The herald looks awesome! Well, I'm off to the bank, then to my little girl's daycare (forgot to take her sleeping mat with her this morning), and then off to probably take in some railfanning down at the interchange track here in Troy. Gotta see if I can find the camera first though, wouldn't mind getting some pictures of the choo-choo's (as the little girl calls them) as they go by.
Luke, now you got it! Impressive!
Mornin' everyone! I slept in and got caught up on my sleep. So now I'm hungry. Zoe, I have the #2 Speacial over easy on the eggs, bacon, homefries, and some of that Sourdough bread toast. Oh and my usual Dark Roast in a FGLK mug.
It is currently 21°F here in the Finger Lakes with a high around 27°F this afternoon. Not much else but a few flurries now and then. It might be a good day to clean out the driveways of the accumulated snow and start moving some of the wood from out back to the covered porch. Already starting to get low on the Maple I cut and split last summer. Lucky I got the 2 face cords of Locust last September.
I also have to pack up the bad amp to ship it back, take some posters around to the local schools, pick up a couple Rx at the drug store, do laundry, and find time to work on the layout. Never should have retires, I used to have a lot more time when I was working!
I'll be in the front booth so I can watch the trains go by......
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
I fixed the spelling.(I must have been typing to fast) I also made the star gold. This is the Official Herald/Logo
of my layout: Thank you for the comments you all.
It is very inspiring.
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
Forgot to tell you New, I really like the logo, and I honestly didn't even notice the misspells till everyone started pointing them out.
howmus Ah.... Much more readable! Only one question.... Did you intend to misspell California? Otherwise very nice job!
Ah.... Much more readable! Only one question.... Did you intend to misspell California? Otherwise very nice job!
Mornin' all. Pretty brisk here this morning. I'l have a hot chocolate, biscuits n gravy, with a side of bacon please. Looks like old man winter has come down to visit Bama. Right now its fairly chilly outside, and I don't think that its supposed to get any warmer. Plan on doing some railfanning today, so far, I've only heard one set of train trumpets, and they were at 5:40 this morning (didn't feel like crawling out of the bed this morning. I'll be in and out all day long, as I can. Guess I'll talk to y'all later on.
See what happens when you work on the layout; you get behind on all the diner posts! I think I spent 16 hours on the SW corner, but I laid, wired and painted 6 turnouts and 30 feet of track. Last night I sanded the paint off the top of the rails and started to clean the rails with citrus goo gone. Next step is to seal all the metal with Rail-Zip. The spurs for the power plant will hold 20 full hoppers and the empty track will hold 25 cars. The 2 spurs for the steel mill should hold 30 ore jennys.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Thanks for all of the comments. Let me see, I will take a bowl of oatmeal, and milk. I kinda messed my breakfast up this morning.
Looks like old man winter is getting some of us on here again this morning. Right now we have about a 1in. here, and snow flurries right now. I believe they are calling for snow flurries all day and 1-3ins. tomorrow.
On my to do list today. Clean the house up some, and head to the basement. I would like to start on weathering up the engine, and move some track around.
I will be back in for lunch. I guess I will start to clean the house up .
Looks like I pay today. Just leave me the tab. I will let the wife pay, since she deals with the money. So go easy!!!!!!
"Rust, whats not to love?"
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Good Morning All,
Still a bit grumpy about the Giants yesterday but what can you do. Kudos to the Eagles who won but The Giants just made up for the impossible events of last season. enought of that it's back to trains. Oh, and I'll have a regular to go please.
Luke I like the second run through of the logo and with the spelling corrected t's a winner.
Robbie, the weathered boxcars are spot on. Love your work.
Ray, the locomotive looks superb as well as the backround. Love it.
Rob, I'll keep my eyes open for any of the old Athearn circus flats when I go wander at Springfield this month. You'll need a fleet to move all those wagons. You'll also need some more heavyweights for all the entertainers and hands to ride in.
Jeff - the interior warped or not makes a huge difference. Nice work.
Well - lots to do again today better get to it. CUL, J.R.
Good morning. It's 32 and partly cloudy. The high is expected to be around 60 and it will be partly cloudy. Got the interior background pieces for the Shell station printed up yesterday and spent nearly 2 hours cutting them out. I put them together into a wall last night and installed it in the sales area of the station. Wouldn't you know the wall would warp later on. Too late to do anything about it now. I'll just have to live with it. Today I plan to do some work on mt Walther's engine house. It has two doors that are close together. That's always bugged me. I plan to remove the center section and make it one wide door, then I can lay two tracks in side by side without needing a certain length of track (which I don't have) to clear a turnout to clear the center section. By removing the center section I don't need that run of track. Still need to start work on the foundation of the Midtown Consolidators building as well. Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 1/12/2009 Wind Chill: 32°FHumidity: 92%Dew Point: 30°F So Far TodayHigh: 33°FLow: 32°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 0mph NNE Today High: 60 Partly cloudy. Highs around 60. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Tonight Low: 35 Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 30s. South winds around 5 mph in the evening becoming northwest after midnight.
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Good morning all,
Looks like I’m way behind on the posts already so I’ll sit in the back and try to catch up. I keep hearing rumors of a bad ice storm heading our way this week. It snowed again yesterday and topped us off with about 18” of new snow on the ground.I finished laying the track in the SW corner of the layout last night and ran a locomotive around to test everything out. Seems ok, but I don’t have power to the #1 main. I’ll have to do some serious trouble shooting tonight. I did a quick inventory on my layout and it seems I have 48 turnouts on the layout so far, all but 3 of them are used items I picked up at the various train shows.
Robby, nice video.
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Howdy, I think I’ll try some of that chamomile tea Barry is so fond of I hope it’s hot.
I just walked off my supper walking around the neighborhood and discovered I’m a lone wolf. I was also pleased to see so many others are the same. Once again I’m impressed with the way everyone gets along on this forum. Oh I ’m sure there is a tussell every now and then, but mostly everyone respects everyone else’s enjoyment of the hobby.
Robby- Great video. I’ll chime in on the train comments . Looks very real.
Luke- I like it. Good job. I can’t create anything without seeing it first.
Rob- you know I’ve seen circus stuff before but since you’ve been talking about it, boy I see more stuff than I ever have before. Maybe I just never noticed. I can see how your budget may be stretched with all that stuff available.
Everybody (whispering so Rob can’t hear) He didn’t give a list…..The super secret couch potato protective formula spiked pie worked. Wonder how long til it wears off?
Ray- I often keep looking after I find something just so it isn’t always in the last place I look.
I’ve been piddling with my layout and I’ve come to the conclusion that one of the difficult things for me is selective compression.. I always want to say something like, “no that’s too close to the tracks, or no there isn’t enough parking space or a semi truck couldn’t make that turnaround. But I’m getting there. I look at all these layouts and say wow that looks great how did they do that. Gotta keep compression, within limits of course, up front in my mind.
Oh my look at the time gotta go. Prayers to those in need.
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.
New Haven I-5 I redid my logo. Here it is:
I redid my logo. Here it is:
Luke:
Neat logo, I like it. Now I'm going to become the teacher I've been for the last 150 years and correct your spelling: It's CaliFORnia (don't forget the 'R') and 'WHERE the railroads meet' not WERE.
Or did you know that all along and were just trying to test us?
Otherwise your 'redo' is really impressive.
Tom
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Hello everybody....
It looks like several of you are getting a lot done with your layouts and trains. Great!
Ray. I like that nicely detailed and weathered 0-6-0 on your S L O W RR.
I am progressing with my corner-of-layout, village scene. Now it will have 10 houeses, a church, a cemtary, and a covered bridge over a stream. The doubled main line of the railroad will cross over the stream with a pair of girder bridges.
Thanks for kind remarks about BIL Nick. Fortunately, his speech is not badly impacted. The P. T. should correct most of the problems due to the stroke.
Has Inch or anyone report on Jerry lately? Also, I think of Ed when I run my N de M boxcars, and I wonder if anyone has heard from him.
An article in the local paper shows it just does not pay to be a deer anymore. A deer jumped through a large glass window into a local landromat. In a state of panic, the deer ran around in circles between washing machines. Finally, somebody held a door open while people got it to run out the door. That is when the deer ran into a road and was killed when hit by a car.
Happy Model Railroading.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Evening y'all, I'll just take a bowl of vanilla ice cream with a little hot fudge over it (dunno why but I crave ice cream more when its cold than any other time). The daughter is in bed, the wife is getting some things ready for the daughter for tomorrow, and I'm about to go and stare at the back of my eyelids for a few hours. Pretty uneventful night overall, I think that I'm going to do some railfanning tomorrow, and see about getting some super-detail parts for two of my engines (Athearn blue box GP40-2, and a Life Like GP38) and some new decals so I can probably start to repaint process on both of them. Other than that, this is Bama, signing off!
Cederstrand***Ray, cool pic of the steamer.
Thank you Rob! I like the circus wagons. Hope that snake doesn't get loose in here, we'll lose all the waitresses.....
I finally stared to work on some Telegraph/Signal line Poles for the layout tonight. I had bought some small white insulators that I had hoped to use for these a year or so ago. After spending an hour trying to locate them, I finally found them in the last place I looked..... Tried one out on the scale crossarm and it is grossly over scale for that use. So looking around the net, I found a place that makes them. Any of you ever do business with Sierra Scale Models? The owner is supossedly an NMRA Master Model Railroader so I would think these ought to be the right size (and they are advertised for line pole crossarms....)
I have been ready to crash all afternoon, and did for about 2 hours earlier. Laid down on the floor near the nice hot wood stove with a book on trackside details. The next thing I knew it was 2 hours later. Sometime during my nap, the power went off for a bit. Never even heard the alarm on the Battery backup for the computer system. Must not have off for very long as the battery back up kept the computer and needed peripherals going. Did have to reset several clocks in the house.
Luke I like your logo. Very classy! You might want to try a lighter shade of blue to give it a bit more contrast....?????
Have a great night everyone!
It's so dark I can hardly tell the blue from the black. I can't read the text at all.
Cederstrand ***Luke, the Logo looks sharp. Is it as dark as the pic suggests?
***Luke, the Logo looks sharp. Is it as dark as the pic suggests?
EDIT: Oh Goody! Looks like I've got top honors......
Evening all. I'll just take an RBF and some extra vanilla ice cream on the side. (teeth hurt, happens)
I was supposed to go drag racing today, but the weather didn't look like it'd cooperate. So I'm pretty bummed out about that. Haven't done anything MR related today. Just a lazy Sunday spent goofing off.
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.
Tall glass of water & hey look, free pie from someone...I'll gladly accept it. Thank you (...unless it turns out to be spiked).
***Ray, cool pic of the steamer.
***ewl0, nice pic. Sharp looking CSX there.
***Robby, "Strickland Propane" Will it sell Propane & Propane Accessories?
Picked up two more items for the wife tonight:
Snake
Dog
Might jazz them up a bit down the road. Been looking at roller coasters and she really likes the CoasterDynamix "Comet". I think the Faller "Mammoth Cave" is way cool. Problem with both is their price tag...YIKES! Her birthday is coming up sometime soon though.
Got a good bit done today, but won't elaborate so as not to ruffle any potatoes couch pillows.
Killer headache tonight...going to rest awhile. Rob
Good evening. I've been working on the Shell station today. I got the interior walls for the sales area put together and up and put up the lining wall for the work area. I also added a few details outside the building. Now I'm waiting on Lee to send me a couple of gas pumps.
Heyy, everyone. While I'm here, I'll have the buffet and a RBF.
We won our game, 3-2. So now we're 4-2 in the season, although we lost a lot of scrimmages.
Didn't get to the layout today, but maybe tomorrow after school. Nothing new, so I'm out. Night all.
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Evenin’ everbody, I’ll have the buffet and a big ole glass of sweet tea. Not from the Carolina's though WOW will that stuff curl yer toes talk about saaweeeet.
I guess I missed Rob, wanted to buy him a piece of pie. I over reacted and got kinda rough there , but hey! I panicked. Life as I know it may have ended. I saw it coming! But it turns out that the wife doesn’t really expect much from me. Guess I trained her better than I thought. Any way leave a piece of pie on my tab for Rob. Don’t tell him who it’s from though.
Went family visiting today so I didn’t get much done. I’ll head on back to the corner and see how much I can eat. Who’s Kelvin?
Good Evening!
Just finished watching the Chargers lose to the Steelers! I made a new logo for my RR today. I hope you all
like it. I'll have the buffet again. I have to talk to PC about getting
some real turkey on the buffet.
I'll be back later,
Luke
Thanks. The wife did the video. My hands are shaky, and it would have looked like a earthquake (well maybe not that bad).
I will work on the layout this week for more videos, and REALLY tone down that engine. Its to clean