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.
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I'll do the bison burger with blue cheese please Zoe! Thanks!
Lunchtime! I'll have a steak burger and an order of buffalo wings.
How about a Pepsi to wash that down.
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!
Roggie, ya just gotta use the right link, thats all. You found the IMG link I see.
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:
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----
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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Unca Rog, I like your boxcar (and the RR line name - how'd you pick that?).
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.
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?"
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
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.
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.
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!
JimRCGMOJeff, you're gonna have our new Diners watering at the mouth again, showing 'em that delectable breakfast!
- 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...
Jim in Cape Girardeau
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).
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,
New Haven I-5I have heard it hurts....
For breakfast I'll have the sausage links and Eggs Benedict and orange juice.
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
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
Another day, another dollar!
Good Morning!
Indianapolis, IndianaCurrently: 28°F Light SnowWind: South-Southwest at 5 MPHHumidity: 86%Dewpoint: 25°FBarometer: 29.33 inchesWind Chill: 23°FSunrise: 8:05 am Sunset: 5:36 pm
Today: cloudy with scattered snow showers. Nearly steady temperatures around 30. West winds 10 to 20 mph.
For me, it's kind of a slow start for the morning for me. I was up late last night working on hanginh bicycles from the garage ceiling. Made a lot of room in the garage that way.
Yeah, thats me today!
Robby P.I can say I have never had lobster.
Ummm, I think thats actually a crime, punishable by law! Well, when you do have it, get the good stuff. Don't go cheap and get the stuff that tastes like rubber!
Well, there's good and bad news today, Good News:
School is cancelled
Bad News:
I'm going to have to wait for awhile for a layout due to the economy
To top the money thing, I'm going to have a baby tooth ripped out
Good morning people---Today will be interesting----Freezing rain, ice pellets, sleet, and snow pretty much through till tomorrow morning will leave us with about 12-15cm on the ground and temps around -2C to -8C range.
RT: Oh so thats where----
JeffW; At least the rain stopped---more like temporary truce, kind of--- from the sounds of things you may need to build an ark----
Rob----Hope nothing floated away----at least your wife is doing something IN the hobby. Guy I know up here had an issue with his wife---got to the point he had to order stuff over the phone to an LHS---at my place. If his wife caught him at it at home she would pull the plug on the landline----he'd sneak around with his work cell et cetera----no fun at all----
Good morning all.
Ice with rain this morning turning into snow, high today will be 30F.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
gear-jammerJimRCGMO CederstrandShe now wants a double track so she can run two trains at once. One passenger train and of course her cricus train. Anyone know where a reasonable price can be found on any brand of HO scale ICE train or similar high speed European train? Rob, quick! - Hide the Walthers catalog from the wife - it's your only hope! Jim in Cape Girardeau Now really. How many of your wives have done that to you? Sue
JimRCGMO CederstrandShe now wants a double track so she can run two trains at once. One passenger train and of course her cricus train. Anyone know where a reasonable price can be found on any brand of HO scale ICE train or similar high speed European train? Rob, quick! - Hide the Walthers catalog from the wife - it's your only hope! Jim in Cape Girardeau
CederstrandShe now wants a double track so she can run two trains at once. One passenger train and of course her cricus train. Anyone know where a reasonable price can be found on any brand of HO scale ICE train or similar high speed European train?
Rob, quick! - Hide the Walthers catalog from the wife - it's your only hope!
Now really. How many of your wives have done that to you?
Sue
Normal 0 Me for one, she even hides my tool catalogs and sale flyers from the lumber yard n hardware stores. Back when I was turning wrenches for a living. She threatened the Mac and Snapon tool guys lives.
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Good morning. It's 38 and clear. Hard to believe after all the rain we got yesterday. Today's high will be in the mid 60's and it will be partly cloudy. Didn't do much yesterday aside from pry the base off the Atlas passenger station as the first step of converting it to freight station. I'm at the point of trying to decide where to put the Shell Auto Center. I also have to juggle a couple of structures around to make way for the fire station as well. Decisions, decisions. Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 1/7/2009 Wind Chill: 38°F Humidity: 74% Dew Point: 30°F So Far Today High: 48°F Low: 38°F Rain: 0.00" Rain Rate: 0.00"/h Gust: 25mph NNE Today High: 65 Mostly sunny. Not as cool. Highs in the mid 60s. West winds 10 to 15 mph. Tonight Low: 42 Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
I don't have to worry about that. No wife + no kids = no problem.
blownout cylinder RT; Did we meet somewhere before----I'm trying to type and 'Spring' the child he is has to get up here between me and laptop and 'schmooze' along , headbutting and making barely audible whispermeows------oh brother-----
RT; Did we meet somewhere before----I'm trying to type and 'Spring' the child he is has to get up here between me and laptop and 'schmooze' along , headbutting and making barely audible whispermeows------oh brother-----
HMMMM maybe I give yous a little hint
Morning all not to much happening around here just getting ready for work. Have a good day
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Found a number of ICE trains by different makers: PIKO, Fleischmann, Marklin and TRIX. Any experiences and/or thoughts on any of these brands for HO ????? (still looking for the Model Power ICE version)
To the sound of rain on a tin roof, it's time I hit the hay. Good night all.