They are telling us it could be 2 weeks without power
TerryinTexas
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I was just watching the WX Channel; best of wishes to those in TX & LA. I look forward to your reports in the morning on how things went as Ike makes landfall.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Hey Terry,
We hope all is well with you, I've been watching the news and weather channel,and it doesn't look good,but our prayers are with you. ( I just heard breaking news there was commuter train than ran headon with a Union Pacific mixed freight in L.A.!!!!!!) Has anyone heard this news??
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Good Evening Diners!
Well this is my second attempt at a post as my first one just disappeared before I could hit Post. Oh well, I guess it was too long.
Hope all goes well for Terry, Paul and Jeff with Ike. I think I'll stop complaining about our snow and cold in winter as it isn't anything like a hurricane.
Ryan, How's your dad doing after his surgery? I trust everything went well.
Dick, there's been flocks of Canada geese flying over all headed south and then they appear to turn easterly. Those who can interpret their honking say that the chatter is about the great food in a garden near Boston. I think you can expect a few thousand guests in a couple of weeks. I hope you have a pond as they do like a little water too.
Great weather here today, 25C and sunny but it won't last. We're supposed to be down to 15C by Sunday which is 60F. The leaves are just starting to turn too so that is it for summer. I have to get to Gimli next week to get the boat ready to haul out. I didn't list it for sale yet as I just wasn't in the mood to do so with the passing of my FIL last month.
Nice job on that flat car deck Lee and just in time too as I am putting together a Walthers flat car kit and was wondering what to do with wood deck. I sent away for it as no one here had a kit for a 40' flat. I took a Sante Fe model thinking it just got lost north of the border and thought it would be some sort of red/brown but no, it is a MOW flat and was bright silver. It's now CN red (more of a brown really) but at least I now have something to put with an old BB work caboose I've had for 50 years or so.
Time to say good night ,
Good night
CN Charlie
Evening, Chloe, I'll have a cup of hot cocoa, please. Thanks!
Lee, some mighty nice gons showed up in my P.O. box yesterday after work. Look pretty well along the way to being in the CAW color scheme, so all I'll need will be making some CAW RR logo decals and they'll be ready for a few details, trucks and couplers. I'm sure I have a couple of handbrake wheels in my parts box, so those won't take long at all. Thanks! Care to describe the steps for your 'wood' flat car tops? (Those look great!) Did you do a lighter color first, and then go over with the 'boxcar red' wash, or what? They look nice, I'll say that for sure.
Jeff, I like your wall there. I have some molded brick wall and another one that's 'natural stone' (think they're Faller or another European manufacturer. I was suprised at the thickness of the walls when I got them in. Had thought of using them for scratchbuilding structures, but decided they'd work better for a wall without windows, due to their thickness. You are coming along with your scenery, all right.
jeffrey-wimberly wrote:Went to Lowe's today and picked up some items. One (1) gallon of white Elmer's glue, a three pound tub of wallboard joint compound, two packs of Super Glue Gel and a two inch plastic putty knife. Does anybody see some layout work coming on?
Jeff, even before you posted that, I figured you looked like you were working on some more scenery stuff.
Terry, make sure you get the power pack covered up with tarp, too. Hope your place is sturdy and on higher ground, from the looks of the storm surge video clips I've seen so far on Ike. Take care of yourself and once you get power and internet back up, let us know how you fared.
Paul, Jeff - same goes for you two as well, though I would be surprised if Paul's place gets more than a lot of rain and some wind, based on the track they're predicting currently for Ike. No taking changes and going surfing though, Paul.
From this evening's weatherguesses, we may miss a lot of Ike's path around here, and have it go a bit to the north of us. I expect we'll still get a lot of rain by Sunday night/Monday morning. Hope the choir and worship team's CD pre-release concert/worship doesn't get the power pulled on it.
Tom, good to hear about your progress and healing. I'm beginning to wonder if Lowell's been telling Spooky that she has to pamper him as much as Tom ('Because I'm injured and ill... meow!'). I hope you can get back to school soon, Tom - I'm sure your 'kids' are missing you!
Let's see - Tom's accumulating the bigger articulated locos, Fergie and Dick are working on the large (but not huge) locos, so that means the medium-sized and smaller ones are for the rest of us, right? One of my personal favorite steamers is the ol' 0-6-0T saddle tanker switcher. It's for me like the Dockside 0-4-0 is for a lot of other people.
PC, sounds like a very enjoyable birthday for you, with the concert and all. Did you get any MRR presents - like a LHS gift card or such?
Locally, we've had some people spreading rumors of gas prices going up huge amounts (like $4 and $5/gallon - instead of the $3.37 that the cash place was charging yesterday. Last night on the 6 p.m. news, they were showing lots of cars lined up at gas stations because of the rumors, and the police had to direct traffic at the one where the TV crew was. Sheesh! Anyway, today the cash place was up about 20 cents (the night before they were talking about temporarily closing until they found a more reasonably priced supply for their gas). Tonight they said they had gas for several days and that by that point they expected the refineries to be back up and running again). I thought one person the news interviewed tonight had a good point - he said that claiming that (if the oil derricks in the Gulf didn't get started), it would drive up prices didn't make sense, since most of our oil is imported now. (Now, if the refineries got wiped, that I could see affecting prices more immediately, maybe...) I think there's too much rumor-mongering and oil speculators' talk that people are listening to. Okay, end of rant...
Rob, I don't have a clue on a reason for your Intermountain locos deal with the headlight flickering. Only person I know personally who has IM locos is our LHS owner/club member, and he's not fantastically wild about them for their running (HO scale, so N scale might be different). I'll ask him on Monday night if you don't have any suggestions by then.
DerJohn, about that thing for Christmas stuff in the stores after Halloween - around here, the stores start the Christmas stuff about mid-October, I think it was last year. I've seen Halloween stuff in the stores already this year!
Lee - our Texas and Louisiana friends may be a wee bit late with the morning weather reports, if the forecasts are anywhere close to accurate...
TrainsRMe, our news folks may be saving that train story for the 10 o'clock news, as I didn't hear about it on the early evening news. Hopefully, there won't be any really serious inuries to folks on the train(s).
Garry, sounded like your other person didn't want to admit that the 'Bay was less than perfect. Amazon isn't perfect, the 'Bay isn't either, and I've ordered from both with minimal getting burned. But then again, I check out feedback ratings on 'Bay sellers before I bother starting tracking items, and if I suspect difficulties with a seller, I strictly communicate through 'Bay-mail, so I and they have capability to track what was said/promised by each side. I've bought over 50 items off their auctions, and have had minor problems on only two (maybe 3) items, and filed negative feedback on one, neutral on another. But, if they stop allowing money orders and require using PayPal, it'll be so long for me and them.
Well, about time for me to mosey home for the evening. See you Diners in the morning!
Blessings and a safe night for all,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Jim,
I use Burnt Umber and Burnt Sienna acrylic paint that comes in a tube, used for painting pictures. I squeeze out a little of each on a piece of cardboard. I use a #10 Loew-cornell, scholastic bristle 5000 round artist brush. I dip the brush in water then mix up the two acrylics (a little bit) then brush it on the plastic planks of the deck. I've tried to add a little mars black, but it comes out too heavy. I've also used this on plaster rock formation on my previous layouts and it works very well to give you random colors.
The brush is the key; it leaves groves in the paint to simulate wood grain.
I thought you were going to make a sanding facility with the gons.
Evening Gang: I went out to Clark Gardens to check out some arrangments for the coming train show there. Waiting for me were two more of the Hiawatha cars and the two P2000 H-10-44 switchers the I ordered. Those switchers are really nice. I haven't run them but did read the operators manual. Even with DC the things are really neat.
There was just a news flash about the train wreck in California. A commuter train hit a freight head on. Ten ded so far and they are still looking for more bodies. They said there were dozens injured.
Jeff you keep doing that great modeling and make me feel so inadaquite. I can't even get down to the basement to look at the layout.
We bailed some of the hay this evening. John got the 7 acre field finished while I raked the bigger field across the creek. He got over ther and did two rounds and the hay was getting too damp from the humidity coming with darkness. The hay was really a little damp but it was better then letting it get runned by alot more rain. We'll try and do some more tomorrow if the sun will stay out for a while.
I'm going to hit the showers and then to bed.
Terry, Jeff, and anyone else down south and east DUCK! Ike is coming.
Good Night All
Regarding Ike.......... Yikes!
I saw the LA Metrolink train wreck story on the news. Bad wreck.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good evening morning to all, and our prayers go out to our neighbors in Texas and surrounding states that will be hit hard by Ike.
Ike is due to pass west of us on Sundaybringing just light showers as it passes up through upper NY state and into Canada. By then, Ike will be a *** cat.
Today I worked most of the day setting up a MRR workbench and organizing the former single car garage on the lower level for MRR assembly area. This room has a door and most important, a window, so that I can do those tasks that require fresh air and good ventilation.
GARRY: MTH is always coming out with new products, so go to their site and email Kirstin to inquire about your mountain loco possibility.
CN CHARLIE: Your Canadian Geese made it here already, honking away as they flew SE rather than S. I figure that they know Ike is headed inland so they are doing an end run.
DER JOHN: You didn't make it to Halifax??? Tsk, tsk, now what are going to do this weekend with your "spare" time??? LOL
FERGIE SIGHTING: I checked on the location of Fergie's ship, the HUDSON, and he is located off the western tip of Greenland. I hope he was able to keep the Polar bears off the ship!!
PAUL: That is sad news regarding the head-on crash of the trains in CA. It sure looks like Ike is going to bring you beneficial rains, but I hope your barn holds up to the winds.
SUE: Where have you been young lady ???
Time for bed,
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good morning all,
I've been watching the storm coverage from TX, It's a huge storm but it seems like everyone was properly prepared for this one. I guess the damage reports after first light will tell the whole tale.
Good morning
Good Moring All,
A coffee to go please Chloe. My thoughts and prayers for those at risk in Texas. I doubt as big as it is that we're really as prepared as we needed as a country. I can't even imagine what a 20 - 25 storm surge would look like.
On the home front, the crew was struggling to get a roof sheathed and at least tar papered yesterday. We'll see as rain came last night and more is predicted today intermittently. We have a slab going in for additional storage that we'll likely turn into a wood working area for the CFO who wants to get back into it (currently she's restoring the family heirloom furniture damaged in the fire.) In a former lifetime she was a nationally recognized stripper (her joke not mine) and toured the country training people for the BIX furniture stripping franchises (relax guys see it was just a play on words). In the mean time one the slab is poured we can put up a prefab shed to store our stuff that has already overflowed a storage container and the shop space we could spare.
Well, gotta run and get stuff done - I'll try to check in later. CUL, J.R.
Morning all!
Couldn't sleep last night. I was up til 4am, and then my emergency line for work started ringing at 8am. Yeah, I'm ready to go today buddy! I see a nap in my future!
Prayers for those in the path of the storm, and anyone else in need too!
Lee:
I've been watching the storm coverage from TX, It's a huge storm but it seems like everyone was properly prepared for this one.
http://www.weather.com/newscenter/topstories/hurricaneike_news.html?from=hurricane_tracker
8:30 am ET
The Houston Chronicle is reporting the story of a Galveston family who didn't evacuate but ended up escaping by boat when storm surge flooded his house up to his waist. The husband/father said, "My wife's mad at me. She wanted to evacuate. Next time, we'll leave a week early."
Der, Thanks all the pictures are of the same flat car.
That magnet idea should work out well. Too much to hope that the metal plate would become magnetized enough that the car would sweep stray metal from your track automatically.
CapeJim:
Dick:
Prayers continuing for all in Ike's path. From the interactive satellite shots, it looks like it's going to join the stream of weather heading east out of the lower great lakes, and dump on the Maritimes sometime next week. Sub-tropical depression by then, I hope.
Lunch is called, so I'll say Cheerio, TTFN.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
in a SANTA FE mug, please & thanks.
***Jeffrey, nice work there. Really like the natural look of the ballast, too.
JR***Toooo funny. Your wife has a great sense of humor there.
***Philip, you could have visited, as I was still awake at that hour, also. Was switching back and forth between Ike coverage and a show on how the Canadian railway got started.
Need to decide where all the outlets & lights in the new build should go. Electrician should be here early next week. Also the plumber.
Oh, I broke my last good socket wrench yesterday, so cannot continue with my deck. Still need to cinch down all he bolts that hold the ledgers to the wall of the painting porch.
That train crash might have been a top news story if it wasn't for Ike.
Rob
Rob and JR ... It's good you proivde updates on rebuilding form your fires. We all care. Prayers and best wishes as you rebuild.
Regarding TV coverage. The LA train wreck was hardly mentioned as Rob observed because of Ike. The TV networks had their reporters on the scen in their rain suits getting blwn around and drenched as they complained about locals who refused to evacuate.
The MetroLink train wreck was a "telescoping" accident causing numerous deaths. Prayers for their families and for the injured.
Afternoon all,
Jeff, I assume you didn't lose power last night.
I made a major haul at the LHS this morning: A craftsman all wood model of a snow plow from the 1950's - 1960's already assembled for $29 And a TTCX TOFC flat car kit, new in box for $5.99. I'm planning on building it and selling it on the bay since it's too ‘new" for my steam layout. The snow plow will fit right in with everything I have.
Well JR is your wife thinking about a career in stripping (furniture) ? I have 2 old dressers that could use a fresh finish and I'll bring a bunch of singles too! I mean cash.
hi guys
hope everybody is safe, I was just wondering if anybody has heard from Jerry ( Cox47 ) ? havent seen him post here in about a week?
- Jeremy
LSWrr wrote:Jeff, I assume you didn't lose power last night.
Been working on this little prize today. It's an Atlas GP40 made by Roco. It liked to drop it rear drive shaft at the drop of a hat but I quickly fixed that. It runs like a champ. It's about as noisy as an Athearn BB F7. I only paid $20 for it.
Good afternoon, Janie, and I'll have a BLT with a root beer float, please. Thanks!
Alright, JR - at least you could have warned the EMT's to stand by with a defib machine before you pulled that one on us... Hope the crew gets your roof tar-papered in between storms there. (Still chuckling on that one you pulled on us...)
Lee, I'll still use at least one of those for the sanding facility, but they're so cute! You saw my post about how I like the li'l 0-6-0T Saddle tanker engine; well, all the other gondolas I have are more like the 50' range, and these are... well.. cute li'l buggers! Hey, on your flat car painting, is that a wash or a dry brush with the paint you described? I could guess either way, and wondered what you had done on yours.
Seeing Jeff's head-on shot of his diesel reminded me of a question I've had - who makes reasonably good-looking (and maybe even prototypically scaled) chain in HO (at a price that I can afford without giving up gas for my car, that is...)? On some of my flat car and gondola loads (and for other uses), I could stand to get some lengths of chains for hold-downs. Also, does someone make other kinds of tie-down stuff for car loads in HO scale? Inquiring minds and all that....
PC, hope that work phone dies down and you can get in a nap this afternoon/evening.
Rob, was it the wrench itself, or just the socket that broke? You maybe could get a 'B' grade socket to finish up what you need yet on the deck stuff, and later get a better socket that'd last longer.
DerJohn, I didn't say that what shows up for Christmas early was the top quality items (really, nothing much beyond some wrapping paper and stuff that I wouldn't really consider giving to my friends or family...). The better stuff shows up closer to Thanksgiving, and at higher prices than the early ones.
Our gas at the BP station by the interstate here is at $3.89 for the plain unleaded today - haven't seen any other gas station prices so far in town. Was just doing laundry this morning and then went home around lunchtime. The LHS in town (when I went in last weekend) said it'd be the end of the month before they get by their distributor in St. Louis, so not much new to look at there until October.
Oh, I did (FINALLY!!) get my Sept. Walthers sale flyer in this week. Wonder if they had a glitch with their printing company? When did the rest of you get your sale flyers? Our LHS owner/MRR club member said he'll be picking up some of the new Walthers 2009 catalogs today at the Boeing show in St. Louis. He said that with what Walthers wants for a box of catalogs, he ends up having to eat the cost on about half the catalogs in a box (after the club members all get our copies), 'cause he doesn't sell that many besides the club and a handful of other people. Few more years, and the big Walthers catalogs may go the way of the Sears catalogs, if the cost of them keeps rising like the tide in Galveston...
Jeff, that D&RGW GP-40 looks pretty nice (but I know... you're gonna repaint over those great colors...) Good that you got the drive problems taken care of, and that your power's not been off much so far.
On the news coverage this a.m., they had a guy who stayed in Houston, in a newer high-rise apartment (with tempered glass, if that actually is any safer), and he was talking about hearing transformers popping and exploding last night. He was on a cell phone, and I was suprised the towers were holding up and had power. Looks from most of the weather models like Ike's remains will track north of us, mostly through St. Louis area (except for one lone holdout of the 7 or so models - it had Ike taking a sharp right turn at the TX-AR-KS corner and tracking across the southern part of MO, pretty much over us). Our counties at the northern edge of our TV station's range (not far from South St. Louis County) are under flash flood watches for today. But it's been sunny and hot today so far here - 85 F with 63 percent humidity now.
Hey, has anyone heard from Jerry? Jeremy got me wondering where the fella is. Inch, if you're there, have you talked to Jerry lately?
After work last night, I went by Penney's and bought a white dress shirt (for the CD pre-release thing). Haven't worn a white dress shirt in quite a while! I usually am wearing solid colors or simpler patterns for my shirts, and mostly never white. Guess I can save this shirt in case I go to a friend's wedding or funeral - about the only place I'd likely wear it.
Need to get back to working on some things for Singles group tomorrow a.m. Have the lesson and handouts ready, just need some introductory things finished. I'll be at the back table working on those for a bit. Janie, could I have another root beer float, please? Thanks, you're a peach!
Blessings,
Evening all
so hows all? hope none of you are in Ike's way looks bad. heard about that train smash in LA. verry bad news that. prayers to all the families and injured.
I think I'll just have a tea for the mo.
be at the counter if anybody needs me
Good evening gents, a warm cloudy day here today. Did some inventory adjustments to my xcel spreadsheet, I like to keep that up to date for insurance purposes. We hope we never need it, but, as we have seen in the past, many fires, floods, etc can happen.
Today in Lexington, Ma, a mother or three lost her life along with her pet dog because a Dryer vent had accumulated too much lint......what a preventable trajedy. Many of us MRR'rs have our layout in the basements where the Dryers are located also in many homes. It is not enough to clean the filter inside the Dryer, you must also take off the exhaust hose/pipe and clean that at LEAST once a year, more frequently if you use the Dryer heavily. Jeff can atest to this, I am sure he has seen similar fires.
JEFF: I hear there is a drought in Leesville??? LOL
DER JOHN: You don't have any spare time this weekend? I will have to talk to Kris about this.
I had an idea for my layout while driving home this afternoon. We have watched an area over the hill from our house in a low valley, slowly turn into a wetland marsh. A family of Beavers moved into the neighborhood and dammed a small feeder stream to the reservoir changing the whole landscape. I think I will add an area like that along the tracks. Anyone know where I can get some Beaver figures 1/87 scale?
GARRY: Yes it is a shame when the Media dwells for hours on some sorry idiot who didn't move out of harms way when told to do so, and had to be rescued, and, we have had very little coverage of the terrible trajedy in California with 17 dead , hundreds injured, some critically.
Later guys,
Conrail blue transfer caboose kitbash.
tjsingle
refill, please & thanks.
***Jim, it's the part of the wrenches where the directional levers are located. Broke two the last time I worked on the tractor, then another one recently (forget how), and then this last one the other day. They are all old & were well used. When I buy new tools, I always get the best I can afford at the time.
Nothing new to report. Walked through the build and tried to figure out where the lights and plugs should go. Still some decisions to make yet.
Greyfox I know my LHS has a group of beavers in HO scale with tree stumps. on their rack. Call 440-942-6632 and ask for Rob or Sandy. I don't see them in the Walther's catalog or the Preiser web site anylonger.
Jim, I use enough water on the brush to allow the paint to be evenly applied but i wouldn't call it a color wash.
Jeff, don't paint over that loco PLEASE! just say the Midland gulf bought it and decided that it was too good of a paint scheme to mess up, so they just put Midland Gulf rwy. in white letters under the rio grande lettering or something.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Dick said: "GARRY: Yes it is a shame when the Media dwells for hours on some sorry idiot who didn't move out of harms way when told to do so, and had to be rescued, and, we have had very little coverage of the terrible trajedy in California with 17 dead , hundreds injured, some critically."
Now it's a count of 25 dead and expected to rise. But the news media thought we'd rather see their reporters being foolish in the storm than learn about the tragic wreck. Can you figure it out, yet?