Mornin, just some coffee for now Janie,
Looking for another nice day here, with high in the low 60's. We've had good weather most the week, but will be paying for it next, with rain and then snow by next weekend.
Spent yesterday outside doing yard work till it was time for Leroy's 5'th birthday party. He had a bowling party in Paris. The little poop is purty good. He got 3 strikes in one game and 2 in the 2'nd. It was kinda fun watching those lttle kids trying to throw those balls.
PC,,, looks like the progress going going well now. You'll be running train before ya know it.
Fergie,,, great news bout your dad.
RT,, Hope your boss gets better, we'll be thinking of him here. You keep buyin trains and and your wife's gonna skin ya. No matter what you get her.
Jerry,,, how'ed your family get togaither go, well I hope.
GMT,,, sound like a rough weekend racing, but at least nothing was damaged beyond repair, and there's alway next year.
Haven't neen out rail fanning this last week, so it's left overs today, this is the old IC yard office in Palistine, IL. [now INRR]
An old IC caboose on display downtown in Palistine
The viaduct in Geenup, IL. where the IC passed under the PRR
Nothin really planned for today, just the normal Sunday stuff, then back out in the yard. Mother's got some things to finish up for the county fair's stock holders meeting next Fri. and start packing for her trip to Florida Tue. The next week or so is going to be busy for her, leaves Tue, back Fri., Fair meeting that night, her familys Christmas in Lawerenceville Sat., and her mom's 70'th birthday Sun. afternoon, then KC's 1'st birthday party latter the same day.
Hope ya'll have a good day, catch ya latters maybe
inch
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jeffrey-wimberly wrote: Train Master wrote: not model railroader, model railroading, there was a peice on the atlas forum bout it as well as on the 2guyz forum One of my forum members dug this up over at the Atlas forum. Well got this off of the Atlas forum:Gentlemen:Model Railroading has indeed ceased publication. The Oct 2006 will be thelast issue. We faced the decision as to our future and put our efforts intothe On30 Annual 2007. That publication has been printed, is available fromhobby shops through Carstens Publications and to individuals from us atwww.on30annual.com.We are working on distribution of the company's other assets and will becontacting our subscribers shortly with their options. I can't commentfurther as those are both ongoing.The hobby is undergoing a evolution and while we are proud of ourcontributions to the hobby over the years and our forward thinking, wesimply were not large enough to withstand the rapidity of the changes. Theinternet, while significant, was not the only factor.While we have ceased publication, we are not out of business. Should youneed the On30 Annuals, any of our other books, backs issues of MRG or theFinescale RRer, please contact us.Chris Lane
Train Master wrote: not model railroader, model railroading, there was a peice on the atlas forum bout it as well as on the 2guyz forum
not model railroader, model railroading, there was a peice on the atlas forum bout it as well as on the 2guyz forum
Well got this off of the Atlas forum:Gentlemen:Model Railroading has indeed ceased publication. The Oct 2006 will be thelast issue. We faced the decision as to our future and put our efforts intothe On30 Annual 2007. That publication has been printed, is available fromhobby shops through Carstens Publications and to individuals from us atwww.on30annual.com.We are working on distribution of the company's other assets and will becontacting our subscribers shortly with their options. I can't commentfurther as those are both ongoing.The hobby is undergoing a evolution and while we are proud of ourcontributions to the hobby over the years and our forward thinking, wesimply were not large enough to withstand the rapidity of the changes. Theinternet, while significant, was not the only factor.While we have ceased publication, we are not out of business. Should youneed the On30 Annuals, any of our other books, backs issues of MRG or theFinescale RRer, please contact us.Chris Lane
David Parks I am the terror that flaps in the night!
Well see I was wrong couldn't believe it but I don't keep up with that mag . Hope your not that down about it .
Morning all well looks like my help has bailed out on me to help lay my new kitchen floor. (and I've never really done it before) So here goes nothing today at least its the type you don't glue down. Any body near by want to help oh yeah your all either was north or way south of me and a few way west.
well talk to you all later oh yeah any body got a few layers of skin I can get my hide is getting awful low on skin back there LOL
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Morning all,
Seems like I stay away for a couple days and all he** breaks loose in the CS. PC "caught on tape" stealing Fergie's turkey drumstick. What's this CS comming to. Disgraceful.
Fergie, glad to hear your Father will be home for Christmas. Our prayers will continue.
RT, sorry to hear about your boss. You have had a full year this year my friend. Hang in there. Our prayers will be with him.
Carstens going out. That figures, I just paid for subscriptions to two of his mags. Well I guess that's lost.
Went to Hattiesburg yesterday. Went in the new truck. Did well. Took a lot of back roads to see the color and scenery. GPS a little slow. Had to stop sometimes for it to catch up. OH, GPS is MoM reading the map and giving directions. By the way I didn't tell you all, but after we bought the travel trailor, we were told the older truck would have trouble pulling it. So I had to buy a truck to pull the trailor. Bought an '07 F-250 diesel. Wish I would have looked at the price of fuel for that sucker. Diesel fuel is $0.50 a gallon more than gas. At 6.5 MPG rating on the truck, NOT GOOD. Couldn't part with the old truck so told the 10 year old grandson I would give it to him when he came of age. He was delighted.
Had a great holiday here, but looking forward to spending the next in the new madeover old house in Hattiesburg.
Jerry, hope you and Sallie have a great time with all the family.
PC, The new layout is looking great. At the rate you are progressing, do you think you will be running trains by Christmas? Just asking.
JR. sorry to hear about the bad luck at the track. But sometimes bad luck can turn out to be good.
Inch, Great pictures even tho they are left overs. Leftovers after a holiday is the story of my life.No matter how you try to cover them up they are still leftovers.LOL
MoM calls so got to go. Later.......Neal
grayfox1119 wrote:Doggone it PHIL!!!!! I told you not to eat FERGIE's drumstick that we saved for him!! What a way to treat our good Canadian neighbor...tsk, tsk...I heard he actually threw a few chairs around the CS!!! Boy...I'm glad I wasn't there, MIKE and I and DUKE can't move that fast there days. LOL
Hey, I can't help it if I beat you to it! Yeah, I saw you reaching for it! But you don't have to be a sore loser and go tattling on me!
You snooze, you lose!
NESU wrote:Seems like I stay away for a couple days and all he** breaks loose in the CS. PC "caught on tape" stealing Fergie's turkey drumstick. What's this CS comming to. Disgraceful.
Don't believe all the retoric you hear. There were "others" reaching for it too. I just got there first!
NESU wrote:PC, The new layout is looking great. At the rate you are progressing, do you think you will be running trains by Christmas? Just asking.
To inch and Neal: Don't think so. I've got a lot of RR to build! I'm just hoping to get the staging and lower deck benchwork in by then. After that is the helix and the upper deck, more lighting, backdrop, and electrical. Long way to go yet! I did get more done yesterday though. I'll post some pics later.
inch, have fun at those birthday parties! Don't eat too much cake!
pcarrell wrote: NESU wrote:Seems like I stay away for a couple days and all he** breaks loose in the CS. PC "caught on tape" stealing Fergie's turkey drumstick. What's this CS comming to. Disgraceful. Don't believe all the retoric you hear. There were "others" reaching for it too. I just got there first!
I have to stick up for PC him and I did fight for it but he won fair and square .
Anyone know where the tapes are? Are they still being sent to others or are they forgotten?
Teffy's was lost in the storm but Ryan saved the one he had. there should be 3 or 4 more out someplace.
Flip
fec153 wrote: Anyone know where the tapes are? Are they still being sent to others or are they forgotten? Teffy's was lost in the storm but Ryan saved the one he had. there should be 3 or 4 more out someplace. Flip
Yeah! It'll show that I wasn't the only one! Where's the tape?
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wrong tape PC he's talking about tapes of train shows he taped off of RFD TV
Nice try
Phil [pc] Before you came onboard, I sent out tapes of Tracks ahead and shows on RFD. They were /are intended to be shared with others that don't get these shows.
Flip aka Fla.Phil
Oh, oops! Man, that must have been a while ago. I've been hanging around here since around page 700!
I still want to see the tape of the great turkey leg theft. It won't clear me, but it'll show that I wasn't the only one!
Good morning and top 'o' the day to all of ye.
I'll have the pancakes this morning.
Boy, we've got drumstick theft, cars breaking down in competition, mags biting the dust. There's enough here for a book.
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Good Morning All,
Feel much better now that I've gotten some sleep. Scurrying about doing chores this am then some time for the Giants game (I hope) and then a visit behind the layout door if I still feel ambitious.
Fergie - good news regarding your dad. Hope it all works as projected.
Inch - nice pics of the old station. Wish we had a wide cupola caboose at our museum. It isn't parked near the 200 ton crane is it?
RT - you've had a tough year my friend. Wish I'd known about your flooring project - I was in the area and could have stopped by. Are you putting down self adhesive tile or linoleum? I've done both and the non self stick type as well (lots of mastic all over everywhere) and had an enjoyable time doing it so long as the tile goes on right side up. At least until you go to stand up after hunching over the floor for a few hours. I ended up laying flat on my back on the new floor until my back clicked back into line and whaddaya know it helped set the tiles as well.
The linoleum was not so much fun and I ended up with a fair bit more trim layers around that room than originally planned. Sort of like trying to wrap an elephant.
Live fire exercises are always fun. When I was on the Hancock in the Tonkin Gulf we had an antiaircraft drill along with the America where they were supposed to shoot a missile at a drone trailing a target banner. After half an hour of trying to launch we decided to show them how to do it with our WWII vintage 5" guns but hit the drone instead totally destroying it. We caught h*** for it but nicely pointed out that if not for us had it been a real attack, we were at risk of being sunk.
Knowing we could take care of ourselves was comforting when we were sent to the Persian Gulf in 1973 and the Iraqi's buzzed us with a fighter bomber (French made I think). At that point we weren't sure what our mission was or who was fighting the Israelis that time so it got a bit tense. We all remembered what had happened to the USS Liberty in similar circumstances and weren't about to let that happen again. All that went down this time of year 33 years ago. We stayed out past Christmas and one of my fondest memories of the trip was the Christmas tree we made out of the 6ply fan fold teletype paper we used. The plys were white, yellow, green, red, blue and i think orange and cut and scotch taped together over a couple of empty rollers we had the only Christmas tree on the ship.
In the grand scheme of things the weekend damage wasn't so bad, just the let down after thrashing to finish the car and the fact that some of it will need doing over again. I aways try to do things a bit better each time and a new tunnel and cover will go a long way towards tidying up the inside of the car. For sure I'm glad I beefed up the engine bay and put in a new undertray there as that is what saved the frame from being a write off. My car will be an easy fix in the shop and I can improve the design there as well.
Are any of you running DCC? If so do you have block control or breakers for different sections of your layout? I'd like to do this on mine when I convert to DCC but I'd like the pros and cons to it.
All for now CUL,J.R.
Top of the page? Lunch is on me but go easy please,I have a race car to fix.
Hello again from Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore. I’m 35 pages behind, so won’t attempt a catch up.
Fergie: Glad to hear that your dad will be home for Christmas. I must go back a page or two and see what you posted.
The excuse for my absence is the furniture project I had on. Since I’m not a carpenter, and have low tech tools, it’s taken way longer that it would have taken some-one who knew what they were doing. Besides, ¾ inch good both sides and ½ inch good both sides oak ply are not available around here, so I had to make up from ¼ inch gos oak ply. That takes time, but I didn’t run out of glue!
A few years ago we had a bookcase custom made for our living room.
At the other end of the room there are two windows at right angles. We put benches under them that came from a Halifax Hotel after their renovations. They are 1970s vintage, and covered with cushion pads, served us well, but were getting tiered, if you know what I mean.
So, I thought that replacements in the style of the bookcase would be nice. Didn’t want to repeat the custom made experience, not only because of the cost, but the chap’s finishing leaves much to be desired.
This is what I came up with (cushions by Kris)
Neal:
I just paid for subscriptions to two of his mags. Well I guess that's lost.
Not necessarily, as he says
and will be contacting our subscribers shortly with their options.
Dartmouth freecycle has turned up another HO mrr. I’ve invited him over here. Hope he drops by.
Kris is away to a craft show today, so I “have the con” for lunch. I’d better attend to that. Roast of beef, mashed potatoes and gravy, red cabbage, carrots, and broccoli. Desert is aple turnover or peach slices with ice cream for Kris’ mom, and peach slices and nsa ice cream for me. If it turns out ½ decently, I’ll send a pic.
TTFN.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
You forgot the salmon sandwiches. I got those!
Hi Gang:
Dick, I see from the post about the HO live steam locomotive that we should now call you Rip Van Winkle. I saw a blurb about it sometime back but being a nice person I wasn't going to say anything. ( Besides that guy beat me to it.) It does sound interesting but from one of the comments it seems to need alot of TLC. I have enough trouble with my 4 inch scale live steamer.
The Cliffs Shaft head frame has a couple of coats of paint on it. It's not finished yet but it looks good. I went to HD and got some spray paint American Classics Sand Stone. The paint comes in several earth tones and I got 2 that looked right. I had tried to mix the colors but gave up as I was wasting too much paint. I sprayed some of the darker shade into an air brush bottle and gave it a couple of coats. It looks pretty good. Now I have to do the detail painting. That is going to be the hard part. Take a look at the Cliffs Shaft Theme Park site and you will know what I mean.
GMT: That's a rough trip to the track. At least everything can be repaired and as you said it will be better. Really the only fair wear and tare thing was the bolt on your car. Well I'm going to go through the written stuff on the Cliffs Shaft and see if I can figure out how the stuff such as conveyers, breaker, etc. are layed out.
I'm off to the house. I'll see you all later.
Well, seems everyone is in quite the uproar over a certain turkey leg.
Please understand that no ill intentions were had on my part. This "greatest of offences" was commited on the understanding that all had had their fill and round two was ready to commence. My bad!
In an effort to keep the peace, I'm offering the following goodwill gesture.
I will offer up a feast fit for a king on Christmas Eve.
Chloe, Zoe, and Flo are to be first in line, followed by Fergie. Then all others are welcome.
The feast will begin around lunch time and last until the last person has had their fill.
Hopefully this gesture will help mend some of the gaping wounds left by my wreckless and insensitive actions.
Are we cool now? Fergie?
I’ve been reminded that I didn’t wish one and all a ..so now I have.
RT: There was a thing on the radio here the other night to the effect that the death of an elderly person was seldom a tragic event. I think I know what’s meant, but if it is your boss’ time, you’ll miss him I don’t doubt. Praying for him, and for you in the uncertainty of the situation.
the subscription to MR is more than you probally can realize.
Since the way they publish ahead, the front month comes in to Halifax libraries about the 4th or 5th of the current month (Dec ame in on Nov 4th.) In consequence, Nov became available for loan out of the building on Nov 5th. So I’ve got the current month downstairs, even though our local library doesn’t carry it.
Fergie: I’d lost track of your renovations, and had the thought that you were well under way with them.
Another diesel? This must be a sure sign of conversion. I know Cole Harbour isn’t strictly “The Dark Side”, but ……
Dick:
Hey DER JOHN....can I come over for dinner?
JR: Tough on the breakdowns, but I think you called it correctly and closed the season. Glad there wasn’t a personnel accident involved.
MarK
Anyone here have a special train they want to see under the tree in a month or so?
CapeJim:
those baskets underneath for storage,
We had been looking for rectangular ones with lids, and couldn’t find a thing that was the right size / price. The Wicker Emporium happened to have a sale on these round ones, so we snapped them up ($12.00 Cnd each, and the small log basket in the very far left compartment was only $4.00!. We had the regular log basket already.
Tea time, and Kris should be back before too long, so I’m outta here.