Good Morning All...Its sunny and 19 here this morning...Just coffee please...Thank You..Sallie fixed a big brunch so just room for another cup of coffee.. you all have a good one....Jerry
Just poping in, to say "Hey you guys!!!!".
Hey at least we haven't started to throoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo DUCK!!!!!!! SPLAT.......
Ok, Jeff is not going to be happy.
I'm really leaving now.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
What the ... Where did that flipping pie come from!
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
Now Philip, stop THAT! Get up off THAT floor sit down in THAT booth over by THAT wall and eat The pie THAT Zoe brought for you. THAT ought to keep him quiet for a while.
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Robby P.Well I guess I will be in the basement this afternoon. No NFL football, means "The Soap Channel" on Sundays .
Well I guess I will be in the basement this afternoon. No NFL football, means "The Soap Channel" on Sundays .
One acronym: NASCAR
Seriously, once you realize the physics involved in each of the different tracks, for example: short tracks (Bristol, Martinsville, etc.) require nerves of steel, and a mind of steel to match. each driver is constantly beating and banging on the others, will be beaten and banged himself. Superspeedways (Daytona, Talledega, etc.) have so much difference in how the bottom line, high line, and middle line act. You can be at the front, and then two laps later, in 15th or so. You lose your drafting partner, you're screwed. If you get a drafting partner or two, you can move up very fast. Road tracks (Infineon, Watkins Glen) is essentially like F1 races etc., b/c there are both right and left turns. On other tracks, you have the high line and bototm line etc. like at the superspeedways, and drafting helps, but it also involves elements of short tracks because there's more actual "racing" your opponents because you can sometimes hang up there w/o a drafting partner. Then there's also the monster mile at Dover, which is like a short track, but longer (short tracks are about a half-mile or so). There's some running like at other tracks, but you get beaten and banged on, and you beat and began. Same at other one-mile tracks, like Richmond.
Also, it is the PERFECT sport to be watching while working on something, because you can look up and see what's going on, then go back to work and listen to the announcers. or you can just lay around and watch the race.
/rant
PC, I couldn't re-write your rant, lol.
Well, have a good Sunday afternoon ya'll! (yes, I'm a Southerner, lol)
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Good morning all. Lovely day THAT the Lord has provided. 2 eggs fried hard, hashbrowns, bacon, grits and butter and a big ole cathead biscuit.with some sorghum and butter.
Well, I was about to say THAT it sure is a lot cleaner to be throwing the word THAT around instead of pies but I guess THAT ended quick. Kinda reminds me of the Monty Python sketch in the Holy Grail. The Knights Who Nooo Longer say Nee. I can't say it, Aaaahh! I said it, oh! I said it again, Aaaaah! I can't quit saying it! Someone stop me from saying .......THAT! Whew.
After all THAT, I hope everyone is doing well. Don't feel alone on missing church today, ditto at my house.
Philip I agree. Have some of this, uh whatever pie that's sitting here by RobbyP. (where'd he get this thing?)
Well, Toddland(THAT place where I'm King) here I come
Oh and Jeff, I guess the english majors are correct. The word was not even missed. But I still think it could use a few THAT's thrown in there. But you know, if it weren't for ...th...th...thththAT! word, I wouldn't have heard the phrase, "you shouldn't have done that " nearly all my life!
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.
What is it with these THAT nazi's anyways?!?! Can't these--people leave the poor thing alone?!? Have to beat on it all the -------time and make for a difficult time coming up with new words!! Why they should be ashamed of themselves---"OVERUSED" my posterior!! Bunch of elitist blah blah blah---Rant and rave----grumble grouch-- THIS,THESE,THOSE,and SEVERAL OTHER poor misguided words--are they next on the list??!!And we havn't even started--I suspect these pseudo experts have figured out a way to quantify the use of words so that they could dictate language quotas now?!?!? I can see this now---a THAT tax?!!!? Boy, the nerve of some people!!! End of
Now THAT I vented my spleen I'll have a bucket of coffee and a hamburger please...
I've just started the cleaning up of the trainroom. I have a whole pile of things that(AH HAH!!) I found in here we thought were gone completely so now my gotta buy list is down to a dull roar---well---kinda, maybe,---sorta.
I'll sit by Robby here--wiping away some pie crust----UH Jeff, can we get a spatula here? There's a large deposit of strawberry pie on the back wall -------
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/
Hi all!
Well, it eems my p2ks turned into Spectrums...... I could have sworn they were Protos, must be the Texas sun.... Anyhoo, I picked them up any way. 30 bucks each isn't bad. Might be old stock but so what, I quess I'm more flexible than some. Also picked up 2 railpower shell/chassis kits and SD-90mac and a GE 8-40cw. I already built a GE-8. I posted a pic way back when, Lackawana maroon. Like I have time to build these!! I'll add them to the pile. My first RPP was also my first DCC install, Helix motor and all.
Chloe! Tamales and refried beans please! and a Dr. Pepper of course! Thanks
*Carefully inches door open. Looks left and right for flying pies*
Good afternoon everybody! My goodness, WHAT in the name of all things railroad have I started here????
Phillip, Eric, Jeff, Ray, Morgan, TMarsh, Barry, and I'm probably missing somebody (I was laughing so hard, I think I did some internal damage!), you guys have not only reaffirmed my belief my editor is nuts...BUT, you've also shown the good-natured humor the Diner is known for. Then again, what do I know? I didn't go to "journalism school," I worked for a paper back in the mid-90s, where as long as I spelled the names right...all was well. I've done grunt labor, I've done managerial. Now I'm back in newspapers...and I've got an editor with a "thing" against a word. Picture the "no more wire hangers" movie scene...and insert *the word*...
She's actually a very nice lady, and has a wall full of awards from the Iowa Newspaper Association on her side. I'm just an ex-paramedic, ex-lots of things, trying to make a living as a news photographer...who HAS to write to get/keep a job. So... I'll play along with her moratorium.
Again, THANKS!!!!! for the great laughs this has generated. As the kids say "you guys ROCK."
Was that (OOPS!) a pie I just saw flying by?????
Chris, who almost made an entire post without *the* word...
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Check out my new paint scheme. Here's the caption I put on facebook:
The INA huh? Go read the press release on the Public Notice Workshop. Your editor will have to slap a few hands. The WORD is used TWICE !!! I just picked a link on the site at random.. Interesting, double standard at play it seems....
Also.. the pictures I posted yesterday were of the Gulf Western Model Railroad Club of Corpus Christi..... Sorry for any confusion
Eric
ewl01Your editor will have to slap a few hands. The WORD is used TWICE !!! I just picked a link on the site at random.. Interesting, double standard at play it seems....
I don't know man....I just work for 'em. It does take a certain amount of mental linguistic gymnastics to find alternatives to *the* word, and makes the job a heckuvalot harder sometimes than I think it ought to be.
Some of it, no doubt, is an "elitist thing." In my experience, most people in "the media" have rather high opinions of themselves, their intellect, and their skills as wordsmiths. Maybe she thinks she's somehow a little better than say, The Cedar Rapids Gazette, The Iowa City Press Citizen, The Quad City Times, The Marengo Muck-raker, etc., etc., etc., since their reporters use *the* word; while HER staff finds ways around it.
It's a weird business. Somedays, I almost wish I was back to dragging hospital beds around ("delivery technician"). When I say this however, Loving Wife slaps me about the head until I trudge back upstairs to my home office and start cranking out newspaper articles again.
In a "perfect world," I'd either have my buddy's job as spokseman (Public Info. Officer) for the Cedar Rapids Fire Dept., or I'd just be a "shooter" for a paper such as The Gazette, et. al.; and let somebody else do the "scribbling." 'Till then... I'll dance her silly little dance and bite my tounge. Trouble is, I have a pretty thin threshold for BS tollerance before I speak my mind. I've lost a few jobs from this in the past...
What I do know, I was looking for a job when I found this one...
In other business at hand, hey SAWYER, love the paint scheme. I have a tough time masking the CNW scheme without getting paint bleeding, so I offer you lots of luck!
Did I just see another pie go flying by??
I've got an empty coal bucket rolling through Clarence now, haven't seen much moving yet today.
Chris
AmanaMedicIn other business at hand, hey SAWYER, love the paint scheme. I have a tough time masking the CNW scheme without getting paint bleeding, so I offer you lots of luck!
Thanks. I think I can get it to not run though. Just gotta hold the shell upside down when I'm painting each part. And yes, I know the black line isn't neat, but hey, it's MS Paint.
Well, modeltrainstuff.com is out of Sou High Hood Tuxedo SD35s, but i found it somewhere else. however, it's also $16 more. *sigh* Oh well, I now have to ask myself "Do I really wnat this loco?" and of course, check ebay for it
Packers#1Just gotta hold the shell upside down when I'm painting each part.
I think I'd paint the black and green first, then do the white last. IF the white bleeds anywhere, it'd be a lot easier to touch up rather than having green or black leaking onto the white.
My half-a-cent's worth of opinion. I've started shooting the green first on my CNW stuff. I finally figured this out after trying to clean GREEN off of yellow several (too many) times.
OK, so I'm a slow learner...at least I'm a learner!
Packers, that is an awsoome paint scheme! When can we see the first locomotive in the new livery?
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Well afternoon all. I had a hard time finding the Diner, but I finally found it! From the previous diner, thanks all for the comments on my GP40-2, I just wanna find all the parts I need to make it look like its "current" self (CSX YN2 paint), rather than her almost "as delivered" self in B&O paint. I've still got to check out 1st place hobbies to see what all they have for me (since I'd really like to be able to find all the things that I'm looking for in one place).
In other news, we're having a new addition to our family, wife just found out a day ago that she's got a bun in the oven!
Looks like the rain in the night has passed. We have sun down here, Mark.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Speaking of "that" ....... Who can tell what the brakeman or conductor is saying when he radios to the engineer saying: "That'll do.".?
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Well, I checked out 1st place and didn't find quite what all I was looking for (then again, I'm not 100% sure of what I should be looking for as far as extra detail parts for my GP40-2), so I'm just digging around, seeing what I can see.
Sawyer: The colour scheme is really good
Interesting afternoon by the looks of things here--let me take these pieshells out'n the corner--by the way, does anyone belong to these pieshells? I see someone is storing ammo again---
I've just discovered a few things were lurking in my closet (and no Todd it was not what your thinking-----) we thought went permanently missing. Audrey was storing an old frame loom from her mother in this closet and over time got swallowed up by all the stuff therein.
There is a one thing missing in my list and it has become very apparent now THAT I've got to get more of it. More clear styrene. I do not have enough to go around the silly thing. You see, now I've taken to 'stretching' one of the DPM's diagonally and in the process, I created two nice sized gaps THAT could be turned into terraces for the apartments on the second and third floors---ah--designers' madness Hence, the need for more clear styrene---LHS--here I come------ I'll probably make my credit card complain even more because I've also noticed, the last time I was there anyway, an ATLAS RS2 I want so I could have 2 consists----
I'll have a refill of coffee please. I'm going to sit in the corner with my back to the wall--in this way I'll be able to take to hiding under the table should pie fights break out
Well, so far no real luck with my looking. Flo, I'll have a RBF and a slice of chocolate pie (gosh I hope that no one throws that one). I'll be sitting by the window watching the switcher run around and the locals come through.
Bama, Congradulations!
Evening Gang: I'm getting alot of OOOPS tonight. Since they are on other topics besides the diner it can't be us.
I spent another day plowing. Back and forth, back and forth. Very entertaining. At least the field was next to the UP tracks so I got some train watching in. One went by with six units on the head end. I have no idea how many cars were in the train but it was long. Usually if it's a heavy train they will put a couple of units on the rear end as distributed power. One of the units was a lease unit the others were UP.
Right now I have a head ach and the OOOPSes arn't helping.
I'll say Good Night All and head for bed.
Well, where the heck do I start??? I left this morning, very late last night actually, and I come back to find THREE new pages!! What is up with THIS? THIS will be the death of me, I almost have to claim THIS as an unpaid part time job!!!
Look at what I have to do to keep my mind straight with all the stuff I have to respond to!!!
Yes, that is a keyboard for my Palm Tungsten E2... That is the only way I can stay sane and attempt to write anything longer than a simple sentence (DERN I USED *THE* WORD!!!)
I got the extruded foamboard glued down and trimmed today:
Luke: I am familiar with soldering, though I have not done any fomridable projects since I was in junior highschool (I put together my own am/fm radio kit, where I had to solder in all the circuitry)! If you look at it closely and read the directions, it really is not very comlicated, the hardest part of the project is learning how to read the dern diagrams and what the different symbols mean! I still don't know exactly what I am looking at when viewing those schematics...
Eric: I was wondering what your plans are for those GP-30's (If you are planning on painting/weathering and selling one, a certain person who shall remain nameless [stop pointing at me people] woud be willing to pay quite handsomely for one in New Hope and Ivyland livery with DCC installed???) if that might be feasible please PM me??? Thanks
Flashwave: There is a local trucking company (I KID YOU NOT PEOPLE) called A. Duie Pyle, and I belive that in your model world they are looking into having their own private car!!!
Don't believe me? Here is their web site: http://www.aduiepyle.com/
Robbie P.: Now put those pies down! We are enjoying this new diner, and read the sign on the wall:
"NO FOOD FIGHTS, ANYONE CAUGHT WITH PIE CATAPULT IN NEW DINER WILL BE STRAPPED TO THE FRONT OF THE NEXT HIGH SPEED LONG HAUL TO ABUDABBI" I think Chloe means business too! Look at the size of the shipping conatiners out back!?!
Packers: AWESOME look for the paint scheme!!! I wish you luck and would love to see photos of the project throughout the process, please?
WHEEEWWWW!!! I didn't think I would be able to get this thing done!!!
Sam
May He bless you, guide you, and keep you safe on your journey through life!
I Model the New Hope & Ivyland RR (Bucks County, PA)
Paul W. Beverung Evening Gang: I'm getting alot of OOOPS tonight. Since they are on other topics besides the diner it can't be us. I spent another day plowing. Back and forth, back and forth. Very entertaining. At least the field was next to the UP tracks so I got some train watching in. One went by with six units on the head end. I have no idea how many cars were in the train but it was long. Usually if it's a heavy train they will put a couple of units on the rear end as distributed power. One of the units was a lease unit the others were UP. Right now I have a head ach and the OOOPSes arn't helping. I'll say Good Night All and head for bed.
I got one on the diner, but it's in all the threadss. I got one just trying to open the forums.
Heartland Division CB&Q Speaking of "that" ....... Who can tell what the brakeman or conductor is saying when he radios to the engineer saying: "That'll do.".?
On the Fairtrain, he was refferring to train moveent. Same effect as stop. Say backing/pulling to couple the train, lining up on the platofrms so the most amount of car doors are lined with the platform, brake release, pulling slack out at night etc. I heard them say it.
Sawyer, I like the scheme. Second the good lucks trying to get a good curve. I suggest cutting yourself a template by taping several pieces of masking tape on their sides and ends wide enough to drape over the hood. Draw your line on the tape with a curved surfac, then cut it with an X-Acto. When you lose the tackiness on the masking tape, just tape it down to the loco with tape on the edges.
-Morgan
Evenin' eveyone!
Paul I too have been getting the Oops page for the last couple hours. Everywhere else on the web seems to be alright so i guess the servers are hiccuping again.......
Spent quite a bit of time working on the electric on the layout today. Assembled a bunch of CDs and packed them for mailing and got all the cases of CD jewel cases and trays put away in the back room as well. Tomorrow will be more of the same.................. This week I have to get my taxes done!
Hope all of you have a good evening. Prayers for all in need!
I was having OOOPPSS! battles tonight as well. A wonderful night though--got two elevators built and ready for painting and had no 'Spring' trying to get in my face about what I was doing so I'm a happy camper.
I'll have a cup of chamomille tea please--I'll be at the back going through those mags again---
Howdy! Whooops! (thump bump tumble fall. Stands up brushing self off) Sorry Philip didn't see you and RobbieP crawlin' around on the floor. What's in your hand? Well anyway I heard chocolate pie and boy did that sound good. Two slices please and a glass of milk thank you.
Glad we aren't using the "T" word anymore. I was starting to feel as if I was not American, commiting all those horrible atrocities against the English language. Wait! (stands up, removes hat and faces the Alamo) to be American is to have been kicked out of every country. To stand up for what you believe in .To fight for what is right. To readily and without shame, misspell at our leisure, any word over 5 letters. To go into a truck stop restaurant in your Sunday suit and order chocolate pie and a root beer for Sunday dinner! AND to slaughter the very language that we stole bits and pieces from just about every country in the world.... other than Canada. Yet. I think I'll say........THAT!!! (whew, what a rebel)
Sawyer nice looking paint scheme. I'm standing behind Lee waiting for those pictures. And Chris is correct it is always easier to cover a light color with a dark one. Unless of course it's one of mine.
By the way, I've decided not to engage in any conversation involving the word "rostrum"
Barry, Good!! I'm glad it wasn't what I was thinking, ‘cause an Armadillo in the closet before the first of March is bad luck.
Bama, CONGRATULATIONS on the bun!!!
Off topic, I spent the afternoon relocating some track. I don't know if I mentioned it before but I made a peninsula, OK I don't like that word either, by using a track plan from MR's "3 plans from a 4X8" or something like that. It was so crowded with track that you couldn't get hardly any structures on there at all. Sooooooo. I ripped the inner tracks out. Made it one outer loop and one siding split in two. Problem is no room for a run around. Oh well guess the plan will have to be altered for the track. Shant be too difficult to justify.
Smack, smack samaack! Great pie! I'd better go wash my face. DON'T eat my pie.
P.S. This was written 2 ½ hrs ago. Couldn't get in til now. And now It's bedtime. Prayers for those in need.
Hi ... I could not get in earlier also. oops.
Earlier I asked: "Who can tell what the brakeman or conductor is saying when he radios to the engineer saying: "That'll do.".?"
Morgan replied: "On the Fairtrain, he was refferring to train moveent. Same effect as stop. Say backing/pulling to couple the train, lining up on the platofrms so the most amount of car doors are lined with the platform, brake release, pulling slack out at night etc. I heard them say it. "
Morgan. You are correct. The brakeman has been instructing the engineer to move a car (or cars) to an exact location. The locomotive has been slowed at the brakeman's instructions to a very slow speed as the location is approached. When the movement is complete, the brakeman informs the engineer with "That'll do." The engineer immediately stops movement of the locomotive. The term "That'll do" is common on railroads throughout the USA.
Happy Model Railroading and no more "ooops".
Chamomile tea, please & thanks.
***Paul, that's cool that you get to do some trainspotting while plowing a field. Heck, I would do some of that for free for you if I got to watch trains go buy. The most I see are Harleys roaring by the front pasture, as we are on some Scenic Biker's list.
Never made it down to the train room. Lots of farm stuff to do. Planted a weeping willow and a river birch tree. Tomorrow I have at least 4 fruit trees to plant and it's also hay day. Will be a busy one.
Healing thoughts to those in need.
Have a good night all.
Rob