Robby P.It was a CSX Slug, switching some salt hoppers. I met the two guys, and very very nice. Gave me a bottled water, and got some shots of me behind the controls.
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Cederstrand***Terry (or anyone who knows) what is the spacing of road lines, both length of line and distance between each line?? Thanks!
I will take a slice of pecan pie, and a glass of milk.
Something very neat/cool happened to me today. I finally caught up with a train that switches out some VERY rusty hoppers. I was waiting for it to come by for some shots. The one engineer said it will be awhile before they move, and wondered if I wanna come up on the engine? Of course I said "YES!!!".
It was a CSX Slug, switching some salt hoppers. I met the two guys, and very very nice. Gave me a bottled water, and got some shots of me behind the controls. I got some pictures of the panel, and the toilet!!! Yes, the toilet. I believe once on here someone was wanting a picture of one.
Well they told me to try to meet them Thursday, and I can ride with them. Maybe even ride while they do some switching. I called my wife, and she was shocked. I got a good bit of rust hoppers, and video.
I thought I would tell everybody. Still some nice people out in this world. I also believe he said the engine was built in 1978. I think.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
A Myoplex Deluxe, please & thanks.
***Terry (or anyone who knows) what is the spacing of road lines, both length of line and distance between each line?? Thanks!
My friend who drives for UPS got seriously burned and ended up in the hospital. Poor guy has got to be in some real pain, even with the meds.
Got a visit from a cop....well, a neighbor friend who thought he had one of our pyrenees dogs at his house. Not one of ours. Was nice catching up on the latest with him.
An hour until "Deadliest Warrior". Interesting show.
Have a good night all.
Good evening gentlemen.It has been a glorious day off! I washed and waxed my car today. I even waxed the rims this time. Boy are they shiny! I also vacuumed the interior, armor alled the dash, cleaned the windows and conditioned the leather. I couldn't believe the amount of tar on the sides. Granted, I have an off white car, so I see ALL of it but dang! I swear it runs better too!I also secured the piers and put sculptamold around the bases. I used a whole bag of sculptamold on this valley. Well worth my seven dollars! I should now have the correct profile for sediment build up. Now I have a reason for the water to part around the piers. She's starting' to come together!
Have a good night.
The rains here have passed, for now. It was a hard pounding rain. It totally destroyed my sisters flowers.
blownout cylinderOnly one top mount? Wouldn't two work?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Well, we're a little short-staffed most of the time as it is...
Maybe a tail gun on the pumper, like on the B-52 bombers. I believe it's operated from up front with a camera by it. I wonder if we can get a FEMA grant for it...
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
AmanaMedic ewl01A 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. I'm hoping the Judge saw this for the "teachable moment" it was... I'm still waiting for the day we ARM the rigs... I think a top-mount .50 cal. would go a long way towards getting traffic to MOVE
ewl01A 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.
I'm hoping the Judge saw this for the "teachable moment" it was... I'm still waiting for the day we ARM the rigs... I think a top-mount .50 cal. would go a long way towards getting traffic to MOVE
Only one top mount? Wouldn't two work? I mean, after all I've seen drivers sneaking up behind emergency vehicles just so they can speed-----the judge in that story reminds me of a judge we called the hanging judge---he would not take any guff from anyone and he would put the offender away---R.G.Groom was his name----Oxford county judge-----waaaay back----
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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Good evening one and all...
Chloe, fire me up a coupla burgers please...with a Coke to wash 'em down. Thankyamuch.
I'm hoping the Judge saw this for the "teachable moment" it was... I'm still waiting for the day we ARM the rigs... I think a top-mount .50 cal. would go a long way towards getting traffic to MOVE.
There was (might still be, don't know if he's retired yet or not) a crusty old street medic in Cedar Rapids. He got his start in 'Nam. We called him "Psycho," and he LOVED it. He always vowed and threatened that for his last day on the job, he was going to bring a paintball gun and "tag" everybody who wouldn't get out of the way.
ROBBY P inspired me today, his fine looking steel load coupled with dead-ends on my story leads so far this week led to the creation of one scrap load, and the re-configuring of another. Maybe I'll post pictures of it later...if I like them enough, not too badly embarrassed by them...
Burger time!
Ohhhhhhhh Shazbot.
Uh, Chloe? better keep my ticket open...looks like I'm buyin' for awhile...
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
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
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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.
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)
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!!!!!!!!
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.
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.....
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
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-----
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.
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.
Rob
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.
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.
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.
Afternoon all!
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..........
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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----