blownout cylinder Sawyer: That engine is looking good!
Sawyer: That engine is looking good!
thanks Barry!
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Evenin' folks!
Aahhhhhhhhh, Man am I gonna hurt tomorrow. I can feel it already. Spent about 2 hours under the layout climbing around hooking up wires for the lighting and finalizing the wiring to the tortoise that operates the Tomar signal (and that after I spent about an hour weeding garden on my hands and knees...). I needed a 12 volt circuit to use for the LED light that is in series with a resistor and most of the tortis are run on 9v as they look better (operates a bit slower) or are run in series on a 16v circuit that runs around the layout..... The only 12 supply on that part of the layout is one I use for the radio circuit with the Digitrax. So it was climb under the layout, measure, climb back out , cut wires, crimp and solder spade lugs, climb back under, etc. I also installed 2 terminal strips under there to make the wiring a bit easier. I always need 3 hands to do those things. The result is great I now can operate the semaphore and have the signal lit in both positions as well..... Looks and operates perfect! That also lets me scratch off one of the must dos on the list before judging!
Chloe I just need a nice hot cup of decafe to help me relax. I'll go sit at the Rivet Counter and see if Barry has burned down his house yet...
[edit] Hey, hey, hey! I just checked and my new camera lens and hood has left E. Syracuse, NY and should be arriving at the Geneva UPS plant. Looks like I will get some new toys tomorrow!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good evening, it has been a while since I stopped in the Diner, I see we are under new management AGAIN!. After two weeks of rain up here in NE, we finally have has several spectacular days, so outside work is taking off big time, blueberries are in now, picked two gallons already.
On the MRR front, I am building the ME 150' steel truss bridge for the layout. It is a real nice kit, but very involved. I just found out that Sprue 12 is missing, so I have to call ME in the morning.
Later,
Good evenin', Chloe? Double cheeseburger and fries please...let's go with a 7-Up to wash it down, please 'n thankya.
Good grief, I think I'm finally caught up on the past two days worth of goings-on and happenings around here.
RAY: glad to hear the follow-up brought good news! 5-7 years 'eh? I'm sure you're already counting down the days...
SAWYER: Sorry to hear negotiations for Right of Way and capital expenditure with your governing body (parents) didn't work out so well. While it is true you can fight City Hall...you can't fight the people putting a roof over your head. Perhaps some compromise is possible... moms are famous for shooting down any idea that could "lead to a mess," perceived or actual. They're kinda funny that way. On a more positive note for ya, the locos look good, nicely done.
JEFF: How's the weather looking for that wedding? I think ya mentioned it was going to be outdoors? Loving Wife and I went that route...never again. Best wishes to the happy couple, hope they stay that way.
ROBBY P: 'Ol Ann is lookin' pretty shabby... Did I just see Chloe reaching for that skillet again???? I'll just say "another inspiring, well-done job" and leave it at THAT!!!
ULRICH: Hey Pal, any word on the latest possibility? We're still crossing fingers for ya. As they said back in the early 70's, we're "sending out good vibes!" Sorry, heard that line on a '73 episode of "EMERGENCY!" recently...just been waiting for a chance to use it in a sentence.
Had a long day yesterday (Sunday). The plans for covering the RC (radio controlled, NOT rivet counting) plane guys got re-written when we discovered the press release was botched. Instead of doing a short, quick, informal shoot of a few guys playing with the planes last week... I ended up covering the actual show. I was there all afternoon. Some neat stuff, twisted humor (a little parachutist named Willy Makeit hurlted to his death, but brother Kenny Makeit succesfully "jumped" later in the day), a helicopter dropping candy for the kids, a plane dropping a sixpack of empty beer cans for the adults (winner got a full six-pack), and even a flying lawnmower. Highlight of the day though, was meeting two WW2 vets of the US Army Air Corps. One was a ball-turret gunner on B-17s (ball turret was in the belly of the plane), the other flew P-47 Thunderbolts. It's not everyday you get to literally shake hands with history!
So...I shot well over 400 pics, edited down to 143, further chopped to 18 to turn in to THAT editor on Friday.
Tomorrow I have to contact a "senior national bowling champ" to do a little feature article. I have to get her this week, next week she is on RAGBRAI, or the "Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa" sponsored by the Des Moines Register newspaper. They start at the Missouri River, and end at the Missisippi a week later. Different routes each time, I didn't even look to see where they're at this year.
*yawn*
I shall now yield the floor to see what other nighthawks come into the Diner...
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
howmusChloe I just need a nice hot cup of decafe to help me relax. I'll go sit at the Rivet Counter and see if Barry has burned down his house yet...
Me? Burning down my own house? Why? What would EVER give you THAT idea? Just because I got a casting pot does not mean things will go PTOOOFF!! just yet-----
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Well, I got an early morning ----gotta get some kinda
G'night
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/
Just a stop off on the way home, Chloe, just a glass of water for me, please. Thanks!
Ray, good to hear your doctor's visit went well. So, is a RBF full of fiber - hey, that'd be great if it was? Hey, now I know who to talk with about getting (and hooking up) a semaphore or two for my layout...
Sawyer, the caboose and covered hopper look great! Loco looks good, too - will you be getting/making the SCRail decals for your loco?
NittanyLion - two words: "Selective compression" (and editing of some parts, as well)...
Chris, it sounds like you've been pretty busy for THAT editor lately. Chris? Hmm, guess I'll let him nap a little longer for now.
About time for me to head home - MRR club was so-so (looks like a lot of the structures have been picked/placed for the layout, and what buildings were left wouldn't fit much of anywhere that had an open spot. ). I also ordered some of the Woodland Scenics (smaller) buildings tonight - ice house, gas station, flag stop station, and (hey, Inch!) the windmill kits. And that means, I need to pick up some 5 minute epoxy for assembling those kits when I get going on them...
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
JimRCGMOChris? Hmm, guess I'll let him nap a little longer for now.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Huh? Whazit? What?
Guess I woke up in time to go to bed... G'Night all...
Good Morning everybody!
Chloe, it´ll be black coffee in that ARR mug and a toasted bagel for me. I´ll be over with Barry to discuss the "burning" issue of his need for a Quadruplex engine...
Chris - have a good rest, Chris? Shouldn´t we wake him up so he can go home?
A little birdie has told me that there will be a surprise for me at my upcoming birthday - could that be a Stewart F7? ...
Will tell you...
Have a good day!
Hello everybody...
Dick was here talking about blueberries........ My favorite! .... I hope Dick has a reefer full headed toward the diner........ Also, good luck with the ME bridge, Dick...
Jim CG ..Sounds like you are really making progress.
Ulrich ..if it is a Stewart F7, it should be a smooth runner.
Sawyer... you paint shop is doing nice work!
What's going on with Barry and Ray and burning houses?
I am still working on my locomotive project.
Good nite
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Smilk, Chloe.
I got my top set of braces today, and they are hard to get used to. Flossing is a PITR. Nothing much going on, weathered my Gp-9m and painted my bro's GP/RS-3 rebuild I did for him Conrail. Also striped my 4-8-4's tender so I could eventually paint it more realistic. And after doing some research I found out why the loke I was redoing was painted in a UP scheme with the yellow was replaced with gold and nonprototypical llettering wa used: Bachmann was avoiding lawsuits with UP over logo and schemes and other lawsuit related articles.
Modeling tip O' the week: I foud out that pulverized Creosote or black wood ash can be used as weathering powders, apply the same as chalk. Diesil soot works too, maybe even better, just scrape it out of the exhaust pipe.
See yall!
A coffee refill please, Zoe... thanks.
Well, I did have another go at weathering - that Railbox car just begged for it. I still hesitate to present it, but it is an improvement over my first attempt.
Well, here it is!
Before:
... and after:
I guess I have to just try, try ,try - costly matter!
Good Morning People---
We got us another fine day of sun and cloud with the emphesis on sun today. High gonna be about 24C with the low tonight of 11C. Tomorrow ---more rain
Gonna be having some more driving around doing the reviewing thing---lotsa fun------but as well, giving me some more opportunity to scout the outlying region for more old mills and the like------heeheehee
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Ulrich: Hey! Now you're getting there! Did you know those Railbox cars have lettering that you can scrape or rub off even? Lotsa possibilities there!! BTW---my Quintuplex/Quadruplex thing is a mere attempt at satire. BLI,MTH and the lot are completely in the hands of the raw aesthetics train collector who are only after the looks and will never run their lokes----so I'm merely passing along a few 'suggestions' as it were
Ray: As long as you don't bash your noggin' too many times off the benchwork I guess crawling around under the benchwork is not TOO hard BUT BUT BUT---under the benchwork for HOW long? Sheeesh I try to avoid going under my benchwork as much as I can------used to do work on my dad's DC layout that he had for years----the wiring under that was someting else to behold
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Chloe, I'll have a toasted bagel with cream cheese and a coffee please-----I'll be at the RC for a bit-----ah, the coffee can go into a togo cup thanks--
I just had lunch - only coffee for me , Flo.
I´ll sit with Barry at the Rivet Counter to discuss and detail his Quintuplex issue.
Will that be a 2-6-6-8-8-10-4 or a 4-10-8-8-6-6-2?
years ago, Marklin put out a class 53 Mallet that never left the drawing board. There was an outcry in the community of serious MRR´s, but it sold well - mainly to collectors who thought they could make a quick buck. At least those BLI and MTH monsters have a prototype...
Dick and Garry, that reminds me I need to go out and pick some from the bush in my yard before the squirrels and birds get at them. That things puts out alot of them though.
Ulrich, that looks pretty good to me.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Good Morning All,
A regular and a couple of glazed donuts please Zoe. Temps in the 40's (F) this morning but I'm not complaining.
Speaking of these monstrosities we keep seeing did I just see a prerelease announcement for the Baldwin Centipede or did I imagine that? Once they get the tooling, perhaps they'll make a babyface as well. That I would need for my (proposed on the layout) museum collection of unusual locomotives.
Chris - a ball turrent gunner eh? Probably was a little guy. That's what my dad did in the Pacific only they changed out the B-17's for B-24's fairly quickly (longer range, more payload). Little known trivia is the turrents were very small so usually the smallest crew were chosen for that job, and if the plane was hit and the electrics went out the turrent needed to be cranked back up manually and rotated as the parachute couldn't be carried in the ball. On the other hand, having that happen saved my dads' life as the rest of his crew were shot in their chutes and it took him so long to get out the Japanese forgot about him.
Ulrich - nice job on the weathering. We have a similar car at the rail museum here. One tip is the upper and lower tracks for the door should also get a heavy coat of grease and rust as they take a real beating in service.
I see we've moved again. May I propose a vote on the acquisition of a permanent switcher so we can move with impunity? I nominate the venerable GE 44 tonner. With two Cat diesels it is easy to work on and has enough grunt to shift three full size coaches though it is limited in top speed. That way we could treat the ladies to a full sized dining car and we could look for an observation car to add reading and lounge room. Whaddya think?
The trip to Quebec went well but U.S.Customs is turning into a real ordeal these days. Although I use an exempt motorhome (class 1) to pull my trailer I now use full commercial paperwork and get flagged to impound every time. Coming back through Champlain was no exception. I was sent to impound, had to pay an additional entry fee for the privilige of bringing my own stuff back in and got to get the rig X-rayed as well. Now don't get me wrong, I know what an important job border security is, but there is no signage or help for the various lots (a problem as I don't do this every day) and there is no reason for rude/surley people. I always treat the men and women manning the border with politness and respect and I don't think a little reciprosity on their part is asking too much.This year has seemed especially bad both times. I guess we'll see again when I go to visit my mom in Nova Scotia next week. Enough with the rant and back to it in the shop. Catch y'all later. J.R.
Good morning all,
I scraped, and scraped but I finally got all the loose paint off the basement walls in my third room down there. I don’t think those walls have seen new paint in the last 60 years. This room was a canning kitchen and had makeshift cupboards and counter tops. I gutted the room and will be converting it into a 12’ x 9’ “U” shaped port facility. Tracks will travel under the stairs to connect my main layout to this one. My neighbor gave me his old kitchen cabinets after I installed his new kitchen and these will go around the room for storage under the layout. I hope to put a second coat of KILLZ on the walls and set the cabinets in place today.
Sawyer: I spent 3 years collecting turnouts and stuff for my layout; if you plan on using flex track (much cheaper and versatile than snap together tracks) you can start shopping now for used items. Over 3 years I acquired over 100 turnouts for around $1 each. Some of the more exotic turnouts costing me a little more; 3 way turnouts run about $5-$10 used, Wye turnouts run about $3 used, I even have some curved turnouts with a 36 degree radius I bought for $10 each. Now remember this was over a 3 year period. If you go to train shows or flea markets watch for the boxes under the table or boxes of turnouts. If you buy flex track and flexible cork roadbed by the case off the internet you can expect to pay 50 to 99 cents for 3’ of roadbed and around $2 for 3’ of flex track. The price gets sweeter the more you buy so I went in with a couple of friends and bought 4 cases. I think I paid $1 for 3’ of flex track and 25 cents for 3’ of roadbed. I can’t help you out with your parent’s vision of your rail empire however.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
GMTRacing One tip is the upper and lower tracks for the door should also get a heavy coat of grease and rust as they take a real beating in service.
One tip is the upper and lower tracks for the door should also get a heavy coat of grease and rust as they take a real beating in service.
Thanks for the tip - I´ll wet my brush and put a little glossy black paint there
Good morning. I will take take the hungry mans breakfast.
Not to much planned today. Mostly clean the house. I'm out of trains to weather, and I won't get any more till I see what these two I did/do.
Ulrich.........I agree, along the bottom of the door needs a bit of grime. Much improved!!
Well I guess I will pop back in later.
Have a good one.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Good morning.It's 77 and sunny. The high will be in the high 90's and it will be partly cloudy.Today is the day for my niece and her fiance, their wedding day that is. We're expecting 30 guests for the wedding and the reception is open to all comers. It's gonna be a busy day for me so I won't have much time for the layout. On nice thing, my other niece (younger sister's daughter) drove in from Colorado last night. She arrived a little late because she got lost in Dallas. Been there and done that so I can understand how it could happen. But here's the funny thing. She got lost in Leesville! How the heck do you get lost in a little burg like Leesville? Well here's how. She had been told to wait in the Vernon Bank parking lot on the north side of town. Problem is, there are three Vernon banks on that side of town. She was at the wrong one so none of the landmarks she'd been told to look for were in sight. It wasn't until she was asked if she could see a Sonic restaurant that we realized what had happened. She couldn't see a Sonic but she could see a Leesville Leader building. That explained it! She was at the Third Street branch, not the Main branch on 5th Street.Today's Weather for:Sundown, LA 71446-6114 7/14/2009Heat Index: 83°FHumidity: 93%Dew Point: 75°FSo Far TodayHigh: 82°FLow: 77°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 7mph NNEToday High: 98 Increasing clouds. Highs in the upper 90s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.Tonight Low: 75 Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
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Good morning, another sunny day but very cool for this time of the year, only 59F at 8:45, unheard of in mid July !!
Waiting a few more minutes so that I can call MicroEngineering to get Sprue 12 that was missing from my kit. They are very good at customer support, so it will be sent out in the mail this morning I'm sure.
VINCENT & GARRY: With all the rains we have had this late Spring and early Summer, the blueberries are very big and very plentiful. And Vincent, the birds know it too, so get your bushes covered, the birds are up eating at daybreak while we are still in bed, they will pick the bushes bare in an hour or less.
RAY: Sounds like you had a very successful day under the benches with re-wiring! I hope your knees ar not in rebellion today.^_^.
LEE: I have noticed the same good deals at shows also, this is a great way to pick up many layout needs.
Time to call ME, talk later guys,
Mornin' All!
Make mine a BIG cup this morning!
So, how's everything in your world?
I see Jeff's got a full day planned!
I see that rain is heading across the Mississippi River this evening, but today looks good around here! Mostly sunny, with a high near 82. East southeast wind around 7 mph. Perfect riding weather!
Speaking of riding, I finally got the wife to ride with me last evening. We rode down to southern Indiana (Nashville, IN) and rode around in the hills for a while. We did nearly 200 miles, and she loved it! She wouldn't ride with me before because she didn't have a backrest. SHE DOES NOW! I think I'm going to be sharing my rides a lot more now. I'm all for that!
Oh well, gotta run!
Later!
Mornin' all, (he he he) Pak-A-Pig, Man I love that. Just coffee please aaah maybe a sweet roll. Thanks.
DerJohn- Sorry, I haven't checked E-mail since the fourth of July! I get out of the habit occasionally. Thanks for the tip, I'm gonna give it a try.
Ray- Glad to hear the good Docs report. It was nice for him to send the good news via a cute carrier pigeon!
Joe- Track plan looks good. Or I should say the basic design relating to the bench work as a whole. I'm not good at track plans themselves. My comments on your thread were pointed mainly at the bench work plan. I could just see some things that when put to the wood so to speak, I didn't think you'd be happy with when you actually had it up. I'm sure you'd want some space for additional industries and things for your railroad to do. This setup will allow you to have room and make any changes a whole lot easier as you get into laying track. I ran into a very similar problem and I just wanted to help someone else NOT get into the same pickle barrel if they didn't have to. Sometimes however space dictates something totally different. Good luck!
Ulrich- Good luck with the F7. Boxcar looks good. It looks LOTS better than my second attempt. Or third, or fourth. You could get the hang of this real quick!
J.R.- Your diner and switcher setup sounds good to me. Also I've got an Idea on the border crossings. Maybe if you shaved, wore a white T-shirt,(plain not with any car related stuff. Do you have any? I would've had to say no a few years ago when I was into cars and shows) Some shorts with pockets that look like short dress pants, don't forget the black belt, black socks and some Wingtips or any black lace type shoe. Maybe you'd look like just any tourist and they'd let you right on through.
I always wear a big Lonestar Beer belt buckle, always have. The only place I had trouble getting through a metal detector, pre-terrorist attacks mind you, was George Bush Incont'l Airport in Houston (second most humid town I‘ve ever been to). Land of the big buckles. Ironic.
Jeff- I can understand her getting lost. 3 bank branches in one town? Streets with numbers? That must be a huge town. We have one bank and our streets are either named for trees, the town it USED to go too or the name of the first family to live on the street. Your burg must be HUGE!!! Oh wait, some people visiting get lost in Williamsville too. Never mind.
Speaking of Jeff, Did ya notice he waited until today to say the reception is open to all comers? No time for most of us to get there. Smart man.
PC- Glad you got the wife to ride the bike. Now you can take those long rides and not feel guilty about leaving so long. Maybe.
Aaaand Ryan- If yer peeking in occasionally I want to say I made the Crawfish Monique, (with shrimp subbed) and it was delicious. Loved it. We had some left over (not much) and took it to a friend of ours and they raved over it! It will be made again. Yuuuuuuum, YUM!
Have a Great Day!
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.
Chris, I've got a great 8x12 plan now. Lot of industries on one side, a large fertilizer plant complex on the other, and a 4-track staging yard, though it won't be used except for display running unless it can fit a 13 car train+loco and caboose (fertilizer train) or a train of probably a dozen cars or so + loco and caboose (the local).
Jim, I'll be using Gothic Block-White lettering from microscale for the numbers, and that'll be all (in fact, jsut the caboose, rs-1, C-Liner, and GP35 will get numbers as of right now)
Garry, thanks!
Lee, good advice man, thanks. I don't have many train shows (in fact, pretty much zero) that I can go to, I don't have any way to use ebay, etc. I did get an offer of some track pieces from a guy on another forum, I just need to get the money. I'll be using flextrack and woodland scenics roadbed.
Good Morning, Zoe - I'll have a blueberry bagel and a cup of coffe in a Santa Fe mug, please 'n' thank you.
Ulrich, your 'start' looks great! (I didn't see your earlier weathering job) I'd bet that boxcar's only a few days out of the paint shop, eh? Keep at it and I'm sure you'll get better with it, too. Nice thing on weathering (with the chalks, at least) is that they seem to last a lonnnngggg while. The Dullcote probably runs out way before the chalks do, and the brushes don't wear out very quickly at all. Looks like the other Diners already had a couple of tips for you, so you came to the right place, didn'tcha?
I see PC's got a big smile on his face - bet he's been riding his bike recently - Oh, you were!
Looks like Jeff will have a full day - "all comers" for the reception? Did they post an invite at the post office? Well, hopefully the reception guests will behave themselves. Thanks for posting that ex-D&RGW diesel photo, too.
And JR, I see you've been making sure our border security folks are doing their job, eh? Hope you get the friendlier guards when you visit your mother.
Lee, best wishes on your scraping being done (and on the Kilz airing out quickly - boy, that stuff stinks! Got any plans/drawings for the port area yet?
Todd, are you saying that Williamsville is a two-horse town? Heck, Cape G. has some of those streets named after the town they used to go to (before the interstate cut them in half..). Good point there, about Jeff neglecting to mention the 'open' reception...
Our weatherguessers are saying we may likely get some rain later today (afternoon/evening) as the front moves through. On the radar this a.m. it looked like some of the front could be some heavier thunderboomers, so everybody to my east and north (Garry, our Illinois Diners, and our Ohio Valley folks), you may need to get off the computer when the front gets close to you. Gardens most likely will be watered by this front, I'd guess!
I'll sit at the window booth for now - it looks kinda lonely since so many have been sitting at the RC. (Poor little booth...)
Blessings,
Guys - thanks for your "praise" on my second weathering attempt. This morning, after my first coffee here in the diner, I just opened the looked at the box car I had assembled some days ago I decided to just try it again - after looking at Robby P.´s pics again.
I shouldn´t be telling you how I did it - or should I?
Well the experts will kill me. Here we go!
My compressor is out of service, no airbrush. I don´t have any chalks, just powder pigments and the don´t work the way I want it. I do have some rust colored paint that I applied with a stiff small brush, but very dry - hardly any paint on the brush. And I do have two spray cans, black and sand color. I just carefully sprayed a mist of color over the car, after I had dabbed on the rust - that´s all. I will, however, try out to work with those chalks, after I have found out where to get them - promised!
Jim - just for you, this was my first attempt:
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe I'll have a bowl of oatmeal this morning with a couple handfuls of the those delicious looking blueberrys that Dick brought in on top. And my usual in a FGLK Mug of course.
I'll go sit at the Rivet Counter and discuss 44 tonners, how to get lost in a 3 horse town with less than 6000 people and 3 branches of the same bank, why we didn't get invited earlier to the reception (I think somebody knows what a party bunch we have here...), and how to keep from from burning your house down while doing metalurgy....
Currently 65°F here in the Finger Lakes with a high around 70°F later this afternoon. Lots of sunshine and winds of 10 to 20 MPH. Perfect weather for my liking. Think I'll work on mowing the lawn and finishing weeding the garden. May mosey on out to the museum this evening to give a hand with a few projects out there. I also plan on finishing up a couple of projects on the layout as well.
Guess I best get moving if all of those things are to get done.
Catch you all later!
TMarsh PC- Glad you got the wife to ride the bike. Now you can take those long rides and not feel guilty about leaving so long. Maybe.
I was thinking the same thing!
Well its afternoon, and I haven't done to mcuh yet. Now I think I will clean the house.
I did go by the LHS (thanks to the Ann Arbor car selling), and got my next project. Its a MNS boxcar. I just finished the fade, and I will let that dry over night. I did a fade once, and waited about a hour or so. Well that didn't go to good . Now I do the fade, and then let it dry.
Here's a shot of the car (before). Hopefully tomorrow I will get some progress shots up.
Hope everybody is having a good afternoon.
Good afternoon everybody, Chloe? a bucket of coffee please and thankyou, yep, the strong stuff...
Don't know why I just don't have much energy here lately... I think since we got some window air conditioners put in a couple of weeks ago, the nicely cooled house just makes me wanna hibernate!!!!
Well, down to business.
ULRICH: The Railbox is looking pretty good! I agree with the "grease" on the door tracks. Go slow, look at reference pics frequently, and you'll come out just fine with weathering. The big danger, as I've found, is not knowing when to just leave it alone...
SAWYER: I was wondering if the 8x12 plan was included in the Right of Way and capital expenditures request process...
J.R.: The guy was technically "too big" to be a ball turret gunner. It didn't take many missions before they decided instead to train him to operate jamming equipment. The first ship bringing the stuff was torpedoed. It didn't sink, but the shipment was flooded with salty sea water...and ruined. So, he got a bit of a "vacation" while waiting for the next shipment. Since jammers were relatively few in number, he flew with a different crew each time. Neat guy! I remember seeing a movie, don't remember if it was a documentary, or some Hollyweird product...but they had the thing about having to retract the ball before landing, and I remember something about it being stuck in the down position... with potentially messy consequences. I've always liked the B-17s, very cool looking plane in my book. It's hard to imagine in this day and age of computer-driven jets, un-manned attack drones, etc.; to picture a plane with ten guys on it, and eight of them manning a .50 cal machine gun. Amazing.
JIM: Thanks fer lettin' me snooze.... although Rerun wondered why it took me so long to get home.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh shazbot. I gotta make some calls for w**k yet today. THAT editor really wants me to do the article on our national senior bowling champ this week... School board meeting tomorrow evening, yippee yippee yippee.
I'd best get the calls made, will stop back later to catch up again....
Robby, I've got an MNS car as well.
Chris, it was. I'm probably going to either build a 4x8 layout with some extensions (a shelf with staging behind a paper mill) and also an extension at the front to handle a crossing by another RR (a guy on another forum offered me some turnouts and two crossings that I'll probably end up buying), or take adavnatage of a long area that would be perfect to have an industrial area, then transfer to a mainline w/ a pasisng siding and an industry or two.
There is a small chance that I will have to split the room I'm getting w/ my little brother this spring, in which case I would have to tear down what I'd built and build a smaller layout, though this would have a decent-enough mainline run to operate trains on, not just switch.
I'm leaning towards the extended 4x8 now though.