Todd: I can see you doing a major change. I'd be wondering though about those unrecoverables and what you'd need to replace everything with. Tourist trap town? If it's the same layout I'm thinking it could be 2 of 'em!!
Lotsa fun!! heeheehee
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/
Now John, those are great home remedies. I'm not sure I have enough b**** to try #2, that could really cause havoc also...LOL LOL.
ULRICH: That is a beautiful and peaceful scene from your living room window, love it !!
ROB: And you guys got more snow today ? It missed us to the south by 200 miles, were OK with that.
SUE: Doggone I missed you in the Diner !!! I heard the guys all bought you lunch !
Got down to 0.2F last night, actually daybreak this morning, down to 12F right now, so it looks like another cold Wolf Moon night here in New England.
Worked on layout today, doing more planning for inclines to keep the grades to 2.5% max.
Time for a hot chocolate, see you guys later, say hi to Duke and Ed if they drop in with Flip.
WA1VEI "73"
Robby, it's 26 outside and no snow. There's like a no-snow embargo on Aiken, idk why.
John, glad I'm not the only one that happens to, lol. I've now learned though, make sure your trackwork is bulletproof. Caught that turnout before ballasting, thank the lord!
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Barry- I'm refering to ground foam and track ballast. Yes I am cheap. Plus the old layout section has code 100, so the track that I do have will probably be replaced so the newest part that is code 83 it will all match.
Problem is I just don't see me being satisfied with reworking the current layout. Ever. Every time I work on it a bit I see something I don't like or want/need to change. I'm wondering if starting over with a plan will be better and more time conservative than constantly reworking a layout that started with no plan. Just ambition and some lumber.
Also thinking about ordering theRealistic Scenery How To Kalmbachs offering up for April delivery.
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.
TMarshAlso thinking about ordering theRealistic Scenery How To Kalmbachs offering up for April delivery
Me too. I've got some ideas that need reworking and that book will help---
Of course I'm pretty happy with the way my layout is heading. The only thing that makes me grumpy are intermittent switches. , overcrowded yards, and disagreeable H16-44's
Hi, it's me I'm back. Sorry I don't mean to hog the floor or blow the doors off the post count, but I'm pretty excited tonight. I've finally found something I feel I can really work with.
I've done some thinking and measuring. I don't know if this works for non subscribers, and I hope it doesn't cause any problems with Kalmbach either but this is the track plan I really, really....really like. With as I said, some modifications to make it a bit more like what I want. Such as a few pieces of track removed, a couple of reroutes here and there. Clean it up a bit for my druthers. But for a template this is perfect for me. Something to work on for the rest of my days.
The room is 28' X 12'6". The room used to be two rooms that the perfect wife allowed me to remove the wall and make one. One door is in the perfect place and that is in the lower left corner and would allow room for the door and the work bench and the storage drawer thing. The other door is on the left side and would be centered just about between the words Cemetery and Hotel. (can't imagine the hotel getting top dollar for a room there.)The door swings in, but would be no problem to remove and reverse so it would open out. Which I planned to do anyway with the last revision of the around the room plan #3004. Since the room is about six inches wider, I would also make the layout wider and that would give a bit more room between the peninsula and the left side. I could also widen the peninsula 12 inches and lengthen the left side and that would allow for a broader turn in the peninsula and lengthen the whole layout. I could also extend the large yard in the lower left an additional 3 feet to meet the wall. OR leave the peninsula alone and just widen the gap at Foxburg and the same amount on the left side. Lengthening the layout, however would move the door farther into the thick part of the layout. Not a real problem I guess, I'd have to duck under to get into the room, but I'll have to duck under to access that part anyway. I know, duck unders, yuck, but at this point I don‘t see a way of getting the door into a narrower part for a drop down or lift out. At least yet. OR just leave the length alone except for the lower right. OR just leave all the length alone period. I must have 8 feet on the lower left wall for the bench and the door. I can lengthen the layout 2 feet comfortably and still have plenty of room, but the door would be completely unusable to access the room standing up. Of course, the part you could access is not an issue with that door as it already has a door that is in an un obstructed location. I do have room to move the whole door down the wall and adding the two feet of length, would put the door just below where the drawing shows their drop down, but I don't know if I can get that by the CEO.
Boy I sure would like to make this plan work. Well, it will work. It has all the things I want. Not necessarily the businesses exactly, but the large city, a couple of small towns, room for the tourist town, a cattle yard and small meat processing plant. Some hills, and more than just a flat plain. Boy this guy has real close to my wants, and pretty much the same space. Why can‘t I think up plans like this.
I'm lucky to have the room, so I might as well go for it. I know it's not gonna happen by this time next month, but At this rate I'll have the trackplan done, the benchwork done, the track laid and trains running, before I get a choo choo moving on this creation I'm fighting with. PLUS I'll have a layout I'll like instead of something I don't have what I want on because I couldn't figure out how to get it all on.
Guys, either talk me out of it, or tell me do it. I know they say the first layout shouldn't be the dream layout, (technically it's the third, but really the second because the first was really the only one completed.)but, I'm passed the rush into it stage, and I know mistakes are made and you can't just get things done with a snap of the fingers. But with your help. I think, no, I know it can do it. Besides, this way the walls can get painted all the way to the floor.
Evenin' Folks!
Zoe I need a hot chocolate with whipped cream on top to warm me up. I'll be in the back booth by the stove trying to get warm.
It is colder than a .......................... outside right now. I have seen it a lot worse mind you and have been out camping in much, much worse, but the thermometer is down to -6°F. Lucky there is no wind, so the wood stove here at home is still heating the entire house for the moment. Still, definitely a Three Dog Night out there! Tomorrow it will warm up a bit all the way up to the teens. I did leave a little heat on in the train room tonight to keep it from getting too cold down there. Hopefully keep it in the low 50s overnight in there.
DerJohn, thanks for the instructions for the Pliobond. THAT is pretty much what I did, and so far it has held perfectly.
Going to have another busy week of meetings next week. I have to clean up the train room and make sure everything is running well as the boys in Troop 1 will be visiting on Thursday Night. Monday night is an MLK Meeting, Wednesday is Deacons. I haven't even thought of getting materials ready for those yet...... Heck, I'm still sorting Art and Poetry from 2 weeks ago. At least I'm not bored.
Hope all of you have a warm, safe, and pleasant night!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Turkey with veggies stew, please.
***Der, nifty window module there.
No snow here, just cold thick mud practically everywhere you step outside. Temp tonight is 23F, so perhaps some of that mud will harden up a bit.
Never made it to the train room. Tuckered out tonight.
Have a nice night all.
Rob
Todd: I'd say go for it. It sounds like a good plan and, with a few adjustments like you posted awhile ago, looks to be perfect for what you wanted---
Ray: What was that about being retired? You just got retreaded? BTW, how many Art/Poetry pieces are you sorting through?
Evening all from PartlyCloudyButNoRainCal:
Weather is supposed to be 'unsettled' here for a few days, then another wet one due in Tuesday. Which means, if the weatherman hasn't completely lost his mind that I can get some more work done on the Little Lady, tomorrow. We're ALMOST past the stripping stage, but still a little bit more to go. Lordy, that paint must have been BAKED on, LOL!
Played Vespers tonight, had a HUGE coughing spell and naturally, it was right during the Homily. Had to go outside and get rid of it. Thank God for those little Listerine strips that you can suck on. Got back in for the rest of it and the choir director asked me if I was okay. Evidently I was Beet-Red from the attack. But I was able to get through the rest of the Mass okay. I apologized to the Priest, he just grinned and said, "Hey, if it GOT to you, then I did my job." Neat Priest.
Todd: Wow--28 by 12 and a half? That's some Major Room in my book. Go with the dreams, my friend! What a wife you've got, letting you have that much space. If you're like I was with the Yuba River Sub, the plans might change while you're working it out, but that will all be to the good. ENJOY!
Ray: Did you say something about 'retirement?' We don't RETIRE, guy, we just take on new projects. That's what keeps us young, LOL! Remember, I tried retirement--got bored. Went back to work and now I'm in the middle of "Carmina Burana" again. And oboy, am I doing some WOOD-SHEDDING with that piano part! It's one thing at 65, it's a whole new Ball Of Wax at 70, believe me!
Ulrich: I love that photo from your window. Where I live, I have to travel about 50 miles up into the mountains to get to snow, but it's worth it.
Well, thought I'd post a couple of photos on the Great Stripping Project. The boiler's down to mostly bare brass, but I've got to work on the front deck and the cylinders, still. I can't do anything about the drivers--using stripper or paint remover will dissolve the insulation on one side, so all I can do is repaint and weather them. But anyway, here's the results so far. I just sorta/kinda put her back together for the photos (less pilot and rear wheels) just so you could see what she's SUPPOSED to look like. Like I said, she's one of the 'little' Rio Grande 2-8-8-2's, built LONG before the USRA's came out (1913) but the Rio Grande thought enough of her to keep her around until 1956. I think she's a little charmer.
Still have a lot of work to do on her, some re-stripping, re-weighting the boiler, re-painting her, natch. I'm thinking of doing the boiler in the green shade that Rio Grande used on the series--kinda/sorta like the "Glacier Green" that GN used on some of their steamers. What do you guys think? Anyway, there's about a weeks worth of work left to do on her.
Can't wait to get her up and running and hauling some freight!
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Hi Fellas & Gals, I see that Sue is back. Where you been girl ? we were getting worried.
Chloe, I know it is cold out, but you know I would still like a RBF and a couple of oatmeal raisin cookies, Thanks much.
For those of you who like READING, I have to tell you about two books. The first I have finished and the second ,I am half way through it.
They are by Clive Cussler.. The titles are "THE CHASE" and "THE WRECKER" and they should be read in that order as they kind of follow one another.
They are both novels written with lots of actual history, and both stories are to do with the Southern Pacific Railroad.
These are great reading as is all of Cussler's work, but being Railroad themed, I can hardly put them down..
I know you will think they are great too if reading is in your bag. I get to do a lot of it at work if I stay off the forums here for awhile.
Check them out at AMAZON .COM or your local book store.
Prayers and blessings to all in need.
Sabbath tomorrow, so off to get some ZZZZZZzzzzzzssssss so I can make it to Church in the morning.
Sleep well.
Johnboy out................................for now.
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzz *Snort!
Good grief!
OK...it's 0130...and I'm sitting here at the RC. Huh. Must've...nope....I did. Dozed off. Woke up just in time to go to bed.
Welp....let's see what's been a-goin' on in here. I thought I was dreaming that a happy/crazy guy was dancing around in here...seems I was only getting woke-up by TODD and his new plan! Thanks fer tacking it up on the wall...I've grabbed my copy and it now sits among dozens of other "great ideeers" in the "Layout Ideas" folder. I'd say, if you think you can tweak it to fit yer needs...then go fer it! I like some parts of it, the really narrow "aisle" in the top half makes me scratch my head a bit. I'd make it through, but I'd be sucking it in and still probably be taking some landscaping with me each trip. Note to self: NO pole-lines and/or signals along the aisle-side in THAT area...
Heck, I might be able to modify either half to fit in my space. But, each half is 12x12, and I've got an odd-shaped room. One wall (north) is 8'0 even, the longest (east) is 13'-8 1/2", then there's the 9'-10" (south), and finally the 7'-7 1/2" wall (west). Yeah.....it's an odd room in an odd house. I call it the "eightball house" for a number of reasons. One being, we're at the corner of Eighth and Ball...another being how it seems no matter what I want or need to do to this place, I'm perpeptually stuck "behind the eight ball." 'Ats also why I put the eight ball up by my name...
IF I get time later today (gotta do the water fight stuff for THAT), I'm going to look...again...at the "Free Haven Terminal RR" plan from the October 1990 MR. For many years, THAT was "the dream layout" that was gonna be like the area around Cedar Lake in Cedar Rapids. I had a bunch of sketches/ideers, switching scenarios, even some diagramed-out ops (like in the article itself). Lost 'em all somewhere over time... I keep thinking it was all in the pile with the genuine discarded CNW switch lists out of the North Yard, from '88-'93...(my era) THAT Mr. RERUN found and shredded one fun day when he was a little puppy.
I fiddled with this plan not too long ago, but discovered one corner would've been about 4 feet (or more) deep...decided THAT wouldn't work so well. I'm going to try the "template" idea of tracing selected areas to fit MY space...might make this fly yet.
May just make something else fly...if/when I discover it won't!
Hey TODD...I think we need a drawing table in here, with a good light table/light box for tracing plans...whaddaya think? It could have its own dedicated coffee pot, and a padded area for repeated head-banging What's THAT Flo? You don't want to have to watch over yet another coffee pot? Fine...we'll do it like in the career fire stations, last man to empty it makes the next pot.
OK...I WAS going to go back to sleep......
Have a great day everybody,
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Todd.. go for it, if you can afford it.
Tom.. nice looking under that paint. Wow~
Jerry, nice caboose.
Jefff? How ya been
Ulrich, I would think you're up by noW~ nICE pice of the snow, I might want to do some of the back side of the mountain like that... So anyways.. Good morning to you and your wife Petra.
Jim, I'm gettin there, wow .. this is becoming an expense... lol.
bye
Keith
Good Morning
or should I better say -YAAAWN ?
Some of you folks stay up late - yessir! Wish I could do it, I start to get sooo tired at 10 pm, that I need to go to bed, but then I wake up in the middle of the night
Zoe, I see you have put my "French" breakfast on the regular menu - very kind of you! Can I swap the cherry jam with the Swiss gooseberry kind? Thank you, Zoe, very kind of you.
It is still sn*wing - not much, but the night gave us another 3" of that wet & white stuff. The weather guessers see no end to this. I am really developing a strong dislike for this season!
Todd - that´s a nice plan and certainly an ambitious one to build. Way too complicated for me, though - I´d never be able to come anywhere near of finishing it. I ´d also like a little bit more leeway in the aisles... (I need it).
John - we used to spend our family vacations in Switzerland. We usually rented a little chalet in the mountains and bought the Hero jam by the bucket - the best I ever had, other than Petra´s homemade one!
Sue - hope to see you a little more often in here ...
I am going to sit in the corner booth to see who´s dropping by...
Have a good one!
Good Early Morning--
Welp.Good Morning Ulrich, nice to see you in here. I see a few people fell asleep in here as well. Chris looks like he's all tuckered out, why's he got a briuse on his forehead? And Todd is all asleep in the corner booth by Duke---must've been a really active night--
Apparently someone forgot to find out what the condition of the classroom area that ended up under water was like. I've got to go there this morning and find out myself--as I could not raise anyone who knew anything Then, if the thing is too wet find out whether anyone done anything to dry it out better Then do some frantic calling and etc.
Chloe, I'll have what Ulrich's having for breakfast please---looks yummy I'll be with Ulrich at the corner booth----mmmm---I notice Flo's been working on the padded room instead----must be Chris's--or was it JimRC's idea? Might help in saving a few foreheads anyhow---
Blazzin Jeff? How ya been
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Good Morning. Was up late and overslept missing Church.
Talked to the wife and she didn't bat an eye. Well, after she found out that the new plan doesn't get out of my space anyway. Didn't really expect her too though. If you think about it as far as she's concerned, so what. Kinda like when she asks me which shoes look better. She wasn't, however keen on the idea of moving the door. Turning it around was fine. I did let it slip about taking most of the basement, THAT got no response other than a quick glance from looking at the TV. Translation: "Not even worth me responding too". Just checking to see if she was listening. If women would do that, there'd be a lot less problems.
Tom- Yes I am grateful for the room. You bet I am. I just can't come up with a decent plan by myself to use it. And yes I'm sure things will change a bit before completion, but I have a good start point.
Chris- Good idea on the drawing table. Especially the pad part. But I do believe we have one, yea, here it is under this pile of trackplans. Sorry hoss, my fault, I'll clean the thing off and re file the plans, won't be needing them anymore it looks like. Yea, the narrow peninsula gap of 6 or 8 inches kinda made me say hmmm, but by adding about 6" to the width that would expand to at least a foot. At 6'3" and 190 with no overhang, 195 at the most ‘til I visit the "Reading Room", the rest of it isn't much of a concern. ( except the duck under) I figure I'd also make a guard out of clear plastic for the peninsula end so that the arm or shirt or whatever, will hit that first.
Keith- HA! Afford it! No way. Unless I do it over several years. Make that many years. Maybe. But, since that was my plan anyway, I figure.... Why not! I'm under no delusion that it will not be very expensive. It will, but so will the thing I'm working on now. They all are. The way I see it, in reality, if the new one doesn't get done for whatever reason, neither will the mess I've got now for the same reason. The difference will be, I'll be working on a track plan I will like. And once the track is laid and the train is running then things will slow down to a super duper crawl.
Ulrich- At 47, might as well say 48 come the 18th of March anyway, and that's just around the corner, I figure I'll probably have the time. Of course one never knows what tomorrow brings, might be shakin hands with St Peter and dancin' around sayin' "I knew it! I just knew it! Naaa na na naaaaa na " before I even get this post done. But I should be fine. Money of course will be the major factor.
EDIT: Made it.
Man with a diner, a kitchen, a modeling room, a library, and now a drafting area, how big is this car?
I have one other reason I may have difficulty getting done. Free time. Just been informed, in the previously mentioned indirect way, that I will be accompanying the Perfect Wife to my Mothers house, to move more of her Shi...things. WILL THIS MOVING THING EVER END!!!!!!
Have a Great Day!!!
Mornin' everyone!
Flo I'll have the #2 Special, over easy on the eggs, bacon, homefies, and a double order of sourdough toast all to go along with a cup of dark roast coffee in a FGLK mug. I'll go sit wherever I can find a seat.... Been busy in here I see.
Tom W, yes we just trade one form of busyness for another. I often envy you being able to be accompanying and teaching those kids. Especially when they are learning Carmina Burana! I guess THAT explains why we keep telling people we have never been so busy in our lives........
Todd....... GO FOR IT!
TMarshto my Mothers house, to move more of her Shi...things. WILL THIS MOVING THING EVER END!!!!!!
Hope I didn't start anything here......
Barry I'd say for just the 3-5th. grade, there is about 300 entries here, and THAT doesn't include the Honorable Mentions which were over 100..... Don't ask! I should have them all set to go back to the school tonight. Problem is they get all scrambled up in the process of judging and have to be sorted by Shool, Grade, Class, and whether they are Art or Poetry. I think this is the last year I am going to touch any of the entries. Someone else should get a chance to have all this fun! Maybe they will decide to change the rules, who knows?
I have to go over to my sister's house in Canandaigua this afternoon to help her set up her new MacBook Pro. Her first computer! See we got her to finally get a digital camera last summer. (Which she nows thinks is wonderful!) Now she found out she needs a computer to really be able to work with and save her photos........ But don't worry she knows all about computers as she had an Amiga Computer in the mid 80's in her art room at school..... She's even getting RoadRunner service since she has cable. But she isn't going to tell anyone her address! "Ignorance is bliss". I'll give her 6 months.
Best get moving and see what I can get done today. Didn't make it to church. I too overslept. Later!
Todd: You should know by now that there is NEVER an end to moving stuff for the wife or the mother in law.
Best to all on sick call and those recovering
Talk to you later
Duke
"Don't take a wooden nickel,because it isn't worth a dime" by my Dad
"There are only 3 things you need out of life:A gentle grade,the wind in your face,and cinders in your hair.....But keep an eye on the water glass!" Jack Evans
Todd- Since you are going to have to do something about the door-way, put in a pocket door.
pc- How is your wife doing?
Prayers for all
Flip [in chilly mid Fla.
Good afternoon. Its sunny but still cold!!
Well I did some running around town this morning (aka shopping with the wife). Now since I'm back home, maybe I can get some work done on the layout. Plus I really don't wanna hear the "soaps" in the background.
Todd.........One thing about my wife is...she gave me the whole basement (other than where a bathroom should be). I still had to do some convincing thou . Maybe a lift out would work. I was using something like Duke said until the wheel fell off. I had to duck under and the wife couldn't at all. I used two re-railers for the lift out part. One on each end of the lift out part. Kinda lets the train re-rail if something happens at the split (where the track was cut). It works real good, and its the first time I even tried to make one.
Sawyer.... No snow, well us PA people dodged a bullet. My home town got about 6 inches, and I thought you might have.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Hello--
We're snowing again.
And I went and found out that there was a blinking hole in the basement hallway so we could not use the dang space so here I was frantically phoning people and waiting for the inevitable lost soul wandering around going--"where'd he go? where'd he go?-" trying to find me. So I managed to get a hold of enough people to get a few more lost souls and we pretty much got everything under control I also left a wonderful message to certain people in charge of such things that reminded them of getting hold of affected staff and such so's we could cancel classes BEFORE we see lost puppies wandering around----
Todd: Is the doorway something you can make into a pocket door? I kinda like Flip's idea there. My door is at the top of the basement stairs so a certain 'Spring' can no longer try to get into the room---paws will, however, show up under the door beckoning "come, come---" BTW--as far as moving---NAH!!
Jeff: As far as Dyslexia is concerned, my sisters "favorite" phrase of all time is the one people throw around at her----"Oh!! Just try harder!!"
I'm going to spend the rest of the day trying to fit a few more sidings into the Williston Terminal yard---
blownout cylinderJeff: As far as Dyslexia is concerned, my sisters "favorite" phrase of all time is the one people throw around at her----"Oh!! Just try harder!!"
Good Afternoon... pot of coffee, double cheeseburger basket....at the RC please 'n thank-ya ladies!
TMarshTalked to the wife and she didn't bat an eye. Well, after she found out that the new plan doesn't get out of my space anyway. Didn't really expect her too though. If you think about it as far as she's concerned, so what. Kinda like when she asks me which shoes look better. She wasn't, however keen on the idea of moving the door. Turning it around was fine. I did let it slip about taking most of the basement, THAT got no response other than a quick glance from looking at the TV. Translation: "Not even worth me responding too". Just checking to see if she was listening. If women would do that, there'd be a lot less problems
Sooooooo, as long as THAT "thing" stays contained within it's limits...she's OK with it...
Loving Wife made it clear early on, THAT I could do whatever I wanted with my office and the RR room...welp, other than cause the imminent destruction of the house...other than THAT..."anything goes!" At the same time, the office and RR room are seperated from the rest of the upstairs by a door THAT can be closed at .... "oppertune times." The arrangement essentially gives me the "east wing" of the upstairs as 'MAN LAND.' Heck, she even railed on a former co-worker who refused, flat-out refused, to let her husband have a "man cave" or "man land." No soup for him, apparently, and no place to hide from his wife (and the rest of the world) either! But back to Loving Wife, I told her I'd be knocking holes in walls so as to facilitate the movement of trains from staging in my office to the layout in the RR room. Like TODD's Perfect Wife, she gave the "quick glance" and went back to Wife World....
ROBBY P: Loving Wife has looked over the BUGS, I'll shoot you an e-mail soon with her directives...
TMarshOf course one never knows what tomorrow brings, might be shakin hands with St Peter and dancin' around sayin' "I knew it! I just knew it! Naaa na na naaaaa na "
Fr. Mychal Judge, FDNY Chaplain (Dec.) was famous for saying "if you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans for tomorrow." Fr. Judge was one of the 343 members of FDNY murdered on 9-11-01 May he and the others never be forgotten.
Sorry, TODD's quote just reminded me of that...
TMarshTom- Yes I am grateful for the room. You bet I am. I just can't come up with a decent plan by myself to use it. And yes I'm sure things will change a bit before completion, but I have a good start point.
AMEN Brother!
Welp...back to w**k. I got a dozen water fight pics uploaded for THAT to retrieve tomorrow during newspaper layout day. Now, I have to bang-out captions and a "graph" or two of copy to go with it all...get THAT hammered-out and filed so Maggie the Creepy Proofreader Girl can have at it yet this evening.
Have a good rest of the day, moving, canceled programs, sn** (or not), etc., etc., etc. not withstanding!
Vincent- Got the package!
ns3010 This unit was built as BAR 54, and is now Stourbridge Line (SBRR) 54, in tourist service on Pennsylvania.
This unit was built as BAR 54, and is now Stourbridge Line (SBRR) 54, in tourist service on Pennsylvania.
You have been watching an episode of "BAR 54 Where Are You!"... Sorry, I couldn't help myself!!!!
Ray- Hope you're feeling better... Glad to hear that your son is "mostly" moved in...
Jerry- Really like that caboose!!! I hope my feeble attempts (somewhere in the mid/far-off distant future) will look half as nice as that does! Two-foot rule my foot! Looks great!
Der- LOVE the home remedies list!!! ROFLMAO Literally!
Sorry, I'm only up to the middle of page 14... see what happens when you work overnights and can't get into your friends for two days... I'll catch up on the rest tomorrow, hopefully
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)
Veggie & fruit smoothie, please.
***Tom, sure do like the details on that brass project loco.
Have a good day y'all.
Good Afternoon, Janie - we'll see if I can stick around a bit longer this time. I'll have a BLT, cheesey fries, and a RBF, please. Thanks!
Good to hear that this sn*wstorm missed some of our southern Diners (NTBCW our Diners who like the Southern...).
DerJohn, good list there! Sent it along to some (non-Diner) friends. I'd second Rob's comments on the window module, especially since I recall when you were having fits with that grade problem at the join line (a while back).
Todd, maybe Missy got into some leftover pizza? Definite argument for an OUTSIDE doghouse... You sound kinda excited about the new trackplan - go for it, fella! As you said, you have the room (and a smidgen to spare), and a plan you like. And, as for that "moving...'stuff'" question, the short answer is NO, not even once your Mom moves on to THAT greater place ('cause then you'll be sorting through all the stuff to determine who gets what and what goes on sale or to the dumpster).... Well, maybe 10 years later you'll be done - but then again, by then you might have track laid down and be running trains!
Still awaiting my new issue of MR. I checked last Thursday to see if it was in the p.o. box, but no luck.
I'll need to post a photo later once I scan the photo in, but I'm gonna be looking for an older step van to get. I have a photo of the van that my Boy Scout troop used for hauling their tents and gear to the Scout camp in the summertime. It was painted in red and white (about half one color and half the other), with the troop number and a logo of sorts on the side. I have two of the Preiser Boy Scouts sets (may get one more) and can sort justify having three patrols with that many figures, I am guessing. Will also use the W-S Campers sets for some smaller tents - I need to find how to make a couple of umbrella tents (back then, the leaders usually were in those, and our family got one like those for our own use). Now, how to get enough space for (at least part of) a Scouts campground...
Tom - impressive job on that articulated of yours! I'll pass on that question about the green, never having seen the Rio Grande color scheme.
Chris, are you thinking that you might snag a button or two on any power lines along that narrow aisle? (Hey, I resemble THAT remark!) Sounds like you had a little fun at the 'waterfest' you were shooting. (heh, heh, heh...)
Hey, Barry, I didn't come up with the padded room idea - and I think Chris just wanted one padded place on the wall, not a whole room. I get more of my w**k as is, without having this place remind me of it! I'm getting by with about 5 hours of snooze time last night. One that ended with me getting home around 1:15 a.m., and then a few minutes after 6 a.m., the dang pager goes off again! (Ouch, that hurts!) But at least I was able to catch all of the church service this a.m. (from the lobby, on their TV screens out there). Figured if I did get paged, I'd disrupt fewer people by leaving than if I were sitting in the sanctuary area... Tonight, I'm asking the Big Boss for a chance to catch up on my sleep THAT I didn't get last night.
Jeff, hope your dyslexia gets itself (better) straightened out soon. Sounds like a big bunch of bother, and possibly headaches, besides!
Ray, your sister's last computer was an Amiga, in her classroom, in the 1980's, right? (chuckle... snort.. hee, hee... Well, good that it wasn't a Commodore VIC 20...) At least her first (personal) computer is a good one!
Sam - snicker...
Think I'll be at the window booth, enjoying the afternoon sunshine (which looks warm, mostly because I'm INSIDE now!).
Blessings and Prayers,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
I'm back, I'm back, yee haw I'm back. Now to do some work for me. Layout work that is. First I must remove the structures and rolling stock. Luckily, I have acquired some smaller plastic containers and drawer things from mom's uh, er, excess. She decided, after three times me handling them cause she had to have them, she doesn't need them.
Ray- No my good man you din't start anything. Since you appear to be done moving for the most part, I shall now remind you I have been moving my Mother for two years now. Not a typo, two YEARS. Of course the moving is how I found my layout and got back into this hobby, and also met all you fine people. So though the packing and moving is a pain, I have received so much good I am not complaining it happened. Just that it won't end! Two rooms to go then the garage and pole barn and a shed. There's no end.
Jeff- How well I know. How well I know. Moving is a never ending thing. To bad Dyslexia isn't standardized. We could just mix up the letters appropriately and you'd know what we wrote.
(sllllaaap) OW! I wasn't making fun Flo! He knows I know it's a serious problem, but gee whiz, you gotta admit it was at least worth a grin ... (slap!)
Duke- Hey you're up. (must have read my mind that I also am entertaining the idea of changing eras to include steam). Good idea with the creeper seat. But the bench work wil only be about 40 inches to the top. Depending how thick foam I use, not going to use expanded foam this time I'll use extruded like most others, I'm not sure I can get my tall skinny self under it.
Flip- Not sure my carpentry skills are up to that pocket door. The door opens into the main room of the basement....., wait, just a minute. "hey Honey......" Nope, got a strange scrunched up look from the CEO.
Robby- A lift out or dropdown hopefully will be the answer. Where and how will have to be worked out.
Chris- Maggie the Creepy Proof Reading Girl. Hmmm. You gotta tell us about her sometime.
Oh my gosh. First Garry, now Sam. "Bar 54"? (groan)
Jim- Oh don't think I haven't run that through my mind countless times. I'd be happy if she lived forever but that won't happen and aside from the obvious reasons, I dred that time also because the moving again will be back in my face. Of course it may not be as bad, after my sister swoops through and claims her "due" it's Goodwill truck, come pick it up. Mom has been giving us what we want without my sister's input all along so basically there will be nothing except very little we will want. She knows sister will want stuff that we want and since she is never around and Mom says Brenda has been more of a daughter than her own, she wants to make sure we get whatever we want. And more. Ugh. By the way, I hope you get the MRR soon, this one is just packed with stuff good for building. It's definitely a keeper.
Well the smell of supper is wafting through the house and I have a few more trips to unload, (see it never ends) then..... Begin disassembly process. Already got some good change ideas, unfortunately I can't change the PDF files so I have to print out and transfer to graph paper etc etc etc. I don't need a plan to take things apart and paint walls so...... TTFN
JimRCGMOJeff, hope your dyslexia gets itself (better) straightened out soon. Sounds like a big bunch of bother, and possibly headaches, besides!
TMarshJeff- How well I know. How well I know. Moving is a never ending thing. To bad Dyslexia isn't standardized. We could just mix up the letters appropriately and you'd know what we wrote. (sllllaaap) OW! I wasn't making fun Flo! He knows I know it's a serious problem, but gee whiz, you gotta admit it was at least worth a grin ... (slap!)