Afternoon gang! Just a quick stop in.
No, I have not forgotten to post the pics of the learning kit. I don't have any taken yet. Reason being... I'm waiting for the trees to set in the hob-b-tac so they don't fall over when I move it.
Dad and I had a ncie time this mornign at the Spring Home and Garden show. I just wish the g/f and kids were moving here sooner so she could give me her feedback. I'm sure you guys know just what I'm talking about too... I may like it one way, but she'll want it anothre and of course, she'll win... 99% of the time that is!
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
Milk, Chloe.
Just saw a f-unit on the point of a Union Pacfic freight today, It looked dandy in that UP paint scheme. I'm still tryig to figure out how on earth it got here in PA. Oh yeah, does Amtrack do frieght? I saw four of thier Genesys locomotives pulling a frieght a few years ago, and for notch 8 they were going slow for the short length of the train.
Se yall!
Mornin' Happy Saturday to all. Coffee and one of those Giant caramel ( pronounced car-mull )sweet rolls please. Thank you.
Not much goin' on today. Stopped in to see what's up. Just a bunch of odds and ends.
Robby-I guess that train not as heavy as it looks. Based on the weight limit sign posted.
JP- Ah yes, the garage. I remember (vaguely) that area. We used to be able to park our cars in ther. Now it's just an area to be perpetually cleaned out.
PC- Hang in there. One more night.
Well, best get back a movin. Ya'll have a great day!
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.
Lunch time! I'll have the soup and sandwich special please, and a black tea, thanks.
JP: Welcome back...thanks for the news and links.
Speaking of links, someone said they were keeping a link I posted to the backdrop pics. I've now put them in a separate album. You may need a password, try Gloria
Expecting a visitor from New Brunswick a week today, and the gremlins were back with a vengeance last night, even dropping a covered hopper from my "no-man's-land" transition track on the upper level to the lower level outside the yard! That's never happened before, and I can think of no explanation, unless the coupler pin fouled on the outside rail of the curve. Anyway, no damage, and I bent the pin up a bit, just in case.
Con-Cor sent me 6 Rapido couplers (I'm fine tuning the Rapidos on their VIA passenger cars.) I would have used a standard envelope, possibly a bubble wrap one, for that. They used an HO kit box with layers of foam top and bottom! Overpackaging - R- Us!
TTFN
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Coffee in a large UNION PACIFIC mug, please & thanks.
***Jeffrey, does Ezra have any plans to paint the addition to match the station? Looks like a real good fit. Using the ladder would get old, so I assume there are plans for stairs (inside or out) in the future?
***Robby, nice shot. That thing is hogging almost the entire road.
***Lee, I agree with you on how the wrapped it up. The part that "got to me" was Adama & Roslin. Having lost my mother to BC and helping care for her all through that time, I found that part of the story very touching. What a great series and cool special effects "battles".
Well, need to start the bvarn chores and then work on a big list of projects. Perhaps by tonight I can make it down to the train room.
Have a great day all. Rob
Good Morning All...Its cloudy and 41 here this morning..I'll have a sasauge sandwitch and coffee please..Thank You....Ran trains yesterday and worked on a small junk yard...Sallie and Her Sisters are going to their Mothers to celebrate Her 81st Birthday which was St. Pat's day...My Son an His family are coming and He is building Sallie a day bed for living room and we are going to do some planning for layout extension..Got plenty of turnouts now!..
Jeff...I am kinda worried that Ezera's rum-a-tez may make climbing that ladder hard?...
You all have a good one...Jerry
jeffrey-wimberlySpent part of the day yesterday getting Ezra's home situation taken care of. He likes being close to his work so he had his house built on top of his gas station. The resulting structure is pretty wild but I can remember seeing similar buildings during my childhood. I often thought about what it must be like to live in one. Well I may not live in one but that doesn't mean I can't model one
Jeff: There is a Garage in Woodstock ON that has living quarters above it that even has a gazebo on a corner of the roof---the living quarters takes up half of the roof and the rest is terrace/gazebo.
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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Mornin folks, an irish coffee n a cinnamon roll ta-go for me Janie
Just stopped by to let ya'll know, MIL is home now after surgery and doing ok. She's not happy thou, the doc's won't let her do any yard work, drive or fishing for 3 weeks.
Also the guy at the swap meet throwed in a motor an HO AHM motor [P-245-016] made by Rivarossi in the deal. It has big Boy written on the box and it does run on the bench. I don't have any need for it, so if somebody does, send me an Email.
JP,,,, welcome back, it's good to hear from you again.
No big plans for the weekend, Mothers got two birthday cakes to finish for tomorrow n I'm still doing cleanup in the yard. Plus we're keeping a couple grandkids later.
Thoughts for those in need , hope ya'll has a gooden
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Mornin' all!
Man, I'll tell ya what.....I'll be glad when the wife is back! Can't seem to sleep when she's gone. I've not slept well for a week now. Guess I can hang on though. She'll be back tomorrow night.
So whats up with you all today?
Prayers for those in need, particularly the hurting ones.
Oh... one mor thing... for those that would like to see photos of my house, or my train collection as well as the diorama, please check out my photobucket page. On the left side of the main page, are links for the house, mrr things, etc. Please feel free to look around.
Thanks!
Good morning gang!
Chloe - A cup of Hazlenut coffee, please - Thanks!
Well folks, as far as my move, it was back in October. I went from a small cheap 1bdrm apartment, to nice big 3bdrm, 2bth house w/ a nice sized front and side yard, and a somewhat small back yard. There's a 1 car garage attached, and unfortunately, this past winter was my only one to use it to put the truck inside to keep warm and clean. When my g/f and her kids move here in 90 days, the garage will no longer be for vehicles. Between the kids her and I, the garage will be for all the bikes, etc. Plus, I'll need it to store alot of the furniture that we will get rid of once she gets her stuff here.
As for the learning kit I have been working on, well I was giving it the "once over' for the final stamp of approval, and noticed that one of my trees had lost half of it's foliage. So, I'm goingto glue on new and let it dry while I'm gone with my parents to the Spring Home and Garden show that's taking place here this weekend. When i get back home, I hope it will be dry enough for me to replant the tree and possibly still have time to go outside for photo oportunities.
Well gang, time for me to get this foilage back in place.
Another chilly morning. The high is suppose to be about 55 today.
Not much planned today. I am going to meet a guy that lives on a CSX mainline. He said he has about 50,000+ pictures, and 1,000+ videos. He seemed real nice on the phone, and hopefully I can get some pictures or videos for everybody on here.
Everything else is "up in the air", as far as anything else. I guess the wife will like me out of the house for awhile.
Well everybody have a good day. Here's a old shot for "The Diner".
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Good morning. It's 54 and clear. The high will be in the upper 70's and it will be partly cloudy. Spent part of the day yesterday getting Ezra's home situation taken care of. He likes being close to his work so he had his house built on top of his gas station. The resulting structure is pretty wild but I can remember seeing similar buildings during my childhood. I often thought about what it must be like to live in one. Well I may not live in one but that doesn't mean I can't model one. It's today's feature photo at the bottom of this post. I also spent some time working on the old brick two stall engine house converted to car barn and workshop. The cellophane type window panes looked like cellophane so I removed them. They will be replaced in time with glazed plastic panes. Those are easy enough to make. Just cut what's needed from one or more of those Wal-Mart packages you almost need a jack hammer to get open, trim the pieces to size, spray lightly with Matte-Finish. After they're dry attach them to the inside of the window with model cement. Works for me. Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 3/21/2009 Wind Chill: 53°F Humidity: 57% Dew Point: 39°F So Far Today High: 59°F Low: 54°F Rain: 0.00" Rain Rate: 0.00"/h Gust: 7mph E Today High: 78 Mostly sunny until late afternoon then becoming partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Tonight Low: 52 Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
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Morning.....(yawn)... Spring??? it's 23F and everything is covered in frost!
Good day to work on stuff inside. I started to clean out part of the old computer room (spare bedroom). The one folding table is now the modeling table, as soon as I set things up. Ordered one of those "Right Clamps" from MIcromark to help glueing the plant walls together. They are getting a bit long and tall. I'm also working on the office buiding. I know I'm doing things backwards but my trackplan follows the original with some size compression and eliminating some yard tracks. I used a scaled down paper mockup of the modules to rough things out.
In the middle of all of this MRR and family estate stuff I'm trying to get back into the college routine. I had to drop a class this semester because of the family. I have 12 credits left to graduate with a BA in History. I'm not going to stop now after 8 years of going part-time because of a setback. I might be able to do an independant study this summer to get 3 more credits out of the way. Now, if I could figure out a way to stop working without starving I could concentrate on school and MRR!!!
Time to get things together...first stop, food shopping, then the post office to send off Jeffs package.
By the way Jeff, I never would have quessed by looking at your work. I hope my layout work comes out looking as good as yours does.
Eric
Good Morning people!!!---AAAHH!! Good!! Got a few people by surprise I see
We're going to a high of only 4C today because we gotta be DULL DULL DULL---oh well. BIL/nephew showing up today and front yard needs cleaning up/straightening out--such as one does with cottage/meadow gardening---. Going to be a little busy of late----
JP-hopefully when you finished unpacking you did not find yourself going where'd this go? What happened to that? How come I can't find------that type of thing. We did the moving thing close to 16 years ago and that was our song and dance routine--where'd it go?---
Chloe--Egg on a muffin and a tub of caffeine please--gonna be a busy day and I'm going to need an extra strong version of that caffeine -----
Good morning,
Rob, I really enjoyed the final episode of Battle Star last night, I thought they did a good job bringing the whole series together.
JP, Welcome back I assume you are all moved in and everything is doing well for you in the new house.Sue, how goes the trestles and mountains?
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Ok, Ok, Ok....I will start off the morning.
GOOD MORNING VIETNAM!
OOPS SOMETHING WENT WRONG! Wrong country, peeps, sorry. It's still the *good drugs* prescriptions I am taking for my back, I think.
A cup of Hawaiian Choco Macadamia Nut Coffee in a tall tall mug please! None of these short little things that only hold a quarter of a measuring cup.
Well the muscle relaxer is nice, but I may have to call the Dr. to see about getting a different pain killer for my back, as the one he gave me is not working.
Daffy-dills and Croak-us are coming up so definitely a sign of spring springing up spring like here!!! Yesterday was the first day of spring hooray!
Ok I go back to bed for a bit, the muscle relaxer also lets me slep alot.
Maybe we go shopping later, maybe not it is Sat. Walmart will be full of peeps.
-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.
Heartland Division CB&Q blownout cylinder Robby P. Kind of quiet in here, innit? Did Chloe add anything to the strawberry pie? ........ zzzzzzz......zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
blownout cylinder Robby P. Kind of quiet in here, innit?
Robby P.
Kind of quiet in here, innit?
Did Chloe add anything to the strawberry pie? ........ zzzzzzz......zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Or was it the coffee-----------------------zzzzzzzzz--snort--zzzzzzzz
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Evening gang!
Just a quick stop in.
Dick - Sorry to hear about your loss. I experienced one myself last Thursday when my g/f called to tell me that her aunt had passed away out in Phoenix AZ - the day before I was suppose to go to Iowa to see the g/f and her kids for this whole week. Needless to say, I spent my weeks vacation here trying to provide as much morale support to her and the kids as possible via phone.
All - thanks for the welcome back's!
Sue - Update - I got all of the ballast glued down andthe final trees in place. I'll try to get it outside in the sunlight for photo ops w/ some of my new equipment on it!
Well gang, take care. It's time for bed. Night!
Hoooo boy--lotsa stuff to do over the weekend---just what I needed. BIL is bringing nephew down with him to visit while sister visits with BIL's mother in Detroit. Nephew has some music ideas to toss at me(?) this ought to be interesting---BIL gave him some strange tales maybe? I do have an odd record collection so who knows----
Chloe--I'll have some coffee and a strawberry PIE!! please--I'll be at the back----
Catch ya later alligator!
Well, time for me to leave. Tomorrow is another day. See y'all tomorrow.
Good evening to all. Rough day today, we buried Big John, as we called him, my BIL. My sister is taking things as well as can be expected. I want to thank all you guys for your prayers and kind words, they are appreciated more than I can ever express in words here. I have seen enough sadness caused by smoking to last me the rest of my life. All I can say to you guys still smoking, if you care at all about those who you will leave behind, give them up NOW.
Turning in early tonight, we have to grandkids here tonight, and it has been an emotional day, Thank you all once again, and God Bless you all,
Evening Gang: I'm feeling a bit better today. Not so much coughing and hacking. We took the tax stuff to the CPA this afternoon. After getting done ther we headed home and I got some work done on the 1.5 inch scale gondolas. I assembled a pair of couplers for one of the cars. Yes I said assembled. I get them as kits and have to do some filing and drill some holes and then file and fit the knuckle to the body. It's a lot cheaper doing the assembly myself. A pair of couplers run $65 to $80 for RTR and around $30 for the kit. This scale is really for the scratch builder if you want to save money.
Not mush else going on. It's an early get up tomorrow so I'd better say.
Good Night All
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Google doesn't go into that much detail.... but still, annoying. That's when I just shut it down and GENTLY, put the laptop down.
TOP!!!! Hopefully eveyone is ready for dessert. Well except for the west coast folks. Oh what the heck, enjoy!!!
jeffrey-wimberly Then this should look real familiar to you, I know I grit my teeth whenever it pops up on me: Oops something went wrong! Either the site is offline or an unhandled error occurred. We apologize and have logged the error. Please try your request again or if you know who your site administrator is let them know too. That's usually about the time I want to hit something.
Then this should look real familiar to you, I know I grit my teeth whenever it pops up on me:
That's usually about the time I want to hit something.
makes me want to just leave the forum, lol, but oh well, I'm still here, and I ain't leaving until I get kicked off, lol.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
TMarshJeff- Nice picture! Love the Santa Fe hopper!