Jeff, an engine with perfectly straight railings is either new, or in a museum.
Ahh, Mr. Change is on. The worlds problems will be solved tonight.
(this is not a politically charged statement)
AmanaMedic Differing accounts state a UP train was blown off the track around Missouri Valley. I say "differing accounts" as others say it was in Nebraska.
Apparently the reports are saying that the Blair Sub in NEB. was closed because a coal drag got clobbered/derailed as well as the story in IA so who knows---it's miserable all the way around.
Jeff; That is GOOD news!! And those rails don't look THAT out of line---
Ryan; Don't be such a stranger!
I got all client visits done and now I can sit back with a nice hot chile and an RBF please, Chloe----
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/
One last coffee refill, please.
Here are a couple "on-topic" pics I took today of some HO scale clowns for the wife's layout. As it turns out, in the background you can also make out the big deck I've been building. Also one of the RR tie projects where we planted dwarf peach trees (which do not produce peaches) and some grape vines for picking right from the edge of the deck.
***Jeffrey, the rails look fine to me. I really like the loco, too. Had one some time back in N scale, but sold it off to buy more steamers.
Hope everyone is doing well. Wind is picking up, clouds are building, storms heading our way for the next few days. YeeHaw! Rob
ewl01Jeff; Sounds like good news from the Dr.
I set to work today on adapting some railings salvaged from a Bachmann GP50 to my GD30 (general duty for branch line service). It required a lot of drilling but I got them to fit. They're not entirely straight though. You try handling a hand held drill with hands that shake like an autumn leaf in a breeze.
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
CederstrandMy oldest brother went to that train show I mentioned previously and had a great time. He discovered DCC and what can be done in a small space. All he has left these days is a Z scale set. He use to have a bunch of beautiful lionel, headed by this loco: http://www.tandem-associates.com/lionel/lionel_trains_2065_loco.htm He REALLY wants to replace it one day, but they are way too costly for him. He also had lots of HO years ago, but it is his Lionel he misses. Anyway, it was very nice hearing him get energized to do something with Z scale.
My oldest brother went to that train show I mentioned previously and had a great time. He discovered DCC and what can be done in a small space. All he has left these days is a Z scale set. He use to have a bunch of beautiful lionel, headed by this loco: http://www.tandem-associates.com/lionel/lionel_trains_2065_loco.htm He REALLY wants to replace it one day, but they are way too costly for him. He also had lots of HO years ago, but it is his Lionel he misses. Anyway, it was very nice hearing him get energized to do something with Z scale.
My Dad has the same one.
Good afternoon,
If the pie case was ever transferred, I'll take a BIG slice of apple pie, thankyamuch.
A wet, dark, gloomy day here in Clarence. It's warmer than it looks out (about 60), but 'sposed to drop the rest of the week per the National Weather Speculators. Sounds like the weather was kinda rough out in western and southwestern Iowa yesterday...nothing like that here. Differing accounts state a UP train was blown off the track around Missouri Valley. I say "differing accounts" as others say it was in Nebraska.
Got two interviews done today, might (SHOULD) write 'em up yet today/tonight. Tomorrow evening is the dreaded monthly school board meeting. From the agenda, looks like it should be good for another 3-4 articles. THAT makes THAT editor happy, she can run one or two next week, and spread the others out throughout the month. Instant content. THAT means Thursday night is gonna be IV coffee time.
For RR stuff, anybody know of a stash of Islington Station decals? I've been looking for the XTRA covered hopper set for about...2 years now.
Have a good-un, stay SAFE.
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Victor who??? Just kidding, I know who he was. And I bought lunch it seems.
Jeff; Sounds like good news from the Dr.
I'm ready for some dessert myself. Cheesecake? or maybe some pecan pie!
Oh, umm, train related....yea.... saw the 6:37 pulling into Bradley Beach this morning. Good enough?
Eric
Afternoon Gang:
Jeff that's good news. Now just take care of yourself.
I need to go out to Clark Gardens and check on somethings for the train show. I'll also haul out the track panels for my trains. I don't htink that I'm going to take the HO out. There is just too much stuff that has to be moved to get it out of the basement.
Good Thoughts for everyone.
The doc gave me the MRI results this morning. Good news. It came up clean. No sign of infection in the bones, just some cellulitis in the soft tissue and I'm taking antibiotics for that already.
Howdy again!
Just thought I'd stop by and see what is good for lunch. Zoe I'll I'll have a Bacon Bleu Cheese Burger with fries and a decafe!
Eric, my great grandfather was an inventor. Don't think I told you this (puts on best Victor Borge imitation....), but he was the man that invented the cure for which there was no disease back in those days. Unfortunately his wife later caught the cure and died......... Anyway his greatest invention was a soft drink he called 4-Up. However, it never really caught on, so he added some food coloring and a little more sugar and tried again calling it 5-Up. Again no marketing success. So he then came up with a drink with more carbonation and even more sugar which he called 6-Up. But............. still no success! He died shortly after that,heartbroken.
Never knew how close he came!
OK, OK I'll be quiet.
I'll sit I the back by myself and pig out on my lunch!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Afta-noon boys and girls!
I see we got new digs once again, at this rate we might have TS Diner LXX by the end of next year....
I've been way too busy the past few weeks to make any entry into the diner.
Glad to hear some of you have been getting fed with good recipes and culinary preparations and libations too!
We finally got a Nintendo Wii after 2+ years of looking for one, and we've been playing the Wii Fit and just got the Tiger Woods 2009 golf, fun stuff. I have to say it is one family fun game.
Next week I'll be in San Antonio as part of the planning team for the EPA Office of Technology Operations and Planning (OTOP) conference, hope to get in some good Tex-Mex cuisine and a few Margaritas too! Ed put me in touch with a feller who lives in San Anton and has an N basement layout, also a member of the San Antonio Model RR Club, might get to set up a personal tour.
Just finished up reviewing the final draft for my 3rd Plan IT Part II article due out next month in the second issue of the online MRH magazine. Joe says part III is due by May 15....need to get started on filling in my outline....
Nice KCS loco #4020 capture there!
Jerry your coal hoppers are fantastic
Here is the obligatory trains related contribution for this post:
Bryson City, NC - GSMRR
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Good Morning All...Its sunny and windy here weather guesser says could have gusts to 50 MPH...I'll have a windy City Dog,onion rings and a diet Coke...please..Thank You...Worked on track for fiddle yard yesterday...Gosh! those rails and joiters are small!!..
JP...Nice job on WS diorma...
Lee..Congrats on your lottery win...
Jeff...hope you got a good report at Dr...You deserve some good news...
Jim...Keep your chin up!!
You all have a good one..Jerry
Oh, one of THOSE crossings! I just realized that was only Friday.
Think I'll join you, it's close enough to lunchtime. Antipasto salad please with a Sprite (they still sell 7-up?)
***Eric, no no no, I didn't mean that crossing, although we will gladly make use of it on the wife's HO layout. I was refering to an N scale crossing I ordered with the two tracks running through each other. (so I can have access to both mainlines from the staging area) No hurry on the HO crossing with gate...very happy to have it whenever it's convenient for you to send. Thanks!
While I'm here, a coffee refill, please. Rob
Mornin' everyone!
Gee Chloe, looks like a slow morning here. Must be that those caught in the blizzard in the mid-west are hunkered down for the storm and those where the Spring has finally arrived and the sun is shining have to do all the outside yard w**k thing. I'll have a bran muffin and a Dark Roast in a FGLK mug, thank you! No put the dark roast coffee in the mug not the muffin......... I'll go sit in the front window booth with Jim and try to cheer him up a bit.
Speaking of w**k. The show is rehearsing from 5PM to 10PM all week. Mics are still being tested.... The leading lady has had her mic in 3 different locations and none of them do what I want. Last night she was picking up the orchestra (mostly electric keyboard) just fine but not her own voice (mics tend to pick up what ever is loudest at the spot they are at....). The kid working the digital board was back last night, he was sick last week. We have to tonight to get everything up to par. They are still having massive problems getting scenes changed (both time taken and not having things where they are supposed to be). Lots of forgotten and dropped lines, and missed cues. Should be a fantastic show!
Yesterday I burned CDs of a concert I recorded (All County) a couple of weeks back, got them all done (around 30) and realized that one of the songs was in the wrong order........ So I threw them out and started over. Today I have to get them assembled and packed to mail. Run to the bank and a whole lot of other stuff and it is already after 11AM. So I'm going to finish the dark roast and get moving.
See you all later!
Rob, I'll get that out today. Sorry, between work and the lawyer I forgot.
Coffee in a large SOUTHERN mug, please & thanks.
It's so quiet around here, at first I thought the doors were locked.
After looking at a trestle kit I bought, just don't feel up to that much tiny work. Thinking of either adding to the big HO trstle to make it look busier for N, or just bagging the whole idea of a large trestle and carving out a large Natural Bridge instead. Was planning on having a natural bridge anyway, just not a large one.
Still waiting on a crossing track before making any final decisions. So the train room sits idle.
Rob
Good Morning, Diners - Zoe, can I have a glass of OJ and a coffee in a mug, please? Thanks.
Sorry for not being in lately. W**k was a bit of a 'bear' yesterday - about 10 hours with no lunch break or getting out of the place until 6:30 p.m. (and I still didn't get an intake dictated to be typed up yet...). About ready to spit nails when I left, so I didn't even go to MRR club (didn't want to snap at any of them). Treated myself to dinner out, and stayed out until almost 10 last night. (And no, no alcohol consumption was involved...). Getting rather about work the past few days. Might want two candles lit, G (one for me, and one for the #$%*^& administrators who think we're machines and can keep unreasonable expectations). Thanks.
I'll be sulking in the window booth for a bit. Hopefully, I'll start catching up a bit on other posts later tonight (but we'll see if I get off work on time).
Blessings for all us undeserving types,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Good morning.Been having internet problems since 6:40 pm yesterday. One minute it's up then the next it's down. I'm getting really ticked at the lack of service out here.I have a doctors appointment to go to at 9:30 to see what the results of my MRI were and to get some lab work done. More needles. Just what I need! Grrrrr! As if I don't see enough of the darn things already.
Good sunny morning. Nothing beats the goodd ole' sun shine.
Lee yes I know. I better make sure the loaders don't load that car. Might have to hand out some pink slips.
Might work on the layout some. Maybe even the scrap yard.
Well I've been looking in my photobucket album, and looking at old pictures.
So here's todays...............
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Boy, is this place quiet---HELLO--hello--hello---good grief. There's even an echo---
Well, we are going to be sunny with temps at 8C today. Tomorrow it will be a raining kind of day with the high at 9C---
Have a client visit this afternoon to fix up what happened yesterday and then see my other client after that---maybe I'll get some MRR'ing done afterwards----
Chloe--I'll have an egg/bun and a bucket of coffee please--I'll sit at the window booth and see the switching going on----
Robby, just remember the short covered hoppers are cement and the long hoppers are not. Don’t let your loaders over load those 80’ cars, LOL.Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
I'm glad you like the videos. I have a better camera, but no cord for the computer.
JP, for your drain pipe, use heavy duty tin foil, a decent size bolt from Lowes/Home Depot. Wrap the foil around the bolt, and press the foil into the bolts groves. Kinda turn the bolt back out, and BAM..........You have yourself a pipe.
Lee, good job. Thats one thing we don't play. Now my wifes grandma, well thats a different story .
Well I'm off to bed.
Some really great photos & videos posted today. Keep 'em coming! And Lee even won the Lottery. Do you think he'll still talk to us regular diners?
Very long and exhausting day here. I'll be in the corner booth, probably falling asleep.
Robby, nice videos!
I WON THE LOTTERY!!
yes it's true, I won the pick 3 lotto ticket. To celebrate Dorothy and I went to the store and spent the whole thing on food stuff, all $41.00
Lee
blownout cylinder Phillip:--how far did you ride today? Did you get any pix of the KCS units?
Phillip:--how far did you ride today? Did you get any pix of the KCS units?
I only went to and from work today, so maybe 30 miles or so. And no, I didn't get any pics of the Southern Belle's. I didn't have my camera with me.....figures!
Good evening gang....
Guess what I have for you all tonight!!!! That's right... the long awaited photos of the WS Learning Kit I have been working on for the last 2yrs! This time... it's completed!!!!!!!!!!
WARNING.... LARGE FILES!
This 1st pic is w/out any rolling stock on it....
This Engine, I just got from the LHS. I had ordered it last July while I was overseas in Iraq...
Well gang - I hope eveyone liked them! For more pics of the Diorama, please visit my photobucket page and click on the Diorama link on the left of the site when it loads.
Eric - Nice to meet you! And thanks for the welcome back.
Dick - Thanks for the sympathy. She does appreciate it from everyone. I know my mom even emailed her a sympathy card while they were out in AZ last week. On a side note, I see that Schilling has decided to hang it up. I'm glad that he was able to help us break the 86yr old curse.
Well gang, I'm off to watch some tv before heading for bed.
Take care!
//signed// John Powell President / CEO CNY Transportation Corp (fictional)
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Hunter - When we met in January of 2000, you were just a 6 week old pup who walked his way into this heart of mine as the only runt in the litter who would come over to me. And today, I sit here and tell you I am sorry we had to put you down. It was the best thing for you and also the right thing to do. May you now rest in peace and comfort. Love, Dad. 8 June 2010
I love you and miss you Mom. Say hi to everyone up there for me. Rest in peace and comfort. Love, John. 29 March 2017
I had a " Wonderful" day ---GRRR!!---Got to meeting at about 11:00am--remember I said a fast meeting?---HAH!! some fast meeting! 3 humans who had issues with each other picked at each other ALL through the beeping thing!!! Did not get out of meeting until just after 5:00pm!!!---Had to make phone call to clients home to say no can do---find out from clients father---grumble grouch--he's mad at my boss because they sent out a TURKEY to replace me for the day and said Turkey blew up their daughters 'pooter making it difficult for client to communicate with anyone!! Had to talk the poor father through the procedure to recover said 'pooter----then had to explain to TURKEY why he was in the proverbial doghouse with them AND me-----GROWL!!!
Now that I vented my spleen I'm a little less grumpy---more like scowly---
Robby--enjoyed the vids!!
Chloe--I'll have a nice HOT mug of Chamomile tea with some pumpkin pie please---I'll go to the window booth and do some train watching------
Late afternoon already? GEEZZZ
Well I did some train hunting, and only got a train pulling empty hoppers (as usual).
Finished up the CSXT hopper for "the bay".
Ray, thats a shot worth keeping close to the heart.
Heres a couple quick videos of me doing some "cement" switching.
Enjoy.
Good for you, Sawyer!
My son emailed me a photo of my Granddaughter Emily and My Father in Law from when we visited last week just 3 days before he died. I thought: Alpha and Omega. One at the beginning of her life and the other at the end of his......
Still haven't heard what is going to be done for a service for Barney. I am sure my SIL will be in touch. I know she is now dealing with all the cleaning out of his room and what little personal effects he had.
Hope all of you are doing well and having a great day!