Jeff - sorry to hear about your uncle... I can now say I know what it's like to lose someone...
I think LHS's have something in the air that makes you buy stuff. I have so many kits upstairs that really have no place in my plans, but I buy them anyway..
Eric
Ah, TOP. Dinn.. excuse me, Supper for those west of here. Dessert for us Easterners. Whatever your pleasure!
Sorry to hear of your loss Jeff. I'll be praying for you and your family.
ewl01What burns our butt is racing to a call to find the 'unknown medical emergency' waiting with a suitcase to go to the crisis center at the hospital. Cheaper than a taxi.....
Eric, that's pretty universal my friend...and part of why I got OUT of healthcare. I got fed up with the BS. Well, stay SAFE as you continue to battle the Reaper, and my very belated condolences on your loss.
Condolences also to Jeff. That's a pretty basic statement, doesn't sound like much...but know there is much more behind it. For a guy who makes a living with words...sometimes it's difficult to find the right ones.
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Good evening everyone,
this looks like a nice friendly place to stop in and have a nice hot cup o' coffee. I've been "drivin" by here alot lately, see all the same cars in the lot. Is this a private, invite only type of place, or do yuo welcome newcomers? Any way I'll just take my coffee at the counter and keep to myself, so as not to bother anyone. BTW I'm new to this model RR stuff, just started to build a small layout ofr my son and me.
Young lady give everyone a refill on me. You all enjoy!
Bob
Bob! WELCOME!! I'm fairly new myself. Invite? No! Come on and sit down! Great bunch of guys and a few Gals too. We're all modelers to some extent, some pros others.. well, we do what we can. The diner is a bit different from the other threads, we talk about our hobby and... we talk about our lives. It's not for everyone but we never exclude anybody.
colesdadIs this a private, invite only type of place, or do yuo welcome newcomers?
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
Jeff- that's horrible about your loss!
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Evenin' folks!
Just got home from Deacons. Long meeting tonight as we were all trained in emergency procedures for the church. Then we had the regular meeting after that. The training session was well received by the members.
I see the dining car got moved again................. Lucky it didn't go too far away from the old track and was easy to find. I see the pies made the move with the car this time.......
Rob, sorry to hear about your FIL falling. Hope everything turns out OK and he recovers well.
Jeffrey, I guess that explains where you have been all day. Very sorry about your Uncle. Please know we are thinking about you and keeping you in our prayers.
Garry if we are going to vote on steamers, I want to enter this one:
She gets my vote as I think the plain old Mikes have a certain balance and symmetry that has to rank right up there. My favorite photo of her:
Welcome to the diner Bob. Always room in here for more. Zoe, make sure Bob gets his choice of pie and put it my tab, OK?
My two favorite SILs stopped in at the house this afternoon, so I got another chance to show off the layout. Neither one had ever seen it except from the photos I have emailed on occasion. They were both very impressed as they were thinking the toy train around the Christmas tree......... They also had some great questions about the hobby and how I make items. What I thought would be a 10 minute tour turned out to be over 2 hours. I also found out that I should be a Great Uncle again sometime in the next couple of days.
Hope all have a great night! Prayers for all who are in need.
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Evening, Chloe - gee, I go back to w**k for a handful of hours and the Diner gets moved! Oh, yeah, Chloe, just a cup of hot cocoa (my sweet tooth has a craving tonight...), please 'n' thank you.
pcarrellJimRCGMO, you mean pastors don't do that stuff?
Nik.n, thanks for helping the twins getting the Diner cars moved on down here. And nice job on the poles and the hopper, too. (Might want to weather the hopper a tad bit more before Robby sees it)
K4Kid, good to see you stopping by the Diner - I've seen some of your posts in the big forum out there (and you show good manners out there. (Not everybody does, y'know) Looks like you've been whittlin' at the dreaded H-D list today, eh? Get all that done before the weekend, and maybe you can spend more of it on the MRR'ing! But don't talk about all that H-D stuff too loudly - the other married Diners may start up a lynch mob if they think you're gonna incite their CFO's to expect that level from them...
SaronaTerry, you can post pics any day you want to - and thanks for the tip on Rob's question.
I'd agree that you have a good start there, Rob. Myself, I'd rather have more potholes (like you have there) to start with, and then you could patch some back in, even do the patch job kind rough (like the real thing...).I've also heard that art supply places or some LHS's have a striping tape, but not sure if theirs would be the right color or not. Keeping your FIL (and your wife running to the ER) in my prayers. Healing thoughts, too.
Robby, apparently you impressed those kids in your wife's class, all right. What'd you do, take some weathered freight cars along the last time you went?
Thanks, Duke - I hadn't realized Fergie'd gone out to play 'Bobber' and "Feed the Polar Bears". Knowing Fergie, he's got some MRR projects out there with him to while away the time between sea swells...
LSWrrCurves he used a french curve with a pice of tape to hold the curve off hte table so the paint didn't wickunder the curve.
Curves he used a french curve with a pice of tape to hold the curve off hte table so the paint didn't wickunder the curve.
Lee, I recall that trick from my freshman year of college (Engineering Drawing class)! Eric, you'd love one client I have seen in the ER a time or two. She developed a taste for ambulance rides to the ER when she didn't get her way in the nursing home... I think the last time I saw her, she said the staff had cut her cigarette ration because that money was being used to pay for the previous trip's ride. Oh, and I can definitely understand your comment on an abundance of kits finding their way home from the LHS.
Jeff, sorry to hear about your uncle. From what I've seen of that Walther's enginehouse, I think you'll really like that one once you have it built. Not very familiar with that MP town hall, though.
Bob (ColesDad) - nah, half the people in here have come in the past year or less, and there're others just lurking who've been here much longer. Only 'private party' is the one you might have with Vinnie (he's related to Zoe and Chloe, our twin servers) if you get too wild when we have one of our occasional Diner parties (swinging from the chandalier is okay, but pinching the help is a definite NO-NO!) So, what scale are you and Cole w**king in for your layout? Tell us a bit about it (or your plans for it).
Oh, Ray - like your Mikado there!
Well, I've finished my cup, so I'll be heading for home. Prayers for those in need of comfort and healing, and may the rest of your week be better than the first part!
Blessings and Prayers,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Jeff sorry to hear about your Uncle...Jerry
Jeff, Sorry about your uncle, I really do know how you feel, My consolances to you and your family.
Jeff, Sorry to hear about your Uncle passing away. Our condolences to you and your family.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Tall glass of cool lemon water, please.
***Jeffrey, sorry to hear about your uncle. My condolences.
***Bob, Welcome!
FIL was released from the hospital and is back at the facility with MIL where they reside. My wife is spending the night there, just in case.
Thanks guys for the suggestions, links and encouragement. Much appreciated.
Only 1 week left before that store ships our model rr order. Once that key section of track arrives, I hope to "go to town" on my layout and make some quick progress, mainly getting track laid so I can start running trains. Really looking forward to that. The rest will be slow going, especially with all those carnival rides to assemble for the wife's layout. (I kinda dread that)
Healing thoughts to those in need.
Have a good night y'all. Rob
Hello ....
Welcome to Bob of Albany, NY area. Nice to see you, but you need not sit at the counter. Come on back to the corner booth. Watch out for Jim CG because you just don't know what he might be up to. Looks like you are a D&H fan, and feel free to talk about that.....
Jeff.... that's terible news and I;m sorry to learn about it.
Ray.... That CN 2-8-2 was really clean when its photo was taken. I bet Fergie would vote for that one.
Duke.... Yes, you really seem to be set in your ways. You won't even consider anything but the PM Berk. Wow. I can only imagine waht Tom W, the Yellowstone king might say. Do you know there is a C&O Berk in the KY Ry mueseum?
Another missing diner is OJ Ed..... Has anybody heard from him?
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Jeffrey-Sorry to hear about your uncle. You and your family are in my prayers for comfort.
Rob- Jim had a good idea on the patches. Glad to hear your FIL is home.
Bob- I'm Todd, one of the not so professionals mentioned before. Just like a local diner in a small town, this is a great place to get help and make friends with a great bunch. They won't put you down or make you feel not worthy if you don‘t do something the way they would. . You'll see. Oh and I'll go out on a limb here and say you have a son. Bragging is allowed. You may get a pie air mailed to you. Don't take it personal. Happens to us all.
Kid- Loved the video. Thanks for bringing it by. Stop in again any time.
Church meeting went well. Green room is back to green. (long story).
Well, nighty night time Prayers for 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.
Just stopped in for a quick read and hot chocolatte before bed.
JEFF: We are sending our sympathy to you and your family. I am sure he will be missed a great deal.
Have to catch some ZZZZZZZsss as work calls in the AM and early too boot.
Johnboy out...........................................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
I don't post for one day and you guys add four posts to the last thread, and four to the new one?
Wow.
Spent today at my dads, so I was able to bring out the Les Paul and jam a bit. Worked on Dead or Alive some more, then I figured out how to play most of Rock and Roll by Led Zeppelin. My index finger was bleeding from holding down an A power chord for so long... I want the callouses to come soon.... Ah well, I've got a weekend chock full of guitaring. During that time, I hope to be able to play at least ONE of the songs at the proper speed, all the way through. (Minus the solo... I'm no Jimmy Page yet, lol.)
I guess that's all for now.
Mark
JimRCGMO pcarrellJimRCGMO, you mean pastors don't do that stuff? Nah, PC, I figure you pastors are about perfect, right?
Surely you jest............... Nope, far from perfect........the more I realize what perfect is, the further away from it I realize I am!
Good Morning--Good thing you guys only moved down the track a mite--can see that sign a mile away!
We're going up to 16C today--with a sun/cloud mix. Spent yesterday doing all kinds of them dang honey do things that one gets on a day off. I'm next to doing the deck--although I told her that the long range forecast looks to being cold again next week ag'in! Oh well--
Seeing as how you bunch of frustrated novelists got 4 pages in on me I got to read up on what transpired---and do my client visits today-------have a good one----
EDIT: Try to keep on top of things-----
Jeff-Sorry about your uncle. You take good care in this period---
Ray- Any more pix of that mike? Audrey and I love the last one---That one I'll vote for sure.
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/
Its another great looking day. The high will be about 68!!!
Well I need to start on my new "weathered car" today. The layout is kinda on the back burner for now.
Jeff, sorry for your lost as well. Myself well, I am also out of uncles, and grandparents.
Jim, I didn't take any weathered cars witj me, but the wife did take a video of the layout .
Well I guess I will clean up right quick, and head into the basement.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
I don't know about you all, but I think I'm going to have a talk with God about this weather. Lately, the only time it gets in the 60's and 70's is when it rains. When the sun is out, it's in the 30's and 40's. Kinda backwards, don't cha think? Now mind you, we haven't seen snow for a bit, so I'm good there (though the weather guesser said we might see some Monday night! BTW, Monday will be dry and 40 degrees.....point in case!). It's just that, see, I'd like to ride my bike in something other then 47 layers of clothes for a change. I know He'll warm it up eventually, but it's just so hard waiting for eventually!
Robby P.Jeff, sorry for your lost as well. Myself well, I am also out of uncles, and grandparents.
Thank you one and all for the prayers and condolences for my uncle. He was a minister in northern Arkansas and would have appreciated it very much.
Good morning. It's 63 and very foggy. The high will be in the mid 70's and there's a good chance of thunderstorms. There's a severe thunderstorm watch in effect until noon cdt today. A lake wind advisory is in effect until 6 PM cdt this evening. I was up until 1 am working on the Town Hall kit. It turned out pretty good. Still have to black out the inside. I may start work on the engine house kit later today depending on how I feel. It'll be a pretty complex build. I received a few city accessory kits (Walther's #933-3535) in the mail yesterday. I'll be starting on them in the near future and there's a Gorre and Daphetid boxcar kit on the way. Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 4/2/2009 Wind Chill: 62°F Humidity: 100% Dew Point: 63°F So Far Today High: 63°F Low: 61°F Rain: 0.00" Rain Rate: 0.00"/h Gust: 9mph SSE Through 7:15 AM...intermittent dense fog will continue over southeast Texas...southwest and central Louisiana with visibilities near a quarter mile possible at times this morning. The fog will gradually lift after sunrise...with a line of strong thunderstorms expected to affect inland southeast Texas and central Louisiana later this morning. Today High: 75 lShowers and thunderstorms likely in the morning...then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Some thunderstorms may be severe. Breezy. Highs in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph in the morning becoming west and increasing to 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent. Tonight Low: 48 Mostly clear. Cooler. Lows in the upper 40s inland... In the lower 50s coast. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
We lost another Coastie last month.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/30/earlyshow/main4902345.shtml
Good morning,
Saw the diner rolling by yesterday, thought it was some" April Fools" w/ trying to hide it....starting to put some miles on this thing. The staff will have to start using a commuter soon. Well if this one wears out there's some nice B&O bay windows to use
Well, another gloomy day here in the northeast, some sun may peek out this afternoon.
I'd like to put some favs up for a vote. The Berk is such a beauty
But the EM1 is one I really love
Our show and open house was a great success.
Imagine, 2 days of running and no train wrecks, that's a first. Usually I'm the cause of at least one every show.
This was a good one from last year. I did get tagged while backing up in the hole by a CP freight. Not a derailment, odd thing is, one of my P2K hoppers just popped right out of the train and landed wheels down on the floor. The rest of the train rolled and coupled back together again, strange...
Jeff: So sorry to hear about your uncle. You'll have to tell us a little about him.
Rob: Glad to hear your FIL is out of the hospital
Robby: It is such a thrill working w/ those lil' ones, then they grow up..... Figure what type of load for that bulkhead flat? Steel, pipe, timber, machinery?
Not much going on in the way of trains at the workbench except changing out a drive on an Atlas WM GP40 3796 in Circus paint. Doesn't want to speed match that well with all my other Atlas Master series. After 2 decoders I'm taking another route. Must be the dual mode decoders in the other Atlases. I am just switching shells w/ a spare GP38. Really want it to run in consist like this:
This weekend I'm helping out my youngest daughter at the UMass campus @ Amhearst. The art dept and band is putting on a fund raiser. I'll be making some of the props and who knows what else. She has taken well to my new lady friend, "Linda", the kids are doing quite well lately, It's been 2 years since loosing thier mother. We should all have a good time together make a nice weekend out of it. Afterwards, I was thinking of dinner at the Steaming Tender in Palmer, MA not that far away. Great place. Usually stop there after the big W. Springfield show every year. http://www.steamingtender.com/gallery.asp Anyone ever out this way should check it out.
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
Mornin' all. Coffee and a cinnamon roll please. 58 and rainy today. Just as Philip predicted. Guess I'll call this a Mom-day. Do some grocery shopping for her and maybe haul some stuff for her. Besides, her new Apt. is near my FLHS, and it's Thursday so they are open.
Lee- My heart goes out to the family. The uniform never comes off. (salute)
Looks like a smorgasboard of steam in here. Which one is best looking hmm(rubbing chin)...
Have a great day.
Good morning everyone, and thanks for the warm welcome. I'll have a cup of coffee and a corn muffin please, thank you.
So, I have a son thats 5y/o. Been married to the best wife a man could ask for, for 8 yrs on the 13th. Yes the 13th, and we got married on friday the 13th. Had nothin but "great luck". Also have a 23y/o step-daughter, who is a great kid. Lives on her own in NYC. So we travel Amtrak every so often.
I got interested in MRR when my FIL gave my son a train set a couple of years ago. He was only 2 at the time, so we just put it away until this year. He really liked it when we set it up, but I was hooked. We went to a couple of train shows they had in the area over the winter, and iI became kinda obsessed. Started buyin the MR magazine from the newstand, after two months, signed up for a subscription, and internet stuff. Now, I'm not afraid to say that I think I'm more interested than he is, but thats ok. As long as I keep him involved it goes alot smoother with the "CEO/CFO" if you know what I mean.
I won't ramble on any more for now. I come back later and give some details on how we got started with a layout and the space we have. Got a track plan I modified from one of the MR plans.
Have a great day everyone, Bob
BTW I do like the D&H because as a kid they came through my hometown. They had a five bay engine house that still stands today about one city block from my house. Also had a huge brick roundhouse, that has since been torn down.
colesdad.....when we set it up, but I was hooked. We went to a couple of train shows they had in the area over the winter, and iI became kinda obsessed
Oh noooooo! Not another one! By the way......., there's no cure.
Bob, the load will be mainly steel. I will have some I-beams to about half way on the car, and then misc. steel sheets. The end of the car will have some rusted pipes/rebar. So far all I have done is the fade. I will start on the weathering part today, and tomorrow. Its a orange bulkhead, and orange is one of the hardest to weather.
I will post some shots of it in here.
Good Morning All..Its cloudy and 50 here this morning...I'll just have a cup of coffee Sallie and I are having breakfast with one of the Grand daughters..my sons daughter is spending day with us..Inch came over last nite and brought Me a power pack for fiddle yard but probaly won't work on it till fridayYou all have a good one..Jerry
Robby P. Bob, the load will be mainly steel. I will have some I-beams to about half way on the car, and then misc. steel sheets. The end of the car will have some rusted pipes/rebar. So far all I have done is the fade. I will start on the weathering part today, and tomorrow. Its a orange bulkhead, and orange is one of the hardest to weather. I will post some shots of it in here.
If you want to fade the orange, I found washes or airbrushing the lightened body color is a good starting point. Of coarse ant heavy rusting and streaking is done by dry brushing first. The air brushed "fade" knocks down the reporting marks and gives a good overall look to the car. Then all the dirt and grime can follow.