Good Morning All,
A regular and a donut please Zoe. Went to the museum last night and worked on the O gage display. It was good to play with trains again and see the rest of the crew as I'd missed most of the last two months due to the racing schedule.
I'll go back to the house tonight and evaluate what needs doing - just couldn't get enthused about it yesterday. In all likelyhood the entire layout and the walls it's on will need to come out so I'll have an oppourtunity to start over again. If we upgrade the heating system and remove the boiler from the basement I might even get to expand the empire a bit. At what point do i do an entire new track plan? I really did like the more urban part of the layout and the code 100 track looked right at home there as well. Perhaps with some revision I can make it all more coherent. The big deal for right now will be to remove the layout without destroying all of it.
Enough of the rambling, time to get on with the shop stuff. CUL, J.R.
Philip:
Good morning.It's 75 and cloudy. The high today should be around 90 and there's a chance of thunderstorms.I received a package in the mail yesterday from Euclid, Ohio. I was expecting it so no big surprise there. In it I found two gondola bodies, three hopper bodies and one caboose, all without trucks and couplers. Again this was expected. I have every intention of rebuilding all of these and putting them into service. Yesterday I rebuilt two of the hoppers which evidently had Talgo trucks originally. I installed Bachmann trucks and body mounted Kadee #5 couplers and immediately pressed them into service. The roadnames and numbers will be left as is as an honor to the modeler who gave them to me. The only change I'll make will be to add the logo of the MGRy below the cars numbers.Today's Weather for:Sundown, LA 71446-6114 9/10/2008Heat Index: 77°FHumidity: 95%Dew Point: 70°FSo Far TodayHigh: 73°FLow: 71°FRain: N/A"Rain Rate: N/A"/hGust: 6mph NEToday High: 92 Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.Tonight Low: 75 Partly cloudy until late night then becoming mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds around 5 mph.Here's one of the rebuilt hoppers.
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Good morning all.
Finished painting the floor in the laundry room maybe Thursday I can move the cupboards into there and start work on the train expansion room. Last night I finished 3 more gondolas and started work on the 4 flat cars and put the final coat of paint on several MOW units.
Paul, I hope it misses you, friend of mine is in Corpus, and she is the lead for the Incident Management Team so she has to shelter in place while the storm rolls through.
Well the weather here is very fall like, everyone things we will have a bad winter due to the short summer we had this year.
For those of you tracking the F7 in MINN that was resuscitated the same RR has established it as an A-B-B-B-B-A.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Some Chamomile tea, please.
Tis' almost 4:00am and no sleep yet. Wife must have sawed half the trees in the Smokey Mountain National Park by now. (good thing she doesn't read my posts ) The thing is, she is not feeling well at all, probably from that bad tooth. I put my foot down and will drag her to the Dentist tomorrow, like it or not. A systemic infection can be lethal and is best to be avoided. Nuff said.
Rob
A tall glass of cool lemon water, please & thanks.
Well, the roofers sorta finished today, except that our contractor wasn't satisfied with one edge and is going to make them redo it. Roof should be properly finished tomorrow.
Now I need to correct same contractor regarding a door we must have centered, rather than shoved over to the edge of my high deck (for safety reasons). We will be glad when this build is complete.
Although tired, managed a rather heavy workout tonight in my tiny gym. Had to much pent up frustration steam that had to get let off. Might pay for this tomorrow.
Have a good night all. Rob
Evening Gang:
RT: I'm sorry to hear about your health problem. Maybe if they can do the cath they can also fix the problem. Lets hope so anyway. Let us know how things go.
RT: That's a real bummer there about the roof and rain. I hope that the layout is all right. We had a pipe break in the basement a couple of weeks ago. Of course it was right over the layout. It was a small leak so I didn't catch untill I went to the basement and saw a couple of inches of water on the floor. Fortunately the sump pump did a good job of keeping up with the flow so only stuff on the floor was hurt. I did have many copies of my collection of Inland Seas damaged. That is the quartely publication of the Great Lakes Historical Society. The layout did have some damage. I had to take up a couple of turnouts up along with some track. I will still have to do some re ballasting if I can ever get the layout out from under all the stuff I had to store on it from the remodeling job.
It looks like Ike may come up my way. I just saw two projected tracks that come right over us. I guess we brought it on by cutting our hay. I did get to burn the brush pile today since the burn ban has been lifted. I'll dump some more on tomorrow if the winds are right.
Ryan I'm happy that I could be there back up if needed. Any time guy.
Well I guess I'll head for bed.
Good Night All
Good evening ...
Just got back from Nashville. Medical test indicate that the new treatment is working and recovery is progressing. Rhythm of heart is as good as could be expected, but still not normal.
RT....... best wishes with the cath test. They gave me another one of those while I was in the hospital along with all the other stuff.
JR ... That's really sad about the water getting to the layout room. (Other places, too, of course) I've been waiting here hope the repairs to your home get completed OK. In particular, I liked the phtos of your layout's city scenes very much.
Rob ... I think of your fire too and all the troubles you have had as a result. I am using a Shinahara double crossover with no problems.
Lee ... sounds like you had fun passing on those hoppers. I've replaced trucks and couplers on train show cheapies myself numerous times.
Jeff ... the GP40 looks good!
Der ..... I'm glad you are spending time in the diner and getting back to mrr'ing. Looking forward to learning of your progress on the layout.
Oh Paul ........ go ahead and scream!
Ryan ... sorry I missed that breakfast casserole.
TrainsRme1 ... Sounds like a wonderful adventure wiring the UP yard!
Packers .... best wishes for the big game! BTW did you ever explain about your friend Shayne mentioned at bottom of your posts? Sounds like a sad story.
Jim CG... any noteworthy progress with the club layout lately?
Terry..... Watch out for Ike!
Morgan .... Sounds like that was quite a show in Danville. You got a variety pack of stuff.
Oazark .. Enjoy the Conrail stuff. IS the GP35 an Athearn model or which maker?
Happy Model Railroading
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good evening Diners: No mrr today, but I did get an historical insight from the basement. I unearthed a broken taillight lens. It has Guide R3-53 on it. So this evening I Googled, and found quite quickly that it's from a 1953 Olds 88 or Super 88. For the latter, see http://www.adclassix.com/a3/53oldsmobilesuper88sedan1.html A new lens is only $38.00. That was a surprise in two ways. 1) that they are still available (well maybe not such a huge surprise) and 2) that they are so cheap, seeing the price of replacements for current auto hardware is through the roof. A friend from Mushaboom recently had a deer run into their truck. $5000 in repairs, of which $500 is a headlight. The deer walked away, BTW, and the friend has all sorts of bruises from the sudden stop.
JR: That's rotten about the roof and water damage. I had imagined your repairs were more or less finished. Sorry to hear otherwise.
Rob:
When is a double crossover a good idea?
Must run. Goodnight all, and God Bless. Prayers for all in need of healing, comfort and peace.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Well Ozark belt you didn't say please, but here you go;
http://crcyc.railfan.net/
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoList.aspx?id=CR
http://www.railsandtrails.com/default.htm
This will get you started. There is a fallen flags RR page that lists CR's family tree but I can't find it in my stash. i have a ton of pictures if there is something special you need a picture of let me know.
ALOHA!
Well, I have been a bit absent as schooling and all that has been keeping me dreadfully busy. I have been a tad busy also on doing some research on Conrail. I have finally decided to take the plunge and model Conrail after finding an attractive GP-35, some rolling stock and a caboose at the train show a couple weekends ago. As of right now, the OBRR will remain in place as I am still working on that. I am working on designing a 1'x4' shelf layout to showcase my Conrail equipment and will serve as a seed for a much larger layout (hopefully)
And then there is some G scale stuff calling my name along with several Gn15 micro layout ideas and some N scale tagging along. This is a Great Hobby! So many projects, so little time. Oh well, I'll find a way to work on most of them... I hope.
Well, I better head out. Ya'll take care. PS: If any one has any info or tidbets on Conrail, that would be nice if I ccould hear from you. thanks!
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rtraincollector wrote: Evening all been a nice and quiet day had a few honey dues but other than that its been nice. went to Dominos on the way home fom one of 2 trips to walley world and got there steak subs for us . I use to like them when they made them before and didn't know why they stopped then glad there back and for $4.99 not bad about 8" long and subways 11" subs are 9.00 for the steak sub and I like these betterHope all are having a good day been a while scince I posted other than earlier today to much to catch up. LSW I don't know a lot about HO or n scale do they have electric couplers now? Lionel has always had where we could uncouple most by a electric magnet in the track (well let me correct that they have scince ww2 has been over or shortly after as they went to the knuckle couplers ( the cheap sets thou had fixed knuckle couplers or nonoperating) But scince TMCC they had put on the engines eltric couplers that you can opperate by remote control thru the TMCC or Legacey systems. I know you all have the DCC systems that lionel looked into but had problems with it keeping there engines on AC power that most are still today for a little while lionel made some cheaper sets that where dc and they even made some engines that could opperate on both AC and DC power. Well prayers to all that need them and talk to you all later
Evening all been a nice and quiet day had a few honey dues but other than that its been nice. went to Dominos on the way home fom one of 2 trips to walley world and got there steak subs for us . I use to like them when they made them before and didn't know why they stopped then glad there back and for $4.99 not bad about 8" long and subways 11" subs are 9.00 for the steak sub and I like these better
Hope all are having a good day been a while scince I posted other than earlier today to much to catch up.
LSW I don't know a lot about HO or n scale do they have electric couplers now? Lionel has always had where we could uncouple most by a electric magnet in the track (well let me correct that they have scince ww2 has been over or shortly after as they went to the knuckle couplers ( the cheap sets thou had fixed knuckle couplers or nonoperating) But scince TMCC they had put on the engines eltric couplers that you can opperate by remote control thru the TMCC or Legacey systems. I know you all have the DCC systems that lionel looked into but had problems with it keeping there engines on AC power that most are still today for a little while lionel made some cheaper sets that where dc and they even made some engines that could opperate on both AC and DC power.
Well prayers to all that need them and talk to you all later
The easiest thing is a magnet pulling on a trip pin, disguised as the hoses hanging underneath the car. There is a company producung DCC couplers, but it's astronimcal per car and it;s only for boxcars right now, they need the room.
-Morgan
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Cederstrand wrote: When is a double crossover a good idea? Are they inherently prone to causing derailments? Have been looking at some the unitrack version. Thanks for any suggestions. Rob
When is a double crossover a good idea? Are they inherently prone to causing derailments? Have been looking at some the unitrack version. Thanks for any suggestions.
When you need to jump across a track quickly in a yard and don't have a lot of room. In my opinion, they are a piin in the butt to use, and frequently wind up trains running into the wrong place because I misrread the way they were in fact aligned. But they have a time and place
LSWrr wrote: Thanks that's pretty cool. The trucks were too damaged to repair and at the train shows I can pick up hoppers for $1 each (cheaper than replacing the trucks). I'm glad the stuff went to good homes. I think the stuff I sent to Morgan had lead weights since his shipping was twice as much as anybody's at 15 oz.I think you'll be moderatly impressed with the flat cars I'm working on. I've been experimenting with a weathered wood look for plastic decks. Dorothy picked them up and thought I glued little wood boards together and put wood stain on them.Waiting on my final publishing meeting here.Lee
Thanks that's pretty cool. The trucks were too damaged to repair and at the train shows I can pick up hoppers for $1 each (cheaper than replacing the trucks). I'm glad the stuff went to good homes. I think the stuff I sent to Morgan had lead weights since his shipping was twice as much as anybody's at 15 oz.
I think you'll be moderatly impressed with the flat cars I'm working on. I've been experimenting with a weathered wood look for plastic decks. Dorothy picked them up and thought I glued little wood boards together and put wood stain on them.
Waiting on my final publishing meeting here.
I await them eagerly. Can't wait to see what arrives.
Now that I've given Lee a head the size of Montana I'll have the steak and lobster.
LSWrr wrote:Jeff, That looks pretty good, are you planning on changing the road name? Although it sounds impressive that my line is nation wide, LOL.
Jeff, That looks pretty good, are you planning on changing the road name? Although it sounds impressive that my line is nation wide, LOL.
Here's the second one:
Morgan, your big brown envelope was put in the mail this morning.
Lee: I got your package in the mail this morning. Thank you. I set right to work on two of the hoppers and have one in service already. It has new trucks and body mounted couplers. The second one is almost ready.
Here's a photo of the first one.
Morning all
JR that's sad news on the roof
That's what i fear the most about storms !
I can deal with fixing the house but the train layout is not replaceable
I posted some more progress photos on my Cotton Hill project
you can see them here
http://cs.trains.com/forums/1529548/ShowPost.aspx#1529548
I'll be in the back listening to the weather report
I'm having a birthday party on the 15th and Ike is not invited
TerryinTexas
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in a SANTA FE mug, please & thanks.
***JR, that is terrible. Why is it taking so long to fix the roof? Sure hope your LPs are not ruined, let alone your layout. That stinks.
***RT, that cath aught to find what is going on and perhaps it is something that can be fixed at the same time. Great news there on the train front. Sounds like Christmas comes to your place this week.
Because the roofers didn't finish yesterday and it stormed last night, there are parts of the interior of the new build that are still collecting large puddles of water. Hopefully they will return and finish the tin today so it can dry out for good.
Good morning Diners!
How about some Hearty Breakfast Casserole this morning Chloe!
JimRCGMO wrote: Ryan, how do you keep up with where all your family members are? D'ya have GPS trackers on them? You're right though, that this hurrican season is gonna mess with everyone's plans from the Mason-Dixon line south and east. And we're only into the 9th-10th letters so far; how far back was it that the NOAA had to go beyond the first alphabet run - doesn't seem that long ago, does it?
Ryan, how do you keep up with where all your family members are? D'ya have GPS trackers on them? You're right though, that this hurrican season is gonna mess with everyone's plans from the Mason-Dixon line south and east. And we're only into the 9th-10th letters so far; how far back was it that the NOAA had to go beyond the first alphabet run - doesn't seem that long ago, does it?
Hey Jim! Your so right about keeping tabs on the traveling evacuating family members and friends. My folks just drove back to NOLA yesterday since Ike looks like it is moving more westerly than north.
Paul W. Beverung wrote: Well I guess I'll head for bed. Ryan check your E-mails.
Well I guess I'll head for bed. Ryan check your E-mails.
Thanks Paul, got everyone of em! Really appreciate the offer of help too, it was nice knowing they had an option in their back pocket if they needed it. They drove to Vicksburg, MS on Sunday and then called yesterday afternoon to say they were on their way back to NOLA since Ike is turning more to the west than north.
Der, nice diner and layout pics too!
Garry, really liked the videos from the blast furnace operations! Sorry to hear about the loss of your family member, hope your feeling better soon too!
J.R. sorry to hear about the water damage due to Hanna! She dropped over 6" rain between Friday PM and early Saturday AM in our area.
RT hope you are feeling better real soon!
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
RT, I hope the visit to the hospital goes well for you and that train sounds neat, uncouples anywhere? Very nice, I'm still using the uncoupling tool here.
I worked on decals for the flat cars last night but didn't get any work done on the laundry room floor. Tonight I guess I'll need to get busy on that.
I spoke to Dale; he said he was working diligently on buildings for my layout (nice to have friends that don't have room for their own layout). This weekend I need to finish some track work I started 2 weeks ago so he can store some of his diesels in my yard.
JR: That's bad news about the water damage. As a fire fighter I know how destructive it can be. Good luck.
Good morning.It's 73 and clear but it won't stay that way. As somebody has said, if you don't like the weather here, wait 15 minutes, it'll change. The high should be around 90 and there's a possibility of thunderstorms.Yesterday was devoted mostly to working on my Bachmann/Athearn GP40 as I stripped it of it's bogus SF paint job and repainted it in the black and white colors of the Midland Gulf Railway freight scheme. After a light weathering the unit awaits it's new number and will go on the waiting list for a decoder. A photo of it in it's present form is at the bottom of this post.Today's Weather for:Sundown, LA 71446-6114 9/9/2008Heat Index: 79°FHumidity: 87%Dew Point: 71°FSo Far TodayHigh: 76°FLow: 73°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 0mph NNEToday High: 90 Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs around 90. East winds around 5 mph.Tonight Low: 72 Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
Morning all Hows all doing ? I'm doing fine today spent Sunday afternoon till monday about 2 p.m. in the hospital with a soreness in the chest tightening of the chest and got tered and weak all about the same time. Wasn't a heart atack but because my heart history they want to do a cath to my heart. guess that will be nextrt week sometime. I 'm going to have to goto Agusta, GA. for that, from what I understand it will be the downdown one. I don't believe I will be able to drive home after that ( as they will keep me overnight anyway) so will have to have them take me in the van. and pick me up in the van.
On train news I'm getting my TMCC Chessie train set this week and I also ordered a tmcc N/S SD-90 engine that I'm going to get in this week also. ( hopefully all in same box) Can't wait for them as this is a major up grade for me as I'll be able to uncouple with a touch of a button any where on the track not just where there is a ancoupler track piece, ( the engine) have crew talk, smoke, and real train sounds.
Picked up the set for $300.00 ( been making payments on it to a freind that owns a hobby shop he used it a demo set on the shop layout. and the engine also was a demo till saturday when I talked him out of it for $175 retails for about $350.00
Now guess its time to start working on my train room have enough trains for now.
Today: A chance of showers, mainly before 10am. Cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 66. North wind around 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. Tonight: Clear, with a low around 56. North wind between 7 and 10 mph.
JR sorry to hear about the water damage.