Yes, Dick got to the Diner tonight, you guys didn't tell me that the Diner was moved AGAIN!!! I'm still frozen from searching the yard. It is 7.7F right now at 11:17pm with a Dew Point of -7F, so that means that the temperature could get that low tonight. Three dog night you say? Maybe, usually here in New England and upstate New York you don't use three dogs until the temp goes BELOW 0F. And poor Flip, can you guys send some blankets or 5 dogs and two cats to Flip in Florida? It will be in the 20's Friday night deep into Florida. I hear that the FEC RR has frozen brakes, nothing is moving until they thaw them out.
JEFF: It is going to be mighty cold in your neck of the woods too, hope you have a good heater in the trailer.
The train room is coming along a little slower lately, snow clearing, wood stove feeding, and a HD project to strip wallpaper and paint the ceiling and walls in the wife's den is the Winter project underway presently, so I am trying to fit the Train Room into any spare time I get.
More snow due tomorrow along with even colder temps, ahhh ya gotta love it!!
Bon Soir mais amis
Whatsup guys. Nothing for me, just thought I'd drop in before I fall asleep.
Just got back from our game (that I only found out about this morning...) We lost, but I scored- 1st career goal.
Anyway, nothing new. Probably same tomorrow, may not be able to check in either. Got confirmation then study for band exam, which other than today's bio test, will be the easiest test I've ever taken.
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Good Evening!
I'll have the Nothern Pacific Sirloin of Beef with Mushroom Sauce.
JIMRCGMO: The TV doesn't work now because of the broken color wheel. So I have to watch off an older TV.
CNCHARLIE: I'm putting it in a Bachmann 2-10-2
See you all later!
Luke
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Cederstrand***Jeffrey, excellent work trashing that Pacer. Just one question, think you could restore it if you wanted to?
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***Jeffrey, excellent work trashing that Pacer. Just one question, think you could restore it if you wanted to?
Tonight it's 25F for the low, tomorrow 36 for the high and tomorrow night 11 for the low. YUCK...lots more work for me breaking ice so the critters can drink.
Wife & I have begun moving a few things into the new place. As for the train room, I think most stuff "could" survive a fall, from the feel of it (industrial grade carpet with good pad underneath). Not that I ever want to test that theory out mind you. Anyway, moved a card table in their short term, so wife can set out her "stuff" to see what all she has to work with. This could be fun.
Will be in a corner booth awhile working on these yummy desserts.
Rob
jeffrey-wimberly If the C-Liner is noisy and it wasn't before that means something is out of place and may be putting pressure on the drive line. You could wind up with damaged gears or a burned out motor.
If the C-Liner is noisy and it wasn't before that means something is out of place and may be putting pressure on the drive line. You could wind up with damaged gears or a burned out motor.
Actually, this is the first time I've run it. It's a walthers Proto, and when MR reviewed the RS-2, they said it had a little noise, so i tihnk the C-Liner has the same drive or something similar. oh well, it's only faint.
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Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Cox 47Jeff...what a weathering job on the Pacer....How did you do it?
Jeff; the Pacer I could see BEHIND the fence with a bunch of old tires on top---maybe some bushes trying to take over-----it looks really beat up---
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...
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Looks like I'm buying!!...Flo get my apron out...Order up and enjoy!....Jerry
Evening ........Its 9 here with a NW wind bring wind chill well below 0.....I'll have another bowl of the Diners world famous Chili please ...Thank You....
Jeff...what a weathering job on the Pacer....How did you do it?
You all have a good night...Jerry
JimRCGMORay, were the insulators porcelain in the 1920's?
From what very little I have researched on the subject, Porcelain had replaced glass on electric transmission wiring by around 1915. However telegraph and signal lines were still using glass up to the end of the production of glass insulators (c 1970) and beyond. Many poles even today have a mixture of the two. What I'm putting up are principally telegraph and signal wire poles so glass is appropriate.
JimRCGMOIf you're in HO scale, Rix makes some (2-part) poles and crossarms/insulators (crossarms and insulators are molded as one piece) , and one version of the crossarms with insulators is a sorta clear green color. Not sure if they make them in N scale, but it'd be work a lookup on either the Rix Products Co. or the Walthers website, if you want to see. All you need to do is paint the cross arms (brown) and the support arms (silver or rusty silver...) and you're there!
Yea, but that takes all the fun out of it....... Besides, some poles will have crossarms in various locations depending on need (if you were to look down on the top, some crossarms might be like this: X). Plus I really like to make stuff like this myself rather than plop down RTR Plastic stuff. But thanks for the suggestion!
JimRCGMO If Dick comes in the Diner tonight, tell him to get a couple or three dogs for the bed tonight!
It is definitely a "Three Dog Night"! LOL
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Robby P. We are watching him like a hawk. I keep telling the wife, after these two are gone, THATS IT!!!
We are watching him like a hawk. I keep telling the wife, after these two are gone, THATS IT!!!
Sure, that's what you say now, but just wait til they are gone, then the first cute doggy or kitty you see after that.......
Trust me, Robby, I've been that route......
A few times.......
And have sworn them off again after the two cats and Koi fish we have now........
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Robby P.Jeff, are you parking the Pacer near the shell station? Kinda like a old junker?
Charlie, I believe its due to the other dog being in heat. The boxer is a male, and our cocker is female. I never got her fixed, due to she was going to be my only dog. Then ended up getting the boxer years later. Now the cocker is going on 7, and he is only 3.
He had a problem a couple of years ago, but that was due to him being at the vets while we were out of town. He held his pee, and got a infection. Now, I think 99% is due to Dixie (the cocker).
Thanks for the heads up thou.
Jeff, are you parking the Pacer near the shell station? Kinda like a old junker?
"Rust, whats not to love?"
JimRCGMO Galaxy, good to hear from you, and maybe pick an easier kit to start back up with (one you can leave on the workbench in between, so you get 'tempted' to do 10 minutes here, 10 there, and before long - surprise! - you'll have it all together!). Stop by again soon, y'all hear? (Jeff, did I say that about right? ) Jim in Cape Girardeau
Galaxy, good to hear from you, and maybe pick an easier kit to start back up with (one you can leave on the workbench in between, so you get 'tempted' to do 10 minutes here, 10 there, and before long - surprise! - you'll have it all together!). Stop by again soon, y'all hear? (Jeff, did I say that about right? )
Jim in Cape Girardeau
HI Jim and all,
Cup-a-joe please in a CSX mug to go with my T-Bone steak, smashed baked taters and Island blend vegetables.
I'm tempted to do a lot of things, just lack the gumption or get up and go to do so. Haven't gotten my energy back from being in the hospital in November for two weeks.
I'm a have-to-set-up-on-a-portable-table-in-the-LR guy. Don't have a workbench which sucks. Hey, I barely have room for my 3.5 x 5 foot HO layout as it is. Want to extend it to at least 40-42" x 62", mainly so I can have at least two circles of 18R track instead of a 15R and an 18R. Back to a blue plywood prairie. I'm itching to get me an SD-something or other {when I finally have some money again} and want to be able to run it from the inside spur yard engine facility out to the outside circle. I also want some larger steam than my 0-6-0. Wish DCC Mikes weren't so expensive {to me} now, need a new DCC one. My old DC one kissed the floor one day.
I play a dual pragmatic era layout. Pragmatic older 1905-ish to 1950-ish steam, and a pragmatic 1950-ish to as modern-ish diesel as I can run on an 18R layout. Just change out a few things and I'm good to go. I love steam but am liking diesels now too. Just can't pin an era for diesels, love Geeps, but liking some new ones now. Trains magazine has me drooling over some of the newer ones.
As with most of NE of the country it will be COLD here with snow. I hear dollars burning and ka-chinging every time the furnace kicks on. Thank the good stars above for HEAP. That will help.
Bought a new washer just after Christmas with money gifts to help some. It's nice to have a washer that will actually wash clothes more than a half a load at a time. BUT, that meant I didn't get my $100 to spend on a new loco of some sort. That and the repair bills to the van before Christmas ate up all budget. At least we had the cash to do so and so keeps us out of CC debt! Should'nt complain. Not about to go into debt for a hobby, so trains will have to wait till summer most likely before have some cash again.
Well, my my I have run on here a bit. Think it cheered me up some.
Hope everyone has a nice night and a great day tomorrow!
galaxy
Good Evening Diners!
Well after my whining post last night I resolved not to mention cold again but this morning when I turned on the TV the windchill was -49C! That's it, I'm loading up the RV and heading for that spot beside Jeff's station. Mind you the weatherman says it is supposed to be either -2C or +2C by Sunday so there is hope unless he's up to his old trick of promising nice weather ahead of the weekend and then daily reducing it so that when the weekend arrives the weather is rather poor.
Robby, if you're having trouble with your Boxer urinating in the house it could be a medical problem as dogs normally won't soil their "nest" unless there is a problem. Our Westie who just died suddenly started drinking a lot and then urinating all the time, sometimes in the house. He was diagnosed with diabetes. As soon as his blood sugar was under control the urine problem stopped.
Luke, what loco are you putting that MRC decoder into? I put in 2 brillance mini steam decoders into Bachmann locos a couple of years ago. A simple plug and play and they work quite well but it is hard to get the chuff and start in synch.
Well I've got all the ballast done on the service yard and now just have to vacuum up the excess. I think I"ll move on to scenic the station area. I have a Cornerstone Pella station that is really too big for the layout but I had to have it since it resembles the station in a town where I used to live.
Keep warm,
CN Charlie
Jim, I looked at it a second time and thought it might be yogurt. Never heard it called concrete before, although I can see why. This is New Jersey, we have no imagination. I stick with ice cream, the heck with cholesterol.
21 degrees at the shore.
JimRCGMO C&O Terry, that's a nice cabin - is that scratchbuilt, or whose kit did you modify for that? Looks great! Snip
C&O Terry, that's a nice cabin - is that scratchbuilt, or whose kit did you modify for that? Looks great!
Snip
That's a scratch built shotgun style miners cabin i've built 3 of
to put in a row close to the mine on my layout
I put studs and floors inside on all of them
TerryinTexas
See my Web Site Here
http://conewriversubdivision.yolasite.com/
I had a Gremlin---never a Pacer---even if it was for comparison purposes--now, if you did that to a Gremlin----
I've had a busy day---since the ERROR thing showed up I went and stuffed myself into my train room and started laying more track down---of course 'Spring' had to be right there supervising. So we had the flextrack getting pawed at and things like that there---
I think I'll go for the rib-eye steak and raspberry pie for desert---Oh and a coffee please
ewl01Jim, that beef stew and grilled cheese look delicious! Chocolate chip concrete? We call it ice cream:-) Unless it's yogurt.
Jeff, I'd almost say there's a bit too much glass in the rear window of that Pacer. That, or they wore out their arm with the sledgehammer too soon... I think Robby would be proud of that Pacer.
Back to my stew and grilled cheese (and frozen yogurt concrete).
Jim in Cape Girardeau (where it's currently 26 F / -3 C)
My mother wanted one of those Pacers so bad when they first came out, until she sat in one and the window line was at her shoulder.
Looks like I'm up again, dinner's on me!
Who out there has ever wanted to trash a Pacer?
Jim, that beef stew and grilled cheese look delicious! Chocolate chip concrete? We call it ice cream:-) Unless it's yogurt.
I haven't had any problems getting in. The pages come right up and the replies work. Why do you guys have trouble and I don't? I've been following the posts in the backround, didn't have much input. (HA,HA)
Eric
Evening, Chloe - glad you and Bergie were able to get that front door unjammed. I'll have a big bowl of beef stew,
with a grilled cheese sandwich (and some grated cheese on the side).
Oh yes, and a frozen chocolate chip concrete, please 'n' thank you.
Ray, were the insulators porcelain in the 1920's? If you're in HO scale, Rix makes some (2-part) poles and crossarms/insulators (crossarms and insulators are molded as one piece) , and one version of the crossarms with insulators is a sorta clear green color. Not sure if they make them in N scale, but it'd be work a lookup on either the Rix Products Co. or the Walthers website, if you want to see. All you need to do is paint the cross arms (brown) and the support arms (silver or rusty silver...) and you're there!
Our temp's supposed to drop to about 11 F (-12 C) tonight, high of 20 F (-7 C) tomorrow in the day, and 7 F (-14 C) tomorrow night. And that's not counting any wind chill.
Rob, that is a good camo job on that walking stick!
I'm not gonna push my luck - I'll settle back in the booth here and eat my dinner before the front door gets jammed again. Prayers for warmth, comfort and continued healing for those in need of them. And tonight, that'd be most everybody except maybe C&O Terry, Flip (fec), and BridgeTom (in California...). If Dick comes in the Diner tonight, tell him to get a couple or three dogs for the bed tonight!
Blessings and prayers,
Hi, all! Had a busy day, at least that gives others a chance to post! Coffee and a cheese danish please!
Don't know Jerry but wish him well along with those who know him.
Have to get my buildings from the other house to post and see if it meets the standards of this group. The stuff that is posted is of amazing quality. The realness of the motive power, structures, industry items sets a high standard that I hope I can attain.
Waitng for the cold being sent from you folks out north and west.
last night I managed to get my 2 SD9s speed matched. Someday I'll speed match every one of eninges to a set rule.
Looks like Athearn's BN F45s will be here soon, since athearn's site isn't showing a release date.
http://www.athearn.com/Search/Default.aspx?SearchTerm=f45&CatID=THLD&RN=BN
However, Horizon's page shows mid febuary for the painted units and undecorated BN version is slated for March. So I'm not quite sure what's going on, anyone got an idea?
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Coffee refill, please & thanks.
***Ryan, you sure are ambitious.
***Terry, nice little shack.
Carpet is IN. One of the guys has an uncle who lives in a neighboring town who has a barn full of thousands of (what must be O scale) locos, cars and huge layout, I think he also works for CSX. Don't know what his job is. Gave the carpet guy our names & number and with any luck maybe we'll receive an invite to visit the old gentleman.
Here is a cheater pic of the stick bug. Still not easy to see it. Nature can produce some amazing camo.
well, I tsted out the locos I got for christmas today (c-liner is back together, rs-1 will be painted and put back together when I get ana ribrush to paint it). C-liner is a bit noisy, but runs good, and my rs-1 is good at slow speeds, so I'm happy.
Oh, and that boxcar came out good.
Hello ....
Like others I had trouble with error messages. I think of my "gremlins" on the layout and how frustrating they are to me. Then I realize the people trying to fix servers must get really frustarted as well.
Unca Roggie. ...The 1964 wreck I mentioned finding on that website involved the Golden State Limited. Rock Island was hauling the GSL along with a midwest train it combined with it creating a long train with six E-units. Rock Island diverted its eastbound train onto the CB&Q because of bridege repairs near Chicago. The Burlington train had three E units and two Zephyrs combined into one train. It was traveling at 60 mph when a switch malfunctioned and routed it into a head on collision with the Rock Island train. Four engine crew members were killed, and 43 other people were injured.
Jerry .... I'm glad you are home. Are ready for country ham at breakfast time tomorrow?
Paul ... We're all very concerned about you and Mary Ann's kideny disease.
Lee ..... you asked about water. I have done OK with Modge Podge which is sometimes available at craft stores who advertise 50% off anything in the store. However, I am currently including a steam in my new scene, and I will use the Woodland Scenics "water". I found an open, unused package at a train show with a very cheap price. I will be using the WS stuff in the next coupld of days after the paint on the bed of the stream is dry.
Speaking of my scenery project, I'm headed back to the train room now.
Happy Model Railroading.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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