Well I suppose that's the best for all concerned. Might freak out some of the kids in town.
EDIT: Well that's gonna cost me. Order up!
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.
OK, I'll have the bacon and eggs with a short stack of pancakes and a large oj.
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Good Morning All...Rain most of nite Its cloudy and 61 this morning...I'll have coffee and toast please...Than You...I got couplers on Life Like GP 18 but am disapointed in how it runs..Its an older model and is not very smooth I hope some run in time will help...Went out early this morning before it started to rain again and paited roof of IC caboose all I need to do is get "glass" it it,decal and dulcoat...You all have a good one...Jerry
Mornin' everyone!
Chloe I'll have the #2 special this morning. Over easy on the eggs, bacon, homefries, and sourdough toast, OJ and lots of dark roast coffee in a FGLK Mug.
Much nicer temperatures here in the Finger Lakes this morning. Currently 79°F with a high of 73° later. Yes you read that correctlt! That what it says for Geneva, NY at Weather.com........ That line of storms spanning from the Gulf of Mexico to Ottawa, Canada will be arriving in a couple of hours and should bring with it some much needed rain to the Finger Lakes region. We are still an inch and a half short for the month of April.
Tom that school is sure lucky to have you around. I know it feels good to back on the piano bench. There is a lady in this area who is in her late 80s and still is the Organist/Choir Director at a large Methodist Church here in town. She is amazing and still a fine pianist and organist. I would love to be out singing again, but my hearing makes that almost impossible. Hope you are enjoying the new BP meds.......
Jeffrey I am surprised that that bug didn't get put in your park climbing over the loco and terrifying all the little people. I think that might have been fun for a bit!
Well, I see breakfast has arrived, so I'll be in the front booth with Barry watching the trains and talking about meetings Meetings
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good morning folks.
Nice looking shop you have here. So what, you have a little pie on the wall so you decide to move instead of clean it? That sounds like my in laws trading in there SUV because it needed new tires. They reasoned that they wouldn't have to shell out the $800 for tires and would get a new truck in the process. Dumb dumb dumb! We give them a hard time about trading it in because it didn't have that 'new car smell'!
I survived our busiest weekend at work. I think I'm all prommed out! We get to do it all over again for the other high school in town. I will not complain about the money though, every bit counts.
I caulked the bridge piers in place today so there's no turning back. Once the caulk sets up, I will add sculptamold around them to simulate the sediment that accumulates. Pretty soon here I may be able to secure the trestle and add the track. I'll be going roundy round before you know it! I'm still trying to decide how I want to paint the river bottom. The water is mostly brown, but what fun is that? Good thing I'm waiting for caulk to dry! It gives me a while to decide.
I think I'm going to give my car the spring once over. I just don't know if I feel like waxing it. My arms are tired just thinking about it!
Have a great day!
howmusJeffrey I am surprised that that bug didn't get put in your park climbing over the loco and terrifying all the little people. I think that might have been fun for a bit!
Todd, well the BP is good. I get lots of exercise running down problems and jumping to conclusions.Tom, I have one Diesel as well, a 1938 HT looks like an F unit. I bought it to pull the B&O passenger train. I have some 2 position semaphores for the layout, worked great in DC but now in DCC they don’t work. I’m looking to get the BD-2 when they are back in stock, but these semaphores need momentary power. The BD-s will provide constant power and I’m afraid it would burn out the semaphores. What I need is an electronic gadget that will provide momentary power and then cut off.Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Hey ya'll.
The new diner is nice and all, but why are we supposed to do this every month?
I've been weathering some cars today (SSW box and bulkhead flat, UP box, NW insulated box), but I'm having difficuly with sealing the powders as well as I did on my PC hopper. I'm trying to remember what I did there since that isn't coming off at all. Maybe an RBF will help me remember.
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.
Coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please & thanks.
***Jeffrey, are you getting that SD24 in a given road name or going to paint it yourself? I've noticed differents roads offer different "details". They're are cool looking, (I think).
***Corey, how about some pics of your progress? And everyone else for that matter!
***Tom, don't be a stranger. Good to hear from you.
Rob
Mornin' all!
So I was riding through Lafayette, Indiana on Sunday and I saw something I haven't seen around here in a long time........a High Hood SD40-2. We have lots of low hoods, but NS 3311 is kinda unique around here.
Ray: ROFLMAO!!!--re:Meetings.
pcarrell Mornin' all! So I was riding through Lafayette, Indiana on Sunday and I saw something I haven't seen around here in a long time........a High Hood SD40-2. We have lots of low hoods, but NS 3311 is kinda unique around here.
I saw that one a couple of months ago. But do you think I took a camera?-noooooooooo--NS comes through this way a lot----
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...
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PackerThe new diner is nice and all, but why are we supposed to do this every month?
It's supposed to prevent getting.......... Ah............ you know............. I'll have to whisper it..... (oops). Doesn't seem to make much difference though.
Barry I thought you might enjoy that. I am going to get it as a t-shirt to wear to meetings that have a habit of never ending.
Morning all:
Well, it's cloudy and cold out here in SunnyCal this morning. We've got some kind of disturbance up around the Oregon border that's just doing a whirlygig around the Coast, so it's about 45 out, this morning. And no heat--today's the day that the guys come over to work on the AC/Heat unit for its normal yearly upgrade.
Little chilly. Lotsa hot coffee (Peets French Roast, thank you). "Uff-Dah" is all curled up on the couch in a knot (takes most of it up) and giving me his best "It's COLD, daddy" look. For cryin' out loud, he's NORWEGIAN--this should be like a Heat Wave for him, you'd think.
Lee: Yah, I finally got a diesel--F-3 A/B. It's a smooth little runner. Only thing is, that I was looking for the earlier black-yellow Rio Grande paint scheme for the F-3's, but all I could find was the Genesis later silver/gold 4-stripe. However, it does match the Walthers cars perfectly. It's straight DC, no sound, but it's a very smooth little puller. And HEAVY! Looks cool. But I'm stopping there. That and my Pioneer Zephyr are just about all the diesels I think I can handle, right now.
As to the Tomar signals--I'm running mine off of 1.5 Tomar battery packs, so they're just there pretty much for show. No actual operation, unless you consider my index finger a motor, LOL! I got several with LED's instead of the teeny bulbs, and was having a devil of a time trying to figure out how to light them (are we talking 'Electronic Doofus' here? ) so I mentioned it to Lee Hendry at Tomar, and he said if I was more comfortable with the battery packs, send the signals back and he'd replaced the LED's with the lamps. Is that nice of him, or what? Evidently the LED's take a fixed 12 volt, and I don't HAVE fixed 12 volts on my power pack. At least according to the Mfgr. Oh well, they're all up and lit and looking neat.
Jeff: I like your engine house. Neat job. Is that a kit-bash? Love the water-bug story.
Well, time to go out and install the last of the Tomars at Sierra City Junction. Two mainline turnouts and no signals--my engineers don't know where to go right now, LOL! (Well, don't take the southern route, it leads right off the edge of the layout, right now! )
Best to all, prayers to those in need.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
twhiteJeff: I like your engine house. Neat job. Is that a kit-bash?
Cederstrand***Jeffrey, are you getting that SD24 in a given road name or going to paint it yourself? I've noticed differents roads offer different "details". They're are cool looking, (I think).
It's in UP paint.
Speaking of SD24's, here is my pair. Here are my SD24's which are the recent Atlas engines and not the older Atlas engines produced about 25 years ago.
Jeff should really like his SD24 if it is the newer Atlas.
The SD24's may be considered the first of the second generation locomotives. They were essentially SD9's with turbochargers added. Burlington's SD24's were the first to have the Chinese Red paint scheme.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
As far as I know the SD24 I'm getting is pretty much brand new. The GE U30C has a couple of monor issues from what I understand.
Not to hungry, so I will take a sweet tea to go for now.
Here's a couple of shots of the "steel plate load" I have been working on since lunch.
I added some bands/red clamps to it as well. Not the best looking pictures, butyou can still see whats going on.
Well everybody, I will be back in later.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Afternoon all!
I'll have a slice of that strawberry-rhubarb pie you got sitting over there Zoe. No put it on plate not the catapult...... Sheesh.
Temps have dropped here from the 79°F we had around 11AM to 56°F and dropping fast. Looks like Canandaigua to the Wet of where I am is getting some rain. It also looks like the entire storm will stay to the West and North of here. Too bad as we need the rain here in Geneva. Going to get down to the low 40s this evening.
I've been puttering around with a few small projects on the layout.
Robby P.Here's a couple of shots of the "steel plate load" I have been working on since lunch.
Nice work, Robby! What did you use for the "Steel Plates and what color did you paint them?
Time to close some windows before the heat decides to come on..........
Ray.....a LHS near me has this styrene sheets that are this gray color. I just dullcote them, to kinda get rid of the shine. Next I put some black/gray powders on the top load. Give it that "weathered" look. OH, and the ends that I cut. Well I use some oil paint, and some rust colored powder for that.
Just made an appointment to go see the foot doc on Thursday afternoon. My right foot is swollen up quite a bit. That has me a bit concerned. It could be the Charcot condition acting up or it could be another broken bone. Worst case would be another infection firing up but it doesn't look like it.
howmusIt also looks like the entire storm will stay to the West and North of here.
Actually it looks like I was wrong. I'm not usually wrong either! I thought I was wrong once but it turned out I was mistaken......... The storm system finally decided to turn to the East and we are getting a much needed gentle soaking rain. I looks like it should continue for most of the evening so we should get 1/4 inch or more out of it.
I am looking for any photos you folks might have of stacks of new ties as they would be shipped. Also any information that would link with the 1920s on new ties.
Jeffrey I do hope your foot improves and is not an infection!
Robby thanks for the info. That looks like a neat one evening project.
Coffee refill, please.
***Jeffrey, I hope you'll leave the "perfect" UP color scheme alone!?! (I have a low hood Atlas SD24, but in N scale) Most important of all, get that foot looked at asap. Don't be scaring us!
***Robby, those pallets look real good!
Wife & I ran some errands today and I picked up a couple fine tip Elmers paint markers, 1 yellow & 1 white. Perhaps tomorrow I can resume work on the wife's roads.
Hope everyone is doing well today.
Cederstrand***Jeffrey, I hope you'll leave the "perfect" UP color scheme alone!?!
Got another rain storm moving through right now. No thunder or wind, just rain.
Good Afternoon---or Evening or---oh---bother.
I just spent a pleasant afternoon in the trainroom working on a section of the extension I 'acquired'---ahem--cough---actually it was more of an extended meditation on just how I was going to proceed from the 2 elevators at Ellis out toward whatever the temporary terminus was going to be there---when I do things by sections I really do things by sections---aherm---cough cough---
I also got some good news today---LHS has my styrene packs I ordered---I know, I could've got them directly but when I go to Woodstock it gives me an excoo---I mean, reason to go see him-----besides, I always find things there---
Robby- I'm constantly mucking about with styrene pieces, 'steel' enamel paint from Testors and other assorted oddments---and boy do I mean oddments.
Chloe--I'll have a cheeseburger and a large RBF please---oh and a Chocolate Pecan pie as well---No. On a plate is preferable please-----I'll sit in the corner booth---good thing these tables flip into shield position fast-----
howmus I'll have a slice of that strawberry-rhubarb pie you got sitting over there Zoe. No put it on plate not the catapult...... Sheesh.
CHICKEN!!!!!!!!
pcarrell howmus I'll have a slice of that strawberry-rhubarb pie you got sitting over there Zoe. No put it on plate not the catapult...... Sheesh. CHICKEN!!!!!!!!
BUCK BUCK BUCK---buck
And dang proud of it too. (he says this from under the corner booth)
blownout cylinderpcarrell howmus I'll have a slice of that strawberry-rhubarb pie you got sitting over there Zoe. No put it on plate not the catapult...... Sheesh. CHICKEN!!!!!!!! BUCK BUCK BUCK---buck And dang proud of it too. (he says this from under the corner booth)
Had chicken soup for supper..........
Nah, I just wanted to eat it not wear it.....
Evenin'
PC - I brought the pie plates..... I could use a nice tall glass of cold, iced tea, no sugar please. (d**n Yankee). I know cold, iced tea sounds redundent.. some places here make hot tea and just put ice in it...
Boy! HEAT!! Everything started to bloom 2 days ago and now I can't see... allergies you know.... 77 at 6:00am, 3 days ago it was 38 at 6:00am. Right now it's 90, had to put the AC on for the asthma...
Works been busy and tourist season is gearing up early this year it seems. A part time resident was issued a ticket for failure to yield to our fire truck and ambulance. Claimed we were just driving around with lights and sirens for no reason.... Went to court and made an implied threat to one of our representives.... The judge wasn't happy .... 10 days county jail, $5000.00 fine.
Slowly removing paint from rails on carfloat. Next, a bit of weathering. I'm only able to get in 20-30 min of MRR work these days. Patiently waiting for the carfloat apron to come out in July..... Attic is kinda warm anyway.
Tom's got a deisel, Tom's got a Deisel!
Robby, you can send me those loads, my flats are empty.
Rob , use a kinda thick straight edge to keep the centerline thin!!
Terry
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
We lost 1-0. The kid that scored made an absolutely perfect shot though.
Zoe, two dbl. bacon cheeseburgers, a water, and a sports drink, please.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout