Afternoon alll. Chloe, I'll take a bacon cheeseburger and a RBF, thanks.
It definately feels great to be home. And, of course, to have a layout again...I kinda can't wait for school Wednesday. I haven't seen anyone in forever...
Well, for the first time in the three months since I bought it, 1300 has run under its own power! I swapped the frames on 1300 (patched ex-NJT SW1500) and the BN unit, which is now the dummy. The BN unit will be "rebuilt" as a Genset, and then will once again be swapped with 1300. 1300 will go on display (as NJT 500), and 1300 (which will become 1100), will work as a switcher. Here's the 1300 on a caboose hop (note the exposed wires below the yellow caboose and the gaping hole, this is the beginning of the destruction of the current Watchinson Line; a new, larger Watchinson Line layout will be built in its place):
The SW1500 is an Athearn Blue Box model that was custom painted (not by myself, I bought it as-is).
I'll be in the back corner finishing my summer reading (ugh).
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Morning all...Its sunny and 67 here..Not much going on Pearl street this morning..I'll have a RBF please..thank you...gonna slip into back booth and see who comes in..You all have a good one...Jerry
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, a bowl of hot oatmeal, brown sugar, and a cup of dark raost in a FGLK mug if you please. Bring it over to the Rivet Counter......
A lovely pre-fall day here in the Finger Lakes. Currently 63°F outside going for a high of 67° later this afternoon. As you might expect, the air conditioers are not turned on. My kind of day!
Phillip, you just need to wear a bit more padding under the leather jacket when it is "nice" out.
Garry, my FIL who passed away last summer was born on Sept. 3rd. and my own Father was born on Sept. 5. Of course they were both born in 1913.......... Way cool! An early Happy Birthday!
Mark, I meant to mention yesterday.... Nice Axe!
Ryan been thinking about your loss of Kittie and wondering how you folks are doing... I still think about old Sheila now and then even after a year. Sometime I think I hear something and expect to see her crawling between the desk and the computer to come sit next to me as she used to do. Takes time......
I think today would be a great day to get started on the wineter woodpile. Should be able to split and stack most of what I have sitting in the driveway in a couple of days. Then I can decide how and where I will get the rest of the needed stockpile for this winter's heating season.
Hope everyone has a fine day!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good Morning Diner Crew!
Hope everyone had a great weekend, we tried to make the best of ours still missing Kitty. On Sunday Monique and I made a Pot Roast and I put together a Lemon Meringue Pie too!
Watched Stand By Me, the old movie that was Rob Reiner's first directing venture. Forgot about all the steam train scenes, it was fun to see again.
Cool front today and most of the week has our high temps here in the mid-70's
Anyone with the photography bug would be interested in this site I found today. dpchallenge, or the digital photography challenge is a great place to view and enter photographs for frequent themed contests. They held a Trains & Railroads II Challenge in April 2009 and here is a link to the results:
http://www.dpchallenge.com/challenge_results.php?CHALLENGE_ID=1020 Many great photographs even among the ones that did not win the top three ribbons.
This one is the third place ribbon recipient:
Sorry to see Sir Madog Ulrich go, hope you can make it back again soon.
Garry, and glad to hear "Little Kitten" is doing well! Garry, that fake virus is a Trojan Horse and it was on Monique's PC about a month ago, took me all day to get rid of it too, it's a tough one. Ad-aware and Norton Internet Security 2009 removed it finally.
Tom, you are so right, we are still missing Kitty and grieving, and with three dogs still we have much animal love to share. We will most likely get another kitten or cat again, but like you said, wait awhile and we will know when the time is right. Your tech rule is a good one for the classroom too, they confiscate any such items from students here, then even wipe out applications on calculators that are not math related.
Jim, thanks again!
Todd, nice still you got there!
Nice guitar Mark!
Bama, hope Amy gets better soon!
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Mornin' all!
Man, it was a bit nippy on the ride in this morning! 48 degrees when I left the house. Should be a nice ride home though.....74 degrees.
Heartland Division CB&QJeff ......... I like your clouds, too. I found it is helpful to make a crde sencil for the tops of the clouds. I tear a piece of newspaper making a random ripped edge. Then I hold it up as I spray. As you do, I use white spray paint. At the horizon, I gently brush in a mix of white and sky blue. I have been gradullly replacing my "store-bought" clouds following a moisture problem a few months ago.
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I know I’m a little early but I would like to wish Garry a happy birthday! I see we have 2 more birthdays this month to look forward to besides Garry’s.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Hello....
Had a full weekend. Shelley and I were the organizers of the church concert on Saturday night. There is a lady who performs with Christian music who is quite tlented. She is from Ohio, and travels around to various states to perform. Shelle made the contact, and we were pleasantly surprised when she agreed to come.
Yesterday we had church in the morning. Everyone is praying for our church friend with cancer who is now in a hospice, and there is nothing the doctors can do to save her. Lots of tears in church yesterday morning.
Yesterday afternoon I went with some friends to a small railroad museum in Princeton, KY. The guy at the museum was a retired railorad guy. There were 4 in our group, and 3 of us a retired railorad guys, too. The other guy is a retired GM, but he is a railfan. We swapped stories all afternoon.
Last night I spent all evening trying to remove a stubborn virus from the desktop Dell. No luck yet in removing it. Makes me mad. It's bad order for now, and I'm on the laptop. Look out for a fake virus program warning you about virusses!
Todd & Ray I am glad to see the WS moonshine scense. I have one, too. It is in the woods near my bridege over the Mrs. Hippy River. It is a hit with guests.
Jeff ......... I like your clouds, too. I found it is helpful to make a crde sencil for the tops of the clouds. I tear a piece of newspaper making a random ripped edge. Then I hold it up as I spray. As you do, I use white spray paint. At the horizon, I gently brush in a mix of white and sky blue. I have been gradullly replacing my "store-bought" clouds following a moisture problem a few months ago.
Duke I was glad to see your bike in person. I suggest you take a picture from the rear to post a photo so the diners can see your mascot.
Jim CG ..... What? You lost the NMRA guage! ...uh, oh...
Later in the week, I have a common birthday with my sister on the third. I'll see if you remember then. Also, on the fifth, Shelley and I have our anniversary.
All this non-mrr stuff has kept me away from the layout. I'll have to get back to that.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Todd, you're not the only one. Well, its past the time I was going to get Heather up and dressed, so I'd best be off and hurrying.
Mornin, Currently it's 48 F headed for a high today of 71 with abundant sunshine again and 0% chance of rain. Sunny right now so basically it's cold and pretty outside.
Bama- Glad to hear Amy's ok.
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.
Morning all. I'm just briefly stopping in for a glass of milk, and then I'll be back out the door. Amy's at home on bedrest and I've got to get Heather ready for school and then get into the backyard and remove the water pump from the car and go get another. Apparently it developed a leak last night, so off it will go and on a new one will.
Good morning
Sunny today and 20C for a high---YAY!!!
Having some people come visit this week---house gonna be a bit busy---
Chloe, I'll have a coffee and a toasted bagel please----I'll be at the window booth----
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/
Good moring. Its a cool morning, and I believe the low was near 40 degrees.
I was pretty busy yesterday, and didn't get a chance to stop in. This morning I have to take the car to the shop. They have a part thats been recalled, and they said it will take about a hour to fix. Maybe run by Sams Club as well.
I have about 5 cars coming to weather this week, with two getting here today. One I am keeping for myself "FINALLY". I have to go into work early tomorrow (3am) to learn how to switch the trailers again.
Todd......I have a BN boxcar coming today, and I will get that posted soon. Aggro and I exchange emails sometimes, and I told him to keep the outside shots. I think they help his cars out a lot.
Well everybody have a good morning.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
jeffrey-wimberlynik .nDad taught me how to use the finishing mower on the big tractor today. And then guess who had to mow the 5+ acre field and pond? Sounds like you had as much fun as I have mowing my parent's 5+ acre yard.
nik .nDad taught me how to use the finishing mower on the big tractor today. And then guess who had to mow the 5+ acre field and pond?
Yep I did. especially after sliding sideways ten feet on the dam and almost flipping it trying to turn around on the four foot wide flat spot with a five foot foot wide tractor.
Someday I'll look back and laaaaaaauugh...........
Evening all. I'll just take a late-night RBF please. Flying went perfectly awesome! Only hitch in the entire flight was at the airport before we even left the ground. We fly out from Montgomery Regional Airport (Dannelly Field), which is also shared by the 187th Fighter Wing of the Alabama Air National Guard. Well, its drill weekend, and the unit is putting every F-16C that they own into the air, so there are 6 Fighting Falcons lined up at the end of the runway, with another 8 or so waiting to pull onto the runway. We call the tower and request an intersection takeoff ahead of these guys just so we don't have to wait forty forevers to even get into the air. Tower calls us back, tells us cleared to taxi into position and hold (now here's the kicker, the ANG guys talk to the tower on a different frequency than us, but the tower talks back to them on the same freq as us, so we can hear the tower, but not the F-16 drivers). SO, we're sitting and waiting for our takeoff clearance and we hear "Voodoo One (ANG guys's call sign for the day) did you call us?" We look back and the lead F-16 driver just waves at us, and of course the first thought we have is oh great, they're gonna run us over! Anyway, to make a long story short, we're given an expedited takeoff clearance and as soon as we're in the air, the tower turns us off runway centerline and we're greeted by the sound of all of the 187th's birds getting airborne in a hurry!
Today however was a different story, had to rush Amy (the wife) to the hospital. She went to our normal doctor back on thursday to find out she's got bronchitis and was prescribed an albuterol inhaler along with some cough syrup to help her get over. Well today we found out that she's mildly allergic to the albuterol. She took it this morning and while we were at church, she said that she got light-headed, her heart started racing, and that ther chest was actually getting tighter instead of getting looser (which is what albuterol is supposed to do, relieve chest tightness). So off to the emergency room we go. 4 hours later she's discharged after the docs did a full work up on her. Right now both her and Heather are in bed asleep, which I will be joining them very shortly. I'm a bit tired. I've also got pictures of the primer on my GP40-2, I know that's not much of an improvement on it, but hey its progress at least. I've also got pictures of the bike that I have partial ownership of. I just have to get them onto the computer.
I'll probably do it tomorrow seeing as the water pump on my Impala started leaking on the way back from the hospital, so I've gotta take the day off and get it fixed, afterwards I'll probably get the pictures on here and let all youse guys gander at them. Well, I guess I'll be off for now, I'll see y'all tomorrow.
Barry- I still have and use my K1000. Bought that thing in May of 1980. It still works like the day I got it and takes fantastic pictures. (better than the wifes Sony Cyber Shot) In, might as well say, 30 years I've taken who knows how many pictures with that thing. I love it. The only reason I don't use it for this stuff is the whole gotta take the rolls worth of pictures, then have them developed then scan etc..... You know hassle city man. Can't just take a picture or two and put it on the web. Honestly the main reason I'm interested in the K2000 is it sounds like the digital version of the K1000. Not real fancy and with the luck I've had with the old girl I just feel confident it'll be ok. And when you're talking $499 United States dollars I want to feel confident. It has the one supplied lens but I've seen them on the bay for the same price give or take a couple dollars with two lenses. Never bought that expensive without seeing it first. Not sure what I'll do.
Ray- LOL Yup! That's the one! Better be careful the revenuers can track her real easy. Hey, there's a thought, when ya get this judging done, for another whimsical scene. A group of revenuers following their Pink still sniffing elephant! ROFLOL! OH I kill me! Oops, I think I got a cramp in my side. (he he) My stomach hurts.
Morgan- Mom doesn't get it huh? I guess you best put the stuff away before you leave and she won't move it. This comes from a guy who now has 6 square inches on his modeling desk. I better clean mine up myself. And as far as the pink elephant goes, I think you're a bit too young to be seeing pink elephants (said while chuckling). Unless it's on Ray's layout of course.
Robby- I see where Aggro has thrown out some bait hmmmmm. We're waaaaaaiiiiting.
Getting to be a little chilly in the house that means when I hit the sack I'll be out like a light. It's a bit cool for my tastes but I gotta admit it's great sleeping weather!
Almost forgot, if you'ens haven't had a chance to check out WPF yet DO IT!! A fantastic weekend. Also a very good fantastic display from our regular diners too! I know it irritates some but I just had to leave my thanks this weekend. It was great. (of course it's always great)
Well, I'm now offically p*****d at Mom now. Cause I just LOVE coming home from a weekend at Dad's to find all of my Train Stuff from my desk in the Den thrown in a box out in the garage.
I have Walthers windows that have now been seperated from their cars' inserts, loose poeces that I had bundled together, parts and couplers that are now no longer near where they are needed...
TMarsh I knew if I followed the Pink Elephant I'd find it! Order up folks, it's on the Pastel Pachyderm!
I knew if I followed the Pink Elephant I'd find it!
Order up folks, it's on the Pastel Pachyderm!
I like that. Can I have one of those?
-Morgan
Evenin' folks!
ROFLMAO! You mean this one???
I have finally had a couple days where I could spend quite a bit of time in the layout room. Finsihed up a Jordan Model T Van and have started assembling a Model T 4 door touring car (1914). So far (knocks on wood counter) it is going together quite well except for the 3 little foot pedals that go in the floor. Most of the kits for the "T" have all 3 pedals in one piece. Not this one! Little tiny 1/16" pieces that have to be cut off the sprue and then glued in place. Fist one went in place fine. 2nd and 3rd while holding them with a pair of tweezers went (how would Barry say?) Twiiiiinnnnnng, blunkkkkkkk, whizzzzzzzzzzzzz......... Off into the netherlands of the room never to be seen again. So I fabricated 2 more from some left over stock for another project.
I also made a kerosine lantern placed on a wooden shipping box by the freight house. Just in case you haven't been in the WPF thread:
Flo I'll have a cup of decafe and a couple of those chocolate chip cookies to tide me over to breakfast.
Hope you all have a good night!
Todd: Your post about the Pentax K2000 has me thinking about hunting down my Pentax K1000 that I still have----fully manual and on the old film but----As for that K2000 how much will it set you back?
We moved again??? Dang, ya'll almost talk more than a group of females.
Not much been going on recently for me. To treat myself for my 20th, I put an order in for some stuff to fix up some of my engines, hopefully it should be here tomorrow.
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.
Evenin' all. Dr Pepper float please. Well, plans change. Got out of church and went visiting with the couple who moved into the parsonage after the storm. Got home at high noon and Brenda said "we" need to go to town. I didn't question, been there done that. Just got back. My afternoon of Railroading was given the boot. I still have time I guess, I could get down there yet tonight.
Ray- Yes it's the Woodland Scenics Still. I enjoyed putting it together and am disappointed with the camera pictures because it is the best weathering I've done and, hopefully not sounding puffed up, I am proud of the way it turned out. I actually did quit good with the coloration of the barrels and not that bad on the tree trunks if I do say so myself, but you can't tell in the pictures. I must go to your album and see if I can find yours. Gives me an excuse to oogle at your layout !!!!
Jerry- I remember well The hillbilly with the bullet going through the brim of his hat. Ya Hoo I sure do! Wait, does that make us old. Probably the Grandpa Jones song does. I remember that too. I'm glad to hear you got the tire fixed. I hope it holds til you get the new chair. What's Sallie gonna do?
Flip- (chuckle) Yeah like Jim said you oughta be alright for a bit til Vinnie forgets about me. I had a spell there when I was his focal point.
Jim- Yes the camera does have the half way down thing. The problem is, I can't really tell what it looks like. Darn eyes. I don't seem to have a problem looking through the viewfinder (played with one at Sam's club) but that little screen..... The Pentax K2000 that I'm looking at when funds are available does not, apparently, have a live LCD screen. Sounds like you can only view what you've already shot. That works just as well for me because I can't see it well anyway. I haven't actually touched one yet as Best Buy seems to be the only place near that carries them. I need to see one first to be sure. Which reminds me, I'd best pass on the NMRA gage pictures for a bit. I doubt if you could make out the point things and besides, to be honest, I'm not sure myself on some of the things with the switches (which more than likely is the same things you‘re confused on).
Barry- Glad the BBQ went well. Our "abundant sunshine" was about 43 and one half seconds worth. Looked like it could rain most of the day. But, it didn't. Like Jerry said, it felt like fall all day.
Well I think I'll head downstairs for a bit. First, I gotta write this down. Hold cloud stencil a couple inches from wall. OK got it.
A Jug-O-Dew with steak, Zoe.
Dad taught me how to use the finishing mower on the big tractor today. And then guess who had to mow the 5+ acre field and pond?
I'll sit down and watch the Camelback triple header that is now pounding by with a coal drag and eat.
See yall!
JimRCGMOJeff - on those clouds, I'm guessing you make the areas heavier by staying in that area (spraying longer in a spot). Or do you spray closer? Looks good, however you did it.
Hello
It's ice out now---after all that dang rain that is---supposed to go to 6C tonight---kinda cool now--only 14C.Our neighbourhood BBQ went off without TOO TOO much trouble We only got dribbled on once and there were a lot of sweaters being worn but --- attendance at 60 people? Not bad at all
Got some more of the Exceda yard buildings and houses put in---the downtown part of Exceda will be next The downtown of Exceda will be a couple of blocks long with part of the shortline running along the main street---that is were the fun is right now---laying in styrene in long strips and then tamping it down such that the wheelsets on the cars don't go FFFLLLLOOOOONNNNMMK!! into the rails--and, like you Todd, I'm still trying to get the hang of doing close in shots---mumble grumble snort snorfle grouch
Chloe, I'll have a jug o' that ol' Mountain Dew meself please---I'll be at the corner booth keeping an eye on Duke there
A nice sunny Sunday afternoon, isn't it, Janie? I'll have a RBF, order of cheesey fries, and a cheeseburger with the garden (tomatoes, pickle slices, onions, lettuce, etc.). And a RBF for dessert, please. Thanks!
fec153Besides, isn't Vinnie still mad at me?
Ah, I see PC's giving 'puter tutorials for everybody now...
Jeff - on those clouds, I'm guessing you make the areas heavier by staying in that area (spraying longer in a spot). Or do you spray closer? Looks good, however you did it.
JR, hope you get to move in SOON(!). I guess you could console yourself that you're doing your part to stimulate the economy in your area, eh? Good that you and the layout stuff had a nice talk at the shed (instead of behind the shed...)
Todd, I like your little still - cute! Does your camera have the capability to hold the shutter button halfway down when you focus on the key part of the picture, and then shift the view/crop and then press the button the rest of the way down to take the photo? At least, that's kinda the way mine does. Oh, you're probably right about the red background area. I would get that still kit, except that in the Southwest, that many trees would look kinda funny (and maybe attract the revenooers...). Maybe I can have one hidden up behind some rocks or such...Hmmm....
Mark, nice axe! The bigger view doesn't seem to be w**king for me, but I can see the smaller one fine.
Jerry, the Cardinals have been getting it going for a bit (finally) - they were nine games ahead yesterday, I think it was. Maybe they might do some good this year!
For those of you east of the Midwest, hang on and you should be getting some better weather soon. Our weather here in S.E. Missouri was excellent today - only got to about 76F (24 C), and humidity has been only mid 40's on the percent. I turned off the A/C, opened up windows and just ran my fans to circulate the air.
On the MRR front, I started re-doing the track. Partly stuck on two counts - first, couldn't find my NMRA gauge, and also couldn't find my rail cutters (though I could find my flush cutters I use for cutting plastic...). I also was looking to re-do the turnouts on the right front side to eliminate an S-curve there (for the mainline and passing siding especially). But I may have to do a lot of fiddlin' with the track. My mainline after the turnout is nice and straight, but the passing siding needs to be moved, which means the tracks going off it needs moving, and the sidings that go off of them, and....) You know,... Thought I'd take a break from w**king on the track until I locate my track gauge and find or get another of the rail cutters. Ah, well..
May head back home now; I have some paperw**k still to do, and then I might put together some Accurail boxcar kits (MoPac, MKT and Wabash). Gee, wonder where I'll have room for those once I get them together?Maybe I'd better get the rail cutters and gauge found first...
Hope everyone has a pleasant evening of weather in your area. Prayers continue.
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
I was looking for my Photo Impressions software so I could reinstall it but couldn't find it. It came with a little digital camera I bought years ago. SO while I was in town today I stopped off at Walgreen's and picked up one of those little digital cameras tthat hey still sell for $10. It has a software CD that's worth quite a few times that and it includes Photo Impressions 4.
Hi everyone! I got my new guitar today... And here's a picture from the net:
It's an Epiphone SG G400, 1966 Gibson licensed reissue.
It's awesome.
Mark