Strong coffee in an extra large SOUTHERN mug, please & thanks.
***Jim, speaking os Shays, there was a show on RFDTV yesterday about Shays in the Redwoods and there were some great videos of one taking a tourist train up grades over 8%. Very impressive locos.
***Vincent, you have some nice looking locos there.
***Todd, were supports missing from the kit or did the designer just figure nobody would notice?
Had a heavy rain this morning (which I slept through). The water storage tank I use for the barn was 1/3rd full yesterday and this morning it is a few inches from full. Cool!
Still exhausted, so am going to take it easy today. Have a good day all.
Rob
Good Morning..Its partly cloudy and 72 here..I'll have coffee and toast please...thank You...I got the place to myself this morning Caregiver took sallie to charleston to renew her drivers licence..You all have a good day...Jerry
I took some time to mount a pair of shelf couplers on a Bachmann 3-dome tank car. They don't look half bad.
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Rob- No, the kit just doesn't come with any type of supporting framework. Nothing was missing. Maybe the designers either didn't know the framework was needed for the elevator and thought they were supports for the overhead conveyors or something. I'd still have bought it though.
On second thought, since I've never bought one, it's possible the elevator is sold without the framework and their plans reflected that. You know the old, "I'll take that." Then when it arrives the salesman responds, "of course it won't work on it's own. Would you like to buy the the stuff that makes it work?"
Todd
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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.
Jeff thats a new one on me "shelf couplers"?...I have some N scale engines I call "shelf Queens" they look good but don't run worth a hoot...Jerry
Good afternoon!
Well, I was going to stop in yesterday afternoon/evening...but just as I opened the door to step in, it was slammed shut in my face! Then with a boom!, the switcher made the joint, and off the Diner went!!!!! I didn't have time to go chasing it, so a big thank-you to those who tacked up signs pointing the way.
I've got writer's block. I've got a new temperature-controlled storage facility looking for a nice big, fat FREE ad...disguised as a feature article. I toured the main facility in Coralville, right alongside the Iowa Interstate (ex-RI main across Iowa). The "Hawkeye Express" was parked close by, but I couldn't get any shots of it. The "express" is a bunch of bi-level commuter coaches with black and gold (Iowa Hawkeyes) trim. It's powered by an F-40PH painted in a nice RI maroon/silver scheme complete with the Rock Island herald on the front. It is used on home football game Saturdays to shuttle fans from a large parking lot to a spot close to the stadium. Anyhow...I'm having a block on writing this article. It's a nice state-of-the-art facility. It looks like something from Star Wars inside... you almost expect to see the Storm Troopers coming around the corners, blasters blasting, smoke rising...then the Dark Lord himself: Darth Vader... Yeah...that's what it looks like allright...
I'm also w**king on a brief write-up of a foooooot BAAAAWWWWLLLLLLLLLL game from friday. The school I cover took a 48-6 victory on a road game. I'm pushing the political correctness (which I abhor political correctness) envelope. We'll see if THAT editor likes the various sports cliche's...OR if she crap-cans it.
In the modeling side of life, I've further foobied a foobie, if that's even possible. You see, I grabbed an Accurail (which isn't always "accurate," despite their name...) ACF CenterFlo hopper painted for Penford Products, a major shipper in Cedar Rapids for the CRANDIC. Well....Accurail made a standard grain hopper. The prototype is one of those Pressuraide deals with a bunch of pipes along the bottom, and the smaller, round-ish hatches. So....I shave-off the guides for the long grain hatches and stick a bunch of Athearn small ACF hatches along the top, getting them more or less evenly spaced. I re-w**k the hopper bottoms by removing the grain dumps, and try to figure out how to do the piping. **trumpet flourish* I stumble around the Atlas website, find the online store...and "freight car spare parts." Ta-DA! I find a piping set...of course designed for THEIR Pressuraide cars...but at $2, how far wrong can I go? Should be an easy deal right? Just stick the parts on the bottom of the Accurail car...a LIGHT weathering job (the car has a 1987 built date, I'm modeling '87-'93)...and good-to-go right???
WRONG.
The real deal is a 4-bay...Accurail's car is a 3-bay.
So fine....a little snip here, a little filing there...and walla! It's configured for 3-bays. The main piping went on just fine, fits OK...I guess??? But, there's a bunch of other little piping parts. I'm looking at a web page the Plano guy put together with dozens of close-ups of a Pressuraide...and trying to figure out what pipe is what/where it goes. Picture a doc looking at the X-ray while standing at the OR table.... I think I've got 'em pretty close to where they go. It looks fine to me, even better from three feet away! I'm comforting myself with the notion nobody will get THAT good a look at the underside...even after I finally do build the layout...unless it goes off the tracks and flips over.
A little more w**k on it, I'll post a pic or two.
So...by foobying a foobie...making it even more of a foobie...does that rescind my Rivet Counter sitting privaledges???????
Chris
BTW: ULRICH! Glad you were able to stop-by the previous location...hope you are continuing to make a full recovery, and I think I can safely speak for all of us when I say we can't wait to have you back in here!!!
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AmanaMedicSo...by foobying a foobie...making it even more of a foobie...does that rescind my Rivet Counter sitting privaledges???????
Yes. Sorry, but rules are rules.
Now, you must bring in a shrubbery.
TMarsh Yes. Sorry, but rules are rules. Now, you must bring in a shrubbery.
I shall bring one which looks nice and isn't too expensive....
Since I was trying to make a foobie more prototypical...does THAT count???
No, you must still bring in a shrubery! And then you must go into the deepest part of the forrest and cut down a tree with........A HERRING!!!
BamaCSX83And then you must go into the deepest part of the forrest and cut down a tree with........A HERRING!!!
Cut down a tree with a herring? IT can't be done!!
OHHHH!!!! You said THE word!! (Gotta stop now or else I'll be Monty Python-ing myself silly this afternoon)
BamaCSX83No, you must still bring in a shrubery! And then you must go into the deepest part of the forrest and cut down a tree with........A HERRING!!!
Chris, just say "it" in every sentence and "The Knights Who 'Til Recently Said Ni" will let you pass....
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Ray, you are correct sir!
"IT" is indeed the word that makes the Knights who say Ni cringe, wince, and suffer...
Now, can I go sit at the RC? Or do I need to break out the Holy Hand Grenade??????
Go man, enjoy yourself, and no, don't pull out the Holy Hand Grenade, I'm sure that Janie, Flo, Zoe, or Chloe don't want to clean up the mess.
BamaCSX83Go man, enjoy yourself, and no, don't pull out the Holy Hand Grenade, I'm sure that Janie, Flo, Zoe, or Chloe don't want to clean up the mess.
"Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing Zow Zing!"
Why thank you, Bama...as it is, I was just digging through the Book of Armaments, chapter two, verses nine through twenty-one specifically....
Man, I gotta get some w**k done.... I've gotten two paragraphs written on the football story...
AWWWWW Shazbot! I done got flimm-flammed and snookered into TOP! Oh well, order up boys, order up.... THAT editor, I think, paid-up on the expense account again
Whot, sinus infection is going away and I have a soccer game tonight!
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Packers#1 Whot, sinus infection is going away and I have a soccer game tonight!
WOOT!
Good luck to ya tonight...
Great to hear Sawyer, and Chris, if THAT editor didn't, I'll cover it out of pure hospitality.
Hey Diners, I need a little hand identifying a locomotive. I was just digging through Bing Maps and using their bird's eye tool and came across a switcher at the Hyundai plant in Hope Hull, AL. The trackage is CSX, in fact, its the Dothan Sub (my planned layout), but I never knew they had a switcher there, to my semi-untrained eye, it looks like a MP15, or something close, but that's no CSX paint job. Sorry for the lack of quality in the image, but I've come up empty on trying to find out exactly whom's engine this is, so I figured I'd just ask my friends/experts on this one.
Here's a link to the general area, if you change it to birds eye view and then move just to the north, you'll be able to see the loading and interchange tracks, from there you can see the switcher.
Chris- You may pass. Return to your seat at the Rivet counter as long as you reach there by the count of three. If you're not there by three, being the third number reached. You shall be banned again. 1.....2......5! I mean three! Oh never mind.
Bama- Who or whom. What is it. Oh now I said it. The word, I said it. Ah, I said it again! I can't quit saying it! Aaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!
Work doth call. It is time to make the pizza's. To bad, all I want to do is....SING!
Who started this Monty Python stuff anyway. 'Tis silly.
Cox 47Jeff thats a new one on me "shelf couplers"?
Chloe? Flo? Janie? Zoe? whomever, whichever, a double cheeseburger basket please 'n thank-you...yep back at the RC with a bucket of Coke.
BAMA: Thanks for the offer, but Vinnie gave me the thumbs-up, we're good. Also, I'm thinking that might be an old SW-1, with the tapered hood by the cab, short size, and one stack. Anybody else wanna take a guess??? I've seen some w**king at large grain elevators, so I guess an auto plant wouldn't be too far out of the realm of possibility.
TODD: IT's hard to say who started IT...but I think IT was thee who started this round of silliness. Hey, I forgot to ask ya to clarify, or pict-o-fy (show us) just what you were a-talkin' 'bout with the elevators. WHEN I get the layout built, I'll be greatly compressing the Quaker Oats complex...which has a lot of elevators, as well as a Cargill facility. I'll take all the elevator tips/tricks I can get.
Which reminds me...now that I've finally found a trackplan which WILL fit in the room, and will allow most of the "must-have" items... I'm a step closer to finally building a layout. I get paid again on Friday, so will venture to the nearest office supply store to find a replacement for the archetect's scale that USED to be located in the plush, but not overly ostentatious (sp.?) Umscheid house. Then, this coming weekend, after fulfilling obligations for THAT editor (including photographing a car show...oh, darn), I will be revising said plan. IF all goes well, shelf brackets and boards "should" be procured and installed within the next month to finally get this thing launched. Loving Wife is all for this... I think I helped the cause by spending Sunday afternoon taking her around the region in search of small town main streets, interesting buildings, and corn fields/hills/valleys. She's cooking up a children's book in her mind, and needed some "field research." Then again, 'twas only fair, I subjected her to an afternoon/evening of fire apparatus in Dyersville on Saturday, (home of Ertl toy tractors) for the 131st Iowa Firemen's Association convention and parade.
Time to get back to w**k...
AmanaMedic Why thank you, Bama...as it is, I was just digging through the Book of Armaments, chapter two, verses nine through twenty-one specifically...
Why thank you, Bama...as it is, I was just digging through the Book of Armaments, chapter two, verses nine through twenty-one specifically...
And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the Lord did grin. And the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths, and carp and anchovies, and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit-bats and large chu...
Oh Brother, skip a bit.
And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.
"And there was much rejoicing."
Thanks guys. Well, sinus infection is gone, guess palying cleared it out, go figure.
We wound up with a 2-2 tie. And since the other team has two BEASTS that aren't playing classic this year, I'll chalk it up in the moral victory column, lol.
"And now for something completely different!"
Evenin' folks!
Well the Boy Scout council here in the Finger Lakes Region of NYS is, Seneca Waterways Council. Also voted on the new council patch. And..... Got to see my Scoutmaster for Woodbadge who is also a Eastman Grad (a few years before me). But the greatest thing was to see a gentleman who was the Scribe for my Woodbadge course and a fellow Fox (patrol). I took Woodbadge in 1992. This gentleman was 81 years old at the time. You do the math. He remembered me right off. He walks with a cane but still gets around well and is a board member of the council. Blew my mind!
Got home to find a phone message from a lady who I taught with for about 15 years. My son helps her and her husband (also a retired teacher) with odd jobs around their property. We are trying to get together a few of the old gang and go visit a lady who we taught with who is now in assisted living.
No modeling today juyst due to schedule. Tomorrow I get going on the paperwork and more photography for the Scerey Certificate.
Sawyer, congrats on "the moral victory"!
Todd, are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?
Flo, I'll take Madsinger's Spam...... and give it to Barry.
There's a penguin on the telly!
"Spam, spam, spam, spam....... STOP IT!!!!"
Now look what all of you did!
howmusFlo, I'll take Madsinger's Spam...... and give it to Barry
I've got enough of mine own to contend with ---- there be no more space Captain---we canna take more!!!
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Hello,
Got back home to find a locked thread and people be bellyachin'---yay----and -----sheeesh
Class for tonight was a short one--only 3 hours ----tomorrow will be 4 hours----OY Well I signed up for 'em duh
Chloe, I'll have a coffee and a lemon meringue pie please----I'll be over at the RC with everybody else who is aroun'
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 Evening, Chloe - just a cup of hot cocoa for now, please 'n' thank you!
Vincent, I think I missed it in the photos - where's the BN green on that 1776? Nice haul for those prices, and especially with DCC on some of them!
Lee - are you talking a 'power' eraser? Sheesh, another tool to go buy, and here I thought I had enough for now... So if I'm using one of those half-white and half-pink erasers, is one end better than the other for build year removal?
Ray, unless they plan on re-printing all those brochures and handouts, I'm guessing they'll approve the new name for the BSA Council, eh?
Rob, as hard as I notice you usually w**k around your place, I'd say a bit of rest today would be well-earned and deserved.
Bama, you might figure how much your order with sales taxes would be on your Florida not-so-LHS, compared to what it'd be with the shipping charges & without sales taxes. If it's cheaper ordering online, you could still stop by and check out any bargain bin stuff when you're there visiting family. Do you have any layout design software (like Atlas' RTS, or 3DPlanIt, which Ryan's about an expert about)? That could help you see what'll fit where before you even start the benchw**k. Just an idea...
Jeff - sounds like you were doing what we did at our MRR club meeting - trying the buildings out, step back and take a look, go back and swap some buildings, step back and look again, repeat... (or is that lather, rinse, repeat?)
Jerry, whatcha been doing on the layout/MRR'ing stuff lately? Any new projects going on?
Chris, to push your doctor-and-the-X-rays analogy to the limits, do you think the patient will survive the operation?? Gotta hand it to you - and some of the other Diners in here - you sound like you actually know what you're doing and how those rolling stock(s?) are supposed to go together/look. (You do know, right?)
...Hey, when did we get transmogrified into Monty-Python-land? And why is Chloe muttering under her breath about "...I'l show THEM a Holy Hand Grenade, all right!"???
Oh, good, Rocky, I mean, Bullwinkle, er, I mean, Ray - got us off on another tangent... (whew!) Oh, wait, there he goes again with the rest...
Ulrich, good to see you got into the swing of things there. Hope that is a sign that you're starting to recuperate some more. Still in the hospital, or are you out yet?
Sawyer, congrats on the moral win, and maybe you can get a win on the scoreboard next game.
W**k today was... W**k. Started off with a visit to a client's home with Div. of Senior Services Have I ever told you how much I LOVE doing an assessment with them for someone they think isn't really having stubbornness, or behavioral problems, but DSS thinks they need me to go do a mental assessment? No? Wonder why.... (Bonka-bonka-banga-banga...) Okay, so I get back to the office and find that 1) my co-worker is still out today, and 2) there's another person at local jail needing assessment, which mercifully didn't involve commitment, then six walk-in clients, timed so about as I'm finishing up with one, I have either another, or a really annoying client with a phone call... Lunch was some microwave popcorn that I nuked, and a Dr. Pepper from the soda machine downstairs, all of that feast at 3:30 in the afternoon (better than no lunch yesterday), but thank Heaven that I had no further phone calls or stuff, since I was about in vegetative mode by then.
Okay, I think I'll exile myself to the back booth before someone pulls the Holy Hand Grenade on me... Please add some prayers for a bit of peace and quiet for me at w**k the rest of this week. Thanks!
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Bama, I took a tour of that plant in a engineering class I had. We were never allowed colse enough to see the autos being loaded onto the trains, which is what I really wanted to see.
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.
JimRCGMOPC, is it Friday yet? Oh, that's right, I have on-call Saturday. Hey, Chloe, do you know of a doctor that does frontal lobotomies? Cheap?
Mind if I join you JimRC ? I did apply to the university to do 3 courses this year-----don't ask why I gave up trying to figure that out but there I be----. And to top ever't'in' off---I go to work on Saturday----
Yes Chloe---I'll go to the cornerbooth---now she's complaining about having a bunch of miserable old cusses to contend with
JimRCGMOHey, Chloe, do you know of a doctor that does frontal lobotomies? Cheap?
Jim, I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a Frontal Lobotomie! Or as I always say when I am in some big box store and the PA goes off... "Its those voices again!!!"
Hey and I wasn't the one who started with the Monty Python stuff...... But I did like keeping it going!
I think I'll go sit in the back booth and w**k on "How not to be seen"
BLAM!!!