Jason
Modeling the Fort Worth & Denver of the early 1970's in N scale
John: The fire engine sounds amazing.
Rob: Lima TGV locos run about 40, you may not get many coaches though. Model power recenly put out a nice, but notaccurate model of the ICE, also in Accela scheme. They had on their clearence page a powered engine, four coaches, and an unpowered loco for 50+s/h. But I don't see it as of tonight. Runs great though. I have the accela, but with two powered locos, one turned around and modified with parts from the dummy. She flies.
-Morgan
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!
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Now really. How many of your wives have done that to you?
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Well, since the whole diner is stuffed with the bouquet of delectible goodies for our perusal I'll have the Grilled Salmon dinner then go with a good ol' slice of raspberry pie and a large glass of milk please---oh yes and a decaf coffee please
Oh well- back to the back---think I'll join todd here--------
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/
Just dropped by for a hot chocolate before bed. to all the new folks, good to see our merry band increasing. Hope you stay awhile.
Twelth night...we took down all the inside decorations today, and the outside lights are on for the last time this season. The worst of this is packing away the Christmas hats. (Santa Hats) They are the warmest winter hats we've come across, but do look a bit odd worn in February!
CapeJim: The Doctor's visit was more of a check in than a check up. I needed a prescription renewed, and he won't just write a bunch of refills on this one. He wants to see my blood pressure results over the past prescription time. Last Sunday morning was faily typical...maybe a bit lower than some have been, at 118 over 68.
I forget who mentioned Statins and possible dire effects. I cut a deal with the endocrinologist who wanted to put me on those. "Give me 6 moths to try Pysillium Bran" I said. That was over two years ago, and there has been no mention of Statins since! I use a table spoon a day in juice, with plenty of water at the meal so it can swell up and not suck water from me!
With both re-installed turnouts functioning, even the oddly behaving loco running through (not the loco it turns out (npi), but my indifferent track laying skills ) I'm now ready to complete the track cleaning, and have the whole layout operational again.
There may be a new loco in our future. My VIA train had a Life Like F40PH, but it's wheels wouldn't negotiate important parts of the route. My attempts to install RP25 wheelsets from NWSL ended in failure. So I was after the Kato version. Couldn't get the funds together before the model sold out...so I'm looking at going a bit into the future and positing a GE P42 on the Halifax to Sydney Nova Scotia run. How do you think a pale turquoise green loco will look hauling silver Bud coaches around? The loco paint scheme pre-supposes similarly painted coaches. ( bought by VIA from Eurpoe, and used now on the Atlantic, the Montreal-Halifax run.) I guess in the end it comes down to what I was going to say to whoever mentioned the other day that they were a bit worried about what picky visitors might have to say about their efforts. One of the original Coffee Shop patrons was "Teffy". He visited our house one time, and brought a present...a plaque that reads
NOTICE! ANYONE THAT DOESN'T LIKE THE MANNER IN WHICH THESE TRAINS ARE OPERATED, PLEASE NOTICE THE MISTLETOE ATTACHED TOTHE OWNER'S SHIRT TAIL.
A bit before Christmas I mentioned I had to be at an Arts Society dinner. Kris belongs and I was her guest...but she wasn't well that evening, so I went alone. What's come of that is an invite to present at their next meeting, Jan 14th, on my layout...pics and models. Turns out mrr is Art. but you knew that, right?
Goodnight all, and God Bless. Prayers for all in need of healing, comfort and peace.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
{from someone's earlier post....}
Nothing wrong with being an insurance agent.
What that "punchline" was supposed to indicate, was how she'd be RIGHT about what I turned out to BE....I guess it isn't as much "common knowledge" of my being in insurance, as I'd hoped---at least to make that joke FUNNY.
And, by all MEANS, I'm not going to be one to denegrate the insurance biz----it has been "berry berry goot to me" for 35 years, and allows for me to live in two places nowhere NEAR the actual office of the agency (I'm 1200 miles away from it, right now).
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ON THE MATTER OF DRY TRANSFERS: Some helpful modeller in here, put me on to some Canadian outfit that is wholesaling off the very LAST of the stock of RAILROAD themed dry transfers...and being in California now, I set it up that they'd mail my neighbour in B.C. my order....and she called today to confirm the fat envelope arrived (mostly WHITE alphabet sets, so I can turn all my UNDEC boxcars and stuff, into equipment owned by the good ol' F&A Rwy)
She also laughed at me, saying she saw a wad of dry transfers at the local DOLLAR STORE, there in Kelowna, B.C., and thinks MICHAEL's stores also carries them. So I hit the Palm Springs Michaels an hour ago, noticing they DID have sets of alphabets, but only in BLACK, and costing $3 U.S. for a skimpy set, with but ONE "&" provided (no doubt the most used item by model railroaders).
Anyway, thanks again to the fellow poster on this site who led me to TMR Sales!
Oh for crying out loud people, PLEASE!! I wasn't all that hungry when I came in Started out having a country fried steak craving thrown at me but now with all these pictures of food... I'll just have the left side of the menu please and a small diet rite cola thank you. Sorry Sawyer but in the words of the imortal John Belushi "IT"S NOT MY FAULT!"
Oh and I told the joke about John on his death bed to my wife.
I'll be spending the night in the back. I'll make sure the coffe's on tomorrow.
Prayers for those in need
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 Gang: Not much going on here. the son in laws parents are heading for home in England tomorrow. I will miss having them here. We didn't get to spend as much time with them as I wanted. I hope that they will be able to come back soon.
Tomorrow we get to sleep in late. We were up at 4am to get Mary Ann to her dialysis appointment so I'm a bit tired. John is coming over tomorrow to work on the stock trailer. We have a bunch of calfs to sell and the floor in the trailer is shot. Calfs without feet don't sell for much.
Well I guess I'll head for bed.
Good Night All
Evenin' all!
It's just about dinner time in rainy Seattle, so I'll have the Steakburger again... Mainly because it makes Jim's mouth water.
Yum Yum...
Anyways, we have started auditions for the school play. Every year the 8th grade is forced to put one on. This year, my class will be performing "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Shakespeare. It is going to be the 1950's rock and roll highschool version... Woohoo. I think the play is going to be some time in march.
Catch Y'all later.
Mark
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-----
I'm going through some brushes and sponges in here----I 'acquired' Audrey's pastels---guess what for?-----heeheehee
Grilled Salmon, please & thank you.
Quite a rain event tonight. Still draining the holding tank in anticipation of another 2" overnight. Have no idea what the total rainfall is for the past few days, but it must be substantial.
Wifes "Ma's Place" model arrived today. Looks nice and will fit in splendedly. Also the 3 new (old Roundhouse) circus cars arrived and she was most pleased with them.
Rob
I dug them up on a Yahoo search for 'food picture' and saved a bunch of them to a few of my Photobucket accounts. I put the IMG tags in a text file on my hard drive with captions describing what each tage is so I can copy and paste them any time I want.
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Jeff, where do you find those pictures. Every time you post them I get VERY hungry!!!!
I can say I have never had lobster. One of these days I will.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
I'll have the steak and lobster, Coke for the drink.
Robby P.Well I will take a water then. Can't beat that, and its easy on the wallet.
Well I will take a water then.
Can't beat that, and its easy on the wallet.
Thanks.
ell, I'm going to head home for the night, been nice talking with you fellas. Just put it on my tab (which I swear will someday be paid after tonight).
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Looks like I got top honors. Go easy on my wallet please, i want to have a little left overf or trains.
JimRCGMO ! Luke, congrats on your RR's newest addition to your motive power! Blessings, Jim in Cape Girardeau
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Luke, congrats on your RR's newest addition to your motive power!
Blessings,
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
inch53 Afternoon all, just an irish coffee ta-go please. Just dropped by to leave a couple bad jokes A Doctor was addressing a large audience: "The material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed most of us sitting here, years ago. Red meat is awful. Soft drinks corrode your stomach lining. Chinese food is loaded with MSG. High fat diets can be disastrous, and none of us realizes the long- term harm caused by the germs in our drinking water. But there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all and we all have, or will, eat it. Can anyone here tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it?" After several seconds of quiet, a 75-year-old man in the front row raised his hand, and softly said, "Wedding Cake." #2 John was on his deathbed and gasped pitifully. 'Give me one last request, dear,' he said. 'Of course, John,' his wife said softly. 'Six months after I die,' he said, 'I want you to marry Bob.' 'But I thought you hated Bob,' she said. With his last breath John said, 'I do!' I will quietly slip out the back door and disappear for a while now
Afternoon all, just an irish coffee ta-go please.
Just dropped by to leave a couple bad jokes
A Doctor was addressing a large audience:
"The material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed most of us sitting here, years ago. Red meat is awful. Soft drinks corrode your stomach lining. Chinese food is loaded with MSG. High fat diets can be disastrous, and none of us realizes the long- term harm caused by the germs in our drinking water. But there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all and we all have, or will, eat it. Can anyone here tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it?" After several seconds of quiet, a 75-year-old man in the front row raised his hand, and softly said, "Wedding Cake."
#2
John was on his deathbed and gasped pitifully. 'Give me one last request, dear,' he said. 'Of course, John,' his wife said softly. 'Six months after I die,' he said, 'I want you to marry Bob.' 'But I thought you hated Bob,' she said. With his last breath John said, 'I do!'
I will quietly slip out the back door and disappear for a while now
ROTFLMAO!!! Great jokes, gonna have to share those at school tomorrow, if I remember them, lol.
Inch that had me rolling. I'll have to share with the fellas at work tomorrow.
I won't be having anything to eat tonight. The wife just about has dinner ready. We're gonna have jambalaya with elk sausage. Actually, I'm having jambalaya with elk sausage, the little lady doesn't go for "that crazy meat." It's hard to eat an entire elk by yourself. But I'm slowly whittling away at the deep freeze. Catch ya'll later.
The smallest figure 8 I've seen in HO was made with sectional track and was 32 inches x 36 inches (15 inch radius).
Hey BC funny meeting you in here
Hey all have a question and a possible request from some of you. First how big/small can a figure 8 be in HO? Basicly whats the smallest it can be? Without hand layed track. (flex track) Will show pics in a few lines but The Veterans Affair I work at might be able to get this layout for free but the 1st problem would be getting it here as its in FL. 2nd how big is it? I'm thinking atleast 7' X12' (pics still uploading to photobucket lol)
My request is if we do get it can I get some donations in the line of train cars and engines as suposely there are none with this.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Packers#1I have a feeling she grew up to become a women's prison warden. And SHE is probably on a message board somewhere, right now, telling this story from HER perspective, about this annoying twerp in her senior English class, ending with how this creep no doubt grew up to become an INSURANCE AGENT.
unca roggieHey, Sawyer: I recall having to do POETRY junk in high school, back in those good old days, when we walked 18 miles to school in a snowstorm, naked and covered in our own excrement, backwards, uphill both directions, battling hungry dinosaurs, and all that. I thought anything to do with poetry was so GIRLY and wondered why our MALE teacher was forcing such crap on us GUYS. So, told I better come up with SOMEthing as a poem, or face a failing grade, I thought back to a childhood saying, that most everyone is familiar with (the one about "rich man, poor man, beggarman, thief...) and turned in this ridiculous item, assuming I'd get slapped upside the head: "The buttons on my coat tell me I'm going to be an INDIAN CHIEF. I'm a girl." The teacher gave me a B+ for that, to my great surprise. One of those girls who was all competitive about getting the best grade in every class, had a total FIT over it (it was tacked up on the wall, as if it was GOOD, just to twist the knife blade into her twisted little soul.) Next day, "THIS IS TERRIBLE" was written across it in her shade of lipstick, so no one had to wonder who did it. I have a feeling she grew up to become a women's prison warden. And SHE is probably on a message board somewhere, right now, telling this story from HER perspective, about this annoying twerp in her senior English class, ending with how this creep no doubt grew up to become an INSURANCE AGENT.
Hey, Sawyer: I recall having to do POETRY junk in high school, back in those good old days, when we walked 18 miles to school in a snowstorm, naked and covered in our own excrement, backwards, uphill both directions, battling hungry dinosaurs, and all that.
I thought anything to do with poetry was so GIRLY and wondered why our MALE teacher was forcing such crap on us GUYS. So, told I better come up with SOMEthing as a poem, or face a failing grade, I thought back to a childhood saying, that most everyone is familiar with (the one about "rich man, poor man, beggarman, thief...) and turned in this ridiculous item, assuming I'd get slapped upside the head: "The buttons on my coat tell me I'm going to be an INDIAN CHIEF. I'm a girl." The teacher gave me a B+ for that, to my great surprise.
One of those girls who was all competitive about getting the best grade in every class, had a total FIT over it (it was tacked up on the wall, as if it was GOOD, just to twist the knife blade into her twisted little soul.) Next day, "THIS IS TERRIBLE" was written across it in her shade of lipstick, so no one had to wonder who did it.
I have a feeling she grew up to become a women's prison warden. And SHE is probably on a message board somewhere, right now, telling this story from HER perspective, about this annoying twerp in her senior English class, ending with how this creep no doubt grew up to become an INSURANCE AGENT.
LOL, that's a great story. Hey, it's just rhyming poems and such, I can do free verse no prob.
Rob; How much rain fell your way? ---and more coming?---and with all that comes Tornados?-------definitly 'YeeHaww' time-----stay safe---what with all that mud----
Up here they just threw us a Freezing Rain Warning----we are supposed to get up to 0C overnight then drop to -5C tomorrow afternoon----either a lot of rain bringing floods---tornadoes----BIG thunderboomers---freezing rain---barrels of snow ---lots of bitter cold----a wonderful buffet for our viewing "pleasure" I suppose----as if we have any choice
john1947; Love the truck---
***John, that's great. Hope you can post some assorted layout pics next time there is gathering. Wife & I both like looking at old fire equipment, too.
Update: Tornado Watch...that earns a double "Yee Haw" Big red line on the satelite is knock knock, on our door step. Sky just grew very dark...cool.
Wife went to check on her folks this evening. Left her a message on her cell to stay put if she hasn't left yet. Rob
Rob, Thanks for the compliment on the truck. In fact it is one of the reasons I got back into model railroading. My fire engine club has a museum that was an old two bay fire station, and is leased to us by the next town over from me. Every year we take the old truck (not mine) that is in there at the time, and other equipment out and replace the open area with train layouts. We have O, G, S, a three foot HO module, and my N layout that operate, plus lots of static displays of older train sets and photos of the NY,NH & H stations and areas around us. We run these every weekend from the day after Thanksgiving to the second week in January. We don't charge admission but accept donations that are placed in the "boot". All donations go toward the operation and upkeep of the museum.
John
Unable to post photos due to broken camera
***John, that is a very cool truck. How about posting some detail pics of it?
River Flood Warning & Severe Thunderstorm Warning..."YEE HAW"
We've been under a flood warning and rightfully so. One neighbors driveway is under many feet of water (looks more like a slow moving lake). And there is a shelf-style waterfall dropping from the pasture on the otherside of the river from ours. It's roaring. Our big pond is officially FULL now. Have another potential 2" or so on the way, so am draining the holding tank again. Tis' a mud fest.
Power is going on and off...going to exit now. If I lose our online connection, have a nice evening all.
Hello everybody and thanks for all the thoughts and prayers regarding brother-in-law, Nick.
I have returned to working on the layout. I am working on a background scene that will have a stream, a church, a cemetary and about eight houses.
I will tell about my Chirstmas present soon when I get a chance.
Happy Model Railroading......
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
LSWrrJeff, don’t you just hate shorts, I think I have a ground fault on track 3 in one turnout. When you finish up with your issue stop by and help me with mine.