Mornin' everyone!
Currently 33°F outside here in the Finger Lakes with a high around 40°F. I would expect that the roof will be it's earth brown color again instead of the current white by this evening....
As soon as I finish my morning coffee, I will be out the door to set up sound for the Bell Concert this afternoon. Nice thing is I may be able to be packed up and back home by sunset if I am lucky.
Hope everyone has a great day!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Hey Guys!!! Well who can guess what today is??
It's my birthday today!! 16 years old! I've already gotten my presents and I love then. I got a life like Santa Fe lighted diner car with dome, and a life like lighted full dome car!! I got video and pics of them just need to get them on the computer.
Colby
TMarsh Sawyer- sorry you lost sounds like the game might have gotten a little rough at times. Why the age difference?
Sawyer- sorry you lost sounds like the game might have gotten a little rough at times. Why the age difference?
Yeah, it did, lol. Like I said, hit the floor a few times in the 1st period. would have gottens ewriously ticked off if my dad (our coach) hadn't pulled me several times for about a minute to calm down. The age difference is because the church I play divided its two teams into the older guys and younger guys in the age group, our team is the younger team, and I guess the other church did the same thing, and the age group I play in goes to 16.
EDIT(!): (This is what I get for not reading the thread through before replying to a post.)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY COLBY!!!!!!
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
These are some pix of the real purina mill in woodstock ON;
I may have finally(?) figured this thing out...grumble,gripe...
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
HAPPY BIRTHDAY COLBY!!!! taking a cue from sawyer here...
Happy 16th Colby.
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Lee: Check your PM's. I sent you two in '1950's vehicles'.
Happy Birthday, Colby.
Good morning, All.
We had a dusting of snow last night. I think that we were on the south end of it, so we probably didn't get as much as Mark.
Philip, Do you have Mars Attacks?
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
COLBY!
Just got back from the train show at Lake Catholic High School in Mentor, OH and I would recommend it in the future, however this was the first show held at this location and there was room for improvement. The show was mostly filled with Lionel and large scale train stuff with only 5 HO-Scale vendors (and only one had decent pricing). I think once the word gets out and more vendors move into the show it will fall in the top 3 shows for the area.
What I walked away with:
Walthers Jordan spreader (new), 37 pairs of Kadee couplers (new), Michigan Central 50’ Express Reefer, 8 #6 left turbouts (used), and 3 #4 right turnouts (used).
$6 admision.
Spent: $60.00
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good day all. Glass of water please, and a Hot turkey sandwich, mashed taters ,green beans and don’t skimp on the gravy . Thaaaank you!
Yep I do believe I’ll get to work on the old empire today. Maybe after the snowblower gets started to see if it runs. Sounds like ditto your weather Phillip and inch, ‘cept nasty supposed to start after midnight with rain starting it off. Might turn to ice. Maybe better get the generator going too. Last few times we lost power.
Terry- hope your roofers aren’t like some around here or you’ll be wearing a blue tarp for about a week.
Inch- Yes it would and yes it would! In fact Castle_ is my favorite of the two. I swear they have everything in that place if you just have the time to find it. Nice people too.
Sawyer- Aah, I see. I thought it was school ball. Well remember there’s always next time.
Lee- Hey look at it this way admission was only 10% of all that stuff…..or…..you spent 10 times admission.
Think I’ll get moving now
See Ya’ll
Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
Well if you want them I was going to ask $20 for all 3.
Colby!
gear-jammerPhilip, Do you have Mars Attacks?
Happy Birthday Colby!!......Jerry
I just love the forecast; first thing tomorrow morn we are supposed to be at 9 C then by the afternoon at -6C with rain finished by the morning... lots of puddles/ponds followed by ice--and skating...
I'll have some HHOOOOTTT chile(sp?) with a cup of dk roast coffee please.
As the mill project gets a little more together I'll be able to post the process---I'm still trying to figure surfaces out---
Well I did it, posted my first pictures in WPF. Learned the lighting in the room isn’t good for pictures and like I said needs lots of work. But small steps. Actually looks better in pictures believe it or not LOL.
Oh and Lee I re-read my comment to you about your train show purchases. It does NOT read the way I meant it. As I learn to communicate in a forum I learned that humorous sarcasm does not come across in type the way it does in person. What I meant and should have just said was "sounds like you got some great buys". I hope you didn’t take it just the opposite. Please accept my apology if you did.
Gotta go the dog wants me at the supper table. She eats when we do. Spoiled dog.
Evenin' Folks!
Just got home from the Smith. Nice concert, very easy to handle the sound with everything working the way it was supposed to...... Got there and the stage manager said, "Hey Ray, if you want, you can use our new board instead of yours........." Turned out great! Smooth response and nice clean sound. One less thing I had to set up as I have been using the house sound for the last several years substituting my board for the little one they have. They have a large JBL Pro speaker system all tuned for the house, so I just set up mics, monitors, and plug in.
Now I have the rest of tonight and all day tomorrow to work on the layout!!!!! YES!
Oh "Hippo Birdie" Colby!!! 16 huh? That was the age where I new everything........ Sure wish I still did!
What?!? Top of the page twice in one day? Man this will finish off my credit card!!!! Well have at it folks! I'm comfortably retired.
Well, I did manage to get out for a short ride today to get some pics of my bike. I spent Friday night and Saturday morning working on it.
Here's the before pic.........
And here's the after (sorry about the quality, the light was bad)............
I like the new bags and the emblems are awesome! Zambini Bros. did an excellent job on them!
Phil; That is a nice bike. what year would it be?
blownout cylinderPhil; That is a nice bike. what year would it be?
Why thank you.....it's a 2001 Kawasaki Drifter 1500. I like it quite a lot. I think this ones a keeper!
pcarrell Well, I did manage to get out for a short ride today to get some pics of my bike. I spent Friday night and Saturday morning working on it. Here's the before pic......... And here's the after (sorry about the quality, the light was bad)............ I like the new bags and the emblems are awesome! Zambini Bros. did an excellent job on them!
Wow Sweet Ride !!!!
Love the emblems
TerryinTexas
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Pepperoni Pizza, please & thanks.
***Sue, I love that movie "Mars Attacks".
***blownoutcylinder, we have plenty of chicken houses in the area here. We really don't have time to be scratch building much either, so would like to find a ready made (or simple kit) of them if available? BTW, real nice photos you posted.
***Inch, that might be what we end up doing, a long warehouse type structure. Can always add a couple little feed silos to the front, fans, AC units, etc on the sides. ((( I won't burst her bubble regarding her dream layout, I'm thrilled that she is so into it to begin with. )))
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Colby" There use to be an icecream shop that on your 16th birthday, you could go have a free sunday & get kissed by one of the waitresses. Would you believe I still remember the name of mine? Actually, we attended the same school, so she kissed me in the school parking lot the next day.
Wife continues to find more HO structures she wants online. Yikes, she has become a monster. For every model she pics that is identical to one of my own, I'll sell mine off and put those funds towards more N Unitrack. Even with ever shrinking plans for my own RR, there is still a shortage of track for it.
Hope everyone is doing well this evening.
Rob
Evening Gang: I spent the afternoon at the train show in Ft. Worth. I bought one Bachman "G" scale wood ore car. It's kind of a tradition with Brad of Brad's trains that he brings one of them for me to each show. I've got seven of them now and will quite when I get ten, maybe. His prices are 50% under list so it's not too bad.
My amin reason to go was to get dealers and exhibitors for the Clark Garden show in April. I got a very positive response from a good many of the people there. We'll just have to wait and see what happens.
Colby. Did you get kissed?
Rob maybe you need to consider going to HO. At least that way you would get some room. Really it's great that your wife is so interested. Well so long as she doesn't run you out os the train room.
I'm getting tired of using the puter with it on the floor and the keyboard in my lap. This is not what I call a lap top.
I see that I got the top a couple of pages back. I wa woundring why my credit card company called and thanked me for all the business.
Time to hit the bed. It's early but that show and all the talking about our show wore me out.
Good Night All
OOps, I posted in the wrong window.
Rob, what kind of track are you using?
Paul good to see you back in the diner.
Lee
Tall glass of lemon water, thanks.
***Philip, if I forgot to mention it, Nice Bike!
***Paul, IF I were to start over completely from scratch and KNEW I was going to one day have a train room, I have to admit I would most likely go with the Huge Oversized scale. Too late for that now.
***Lee, Kato Unitrack for my N and will incorporate Atlas Flex to make longer runs more interesting.~ Wife's HO is Bach NS EZ track all the way.
The coyotes are whooping it up at the edge of our back pasture tonight. Unaka, (our big old male Pyrenees) had just come up from that way, too. Finished the last critter rounds so I'm done for the night.
Cederstrand ***Sue, I love that movie "Mars Attacks".
And my favorite line from the movie, "Yak yak, yak yak yak!"
Rob; I came across something by Alpine Division Scale Models called a furniture factory (metal. I am assuming it is a kit) measuring 4 1/2"x12". It is a shallow roof 1 storey building that appears to be still being dist. by Walthers. Would that work?
Well guys and Gals it is time for bed, but before I go I thought I would
leave you with this history lessons involving Trains and horse's nether regions.
When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory at Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds. So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ***. ..... and you thought being a HORSE'S *** wasn't important!
Say goodnight girls..............
Johnboy out.
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
John; We are now having a laugh fest, tnx!!!
We be's going off to snooze--g'nite...
[Alpine Division Scale Models called a furniture factory] I'll look it up tomorrow. Thanks!
***Sue, my favorite line was "ack ack, ack ack" and remember, "I want the people to know that they still have 2 out of 3 branches of the government working for them, and that ain't bad." Jack Nicholson sure did a good job with his two characters in that movie. I didn't recognize him at first as "Art Land". That movie is a hoot.
Hello.....
We just returned from an afternoon and evening in Clarksville, TN. The Christmas lights along the Cumberland River waterfront are very nice. Beer and Pizza at the Blackhorse Saloon downtown there is very good. In our little town here, the best pizza is at the Godfather franchise at the gas station. Hence, we made the drive to TN for pizza with some friends.
No model railroading accomplished today.
Colby ........ Happy B'Day!
Todd ... Congrats on your first WPF post. It looks outstanding.
John Boy ..... Thanks for sharing the track gauge story and the roll of horses.
Cheers everybody......
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU