***JR, and I thought our house progress had been slow! At least your own continues to come along, so that is good. And very nice addition to your RR. Wish N scale could sound like those.
***Eric, yup, we have Paint horses, mini horses, mini donkeys, mini Zebu cows, pygmy goats, a PBP, and numberous birds, dogs and cats. It is my wife who is into circus/carnival/zoo type stuff in HO scale. Her concept is to combin that with a generic 40's town (give or take a decade), along with an ICE train (which makes no sense at all). Me, I'm all N scale and 95% of that is steam era.
***Hoople, your jazz instructor sounds like a lot of fun. Hey, ever been to a Civil War reenactment complete with rows of canon?
Good night all. Rob
Good evening to all, more progress on the train room today, inbetween trying to push 3" of heavy wet snow/sleet/freezing rain slush off the sidewalk and driveway. I finally gave up, far too heavy to even push.
I see from the weather satellite that there is one huge cold air mass in Alaska aboout to plunge southward. This one means business. It will bring frost warning to Florida and Gulf coast states for mid to late next week.
Off to bed, I may have to get more plywood at HD tomorrow, I have one island that measures 36" X 38" that still needs to be covered with 5/8" plywood. I may have several smaller pieces that I can use, but I need to see what is in the scrap pile.
Bon Soir,
I just spent a very productive couple of hours doing some weathering---I think I may be getting someplace---where remains to be seen---
We just got a snowsquall warning in effect for tonight and tomorrow---oh joy--
And the 'Spring' is giving with the headbutts again----anyhooooo we's going to
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I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
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I can't keep up with y'all... 4 5 pages in a day? Really churnin' it out...
Helped my dad get a new TV home and hooked up the other day... It's a big 50" samsung plasma... Pretty sweet deal, it was only $930 after tax, which is actually a great price for it...
Learning more about the Civil War in school, it's pretty fun to actually learn about our country's history and not ancient history.
I had a fun time at jazz band today. My teacher got his cast off so he could play his guitar again, (It's an old '60s one with the lipstick pickup, can't remember the name, but I know Jimmy Page used one for Stairway to Heaven.) and so he decided to play some stuff. I then asked him (He's a big zep fan) if he could play some Led Zeppelin. He goes into the opening of Rock and Roll, which I proceeded to jam to on the kit... He then went into the break with me, and then I brought back in, and then he said to shut up... Then I asked him if he could play a bunch of other zep songs, and he did... It was pretty awesome, lol.
Roggie: I liked your picture of the depot a couple pages back. It was a pretty good picture.
Time for a funny pic... Lets see...
TOTP is on me, go lightly on me! I need a new pair of shoes that fit me... I'm sure 15's are hard to find and to pay for...
Well we have the cats (3 of them), they are inside cats thou. Our 2 dogs (boxer, and a cocker), only smell the holes. What I need are a few M-80s
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Hi.....me again, reluctant to mention how I was able to lay at the pool sunbathing, as my lunchbreak today, given the horror stories of weather conditions described in here from the others.
After I posted the picture of the TOO CLEAN Shell storage tanks, which comes from a catalog, and having said it needs weathering, it dawned on me that someone, somewhere, who put that model together and posed it for Heljan, may take offense. I know that for catalog photos, you should go LITE on any weathering, and let the modeller imagine it dirty.....so I wasn't really hassling anyone else about their sense of realism. The current state of the version of that same model that I assembled, is even WORSE, as mentioned.
I forgot to make note of who it WAS that posted a photo above, of a passenger train in near darkness, but it is a VERY cool pix! Has a real EERIE glow to it.
Hey, maybe THAT's the trick: you photograph your unweathered models at NIGHT!
Good Evening All,
Welcome to all the newcomers, the diner is a real good place to hang out away from the sometimes too serious main rooms here. Sometimes we even discuss model railroading
Just a slice of blueberry pie and a decaf for me please. Long day today, but we're making progress on several fronts including the house. At the shop I'm back working on the 59 Cooper Monaco we stopped working on this summer, with luck by winters end it'll be ready to hit the track again. The new shop still hasn't got a C.O. but the contractor is close to gettingthat squared away. The house has electrics roughed in the siding on and the doors and windows in. We have insulation contractors doing bids, and the plumbing ready to start. Once the plumbing is in we'll have the inspector back out before we insulate or start with the sheet rock.
Broke down and ordered a pair of steamers from Broadway Limiteds close out sale - Sante Fe 4-8-4 that I'll put in passenger service on the museum excursion line. At half price it was hard to resist. I may need to winnow down the locomotive roster at some point, but for now why not? I've been impressed by all the BLI and Blueline power so far and the sounds are great as well. Decoder installation is not hard, but the programming on the last one was a real fight. I'll probably set up a temp test straight so I can program on the main which seems to be the best solution for changing over both the sound and control decoder addresses at once so they work in harmony.
Good to see the rest of you progressing with your layouts. Jeff I agree that the Shell station doors and overall size look big, but I also think it's your railroad (and gas station) and the design is classic.
Robby - I doubt you have Voles. You're nowhere near Tennessee . At least if you decide to have a garden railroad you have a good start on the tunnels. Perhaps one of the other diners will kindly loan you a cat (also good for rearranging rolling stock and forests).
That was good pie, and tomorrow is another long one. Catch y'all tomorrow. J.R.
Well, one more coffee Chloe then time to go. If a cat could have a guilty look.. Have to check the desktop...Ceasar spends a lot of time 'sleeping' by that computer. It does have a mouse after all..........
Later, Eric
Hello everybody ....
I was sort of kidding you diners about my Christmas present, but it was too much to post while traveling. They took me too "EnterTrainment Junction" near Cincinnati. It's amazing. Just amazing. I liked the 1950's big city with trolley cars and a union station in particular. I liked it because that is what I plan to be building on my layout this year. (a big city with trolleys and a union station).
You can see my thread about the Amazing G scale layout.
Here's a phto to wet your appetite.........
Meanwhile, I'm nt caught up on all of your posts yet. I did note the picture of the Shell Service station, Jeff. It looks like many such Shell stations around the good old USA.
GARRY
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JimRCGMOJeff, that may be HO scale, but that sure looks bigger - maybe you can justify putting a siding with a tanker unloading platform next to/behind that station! What's the building behind the Shell station?
If you look at it from this perspective it doesn't look so big.
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To all who wish please hold off on any donations of HO as of yet as 1st not sure were going to get it as 2 problems one the size and 2 we need to find somewhere at the VA to store it. I volunteered my place but they said it would have to be at the VA and I also volunteered to go get it but again it would have to be either shipped by Va or gone after in Va vehicle and personnel. man I have a room it would just fit in lol and I could have a HO layout for a while Guess I would have to get some On30 to run on the top figure 8 part got to have my O scale lol. I told them looking at the pics ( sorry guys don't cry to hard) that it looks like I could make the tunnel openings a little bigger and we could replace some of the HO track on bottom with O gauge and just do away with the HO track. Keep the top for HO thou or On30.
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Evening, Chloe - I peeked in the window this afternoon and got a look at those chowhounds packing it away ! I would've had to sit a coupla tables away from them to keep the splatter from reaching me... I'll try some of that Buffalo Meat Loaf, and a RBF, please 'n' thanks.
Gee, I don't know what the appeal of winter camping is, the way everyone's carrying on about it. Me, I'd rather either be inside staying warm, or else out making a snowman or a snow fort and plenty of 'ammunition'. Personally, I like my camping in warmer weather, with a decent (warm) breeze to blow the skeeters and gnats away.
Unca Rog, I like your depot - is that a former Suydam/California Models one? And I like your choice of motive power on that upper level there, too, as well at the history on the F&A (that name even sounds kind 'saucy'...) I'd kinda agree with the others - those tanks look way too clean to me!
Robby, I like your videos just fine - looks like the flash flood that Rob had down his way didn't get close enough to your river, or it'd be about up in the grassy areas, nice and muddy. Like your conifers there along the mainline. Good luck on your picking the remaining 21 games. Those holes wouldn't be from a snake, would they? Looks pretty small for a mole, but I'm no biologist (nor do I play one on TV...). Hard to tell how big the holes are in the photos.
Ah, Inch - I'll go with your suggestion, since I've never seen voles. I do have a mole in our front yard at the apartment building though. When it was warmer a few weeks back, the runs were getting pushed up in the yard. Any new word on how Jerry's doing?
Ryan, thanks for that fine menu! Got me hungry earlier just looking over one of the Diner's shoulder when I peeked in.
Eric, looks like the furry critters have an all-too-excellent communications system when a new cat gets mentioned in the Diner. Sorry 'bout that - you may have to lock up the laptop when you're gone (unless they're texting each other...)
Jeff, that may be HO scale, but that sure looks bigger - maybe you can justify putting a siding with a tanker unloading platform next to/behind that station! What's the building behind the Shell station?
I'll settle down with my dinner for a bit. Was a slow day at w**k today - not that I'm complaining too loudly...
Blessings,
Jeff and Unca; The spray wash JUST may do it----I hope ---otherwise a few washes---like 6 might tone it down by 3 notches----those kits can be quite garish---I have something like that stuffed away someplace----that'll be another weathering experiment-----
I'd love to go after that with an alcohol/black acrylic paint spray wash.
Lee S: I hope I "got" the whole joke in what you wrote...I did pick up on the very funny "hat" part, but stared at the original name of the town you wanted to use, hoping it would gel in my mind as being funny, too. (I hate it when things sail over my head.)
Jeff W: I really like how you depicted all the runoff oil and crap on your Shell model's driveway area...reminding me of how often I've tracked such stuff home on my shoes, to the white carpeting, every time I have to get the car serviced.
But I'd like to have at the entire building, using my WATERCOLOUR PUCKS! I built a kit (HELJAN?) in Canada, finished but not as yet weathered...it is of a Shell Oil "depot" or something, and came with bright plastic walls, and tons of little unimaginably gaudy-coloured oil barrels and other accessories. Even "the attack of the Pucks" may not help in that case...I'm thinking I'll toss the whole shootin' match into one of those vegetable bags (with the little holes) and suspend it in the back toilet tank for a few years, in hopes of that toning down the awful colours.
I found a pix of someone else's attempt at doing the large tanks part of that kit:
My "caption" to this photo, is that the little guy you see in the shot, is holding his nose, in an attempt to keep some of the BLEACH that must have been sprayed by a cropdusting airplane, over the area, moments earlier.
I stopped the car to look at such a site, once, and NOTHING looked "white" within several blocks of it.
{Our "rust: what's not to love?" pal in here, would no doubt LOVE to have at this piece!}
Evening everyone
I think I'll have the dinner special and a cup of tea please Zoe. Just a little tired today from cleaning up what mother nature left us in southern new england. Snow and sleet wasn't bad, but the ice was wicked.
Whats that Zoe, the special is ready. Ok, I'll take it at the end of the dinr away from the door.
John
Cederstand - Sounds like a lot of water and mud, here we just hope it runs to the ocean quicker than it falls. Course when the tide comes in the inlet backs up the storm drains SO...... I take it you have livestock of some sort.
Circus trains ehh?
Eric
So busy listening I forgot to order my chicken parm w/ green beans. Wednesday, big night out!
in a Soggy Southern mug, please & thanks.
Below is the latest addition to the wife's circus train. I was thinking it could be parked (as the Museum Car it is) next to the Life Like car I plan on converting into a Diner. The wee little folk can stop and eat in the LL Diner car, then go visit the Circus Museum hooked up to it. Just an idea.
Made a run to buy square hay bales to make it easier over the next few days. Can run a few bales out to each pasture in the 6x6 Polaris and not have to worry about getting the tractor bogged down in all that mud. It's a muddy mess out there.
Rob
Robby P;Voles---they do make pretty big holes---it looks like. Lots of work trying to keep them down
I'll have a buffalo burger with a fried mushroom gravy on the top with fries on the side and a coffee please
ewl01; don't tell me your little one's are now picking up the train moving habit as well----besides Tom's 'REMI' moving cabeese around and 'Spring' here popping my old GP40 every so often----everyone must be on the same page---kind of--
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!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
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???
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
Okay you win.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Jeff, isn't that going to cut into Ezra's business pretty heavy? Don't want old Ezra goin' hungry now, do we?
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
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..
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