jeff, good to hear your mother's recuperating from her surgery. Hope she gets back up and running (okay, walking, maybe) again soon. On your shoes and braces, we'll take the progress that you can get - hope the rest of the braces become a faint memory for you.

Lee, you did an excellent job on that IHC tower; made it look lots better than they come in the box.

Morgan....... Groan...

Garry, you scared me there with your account. I'm glad you're better and home, but better get those doctors working harder on improving your heart - we're not ready to let you leave the Diner just yet!

Rob - more figures for your wife's layout? Are you buttering her up for a pending LHS trip you have planned? (Like that GS-4 that's supposed to be in soon)?

Ryan, I may have missed mentioning it yesterday, but your Dad's on my list also. Any new word on him?

Best get this off, my battery on the laptop's in the red zone and fading fast...

 

Blessings,

Jim in Cape Girardeau 

[Flashwave]

Jim: Whhaaaaddd I do now? Have you seen the chimney cross I made for my Walthers Chapel Cab? 

[Cederstrand]

***Jim, see my post right before yours. Is it out of guilt for my own (N) purchases that prompted me to buy some (HO) figures for her? Naw, she deserves every one of them. OK, perhaps a smidge of guilt too.

***Lee, those LifeLike couplers were a snap to install and worked perfect. Thanks fo the help!  Wife is now up to one pretty green Southern loco and two circus cars. Hey, it's a start. Right now she has mostly figures, animals, a few vehicles along with no shortage of layout ideas.

Oh, when we ate at a diner across from the train store in Kennesaw today, what should be running around the ceiing? Yep, a (LGB?) steam train. Wife really wants a little backyard train that runs around a mini pond with a tressel over a little running creek. I thought that idea had been nixed? Uh Oh!

There is a stray dog that showed up here and wife has already named it. That's a much, much bigger UH OH!

Rob

[TrainsRMe1]

To Ryan, Jeff, Gerry,

  From the Trainsrme1 family: Our thoughts and prayers are with you, May these prayers reach and grace you and your family.

        Much family love from us to you and yours-

                                                          Trainsrme1

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Rob is buying! I'll have the stuffed bell peppers.

[Cederstrand]

***Jeffrey, think I'll join you on those stuffed bell peppers. BTW, the other day at a Mexican resaurant, I shovelled in a mouthful of some kind of chopped up pepper-stuff, only to discover it was HOT peppers. The onions and weeds herbs, wouldn't have been bad alone, but I couldn't put out those burning peppers with icewater. Keep in mind, I like mild hot sauce. Anyway, I thought of you and DaBomb (or whatever it's called) and could only imagine the torture that would be to me. I never could handle true hot sauce.

Rob 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Rob: I was raised on Tex-Mex cooking and habanero sauce. It was really funny when I went into the army back in 78. I went through basic at Ft Leonardwood in Missouri. A bunch of northern boys were trying to burn me out with their idea of HOT sauce. I introduced then to an ole family recipe that got them all hot under the collar. They had a bit more respect for us southern boys after that.

[JimRCGMO]

Evening, Chloe, just a cup of hot cocoa, please.

Ah, vacation is fun - today as I was running an errand and about to turn my car left, I saw a co-worker about to pull out of the street I was going to turn into. So, of course, I waved at him. (tee hee...)

Garry, it's a good thing that your electrical thingee works as well as it did for your heart. How often do they have to change the battery on it? (If I can be curious...) 

GMT, Try clicking on my WWW button.  The FC tower is on page 11 of the construction pictures and the Cabooses are the last 5 pictures of the locomotives and rolling stock section.  Are you using a MAC?

Nah, Lee, if JR were, he could pretty easily open them up! 

Jeff, I think friends like that must have a pretty good opinion(accurate or not-so...) of their modelling skills. If they were in a MRR club, they'd likely get cured of that quickly. In our club, you're liable to be dragged into almost any phase of things (except maybe structures, but that's because a few of the members do such a great job that we 'pikers' default to them for the tougher kits) - gluing down roadbed, laying track, putting in backdrop supports, sanding roadbed edges, ballasting (ugh!), whatever.

Speaking of assembling kits, after looking at the P2K NYC 50' boxcar kit I got in, I think once I start on the P2K kits I have, I'll get some practice at drilling holes and putting in grab irons and other fun(?) detail stuff. That, or I might need your friend in Florida's address, Jeff. Maybe if I have enough kits to send, the shipping should be low enough to afford paying him to put together the hard kits... (But I'll probably give them a try first, since I need to learn some new skills, right?

Flash, I was just groaning at your joke/story. Which isn't the same as not enjoying it, since I do like puns and 'shaggy dog' tales...  (Did I spell that right?)

Rob, your wife's getting all kinds of ideas about accumulating things for around the place, huh? Oh, I finally saw your post before mine. I didn't see it earlier, since I was having to get outof the Diner before my laptop went to sleep abruptly on me. Had it do that one time a few weeks ago, when the battery went too low - it doesn't even ask my permission first (just goes blank and asleep, and won't wake up until I get the charger plugged in and the adapter cable connected to the laptop). But the battery lasts a good long while; it just wants its nap when it's ready for it (hmmm....kind of like my body does if I don't get it enough sleep sometime ). How're the plans for your layout coming along - been doing any sketching of basic track arrangements?

Dick, haven't heard from you in a while on your layout - have you been drawing up any plans, or has the great outdoors been taking up your time and energy? (Or would that be the Red Sox doing that?)

I did order one NJ International semaphore on Monday night at our MRR club meeting - to see how it is (and maybe how the linkage would be arranged). Also ordered a bunch more figures, and some of the Frenchman River boxes and crates that were on sale in July's Walthers flyer. I like most everything I've got from Frenchman River so far (sidewalks, awnings kits), and want to find a place on the layout for putting their Hamlet Bank building (with the two-holer outhouse building out back of it). The bank building's a cute little thing, and comes mostly assembled (the building is one resin casting except for the windows and sidewalk and doors and awnings that need to be added). Oh yeah, I did also order the City Classics West End Market kit - but I'm going to turn that into a small bus depot.

I'll be in the corner booth, drinking my hot cocoa. Prayers continue for those ailing, healing, or in need otherwise.

 

Blessings,

Jim in Cape Girardeau 

 

 

[Paul W. Beverung]

Evening Gang: Thanks Fergie for the kind thoughts a couple of pages ago. Today I really felt like a museum piece. My right foot has been hurting since yesterday. I spent a lot of time wearing my rubber boots and they don't have arch supports that are worth having. Last night I had cramps in booth feet but mostly in the right one. I woke up at 2am and couldn't get back to sleep. Finally about 5am I managed to get to sleep. Anyway today I've been limping around and feeling tired. I hope that tonight I sleep through. I'd stop in the diner but the puter is in the kids room and I don't want to wake the little one.

Garry: I'll say a thank you to the man for your surviving. We can't afford to loose a speical guy like you. Take care.

Jeff prayers for you mom to get better fast. 

Well I'm going to head for the bed.

Good Night All 

[Cederstrand]

***Jim, no more work on the plans at this point. Too many items on the HDList along with farm stuff. Tractor should be returned tomorrow, which means hay day, followed by post hole digging (the easy way). Sure have missed that old abused tractor in recent weeks, especially so my joints.

Well, long day ahead. Good night, all. Rob

[TrainsRMe1]

http://www.slide.com/r/4EWHLduHyz_fAWI79v1uL6EeCgMyQ-f_?previous_view=mscd_embedded_url&view=original      This is the link to the layout that we have been working on, Malichi River, the town of Jewel Oregon,Pocahauntis Yard which is shared by Union Pacific and BNSF, the abandon 1917 tunnel, Union Pacific mainline crossing the N,fork jewel river,and oh yes, my Grandson(engineer in training)let me know what you think, how can it be improved. Thanks  

[wetidlerjr]

Good Morning from Tipton IN !