Elliot's Trackside Diner XXV- Milepost 25

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

fec153

Garry- That would be a heck of a way to find out who your friends REALLY are!!!!!! lol

Geezer

 

Just having fun. Can I call you "Geez" for short?

Edit .... Flip ... I just thought of this. That photo would make a great prop for an Avodart commercial. Perhaps it would encourage some men to use their product.

....... Oh never mind ....

Enjoy the day.

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

LSWrr

Garry, I really like the backdrop of the houses and the old barn, where did you find that?  Is that a picture you picked up?

Lee .... I save old calandars, catalogs, etc. that may late become part of a backdrop. In this case, the dark barn on the left was at the edge of a calandar picture, and I had to paint the left end of the barn to match. (My part is the slppy part.)  The road in the caladar scene was repainted to match the road on teh layout.

One more point. My roads always slope upward at the back of the layout. It looks better than if the road is horizontal until it reaches the backdrop which is vertical,

[fec153]

Garry- That would be a heck of a way to find out who your friends REALLY are!!!!!! lol

Geezer

 

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

N O T I C E

The restrooms in the diner are closed for repair until further notice. You may use the outhouse behind the building. Thank you for your cooperation. ....... The Manangement 

 

 

 

[fec153]

Reread this and an old memory popped to my mind. I was 16, made a delivery to a mechanic and he ordered a fuel pump for a model A from me. Got back to the store to look up the number and couldn't find one listed. Asked my dad and he started to laugh. They didnt use a fuel pump, it was gravity fed  Darn, I'm old. That was long before most of you were even thought of.  Glad I can laugh at myself.

Think I'll change my name from Flip to " Geezer" , the OLD being understood.             lol

..

[blownout cylinder]

jeffrey-wimberly

LSWrr

Jeff, while I was in the service my favorites were:

I need a bucket of prop wash
I need 50 feet of shoreline with an eye in one end
No I wanted the eye in the other end!
Go weigh the anchor
I need a left handed metric crescent wrench
go find the keys to the sea chest
I need one gallon of bumblebee paint
I need two buckets of steam
You need to tie a dragon bowline and a Bowline on a bite
You can’t leave until you get a proper haircut

One of my favorites when I was in the army was to tell one of the newbee truck drivers to go to maintenance to order new muffler bearings for his truck.

I ended up placing this in my list of good stuff!!

Good Morning!

Up and at'em----yeah right! I got church stuff to do AFTER church so I be a busy little camper....

We are having sun today with a high of 5C!! Tomorrow back to s**w and wind and grrrr--get outa my way---grrr drivers as we get 4-6" of the stuff

When I finish my church stuff later today I be going with Audrey and have a nice repast at our favourite little restaurant near here-----we need to do dis you know!

Chloe--I'll have my usual breakfast bagel and coffee please---I'll be at the RC this morning---

 

[fec153]

Good morning all. Hi Jannie, western omelet, whole-wheat toast and black coffee, please.

Lee-Have you looked at Cat Tom's layout? His locos are great but his scenery and bridges are terrific.       

J.R.- Didn't know you got your feet wet in 'Nam. Welcome home, sailor. You and Fergie could tell tall tales about weather at sea.

Garry- Nicely done. I like the forced perspective with the road at Praire View.

Sam- Bev-Bel used mostly B B kits and painted them in correct colors for the roads they represented. I have a bunch in different roads. Four in particular in G N with different road numbers. Wanted more but low in funds at the time, [ still am but haven't seen them anyway. 

Prayers for all of us. Enjoy the day.

Flip

 

[LSWrr]

Good morning all,

Garry, I really like the backdrop of the houses and the old barn, where did you find that?  Is that a picture you picked up?

Sam, sounds like a good start.  I did the Betsy’s Diner kit for the club layout from Walther’s, it came with an interior.  I’m looking for pictures of your Route 66 diner.

Todd, no offense taken.  I had some tunnels on my last layout and now those are just sitting around.  I’m glad the group thinks I’m some sort of master manipulator of the HO-Scale train set, but I think there are many very talented people in the group here that can put me to shame, LOL. 

Well today I need to work on the round house and the turntable pit.  I really need to get that done and move on with the other projects in the train room.

[GMTRacing]

Good Evening All,

   Long day at the shop and the CFO is off to the horsepiddle for a sleep study so I'm batching it tonight.

Lee - no leave without a haircut? So that was you eh? We did have an Admirable spend who knows how much time (more likely his staff spent the time) publishing a 20 page booklet in proper grooming standards complete with color glossy photos (no paragraph on the back of each one though) that was sent to the entire 7th fleet (including those of us in the Tonkin Gulf).  Made for entertaining reading and was the cause of much mirth at his expense which I claim no knowledge of. It was ok on duty as I was standing watch 12/7 in a little tiny room with 6 other techs so no trouble there. Going out into the rest of the ship was another story and I admit to buying Brylcreme in large quantities to disguise the real length of my hair (had some back then as well).  Imagine Elvis with a beard and glasses. Mostly worked. Really I thought there were better things to worry about in the middle of a war but there you go.My section chief and OIC were happy we were doing a good job and didn't sweat the small stuff.

Ray - I assume you've checked that the trucks aren't fouling anything right? Whose cars are they? If the trucks are binding I assume they are three axel. Any chance of cutting the flange off the center wheels making them blind? Or swapping the trucks for two axel versions? Or just removing the center axels? Having said that I have a set of Rivarossi and AHM heavyweights that I take to the train shows and run around 18"r curves with no problem. U did have no end of trouble with my Walthers 89' cars derailing everywhere until I trimmed the undercarriages. Bachmans also work on tighter radii due to their two stage articulated coupler pockets.

  I'm really glad those oil tenders didn't turn out to be mobile barbeques. . There was a tv show featuring some wild set ups for tailgating but none quite that big.

I'm catching up on posts again but will try to get some shut eye now.   CUL, J.R.

 

[TMarsh]

Just stopped in to say goodnight aaaaand......

Sawyer- Don't sweat it. I seem to recall a professional football player running the wrong way one time and another spiking the ball BEFORE he got to the end zone. Did I mention these were professionals?

Lee- Double track eh. Well, I appreciate the offer, but can't really use double track portals. Thanks anyway. And yes I know you have more pictures.I visit your site occasionally. I have yours, as well as Tom's and Ray's favorite placed and go snooping through them from time to time. Gives me inspiration. And at the risk of being called a copy cat, several ideas.

Actually to those of you who post photos, I hope you won't get upset to find out that I glean yours for ideas too. In fact if you were to look at my minds plan of my layout, you would see a little bit of something from everyone in there somewhere. Maybe a part of a fence I liked, or a small structure idea in a scene of yours, maybe just the way something sits. Trying to come up with some kind of place that would have a couple few of those sheet metal stacks that Robby showed us how to make too. Sorry, can't help it. Way to tempting of stuff you folks have.

Jim- No. There will be a peninsula that will extend farther out and the track will go behind Gold Creek and around the peninsula which will go around the tourist trap town and then past a proposed Lumber yard and then the trailer park, around the room to the down grade and then on to.... Well haven't got what will be there yet and then reconnect. I have the track plan just not all the scenery yet. Well actually I don't really plan on having an industry on the wall behind where I was standing. I more would like to have another small town and a strip of highway with just businesses paralleling the tracks, of course.. Haven't figured out the space or what I'll end up having yet.

Well time for some shut eye. Starting to get fuzzy eyes. And with the characters that have been wandering around here lately, that's not a good thing.

Prayers for those in need.

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Hello ...

Lee ... I like your post about the military. In particular, I like th two buckets of steam.

On roads, I don't always use cardboard. Downtown Blackhawk, for example, sits on a piece of 1/4" plywood painted concrete color. The highway bridge deck is a sheet of styrene.

Here's another picture of the cardboard road in Prairie View. It gets more narrow as it goes toward the backdrop.

 

Here is another road in Valley Heights. The cardboard road has the same color as the one it meets at the backdrop. Trees block the view of the transition point.

 

JimCG asked about the construction adhesive. It is the kind that goes in a calk gun such as liquid nails. The stuff is not a liquid though. I sometimes need a thick layer of adhesive, and therefore I need to wait a few days for it to harden before doing more work.  

 

 

 

[Trainman Sam]

Hello all!

I just got home... and caught up on the days goings on here!  I see we had the King of Prussia here while I was IN King of Prussia, PA!!!  How ironic!

Well, I got a few things:

Two kits, one from Pikestuff, Angine house(1 or 2 doors), and the other is from City Classics, Kit #110 Route 22 Diner (I figure I HAVE to have Elliotts Trackside Diner on my layout, and this little kit just begged me to buy it!

I got a Reading Caboose (In the colors that they were on the NH&I, and I got it for a bargain, the guy had three of them two were marked at $7, and this one was marked $5!!! It's from BEVBEL Corp.)

I also bought my wife a car!  She has mentioned that she likes the Mini Coopers, so I bought her one in Metallic Blue and 1:87 Scale!!!  She liked that I was thinking about her at the train show, she didn't go ( She knew she woulda been bored if she did go...).  I'm gonna park it at the Diner when I get it built, hopefully sooner rather than later!

I ALMOST bought two FA-1's.  One of the vendors was having a P2K sale, and the FA-1's were only $25... I thought about it, and thought about it, and thought about it some more... but the realization that I would have to buy two to run on the NH&I is what changed my mind. THAT would have wiped out my "show" money, and ended my purchasing day at just those two engines (that I DON'T need).  So I am actually very proud of myself that I didn't just jump in there and buy something I didn't need!

Well, I have to head to bed NOW, if I don't I will not get enough sleep and I am exhausted already.

Good night my friends,

[ns3010]

Chris, I don't think I want to find out if it's a he or a she either... 

Sam, hopefully Transit won't have to make any layoffs. But if they do, at least you'll be at the top of the list for when they re-hire (that is, assuming they do). But, hopefully we won't have to worry about it.
Although, I bet that with these budget cuts, Transit is probably regretting buying 4-hundred-something MLs and something like 2.5M apiece...
And those 20-30% fare increases are rediculous... That's a lot!
And no prob. I just hope my description of LB was good enough and understandable to everyone else...

Garry, that's a, uh, interesting, way to make pancakes...

I'm getting kinda tired, so I guess I'll just do more tomorrow. Have nowhere to go, other than church, but a crapload of homework to do...

Night!

[AmanaMedic]

Good evenin', still no raccoon? And the Fox is sleeping...like he had a big meal. Hmmmmmm.

Welp, I'll take a double cheeseburger basket with fries and a large Coke...from whoever/whatever is manning the counter this evening.

TODD: Yep, THAT's prezackly the kinda bridge I pictureated in my mind... Like I said, I've seen dozens of 'em...just never got them on film. Good to see you making progress on Toddland!

JIM: Yeah, it's a helluva gamble for Shueyville to take on their full maximum debt limit. As they make payments to the county, they'll start to build it back up...like making payments on a credit card; but yeah, wow...anything comes up needing a bond issue, they're screwed. Looks like I'll be going to their next city council meeting since the ball is now firmly in their court on this one.

JOE: YIPE! Glad yer feeling better... I'll leave it at THAT!

SAWYER: So it was an error in ball handling...OK, I thought maybe you clonked somebody in a manner not approved!

BARRY: I think most of the drivers' ed around here is still in the schools...though there are a few private programs. I saw one of my former EMT students this evening. He's a cop in Cedar Rapids (SWAT medic too). He said they've been busy this winter. His theory had something to do with lots of..."imports" to the area, i.e.: non-native Iowans trying to drive. Now it sounds like we're in for another "major winter weather event" starting tomorrow afternoon through Monday. Yippee. I don't have anything scheduled (other than scheduling things), and the Wife already had the day off (trying to burn down some accumulated vacation time), so....for once, I'm gonna say "let it s**w, let it s**w, let it s**w..." On the other hand, I'll probably find myself working an accident on Hwy. 30...

LEE: "Left handed shovel" I gotta remember THAT one! Knew a guy who claimed to have done radio stuff during his time in the Guard (he claimed to have done a LOT of things...). He said they'd send the newbies to ask the head Sgt. for "a can of static." My ex-fiancee', who was the training NCO for the unit (ground ambulance co.) told me some others...darned if I can remember them now though, naturally. Heck, right now, I can't even remember the "good" EMS ones...other than having the newbie look for the biggest thing...in the smallest compartment. Or maybe THAT's just what the EMS newbies did by nature...

My mind is failing me...terribly.

THAT my friends, must be a sign it's time to sign-off and inspect the inside of my eyelids...

G'nite,

 

Chris

[ns3010]

Evening again.

Just stopping in. Gonna go catch up for a bit.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

LSWrr

Jeff, while I was in the service my favorites were:

I need a bucket of prop wash
I need 50 feet of shoreline with an eye in one end
No I wanted the eye in the other end!
Go weigh the anchor
I need a left handed metric crescent wrench
go find the keys to the sea chest
I need one gallon of bumblebee paint
I need two buckets of steam
You need to tie a dragon bowline and a Bowline on a bite
You can’t leave until you get a proper haircut

One of my favorites when I was in the army was to tell one of the newbee truck drivers to go to maintenance to order new muffler bearings for his truck.

[Packers#1]

JimRCGMO

Sawyer, sounds like one of those 'live and learn' things. I learn some things the hard way ONE time, and usually don't repeat my mistake for a long ways after that. Hopefully you will remember the next time you're in that kind of playing situation.

 

oh yes. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. You better beleive I'm going to be stoked going into our next game.

[Robby P.]

Vincent.......I use a paint cup you would buy from Lowes/Walmart/etc...   I just pour some (thinner) into the cup and use the plastic eye dropper.  Then from the eye dropper to the air-brush.

[Packer]

Evening ya'll

Not much done today except w0rk and going to an ops session.

Painting the athearn hopper bottoms kind of got put on the back burner. I plan to use testors flat interior gray since it looks closer to the grey of the hoppers I have (DRGW, NW, RI) than the primer gray I tried earlier. I just have to find a way to get laquer thinner from the big can into the airbrush jar, without using a plastic funnel...

Todd, What about front, rear, left, and right brakes. So maybe front left brake fluid could fall into that?

I'm really quite tired since w0rk was a bear today...

[howmus]

Comes in diner, still singing under his breath.......

"Well, the Fox and his wife without any strife,
They cut up the goose without fork or knife,
They never had such a meal in their life,
And the little ones chewed on the bones, O, Bones O, Bones O......."

Oh evenin' Flo!  You're back?  Good!  I'll have, hmmmm, roast goose with all the trimings, a cup of decafe, and pumpkin pie with a dolup of whipped cream for dessert.

Spent most of the day moving more boxes of "stuff" belonging to my son and his family over to their house.  Managed to get a bit more than half of the stuff stored in the storage rental into the trailer.  had to make a trip back to their house as my son forgot the key to the storage building.....  We unloaded about half the trailer this evening, then had a pizza dinner and I got to play with my two favorite little ladies for a bit.....  Fun day actually!

Got back home to find a package on the porch from Kappler Scale Lumber.  Arived quick as it was just ordered on Wednesday I think.  Tomorrow i will be going to the Syracuse Model Railroad Club Open House and Train Meet with a group of guys from the southern tier.  They will be passing by here anyway on their way and asked if I wanted to ride over with them.  One is a MMR in my Division who has become a friend and mentor so I grabbed the chance to have some guys to spend the day with.  Did ya hear me Tim???   I'll be looking for you!  We should be arriving around noon, put the coffee over!

Hope yu all have a good night!

Later!

73

[JimRCGMO]

Good Evening, Janie - still haven't used that broom yet? Remember, it's in that closet by the kitchen door, and I hear it's good for 'cleaning out' various pests, hint, hint. (No, I was NOT referring to any of our two-legged Diners!) I'll have a hot fudge sundae and a Rio Grande mug of coffee, please, untouched by.. Oh, you already know the rest of that phrase? Thanks!

Lee... ROTFL! (Hee, hee...chuckle..) Wonder how hard she'll hit him when she gets home, or did the clerk play along with the routine? For the husband's sake, I hope the clerk didn't tip her off! More fun than having a snipe hunt, sounds like!   Hey, after reading about you needing to finish a mere 15 unassembled rolling stock kits, I think I'm in trouble. Or do I only count the kits next to the w**kbench? (I might be safer then...)

Todd, good shots of the layout progress. Will the track up to Gold Creek be a switchback, or something else?

Robby, of course the ones in MR looked great. Now you know, they might've had to re-build and re-shoot the photography several times to get them to look that way. Probably had to spend 3-4X the time supergluing each loop of the coil and clamping, and waiting and doing another loop, and gluing, and clamping, and... For me, the RTR ones from Athearn that I have will do just fine (especially since I already have paid for them - on sale, natch). I like your sheet metal loads just fine (and will be shooting for something sorta like that). How thick are your spacer pieces on those, wouldja guess (and do they go all the way across, or just at each end)?

My trip to H-L was a bust - couldn't easily find my coupon when I got there, and didn't want to open the trunk and rifle through the bag my laptop was in (and the folder below that) to get it. So I just went in to see what they had. Found the W-S "Washday Getaway" figure set, but it was about $18, so I definitely wanted to wait for another time when I had that 40 percent coupon with me. Maybe next week, we'll see if they run it again.

Barry - that's a bit scary about those local driving schools in your area. I think we don't have driver's ed. locally (insurance rates, probably), but there's one guy who teaches it in this area, and has a car with the sticker on the back of his car. Not sure if he got the 'franchise' after teaching it at the school for a while and then they shut down the program, or what. I have heard that he gives some number of lessons for a set fee (and I guess if you don't pass the driving exam for your license, you get to come back for a 'refresher'). Good luck with getting to the LHS on the 'right' end of town.

Sawyer, sounds like one of those 'live and learn' things. I learn some things the hard way ONE time, and usually don't repeat my mistake for a long ways after that. Hopefully you will remember the next time you're in that kind of playing situation.

[Edit] 

Jeff, as you said, it's good that you got to go out for dinner with your sister, and got a little w**k on some freight cars in.

Hey, Ray - catchy li'l tune there! Been hummin' that one to myself at points in the day, now that I think of it. You and Tim have fun at the show tomorrow!

I'll be at the RC for a little while, chowing down on my sundae, and seeing who else may come in (on two legs). (Also trying to stay away from the various wildlife...)

 

Blessings,

Jim in Cape Girardeau

[jeffrey-wimberly]

 Did a little work on a couple of freight cars this morning then went down to my parent's place to wash some clothes and wait on the Home Health nurse to come as I was she would could come out today after last Wednesdays visit. Well, the clothes were done and I had had watched a couple of TV programs and still no nurse. So I called the phone # I had for them and they said they'd check and call me back. Over an hour later no one had called back so I called again. It was then they gave me a message stating that since I was no longer on the vac therapy they were no longer coming out. I have no problem with that. What I do have a problem with is they had Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to get this message to me. Instead, I have to waste several hours of my time while they take their time getting back to me. At least the whole day wasn't wasted. My sister and I went out to dinner at Las Margaritas tonight. That was a nice diversion. I don't like being stuck at home all the time. My parent's place is OK but there's not much I can do there.

[Packers#1]

AmanaMedic

Packers#1

I got pulled right before the first half ended (probably for the play right before it) and sat out the whole second half. not sure why,

Whadjado? Knock somebody in the scrum??? Actually though, your coach should tell you why. IF you did something wrong/illegal (is THAT even possible in rugby?) as a COACH he should be telling you so you can continue to improve. My half-a-cent...

 

What got me pulled I think was a ball was on the ground and it was rolling and for some reason my brain didn't connect for me to pick it up and then when I picked it up I ran sideways instead of upfield and tried to pass it back instead of just going down which lead to a fumbled pass and a try for the other team. oh well, I'll get a chance at redemption next game.

[Robby P.]

 Lee....The load is made out of gray styrene.  Its 1 - 1/4 size.  I did see the coils.  I tried to make some awhile back, but I wasn't to happy with them.  The ones in the magazine looked GREAT.

[blownout cylinder]

AmanaMedic

It just boggles the mind THAT in 20 years, the number of accidents in "winter driving conditions" would go up so darn much! 20 years ago, I braved blizzards to shoot car accidents as a freelance photographer. I had very, very few to go to. Now...it's hundreds of incidents EVERY time the least bit of snow flies. What changed?

I was thinking about this earlier today as we found a rash of black ice condx that lead to all kindsa ditchdiving. A possible answer? IIRC the MTO here in ON did a recent survey of driving schools and ended up pulling the licenses of about 40% of those schools!! And apparently almost half of those were in the TO area I've a couple of friends who are driving instructors who have nted that there was very little in terms of certification processes actually in that same period you just mentioned.

BTW--the part that went PTOOF!! was in the joint between the showerhead and the faucet of the tub

Good Evening--

Got everything all fixed up and I'll have to resave all that dang money to try and attempt that attempt that I was attempting to attempt---namely visit a certain LHS that is at the OTHER end of town

Flo---I'll just have a coffee for now please----I'll be at the RC for a bit

[LSWrr]

Todd, they are concrete with cut sandstone arches, double track portals.

[LSWrr]

Jeff, while I was in the service my favorites were:

I need a bucket of prop wash
I need 50 feet of shoreline with an eye in one end
No I wanted the eye in the other end!
Go weigh the anchor
I need a left handed metric crescent wrench
go find the keys to the sea chest
I need one gallon of bumblebee paint
I need two buckets of steam
You need to tie a dragon bowline and a Bowline on a bite
You can’t leave until you get a proper haircut

[TMarsh]

Lee- Don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth or sound picky, but they wouldn't happen to be stone would they? If so, I could use a couple.

The third I have scratch material to build a somewhat different type for the alleged age.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

LSWrr

Jeff, maybe you can re-paint that trolley for a more local flavor?   

That's one thing I was thinking about. It has the wrong trucks on it anyway.

[TMarsh]

Cederstrand

***Todd, you will have some kind of arm access to the tunnels, yes? You're making good progress there.

Yes. From the bottom. Doesn't show it well in the picture, but in the back the benchwork is open so I can reach up and remove the inevitable. Unfortunately, if I get a derail on the grade part, it's going to the floor.