Good morning
We are seeing a mix of sun/cloud with the high at 25C. And a little more humid.
Todd: When we went out yesterday we went to a place called Teeswater ON. On the way there we found about 4 farms that had an extensive collection of old tractors/implements all out in front of very decrepit old barns. All the good stuff was tucked in new-ish drivesheds. JD seemed to be not as common as all that up that way when compared to around here but I did notice that there were quite a few of those Massey Ferguson and --dare I say this ---WHITE tractors... As for the broke down tractors---I came across an old feed supply store---long abandoned that had at least 3 tractors sitting around---I asked someone whether anyone knew who owned them and the fellow looked at me and said "no one"---apparently these poor things sat there for years----- They sure looked it anyways---
Chloe, I'll have a coffee and a toasted bagel please----I'll be at the RC
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/
Lee and Todd, thanks!
Todd, the camera cut the video off at 3 minutes. Kind of annoying, but least I was pretty much finished.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Good morning.
Vincent. What is the date of your B'day? ...I hope it was a great one for you!
Thanks for the Anniversary geetings, everybody. Also, thanks for kind remarks and emails pertaining to our friend (Diane) who passed away yesterday morning. The cancer started in her bladder. In spite of surgeries and other treatments it got worse. It was painful. Her husband, Wayne, asked me to speak at the funeral which will be this Wednesday.
Ray, it looks like you are having a wondeful time with family. It's good to see the cute little granddaughter.
Barry .... I like the photos. The branch line track looks like something to model, too. There are old farm tractors around here, too. Yesterday was a tractor pull contest near here.
Right now I am using our Sony Vaio and it works fine. I got rid of Vista a few months ago and replaced it with XP which speeded it up a lot. The two Dells continue to be a problem The desktop has been a good one but now has the virus, and it needs more work. The new little thingee is not working, and I may have to talk with more "Bombay Bobs and Bombay Bettys".
Maybe, I'll have model railroad time late today.
Prayers continue for Ulrich.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe just some Bran cereal with blueberries and my usual cup of dark roast coffee. I'll go sit at the Rivet Counter for a bit.
Going to be a busy day here today. The weather looks good. Currently 63°F under sunny skies with a high around 76°F. An old college friend and his wife should be dropping by this afternoon to get a tour of the Seneca Lake, Ontario, & Western Model Railroad. Hopefully to see me again as well after close to 30 years I think. I think the last time I saw ken was when I took a "Study" day from the school I was teaching in to visit his Music Classroom for a day. he was using a very new curriculum based entirely on composition. The method has been modified and is now standard in almost all music books. He now lives outside of Chicago.
Still need to finish up some cleaning before they arrive!
TMarsh I think I see a lot of Grandpa in those eyes.
Some else mentioned that she has very expressive eyes..... I can tell you that she certainly is "the Apple" of her grandpa's eyes. She is getting very independent (but has to be watched constantly) and is fearless....... She is at the age where she loves to roughhouse which takes its toll on her old grandpa. She is also learning when to be very gentle like when she wants to pet my cats. They still are a bit wary of her. Manet was on my bed yesterday and Olivia had found him, climbed up on the bed and was making her way over to him when I caught up with her. Manet had that look like "one more inch closer and I'm out of here"! As soon as he saw me, he relaxed as if to say, "OK daddy's here to protect me". He actually let her pet him for quite a while.
Barry, the White tractor is the later incarnation of the old Oliver tractors. White trucks bought Oliver back in the 1950s I think and changed the name of the tractor. I used to like the Massey Ferguson tractors. The last one I drove was when I was working for a Muck farmer in Oakfield, NY one summer. I was cultivating cabbage I think with it.
OK, off to get some things done!
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good morning.It's 77 and sunny. The high will be in the high 80's and there's a chance of rain.Got my sister's grass cut yesterday well ahead of an approaching storm front. The rain busted loose in town around 7 pm. The storm split and went to the east and west of our location out here west of town. We didn't get a drop! No progress to report on the Bachmann all-door boxcar, maybe today I'll have a chance to work on it. Had some fun with a container of chlorine this morning. It's a different brand from what we usually get and had a different locking system for the lid. Boy, when they said tamper resistant they weren't kidding! It took me and my father working together to get the darn thing open. It had a tamper evident tab that to be removed (easy enough) then you had to locate an arrow on the side of the container and press down on a dot on the top of the lid that was supposed to be in line with the arrow. Guess what? Did exactly as the instructions said and the thing was still as secure as Fort Knox! After messing with it for a few minutes I noticed another tab on the side that hadn't been mentioned in the opening instructions. I pried this out with a screwdriver then gave the lid a sharp twist. It resisted but did come off. I made sure NOT to turn it until it clicked when I closed it.Today's Weather for:Sundown, LA 71446-6114 9/6/2009Heat Index: 81°FHumidity: 82%Dew Point: 71°FSo Far TodayHigh: 77°FLow: 71°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 3mph ESEToday High: 90 Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the morning...then partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance in the afternoon. Highs around 90. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.Tonight Low: 68 Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
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Coffee in a large UNION PACIFIC mug, please & thanks.
***Ray, hope your knees recover soon. What an adorable child.
***Barry, more real neat photos I see. Thanks for sharing them.
Hope y'all are doing well.
Rob
Hello all, Nothing for me, Brenda's busy in the kitchen. Well maybe a shot of coffee. Now, I don't want to get anybody too excited but, after church we went to Wal-Mart where I purchased a gallon of Kilz to cover the red walls of the train room. Yep it's true. I might do some today unless I get sidetracked. Yesterday I was working on the overhead grain bin and some roads. I hate roads I can't get the coloring right. Oh well ain't supposed to be easy or it wouldn't be fun. Also did a bit of landscaping on a building and the space between. Why anyone would build a store and put the delivery door facing a building is beyond me, but they did. It's probably a tight squeeze on delivery days. Anyway as I was setting the station and using the old NMRA gage only to find out that is the distance I was using anyway I recalled this month MR was doing passenger stations. How convenient. I'm adding to the platform as space allows and have some good ideas on detailing. Parking is an issue but I've decided not to worry about it. I figure a few spots to suggest parking and some across the street should be fine. besides no one has complained yet.
Barry- No complaints about Whites. By buddy has one a 2-155. I loved that one it was the one I drove. Good tractor, long wheelbase so it rode smooth and pulled like it had a lot more horses than it did. Real good gearing with some of the best spacing I've run across and a rear end built like a bulldozer. Good tractor. (I'm not being recorded am I? Wouldn't want my family of John Deere worshippers to hear me say that)
Garry- Will be thinking of you Wednesday and a prayer for you to find the right words.
Best get a move on before a post Wally World nap hits.
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.
Just a quick stop. Been kinda busy today around the house. I didn't get to finish up the CCR boxcar. Might take the wife to a putt-putt course later. I am the master at them .
Before:
After:
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Coffee refill, please. Seems rather quiet in here.
My wife has so many more ideas than will ever fit on her layout, it's beyond pondering. I might need to start on my own before hers grows any more and takes over the entire room.
Time for evening critter rounds here.
Garry, My B'day is the 27th of August. I had a blast, had a party with some friends, than ate at a pizza buffet (all you can eat pizza for under 5 bucks!!!!) for dinner. Hope you find the right words to say on Wendsday.
Not much doing today, work was a killer. Tommorow I'm gonna scrape the peeling paint off the house and apply primer. I definetly liked brick better since it's a lot easier to maintain. Regarding the SD45 I posted earlier, I'm think I should hit the trucks and fueltank with grimy black, then dry-brush a little bit rust on the trucks.
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 Evening
It has been a somewhat quiet day for us here. Audrey has been learning how to use her camera and as such we got a bunch of her pix on to her own 'pooter. Gardens seems to be her bag although she found a lot of barn clutter as well--
Todd: I gave up trying to get road colours right for my layout. What with crushed ballast and the colouring there and the photos i fell over from a friend of ours parents from out west I've found that seems to be real right coour for those roads-----well, OK, no bright orange roads but really---. The issue I have is all the oil/fluid spots where the cars park on the side of the roads---and those patches---sheeesh---we have several roads north of us that have seam patches that look like someone took a black highlighter marker and just ran the marker along. The strips are nice and square and run for a long time or they are short dot things. We have country roads with no shoulders to speak of, or shoulders that are really WWWWIIIIIIIIIDDDDEEE---have great big ditches or nothing--so Another thing--I found along some of Audreys pix a barn that was fallen in on one side yet had a 'brand new' extension on the other---what gives with this?---it is a great modelling scenario all its own!!
Chloe, I'll have a large coffee and a Lemon Merigue Pie please----I'll be at the RC
Whew! Dr Pepper please.
It took 3 coats of Kilz but most of the room is white. I didn't do below the layout and the triming up has yet to be done. I also didn't worry about getting right down to the layout because the backdrop will cover that inch or two. I've got one wall to do yet and that will wait because I'll have to move the modeling bench and some stuff. The room does appear brighter. I'll paint the top part blue to hopefully match the backdrop sky I hope.
Also did some work to the passenger platform. Works out to be a bit short at 83 feet by the MR standards, but that's all the room I have and hey, the platform (if you want to call it that) isn't that long in Lincoln as I recall. Maybe I'm wrong, it's been two years since I got on a train there but I think not.
Rob- Do you think it'd help if you'd pee around the perimeter of your layout space?
Packer- Must have been Cici's? Springfield had one of those for a few years. Closed now, they never seemed to have a lot of business when ever I was there.
Good Evening everyone... I had to take a train, bus and a cab just to find the newest Diner!!! Glad to see all the same old faces here!!! Thank heaven for the Labor Day weekend! Finally got a couple days off from NJTransit Locomotive Engineer Training Program... I hope all are doing well?
Update of myself for you:
Sept 3: Started NJT On the Job Train Handling
August 3: Started First day of 1B, the second of the two classroom phases
What is covered in 1B: Troubleshooting Airbrake systems and electrical systems on both Locomotives and Cars
August 8th: Got married to the woman of my dreams!
Still going strong in the class, we started with 19 and are down to 8... Hopefully we all make it through...
Got my Division assignment!!! Newark Division! I got lucky and got the division I wanted!
God Bless and stay safe! I'll be checking in again in a couple hours!
Can I have a coffee to go please Flo? Thanks
Sam
May He bless you, guide you, and keep you safe on your journey through life!
I Model the New Hope & Ivyland RR (Bucks County, PA)
Todd, yup, it's a Cici's. The place is almost always packed, but it was relatively quiet when we went in there, but it started to get busy after a bit. I actually had 6 plates of pizza, in addition to one plate of dessert. I haven't been that full in a long time.
Barry- I've decided this afternoon to cheat on the road colors in Gold Creek. There will be an asphalt crew that is in town re sealing the roads. Done. Well not really done but you see where I'm going. If I can't get it good enough I'll just repaint parts again with the asphalt black and say they re did that part or parts. Actually if you want to be truly prototypical in a small town many of them look like a real bad modeling job anyway . Sounds like Canadian farmers are like U.S. farmers. Barn is old, they add new extension and hope the old barn falls down. Insurance you know.
Todd: My layouts two big towns, Williston and Exceda, are the only ones that have any kind of asphalt on them--and that is only the main drags--(-too 'poor' to do the rest!). The other places are only dirt/gravel roads. As for Erics layout--they are contemplating an 'oil' road---how to model that should be interesting--- I'm really thinking about a row of farms now---my N scale tractors that I've had kicking around need a place to hide--
blownout cylinderAnother thing--I found along some of Audreys pix a barn that was fallen in on one side yet had a 'brand new' extension on the other---what gives with this?---it is a great modelling scenario all its own!!
Barry- (snort) My dirt roads look worse than my paved ones. An oil road should be, I'd think a bit easier than an asphalt road. You don't have to be as neat.
Jeff- Sounds like a guy who's house was hit and lost his garage. His wife was talking about the house getting fixed and he said "forget about the house, you got two rooms you can still live in, what about my garage!"
EDIT: I remember a blacktop highway in Louisiana that was just repaved recently (when I was there of course) so thats the prototye for the road that goes between the Pizz/Bait/Gas and the Post Office/General Store/Bar
To Toddland (of which I'm king) I go
Evening, Diners. I'd written most of my post, had mentioned something for most everybody, and then (I thought) went to open another tab to check on the weather radar outside here. However, I found it wasn't in a new tab or even window... lost the entire thing, and couldn't find it in the browser's history.
Very briefly:
Robby - another great job on the CCR boxcar. I need to brush up on my miniature golf game, it's been too long ago.
Rob - better start making sure all of your track is down, before she gets ideas. (And best not take her along to the LHS, since the new Walthers catalogs are out...)
Ray - you have a cutie of a granddaughter there. And I made it only to Ordeal (was in Air Explorers then, and not long after, started college and never got back to Scouts. Still likely have my OA sash ("...around here somewhere..."), couple BSA handbooks and maybe 2-3 merit badge booklets.
Good railfanning photos from Inch, Barry (and I think I've missed one or two others).
PC - better take care of yourself (now that the van's fixed). Scary!
Ulrich, speedy and good recovery is being prayed for ya.
Garry, got your emails on Diane. Happy Anniversary to you and Shelley, and how's she doing lately?
Vincent (I think it was you), belated
CN Charlie - I was trying to ensure that we were all clear as to which Robby/Robbie/Robin was getting the procedure done...
Flip, hope you don't have to wake up that early (nor that you wind up doing so) for your job or otherwise.
Todd - as for Jeff's snake... ROTFLMAO!
Sorry for everyone else who I *know* I've missed. Wouldn't have had so much catching up to do, but my long-time friend Marj (from Northern Illinois - Joliet area) was down in this area yesterday, and it threw my Sat. off a bit, since I was trying to get my laundry done, meet Marj and have her follow me back to park her car in our building's lot, show her the layout and messy apt., go to the LHS owner/MRR club member and get the NMRA gauge and new Walthers catalog (and Marj got shown both his outdoor G scale MRR and his finished (mostly) HO layout inside), have lunch, and get her on her way back home for the 8+ hour drive she had. Then I got my haircut (badly needed!), got groceries, had dinner out, and finished preparing materials for our Sunday Singles group's first lesson for the new study for this morning. (Oh yeah, and tried writing to one possible match on eHarmony, since they're having free communication weekend this weekend. At least this one gal isn't a full foot shorter than me. (Yeah, there are some situations where 'size' does matter...) Whew!
Will be learning the finer points of that NMRA gauge, and adding tabs to my Walthers catalog tonight. Tomorrow I'll be on-call, so can't count on much/any MRR'ing time.
I'll grab a go cup of hot cocoa and a couple of those chocolate chip cookies that Ray baked, please, Janie. Thanks!
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
TMarshJeff- Sounds like a guy who's house was hit and lost his garage. His wife was talking about the house getting fixed and he said "forget about the house, you got two rooms you can still live in, what about my garage!"
Todd, Jeff: I came across a few places where the insulation (TYLEK) was left explosed to the elements--as in--put the stuff up --forget you have to have money to buy new siding--ooopps. Another prototype for housing is----
or these lovely ones
There you go----
PC, Rather speak english than have to learn several forms of other languages. Spanish is tricky, and don't get me started on Japanese since there are 3 types.
I know the latter as a result of my airbrush being of Japanese origin. I took it and it's documents/instructions/etc. to a friend who could read japanese to see if I could get an address and part number to order some extra jars. Turns out she could read one type of japanese, not the other two. So no new paint jars for me. I'm still looking for paint jars that'll work.
Evenin' folks!
Just a cup of decafe for me Chloe, I'm still stuffed from dinner.
Spent about 4 1/2 hours getting caught up with a old college buddy of mine. He was actually a half year ahead of me at Eastman. We had most of the same classes together and hung around together when not in class. Other than being 40 years older now.... He and his wife look and act the same as they did back then. He is now a trainer for a major insurance company and has 3 years to retirement. His wife is now retired and loves it! The only active music he does now is direct a church choir program in Chicago. He was the guy that first got me into playing classical guitar. He was a professional guitarist before he became a voice (education) major at Eastman (fantastic Tenor voice). I worked for him as a Bass solist in a church choir in Pittsford, NY the last 2 years of college. Something I never knew about him was that his Grandfather was a railroad men. The 3 of us sat and talked then got a tour of the layout, and then went out to dinner. They are on their way driving back to Chicago.
I no sooner got home and was going to check my emails and check in here when my sister called. She needed a shoulder to cry on as she got in an argument with a neighbor again. She also wanted my take on a camera that she saw in a catalog..... It is one of the new 12 Mp Olympus models. Looks to be just what she is looking for. Not an EOS DSLR but very close with a price tag she can swing without getting into her savings.
Barry nice photos. Looks like you have some fodder for some major scratch building.
Philip, why do we drive on a parkway and park in a driveway???
howmusPhilip, why do we drive on a parkway and park in a driveway???
Exactly what I was thinking.
All is quiet except for the people who live two hice down.
I shall leave you with another thought from the mind of the comedian Gallagher, why do they call them buildings when they're done building them? And why do we call the governmental agency that has to do with things outside, the Department of the Interior.
BOC: That third one looks like it was not only designed by a committee but built by one as well.
Good morning.It's 70 and foggy. The high will be in the low 90's and there's a chance of rain.No layout work yesterday, maybe today. Got roped into looking up stuff on the net for my parents. I'd find what they were looking for then they'd decide that wasn't what they wanted and have me look for something else. After a few hours of their waffling back and forth over everything I told them to find it themselves. Man,I hate wafflers. Well it's 24 hours and counting down to the time I head off for the hospital for my foot surgery tomorrow. One of the nurses will be coming to my home to pick me up. After the procedure she'll bring me back home. That's good because I'm not going to be in any shape to drive.Today's Weather for:Sundown, LA 71446-6114 9/7/2009Wind Chill: 70°FHumidity: 100%Dew Point: 70°FSo Far TodayHigh: 72°FLow: 70°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 5mph ESEThrough 7 AM...patchy fog will continue to develop across the area. Visibilities will be as low as 1/2 mile in some spots.Today High: 92 Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.Tonight Low: 70 Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows around 70. Southeast winds around 5 mph in the evening becoming southwest after midnight.
jeffrey-wimberly BOC: That third one looks like it was not only designed by a committee but built by one as well.
That one has some interesting history to it---apparently it was a diner at one point , became offices to a motel that was 'built' beside it--we have the pix for that---the ex-motel is now also used as a residence--there is between these two places a driveshed turned studio with two wood burning kilns. And an 'antique' barn owned by someone else----We assume it is a type of communal thing going---
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Good Morning
We are currently 13C and dull. A 60% chance of showers and those t'underin'boomers is back as well for all this week and next---oh well, back to 'normal'
We are spending today doing a bunch of small detail stuff for the buildings that I'll be building---AACCH such is english----
Chloe, I'll have a coffee and toasted bagel as well please----I'll be at the RC
Hello .... I'll have oatmeal and OJ...
Ulrich was scheduled for surgery today, and I am hoping it went well and he will have a speedy recovery.
PC...... I must wonder who spent all of that time compiling the write-up about the inconsistancies of the English language.
Why do people drive on parkways and park on driveways?
Barry .... I liked seeing the pictures.
Jim CG ..... Sounds like you had a busy time.
Todd asked..."And why do we call the governmental agency that has to do with things outside, the Department of the Interior" ..... Answer: ...Because they all sit on their posteriors while they are inside the interiors imagining they know about the exteriors while spending excessive amounts of taxpayer money on inferior government boondoggles..
Jeff ... I'm still liking your layout with the new backdrops.
My freight yard tracks are slowly being installed. I only have been doing a small amount at a time with all the non-model railroad stuff going on. This is part of the major layout expansion I started a few months ago.
What are some of your plans in the months ahead?
Good morning all,I’ve decided it was cheaper to buy a new printer than to buy new backdrops for my layout, so I picked up an HP that will print on 19” x 44” paper. Now all I need to do is find that size paper for the machine.
Rob; rule number one about layout construction is: You never have enough room for what you want. Mrs. Rob sounds like every one of my non-MRR friends and family. Everyone wants a carnival or an airport or something…..
Vincent a very happy belated Birthday wishes to you!
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes