Robby- Mind if I critique a little. Your cars as usual look great, but just allow me a moment to assist;
The Rock car well,....hm. Ok so I can't find anything needed on that one.
Saskatchewan cyl hopper,........alright so that one looks perfect too.
Ah, the Railbox, now THAT one,......well, uh, the car looks fantastic but, um well, you need to work on the trees in the background, they look a little fake compared to the car. Just trying to help.
Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
Thanks Jim!
Well guys, I still have two locos left to decal, then this project is done save for weathering.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Good afternoon. No rain in sight, but its kinda overcast.
Finished up a car for "the bay" this morning. Seems like someone likes my cars. In the last week alone, he has spent $300+ on my boxcars/hopper. Plus he's interested in the one I just finished. That really helps us out money wise. BUT the *fee's* is adding up .
Called FedEx Ground this morning. They are hiring 3:30am-830am shift $9.50 a hr, plus a raise after 30days. I worked at a FedEx Ground in Charlotte, NC several years ago. I worked at that one for a year and a few months. Gave it up since my grandmother was walking to work (I worked 3rd, and didn't get home till 8-9am). The lady on the phone said I should be fine, since its been several years. While I worked at the one in Charlotte, I got....Employee of the week twice, promoted (different jobs) four times, caught some people stealing (got a award by The Head FedEx Manager), I was a trainer for the new people. So maybe that will help me.
Here's some of the latest cars I have done. All to a new home. If I get the FedEx job, I can kinda slow down.
Hope everybody is going good, and have a good afternoon.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Morning All..Its sunny and 75 here...I'll have coffee and a dougnut please...Thank You...You all have a good one...Jerry
Bear Wolf Warning!
Sorry, we are out of bears this season. Will a wolf also do?
With the downfall of the iron curtain, wolves are now migrating back to the west, following their old routes. Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the woods...
Mornin' everyone!
Chloe lots and lots of coffee for me...... Yep in a FGLK Mug.
JimRCGMOAnd I see Ray's busy at the camp already - hope the wet stuff doesn't cause any missing of fun things for your campers.
Nah, a little of the wet stuff just gives us more nature to observe. Right now the "Birds, Bugs, and Beasts" track is watching a DEC Video about "Living with bears" Later they will get to "explore a bear trap. Just an FYI for those of you who love the outdoors.....
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Bear Warning!
The National Park Service is advising hikers, hunters and fishermen to take extra precautions and be on the alert for bears while in the wilderness this summer. Hikers are advised to wear noise-producing devices such as little bells on their clothing to alert but not startle the bears unexpectedly. They also advise you to carry pepper spray in case of an encounter with a bear. It is also a good idea to watch for signs of bear activity. People should be able to recognize the difference between black bear and grizzly bear droppings. Black bear droppings are smaller and contain berries and possibly squirrel fur. Grizzly bear droppings have little bells in them and smell like pepper spray.
Have a great day!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
howmusPhilip, did you post something naughty again?????
Some sort of glitch......It's working now.
Good Morning, Zoe, I think I'll have a glass of Ed's OJ, bowl of that Raisin Bran and a glass of milk, please, and a D&RGW mug of coffee to wash it all down with. Thanks!
Sawyer, forgot to mention last night that your RS there looks great.
Ulrich, that was very nice of your neighbours to throw you both a little party for your anniversary. Must have some good neighbours there.
And I see Ray's busy at the camp already - hope the wet stuff doesn't cause any missing of fun things for your campers.
Supposed to have a (sorta) hot one in Cape G.-land today, upper 80's or lower 90's (F), which isn't really bad for July weather around here. Humidity's up some, but supposed to have chances of showers later in the week.
I'll join the crew at the RC watching the morning switcher doing its stuff.
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Good Mornin, A bowl of Raisin Bran please. Nope, no problems, I just like Raisin Bran. Yes please, a cup of coffee too.
It's 62 F now and supposed to get to 86 F with partly sunny skies.
Nothing special happening today it looks like.
Have a Great Day!
Today: Isolated showers and thunderstorms after noon. Partly cloudy, with a high near 81. West wind between 9 and 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.Tonight: Isolated showers before midnight. Partly cloudy, with a low around 69. South wind between 3 and 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good morning.It's 75 and cloudy. The high will be around 88 and there's a chance of thunderstorms.I got a little MRR work done yesterday. Changed out the couplers on an Athearn BN slide/plug door boxcar and did some work on the Belvedeere hotel. I don't think I'll have much time to do anything today.Today's Weather for:Sundown, LA 71446-6114 7/27/2009Heat Index: 80°FHumidity: 93%Dew Point: 73°FSo Far TodayHigh: 75°FLow: 75°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 3mph NNEToday High: 88 Showers and thunderstorms likely. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.Tonight Low: 75 Showers and thunderstorms likely. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Good Morning
We are at 14C this morning and we are supposed to have a 40% chance of showers---and NO t'underin'boomlets either yay--can't be too loud here--they may come back!! The temperature here is going to be about 25C today with tonights low at 15C.
I'm up early so's I can get started on the report writing part---I've got about a week and a bit then it is vacation time for this little puppy!!
Chloe, I'm going to need a STRONG rawcaffeine in an IV bag if you have any left please----I'll be at the RC watching some early morning switching
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...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
Gooooooooood Evening from sunny Camp Babcock-Hovey in the heart of the Finger Lakes!
Flo I'll have a cup of decafe to calm me down so i can get a good nights sleep........ Oh yeh, in a R&GV Museum Mug please.
Philip, did you post something naughty again?????
We had a great day hear, have 28 campers ready to learn and have fun. SciTek Quest has begun!
Not even any of Barry's thunderboomers until we got in the dining hall for supper. It poured then with a great light show outside. Tonight's opening campfire was held inside. No sooner got back to the lodge than we got some more "weather".......
Have a good one! Hope to stop in tomorrow.
Hey Ulrich.........
Evening, Janie, Flo - could I have a taco salad (hold that 'da Bomb' sauce, please! ) and a Dr. Pepper, please. Thanks, ladies!
Todd, your plan works well for when the two-legged critters can be 'faced' in real life, but online, they hide in the lockers or duck down the hall, or "Oh no, you must've misunderstood me - I would NEVER mean that mean-spirited type of remark...". I find (for me, YMMV) the online ones respond better with totally ignoring the dolts (since taking a 2 X 4 to them isn't really an option in the forums...) No, Crandell, I was just speaking hypothetically (but you let us know if the real life 'woodshed' option is available, and we'll help clean out some of the - ahem - clutter....)
Jeff, that lake is down even more than I'd guessed - 10 feet?! So, I suppose the anthropologists are artificially keeping the level down for the sake of their 'dig'? That was hilarious about your gal and the quickly-shortened rant when she saw the light bar! Couldn't backpedal fast enough, could she? Hey, nice Cotton Belt boxcar - our LHS owner/MRR club member is an ex-SSW conductor. He'd appreciate that one!
Ulrich, I hope a few of those thunderboomers just get rained out before they get to you. Now, your neighbors who like R/C boats for their basements, they might disagree, but... And Happy Anniversary! (Just don't let the frau see your post!)
Lee, I was (sorta) able to see your dumper pic, but can somebody please give me a logical reason WHY the #$%*&^ at Webshots use a bandwidth-wasting format like Flash, for STILL photos??? Mutter, mutter, mutter... The dumper does look good though, Lee. Sorry for the rant, but websites that needlessly waste bandwidth are a pet peeve of mine. (Probably related to another pet peeve about politicians who waste MY money. Guess I'd better move on before I get onto THAT one...)
Cederstrand Jeffrey, wish we could see a pic of that gals face in the parking lot. Just maybe she will think twice about her own driving & attitude next time.
Jeffrey, wish we could see a pic of that gals face in the parking lot. Just maybe she will think twice about her own driving & attitude next time.
Nah, Rob, I doubt that one'll happen - some of those drivers never do figure out the cause of the problems...
Cederstrand***Barry, so, how's the squirrel doing?
You mean "Fricassed Fred'"? (in Garry's absence, I'll pinch-hit for him)
Barry, I've been about 30-40 feet away (back in my college ROTC days), marching down a street, when lightning hit a transformer on a power pole ahead of us. It only took our platoon leader a split-second to give us the order to 'break ranks' (any longer, and we would have done that, anyway... )
Jerry, how's the 'fixing' of your chairs doing? Have they got everything up and running properly?
This weekend I started what was gonna be Phase II of the background warehouse, but I think I'm gonna call it Phase I-b instead. Started out with one of these ScotchBrite pads to rub off much of the 'mortar':
and then tried drybrushing some Boxcar Red (the walls still looked kinda light to me), and wound up with this:
which I'm not really happy with, not a close enough color match to my 'brick red' that the spray paint was.
I also wanted to show the depot I'll be using for the Cortez station. It was a DPM/Woodland Scenics, but the baggage door was on the back side of the wrong wall (IMHO...), so I cut and re-glued it to put the baggage section on one side, and the passenger seating area on the other. Here're some photos of it (still need to paint it, and the roof is just set on it - I hope to build an interior for it before I get it all done). Front:
Side (angled) view:
Other (passenger) side view:
And the back view:
I also noticed on my trailer court office/shed, that I'd epoxied the roof on before painting the building (and before gluing the window glass in), but I decided that with some fiddling, I can slide the window 'glass' in the door and then play 'tip-and-tilt' until it's in the right spot, and use a sticky stick (tape or some glue from a glue stick) to move the 'glass' out, apply glue, and pull the glass back to the opening. Since I don't know of an easy way to un-epoxy something (without totally damaging things in the process), that'll have to do. I WILL remember not to do that again...
About time for me to head for home. I'll see you Diners (and ladies) in the morning. Prayers for safe parking lots, for progress on draining your ponds (or filling them back up, in Jeff's case), for healing, and thanksgiving for a Happy 25th Anniversary, Ulrich!
Evening All..Thanks for picking up tab for my RBF Eric...You all have a good nite...Jerry
Lee - Thank You for the description of your planned operation. I finally looked at your site ( I should look at the others too). I have seen your pics before but of course the site explains everything. Someday.... maybe... I hope I can be that dedicated to the hobby to accomplish a fraction of what you, and others, have. Oh, an early congrats on your retirement.
Eric
Eric,
Once upon a time Ohio had block coal mines but those ran out years ago. The railroad I loosely model after is the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern. They had a line that ran south from Ashtabula, OH to the Pennsylvania – West Virginia state lines where they serviced 4 coal mines. The coal was transported north to power plants, steel mills and other customers but most of it went to the docks to be transported to the upper Great Lakes States and exported to Canada.
I wasn’t going to model a coal mine, but in the name of “operations” I need a means to load the hoppers. I have an out of the way corner in the basement (in a spare room), separate from the main layout that I can install a coal mine and a loader. I have a power plant and I will have a coal dock (at the port) to receive the coal via the dumper I just built and a future dumper.
The neat thing will be the train departing the coal mine will need to travel once around the #1 and #2 mainline, then switch to the #3 mainline to deliver the loaded cars to the power plant that’s approximately 195’ of travel. Then the locomotive will have to make a stop at the roundhouse to be turned to pick up empty hoppers before returning to the coal mine. While the mallet operator is running hoppers back and forth on the main line there will be a drill team at the power house and the coal mine running switchers to load/unload the hoppers. A similar event will be taking place to deliver coal to the port where a third drill team will be unloading hoppers into the waiting 720’ freighter. The primary goods moved on my layout are Iron Ore and coal. So there will be an opportunity for another operator to transfer ore Jennies from the port to the yard or the steel mill. So if I can pull it off at my next operating session I can gainfully employ 6 operators at once doing something more than just running trains around in a circle.
TMarsh Ulrich- I just clicked on the previous page by accident and re caught the first part of your post earlier. How did I miss that!!!!! HAPPY 25th ANNIVERSARY!!!!
Ulrich- I just clicked on the previous page by accident and re caught the first part of your post earlier. How did I miss that!!!!!
HAPPY 25th ANNIVERSARY!!!!
Me Too!!!----CONGRATS ON THE 25th!!!!
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Phil, Garry: I think the squirrel was a little overdone by the looks of it----
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This is going to be a quick one---we got some nasties heading our way so I'll be ready to turn off inna bit------maybe.
We had a few heavy monsoons come through with some trying to be those t'underboomers and so most of the day was spent looking through the Walthers newsletter things and trying to find some goodies
Chloe, I'll have a 32oz porterhouse steak medium rare with baked potato and grilled asparagus please. I'll finish that off with a Strawberry Rhubarb Pie and a coffee as well please----I'll be at the window seat watching the trains------
Hey guys, finally, locos are ready except for weathering. i did one coat on the rs-1 though.
Album link: http://s253.photobucket.com/albums/hh55/Packers_1/SCRail/
rs1 (only one coat of powder,s till needs a LOT of weathering):
Rob - If the wife comes up with a mini Burt Reynolds for that scene I'd think about leaving......
Jerry - that RBF sounds good, I'll have one too and I'll take care of Jerry's tab, thanks.
Lee - I went back and looked at your unloader... simple (that's not an insult!!!), but practical and efficient.... I definitely like it. I can picture a loader in the hills, (modified Walthers minekit perhaps?). Of course I've never been to Ohio, how do they mine coal there? Anyway, can't wait to see it in action.
Afternoon all..Its sunny and 78 here..Sallie is napping and 2 grand daughters are watching TV..I'll have a RBF make it a double please..Thank You..Hope you all are having a great sunday...Jerry
I'm bettin' that squirrel is a crispy critter!
Houdy All!
I'll make this one shorter as we seem to be having a T-Storm affecting our utilities.
Visited with my ex-girlfriends family up north on Saturday for a picnic. Her Mom invited me even though the girls fiance' was there... Don't know what that's about but her mom makes great food so I went....
nik.n - I ordered 2 of those grab bags, I hope I can make something too!
I had plans for doing some MRR stuff but summer here apparently is not good for that.... Too many interruptions..... Someday.... Maybe!!
Things have been crazy here with the BENNYS. An acronym for tourists originally traveling on the shared Penn, CNJ, Coastline.... Brooklyn, Elizabeth, Newark, New York State ( I know, geographically it's wrong but that's the usual order), and now jamming the Garden State Parkway. And then, locals evading police in pursuits. Nothing like a dozing New Yorker waking up at 6:30am after taking down a utility pole on the local highway... or a local flipping an SUV after a 2.5 mile pursuit "I din't do nothin' wrong!!!" Of course he couldn't explain the 6 cases of laundry detergent (which were crushed and spread over the road) in the back of the truck.....
Any hoo... enough unimportant stuff from NJ.
***Lee, can't wait to see the video of it. Real coal? If so, those little locos will get a work out for real. Very cool!
Glued some small sections of foam to the corner of the canyon (wife's HO layout). Then added some sheetrock compound to make room for a small cabin. Eventually wife will add things like a banjo player, nearby still and anything else she feels belongs there.
Rob
Lee- Believe it or not, as obvious as it is, it took me a while. I thought about it off and on then it dawned on me while I was mowing the yard. OF COURSE the 90 degree coat hangers! I just came in to re look at the photos to confirm and I saw your post. Boy the simplest things huh. My first thought was you had magnets mounted where the bolts on the bottom where to hold the car but I thought that might be too iffy and you'd spend some time digging the cars out of the bucket. Loose coal, cool! I'll be looking for the loading operation next. (or did I miss that?) Would the coat hangers work if they were the width of the car to keep it flat? Or would they be in the way and/or look wrong. How do you keep them from sliding while the car is inverted? Friction? I would think that would loosen over time. Clamps? I'm sure your friend has it figured out. I'm just curious.
I took the 2nd class Modell Railroader quiz in MRH mag and am just class 1 (or whatever it's called) FLUNK!! Class 1 probey I guess. What's an articulated? (that aughta bring Tom a runnin')
Todd, there are 4 pieces of wire coat hanger bent 90 degrees. When the car is rolled over it rests on the wire and then the top of the car rests on the bent section. The left side wheels do come off the rails a little but fall back in place when righted.
Rob, as soon as I clear off that area and put all the tools away I plan on shooting a short movie of it in operation.
Just ordered the "Locomotive Scratch-Builder's grab bag" from BLI. I'm hopeing that the two nonoperational locomotives are easy to fix!