BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Well I finished up the boxcar. I worked on it most of the night, and this morning. It wasn't my normal rust bucket. I added a load to the car, kinda give it the "being used" look.
Here's a few shots.
Before:
After:
"Rust, whats not to love?"
The Sun is UP!
I've had my coffee..............
I'm ready and rearing to go..............
AND...........
Good Morning, Zoe, Diners - I'll have an egg, cheese and bacon croissant and a cup of coffee, please 'n' thankyou.
Thanks for the info on my boxcars, Lee. I don't think these were the billboard ones when I got them (maybe I got the version before those), but it is very possible that I might've got them in the early 70's before the all-plastic ones came out. ANother thing might be, they could've been part of one of those 3-in-1 kits that MDC/Roundhouse made back a ways. These boxcars have been on the 'back bin' for some time, so almost anything is possible on their ancestry...
Our weather's supposed to be mostly sunny today - so wha' happened? Got clouds at the moment (we had some light fog overnight, I heard). Might reach the 70's (F) today, so won't warm up a huge amount or anything.
Garry, I'm with Todd - are you just tormenting us, with that description of those apple turnovers? Hey, good to see you brought some this morning! What've you got going this weekend?
Went through last night and got a rough inventory of the freight car kits that I have yet to assemble (and what loads for cars that I have). Yeah, I could keep busy with those this weekend, but I'm thinking that I'd like to get some of the STUFF cleared off of the layout instead (and then I could start checking track and get ready for wiring the leads and buses). Could w**k on getting some of those buildings finished or further along. Hmmm, seems like there's always something waiting to do on the layout. Oh yeah, and I could do some more weathering practice (after I find the matte spray). Decision, decisions...
I'll settle down in the front window booth a while. Prayers for healing and comfort, and for good doctors' visits for Jeff and anyone else seeing/getting checked out today.
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Ooh, Robby, I like that! Did you make the crates for the load, or whose are those? Chooch?
Alright, everybody, careful - it looks like PC has had his morning coffee IV already and he's primed to go!
Mornin' everyone! YAWN!!!
Tossed and turned a lot last night and finally woke up at 10AM......
TMarshyou don't want to be that guy who hung in way past his time, only to be referred to out of the corner of the mouth as "he used to be good.
Todd you are absolutely right and if I was too continue doing sound that time would be very soon I am afraid. As it is I now rely on the meters to do the job more than how it actually sounds. Luckily experience has me able to do that and "get away" with it. I studied with a lady named Anna Kaskas for two years at Eastman. Miss Kaskas was the leading contralto at the Met back in the 1930s and was part of their "Broadcast Quartet" for many years. She left her career at the Met to teach voice. Once at a party at her house the topic of discussion became Zinka Milanov who was still one of the leading sopranos at the Met and a close personal friend of Anna. Somebody said that Zinka was amazing to be able to sing that well in her 60s. Anna replied "Bull ......". (She was colorful to say the least) The D@%% fool should have retired years ago when she could still sing. She is just an embarrassment now! Hope I am never referred to like that by my friends... Oh, and yes I did get just a little misty eyed last night..............
It is a cool, dark, damp day here in the Finger Lakes. Currently 64°F under cloudy skies. High will only be 65°F with some showers and maybe a thunderstorm later in the day. The next several days appear to be more of the same. Sure am glad I went and bought plants to put in the garden yesterday. It needs to be rototilled again to work in the manure and get it ready to plant and it is a bit muddy right now. Oh well, more time to play trains I guess.
Mornin' Philip! Philip! Good Morning! Wake up and move over so somebody else can watch the trains who is actually awake for crying out loud.
Robby nice job on the boxcar. I like the load inside.
Hope you all have a great day today!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Robby,
Nice job on the boxcar!
Here is one of the apple turnovers. Help yourself. That is thick cinnamon with pecans on top. Tons of apple filling, and a great pastry. Don't plan on being hungry the rest of the day if you eat one. They are huge. Calaries included.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Well, its time for the lunch bell to ring here at w**k, just kidding we don't really have a bell, so I'm stopping to top off the tanks. I'll take a grilled chicken sandwich with cheese and bacon, along with an order of fries, with a RBF please and thank you. Robby, the boxcar looks awesome, I really need to get some of my older boxcars and rolling stock and go ahead and get the weathered up for my layout (although the layout isnt' even started yet). Seeing all the work and progress on everyone's stuff in here makes me really need to get my hands busy building again. Well, as for right now I'm sitting at my desk, staring at a big ole pile of nothing (that's right, all the to-do projects are DONE!), and I hope that my afternoon stays that way.
Good Morning All...Its 67 but kinda humid here..Sun is in and out...I'm moving slow missed breakfast so I'll have a cheese burger,fries,and a diet Coke..I have been spending morning in our apartment we have a lady with some problems who has been out in the parking lot and its just easier to stay away from her..Sad but not much we can do about it..
Rob...Another great job!! Keep thsoe photos coming,,
Where is Jeff this morning? Hope He is OK?
Been listening to scanner CSX is doing some MOW near here..
I finnished the Model Power 50 foot double door box I have been working on...It had been kicking around in my junk box..I picked it up at a train show in sad shape for 50 cents but I liked the paint work on it,,I put new trucks and couplers on it,took roof walk off,painted rook and weathered,I should have lowered brake wheel and shortened ladders maybe latter but stuff like that is hard to see in N scale anyway...
You all have a good one...Jerry
blownout cylinder Morgan--That would look like an oversized critter. I think that's neat looking though------Now to think of it as an Articulated---HMMN
Morgan--That would look like an oversized critter. I think that's neat looking though------Now to think of it as an Articulated---HMMN
Anyone here Star Trek fans? Or, anyone here like listening to debates btween the smart guy and the uncontroled brat? This is hilarious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XZBTv5yrmA Note, this is the summarized varient. The full version is far longer, and copyrighted
-Morgan
Good afternoon one and all...
Chloe? Double cheeseburger and fries please and thank you...oh yeah, with a Coke to chase it down the food tube.
Hey, some good looking boxcars in here today. You guys are an inspiration. Had the weekly meeting with THAT editor this morning, and got my leads for next week: a new lawn/garden/nursery operation, a fish farm near Swisher, "The Bug Guy" for a profile/business feature, and a thing in some park on Sunday afternoon...I guess people get to play with mushrooms, birds... mostly a "have us (the paper) be seen at it" gig for an easy photo feature. Speaking of photos, I turned in a bunch from a graduation and Memorial Day service. Boss had what I call a "photogasm," that's a pleasant physiological reaction to a photograph...
I think they'll keep me for awhile yet.
I "should" go mow the yard...might finish the cement hopper instead. Sitting in a cool room sounds more inviting than baking in the sun, wilting in the humidity, and battling the zillions of nats we have this year.
Hmmm. Might have to ponder this one awhile...
Have a good 'un...
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please & thanks.
***Robby/Jerry, nice weathering on your box cars!
Finished critter rounds for the moment. No storms today so it's back to pulling posts.
Have a good day all.
Rob
Afternoon folks!
Flo, I'll have one one of those Apple Turnover thingies that somebody brought in. I plan to eat it standing up. That way it doesn't count you know!
Where's Jeffrey today? I brought something in to show him. I don't want him to foget what they look like ya know. He says there haven't been any of them around his place in a while. I got a nest of robins in the light fixture on my back porch. This pair last year built their nest in a hanging coil of extension cord on the same porch. Since I took the coil down last fall, they decided to use the light fixture which won't stay closed. Over the years I have had a couple different species of birds try to use it for nesting. I will let them be for the season. I may then replace the light with one that will stay closed.......
Here are the parents on the neighbors fence just a few yards from the porch:
Mama Robin:
Papa Robin:
The nest site:
And a close up of the babies:
All photos were taken with a medium telephoto lens so as not to unduly disturb the nesting pair. They will now let me get as close as 3 or 4 feet away from them in the lawn and don't fly away, just hop a few more feet away from me. They will even stay on the nest if I open the door and quietly walk into the porch.
Amazing architectural work on the part of the Robins. I build things and need 35 page instruction manuals after learning for 10 years the hard way. Nature never ceases to amaze me.
Jerry, Rob, great looking cars. Weather is supposed to clear up a bit over the weekend. Maybe I can get something hobbywise accomplished. As long as the BENNIES (Tourists) don't go crashing into things over the weekend.
On that note; Chris, you mentioned 'Blue Light Wackers' (my term) the other day. Unfortunately, around here on summer weekends that is the only possible way to get through traffic in POV's for calls. Those City Folk don't know what volunteers are, they think EMS is sitting at the station (we don't have enough members for duty shifts). During the rest of the week we generally don't use them as the traffic is lighter.
oops, boss is back, catch-ya later. Eric
Thanks everybody for the boxcar remarks. I am currntly working on a hopper. That will take me a few days.
Went train hunting and got about 30 pictures of rust hoppers, some gons, and the C&O caboose. Between not making the geese mad (had 5 babies with them), and letting CSX know what I'm doing...........Its been a buy afternoon, and its on 2:45!!
Here's a few shots of what I got. I see some good ideas in those pictures .
Afternoon all from SoFarSunnyCal: We're supposed to get a western dip of those Sierra thunderstorms into the Valley this afternoon, so it could turn out to be an interesting day. The mountains and foothills really got pounded yesterday afternoon, but there was also TONS of rain accompanying the storms, so hopefully no fires out of that one. Of course, in the high country, a lightning strike can smolder for days, so we'll see.
Robby/Jerry: I really like the weathering you guys did on your cars. Very nice. Weathering is just NOT a talent of mine, so anyone that does a nice job has my total admiration. The last car I weathered looked as if it had been buried in the Sahara Desert for a couple of Millenia.
Ray: What a neat series of photos on the robins. We had about a 5 year period out here where they disappeared completely, but they've come back this spring and taken nest in my palm tree, of all places.
I notice that we've had a little on-going discussion about Rivet Counters. Well, sorry to tell you, friends, but evidently I'M one, but I hope in a good way. I didn't even realize it myself, until I found myself inspecting my rolling stock for a 'build' date. And waxing all upset because a couple of my Walther's Rio Grande streamline cars have a single stripe instead of the four stripes and the single stripe came into being several years after the era I'm modeling. Oh well--guess what. I'm still running the single-stripers in my "Prospector", LOL! As to the 'build' date on the freight cars, I thought: "Hey, I have to use a magnifying glass to see it, so what's the Big Deal?" But I do like to keep all of my equipment within the 1940-50 era.
The exception being my new Atlas track cleaning car, LOL! Boy, does THAT little puppy look 'surreal' being hauled around the track by one of my little 2-8-0's.
Got most of the lab results back from Kaiser. It appears to have boiled down to the fact that I am suddenly lacking a type of bacteria that aids in digestion. At least so far. Other than that, I'm pretty clean (and cleaned out!--sorry, couldn't resisit ) so we'll take it from there. Dr. told me not to take on anything that takes me away from a comfortable distance to the men's room for the next 2-3 days, so that means no Mass this weekend. Rats!
Spooky and Uff-Dah had a little 'territorial' dispute last night about who got first turn at the scratching post that ended up with Uff-Dah sitting on my lap and blinking a lot while Spooky took her turn on the post, then just sat down and stared across the room DARING him to come by and try to use it. And believe me, you've never been STARED at until you've been on the recieving end of one of Spooky's glares. I just told Uff-Dah, "Hey, you're a late-comer and she's a Princess. What can I tell you?" They were fine, this morning. But you've got to realize that a disagreement between those two involves about 40 pounds total of ticked-off Feline, LOL!
Well, that's it from this end of the Coast.
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!
Hiya Eric,
I think ya mighta misunderstood my intent with the "Johnny Bluelight." I've always taken that to mean the guy who has everything ever made with a Star of Life (or Maltese Cross) on it (regardless of how tacky, cheap, cheesey it is), has no life outside the FD or EMS unit, and has more flashers/strobes on his POV than the real response vehicles. Operating a blue light to make the station or get to the scene does not in and of itself qualify... I had one for awhile, but sold it to an idiot after realizing it was more useful getting waves from other firemen and cops than actually getting traffic to move (on a related note, we were always taught they're for ID only...and carry no authority for having people pull over...maybe that's just an Iowa thing). On an unrelated note, everytime I ventured into Illinois, I had to stash the light...apparently over there, blue is ONLY for the cops, and the vollies run with red...the exact opposite on THIS side of the Mighty Missisippi. I met vollies in Kansas that had full red, white, and blue lightbars on their POVs. EMS here is supposed to use a white light.
Useless trivia for the day...
I guess, think of the EMS equivelent of your "guidos"... or the EMS equivelent of the most rabid RR foamer...
At the risk of jinxing you badly... may you have a q***t weekend...and always STAY SAFE...
Afternoon all. Chloe, I'll take a slice of pie, thanks.
IT"S FRIDAY!!!!!!!! Finally! 3 and a 1/2 weeks left.
Robby: Excellent work on that boxcar
Eric: I know exactly what you mean about those BENNIES. Everything's fine until the vacationers come down... I remember, a few years ago, someone put a sign at the entrance to the Parkway: GOOD BYE BENNIES!
Tom: Good that you found a solution to the Atlas track cleaner. I was planning on getting one of those, and after a positive report on them, I'm definately getting one of those things.
I guess that's about it for now. Just chillen for a while, then I'm going to watch a hockey game, and then maybe I'll stop in again later.
See ya.
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Lee:
Thank you, friend , that's a load off of my mind, LOL! And yes, I have a whole FLEET of Rio Grande boxcars with the same number (made a real raid on Accurail when they came out), and it doesn't bother me a bit. I even run them in tandem with a clear conscience because they look so cool behind one of my big articulateds.
Nice to know I'm kinda-sorta 'normal' when it comes to that.
Nice looking robins nest.
I've been tied up today with a morning doctors appointment then a couple of errands in town, lunch at BJ's Diner then getting some things taken care of for my father. I took some time during the errands to go to Wal-mart to get a new pillow. My old one is pretty flat. I got it back when papa Bush was president. I also picked up this handy hand lantern.
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OK I'm doing this at the elevator so I don't have my word post to paste from. Appologizing in advance for any mistakes.
Robby/Jerry- Great looking cars!
Ray- I'm glad yo didn't take that as an insult. I definately didn't mean it that way. Besides all that I'm sure you would like to have fond memories of the wonderful SOUND you created instead of the nice meter redings you got.
Chris-We have blue lights here in Williamsville (Illinois(z)). I don't know the thing about police as they also have blue. or why you had to stash it. But no, they don't have any "rights" over anyone else. If you are rural though, we treat them as if they are full on red. It's usually someone you know or love they are going for and by golly you don't get in their way. By the way local, county and most state police ignore the fact they aren't suppose to exceed the speed limit.
Tom- So you might be a rivet counter. But you're not "That kind" of rivet counter. I also look at build dates (doesn't really matter though) and road names but in my kingdom I can make up a reason for just about anything. As far as road numbers go, so far I try to keep them different but I have one or two the same. And like you, I haven't recieved a fine yet so I ain't worrying about it. No sleepless nights either. I don't want to use a coal hopper to haul grain in, that kind of stuff, but I'm gonna haul cattle again in my world. How about yours. Oh wait, you can.
Garry- Throw that scruptious looking thing?! The only place that thing will get thrown is down my throat with a glass of milk!!!!!
Oh by the way girls that was a request please. I'll be sitting at the Rivet Counter
Todd
Central Illinoyz
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Chris - Yeah, that's a wacker.... Our 1st Lt. is one of those. Even his running shorts have sol symbols. He's also a member in the next town over. That town is a lot bigger and have Dodge Chargers for 'quick' response, he always has one. In NJ, traffic is not "required" to move over for blue lights, but in most areas it is 'encouraged'. The cops have sometimes given tickets for 'obstructing or hindering emergency personel' in high traffic areas that don't have paid coverage, and down here very few do. Of course there are those who have received tickets for "illegal use of a blue or red light" (Red is for Capt's of volunteers, blue for others.) As an aside, I'm also a Fire Police officer. Way back when, the State Police ran the Fire Police until it fell under the Fire Dept. roll. One of the things that hasn't changed is that we still have arrest powers at any emergency scene. It's discouraged of course because then both the arresting officer and a police officer must attend the court hearing.
As far as being jinxed.. it's still volunteer. No one says you have to be there, more of a personal thing I guess. (I am required to answer ALL calls Mon-Fri 7-4 as part of an agreement with the town for day coverage).... but wait.. then it's not volunteer It's small town politics, I get a stipend which is permitted by law as long as we don't charge the patient.
Where are the trains??????
I need some PIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Eric
TMarshChris-We have blue lights here in williamsville. I don't know the thing about police as they also have blue.
Huh. Well goofy-gosh, ya learn something new every day. I'd heard that back in...'94 or '95 from a guy who swore to the Heavens above that he was almost busted for "impersonation of a cop" for driving in Illinois with a blue light on his dash. Then again, this guy did/does have a well-earned reputation of re-writing history and...shall we say "embelleshment?"
Don't really matter in the end I guess, I used to just pull it off the dash when crossing the bridge from Clinton to E. Clinton/Fulton. Don't have one now, don't really want one either...
*sigh* I suppose I'd best get back to mowing. Gotta take the gas can up to the Casey's store for more petrol. $2.45/gal. today for the 10% ethanol crap...means I'm probably looking at $2.55 for regular unleaded for the machines. Where oh where did the "cheap" gas go???
ewl01Where are the trains??????
Here ya go Pally...
A conductor and his brakeman prepare to work the West end of Beverly Yard in 1988. Much as I prepare now to go battle more of the yard...
AmanaMedicHuh. Well goofy-gosh, ya learn something new every day. I'd heard that back in...'94 or '95 from a guy who swore to the Heavens above that he was almost busted for "impersonation of a cop" for driving in Illinois with a blue light on his dash. Then again, this guy did/does have a well-earned reputation of re-writing history and...shall we say "embelleshment?"
Thanks for the pic Chris. 2.44 for 10% ethanol gas? 2.55 for reg? We don't have that 10% stuff and the reg is 'up' to 2.23 last week, BH (before holiday) it was 2.09.
Got the chalks out and started on the car float.. course now there's chalk on the rug. I'll try and get a photo in the natural light tomorrow.
Oh, and you need a permit from motor vehicle for the lights.
Got a line on a 1991 HD lowrider (FXRS) $5500.00 pretty good price. I'm looking at it tomorrow, smaller than the touring bike (FLHTC) I've got but easier to ride around town.
Hint on what I'm working on: It involves a beat-up Bachmann GP-?? out if their Golden spike set, sprues and leftover detail parts off a Roundhouse RS-3 kit, Atlas Snap-Switch control wire, and old hotel access cards. Can you guess?
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Coffee refill, please.
Some cool full scale train pics being posted lately. Keep it up guys!
***Ray, neat bird pics. And I'm with Ray on the skill level of "nest builders". Such an interesting variety of them out there in both types of building supplies & techniques, too.
Wife and I pulled most of the remaining posts today. The last group is where I can't get to them with the tractor so I'll hack them off at the base with the chainsaw this weekend.
Still no train room time and probably won't be until next week.