LSWrr wrote: PC, after hearing the initial damage reports this morning (wind damage) I imagine you have tons of job security this morning. Good luck with everything.
PC, after hearing the initial damage reports this morning (wind damage) I imagine you have tons of job security this morning. Good luck with everything.
I can honestly say that today I am one of the most popular people in central Indiana! I can also say that I'm no longer all that fond of my cell phone.
NO WAY!!!!
Here we go again! Two in a row.....do I hear three?
pcarrell wrote: LSWrr wrote: PC, after hearing the initial damage reports this morning (wind damage) I imagine you have tons of job security this morning. Good luck with everything.I can honestly say that today I am one of the most popular people in central Indiana! I can also say that I'm no longer all that fond of my cell phone. NO WAY!!!!Here we go again! Two in a row.....do I hear three?
I doubt you'd hear anything over the ringer. I was a bit surprised we got hit so hard. We're landlocked and a heckuva distance from Texas...
-Morgan
The really ironic was I didn;t start losing power until AFTER the storm, it was all the blasted wind behind it. Mom;s wind gauge almost tried to take off at some moments.
the radio dude I listen on my way to school said he and his sone dove out back to rescue some of the stuff, and the kid tied himself down as he was afraid he'd be swept out. I had to salip outside to get my backpack from the car, and the wind was fine at ground, but I could hear it howling up higher. It was really kinda creepy.
Stongin a Union Pacific mug, please & thanks.
Made a hay run today, plus a HD stop (for that socket wrench), a Trekdeck stop (to order a few more sections). Wife found the following at Cracker Barrel where we stopped to eat. They look pretty darn close to HO scale to me:
I just wonder how much trouble it might be to fix them to run off a motor? They come as little wind-up music boxes. Nice animation.
Well, gotta put out the hay, clean the barn and run some water. Rob
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Run the shaft that's used to wind them up through them to connect, then link them to the spinning shaft or gears of the motor. Or, get creative with gears. wind it in rverse of the way that's used to wind them up. Jsut beware of fariswheels that whirl like wheels.
evening gang
just a tea please hope everyone who has encountered Ike is ok
dont get that overhere so dont quite understand what its like
i'll be at the counter if anybody wants me
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Hello everybody.
Here's the Western KY Ike report. Strong winds beginning very early Sunday morning through mid Sunday afternoom had speeds of up to 75 mph.
Our electricty was restored after being out for approaximately 20 hours starting at about 8:00 am Sunday. The phone service was restored at abot 5:00 pm today. (1/2 hour ago).
Broken and uprooted trees are everywhere. Numerous houses and vehilcles were damaged by those trees.
A large red oak tree (about 150 feet high) fell over next to our house but missed the house completely.
Numerous chain saws have been at work constantly.
This is only the remnants of Ike. I can not imagine what it would have been like in Galvaston.
Any word from Terry in Texas and other TX Coast model railroaders?
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I'm still interested in the LA Metrolink accident. I heard a report that the passenger train engineer was text messaging on his cell phone as he ran the red signal. Has anyone else heard that story, and is it true?
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Alex: The food here is better than the catering at TMRC.
Anyways, that MTH GS4 is up $110, it's now $303. Which is still cheaper than the best I could find...
And it's two ours to kickoff. Cowboys, Eagles, Monday night football. This should be fun!
Mark
Hoople wrote: And it's two ours to kickoff. Cowboys, Eagles, Monday night football. This should be fun!Mark
I'm seriously hoping that the eagles rack up some major points and the Cowboys can't get their run game at all. Hey, I got a fantasy game hanging on this. i'm *** because I thought that monday's stats didn't count, so I benched T.O. for a guy who didn't do squat Sunday.
As a football game, i really couldn't care less, i don't like either the cowboys or the eagles.
sleeper33 wrote: evening gang just a tea please hope everyone who has encountered Ike is ok dont get that overhere so dont quite understand what its like i'll be at the counter if anybody wants me
Just imagine a REALLY bad storm........on steroids!
ok got it
Yikes, sounds like wife tore a rotator cuff at work (while moving a particularily large patient). She is in a bit of pain, and trust me "she is tough" when it comes to pain. She had that same shoulder x-rayed some time ago and the surgeon couldn't believe she was still using it. Showed the largest bone spur he had ever seen, like a giant bird beak. He warned her then that it needed taking care of or she would be back and in worse shape. Guess he will get to tell her, "I told you so." Hopefully the surgery can be done quick and healing time will be minimal. Dang!
Have two injured cats again, Smitty & Jambo. Had them in the painting porch (for treatment), but Jambo got out this evening and wouldn't let me catch him. He probably needs antibiotics. Wife already started Smitty on some.
Hope everyone is doing well tonight. Rob
Evening all.
Well, today I was working what was supposed to be an 11 hour shift, which ended up being nine hours. I was told not to clock in when I got there at 6, becuase they screwed up their labor projections (Somehow, in only 6 hours, they got themselves $35 over what was projected), then was sent home an hour early becuase there were too many people. Simply put, Management at works sucks
I got a Walthers caboose in the mail today. I worked on it for a bit, and am going to work on it more later. Those steel grabs are a pain, since they like to fly everywhere, and dont want to go into their holes and would rather stick to each other (magnetism). I like plastic or brass grabs better.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Hey everybody, First of all Three cheers to the CEO of the railroad, Dinner is on me!!! It's going to be a little while yet, we have to finish the house first, and that's a job in itself, the colors are going to be the same as the house,(outside) sanddune beige for the trim, and spring green, I haven't figured what I'm going to paint the inside yet, but I'm painting the drywall skyblue, also I'm goin' to have a lighting system that will simulate night fall! I going to have cable installed gotta see the football and basketball games while I'm working on the layout! Hopfully it will be good enough to be in Modelrailroader!!!! We still have to get alot of the junk out of the garage/trainroom. I'll post pic's from time to time, STAY TUNED!!!!!
Evening Gang: John got the big field across the track bailed. We only made a total of 42 bales out of the 17 acres. The lack of rain really hurt. We don't use fertilizer since it runs about $450 per ton here. If the rains had come when needed we would be looking at a thrid cutting now but I guess two is going to be it. John is going to cut the neighbors field tomorrow and it looks like it is better, I hope. After that we'll head out to Johns place and bail it. The problem is that it is 35 miles west and hauling the hay back here is getting to be very expensive.
Ike was an unusual storm. It was only a cat 2 when it made landfall but it was huge in area. The surge was very high and it really wiped out Galveston. In traveling inland it should have lost power fast but it held on. Strange things are happening. We really didn't get any wind or rain.
Jerry I'm happy to hear that your chair got fixed. Have a very pleasent nape.
RT I hope that the mold doesn't get into the place bad. After everything else you don't need that.
Well today as far as I'm concerned was a dud. I spent most of it over at the daughter's house waiting for the Direct TV guy to come and install the system. He showed at about 3pm and the kids got back around 4:30 to relieve me.
It's time for this fellow to head for bed.
Good Night All
Evening all,
JR, that is good news sorta, I hope you don't get too much weather in thru the windows.
Der, how do you keep all that plaster from cracking?
Jerry that is good news about your chair, how did the nap work out for you? (hum, I think he's still sleeping).
PC, last job was tracking vessel movements and I had a work cell phone. The boss decided the cell phone cost too much and they could do the same job by having an officer answer the phone instead of me. In less than 24 hours I had my work cell phone back, the officer couldn't believe how many calls I got each day on an active track.
The only damage here was all my tomato plants were blown down. The wind at 60 mph out of the south bent over the hoop things then the wind switched out of the north at 60 mph and bent the hoop things the other way.
Rob, those look like a sweet deal, how big are they?
Gav, A hurricane is like a 193 khm wind hitting your house from the north for 4 hours then shifting to the south for 4 hours with 304 mm of rain every hour and possible hail/lightining mixed in. If you live close to sea level you may expect water up to your chest in your living room because the sea is forced inland (tide and wind combination). Not to mention the flying deprie of cows, horses, cars and parts from your neighbor's property. I lived through 2 while I was stationed in Texas.
Garry, glad you made it unscathed (for the most part) by Ike. We had a little taste here in Ohio last night, only about 4,000 people are still without power I can only imagine the mess you have around your house.
Rob, sorry about the Mrs. Shoulder.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Alex
Good evening. The broadband internet was down in my area for over 12 hours today so naturally I haven't been online. On the other hand, I did get a bit done on the layout today.
I got several items in the mail today. An envelope with several Athearn caboose chimney pipes in it and a box containing two freight cars. A unmarked gondola and an unmarked covered hopper.
Here's the gondola
And here's the covered hopper
Here's how I make the center of a railroad crossing. I set pieces of waxed dress shoestring against the inside edges of the rails then use bits of modeling clay to close the ends and to hold the string in place.
I then use a 2 inch plastic putty knife to apply some wallboard joint compound in the space between the strings.
After the compound has set I pull the strings out and instant flangeways. They'll look better once they're trimmed and painted.
I also did a straight one.
And I put in a couple of road sections.
The new gondola is already being put to use. It has a load of some very heavy concrete wall sections.
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Good evening genst, just got in from Men's Monday night Candlepin bowling league, started last Monday...had a good night 99, 93 and 78 in last string, got tired.
No MRR work today doggone it, the grass needed cutting, but has really slowed down now that it is mid September. Snow, that's right, SNOW is forecasted for northernmost New England on Thursday as a cold front sneaks over the border from Canada..eh?
LEE: I called your LHS today, they know you well of course, but they could not find the beaver figures. What they did find was a "squirrel"?? The lady I talked with said it looked just like a Beaver though. Man, I am in serious doubt here as to their knowledge of animals. Beavers in no way look like squirrels!! She said it even had a flat tail. Now as you and I know, Beavers DO have flat tails, but not squirrels, and the size difference is quite considerable. So I guess it is going to take a trip by you to identify this strange animal..LOL
J.R.: Yes, we were VERY fortunate with IKE. Our water levels are high enough and we certainly did not want what happened to Chicago with record breaking rains.
ROB: Sorry to hear about your wife, lets hope that it is not too serious. As for the cats, open a can of tuna fish, when they get a whiff of that they will come running, maybe a few other cats as well..LOL.
DER JOHN: Have you used Sculptamold at all on your layout?
Those loking for Fergie, he is on the Hudson in Baffin Bay...no internet unless it is strapped to the back of a Polar Bear.
Time for bed, need to get at 6am tomorrow, wife is working the Polls checking in voters for MA Primaries and needs to be there at 6:30 and I need the car, so that means I get my butt up early.
Later guys,
YES! YES! YES!
HOW BOUT THEM COWBOYS?!?!
Cowboys won against the Eagles, 41-37, in one of the best games of football I've seen in some time... Close game all the way, it could have gone either way...
On that MTH GS4, my mom wouldn't let me get it. After all that saving, nothing... Maybe next time.
Chamomile tea, please.
***Lee, they are oversized for HO, now that I've had a chance to really look at them. The ferris wheel is very close though. They should still all work fine by placing them forward from the rest of the rides. As long as the wife is happy, that is truly all I care about anyway.
***Dick, I'm happy to report that I managed to get Jambo back into the enclosed porch. Even sprayed his dreadfull looking paw with AluSpray, although I expect he will have it licked off by morning. Also re-sprayed Smitty's neck wound. At least these two cats are buddies. Sure wish they would stop getting themselves injured.
Night All. Rob
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good morning all.
Dick, Ok so you talked with Sandy, her husband is the knowledge data base on everything he has in the store. Sandy is a great person, but... I went in to find a fox we looked over the rack and found nothing then she ran in the back and said here are some foxes for you... Well it was girls flashing a passing train figures, LOL. Close but no cigar. I'll stop in this week and see if I can find them. That was HO scale right?
Rob, they still look good for a model RR.
Jeff, that's a good sized load for the gondola.
I wonder where ED has been hiding, haven't seen any fresh OJ in a while.
Good morning, a beauty of a Fall day here today, and the long range weather forecast gives us the same great weather right through next Monday.....NICE! And, it looks like the entire country is under the influence of a HUGE HIGH pressure system bringing the same great weather to evenyone else also.
Just got back home from voting, Primary Day here, we have a Senator up for re-election, Mr. Kerry ( you know, the guy who ran for President against Bush? ) I voted for a NEW guy, it is time we voters took control and give Washington a CLEAR message, they work for US, "WE" are "THEIR" employers. Sorry for the rant guys, but as you can tell, I have had enough of most of our politicians in Washington.
On a better note, I have finished the MRR work and test bench. I decided to add a small lip (1") all around the edge and I am real glad that I did, as it has already saved a few items from hitting the floor. Now parts big and small stay on the workbench. Here are two photos of the new area and projects started already. Sorry if they are a little dark, I need to use a larger flash unit of turn on more lights. The last phot is a shot of the nearly finished front of the former garage. I used cement blocks at ground level to attach to existing concrete basement wall. Formerly, wood went right to the driveway level, this is bad news for rot of siding and sheathing.
FERGIE LOCATION: Fergie's research ship, the HUDSON, is at N68-54', W57-18' in the southern part of Baffin Bay off the west coast of Greenland. I wonder how many kits he has built?
ROB: Glad to hear you got the cats back in control. Up here, cats don't last too long in the wild, we have too many Fisher Cats around here now. They are NOT native to New England, they were imported in the late '30's to control the exploding wild Turkey population around the newly constructed Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts. Now they are everywhere, and they can climb trees like a squirrel but are bigger and meaner than a Weasel.
JEFF: NICE job!!!!! Thanks for the tips on the road crossing, that will come in handy soon.
PC: Philip, we are now enetering the favorite time of year for you and I....FALL
Paul W. Beverung wrote: RT I hope that the mold doesn't get into the place bad. After everything else you don't need that.
??? I'm confussed is there another rt here or are you getting mold confused with someone else I don't know of any mold