Ray- As long as the onions were sauteed properly and the mashed 'taters aren't lumpy
Flip
pcarrellWell, the doc just came out and let me know that all went well! Thanks for the prayers! Now for a speedy recovery! EDIT: Guess the foods on me this morning! OK, HOSPITAL FOOD FOR EVERYONE!!!!!! C'mon, don't be bashful!
Well, the doc just came out and let me know that all went well! Thanks for the prayers!
Now for a speedy recovery!
EDIT: Guess the foods on me this morning!
OK, HOSPITAL FOOD FOR EVERYONE!!!!!!
C'mon, don't be bashful!
Mornin' again people!
No nothing for me Flo..... Yes I brought my own lunch today.... No coffee, I hate the taste of bad coffee in a styrofoam cup.... Yes I know that Philip is buying, THAT is why I brought my own.... No, no nothing against you ladies cooking, you know I love your cooking, I heard it was being catered this afternoon by the Horsepiddle....!
Philip glad the surgery went well, prayers for her to have a painless and uneventful recovery and a better life because of it!
BTW, when my late wife was a student at Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, PA she told me that every time they called for the students to go see an autopsy, it was on a day that the cafeteria was serving Liver.......... Hmmmmmmmm?
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good morning All...Its a rerun of yesterday here cloudy,fog and 31...I'll have coffee and toast please...Thank You
PC..Your Wife is in my prayers...
I started a scatch build yesterday of a small yard office..got the walls cut out..You all have a good one...Jerry
Mornin' everyone!
What Flo? The dark roast coffee isn't made yet.......? Oh it will be ready in a bit. Good! I'll just hang around and see what is going on for abit while it drips then.
Philip just want you to know your wife and all of you are in my morning prayers. Hope the surgery is successful for her!!!
It is a very nice, pretty, white outside my window this morning. Yesterday was more brown and green after several days in the high 30's. Looks more like January out there now. Currently 30°F with a high around 33°F later. Sn*w flurries predicted off and on for most of the day.
Morning all, just got caught up on things here from Saturday night. The moment Amy got home, she kinda took over the laptop from me...
Chloe, I'll do a tall stack of buttermilk pancakes, and a tall glass of milk please ma'am.
The past two days have been kinda fun for me, Sunday was church, the grocery store and a big ole fat nothing at home. Yesterday was a whirlwind day of going to pick up Amy's bridesmaid dress (her youngest brother is getting hitched at the end of the month), then we went to the zoo up in Mongtomery. Heather got to ride her first "train", she loved it and I even had fun too, its been too long since we got to spend a real family day together. Today brings back the normal, w**k from 11:30-5:30, then Heather and Amy both have dance, then showers and ready for bedtime.....ahhh life, ain't it grand?!
Well, guess I should catch up on everything else that I've got to do before heading off to w**k....see y'all in a bit.
Philip- Our prayers are with you.
Flip [ the other Philip ]
Good Morning All!
I think it's cool, foggy, and dreary out, but I don't know for sure. I've been sitting in the hospital since 6am. Yup, you guessed it! Todays the big day! Surgery day! (It's like deja vu, ja vu, ja vu, ja vu.......) This time, it's the gastric bypass. The wife is nervous, but she wanted to go through with it, so they're doing it right now. Should be done in a little over an hour from now. This should make a huge difference in her life.
So, here I sit, in another waiting room. I'm like a veteran of these places! At least the place is comfortable, and they have public access computers. I hear the cafe isn't bad either. I'll have to check that out later.
Oh well, I'm gonna shove off for now.
I'll catch up with you all later!
Good morning. Its a drizzle, muggy mornin here in "southwestern" PA.
Worked on the layout some yesterday. Mostly focused on the middle table. I had a old Walthers "backdrop" building, and I cut it in half to make a smaller shipping company. Now I will have to go to the LHS and get some styrene. It turned out pretty good, well so far. I will probably work on the layout some more today.
The new computer should get here today. That will give me something to do. Goytta clean the computer room and get it setup.
Other than that, just a normal day.
Hope everybody has a good morning.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Barry the howling is because he marks everything he can down by 20% - 25% I ordered 2 new SDN144PS decoders from him and he only marked them up $1 from wholesale. So I'll owe him about $39 each. W's wants $50 each. These are going in my GE 44 ton locomotives. Those Digitrax throttles I bought; 2 used for $150. New they are $149 each. I bought new in the box kits: 1 Roundhouse rotory snow plow with tender, W's 50' express reffer, Accurail C&O drop end gondola, and a NYC 55-ton hopper for $25 (total for all 4 including tax) last night. Granted these were kits someone ordered and never picked up, but you can't beat the prices. Sorry he dosen't mail order. This is a good friend to keep, not to mention he is pretty cool.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good morning. It's 53 and cloudy. The high will be in the mid 60's and it will be partly partly. There's talk of thunderstorms coming in tonight.I didn't get much of a chance to get anything done on the layout yesterday due to life getting in the way. Today is going to be pretty much the same way. I have two doctors appointments today, the first at 8:30 for a general physical and the second at 11:30 for physical therapy. Fun, fun. I do have most of the junk cleared off the layout at this point. When I get back to the point that I can get under the layout I'll be able to get to the access holes and wipe down the tracks at the back and east and west sides of the layout. It wouldn't be much of a problem if I had a 7 foot reach but unfortunately I don't. Just reaching across the extension (3.5 feet) can be somewhat of a stretch. It'll be nice to be able to get back to some scenery work.
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
TMarshToday I did make it to the trainroom and after staring for awhile I've decided to change the train route for what I think is the better. Moving the train station in Gold Creek to where it was I think will be better. This will require a relaying of track for the better. This is NOT a trackplan change. I never had a track plan. So there!
You forgot to put the HAAARRRRUUUUUUMMPH!! at the end of "so there!"
Actually I sorta, kinda had a definite maybe plan when I started. But it sorta became something else---kinda, like, well----different.
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Good Morning
We're al up and doing stuff this morning--doing paperwork for work at home--too much freezing drizzle making for "interesting times" out there on the roads. I got up earlier this morning--turned on computer and found email from work saying do the stuff from home----so there I be---heeheehee
Lee: Our prayer list has Dean's name on it now--.
BTW, kind of odd that LHS would be howling about friend's LHS in the basement. Then again, I remember when downtown London got some hot dog stands there--some restaurant owners took a "hairy canary" over the hot dog stands because---well--they were serious competition.
Rob: I always had a soft spot for an "aerotrain"--especially since I saw the train as a whole in a series of photographs taken by someone in our family way back when---To me I kinda like the rear as well with what looked like tailfins ---- as for buying the set-----I saw one up here at a LHS-----yikes!!
I'm going to hide in the basement this afternoon --- need to stare at the Exceda Wye yard some more---
Chloe, I'll just have a coffee and a toast with jam please. I'll be at the RC this morning--
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/
JimRCGMOJeff - I like that memorial/monument; did you make that, or somebody else? Looks good.
Thoughts and prayers go out to Dean Freytag who has been placed on the binnacle list. Recent health issues have placed him in assisted living for rest and some PT, hopefully he will return home sometime soon.
Small bowl of plain mixed nuts, please.
My wife was watching a very interesting trains special on RFDTV when she saw one of those Aerotrains that resembles the front of a car. Right away she said how neat one of those would be, (meaning, as a model train). I said they make them, but we would want to win a Lottery first. Yea, I've wanted one of those since I first saw them, too. Very cool!
Twas a long day of catch-up here on the ol' farm. Time to hit the hay.
Hope everyone is doing well.
Rob
It's late and i just read a couple of posts or so on page 32. You silly people and your track plan changes. If you'd just got it right the first time....
Today I did make it to the trainroom and after staring for awhile I've decided to change the train route for what I think is the better. Moving the train station in Gold Creek to where it was I think will be better. This will require a relaying of track for the better. This is NOT a trackplan change. I never had a track plan. So there!
Prayers for those in need.
Rob- Glad you're feeling better!
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 evening,
JIM: Yep, Flush (originally Floresch, but the US Post Office decided THAT was too complicated, so they made it "Flush") is located in northeast Kansas, in the Flint Hills. The Kanza (sp.??) prairie is fairly close by to the west, out around Ft. Riley (again home of "The Big Red 1"). Meyer's Valley was the original name for the area, which has Rock Creek flowing through it. Westmoreland is a little ways north, St. George to the south. The UP "Kansas Pacific" line, or the Denver line, runs through St. George. I found an odd little grain elevator there in '98, and the depot was still standing. The St. George Oil Co. was based out of it for many, many years.
Speaking of odd little elevators, my favorite uncle still owns this one, it's technically in Flush, you can see it poking up out of the trees in the lower right hand corner of the "whole town" picture. It was built in anticipation of a RR coming from Westmoreland, and heading through Flush to Manhattan. The ROW was graded, but the rails never came. The RR ran from "Westy" to Blaine into the 1930s. When the steam engine was destroyed or sold or otherwise gone...they put rail wheels on a car and pulled the rail cars with it. Flooding and the Great Depression spelled doom for the line.
I don't think Eldon (uncle) uses the elevator currently...last time I was there, it had pretty much been taken over by coons, skunks, and a rattler or two!
Welp, that's enough Kansas history for one night...G'nite
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
evening ya'll
Got the slide hammer out on part of my car and put interior back in. Still need to go back out and do some more with the slide hammer.
In MR new, it seems my latest attempt to sell my SP NW2 and UP autoracks have failed, again...
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Good Evening, Chloe - I’ll have the potato soup and a roast beef sandwich, please, with a Dr. Pepper. Thanks!
Joe, is that your new pulpwood car (the intact or repaired one) there in the video? Looks good. Best wishes on the new layout once you get things rolling. And HEY! Congratulations on your team winning!
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.
JR, I think when a woman gets the right (whatever) from a hardware place, it about guarantees her a special spot in her man's heart!
Lee - 18,000 feet?? I think that one would be too long for me to watch... That's one heckuva "long train comin'..." Like the new site - sent you some comments that I hope will be helpful. If not, just disregard them.
Yep, Barry, we had frozen fog on the car's windshield this a.m. (and some fog to drive through, as well). Nuisance (the frozen stuff - the other just required extra caution). Sounds like you had a good turnout over your weekend.
Jeff - I like that memorial/monument; did you make that, or somebody else? Looks good. And good idea to not overdo until your foot is healed up. At least you got a good meal in exchange for babysitting the AT&T guy.
Rob, heckuva way to trim down, there. Build your nourishment back up, fella. Almost sounds like the two of you might've had some kind of flu bug. Glad you're both over that!
Ulrich, I'd agree with you that sometimes our parents (particularly the ones who've been used to doing everything for themselves - and others - are the hardest to get to slow down and let anyone else help them as they get less able to "do it all." My Dad was like that, and it was a blessing that when he went, he didn't have to be in a nursing home. He would NOT have been good at cooperating there (come to think of it, I may be no better than he was...).
Sam, that last layout plan has a TON of switching potential to it! On the second one, the 'yard' tracks seem a little short, but that may just be the rough sketch, too. First one is good - was that like the idea you mentioned a while back? (Or was it somebody else who had the 'track under and off' idea?)
Ray, somehow when you described which politician was starting to speak, I kinda guessed close to your description of what they said and what response they got... Sounds like a pretty good day, other than the political types... Y'know, you could name your Bridge to Nowhere the 'Senator XYZ Memorial Bridge' (assuming everyone will add the 'T.N.' onto the end)...Whaddya think?
Today I stopped by the office to turn in my paperw**k from the weekend's on-call, and I noticed my co-w**ker wasn't in yet (that's unlike him). I was wondering if the fog was slowing him down, but finished up and left (before they tried to rope me into covering until he got there). This evening, I was wondering about him, so called him at home - turns out, he had a presentation (for a project he got dragged into doing, and that he's NOT at all wild about) in one of our outlying offices. Apparently whoever set him up to cover that, forgot to schedule it on a week when I am in the office, so they were without anyone but supervisors to cover. He said about 10 a.m., our supervisor was calling and asking him how much longer he would be ("about crying", I think, was his description). Serves them right to forget about the impact on everybody else...(Hmm, maybe I shouldn't be so hard on them)
This afternoon, I got to going through my box of locos, and noticed that I have my RDC’s project still to get going on. I have several (too many, but I got them at a good price) of the Athearn RDC's - RDC-1’s (both powered and 1 dummy unit), RDC-3’s (1 shell and some powered), plus a couple of the Ernst gearing kits for the RDC’s (besides one kit for an Athearn GP7 I have). I’d found an older MR article about kitbashing some of the Athearn RDC’s to more prototypical length and appearance, and was thinking about making an RDC-2 out of the shells (which would involve some chassis w**k as well...), and maybe even an RDC-4. Prototypical? Well, more or less. In an earlier version of the Diner, we had what was called “Teffy’s rule” - it's sorta like Todd talking about being king of Toddland. A lot like DerJohn's comments about 'compatability?...'
Tonight at MRR club, it was just me and the LHS owner/club member. I ordered some board and batten sheets for my scratchbuilt church, plus some 41' Rio Grande gondolas and a PS2 2893 covered hopper (ATSF). I am waiting for some figures I have coming in, perhaps later this week.
Welp, about time to finish up and head for home. Good to see that some of you got some MRR'ing time in, and that others are healing up. Prayers will continue. And thanks, Chloe - that was great soup!
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Well, I didn't get to catching up, cause I was studying instead, so I'll just do it tomorrow.
Got the first two exams, Algebra and Spanish, tomorrow. We get out at 11ish, so I'll be home pretty early.
Imma be hittin' it. Night all
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Had to go to my parent's place just before noon today to wait on the AT&T guy to come out and service the phone box out back of the house. They could call out but nobody could call in. They'd just get two busy tones and a bunch of static. The repairman showed up at 2:45 and was there til almost 4. So much for my plans for the day. My parent's arrived home shortly after and I explained the repair work to them. The problem seems to have been a block that's wired in on the phone company's side. It has a modular jack that the house block line plugs into. The thing was so corroded that it would short out when a call came in. We watched a couple of Mythbusters shows then headed into town for dinner. My favorite place, El Giro's.
LSWrrJeff, 3 foot reach. Have you seen those steps for campers? It’s one step with four legs, I have one in my layout room and I highly recommend it to extend your reach. If you have a friend handy with a welder and some angle iron laying around it’s a good afternoon project to build one.
Evening all. Chloe I'll take an RBF, thanks.
WE FINALLY WON!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, that's right! We actually won a game! Final was 2-1, and now our record is 1-12, so we are no longer "defeated!" AND, we play them again, so maybe we'll get a second win.
Chloe, I'm buying PIE and RBFs for EVERYONE for the rest of the night.
I'll be over at the RC catchin' up.
Hello again all,
Lee- Your website got me to thinkin'... Ouch, I know, call the fire department, the smoke'll be comin' in thick now!!! Lol
I want to be able to transport this thing, just in case I ever have to move.. the way I am looking at building now, unless I put in an exterior basement access,(EDIT) I will NEVER be able to get it out without tearing it in half (run on sentence, I know, so take THAT!!! Lol)
SOOOOOOooooo, back to the drawing board, darn... sketches to follow...
(edit) I spoke too soon. If I make the table in separate pieces, End Tables 2 ft x 5 ft, and Middle Tables 1.5 ft x 6 ft, THEN I would be able to separate it to transport... AND in the event that I decide to change the layout, I can rearrage the tables as needed! Woo Hoo! Love when an idea comes to fruition! (Not sure if that last one is a real word, or correctly spelled but what the heck!) Thank you Lee for the genesis of the idea!
Sam
May He bless you, guide you, and keep you safe on your journey through life!
I Model the New Hope & Ivyland RR (Bucks County, PA)
Evenin' folks!
Flo just a decafe for ..... well actually maybe another slice of the Sweet Potato Pie with a bit of whipped cream on top. I'll be in the back warming up and resting. Nope nothing else, had a huge dinner at the church this afternoon. Lets see, Fried Chicken, Ham, Candied Yams, Green Beans, Collard Greens, Corn, Corn Bread, Potato Salad, Macaroni Salad, and then Sweet Potato Pie for desert! Yep I'm still full.
I am officially exhausted! I got to the Church where the Festivities were held at 9AM. This year we were at Trinity Episcopal Church here in Geneva. I got a couple hundred photos which I will have to sort out over the next couple of weeks. We have a March then a 2 hour service, and then a feast. Geneva has been celebrating the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday this way for 39 years. Of course we heard from the politicians....... First our Mayor who has been a Human Rights activist for many years, Member of the Board of education, is now on the board of the Boys and Girls Club, is retired as an executive of a corporation that used to be in Geneva. He talked about the future and what we need to do as citizens to create a better community for all our people. He got a rousing ovation. Then a Representative in the State Legislature got up and talked for well over the time he was given to talk about nothing in particular. He got a nice round of applause. Then our local Senator in the State Legislature told us how he is single handedly making everything wonderful because he got us money for this and that and isn't he just the most wonderful.......... For way over his allotted time. (Must be an election year coming up....) He got kind of a pathetic clap, clap, clap. (OK done with anything about politicians.)
The MLK Choir was wonderful as usual, the speaker, Dr. Arlette Miller Smith, an Associate Professor Dept of English, Adjunct Professor, Executive Leadership doctoral program, and Co-director of African American Studies (and an accomplished singer and director) at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY delivered a fantastic address. And the meal....... Well all I can say is Mmmmmmmm-mmmmmmm-mmmmmmm! Good! We also this year got lot of volunteer help from the local college and from kids from the Boys and Girls Club here in Geneva as well as the usual great support form the African-American Men's Association.
I, of course stayed and helped with clean-up. Got all the Art and Poerty down and helped the President of the MLK Committee take apart and move the kiosks we use to display them.
So..... I'm tired!
Prayers for "under the weather" and in pain of all kinds! Hope you have had a great day.
Good Evening
It has been an "interesting" day so far---the watermain that supplies our side of the crescent had broke sometime early this morning and left the corner down near our house with a foot of ice, water, snow and assorted guck---they finally turned the water back on after several hours of patch that pipe. Found out from our ward member that this street will be tore up this spring and new main put in--they think that the bust pipe thing will go for a while yet-------SO. My day was spent doing a few extra things
My RR empire will have a new yard at Exceda Wye---I got into this yard construction destruction thing and decided to tear the dang thing apart and start from scratch there----I may even go further than that--
Chloe, I'll just have 4 extra big honkin quadruple greaseburgers with the fried mushroom and onion rings slathered on top, a platter of fries with gravy, and a chocolate milkshake please-----I'm going to the corner booth and be with my comfort food
This is very strange. I'm not working and it is a monday. Joy to the world. Sat. TV, RFD has Trains and Locomotives at 6 and I'll be able to watch. Spoke to my friend at the Texas State RR last night. They are rebuilding their #400, aBig A$$ Mikado. Built in 1917, still has the builders plates. 174 boiler tubes that are 5 in.diam. and 18 ft. long. Anyone want to work?
Rob and all others,ill and in pain, best wishes and Prayers.
p.s. Prairie Rails is the episode.
Good afternoon everybody...
Trainman SamI feel your pain… I have now gone through about a dozen track work changes, half dozen configuration variables (say that five times fast, lol) and about fifteen different “what was I thinking when I started this mess” breakdowns. But HEY, it’s a passion, right!
Yeah......... I'm hoping to "get it right" the third or fourth time.... Seriously, whatever plan I finally settle on, and commit finances and resources to...I'm sure there will be hundreds if not thousands of "WHAT was I THINKING?" moments...which will be reduced down to "WAS I thinking???" I am probably the quintessential arm-chair model railroader. I've got a bunch of stuff sitting on shelves, I've got sketches, notes, research material, "givens and druthers" pilled up; but its just "safer" (and cheaper) to hold-off on banging lumber together, etc.... until I'm "sure" I "know" what I want.
In tough finances...THAT seems like a "smart" idea too...and helps to keep Loving Wife a) "loving," and b) supportive of this perversion we call a hobby.
Oh, and SAM: I see some real potential in those sketches... I could stay busy switching them.
THATs one thing whatever I end up with has to have: switching. I see a layout as the opportunity to be the brakeman/switchman I wanted to be once upon a time. The chance to w**k Job 22, 23, 24, 25, the Extra Job 89... Yes indeedeedoo....take me back to the much simpler days of my late teens/early 20s when yellow and green Geeps, GP-15s, and MP-15DCs reigned. Take me back to long strings of blue QOCX (Quaker) boxcars being pulled out of the plant. Return me to the days when North Yard had TOFC tracks (pulled on the second trick, like clockwork), and the "job" had to pull down 22 Track, right alongside the trail. Pretty cool to be legally walking alongside a Geep-7 making a long pull.
*Sigh* Chloe? Any Hamm's back there???
JEFF: LOVE that memorial!
ULRICH: I'll see what I can put together, for your consideration. Sometimes a little "mental exercise" is a good thing to negate the negative thoughts THAT are so pervasive...
Alas...time to yield the floor, see if I can do something with a story I covered today for THAT. The North Liberty Library is accepting food items in place of money for overdue book fines this month. For MLK Day, the library staff delivered a load instead of having the NL Food Pantry come and get it. Of course, knuckle-heads had to taint the effort. A jar of pickled watermellon somethings was found. The lid was rusty, the label looked to be about 20-30 years old...even the price sticker looked antiquated. Oh, and the contents were BLACK...like tar. Some other clown "donated" a half-a-jar of popcorn, and an OPEN jar of some kind of paste stuff was found too...the lid wasn't in the box. Nice. At least one canned item was at least ten years old...it was store brand from Eagle Foods. They flew out of Iowa at least a decade ago... Nice.
Of course, there was also a guy who stopped in with bags of new stuff...not to pay a fine, just to donate "to the cause."
Somehow it all kinda ballances out.
Good afternoon on a beautiful Monday! (at least in PA it’s rather nice… hope the same for the rest of my pals!)
Chris- I feel your pain… I have now gone through about a dozen track work changes, half dozen configuration variables (say that five times fast, lol) and about fifteen different “what was I thinking when I started this mess” breakdowns. But HEY, it’s a passion, right!
Der- Very well put… Compatibility! Who needs it!!! Lol. On the home front, very glad to hear that your mother is recovering nicely… I know exactly what you mean about parents not accepting “change”. Too long to explain, but I do understand! I will be praying for you to find rest.
Lee- The new site is fantastic… can’t wait to see some photos!
Jerry- that billboard looks great! I, unfortunately, am not old enough to know that ad campaign, but definitely like the look of it! Have to do a search on it! Keep the cool projects comin’ my friend!
Bridge Tom and Der: Don’t let my wife hear that. She LOVES cilantro, not by itself, but add it to Salsa, and almost any soup, and it is like a magnet for her! Lol
Robby P.- I understand the “not great on wiring” issues… I have them myself, which is why I bought a book. Which, subsequently I no longer am in need of (since I went to DCC and have the book for THAT)…
Rob- Hope you are feeling 100% better today!
Well, news for me was that I moved almost all of my stuff out of my Uncle-in-laws house… which included a ton of model railroading stuff… I found my graph paper notebooks and the corresponding HO track planning template! So I spent a lot of time yesterday jotting down some of my previous sketches into a more definitive plan… here are a few links to my NH&I 5’x10’ layout ideas:
http://i644.photobucket.com/albums/uu163/Wee_Ply_34/Layout%20Ideas/NHI5x10Idea0001.jpg
http://i644.photobucket.com/albums/uu163/Wee_Ply_34/Layout%20Ideas/NHIAlternate10001.jpg
This is an alternate idea for my existing table, comments are most welcomed:
http://i644.photobucket.com/albums/uu163/Wee_Ply_34/Layout%20Ideas/WorkInProgress0001.jpg
I hope this post finds you in a better place than before! I am still so thankful to have a group of friends who share my interests in this hobby! My wife doesn't, as of this moment, share the same enthusiasm or enjoyment of the hobby. Thankfully she does support me in my hobby endeavors! Thank heaven for the little perks in life!
Well, I'll be sitting in one of the boothes attempting to create a usable layout plan!!!