Morning Jim , Morning Sue , Et all
Yesterday i tried to do a new post
to the general discussion section and when i clicked on preview i got a
Paragraph notice that the moderators would review my post and notify me if it was accepted
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Anyone know whats up with that ????????
Time for some coffee !
TerryinTexas
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PC - what's your wife's backyard project in -20 F weather? Digging for a new patio's foundation? I thought outside projects stopped when the cold weather hit. Better dress warmly.
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Good morning, All. I stopped by for a coffee before heading out the door.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Morning Zoe, I'll have the early bird special, plus a cup of coffee and a glass of Ed's OJ, please.
Lee, your Accurail kits do come in a yellow box - mine are a white box with only the end label looking like yours. That is a good price for those, indeed. I maybe need some data only cars for the CAW. How's your snow this morning, by the way?
On last night's weather, it looked like Indiana, Ohio, and western NY were gonna be getting the lake effect stuff. Me? I just had a little frost on the windshield this morning. (I figure our turn will be in Jan./Feb.).
Paul W. Beverung I'll have to get on those again. I'm sounding like Jim with all his kits.
Hey! I resemble that remark, Paul!
Actually, I'm further along on my layout than one of our MRR club members. He recently donated some nice engines for the club's use, with the condition for the donation being that when (ahem... when) he gets started on his layout, the other club members will help him out with it. But in all fairness, he's an accountant, so the first half of the year he is swamped (and he has enough to do at w**k in several other months, too). He's 'semi-retired'; wants to retire, but the firm wants him to keep working (and he does). Hard to get much done on a layout when you're at w**k a lot, I suppose. See, Rob - you're not the only one having trouble getting to the layout w**k!
Placed an order with our MRR club member/LHS owner at the MRR club meeting last night. Then, when I totalled it up back at home, I about went into shock. Should've figured the total first, instead of making up my order at the club room, huh? The LHS owner/club member is having us over to his place for our Christmas dinner/train running (annual) event. We told him that since we're often all ordering from him, he could deduct the food and expenses as a business expense for his best customers. He said if it weren't for all our orders, he might not still have his Walthers and Horizon dealerships.
Anyway, back to the club meeting - it was a lot of filling in those ties that you cut out when you're soldering track sections together or cutting pieces to fit (and then have to fit back in so there's not this gaping spot). We got all of the ties in place (we'll just ballast over them and glue them in place then), and the AC power lines under the layout are all in place (except we need conduit to run a vertical line to hook into the other power). Need to drop feeder wires and hook them to the buss lines. Almost ready for our one club member to paint the backdrop light blue. We decided to hold off on doing the clouds until we see where the buildings and scenery will be. We might be running trains around the start of the new year!
I'll slide into the corner booth and see who else comes in. Sunny day out here. [Edit] Well, looky who's got the breakfast tab! Chow down, Diners! Zoe, start the totalling, please.
Blessings,
Bump
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
Morning all!
Well, I finally finished the kitchen remodel for the wife. Wouldn't you just know it though.......no sooner do I finish one HUGE project, she has another one all lined up for me! It's the back yard this time. Fortunately for me it's a balmy 20 degrees and snowing, coupled with a howling wind! Not looking forward to this one!
So whats up in your world?
Good morning. It's 47 and clear. Today's high will be around the lower 60's and it will be clear. Yesterday I finished work on my 4 track pedestrian walkway that will eventually be spanning the tracks at the back of my layout. It's a Model Power copy of a Heljan kit but that didn't keep it from being any more complex. Such a structure would be a fantastic train watching spot and would afford great aerial shots. I also relit the north engine house yesterday. It's now nice and bright in there at night. Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 11/18/2008 Wind Chill: 43°F Humidity: 72% Dew Point: 38°F So Far Today High: 50°F Low: 47°F Rain: 0.00" Rain Rate: 0.00"/h Gust: 10mph ENE Today High: 62 Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Tonight Low: 38 Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
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,
Today: Snow showers, mainly before noon. High near 37. Windy, with a north wind between 21 and 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total daytime snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible. Tonight: A slight chance of snow showers. Cloudy, with a low around 30. Blustery, with a northwest wind 22 to 25 mph decreasing to between 11 and 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Tall glass of lemon water, please & thanks.
Another hard freeze here tonight. Might have to wear more than a T-shirt soon.
BTW, I have always thought those Helium cars were very cool looking.
Added some more bulbs to the track lights. Should produce a reasonable lighting effect for a layout. I am beginning to wonder when I'll ever have enough time to actually "build" that layout. Still need to run the farm and paint. It is going to be a slow process, no doubt.
Have a good night all.
Rob
Evening Gang: I'm happy that the rest of you are having right margin problems too. I was beginning to think that my puter was the culpret.
I got to work on the large scale stuff some today, I sand blasted the parts for two pairs of trucks. After that I got caught up in cleaning the shop. No I didn't get the whole place cleaned up, that may take a couple of centuries. I have gotten a start and have found some things that I've been missing. Tomorrow I'm going to try and get the two short gons washed up and ready for paint. I also need to machine the one set of economy trucks and then bore out the side frames for new bearings in the sprung trucks. I found the frames and stuff for the Fox trucks that I had started making several years ago. I'll have to get on those again. I'm sounding like Jim with all his kits.
Time for bed.
Good Night All
Hot cider, please. We have been having record warm days lately. 56 today.
You guys are going great guns on your layouts lately. I feel like I am slacking by going to work.
Evening everybody.
Calling for about 2 inchs of snow tonight. Oh boy!!
I guess tomorrow, I will work on my engine and do some plastering over the plaster cloth. I know my b-day is next Tuesday, and the wife said that the engine was my only gift. BUT....... I think I can talk some track out of her.
I guess I will get ready for bed soon. Tomorrow is my day off. Snow + cold = layout time.
Everybody stay warm.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Evening all,
I have trouble posting at work, seems the carriage returns get messed up and the right border goes on forever even if I try to edit on screen like John said.
Jeff, the prototypes of that helium car were all owned by the Army, historically I don’t know anyone that had them besides the Army. You said you wanted something to break up the monotony of box cars on your layout, I think that one does it.
My car kits came in the mail today:
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2919959380029441264LnWmDI?vhost=good-times
$6 each. Three Accurail #2597 Data only 55-ton hoppers and four Accurail 4098 Data only 40’ outside braced wood box cars. If I ordered these through Walther’s it would have cost me $82.86.
www.righttrackhobbies.com
I think I’ve cleaned out all my non-period correct rolling stock (other than 2 Athearn covered grain hoppers).
der5997One other thought about the margin thing, and Jeff referred to it in his comment about the Helium Car photo. I find it is critical to check the image size before uploading to (in my case Photobucket) because a large file size on the upload can and has with me, resulted in a margin busting post here, despite the re-sizing done automatically by Photobucket (and claimed for the Forum too).
CapeJim: I'm not using Word on this, so the margin shouldn't be an issue. Actually MSWORD doesn't seem to be the problem, as it's wordwrap application works fine. What Ido find a nuisance with the new Forum software is that if I were doing this in Word, and just copied it and pasted in this field, there would be no separation between any of the paragraphs I put in the original Word.doc That in Jeff's words is a PITB.
So instead I now copy and separately paste each stupid paragraph. Then I space down at least 3 times to paste the next paragraph. Even then it sometimes bunches up. Why do I bother? In Word I get the spelling and grammar check showing me typos and spelling errors. Spelling may not be that important in the grand scheme of things, but typos like "theh" for "the" my fingers do all the time, and often it ruins he sens eof wha tI'mt ryingt osay. (Just got back from Preview, and there were at least 4 of those I have fixed here)
One other thought about the margin thing, and Jeff referred to it in his comment about the Helium Car photo. I find it is critical to check the image size before uploading to (in my case Photobucket) because a large file size on the upload can and has with me, resulted in a margin busting post here, despite the re-sizing done automatically by Photobucket (and claimed for the Forum too).
Off now to have a go at doing what I couldn't do yesterday on the crane because we had a power out all evening. Played crib with my MIL instead, by candlelight
TTFN
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Hello ......
Yes, the wide posts are bothersome.
It was good to see Ryan, but I noticed he had no Cajun food to offer.
Anybody making any mrr progress today?
I worked more on the layout.
Cheers!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Okay, looks like if we're using a word processor for our posts, we'd better put the line wraps in before we hit 'Post'... One of those moments, I guess, or at least until they get the rest of the kinks worked out of the forum software.
JimRCGMO Hey Jeff - sent you a PM that I'm hoping might fix things. Go read it and try it out, please.
Hey Jeff - sent you a PM that I'm hoping might fix things. Go read it and try it out, please.
And the right margin is still normal.
Thanks,
Once we get off this page it'll go back to normal. It started this because a couple of very wide posts were posted this morning.
Jeff did you do that with your post? I still have to scroll all the way to the right? Sorry on the misspelled Diner but my spelling just isn't as good as it use to be and it never was that good,,,Jerry
Here's a way to keep from adding to these infinite margins. When your reply line starts to advance, inother words, move, press enter and start the next line. That way the next reader doesn't have to scrollacross to read your reply.
Afternoon all...Its cloudy and 34 here with snow flurries here...I'll have a root beer float..please...thank you...I have been trying to figure out how to log in all morning figured out had to scroll all the way to the right? Is this the problem rest of you are having?...Spent the morning moving my scanner to work bench havn't used it much for years had to have it when I worked at radio station..picked up alittle on CSX but thats about it...You all have a good one...Jerry
This infinite right margin is a real PITB!
SilverSpikeI know I've been a stranger around these parts lately, but I'm finding it more and more difficult to read the new MR forums these days. And with the scrolling left to right window now in many posts, just one more reason to stay away. You would think these bugs would have been fixed awhile ago, or heck, tested before going live! Oh well, you all have a good one!Thoughts and prayers for those in need and healing too! =:~) I'm with you Ryan, This forum site has become a real pain. FIX IT OR TO HECK WITH IT>Johnboy out....................................
I know I've been a stranger around these parts lately, but I'm finding it more and more difficult to read the new MR forums these days. And with the scrolling left to right window now in many posts, just one more reason to stay away. You would think these bugs would have been fixed awhile ago, or heck, tested before going live!
Oh well, you all have a good one!
Thoughts and prayers for those in need and healing too!
=:~) I'm with you Ryan, This forum site has become a real pain. FIX IT OR TO HECK WITH IT>
Johnboy out....................................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
=:~)
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
in a SANTA FE mug, please & thank you.
Painters are back. The old guy didn't even have a rag with him for last minute caulking. I think less & less of this crew the more they are here. However, still glad to see a 68 year old with 1 1/2 lungs who also had a minor stroke "still able to work at all". Sooo, I'm not without some sympathy.
I got all my track lighting up last night. Will add a few more lights to the tracks later. I felt like leaving one of the covers off to show the contractor how those are suppose to be wired, but didn't feel like leaving it un finished. It's done and I know it's "safe".
Let old Sandy (the injured mare) out of the barn today. She is sore and moving slower than usual. Also she is very happy to be out.
Looks like the tile will be going in next. I see the boards being brought in now. Progress. Can't wait for everything to be done and have the farm back to ourselves.
JimRCGMOJeff, is that the helium car you were talking about? Looks hefty, even if its weight isn't as bad as it appears.
Morning Zoe - I'll have a glass of Ed's OJ and a cup of coffee for now while I look over the menu. Thanks!
Not sure what's going on this morning, but the forum's software is acting weird. On this page, the line wraps are way too long (where you have to scroll left or right to read the things).
Jeff, is that the helium car you were talking about? Looks hefty, even if its weight isn't as bad as it appears.
Rob, that's frustrating, as well as scary, when your builder's doing that kind of stuff. Might need to talk with your contractor about needing to deduct from your bill for the stuff you're having to re-do that his guys messed up (sorry there, Fergie!). That is not in the least bit reassuring for the home buyer (you). Get him straightened out on what is and isn't acceptable work standards.
Lee, the Accurail kits I get are a white box (but with a yellow label (surrounded by red line, if I recall correctly) - is that what you meant? I'll take another look this week in my Walthers catalog and see what RR lines they have. I have assembled a few of the Bowser covered hoppers, and they're not too hard to put together (once I figured out the sequence that worked). Thanks for the suggestions. (Funny list of tool descriptions - someone should add some MRR-specific ones to that!)
Sue, I'm hoping the Katos aren't any harder to assemble than some others I've done. I'll have to modify or weather over the (re-)build dates on them (they looked to me like a '67 build year, which would be too late for my RR, so I may mod that to '57 and weather it out on another one of them. I do need to get that camera.
Zoe, I'll have the breakfast special, with two scrambled eggs, toast, blackberry jam, couple of strips of bacon, and a glass of milk, please. Thanks, and I'll be in the window booth. Want to see if we're gonna get any of that snow Lee was talking about for his area...
Blessings on your day,