Heartland Division CB&QPeople think when you are retired you have nothing to do and you should help them with their stuff.
Good morning. It's 30 and partly cloudy. The high will be in the low 50's and there's a chance of a bit of snow and rain this morning.Looks like we may be in for a bit of the white stuff falling from the sky this morning. Sure hope that goes somewhere else real quick! We don't need snow here. Oh sure the kids would love it, especially if it gets them out of school for a bit, but what about those of up who have to drive on it. I'll have to leave my nephew off that list. He'll just get his little redneck hunting buggy out and go spin donuts with the emergency brake locked. One of the items on my personal projects list is to get a USB IDE hard drive enclosure to put my data drive in. Wal-Mart doesn't carry such an item and the computer shop is out of them at this time. I may just have to wait until they order more. The IDE ones sell out fast. Right now I'm using the data drive with a USB to IDE cable kit but there's no enclosure to put it in.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Good Afternoon,
it has been a dull, but quiet day so far. I used the time for some daydreaming about a layout that I may be able to build once the financial situation improves. I made a rough sketch of the room available, which puts a lot of limitations to those dreams.
The long wall is 19ยด long!
The only viable option I see is a shelf layout in N scale. The bed does not disturb much, it is one of those inflatable things that you always see advertised on TV. The layout must be above that. I will develop some ideas for that, which I will share with you.
Zoe, just some coffee and a blueberry muffin slice of that apple pie, topped with vanilla ice cream, please.
Will drop in later again.
Good morning diners. I'll have coffee, sausage, eggs, and one of those apple cinnamon scones, please.
Ulrich, It does look like a good space of a shelf layout. Good time to take out the sketch pad and start drawing ideas. Hang in there and keep up the positive thinking.
Jeff, Snow there? I know it's a real problem there. Your not equipped for it.
We have a beautiful morning with sunny clear skies. Of course when I got up the temp was -22 F. (-30 C). Not much wind but at that temp it doesn't take much. As the layout is in the garage (no heat) I won't be doing any work on it today. Seems like the wood glue freezes faster than it sets. Also the modeller freezes way to fast. When we get the Christmas stuff put away I can set up the craft table and work on models, and rolling stock.
Prayers for strength and healing for those in need, and that we all have a better year than the last one.
Jim
Good morning...Its sunny and 13 here..I'll have coffee anf toast please...Thank You...Got the rail road covered up.3 of our daughters and grand kids coming and its just easier...You all have a god one...Jerry
Good morning. Its a cold morning. Its currently 14deg, and the wind chill is 4deg. Calling for snow all weekend, and most of next week.
Got off of work and made a trip to Lowes for some wood, and foam board. I going to start on the middle part of the layout. Nothing really planned out it but I will have a plan.......hopefully.
Other than that, hope to stay warm.
Everybosy have a good Saturday!!
"Rust, whats not to love?"
2 foot JimJeff, Snow there? I know it's a real problem there. Your not equipped for it.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe I'll have dark roast coffee with a side order of the Apple Pie a'la mode. I'll go sit at the Rivet Counter for a bit.
Ulrich I think yu could have a really nice 'n' scale wall layout in the room. You could do an "out and back", or "loop to loop" or a "roundy round" with room to spare. Even get a good amount of industries and switching to keep you busy. For now concentrate on getting yourself feeling better and stronger! Hope 2010 is a great year for your recovery in every way possible!
My son and his family will be coming to dinner tomorrow so today is "CLEAN THE HOUSE DAY!" Huh? what are we having? Well so far it consists of Standing Rib Roast, Mashed Potatoes, Gravy, Winter Squash, Brocolli and Califlower mixed, washed down with a Bottle of Bubbly and something for dessert not decided yet.......
Barry glad to see you kept the "partly cloudy" over your way. The NMRA divisions here in the Finger Lakes area are holding a joint meet a week from today and I'm hoping the fun and games of what you are doing today will not be our situation next weekend!
Jeffrey and others.. The first computer I had in my classroom was the Apple IIe 128k model. I was the envy of the faculty in the Middle School! In fact there were definite words with a few teachers to the principle as they only had the 64k ones and could see no reason why a MUSIC TEACHER should get a better one than they had!!! I actually ended up with it because I had written a program of study using the computer and printer for composing music in my classroom...... Sneaky way to get a computer in the room. When I got my first Mac (it was a something or other II) I couldn't believe how much more I could do with it. I remember buying a 5 1/2 inch floppy reader so I could transfer files from the IIe at school. A month later we all got the "something or other" III which ran at 100Mhz (up from the 80Mhz mine was doing)... Had a larger HD too. Those were the days......
CN Charlie, My thoughts and prayers for you and the family as you have to make that final good decision for Pippa. That is always one of the hardest decisions we are called to make for our pets!
Best get moving or I'll be up all night cleaning the house!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Fruit & veggie smoothie, please.
***Jeffrey, sorry to see another UNION PACIFIC engine became the victim of graffiti artists. Perhaps you could increase the number of little police folk on that layout.
Have extra farm chores to do today.When temps are cold like last night, I have to drag all the hoses up a hill so they will thaw & drain. Couldn't pump water last night because of ice. I do not like winter much.
Hope to make some train room time by this evening. Haven't been down there for too long.
Have a great day y'all.
Rob
Rob ... Your model of the hospital looks terrific !!!!!!
Ulrich .... Sorry to learn you are not sleeping well. Perhaps, it will improve if you use the bed in the diagram, and you have trains operating on a shelf layout above it.
Thanks to those who visited my thread. I may add a little more.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Afternoon all. Janie, I'll take a bacon cheeseburger, thanks.
Not a whole lot going on today, mostly just finishing up homework before break ends.
I'll be hangin around for a while
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SUPPER AT RAY'S TOMORROW!!!!!
jeffrey-wimberly All it takes is one inch to shut down the schools and the military base.
(grumble) Why couldn't I have been there.
Well, just got back from doing some prep work at the restaurant for tonights doins. I have a vested interest as I will be one of the guests.
Ulrich- Yup, I'll have to agree. N scale could set you up quite nicely.
Jerry- I know what you mean. At Thanksgiving I just told the Grandkids the thing wasn't working. Didn't even open the door.
Rob- You take it easy. You get worn out quick in the cold.
Best take the chance to get back downstairs before getting cleaned up for the Holiday Party at 5.
I'm thinking about the same thing Robby is. Extending the pennen... pin nen sul....penen.... three sided part, and re doing the wierd loop in the middle. That would get rid of the part I dislike the most and allow me to put more places in the part I want more in but have no room. I figure I can get it done without a duck under. I will need a lift out in front of the door, but I'd already planned for that. I hate getting MR mag when they show trackplans that will fit in my room.
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.
Good afternoon to all, another 4" of snow has fallen with no let up until Monday. Der John must be getting hammered up there in Nova Scotia. Helped the wife take down the Christmas decorations, after she helped me shovel the driveway and walkways. That is the secret behind a long happy marriage.LOL
ULRICH: I was faced with the same problem a few years ago when one of my grandsons received an HO train set for Christmas. He had no room in his bedroom. So what I did was to mount rollers under a 4x8 sheet of plywood, and we just stored the layout under his bed.
GARRY: There is nothing like a nice neat workshop, and all good model railroads should always strive to plan in advance for all unforseen occurances that might mess up the model railroad area. HOWEVER, when you are up to your a** in alligators, it is VERY difficult to remind yourself that your original objective was to drain the swamp. LOL
DUKE: LOOK!! Another Berkshire is coming on track 3!!! I think it is old #1225 !! Ohh geez, you spilled your coffee all over the table getting up so fast !!! hehehehehehehehee
RAY: Ok Ray, you can shut off the snow anytime now !!!
LEE: You should make a UTUBE video out of that job, what a riot !!!
Global Warming Update: International Falls set an all time record cold last night, -35F (-38C)!!!
Later guys
Good Afternoon, Flo? Since Rerun and I won't be able to dine at Ray's tomorrow... maybe you oughta just set me up with a tripple cheeseburger basket and large Coke, also a stack of single cheeseburgers, plain, for Rerun. Oh....maybe toss him a bowl of ice cream too please 'n thank-you...
ULRICH: If you don't mind, tell me please, more about this "funny feeling" in your head. No, I'm not a doctor, I play one at times *ahem ahem, and I was called "doc" by Marine Corps vets...but the former paramedic in me is cogitating on this; trying to pin-down what could be going on inside THAT head of yours. Also, looking at your room plan, I'd shove the bed closer to the door, looks like you could get another 4' of layout THAT way...which I'm guessing, in N-sane scale would be a lot of real estate. Thanks for the kind words on my writing/story telling... Loving Wife and others have been at me for years to "write a book." 'Bout what? I really haven't lived what one would call a "remarkable life." I just, as the song says, "keep on rolling with the flow."
It has been suggested I oughta do a book of the photos I've shot over the years. What I've seen though, watching her trials, tribulations, etc. with getting a publisher to "bite;" I'd have as much if not better luck scratching lottery tickets.
TMarshI hate getting MR mag when they show trackplans that will fit in my room.
THAT's about the only time I get MR anymore!
THAT is what I shoulda been doing these bitterly cold, snowed-in days... Instead of staring at the 'pooter and playing a gazillion hands of solitare and free cell, I shoulda borrowed Loving Wife's light table thing, and gotten busy on the track plan! For now I'm going with the "National Docks Ry. Black Tom Terminal" from the Feb. '07 MR. It will be rotated to fit my RR room, with some stretching here and there, and some cutting there; to fit.
I figure it has enough of the "givens and druthers" to fit my alleged "needs." There is a small yard which will be used as the "City Yard" (holding/sorting for Quaker Oats), space for a scaled-down/greatly condensed yet still sizeable Quaker Oats plant, room for the ex-Rock Island roundhouse and shop building along with Feder and Sons junkyard; as background items, room for a small representation of the Chicago Central and Pacific yard, and what will become the Cargill corn milling plant. I think I can even scab-in a short siding for Jerabek Distributing (purveyor of "fine" beers such as Old Style, Grain Belt, Schlitz, PBR, etc.) and Loftus Distributing (lumber and drywall products).
Hey TODD, I'm gonna need a lift-out in the little hallway leading to the sub-attic. Could you maybe sometime post a pic or a sketch of what you came up with??? I've been looking at drop-downs, and swinging things for years now; but in reality, all I have room for/really need, is just to be able to lift-out the board with the track going from staging (in my office) to the layout in the RR room. I might only have to do this once/year tops...might not have to go in there for years (crossing fingers).
Or was you talkin' 'bout a lift-out you could stick yourself through to access parts of Toddland???
LEE: Radioactive hair color...who woulda thunk it? THAT must've been some scene, you calming a hysterical woman with glow-in-the-dark hair. My Dad still has a 1960s Civil Defense surplus geiger counter, and fires it up once in awhile for kicks 'n grins...so I've seen the natural radiation bombarding us. Two of the fire depts. I was on had some territory inside the 20 mile radius of the nuke plant, so once/year we'd get a radiation class. Time, Distance, and Shielding. Three principles I apply to dealing with my SIL... Seriously, I limit my time of exposure to her, I prefer as much distance between me and her as possible, and have no problem placing other family members between me and her (shielding).
GARRY: Nice w**k on the layout, great pics! I posted a little rambling to "bump" it back up top. As I said there, you kinda make me wish I'd gone with a CB&Q/BN branch in SW Iowa. I think I missed a lot of really neat stuff around there,and your rural scenes just further THAT notion.
I'll yield the floor, wolf-down this burger....good grief! Rerun has already eliminated his plate of burgers! Uh Flo? Maybe toss a few more his way, with a RBF????
Good Grief Charlie Brown...
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
I thought would take a few pictures of the layout progress.
I added some foam board to the middle section. The middle section will probably have a smaller cement plant, maybe a warehouse of two, and I might add a diesel facility.
You can also tell where I need a couple of shop lights. I was going to let the middle dry over night (caulking).
I also added a shot of the yard. I will have to work on it more, now that I have a shop light over it.
EDIT: Seems I've got top honors. eat up folks!
Afternoon folks. Been a while since I've been on. I see that there's a new years WPF. I'll have to contribute a post to that soon. probably later on today. Sorry it's been a while since I've been on; been working on the layout, texting, and relaxing. But it's bout time I get back into the loop, lol. Here's an update video and some pics!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F6EiQGmh5A
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Chris- Haven't got a plan drawn up on the liftout but I have an idea that I saw somewhere. Here I believe, but it could have been elsewhere on the MR site. Hm, maybe Lee. Don't remember who, but it involved two vertical alignment pegs at each end to align the liftout and a support block they drop into. I haven't got that part of the layout benchwork even started yet. It will pass in front of the door so it will be a necessity to even get in the room. I'll cross THAT bridge when I come to it. (pun intended)
OK, bad news. I found the camera and the battery was charged so unfortunately for you, I took some pictures. I give up on the thing taking decent close ups so I'll post them anyway and you can just ignore them if you choose.
I did some weathering on the skirting and I think I overdid it a bit. But, maybe when the ground is brought to the skirting it won't be as bad. I know the door needs some powder removed, but what about the skirting? Should I get rid of some filth or is it possibly a fare depiction of old skirting in a park that isn't the newest you'll find. I think it's a bit much. But when Brenda walked in the room she said "why are you taking pictures of old trailers?" I puffed out my chest and said That's my models. she said " oh. I couldn't figure out why you'd do that" I love that woman.
Ooops, MISSY! get out of here! What a ham.
Trying to get the hang of powders. A lot easier than paint for me though. Hats off to you Robby, you make it look so easy
Chris- Don't know if you can make out much of the interior or not, I haven't got the curtains hung so the roof is still loose.
I didn't even try to take a picture through the kitchen window with this camera. I found the insides of structures are a good place to use the people who are dressed in blatently '40's attire.
Someday I'll have a camera worth taking pictures with, but for now I'll try to keep them to a minimum.
Todd............Thanks. Just remember , practice and patience. Plus you won't know how good you are till you try .
Hello Missy (pats the 'ol girl on the head)
Hey TODD: OK Pal, forget about how ya made the recliner...I'll take a "how-to" on how you made THAT green couch in the trailer. I'm liking the trailer. I'm just wondering what they burned to get the black soot on the skirt and door... singed shrubbery perhaps??? I can't say too much, I've never used the weathering powders, I'd probably get them everywhere but where I wanted 'em or would knock the whole thing over and have a big pile of...whatever you get when weathering powders combine into one pile.
Oakie Doakie on the lift-out...THAT sounds kinda familiar: pins for alignment. I was thinking something similar with cabinet door latches. Maybe I'm mixing up concepts. Its a long, long way off, so plenty of time to screw it up in my mind before I screw it up for real.
SAWYER: Man, I'm diggin' THAT furniture factory.
ROBBY P: I'm adding you to the list of guys on here THAT are making me green with envy. Nice w**k there guy.
STILL haven't accomplished anything this afternoon other than losing many, many times at Free Cell. I don't think my computer likes me anymore...it usually lets me win one or two before it kicks my butt mercilessly. Today, it just started beating me like a rented mule.
Good looking layout work Robby and Packers#1. Keep it up. Todd, that trailer is looking good.
TMarshSUPPER AT RAY'S TOMORROW!!!!!
Good of you to volunteer your cooking skills and your space RAY!!!!
TMarsh jeffrey-wimberly All it takes is one inch to shut down the schools and the military base. (grumble) Why couldn't I have been there.
HA!!! They'd look at that up here and just go on! Won't happen here!
TMarshI'm thinking about the same thing Robby is. Extending the pennen... pin nen sul....penen.... three sided part, and re doing the wierd loop in the middle. That would get rid of the part I dislike the most and allow me to put more places in the part I want more in but have no room. I figure I can get it done without a duck under. I will need a lift out in front of the door, but I'd already planned for that. I hate getting MR mag when they show trackplans that will fit in my room.
The peninsula that I have here was even divided so that I could extend the line AROUND the divider at the end of the peninsula. The divider goes down the middle and I then loop the backdrop around a stupid post that I have in the middle of that part. Sorta down one side, around the end, and end on the other as a terminus yard. And I get the mags when they show even better plans than the one I'm working on----
BTW--Todd: I like the way that trailer came out!
We're getting a lovely bunch o' snow today---got another 6" down on top of the 16" we got last night and this morning---took an hour to get back home from basic survival stuff buying---only took about 10 minutes to do the buying ---mmmm And the temperature now is only -13C with windchill of -20C ----sheeesh
Oh well, going back out inna bit to clear the driveways again---neighbour is already getting his blower ready---catchya inna bit----
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/
Robby- Oh I've tried. I just haven't showed! Practice I've got down, the patience part is where I need practice. Seriously though, It's subtleness I have a problem with. I want to see a difference to soon, and after it's on it's too much.
Sawyer- I agree, I like the factory.
Chris- Hm, good idea. I think I'll see if I can't get the smudge in the back to work in somehow. But the overdone black on the door will still have to go. The couch was just some styrene cut to squares and rectangles in the dimensions of our couch downstairs. Glued together, fingers removed (from the glue that is) then straightened somewhat and then some squadron putty coated to take the seams out and painted without thought to the putty color bleeding through. Simple. The La-z-boy that you can't see was done the same way. Including the putty color bleed that I already knew about but still failed to do anything about.
Jeff- Thanks.
I'd like to think I'm getting better. Maybe I oughta show some of the other stuff so you can see what I....... OK Vinnie. I see ya, I won't.
Evenin' folks!
Just taking a break from the house cleaning. Would have been done a couple hours ago except for several interruptions. Janie just some decafe to tide me over to supper, thanks.
I had to do some shopping so I made a short side trip down to the LHS for a couple of rolls of WS plaster cloth. Walked in and since it is Saturday, the owner is there. After exchanging our usual greetings, I inform him I need some plaster cloth and ask where he hid it this week. He points to where it is always kept. I look in the bin and say, "Hey, you know you got 2 different prices here? Some say $8.99 and others say $9.00! What's going on here? I'm geting the $8.99 ones, I ain't payin' no $9.00 for this stuff!" Turn to him and both he and I were grinning..... Then I tell him that they are on sale at Walthers for $6.95 and I coulda ordered from there cheaper! Lets see I want two of them, that would be $20 shipping....... Hmmmm? Then I tell him Micro Mark even has them cheaper as well. And, they have no shipping charges if I buy $150 worth. Lets see they would get here in a week or so.... He gave me the Walthers discount price as I figured he would. Even if they weren't on sale there, he would give me 10% off anyway. Good store!
Sawyer your layout is looking very good! You are an excellent young modeler sir!
Speaking of good modeling... Todd, I like the Trailer. Only thing I would have done different is use "Green Grunge" instead of (or in addition to) the soot. I love to work with the powders. They work very well for most of the weathering I do.
Barry, Thanks! Now ya done sent all THAT cold air and white stuff over my way...... We are under a Winter Weather Advisory for tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight will be in the single digits, with wind chills in the -teens F. Talking 2 to 4 inches of light and fluffy white stuff blowing around tonight and about THAT much more falling and blowing around with 40MPH winds tomorrow.
Oh, BTW Dinner is at 2. Don't be late! Hope you like your Prime Rib Medium Rare!
OK back to w**k! Later!
howmusBarry, Thanks! Now ya done sent all THAT cold air and white stuff over my way...... We are under a Winter Weather Advisory for tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight will be in the single digits, with wind chills in the -teens F. Talking 2 to 4 inches of light and fluffy white stuff blowing around tonight and about THAT much more falling and blowing around with 40MPH winds tomorrow.
You're quite welcome! Hey somebody has to 'Share' in this stuff!
BTW---the snowsquall left us another 8" as of this evening---with another 6-10" overnight and then ANOTHER 4-6" by tomorrow afternoon before it settles down to plain ol' snowflurries for the rest of the week
blownout cylinderBTW---the snowsquall left us another 8" as of this evening---with another 6-10" overnight and then ANOTHER 4-6" by tomorrow afternoon before it settles down to plain ol' snowflurries for the rest of the week
I assume what you are getting is mostly "Lake Effect" off Lake Michigan?
Wonder how DerJohn is doing with the storm up his way?
howmusI assume what you are getting is mostly "Lake Effect" off Lake Michigan?
Off Lake Huron. Goderich is just NNW of us, and the dang winds which have been going up to 50kmh pretty well all afternoon, have just been pumping the moisture down this way--and now they've just closed up highway 21 from Grand Bend to Amberley up there.
DerJohn probably is getting hammered again by the storm up there---I heard that the thing reversed direction back SW again too.
Duke
"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
Janie ... Todd's dog would like some milk bones, please.
Todd ... I like the mobile home. !!!
Ray .... What's for supper tomorrow? ..... Actually, more cookies from the super oven will be appreciated.
Duke ... Good to see you again. You've been to live steam meets. Do any of them have bershires?
Thanks again to those who visited my thread.
bjdukertTodd and Chris I think Ryan did a lift out or a swing gate for his layout and probably has a description of it on his Piedmont Division site. Duke
Yep, our resident Cajun Chef did a swing gate...I've got the sites bookmarked. I'll be eventually going across a rarely used hallway leading to an attic. The hall is narrow enough there really isn't enough room for a swinging gate, and it will be used so (hopefully!) infrequently THAT I think I can get by with a lift-out arrangement.
Again, this is months if not years down the road. I need new windows (100 year old originals currently) in my office before I can build/install the staging yard, and I oughta have benchwork up in the RR room with at least enough track so as to be sure the holes I'll be a-cuttin' in the walls, and all affected trackage will actually line-up!
Thanks for the help, I know I appreciate it, and I'm sure the King of Toddland does too.
Heartland Division CB&QRay .... What's for supper tomorrow? ..... Actually, more cookies from the super oven will be appreciated.
Evenin' Garry! The menu for tomorrow is: Standing Rib Roast (without the ribs actually, but the same cut...), Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Baked Winter Squash, Brocolli and Cauliflower, Rolls, and a tall glass of NYS Sparkling Wine. Dessert is now known and will be Cake and Ice Cream. Be sure to bring your virtual appetite! Sorry I haven't had time to bake up any Toll House Cookies today.......
Oh and I have been enjoying your layout thread very much, Garry!
Duke??? Live Steam Berkshires??? Now there's something worth remortgaging the house for!!!
I think Todd's dog is hanging around waiting for Barry to drop his greaseburger.......
howmusI think Todd's dog is hanging around waiting for Barry to drop his greaseburger.......
And here I thought she and Rerun had wandered off to "conjugate verbs" (Pearls before Swine reference) since Duke is up and out of the back booth...
EDIT: For my poor attempt at humor...I get to buy Supper/Dinner/Eats/Grub, whatever ya wanna call it...
Order up gents! And yes...burgers and doggy biscuits for the four-legged, furry friends as well. Don't know if the ladies have any cat treats for the feline sect...