Hi Gang: I went to the doctor today. He said that I have a stomic virus and to drink plenty of water and have some chicken soup with clear broth. That's about all I can do. I am feeling better so I gues I'm on the mend.
Ray I'll have to pass on those cookies for a bit.
I think that I'll head out and come back in later.
last mountain & eastern hoggerJeff are those decals or the ones you made with air-mail paper on the puter??
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Cederstrand***Ray, hope you are bringing a LOT of cookies. I for one can't just eat a few...I don't stop until my innards say quit.
There'll be plenty for all, makin' a whole lot of them. Only problem is to ice them I need red food coloring. I found my food coloring pack and I have Blue, Yellow, and Green, but that's all. The Red one must have gotten used up last year...... Darn. Ok, ok,ok! I'll get to work and make some Toll House Cookies tonight. How's that?
Finally stopped with the constant snowfall around 4PM this afternoon. Total here at the house 9" in 6 hours. Certainly no record for these parts, but we still have 2 to 4" more in snow squalls tonight. I finally went out and fired up the snowblower a little before 5 while waiting for Alice (you remember Alice?) to get those Scalloped Ham and Potatoes out of the oven. I see it just came out so dig in fellas. Anyway, I was running the blower and down the street comes the city snowplow busy filling in all the driveways on the other side of the street that had just been cleaned out. Since I know the route, having lived in this house for 25 tears, I figured I would finish and wait for him to swing around and come back and fill in my driveway again. Waited, and waited some more....... He should arrive just about the time I sit down to a nice big helping of Scalloped Potatoes (with ham) and a nice hot cider.
Later everyone!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Jeff are those decals or the ones you made with air-mail paper on the puter??
They do look good.
Johnboy out..........
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Evening Diners. I'll have a bacon double cheeseburger if you don't mind, and a glass of water to go with it. I'm starving.
I'm looking on railpictures.net for prototypes for all my locomotives. I found one for my GP35, now for the GP30.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
refill and some veggie soup, please & thanks.
***Philip, suppose I could have said, "Old Dog Tired", as looking at our own old dogs, I'm pretty darn sure I know how they feel.
***Ray, hope you are bringing a LOT of cookies. I for one can't just eat a few...I don't stop until my innards say quit.
Painted all around the baseboards where the carpet will be laid. Tomorrow I'll use a roller to paint the rest of the plywood floor. This is said to keep dust from working up through carpet pads & carpeting. Have the extra paint, so why not give it a try.
Did hay rounds to the front & back pastures. Not much else to report on. Will be in the corner booth working on a mug coffee, waiting for those cookies to arrive. Rob
Afternoon all!
'Tis a fine Finger Lakes Winter's Day outside. So far we have a little over 6" of fluffy white stuff (in about 4 hours) on the ground with a couple more hours of heavy snow before it tapers off to snow showers complete with thunder. Then the wind should pick up and make a real mess.
Just got off the phone with my son. He thinks they will close second shift where he works, if not he will become officially snowed in and unable to get out of Geneva to go to work (which is the truth). His wife had to go to work this morning, they closed school at noon. Her usual 15 minute drive took almost an hour.
Cookies will be ready for evening snack tonight. Update later.
Cederstrand***Jeffrey, you have that decal work down to an art.
CederstrandDog tired today.
And just how tierd is that....really? I mean, have you ever actually BEEN a dog, and tired at the same time? Ya see, then you would know, right? Inquiring minds want to know........
in a SANTA FE mug, please & thanks.
***Jeffrey, you have that decal work down to an art.
Dog tired today. Just working on easy mindless projects today.
Rob
Lee,
I am afraid that I don't have a source like that.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Sue, no I found a better and easier way to paint these figures;
Friend of mine wanted a RS-2 unit I had and asked how much. I told him to paint these figures for me and the locomotive was his.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
More decal work today.
Mornin' everyone!
"Oh the Weather Outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful........... Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!"
The Finger Lakes is getting dumped on, so today has been officially canceled. Says so on R-News out of Rochester. That which isn't already closed will be soon. Weather warning includes:
SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS TODAY WILL RANGE FROM 6 TO 10 INCHES WITH AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 3 INCHES POSSIBLE TONIGHT WHEN THE STEADY SNOW WILL TAPER OFF TO SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS.
IN ADDITION TO HEAVY SNOW... NORTHEAST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 15 TO 25 MPH FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. THE WINDS MAY GUST AS HIGH AS 40 MPH NEAR THE LAKE ONTARIO SHORE. THIS WILL RESULT IN BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW... ESPECIALLY ACROSS OPEN AREAS.
Hope they close the roads so my son won't have to drive in this this afternoon to go to w**k. Don't know whether my DIL had to drive around the lake to Hillside where she teaches. Anyway it looks nice outside from sitting here inside right at the moment.
Paul hope you get feeling better soon. That stuff is not fun. (I'll save you some cookies for when you are feeling better....)
BC that sounds like a plan! We'll talk as it gets closer to April.
My prayers for all in need.
Good morning. Black coffee, please. We have 20 degrees this morning. With all this snow, it is so pretty out.
Vincent, Great job of weathering. The boxcar is my fav.
Lee, We have lots of coyotes, a few cougars, and even an occasional bear, but no red foxes. Great score on the figures. I found painting figures to be one of the most boring parts of modeling. Did you attach them to a nail so you could handle them?
Good morning peoples! Boy it just looks lovely today---expecting a high of -3C with barrels of snow--between 6-10" of the stuff---and I get to drive in it!
I started corrugating the aluminum cookie sheets I got from the local dollar store--they will do just fine--the sheets are stiff enough that won't crumble with any pressure which makes the corrugations easier to do---no tearing has happened,yet...
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/
Good morning all,
Paul, I hope you’re feeling better soon.
Well I woke up to 3” of fresh snow this morning and its still coming down but its starting to change into freezing rain. I-90 wasn’t salted or plowed this morning so 25mph was the top speed so my 15 minute commute turned into 45 minutes.
I hope everyone had the chance to see my pictures. Those people were 100 for $2 plus $2 shipping from WEHONEST on the bay. Only took 15 hours to paint them all.
Jim, are you using a MAC? If you want pictures of the team track shoot me an email and I’ll send you some pictures.
Good morning. It's 66 and very cloudy. The high will be around 75 and it will be partly cloudy. I got a break in the weather yesterday and got out the filter material, blended turf and spray paint and made the hedgerows I've been planning for the past week. Today I'll start on putting them in place. The location must be prepared first. The lichen that's now there must be removed and the dried glue needs to be taken off the surface. Hope I have a couple of hours to rub together. Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 12/19/2008 Wind Chill: 66°F Humidity: 94% Dew Point: 64°F So Far Today High: 68°F Low: 66°F Rain: 0.00" Rain Rate: 0.00"/h Gust: 18mph NNE Today High: 75 Areas of fog in the morning. Cloudy in the morning... Then partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Tonight Low: 62 Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
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
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
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
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 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.
Passenger Station
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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.
Team Track progress
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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.
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
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.
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---
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)!
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.