in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please & thanks.
***Paul, that live steam sounds like a lot of work. Still must be mighty fun when all is working perfectly. Any new pics of your steam loco in action?
***RT, will check them out. Thanks!
***Lee, I'll use oil paint over the base wall color. I'll check out that flat winters day next time I'm at Lowes, or HD (if they carry it). Appreciate the suggestions.
***Jeffrey, one of the things I like about your work is when you are done, they look "used", just like the full size versions. Thanks for posting the pics.
Rob
Afternoon, Flo, how about a root beer float,
chili dog with grated cheese,
some cheesey fries,
and for dessert, a frozen chocolate chip custard concrete, please.
Thanks! RT got me hungry with his breakfast order yesterday, but I just can't keep up with his appetite, PC. Sorry!
Jerry, sounds like your team there at Casey is doing great this year! Are they usually this good, or is this an exceptionally good season for them?
DerJohn, if your wind blows there like that very often, do you have any trees that are tilted way to one side like I've seen in photos?
Hi, Sue - have you been taking lessons from PC on timing your posts? Good to see you in the Diner again. Looks like the Beer Barn is in its 'second printing', huh?
Jeff, great job on the flatcars there (and much better than I would, had I attempted something like that)! I'd second Rob's comments on your work. And with all those rolling stock purchases, sounds like you have more stuff for new projects, too.
Garry, thanks for that email on Diane's progress. Are you working on any projects to follow up on your baggage-lounge, or will that be after the leaves are raked?
On-call wasn't too bad last night - I got couple of hours sleep before the pager went off, got another page 20-30 minutes later (around midnight), got back from that by 3-3:30 a.m., and slept another 3 hours until I got my 'wakeup page' around 6. Made it through church and small group fine, but am starting to drag a little now. Likely, I'll go to bed a bit earlier tonight (like all our ORFs?)
Sunny here today and the high in the low-to-mid-80's, low humidity, and tomorrow supposed to be a few degrees warmer.
Tomorrow night is MRR club meeting, so I'll be able to get to some tracklaying and see how the backdrop might be coming along. Should be fun!
Next weekend, I'll have to see about that wiring for my layout. I'd definitely like to be able to actually run trains this year by/before Christmas... Also want to get back to (scratch-)building that church, but I want to take my time and build it right the first time.
Sounds like most of the Diners are doing fairly well in staying healthier at this time of year. Let's hope things continue that way.
Blessings and prayers for continued healing,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
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
Hello everybody...
I just posted in WPF.
RT ...If I undersatnd correctly tests show you are in better health than had been suspected. Sounds like you learned to back off on caffien. Hope all continues to go well for you.
JimCG ... Actually I won't be raking leaves. I won't eating too much fattening stuff either. Wow! You posted a zillion calorie meal!
Sue ... Good to see you back. Should we expect lots of layout progress now.
Presently, I'm working on an F3B dummy unit I've had for several years in my collection of unused stuff. I have two good Northern Pacific F7A's. and the B unit will be added to that consist after painting and other work.
I need to get back to layout construction. Dan and Gus have volunteered to help with the construction. I'll have to accept their kind offer. I was doing that by myself mid August when I had my heart event. I've not truned on a power tool since then.
Last evening Dan, Gus, and I along with our repsctive wives went to dinner in Dover, TN. There's a neat restaurant in a former plantation home. It is adjacent to the Cumberland River. It's next to a national park with Civil War stuff. It includes a Civil War cemetary. On the rever bank there still are several huge cannons facing towards the river from the Kentucky border. Kentucky was a neutral state in the Civil War. Gunboats from the North crossed into TN at that location and there was quite shoot out. Eventually the Nroth got through and headed up river to Nashville.
The food at the restaurant was fantastic. I had filet mignon, asparagus, scalluped potaoes, and some sort of carmel apple cream cheese thing.
Happy Model Railroading.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Evening, Diners. I thought that I would stop by for one of Jim's RBF's. I don't know where the hours go. We will run the locos while we workout this afternoon, but just don't get any work done. Since Larry's job situation has changed, he does not have much time for the layout. Right now he getting stuff ready for work tomorrow.
Paul, Thanks for the welcome. After doing some doctoring on cattle, it makes the wonder how we survived trouble free for so long.
Garry, How are your NP projects going?
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Well, I haven't been in here in a few days, so I thought I'd swing.
Right now on my workbench is quite a bit of stuff.
Projects I can't complete yet, Gp35 (lots of stuff), SD9 (motor), walthers caboose kit (grab irons are worse than kadee springs when flying) and C425s. Waiting until I get money so I can order stuff for the first 3, the last one is still waiting on decoders from 4nscale.com (It's been a month, they'll get a call tommorow)
I can complete 2 P2K flats I have yet to put together, an NP and an ACL. Probably won't patch the NP since I have zero experience with decals, I'll probably see if I can trade off the ACL one at the local MR club for one in a more western roadname. I also have 2 P2K gon kits coming my way, an SLSF and a WP.
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.
Quote by "Heartland Division CB&Q"
Accually I was told 2 1/2 years ago I have a blockage by a cardiolagist in fact beside having a eppisode of lower defibrillation ( another doctor 1 1/2 years later told me was probally caused by all the caffine I was drinking) that I had a blockage on the backside of my heart (by a heart cath he did on me when I was in Va there) and that with the two things I really needed a difibrillator The more I learn the more I'm thinking I didn't, anyway the present heart cath showed no blockage at all that my arteries were clear. I also have been taking blood thiners because of so call blockage which isn't there and from all that I've been told you can't disolve blockages with medicine. Oh he also stated because of where the blockage was he couldn't put a stent in as it wouldn't hold there.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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One of each, please & thanks.Yea, there goes my healthy diet.
***Jeffrey, I went back and looked at the earlier scene you posted with the police car in it. With all those sporty numbers around, looks like that officer could use some backup, should they all speed away at the same time.
Have a good night all.
Evening Gang: I went back to the track today and cleaned the flues. oiled and greased the running gear, filled the water tank and lit a fire. I made two rounds with no problems. I really had a good time out there by myself.
The family gathered at our daughters house for supper and had a good time. It's nice having them back in Texas and close by.
Well I'm going to hit the sack.
Good Night All
Good evening to all, cloudy and cool here today, so we did some log splitting. I hadn't used the log splitter attachment for the Troybilt in several years, so I didn't know if mice had eaten through the hydraulic hoses or not. A little WD40, and one tire that had gone flat, otherwise she worked fine, and we split about a cord of wood in 2 hours. Temps are edging towards the lower 30's each night, still no killing frost yet though.
SUE: Hey!!! Good to see you in the Diner again, we missed you young lady!!! I am happy to see th at you are reading "White Cascade" also. And living so close to that area, I am sure that you will want to drive up in that area and check out where it happened. That must have been one horrifying experience for all those passengers.
JEFF: What a haul!!!!! Did you get your SS raise or something? Or was there a big sale at LHS?? You did real good Jeff !
RT: Glad to hear that arteries are clear, that must have been quite a relief to hear those results!!
Time to hit the sack, see you guys in the morning,
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good morning!
Today: A chance of sprinkles before 10am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 61. East wind between 7 and 15 mph. Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 49. East wind around 13 mph. Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 65. East wind between 9 and 13 mph.
I found microscale Circus letters (HO & N) and numbers if anyone is interested for $6/ full sheet 419-509-5403 Ask for Steve.
Yesterday's train show was at the Cuyahoga Fair Grounds and filled 5 of the poultry and livestock barns.
I picked up some yellow letters and numbers in Railroad Roman for my locomotive re-builds. Walthers complete work train #1, 12 pieces of rolling stock , some Chooch cut stone pieces for my river area, Some scale modeler tools. I found new in the box PROTO Y6 and T1 locomotives for $125 (didn't have that kind of money to throw down).
So this train show is the official "start of Model RR season" up here.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good morning everybody. I agree.....its getting to be model train weather.
I started on my new layout last week, and put some shots of it on here last night. I believe its on page 2 now, if you haven't seen it.
I have to call about a job today, but I don't know about the rotation shift. The pay is $13 a hour, but I just don't know. Theres not much out there job wise, and I might have to jump on it.
Everybody have a good one today.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Good morning all: No time to stop, so I'll have a medium JR Regular to go please (thanks Tipton Bill)
I came in to put this on the bulletin board. It is, I think, an true story; but if you've seen it before, let me know because the person in question, a cousin of the person who sent it to us, is usually not one to make up stories.
Yesterday I was at Pet Smart buying a large bag of Purina dog chow for my two pets, Angel & Latte and was in the checkout line when the woman behind me asked if I had a dog. What did she think I had, an elephant? So since I'm retired and have little to do, on impulse I told her, No, I don't have a dog. I am starting the Purina Diet again.I added that I probably shouldn't, because I ended up in the hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms. I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet, and that the way it works is to load your pockets with Purina nuggets.Then you simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so it works well, and I was going to try it again. I have to mention here that practically everyone in line was now enthralled with my story. Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. I told her no, that I stepped off a curb to sniff an Irish Setter's butt, and a car hit us both. I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack he was laughing so hard. Pet Smart won't let me shop there anymore.
Lots to do. TTFN
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
der5997 wrote: Good morning all: No time to stop, so I'll have a medium JR Regular to go please (thanks Tipton Bill)I came in to put this on the bulletin board. It is, I think, an true story; but if you've seen it before, let me know because the person in question, a cousin of the person who sent it to us, is usually not one to make up stories.Yesterday I was at Pet Smart buying a large bag of Purina dog chow for my two pets, Angel & Latte and was in the checkout line when the woman behind me asked if I had a dog. What did she think I had, an elephant? So since I'm retired and have little to do, on impulse I told her, No, I don't have a dog. I am starting the Purina Diet again.I added that I probably shouldn't, because I ended up in the hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms. I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet, and that the way it works is to load your pockets with Purina nuggets.Then you simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so it works well, and I was going to try it again. I have to mention here that practically everyone in line was now enthralled with my story. Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. I told her no, that I stepped off a curb to sniff an Irish Setter's butt, and a car hit us both. I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack he was laughing so hard. Pet Smart won't let me shop there anymore. Lots to do. TTFN
JOHN: !!!! You did WHAT ??????? LOL...you stepped off the curb to smell WHAT? and you got hit by a car?? I'm still on the floor laughing at that one....I mistyped three times laughing.
A cloudy, cool 54F here right now, I decided to get two of my 5 gallon gas cans filled as the price of gas has dipped to $3.31 a gallon.
RYAN: What's for lunch, this cool air and log splitting has ne hungry as a bear !!!
Howdy All....Its sunny and 75 here...I'll have a Taco salad and a Diet coke please..Thank You.....I am kinda tired after Birthday party Yesterday...John...You sure gave me a laugh Gotta watch that new diet!!I am gonna slip over in the back booth and see who comes in .....You all have a good one...Jerry
Hello Diners;
Der John's Pet Smart story was funny. I'll stay with the menu here in the diner, thanks. An RBF would suit me fine.
Sue asked about my NP projects. Sorry work is keeping Larry too busy. I've not done much NP lately. I added an NP reefer. Now I'm working on an F3 B unit. I'll embarress myself. I messed up the paint, and I just stripped off my painting to start over. The NP 1950's frieght paint scheme is a simple one, and thee's no excuse for messing up. As I continue my recovery from my mid-August event, I intend to get back to extending thh layout.
Everybody don't forget: http://www.hamfestival.com/
It's time to pig out at the ham Festival!
Afternoon all
I've been watching the crews do the clean up of the storm trash
Imagine this pile times 2 million
Thats alot of work
TerryinTexas
See my Web Site Here
http://conewriversubdivision.yolasite.com/
Came home from my appointment at the foot doc and found a big box (18"x18"x6") by my door. What was in it? My Digitrax DCS50 and 8 DZ125 decoders. After I go through the manual on this thing I'll see about hooking it up. Looking at the back of the unit it appears to be fairly easy. All those decoders will probably take a week to install unless I get on a really good roll, then I could knock them out in a day.
On my other project, shoehorning a Bachmann LH crossover into my yard area, I looked at the area and noticed right off that the tracks are way too far apart. I have two options. 1) Pull up a bunch of track and re-lay the front part of the inside loop so the tracks connect to the crossover, or 2) cut the crossover in two and work the two halves into their respective places in the passing siding and the inside loop and put in a straight piece of track to join them. In the following photos the choice I made will be immediately obvious. If the mountain won't come to Mohammed then Mohammed must go to the mountain.
This is how the crossover started out:
And after being cut in two and trimmed:
The trackside shed (under the straight piece) and two of the turnouts will be removed. If the turnouts can be salvaged I may be able to use them elsewhere. If not, they'll be ripped out in pieces. The other two existing turnouts will have their diverging tracks cut and the points soldered in the through track position. This is gonna take a while.
Hi Zoe, think I'll drop by for lunch today. I see several of the others have been going for the RBF's and the custard concretes, eh? I'll have one of those like Rob had last night (no, thanks - not all three!).
Robby, you could take that job for now, and keep your eyes open for something on a more regular schedule on your days off, I suppose. Whaddya think of the type of job, would it be superstrenuous or regular? That might determine how long you could endure the swing shift part of things. Best wishes on it!
Heartland Division CB&Q:The food at the restaurant was fantastic. I had filet mignon, asparagus, scalluped potaoes, and some sort of carmel apple cream cheese thing.
- Garry, I suspect that caramel apple cream cheese dessert thing might be half a zillion by itself! Sounds like a good idea, when your friends offer to help you on the layout.
Of course, it looks like Dick has been working up an appetite of his own there, with splitting his wood (not to be confused with sawing it...)
'Nuther sunny day today in Cape G.-land, then about three days of various levels of rain. So Garry and our friends along the Ohio river valley, you may want to make sure the yard work is done, or it might be delayed soon...
Jeff - are you replacing that track with the other-way crossover? At first, I was thinking you were going to put in a Timesaver track puzzle like DerJohn's got.
Sue, sounded like you have a good read - I may have to see if our library has White Cascade or not. Good that you're able to run some trains and work out at the same time. The latest Walthers sale flyer had a thing about making an engine look like a transitional repaint, and I might just keep my SW1200 NP switcher in close to its original paint scheme, by doing something on that order. Hope Larry can get some layout time in before too long - since it's that season now.
DerJohn - ROTFL! I'll be telling that one at work, since we always have someone who's looking for a diet, going on one, coming off a diet, etc. (Heh, heh, heh...)
C&O Terry, around here we don't have nearly as much downed trees & stuff, but the city has a truck with a (small) limb grinder that they have come around neighborhoods to grind the stuff down. You could use a small fleet of those!
Got to go now!
JimRCGMO wrote:Jeff - are you replacing that track with the other-way crossover? At first, I was thinking you were going to put in a Timesaver track puzzle like DerJohn's got.
Jeff every time I see your work I'm more and more impressed its a lot you do with out completely ruining the items ( I would end up ruining I believe) My turn is comming soon even thou its going to be in O gauge It still going to be a lot of work I have ahead of me. I hope when done it looks half as good as yours and some of the others in here that I have seen.
Evening all not much happening here. Just another lazy day hope I don't get to use to it as when I go back to work thursday its going to be a 13 hour day ( yes I get 2 30 minute breaks in it ( work 4 hours off 30 minutes work 4 hours off another 30 minutes ) also get a total of 3 15 minute breaks.
Will check in later
Tall glass of lemon water, please & thanks.
***Robby, very nice weathering on your RR cars.
Met with the electrician today and walked throguh the build with him. One of the items we covered was having dimmer switches for each of the track lights (4 tracks) in the train room. I thought that might be fun down the road.
Wife is taking her folks for a drive into the mountains tomorrow, which is also my birthday. That's fine with me, as I need to clean the water tank down at the barn before transfering some of the house tank water down there. Used the last drop of water from the barn tank tonight. There is finally a chance of rain tomorrow night, so I'll be ready. Fingers & toes crossed. The couple puddles left in the creek won't last much longer.
Picked up some more metal brackets today for the deck. Need to get back on that particular project soon.
Hope everyone is doing well this evening. Rob
Evening Gang: It's raining here. It started raining this morning then let up for the day untill about 7pm when it started again. Just now it's between storms. I mowed the back yard this morning while it was wet. No dust and pollen that way. I mowed part of the front this afternoon and there was some dust.
I got to do some mrring on the 7.5 inch scale, I took the hump out of the portable track panels. I've been intending to do that for a year. I didn't get them perfectly straight but there are better then they were.
Rob I know how it is when the rains don't come. I hope that you get a good shower tonight.
I watched a show on Great Lakes ship wrecks on the science channel. They covered the sinking of the Lady Elgin in 1860. My great grand father Charles Beverung was on that ship and used his drum to swim to shore. Good thing that drum floated or I wouldn't be here.
Well Mary Ann is in bed so I think that I'll join her.
Good evening, temp has broken into the upper 30's (39.2F to be exact ), and the Dew Point is 33F right now, so we could get our first frost tonight. The only two things that are still going strong in the garden are Green Peppers and Broccoli.
JIM: Yes, working hard outside in Fall cool weather gives a guy a savage appetite for sure. And get that book! The WHITE CASCADE is one train book that is very hard to put down until you finish the entire book. It is a TRUE story.
JEFF: Don't you find it a bit inconvenient at times not using flex track, especially when you need to make changes such as the crossover?
ROB: We will pray for rain for your area, you guys have certainly had a bad drought.
Time to hit the sack,
Hello ...
Hi, Dick... It's 67 here. Sounds cold there.
Paul ........ Now, that was a very interesting ture story about your grandfather surviving the ship wreck. We diners are glad he did because we enjoy your visits in teh diner.
Jeff .... I'm interested in your new DCC set up. I'm glad you keep us posted.
JiimCG ... Go ahead and send rain this way. We had hardly any in September. Ike brought severe winds but no rain.
I completed my F3B except for lettering. I'll run it "as is" pending purchase of correct NP decals. Looks OK now between my NP F7A's.