Jeff W; 28F is still cold---and don't let people fool you with--"Oh but it's a dry cold"---Horsefeathers it is dry----with your humidity down there? HAH!! That reminds me ---How far south is the cold front going?
'Spring' just went with his bird toy and started dipping it into the water in his bowl like a tea bag again----
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/
Evening all, nothing much happened at the tracks today... I did get a basic drawing of my layout done, maybe now that I've got a better look on paper, I can really transfer that into something that I can use on XTrkCAD. If not, then I guess I'll just use just the paper drawing. Other than that, I guess I'm going to continue trying to get all my engines current (as far as paint jobs, detailing, ect). Zoe, a Dr. Pepper, and a bowl of ice cream, please.
evening guys, finally quit getitng those freakin timeout messages.
Well, I've sprayed my U23B and boxcar w/ semi-gloss finish, and i've added powder to my boxcar. I went WAY overboard, but since the spray ussualy wipes most of the powder off, I'm hoping this'll work (gonna spray it again before adding powder to my U23B).
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Evening Gang: It's been a busy day. 4am wake up, take Mary Ann to dialysis, return home get granddaughter off to school, vac den, put out hay and range cubes, pick up Mary Ann and get lunch, hook up trailer to new tractor and load Kabuta tractor in trailer, go to new house friend is building make a coupleo f loads of rock for the creek crossing about 2 hours for each, get home, feed cats and take Daisy the dog for walk, get upstairs and on puter to see what you guys have been up to, find that I'm 4 or 5 pages behind, have brain melt down.
So I'm all in.
If anyone else comes tell them to mind where they step as I'm pased out on the floor.
I missed the lawyer joke, could some one repeat it please when I wake up.
Good Night All
Howdy folks,
I tried to get in here a couple hours ago but the place was full (actually it was that darned "Time Out" message again). Did notice about an hour ago that there is a new error page when that happens so maybe they are working on the problem....
Since I didn't get here before supper, Zoe, I'm ready for dessert. I'll have a big slice of that Apple Pie over there on the counter with a nice hunk of Extra Sharp Cuba Chedder Cheese (used to go winter camping on Cuba Lake every February with the troop). Oh and my evening cup of decafe if you would.
I spent a little time in the layout room finishing up a prototype for some Line Poles for the layout. I brought a couple quick photos with me to share. Let me know what you think. This is made with materials I have on hand just to see how it came out.
and from the other direction:
That cold front is just reaching the Finger Lakes. Had about an inch of snow this evening so far and it is supposed to stay in the single digits here for the next 3 days. Got the wood stove cranking and the furnace will undoubtedly run most of the night as well.
Oh that pie and coffee hits the spot. 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 Evening!
I learned today that my MRC Sheer Brilliance Sound Decoder has shipped today! I'll have the Western Bacon Steak Burger(Meat and Cheese only).I also have some bad news. The color wheel on my Samsung TV broke yesterday and it won't come till the end of the month.
Later,
Luke.
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
howmusI tried to get in here a couple hours ago but the place was full (actually it was that darned "Time Out" message again).
Yes, that was irritating me too, not hard to do when I'm on the pain meds.
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 evening DIners.........
Jerry !!!! ............Welcome home! I hope your health will be OK now.
WOW, diners ...Did you see what I saw??.... Chow hounds Ryan, OC, and Jim CG have some really stiff competition now. Todd strolls in the diner and eats a GIANT Ribeye steak. Yikes!, The thing must have been 32 oz.!.....and when he's done eating a huge main course, he orders dessert..... Not just a little item to sweeten the taste buds......Nope...He gets PECAN PIE with not just one....BUT TWO scoops of ice cream...... Amazing!
Jeff .... Your Shell station looks terrific.....you can practically read "10-W-30" on the oil cans! Remember those cans that required a seperate spout that you punched into the can to add oil to the engine of your car?
Ray ... your scenery looks good and I like the poles.
CN Charlie ...It would be fine with us if you kept the cold stuff up there. Canada is sooooo beuatiful...BUT ........those winters can be something!
Robby P ..... The propane tank looks good. You will need about ten for a 1200 square foot house if CN charlie keeps sending the frgid stuff.
Unca Roggie.... I looked on the website briefly, and (of Course) looked up CB&Q. Most of the pix of Burlington were of a wreck I recall. Rock Island was detouring a passenger train onto the Burlington main line. As it entered the main line it was hit head on by a high speed Zephyr. I think their were many deaths. One of the engines in the photos was a CB&Q E7 that was scapped after that.
Paul... You certainly have long days. I have been thinking of you and Mary Ann. I know kideney disease is a really bad thing, and prayers continue.
Have a great evening everyone.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Heartland Division CB&QI, too, have lawyer friends and they joke all the time. Good natured kidding is good I think.
Garry, (hoping no irate lawyers are peeking in the Diner windows...) here's one:
What do you call 50 lawyers jumping out of an airplane?...
...
Skeet!... (think about that if you don't get it at first...)
Think I'll duck out the door for now.
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Cederstrandin a UNION PACIFIC mug, please & thank you.
Well folks................chalk up another JimCG "joke" for the birds.
Good evening, all. I have a seminar in Auburn, WA, tomorrow so I might not make it in.
Ray, Is your upper retaining wall made of wood?
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
gear-jammerRay, Is your upper retaining wall made of wood?
Yep. That has been there for around 25 years. Made it back in the days where I had no money for the hobby, period....... (my wife and I had 2 bank accounts there was her account which was hers to use and their was our bank account which was......... ah ........ kept in her purse.......) Anyway that was scrap wood from the wood shop next door to my Music room. We cut it as small as we could and it was just about right for a massive timber retaining wall. Fairly common in the North East.
Well everbody, guess I better get home and hit the hay. Don’t know what made me so sleepy. Are there any toothpicks?
Oh..pictures! Let me see Ray. Whoops! What’s that? Oh sorry Paul whatcha doin down there? Real nice power poles. You scrap built this? Great job! Love the scenery too.
Jeff- I too am impressed with the interior of the Shell station. I wasn’t aware that those photos would look so good. They give a 3d look that I really wouldn’t have expected to happen. I will try that myself. Keep going like this and I’ll put in for a job there. Looks like it would be a great place to work.
Well Barry, It’s gonna be around no temp for a couple of days in central Illinois.
Better head home before Jim brings in all the lawyers. I hope I can quit chuckling before they see me.
Prayers to those in need and stay warm 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.
Chamomile Tea, please.
***Ray, nice work on the power pole, and for that matter "the rest of the scene as well".
***Jim, add to the UP logo some Starbucks brand coffee and yea, it's a pricey cup. And Oh So Good!
I went ahead and taped down some Tyvec in the train room. If nothing else it will provide an extra degree of dust protection, as no matter how much I brushed that slab there was always some dust left behind. Would have mopped it, but just haven't been well enough the past two days to do that (and still manage the mandatory critter rounds). Anyway, a dense pad will still go down before the carpet. First thing we're moving into the new Train Room will be a pair of old couches.
Night all. Rob
Evening all. It was 72 here in SunnyCal today--wore a short sleeved shirt to choir practice. I mean, C'MAWN, it's supposed to be JANUARY, isn't it? We rehearsed for Baptisms this weekend. Naturally, the 5:15 Saturday Vespers has the most of the little darlings, so we'll be there a while, LOL! One of the choir members grouched, "Can't we dip them all in at ONCE and just get it over with?"
Spent the day crawling under the benchwork, tightening and re-soldering connections and busses. Layout seems to work better since I got rid of that BLI whistle doo-hickey. However, one of my Mountains came roaring out of a tunnel with a rather angry spider clinging to the headlight. Ah, Winter operations! At least it wasn't a Black Widow. For some strange reason, the garages in the neighborhood have become infiltrated with them. I think it's the weather. So far I've only seen a couple. I remember one late summer a couple of years ago when I had a Praying Mantis hopping a ride on a flat car--THAT was fun! I took the little dear out to the garden where he'd get a better diet. Next day he was back on the layout. I figured that he liked my model forest better than the bushes in the back yard. Either that, or he'd discovered where more little insect critters were than I knew about. Ah, nature!
I'm going to go out and hopefully finish up the wiring tomorrow and see if all the tightening and re-soldering has cured my 'drop' problem. Now, a question, and hopefully some answers: I'm using Atlas slide-switches to control my blocks. Would I be better off getting actual Toggle Switches to do the same thing? Remember, I'm DC (by choice, BTW) and I'm running in an uninsulated garage. I'm just wondering if maybe actual Toggles might improve some of my problems. Any hints or opinions are MOST welcome, believe me! I know a lot of you have seen photos of my layout and pretty much like what I've done, but when it comes to wiring and electronics, I'm just a Major Doofus, a lot of the time.
Best to all, prayers to those in need.
Tom
PS: By golly, I see it's the top of the page. Late evening snacks on me, Flo. Frankly, I'll take some beef and cheese Nachos, but for cryin' out loud, hold the Cilantro. I HATE that stuff!
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Tom ... save the black widows for SP fans!
Everybody .... I looked again at the site Unca Roggie mentioned. Their photos included those of a bad wreck in 1964, and it referred to another site for more info on the wreck. If you want to see pictures of lots of smashed up E units go to the following link. The series of pictures includes a few days following the wreck, and you can see one or two passenger trains running through the wreck site. You will also see locomotve parts laying around as locomoties were dismantled at the wreck scene. S total of nine E units were on the two wrecked trains.
http://railfan44.rrpicturearchives.net/archivethumbs.aspx?id=23180&Page=1
Good evening/morning peoples --- our current temperature is now -15C --oh now -16C oh whatever---bouncing around---and it has become clear out-----
Tom; I had one Praying Mantis start an arrgument with my hand---this thing after I put my hand into a creature position--it started making clicking sounds/hopping all over the place---I gave it an uppercut to its proboscus and it fell over got back up and started really going after my fingers--- I'm glad we don't see any Black Widow Spiders----Brown Recluse spiders are interesting enough, thank you very much
BTW---Tom; I'd go with toggles--they're more positive in 'Cliking' than any slide swiches---I'm always wondering if I switched the thing-----another reason I said to heck with DC and went DCC----more control(or what I imagine is control-----)
Anyhoooooo------I'm just grabbing a hot chocolate to go, please---I's going
Praying Mantis are neat little creatures. Love having them around. There is at least one black spider (fast hunting variety) that lives on and around this computer desk in my studio. Whatever it is finding to eat, I'm happy to have it working the nightshift. I do not kill spiders, except black widows of which we have a large population here on the ol' farm.
Couldn't sleep so did a load of laundry. Tired now...Good Night (again) Rob
Unca Roggie.... I looked on the website briefly, and (of Course) looked up CB&Q. Most of the pix of Burlington were of a wreck I recall.
Firstly: I'm glad that it sounds like I DID pass on some NEW information to some of you folks (its usually that it is ME who is the last to find out about something.)
In fact, I had a feeling of horror awhile after I wrote up that thread about Railpix, that someone here may reply that mine was the seventeenth thread someone started about the same darn subject.
One drawback of that site, in my opinion, is how many of the photos are of horrendous train wrecks. I'm not sure why people find them THAT fascinating.
I just skip on by them, and snatch up some of those terrific wide vista shots, and include them on my revolving screen saver for a month or so, til I refresh the collection.
There is a shot of a big steam engine pulled train, coming at the camera's point of view, with a 50's massive Buick waiting at a grade crossing, that is SO cool, you have to stare at it over and over to convince yourself it is NOT a great PAINTING someone did. That can be found in the "all time faves" section in there.
Anyways, enough of that. I wanted to mention how I also liked the timber wall {pictured way back there} that Sue also noticed and mentioned she liked.
I instantly went back in my mind to how I made a 1:1 version of such a wall, several years ago, using that awful creosote-encrusted, backbreakingly heavy railroad tie-type timber (NEVER AGAIN! But I may try reproducing it in HO scale, now that I see how good it can look.)
OH, and I'd also like another small plate of gravel, if there's any left after midnight in here...pretty chewy, I have to admit, but makes for great ruffage, I'm finding.
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good morning. It's 29 and partly cloudy out here by the lake. It's a nice warm 72 in here where I am. The high today should be in the upper 50's and it will be partly cloudy. Did some initial prep work yesterday to modify the double entry doors of the Walther's engine house. My intent is to make it into one wide entry instead of two narrow ones. This will allow me to run two tracks in from a turnout placed in close proximity to the structure. There are still two other projects that require my attention so I at least have something to keep me occupied for a while. Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 1/14/2009 Wind Chill: 29°F (-1c) Humidity: 84% Dew Point: 25°F (-5c) So Far Today High: 30°F (-1c) Low: 29°F (-2c) Rain: 0.00" Rain Rate: 0.00"/h Gust: 3mph NE Today High: 58 (14c) Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Southwest winds around 5 mph. Tonight Low: 32 (0c) Mostly clear until late night then becoming partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. West winds around 5 mph in the evening becoming north after midnight.
Mawning everyone, I guess some of you are still cuddled up under that nice warm blanket
Most unusual weather here in Northeast Florida, We've had two days of COLD rain, We normally get warm rain in advance of a cold front, but this rain came in on the backside of a cold front.
So.. in the 30's today thru Monday with two days of Hard Freezes.
And you though Florida never gets cold
Anyway.. gotta run.. a lot of stuff to do today!
Buggy
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
AAH---good freezing morning everyone---we are sitting at -23C--so 'pooter is telling me--with some more snow on top of the 15cm we got yesterday. And it will be a high of -14C with tonight's low at -24C----just a few minutes north of here the low will be -30C---YIKES!----thankfully the wind is not putting out rediculous windchills---for example the windchill here is just -28C----if the wind was any stronger we'd definitly would be in CNCharlie territory----
Buggyman; YIKES--for where you are that is cold and hard freezes to boot---the citrus growers are going to love that----stay warm down there---
Rob; Praying Mantis--when we see them are fascinating. We don't really see a lot of them up here-----but last summer we saw a couple of 'stick' insects---they do look like twigs---then a leg moves----
Well, I got a few things to catch up on today---no work today so I get to do some rail stuff---
Mornin' all!
When I rolled out of the driveway this morning it was 11 degrees, but it's warming up now. Later this week they're talking about wind chills in the -30 to -40 below range. Can't say as I'm looking forward to that!
Currently: 12°F Light SnowWind: South at 12 MPHHumidity: 83%Dewpoint: 11°FBarometer: 29.99 inches and steadyWind Chill: 1°FSunrise: 8:05 am Sunset: 5:43 pm
Well, my wife has a ladies Bible study every Tuesday morning that she hosts. These things often end up as all day affairs. Yesterday they got to throwing around a few questions that a few of them have had in the backs of their minds. It's great seeing people so hungry for knowledge. Ended up, the questions that didn't get an answer got posed to me last night (You know, one of those "Lets ask the Pastor / Bible College student!" things). I will say, they hit on some tough ones! Some of them were the kinds of questions that the answer is, "We'll just have to see when we get to heaven." I'm pretty sure that wasn't my most popular answer with them. Oh well, I don't want to say something that I can't back up, right? It was great though, just seeing these ladies with that want to know attitude, and talking about things with them.
Well, I'd best get back to the phones.
Later!
at the
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Just let Floe, Jeanie or Chloe put it on your virtual tab! or, if your lucky the TOP honorary poster will cover it for you!
Paul W. Beverung I missed the lawyer joke, could some one repeat it please when I wake up.
Oh OK Paul, since you asked here is the one that I posted:
What is the difference between a catfish and a lawyer?
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One is a scum sucking bottom dweller and the other one is a fish.
Nice work on the layout Ray!
New Haven I-5 The color wheel on my Samsung TV broke yesterday and it won't come till the end of the month.
The color wheel on my Samsung TV broke yesterday and it won't come till the end of the month.
Luke, that is one reason why I opted for an LCD as opposed to the DLP and projection type screen.
I've been working on the layout the past few weeks and started the upper deck benchwork and lighting project. Here are a few of my latest photos of the progress.
Measuring the outside length to mark cuts for joists.
Added a new tube light fixture, now I can see!
For those who may not know about it the new online magazine MRH is now available for download, it is over 75 MB and in PDF format. It was released on Saturday the 10th.
http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
LSWrrJeff, I’m sending those gas pumps and a few other odds n’ ends to you today, you should see them in 3-4 days.
Well my new heater got it's big test last night. It's 28 outside and a nice toasty 72 throughout the entire trailer and I never had to adjust it even once. My old heater NEVER did that.
in a SOUTHERN mug, please & thank you.
***Unca Roggie, my wife falls into that catagory. She even wants to model an Amtrak derailment.
***Barry, have a look at this stick bug I took a photo of. That is, if you can find it. It's a tough one to spot, so I also have a cheater pic where I outlined it which I can post later.
Carpet guys are on the way. YIPPY!
Rob
Good Mornin' everyone!
Janie, I'll have my FGLK Mug filled with dark roast and then some nice hot oatmeal with brown sugar. Need something to warm me up. It is currently a nice pleasant 6°F outside here in the Finger Lakes with a high this afternoon of 10°F. This is the weather where your feet on the snow crunch! No wind out there and clear and sunny. Visibility is at 8 miles right now. Low tonight will be 2°F with snow.
Thanks to all of you that have commented on the photos I posted here. Glad you liked the scene.
Jeffrey glad your heater is working well! 28° where you live is a lot less comfortable than 6° where I live.
I have a short list of "must get dones" for today so I best finish my coffee and get going. See you all later.