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

[GMTRacing]

Flip,

   We're off to West Palm Beach International Raceway the first weekend in Feb Then home and back for Sebring twice, the 4th of March and 17th of March (the 12 hour weekend). J.R.

[fec153]

O.K., that 'plains it . Nuff said.         Hope everyones weather getting better. We have warmed up to almost 80. No snowballs being tossed from catapults. .

J.R. - Was next to Cherry, mint showroom condition 67 Dodge coupe while in traffic. Drooled. When and where in Fla. next??

Flip

 

 

 

 

[howmus]

Mornin' everyone!

Zoe I'll have a nice hot bowl of oatmeal with brown sugar and pot of dark raost coffee in a FGLK mug if you please.  I'll be at the Rivet counter for a bit.

Rather nice day outside here in the Finger Lakes.  Currently 25°F with a predicted high of 35°F with mostly sunny as well....  The "January Thaw" is amongst us!  Only a few small pile of the white stuff left for the moment.  Of course THAT usually means a blizzard should be coming shortly....

blownout cylinder

Anything to do with Silver Pilot got deleted/edited out-----

 

Barry got it right.  I also had one of my posts deleted in the clean up.  The Moderators did a preemptive strike after the gentleman declared war.......... Actually I am glad the moderators stepped in early and got us away from the destruction.......  The waitresses have enough problems keeping the place clean with all the pie catapults.......

I have to finish scanning and photographing the winner of the MLK Art & Poetry contest today and get the entries ready to return to the schools.  I also hope to actually figure out how to use the Pliobond to glue the track to the ties.  I have used Goo for THAT purpose way back when.  I'm hoping the process is basically the same. Several people have told they use the stuff, but not HOW to use it.......  Then I can finish the Bridge to Nowhere, NY and get some photos of it for WPF.

Better get started.  Later!

73

[TMarsh]

Good Morning. Scrambled eggs, hash browns and some salsa covering please. Oh yeah, and some coffee. Thanks

Welp, supposed to get to 48F today. But rainy. Oh well, I'll take it. I HOPE to get some RR work in today, but with the way Brenda is moving around I get this un nerving feeling she has plans and I'm gonna get involved.

Hello Steve. Nice to meet you I'm one of the new guys since you‘ve been in.

Flip- Well according to the mods last time I was at the woodshed, as J.R. accurately puts it, I also had a couple of posts removed or edited. I was told even though what I said was not over the top it referred heavily to or was in direct response to the original offensive post ( someone elses) that was removed. Since the posting or portion of the posting was only referring to the removed post, they removed my reference as they said it made little sense without the referred to post and besides without the removed offensive post, made it sound like I was digging at them and since that wasn't the case, they removed mine also. I don't recall what all was removed this time, I'm sure I missed one or two, but for my couple of trips to the woodshed, I have to admit the mods were right. I only assume they made the right choice this time based on my experiences so far. Well, except for my free lifetime subscription decision they made.

Better get a move on.

Have a Great Day!!!

[blownout cylinder]

fec153

Nah-not you. Something I wrote, on page 41, referring to Silver Pilot. I think I wrote- Tarnished Silver.  I don't remember excactly what but do know nothing nasty or vulgar.

Flip

 

Anything to do with Silver Pilot got deleted/edited out-----

I just finished off what was left on mine after the deed was done---

[fec153]

Nah-not you. Something I wrote, on page 41, referring to Silver Pilot. I think I wrote- Tarnished Silver.  I don't remember excactly what but do know nothing nasty or vulgar.

Flip

 

[fec153]

'Mornin' Jeff.  Tsk , tsk. Do I see DIRTY plastic wheels under that flatcar?  For shame!       lol

Glad your foot getting better. Do you know what was deleted?

Flip

 

[Blazzin]

fec153

Can anyone p.m. me and tell what comment/s were deleted and why?    And, pray tell, what happened to our FIRST Amendment Right???

Flip

 

  It must have been mine.  Having Lunch with Canadians.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

 Good morning. It's 60 and cloudy. The high will be 70 and there's talk of a 50% chance of rain today.

The Home Health nurse will be coming around later this morning to change my wound vacuum dressing. Other than that I really have nothing else planned other than my usual day to day activities (yes, there are things I don't tell you about) and maybe a bit of layout work if I get the chance.

[fec153]

Good afternoon Steve.Welcome back in. Glad we stayed in touch. Told you I have been forwarding your pixs. The guys enjoyed them.  Thanks for the coffee and almond danish.  See you later.

Flip

 

[steveblackledge]

Hello Everyone

Not been in for ages, been sort of busy with one thing and another. The trains are STILL packed away, almost two years has passed since thinking we would be off to live in the land of New Zealand, maybe this year. I lost my job last Feburary from Paccar, along with thousands of other lost souls i have been tring my best to get another job and sell the house. In October i started my new career as a fire fighter, it's not full time but on a call out system and you get a basic annual pay of around $9000 which does NOT go very far in not so great britain.

 As i have not got the drinks in for a year, it's my round folks  

[fec153]

Can anyone p.m. me and tell what comment/s were deleted and why?    And, pray tell, what happened to our FIRST Amendment Right???

Flip

 

[wetidlerjr]

Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.

[GMTRacing]

Good Morning All,

 Back in the shop to w.rk on the Chevron B-17 (single seat formula B 1970 vintage twin cam Ford power). I'll have a regular to go please - already been to breakfast with the CFO so just the coffee will do.

   Ulrich - I can relate to what happened to you. We have the same deal here with small and medium sized business getting hammered while the high fliers get relief and tax money so they can continue their lifestyle unaffected. They then wonder why there is so much resentment against them as we stagger under increased taxes and local budget cuts while the "bigs" hand out multi million dollar bonuses to the very people who caused all this misery. It really has degenerated to the point where if you don't have millions and lobbyists you simply don't get heard. I'd best get off my soapbox before I get sent back to the woodshed or get the Comment deleted badge again.

16F just now with a high that won't break 40 today. At least it's a good day to stay inside.

Danny - the few shays and climax engines I've seen were in Ca and didn't have windows - guess it never rained there. Here in the northeast most cabs have windows just to keep a little comfy in the dead of winter. I'm sure someone has done more and better research than my poor old memory.

   Time to get out in the shop and pick up tools.   Cul, J.R.

[blownout cylinder]

**sniffle sniffle--HAAAASSSSSHHHINSKI!!!!----sniff---coff coff---hack---HONK!!!**

Good Bordig

It's sdod fund whend one has a code---**sniff--HONK!!!** I've been doig the toddy with the quilt thig for a few hours ad it's slowly workig ids way out. Hobefully I should be sebi-readable/coherend by todight --- **sniffle snurfle -- HAAASSSHHHINSKI!!!---snorfle coff coff--HONK!!**

We are still getting sun this morning but we are suppposed to see the rain moving in by tomorrow. Sheeesh. See what happens when you leave the italics on. Today we are going up to 3C then tomorrow up to 10C!!!! ---of course---in the rain

Today I'll be all bundled ub in my quilt and be sweatig this stupid code out with the rum toddies----I hobe this goes away ** HHAAAASSSHHINSKI!!!!---HONK!!!**

Chloe, I'll have a large coffee and some toast with jam please---I'm goig to the other corder bood and hobefully not be sneeezig so much---** coff coff gack hack---sniffle sniffle--HONK!!!**

[Anonymous]

 Yaaawn!

Good Morning Everyone,

what a night! Didn´t sleep more than 2 hours and now I am feeling like having been quartered...

Zoe, make that a bucket full of cafe au lait for me, croissants, butter and two kinds of jam, thank you. I´ll be in the corner booth, trying not to fall asleep again.

Who started to talk about math in here? I just hated it - had to do the whole lot, deep down into the guts of calculus. The teacher was a (expletive, deleted) who later got sacked! I graduated from high school 35 years ago and it is still a nightmare for me!

Sam - my philosophy teacher was like your Spanish teacher - just soooo cute! She must have been not older than 24 and we all fell in love with her. Co-education did not exist in those days in Germany, so I was on an all boys school. That lady teacher passed her teaching exam in our class with a straight A++!

Lee - parts for Rivarossi US locos are hard to get here as well. Rivarossi is a brand which hardly a LHS stocks. US prototype equipment is only available via mail order shops and you don´t want to know the prices for spare parts.

Danny - our government is pumping billions of Euros into dead banks and big companies, but ignore the fact, that the majority of jobs are within the medium-sized businesses. This is, where the credit crunch hits the hardest, as the banks are still overly restrictive in their lending policy. The financial crisis is now starting to reach the job market and we expect the number of unemployed people to skyrocket this year.

My own business was already a victim of the credit crunch, as my bank did not anymore honor the financing agreement we had. A clear breach of contract, but I don´t have the 2 million Euros it will cost to sue them. In the process of this, I had to close down my operation and did not only lose my source of income, but also my "worldly" possessions. My wife Petra and I are now living off social security, which pays only for a pretty meager life. As someone thought, that, at the age of 53, I am not able to write up a CV and turn in a proper job-application, I was made to participate in the training I call the GULAG. If I don´t go there, they will reduce my allowance.

Aside from attending the GULAG, I am working on a re-start of my business, though on a much smaller basis. But definitively not in Germany - no, Sir!

Have a good weekend!

[Trainman Sam]

ns3010

And have fun deadheading from Morrisville to be in NYP that early! Whaddya mean there's no revenue EBs that late...
Seems like they're having you do a week out of almost all the major yards. They're not making you do a week out of County as well?

 

They have Revenue trains that late, just this Xtrain is the last "train" I can catch to get to work on time without having to leave three hours early... 

Thankfully, the LETP 09-02 (Locomotive Engineer Training Program 09= year 02= 2nd group) class behind us is doing their hostling (light engine, non-passenger carrying moves) while we are on these asssignments, they get to deal with County Yard, NOT US!!!

Alrighty, back to my coffee IV drip, may I have a refill bag please?  Thanks Chloe...

[AmanaMedic]

*Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwn*

Geesh! A fellow takes a little snooze in a back corner booth (I can see why Mr. Duke is always zonked back there....very peaceful, comfy....), and I wake up to hear everybody and their cousin talking about...MATH !!!!! One of THE most dreaded words in my vocabulary!!!!!!!!!

Algebra?? I got lost after FOIL and I don't even remember what to do with THAT!

Geometry?? 45, 45, 90 and 30, 60, 90 is all I remember of THAT!!! Isosolees? THAT's either a triangle or an ancient Greek philosopher...maybe both???

Calculus? Trigonometry?? Satan himself must've come up with THAT set of evil horrors!!!!!!

It's the darndest thing. IF I don't like something, I just can't learn it for nothing. IF I like it, I'll soak it up like a sponge, usually.

Math and I have always had epic battles...and math won. The toughest part of paramedic school, for me, was figuring drug doseage and IV drip-rates. It was a formula based thing with: fractions, cross-cancelling, converting metrics to normal; administering "x" number of milligrams per kilogram of body weight... It frankly scared the bejeebers out of me! Especially when the instructors all kept saying "missing a decimal point CAN kill the patient" The doseage and drip-rate quiz was a must-pass with 100% deal. If you didn't, you didn't advance until you did. I missed it on the first shot on a dopamine drip formula (which had some additional fractions to factor in with the others, all over something else...). I had the layout right, just missed a number somewhere in the middle of it. Nailed it on the second try...and took great appreciation of the "dopamine drip doseage charts" that were laminated and mounted on the wall in the ambulances.

Also, I must've gone to the wrong schools....I sure never had a teacher in high school (or college) THAT would've provoked the kind of responses you guys were talkin' 'bout!!!!!

VINCENT: Glad you survived your Wile E. Coyote moment! As for Facebook and friending people... I graduated in '87. By 1990, I'd lost track of everybody I went to high school (many went back as far as grade school, even kindergarten) with. I reluctently was dragged onto Facebook last year...I "re-connected" with a lot of people. The motto of Facebook should be "where your past meets more of your past, and it all collides with your present." I had former students, former classmates, people I'd worked with at a variety of places all there in one webpage. I was surprised to see just how many of them had the same poly-ticks as me . But....even THAT got old fast. I finally pulled the plug, turned out the lights, locked the door and closed my little Facebook world. Honestly, I don't miss it at all.

I still say "social media" is what you get if you ain't careful who yer gettin' "social" with.

"I'm sorry Mr. Schlebotnik, but it appears you've got social media about your bits..."

SAM: I'm a-guessin' THAT the .pdf made it to ya OK.... and yes..."fortress of solitude" it is!

I'ma gonna grab a hot fudge sundae...and hang out at the RC for a spell, might go back to snoozin' in the back. Real nice back there, real nice.

Chris

 

[TMarsh]

AHEM!!!(cough,cough, err.... um...) To our younger students, of whom (or is it who) I forgot about the ages, forget what you THINK you may have heard said about certain young attractive teachers. Pay attention to your books and what is written on the boards and not who's erasing them, er I mean what's going on around you.

GMTRacing

Now that we've all been to the woodshed is it safe to return?

 

Haaaaaa hahahahahahahah (long inhale)Haaaaaaaaahahahahaha hahaha (long inhale) HA! I didn't get smacked. OUCH OUCH! OUCH! Chloe! What gives! OW! OW! OooooooW!

Prayers for those in need.

 

[ns3010]

Evening all. Janie, I'll take an RBF, thanks.

Congrats, Sam, on passing! And have fun deadheading from Morrisville to be in NYP that early! Whaddya mean there's no revenue EBs that late...
Seems like they're having you do a week out of almost all the major yards. They're not making you do a week out of County as well?

Hmm, it seems like we're talking about math. Algebra is kinda difficult. We should be starting Trig soon, even though I have no clue what it is (Innt that great, I signed up for a class, and don't even know what it is!)
I liked Geometry last year, except for the proofs. That was the biggest PITA of my life...

I gotta go. Night!

[blownout cylinder]

TMarsh

I always liked math. Especially when my teacher, a very attractive lady, would erase the blackboards. That's when physics came in. Gravity and the opposing force required to reach the high spots while wiping the board, resulted in a fluctuating response from well proportioned Gluteus Maximi. I also took Biology.

I think I'll sit down at the RC and reflect on her prototypes.

　

I remember a certain Chemistry teacher we had for both 10 and 11 who was like that....

I had very good marks in those classes too, gee, must've been paying more attention then---

 

[GMTRacing]

Good Evening All,

    Now that we've all been to the woodshed is it safe to return? I'd like a RBF and a slice of apple pie ala-mode please. Long day at w..k but productive in the long run. I had pretty much destroyed the wing mount I'd spent all day on in the last few minutes of yesterday. Started over today and had a much better result and also ended up with a perfectly good new fixture board.

   Tomorrow we need to put a full day in getting the Chevron B-17 back up to schedule as it needs to leave in about a week. Still learning how to use the laptop I take on the road - have now learned how to leave the radio feature on while surfing and responding - and yes my favorite band was playing when I tuned in.

   Vincent - I feel your pain as in been there, done that. Always better to try to brace the wrench head with one hand while pulling the wrench towards you. Of course the car design sometimes thwarts you. Hope the rotor survived the hit ok.

   Busy, busy Jeff - nice w.rk. I did get to spend a few minutes fixing up some freight cars with decent wheelsets and Kaydee couplers for the after school program. We had a batch of donated stock with horn hooks and plastic wheels. Still need to do more and weigh them as well. I do have a life time supply of used tape a weight which helps keep the weight low better than nuts and washers.

   My Audi crew got back from Ohio where they had gone to sort through available used parts and got to visit a huge S scale multi level club layout Even took some pics to show me bless their hearts.

  I see my order is up - think I'll just hang here a while.  J.R.

Ray - yes I've used the pliobond (or goo or other rubber cement) method and it works well if the rail is close to the right shape. If it's sprung it will likely spring back out of the way. Hope that helps.

[Trainman Sam]

Barry- I hope you start feeling better... Weekends are not to be spent sick! (Although that seems to be the way with me too... Grrr)

Maintenance??? This weekend??? How am I supposed to stay awake if my favorite website is closed... where am I going to sleep, if not in the diner??? LOL  We shall see, shan't we!?!

Todd- I loved 10th grade Spanish2 for a very similar reason... She was awesomely gorgeous! Also first year teacher, which meant she was only 22-25years old (but didn't look a day over 19, which we were all shocked that she was our teacher when she walked into the classroom. but THAT is another story)  I asked her to my senior prom, believe it or not!  (she blushed BIG time, but had to refuse...)

Ray- I once overheated the rail, fused it to the tie, WAY out of gauge... so, if you do that method, keep checking the gauge of the rail...

Thanks again for all the support while I am training, I sure appreciate the "positive energy" coming my way!

Chloe, may I have a GIANT cup of coffee with an IV drip?  I have to get into this sleep habit for my shifts this week... going from sleeping at night, to working from 2am is going to be interesting!  I'll be sleep reading at the RC for a while... seems someone is in the corner booth (or now jokingly refered to as the "fortress of solitude" Lol)

[howmus]

 Evening folks!

Flo just a decafe to calm my nerves...  I'll be somewhere away from where Barry is coughing and hacking.  Last thing I need is to get sick!

Just spend a little over an hour trying to get my G5 to connect to the Mac Mini....  Grrrrrr!  The Mac Mini can see and connect to the G5.  No problem.   Ends up I just needed to tell the mini to allow other computers on the network to connect to it.   Had a real Duh! moment.

I am now keeping a copy of SOFTRACK Inventory backed up on my main computer every time I make some changes, hence the need to connect them.  Got the info for a dozen or so cars typed in tonight.

I had little problem with math in HS, but hated my Algebra and Trig teacher with a passion (same guy).  My Geometry teacher was a sweet, kind older teacher who everyone loved.  She was also knew the subjects!  Brilliant teacher and a wonderful lady!  I got a 96 on the NYS Regents in Trig just to spite the jerk we had for a teacher.  He finally asked for a second leave of absence in 3 years, board of education said fine take it and don't come back (he was violating policy by taking the second within that time period.  My Dad was on the School Board at the time and was thrilled to see him go........  Today he would have been brought up on charges and probably landed in jail for some of the things he said to students (more than a bit crude and vulgar!)

I was told by a MMR friend to use Pliobond to glue handlaid track down to the ties.  Got a bottle of the stuff.  He also told me his method wich involved letting the glue partially dry before putting the track in place.  Then using a soldering iron on the track to fix the rail firmly to the ties.  have any of you used this method?  I would like step by step directions if any of you have done it this way.

Hope you are all having a good evening!

73

[TMarsh]

Say, I forgot to sya CONGRATULATIONS SAM!!!! Keep it up Hoss, we're pullin' for ya!

Also I noticed a few of "comment removed" 's and a couple of missing uh... shall we say...spills. A special thanks to the mods for stopping by and cleaning up the mess. 

[TMarsh]

Howdy, RBF please. And a piece of Chess Pie.

Just got back from taking a few things to Goodwill from Mom's house and seeing about getting rid of some Beauty shop things. Now I'm tired for some reason.

Jeff- Thanks for the heads up about the maintenance. Hopefully I won't sign out and be locked out this time like I was the last.

I always liked math. Especially when my teacher, a very attractive lady, would erase the blackboards. That's when physics came in. Gravity and the opposing force required to reach the high spots while wiping the board, resulted in a fluctuating response from well proportioned Gluteus Maximi. I also took Biology.

I think I'll sit down at the RC and reflect on her prototypes.

　

　

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Packer

Algebra was (and still is) quite easy to me. However when I looked at one trigonometry problem and my head starting hurting. It may come easy once I figure out how to do it.

It's very easy for some. Math was never my strong suit.

[Packer]

Algebra was (and still is) quite easy to me. However when I looked at one trigonometry problem and my head starting hurting. It may come easy once I figure out how to do it.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

 Algebra was a pain in the butt and trigonometry was a major pain in the neck.

[fec153]

what parts in particular?  or just anything?

Flip

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