Good Morning! The current temperature here is -11 C and we are expecting a 40% chance of snowflurries changing over to more showers tonight. Tomorrow will just be showers with a high finishing off at 7C.
TNX Lee for the small mercy! lol! I'll just have a dk roast with a couple of sunnyside eggs this morning---now I got to find what 'Spring' is up to--I just heard a clunk/bang sound---
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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Good Morning Gents
Haven't been around lately as I've been building an Arch! Never seen such heavy rain as yesterday. WoW just doesn't give it justice and if it had been snow we would be into the beginning of of the next ice age.
LEE! Have one on me bud and let your hair down.
Anyway here's one for the books
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Not much else on the go here though Terry you maybe interested to know I've added a C&O Hudson to the roster. Though I'll have to replace the open frame motor as the DCC system smoked her Yes 30 seconds of realistic smoke!
Later Guys
Fergie
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If one could roll back the hands of time... They would be waiting for the next train into the future. A. H. Francey 1921-2007
oops looks like i'm buying !
Ok eat up every one I'll just leave my credit card with the girls
Better spending it on you guys than the roofers !
TerryinTexas
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Morning all !
Roofers are coming today so i'd better get a coffee to go
Yes it's taken this long after the storm { Ike } to get my roof done
they are so busy it's hard to get them even to come out and look
lots of blue tarps all over Houston And Galveston is still a big mess
piles of trash for miles down there still not picked up
I suppose at my age a new roof is a waste of my money but
the thought of getting water damage to the layout is just to big a nightmare !
It's supposed to be mid 70s today so a good day for the roofers
pretty big change from the snow just a couple of days ago
Hope every one has a good day !!!
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Thanks for the birthday wishes (I wasn’t too worried about it, LOL).
Garry, Streamlined passenger units? The all stainless type?
No all the kitties are not behaving. Both of mine were just caught sleeping on the mainlines.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
I just caught that Happy Birthday LEE !!!!!!!
I read that posting too; ah nuts...
UH OH !!!!!!!!
We are all bad..........
We overlooked Lee's Birthday! We are all .... 's!
OMG!
Sorry Lee ! Two days ago, Lee said....
LSWrr ....tomorrow I'll be celebrating the 20th anniversiray of my 22nd birthday.Lee
Happy Late Birthday! to Lee.
How could we have done that?
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Tom; I am thinking that as Remi got more comfortable in your home he is feeling much more secure...hence all the "pikulousness". When we first got 'Spring'--about 3 months after Miximax passed away(19 yrs)-- it took about two days for this --at the time two yr. old--fellow to start leaping all over the house/head butting me and Audrey all the while...hence the name;Spring.
I'm going off to get some sleep...g'night all...
Good evening...
twhite Garry: That 10-wheeler--is that a BEAUTIFUL loco, or what? Did you keep it when you changed over to Burlington? If not, where is it, I WANT it!
Garry: That 10-wheeler--is that a BEAUTIFUL loco, or what? Did you keep it when you changed over to Burlington? If not, where is it, I WANT it!
Tom, I took the photos on my layout here this morning for Lee to see. Yes, I think that is one of the best looking 10-wheelers. It is one of many models I retained from my 1900 era layout. I also have buildings and structures I made for that layout from kits by Campbell and FSM. I also have some scratch built structures for that layout.
Unfortunately, I moved and tore that layout down. Repeated moves after that prevented any layout. I made more 1900 era models for the next layout. But for variety, and with no layout I made some 1950 CB&Q models depicting trains I saw and rode in my youth. When we moved to KY, I began the CB&Q layout Maybe someday, I'll go back to the 1900 era. My old layout was a bit on the whimsical side. It had three stations named "Hither", "Thither", and "Yon"..... In my lifetime, I've moved 18 times and resided in 8 states. A little plug for western KY, it's the friendliest and most peaceful place of all I've been to.
My present layout is being built in sections. That way, the layout could be moved if needed in the future. For now, I'm doing the streamlined passenger trains. We rode so many of those when I was young. I miss the Zephyrs, Chiefs, etc..... .
Good Evening Diners!
I had prepared a post with a nice birthday wish for Tom Thursday night but it suddenly went poof! Disappeared and then I was advised by Microsoft that an up-date was running. They conveniently shut you down when they do one.
Anyway, a belated Happy Birthday Tom!!! Sorry you missed that Mountain. Not sure what that particular version looks like but I generally find Mountain class locos amoung some of the most attractive. I especially liked CN's U-1-d and e. By the way a Canadian distributor has an NP Z5 for sale and judging by the photos that is a real monster! I think it was built by Precision Scale.
Seems like the weather has been acting up all over what with Terry's snow in Houston. We are getting cold and snow. It got down to -30C last night but it has warmed up to 18F right now. It won't last though as the wind chill is forecast for -37C tomorrow and -42C tomorrow night. In case you weren't aware at -40 both Celcius and Farenheit temperatures are the same. Did I mention it's a dry cold?
Well it's getting late and I have to take Pippa out so hopefully she won't get me up in the night. Last night is was twice and the first time, at 1:30, I knew I was in trouble as she had a very long drink. I have to go outside in the yard with her otherwise she'll stay out for a half hour and I lose too much sleep. Mind you -30C is rather bracing and does tend to shake out the cobwebs.
Talk to you soon,
CN Charlie
Rob; You might find yourself having to really squeeze into a smaller space?
Jeff; Amite with 8"? There is a place that closed up for sure----sheeesh.
'Spring' is back up in the tree---watching--no---planning the next heist.
Oh, the temperature now at our place is -13 C and we did get 4" of the stuff---just enough to hide the ice. Oh joy...
CederstrandShe has also decided the 15 year old couch here in the studio should move down into the train room, so that company will have a place to sit and watch trains with her.
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Tall eggnog, please & thanks.
Wife bought a half dozen MP built-up structures tonight for her HO layout. (told you she was impatient) I do hope she realizes her layout, much like Rome, will not be built in a day. She has also decided the 15 year old couch here in the studio should move down into the train room, so that company will have a place to sit and watch trains with her.
Hope everyone is doing well this evening and all the kitties are behaving themselves.
Rob
I just went to www.kbtoys.com
I see this is the second time they have filed bankruptcy in the past four years, I doubt the court will allow them to continue much longer. All of their model trains are 10% to 63% off right now and most orders include free shipping.
Lee
Snowfall in this area fram the last storm was very, very light but Amite (A-meet), which is not far from New Orleans, got 8 inches of the stuff. WOW!
Hey, I see I just bought dinner. Eat up, everyone, I'm having Rouladen, so the rest of it's on me. Oh, Flo--it's a KOSHER dill pickle in the middle of the rolled roast, not that Gherkin you stuffed in there the last time, thinking I wouldn't know the difference, LOL! C'mon, girl, I"m AUSTRIAN. We know the difference!
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
No I can say he doesn't help. He rather dive bomb into the tree, than help open presents. He is 1 of 3 cats. Plus we have 2 dogs. So yeah, we have a zoo.
By the way, the cats name is Hannibal. My wife says from the A-Team, I say from the move "Hannibal". He is also about 23lbs. He was a stray my wife found about 4 years ago. He was so small, and we didn't know he would be that BIG.
Weather wise, still snowing some outside. So we have about 3-4 inchs of snow as of right now.
Well I guess I will try to find something on tv.
Everybody stay warm.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Afternoon all:
Well, it's cloudy and cold out here in SunnyCal, there is a MAJOR snowstorm predicted for the Sierra, starting tomorrow and lasting for about a week. According to our disappointed weatherpersons out here in SacTomato, we can stop counting snowfall in inches by Monday and start counting it by FEET by Tuesday through Friday. One of the 'weatherpersons' on KCRA said with a sigh, "Our mild weather is about to change." MILD? We've been socked in with cold FOG for the last three weeks. WHAT mild, LOL? Anyway, rain due here in the Valley by tomorrow and then rain, rain, blessed rain for about a week. It's about time! As a friend of mine said, "Governor Palin's sending this one in from Alaska." Hey, whatever works!
Robby: Speaking of cats--and you know I will, LOL!--that's one beautiful orange tabby. Does he help you unwrap presents before Christmas like ALL cats do? It's in their Contracts, you know, LOL! Section two, paragraph eight. Spooky keeps pointing this out to me every First of December.
Blownout: Speaking FURTHER of cats, I think that Spring is e-mailing Remington with ideas and instructions when the rest of us are asleep. My formerly shy 18-pound 'newbie' has suddenly become the Maine Coon version of a circus trapeze artist, the only thing he hasn't done in the past four days is shoot himself out of a cannon. I don't know what happened, but when he got comfortable around here, he just decided to use most of the house as his own personal gymnasium or something. I am never going to give him catnip again. EVER! Even Spooky just sits there and blinks while he bounces around.
Well, gang, if you remember, I was having trouble with my #3 and #4 blocks, and I thought I'd cured it. Seems I haven't, because no matter what I do, EVERY loco I've run lately just starts stuttering when they cross the bridges over Bullards' Bar and enter the San Juan Ridge tunnel on the upgrade to Malakoff Diggings. I even combined the two blocks, but I'm still having one devil of a time on the curve and grade. I think I'm going to have to tear out the feeders (yuck!) and replace them with heavier wire. I've checked the track solder and I sure can't find any 'cold' joints. The rest of the layout is doing fine, but that one section is just giving me FITS! I sure hope I don't have to tear the track out and re-lay it completely, because that means tearing out the tunnel and having to re-do all the scenery there. And I really hate going under the layout to re-do the wiring--I just ain't that young anymore, LOL! But it looks like I'm going to have to do something. I posted a photo of one of my Yellowstones pulling a freight over the Malakoff Diggings bridge in this weeks WPF (not that great a photo, BTW), but even THAT big Hunker was stuttering like crazy trying to make the journey. I've got a horrible feeling that it's Major Repair Time on the old Yuba River Sub. But like I said, the rest of it runs just fine.
Dang, I HATE that! Sometimes I think this hobby is a lot like smoking a pipe--you spend far more time fiddling with the equipment than you ever do using it. Oh well--it's not like I don't have time on my hands, these days.
Anyway, that's my B###hing for now.
Best to all, prayers to those in need.
Good Evening everyone; I'll have a egg nog with some Xmas cookies please...
Jeff; Snowglobe is right! I'm alsso thinking picture taken after beating crossing gates...
Rob; What is the furry one's name?
Well, we are going to put up the pix for the purina mill/elevator this weekend after I iron out a few bugs in my system here---I also started on the ground work for the hillside that the mill straddles--sitting on both sides of mainline with spurs that are a bit warped.
Speaking of warped, on pg 126-127 of Greg McDonnell's coffee table book "PASSING TRAINS" are some really warbled tracks(exaggerated by telephoto lens) on a branchlineon/in the Notekeu Subdivision near Climax, SK. The photo was taken some time in 1983--not too far from one of my purported stations. We make our tracks a little better than some prototypes mayhaps?
Just lemon water, thanks.
***Robby, that looks just like our Smitty cat.
Spent the day looking at carpet and found a perfect one for the master bedroom & sunroom. Also found a cheap neutral greenish tone carpet for the train room. Wife's idea to go green.
Still working on estimates for insulation so we know what a "fair" deduction should be (sinse the contractor had zero to do with that). I found two doors that need painting (they look like cra*) and one big smudge of a wrong color above another door. Wife wants me to deduct time for everything I've re-painted and/or fixed/installed/etc already. I'm not inclined to go that far unless the contractor gives us trouble with our own "re-figured - fair" deductions. Time will tell. Wife is really angry with him now. I just want him gone.
Tomorrow will be a beautiful day, so I'll be back to work on that deck. No "rain excuse" now. Rob
Garry, I would have to look it up but if memory serves me correct: the Senator of Indiana wouldn’t allow the LS&MS to lay track near Pigeon River, so the LS&MS had to run from Toledo to Adrian to Chicago for a while until it assumed the Indiana Northern railroad. The run from Toledo to Adrian was referred to as “the Old road” once the Airline yard was built in Toledo. The Airline Yard allowed the LS&MS to run straight service from NY to Chicago. The land from Elyria, OH to Chicago was so flat and had so many straight a ways the LS&MS 10 Wheelers could reach 105 MPH. My Great Uncle Gilbert Soule was the tower master of Swan Creek Tower that controlled the junction of “Old Road” and”Airline Road”.
no the oldest standard gage RR in Michigan was the Michigan Southern. I think the DT&I was older but it started as a narrow gage RR.
JimRCGMO Sawyer, I hope the MRR'ing mini-course surprises you with how it turns out (and that you convert a few students to MRR'ing, too!). Just give it your best shot and share what you know, and your enthusiasm might just be catching.
Sawyer, I hope the MRR'ing mini-course surprises you with how it turns out (and that you convert a few students to MRR'ing, too!). Just give it your best shot and share what you know, and your enthusiasm might just be catching.
I'm feeling a little better now b/c the career counselor explained the corses to the class. Now I just got to ask a few questions about it, lol.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
JimRCGMO pcarrellMy condolences......... howmusShe was an Art teacher.... Need I say more? Ahem!... Uh, Ray, PC - did I mention that I was an elementary art teacher for several years?
pcarrellMy condolences.........
howmusShe was an Art teacher.... Need I say more?
Ahem!... Uh, Ray, PC - did I mention that I was an elementary art teacher for several years?
Yeah, but we won't hold it against ya!
Lee ........ Interesting stuff. I think you said the olde L&MS included the old line from Monroe, MI to Adrian, MI. That was the first railroad in MI if my memory is corect. Glad you like the Ten wheeler.
Interesting Lee, wasn't aware of the differences.
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.
Garry,
Another interesting fact is that the tracks of the LS&MS were so flat they could take advantage of large diameter drivers like your ten wheeler there ( nice looking loco by theway). Large diameter drivers = speed. Smaller diameter drivers = horse power. That’s whythe major difference in a light mountain or pacific and a heavy is the heavy has smallerdiameter wheels.
All of this food talk has me VERY hungry
Well looks like I know what one of my gifts is....