Good Afternoon all....Its sunny and 34 here..We got another lite snow last night..Had black ice yesterday evening and a bunch of crashes on bridges and overpasses...I'll have a wndy City Dawg drag it thru the garden,onion rings and a diet Coke please...thank You...
Got track cleaning car running yesterday it works pretty good pad picked up alot of black "gunck"...I'll get a photo when get card back in camera..also got "hill" ruffed in but got alot of shaping to do and thats to messy a job to do here in apartment...
Looks like the diner is slow I'll slip over in the corner and see who drops in...You all have a good one...Jerry
fec153Jeff- any luck with the drs.?
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, All. I thought that I would stop by for coffee before I head into town for a hiking meeting.
I got some ground goop done. One more batch and I can finish the riverbed.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Mornin' everyone!
Flo, a large mug of dark roast in a Finger Lakes Railway mug please. What have you got soft and easy to chew for breakfast?
Last night during supper the large temporary crown fell out. This crown is attached to two teeth to serve as a permanent bridge for a tooth I had pulled a couple months ago. Lucky I have a dentist appt. today for molds for the permanent one anyway.
No modeling after all yesterday, but I did make some major headway on a lot of other items I have to complete.
Looks I get "Top Honors" this morning, so eat up hearty folks! I can afford it as I just received my first COLA from the Teachers Retirement System a few days ago. Pro-rated for my birthday, it came to $4.03. It will be $30 a month from now on. First raise I've had in 9 years so I look forward to spending it...........
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
WE in Lake County, Fla. get $12 a day. I will no longer have to serve. Checked the box for 70 years old or older and am now off the list.
Jeff- any luck with the drs.?
Prayers for all.
Flip
Good morning everyone.
When I was on Jury duty, we lived in Michigan. It was a frivolous lawsuit case, but we were instructed to take it seriously. It was a waste of time, and the defendant won. Only advanatge to me was the Jury room had a good view of the GTW yard in Pontiac, MI. The pay was not much, but at least I was paid to watch trains.
JR ... That's a lot of work for you. Hopefully, whe nall is done , you will end up with a much improved layout. I'm looking forward to seeing your city scnes again complete with a replica of the diner.
Rob .. I'm also looking forward to seeing your new layout in that neat new layout room.
Paul ... The Beer Line sounds like a good idea. One of my industires is a brewery, and it has pleny of switching activity.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
How about some biscuits and gravy for now. I'm a HUNGRY man!!!
Galaxy, I agree with the min. pay for juror duty. I have been asked before, but have gotten out of them (moving, doctor notice). My family (wife, and I) make over $43,000. I don't think I can apply for the services. Its just that I was unemployed for 4 months, and we are finally starting to get on our feet again. The job I have now is through a temp. service. The job I am working at doesn't hire straight through. They want to make sure you will last before you start making good money. There workers avg. $15-$20 a hour. So...I understand that.
Now with that said, I make about $300-$325 a week. That court case could either be a day, or even weeks. One day pay check won't be missed, but 2 or more starts to add up. I just thought every company had to pay something, but I guess not.
Thanks for the heads up though.
Robby
"Rust, whats not to love?"
GMTRacing Jeff - that layout of yours looks better and better all the time. The tree is great - what barnd? I'm sure I'm not alone in noticing the Rio Grande diesel escaped with just a patch job - thanks. That's one of my favorite paint schemes.
Good Morning All,
I checked in yesterday but the computer ate my post somewhere along the line (didn't even use any bad words). I'll have a regular and a blueberry muffin please Zoe. Got a second New Haven I-5 ordered for my birthday this one on sale from BLI with the later small lettering. That's about the only train stuff of late and I guess it'll sit in a case until i get a layout back.
Spent the weekend stripping out the last of the plaster and lath in the house and broom swept both floors. That made me feel so much better that we went out and raked the debris up in the yard and raked the ruts around the dumpster level. With luck we'll have the siding all on by weeks end and the house exterior buttoned up. We went with fake cedar shakes and I have to admit they look superb. Now on to the heating system and plumbing. We wanted to do radiant floor heating and are looking hard at that. The great temptation is to do it ourselves, but with the shop move coming up fast, I just don't see the available time.
Jeff - that layout of yours looks better and better all the time. The tree is great - what barnd? I'm sure I'm not alone in noticing the Rio Grande diesel escaped with just a patch job - thanks. That's one of my favorite paint schemes.
Jury duty is an obligation we need to fulfil, but I agree the compensation is a joke in most states. I just finished up here in Connecticut and was selected to actually serve but the case settled the week before the trial was to begin so I'm safe for another 3 years. Most states do allow you to change the time of year and here they made it clear when we all reported that if you were going to suffer economic hardship, you'd be excused. If you think about it, no one is going to want to have their case heard by someone who doesn't want to be there or resents being forced to serve. Either way best of luck getting that straightened out to your satidfaction.
Gotta run - lots to do again today in the shop. We're starting to worry about the economic downturn a bit more as requests for new jobs has slowed a lot. We're ok at least for the next few months with the work load we have in place now, but I'll be interested to see how next season works out. CUL, J.R.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
jeffrey-wimberly Today I have to go to DeRidder to get measured for my new shoes. It' took nearly 6 weeks to get the Medicaid BS out of the way.
Today I have to go to DeRidder to get measured for my new shoes. It' took nearly 6 weeks to get the Medicaid BS out of the way.
Jeff, NY Medicaid isn't much better. You'd think they could do better for those of us who rely on it. And I actually have to pay them a fee of $156,00 /month to have their BS. This year they seem, for no reason, to turn down every claim against my secondary coverage of Medicaid for no reason the first time its submitted. Then I get a bill and have to have them re-submit it again. And I PAY for this lovely privilege.
Thank the great articulateds designers that Medicare works well as my primary and also covered all but $102. of the $12,476.00 in prescriptions this last year.
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Good morning.It's 29 and clear. Somebody done left the freezer door open! The high will be around 60 and it will be sunny.Yesterday I decided to bite the bullet nad took my car to the local mechanic to find out what's ailing it. He checked the fuel pressure. It was fine. He then did a computer diagnostic. The only thing that popped up was the EGR valve. Problem: the parts store wants $200+ for this little lump of metal. That'll be the day! I went to the local scrap yard and got a used one for $27. I'll get around to putting it on sometime this week. Today I have to go to DeRidder to get measured for my new shoes. It' took nearly 6 weeks to get the Medicaid BS out of the way.Today's Weather for:Sundown, LA 71446-6114 12/2/2008Wind Chill: 29°FHumidity: 94%Dew Point: 27°FSo Far TodayHigh: 30°FLow: 29°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 0mph NNEToday High: 62 Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.Tonight Low: 52 Partly cloudy. Warmer. Lows in the lower 50s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
Morning all,
A cup of Hawaiian Kona coffee in a B & O capital dome mug please, please.
I'm up a little to early, can't sleep- which can be either entering mania or still in depression, hard to tell sometimes. Sinuses don't help as I can't breathe the CPAP machine and O2, neither does the headache I have aquired. But besides that I am wired, a hint of mania approaches. SO I sit hear playing a favorite old Irish tune over and over and looking at MR site. {don't tell my other half- worries when I get wrapped up in one song over and over)
JimRCGMO every bulb in our entire house has a full spectrum daylight florescent bulb in it. We did that to help, but nothing really replaces the sun. Regular florescents do not work for me. The psych ward has a "sun room where every 2x4 ceiling space has a florescent light in it except them ones for HVAC. They have found it doesn't work as well as thought. My Gma was fortunate to go to FL during winter moths to help her depression and SAD {long since passed}. But I am on disability and can't afford that. The lamps you spoke of are expensive, can be hard to get and almost impossible to get paid on a prescription order for one.They consider medications should work, forget that the Abilify alone that I take for Bipolar is nearly $400.00/ month! Forget the others.
I also DID get to HD, but got so involved in *new tools* and *needed * furnace filters in our size that we left WITHOUT the wood for the tree layout!!! DOH!
Robby P. Jury duty is the civic duty of every citizen of our democracy. One would think they would pay at least min. wage for a day of duty, but they don't. Some places DO have laws that employers must pay difference, and should be standard across the country. Proving hardship is all but impossible almost. I've been called twice in my life. Didn't have to serve but a day of waiting either time, as the cases settled outside of court. Being one of the po' folks (can't even afford to buy the other "o" or the "r" in poor - Vanna, a free letter please?) I feel for you. If not already, apply for HEAP {home energy assistance program} for heating help, and food stamps?? to help you out. Heap available to those making less than $43,000/ year. Look in your phone book under governemental services, or call your social services office for more info.
Cold snap coming here soon, can hear the $$$ in heat running on the furnace already.BUT, it IS December, after all, I guess. HEAP will help, awaiting our award letter.
I hope everyone has a good day.
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Tall glass of cool lemon water, please & thanks.
***Paul, that modular-style beer line article was interesting. As for your "block down the middle of the layout with backdrops on each side" idea, perhaps my wife will go for that on her layout. Might make modeling her two concepts on one table a little easier, without having to give up half the train room to her.
Tile guys finished today and their work looks sharp. We're pleased. All that is left is the carpet, some bathroom gear with last bit of plumbing, & the front porch screens. I'll install the remaining fans in the next day or two. Still need to finish that deck out front, but I am using the weather as an excuse presently. It did snow today, even if none of it stuck.
Well, beyond exhausted...Good Night All. Rob
Hello ...
Duke.... Here's how I solved the AHM 4-4-0 drive shaft problem a few years ago. I no longer have the engine, but I recall doing the following find a long screw. I think I used a 2-56. Cut the head off, and cut to the correct length. Solder a hex nut at each end. It worked perfectly.
Lee ... I heard that Golf Manor Hobbies was going out of business.
I worked a little more on my layout expansion today but not enough.
Happy Model railorading.
Hello everyone,
just popping in. I got the "jumbo" Jan Model Railroader today. Well, it isn't reallt jumbo. Just a bunch of ads and ol
old "trackside" section pics. Good night,
Luke
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
There was a website I can get on and tell them I can't show due to "hardship."
It would be hardship, believe me. The wife said she well contact them tomorrow. Shes a teacher and she better with words, than I
Robby P. Another cold night here in southwestern pa. Got a jury notice Saturday, and I am suppose to go in Jan of 09. Now, the place I am working at doesn't pay for jury duty. Now tell me if that isn't bad. Boy taht will be tough paying bills with a $12 check a day. I guess I will watch some Monday Night Football. I'm off tomorrow, and hope to get some stuff done on the layout. Everybody have a goodnight.
Another cold night here in southwestern pa.
Got a jury notice Saturday, and I am suppose to go in Jan of 09. Now, the place I am working at doesn't pay for jury duty. Now tell me if that isn't bad. Boy taht will be tough paying bills with a $12 check a day.
I guess I will watch some Monday Night Football. I'm off tomorrow, and hope to get some stuff done on the layout.
Everybody have a goodnight.
Icould be wrong, but I thought there were laws about being able to turn down Jury Duty for just such a reason. could be wrong.
-Morgan
Evening Gang:
PC that sounds like a bunch of us here, espically the back fire part.
Not much today. I did the haying and filled the water troughs in the corral. The wind was really bad and it that made it feel really cold. I'm thinking about the idea I had for the Beer Line on a 4x8 that I had a coupleof years ago. If you have read the article in the Jan MR you'll know what I'm talking about. What I had planned is very much like what they did. i need to get the research out and have another go at it. I got the two new runs of the Fairbanks Morse H-10-44s with sound and have two of the earler runs in orange and black without sound. That would be more then enought power for the layout. I like the sectional design that they used. That makes it a real challange to set up differently. In my layout I put a view block down the middle of the layout with backdrops on each side. One problem I'm having is remembering how it was back when I was living in Milwaukee some 45 years ago. Oh for a photographic memory.
Well enough for tonight. I have the feeling that I may be buying the next page.
Good Night All
PC; If you win the $200 you could afford some artic anti-exposure suit for your bike rides!
All; did you guys notice the IHC add on page 23 of the December MR? $14.98 for passenger cars, not a bad price for brand new.
Lee
Duke,
I'm not sure if they can help but it would be the first place I'd call:
http://www.golfmanorhobbies.com/
It's a little train store in Cincinnati, OH that has a good selection of spare parts. If they can't help you I bet they know who can.
Anytime I've asked a LHS for a part to an older locomotive they sent me to Golf manor.
For you Jeff.........
IF MY BODY WERE A CAR... If my body were a car, this is the time I would be thinking about trading it in for a newer model. I've got bumps and dents and scratches in my finish and my paint job is getting a little dull ...
But that's not the worst of it.
My headlights are out of focus and it's especially hard to see things up close.
My traction is not as graceful as it once was. I slip and slide and skid and bump into things even in the best of weather.
My whitewalls are stained with varicose veins.
It takes me hours to reach my maximum speed.
My fuel rate burns inefficiently.
But here's the worst of it --
Almost every time I sneeze, cough or sputter ..either my radiator leaks or my exhaust backfires!
bjdukertOne thought was to see if Plastistrut has anything that would work and I guess I better tell you it is a hexagon.
Possibly Plastruct+some kind of screw to meet the end?
I have a question about an AHM locomotive I have and I hope someone can give me some help. It is a 4-4-0 Reno with the motor in the tender and the drive shaft to the locomotive is gone. Over the years and the box it was in being moved at different times it has decided to go AWOL on me and I was wondering if I could get an idea of how to take care of it. One thought was to see if Plastistrut has anything that would work and I guess I better tell you it is a hexagon. I didn’t want to go out in the main room with this because we do have quite a few answer people here in the Diner. My other thought is to wait until we have a show here and see if I can pick up a basket case for parts,if I could find one or contact IHC-Riverossi(sp).
Thanks
Duke
"Don't take a wooden nickel,because it isn't worth a dime" by my Dad
"There are only 3 things you need out of life:A gentle grade,the wind in your face,and cinders in your hair.....But keep an eye on the water glass!" Jack Evans
Well, I'm back. Had a stomach bug Saturday and Sunday, but I'm feeling much better today (though not 110% recovered). Felt good enough to go to school, it is a pain in the butt to catch up when you miss a day.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Duke, yeah, they salt here too. It's just not worth the hassle to me below 40. Maybe if I had chaps, or a full fairing on the bike.......no, scratch that.........that would look silly on my bike. As I was saying, if I had chaps maybe...........
I found out this morning what's been wrong with my car lately. It's been running rough and nothing I did improved it any. I changed the fuel filter, the air filter, spark plugs, plug wires. Nothing made any difference. This morning I had the fuel pressure checked and a computer diagnostic done. The EGR valve is bad. Parts store wants $200+ for one so I went to the local scrap yard and got one for $27. I won't have time to change it today or tomorrow but maybe Wednesday. The mechanical part of it is OK, just the electronic part is cutting up so that makes it somewhat easier.