Hey guys.
I just got back from a long day at work. I think some meat lover's pizza would really hit the spot.
Nik n, happy B-day
Jeff, Where's a good place to get that latex rubber stuff? I want to make some cast of the underframe pieces of my 85' intermodal flats, so I can make copies that are made of metal (being rubber, I'd use some of that stuff that melts in hot water) so I can bring the cars weigh up (with out plunking down 13 bucks a car for some already made ones, especially considering I have 5)
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
jeffrey-wimberly the latex does have a bit of an odor
Ahem. Are you sure it wasn't the chicken and/or the ribs?
Speaking of which I just sent my Mother home with a full stomach. I made dinner, beef roast, pan seared new potatoes, (I know but that's what the bag said), corn, broccoli/cauliflower mix and for dessert apple pie. Yuuuuuum Yum. Both mom and Brenda sat and kept asking if there was anything I wanted them to do. I knew I was being set up so, no was the answer.
Guess I'll hit the train room for a stare or maybe I'll do something.
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.
I just poured the latex rubber and put the lumber stack in it so I can make a mold to make more stacks. I set it outside to cure as the latex does have a bit of an odor.
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Just got back from town. My sister, niece and my neighbor and I all took went together to take my mother out to lunch at the local steak house. I had a 1/2 rack of BBQ ribs and mesquite grilled chicken with a side salad. The others had whatever they wanted. We had the best table in the place. It was a fun afternoon.
Nik: Happy Birthday Pal, hope it's a good-un for ya.
Good afternoon...Chloe, Janie, or Flo...a tall, COLD lemonade please while I recover from YARD W**K; and I don't mean kicking freight cars around. Between the Wife and I, we've gotten a lot done, but still much to do.
My day started out in a bizzarre manner. Around 0400, something wakes me up. I'm laying there, trying to process the sound. It hits again.
It's a $#@^&*^$ $#@!^*(&%% #@!!%^&%$&** ROOSTER!
Two more of 'em chime in as well.
Turns out, the nutty neighbors put a trio of roosters in the former rabbit hutch in their back yard.
Peachy. Just peachy.
Later in the morning, our neighbors on the other side ask us if we heard/had roosters...
Evidently, the offending nut-burgers got the hint (neighborhood ticked-off), as they loaded the hutches up, and drove away with the offending birds.
Just one more episode in my future book "Who Stole My Dead Cat?" A warped look at life in an even more warped small town in Iowa.
Have a good rest of the day, and a better week...
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Happy B Day, Nik!
Happy M Day, Moms!
Happy Model Railroading, Everybody!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Rob this is more the "wifes" hobby. I wouldn't mind working on a farm. I think it would be very neat.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Coffee in a large SantaFe mug, please.
***Robby, wish I could put you to work here on the ol' farm, so I could have some train room time. Weeding is not my idea of fun.
***Ray, as you know, grief can do all sorts of nasty stuff to the human body (and mind). You've made tremendous progress there. Continued success in your ongoing recovery.
***Nik...HAPPY BIRTHDAY, if I forgot to say so already.
Still much work to do around the farm. Chance of thunderstorms today into tonight, so need to get on with it. Have a good day all.
Healing thoughts to those in need!
Rob
Good afternoon everybody.
Tilled the garden, and de-weeded it.
Now since its about 1:00, might head into the basement.
Nik. N
Not much else is going on.
Everybody have a good one
Happy Mothers Day!!....
Happy Birthday nik.n...Hope all your gifts are trains..
Good morning You'all...Its sunny and 57 here dropped into 40's last nite..I'll have coffee and toast please...Thank You..Looks like another lazy day seems like I don't do anything but am tired...My brother is posta come and the Cards are playing on TV...You all have a good one...Jerry
Mornin' everyone!
Chloe I'll have the #2 special over easy on the eggs, bacon, homefries, and a double order of sourdough toast! Oh, and my usual dark roast in a FGLK Mug if you please. I'll go sit sit with Barry and the other dieters in the back to annoy them.........
Galaxy and Barry after my wife died 22 years ago I put on 90 lbs. in about 2 years. Interesting what grief will do to you. When my blood sugar and cholesterol got bad due to being 320lbs., I managed to remove 50 lbs. of the weight. I am still topping the scale at around 270 (265 by my scale yesterday). I have changed my diet to be almost vegetarian and have cut down on fat intake (which I am supposed to do with the diabetes anyway....) as well. With fresh vegies during the summer out of the garden I should be able to keep this on track for a while. I would love to get back down to the 230 I weighed when my wife was alive! Good luck to you guys!
Actually should get time to do some model railroading today as it is too cold to do much outside. If the rain holds off, I will finish up the lawn. It got interrupted by a storm yesterday.
A Happy Mothers Day to all!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Nik N.
Happy Mother's day to those who ARE mothers, and for those who have mothers, other halfs that are mothers, the mother of your children, MIL's, etc. etc. etc.
Working on a migraine today, supposed to go to MILs today and plant veggies for her. Dunno. Frost next 3 nights, maybe we should wait. I'm gonna wait the 3 days to plant mine. My other half not feeling well either. We haven't gotten any Mother's Day plant to put at my mother's grave either. I don't know why, but we do usually do that.
Lilacs are nasty! Allergies do not like them, sam I am. It rained yesterday but with the winds that came too, the scent is heavy on the air and stuffs our noses very well.
Well, have a happy day everyone!
-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.
Nik.N!!!!
Happy Mothers Day to those who will be joining their families today.
Jeff - You seem to be having a tough time with motorized vehicles lately! Good thing you have the trains to relax with.
I install the equipment on our new police cars. The "push bumpers" on the new cars are more like brush guards, not like the old days. They mount to the unibody, not the frame. One car has a bent radiator support from pushing a F-250 off the highway. Course, I wouldn't try using an Impala to push a truck to begin with..... but what do I know?
Sat at the worktable last night and had no inspiration, been a bit busy again lately. In fact I need to check in at work today. A cadet has driver training at the county course this week and I need to re-check the car. It was used for patrol this weekend by mistake.
Grass needs cutting again out back and my allergies are in full force, stuffed up head, runny eyes. Thank goodness the Asthma is cooperating so far.. Windy and in the 60's today, means a nasty day on the beach. MIght drive down anyway....
Off to the grocery store...Eric
Yee Haw!!! It didn't do the paragraph, letter addressing, indentation, whatever you call it thing!!!
Wonder what I did, or didn't do. Guess I'll try again
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Mornin' Pancakes and sausage please. Cup of coffee thankyou. Found out the perfect wife ran over the dog tieout thing in the front yard. She came strolling up with this bent up piece of 1/4 in rod with nicks in it. Said it made a horrible noise. I nodded looking at the nicks and chunks and said. I'll change the blades this week. She said it mowed fine so why. I grinned and said, I'll change the blades this week. She asked if she hurt the mower, I said, Well it's a Cub Cadet back when it was made by International Harvester (grunt, grunt). Though it's not a John Deere, I doubt if you hurt the mower (grunt). She said I hopenot, handed me the dog tieout auger thing and said fix this. Then walked off. Still think I'll keep her.
nik.n-
Jeff- I'd love o have a push bumper. had one on an old 4X4 years ago. Fun. Oh wait, I've grown out of that stuff. I used to LOVE the old Star Trek. The original one. I wouldn't quite call myself a Trekkie, but I could just about tell you the name of an episode by just hearing a line. (not of couse something like Beam me up Scottie.) No more though. I recall the episodes, and could probably remember by name or vice versa, but off the top of my head? Thinking about them now. Nope. Blank. The wifes right, nothing there. I never could get into the new ones though. The rest were good Sci Fi shows just not Star Trek to me. The movies with the original cast I enjoyed. Kind of reverse typecasting.
Sttill looking forward to the new movie when it comes to vids. Movies and the necessities are just too expensive to me. I'm told the theatres really don't make much off the movie, it's the "necessities" that make the KILLING.
Have a Great Day!
Happy Birthday Nik !!!!!!!!!!!
There----that was a way to wake up!!!
We are a lot cooler today---only getting up to 12C so we's be looking at some yard work later in the day---it is only 4C now.
Jeff On my 'lawn', such as remains from converting most to a cottage/meadow garden, I just end up using the ol' Bush Hog. How that brilliant idea got past the board---the bolted on strap--always puzzled me. It was on at least two garden tractors we had up here---both nameless b/c both do not exist anymore---I wonder why--and both times they'd get snagged on some dang root or such from a tree and ---TTAAANNGG!!!---off the side one of the things just go. And the deck would just drop on that side. We ended up doing the weld thing ourselves. Not fun getting that wrapped up like that
We're going to just play it cool today. I got some paperwork from w--k to do so I'll probs get that done. Oh yes. And trainroom needs work ----again.
Chloe--I'll have a coffee and an egg/muffin please. I'm going to sit at the back by the window to watch the trainyard
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/
nik .nTomorrow is my Birthday! To me! To me! YAY!
Good morning. It's 73 and cloudy with thunderstorms threatening. The high will be in the upper 80's and there will be thunderstorms. Went down to the parents house yesterday and mowed their yard. I mowed most of it with their new mower but had to finish up with the old Peerless tractor after a steel reinforcing strip ripped loose from the new mowers deck and got tangled in the blades. It stopped the engine dead as a hammer! I'll have to make arrangements with my father to help drop the deck so the offending bit of steel can be removed. I'm thinking about having a an 1/8" thick strip of welded across the front of the deck and remove what remains of the bolted on strip from the bottom. If you ask me that was a bad design decision as it is sure to snag on something and get ripped off, which is exactly what happened. The makers of the Yard Pro line (MTD) will be getting a letter about this. The new mower is easy to drive and can be handled by the average 8 year old. The old Peerless on the other hand, looking like an overgrown Yard Machine, takes a bit more muscle as it's very stiff and has a heavy shift. At just over 1,200 pounds it's quite a bit heavier too. After I finished I picked up my package that had arrived from Walther's. In it were two National Oil Company kits, two banded lumber stacks and one Digitrax DZ125 decoder. I can use one of the lumber stacks as a master to make a mold, that is if my latex rubber is still good. I got the two oil company kits put together in just a few hours. I still have to fill in the cracks where the tank halves join together. I was going to use contour putty for this but discovered that my supply had gone bad and is now hard as a rock in the tube. Murphy struck again. I'll have to go to my ever-present backup, the RoseArt modeling clay. It's a bit messy but it should do the job and I most definitely will have to paint the models afterwards. The DZ125 decoder is for my Atlas SD24. I'll install it when my hands are steady enough to do the job. The Atlas U30C will be getting a basic Bachmann decoder, the same one they suggest for some of their DCC equipped Spectrums. All I need for it is motor and light control. Later today my sister and I will be taking my mother out to lunch at the Wagon Master steak house in Leesville. That will be part of our Mother's Day present for her. Later my sister and I have plans to go see the new Star Trek movie. This is the 11th one to be released. I already have the other 10 plus all of the original series and a good part of the Enterprise series and part of the Voyager series. Yes, I'm a Trekkie, though I haven't been to a convention in a couple of decades. Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 5/10/2009 Heat Index: 79°F Humidity: 99% Dew Point: 74°F So Far Today High: 74°F Low: 72°F Rain: 0.00" Rain Rate: 0.00"/h Gust: 6mph SSW Today High: 88 Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Tonight Low: 68 Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow is my Birthday! To me! To me! YAY!
GhostHawk out.
Went out to dinner tonight with my sister and my niece. Her significant other wasn't feeling well so he just ate a little then went and waited in the car. I was busy earlier today working on some kits. The photo should make which ones quite obvious. They still need quite a bit of work.
CederstrandJeffrey wrote: [I removed the push bumper and the cage shortly after I bought it] ***Why? Would have thought that might come in handy.
Evening All..I'll have a Double RBF please..Thank You..Gonna be a cool nite down into 40's....Didn't get much railroading in today..Napped most of day awayYou all have a good nite...Jerry
I'd just love some Rhubarb Custard Pie please-----
Had an ineresting phonecall from sister---it appears the sale while not that great actually was an improvement over what a lot of potters in and around the Hamilton ON area were expecting. Phew-----that was close-----
'Spring' is having a late evening runaround pickle----oh---and the little one went to the vets for a check up---vet said we have a very happy healthy 8.5year old kitten. Thought so----after seeing his latest exercise of climbing/running up the front of 2 bookcases----uh huh---I'd think so too. Of course, she says this after the fellow leaps up on to the cabinets in the room----and then wouldn't come down-----6lbs. Small energy bundle
Jeffrey wrote: [I removed the push bumper and the cage shortly after I bought it] ***Why? Would have thought that might come in handy.
***Todd, funny thing is my wife and I both enjoy mowing the yard equally. You should see us eyeing the grass growth these days, ready to grab the garden tractor key.
Had to run water for the barn critters, so still have not made it into the train room. Better make some time tomorrow or I might consider going crazy or something.
While I'm here, how about a heaping helping of that Rhubarb Custard. Yum!
Evenin all, Started out pullin the beat up rhubarb, dropped some in the kitchen so Strawberry Rhubarb as well as Rhubarb and Rhubarb Custard pies are here, doesn't look pretty but when cooked, who can tell. Neighbor behind started talking about the drain tile between our houses and how 3 of the four of us, not me, are having trouble an they want to sink a new tile. Whoa! Let's see if we can fix this one first so.... We did. About 3 spots where it collapsed. Fixed one spot completely, it was in the yard of the guy that doesn't have a basement and therefore no sump pump. He was real nice and kept us company while we dug a crater in his back yard, replaced about 3 ft of tile then filled it back in. 2 more dpots to go. Hey, I'm not having a problem. Where are the other two that are? Hmmmm.
Heard a familiar noise. My garden tractor. The perfect wife was mowing our yard. I think I'll keep her.
Galaxy- Yup, Trainroom.
Yeah where's Ryan. RYAN!!
ewl01Jeff - Like the Atlas photos, nicely done. What kind of vehicle you have? That's like 2.5 hrs of labor even up here.
Coffee refill, please.
***Vincent, the mars light is a nice touch!
Have not made it into the train room yet. Did pick up a large rat snake to show the wife, before releasing it back on the farm. Not raising any chicks right now, so he can go catch some rats and what-not.
Then the wife showed me a snapping turtle that wandered into Chief's pen (mini stallion). I took him back into the forest where it probably wondered in from.
Had to spend some time working on the drainage around the barn. What I wouldn't do for a real tractor or (in this case) a Bobcat. Did more than my share of shovelling as well. Had to be done.
Howdy!!!
Been pretty busy last few days. Chloe, A burger w/ mayo, ketchup (catsup, what ever), a side of onion rings and a Dr. Pepper...... hhmmmm maybe a RBF for desert!
Jeff - Like the Atlas photos, nicely done. What kind of vehicle you have? That's like 2.5 hrs of labor even up here.
RobbyP - Nice pics, we don't get any freights down here, only commuter trains. In Dover (NJ), the NS has trackage rights on the New Jersey Transit and keeps a unit (small geep perhaps?) and a Conrail caboose in red. There are still quite a few up here, I would imagine for branchline work. At one time there used to be 4 or 5 different roads running through Morris County.
There are many bits and pieces of sidings at factories and lumberyards on lines that are owned by the Co's., local gvmt. or are privately owned by people (the line, previously abandoned, runs through private property in spots that the RR now leases from the owners) who prefer to see trains twice a week instead of hearing tractor trailers jake braking down the steeply graded highway 6 days a week.
A branch line up home is to be improved through the transportation stimulas package The story made the local paper and all the NIMBYS came out in force. Only thing is, trains have been running through the area continuously, thow less frequently now,since the mid 1800's!!
Enough I guess for now. That RBF sure tastes good!
Think I'll take mom (her remains) for a walk on the beach tomorrow. Maybe it sounds ghoulish, but mom was going to come down for Mother's Day this year ..... This year is going to be a tough one without her on all the special days we used to spend together as a family.
Eric
Milk and a steak, Chloe, and I'll give everyone a big brisket roast to celebrate my Birthday tomorrow!
To ME!
I got back from Hershey. Here is some photos of the journey.
A NS Freight:
Middle of the freight:
On the end of the freight there was two D&H gons:
Bunch of boxcars on the sideing: (and a Southren one to boot!)
Intresting building in front of an abandoned industry siding:
Covered hopper in front of building:
The Huber Breaker in Ashly, PA.
Close-up of Ad on side:
Spoils of railfanning:
Drop me a PM if you want more photos of the Huber.
I wont get results of my competition until Monday.
See yall!
So, how's ever't'ing goin', eh?
We had one of those kinda showery days with a lot of wind thrown in for good measure! Great for staying indoors and actually getting some work done on the layout---at least some of the dismantling work and reattachment of rail in a better arrrangement got done. Now for some sit me down and ponder time----
Garry-Interesting looking stuff there---
Galaxy- I've gone on to one of those diet/exercise things a while ago. My bloodsugar is down as is the Cholesterol and Triglycyrides. And I'm now down to 235lbs----I started this insanity when I weighed 330lbs!! Keep at it and you'll lose the excess baggage for sure--------just don't ask about the existentialist moments I had-----
Chloe---I'll have a medium rare 4oz Pepper steak with Asparugus and a small milk please----I do have my exchanges for these!!! Oh--and a coffee as well ----black with sweetener. I'll be at the back corner booth with the gang-----
I've already assembled both of the National Oil Company kits and aprayed them down with Matte Finish to kill the gloss. Later I'll seal up the cracks in the tanks where the halves joined.