ELLIOT's Trackside Diner VI: The Full Meal Deal!

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Hello everybody....

I'm glad you enjoyed the photos of "My Old Kentucky Dinner Trains" ...

It's a little hectic here No much Mrr time, and that's bad.

We're leaving in the morning for Cincinnati...

Good night.  

 

[Paul W. Beverung]

Evening Gang: I turned over the two gons and flat car and sprayed the top sides. I also sprayed another coat on the gons floor pieces.

Not much else has been going on.

When I put the cusor on the post space the right matgin line disappeared. I've got to get ahold of my friend and see what the Int Ex is, 7 or 8.

Well I'm going to hit the sack.

Good Night All

[JimRCGMO]

Evening, Chloe, just stopping by for a hot cocoa to go, please. Thanks.

Was on-call last night (Thursday) - got all of 2-1/2 to 3 hours sleep. We'll just say I was out for longer than I needed to have been, and finished up about 1 hour before my usual alarm-going-off time of the morning. I was able to arrange with my supervisor and co-worker in crisis, so I got off early. Went home and got another 3 hours this afternoon/evening. Still tired, but will be going to be earlier than usual tonight. I'll have to go through the posts in the morning, while I'm doing laundry (they have WiFi ).

Hope everyone has been doing well. Morgan, congrats on your team's win. Duce, good to see you back! [welcome] Prayers for those in need, and a good night's sleep for us all. Time for some now .... 

 

Blessings,

Jim in Cape Girardeau
 

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

 Lee: I would use a wide bladed flat tip screwdriver to CAREFULLY pry the flywheels off. Do it very slowly because if you break either end of the motors casing that's all she wrote.

[LSWrr]

CSX, thanks for the info, that was a good web site might save me some $$$$ in the near future.

 

Ok, maybe Jeff can answer this one????

How do I pull one of the flywheels off this monster?

http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2242521730029441264vojBee?vhost=rides

http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2300473400029441264AfHKKn?vhost=rides

Lee

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

grayfox1119

JEFF: A coaling tower? You are a Diesel man, what is going on?

 

It's an abandoned structure, not used in decades.

[grayfox1119]

What??? I was TOTP last night?? Just look at that bar bill!!!!! That will teach me not check before leaving the Diner!! The wood stove kept us warm last night, no need to turn on the thermostats for oil fired heat support yet.

A beauty of a day here today, but going downhill now as a storm approaches for tomorrow afternoon and evening with heavy rains. Good day for MRR progress.

Another young man injured on tracks in MA near the south shore, walking on the tracks with headphones ON, smart, REAL SMART!

ATTABOY: Let me guess what the Mfgr of the Circuit breakers are that are a fire hazard: Federal Pacific?  I changed out three panels in my house two years ago, all Federal Pacific installed in the late 60's. After what I read online I replaced them real fast.

SUE: Glad to hear that you are enjoying " White Cascade". I know that any of the Diners who like to read and even those that don't, would find it hard to put this book down.

On another note, I was helping my wife cut back all the plants out in the yard today, and when we got to one plant, I really took notice. The plant is called "Astilbe", and it has these flower stems at the end that are about as perfect as I have ever seen for making trees. Using the hairspray technique, these would make the best trees that I have see thus far. I am going to use them next year for sure.

FERGIE: Christmas is coming, better be nice !

JEFF: A coaling tower? You are a Diesel man, what is going on?

DUKE: Better behave, Faye is keeping an eye on you!!

Later,

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

 Page 2? BUMP!

Photos of further progress on the caoling station are on page 1 of the WPF.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

 What the heck! Here's some more progress on the coaling station. The rafters have been weathered and the sheet metal for the roof has been cut to size.

 

[bjdukert]

Afternoon all

Sue and Ken   I didn’t paint the coaling tower and watch the roof panels because it took me a couple tries to get them in the right place. Couldn’t figure what was wrong until I took a real close look and that is what I mean about the instructions,right Sue? And it is the Walthers and did go together pretty well over all and wait until you go to run the thread for the chutes,lots of fun. Oh yeah and so are the stairs and handrails as Sue is finding out.

Ken   The fuel cranes look really good and some day I would like to be able to scratch build as well as you,John,and Jerry.

Attaboy   Good to see you and I am thinking of a trip to Strausburg this summer,just me this time.

Dick   I keep telling Fay that I hear every word I want to when she speaks and that gets me into trouble from time to time.

That’s about it

Best to all on sick call and those recovering

Talk to you later

Duke

[jeffrey-wimberly]

CSX_road_slug

Jeff, when you gonna post some more pics of your ‘derelict’ coal tower with the collapsed roof?

When I finish the roof.

[CSX_road_slug]

Happy TGIF, club dwellers!  Since Fergie’s picking up the tab today, I’ll order a late brunch of Canadian Bacon and a vegetarian omellette.

Thanx everybody, for the kind words about my fuel cranes!

LSWrr

…last night; a Digitrax Empire builder new in the box, with a 1 year warranty sold for $150.00.  …

 

Lee, sorry to hear that!  But then again, it makes you wonder why was the thing selling for so cheap in the first place?  Probably because, unlike its siblings (Zephyr and SuperChief), it lacks read/write programming capability.  I depend heavily on being able to see exactly what I’ve got stored in my CV’s before I accidentally clobber them. Click here to read the warning on Tonys Train Exchange website concerning the Empire Builder (you’ll need to scroll down to the middle of the page to see it).

Fergie – seems more like those brass locos multiply when Lisa’s back is turned!  I used to have a similar problem, that’s why I took all of my credit cards out of my wallet!

Duke, that’s one sweet-looking coal tower you’ve built there!

…which reminds me: hey Jeff, when you gonna post some more pics of your ‘derelict’ coal tower with the collapsed roof?

Attaboy, great to see ya!  That does sound like a thankless job you’ve been having to do these past months.  Sort of reminds me of when I was upgrading my garage to convert it to a year ‘round trainroom 3 years ago.

[Packers#1]

der5997

 

 

Sawyer:

What sucks is the team we lost to who went to the championship won 14-6. And I know that we could have won that game too.

…yeah, that sucks!  Still, there’s always next year!

 

 

 

There sure is. And the High school I'm going to also has a great football program.

[LSWrr]

Fergi, Captain Wade Spurrell that's who it was, nice guy.

[Attaboy]

Morning all.  It's break time here at BDD so I thought I would stop in for a snack for a change instead of just looking through the window.

Haven't stopped in for a few months because things have been really crazy.  About two days after I met Duke at Steamtown my central air decided to quit working.  Right in the middle of the summer's worst heat wave.  The repairman said it would be at least $1500 to fix and recommended replacing it since it was so old.  Since I planned to replace the AC and oil hot water heat next year with a geothermal heat pump anyway, I just moved that up to now.  I spent the next two months installing a new water heater (tankless) since the old funace heated the domestic hot water, found out I had an out of production circuit breaker box because the breakers are a fire hazard.  Replaced the breaker box, took out the old hot water radiators and all the associated plumbing for them and did the plumbing for the water heater.  The heat pump was up and running about four weeks ago and I've been tying up loose ends.  In the middle of it all Pat (the fiance) and her son moved in with me and we have been trying to compress two households of funiture into one.  Still working on that one.  We are having new carpet installed in a week or two and have to do some painting first.  I never seems to end.

Welcome back Cary and Ken.  It's good to see some of the "old" faces returning.

Oops, break is over.  See you later.

[gear-jammer]

Cox 47

I worked some more on Laser building yesterday...I split one of the small parts but got it glued back together..I'll try to get a photo when I get it done..also got decals on IC caboose...

Jerry,  I am looking forward to the photos of your current building project.

Sue

[Cox 47]

Good Morning all...Its cloudy and 48 here we got rain last nite with more forcast today....I'll have Ham and eggs,toast and coffee please...Thank You...

I worked some more on Laser building yesterday...I split one of the small parts but got it glued back together..I'll try to get a photo when I get it done..also got decals on IC caboose...

Rob..I saw the RFD show on the O scale railroads too..Wow couple of nice layouts..Makes me wish I had lots of room and deep pockets!

KenL...Nice work on fueling cranes...

Duce...Good to see you back!!Don't be such a stranger!...

Sallie and I are watching Bloomberg channel this morning..Sound like it could be a black friday!....

You all have a good one...Jerry

[gear-jammer]

Good morning, All.  I will slide into this back corner booth again.  I can't stay as long as I did yesterday.  Did I hear that Fergie is buying?  Thanks for your generosity.

I have been laying awake trying to decide which project to work on next.  I guess that my kitbashed background buildings should come next.

There is ice on the car windsheild this morning so I need to keep moving.

Later, Sue

[Fergmiester]

 Good Morning All!

hot Coffee please. A nippy one on the Bike this sunny but cold a.m. Yes Der John there was more of that frost on the ground and it' time for me to worry about the puddles freezing! As to the actual date of the show I'm not sure but pretty certain it is Mid November. I'll find out and let you and Luc know!

Duce! Glad you made it back always curious as to where some of our dearly departed have drifted off to. Yes there are some of the "older Crowd" still around. RT is working these days so we don't get to see him much. Ed hasn't been in in quite awhile, speaking of which ... We still getting his OJ shipments? Mr. Powell still gets in from time to time and I get to talk to Teffy on the phone once in awhile.

Ken: Sounds like things are still happening on the MR. hopefully you can share more of your goings on with us. Excellent job on the fuelling cranes! Believe it or not I've had to expand my yard to include a fueling bay. Yes I have a handful of transition diesels now but I also have several oil burning steamers These things! They're like rabbits and multiply when my back is turned ( Or so  I tell my wife).

Lee: That's not a name I'm familiar with but then again the spelling could be throwing me off. I know Captain Wade Spurrell. Canada has 5 Coast Guard Regions with little interaction sad to say (very proprietory).

Garry: Thanks for the fotos! Some Great Shots for sure.

Morgan:  Well done and if your having fun that's the main thing. As our Rugby coach said frequently " If you do your best that's what matters the most, Not winning, not loosing" Of all the sports I played I enjoyed that one the most probably because of the coach I had.

Well guys times up and outta here as I have another physio appointment yet again This getting old really Sux!

and Richard did I miss ya... Nah Just wanted to do the "Sha na na naa hey hey say..." on the table for ya! Maybe next year

 

Fergie

[jeffrey-wimberly]

 Good morning.

It's 45 and clear here. That barbed wire fence between here and the north pole has done fell down. The high is expected to be in the mid 70's and it will be sunny.

Well, this morning I went and did it! I turned the heater on for the first time this season, just long enough to take the chill off. I must remember next year to vacuum the dust off the coils before doing that again. What a smell! Yesterday I went over to see what progress is being made on my nieces trailer. They've got half of the sheetrock up so far and are wondering what type of paneling to get. Some of the major appliances are in already, refrigerator (they had to take the entire front door frame out of the wall to get it in), oven/range (electric), microwave (and is it a BIG one). The central AC/heat is in (all electric), electric water heater. There won't be anything in the trailer that uses gas. Guess she took a lesson from me on that one. I don't have any gas appliances either.

Today's Weather for:
Sundown, LA  71446-6114      10/24/2008

Wind Chill:  45°F
Humidity:  94%
Dew Point:  43°F

So Far Today
High:  46°F
Low:  44°F
Rain:  0.01"
Rain Rate:  0.00"/h
Gust:  8mph NNE

Today  High: 75    Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight  Low: 45    Clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.

[LSWrr]

Good morning all, Sn*w for Sunday or Monday. Worked 3 half days this week (12hr a day) so I haven’t had much time to visit. Congratulations Packers! 32-0 that’s a big shut out! My coffee tasts a little salty this morning, or wait must be from my crying! last night; a Digitrax Empire builder new in the box, with a 1 year warranty sold for $150.00. On the bay and I missed it. CSX those fuel cranes look really good, great job! Der, I sent you an email last night;  I can’t mail this box out unless I have a day time phone number for the customs form.  If you can shoot me an email tonight thanks.   Lee

 

[wetidlerjr]

Good Morning from Tipton IN !

[gear-jammer]

Duke,  Thanks.  Is that photo before you painted?  Or did you choose similar colors?  We decided to paint closely to the original colors; attach the stairs and roof; and then weather.  I will let you know if that works.  The stairs are so fragile.  I have knocked a railing off more times than I can count at this point.

Sue

[CSX_road_slug]

der5997

…I can’t find Preview…all I have is Post.  Where do you find Preview? 

 

John, it's the third (farthest right) of a set of tabs that appear just above the text of the post you're replying to:

 

At least, this is the form that comes up for me when I click on the "Reply" button within an individual post [not on "Quick Reply" at the bottom of the page] And I've given people that same advice about using a word processor countless times, but obviously I'm better at preaching it than practicing it, LOL

[bjdukert]

Sue  You missed it because I didn’t post it. Here it is.

http://s22.photobucket.com/albums/b350/bjdukert/NEW%20YARD/?action=view&current=NEWYARDTHEN2.jpg

John  If you go back to the top of the reply page there are three tabs and one of them is preview

Duke

[gear-jammer]

I stepped out for a while, but decided to stop by for a RBF.

Dick,  I should be around more for the next 2 weeks.  I started The White Cascades, and am finding it a good read.  Thanks for the suggestion.

Duke,  I missed your link for your coaling tower.  I have assembled everything except.  The stairway is in 3 pieces, the roof pieces are not attached, and the window plastic is not in.  You are so right about the directions.  The order that they suggest is not necessarily the easiest way to connect the parts.  I will let you know later how the rest of it goes.

Tom, I haven't been drooling over them lately, but that is the one.  The NP of course.

Sue

[der5997]

Good evening Diners!  A small JR Decaf Regular please Chloe. (Seems I’ve a recurrence of a 1980s vintage gastric ulcer, ad the MO has told me to cut the caffeine intake.

 

Duce! back, it’s good to hear from you again. Yes, there are some familiar faces, Ken L has found his way over recently, and Lupo dropped in the other day after quite a vacation as well.  We seem to have lost Noah, either  to school work or a girl friend, it’s hard to say…and Scott landed his dream job with Norfolk Southern, and hasn’t been in for quite some time. 

In researching for details I need to progress my container crane, I came across a site this evening that UP fans in particular, but mrrs generally will appreciate.  It didn’t give me the info I was looking for, but he view is spectacular! http://www.robl.w1.com/Transport/intermod.htm    

 

I’ve had no end of delays in constructing the bin into which the power cable for the hoist spreader coils. Finally settled last night on a design change, and went with this type – sorry I can’t post the pic itself as it won’t copy from the site - http://www.fotosearch.com/AGE035/f58-396059/    Here’s my build as of this afternoon, based on the plastic core of a dental floss dispenser. I tried to make my own (thinner walled) bin, but it wouldn’t come out circular. Grrr.You can see the system I’ve had to devise to hold the bin and cable feed chute steady while I glue supports to fasten them together. Next are those slanted supports tot  he top of the tube. That shouldn’t be quite as fiddly!   Other spreader sub-assemblies are to the upper left in the photo.

 

 

Fergie:

but he seems to be mending and has a smile and just in time for the Dartmouth show next month. You going?

…Sorry to hear about George, he has a tough row to hoe. As to the Dartmouth show, didn’t know it was on.  When would that be?

 

 

Tom: Those folks at the pet cemetery really took care of you.  Good to know that there are fine things happening when the news seems full of the sordid and disastrous. The memorial caboose is a great idea. Sorry about Lowell, but you know you aren’t alone in this.  

Rob:  Quite the saga on the foam…using the surplus for “Mountains in Minutes”® is brilliant!

 

Morgan: If you read this sometime, the laptop our local museum has came with a separate regular keyboard as part of the package. It makes all the difference in the world, as I agree with you, laptop keyboards are not my idea of fun.   Spent some time this morning getting the community sound system out of storage and finding out what plugs in where for a couple of mics. Our Heritage Society has an outdoor “Ghostly Tales” event planned for Sunday evening, and I guess I’m on point for mc and sound man. Rain is forecast, Oh Joy!

 

 

Paul: All that trouble you are having with no word wrap working hasn’t happened to me yet. However, I do find that pasting from WORD into the Reply field here results in all the spacing being lost, unless I do about 5 “Enter” between each paragraph. I’m going to try to put forced breaks in this, and see what happens.

 

 

Gary:  Those are great photos of your trip, thanks for posting them. 

 

 

Dick:

DER JOHN, FERGIE, LUC: One dog night tonight !!!!!!

…Can’t speak for the Dartmouth contingent, but down the shore here, the forecast was for a low of just 32°F by morning---so we’ll not have  to have Rosie on the bed tonight!

 

 

Sawyer:

What sucks is the team we lost to who went to the championship won 14-6. And I know that we could have won that game too.

…yeah, that sucks!  Still, there’s always next year!

 

 

Ken:

 [I just lost an entire post because I haven't figured out how to go back to 'edit' from 'preview' 

…I can’t find Preview…all I have is Post.  Where do you find Preview?  On losing entire posts, if you type in WORD, or some off line word processor, then copy to the Reply, you’ve always got the original to fall back on.

 

 

Time for bed. Good night all, and God Bless. Prayers for all in need of healing, comfort and peace.  

 

 

[CSX_road_slug]

 [I just lost an entire post because I haven't figured out how to go back to 'edit' from 'preview'  ]

Cary - welcome back, I haven't been around here for a few years myself.  Just resumed posting about a week ago. 

I said earlier I'd post a photo or two of my scratchbuilt Snyder fuel cranes; well, here's one - it's the only usable one I was able to get out of a dozen attempts.  My Rebel (2004 vintage) doesn't have a macro setting so I can't do closeups with it, and these guys are tiny!  

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[twhite]

Evening all--spent the day out on the layout just running trains.  Actually running my track-cleaning car--seems I have a couple of spots that have either lost a little current (like that NEVER happens, LOL?) or I sqashed a really BIG bug with one of my Yellowstones my last operating session (BLEAHCCH!).  

Worked on a cute little Rio Grande 1700 series Northern last night--one from Key.  Had a hitch in it's gitalong, couldn't find it.  Finally disconnected the worm from the gear, ran it on a piece of glass--same thing-'LURCH-CLICK!'.  Got VERY frustrating.  I kinda/sorta jerked it backward and a piece of BALLAST fell out of the left-side eccentric.  Now how it got way up there in the eccentric is news to me, but after all that, the little darlin' runs just fine, now.  Ah, brass!  Ah, steam!  Ah, loose BALLAST!!   Time to vacuum, don't you think? 

Sue:  Hmm--is that brass challenger you're thinking of the same thing I have on order from Sunset--as in Z-6?  If it is, then it's sure nice to know that someone ELSE doesn't want just a UP clone (okay, now I'll shut up),  I ordered the GN version that they didn't like, but my Rio Grande has somehow got an interchange with GN (go figure!) and I think those Z's were just about the handsomest Challengers ever made, except for the big Rio Grande Baldwin L-105's, of course. 

The Lowell Memorial Caboose is sitting on the kitchen table (Spooky hasn't stolen it yet) and right now I'm eyballing it as far as improvements.  Remember, this is a Silver Streak wood kit from the late 'fifties, so the details aren't going to be as 'fine' as current rolling stock, but I'm going to do what I can with it.  I've decided on steam-era Rio Grande oxide brown for the color, and I'm hitting the LHS tomorrow to look for some other-than-Roman-lettering for his name on the side. 

Jim:  Could you e-mail me a copy of the portrait you did of Mr. Mellow?  For some strange reason, the photo locked out before I could copy it.  My computer is just WEIRD about stuff like that. 

Best to all, and God Bless

Tom

 

 

[Paul W. Beverung]

Evening Gang: Well I'm prety shure that the problems I'm having posting are with the forum and the version of Windows Internet Explorer that I'm using. I downloaded IE8 when Bergie suggested that be done on the post that said the new set up was coming. I'm going to call my friend and find out exactely which version I have. If it's IE8 I'll load IE7 and delete IE8.

I did some more painting of the flat and gons. I figure that tomorrow afternoon I'll be able to flip the car bodies up right and finish painting them.

Ken it really does help if your back yard, infact all your yard is mesured in acres. Also you need more then the kitchen table for a shop. Right now I'm working in two different buildings to have enough room. The barn is still the shop of choise but the painting is beeing done in the tractor shed. I would have done the painting next to the barn but the wind drove me to the tractor shed.

Garry thanks for the pictures. I liked the shots of Ft. Donnelson. I'm a history buff also.

Duce it's good to have you back. Have a cup on me. What have you been up to?

Well I'm really tired so I'll hit the sack.

Good Night All