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Posted by AmanaMedic on Thursday, February 11, 2010 9:08 PM

nik .n
I just love the sound of the sirens, especially the double tone models. Another siren I like is the Allertor 125. To me, it looks like a turbocharger.

I guess we all have our vices... "one man's diversion is another man's perversion." - Jules Koefed, criminal justice instructor, Kirkwood Community College, ret.

NIK: Check out Day of the Killer Tornadoes, you'll get your Thunderbolt fix, especially if ya like seein' 'em flip the switch, hit the big button, dial it up, etc.

IF ya wanna hear a really awesome siren...not a tornado/air raid/end of the world is imminent siren, but a FIRE ENGINE siren...check out the Federal Signal "Q." It is THE ultimate fire apparatus siren. 

I'm guessing the Thunderbolt, being motor-driven, is an endangered species as all-electronic stuff replaces them? Kinda like the mechanical crossing gate bells going away to be replaced by the electronic...things. I guess, with the continued dumbification of our society, a loud blasting Thunderbolt just isn't enough to warn the ignorant masses of danger...they have to have something capable of broadcasting a human voice to say "you need to go hide now...Mr. Tornado is coming to town...and he's very, very angry..." or whatever other "multiple hazard messaging capability" the Emergency Mis-management Agency morons deem necessary for their jurisdictions. Sheesh.

Whatever happened to "you hear the big siren, you go inside and turn on the radio or the TV?" I mean, THAT's what they used to teach us! I remember seeing signs posted at parks: "If siren sounds, tune radio to 600 AM for official information."

Hey, who just kicked THAT soapbox over here??? Nope...don't need it, I'm done ranting.

Apologies for drifting away there for a moment... I have bouts of disgust with the human race in general, and our society in particular...especially when tried and true, common sense things are discarded.

JOHN: Man...that's a tough call. It all boils down to the best interest of your furry friend, and his quality of life. IF you're certain surgery isn't the way to go, then I'd have to say make his last days the best he's ever had, and cherish the time he's had with you. I dread the thought of having to even think about making that call with my Rerun. He's turning 7 in a few days...to me, he'll always be a "puppy," but I know sooner or later I'll be having "that" conversation with the vet. I will most likely be a bawling, incomprehensible wreck when it happens. It's nothing short of amazing the effect those furry, four-legged critters can have on us.

LEE: I'm liking THAT machine shop. Thumbs Up

Welp, back to w**k...THAT needs her weekly content fix...

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NIK: Any idea why the Thunderbolt videos got pulled? I saw some really....uh....um....."strange" siren videos by your large super pasta piece siren video. You call it a turbocharger, I call it a mutant macaroni piece.

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Thursday, February 11, 2010 9:04 PM

nik .n

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NIK .N: Man, I clicked on the first link, and as soon as THAT mother fired-up, hairs on the back of my neck were standing straight up! I'd never heard the "hi-lo" (fire call) before...at first it sounded like a siren malfunction... Cedar Rapids never used THAT one. The steady tone is/was THE tornado alert. As much as I HATE the sound of tornado sirens...IF I gotta hear 'em, I'll take the sound of the Thunderbolt. It does have a nice sound...for the sound of impending doom. If you like storm sirens and film of sirens in action, you should check out "Day of the Killer Tornadoes." It's a govt. documentary on a massive tornado outbreak in 1974 THAT wiped-out parts of Ohio and Kentucky to name but a few. It's the day Xenia, OH got wiped off the map. YouTube has it, broken into three parts. They went back and recreated the actions/reactions of the day. You'll see guys dialing up/activating sirens, etc. Kinda neat. Oh, and a DT&I freight makes a cameo appearance. The Xenia tornado derailed a freight in downtown, blocking most of the main roads and splitting the shreaded city in half until a construction Bn. from Wright-Patterson AFB came in and removed it.

Yeah. The old thunderbolts do that to you. I just love the sound of the sirens, especially the double tone models. Another siren I like is the Allertor 125. To me, it looks like a turbocharger.

Darn. THE place on YouTube for siren videos has wiped all their videos save two. All of the good ones of the thunderbolts are gone. Sad 

That "Day of the Killer Tornadoes" is amazing--the sirens were something else. We have just up the road apiece an old air raid siren that still works. The power source was taken out just last fall after someone hit the power supply hard enough to activate the thing! LOUD!!Shock

Glad I caught the thunderbolts before that bunch got pulledSadDisapprove

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Posted by nik .n on Thursday, February 11, 2010 8:17 PM

AmanaMedic
NIK .N: Man, I clicked on the first link, and as soon as THAT mother fired-up, hairs on the back of my neck were standing straight up! I'd never heard the "hi-lo" (fire call) before...at first it sounded like a siren malfunction... Cedar Rapids never used THAT one. The steady tone is/was THE tornado alert. As much as I HATE the sound of tornado sirens...IF I gotta hear 'em, I'll take the sound of the Thunderbolt. It does have a nice sound...for the sound of impending doom. If you like storm sirens and film of sirens in action, you should check out "Day of the Killer Tornadoes." It's a govt. documentary on a massive tornado outbreak in 1974 THAT wiped-out parts of Ohio and Kentucky to name but a few. It's the day Xenia, OH got wiped off the map. YouTube has it, broken into three parts. They went back and recreated the actions/reactions of the day. You'll see guys dialing up/activating sirens, etc. Kinda neat. Oh, and a DT&I freight makes a cameo appearance. The Xenia tornado derailed a freight in downtown, blocking most of the main roads and splitting the shreaded city in half until a construction Bn. from Wright-Patterson AFB came in and removed it.

Yeah. The old thunderbolts do that to you. I just love the sound of the sirens, especially the double tone models. Another siren I like is the Allertor 125. To me, it looks like a turbocharger.

Darn. THE place on YouTube for siren videos has wiped all their videos save two. All of the good ones of the thunderbolts are gone. Sad 

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Posted by JPowell on Thursday, February 11, 2010 6:11 PM

Evening Gang -

  My what a chatty bunch you are when I am at work! Geesh!!! I posted at the bottom of 41 and here I am almost 24hrs later towards the top of 44!!!

Anyways, here's the situation w/ my dog... Hunter is 10. The vet found a massive mass of cancer next to his anal gland. It was not there 8 months ago. If we elect for surgery, it has to be done within the next 2-3 weeks and will kill $2500. of tax $$$. No one can say for sure if the cancer will come back or not. Nor can they say if he will ever fully recover from it since it's "Major" surgery for him at his age. The vet said that if he was 2 or 3... surgery would be best, but.... So right now, I am leaning towards them putting him down sometime after my sister and her family come to town next. My nephews are very close to him eventhough they are 2 and 3 respectively. I'm not sure who's gonna be sad the most over it... me, my parents (hunter lives with them) or my nephews....

Oh well, g/f wants dinner, so I am off to cook.

EDIT - Ok... so after speaking to mom earlier, we have decided that yes, surgery is NOT an option. Mom told me that our vet wouldn't even be the one doing it as it's that complicated and MAJOR. So we have decided that we will let him live out these last few months until he starts to show pain. That is when we will put him down.

Take care....

 

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Posted by LSWrr on Thursday, February 11, 2010 5:42 PM

Evening,

I’ve finished the machine shop;

http://community.webshots.com/album/576376778QCKZMD?vhost=community

 

This will be next to the roundhouse.  Hopefully progress on the roundhouse will continue tomorrow.

 

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Posted by AztecEagle on Thursday, February 11, 2010 4:23 PM

Chloe and/or Floee;

Set up ol'RB with a great big ol'bowl of Jambalaya,then put a buck in the jukebox and play "LOuisiana Man"and"Jolie Blon"by Doug Kershaw;"Matilda"by Cookie and The Cupcakes and"Go To The Mardi Gras"by Perfesser Longhair for all the Nawlin's Saints in honor of their first ever Superbowl Win!!!

Then let's get Mr.Peabody and Sherman to set the Wayback Machine to 1960 and ride the Sunset Limited;Panama Limited;Argonaut;City of New Orleans;Southern Belle;Crescent Limited;Louisiana Daylight;Pan American and Orleanian into NOUPT!!!

Now just a bowl of chili and a cup of hot chocolate for me!!!

The BNSF and UP need to bring the plow train down to North Texas,it's snowing again!!!

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Thursday, February 11, 2010 3:50 PM

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Five inches? .. That's nothing. Have you seen all the flakes in DC?  .... Whistling

You mean the new ones that have been appointed or those that are flying in now? I don't see much difference. One flake is pretty much like another.Big Smile

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Posted by Packers#1 on Thursday, February 11, 2010 3:43 PM

 Thanks Vincent. there's three places to spot cars there; the two interior bays and the concrete pad. Thos stomach problems don't sound good.

They're calling for snow here too. odds of it actually snowing though: slim to none

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Posted by Packer on Thursday, February 11, 2010 3:39 PM

Afternoon ya'll, bowl of chicken soup for me.

I've been having stomach issues all day, and I'm beging to think that something may be wrong with my stomach. It tends to get upset usually once every other month; despite the fact I almost never get sick. Or could it be my diet, which is lots of meats, bread, pasta, rice, and lemonade? I quit drinking the lemonade at work and it has seem to be less frequent, but still too often...

The weather guessers are saying we may get snow tonight and tommorrow. It looks like it will rain any second, and it is still cold out. Even then it'd only be an inch or two at the most.

Robby, Thanks for the advice on the wheelsets. Didn't you say somewhere that your fade was thinned testor's white? Does it matter if it's the flat or gloss one? I have a ton of the gloss stuff, and I was hoping it would work for fades. Either that or find some clear flat and mix it up. You sold a car in an hour and a half? Dang, how low did you price it?Question

Sam, did that autorack arrive alright?

Sawyer, I really like the building and how it has many spots.

JohnP, Sorry to hear about your dog. I had to face the same situation a while ago with one of mine. I'll second what Tom has said.

 

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Posted by Packers#1 on Thursday, February 11, 2010 3:18 PM

 Robby, sweet boxcar. geez, at that quick of a sale I'd definitely get back into weathering. I'm pretty sure my mom is also trying to get a job with the census.

Thanks for the compliments on the factory Nik .N and Barry!

 Well, managed to get a ride with a teammate to rugby practice tonight. actually missed it tuesday night because of my sister's playoff game (my parents couldn't take me), and their championship game is tonight. so it was either get a ride or go REALLY early or late. Thank the lord I could get a ride.

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Posted by markpierce on Thursday, February 11, 2010 3:13 PM

Unusually heavy snowfall hits central Contra Costa County, California:

 

 

Wow! it is deep enough to make snowballs!

This 1937 photo, taken of a farm along Alhambra Avenue connecting Martinez with Pleasant Hill, is the only evidence of significant snowfall in the valleys of central Contra Costa County I could find.  In the sixty-some years living here, I've only seen two or three "dustings" of snow.  (Nearby Mt. Diablo typically receives a few light coatings of snow each year.)

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Thursday, February 11, 2010 3:13 PM

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jeffrey-wimberly

 

The weather guesser is making me mad again. He's talking about a possibility of 2" - 5" of snow. Just the thought of snow in Louisiana is insane but the thought of 5" of snow in Louisiana is something that could get you a straight jacket and a rubber room.

I think there are grounds for involuntary commital. That sounds nuts----Grumpy

Five inches? .. That's nothing. Have you seen all the flakes in DC?  .... Whistling

Wow, it's still crouded with ladies over at Jeff's booth! Jeff's photo Cool really got the ladies interested! Laugh

 

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:39 PM

jeffrey-wimberly

 

The weather guesser is making me mad again. He's talking about a possibility of 2" - 5" of snow. Just the thought of snow in Louisiana is insane but the thought of 5" of snow in Louisiana is something that could get you a straight jacket and a rubber room.

I think there are grounds for involuntary commital. That sounds nuts----Grumpy

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Posted by Robby P. on Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:36 PM

  Just a quick stop.  Gotta go and pick the wife up in a bit.  She's going to try and become a "census taker".  She can pass the test, I'm sure I couldn't.

 Plus.......I thought about getting back into "weathering".  I put this car on eBay at 12:00pm, and it sold at 1:30pm.  Maybe I should get back into then Mischief

 Here's the picture of the boxcar.

 

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Posted by Blazzin on Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:18 PM

  Chris and others, you should have had the Polish Chili Verde.  You wouldn't be sick right now.  But.. but .. next time I make some.. I'll freeze it.. wrap it up in a ton of zip baggies.. and send it off.  Free of course.  I think I had the flu... but it lasted one day.  What ever it was.. only one day. 

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Posted by AmanaMedic on Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:46 AM

Good mornin', Chloe? More of Ed's OJ, and a bucket of chicken soup please 'n thank-you.

Welp...either I've got this thing in "submission" phase due to carpet bombing with the OTC meds...or I'm gaining the upper hand/making a recovery. My ears are plugged-up, but I feel the closest to being a human being...than I have all week!

NIK .N: Man, I clicked on the first link, and as soon as THAT mother fired-up, hairs on the back of my neck were standing straight up! I'd never heard the "hi-lo" (fire call) before...at first it sounded like a siren malfunction... Cedar Rapids never used THAT one. The steady tone is/was THE tornado alert. As much as I HATE the sound of tornado sirens...IF I gotta hear 'em, I'll take the sound of the Thunderbolt. It does have a nice sound...for the sound of impending doom. If you like storm sirens and film of sirens in action, you should check out "Day of the Killer Tornadoes." It's a govt. documentary on a massive tornado outbreak in 1974 THAT wiped-out parts of Ohio and Kentucky to name but a few. It's the day Xenia, OH got wiped off the map. YouTube has it, broken into three parts. They went back and recreated the actions/reactions of the day. You'll see guys dialing up/activating sirens, etc. Kinda neat. Oh, and a DT&I freight makes a cameo appearance. The Xenia tornado derailed a freight in downtown, blocking most of the main roads and splitting the shreaded city in half until a construction Bn. from Wright-Patterson AFB came in and removed it.

Hmmmmmmmm. I see a bunch of ladies in the front booth...but I don't see JEFF... Hey, is THAT a Jeff-shaped hole in the window???

Plans for today: write three (thankfully!) small articles for THAT...mostly photo-driven features. Listen to the Gatorade Duals (NASCAR) from Daytona. Interview for this evening was postponed...not too upset about THAT.

Have a good-un,

ChrisEight Ball

 

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Thursday, February 11, 2010 10:54 AM

 

The weather guesser is making me mad again. He's talking about a possibility of 2" - 5" of snow. Just the thought of snow in Louisiana is insane but the thought of 5" of snow in Louisiana is something that could get you a straight jacket and a rubber room.

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Posted by howmus on Thursday, February 11, 2010 10:23 AM

Mornin' everyone!

Zoe I'll have a short stack of buttermilk Pancakes and a side of bacon as well to go along with my cup of dark raost coffee in a FGLK mug.  Oh, leave the bottle of NYS Maple Syrup please.

It has already found today's high and passed it by 1* here in the Finger Lakes.  Currently 24°F under sunny skies but with 11 MPH winds from the WNW keeping the chill down to 13°F.  We ended up getting less than 2 inches of the white stuff from the storm, and most of THAT was lake effect on the back side of the system pulling moisture off Lake Ontario.

Got a dentist appt. early this afternoon and a Scout Committee meeting tonight.  In between I hope to get started on a new project for the layout.

Thank you to all of you who want to share your bills with me, but I really have more than I need of my own...........Whistling  I am waiting to get a payment from the school for equipment I sold to them and when my son gets finished unloading my trailer, I will be able to get THAT sold to a Scout Troop.  Hopefully I will be able to get the credit card paid down enough I can buy some odds and ends I want for the layout.

Best get going.  BTW Why are all those good looking ladies hanging around the front booth?

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Thursday, February 11, 2010 8:40 AM

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Jeff ... I was wondering why there were so many ladies in the diner this morning. I figured out why. They say that picture, and just had to see you. Wow! Can you stand all the flirty ladies with you? You picked teh window booth for a reason, I bet.

Always have an escape route planned.

 

 

Good morning. It's 35 with a rain/snow mix. The high will be 43 with more rain. Snow is in the forecast for tonight.

Yesterday I was finally able to get the final two prescriptions I needed, Prevacid and Claritin, so at least I wasn't sick last night as I had been the previous couple of nights. Today I intend to get some light layout work done. What that's going to be I don't know yet. There's still a section of road just begging to be torn up.


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Posted by Robby P. on Thursday, February 11, 2010 8:31 AM

 Good morning.  Its still cold, and still snowing.  Well just on the light side.

 Well I took the wife to work this morning, and thought about waiting and see if some trains come by.  Her job is about 50-100ft from a NS line.  So I thought I would just go back home.  On the way out of town a NS carrying coal goes by,  Just my luck.  Then I get home, and my wife is calling me.  "Honey you just missed two BNSF engines".  She also said they were patched out.  I would've love to seen that.  Well thats how my day started.

 Not much going on form me today.  Maybe work some more on my pallet company.   Try some tips some of y'all suggested. 

 Jim......That's is where I got the pictures from (tomkat).   As far as the opening, I thought about stacking the new ones/used looking pallets in that section.  I also wanted to add a fence or some kind of security.   I didn't even think about using a "dremel".  Thumbs Up

 

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Posted by TMarsh on Thursday, February 11, 2010 8:31 AM

( comes in muttering as I shake of the snow) Boy I hate those Youtube links. I spend an hour every time someone posts one poking around. Oh Hi

Good Morning. Cinnamon roll please and some butter to go with it. Yup, coffee thank you.

Everybody sitting down? Good. This morning......., I don't have anything to say.

So, I shall get busy with RR stuff before I get a call and have to do something else.

Have a Great Day!!!

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Posted by Trainman Sam on Thursday, February 11, 2010 8:30 AM

EDIT:  Looks like I got top honors!  Eat up everyone!  Chloe, I'll settle up when I get home tonight, ok?

Well, I just finished digging out my house! Grrr...  I had to use a personal day yesterday, I was wiped out after shoveling the snow in the morning, and by the time we (my wife helped) got finished, there was a quarter inch on the ground again...  The roads were HORRIBLE!  There was no possible way I was going to be able to drive to Bay Head in those conditions.   I spent most of  the day in my recliner resting my back...

This morning was an adventure, digging out the driveway in time for my wife to get to w*rk.  Now my back hurts again, but I HAVE to go to w*rk... I'll have the next two days off to catch up on the 9 pages I am behind here...

 

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Sam: I know what ya mean about those grade crossings. There's at least a half dozen between Bay Head and Point Pleasant!
Also the 2300s are fun to ride. It's the only chance where a diesel-hauled train can run at 100mph (with the exception of ACES)

The fastest I have been able to get the Geep is 79 MPH, she just won't get up and go on the corridor.  THAT coupled with the fact that by the time I get the train up to any amount of speed, the signals are dropping me back down...  Oh, and the Geep's just rock and roll all over the place!  It's such a nice smooth ride in anything else.  The PL-42 and ALP-46 are the best by far.  The ALP-44 would be a close second.  I am looking forward to the new ALP-45 (Dual powered Locomotive)  It will have a pantograph AND two Diesel motors ( we have yet to see if they will synchronise the diesels, or let them free phase)  One should be here this coming fall, and another one goes to the FRA testing facility out west.  If they work out, it will replace most of the Locomotive Roster...

Anyhow, I am off, got to get some things done before I head off to w*rk.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Thursday, February 11, 2010 8:29 AM

Good morning ...

Where's Jerry? 

JP ... Sorry to hear about your dog. Like others here, I can relate to that. We've had dogs and cats, and unfortunately, some had to be put down. Not good.

JimCG ... I understand Boyds Department Store was really something in its heyday. The 1920's was great, but the 1930's was devastating for the store and the family. The family sold the business to a corporation, and over the years Boyds was eventually gone or something else. My grandfather was active with the store, but my Dad chose another career for himself in the 1930's. I have the reains of a model locomotive my gandfather built and I have a model locomotive my Dad built. The name, Boyd, may possibly be gone in the coming generations of this family. There is only one grandson so far, and he has another last name. .......

Jeff ... I was wondering why there were so many ladies in the diner this morning. I figured out why. They say that picture, and just had to see you. Wow! Can you stand all the flirty ladies with you? You picked teh window booth for a reason, I bet.

Well, I'll have OJ and oatmeal at the rivit counter.

I completed more scenery, and have a background scene to share in WPF this weekend.

 

 

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Thursday, February 11, 2010 7:14 AM

Good Morning-Smile,Wink, & Grin

Sawyer:  I like the look of that warehouseApprove

JP: When Miximax got sick we had that same decision. It was not one that I wanted to land on my head but it was the best decision for the little one. Doing what is the best for the fellow is really important--

It is rather dull and snizzly out here. Right now the temperature is -7C with the windchill at -12C. We's supposed to be dull/snizzly today and tonight with our low going to -14C. Our high today will be -5C.Sigh

I've got a list of things to take photos of and ideas for modelling---that is, others to model. The CAMI plant out by Ingersoll ON has a 'unique' set of stacks on the roof that makes one go --hmmn.Whistling When I drove by the 401 the sight of three stacks combining into one was eye catching----ConfusedSmile

Welp, my sister found a few things for me---giant sheets of .020" styrene, some clapboard sheets, brass rods of various shapes and sizes, a few HO & N scale vehicles for the layout and diorama. Me? I picked up some more scratchbuilding supplies and a few things for the HO diorama---namely a couple of Walthers grainbins and elevator kits and then I picked up some grain trucks ----lotsa schtuff--Smile

My day will be spent running around doing the HD list that includes the GottaBuy list. Spending the afternoon driving around a slippery road is really not my idea of fun----Sad

Chloe, I'll just have a small fruit salad and a coffee please---I'm going to sit at the RC for a bitSmile

 

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Posted by GMTRacing on Thursday, February 11, 2010 6:46 AM

Good Morning All,

    A regular to go please Zoe.  Sn*w stopped, wind stopped, not too bad out but pretty cold. Ended up with only 3-4 inches of the white stuff at the house. Sanded some walls lat evening and will need some more primer to follow up. CFO had started the other basement walls while I was gone so I'll wait til she's done and then final clean and apply the foam insulation. We have entered discussions as to what goes where once we're further along and the layout may be moving back to the basement due to concerns about sawdust, finish and sealent smells, etc from the woodworking. There is also a much greater risk the wood shop would burn than a layout.

JP - I don't envy your decision. I think the best advice was given by Tom. I've been through it as many of us have and doing what's best for your friend is the most important thing to keep in mind.

I've gotta run - lots to do again this morning.   CUL, J.R.

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Posted by LSWrr on Thursday, February 11, 2010 6:37 AM

Good Morning All,

Rob I spent a day going through that web site and cut and pasted a list myself to a word document for later.  Those figures are very nice, but so is the price at almost $2/figure.  You can order all those figures through Walthers. In the search box on the Walther’s web site type in 590-XXXXX replace the X’s with the stock number form the web link I sent you.

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Posted by nik .n on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 10:40 PM

AmanaMedic

nik .n
I plan on making some Federal Signal Corp. Thunderbolt 1003's out of styrene, and animating them with a motor underneath the layout and putting a speaker with a recording of a Thunderbolt in it so that when you press the button, the projector spins and the sound plays.   

Hey NIK .N: Ya just might wanna make an extra one for TODD's trailer park... it'll look good next to the "X number of days since last tornado sign"!Shock You know, I grew up in a city full of those sirens...never knew who made 'em though. Learn something new everyday, I guess. They've got a very distinctive sound...it's imprinted in my brain. As much as I always dreaded the sound of those things...life in Iowa, I guess... I think you've got a neat idea here. I think the "trick" would be to get the spin in sync with the sound (louder to softer to louder to softer as it spins). Are going with the steady tone (3-5 minutes of "For God's Sake Take Cover!" - Bill Kurtis, WIBW TV, Topeka, Kansas, June 8, 1966) ? or the up and down wail of impending doom? Don't forget the Civil Defense symbol...a drop of dark blue paint might suffice. Then again, I think that that Tomkat dude with all the signs had some fallout shelter signs posted recently. A little cut/glue...and your Thunderbolt will be well and truly provided by the Federal Defense Preparedness Agency...

 

Well, depending on the sound module I get, I will have the Alert (the long, steady tone used back then of fallout danger, now used to warn of tornadoes), Attack (The wail of doom during the cold war, rarely used as a tornado siren), HI-Lo, (the fire call) and Pulse (I believe it was also used as a fire call). Here is a video of the HI-Lo, Alert, and Fast Wail (First, second, and last, respectively)

 

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Posted by CNCharlie on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 10:27 PM

Good Evening!

John P, the decision you have to make is indeed a very tough one but I always think it is a quality of life decision. Can you give your furry kid better quality of life by having the surgery? You also have to consider the age of the pet. I have a little Westie who is now 15 and we think she may have bladder cancer but after consulting with the vet we decided not to do the investigation to find out for sure as she is just too old and frail to do anything about it. Believe me I really do sympathize.

Chris, hope you manage to squash that cold bug. I once had a friend who swore by NioCitran made with gin.

Again I find myself in here late so a short visit only. Hope to stop by soon, plunk myself at the RC and drink a few gallons of coffee.

CN Charlie

 

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Posted by AmanaMedic on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 10:06 PM

nik .n
I plan on making some Federal Signal Corp. Thunderbolt 1003's out of styrene, and animating them with a motor underneath the layout and putting a speaker with a recording of a Thunderbolt in it so that when you press the button, the projector spins and the sound plays.   

Hey NIK .N: Ya just might wanna make an extra one for TODD's trailer park... it'll look good next to the "X number of days since last tornado sign"!Shock You know, I grew up in a city full of those sirens...never knew who made 'em though. Learn something new everyday, I guess. They've got a very distinctive sound...it's imprinted in my brain. As much as I always dreaded the sound of those things...life in Iowa, I guess... I think you've got a neat idea here. I think the "trick" would be to get the spin in sync with the sound (louder to softer to louder to softer as it spins). Are going with the steady tone (3-5 minutes of "For God's Sake Take Cover!" - Bill Kurtis, WIBW TV, Topeka, Kansas, June 8, 1966) ? or the up and down wail of impending doom? Don't forget the Civil Defense symbol...a drop of dark blue paint might suffice. Then again, I think that that Tomkat dude with all the signs had some fallout shelter signs posted recently. A little cut/glue...and your Thunderbolt will be well and truly provided by the Federal Defense Preparedness Agency...

JIM: Goin' back to Super Trooper Deputy Dummas...it's hard to say where he was coming from. Odds are good he's just a self-important little twerp with a star on his chest. Don't get me wrong, I've known a lot of County Mounties, most were/are really good guys. This one though...makes Barney Fife look competent. He also showed up for the rollover where I lost my glasses...then too, he came flyin' in, disco strobes strobing, all four wheels sliding. Man...whatta show. The Ace Rimmer of cops. (***Red Dwarf reference***)

Welp, time for another bucket of Ed's OJ... maybe even some Barry Burgers for the Vitamin-B in the beef...

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Posted by nik .n on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:40 PM

Hi all!

Mother Nature has dumped seven inches an counting so far, and even the township's old Duce is having trouble plowing the road.

I bought my first "airbrush", and so far it works great. I found out this is expandable, and very easy to use and clean.I plan on making some Federal Signal Corp. Thunderbolt 1003's out of styrene, and animating them with a motor underneath the layout and putting a speaker with a recording of a Thunderbolt in it so that when you press the button, the projector spins and the sound plays.     

Overall, life is great, and the view beautiful. 

Sawyer: Great looking warehouse!

 

See Yall!

 

 

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