Evenin' folks!
Just taking a very need break from cleaning the house...... Flo I'll have a cup of decafe in a R&GV Museum Mug please and thank you.
I am paying now for playing with my 2 year old granddaughter this morning and early afternoon... My knees are not working, or should we say are working with a great deal of pain....... Guess I shouldn't have been the horsey for the rides. We did have a good time.
Notice Thomas set up on the floor and cookie in hand.... She likes my laptop computer too:
Hope it still runs next time I need it.
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Sir MadogWhat is the meaning of the friendly couple depicted left to my screen name.
I'll take a guess as I've never paid attention to what they actually are. But could he be refering to the colored design depicting if a person is signed on or not? I could answer more surely but for some reason the things aren't showing up right now even for me. Sometimes they don't.
EDIT: Yes they are working now. Ulrich, the friendly couple shows when that person is logged onto the forum.
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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78gg1BcXJ8M
I explain my yard's layout in that vid. It got cut off at the end, but that interchange track is for SCRail
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
OK, so I officially feel like an old man now! I got the tie rod end on the van, but man, am I feelin' it! One part was so rusted on that the two pieces of metal had basically become one. That was a major pain getting that apart! I got it though, and I did a lube job on the van while I was down there. Took it for a short test drive and it drives like a champ! Now that I've had a shower I'm really feeling those muscles. My wife, bless her heart, gave me one of her muscle relaxers and two of her pain pills (I don't like taking those because they are for her and she needs them, but today I'll make an exception!), so pretty soon I should be feeling MUCH better!
Sir Madog Philip - don´t know what your neighborhood is like - so taking the shoeleather express might be even more dangerous ---
Philip - don´t know what your neighborhood is like - so taking the shoeleather express might be even more dangerous ---
Well, it's a nice neighborhood, but it's far enough out in the country that it'd take me a week to walk to work!
Folks, please allow me a stupid question: What is the meaning of the friendly couple depicted left to my screen name. I have always wanted to ask, but never did. Some of the posters do not have this...
I've never seen anything like that, so I'm not gonna be much help there.
Hi everybody. Just a quick stop. Hope everybody is having a good weekend so far. I'm mainly doing some yard work, and cleaning.
I will pop back in later.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Afternoon everyone!
Didn't get a chance to get in here this morning ..... My son showed up a few minutes after 10 this morning with #1 Daughter to do his Fantasy Foot ball draft. I of course got to entertain my granddaughter for the last 3 hours. I don't know who had more fun Olivia or Grandpa? My son brought the Thomas the Train set I bought last Christmas for her. She has two Thomas engines and one Lady plus one freight car. We put together the set and had fun running the engines almost everywhere except on the track.... Some photos soon. I made Olivia a toasted cheese sandwich for lunch and cut up an apple. She had one good bite of the sandwich, said it was good and did the same with a slice of apple, drank some milk, and it was off to play time riding around with grandpa being the horsey, getting into everything I have and chasing both the cats who haven't quite made up their minds about small humans yet...... Oh Olivia did eat 2 of the cookies that grandpa made last night.
Zoe just a RBF in honor of Ulrich. Please know again that you have a lot of prayers coming your way for a completely successful surgery and recovery. I am sure that when you post after the procedure, you will be feeling much stronger! Good luck!
I now have 3 hours less to get everything done today so.........
Later
Sir MadogPC - someone must be watching over you as well - maybe you and your family should stay away from cars a little while to give your guardian angel a rest...
Maybe I should stick to the shoeleather express!
jeffrey-wimberlyIt was downright vicious and struck at anything that moved.
Hm, ya know......., I haven't seen my MIL in a few days.
Good mid morning all, sweet roll and coffee please. Partly to mostly cloudy toaday with a 30% chance of showers and isolated T-Storms. High of 79 F. Brenda went horse back riding again last night, well started to anyway. Her brothers, uh significant other of, well, forever, her horse got spooked from her grand daughter ’s flailing arms running towards te horse and started bucking like a rodeo and she was doing ok until the horse got under a tree limb and Vicky hit her head and was knocked out and thrown into the tree. She is home today after the eve and night in the hospital. Fractured vertebrae and a partial scalping from the tree branch, just an inch or two I guess. She’ll be good as new in about 6-8 weeks. She was lucky. Apparently the child had been making the horse visibly nervous for a few minutes. Why they didn’t get the kid out of there or tell her to stop I don’t know.
Speaking of ink washes, I think I’ll try one on the old UP box car today. I see Robby has done one although mine is a longer high cube, they look the same. I’ll wait till you forget what his looks like before I show mine!
Jim- I just used Testors copper enamel and a dry brushing of Polyscale Gimy black after the copper dried. The texture of the metal casting did the rest. Pre pitted and dented. The tubing that you can’t see is wire that was already a bit rusty in spots so it looked great without doing a thing.
Garry- Happy Anniversary!!!! And sorry to hear about your church friend the family is in my prayers for comfort. I’ve heard so many good things about Dell. But I see if you actually do have a problem, maybe they aren’t so great. I have a Sony VAIO I have never had trouble with it other than me and the one time I called the help line,( you’re right, I think it’s comical, they want to help you with your computer problems…..from your computer) I talked to someone who spoke better English than me. I. Me. Whatever
Saaaaay!! I see Ray brought in some cookies. Got any left? I’ll take some. It’s been a while since he brought in cookies.
CNCharlie- I agree on the price of some of the books out there. There are some I’d like to get too. But with the hobby budget as tight as it is anymore, I just can’t bring myself to spend money on things other than stuff for the layout.
Jeff- I know you know what all the poisonous snakes that live in the US look like. ( I know what your gonna say and believe me, I’m with you. Boa’s don’t live in the US either). Have you checked this critter out yet, or fed it to the mower. I’d be curious myself. Even if I had to take it to a Vet.
Lee- Gee whiz you’ve been comin on to some bargains here lately.
Inch- A hog nose was the first snake that came to mind for me too. ‘cept when he said striped like a garter I thought, well, maybe not. Sides, I figured he’d probably know one of those. ( ah, I see he does) Road trip? Sounds good but, of course that’s a bad weekend for me. I gotta cook for the Community Foundations bring back Autumn on the Boulevard fundraiser on Saturday and cleanups on Sunday. I think I’ll just hang on til The Great Train Expo comes to the State Fairgrounds in Springfield on the 17th and 18th of October. I don’t remember if that show is any good or not, but since it’s so close I’ll go anyway since I’m not involved in farming this year. Yet.
PC- WHEW!!! Sounds like something that would cause a person to have to use that clean pair of shorts in the glove box. Excellent driving and I’m glad that no one was hurt.
Ulrich- I hope you get to see this before you head off, You’re in my prayers and I’m sure you will be watched over.
What’s that? I hear a noise from the layout. I must check it out.
Have a Great Day!!
Whoo, glad to be back. How's it going guys?
Good Afternoon, Folks,
this will be my last visit for a while, so the drinks are all on me! Zoe, I have not had a RBF for a while, so I just take that...
PC - someone must be watching over you as well - maybe you and your family should stay away from cars a little while to give your guardian angel a rest... Thank god that you are not allowed to drive as fast as we do sometimes here in Germany. I remember it not to be funny to blow a tire while doing 140 mph... I needed all three lanes of the motorway to keep the car on the road until it came to a halt. No one got hurt, even the car (Porsche) just needed a new rim and tire...
I will try to do my best to report back at the earliest...
Gerry, congrats, and sorry, all in one.
All,
OK, so my wife and I are driving down the hiway last evening during late rush hour. We're toolin' along about 70mph, and all of a sudden, the steering wheel tries to rip itself out of my hands and the whole right front of the van starts suddering and skaking like theres no tomorrow! I grab the wheel and start checking the mirrors. Ya know, it's usually not good when you know somethings wrong with your vehicle and you look around and notice that EVERYONE is moving away from you quickly! The van (a full sized custom van) is pulling hard to the left, so with my path now clear I guide it over to the inside break down lane on the left. Once stopped, I look under the front end and see that the tie rod end on the passenger side has busted clean off. $180 and an hour and a half later we've gotten towed home and it's time for a muscle relaxer pill as I've hurt a muscle on my right side fighting the wheel as it tried so hard to have it's own way at 70mph. So anyways, this morning I swung by the local Autozone and picked up a new tie rod end for a paltry $25. Now I just have to put it on.
Let me tell you what.......THAT was an attention getter!
Good morning All..Its cloudy and 64 here..Just coffee for me..My son's girl Friend is making biscuits and Gravey...We are headed to the Pop corn festival in Casey this afternoon..Started to rebuild a used Walthers heljan turntable I picked up..The bridge is warped..I am going to try heating with a hair dryer but I think its a long shot to make it work I may have to just scrap it out and look for another..You all have a good week end...Jerry
inch53JEFF,,, you might have killed southern hog nose snake which is getting rare in the south. http://www.uga.edu/srelherp/snakes/hetsim.htm . I've never been bitten by one in all the years of playing with snakes, they're almost harmless. They'll even play dead till they get use to being handled.
JEFF,,, you might have killed southern hog nose snake which is getting rare in the south.
http://www.uga.edu/srelherp/snakes/hetsim.htm . I've never been bitten by one in all the years of playing with snakes, they're almost harmless. They'll even play dead till they get use to being handled.
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
Hello
Today is our wedding anniversary, but it started with a sad phone call early. Our church friend, Diane, passed away at about 4:00 am. Her husband, Wayne had been at her side in the hospice for nearly two weeks. Their faith in the Lord has been inspirring to us and their faith remained steadfast throughout this ordeal.
Also, I would again like to extend prayers to Ulrich. I understand the apprehension about heart surgery having been through some heart operations myself. Keep your faith, Ulrich, and you will be healthy again.
I will dispatch the chapel car to the diner.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Mornin, an irish coffe if'en ya woulds Janie.
ULRICH,,,, hope the surgery goes well and I know it's tough not ta worry, hang in there.
TODD,,,, how bouts a road trip next weekend. The Monticello Railway Museum is having their railroad days and the Leviathan steam engine is supposed to be there. I'm hoping we can get up there, but the odds aren't too good right now. http://www.mrym.org/index.html
GARRY,,, late but Happy Birthday anyway. My moms birthday is the 3'rd, and my grandma's would have been the 7'th.
RAY,, thanks for your service to the Boy Scouts from me too. I made it to Life and was also in OA.
Football season's in full swing here. We spent last Saturday night in Gurard watching Mac's team play. Did a little rail fanning while we were there, but those pics are on film. I did get some interesting photo's on the way home. The first one are from where the NYC's Mattoon-Pana line crossed the start of the Little Wabash river east of Gay's, note the build dates in the last one. The 1921 was the NYC, the 1884 was built by the THA&StL RR
Also got a pic of a wind turbine at an old underground coal mine, east of Farmersville.
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g214/inch53/010-7.jpg
The big wheel in this one is the cable wheel on the mine head.
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g214/inch53/012-7.jpg
Well I best gets round, Mother wanting to go waste time yard saleing this morning
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309
Good morning.It's 73 and cloudy. The high will be around 90 and there's a chance of rain.Got the parent's yard mowed yesterday morning ahead of reports of imminent rainfall that never materialized. I finished up the Athearn Southern boxcar yesterday and started in on the Bachmann Boise Cascade all-door boxcar. When I finish with it it will look much different than it does now.Today's Weather for:Sundown, LA 71446-6114 9/5/2009Heat Index: 76°FHumidity: 88%Dew Point: 68°FSo Far TodayHigh: 76°FLow: 71°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 6mph ENEToday High: 90 Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs around 90. East winds around 5 mph.Tonight Low: 70 Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows around 70. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
I went to LHS to pick up my back order of Yardmaster 40FT box cars yesterday; I noticed he had several PROTO 2000 locomotives sitting on the shelf behind the counter collecting dust. I talked him out of two GP7 locomotives for $59 each. Unfortunately they are Seaboard units in purple and silver, not a big problem since I plan to paint them yellow and black and put my own markings on them. Both locomotives are DCC ready, I also picked up the 12v 50ma bulbs needed for the conversion.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good morning all. Well, I was correct. Opened my eyes and GOLDARN it, its 4:13. Guess I'll go wake a rooster and have him start the day.
Ulrich- Best wishes and Blessings. Knowing the Old Diners, thats from all of us.
Flip
Good Morning...
Zoe, I´ll have the Big Breakfast platter with all the works, but leave out the low cholesterol stuff, yes, and a hot and black coffee in my LKAB mug, please! For those who maybe don´t know this, LKAB or Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag is the company operating the mine in Kiruna/Sweden. Their daughter company MTAB or Malmtrafik Aktiebolag operate the famous ore trains to Narvik/Norway with powerful electrics!
My last day in freedom, it is sunny outside, but we expect the odd spell of rain - typical fall weather. I will go for a walk today and make some plans for the time after my recovery. Tomorrow at around 11 o´clock I have to call in to get ready for that masked guy who wants to cut me up - still a frightening thought.
Ray - those chocolate chippers look dang good! Just as good as Petra makes them (even better, but I cannot let her know!)
Jeff - are you sure it wasn´t a baby anaconda?
Y´ all have a good one!
Good evening...
CN Charlie... Thanks for the well wishes and comments. I would be glad to talk with somebody at a cal center in Ontario. ... At Dell, it would have been easier to "press 2 for Spanish" I think instead of "press 1 for broken English". .......
Cal Tom .... I saw your photos of those fabulous steam locos in WPF. Terrific!
Ray ......... Your layout scenes look real. Bravo! ....... BTW, once I was a Cub Master.
Robby .... I saw your post in WPF....... looks great.
Jeff........You, too....... Keep up the good work........ Must have been a creepy looking snake! (Has anyone seen Edgar Alan Boa, lately?
Vincent ... I saw your photos in WPF, too. Nice!
Good Evening Fellow Late Night Diners,
First of all I think there is a little mis-understanding going on who got the snip. Robby is our esteemed fellow diner who does amazing things weathering. Robbie is a 6 month old West Highland terrier who is the one who got the "snip". I'll call him Robin in the future to avoid confusion and anyway that is the name my wife gave him. I call him Robbie as Robin seemed a little wimpy but I guess now it is appropriate, sorry about that Robin but your Mum didn't want you to get any testoserone. She didn't want you lifting your leg on her plants or getting aggressive. Something about men causing all the wars and fighting all the time.
Garry, a happy birthday to you and sorry to hear of your computer woes. If you are ever in the market for another and want one with support from people here, I can recommend a Fujitsu. You can actually understand when they talk to you at their call centre as it is in eastern Ontario which I guess means it is a foreign country for you but hey, the accent isn't that bad. They are open 24/7 which was a good thing for me as we had a lot of trouble with Vista, it being the new system when we bought the computer a couple of years ago. Plus the longest I ever had to wait for someone to answer was about 6 rings. Fujitsu computers are the only ones still built in Japan. Okay,. sales plug over and I'm not even on commission.
Der, that is really amazing work on the tar trailer. Here I was thinking I was doing well getting MT couplers on a couple of cars. You sure do set the bar high.
Hope to get to the LHS tomorrow as there is a book they have that I want to buy. It is rather thin for $26 but I bet the print run was short and I know it is out of print. It is a book on steam photos by Lawrence Stuckey who was a photographer here in Manitoba and also a CP fireman. He has detailed information on each photo and it is great to read something written by someone who actually worked many of the engines he photographed. Might see if there is anything else that needs a new home.
Well Pippa is here to tell me it is time to go to bed. She can't jump up by herself anymore so needs me to give her a boost. Old age is a bummer.
CN Charlie
Cape Jim- Not to my knowledge. But then , if it was in a previous life, would I remember? And if I had been, would I have healed or made things worse?
Haven't done a thing with trains- Not even turned on the power in eight or more months. Its two hours past my normal work day bedtime but I'll bet I'll stilll be up at 4:30 even tho I'm off.
Goodnight all, Flip
JimRCGMORay, on Ryan's comments about your Scouting service and the song and all with the letters there...
Well, well, well... So Jim and Ryan are my brothers in the order! How about that. I didn't do OA until I was an adult as I wasn't a Scout when I was a teen. I was heavily involved with 4-H as a farm boy instead. I got sucked into involved with Scouting when my sons got involved in Cub Scouts well over 30 years ago. I was on the pack committee for a few years until mu oldest became a Webelos. No one would take the position on Webelos den leader in the pack. Somebody a couple houses down from where I lived who was a den leader hit me with a 2x4 with a railroad spike in it and told me it was only an hour a week........... Well my oldest son will be 42 next month and here I am still in Scouting. I have been a Commissioner both at camp and with units, Scoutmaster, Committee Chair, District Camping Chair, Council BS Camping Chair, Woodbadge Staff, On 2 different occasions I have been a Boy Scout Camp Director, Chartered Partner Representative, and the list goes on...... I figure why should kids have all the fun! Thank you both of you! How far did you guys get in The Brotherhood of Cheerful Service?
Managed to accompilsh a bit of stuff today. Finished the woodpile (ended up with 2 facecords), got half of the lawn mowed, and baked several dozen of these:
(Help yourself!)
Also got a few things put away. Tomorrow my son and an old High School and Scouting buddy of his will be over to use my computers for their Fantasy Football Draft. I will be picking up and cleaning house for the company on Sunday will they are playing with the computers. I need about 3 more days to get ready for the guests! When people come to my house I usually say as they walk in, "pardon the mess. It doesn't usually look like this. Usually it is a lot worse!" frankly when I die I really don't care if anyone gets up at my Memorial Service and says, "I knew Ray well...... He was such a good house keeper!" But I don't really want to have this guys wife get grossed out either, if you catch my drift. So tomorrow will be spent cleaning and finishing up the lawn!
Have a greast night and prayers to all in need!
Good Evening, Chloe, Flo - if there's any of Garry's cake left, I'd love a slice of that with a dollop of vanilla ice cream on top, and a Rio Grande mug of coffee, too. Thanks!
DerJohn, more amazing detail on that tar trailer! I've saved the photos and directions to my 'Tar Trailer' folder (of course!)...
Vincent, you and Jeff talking about the ink and alcohol washes reminded me of a question I wanted to ask in here. After I got done stripping my gondola with my alcohol, the alcohol was a dark color (maybe has some paint or something in it? suspended?). I'm wondering if that would be usable for a dark wash in weathering, or if not, what's good for straining out whatever has the color dark? Anyone who can advise me there? Thanks in advance...
And also, Jeff, saw your answer to Vincent (so my question got answered). Thanks! I have one set of those Floquil pens, but will need to look - if I have the right set (with the rust), I'll try doing some wheels this weekend. Will be keeping you in mind and for your foot surgery. Hmm, that snake sounds weird, all right (and I wouldn't even think about getting anywhere closer than you did - about rifle range). I think Flip's idea might be a possibility - or else something escaped from the traveling snake show as they were going through town...
Ulrich, I'll agree with Garry and the others - we'll be in the virtual waiting room for you and with you for your recovery.
Rob, sorry to hear about Sandy - the past couple/three weeks have been tough for several Diners' four-footed friends. Will add Sandy to my list. Maybe you could give your wife lessons on how to glue together a DPM kit or a Model Power one? Let her get started, and who knows? She might get to really enjoy kits.
Phillip, that Camaro looks great (and that probably is a good color for the ladies, I'd guess)- I bet she'll love it (or already does!). A good price for that, too.
Todd - what color(s) did you use for the copper/brass on your still? A mix, or one color? Thanks. Yeah, that's a bit pricey - for a Planter OR for a Drill, either one! Let's see, for that much, PC could've bought Camaros for ALL us DIners, I think... Hey, I like Monty Python, just haven't seen that many of the sketches (but I have seen the dead parrot one ). Actually, I got introduced to M.P. at the church I used to attend, as they used clips from a few of their movies in some message illustrations (I think the associate pastor, maybe more, like Monty Python). Hey, now that you mentioned dents in the fenders, I expect DerJohn will show us how to do those, too.
Ray, on Ryan's comments about your Scouting service and the song and all with the letters there...
Garry, I don't blame you for being a tad, wee bit upset and peeved about how Dell is (NOT) treating you... (to understate just a bit). You went Linux?
Flip - were you a doctor or medic in a previous life, maybe?
For those near one, H-L has their 40 percent off coupon this week on the website, but the whole MRR/diorama category is 30 percent off. So I might pick up another set of those Floquil markers and some other colors of spray paint, as well as some fine point Sharpie pens.
Well, tomorrow is payday (Yay!), so need to figure what needs getting paid. I asked, and my LHS owner/MRR club member does have another NMRA track guage - so that will ensure that after I buy it from him, my other one will show up, right? Definitely need to fill the car's gas tank (and glad it only holds 15 gallons), do laundry and see if the new MR mag is in my p.o. box. Also see about the rent, storage shed fee, get some groceries, and hopefully will have some left after church for sticking into savings. Need to get back to that.
I'll sit a bit longer at the RC here and figure who and what gets paid tomorrow (and afterward). Flo, could you bring me another placemat, please? Thank you.
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
fec153Jeff- did you use the burn ointment I sent you?
Snake could have come from Fort Polk trooper that had been "over there".
Jeff- did you use the burn ointment I sent you?
Iced Coffee, please.
***Jeffrey, you could have become rich & famous off the discovery of the first poisonous-constrictor-hybrid snake in your part of the country. It could have been named after you, "The Winberly Pit Constrictor".
For the entire drive home from the marble/gravel plant, my wife talked about ideas for her layout, including names for all the businesses in town. Needless to say, I was pretty entertained. Although, with some of those ideas comes more work for "you know who". Still, it's worth being married to someone this much into model trains.
Not sure if I mentioned this, but I tested the smoke unit and it works fine. So, my volcano will be "venting", when I get around to building it.
Time for evening critter rounds here. Have a good night all.
Rob