Wow, nice place, Joe. When I saw the lock on the old door, I though the economy had gotten to the place. Now I see what all the secrecy has been about. Love all the new space, room for plenty all around. Allow me to buy the first round of Strumpet Lagers.
The old place is here http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/t/122332.aspx in case anyone left their car keys in the cushions of a booth when they drove home with a friend last night. At Sunday River, someone actually goes around to the bars early Sunday morning, and counts the cars that were left in the parking lot overnight. They figure every one represents someone who found a new friend to bunk with the previous night, or someone who enjoyed himself a bit too much, but still had enough sense to give someone else the keys. Either of these options represents a good time, and the bar with the most morning-after cars gets the honor for the weekend.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Thanks, Mr. B, for handling the move of the Beer Barn to the new location. I put some stars up so we can find it.
I'll be in later for the Strumpets, thanks. (Following Rule G while operating today.)
Cheers!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Thanks Mr. B….
And what the hey!!! Not sure I have a rule "G"! Perhaps I should though!!!???!!!
I’ll take you up on a cold Strumpet now BEFORE I have to go to work!!
Good Afternoon. Saaaaay, nice place you have here. Nice picture you've hung in the entrance Mr B. Real nice.
I've been peeking in the window off and on for some time and I thought I'd stop in for a cold one. I see you have Lone Star , a bottle please. I know it's a bit early but I've been pressure washing the back porch and the pressure washer keeps cutting out. Cheap little 110v job I got it from my mom when she moved. Brand new never been used I've only used it about 3 hrs total over two days. I guess I' ll struggle with it. Don't want to have to get another one, that would cut into my rerouting of the track funds!
Best get back at it. Might stop in again.
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.
Afternoon, guys. I'll have an Old Style, Joe. Been lurkin' lately but hope to stop in more often now.I'd better have just the one, tonight's Date Night and the CFO's on her way home.
Terry
Terry in NW Wisconsin
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Terry ... My brewery includes buildings with signs for G Heilemen Brewing Co.. Therefore, I have plenty of Old Style available in my 1/87 kegs.
Mr. B....OK I'll have that Strumpet......Many thanks.
Garry, I can't help but wonder how many 1:87 kegs it would take to fill a decent-size 1:1 scale stein...
New place looks good. Hopefully, Joe will see us all more often.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Missed the move yesterday. Often on Wednesdays, I don't even get the computer turned on, with working and staying at the rockgym until 9:00. I am working back from my fall off the hay.
MrB, Your Strumpet's refer makes a good banner for Joe's new digs.
Later,
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Sue, I sure hope the fall doesn't screw up scoot ridin'.
Sheesh I'm tired of winter. I haven't even uncovered the bikes, much less put the batteries back in. Did move the snow blower to the back of the garage in anticipation, though!
saronaterry Sue, I sure hope the fall doesn't screw up scoot ridin'. Sheesh I'm tired of winter. I haven't even uncovered the bikes, much less put the batteries back in. Did move the snow blower to the back of the garage in anticipation, though! Terry
Larry charged the batteries this last weekend so we are good to go. They are predicting 60 degrees on Sunday and 65 for Monday. However, it was snowing less than 100 miles to the north this morning. Will spring ever come?
JB, The 22 cars will look great. Most of us couldn't fit 80 cars on a continuous track. What logo are you painting on those cars?
I really like that ore train, JB.
Thanks Gary.
And Sue: regarding the logo. Actually I’m doing mostly the original DM&IR herald, but also the simplified lettering done much later in their lives.
I remember reading, some time ago now and I can’t seem to find the reference, about the two major types of ore car prototypes and thinking that I could depict the two styles with the Walthers and the MDC cars. Neither are 100% correct, but with the two different sizes, the various color shading and differences in the lettering….I feel it gives a pretty good flavor.
Looking great, JB.
Lookin' good ,JB!
My average train length is about 12-16 cars. There's a feww more around the corner, plus the engines.
Sue, the weather idiots say mid 50's next week. We can only hope!!
Speaking of ore trains, I just received my March issue of the GN Goat from Great Northern Railway Historical Society. It has some great photos of ore being loaded at the open pit mine and ore being unloaded at the transloading docks.
On my layout, ore is deliver by rail directly to the blast furnace at my steel mill.
I wouldn’t mind seeing that…But I no longer get a copy.
It’s a bit of a LONG STORY but …I’ve lost touch since, I’ve lost touch with my friend Duane.
Is there a “site” a person can go to?
regarding ore trains...
Here is the website for Great Northern Ry Hist Soc.... http://gnrhs.org/
I do not know anybody in the group, but joined thinking I could use info. My fictional divison of the Q connects with GN. Their July convention is in Duluth I see.
So, will you be coming to Duluth??
Perhaps?
Hello JB .... as it stands now, I am not planning that. It's been many years since I have been in Duluth, and I may consider it.
Ah, now is the winter of our discontent nearly come to its inevitable conclusion. The warmth of spring has fallen upon the land, and the birds do chirpeth (chirpeth? chirpeth? Where doth one get words like unto this folly?) I grilled burgers outside tonight. I've been doing that all winter, but tonight I was wearing a Hawaiian shirt, no jacket, and no mosquito repellant. Truly, the way life should be.
I started one of those projects I've been putting off. (Yeah, Joe, a Strumpet IPA, and one for anyone who hasn't already had enough of my Shakespeare impersonation.) I opened up a P2K Geep, and started carving out a slot in the framework for a speaker. It's getting a diesel Tsunami. I've had the parts for a month or 2, at least, but not the time to get the project even started. Ski season seems to be over, though, so now it's time for some serious train work.
I assembled a couple of Walthers coal conveyors earlier this week. They were on sale, and each package makes 6 conveyors, more than I need. I only did 2, one of each flavor, and was pretty happy with them. The Walthers flyer came last week, and I ordered a set of unpainted Preiser "Truckers" from my LHS. To get back in the swing of things, I renovated another 3 freight cars from my childhood, a black Deep Rock tanker, another Mantua clamshell hopper, and (surprise to me) a fourth Crown log car I didn't even know I had. None of these was enough to keep me busy, though, so I've been painting 1:87 seagulls and pigeons from Greenway to add to the Moose Bay scene. Time to mix up some "beak" color and finish the job...
I’ll take you up on that strumpet Pale Mr. B….
YUP, our ski season is over too, but we do still have snow on the ground...And even though it may be shirt-sleeve weather (40 F. today) I haven't broken out the Hawaiian shirt yet!! I have, however been doing some cooking outside most all winter long. Recently it has just been a few Ribeye and a Porterhouse steak, but last month I double smoked a 20 lb ham...It was way Yum!
Sounds as though you are back at it with a head of full steam on your RR! Can't wait to see some more your handy work.
I haven’t been able to get too much done so far this week….But I’m going to play some tomorrow. Hopefully, most of the day!
Being able to go back to work…I’m thinking that I can get after that of pike staging again! Just need to watch out for “too much grunt”. Sure would like to get her done before “garden season” hit full force!
Sputtering around a bit this evening…
As mentioned a while back, I didn’t really like the new “silhouette thing” with the new forum.
I have always wanted to put my CCRY herald there, but don’t have anything to cut and paste….
Have another, JB, and Joe, I'll take a Strumpet draft as well. Let's see who else shows up on this good (Good?) Friday.
I love the photo in your sig, by the way. And, your tale of the insistent smoker at dinner over on that other thread brought a chuckle, too. Thanks for that one.
I got the seagulls on the layout, but the pigeons will have to wait for another day. Is pulling out 4 different colors for HO scale seagulls overkill? Well, maybe, but after looking at pictures for reference, I needed them all. The bigger project for the day was getting some more voltage to the old Vollmer coal loader. I'd been running it off of the lighting circuit, which is nominally 10 volts but probably closer to 8, because it's overloaded. Today, I opened up a new spool of wire and connected it to the 12 volt supply I use for the uncoupler electromagnet. Suddenly, after 45 years of slumber, this old thing worked again. I can load a couple of carloads of coal into my hoppers. The building doesn't hold much coal, but just being able to load live coal again, and then dump it on the other side of the layout, is one of those things that's been on my mind since I started this layout 4 years ago. Sure, it's a gimmick, and I'll only do it once in a blue moon, but I love stuff like this.
Thanks Mr.B, I will...
And, hey...You are right! Any pic is better than nothing!
I'm a pumpkin this evening...So, an other time perhaps! For one! more!
I do have to say though..."It's been on your mind for four years?"..... I'm thinking this "gimmick" has been lurking for some time.....And, good for you it all woked!
Happy Easter to all...And to all a good night.
'Evening, Joe. And thanks for the cool one, Mr.B...
If you get the chance, sneak over to the garden railways general discussion and check out the thread on Baldwin 2-6-6-2 loggers. It's about the prototypes, with only a tiny touch of G gauge models.
I finally found a key ingredient for some kitbashes that were hanging fire. 6-wheel Buckeye trucks seem to have become an endangered species...
All that will have to wait, though. In a couple of days we'll be off on a cross country trip to visit the family members who came out here last time. Hopefully, when we get back my subconscious will have come up with workable answers to a couple of the issues I still have with the new section of hidden staging.
Time to toddle off to bed. Have to get acclimatized to the earlier time zones at our destination(s) - preferably before we get there.
tomikawaTT. Time to toddle off to bed. Have to get acclimatized to the earlier time zones at our destination(s) - preferably before we get there.
Where're you going, Chuck? I only occasionally peek into this thread, so don't know your plans, assuming you posted them.
Next Thursday I'm flying to Miaimi for a $50 per day, 11-day ocean cruise to Dover via the Azores and northern Spain. Then I'll spend a couple of days each at Dover, Dunkerque, and Brussels and maybe fit in a day trip to Waterloo, and then get back home May 6. Rather than Brussel sprouts, I intend to taste some chocolate there. (I've already had rabbit in Malta, frankfurters in Frankfurt, hamburgers in Hamburg, and fish-and-chips in London.)
This weekend I'm taking care of my GF's teenage cat. The cat Possum (she's mostly cream colored, with dark grey ears and tail with grey tiger stripes on legs and face) just got fixed today and needs intensive TLC. So far today, she's spent 90% of her time on my lap. This January my GF came by and said I was to take care of the then 6-7 week-old kitten as GF was taking her mother, brother, and sister-in-law on a Mexican Riviera ocean cruise. During those 10 days GF was gone, I named the cat. The cat and I bonded, and although Possum spends 95% of her time at my GF's house, I'm still her favorite human.
Mark
Great deal on the cruise, Mark. Do you have to row as part of that bargain?
Still having fun with the Clampett place. They're just so proud of their new washing machine that they put it on the front porch to spruce up the neighborhood a bit.
The sad part is that it did spruce up the neighborhood a bit...
MisterBeasley Great deal on the cruise, Mark. Do you have to row as part of that bargain?
No, but we're in the forward bowels of the ship on deck four, the lowest one with passenger access, just above the waterline. Although we paid for an inside cabin, we were upgraded to an outside cabin with a porthole. Hey! Just a second! Maybe the expect me to row with the oar through the porthole!
I was on the maiden voyage of the ship (Norwegian Jewel) 2-3 years ago. We had an outside cabin in the middle of the fifth deck, with a large rectangular window. It sure was dandy being mid-ship and low when we went through a hurricane early in the cruise! We were later transferred to an eleventh-deck patio cabin at the stern after complaining the crew door outside our cabin kept banging all night.