in a SOUTHERN mug, please & thanks.
***Lee, any chance of posting a pic of Moose? Sounds like a pretty darn lucky dog with a big heart (both literally & figuratively).
***Philip, that no-loss pump is a great idea. Never knew that bikes air shocks were so sensative.
The last of the porch screens went up this morning. Sounds like they are doing mostly clean-up now. As soon as the contractor is done, we'll have the tile & carpet guys come finish it the way we want it done and can move into the new build. Perhaps just a week or so away...I hope.
It's still drizzling out. Every drop helps the water table. Sure am glad it isn't ice, snow or sleet. Some of you are sure are getting more than your share of that stuff.
Slept in this morning, since sleep only arrived after 4:00am. Can't do that again. Late to do morning critter rounds so gotta go. Have a good day all. Rob
Mornin' everyone!
Already had breakfast on the ru7n Flo, but another cup of dark roast would do nicely!
Today is get everything done that should have gotten done several days ago and didn't. Already drove to Seneca Falls and got my hair cut. Well actually I got all of them cut. On the way home an idiot roared past me doing about 60 in a 45MPH zone so he could pass the car ahead of me almost running into the car ahead of him in his lane so he could cut right in front of the car he just passed and pull over 3 lanes to turn right at the intersection. When I got the the intersection he was sitting at the red light waiting to turn.......... Duh?!
Spent some time working on the layout last night, Finished (except for some light weathering) 2 boxcars decaled for the SLOW, did a small section of ballasting and got some wires tucked into wire clips so they are a bit neater.
You guys getting the Midwest storm today I hear are planning to send it my way by tomorrow. We are under a Winter storm watch today and tomorrow. predicting 4 to 6 inches of "partly cloudy" by tomorrow night. Lucky for me I can lay low tomorrow if i get all the errands done today. I also have the last of the concerts tonight that I do Live sound for at school.
Have a great day and prayers to all who are in need!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
PC ... Thanks ...Here's a photo we can enjoy on a cold day.
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It did not work......PC send me an email address and I'll forward a funny email to you ...You can post the picture.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
howmus Today is get everything done that should have gotten done several days ago and didn't. Already drove to Seneca Falls and got my hair cut. Well actually I got all of them cut. On the way home an idiot roared past me doing about 60 in a 45MPH zone so he could pass the car ahead of me almost running into the car ahead of him in his lane so he could cut right in front of the car he just passed and pull over 3 lanes to turn right at the intersection. When I got the the intersection he was sitting at the red light waiting to turn.......... Duh?!
Ray ...Here in Rednecksville, drivers will do that, but they do not have multiple lanes to play with. Instead, they pass on double yellow lines, and you have no idea abou approach cars coming over the hills or around the curves. It gets exciting, too, if you are driving uophill, and suddenly you see an oncoming care being passed by a fast car approaching in your lane. No shoulders; just ditches.
My old analogue thermometer is stuck at -6C.
Ray; We see some of these fellows as well. I was at one of our local Tim Horton's when one guy came around the corner of the intersection, nearly wiping out a pedestrian crossing the street, then came barrela---g his way into the parking lot---OOOPS ---into a doughnut,throws car into reverse --never mind looking out for delivery truck BEHIND him then parks the car.---He came into the coffeeshop and tells his friend that he can't figure out why his insurance went up
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...
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Heartland Division CB&QRay ...Here in Rednecksville, drivers will do that, but they do not have multiple lanes to play with.
Ever notice that there is never a cop around when people do those kind of things........??? Yeah, we have our share of those right here in the "backwoods" of NYS.
I’ll take some pictures of the team track. I’m using scale lumber from Plastistruct to build it. Scale I think its 15’ x 50’. The trick will be to adjust the height to match the rolling stock.
We had a fire here in the Federal Building where I work yesterday and earlier that morning a 42” water main burst just down the road. I have been in early for the past month to get some reports out so the LT let me takeoff last night 20 minutes early. As I drove out of the parking lot I saw the Fire strobes and then 6 fire trucks blew past me.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
howmus Heartland Division CB&QRay ...Here in Rednecksville, drivers will do that, but they do not have multiple lanes to play with. Ever notice that there is never a cop around when people do those kind of things........??? Yeah, we have our share of those right here in the "backwoods" of NYS.
Ray ...Funny you should say that. One time, I went over a hill and coming the other way was a big 18 wheeler being passed on the double yellow by a State Trooper. Yikes! Good thing I was going slow enough and there there was a palce to pull off the road.
We have more than our share of crazy drivers here in the backwoods of Georgia. Double yellow on a hill doesn't slow 'em down a bit. I've had to hit the shoulder while driving the pickup truck a couple times when a small car would come roaring into my lane on the windy road here near home.
Contractor thinks he's done today. Will take a serious walk through with the wife Saturday and see if he is or not. We will be glad when this particular chapter of our life is behind us. I think I found a dead plug...nice!
I ordered all the polarizing filters I need for shooting artwork again. A circular/adjustable lens for the camera and 2 large sheets that I will frame (to place infront of lights). Was hoping I still had them here in the studio. Apparently they went in the fire. This year has been practically dead for selling original oil paintings, so the more prints offered, the better. Wife wants me to do some train paintings. IMO, that would be a very small market and take considerable research to do it right.
Nothing on the train front. Anxious to see the wife's HO buildings when they arrive. Any I don't have to spend time on building is a big plus.
Rob
Now that the rain has let up I've been working on the first two strips of hedgerow for the edge of the park. These are nothing more than pieces of dark blue fiber furnace filters with plenty of green spray paint laid on with some generous applications of green blended turf between paint applications and a final layer of blended turf on top.
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Looks good Jeff. I read in a mag awhile back, that using yarn makes good rows for gardens or what nots. You do it the same way as you did your hedges.
I guess they will look like rows of greens or add some white for cotton.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
There's all kinds of things you can do with the oddest things.
Here she comes!!! The National Weather Service has just changed the Winter Storm Watch they put up for the Finger Lakes to a Winter Storm Warning.
A SIGNIFICANT WINTER STORM WILL SPREAD SNOW ACROSS THE AREA STARTING AROUND 9 AM FRIDAY MORNING... THEN THE SNOW WILL BECOME STEADIER DURING THE REST OF FRIDAY MORNING AND AFTERNOON. THE SNOW WILL BE HEAVY AT TIMES FROM LATE MORNING THROUGH MUCH OF THE AFTERNOON... WHEN SNOW COULD FALL AT A RATE OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR. THE SNOW WILL TAPER OFF FRIDAY NIGHT.
STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL AMOUNTS ARE LIKELY TO RANGE FROM 6 TO 9 INCHES DURING THE DAY FRIDAY WITH ADDITIONAL MINOR ACCUMULATIONS POSSIBLE FRIDAY EVENING.
TRAVEL CONDITIONS WILL DETERIORATE SIGNIFICANTLY FRIDAY. MOTORISTS SHOULD ANTICIPATE SNOW COVERED ROADS AND VERY DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS... ESPECIALLY ON UNTREATED AND SECONDARY ROADS. NORTHEAST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WILL CREATE SOME BLOWING AND DRIFTING PROBLEMS... ESPECIALLY IN MORE OPEN AREAS. VISIBILITIES COULD BE DRASTICALLY REDUCED AT TIMES.
Looks like a fun day. Hopefully they will close the roads and my son won't have to drive through it tomorrow afternoon to go to work..... I think tomorrow will be a great day to work on trains, maybe bake some cookies to share.....
Jeffrey, I like that hedge!
Jeffrey's hedge rows look great. Now the mention of fresh baked cookies has me drooling over the keyboard. Any chance of baking those today? Rob
Good afternoon, I would like a hot cider for this chilly day. It snowed most of yesterday, and until a hour ago. Since the sun is out, we might not get any more snow until Saturday.
Mark, You lucked out being in the rain(snow) shadow of the Olympics. By the way, I love your fire alarm.
Jim, This is a test. I am working on allowing you to enlarge this photo. Please hang in there. It make take a few edits to get it right.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Afternoon, Zoe, about time for a root beer float, please. Thank you, Ma'am.
Mark, I never recall having the weather work that well for me when I was in school. You lucky fella! Just remember that in July when you're making up all the snow and ice days you were off... - Love your fire alarm photo, too.
Jeff, if I take my glasses off to see where the decal is, I may have it on the next car over! I need 'em for anything at reading distance (or closer). Guess I'll have to do my best, or else hire someone to do my decaling for me.
, Garry - don't ya just love technology? Especially when it ain't working too well! On your dancing pic question, I'd say follow PC's directions. I can edit one of those animated gif files on my Mac, but that won't help you much, I'm guessing.
Ray, we Midwesterners believe in sharing our weather, don'tcha know? I hear that when Mark and Sue are done with their snowy weather, they're gonna send theirs along to you, also. Oh, on what Garry said about passing customs here in the Midwest, it gets even more fun in Iowa, because they have these curbs up there that - if you start to go off the road - will bounce you across into the left lane! Great stuff, no?
Ray, you'd better have Zoe and Chloe start taking cookie orders - you may be busy baking all day! That does sound yummy, though... Make mine either chocolate chip (Toll House kind is good) and/or oatmeal raisin, please. Sheesh, you start talking food around here and all the chowhound genes sure come out!
Jeff, good hedges there - as you said, the weirdest stuff works in MRR'ing.
Sue, you have me drooling with your layout pics there. Those ones do look like cattle - maybe it was just the one figure that (sort of) resembled a cougar. Don't you have any cougars up in the mountains of the Northwest? I do like your trees (and that gorgeous trestle)!
I'll be finishing up my RBF for now... Well, lookee who has the dinner tab - okay Chloe, start the tab for me.
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
JimRCGMOJeff, good hedges there - as you said, the weirdest stuff works in MRR'ing.
You could always make some trees with it.
Speaking of chowhounds...I'll go for some of those chocolate chip cookies...Audrey made up a batch of chocolate chunk cookies to take to a neighbourhood potluck tonight with some of her friends---missed out on 'em dangnab it!
Jeff, Jim;After you were talking about using furnace filters for the hedges I got to thinking about the granery behind the purina mill itself. Being of a coarse grained corrugated metal siding and me not being able to find PITA styrene in quite that form I went down to the local dollar store and picked up a bunch of aluminum cookie sheets---there is my metal granery---heeheehee and all for a dollar(6 11"x16" in a pack).
JimRCGMO Sue, you have me drooling with your layout pics there. Those ones do look like cattle - maybe it was just the one figure that (sort of) resembled a cougar. Don't you have any cougars up in the mountains of the Northwest? I do like your trees (and that gorgeous trestle)!
We have lots of cougars. They even venture in town. We have displaced their habitat with houses. There have been some quite close.
Well, it looks like it is snowing again. I thought that it was ending at noon.
Looks like Larry is stuck here for the night. There was an accident to the south. Too bad.
Sue; They are talking about Eastern Cougar around our neck of whatever woods you can find here. There were quite a few sightings the last couple of years at any rate.
The snowstorm is going to give us about 6-8" by tomorrow night---who knows, they certainly are playing it up---
Evenin' folks!
Concert went well, all mics are put away, board is zeroed out, and everything stowed til the next one.....
BC I see your up in London ON. I used to take my Boy Scout troop to an international camporee near there in Dorchester. Always had a great time at that one. I will be in Woodstock for an NFR NMRA convention next April.
Hi. We've had a delay, two swim meets canceled. County on Saturday. And I hav styrene, chairs, and Athearn coaches. Anybody guess where this is going? Also, there's an Accurail gon and 3, count thm, 3 sets of Christmas trees I got at Jo-Ann for 60 percent off. Last ones. We're gonna raid another store. They are perfect for Christmas loads.
I need string...
-Morgan
Well, I finally found my camera so I can post pictures again. The cars I weathered that I wanted to take pictures of the other day are at the MR club. I did 2 more today.
Here's a UP covered hopper I bought today for 5 bucks. It's a bluebox kit that was put together rather crudely by the previous owner. I took it home, reassembled it, and weathered it. I was trying to give it the impression of a fairly new car that has seen a lot of us, I think it came out great.
This ONR car I've had for a few months. I put P2K trucks on it while I was weathering it. I think this one came out okay.
I found out that my P2K GP30 and Atlas U30C I bought have shipped, so they should be here in a few days.
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.
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A team track is a small railroad siding or spur track intended for the use of area merchants, manufacturers, farmers and other small businesses to personally load and unload products and merchandise, usually in smaller quantities.[1] The term "team" refers to the teams of horses or oxen delivering wagon-loads of freight transferred to or from railway cars.[2] Earliest rail service to an area often provided a team track on railroad-owned property adjacent to the railroad agent's train station.[3] As rail traffic became more established, large-volume shippers extended privately owned spur tracks into mines, factories, and warehouses. Small-volume shippers and shippers with facilities distant from the rail line continued using team tracks into the early part of the 20th century.
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Evening all,
Sue the layout looks pretty good. We really don’t have cougars here, but we have a large population of coyote and red fox. You go east of here a ways and you’ll find black bear and mountain lions (I know same as a cougar).
Vincent those cars look really good.
Jeff, you make fine shrubberies! Monty Python would be very proud of those!
Jim, The Team track I built using Evergreen .043” x .090” strips, #4100 V_GROVE .100” spacing. The beams running length wise I can’t remember the size, but they are the same as the DPM building strips to mount the roof on. The supports are wood railroad ties cut to height. It’s air brushed with Poly scale railroad tie brown. I used Testors to glue the project together except for the railroad ties where I used Microscale Micro Kristal Klear adhesive.
Now how many people remember the Monty Python movie that required them to pay with TWO SHRUBBERIERS!
The Ice storm commeth to Euclid tonight around 0100. 3” of ice, and then 2-4” of snow and then 2” of ice.
You mean as in the Knights who say "NEE"?
One of my very favorite movies. I could quote for hours! (don't worry, I won't. I just want to sing.....)
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.
Evening Gang: just a quick one. I'm really sick tonight. I don't know what it is but I've been vomiting, three times so far. It's really bad since ther isn't anything in my stomac to come up. About the only thing that I can take is water.
Nothing for me tonight ladies. It'll just come up in an hour or so.
I'm going to head back to bed and try and get some sleep.
Good Night All
Ray; If you do come up we should meet there as I'm going there too. Those shows always manage to get the creative juices working...
Paul;Take care. That can be really annoying...
They are still giving ooodles of warnings and watches... ...this is going to be interesting as I have a couple of clients who need this puppy... ...I drive to the Ilderton area, not far but tricky driving... yeehaw
We be heading for bed to sleep
I'll have the Insomniac's Special again tonight, please & thanks.
Have thoroughly enjoyed all the outstanding pics being posted lately. Keep them coming. Quite inspirational.
Night all. Rob