Evening all--
82 here in SunnyCal today, and the FIRST day in I don't know how many weeks that my lower GI tract is actually acting like it's happy with me. Nothing like taking two pills twice a day as opposed to hitching myself up to one of those 'sel-serve' IV's with God Knows What in the little bags. Now, if my doctor tomorrow will just agree with me----
Lowell's doing well, scarfing up Gerbers like there's no tomorrow. Sleeps on my pillow and gives my eyebrows a bath about twice a night. He's holding, and as far as I'm concerned, it means that God and St. Francis don't need him up there chasing mice in Heaven, just yet (wouldn't work, anyway. We're not talking major HUNTER, here, LOL--unless you're a bug).
Jeff: Love the wreck. Get rid of the trucks, though, they'd have fallen off the minute that big fellow went over on his side. I can't believe that you did that all with SUNSHINE!
Mark: I wouldn't worry about size 14 feet. There's a brewery in Copenhagen, Denmark that serves you a stein of their excellent beer in relation to your foot size. You'd have a BALL! I was there several years ago with a buddy of mine--I'm a 10, he's a 13. I had to do a little 'catching up' with him, LOL.
Garry: I've been looking at those Mantua 2-6-6-2's, myself. The tenderless one. Looks exactly like a little 2-6-6-2 that used to run up in my neck of the woods on the Clover Valley Lumber Company. And I hear that the new run has a terrific motor and drive train and lots of little add-on goodies that are seperate castings. Yours should look good with a Burlington logo on your tender. Heck, what locomotive DOESN'T look good with a Burlington logo on its tender, LOL! Neat movies, BTW, I'm going to catch them all in more detail tomorrow. I was kinda surprised to find out that my camera has that feature, also. Now you've got me going!
Well, I see we got 'raided' again tonight with a whole bunch of posts from you know who, but the Mods cleaned it up pretty well. Gee, whatever happened to "If you can't say something positive--"
Well, got to call it in. Lowell's looking at me wondering where his Gerber's is, and Spooky is chewing on my shoe-heel wondering where her Chicken of the Sea has hidden itself.
Best to all, prayers to those in need.
Oh wow, looks like late-night refreshments are on me.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Woohoo!
Tom: Hmm, maybe I should go to denmark when I'm 21...
The Cheeseheads: COWBOYS WIN!
:)
Everyone else: Read the above.
Mark.
Chamomile tea, please & thanks.
It's time to lock up Bucky (mini stud horse), Goldrush (Paint stallion) and Art (mini donkey jack) for the night. It's their pre-op, no food, only water treatment before morning surgeries. Poor fellas, but at least before too long they will be able to go play with their lady folk and we won't have to worry about any pregnancies. No more baby animals on Cederstrand Farm. No more new anything, especially llamas. Already have a couple mini donkeys. My goal is to outlive our last four-legged family member by at least 1 day. Not sure I'll make it, but that's my goal anyway.
Have a good night all. Rob
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good morning all,
Just before noon EST today it will be officially FALL!
I'm thinking about a road trip to Dayton, OH in November for their train show. They hold it in the sports arena. 4 hour drive one way.
Der, sorry to hear about your friends and their family. My GF lost her father in a similar manner. One day he didn't feel good and went to the hospital, 4 days latter he passed away.
Well the dockside work won't happen until after the holidays, but I've been watching Der's and Jeff's work with earnest to see what and how they do their magic. It will be a big lift but I think I can pull it off.
Rob, speaking of hauls...looks like a great Circus you started. The train show a vendor had anything and everything you would have wanted for the circus. Big top, carnival rides and RR rolling stock. It was very impressive (very expensive too). I saw a big top and auxiliary tents for sale on the bay, but I bet if you came up with dimensions Dorothy could sew you up a decent big top. Humm sounds like a project....
Garry, what type of track & power supply did you give the church family?
Tom, Sounds like kitty is doing well, Susan called last night (a friend whose cat is having kidney failure) is having trouble getting her cat to eat anything. I told her about the Gerbers but haven't tried it yet.
Dale called me on my way home from Toledo train show and wanted to know if I bought anything that needs assembled. I assured him I had 5 kits in a box for him to work on.
I took the roof and windows out of the lumber yard last night. The original owner didn't paint anything when s/he assembled the building. I gave the roof a fresh coat of flat black and the sides got 2 coats of white last night. I have yet to go through my picture archive of grain elevators and find a suitable example to paint my Heljan model.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Morning ya'll.
It is 70 degrees out, no wind and an overcast sky.
I'm sitting at home because the GM at work read me the wrong schedule. He gave me last week's where I worked 6 am to 5 pm, turns out I'm off today.
I'm still waiting on my decoders from 4-nscale.org, it's been almost 3 weeks. I e-mailed them a week ago, and they said it was on back-order and was on the way. Should be here any day, hopefully.
As for any plans for trains today, there aren't any. On all 4 of my projects (Kato C425s, Athearn Rotary plow, Athearn GP35, and P2K SD9) I'm waiting on parts, funds, and to go to the local MR club for decoders and weights.
The status on projects:
Kato C425s: Needs decoders, and I'm opting to just swap the bulb with an LED for a while. Will be left in original paint until I can get decals and my dad's work gets the media blaster
Athearn Plow: Needs a decoder and some weight. When it starts it rocks the whole thing side to side. The decoder will control the blades and lights (whenever I figure out where to put lights)
Athearn GP35: Motor needs to be secured to the frame, and needs drivelines*.
P2k SD9: Needs a motor, and a new decoder. When the motor went bad*, it took the decoder with it. Luckily it's an NCE, so I can send it back with 10 bucks and get a replacement.
* parts acquired
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.
Good Morning, Zoe, Lee, Jeff W., Packer - I see Bill T. was by, saw him heading out as I drove up. Zoe, I'll have waffles with some maple syrup
and a cup of coffee. And, of course, a glass of Ed's OJ (concentrate's okay, if the new load of tankers hasn't arrived yet).
My congratulations to the Cowboys fans (and my condolences to the Green Bay fans).
Rob, I certainly hope you reach that goal of yours (about the four-legged critters you have there). And by more than one day...
Tom, sometimes - much like one of my daughter's books says - 'Simple things are best' (Now, if you can just convince your Dr. of that). So you have your own personal brow-washer, huh? Are ya sure Lowell's not trying to wake you up for another helping of the Gerber's, sort of 'Get me a midnight snack, Daddy'?
Mark, on the shoes, that'll work on the Nikes, until you have a job where they don't let you wear tennies...
Garry, way to go on your new loco addition for the layout. You almost tempt me to figure if I can cover an order for one of those.
Packer, what a bummer - you got a good night's sleep and now you're off work but don't have the parts to get those locos finished up. I think that whole bag of jerky by itself could upset a person's stomach - pace yourself, man!
DerJohn, good to hear things are progressing on your concrete pad. I don't recall on our old club layout if the intermodal yard concrete was painted multiple times or just one heavy coat. I do recall that the laying of the 'mudding' for it took about three coats to get all smoothed out.
I'll be in the corner booth with my waffles for a bit.
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
in a SANTA FE mug, please & thanks.
Goldrush, Art and Bucky have all been gelded. Wife is keeping an eye on them for somplications and will continue to do so all day. Our vet is one of the best and does a very fine job.
Heating & Air decisions: The fella who was out to look at the build said our current unit is not sufficient to handle the extra square footage & suggested an additional unit. If it wasn't for all the windows of the sitting area, I wouldn't even consider the extra expense. But I tend to think he's probably correct. One added benefit would be the train room would also be hooked up. Wife likes that idea very much, even though (like my workshop) it will be insulated enough to not require any. We'll get prices on all the options and go from there.
Well, still need to go do all the regular critter rounds. Have a good day all. Rob
Good morning.
Lee ...the track was an accumaltion of cheap trainset sectional track......both brass and steel rails. There was quite a bit including switches and a 90 degrees crossing. ...Power pack was an old MRC dual loco pack for N scale, but the HO locos ran OK with it. Freight train was about ten "train set " freght cars mostly Tyco. Loco for the freight train was Tyco 2-8-0 w/ cheap tender drive that I repaired. Passenger train was four Athearn streamliner cars that I repainted and lettered for Santa Fe. Loco for it was a bachmann cheapo Sanat Fe F7. It's a good starter set, and if they become more interested in teh hobby, they can upgrade in later years.
Tom and JimCG .... The 2-6-6-2 pulls very well new, out of the box.
I am starting a project. I'm concerting a Walthers Budd baggage/dorm car into a Burlington baggage/lounge car. PC posted pictures of one of those as it exists today in Indiana.
Happy Model Railroading!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Garry, I have a pile of brass track didn't know if that family could use it, but it sounds like you hooked them up. When I get home tonight I plan on checking out your videos. Is that HO-Scale 2-6-6-2? How many cars have you been able to pull? My Rivarossi 2-6-6-2 is getting "tired" and I don't know if I should buy a new motor or replace the entire unit.
Went to see the foot doc this morning and got the same news. Looks good, keep doing what you're doing. Tomorrow morning I'll be going to DeRidder to be fitted for new shoes. Sure hope they get all the measurements right.
In local news, a tractor-trailer rig that WAS a little higher than 13' 6" went under the KCS ov erpass on hwy 171 in Leesville this morning. It emerged from the other side with the roof peeled back like the lid of a sardine can. The bridge clearance is 13' 6". It's posted at the bridge and a 1/4 mile back up the road on a big sign with flashing amber lights that hangs over both northbound lanes.
LSWrr wrote: Garry, I have a pile of brass track didn't know if that family could use it, but it sounds like you hooked them up. When I get home tonight I plan on checking out your videos. Is that HO-Scale 2-6-6-2? How many cars have you been able to pull? My Rivarossi 2-6-6-2 is getting "tired" and I don't know if I should buy a new motor or replace the entire unit. Lee
Lee......... The Mantua 2-6-6-2 is now put away in its box. When I ran it yesterday, it hauled a 17 car train on level track. It came to a halt hauling the train on my 3% grade. Then, I uncoupled 9 cars leaving 8 cars in the train, and it went up the grade OK. Burlington operated short trains with these engines, and that's fine with me. As for Rivarossi. I replaced the motor on my B&O 2-10-2 about five years ago with one I purchased in Cincinnati from Golf Manor Hobbies. It works fine with the new motor.
Jeff W I'm gald you had a good report from teh doc. Best wishes on the new shoes.
Hoople wrote: The Cheeseheads: COWBOYS WIN!:)Everyone else: Read the above.Mark.
We'll see you in the playoffs.
GO PAC GO
can you believe the beat-down the Dolphins gave new england?! 38-13 miami. Maybe the Jets have a shot at their division Who should I start in my Fantasy league: Philip Rivers or Brett Favre?
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Good evening, cloudy day here today, the sun never made an appearance. The new Bow window was installed Saturday with the help of sons, daighter and SIL. Now the rest was up to me to build the upper and lower part of the Bow outside up on staging. Pumps jacks are really handy when working 12 feet off the ground rather than ladders. You have to watch your step however, the boards on the staging give me only 20" width, therefore only tea and coffee are allowed..LOL
WARNING: I found out on the news tonight what FERGIE was up to in Baffin Bay. They have released a bunch of yellow rubber ducks that have instrumentation in them for GPS tracking. They want to see where the ice flows are headed as well as the currents. So if you find one of these ducks, you will be instructed where to call.
jeffrey-wimberly wrote: Went to see the foot doc this morning and got the same news. Looks good, keep doing what you're doing. Tomorrow morning I'll be going to DeRidder to be fitted for new shoes. Sure hope they get all the measurements right.In local news, a tractor-trailer rig that WAS a little higher than 13' 6" went under the KCS ov erpass on hwy 171 in Leesville this morning. It emerged from the other side with the roof peeled back like the lid of a sardine can. The bridge clearance is 13' 6". It's posted at the bridge and a 1/4 mile back up the road on a big sign with flashing amber lights that hangs over both northbound lanes.
But Jeff........they first must be able to read English!!,,, Or, maybe he was text messaging and missed the sign altogether. Can you imagine the fright an oncoming driver would have had if they met under the bridge?
ROB: Outlive your livestock? The donkeys may make 27 years, how old are you now?
DER JOHN: Very sorry to hear about the illness of your friend, so sudden to get that kind of news. It seems to be hitting people more often it seems. So I hear that Kris is a little upset with you!! Tsk, tsk......you must be more careful where you dump the wheelbarrow and what is in it. How is the concrete wall on the layout coming along ?
Later guys,
grayfox1119 wrote:But Jeff........they first must be able to read English!!,,, Or, maybe he was text messaging and missed the sign altogether. Can you imagine the fright an oncoming driver would have had if they met under the bridge?
Good evening folks: I'll have an Earl Grey tea, and one of those baked apples with custard please Chloe; thanks Tom!
A productive day outside as the weather was just right. Even the mosquitoes stayed away until after dinner, when I was weed whacking instead of walking. Finally got around to clearing the brush (alder mainly) that has grown up along the road. It was tall enough to obstruct the view of our mailbox and Civic Number. That could be important in a 911 emergency, so although it's a Dept. of Highways matter, we got it cut for far enough to do the job.
Also finally got around to the second coat of paint on that dock, and the rails cleaned off somewhat. (Test run indicates some more work required there, even though I used the gleam method.)
Here's the too clean looking dock now, with what I think is a better concrete colour than it had (and more importantly, a better level for the concrete at the tracks.)
And the other end...
The old colour is seen in these shots...
CapeJim:
I do recall that the laying of the 'mudding' for it took about three coats to get all smoothed out.
Jeff: That community park scene keeps looking good! That's good news about your feet.
Would some-one please direct me to the place on the forums, or to a site that explains how to make an avatar from a .jpeg photo? Thanks. There's lots about how to put an avatar in a signature, etc, but how to make the thing in the first place....
Dick:
you must be more careful where you dump the wheelbarrow and what is in it.
Hoping for Midsomer Murders tonight. It was pre-empted last week.
Have to get back to cleaning that track. Goodnight all, and God Bless. Prayers for all in need of healing, comfort and peace.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Tall glass of lemon water, please.
***Jeffrey, if that driver had just let a little air out of his tires first...
***Der, nice work. keep the progress photos coming.
Rob
der5997 wrote: Would some-one please direct me to the place on the forums, or to a site that explains how to make an avatar from a .jpeg photo? Thanks. There's lots about how to put an avatar in a signature, etc, but how to make the thing in the first place....
I'ma gonna assume I'm understanding your question, but at the top of this page, click on the link "Update profile" Scroll down, there should be a section marked "avatar" and then a long empty box and a button marked "browse" click browse. It will oepn up your my pictures, then find your avatar, saved as a JPG, GIF, Etc. click on the pucture or open, the way you do to insert a picture. then the my picture screen will go away, and you'll click on the update button next to the browse button.
Also, the default background for the avatars is black. Which is why my Daylight shows up the way it does, and i:m just to lazy to fix it. So if you have the picture set for no background, and I;m not sure you can do it with JPGs, you best not have any black outside the pic.
Confused yet?
-Morgan
evening or should I say morning gang
just thought i'd nip in for a quick tea before my next set of rounds
hope all is well with everyone and all layouts are working fine.
oh well got to go laters all
Morgan: That's my problem...
your avatar saved as a .JPEG, .GIF...
I've got all sorts of pics in My Pictures. How do I make any of them into avatars? Thanks.
Hey Gang!!
Whew, we made it to Washington DC.! this afternoon, we left Portland at 6:30am pdt arrived at MINN-ST Paul @ 11:45 ct Left there at 1:10 and arrived here at 4:30 edt! and man, are we draggin' well you know, Tomorrow, we plan on seein' the sites then it's on to the LH'S BABY!!!!!!!!!YEAH
Hey Lee, we flew over your house to see ya, but you were not home, Anyway, I will talk to you guys later, take care.
Happy Modelrailroading-
Trainsrme1
Evening Gang: I did make it in yeaterday I just didn't open my big mouth. That's unusual.
Der that's tough about AL. If you get the chance give his family and him my best.
Jeff that's good news about your shoes. I'll second you hope that they get the measurements right.
John got the swather fixed today and finished cutting the big field. Tomorrow he's going back out and rake and bale the small field then he'll hook up the rake to the new tractor and I'll go out thurs and rake the big field. He'll bale that Friday. Right now I'm going to hit the sack.
Good Night All
Der
to create an avatar all you do is go into update profile make sure avatar is enabled. hit browes
and it will go to your pics then select the pic you want open it and when it appears in the browes box hit upload and volia 1 avatar
i hope this helps
Morning all!
Have fun with the castings Jeff. We know all about that. We have to do the same thing for leg braces for my son and wife. My son will be out of his night braces soon though, and he hasn't had to wear the day ones since shortly after the surgery last winter.
Oh well, I'm off!
Prayers for all those in need!
Good morning. I haven't stopped by in a few days. Same ole, same ole my way. I really don't have a plan on what I am doing to day. I know its suppose to be a nice day. I need to take a drain pipe underneath the walkway today. I guess I could do that. Maybe finish weathering up a gon.
Hope everybody has a good one.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Today: Sunny, with a high near 74. East wind between 8 and 11 mph. Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 56. East wind around 8 mph. Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 77. South wind 6 to 8 mph becoming north.
Jeff, good luck with the castings. The underpass for Collingwood yard near my house is scarred with the several trucks that have gotten stuck. Flashing lights and about 6 signs warn you about the clearance.
Trainsrme1, I thought I saw a passenger mooning me as they flew overhead, LOL.
Speaking of mooning; one of the dealers at the train show had just that, figures of people flashing and mooning in N-scale and HO-scale. Some of the things people come up with.
Der, what will you be using as water for along your pier? I have a small river and I was thinking of clear poly or something topped with WS water effects. I made it deep enough I wanted to submerge fish and maybe a mermaid in the bottom of the river.
PC, is the Autumn Ridge in full color yet?