Elliott's Trackside Diner XXIII: Moving on...

[Packer]

hey ya'll

Not much done today, except a take-home exam for psychology. Guess you can't really spell that with out psycho, my head hurts from trying to figure out that stuf...

Jim, E-mail sent

Sam, read and replied

Joe, good that the spanish exam was easy

[jeffrey-wimberly]

 

Trainman Sam

Jeff- here's the monument at Bachman

http://www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/products.php?act=viewProd&productId=690

 

JimRCGMO

And here it is on Walthers:

http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/160-42218

Thanks. I was looking under memorial, not monument.

[pcarrell]

On the hospital food issue.........you guys don't think I'd feed you dog food, do you?  The hospitals around here hire gormet chefs to prepare the food.  They're quite proud of their cafe's.  And I must admit, I've had the food and I'd say they've got good reason to be proud.  I had a top notch lunch......and you all missed out!

As for the wife, she's doing well.  They've got her up and walking every two hours.  Not too far though.....just down the hall and back.  They want to keep her moving so she doesn't get any blood clots, ya know?

[Trainman Sam]

Phillip- Glad to hear she's up and about... and I did enjoy my pistachio encrusted alaskan sea-bass with cilantro topped mashed potatoes!

Jeff- I looked under monument, nothing came up.  So, tried under their "accessories" and "plasticville", I think it hit under "accessories"... My mind has become toast! 

What Chloe?  No, I didn't say I wanted toast, just that my mind was toast! Lol...  And NO I haven't touched the whipped cream or miracle whip since last week, I heard that Vince wasn't too happy about the hoo-zee-mah-whatsits that I built, and subsequently destroyed, out back!  Sheeesh...

Alrighty then, I'll be in the corner  booth surfin' the net, in search of some other cool oddities!

OH, before I forget, a friend of mine sent me this video, anyone modelling the 50's, and or Philadelphia or surrounding areas would find it most "enlightening"... WORTH the 9:31 minutes to watch!

http://www.archive.org/details/Miracleo1955

(EDIT- Did I mention, you can download it for free... and watch whenever you want!)

Off to THAT corner booth...

[pcarrell]

Trainman Sam

... and I did enjoy my pistachio encrusted alaskan sea-bass with cilantro topped mashed potatoes!

I was going to get that, but I'm a sucker for the tortilla soup and soft taco (with blackened chicken) combo.

[howmus]

 Evenin' folks!

I have spent most of today sorting through and wo*king with the 100 photos I took yesterday at the MLK March and Service.  I am about 3/4 the way through them right now.  I did get some good usable shots so I am happy.  They will become part of some advertising for the work of the committee in the community.

pcarrell

They've got her up and walking every two hours.  Not too far though.....just down the hall and back.

 

Philip that is good to hear.  Please know that all of your family are still in my prayers.  I hope she continues to do well and will be back home soon.

pcarrell

The hospitals around here hire gormet chefs to prepare the food.  They're quite proud of their cafe's. 

 

I don't doubt that the food is good....  Many people have told me how good Hospital food is these days.  I even know some Luneys ah... people that go out to eat at the Hospital in Canandaigua.  It is not the quality of the food, it is the proximity to the hospital!  I hate the places!  I spent way too much time eating there while my wife died in one.  I have avoided hospitals at all cost whenever possible.  I have eaten twice in a hospital over the last 20+ years.  Once when I was tricked into having to stay overnight by the surgeon when I had a minor procedure about 15 years ago.  I could have gone home the same day but then I would have had to have been "Put to sleep".  Uh Uh!!!!  I have had several pets over the years "Put to sleep"!  Can't fool me, I know what "Put to sleep" means.........  So I had a Spinal instead.  Later they said , "Oh you have to stay over night."  One of the worst 24 hour periods of my life!  Couldn't wait to get out of there and have a decent meal and get some sleep!  They wake you up every hour to see if you are still alive....  The other time was when My Father was in after his heart attack.  My sister (who volunteers there) insisted that the food was wonderful just like everything else at the Canandaigua Horsepiddle (The same one that received several warnings recently from the state about patient care and such......).  I gagged it down....  I think my opinion may have something to do with my fear of Horsepiddles.......

So forgive me, I was just having some fun (based on my warped sense of humor and a hatred of hospitals).

OK, Zoe, a cup of decafe to go.  I still have 30 photos to wo*k on.

73

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Hello ....

Rob mentioned the Aerotrain. Here is the one in the St Louis museum. I took the photo about 5 years ago. It was in bad shape as you can see. I heard it is being restored, however.

PC ... Glad to learn Mrs. PC's surgery went well. I'll say hospital food I have had in recent years has been rather good.

I was in Nashville past couple of days.

This afternoon, I worked on my second FT AB set.

Cheers, everybody!

[ns3010]

Ugh, with confirmation tonight and exams, I AGAIN was unable to catch up. Tomorrow, I promise...

[tbdanny]

Evenin' all,

This is the first time I've popped by the diner, so I figured I'd stick my head in and introduce myself.  N scaler, and you can probably guess my road from my avatar.   Layout is currently in the scenery stage, having been fully tracked and wired.

Other hobbies include Nintendo Wii gaming and writing sci-fi, with a view to getting published one day.  Professionally I'm in I.T., specialising in computer networks.

I'll have to drop in more often, but for now it's nice to meet you all.

Cheers,

tbdanny

[blownout cylinder]

howmus

I don't doubt that the food is good....  Many people have told me how good Hospital food is these days.  I even know some Luneys ah... people that go out to eat at the Hospital in Canandaigua

Ray: I remember going to University Hospital at UWO a lot when I was there as a student. Get the middle of the night "grease crisis", as it was called, and, because the university did not have anyplace open at 3am a bunch of us would go there to the cafeteria and eat there. Hey, it beat having to wonder about 2 miles out of your way to have woodchip burgers at some same ol' same ol' burger joint----which may, or may not, be open Besides, we often preferred going there rather than brave the -----erm coff--"food"  at the Centerspot that often was blargh!!

[JimRCGMO]

Hi, Chloe, just a mug of hot chocolate, please. Thanks.

ns3010

Ugh, with confirmation tonight and exams, I AGAIN was unable to catch up. Tomorrow, I promise...

  No problem, Joe - they'll still be sitting here... waiting for you... kinda like a bad cold...

PC, good that your wife's up every so often - not only for avoiding those clots, but also since the nurses have to wake her every hour or so anyhow... Just wait'll she gets home - she'll be betting you at the footraces!

Vincent, I sent you an email back. Thanks!

Garry - nice shot of the Aeroliner. Did you see the bigger steam locos when you were there? I know some of those might have been in not much better shape, but when I went to the museum, there was one that was getting into pretty good shape (of course, I forgot by now which one it was - that was about 20 years ago...).

Got done here earlier, went home and thought I was going to fix something for dinner. Fixed me a salad first and then checked the fridge. Hmm, found out that the only thing that I had thawed out for dinner was stew meat (which I'd bought for making beef stroganoff). Decided that I would eat out, so I came back here and quietly grabbed a seat in the (other) corner booth before anyone noticed I'd been gone. I was sorta peek-ed with hunger - that taco salad wore off too quickly! But that hospital ribeye was not bad, not bad at all, and the baked potato with the sour cream and chives and butter filled me up okay.

I was about to upload my photos into the rolling stock database at DMW, when I saw that I only get to post an online link, no direct load into the database. Dang! Ah, well, tomorrow I'll get all the pics loaded to a Photobucket folder and copy down all the information for the database fields...

[Edit:] to the Diner, tbDanny - great choice of roads (one of the connecting RR's for my HO scale layout)! We have several N scalers here, including DerJohn, who could scratchbuild just almost anything (obviously he has better eyes than some of us...). Have a mug of your favorite on me (and I think our twin virtual servers (Zoe and Chloe) have a few bottles of Jolt in the cooler, if you're having a coding session some evening)

Well, I'll be finishing up my hot chocolate and heading out. Prayers for those needing healing, comfort, and an evening's rest (of more than an hour at a time...).

 

Blessings, and a good night (or morning in Ulrich's case),

Jim in Cape Girardeau

[Trainman Sam]

Hey guys, I'll be heading off to home and bed...

But first,

tbDanny- to the Diner!  Pull up a seat, grab a bite to eat!  Chloe or Flo will get you what you want, in a hurry too! 

You came to the right place to sit back, relax, and unwind after a rough day!

Chloe, set our new friend up with whatever he wants, my treat!

Adieu, a domain! (french my wife just taught me meaning= Good bye, til tomorrow!)

[tbdanny]

Sam,

Thanks for the welcome, and good luck for your exam tomorrow - it was the 21st, wasn't it?

Chloe, I'll have a slice of white chocolate cheesecake for the moment, and a glass of orange juice.

[CNCharlie]

Good Evening Diners!

A cup of strong coffee please Chloe as it seems it is another late night for me. I haven't been in for a while as I have just been busy and also She Who Must Be Obeyed has been on the computer most evenings so no Diner for me.

Anyway we are in our second week of above normal temps here in Winterpeg and that means highs of about -3 or 4 C which is close to 10 above normal. Saw a university student in shorts at the crosswalk tonight after I picked up my wife from work. It also means the roads have been very messy and I no longer can tell what colour my car is. Perhaps I'll treat it to a wash tomorrow.

Had to take a half day holiday last Friday so I could get to the 2 LHS's as there isn't time on weekends. I had a great afternoon and picked up an Intermountain F7 in CN green and yellow. Taking holidays to visit an LHS isn't a big deal for me as I get 6 weeks holidays which is a plus for working at the same place for over 25 years. I also found an IHC interior for a RPO that I had been looking for and it was on sale for only 6 bucks. Can't get them any longer what with the demise of IHC. In spite of being so busy, I did manage to get that sound decoder installed in my PK2 0-8-0. It was easy to put but don't ask me about headlights suffice it to say that I installed lights 4 times.

PC, glad to hear your wife is doing well after surgery. 

Jeff, good news on your foot wound. It was a little worisome at Christmas. 

Little Pippa is doing much better now and she has now learned to ring the bell to go outside from Robbie. Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Well it is definitely past my bedtime so good night all.

CN Charlie

[AmanaMedic]

Good Evening, Chloe? Did somebody mention toast??? I'll take a stack, please 'n thank-you...sugar and cinaminonononimum would be just fine...with a RBF to chase it down.

First, TBDANNY: Nice to meet you, have a seat, make yourself at home. Care for some toast?

SAM: Which elevator were you referring to? Actually...doesn't really matter, I don't have anything but the pics. I haven't been back THAT way since Christmas break of 2002. Kinda sad really, THAT's my "go hide from the world" place... Both are rather small, for point of reference, I think the Campbell's wood elevator is probably significantly bigger than the one at Flush (the one surrounded by all the trees), and the St. George one "might" fill one 100 ton grain hopper on a good day.

I discovered I don't even have a pic of the St. George depot...I coulda/woulda SWORE I shot it too. At one time, I had scale drawings of the Post Office/telephone office/general store/bar/antique store/storage unit THAT once sat caty-whampus from the church. My Granpa owned it for awhile, then Eldon had it. Now it sits in a recreated villiage in a park in Wamego.

JIM: Welp, the chickens maybe didn't hatch, but eggs were sure incubating...the ROW had been graded, and the town was platted (?), plotted (?), heck...it was all laid-out for streets, commercial district, residential blocks, etc. It just never came to fruition beyond what you saw. I think the eggs got scrambled. My Dad has an old book "100 Years in Rock Creek Valley" which covers the history of the town/surrounding area, the first settlers (my ancestors), and has a map of what Flush was supposed to look like. One layout ideer I've had for many, many years, is/was to model Flush as-if the RR had made it.

I revisit this ideer from time to time...with the thought THAT the UP woulda bought-out the little independent line, then probably abandoned it in the late 70s/early 80s, and THAT a new short-line (possibly funded by the many wheat growers in the area) would've come along and resuscitated it...much like the Iowa Northern Ry (formed when a bunch of farmers banded together and bought-up an abandoned Rock Island line between Cedar Rapids and Manly).

But then I look at all the CNW stuff.........

PHILLIP: GLAD Mrs. PC is doing well! As for hospital food...I ate more of it as a paramedic student doing clinical rotations in the ER than I ever did as a hospital employee (hospital based ambulance services). Not because it was so lousy... St. Luke's in Cedar Rapids made a decent cheeseburger... but because I worked evening and overnight shifts...after the small-town community hospital vomitoriums had closed-down for the day. In Creston, I discovered THAT anytime we'd try to have real food... the more I was looking forward to eating, the more business we'd get. We had a large charcoal grill out back of the ER. Whenver Arnie (partner) and I would fire THAT mother up...it was just like lighting the bat signal: every wannabee patient in Union County would show up at my ER door.

Steak just ain't 'sposed to crunch...

***EDIT*** I did take issue with the Dietary Staff at St. Luke's once... Following the Dec. '96 fire engine rollover, after my jaws were wired shut, I was on...a "liquid diet." Go figure.

I was served: mashed potatoes, pudding, apple sauce, and ice cream.

They caught on after a day or two... then it was some kind of, I think...beef broth...and coffee. I couldn't really tell you which one was which.

JEFF, JIM, SAM: THAT monument is really cool...but a few things are missing: a BIG U.S. flag, and flags for all 5 branches. Sorry, I got to meet seven United States Marines this evening...feeling kinda patriotic. The Cedar Rapids Recruiting Station presented a banner (with team photo on it) to the Clear Creek Amana high school softball team for winning the state championship. The guys (all Sgt's, with lots of stripes, hash marks, and medals) showed up in the dress blues. Then, stayed for the basketball game, cheering for the Clippers (home team).

Class.

Pure class.

Too bad the girls lost...again (winless this season).

Well, tomorrow looks like it'll be...interesting, to say the least. We're expecting freezing rain and/or sleet overnight, and through the day and night tomorrow. I'm supposed to cover the Clear Creek Amana school board meeting tomorrow night. I am hoping and yes...praying...THAT they postpone it. THAT might cover it for me (she's much closer than I), BUT if anything were to happen to her, I'd be wracked with guilt (the "it shoulda been me" syndrome). Loving Wife is contemplating taking a vacation day...or working from home.

Have a good night, and a SAFE tomorrow...best wishes to all in need.

Chris

[tbdanny]

Thank you all for your warm welcome.  I think I'm going to enjoy it here.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

AmanaMedic

JEFF, JIM, SAM: THAT monument is really cool...but a few things are missing: a BIG U.S. flag, and flags for all 5 branches.

I don't want the monument to be a big overpowering affair, just a part of the park. Simple, unobtrusive. There's one of those big multi wall affairs in Leesville and it stands out like a sore thumb.

[LSWrr]

Good morning all,

  Last night I finished removing the rubber ballast from the roundhouse area.  Now I need to figure out how to attach the turntable motor to the turntable.  The turntable has a brass tube and the motor has a small diameter steel shaft.  Tonight we are heading over to one of the MRR Club members to run trains on his layout.



Sam, electronics have a very small mark-up.  Typically the discount is only $10 to $20 and it would cost about $18 to ship it to you.  I would watch the sales flyer maybe you can get a better deal.  I know the Digitrax radio throttles are running about $110.00.



Jim, when I built mine I assumed I would still be on active duty and would be moving every 4 years.  Without knowing what situation I would be moving to next I only made the tables 4’ long.  If I had to do it over I would have made the tables 6’ to 8’ long.



Jeff, that’s good news about almost healed.  Still have the wound vac?

Welcome aboard Danny!

[jeffrey-wimberly]

LSWrr

Jeff, that’s good news about almost healed.  Still have the wound vac?

Yeah, I still have to wear that parasite. Maybe only a couple of more weeks. I'll be happy to get rid of it.

[LSWrr]

Jeff, I can't imagine wearing that device for more than a few days.  Good to hear it's going away.

Trainman Sam;  Looks like about $159 everywhere I look. 

http://www.litchfieldstation.com/xcart/product.php?productid=2450095&cat=13&page=1



http://store.standardhobby.com/product_info.php?cPath=25_34_134&products_id=2379&osCsid=e5127a287f29a50bc54245fcfe1ddead



http://www.tonystrains.com/products/digitrax_stsets.htm

 

[pcarrell]

I see in all the hustle and bustle yesterday I missed a newcommer......

Danny!

I think you'll find that most of us are just some nice, regular folks.  .......Once you get to know us.........

[jeffrey-wimberly]

 Good morning. It's 61 and cloudy. The high will be about 70 with a 50% chance of thunderstorms.

Despite yesterdays mad running around from doctor to doctor (maybe I should start charging for mileage) I still got a little work done on clearing the layout. Actually I had just started on clearing a section when my father called (from work). He wanted me to go down and unload groceries from my mothers car. I went over, got the tractor and trailer out, drove it over to the car and loaded up then drove the groceries over to the house. That sure cut down on the amount of walking I'd have to do. The long trips between the house and car had been eliminated so it was just a few very short trips between the front door and the kitchen. She got a cell phone also. It's one of those slide open affairs so the keypad is covered when not in use. We both went through the manual cover to cover to find out how to set up the voicemail on it. There was plenty about how to access voicemail messages but there was nothing on how to make a greeting message or how to activate the voicemail. Then, down at the bottom of the last page was a notice in tiny print saying that the voicemail function had to be activated by the supplier. They could have put that in the voicemail section. The Home Health nurse should be coming around today to reattach the wound vacuum. The doc says I only have to use it for another couple of weeks.

[blownout cylinder]

Good Morning---

We actually will see a strange yellowish orb in the sky today. It will be about 0C for our high as well

Got some more paperwork to shovel into the 'pooter today. I might even get some time to scan a couple of photo albums worth of old pix of downtown scenes into the 'pooter!

DANNY!!!

Chloe, I'll have a coffee and toast with jam please---I'll be at the RC checking out these old MRR mags

 

[GMTRacing]

Good Morning All,

    27F and on our way to a high in the 40's. Lots of black ice on the drive in as well this morning as it drizzled a bit last night. Hopefully the sun will make an appearance today.

   Museum last night and we were so inspired by Jeffs' ferro equine archeology that we cleaned and sorted under the HO and N layouts. Getting ready for the Big E train show the end of the month (Dick - Young Building table 99 is where we'll be based if you attend).

   In the boxes of donated stuff we had tons of box cars that need work so I snagged them to see what can be done. I have a bunch of cheap stuff with reasonable paint but lousy undercarraiges (light weight plastic trucks and wheels, talgo horn hooks, etc). It looks like the best way to make some of them usable will be to replace the entire floor, frame and running gear so i will embark on a search for cast metal 40 and 50 foot floors with frames. If i can find those it'll be easy to upgrade the rest. If I can't find cast metal frames it might be feasible to make a mold and cast my own but I'm not sure I'm that ambitious. Any ideas out there or am I tilting with windmills again?

PC - glad mrs. PC is doing well and no I didn't stop by for a bite - hospital gourmet sounds a lot like government intelligence agency or not,  I think I'll take my meals here.

Welcome TBD (actually how would you prefer to be addressed?) Besides Der we also have Keith, Sawyer and Rob who is conflicted and doing both iNvisible and Horribly Oversized scales. I volunteer at the Danbury Railway Museum and end up doing N HO O and G stuff as we have all those displays so I'm totally confused most of the time  

Well, time to get back at it here. More bits to make for the Theodore, then on to the wiring jobs. CUL, J.R.

[Robby P.]

 Good morning.  Its going to be a nice sunny day.

 Got my new computer yesterday, and I might have to return it.  It won't use my wireless internet.  The computer came with windows 7, and the internet is only made for windows XP.  Plus I forgot FedEx gives a discount for Dell.  The internet will work if its plug right into the computer thou.   The problem with that is, that the internet is down stairs.  So I will have to call Dell and see what I need to do.

 Worked on the layot some yesterday.  Hopefulyy I can some more later this morning.  

 Phillip....I ment to say something yesterday.  I'm glad everything went well. 

  Danny!!!

[Anonymous]

 Good Afternoon,

Flo, make that coffee and buttered toast for me - too early in the day for a bigger meal. Thank you - I´ll be at the RC.

A big  to Down Under, TBDanny! We now span the world - great to have you with us! Tell us a little about your model railroading interests, not that I am overly curious

Phillip - I am glad that all went well with the Missus - my  for a speedy recovery!

Jeff - sorry for mistaking your memorial for a tombstone - maybe it is just my dark thoughts...

Not much going on on my side of the Big Pond - the weather is just awful, the ugly side of winter.  I am suffering from a bad case of analysis paralysis on my layout plans - need to go more into operation than just looks. Paul from Holland is giving me a lot of help in this, but maybe I have now too many good ideas - the darn thing gets bigger and bigger, at least in my dreams. I guess I should either take a break from planning or just find a way to start building it - a little difficult, as my CFO has not yet appropriated the funding of this venue.

There is a nice smell coming from the kitchen - Petra has just made this:

 

Thought I share it with the chow hounds in here ... 

You all have a good day!

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Wow! Ulrich, thanks to Petra! Yes, I'll have a piece of her scrumptious goody!

Barry ... I had my piece before you arrive and ate the rest of it!

TBDANNY ....... Welcome... !!!!

JimCG .... Regarding the St. Louis Museum. Yes, I saw plent of steam there. There were many steam locos. I remember the Sana Fe 2-10-4, the NYC 4-8-2, and the UP Big Boy. You can see a small part of the Big Boy's tender if you look above the nose of the Aerotrain loco in the photo.

 

 

[der5997]

Goodmorning Diners. Started this yesterday afternoon (instead of getting in more firewood - a mistake as it's snowing and blowing today!) but ran out of day anyway -  I'll have a JR Regular and an oatmeal cookie please Zoe, over at the RC..

Trying to find out why a brand new Digitrax decoder won't even turn on the lights in a loco. There's continuity from the wheels to where the power is meant to be picked up by the decoder - but nothing happens. So, I'm finally building a test rig to check decoders. I know I have an old HO loco motor, but don't know if all the N decoders I want to be able to test will run it. So...long hunt in the electronics box yielded two N motors one of which should do. I've got to figure out lights for testing hardwire decoders, but have that nailed (I hope) with these Atlas GP lightboards   I'll have to solder them together so there's a common terminal for "Blue" wires and separate terminals for "White" and  "Yellow". I've DC tested and mounted the N motor on a hinge, so I can get at the brush caps to solder on terminals for the "Orange" and "Grey" wire jumpers from the decoders (or their equivalent on drop-ins), or do other service as may be needed. I've also a mess of old Radio Shack alligator clip leads of questionable continuity to re-solder, probably shorten some for this project, while I'm at it.

CapeJim:

Chris - thanks for the photos of the 'boneyard'. From the photo of the town, I'm guessing that Flush, Kansas (sounds like an Ohio Chamber of Commerce comment...chuckle.. ) isn't out in the great flatland of Kansas - they even have a small ridge outside of town! As for locating the cemetery across from the church, the one idea I had for where the church could be located, has across the road from it... the aisle! Think it might be hard to fit the cemetery there, unless I widened that section (which is about two feet as is). The widest part of my layout (guessing on the 11' X 11' size) will be about 3' (and that'll be where the turntable, roundhouse and main yard will be located). I'll keep fiddlin' with the plans for now.

  Just move the layout to rural Nova Scotia. Few of our churches have graveyards close by. The usual practice seems to be that a conveniently donated parcel of land is used - regardless of where the church building may be. There is generally a sign, often a wrought iron arch over the entrance, saying which group (Baptist, etc.- or Congregation , St. Peter's, etc,- or Community, Riverside, etc. ) uses it. Not infrequently there is a start date included like 1845 ) Does that free up you plans? LOL

"Teffy's rule"

...I was thinking of that as I was writing whatever it was I did. Here's the rule  as dropped off by Teffy as a gift to the host of layouts he visited.

 Hey, guys - I guess the season is over, since Lee took his lights down!  

...that and the fact I'm now all out of Kris' Christmas chocolates!

PC: Good to hear that the surgery went well. Here's praying for a "no complications" recovery, and that this does what your wife wants it to.

OK, HOSPITAL FOOD FOR EVERYONE!!!!!! 

Actually I've known some hospitals where the cafeteria food at any rate was quite good. (Can't speak for the food on the wards, as that is usually a different kettle of indifferent fish LOL....and Ray I can recommend the liver at the Sheet Harbour Motel Restaurant - onions and mashed potatoes of course, Flip)!

Sam:

Spanish on the other hand was way easier. ¡Muy facil!
¡El examen de Espanol fuy muy facil, no es dificil! <--- That's epic, right there! Didn't even need a translator to do that

...nor to read it, given your intro! (I could almost hear the accent! LOL.

Adieu, a domain!

...or " A la prochaine" which I've sort of picked up from TV here as = " ‘til the next time"

Tbdanny: to the Diner. My Qlock tells me you first posted about mid-afternoon your time Wednesday 20^th. Am I close?   Not Aussie railways then? N Scale has a dedicated if miss-understood following in the Diner, as I expect you've gathered. CapeJim somewhat over-rates my building abilities - I've never even thought about scratch building a working loco, for instance, especially in N!

BTW, is your Sci-fi "hardcore science" - such as Star Trek might be classified, or more into the fantasy thing? Just curious as our daughter writes SF a bit aimed at the young adult market, and it tends more to a mixture - spacecraft / empires; but with dragon under or over tones, if you get my drift. Hasn't brought any project to a fully edited for state for publication...we'll see.

Lee:

Now I need to figure out how to attach the turntable motor to the turntable.  The turntable has a brass tube and the motor has a small diameter steel shaft. 

...how about the "handyman's secret weapon" - Duct Tape? Seriously though, I'd be thinking about a sleeve of some tape, probably masking tape, on the motor shaft to force fit into the brass tube on the turntable. The revs are hardly going to strip it, and it's adjustable in terms of diameter, just wind on or unwind tape until the fit is good and tight.

Ulrich:  That pie thing looks some good!  What is it?

Better get going, things to do, as well as building that test bench. TTFN.

 

 

[howmus]

Mornin' Everyone!

Flo I'll have a big bowl of oatmeal with brown sugar, and a cup of dark roast coffee in a R&GV Mug.  Oh, and maybe a small slice of what Ulrich brought in this morning.....  Maybe a large slice instead.....

Lee Empire Northern has the Zepher for $149.  Tim is also a great guy to do business with and only charges his cost for shipping.  (Disclaimer I am only a satisfied customer of Empire Northern.  I receive no commission or fee from him.  I did teach music to his sister and his younger brother though........) 

  TBDanny!  Be sure to send photos of your layout to us.  We can always turn them right side up............  You'll find we are a great bunch of loonies here and are a lot of fun to hang around with, so sit down and enjoy a cup of coffee with us.

I have way to much things that need to get done here today.  I have a session with Troop 1 (Handicapped Boy Scout Troop) to wo*k on the Railroading Merit Badge tomorrow night and I have no idea what I am going to do with them yet.  So THAT is the priority for today.  I also have to get the first place Art and Poetry scanned, photographed, and down to the local paper this afternoon.  Maybe I will even walk through the layout rooms on my way to finishing some laundry.  Who knows?

Philip sounds like your wife is recovering nicely.  Prayers to you and yours!

Later!

73

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John -  believe it or not, that apple cake is called "Cape Breton Apple Cake" - Petra adds a shot of Calvados to the recipe, just to honor the French ancestry! It does taste heavenly, especially when paired up with a glass of Calvados and a coffee!