So much for the turnouts. The LHS doesn't carry much in the way of track. "I can order for you!" (that's his standard reply) So can I. Time for mailorder. Fred at F&S spoiled me with his MRR in stock. Decided today is not the day for lighing frustration so I won't do the Walthers. Maybe I should do laundry and wash the dishes instead. Ex-girlfriend wants to go to dinner tonight, her fiance is in Cali with his kid. Wonder what she wants?
Whats the special Chloe? I'll have a decaf in the meantime.
ewl01Ex-girlfriend wants to go to dinner tonight, her fiance is in Cali with his kid. Wonder what she wants?
Packers#1 Morning ya'll, basketball game at 11. Maybe today we'll win one (we're 0-2 so far). I'll be back later.EDIT: looks like I got top honors.
Morning ya'll, basketball game at 11. Maybe today we'll win one (we're 0-2 so far). I'll be back later.
EDIT: looks like I got top honors.
Well, we lost. We were within 1 (28-27 other team), then they just opened it wide open. I kinda committed some hard fouls in the final 30 seconds, so one guy on the other team hit me hard. Now the side of my right thigh hurts and I might have a sprained or broke left wrist. I was sorta asking for it though, so I'm not ticked about it.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Howdy pardners!
Sunny day today with temps in the 50s' but the prognosticators say rain again tonight!
Yeah, I was getting some application time out errors too last night.
Going back into the train room in just a few minutes then will grill some steaks then watch some football tonight.
ewl01 Ryan my friend, let me buy you breakfast, Or lunch... You have given me hope. I have about 2 ft less width but roughy about the same in wall height. Once upon a time the attic was a finished room, long before I owned it. (this page is running off my screen!) Due to severe damage the entire attic was stripped out and the roof rebuilt. Judging by nail holes, and remaining rafters I should have about a usable space of 24'x12'. The stairway comes up 6 ft from the end of hte floor so one would come up 'inside' the layout. I'm a roundy-round runner, a 'railfanner' I guess you call them. Your plan has some interesting elements, as I am not much of layout designer I was wondering if I might be able to use some of your design elements. With full credit of course. Thanks a bunch, Eric
Ryan my friend, let me buy you breakfast, Or lunch... You have given me hope. I have about 2 ft less width but roughy about the same in wall height. Once upon a time the attic was a finished room, long before I owned it.
(this page is running off my screen!) Due to severe damage the entire attic was stripped out and the roof rebuilt. Judging by nail holes, and remaining rafters I should have about a usable space
of 24'x12'. The stairway comes up 6 ft from the end of hte floor so one would come up 'inside' the layout. I'm a roundy-round runner, a 'railfanner' I guess you call them.
Your plan has some interesting elements, as I am not much of layout designer I was wondering if I might be able to use some of your design elements. With full credit of course.
Thanks a bunch, Eric
Say there Eric! Glad that I could get you motivated with your attic/layout room. I have spent about the past week working on putting together the upper deck benchwork on the layout and have a revised the upper deck track plan. I'm all ears with any question you may have with respect to around the room multiple deck layout design and construction. The layout design elements I have incorporated into my layout are taken from many sources and are not unique to my own accord, feel free to use any ideas you need to apply to your own situation.
The track represented in gray is hidden track, in particular the gray track represented on the bottom left side is a part of the no-lix transition from the lower deck. The benchwork lumber sticks are represented as the bold blue items, the thin green lines represent the upper deck benchwork edge and the thin blue lines represent the lower deck benchwork edge.
Upper Deck Track Plan - with benchwork layer enabled
JimRCGMO Well, they brought out the pies yesterday and PC and all the chowhound Diners (present or past) start coming out of the woodwork! Whatta bunch of eaters, indeed, Vinnie. Oh, you - uh, persuaded? - Ryan that we would really need all that ice cream, eh? Yeah, I'm sure his arm will lose its soreness soon enough. Glad you didn't get rough with him (and I'm sure he's glad, too).
Well, they brought out the pies yesterday and PC and all the chowhound Diners (present or past) start coming out of the woodwork! Whatta bunch of eaters, indeed, Vinnie. Oh, you - uh, persuaded? - Ryan that we would really need all that ice cream, eh? Yeah, I'm sure his arm will lose its soreness soon enough. Glad you didn't get rough with him (and I'm sure he's glad, too).
Yeah Jim....I saw Vinnie and he was really worried about that ice cream too! He kept a bead on me the whole time......I think he was preoccupied though....so my arms are intact.....for now.....
Today's lunch and dinner specials
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
About the ex-girlfriend- we've been very good friends the last 10 years. I've watched her go through 5 other guys since. This one has been going on for 3 years. Probably just wants to talk..... she likes to talk. Teachers don't get to talk to many adults and her fiance is now one of those Cali. Dudes (a transplant, he's from Jersey). Guess I'll find out.
Dragged some motive power from storage. If I can figure out how to post them I will.
The things I talk about! Eric
in a SOUTHERN mug, please & thank you.
***Lee, first Spooky & company will have to teach Millie how to open the door to the basement where the train stuff presently resides.
***Philip, today I'm building a 2 story barn with live-in quarters in the loft, tilling then seeding 15 acres, planting an apple orchard, scraping the driveway, and if I have any extra time before dinner I'll build a couple dog houses, too. (just let your wife read that list )
Had the first gutter installer come out today. Estimate was painful, but within the ballpark from looking up prices online. We will see what the next guy offers before making any decision.
Well, need to do hay runs between rain storms. Lots of Flood warnings are back up through tonight.
Rob
Afternoon all,
Snow, snow, and more snow. It started snowing yesterday afternoon and it hasn’t stopped yet. Right now it’s coming down 1”/hour. My neighbor drove his plow through my drive at about 7am, I snow blowed at 9am and now at 3pm you can’t tell I ever left the house. I went to the LHS to pick up my order on those LL cars and trucks and I bought 2 decoders ($24 each). I ordered the Tsunami decoder.
Took me an hour to get to the LHS that’s 12 minutes down the road! I have a 2003 F-250 4x4 Diesel and the best I could do on the UNPLOWED I-90 was 30 to 35 mph!
I haven’t seen any salt trucks yet, for crying out loud we have two of the largest production salt mines in the US one is 45 minutes east of me and one is 20 minutes west of me.
Ok I feel better now, how are things with you guys???
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Just got back from town. I went to Lowe's and dropped $77 on some tools. A 5 pack of Dremel reinforced cut-off wheels, a 3 pack of Porter Cable jigsaw blades (6 tpi high carbon steel) and a Dremel model rotary tool to replace my old Dremel model 395 type 5 which is going on 25 years old now. I can still use it but the bearings are singing their death song and I have to run it at really high rpm's to keep power up while I'm working with it. I'll probably send it in for a rebuild. If the new one lasts only half as long I'll be happy with it.
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
Afternoon,All.
Taking a short break from the layout. I found out that another buddy of mine was a Conductor/Brakeman on the Omaha(C&NW). So I invited him and my other buddy the Engineer(both retired) over tommorow to have a look at my take on the line. I didn't think they'd be as excited as they are! Both the wives are also attending.
They both shared some stories and stuff like train #'s and manifests and some basic operations . I hope with their histories I can simulate actual practices and begin operating sessions. Anyway the playdate is tommorow at noon. I've been extending benchwork,layed another 24' of roadbed and track and will wire it up after this break. Then a shake-down to try to find any gremlins. The layout has been running great, but you guys know what happens when you invite friends over!!
Nice ride, PC! I have an '86 Virago(12863 miles) tho you can't tell by looking at it.Custom paint, extras ,etc. kind of like yours.The wife rides a Rebel,small but so is she! I really envy you that you're still riding, it's -8f here.
Back to the basement, I'll check in later.
Terry
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
Afternoon All,
Snowing like crazy here. Got some cars moved to the new shop before it started as we were approaching gridlock. That's one of the drawbacks to working on race cars - you can't just shove them outside when they're in the way. I'm now working on some gov't projects - one of our Ford Festivas we want to get repaired enough to drive, and the battery cover panels for the museums RS-11. Talk about contrasts.
Tom - do you have a digital volt/ohm meter ? Can you determine if the voltage drops are occuring in the bus, the rail or the soldered joiners ? I had a problem at one point with the soldering gun not getting hot enough and the actual solder being too big so cold joints were common. when the track expanded and contracted. the soldered joins cracked apart and since the solder took all the spring out of the joiners, they developed lots of voltage drop. This doens't seem to happen as much with EZ track or others with attached road bed because the track pieces sort of float and there are enough joints that they can give and "forgive". Plus the plastic clips help keep continuity as well. I did all my drops currently by soldering to the joiners and using the dreaded suitcase connectors to clip the drops to the bus 22 gauge to 14 gauge both stranded wires. I hadn't had any real problems to date except with some older Atlas turnouts that went out of gauge. I use Pecos now and haven't any complaints at all (we'll see how it works when I finally get it all out of unheated storage).
Flip - to answer your question, Peco switch machines can be mounted below or surface mounted to the side of the turnout with a different bracket. I put a couple in buildings adjacent to the track and used piano wire remote actuator rods and that worked as well. The Peco part number for the above layout bracket in Walthers is 552-3003. The below layout bracket using the extended pin works as well, p/n 552-9 for that bracket but my favorite method is to clip the switch directly to the underside of the turnout using a piece of black paper between to keep debris out and hide the machine workings. I then dig a hole in the styrofoam or cork/plywood and install the assembly. I''ve also used the Caboose manual switch stands (like them) and the Rix electric switch machines (not so good - use lots of power).
Jeff - that's phenominal life from a dremel. My first on went under water this summer and doesn't want to work any more, but the variable speed one I inherited survived fine.
Well, the primer should be dry by now so I can get back to it. Catch y'all later. J.R.
refill, please & thanks.
***Jeffrey, had to suck it up myself the other day and replace my deseased Ryobi belt sander with a new one. Decided to give Rigid a try, sinse the Ryobi didn't last long. Feels pretty good, is a bit heavier and works well so far. Needed it to remove up to 1/4" of wood (in spots) from a threashold. Also to sand down the edges of a small table I made for the big printer, plus will use it occasionally for frame making. Still need to replace my old router which (borrowing your excellent terminology) "has bearings that are singing their death song". OK, it might be the spindle, but it's on borrowed time regardless.
***Terry, that sounds like a fun showdown at high noon tomorrow between your layout & two such experienced Full Scaler's. Will be interested in hearing how that goes.
Fogot to ask: Does the Tsunami sound in the (N) Proto Mallet sound better than that in the Athearn Bigboy, or are they the same? Thanks for any thoughts & info.
Got the hay put out and need to rest a spell. Going to work on little fiddly stuff inside tonight.
Hope everyone is doing well.
Well, I'm glad to say that I don't think my wrist is broke. Probably just got jammed. still hurts a little bit, but no where near how bad it was after I got hit.
Zoe, I could use a refill. Yep, dark roast. Thanks, and how about a Hot Turkey Sandwich with all the trimmings for supper.
Jeffrey, I know how you feel.... I mentioned all the replacing of business stuff yesterday...... I will say that the new Alesis monitors are awesome! They do exactly what I need in a monitor system. I can't tell the difference in the sound at all between a pair of pro headphones and listening with the Studio Monitors. And it sounds identical to the sound as they were playing. Nice flat uncolored response! Sweet! I am going to keep them and use the old Tannoys elsewhere.
The family I was recording has been here and gone, I have finished the mix and now am taking a break before I do the page layout for the album. The clients are an English Teacher who goes to my church and her two daughters. They all play flute and the youngest (6th. grade) also plays clarinet. Biggest problem was intonation..... The definition of a major 2nd. in music is two flutes playing in unison. (Tom will get it I know....)
I have to get the camera out and get a shot or two of the Freight Station platform I have been working on the WPF Thread. I'll finish my supper first though.
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
J.R.- Thanks for the reply. Yeah, thats what I thought the answer would be. No room from underneath and only 'nuff room alongside of the turnout. Oh, well. At least they are still working.
Wish ya'll warmer weather. Gonna get cold here starting sunday night .They're guessing mid 30's and daytime only near 60
Prayers for all.
Flip
Hello all!
Just bought a MRC Brilliance Sound Decoder. I learned last night I fried a Sound Decoder. I checked the loco.
It was fine. Took out the decoder and put in the dummy plugs. The engine ran. Put the decoder back in. Stalling
Blinking lights. It was a Soundtraxx DSD 101LC Heavy Steam.
Talk to y'all later
Luke
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
Cederstrand ***Philip, today I'm building a 2 story barn with live-in quarters in the loft, tilling then seeding 15 acres, planting an apple orchard, scraping the driveway, and if I have any extra time before dinner I'll build a couple dog houses, too. (just let your wife read that list )
OK, I'd like to call an emergency meeting of all the married guys and all the guys with girlfriends that spend time in this coffee shop! I will buy dinner while this meeting takes place!
Quoted above, you will find an example of flagrent disrespect for the peace and sanity of all of you in attendence. The violator has been verbally warned against such actions, but he ignores the warnings and proceeds to post these maniacal lists that threaten to remove our couch potatoe ways from our futures.
Immediate action is called for!
This man must be punished for his crimes!
I move that we offer an official Coffee Shop warning adising him that if he refuses to cease and desist immediately further, and more strenuous actions will be called for. This may include suspention of pie privilages, suspension from patronage for a time, or a complete removal of future privilages and a call for the return of the front door keys!
Do I have a second on the motion?
saronaterryNice ride, PC! I have an '86 Virago(12863 miles) tho you can't tell by looking at it.Custom paint, extras ,etc. kind of like yours.The wife rides a Rebel,small but so is she! I really envy you that you're still riding, it's -8f here.
Thanks, and those Virago's are nice bikes too! A buddy of mine had one. Rode it for darn near an eternity! I tried to get my wife a bike, but she doesn't think she could handle it in her physical condition. She just wants to ride on my bike I think!
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/
Philip- If Rob's wife is anything like mine is, he darn well better do the "Honey-Do" list or he won't be getting any "HONEY" from his honey. Gotta keep 'em happy so you can be happy.
Don't like sleeping alone on the couch with the mutt.
*pokes head in the door* Hey, a new diner! I glanced in through the old one from time to time, but I really like the place now! Zoe, I'll have a Root Beer Float please. Right now the rain is happily coming down here in Bama with it getting cooler. Today was honestly a nice day, I got some work done, changed brakes on our Alero, then did front brakes and rotors on one of my wife's co-workers trucks. Ahh, the life of a mechanic! I didn't really do much MRR related, other than watch the weekly rock train run through, didn't get a chance to get engine numbers, but oh well.
fec153Don't like sleeping alone on the couch with the mutt.
Good Evening Fellow Diners,
A relatively Ok day here weather-wise with a high of about +5F but it was sunny and of course its our "dry cold". After 60 years I've never exactly figured out what that means except that the air is so cold even at 80% humidity it can't hold much water. How could there be a wet cold at +5F? Oh well another glass of wine will certainly clear that up or at least I won't care.
Went to one of the LHS's here in town today to get a few Caboose ground throws and as usual they only had 2 of the kind I wanted. The stock level in that store is really poor but the fellow who works there for the owner is really great and is always happy to offer advice and just talk about trains and model railroading. He's the only reason I still make the trek out to that part of town sometimes as the other LHS at the other end of town is very well stocked and often has better prices.
Jim, for us January and February are the coldest months but December can be cold too. In fact March can be either a winter month or spring depending on the year.
Tom, I think the food of choice for any self respecting cat from Norway has to be Lude Fisk. My grandmother was Norwegian and she swore it was absolutely fabulous and a Norwegian delicacy so one Christmas my mother cooked some for her and us. Just imagine fish that has been cured in lye. Yes you read that correctly, lye. Remington will be eternally greatful, just don't let him persuade you to try some. No wonder the Vikings drank great quantities of mead- before they ate their lude fisk.
Well time to watch a movie I rented, in fact the first rental in several years. It's the Bourne Identity. My wife says some of it was filmed in the hotel we stayed at in Paris over Christmas. I don't think she'll like it much as action films aren't her cup of tea.
Hopefully tomorrow I'll finish my service yard and then I think I'll start on a tank car kit I purchased a while ago. It's a Red Caboose kit that I've heard can be a bit of a challenge but I wanted a Sunoco tank car and that is the only way I'll get one. I worked for Sunoco many, many years ago so a tank car had to have their logo.
Keep the coffee hot Chloe as I might need some soon,
CN Charlie
CNCharlieI worked for Sunoco many, many years ago so a tank car had to have their logo.
I worked for Sunoco many, many years ago so a tank car had to have their logo.
Charlie, my Grandfather also worked for Sunoco, actually he started out at Sun Oil. He worked for them out of Dallas and retired in 1980. I too am going to add some Sunoco/Sun Oil logos to my layout.
Jason
Modeling the Fort Worth & Denver of the early 1970's in N scale
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Good evening, Chloe. I will have my Root Beer Float, please. I am in the back booth if anyone is hanging out. Did anyone get any layout time today? We cut wood and did the grocery run to town. Maybe tomorrow morning. Larry has to take off for BC late tomorrow.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly is this thread? FWICT, people just talk about whatever and "eat food." Thanks,
Joe
My Model Railroad: Tri State RailMy Photos on Flickr: FlickrMy Videos on Youtube: YoutubeMy Photos on RRPA: RR Picture Archives
ns3010Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly is this thread? FWICT, people just talk about whatever and "eat food." Thanks,
Welcome, Joe.
We are just good friends here. We talk about nothing, and sometimes we talk about our layout progress. Often this is a good place to get advice, too.
Sit and have a RBF with us.
Evenin’ everybody. Well I was going to have those absolutely delicious looking Biscuits and Gravy….but if Ryans gonna grill some steaks, I’ll take mine medium rare. I’m sure it’s a good quality so just a little butter on the side please. A bake sweet potato and a salad with Western dressing please.
I’ve thought of a new motto- Life is great as long as there is pie. For is there ever a bad pie? Which reminds me. National pie day is this month and we have a pie night at church where everyone brings a pie and we talk and guess what…EAT PIE!! Every one”s invited .Except for Rob if he doesn’t KNOCK IT OFF! If you can’t make it I’ll bring some in if I can sneak it out. (except for Rob if he doesn’t KNOCK IT OFF!) Left overs usually get taken to St Johns food line in Spfld. (See, Catholics and Methodists DO get along. Hey, with half my family Methodist and the other half Southern Baptist I can get along with anyone.) oops sorry brought religion into the mix. Oh well sue me.
You know I haven’t had one of those time outs until what, last night? I consider myself lucky according to some of you folks. I have IE
In case you haven’t noticed Phillip, I second your motion. To make matters worse I have a next door neighbor who I am constantly telling to knock it off and am trying to set him straight as to the way things should be in the land of Toddivania. He’s a newlywed so I cut him some slack but Rob! If my wife accidently sees this stuff her whole life will be turned upside down. Poor thing. She won’t know what to think. Poor thing. Why life as she knew it might be forever changed. Poor thing. Please have pity on the poor thing
Bama- if I’ve not seen you, but as you can tell SOME of us have been rather pre-occupied thanks to our good buddy Rob. If I’ve met you before, sorry I’m getting old. Sometimes I forget. A mechanic Eh? Moi too (moi..that means me in Spanish of which I am fluent in) and when you said brakes I shuddered. I have spent 2 weeks on a brake job on a chevy truck that just won’t get me a pedal. It took 3 right front calipers before I got one to get hard and I’m on the fourth for the left and just got a solid pedal a couple of hours ago. So I’m in a good mood, unless the wife feels the need to get me to do something like re-shingle the house in the next 30 minutes or so because ROB can do it.Luckily it’s our grain elevator’s truck so there is no one needing the truck tomorrow, though I’m sure they are getting’ a bit restless.
Well gotta go. I’m sure glad the food is still good here lotsa business in just a couple days. Karaoke in Lincoln tonight I’m not big on it but the wife likes it. Waylon Jennings isn’t as popular anymore as he is in my mind.
Prayers to those in need. Stay warm and dry. Unless you need to be wet.
Todd
P.S. I'm only funnin' with you Rob
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.
Great. Thanks! And I assume that Zoe and Chloe are the waitresses?
I'll take a chocolate shake.
For those interested, my layout is a freelanced line of NS called the Watchinson Secondary. It's 4X8 and HO. It was built by the Lackawanna to supplement the Lackawanna Cutoff. It diverges from the Morristown Line at Morristown and runs through Sussex County before crossing the Delaware River and continuing on to Scranton. It's under construction, and for the most part, lacks scenery.