JimRCGMOJeff, that's a good arrangement on your surge surpressor setup. Did you figure that your area might get a lot of lightning strikes when you moved in there, or how soon did you decide to start that setup?
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JimRCGMO PC, those whitewalls and all the doodads look excellent, I'd say! Now, do you have some good weather in your forecast this week? If so, it's RIDIN' TIME!! (Vrooom, vrrroooom!...)(my poor imitation of some throaty pipes on that bike)
PC, those whitewalls and all the doodads look excellent, I'd say! Now, do you have some good weather in your forecast this week? If so, it's RIDIN' TIME!! (Vrooom, vrrroooom!...)(my poor imitation of some throaty pipes on that bike)
Nothin' but 70's today, and 80's through the weekend, with nary a raindrop in sight!
howmus Philip, like the white walls. Sweet bike! Does it purr like a kitten, or roar like a lion?
Philip, like the white walls. Sweet bike! Does it purr like a kitten, or roar like a lion?
Depends how hard you twist the throttle.
Good morning.It's 65 and cloudy. The high should be in the mid 80's and it will be partly cloudy.Yesterdays layout work involved changing out a few lights and shuffling some structures around. The Lakeside Shipping building and Albert's barber shop are now where the American foundry used to be (near the north engine house). The American foundry and the Ace Hardware store are now where the Midtown Consolidators used to be (between the service spur and the park. The Midtown Consolidators building was cut in half and the front half mounted against the backdrop where Albert's barber shop and Ace hardware used to be. The building which will someday be PAK-a-Pig BBQ has been moved. It's now between Ezra's service station and the south engine house. The Freezee ice cream stand has been moved from behind the Shell station and now faces the southeast corner of the park. There were too many complaints about kids crossing the engine house spur between the park and the Shell station to get ice cream. Is everybody thoroughly confused now?Today High: 85 Partly cloudy early in the morning then becoming mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.Tonight Low: 65 Mostly clear early in the evening then becoming partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
PC,,, Nice bike! .... I got to see Duke's"two-wheeler" yesterday. Wow!
There are Tim Horton's here, and I have been getting their French Vanilla Capacino each morning. Good stuff. I like their old fashioned style donuts with suger topping, too.
Well, that's all. Birthday celebration here for Shelley today.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Mornin just stopped in before I get too far behind.
Barry- I'm with Jim, not to keen on Double deckers, mainly because it puts the top level higher than what I would like. BUT, in N scale, it might not be so high. Would 15" be enough to get head/arms in and work?
Rob- I think that structure is a very good representation of a small town Hospital. Good eye there. Some that I've been in don't have cafeterias for guests they usually rely on the local restaurants. Hey there's an idea for a neighboring building. A Diner, imagine that.
PC- I lllllllike it! (your bike)
Jimmy- Welcome tell us a bit about yourself. Oh an your MRR stuff too.
Jeff- Wow. I am in awe of the electrical system for your home. And nope, not confused at all. When your talking about Nutsville, you gotta be flexible.
Well gatta move a freezer today. Brenda wants to swap with mom before she sells hers. We have a chest type and she wants a stand up. Says she's tired of bending over and digging through the freezer to find something. I sayed I don't mind her doing that at all!! She still wants the upright. Then off to do some more painting on the church.
Have a Great Day! Wish everyones weather is like ours here today!!! Except some of you Texans who need the rain. No storms though.
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.
TMarshJeff- Wow. I am in awe of the electrical system for your home. And nope, not confused at all. When your talking about Nutsville, you gotta be flexible.
good morning everyone. It's putting out sunny, and the rain ended a bit after I gave Rosie-the-dog her morning bufferin and snackie.
nik.n: Handrails? I've got to put in an order for some rails and stairs for the container crane, so thanks for jogging my forgettery! You might have a look at these people - I got this url from the better of our two LHSs.http://www.modelbuilderssupply.com/product.php?C=Structural&S=HANDRAIL
Jimmy: to the Diner. House rules are very relaxed as to Topic. We are a generally polite bunch, appreciating humour etc. that's compatible with our mixed gender and wide age range clientele. I've found I can ask any modelling / prototype question without being treated like a moron. So, as CapeJim has said, let's know about your modelling or railfaning interests and plans. Enjoy!
Working on the fix for that F40PH. Have the electrical side of it nailed, but now the wheels (NWSL) I've put on are too sharp flanged, and pick EVERY facing point turnout! So, the MT off layout backshop (probably my computer desk keyboard shelf, maybe the workbench) will grind down the edges of the flanges on emery paper so the profile more closely resembles NMRA RP25. Wish me luck!
TTFN
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe I'll have my usual dark roast coffee in a FGLK Mug and a double order of sourdough toast with strawberry presurves this morning.
Stayed up to well after midnight last night looking through the photos I took at Woodstock last weekend. About half of then are keepers. For model photography automatic setting with the flash just doesn't make it. On the other hand bringing the lighting equipment,a tripod, and the other stuff would be very polite...... I'll post a couple later in the day.
I have an allergy recheck scheduled for this afternoon at the ENT Doctors office. Just a routine, once a year checkup. The rest of the day is mine to play with the trains........
Well, off to the tiny trains!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Howdy All...It partly cloudy and 63 here....I'll have a windy city dawg drag it thru the garden,fries and a shake please..Thank You..Had another nite where I had trouble sleeping so probaly won't get much railroading in for napping today..I finished paper building all but posts on front..and primed IC caboose but found some bad places so more sanding..Reminds me of my old model car building days...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHELLY!! Hope you have a great day...
Jimmy ...welcome to the diner hope you can join us often...
John...Glad parts worked out for you and good luck sanding down flanges...Yes I have a spot I could use a building like that...
PC....Wow! Great looking Bike....
Robby...Every time I see one of your weathering jobs they get better and better..If you would have said that was a photo of the prototype I would have believed it!....
You all have a good one...Jerry
Good afternoon to all, very windy here today, 25 to 35 mph but no rain and record warmth courtesy of Jeff and the southern lads coming here for tomorrow through Monday. Records that have stood since 1872 could be broken if the temps hit 83F
Been splitting wood all morning with roto tiller, yes, a roto tiller. Troybilt made a tiller back in the 80's that had a removable tiller head, which allowed you to place a variety of attachments on the engine via a dog clutch. On such attachment was a 13 ton log splitter on a steel beam and two rear wheels so that you could take this beast anywhere the trees were cut.I'll have to figure out how to have one of these in the layout and 1/87 scale. I'll bet Jeff could do it!
JEFF: Nice night shot!! The only thing missing is the guy spraying graffetti on that box car in the dark shadows. As for your trailer, you indeed are living in a Faraday Cage....VERY SAFE.
DUKE: WHAT !!!!!???? You mean Faye didn't make any SRP for Garry??? Tsk tsk tsk I sure would like to be out in MI this summer for that Berkshire run. How far is it from your town? Washington is it?
DER JOHN: Clearing is on the way John along with some wind. Today I put all the snow shovels away, so I have proclaimed that Winter is OVER in this part of New England.
PC: Very nice bike, I hear your daughter wants a bike now.
JIM: I will have enough wood for a decade at this rate. All I have to do is keep it dry.
GARRY: Sounds like you had a good trip, and wish Shelly a Happy Birthday for us.
JERRY: Pecan pie is being served for desert, but you may not get any, there is a mad rush for counter.
Time to get my butt back to work outside, see you all for Supper,
Dick thanks for the heads up on pie..I got the last chunk but Flo says were out of ice cream!...Jerry
Cox 47Dick thanks for the heads up on pie..I got the last chunk but Flo says were out of ice cream!...Jerry
Bummer!
I just got back from the Alergist's Office a while ago. Blood pressure was 132/82. Not bad for me at a doctors office...... The only thing she really did was rotoroot out my right ear which has to be done several times a year. Combination of Hearing Aids, wet ear canal, and fungus on top of psoriasis in that ear.
It has now made it all the way up to 50°F here in the Finger Lakes and is going to be 36°F tonight. Guess I'll light up the wood stove and burn off more odds and ends to clean up the back porch where I store the wood. Did that last night and the house was toasty warm at midnight when I went to bed.
Barry, I just sent you an e-mail to your address you gave me. Let me know when you get it.
I am continuing to finish up some details on the sceniced portion of the layout. Got some more shrubs and weeds planted along part of the ROW this morning, and hope to start making some mile markers this afternoon and evening.
Dick: Don't know if I can build a 1/87 log splitter. My scratch building skills aren't what they used to be.
I've been down at my parents place mowing their grass. That's an easy $20. Now I can get a few things I need from town.
Strong coffee in a AT&SF mug, please & thanks.
***Todd, I have an old (HO) lighted Life-Like car set aside to turn into a Diner for the wife's layout. She also already has a Ma's Kitchen, so any wee little folk will have a couple places to chose from. And her circus/carnival will have it's own vendors.
Should finally make it back down into the train room this evening. Who knows, maybe I'll even have time to do something on my own layout for a change.
Hope everyone is having a great day.
Rob ps: any knowledgable gun folks in here I can pm a question or two to?
Robby P.Sawyer, those are the good shots. I had a problem of shooting mine over the goal.
Sawyer, those are the good shots. I had a problem of shooting mine over the goal.
Thanks man. Usually my problem as well; there's a reason I'm center D
Der, that sounds like one heck of a goal though. never played soccer in fog myself (that I can remember, at least).
Another game tonight, we're not going to have our highest scorer, but then they'll be missing one of their players as well.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Dick
sure would like to be out in MI this summer for that Berkshire run. How far is it from your town? Washington is it?
Best to all on sick call and those recovering
Talk to you later
Duke
Looks like top honors and just in time for the supper crowd.
"Don't take a wooden nickel,because it isn't worth a dime" by my Dad
"There are only 3 things you need out of life:A gentle grade,the wind in your face,and cinders in your hair.....But keep an eye on the water glass!" Jack Evans
grayfox1119I hear your daughter wants a bike now.
Actually, she wants nothing to do with it. I offered to get my wife one yesterday, but she said she just wants to ride on the back of mine.
Got this shot of an SD40-3 while I was in town. I can't find it on the KCS roster we have on my forum.
Good Afternoon/Evening.
Got a few things done around the house and work today. Had to do some errands for work around a bunch of mailings, company having an anniversary--(yeehaw)---so spent some extra time doing that as well as the honey do list--Got the rest of the evening to bang together some framework for the extension---gotta use the wood around here for something
Jeff--was there some kind of renumbering? Or even new acquisition, maybe? Nice pix
Ray: Yes the email thing worked--i sent something back to see from my end-----
Chloe--I'll have the 48oz Tbone steak--medium rare--with all the fixins and a RBF please---I'm going to the back to watch the place fill up-----
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/
blownout cylinderJeff--was there some kind of renumbering? Or even new acquisition, maybe? Nice pix
Well all I did today was weather up a 2-bay hopper. The NS engine sold, and its heading to United Kingdom.
Jeff, very nice shot!!! Looks like it was re-numbered, since the numbers look so clean.
Well I have a sweet tooth. So....a slice of SPLAAAAAAAAAT. Well let me change it, since I see the pie I was going to order is on the wall.
I will just take a rootbeer float. I would like to see someone throw that!!!!
Well everybody have a good night, don't let the bed bugs bite.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Well, now we know why Jeff's hair stands on end all the time. and why all the girls call him "Sparky".
That is one pile of protection there Jeff. I understand why you got into preparedness.
Well done.
Johnboy out.............
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Evening all been a while I'm still here. been a lousy week for vacation thou as been sick all week i think I got fod poison but not sure. Anyway starting to feel better and don't have to be back to work till tuesday.
Not to much else going on thought I would drop in and say hi thou .
take care will try to dtop in sooner next time lol
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Hope you get better quickly RT. Take care.
Good Evening Diners!
Coffee and a toasted cinammon bun please Chloe.
Dick, rail traffic south is indeed cut off due to the flood. Both CN and CP have lines that run south and as they are close to the river, all is quiet. There is quite a bit of traffic on both lines, especially CP which is the main Soo Line track down to Minneapolis. My friend lives a quarter mile from the line and says there are about 6-8 trains in a typical 24 hour period.
Not much happening on the RR front, namely the Mortimer sub. I started a box car kit but didn't get much done and I started to do some switching on the layout but only got as far as getting the SW8 out of its storage siding. Just one of those weeks.
Hopefully it will dry up enough this weekend so we can get some yard clean-up done. Temps are supposed to be about 60F which is good for us.
I'm trying to sell my FIL's car for my MIL. If you recall he passed away last summer. It's a '99 Lincoln Town Car in immaculate shape, only problem is that it is red. Could have sold it easily if it were black or gray but I suppose there is someone else out there that wants a red Lincoln. Must say that it is a little depressing selling that car as it was his pride and joy. I'm sure there are lots of you that can relate to that.
Well on that cheery note, I guess I'll say Bon Soir,
CN Charlie
What with the cold wind all day, especially on my evening walk, I think a hot chocolate would go down well about now. Whipped cream with that....sorry to have finished the ice cream for dessert, didn't know it was the last tub
Jerry: I'll mailout the building in the box you sent, Monday. I'll first soak off the ballast that's stuck to the base. Here's the F40PH video. If the link doesn't work, let me know and i'll move the file to a different album.
Busy day tomorrow, so I'll say Goodnight all, and God Bless. Prayers for all in need of healing, comfort and peace.
Good evening, All. It has been sunny most of the week. I hear that it has rained some in Seattle, Mark. We will see if he is paying attention.
Philip, Glad that you got your wheels back. I am liking my ride. We are riding the country roads. It has been a long time since I have been on the road.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
gear-jammer Philip, Glad that you got your wheels back. I am liking my ride. We are riding the country roads. It has been a long time since I have been on the road.
Great for clearing the head, huh?
pcarrell gear-jammer Philip, Glad that you got your wheels back. I am liking my ride. We are riding the country roads. It has been a long time since I have been on the road. Great for clearing the head, huh?
Yup.
Peach Crumb Pie, Chloe.
I was looking at my latest Walthers Flyer catalog and in the ho scale locomotives section and there is a F-2 with dual-drive, and I wass wondering what that was. Anyone know?
(And I didn't even know i am over 100 posts!)