AmanaMedic Anybody know if Phillip's pie case made the move?
Anybody know if Phillip's pie case made the move?
Uh oh! *%$&! Knew we forgot something! Quick, help me get it before he shows up. I wouldn't want to be near here if we don't!!!!!
Ya, ya, ya, girls I know. Here's the card. I'm on a mission!
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.
TMarshQuick, help me get it before he shows up.
Ruh row Raggie... We'd best be a-hustlin', I'm a-guessin'...
Was gonna try to post the CNW track chart for the real Quaker Oats, somehow, I'm not getting the image to appear. I posted it to photobucket, copied the IMG code, pasted in here...and that's all it did. I know it's been asked...and answered a bazillion times around here, but WHAT am I missing???
I hate computers almost as much as I do arrogant little doctors...
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
AmanaMedicWas gonna try to post the CNW track chart for the real Quaker Oats, somehow, I'm not getting the image to appear. I posted it to photobucket, copied the IMG code, pasted in here...and that's all it did. I know it's been asked...and answered a bazillion times around here, but WHAT am I missing???
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
OK, we'll try this again. I think the site in general "kinda left reality" for a few moments.
JEFF: a BIG thanks!
Banking on our newfound success, here's a 1970s vintage postcard showing (top left) the Rock Island yard, Quaker Oats, and a bit of downtown Cedar Rapids. I-380 was in it's early construction phases. It now runs alongside the grain bins (lower right hand corner) and over the concrete bridge under construction.
Obviously, I'd needa very large space to replicate all of this. A LOT of "selective compression" was figured on from the start.
TMarsh CederstrandOK, so what Industries could revolve around a volcano? Hot pads. ROFL. Sorry Rob, no help but I couldn't resist. Besides, Ray was gonna say it anyway.
CederstrandOK, so what Industries could revolve around a volcano?
Hot pads. ROFL.
Sorry Rob, no help but I couldn't resist. Besides, Ray was gonna say it anyway.
Uh--Geothermal Power? You could throw in a asphalt plant--It'd have a good heat source---
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/
We just got from running around to various fleamarkets and, yes, didst fall over a few deals--3 Proto N EMD SW8's,3 Alco RS2's, 2 more Bachmann FM H16-44's, a USRA 0-8-0 (Walthers-Heritage) and 4--count-em--4 used KATO RDC2's--my empire is growing!!
And I only had a smoky credit card fire--none of that 6 alarm stuff to boot!! Most have DCC with sound no less---
Cederstrand OK, so what Industries could revolve around a volcano? Thermal Energy plant, Colored glass making, Pumice Soap, what else? Anything to do with building roads? Any suggestions will be appreciated. IF I do this thing, there should be more to it than just the volcano. Rob
OK, so what Industries could revolve around a volcano? Thermal Energy plant, Colored glass making, Pumice Soap, what else? Anything to do with building roads? Any suggestions will be appreciated. IF I do this thing, there should be more to it than just the volcano.
Rob
Well Rob, How about a factory for ASH TRAYS with a little coffee shop on the side called "LAVA JAVA"
That's Bad, I had better go lay down for awhile.
Johnboy out....................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Rob .... I suppose you may try loading up pumice from the volcano. I suppose voered hoppers would be appropriate. I hope it is not an active volcano.
Chris ... That's a neat old picture of Cedar Rapids.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Rob; If your volcano is active, perhaps a gas separation plant would be appropriate. Many useful gases are emitted from volcanos; Nitrogen, Argon, Helium, and others..... of course this would require gas storage tanks..... Hmmm. Well.... it was just a thought.
uhh, is there any cheese cake left? If there is I'll have a decaf with it.
Eric
Hi guys!
New place again. I'm think I'm getting too old for all this change.
Thanks Jeffrey for the friendly reminder, and saving us from locked doors! Thanks Jim for opening the new place. When I used to do invetory work we always took our breaks near the front doors to watch the people come right up and run *smack* right into the locked doors {even with a huge sign on it that said "closed for inventory"}. It was hilarious! Maybe you had to be there!
LOTS of the local firestation's sirens going off around here, must be something BIG is up.
Thanks to all those who gave words of soothing and encouragement and suggestions for my hobby in the old dinner. What will happen will remain to be seen. First I have to FIND the layout and the room it's in again first! If I go armchair for awhile, I do.
Howmus you always look like you're playing the grand organ for Phantom of the Opera on that thing! {I can hear the bloody music}
Sawyer hope your "negotiations" with the parental units went well! Hope the rest of the weekend goes well for you! AND thank you for posting a pic of that beauty! MY MY she makes 'em look good! I can see why you put her in your avatar.
Robby P. ....Well I spent 5 hours in the ER last night. Ok I didn't but the wife was in bad shape. That "female problem" was acting up....
....Well I spent 5 hours in the ER last night. Ok I didn't but the wife was in bad shape. That "female problem" was acting up....
Robby P: the prayer candle is lit for anyone who needs thoughts and prayers, with an extra prayer said for your wife.
AmanaMedic I'm a happy guy.
I'm a happy guy.
Chris I'm glad somebody is!
Todd there are plenty of pies, so not to worry. They are right next to the Black Forest Cake and the giant cookies. I am baking more cookies tonight so choco chip oatmeal cookies for all!!!
Hmmm {stroking my red and gray beard} VOLCANOS? I climbed a VOLCANO in Hawaii. Would gladly do it again if I have the energy and non-asthmatic breath.
Theres a train around the Dole Pineapple plantation. And there were trains for the sugar plantations on Hawaii- so perhaps a sugar processing plant might be around a volcano and need a train???
Well, guys have a happy and safe ST. Patty's day weekend!
-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.
galaxySawyer hope your "negotiations" with the parental units went well! Hope the rest of the weekend goes well for you! AND thank you for posting a pic of that beauty! MY MY she makes 'em look good! I can see why you put her in your avatar.
Ain't tried again yet; just going to either look for an opportunity or attack when they're in a good mood, lol
and thanks for the compliments, those are abt. the only few good railfanning shots i've taken 9well, maybe the only railfan shots I've taken). Have so,me of some CSX power somewhere.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
galaxy Chris I'm glad somebody is!
Galaxy, I WAS a happy guy... Don't knock armchair railroading...it has it's advantages. Being a "railroad modeler" seems a lot safer on the sanity. Oh well, I have a few other trackplans I've snagged over the years. I think Space Mouse had a few in one of his crazy contests I nabbed and filed, so not totally giving up yet.
Hot Fudge Browmie Delight, please & thanks.
***Barry, you dog...that's a whole lot of motive power you aquired in one fell swoop. Excellent!
***Johnboy, wonder if it would count if the Lava Java Coffee Shop was on my wife's layout instead. I am not going to have a town on my layout, although a coffee shop next to a gas station on a highway passing through the barren landscape would certainly make sense.
***Garry, the pumice would be heading to the soap making plant.
***Eric, very cool idea, but man that industry be a LOT of work to model. All those pipes & structures.
So, could any of the raw material from a volcano be used in road building?
And speaking of roads, is there a real simple way to build decent looking roads on a layout inexpensively?
Still a cold rain outside. Up to 2" predicted tonight.
Rob like I said, it SOUNDED like a good idea. Like you said too much stuff required. As for roads, I have used wallboard compound and Hydrocal. The roads were relatively thin so the compound didn't shrink or crack.
Evenin' everyone!
Man, I need to sitt and relax a bit. I've been going nonstop ever since I got home this noon after the funeral. We got "Big Al" sent off to the next life with some style. This was not one of those maudlin, sappy, everyone get a hankie type funerals, but complete with full organ, upbeat hymns, a pair of trumpet/trombone players, and our Men's Gospel Quartet..... Turns out Big Al was a trumpet player back before I knew him and the trombone player doubled on Al's old Trumpet on a couple of pieces. Place was packed, BTW.
I have the layout up and, more or less running trains. Incredible how you find all the places where you didn't quite finish a project right before people come over to see and run the layout...... The team track in the front of the yard at Hopewell was originally for programing locos. I pulled out the program wiring and hooked it up to a new dedicated programing track by my worktable. Never rewired it for regular DCC. So I go to back a loco with a car into the track. Stalls..... Of course it took me 20 minutes to figure out why. Easy fix that involved moving two wires and reconnecting. Go to the other side of the layout where I have a staging track on the upper loop. Go to put a 4-4-0 and milk train in there ready to go to work tomorrow. Loco stalls on the frog....... never put the wiring from the tortoise over to the frog. Solder up a spade lug to a short wire and connect that. Of course then it shorts out..... needed to reverse the DCC wires to the tortoise. Again easy fix but frustrating as I had 5 other things that needed to get done tonight, that now will probably have to be done tomorrow morning.
Galaxy, more like Captain Nemo I think........... I actually did study Pipe Organ for a few years and was an organist (of sorts) at a local Episcopal Church in Geneva for a couple years. I have actually had around 18 years of keyboard, but you would never know it to hear me play. I was a singer and (classic) guitarist primarily.
Ok if I finish my coffee and get back to work I may get a couple more things done tonight.
Later!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Chris-beautiful CNW power!!!!!
Well, using the radio feature on yahoo IM, I've found a bunch of christian bands that rock. Pubk, heavy, it don't matter, lol.
Packers#1Chris-beautiful CNW power!!!!!
Thank you, Sir... not quite up to the level set by some others around here...but I'm happy with 'em.
AmanaMedicPackers#1Chris-beautiful CNW power!!!!! Thank you, Sir... not quite up to the level set by some others around here...but I'm happy with 'em. Chris
Hey, they look more detailed than mine. All of mine have no detail parts added. Probably going to add some to my U23B at some point.
Packers#1Hey, they look more detailed than mine. All of mine have no detail parts added. Probably going to add some to my U23B at some point.
I don't put a whole lot on 'em... I stick to the "basics" such as the nose bell (gotta have that to make it CNW), horn, beacon, radio antenna, plow, mu hoses, and coupler lift bars. Grab irons and lift rings, cab sunshades, a vent or two (if I see it in the prototype pics), and a drop step; that's really about it.
It adds up fast financially, but just looking at Details West and Detail Associates listings at Walthers, it's obvious I could stick a bunch more stuff on 'em. I'm not going for a rivet counter's delight, or a contest winner...I just want enough detail on them that they "look right" for CNW power in the '88 to '93 era. I still need to put some black gasket decals on the classification lights. I did that to one or two others...now I "have" to go back and retrofit the rest.
The dangers of detailing, I guess ballanced against the "good enough" theory.
Cool Chris.
Hey y'all, how about one more of #4270?
blownout cylinder We just got from running around to various fleamarkets and, yes, didst fall over a few deals--3 Proto N EMD SW8's,3 Alco RS2's, 2 more Bachmann FM H16-44's, a USRA 0-8-0 (Walthers-Heritage) and 4--count-em--4 used KATO RDC2's--my empire is growing!! And I only had a smoky credit card fire--none of that 6 alarm stuff to boot!! Most have DCC with sound no less---
WOW 13 locos in one afternoon. Barry, Your wife must be blind for you to pull that off.
Meaning no disrespect. You must have spent next week's allowance as well. Lol.
Johnboy out..............
Packers#1 Hey y'all, how about one more of #4270?
Man, I love those old E's and F's. That's a real classy look on the NS4270.
Part of why I'm fond of F's...
Cederstrand So, could any of the raw material from a volcano be used in road building?
I think one can--I'm trying to remember the actual composition(s)--it depends on the prime material coming from the volcano--each region seems to have differing compositional makeup so you'd have to make it up--heeheehee.--places like Trinidad-Tobago for example have pitch pools with temperatures near 80C, Then of course there is the La Brea tarpits---so you can just go nuts.
***Eric, did you color that wallboard compound/hydrocal mix before creating (pouring?) the road or paint the road afterwards? Thanks for any further tips.
AmanaMedicThank you, Sir... not quite up to the level set by some others around here...but I'm happy with 'em.
jeffrey-wimberlyI don't really care for a bunch of detail. That's just that much more to get broken. I get my locos to run them, not treat them like fragile egg shells
EXACTLY!
I'm hoping someday they'll run on a layout. For now, they sit on a shelf...but they're not museum pieces.
I'd like to think those 40-2s are "functionally detailed," that is, they've got some extra parts, but can still get out on the rails and work.
And, for anybody wondering, the 6801 is a GSB Rails unit...so God only knows IF it would even run... The other two are Athearn Bluebox, one powered, one dummy.
AmanaMedicPackers#1 Hey y'all, how about one more of #4270? Man, I love those old E's and F's. That's a real classy look on the NS4270. Part of why I'm fond of F's... Chris
Nice shot. Note it did a good job of fixing the bug problem, lol. Well, I took those pics of 4270 last year during master's Week over in Augusta. Not sure if I'm going to go over there this year.
Packers#1Nice shot. Note it did a good job of fixing the bug problem, lol.
Thanks!
For some reason, I feel compelled to tell the story of how I got the shot.
In early '93, CNW had their executive F's tucked away in the ex-Rock Island yard ("North Yard") in Cedar Rapids. They were going to Oelwein for storage, since GP-50s had replaced them on the business trains. One Sunday morning, "knowing" no yard jobs were working...I ventured into the depths of the yard. Normally, I hiked along the public trail on the East side, and an abandoned trail along the West. Today though...I was on a mission from God Himself to find and shoot the F's.
I found 'em, pretty deep in. Again, "knowing" nobody was around, I climbed on up into the engine room of the 401 and made my way to the cab. Sitting in the hogger's seat, I knew I had a once-in-a-lifetime photo opportunity. While adjusting the Nikon FM-2 for the proper exposure... CLUNK THUD! Something coupled in from behind.
Uh Oh...I forgot about the extra job... "Extra 89." I'm trying to figure out a valid excuse to tell the crew, who most certainally WOULD catch me, when the unit starts rolling! Fortunately, it's moving NORTH...to the far, far end of the yard, and NOT South...towards Beverly Yard. Realizing I'm heading in the "right direction," I start to relax a bit as the F rocks and rolls along up the yard track.
I go ahead and get the shot, then go back to wondering/worrying about what kinda trouble I'd be in. The shove stopped almost at the switch to the former mainline. I moved to the engine room for awhile, in case the switchman was headed my way. Eventually, I poked my head out, and seeing NOBODY, I high-tailed it for the safety of the trail.
I think the shot was worth it...
Hey, did we ever locate the pie case???
***Chris, the shot was definately worht it.
***Sawyer, really enjoyed your pics. I am a SOUTHERN fan for sure. Have any of UP or SF by chance?
Still a cold rain with blowing wind outside. Hope the tank by the porch doesn't overflow before morning. Lowered the water level again just a bit ago, but this rain is getting heavy now.
Tis' late here so time to hit the hay. Good night y'all. Rob