Elliot's Trackside Diner V, at the diamonds

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Tom .....

Sorry to learn about all of your problems with meds and docs. WOW. Sounds awful. are you enjoying retiremnt, yet?

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Was nobody able to figure this out?

F. P. Jones III has an insatiable appetite. What nickname is he commonly known by, what is his favorite food of choice, what is his sister's name (given and nick), what girls (first and last names) are his main love interests and who is his best friend? You old guys (like me) should be able to nail all these in a matter of seconds. No fair searching for answers.

Well, here are the answers:

Forsythe Pendleton Jones III, also known as 'Jughead'.
Favorite food of choice: Hamburgers.
Sisters name and nickname: Forsythia Jones (Jellybean).
Main love interests: Debbie Anderson, Joanie Jumpp, January McAndrews, Ethel Muggs, Trula Twyst.
Best friend: Archie Andrews.

[Paul W. Beverung]

Evening Gang: We got the equipment moved out to John's place and he cut the small field and I cleaned out the creek crossing. The drive out took about 2hrs and 30 minutes, 18 miles per hour isn't that fast. Tomorrow John is going ut to cut the big field about 17 acres. The hay looks pretty good considering it didn't rain untill 4 weeks ago. When the rains came it shot up.

To all those in need I'm thinking about you. It seems that lately a bunch of us are in that catagory.

Tex Jeff. Wellcome to the diner. I'm west of Ft. Worth in eastern Parker county. If you ever get up here give me a call and we'll get together. Starting the first Thursday in October we're having a live steam meet at a friends track just a mile from me. If you could make it that would be great. The next weekend there is a train show a Clark Gardens. I'll be there with my steam locomotive and several others will also be showing there equipment. Come on up and join the fun.

Well after spending 4 hours in the seat of that tractor I'm a ready for bed.

Good Night All

[Packer]

I think I came up with a name for jeffs contraption: RS1235, since IIRC, there is an EMD unit that had the RS designation, and was called an RS1325.

[Cederstrand]

Tall glass of lemon water, please & thanks.

***Tom, you are simply having way to much fun with meds. I really feel for you. Sending continued healing thoughts your way.

Picked up this little popcorn cart for the wife. It's one of those kits, but as you can see, this one is already assembled. She really wanted it, what more need I say.

Have a good night all. Rob

[wetidlerjr]

Good Morning from Tipton IN ! 

[NS Luc]

Good morning

[LSWrr]

Good morning all,

Well the weather guesser was wrong it's been in the upper 70's this weekend.  Yesterday I drove out to Port Clinton, OH and spent the day with the kids.  William is starting his JR year in High School, and Samantha is starting her 2^nd year in Veterinarian College.

I'll be hitting the road soon to head for Maumee (2hr drive) for the Toledo train show.  I'm hoping this is larger than last spring as it's the only show before Christmas for that area.

Prayers and wishes for a speedy recovery to those in need, I know there are several names on the binicale list.

I wonder if PC has recovered from his phone outages.

Rob, I'll take 2 large popcorns to go!

Have a good one,

Lee

[jeffrey-wimberly]

I think I came up with a name for jeffs contraption: RS1235, since IIRC, there is an EMD unit that had the RS designation, and was called an RS1325.

GP35/S6

 

Good morning.

It's 70 and cloudy. The high is expected to be in the mid 80's and it will be partly cloudy.

Today's Weather for:
Sundown, LA  71446-6114      9/21/2008

Heat Index:  70°F
Humidity:  84%
Dew Point:  65°F

So Far Today
High:  72°F
Low:  70°F
Rain:  0.00"
Rain Rate:  0.00"/h
Gust:  6mph ESE

Today  High: 88    Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight  Low: 68    Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds around 5 mph.

A cool morning on the east spur.

[pcarrell]

Morning all!

Well, the weather guesser said nothing but sunshine yesterday, and since we got rained out last week (our originally planned day) on our roofing project for the church, we decided to go for it.  Well, wouldn't you just know, as soon as every shingle was off and all the wood repaired, the skies opened up.  With almost 20 of us up on the roof we got the tar paper layed in record time.  The motivation that God provided in the form of little water droplets and the occasional lightning flash proved to provide a stimulus to our tierd bodies that allowed us to move quicker then we thought possible.  No sooner was the tar paper up, then it quit raining and cleared up!  We decided to press ahead and lay the shingles.  So now our church has a fine new roof on it, and the pastor only almost fell off the roof about a dozen times!  Muscles are sore this morning!

So whats up with all of you?

P.S. - Prayers for those in need......wait, thats like......everyone!

[Packers#1]

Jeff, have you ever considered creating a loco company for all your chop-cut-rebuilds? Something like JW Locomotive Works. You could put it in letters along the battery boxes or something.

[tin can]

Interesting locomotive, Jeff W...

I like it.  I had a friend from Abilene years ago who did similar things.  It was always interesting to see what he would come up with.  He also would chop up steam locomotives; turning 2-8-0's into 2-6-0's, for example. 

That is what is so interesting / rewarding about this forum and the hobby of model railroading.  There are so many facets to the hobby; different folks have different talents that they can show off; and it is all about having fun. 

Paul; thanks for the offer; I love live steam, from time to time we will go down to HALS and check things out.  I have a 17 hp engine set aside for the day I hope I can build a 7 1/2" guage FP-45.  I'm glad you made some hay; I have spent many an hour bumping square bales onto a trailer, and then stacking into a barn.  Hard work, but I loved being outside, and I love the smell of new cut hay.

Thanks for all the concern about Ike.  We had a little bit of wind; and about 3 1/2 inches of steady soaking rain.  It has greened everything up; it looks like spring.  We had a lot of evacuees (sp?) in shelters; and as we had power and gas, a lot of folks came to the area to buy supplies.  There were long lines and empty shelves, but the alternative would have been much worse.  Personally, I'm glad we were able to help.  My family donated time and materials to a pet shelter set up in my wife's school.

[Cox 47]

Good Morning...Its partly cloudy and 66 here this morning..we got some thuder bumpers last night and a pretty good rain..Not much going on here My Brother is coming down this afternoon...I'll have a root beer float and slip in to a back booth and see who drops in....Jerry

[jeffrey-wimberly]

[Packers#1]

FINALLY! lol, looks good. might i suggest adding some Woodland scenics turf to it? Some green, yellow, and brown, for grass, dead plants, and dirt.

[JPowell]

Hi gang!

  Chloe - How about a few slices of garlic pizza and a dz garlic wings, please? I'll be in the corner booth waiting....

  Tom - How's the cat doing?

Take care all!

[super cheif n]

hey guy's it's sunny here in central texas. not really doing anything train related since the local show got cut.

[Packers#1]

it's amazing what you can do to a RTS track plan with MS paint:

The green=trees, dark gray=roads/parking lots, the teal=buildings, and the dark blue lines=staging limits. The unmarked building is going to be a church, and the black rectangle across from it will an N scale Pillar concert going on, with music supplied from two earbud headphones.

[LSWrr]

Went to the Toledo train show and spent $95.

1 Tyco 40FT flat car (Retail $5)

1 Bachman (NEW) 40FT drop center 6 axel flat car (retail $17)

6 Athearn 86FT TOFC cars (missing saddles) (Retail $27.98 each)

1 Walther's Walton & Son's Lumber Company (built up) (Retail $41.98)

1 Heljan Grain Elevator (Built up) (Retail $32.98)

1 Walther's cinder conveyor and ash pit (Retail $ 27.98)

1 Walther's Great Land Sugar refining (Retail $54.98)

1 Walther's Background Imperial Foods (Retail $24.98)

 

 Jeff, now you need some grey N scale ballast to simulate the cement that spilled out, some EMS parked around it and a 250 ton crane to set it up right.

Lee

[Packer]

Jeff, I'd suggest taking off whatever is still useable (like turcks, coupler, handrails, etc.). Im pretty sure real RRs do that.

Also weather it, looks too shiny to be a wreck

[Cederstrand]

 in a CIRCUS mug, please & thanks!

***Jeffrey, will the MOW crew be working on that derailment/wreck anytime soon?  

***Lee, sounds like you made quite a haul at the train show.

There be a circus coming to our farm:

Yea, she "made me" bid on and win this group on the-bay. All that is left on her list is a big top tent and one of those large fancy (expensive) roller coaster rides. I have noticed something, she is more into the wagons and such that the train cars. But that's ok, she still needs the train to transport all those wagons, critters, people, etc.

Rob

[Hoople]

Hello all.

At my dad's, just waiting on the Dallas/Greenbay kickoff... bout 30 minutes from now, I think.

Haven't done much on the layout, but I'm eyeing a BLI blueline light mikado in UP, it looks good. Knowing blueline the sound should be pretty good too.

Today I realized something, I have big feet... Needed new shoes, only found two pairs that fit... I don't think size 14 is that big, but then again, only two pairs fit at the store... Runs in the family I guess.

Well thats it for now.
Mark

[Packers#1]

Hey mark:

GO PAC GO

...

GO PAC GO

...

GO PAC GO

...

GO PAC GO

the only person i'kll be remotly glad to see have a good game for the Cowboys is T.O., because he's on my fantasy team, lol.

[grayfox1119]

Good evening gents, another beauty of a Fall day here, 68F (20C), no wind, clear sky, and low humidity. I hope everybody had a great Sunday with family or friends.

CN CHARLIE: That was indeed good news on your boat, far less $$ too!! We also are enjoying the best weather this entire season. I am worried that this is the calm before the storm..LOL Trees have started to change color here also, mostly the Maples that are under some stress. ( I wonder if we change color if we get under stress ??)

FERGIE: Welcome home, you ship will be docking just as Fall officially begins...NICE! How long are you due to be home this time?

ED/JP: Red Sox clinched Wild Card spot, but are also only 1.5 games out of 1st place with Tampa losing today. Only 7 games remaining, 4 with Cleveland and 3 with the dreaded Yankees. And Tampa, in first place in the East, only has a $40M player payroll, compared with over $100M for the Yankees, which must have the Yankee management really

JEFF: You really need to go into business, you could make some serious $$, do it big guy !!!

Bon Soir mais amis,

[JimRCGMO]

Evening, Janie - I'll have a cup of hot cocoa, please.

Thanks!

Tom, that's one heckuva way to be sure the staph infection is all out! Glad to hear you and the lovely IV tube will be going your separate ways come tomorrow. And good to hear you're making progress on your cars. - at least one of us is...

Jeff, on that F.P. Jones one, my friend's daughter probably would've known that - and she's only 14 or 15! She got into the Archie comics somewhere back up the road, and her mother has to watch out when they go by a yard sale for any Archie comics to add to the collection. Is that 35 a Spectrum, or was Bachmann doing more detail back then than now? Nice job on the 'wrecked' hopper, maybe you need some grain trying to sprout from when the hopper went over? That looks like it went over a couple of hours ago. And has your insurance guy been contacted, or will this one jack your RR's rates up too high?

Rob, hope your fence relocation and repairs goes smoothly for the rest of it. Are you going to be getting llamas, or donkeys for your coyotes problem? Sure sounds like you're spoiling your wife on her layout, huh? Good 'investment' for your layout later... I'm beginning to wonder, after seeing all her stuff - will your wife's layout take up the whole room? Might need to add to the house plan again.

Yesterday at H-L, I picked up a couple of W-S figures (one of which was a duplicated one; GOT to start making sure my list I take with me is accurate and up-to-date!). Got the Lawn Workers (#2 set) and the Goodbye People. I was counting last night, and with those, the total people in just W-S sets that I have is over 130 people. Then there're the Preiser ones... I should have enough people for trackside at my towns and cities for a while, huh? Oh the Bowser covered hopper I got (the Frisco one) is an open side (vs. their closed side) one, and I've built a couple or three of those so far. Shouldn't be too hard to assemble it.

DerJohn, hope you don't have any more 'remodeling' jobs to do this fall. Glad you didn't hurt yourself when it gave out (you didn't, did ya?). On that football field, I don't think a running game would work well for there.

Lee, I'd have to groan along with Garry - it does look like your dockside business is picking up so much that one would have to 'crane' his neck to see it all...

Garry, that's the way - 'corrupt' those kids with MRR'ing while they're young and impressionable.

PC - that sounds like one definite motivation for that roof, all right! And it was Murphy's Law that it'd stop raining once the tarpaper was put down, too. Bet your pastor said an 'Amen' after that was all done!

Mark, you'd be really tall, if you didn't have so much of you turned under. Heck, I'm 6'3" and only wear size 12's. Of course, my brother is 6'5" and wears size 15's... Better get used to custom shoe places, at this rate!

I think PC has it about right - we have almost the entire Diner contingent on the ailing-and-in-need-of-prayers list lately (except maybe for me and the young'uns). Guess we older ones need to be sure to eat right and take our vitamins, right?

 

Blessings and prayers for all,

Jim in Cape Girardeau

[der5997]

A quick drop by before heading off to bed. Despite saying I wouldn't work outside today, I ended up taking a wheel barrow of assorted plants (flowers) that have overgrown in the main flower bed down to the area at the start of our boardwalk to the canoe launch. We won't go too far into why I was in the doghouse for dumping same on compost heap first..... Kris wants to see if they will fill in down there where it's quite wet.

The good news is I've just finished the first coat of the new concrete paint on the container dock.  Looks more convincing, at any rate I think so. Photos when I've done the top coat and cleaned off the railheads.

The bad news is I had a phone call this evening from a model railroader in Spruce Grove, Alberta.  Seems the chap who hosted "The Derails" meetings there has stomach cancer, and is under palliative care in his home; and not expected to have more than a few weeks. His name is Al (Big Al, the railroader's pal!).  Needless to say, this came as a shock. Al's wife is Mildred, BTW.  Don't remember meeting his grown children, but they are all very much in touch now, as you may imagine.

Rob:  That circus looks impressive already.

she is more into the wagons and such that the train cars.

... I think she'll change her mind when she sees those wagons running around on the flatcars, and the animals in the cage cars!

CapeJim:  No, my foot just went through to the ground, which wasn't very far down seeing as the woodshed is set on railroad ties (what else!?).  I guess the edges of the hole were sufficiently far from my leg as to not cause any trouble, so no.

Paint's all dried now, and it will definitely need a second coat, especially at the front where I was watering it a bit for better flow in tighter spaces. Goodnight all, and God Bless. Prayers for all in need of healing, comfort and peace.

 

 

[Hoople]

Hello all.

Halftime, and...

THE PACK IS LOSING

THE PACK IS LOSING

THE PACK IS LOSING
THE PACK IS LOSING

THE BOYS ARE WINNING!

Well anyways...

Jim: Well, not really... I like Nike. And they make sizes up to 22. And, at Ross, saw 5 pairs of 14s, 3 pairs of 15s, 2 pairs of 16s, 4 pairs of 17 and 17.5, 1 pair of 18s, and one pair of 21s. I think I'm okay. Oh, and to make things fun, I'm only 5'7'' at this time...

GO DALLAS!

 

[Flashwave]

Well, Mr. Mayonnaise has ruined our forums again, and I'm sorry for the recent attack on Jeff. Kudos to the quick reponse of the Mods. I just wish I saw the dates earlier.

I'm gonna avoid the sports discussion 

EDIT: and share this A thread of mine from the bachmann site: entitled So, I didn't put a smoke unit in the tender...

But yet, the DCCboard in the tender did a wonderful rendition of the cylinder cocks being open. I dunno what happened, Dad and I installed a Soundtraxx decoder, an 8-pin plug n play using the socket on my 4-8-2 C&O George Washignton. I couldbn't get it to work, we put it omn the test track at the club, track was god to every other loco, but now I have a partially melted Diode, and a steamer that reeks. Yes, I'll call Customer Service tomorrow, but in the meantime, I'm open to theories as to what happened. Also, am I guarenteed that I'll get a GW Mountain back? Cause I don't want a standard C&O pulling a crack train like this one.  

[Packer]

I shouldn't have to say who I'm rooting for. But I'm off to bed, managment decided to give me an 11-houir day tommorrow even though I've been ill for the past few. (I was better at the show, then me in my infinite wisdom decided to eat a whole bag of Beef jerky, then a whole bottle of root beer, so I'm back to being sick again )

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Hello everybody.........

It's RBF time.

If your interested, I posted movies from the digital camera in WPF last night.

The two boys are really happy with the trains. Their Dad told me in church this morning that he is helping them mount the track on plywood. This is a young family struggling to make ends meet the good old fashioned way......hard work. Nice family.

My railroad has a new addition. I purchased one of those Mantua 2-6-6-2's with a tender. It will be my "close enough" model of some locomotives purchased by the CB&Q about 100 years ago. Those locomotives served the Deadwood Branch until about 1950. The Deadwood Branch served the Black Hills region of South Dakota. It had many curves and several grades of 3%. Both freight and passenger trains were hauled by these 2-6-6-2's.

MicroMark has the 2-6-6-2's on sale for $97.00. I needed a tool from them, and well, as long as I was ordering...................

We're still negotiated with a few people to get a deal to sell the RV trailer. The guy with the old Porsche is still talking with us. I would not bet on it yet.

Prayers for all in need.

Happy Model Railroading