Elliot's Trackside Diner V, at the diamonds

[C&O Fan]

FIRST PHOTO OF WIND DAMAGE FROM TS Edwardo

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q4/TerryinTexas/001.jpg

 

[Flashwave]

Mark: The problem with ballasting is not 2 feet. It's 20. That much ballasting gets monotonous.

Hope you enjoyed the runby. I'm gonna see if I can;t get some video from the other side. Not as much fun though.

Last night weas slow, but first day on Wednesday usually is. they say we should be killing ourselves by the weekend. I'd like to get a busy car today though, I got forced out of my first one. Conductor just said pick a car, But after putting my stuff down and helping people on, When I got back in my car, another car attendent hasd already taken over. We don;t need two people working one car unless the other needs help, which I later did for a gentleman with trouble walking, and didn't want to create a scene in front of people, so I got to look like an idiot trying to find a open car instead. The one at the very back of things. Not today.  

Here's a funny thing though. A bus was so far up on the crossing, that the gate was hitting the roof above the passenger body, almost to the first of two escape hatches on top. Not sure how we missed him, but we did.

Salon Car was having brake issues. Figures the car powering the air-conditioning would... Such a prima.

I'll get pics of the inside of the Salon car up for Antonio's interior reference page,

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Good morning. If you're wondering why I haven't been around much it's because I've been busy (and still am) burning DVD's. It seems I have this big collection of Star Trek Enterprise DVD's that I would love to watch. Problem is they're all recorded in the PAL (a color TV standard with a picture frequency of 50 fields per second (625 line, 50 hertz), and sporting a better color picture than NTSC.) encoding standard which is incompatible with my NTSC (525 lines per frame at 30 frames per second) equipment. So what I'm having to do is translate the PAL format into NTSC and make a usable copy, for my private use of course. How this is done is quite technical in nature and would be a sure cure for insomnia should I explain it. Suffice it to say that I have a bunch of useless masters that I'm making into usable duplicates. This will add greatly to my growing Star Trek video collection. I have all the movies and the complete original series. I also some of the DS9 and Voyager series. I don't care much for the Next Generation series.

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Good Morning.....

It's been a little hectic for me and so i've been absent from the diner. Looks like it's been eventful for many of you.

In partuclar, I'm truely sorry to learn about CN Charlie's FIL. We'll continue prayers.

I guess JP is still getting back to normal. I hope he saw the marching band. U of M is fine with me becasue I have lived in Ann Arbor.

I've been in Cincinnati last couple of days. Shelley was there the past week to be with granddaughters. The 18-year-old intruder who scared the daylights out of DIL and the  two granddaughters is guilty according to our wonderful courts. Not burglary or some major felony. He's guilty of tresspassing, a misdeamor. The sentencing has not occured yet, but he's out of jail.  He can't come near our son's house or or son's wife and daughters by court order. He must live out of the neighborhood and now resides with his grandmother 10 miles away. That grandmother phoned our daughter in law and chewed her out because her grandson could not possibly be guilty of anything. Of course, the 18-year-old's parent's did not wish to have their kid stranded and grandma's house, and they took his car to him. DIL is to appear at sentencing, and the judge will allow written statements from neighbors who have had some very bad experiences with this person for several years. Son and DIL would like to be compensated for cost the new ADT alarm system they had installed. In addtion to the alarm system, their new dog will be huge when he grows up. It's a big, black boxer / great dane puppy that already has giant paws. ..... Anyhow, we got home late last night.

Happy Model Roading

[LSWrr]

Good morning all,

Jim, good luck with that bonus.  Every time I get "extra" cash and have my sights set on MRR stuff something breaks! Starter, breaks, new window, you know all that boring stuff.

RT, nice sounds like you guys got along well (not), LOL

Rob, yes the slate is nice and it will last over 50 years, and freezing temps won't mess with it.

TrainsRme1, Welcome to the diner!

PC, Sounds like you have a busy schedule.

Mark, I did some ballast work last night myself.  I did a little track area and some larger areas around the icing track and ice house. Laid 1 coffee can of ballast, tonight after work I'll vacuum up probably 90% of what I put down. 

Lee

[pcarrell]

Mornin' all!

I haven't really been around much lately.  Work and school keep getting in the way ya know.  I did manage to swing by the tracks yesterday and catch some of the goings on there.  Looks like major construction work is gearing up!  (Warning: Big pic!)  http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Prototype%20Train%20Photos/IMG_0009.jpg  More MOW arrived while I was there.  I'll show more picvs later if you like.

Gotta run!

[C&O Fan]

Morning all

I'll have a cup of tea Please

spent yesterday drying out after the storm .

We got some much needed rain and very little wind damage

I got a suprise in the mail it was a Walthers Flyer

made for some good reading

Lots of neat stuff to look at

I'll be in the back booth Join me if you can

[wetidlerjr]

Good Morning from Tipton IN ! 

[Hoople]

Evening all.

Bored outta my mind... Stuck at my dad's house with a computer. And a TV. And annoying siblings that won't let me watch the new mythbusters so if I wan't to watch that I'll have to wait till 1 AM... Good times.

Anyways, I've been doing some more work on the layout. I ballasted a section of track about 2' long, I don't see why people hate doing it, it was fairly simple... Just had to run a fingernail along the rail to keep stuff off. I tested it with some older rolling stock (tyco) and they run through just fine. It's actually quieter than the rest of the track, which is good. I also got a backdrop that I have in the background, which is a painting someone made for PFM, where my grandad worked so I got it eventually, and it looks great. I'll get some pictures when I get back home.

On other things, summer is almost over, less than a month left. Football practice starts next week, and I turn 14 in a couple weeks. Hopefully a new engine or something will come. But then again, that weekend I'm at my dad's house... So if it's a new engine, only a switching layout to run it on, and if it's a drum related thing, well the kit is at the other house. Should be fun...

Talk to you guys later.

Mark

[TrainsRMe1]

Hey everybody!!!!!

   How's things tonight? I'll take the Elliot's Trackside Special, The Ribeye steak cooked to prefection, roasted corn on the cob a cool crisp salad, (gotta watch the weight!) and a tall ice cold rootBEER I mean rootbeerand for desert gotta have some peach cobbler. Welcome home JP, we are so glad for your return. Anyway here in Portland we are cooling down from a mini heatwave, with a chance of thunderstroms in the Cascade Mountains, Charlie, I'm sorry to hear about the death in your family my wife and family will pray for you and your's.Jeffrey-wimberly, come on in sit a spell, we enjoy each other's company talkin' about MRXRding, family, more MRXRding, trips of railfanning, MRXRding,Just great company, come on in say hey to Zoe, Elliot's out right now, but he'll be back,hey I'll buy ya dinner, we can eat and chat with the other's in the sports/railfan veiw room, I understand that it overlooks the Union Pacific Bailey Yard!!!! 

                   HAPPY MODELRAILS Y'ALL-

                                                       FROM TrainsRme1  

[GMTRacing]

Greetings from Salinas,

     Rained buckets on the way to JFK airport this morning, but we got through before the puddles on the Hutchinson River Parkway got too bad and made the flight ok. The drive from San Jose to Salinas down 101 was fine and we'd just checked into our rooms when the truck driver phoned in so we met him and got some dinner. The cars made it out ok though he lost about a day at Penske repair terminals (it's a rental tractor) trying to get the truck to run uphill at more than 25mph. With luck we can get into the track tomorrow and get parked though we don't know for sure and the organizers seem more than a little disorganized.

Charlie sorry to hear about your loss. Our thoughts and prayers for your wife and you.

Packers #1 - don't feed the sharks - ok? I had a large shark pop up way too close to my surf board one summer when I was a lifeguard and that was enough of a thrill forever for me thanks.

Catch y'all tomorrow.   J.R.

 

[Packers#1]

I'm ba-ack! and before you ask, yes, i did see a shark at the beach. He (or she) was a about a 3-4 ft. shovelhead shark (member of the hammerhead variety or whatever). It got to within maybe a yard or 2 of me (was mostly within 20ft. of the shore). It was a beauty too, man that was cool.

[Cederstrand]

Tall glass of cool water, please. (too late for coffee, especially since I didn't get to sleep until 6:00am and then wife woke me up to run errands at 10:30am)

***Lee, real slate is too expensive. Although we did look at some the other day and really did like it.

***RT, sorry you fried a controller. Bet you don't make that mistake again.

Stopped at that internet based train store today with the intention of blowing "investing" money on one of those SP GS-4 locos with the 10 car set, but they were closed. Hey, while I still have the wife's OK on it (she probably forgot how much those items cost), it's the right time to strike. (shhhhh!)

There are stacks & stacks of lumber out on the drive now. Early tomorrow morning the framing crew arrives. Contractor said we will be surprised how fast it all goes up.

Hope everyone is doing well this evening. Rob

 

[rtraincollector]

RT, good that you were easily able to fix things up and get going again with your 'puter. And thanks for getting the TOP honors. That deal with the recording sounds like something I might've pulled, actually.

I got a nice surprise at work this afternoon - our payroll gal popped in my office to tell me that I'd have a little something extra in my paycheck envelope tomorrow. I'd forgotten, but when you've been there five years, they give you a $500 bonus!

Nice!.... Even after getting some bills taken care of and putting some in savings, I'll probably still have a bit of MRR cash left.

Think on that note, I'll just kick back and continue with my dessert.

 

Blessings,

Jim in Cape Girardeau 

That MR money should just be enough to pay this page s bill so that should be nice of you lol

 

Hint hint lol

[JimRCGMO]

Evening, Chloe, I'll have a hot fudge sundae, please,

and a cup of coffee.

 

Thanks, RT.

Ah, nothing like the evening dessert, coffee and a string of Budds pulled by a Geep. Thanks, Morgan. And say Hi to your Dad for us.

RT, good that you were easily able to fix things up and get going again with your 'puter. And thanks for getting the TOP honors. That deal with the recording sounds like something I might've pulled, actually.

Jerry, hope Sallie's pride is the only thing that got hurt there today.

Paul, thanks for asking about the YOKE report (and Lee for the explanation) - I'd thought about asking, but (fancy that...) I got distracted by something else. Maybe my dessert got me off track?

I got a nice surprise at work this afternoon - our payroll gal popped in my office to tell me that I'd have a little something extra in my paycheck envelope tomorrow. I'd forgotten, but when you've been there five years, they give you a $500 bonus!

Nice!.... Even after getting some bills taken care of and putting some in savings, I'll probably still have a bit of MRR cash left.

Think on that note, I'll just kick back and continue with my dessert.

 

Blessings,

Jim in Cape Girardeau 

[rtraincollector]

Geeze look whos getting stuck with the bill if its not one bill its another eat and drink up guys.

[rtraincollector]

Lee back about 25 years ago My oldest brother came home from just getting done 4 weeks of reftra in cuba well bright eyes here ( oldest and youngest never really got along ) had a recording of this is a drill this is a drill general quarters general quarters all hands man your battle stations well you can guess what I did my father was laughing so hard he started to cry. I still get comments about that from time to time lol. ( I still owe you for your GQ prank you know)

We do seem to get along thou now a lot better than we did before. lol

Evening all not to much happening did have my conventional engines running in TMCC today for about 5 minutes but then I fried the controller by mistake so that will cost me $60.00 to replace . I will also have to get an 7amp inline circuit breaker to prevent that from happening again.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Found the diner on page two. What the heck goes on here?

[LSWrr]

Paul,

Condition XRAY provides the least watertight integrity and the greatest ease of access throughout the ship. It is set when the threat to the ship is minimal. Condition XRAY is set during working hours when the ship is in port and there is no danger of attack or from weather. The minimum degree of tightness permitted on an operational ship is condition XRAY. When condition XRAY is set, all fittings marked with a black X are closed.

Condition YOKE provides a greater degree of watertight integrity than condition XRAY, but to a lesser degree than the maximum condition. YOKE is normally set at sea and in port during wartime. When Condition Yoke is set, all fittings marked with black Xs and Ys, Circle X and Circle Y are closed. A modified condition YOKE is sometimes used at sea when cruising independently in good weather and calm seas and in port in peacetime. In the modified condition, YOKE fittings above the waterline are left open to improve ventilation and habitability. All other XRAY and YOKE fittings are closed.

Condition ZEBRA provides the greatest degree of subdivision and water-tight integrity to the ship. It is the maximum state of readiness for the ship's survivability system. Condition ZEBRA is set: Immediately and automatically when general quarters is sounded; When entering or leaving port in wartime; To localize damage and control fire and flooding when the crew is not at general quarters; and At any time the CO deems the maximum condition of survivability should be set. When condition ZEBRA is set, all fittings marked with black Xs and Ys, Circle X, Circle Y, Circle Z, red Zs and DOG Zs are closed.

Dog Zebra (DOG Z) is normally set when you want to run "darken ship".

Lee

[Paul W. Beverung]

Hi Gang: I just got in from setting up the pump and irragation system. I pulled the pump in last night in case we got a lot of rain. We only got enough to make the dust on the trucks spotty.

CN I'm sorry to hear about your father in law. Please give you wife, her mother and the rest of the family my condolences and best wishes.

Lee I understand the batten down the hatches and gun ports, but whats a YOKE report?

Mary Ann and our daughter Lara took the GD Sara to school to get her resgestered. They haven't gotton back yet so they ether ran into problems or are off shopping.

I need to get going and help son John down at the road trimming brush so we can see whats coming.

I'll stop in tonight.

[rtraincollector]

Well got back in last night all I had to do was disable my fire wall log on and then re enable my fire wall and all is fine so anyway not a lot happening today will chat later

[SilverSpike]

 

Silverspike: Great shots! But the lighting on the Primer is a tad off, otherwise you have a real winner. Try brightening the shot of the car first?

You are right Flash! So I went and made a few more with different backgrounds:

The others are here:

http://piedmontdivision.rymocs.com/images/PrimeMove_City_080608.gif

http://piedmontdivision.rymocs.com/images/PrimeMove_Tanks_080608.gif

 

[Cox 47]

Good Morning All....Its partly cloudy but not as hot here today..We had some storms last nite but not too bad here.Down at Robinson were my son and daughter live they had 70 mph winds..

I'll have a pork Burger,onion rings and a root beer Float please...Thank You..

We had to call the ambulace this morning Sallie Fell while we were outside waiting for medi Taxi...She went to set down on the set of Her walker and She had forgot to fold seat down..I am not strong enough to get her up any more so we had to call for help..She is gonna be sore and black and blue but she's OK..

I worked on hopper cars yesterday spent most of time on just one car that I can;t get it to track right..Ain't model railroading fun!!

John...Here it is mid 90's and your showing us your snow blowers..Neet model did you scratch it?

TrainsRM....Glad to see you here in the dinner...We have a bunch of Nscalers  [those of us who have seen the light]...Tell us about your layout...Do you have any photos?...

C N Charlie...Sorry to hear about your Father in Law....

Lee... The hoppers I am working on are Atlas... I am putting Atlas couplers on them..I picked up a bunch from another N scaler who doesn't like the and switched them out for M/T's...Lots of folks don't seem to like the atlas but getting a great deal on them I can make them work...

Well you all have a good one...Jerry

[Flashwave]

Morning! I;ll have a bowl of Strawberrie sand Cream Oatmeal before I head out.

 Today's it! First day on the WFMS Fairtrain

Silverspike: Great shots! But the lighting on the Primer is a tad off, otherwise you have a real winner. Try brightening the shot of the car first?

 

Welp, time fo rme to be gettin ready. I'm gonna see Dad first on my way up.

Oh, hey Jim!

Maybe I can get the nice guys to rattle the train by. Peek out for A GP7 and a string of Budds.

 

[JimRCGMO]

Good Morning, Zoe - I'll have a cup of coffee, glass of Ed's OJ, and a helping from Bill T.'s buffet, please 'n' Thanks!.

My apologies to Lee or others who were wanting the Ohio marching band. I'd tried to locate the Ohio band but couldn't locate them online when I went searching. But Lee, if you have contacts, let's bring the Ohio marching band in for the 2nd day of celebrations for JP, okay? Good idea about putting the grill on a gondola (just next to the passenger cars).

CN Charlie, sorry to hear of your FIL's passing on. My condolences for you and your wife, and prayers for comfort and peace through these times.

We're getting a (rain?) front move through our area today, but any rain must've been last night. Just clouds this morning, and slightly cooler (about 88 F for the high), with slight drop in humidity after the front moves through. Hey, any break in the heat after yesterday is appreciated!

DerJohn, nice job on that snow blower, and as Rob said, it appears to work just fine.

Ryan, excellent menu for JP's welcoming home. I'll probably be planning for some of that BBQ once lunchtime gets here. 

I'll be in the window booth, checking out the morning peddler freight.

 

Blessings and prayers,

Jim in Cape Girardeau 

[SilverSpike]

Morning folks!

Another orange air quality alert day here in NC.

Finally learned how to set my f stop arpeture setting on the camera last night and took some new photos with a better depth of field, here are a few of them. And I Photo Shopped the background on the Prime Mover one:

Ryan..Nice paint job on the machinery..I keep 5 or 6 spring cloths pins on the work bench for all kinds of uses They make good clamps when glueing...

Thanks Jerry! And glad you liked the menu too!

John Boy, the scamer folks have really gotten creative in their "social enginering" techniques. We just took an online training for "Cybersecurity Awareness" for all employees this past week, and email "phishing" is one of the more prolific forms at the moment.

RT, hope your health improves and thoughts and prayers continue!

Rob:

Ryan, can you imagine drill presses, lathes, etc... in N scale? Nice job on those.

...I can Jim! Bring them on! In the mean time, check out the snowblower

Jerry:

Ryan..Nice paint job on the machinery..I keep 5 or 6 spring cloths pins on the work bench for all kinds of uses They make good clamps when glueing...

...[#ditto] on the nice job Ryan!  I got a chocolate box full of those spring clip hair grip things at a garage sale way back, they're great too, and make handy heat sinks for electronics soldering, since they are metal.

Der, I got a lot of respect and admiration for you! That N scale detail is quite impressive on the snow blower! Yup! Those spring cloths pins are a definate multi-tasked tool in my kit!

Ah Hi eveybody! My Nscale diner went out of business so I thought I would come on in and get a good choclate shake and lick my wounds, how's things here

to the Diner TransRme1!

Sorry to hear of the FIL CN Charlie! Thoughts and prayers for you and the family.

Ryan, we need to find a hotel and have everyone meet there while you cook on the grill!  Better yet lease a passenger train and pick everyone up while you're in the gondola with the grill.

Hey Lee, yup, just attached the hitch and pulled along with the convoy!

Rob, sounds like the contractor work is progressing very nicely.

Welcome Back JP!!!!! BBQ special menu stands all week.

You all have a goodn'

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Jeff, lad to hear you didn't get much rain or wind, but if you had not tied everything down......

Yeah, we would have probably found the patio furniture on the other side of the lake. When Rita came through in '05 our patio table (made from tubular steel and weighs over a hundred pounds) ended up in one of the neighbors yards almost a thousand feet away. The chairs were tied to a wrought iron roof support so they stayed put.

 

Good morning.

It's 78 and cloudy with fog. The high is expected to be in the low 90's with a mostly cloudy sky.

Nothing special going on today. I'm just burning DVD's.

Today's Weather for:
Sundown, LA  71446-6114      8/6/2008

Heat Index:  85°F
Humidity:  89%
Dew Point:  75°F

So Far Today
High:  79°F
Low:  77°F
Rain:  0.00"
Rain Rate:  0.00"/h
Gust:  8mph NNE

Today  High: 92    Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds around 5 mph.
     
Tonight  Low: 72    Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.

[LSWrr]

Good morning all,

 JP, WELCOME BACK!!!! 

CN Charlie, I am so sorry for your loss, please pass my condolences to your wife and family.

Jerry, What make hoppers and what replacement couplers did you use?

Jim, I thought we chatted 2 years ago about using the Ohio marching band vise the Michigan marching band. Gosh!

Johnboy, there are several scams out there and one has to pay attention to what they read.  I know if you tried to withdraw $8,000 from my account the bank would just laugh.

Rob, I feel for you. We just went through something like that with my Aunt. Not to mention I'm one of the few people on base will a full size pick-up so I get volunteered to help move people.  For your porch; ask about (real) slate tiles.

I added a diesel siding off the turntable last night; my friends have first generation diesels and they do quite a bit of work on my layout so I thought I should be nice to them.  Other than that I'm all steam as well.

Ryan, we need to find a hotel and have everyone meet there while you cook on the grill!  Better yet lease a passenger train and pick everyone up while you're in the gondola with the grill.

Jeff, lad to hear you didn't get much rain or wind, but if you had not tied everything down......

Der, that snow blower is something!

Lee

[wetidlerjr]

Good Morning from Tipton IN ! 

[Cederstrand]

After 3:30am Insomnia again.

***Tom, I used a thick towel to hold Jambo while my wife gave him the oral antibiotics. Even with the towel, he came real close to getting me and he's a little cat. I'd almost rather wrestle with a steer. Hope Lowell continues to enjoy life with you.

***Der, that snowblower is so powerful, there isn't a spec of the white stuff left anywhere.

***CN Charlie, very sorry to hear of your FIL's passing. Your wife will need that extra support, no doubt. Healing thoughts heading your family's way.

Our contractor said he planned 60-65 cents a tile? Well, after going to a major tile outlet (where a lot of contractors go) they basically told us there were no tiles suitable for a screened porch in that price range, unless we wanted a bunch of cracked tiles come a cold freeze. Will have to have a talk with our contractor about this.

Going to watch TV until I drift off.

Rob