The Coffee Shop (a place to chat) Est. 2004

[egmurphy]

QUOTE: How many remember the Hooterville Cannonball? An aptly named train to stop under the water tower where three lovely young ladies might be swimming.

"Petticoat Junction", sure do. As I recall I was more interested in the girls than in the train at that point in my life. Ah yes, the follies of youth. Wasn't 'Green Acres' a spin-off from that one?

Ed

[Anonymous]

About the Beverly Hillibillies . . . they did shoot at least one show from Silver Dollar City. I worked there but not when the show was taping. (The workers called it "Steal Your Dollar City" lol ) Granny was my favorite character from the show. (Ellie Mae was definately a close second though [:D] [;)] [:p] ) During one show they showed Granny jumping off the second story balcony of the "Hotel". I bet that sweet little ol lady didn't really jump tho, what do you think?

Well since we are walking down memory lane. <Something some of us tend to do more than others.> How many remember the Hooterville Cannonball? An aptly named train to stop under the water tower where three lovely young ladies might be swimming. [:D] [;)] [8D]

[egmurphy]

Morning Coffee Clubbers,

Weather is a bit better this morning, but not nearly as nice and brisk as up at Tom's, but at least the humidity was down a bit. Made the morning constitutional a bit more enjoyable. (Does anyone else still say "morning constitutional" for a walk, or does that really date me?) Anyway, now for some coffee.

QUOTE: John: Is it possible to look at other pages while your message is in the quick reply, or the reply to topic windows, without losing it by the time you return? If so, how do you do it?

What I do is have a couple of browser windows open. I work on the reply in the quick reply window, usually on the last page of the thread (but it really doesn't matter). Meanwhile I have opened one or two other browser windows (I used to be able to just type control-N to open an additional window. Doesn't work now so I restart my browser with a new window) where I have the other pages of the thread that I need to be checking for comments. I can just jump back and forth between the different windows. Did that explain it, or did I make it too convoluted? [%-)]

QUOTE: JunctionFan: A large distribution company donated the trailer because it isn't road worthy. We are allowed to stay on the property too and we get help from a truck and trailer repair shop.

We are building 3 decks where the mainline constantly climbs to each deck along the back of the wall. The first two decks are the switching area. The 3rd level will be accessable with a large elevated platform which will act solely as a turn-around staging yard.

Wow, nice friends to have. Good for your club. Sounds like an interesting layout too. Good luck.


Nice logo Fergie. And big enough that I can read it without my glasses!! [:D]


Bob, what's the deal with "The Return of Ivan"? Thought that storm went north last week?? Watch out, even though it's just a tropical storm. Remember Alison that drowned Houston 4 years ago? That was just 'Tropical Storm' too.

Hey Bill, good to see you back here again. Sounds like you're doing well and keeping busy, two important things.

QUOTE: ...that picture you posted of a MOW overhead wire self-propelled line car was used once upon a time on the Mexicano Railway on the Maltrata incline.

Yes, that section of the mainline between Mexico City and Veracruz was electrified back in 1925. It had a ruling grade of 4.7% !! (Sounds like my model railroad). [:0] "Maltrata" can be loosely translated as 'mistreatment', which is what a 4.7% grade would do to your equipment. The line in this section climbs 4,000 feet in 25 miles (obviously, not the whole grade was 4.7%) and 6,500 feet in 60 miles. Even driving through that area on the highway is a trip.


First test run on the layout with the block wiring went well last night. No dead sections. Today's test will be to hook up the second power pack to the block selectors and see if I can really operate two trains independently, or whether I just short out the whole system. If all goes well, next step is to wire the leads into a multi-pin plug that I'll use to connect/disconnect the control panel from the layout when it has to go up against the wall.

Hasta luego,

Ed

[Anonymous]

Good Morning All:

Tom:
That's not fair - now Bill will be an experienced operator before I get there. Ya'll have fun.

Krump:
Thanks for the description - sounds like it takes more energy then I could find in this old body.

Jim:
About the Beverly Hillbilly's car - it s in Branson, MO. Henning, the originator of that series was from southwest MO.

Bill:
I understand about eBay - it's the curse of the checking account, especially if it's a good buy, it doesn't matter weather I need it or not. This forum has saved me lots of money.

I've got to go start packing the car so I'll check in later.

Ya'll have a blessed day and remember SANTA FE ALL THE WAY
Bob

[tomwatkins]

Good Mornin' Everybody,
It is a beautiful day in the mountains this morning. The coffee is excellent and it's going to be a great day. Bill Mathewson is coming up today, and if we can keep the gremlins at bay we should have some fun running trains. I had the railroad up and running yesterday afternoon and everything was fine. So we'll see. Knock on wood.

Jim, lets see, 205 MPH, on a bike, on public roads. Yep, that qualifies as certifiably crazy. If they caught him that proves that nothing outruns a radio.

Teffy, Better batten down the hatches, Ivan is coming to see you too. This is one wild storm. I've heard of them doing 360's before, but this one has got to have one of the strangest tracks in history. Take Care.

Fergie, that is a good looking logo. I really like it. And you are really making progress.

Der, I think I'll pass on the night vision goggles. Louise is very patient, supportive and understanding about the railroad. However, seeing me climbing or crawling around in the basement with those on just might push her over the edge.

Chris, The paint schemes sound good. They would make some nice looking consists. If you don't already have an ALPS printer, you might want to check with Rail Graphics about custome decals. Several of the small resin kit mfgs. use them and they are beautiful. I have no info on pricing but it might not hurt to find out.

I'd better go for now. There are a few things to do before Bill gets here.

Have a great day everybody,
Tom

[krump]

QUOTE: Originally posted by TEFFY

Good Morning All:

Krump:
Over the last several posts you've made several comments about "ringette", what is it?

Hi Teffy,
Ringette is like ice hockey minus the blade on the stick... full ice hockey equipment is used, the Ringette stick is a shaft only, and instead of a hockey puck or ball, players pass and shoot a large plastic or rubber "ring" .It's a league of it's own here in Canada, and has a large local group here where we live. Ringette is popular for girls/women in particular - it's very competitive, highly skilled, and energy driven. Our 7 yr old daughter is just now starting her second year of Ringette, she loves it. Basically, since neither my wife or I skate, we thought that our daughter could learn to skate, and possibly enjoy the sport at the same time... it's been good for her. Fun to watch!!!
(our other kids become very cold in the arena, therefore they prefer gymnastics as a sport)
I'll try to add a link ...
http://www.vernonringette.com/thegame.php3
http://www.vernonringette.com/gallery.php3

so, now everybody knows about Ringette - test will follow [:)]

cheers,

[Anonymous]

Morning all [8D]

It seems like the coffee shop is a snowball rolling downhill. Every time I come in from work it seems like 2 or 3 new pages have popped up.

I got the new Historic Rail catalog. I like them. They have a variety of models, videos, books, posters, and well you name it. Unfortunately in my "Bridge" thread I said it was the newest little Walters catalog. Boy was I wrong. [B)] [:0] [:(]

Talking about the Beverly Hillbillies truck. There is one (not sure how many they actually had) in the Ralph Foster Museum at College of the Ozarks near Branson, Missouri. Well it was there years ago. Might not be there now, but was anyway. Noah, Chris, John, Nick, and others their age might not even know who the Beverly Hillibies were. That kinda put some of us in the "older" catagory. [}:)]

Better go, before some of you throw me out. [:p] [;)]

[Anonymous]

Hello everybody !

Thought I'd stop by real quick and just let everyone know that I'm still around and haven't stopped playing w/ trains - just put them on hold for the most part but for a short spell until I get other more pressing issues handled - like getting my business off the ground & getting my shop completed. It's a pain in the tail to be working out of boxes, piles, and plastic buckets full of hardware, tools, and the like, tripping over extension cords, banging ones head with God knows what, as it seems is an everyday occurance lately, and other adventures in the life of Bill. . .Some of them should be on a video entitled "I can't believe that I did such dumb things like standing on a ladder w/ a nail gun, and pushing a 10 ft. long 2X6 against the ceiling w/ my head."

I just got caught up on the Coffee Shop happenings as of late, and I see a lot of new "faces" - it's been awhile since I stopped in and I've missed all of your banter. Found myself spending too much time on the Internet lately and had to impose some rigid discipline on myself to get something accompolished in my life. I lied. My wife imposed the rules on me, period ! Has forbidden me to even go near eBay, too!

A fellow modeler in my neck of the woods and I have started a small time resin casting ("cottage industry") producing 1/25 and 1/8 scale model car parts -mostly hot rod & racing theme, and we plan to do some G scale detail pieces as well, and perhaps some structure and scenery items next year.

Looks like we're going to get yet another hurricane in the SouthEast next week. Oh, woopie - like we need more wind & rain. We also own the heavily wooded and quite hilly lot to the right of our property and that has a real mess on it still. I'm going to have to tune up my chain saw and get a chipper this Fall to get rid of all the storm debris. Right now there are too many scary critters calling it home, and I'm a devout coward when it comes to poisionous snakes, scorpions, and other creepy stuff.

Do they make condos w/ 2000 sq ft basements?

I did join the local NMRA affiliated model railroad club in the Atlanta area, so I'm not completely devoid of the hobby at the moment. It will be so cool when I get the shop, model building room, and the layout room completed, in the reverse order, except when I'm discussing it w/ the wife. . .My niece's husband was to be over here twice a week to assist w/ the framing and wiring, but after two half days he hasn't been seen or heard from since. lol He wanted to start running trains after a month (he's never had a layout further than four feet from a Christmas tree). I've had to proceed a little slower than I'd normally would, since I'm still having some recurring issues with my leg problem, and I don't want to end up spending the entire evening in a charming emergency room again. Thus far they haven't done surgery, but I think it's more a fact that my HMO doesn't want to, and not that I shouldn't get the procedure done. . .C'est la vie !

Will be visiting Tom Watkins tomorrow and that should be a kick. We might even get to run some trains - I hope so ! How's that for pressure, as I know Tom will check in here in the AM before I get there.

Ed - that picture you posted of a MOW overhead wire self-propelled line car was used once upon a time on the Mexicano Railway on the Maltrata incline. It was cobbled together in their company shops, if you couldn't tell. There is a photo of it (when it was in service) in a book entitled "Railroad Work Equipment and Special Service Cars" by Robert J. Wayner (published by Wayner Publications). The picture made it look even more like a Beverly Hillbillie's locomotive w/ a bunch of ladders on the side, pealing paint, no hood sides, a large watering can on the side, lights, marker lamps and looking much more down & out. Looks like some kind of whimsical beastie that LGB produced. Anybody that enjoys MOW equipment should consider that book worth having. - (I had referenced it before on the Coffee Shop when Lupo inquired about it.)

Some of my HO is now in Lupo's possession, as changing eras, themes, and road names made my roster resemble the California RR Museum in Sacramento, or a typical tinplater's roster in the '50s. Now I get to buy all new stuff that costs twice what it cost ten yrs ago. Still have about 150 blue boxes and MDC items that may or may not stay. And there's boxes of G scale that need to be around somebody else's tree this Christmas. Then there's all the unbuilt model aircraft kits, 200 plus model car kits, and the ship models, and my son's 250 plus diecast cars. . .Think my wife has a valid argument, after all. (lol)

I'll report back in after I visit Tom tomorrow and tell you about his layout since I think he's too humble to brag on it. . .Goodnite all and be safe.
BILL

[Paul W. Beverung]

Hi All;
Feggie; Nice going on the Turntable and yard. Now get it running and have some fun.
I looked up the picture of your ship, but it was not on the sight. Just an empty box. There was a picture of a sister ship. Looks good. Is that a hanger aft of the wheel house and stack? I take it that you are Canadian Coast Guard.

Yea, I'll give you a second on that Darwin. I've had a few of those types go by me. At that speed there wouldn't be much to pick up after a wreck.

Well, I guess I'll hit the sack. I've got to clean under the pecan trees tomorrow. We've got a real good crop this year. Last year we didn't have a nut one.

Paul

[Anonymous]

Good Evening All:

I can't believe that we are gearing up for "IVAN". Of course he's just going to be a tropical storm.

Has anybody ever changed the oil on the car and forgot to put the drain plug in until two quarts of oil have been added and run out on the driveway? I'm not going to tell you who did, but Mrs. "T" has been doing a lot of laughing.

Fergie:
Mrs. "T" wants to know what we did to have the pleasure of being adopted by the Francey family. On the museum visits, this trip is already about 19 days long and as much as we'd like to, we'd better pass. I'm still holding out for the Museum of Transportation in Baltimore though. I went to your webb sight and was impressed with your turntable, I can't wait to see it for real. With your track work and John's facia, I should bring home a lot of ideas.
Why was the staten island ferry offshore of NS? Any ideas?

John:
I'm probably just going to bring the Kato E-8/9 in a box, with the storm I've got a lot to do before leaving and we can check it at your place. If I can find the box I'll bring some daylight passenger cars. I feel sorry for you, buying the trucks and them not working out for you. I'm not going to one-up you but I'll tell you my truck story when I meet you. It's to long for me to type it out and I don't want to slam the importer as I was treated very fairly. The slammers (flamers) would never quit.

Ed:
How do you find all this stuff out? I barely have time to post let alone play.

Ya'll have a blessed day and remember SANTA FE ALL THE WAY
Bob

[der5997]

Hey Paul, good to see someone else in for a late night (here anyway) cuppa!

Just swapped over the wheel sets on the draggy passenger coach, filed down the bolster screw heads in case they were rubbing on the centre axel, and added some solder as weight in the centre sill. Runs oh so much better pushed down the track. Power tests tomorrow.

Good night, God Bless.

[Fergmiester]

Noah:! Thanks Buddy for your timely response to my question regarding posting pics.

U da man

Good night all
Fergie

[Junctionfan]

A large distribution company donated the trailer because it isn't road worthy. We are allowed to stay on the property too and we get help from a truck and trailer repair shop.

We are building 3 decks where the mainline constantly climbs to each deck along the back of the wall. The first two decks are the switching area. The 3rd level will be accessable with a large elevated platform which will act solely as a turn-around staging yard.

[der5997]

Good evening everyone: Successful visit to the LHS. Fried TCS decoder replaced no questions asked (actually with a one function upgrade because the M1 I fried wasn't in stock). Is this good service, or what?[^] [:D] It turns out Mike asked some time ago if TCS would change their warranty policy for him, so that the store sends back any warranty decoders, the customer doesn't have to[8D] It's a one year warranty, BTW.

Ed:

QUOTE:

QUOTE: John: Our local museum bought a scanner that does slides. I guess there are many brands.

I’d actually heard about ones like that. Unfortunately, when we recently bought our new printer, economics dictated a low end one. I’m just glad it has a scanner at all. Once I actually get organized enough to sort out and classify my old slides then I’ll look for some way to scan them.

The Epson 1670 is low end,or the museum couldn't have got it[(-D] Cost about what 2 decoders do(in my experience so far) in Canada.

QUOTE:

QUOTE: Bob said: I just found out this is a "qiuck reply" instead of a "reply to topic" and I can't bold SANTA FE ALL THE WAY.

Yup, you can, just not using the little button.

Is it possible to look at other pages while your message is in the quick reply, or the reply to topic windows, without losing it by the time you return? If so, how do you do it?

Bob: I now have new wheels for the passenger car that was the worst runner. New trucks weren't worth it. So, if the swap works, your E8/9 should not have to go naked, so to speak. I was going to offer a caboose for modesty's sake anyway[:0] [:I] [:D]

QUOTE: So I did some scenery and then laid the track, now remember this was when we used screen wire for scenery base, I never was able to get the short out of that track. My dad found the problem - the spikes went into the screen wire, I messed up quite a bit of scenery fixing that problem.

Hey, that's what dads are for, right? Enough to try the patience of a saint though. I've not used the sreen wire method at all. My first real layout used corrugated cardboard strips for a frame, and sheets of pulp from the local pulp mill (LPM?) as the base for the plaster. I figured that it would work like papier mache (Canadian mash eh?) I wouldn't recommend you search out your LPM, as , while it worked, it was simply a pain to plant trees in![V] [xx(] [:(] Incidentally, I've still a bunch, (or is that a grove?[:D])of trees from that layout, re-used on the second one, and boxed in the attic awaiting a future Spring[8D]

Once more, a regular TV program (Brit comedy, Last of the Summer Wine) is coming up, and I haven't checked the sports pages for news of our beloved GBPs, let alone the comics[:D]

See Ya!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jwaldo

QUOTE: Not much today, Quite a bit of home work, Think I'll keep moving,

Actually, I'm supposed to be doing homework now [}:)][;)]

Ha! I have no homework tonite![:p]

Well I've came to the point where I have some paint scheme ideas for my (maybe) modern CB&Q:

Boxcars, general service gondolas: Chinese Red (Caboose red)

Open top hoppers, coal gondolas: Black (gons with red ends)

Intermodal flatcars, flatcars, well cars, bulkhead flats: Mineral Red

Covered hoppers, cyndrilical hoppers: Gray with red lettering

Cabooses: Silver

Road Engines: "Redbird" scheme

Switchers and road switchers: "Blackbird" scheme

Just put those together from the paint schemes the Q had during it's last years. Unfortuneatly I don't know what I'm going to do at the moment about custom decals; I'll have to get something that will make custom decals on this computer, I guess. (I may start a thread on that...)

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Not much today, Quite a bit of home work, Think I'll keep moving,

Actually, I'm supposed to be doing homework now [}:)][;)]

[egmurphy]

Good evening all,

Outside of a couple of real short items I haven’t gotten around to writing up a real post for the Coffee Shop since Monday. Time flies when you’re having fun, I guess.

Thought we might have heard from Dave9999 or (northern)Phil by now. While I expect that Dave and family made it okay (because they were planning on evacuating early) it looks like Pensacola took it pretty bad. If he’s back home he might have more serious things on his mind than just checking in here. Can I assume that most of you are more up-to-date than I am on damage to both the Interstate and rail bridges in the area? I just today saw fotos of the damage to the Interstate bridge on another rail forum, and it’s amazing the amount of damage.

Noah, I agree that the piledriver was uncommon and interesting. If anyone wants I’ll try to take more shots/dimensions next time I go back. The trouble I have there shooting the equipment is that it’s displayed on the old passenger station departure tracks. There’s not all that much space on the old platforms, so it’s usually difficult to drop back and get a full side-on shot.

They’ve got some really neat little cranes also, in addition to regular size steam cranes.

Chris – I’m not the voice of authority on Mexican trains, but up to now I haven’t heard about any turbine stuff down here.

QUOTE: I thought about the Atlas U30C, but those U-Boats are some ugly locomotivas..

Well they’re diseasels, what do you expect!!! [;)]

QUOTE: John: Our local museum bought a scanner that does slides. I guess there are many brands.

I’d actually heard about ones like that. Unfortunately, when we recently bought our new printer, economics dictated a low end one. I’m just glad it has a scanner at all. Once I actually get organized enough to sort out and classify my old slides then I’ll look for some way to scan them.

QUOTE: Krump: the other day I saw a triple rainbow (how cool is that ?)

Very cool indeed [8D] – I’ve never had the pleasure

QUOTE: Tom: The thermometer on the porch this morning was hovering right around 40.

Just like here!! Oh, wait, you’re talking about Fahrenheit, aren’t you??? [:D] I should be so lucky. It’s still hot and sticky down here. I exaggerate a bit to say it hit 40, but it did get up to 34 (+/- 93F) today, and today was a good one.

Give our best to Bill M. I’ve seen him post occasionally on other threads. Hope he finds time to drop back in here and keep us updated on how his basement workshop/model railroad room is progressing.

Not to worry about the hobby shop. I wasn’t really looking for anything, just wanted to be in a store with train stuff. They weren’t all that outgoing, anyway. Reminds me of some shops I knew back NOB.

QUOTE: Jim: Railroads with true character have all disappeared now we are stuck with money hungry entities that care little for their communities or for their workers.

Fortunately, down here on my FCVN community spirit and real character still prevail. That’s the beauty of freelancing, I can imagine it anyway I want. [:D]

QUOTE: Bob: So I did some scenery and then laid the track, now remember this was when we used screen wire for scenery base, I never was able to get the short out of that track. My dad found the problem - the spikes went into the screen wire, I messed up quite a bit of scenery fixing that problem.

ROTFLMAO. [(-D] That’s one for the books.


Fergie:

QUOTE: Good news! The yard is up and running, except wiring and switching.

Excellent, always nice to hear about progress on other layouts to help light fires under those of us who are energetically challenged.


Junctionfan:

QUOTE: My club has been working on our bench work and lighting last night. We are building a three tier layout in a 45 foot trailer.

Great. Can we assume the trailer belongs to the club? Seems every little while we hear of some club that gets displaced because they lose their lease to someone with big bucks. Three tiers around the walls? Separate or connected with helixes or ramps?


Noah:

QUOTE: Not much today, Quite a bit of home work, Think I'll keep moving,

Sorry but that’s the way it is. Junior here is complaining about the same thing. Don’t worry, school will end some day…..then you can get a job and go to work……..and wish you were back in school again!!!


I spent the day doing some wiring on the underside of the layout, hooking up the block feeders. Tomorrow could be the day to test out the wiring to see if trains run or simply short out.

Hasta mañana,

Ed

[Noah Hofrichter]

Hi again.

Not much today,

Quite a bit of home work,

Think I'll keep moving,

See ya'll tommarrow.

Noah

[Junctionfan]

My club has been working on our bench work and lighting last night. We are building a three tier layout in a 45 foot trailer.

[egmurphy]

Were those "scale" miles per hour?? Where's that speed chart I was working on the other day when Lupo was asking about 'how slow can your engine go'?

What I'd like to know is who caught up to him to give him the ticket?? [:D]


Ed

[Fergmiester]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes

In the strange but true catagory this morning: I just read an AOL news article about a Minnesota motorcycle rider getting a speeding ticket for doing <now get this> 205 mph. Is that man crazy or what?

Just goes to show you, it takes all kinds to make the world go round. [;)]

I nominate him for a Darwin, do I have a second?

[egmurphy]

QUOTE: Bob said: I just found out this is a "qiuck reply" instead of a "reply to topic" and I can't bold SANTA FE ALL THE WAY.

Yup, you can, just not using the little button. Just type in in front of the text you want to bold and after the text. (Like usual, leave out the space that I put in in front of the bracket.) I use Quick reply about 90% of the time and do all my bolding and quoting this way. You can do colors and font size in a similar way.

When are you leaving on your epic journey north? How many weeks will it be?

More later,

Ed

[Anonymous]

In the strange but true catagory this morning: I just read an AOL news article about a Minnesota motorcycle rider getting a speeding ticket for doing <now get this> 205 mph. Is that man crazy or what?

Just goes to show you, it takes all kinds to make the world go round. [;)]

[Fergmiester]

Good news!

The yard is up and running, except wiring and switching. I'm just waiting for Noah to e-mail me back regarding "how to post" on forums from a website.

[Anonymous]

Good Morning All:

Yesterday was enjoyable as I'm still trying to lay out the control panel for my yard throt, I wanted to have it painted before I left but I don't think that it's going tp happen - their is just so much to do and get ready.

John:
When I was building my first layout I saw a picture of the Gore And Daphid (SP) where John had the scenery in but the railroad wasn't laid yet. I decided if John Allen could do scenery and then lay track I could too. I didn't know that he had laid the sub roadbed and built the scenery up to it. So I did some scenery and then laid the track, now remember this was when we used screen wire for scenery base, I never was able to get the short out of that track. My dad found the problem - the spikes went into the screen wire, I messed up quite a bit of scenery fixing that problem.

Krump:
Over the last several posts you've made several comments about "ringette", what is it?

Jim:
Mickey d's sounds pretty good right now as I'd like to do dinner furthur down the road. By my calculations, we've got 569 miles to do the first day. It's not so bad as we'll have a good nights sleep in our on bed before we start out. I'm hoping to be on the road at 6:00 AM.

Fergie:
Has Lisa any idea where her namesake is going? I figure that I now have new directions as I have found some new friends. The directions are: 1) Ed; 2) me; 3)dave9999; 4) Fla/Phil; 6) you and John; or 7) out to sea. Lets hope that this one runs course #7 and doesn't bother anyone.

I've got to go to work so
Ya'll have a blessed day and remember SANTA FE ALL THE WAY
Bob

PS:
I just found out this is a "qiuck reply" instead of a "reply to topic" and I can't bold SANTA FE ALL THE WAY. I don't have time to retype it all.

Goodby

[Fergmiester]

Good morning all

Well the turntable is in, just got to install the rail and wire it. 4/5ths of the yard has been assembled, just needs two tracks, switch mechanisms and wiring. Oh and ballasting.

Paul: I'm glad you and your friends seem to have weathered the storm. Looks like "Karl " is indeed heading out to sea and should not pose any threats to the eastern seaboard. (Touch wood!). Seems to be a sizable trough off of the continent, which is deflecting Karl.

John: I'm not 100% sure abut this new LHS in New Glasgow but this was something someone told me about this summer. I'll call you this weekend sometime. I'm going to Maritime Hobbies tomorrow to pick up 6 data only boxcars. I'm almost ready to make my first set of decals! (about time).

[der5997]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Fergmiester
Unfortunately Digby is three hours away for me and 4+ for John. But I've been told there is a new store opening in New Glasgow (two hours away). Funny how we look soooooo small on the map but it takes forever to cross this province of ours.

[yeah] Finally being in Sheet Harbour has an advantage from a model RR viewpoint[:p] I'm just 1 1/4 hours away from this mythical LHS in New Glasgow. The present LHS is 1 3/4 hours away!
It will be interesting to see if it happens, and what the stock is like.

jwaldo:

QUOTE: In that case unless it's a contact strip for somewhere else I have no clue [:I]

Thanks, j. Remember I said I didn't have the parts sheet as the loco was used? Well, I was getting its box ready to carry a passenger car into town tomorrow (new trucks?) and Lo, and Behold, there's the parts list in the bottom[^] These little strips turn out to be the Body Mount Coupler springs for the (surpise for me, I didn't know they did them) Rapido couplers that came with the original model. So, mystery solved, and I now know everything is where it should be. Now, perhaps on Thursday I might get a shot at programming it.
Why would a classy manufacturer like Kato put Rapidos on anything?

Early start tomorrow, better seek the sack[|)] [zzz]
God Bless,

[Paul W. Beverung]

Ed; I can remember back in Milwaukee seeing larger rigs on the The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light company. That was Milwaukee's trolly system. The car barn was two blocks away from the house on Oakland Ave.

Fergie; That was a friend of mine that ducked Ivan. He's outside Mobile, I'm west of Fort Worth Texas. Yes we got cattle. Just finished tagging the calves so we could tell them apart. What fun.

How about modeling the Iron Range and Huron Bay. They were in the Michagans UP. They weere built in the late 1890's and ran two trains. The first and last. It left Huron Bay for Iron Range with a train of empty ore cars. Made it 20 minutes out and derailed on a curve. The loco , a 2-8-0, rolled down an embankment. The railroad was sold and dismantled. My HO is patterned somewhat after it but with out the disaster.

Good night all Paul

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Tom Watkins:
That's why I put the smiley that's winking after I typed that, I was just joking around.[:D]
And Juby4Life's layout is based on a present day Rock that bought out the UP, with the CNW, SP, and BNSF on his layout too. And you're right, a Southern SD70MAC in Gren and creme would be a good looking engine.

Noah:
Glad you like the idea, problem is now that Kato's undec. SD40-2 is sold out, so I'm looking at P2K's SD45 or GP9. (Yes, GP9s were still operating on class 1s in the 1990s!) I thought about the Atlas U30C, but those U-Boats are some ugly locomotives... Atlas's wide-vision CB&Q caboose will be a must though, next time I go to the LHS I'll have to take a second look at the modern stuff.

A Q SD70MAC with a block of mineral red cyndrilical hoppers and a silver extended vision caboose would probably look really neat though...

[der5997]

Hello folks: This evening is the first time I've been able to get to the computer all day.. It's been cleaning day, windows, pictures (not my idea, but you go with the flow) polishing brass, glass thingies hanging from the ceiling, knick knacks all over the place. Glad it's over. Fortunately it's not a very frequent occurrence. This one has to do with impending visit of relatives.
tomwatkins:

QUOTE: Der, thanks for the info on detectors. I hadn't considered trying to troubleshoot them with IR as opposed to visible light. That's a very good point. I'll have to give it some thought.

Of course Tom, you could always go to your LASS (Local Army Surplus Store, what did you think?[:D]) and get night vision goggles, or some similar IR vision enhancer.[:p]

TEFFY: I'm a "come from away" but I haven't heard of a turntable near that site. (not that I could take you there [D)]
There was a turntable bridge sitting out in a field down past Halifax a few years ago, but it had gone the last time I was by.

QUOTE: Fergie and John:
We may slip a day as Mrs. "T" wants to go to framing show in Toronto.

That's fine, just let us know when, and steer clear of the 6th. Oct, at any rate, in the evening. (Big brother's birthday, haven't had a celebration of that with cake and so on in maybe 50 years. It's also our very good friend and neigbour's Bday, so we're combining the two. Should be a hoot. Those two are SO unalike as to be possibly different species[(-D] Sure makes you wonder how they reckon that astrology stuff[:-^]


Ed: Fergie's closer to Digby than I am, but only by 1 3/4 hours. Digby is way down on the Bay of Fundy shore. A ferry goes from there to St John, New Brunswick, if that gives you any idea.
Incidentally, I once interviewed a Canadian WWII naval vet. who got a "dangerous service" listing, (and a better pension) because, although land based throughout the war, he had been sent across from St. John to Digby, and U Boats used to frequent those waters[8D]

I was thinking that your mystery photo was for a camera crew to film those train Westerns, but didn't get that in on time [B)] (Failed assignment, unlike Noah! Incidentally N. How did the Cell project work out?)

Big_Girl_4005: My interest in the GBPs is at such a fever pitch now that i even check the sports page ahead of the comics[:O]
Still on sport, Chuck Buttler of Everbank ended his daily newsletter today with this:

QUOTE: That's it for today... 40 years ago my mom let me stay home from school
to watch the 7th game of the World Series between the Cardinals and
Yankees... Wouldn't it be cool to see those two historical franchises
meet again 40 years later? I do...

We are absolutely neutral on this one, and are prepared to get interested in and so jinx either side (or both[?] [?])for the usual consideration.......[X-)] [:O] [:D]

I may drop in later, by for now,