Buggyman 1) anyone know what the Login timer is set for, It seems I have to login everytime I come here.(yes I have cookie enabled)
1) anyone know what the Login timer is set for, It seems I have to login everytime I come here.(yes I have cookie enabled)
To add to what folks have already said, next to where you sign in, there is a box you can check that says "Remember Me". Make sure thats checked.
Buggyman3) Are the moderator labled such? or are the Undercover members?
Bergie is the main man, but there are a few more that have limited powers that patrol the forums too. You can see if one of them is online if you go to the main page and look at the list of who's on the forum at that time. Mods show up in red printing.
Buggyman1) anyone know what the Login timer is set for, It seems I have to login everytime I come here.(yes I have cookie enabled)2) more of a suggestion, There is no welcome room for the newbies. I think that would be a great acess. I have my own board (non train related) and when we have a new member we post a welcome post for them there. 3) Are the moderator labled such? or are the Undercover members?
2) more of a suggestion, There is no welcome room for the newbies. I think that would be a great acess. I have my own board (non train related) and when we have a new member we post a welcome post for them there.
3) Are the moderator labled such? or are the Undercover members?
2) I've been here since 2004 and have never seen a 'Welcome' thread. If there were one it would quickly become buried under many pages as the main page has a very high turnover.
3) There is one paid moderator, period. He has a big job to do plus his regular job so many of the members do what they can to help him. Among them are several volunteer moderators whom I will not name. If members see something amiss or someone is causing trouble it's reported to the moderators through the use of the 'Report Abuse' button in each post.
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BuggymanGood Morning Everyone, I assume the Coffee is flowing freely this morning (Lord knows I need it)
Of course! One thing we never run out of around here is coffee!!!!! I'll let some others answer your other questions except to say that thee moderator is Bergie, aka: Erik Bergstrom. There are a few other "volunteers" that have the power to lock threads and such if they get to be not within' the rules......
Mornin' everyone!
Flo, I'll have a bowl of hot oatmeal and a pot of Dark Roast coffee. Oh and bring a FGLK Mug to go along with that!
I am waiting for a package to arrive in the mail so I can complete the dock at the freight station at Hopewell Junction. I have a pile of stuff ordered at the LHS that hasn't arrived as well, so here I sit and wait to get some details done that I want in place before I apply for the NMRA AP Scenery Certificate. I have several e-mails that have to get out this morning and some other work to do before the MLK Meeting tonight.
I best get doing some w**k. See you later!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good Morning Everyone, I assume the Coffee is flowing freely this morning (Lord knows I need it)
Off topic a bit since I'm a newbie around this plce I have a few questions about the boards themselves.
The Members have been treating me great so far, I'm learning a lot and it's helping me greatly "BEFORE" I go spending me money.
So.. a KUDO's to all of you helping
Thanks
Buggy
Jeff; If i keep my teeth ---my original teeth where they are he won't, but you never know---this morning I found his beanie fish toy in a bowl of water---he was playing fish in a barrel?
BTW Jim Unger's Herman was one of the cartoons I had books+books of---he's hilarious---
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/
Barry: I hope 'Spring' never gets like this.
Good Morning people! We are sitting at -6C but it is SUNNY!!! And no clouds in the sky----yet. Mind, they are never far away--- The high will be -2C with low tonight of -15C being clear, of course----CNCharlie and John must be in deep hibernation mode what with the windchills reported this morning----some parts of SK were in the -50C range----that is majorly C-C-COLD!!!
Today I have some running around to do----I don't go back to work until the weekend so----play!!---or something like it----
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good morning. It's 50 and there's a light fog out here by the lake. The high today will be 50 and there's a good chance of rain. Didn't do much yesterday. Watched some movies (only have a couple thousand) and checked the wiring of my control panel in an attempt to find a short that's preventing one of my turnouts from operating. Fortunately it's not a critical turnout. The next step will be to go under the layout and search for the short. I'll have to start at the turnout and work back toward the panel. The odds-on bet is that when the control panel was moved to make room for the new heater a couple of wires got pulled enough to expose and cross them. That remains to be seen. Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 1/5/2009 Wind Chill: 47°F Humidity: 100% Dew Point: 50°F So Far Today High: 52°F Low: 50°F Rain: 0.00" Rain Rate: 0.00"/h Gust: 16mph NNE Today High: 50 A chance of rain in the morning...then rain likely in the afternoon. Much cooler. Highs around 50. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent. Tonight Low: 40 Rain likely in the evening...then showers and thunderstorms likely after midnight. Lows around 40. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good evening to all, still cold and snowy here. And to make matters worse, now the heating system has failed. First, the zone controller. It is not sending 24Vac to the Circulator, so there is no hot water in the registers in any zone. Well, I jumpered the failed part of the system and thought I was out of the woods, but alas, the circulators was still not getting 24Vac. So a little more TS resulted in a failure in the Honeywell AquaStat. It appears that the relay or the transformer has also failed. So, used to Xr contact and spliced in a single pole switch to allow the circulator to get 24Vac whenever the furnace is up to temp. Repair service is due tomorrow afternoon, lets see now, $210 for a 4 zone controller, $76 for an aquastat, and hopefully the service contract will cover the labor...not holding my breath on that one.
I did manage to get into the new train room and assembled more benchwork.
A big welcome to all the new members to the Diner!!! Cloe, take care of these nice people and put the tab on my bill.
FLIP: I hear you have a load of shoes in Florida? I take size 9W LOL All over the highway huh ??
Time for bed,
***Paul, that's great news. Any idea where it had been hiding?
***Der, actually I think they did a good job on the "framing", but not much else. Here is a pic of that pipe I uncovered. Although I since replaced and glued new connections, may do it over one more time, first digging up more of the pipe so it can be flexed into the fittings better. Can't help it, I'm a perfectionist:
Good night all.
Rob
Everybody here is all asleep but me---I'm trying to get some good effects together on mucho destructo burnt out thingumahooverit that is called a F7 in some sensible condx---modulo its incredibly bad shape now--
oh well; have a good night. I'm heading off for
Evening Gang:
Good news tonight. We found the missing kitten. I was heading down the road to get hay and there it was in the middle of the road. It saw me coming and headed into the bamboo next to the road. I got down from the tractor and called to it and it came out mewing up a storm. We don’t know where it was, just happy to have it back.
Not much else going on. The weather is cold here today, just 29 at 7am. Tonight it is supposed to have freezing rain until sometime tomorrow. Our daughters in laws are going home to England Wednesday so we are going to try and take them out tomorrow for some last minute sight seeing. That depends on the weather.
Well it’s late and I have a headache.
Good Night All
Evening all.
It's 32* and snowing... again... I was altar serving at the 5:30 mass at church, and it was clear outside. I come outside at 6:30, there's 3" of fluff everywhere. Now there's about 5", and I'm assuming that winter break will be a little bit longer.
Oh, and chloe, I'll have the steakburger with onion rings on it, and a coke. Sounds like a good late dinner.
On the trains front, I have started building my mountain. I have a full cardboard tunnel built up, and have started weaving cardboard strips across. Eventually I'll get some plaster cloth going up there and then I'll have a ball making the scenery... It's been a fun break, I must say.
I'm also enjoying my new floor tom on the drum set... It makes playing (Improvising, rather) "Moby Dick" by Led Zeppelin a lot more enjoyable, and fun. It adds another layer of sound, and when doing triplets across the toms I have more options. Now I just need a big 22" ride...
I hope everyone had a great 2008 and will have a great 2009.
Mark.
"Philosophical Progress"
Here's a funny one, but it violates forum rules so I'll just post it as a link.
Huh? Oh thanks. G-night all.
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.
Thanks for the welcomes, folks. That photo of a nice eggy-benny had me drooling.
I used to treat myself to the version of it they served at a Vancouver, B.C. hotel called the Bayshore. It was SO good, that whenever the QUEEN was in town, even when not staying at that hotel, she'd have someone run over a helping of it, to her.
The hollandaise sauce was quite special, had stiff little peaks on it, like you see on the really good lemon meringue pies. And it was low cal, too (about 65,000 per serving).
As I said, I'd allow myself this rich treat, whenever I pulled off a big sale. I got both rich AND fat, in the process, however.
I shoulda hung out a carrot of being able to buy myself some sort of model railroad item, whenever I done good...and still be wearing 30 waist pants.
A MODELLING comment here: some of you have no doubt seen photos of stuff I've done, on this site, the latest being to dirty up those low cost vehicles I found at Walmart for a buck apiece.
Here's a slap-in-the-head lesson I've learned, this last while: its a REAL good idea to take an extreme close-up shot of whatever you make for your layout (or just collection, if your layout is THE PURELY MENTAL & WESTERN RAILWAY, like mine)
What it may reveal to you is an overly done weathering job, or some crooked walls on a structure, or way out of scale ballast...things your naked eye just doesn't (wanna?) see.
Of course, I'm viewing the photos on a 26 inch monitor, so anything at all out of whack shows up with sirens screaming, and bells ringing.
Better YOU notice the problem and correct it, before some snarky visitor jumps on the opportunity to point it out to you.
I'll have a slice of apple pie with a piece of cheese on top and a cup of coffee please.
Der, that reminds me of a I guy my dad used to know. This fella wore a patch over his left eye, because as he told it "A piece of track I was a cuttin jumpt right up and caught me in muh peeper!" I met him when I was 8 years old, and from then on anytime I was to cut anything I made sure I wore eye protection. I still do to this day.
Well I hope everyone enjoyed their holidays as much as I did. It's back to work for me tomorrow. I got lucky only haveing to stand one duty day during the entire stand down period. Some guys had to stand two. Anyhow, have a wonderful Monday.
Jason
Modeling the Fort Worth & Denver of the early 1970's in N scale
Der: Now you see the reason I use a Dremel to cut my track.
T O P is mine! Order up!
Lee: I count it as 15 posts per page.
My newest loco: A Bachmann Spectrum 2-10-2. It pulls about 13 20 year old cars.
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
Eric, Did they stick you with TOP on your first go? (I haven't read anything past page 165, so don't know exactly when you came in
Rob: Is there anything those contractors actually did right? You've had the worst time getting the house put back to livable.
Then I tackled a second turnout replacement. The lead from the main to my container port ended in a #5 (Technically a Peco short) turnout. It really needed to be less sharp for good operation. So I also went ahead with this re-placement. I’ve put in a Peco Medium Radius. Everything went in a text book fashion, even down to re-aligning the lead track to account for the longer turnout, and re-ballasting. The new piece of rail had to be cut. One of the two cut off ends flew - who knows where! Found it later about 10 feet away.
That's above the main leading up to my upper reverse loop.
Fixed the surrounding scenery as well, re-located drainage ditch, etc. My container cars purr through the new turnout like they never did with the old one. All the glue has to dry, but I’m getting to think that Model Railroading may be Fun again!
Early start tomorrow for blood tests and Dr. appointment (Prescription renewal)
Goodnight all, and God Bless. Prayers for al in need of healing, comfort and peace.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
OK where is the TOP? Who stole it?
I better answer to 'Spring'---He came out with a bellow---NOOOOOWWWWW!!!!!-----
pcarrellTell ya what Lee, we'll let ya know when you've got it! BOY, will we ever let you know!
Flip, is that a challenge I hear? Race ya to four?
Now Eric, I can see we're going to get along just fine! Oh, and BTW, CONGRATS! You've got top honors! I warned ya! Yeah, we're gonna get along JUST FINE! Chloe, Eric wants to buy me some more pie! Can you hook me up please? No, I don't care what kind.....just bring em all!
LSWrrI still can’t figure out who has “TOP” honors in this place, my monitor settings must be way different than the rest of the diners or something.
Tell ya what Lee, we'll let ya know when you've got it! BOY, will we ever let you know!
Pecan pie, please.
After cleaning the new tiles (little room next to train room) I notice the shower, commode & sink were not draining properly. Going on instinct, I dug up the drain pipe outside the house and sure enough, it wasn't connected...or more accurately "half connected". Drain pipe had slipped out of the angled pipe fitting (was obviously never glued) so only had half drain flow. Gurrrrr! Ran to HD and picked up a couple fittings and repaired it. Makes me wonder if I should dig up the entire line all the way to the septic tank incase there are other bad spots?
Put up a couple cabinets for the wife in the future pantry & canning area. I'll install a utility sink in there sometime this week. Still overwhelmed by all the little projects eating up my time. Oh well.
Long day...going to go veg infront of TV awhile. Rob
Just stopped in for a RBF, please, Chloe.
It is definately global cooling. More snow as we speak.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Double Bacon cheeseburger with slaw on it, onion (or unyawn) rings and a Dr Pepper. For dessert I’ll take a piece of Fects pecan pie if they haven’t eaten the WHOLE THING!!!
Hey Eric . Yup, you’ve come to the right place. Probably more is learned here than anywhere on the internet. Just be careful of the kitties that are brought in . Most are cute and funny but you must obey Spooky or….well I don’t know what happens. Just obey and be safe. Welcome to the diner! Let me share some of Ryans Tick dip…..it’s Gooooood!
I’m not much into sports but I’ll chime in. Root’n for Houston! Go Texans!
Hey Unkie Rog, Ew and germanium- ( I’m gonna have to read this whole thing before making a reply) Welcome to you too (and anyone I may have missed). I had the same impression for a while myself Unca, ‘til I stumbled in and they welcomed me and then fed me. They are a great bunch of guys (and gal) here but be fore warned. They eat a LOT. Belly up guys to some Tick dip before Eric eats it all or Ryan starts charging for it.
OK trains stuff.. The new Texas and Pacific, (resurrected after a few rich oil tycoons got together and thought it would be neat to own a railroad, bought themselves a “disposable” railway between somewhere and somewhere else from the UP and a GP-40 from the Santa Fe, some box cars and a ham sandwich), will be up and running as soon as a little more track has been laid. The owners are looking for a B32-8WH for their main power, because they like the way they look (rich guys hrumph) and only have 4 wheels per truck so they know it will make it around that one curve with no problems. After they find out what the "H" stands for. and use the Geep for short runs or backup. They will make a little off Amtrak as the mainline is an Amtrak route though not sure how long it will last. Not sure if they will resurrect the old paint or not. Depends on if their color ignorant painter can get the colors right or not. Can’t fire him though, he’s the brother of their favorite bartender and she looks… well… let’s just say they won’t fire him. They have plans to acquire more motive power as needed but now they just talk, eat Tex-Mex and smoke big cigars.
Still don’t have a name
I’m ready for that pie now and how ‘bout a glass of milk to wash it down with. I’ll just sit back and enjoy this for a while.
Another fly on the ointment with my weathering project is the warped trucks---these have serious bends to them as well----how does one SCORCH trucks?
I kinda SNUCK in here----heeheehee
Ah, I think I got it now. Thanks Ray. Got to keep track. Enjoy the pie!
Eric
Hmmm, should keep old post first.. easier to count. I'm kinda slow.
Ray; just thought of a question----if you leave posts to sort newest to oldest wouldn't that kind of reverse order or something or-----oh forget it----
Mind, I keep thinking it also would have to do with size of posting too------