jeffrey-wimberly demonwolf224To top the money thing, I'm going to have a baby tooth ripped out Ouch! Been there and done that.
demonwolf224To top the money thing, I'm going to have a baby tooth ripped out
EDIT: Ohhh........ It looks like I've got the tab for Breakfast for us westerners and Brunch for you easterners.
Luke
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please & thank you.
The flood waters have subsided on the ol' farm, so the repair work begins. Still beats a drought anyday.
Regarding the (HO) ICE trains by these assorted makers: PIKO, Fleischmann, Marklin and TRIX. Anyone have experiences with or thoughts on any of these brands?
Rob
New Haven I-5I have heard it hurts....
For breakfast I'll have the sausage links and Eggs Benedict and orange juice.
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
Good Morning, Zoe - I'll have a glass of Ed's OJ, cup of coffee and the morning comic section, please. Thanks!
blownout cylinderHe, at least, didn't go after the other locos which get put away in the display case---padlocked of course----'Spring' keeps poking at the padlock though. He hasn't figured out the lockpicking thing yet---
Ah, it's payday!
Now to figure which bills get paid after tithes and putting gas in the car's tank. Did I mention that this morning as I start up the car, the gas gauge tells me it's "! mile until empty"?? Lot'o'praying on the way by the credit union's ATM and then to the gas station. Yes indeed! I think the tank in the car holds 15 gallons and I put 14.18-something into it at the gas station.
Eric, 8 feet is good - that's how long my two sections are together (so far). I'll be able (once I get the wiring done) to do some switching, at least. Though I really need another foot or two on one side so I could more easily get to the back industrial tracks.
Inch - loved your doctor's joke (and told it to several co-w**kers yesterday).
Rob - take care there with all your floods and tornadoes. You lost one house to fire, so we don't want you to lose this one to a twister. Stay low, fella!
John1947 - that's one neat truck (and cool about getting to have the trains in the museum as a fund-raiser).
Unca Rog, I like your boxcar (and the RR line name - how'd you pick that?).
DerJohn, congrats on avoiding the statins (and the $$$ for them), and also on getting the opportunity to introduce your fellow Nova Scotians to MRR'ing. Thanks for posting Teffy''s plaque - I'd heard a slightly different version of "Teffy's Rule" before, but that's a funnier one! Good to hear you have the track problems figured out so you can get back to running trains.
Jeff, you're gonna have our new Diners watering at the mouth again, showing 'em that delectable breakfast!
Demonwolf224 - hope that baby tooth comes out easily, and the dentist gives you a good anesthetic so you don't feel a thing. Hang in there on the layout - this'll give you time to read up and try out some designs for how you want it when you do get together the . And hey, you have today off school, right? Nothing like that to bring joy to a student's face!
I'll be drinking my OJ and coffee in the window booth - want to watch the morning switcher.
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
- RT, I almost forgot - I tried out with my layout design program, and the smallest I could get (guessing a 90 degree crossing) on that figure 8 layout was about 32" by 75" (using 16 curved (15" radius) pieces, 4 curved half pieces, plus 4-straight sections (9" each), and 4- 3" straight pieces. That layout's probably a lot bigger than that though, since it has the yard (to the 'front', etc.).
I probably have some cars I can send along. I think I have some magazines to track down for you, too, if I recall correctly...
JimRCGMOJeff, you're gonna have our new Diners watering at the mouth again, showing 'em that delectable breakfast!
Mornin' everyone!
Today has been canceled do to lack of the sun.... Well not really but our schools are starting 2 hours late due to the weather. We had a bit of snow turned to freezing rain last night. Right now it is 34°F outside with rain and sleet falling. That will change over to snow this evening with 2" to 4" possible by morning. Then we will have more snow tomorrow...... Ah Winter in the Finger Lakes. Anyone for a camping trip? Actually it needs to be 10° colder for good winter camping around here. Right now many of you are saying, "Zoe, lock the door and call those guys in the white suits"! In fact winter camping can be a lot of fun. I have been camping out on a lake (really) in midwinter with the temp. around -20°F and a 30 mile an hour steady wind. Wind chill of -75°F. If you were out of the wind you were quite comfortable. Really! It is a Boy Scout Winter Camporee called Cuba Ice Camp. (Held in Cuba, NY)
Zoe just bring me what Jeffrey is having this morning! Oh and some dark roast in a FGLK mug.
I got decking finished last night on the Overton Combine turned Freight House. Still have a lot more to go with it, but it is starting to look good.
Rob, hope the flood waters haven't left too much of a mess (no offense Fergie) for yu to clean up and repair. I best check my basement and see if last nights deluge has dampened the floor again.......
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Ray; I've done the winter camping thing a few times. It is an experience that's for sure
Zoe could I have a cheeseburg delux---with gravy on the fries and a large glass of coke please-----I'll be in the back seats.
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/
Rob, it really has been feast or famine for you when it comes to water the last couple of years, huh?
Ray, I got my Blizzard Bait badge in boy scouts by camping out all weekend in a blizzard with 3ft of snow already on the ground (and more coming) and -5 temps. Wind was howling too. We just packed the snow down, pitched our floorless (!) tents, threw straw inside, covered that with plastic, and piled snow up a foot or two onto the outsides of the tent. We were sweating in those tents. We sat up playing cards in our underware, we were so hot in there.
Just poking my head out the kitchen to post today's specials:
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Well guys its lunch time and I'm hungry. I will get the Blue Plate Special. Oh, with sweet tea.
Lets see....weather wise its a cold rain but turning to snow by 6:00pm. They are calling for 1-4 inchs by Thursday, and light snow showers all week.
Theres the game on ESPN that if you can get 27 games in a row you win 1 million dollars. Its called "The Streak". I have 6 in a row. A guy from NY won last year. Then you had to guess 25 in a row. The games vary from NFL, NCAA, NBA, Soccer. You just pick the winner. So I look at it as a easy 1 million. Well not easy but a quick way.
I tried to do a video of my layout, well 2 parts of it. I will have to play around with the settings. The train looks blury, and I want you to be able to see it. Plus I need to work on the lighting some. NOW, remeber its my first ever try.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Having stood in awe, watching Southern Pacific GP9 lashups roaring by, when I was living in L.A. in '59 (and just getting into what sometimes feels like the DISEASE of model railroading)---my first idea for the 100 X 200 foot massive layout I'd one day command, was for it to be the SUDDEN PACIFIC.......the town of Sudden being on the coast, accessible only through the train tunnel that connected up to the SP mainline running north from L.A.
I later thought that all seemed kinda LAME, so scrapped it. Much later on I was looking in a book of synonyms and antonyms, and found FERRAGO as meaning "a jumbled mess"--which aptly describes the spaghetti bowl trackplans I was always coming up with. Then there's the expression "in a quandary," which I always heard as: IN AQUANDARY, like it was a TOWN.
That put together, they make a funny acronym, was all the better. Even later, I pictured a billboard on the main road in my fictional town, reading: IN AQUANDARY? TAKE A "FLYING F" daily, to Ferrago, and all points east (with a picture of an F7 donning the letter F with a little wing, pulling a passenger train at breakneck speed.)
The dimensions of the layout plan--for the day when I stop spending all waking hours arranging insurance for other people--have shrunk somewhat, to an eye level shelf only 16" deep in most places, running around a normal sized room.
We grow older, and our expectations diminish, sadly.
Robby P; the video was great----wha'd'ya mean 'first time' ? Audrey got a kick out of the sound quality of the train too BTW.
OK I finished breakfast now I'd like southern fried chicken and a Ceaser's salad with a 2/2 coffee please----
uh-oh: did I do a "no no?" I thought my last posting should have a photo of the F&A depot, its sign showing the "flying F" and all.....but I inserted it AFTER I posted, as an "edit" and I don't see it, above (only the photobucket url).
Does the set up not accept "later" photo uploads?
Just in case, and to see if doing it on THIS, original post is the only way it'll work:
Roggie, ya just gotta use the right link, thats all. You found the IMG link I see.
Stopped in real quick for one to go. (still at work).
Jim, I'm thinking the test track may wind up as part of a double track if I go with the attic plan.... if it fits up the attic stairs. The stairs come down into the upstairs hallway, old house small dimensions. I think the critters are using the laptop at home and reading your forums.... found an undecorated BLI F unit on the dining room carpet last night. I was just about to start attaching microscopic bits and pieces. Fortunately the bag of parts is still in the box.
See everyone after quitting time!
Eric
Weather at the Jersey Shore; Cold, very rainy but slowing down a bit.
This TOP? I'll pick it up!
Lunchtime! I'll have a steak burger and an order of buffalo wings.
How about a Pepsi to wash that down.
I'll do the bison burger with blue cheese please Zoe! Thanks!
I'm starting work on a new scene. It will be on the drop-out section of the layout that was occupied by midtown consolidators. I decided it's time for a change. Midtown Consolidators had been there for a long time (nearly 9 years) and was falling apart. The new scene will be the Shell Auto Center. I have the building, scenery details (pumps, etc), vehicles, figures, etc to get a good start on it. The building has it's own light (cheap Model Power light) so I'll be replacing it with quality lights that I have on hand. The biggest job will be masking off the windows from inside so I can spray the interior flat black to prevent the lights shining through. Here's a few photos of what I'm starting with.
Jeff, Don't mind me, but are you sure that Shell station is HO. It looks like you could put a 50ft. box car in those bays.
In the pics it looks way bigger than some of those industrial buildings.
Just checking Friend.
Johnboy out...................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Ok, I need some help with this. What could this be? I was thinking a mole, but most moles around the house are very small. Its a decent size hole. I keep filling them in, but they keep opening it back up. Now they have started to dig in the middle of the bush. The other shot was a hosta. Thats probably dead now.
Any ideas???
Jeff, isn't that going to cut into Ezra's business pretty heavy? Don't want old Ezra goin' hungry now, do we?
About the Shell station. I'm far from an expert but it does look a wee bit large.. especially with those containers nearby. Perhaps it the perspective.... yea that's it!
Ezra is on the 'other' side of the tracks.
To all doubters: The Shell station is HO Scale. Most of the containers are 20 footers.
Well, okay. I wish the doors at my job were that big, The trucks would fit a lot easier. Looks more Matchbox size than HO. Sorry, don't mean to pick.
Many bay doors in Leesville are that big. I've seen RV's pulled into some of them. Here's the photo from Walther's. It shows all that comes with the building.
Okay you win.
Robby P. Ok, I need some help with this. What could this be? I was thinking a mole, but most moles around the house are very small. Its a decent size hole. I keep filling them in, but they keep opening it back up. Now they have started to dig in the middle of the bush. The other shot was a hosta. Thats probably dead now. Any ideas???
Looks like it might be Voles
http://icwdm.org/handbook/rodents/Voles.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vole
We've got them problems with them here in the flowerbeds n such. Their had to get rid of even with poison
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309
Afternoon Coffee Shop peoples....
The Associate Pastor and I have decided to cancel out the Deacons meeting tonight. We decided that as soon as I had spent all day getting all the materials together for the meeting. We decided that with the chance of some very slippery roads and many of our members living out of town that a meeting wasn't worth risking their safety. So the last hour and a half I have been on the phone making sure each deacon knew the meeting was canceled. Now the Associate Pastor did half of the calls so I can't complain about having to do it all myself.
So unexpectantly I have a bit of time for myself tonight. What to do.....? Oh, my new Near Field Monitors arrived via UPS this afternoon so I think I will unpack them and give them a test. Then I'm sure I can find some things to do in the train room. But first....
Zoe, bring me a mug of decaf in a R&GV Museum Mug and that Buffalo Meatloaf Special I saw on the board earlier. Yep, that's the one! For dessert I'll a slice of that Apple Pie with some Vanilla Ice Cream on top and don't you dare tell my doctor!