Good morning.It's 52 and clear. The high will be in the upper 60's and it will be partly cloudy.Looks like today will be a slow day for me. Not much to do besides lay back and watch movies. I did get a photo of part of the layout earlier this morning though.
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Just stopped by for a hot cider before heading to bed, Chloe.
I charged the battery for my camera. That is step #1 before photos.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Icecream sunday, please.
***Jerry, that's a nice tribute pond idea. Look forward to seeing how you complete it.
Has anyone here modeled a sink hole? Turns out one persons home is sitting over an old gold mine and the hole that opened up next to their house is downright frightening.
Been very busy doing farm stuff. Looks like a busy weekend of chores as well.
Hope everyone is doing well.
Rob
Well, it's been one heck of a week! I've been so busy that I haven't been in here, or basically anywhere, for a little over a week. I've been learning songs for the band at church (they asked me to join.......had to learn 12 songs in 4 days), working like crazy (they changed how I do my job so that I'm less productive, but at least it takes me a lot longer to do.......wish I got paid by the hour), and multiple doctors visits (looks like the wife and son both need more sugeries.....we knew that might happen), and so on, and so on........
If I missed anything important, catch me up, OK?
Good Evening,
RAY: Don't know if I'm a "pro" or not...but I like the photo, very pleasing, easy on the eyes. A nice, "rural" fall scene; and a heckofalot more/better fall tree colors than anything we've got around here.
Seems kinda slow in here today/tonight...
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Thanks guys! hehe, now I can beat people by dribbling around them. I don't just kick the ball up anymore (though that sometimes is the ebst thing to do), but I can dribble around people and pass.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Good Evening
Thought this would happen--classes got cancelled tonight----prof was sick!!
Ray: One of my jobs at this garage I worked at was making a run to Ingersoll from Woodstock to a tire dealer to pick up a bunch of tires/wheels. I frequently used a "tire truck" fashioned --roughly speaking here---from a 1961 Chev Impala front clip and frame, a bunch of welded together steel/iron bits/pieces for the 'tire rack' and a seat mounted directly on the frame---with a hint of a floor board so I had a place to rest my feet. People must've had a hoot with seeing that contraption! Whenever there was a safety blitz on the owner of this garage merely would use a beat up 1950's pick up with the loose flapping box to do the work----on the backroads. Then again, I'd see all kinds of rattletraps running the back streets/roads when the safety blitz be on.
Sawyer: Sounds like it was a well fought game!
Chloe, I'll have a Hot Chicken sandwich a plate of 'taters and veggies and a slice of pecan pie please---oh---and a coffee as well please---yes, I'll be with Ray at the corner booth---gee that fireplace is nice at this time of the year--
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/
Evenin' folks!
Zoe, I'll have the hot roast beef sandwich with mashed tators, and a nice garden salad for supper. I'll go sit at the back booth and stay warm by the stove.
Sawyer good on ya.... I bet you did a whole lot more than just not make any bad mistakes.
Robby and Chris, when I was a boy growing up on the farm, we never had any of the doors open up on us when were driving..... My dad took them all off so we didn't have to fiddle with them to get them to open.... Brakes still even worked on the old 1934 Chevy. It had the old cable ones. We could always get at least one brake to more or less work. The hydraulic ones on the 36 Chevy didn't work at all, but we still could stop the truck with the emergency brake..... sometimes.
I downloaded the photos I took at camp last Saturday at the w**k day out there. The last one I took was as I was driving back up one of the mud roads on the far side of the ravine. I think it came out pretty good..... I would love to have a critique from those of you that are real photo pros....
Ah my dinner is here. I chat later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
We tied our soccer game last night 1-1. I played well though, didn't make a mistake that caused a goal.
Robby P. The driver door would come open while you are driving.
Nice. One of the vans I drove in the home healthcare delivery days would do that. A real thrill at 60 on the highway.... Then there was the time I got hit from behind in the Astro van. It was a surprise to find out the rack of oxygen bottles wasn't bolted down (like DOT says it has to be, with good reason). In my auction house days, the trucks we ran couldn't have passed a DOT inspection if they had to. We feared the little blue squad cars (commercial vehicle enforcement, IDOT) and took as many backroads as possible. Sad what employers will do to save a buck.
Good afternoon. Ladies? If the coffee is on, I'll take a cup...yeah, the CNW Iowa Division mug would be just spiffy, thankyamuch.
Whoops, top. Supper/dinner is on me...and THAT editor.
Thank you also Chris,Attaboy,and Ryan.Ray
You're up..... I suppose you will be awake more now in retirement?
"Don't take a wooden nickel,because it isn't worth a dime" by my Dad
"There are only 3 things you need out of life:A gentle grade,the wind in your face,and cinders in your hair.....But keep an eye on the water glass!" Jack Evans
bjdukertThank You JimCG,Ray,Garry,and ToddBest to all on sick call and those recovering DukeLooks like top honors,so eat up.
Thank You JimCG,Ray,Garry,and ToddBest to all on sick call and those recovering Duke
Looks like top honors,so eat up.
Congrats Duke! The clock is operating....
Check out this amazing video, the baby is doing fine! From Australia....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFI1JOLrVbo
You all have a great weekend!
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Chris........Want to know something else??? The driver door would come open while you are driving. Now that ain't safe. Talk about something OSHA needs to know.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Good afternoon, well, the big yellow thing in the sky is making an appearance...2nd time this week. Allegedly, we are to move out of early winter, and back to fall this weekend. We'll see.
RAY: I've watched the OLS ads on their website, I think they had multiple formats availible. Don't remember for sure...it's been a few years. IF I recall right, I think they also had a way to obtain them, and others. I'd bet for a Boy Scout troop, they'd help you out.
THAT editor wasn't happy today...not with me or my w**k, she just wasn't happy. Made for a lonnnnnnng staff meeting. Looks like I am going to the girl scout pine car derby tomorrow morning. It's a first for them, could be interesting. I'm really not sure what to expect. I covered a cub scout one earlier in the year so know how the event goes...just not sure what a bunch of young girl scouts will come up with for their cars. Hot pink Barbie cars??? We shall see.
This afternoon, I'll do some more w**k on the XTRA hoppers. Two done, one to go. Might do some more in the RR room. I know what I wanna do in there, I've got it figured out how to do it. I'm just not looking forward to all the w**k required to do it. Also time to compare the bank account with what the next paycheck "should" look like, and start doing a little figuring/budgeting.
ULRICH: Sorry you're tangled up in red tape, we all continue to hope for the best for you and your fantastic wife. I've heard it said God never dumps more on a person than what they can handle. I know there have been times I seemed to be on the "delivery route" for God's dumptrucks...but made it through. Channel that Bavarian stubborness! Call upon the German temper! You WILL survive and rise above all this crap.
JEFF: The "tag" on that hopper is amazing for a number of reasons. I won't resurrect the ongoing debate on "tagging," I'll just wonder out loud how these "taggers" are able to do so much w**k on these railcars... I know they don't do any surface prep, they just spray bomb and go...but still that had to take a considerable amount of time. Amazing.
ROBBY P: Your supervisor made you operate unsafe equipment?? Wow. Not good. Am I surprised? Absolutely not. I just wonder who's head would be on the chopping block if something had happened and OSHA were to start investigating.
*sigh*
Time to do some w**k for THAT editor. I gotta do some research on the Sutliff Bridge, so I have a clue what's being talked about Monday night at the public forum.
Have a good 'un, will stop in later to catch up.
Afternoon..Its cloudy windy with lite rain and 40 but its not snow...I'll have a cheese buger and a diet coke please...thank You...Our cable,phone and internet went out about 7:45 right in the middle of one of Sallie and I's favorite shows so I decided to start a pond I have been planning..took everything off layout and cut thru homasote base...I call it DJ's Pond after a feller who has passed that worked for the phone company..He was a big Hank Williams fan and called me almost every morning about 5 wanting to hear something by Hank..He used to run the back hoe for the phone company barefoot!..He drove a Jeep and loved to fish so I plan to park a Jeep near the pond and model him fishing....
You all have a good one...Jerry
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, an egg on a muffin this morning with a large cup of dark roast in a FGLK mug if you please. I'll be at the Rivet Counter with the others.
I slept in late this morning. Needed to catch up on some I guess. I have just a few odds and ends that need to be attended to today. Right now I am waiting for a call from my insurance man to see about discontinuing insurance for my business as I am no longer accepting any new orders. Just selling off my equipment at this point. By the time I get done I may have the house back as a place to live rather than a place to do business......... just got a call while i was typing this from the secretary at the insurance office. The insurance man agrees that I don't need to carry the insurance anymore and whatever I have left will go under my homeowners policy...... Yippy!
Ulrich, ain't paperw*rk fun??? I know you will get everything sorted out soon so you can get on with life! Loved the photo of the "F" units....
Oh! Hi Duke! You're up..... I suppose you will be awake more now in retirement?
Chris, I might show some of the commercials if I can find and get copies of them... I will be showing an old ad for a tie making company in the mid-west made in the 1920's as part of the MB. I used to think Manual Labor was the president of Spain.......
Barry, no "white stuff" here by the time I got up. There may have been some but it has melted...........
OK, best get a move on. Catch you all later!
Good Afternoon,
what a dull and wet day. Add a storm to it and here it is, your typical Hamburg fall "Schmuddelwetter" (foul weather). Seems to me that the weather is acting crazy all over the world in these days. Floods, "white stuff", storm - what else is there to come.
Chloe, I´ll have a coffee and a slice of that pecan pie. No, Petra will be making another load of Linzer Torte next week, not this one anymore. She decided to have a 5-day w*rking week.
The landlord´s secretary gave me a call today - I have to turn in more papers, permissions, applications, forms, which I have to apply separately - I am all caught and tangled up in red tape. Absolutely unnecessary procedures! So Petra and I will have to live with some uncertainty for the next days, weeks, months? I can´t tell you how much I hate this situation.
Lee & Barry - those "baby face" double cab F´s were made under GM license by NOHAB in Sweden and were quite popular, also for export. They roamed the roads in Hungary, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Luxemburg, Belgium and Yugoslavia. Some of them are preserved and on special train duty. Lee, those "bumpers" are buffers, which we still need in Europe, as the couplers emplyed are still of the hook and screw type, as you can see on the picture. We were not able to agree on a common new coupling systems in Europe for the last 80 years...
A good day to all of you...
Oh, Duke (Bob) is buying ........ hmmmmmmmm....if that's the case, I'm tempted to have the delux steak and eggs ........but, I won't....... I'll be good....OJ & Oatmeal here.... No "flavoring" in my OJ like Attaboy is having ........
Ray ... It's really good of you to volunteer for BSA. It is remarkable that kids have no train riding experience. I recall being a kid and we rode trains to a lot of places. Dome cars and observations were neat to ride in.
I ran the new F7's a little more, and I know I will use them a lot.
We're packing today for our respective trips as I mentioned before. Solving problems pertaining to Mom may be quite a challenge. There is no instruction manual for this situation.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Alright, breakfast on Bob. I'll have two egs sunny side up, bacon, toast, and...after the morning I've had I need something stronger than OJ. Ulrich informs me it's afternoon in Germany now so add some peach schnapps to the OJ.
I awakened a little before four this morning by Pat's son coming in the bedroom and telling her that her car was no long in the driveway. Seems a car alarm got him awake and he looked out to see what was going on and he car was gone. They both got dressed and looked out the front door to find her car at the end of the driveway in the yard. After two days of rain it was literally IN the yard. Neither Matt or I could drive it out so I got the chain from the garage to pull it out with my truck. After several minutes in the rain, mud, and muck with temps in the upper thirtys I learned that Ford Fusions have no place hook a chain to the rear of the car without doing some damage. So we called AAA for a tow truck. Fortyfive minutes later he arrived and had the car out of the mud in a couple minutes. By then it was almost time to leave for work anyway so cleaned up and left. I wonder if my supervisor would mind if I take a nap today.
Congrats, again, Bob. Enjoy your retirement.
Gooooood morning. Its a cold/rainy day.
Well I just got off of work. A guy was switching trailers around last night, and broke the driver mirror off. Now talk about making it hard to backup, and with a trailer attached. BUT..........The supervisor made me do the rest of the switching for night. So hopefully we get a mirror on before tonight.
I will pop back in later, and everybody have a good morning.
Good Morning
Evening classes tonight and my weekly weekend seminars ----- heeheehee---fun times
Got a bit of that "White Stuff" this morning--enough to stick to the roof of houses and cars----and cover the sports field behind our house The high will be 7C while tonight's low will be about -1C. Tomorrow we'll start to see more sun again.
Today is also get $$$ so I'll have a bit more money for the MR budget-----maybe
Chloe, I'll have a full breakfast platter with a jug of coffee please-----I'll be at the RC waiting for everyone else to show up---
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
LSWrrJeff, that is a cool tag! I might have to look into one of those tree backdrops for my creek area.
Good morning... a RBF on Mr. Duke's dime. Yeah...I'll go easy on our new retiree (congrats Sir, by the way). I figure, at the rate I'm going, I should be able to retire around the age of 100...only 60 years to go, how bad can that be??
RAY: The very nice young lady from the U of I spent considerable time convincing the assembled mass of 6th graders on how a hawk couldn't possibly fly away with a dog, cat, cow, deer, or anything other than a mouse or vole. She then took other questions about birds in general. I was sooooooooooooo very tempted to ask her a particular question about...sparrows...for some reason I somehow managed to resist THAT urge
Glad to hear the Boy Scout RR program got off to a flying start. Do they get to watch the neat yet tame (compared to what Europeans see in their PSAs) OLS commercials with locomotives slamming into cars and idiot teens walking "in the gauge" with headphones on??
I'm planning on taking some pics of the "Zone of Chaos" after the next bracket or two go up, and things look more "in-progress" and less "disaster in the making." Right now, it's just too...shambalized for public viewing.
The stuff for THAT editor is done, and filed. Later this morning, it's "face time" with her. I'm gonna make the case for my shooting a girl scout pinewood derby contest Saturday morning. I got a cub scout one back in the late winter/early spring, so figure we kinda owe it to the ladies. Plus...I need the hours which translates into a little bit bigger paycheck next payday. As it is, I have to miss Fire Dept. training Monday night so as to go cover a public forum on the fate of the historic Sutliff Bridge. Both approaches and one span of the historic Parker Truss were wiped out in 2008's flood. FEMA will pay for complete demolishing/removing of what's left (cheapest alternative), they'll pay for "repair in-kind" which is very expensive for what ammounts to a walking trail bridge, or they'll pay to "repair to return to use." Repair-in-kind means make it look like it used to...historically accurate, but updated to modern code. Should be an interesting discussion. It just sucks I have to miss a training session to cover it.
*yawn*
Well, time for bed. I expect Ulrich to stop in yet this morning... Janie? Get that man whatever he'd like...put it on my tab.
Good night
Evening all,One of those evenings a hot cider would be great. Tonight I pulled the snow blower to the front of the garage, checked the oil and started it up. Tossed 300 pounds of sand bags in the bed of the truck, so I should be ready for tomorrow’s weather, I’m guessing icy roads and sleet before we get the snow Friday night. On the way home I stopped at LHS and picked up a new release; Athearn 50FT TOFC Canadian National with 2 trailers and 2 Walthers Algoma Central bulkhead flat cars. I’m collecting rolling stock from around the Great Lakes. My Rivet counter friends almost have heart failure when they see certain road names that couldn’t possibly stray into Ohio. I also had to get my Diesel truck an E-check of all things! All they do is plug into the computer to check error codes and they pressure test my gas cap. I passed at least.
Jeff, that is a cool tag! I might have to look into one of those tree backdrops for my creek area.
Uh, oh ... there's Ray harassing everbody at the RC again. Look at him. He won't even sit down..... But.... ah hah! ..... Look at Ray woofing down that pecan pie with ice cream ...... There are some world class chow hounds in this diner! ........ (Barry enters diner) ....... See what I mean ..... ooops ... oh ...hello Barry ..... ..never mind....
Tom ... The reefer was made by Acurail. I think I bought it about 10 years ago....
Sue ..... I still have plenty of NP ... I suppose I'll take pix next time I run some.
I hope those charactors at the RC quiet down soon before they awk Duke........
Ray: Nothing yet---although one of their neighbours "volunteered" to take said plot of land-----for her own
BTW---"fist merit badge"? Who be this now? MMM?
Chloe, I will have a hot cider, please.
jeffrey, That back drop is great. The trees blend well.
Garry, Your layout is so far ahead of ours. Thanks for sharing those photos. Np rules.
Tom, I sounds like you got the storm that missed us. Sorry. They said heavy wind and rain, but it never materialized. Just a couple of sprinkles. Hope that everything is ok.
Rob, Looks like you have clean-up duty after your flood. It is amazing what running water can do to a fence.
Have a nice evening.
Janie how bout a cup of decafe and a slice of pecan pie with a scoop of vanila ice cream on top. I will eat it standing up so I don't have to count it...... I go over by the Rivet Counter to harrass, er talk with some of the others........
Had the fist merit badge session with the handicapped troop tonight. i thionk these guys will do very well with the merit badge as they are very interested in it. Spent most of the time going over Operation Lifesaver materials. The new edition of the Railroading Merit Badge took the Operation Lifesaver materials almost word for word. In fact one of the requirements is to tell who Operation Lifesaver is and what they do. Only one of them has ever ridden on a train or a trolley before so they are very excited about the trip to the museums.
So Tom, How's everything in good old California? (Ducks as flying objects wizz past....) OK. stop shouting, you'll lose your voice again. Glad to see at least that the cats are enjoying the weather!
Chris, I'm confused . Homecoming King and Queen and Furbies??? Oh that was the inductee...... Do Red Tailed Hawks eat Furbies or only 6th. graders???? Sounds like some good changes being made in the train space. Don't forget to post some photos.
And Barry have your neighbors figured out what to do about the garden between the driveways? Inquiring minds want to know.
Going down to 32°F and we could have some of that white stuff on the ground by morning, although most of it will be to the South of here. Classic Nor' Easter coming in. We are scheduled for rain and sn*w all day tomorrow and off and on for the weekend. I already got the Sn*w blower out and started. just need to put some air in the tires and tighten up a couple cables before I use it.
Catch you all later.