Good Evenin', Zoe? A plate of cheeseburgers for Rerun and I...with a vanillia shake for him, and a bucket of Coke for me please 'n thank-you.
Mah-na-mah-na...
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
YAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!
Dum Dee Dum Dum !!!
KEE KEE Kee ripes its cold !
G'Night all. Prayers and blessings.
Flip
fec153 YAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!! Dum Dee Dum Dum !!! KEE KEE Kee ripes its cold ! G'Night all. Prayers and blessings. Flip
OM OM Madme Padme Hum-----
Diddledum dee dum dee doo----
Must be one of those nights----
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/
Well well well, I haven't seen a saturday night this quiet in a LONG time!
Flo, may I please have a hot fudge sundae along with a large RBF? Thank you!
I've had a pretty productive day! Went shopping with the loving wifey. We stopped at a "chain" arts and craft place, I picked up some acrylic paints: Aluminum Metallic, White, and Ice Blue (from the "Dazzling Metallic Elegant Finish" line). I bought these colors to test and see what they do with the lighting I currently have in my kitchen/breakfast area, which will be approximately the same lighting as my layout will have. If these work out, then I will buy a spectrum of colors from the same companies. I also bought brushes, and a battery operated fiber optic light set. I plan on trying to use the fiber optic for lights on the signs, building, and "ground effect" lighting around the Diner! This should be rather interesting!
Well, it's off to bed I go! Have a great night my friends!
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)
fec153LOL- Jeff, if I saw that at a train show, I'd offer $2 only because of the couplers.
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Evening all. Janie, I'll take a chocolate shake, thanks.
Wow, busy day. Had homework all day. Then I had computer problems, AGAIN. GRRRREEEEAAAAATTTTTTT!!!! AWESOME! COOL! grrrr....
So, what's new with you guys?
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ns3010So, what's new with you guys?
jeffrey-wimberly fec153LOL- Jeff, if I saw that at a train show, I'd offer $2 only because of the couplers. Thanks. I'll keep that in mind when I think about posting anything else. Right now I'm just experimenting to see what I can and can't do. Seeing something somebody else did isn't good enough. I have to do it for myself.
Ah don't mind me.. I'm just enjoying the pics. Thanks Jeff.
Evenin' Kinda sparse in here ain't it. What, Barry was singing? That'll clear a place out fast.........
Sounds like those THAT are here have been experiencing a touch of "Cabin Fever" huh? Must be something good on the Idiot Box I guess for the rest.
Oh Chris..... "Doot Doo, bah dobah!"
Anyway I'll have a nice cup of decafe and sit and listen to the guys who are here for a spell. Looks like they are all in the back by the stove so I'll go join them.
I have been w*rking on the flooring and side walls for the workshop attached to the engine house. Definitely a learning experience.
Prayers for all in need, including all those affected by the Earthquake in Chile and the resulting possibility for damage around the Pacific basin. Glad they evacuated the areas of Hawaii even though It turned out not necessary. Better to be safe!
Have a good night!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good evening folks: Here's today's outhouse
Keith:
A convexed cast? This is for the layout.. I need and want something like this. I'm trying to do a 'Lookout Point' .. with some type of over hanging cliff. I did it with a bananna~.. lol. Yeppers.. I laid it down.. taped the mold over and.. painted plaster on top.. then added some plaster strips for strength.. also it made it very light weight. Ok....
Jeff:
That's like that stupid idiot from D.C. who suggested repealing the laws of physics.
It was a mis-tint on the mistake rack so it only cost $1 (half pint).
Looks like bedtime again. Goodnight all, and God Bless. Prayers continuing for all in need of Healing, Comfort, Prosperity and Peace.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Todd. ... I'm still sad about your grandson, Anthony. I hate to think of a 2 year old in so much pain. You said he may have surgery, too. We're praying for him .
I was working on the layout today, and I am installing switch machines for the freight yard ..
Here's a story you might like
In a warm igloo, an Eskimo mother is holding her little boy in her arms and reading a nursery rhyme to him.“Little Jack Horner sat in a corner eating his ---”“Mother, mother!” interjects the little boy.“What is it, son?”“What's a corner?” asks the little boy.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Couldn't get the gumption to go in the train room. (yawn) Maybe tomorrow. Watching Beauty and the Beast on Sci Fi and having a nice Hawaiian Punch. Not the greatest show but the Hawaiian Punch is good. Then off to bed.
Prayers for those in need.
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.
der5997Jeff: That's like that stupid idiot from D.C. who suggested repealing the laws of physics....wasn't that something! If you haven't seen that one folks, email me and I'll send it.
Ah..... False! http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/physics.asp
Der john ... just for you ... it has bio-degradable fuel ... You don't want to smell the exhaust.
Just a quick cuppa joe!!!
Keep your nickel as souvenir from Big Joe and Phantom 309!!
Sorry I haven't been on here this week!!!
Got sidetrack in that Wewoka Switch!!!
Plus,my federally mandated hours were up!!TABunch for the coffee,gotta run and watch SNL!!!Holler at you guys manana!!
Hee hee hee...
RAY: Thanks! I was wondering if anybody was gonna pick up on THAT... In Loving Wife's cluster of cubicles...all it takes is one person to do "Mah-na-ma-na" and before long, "Doot do be dobah" is heard...and so it begins!!!
JEFF: For what it's worth, and this is just my half-a-cent worth of 'pinion...you just keep on a-postin' them pics.
Oh whadda day.... edited pics for THAT, finally hammered-out the captions and write-ups. Gotta e-mail THAT part yet tonight, will drop-off the pics tomorrow whilst out and about. Got a wild hair to try Firefox for my web browser. I'm still getting used to it. I axed-out IE 8, discovered I still had IE 7 too! After I got rid of 8, automatic updates kicks-in, wanting to repair/restore IE 8! It finally quit doing THAT...but after I got rid of IE7...now it wants to repair/restore THAT too!
Is there some alarm at Microsoft, when you leave the Borg, THAT triggers a response to get you back into the collective???? Good grief!
Have a goodun', gonna go watch more of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...the original (and best) version.
Good Evening Diners or Good Morning if you're east of CST.
I haven't been in for a while and it sure took me a long time to catch up on the posts, even just skimming them.
Todd, I really hope your grandson gets well soon and doesn't need surgery. That is really not a situation a little guy like that should be in and the cause of it just makes my blood boil.
Ulrich, the situation in Canada regarding a house mortgage is much the same as you face. If you sell your house for less than the mortgage you are liable for the shortfall here too. Only on conditional sale contracts, such as a car purchase loan is a bank forced to write off any shortfall on a loan if they repossess. Here ususally people declare banktrupcy as a means of getting rid of large debts they don't have a reasonable prospect of repaying. Luckily we really didn't have a real estate decline of any significance and prices have started to rise again. Mind you interest isn't tax deductable so people tend to be a little cautious with mortgage debt as are the banks.
I went out to Michaels today and picked up a few shades of blue paint for the harbour water. I probably should do it with a murky brown cast as that is the look of Lake Erie but hey, it's my water and I want it blue! Tomorrow I will paint the pink foam base and perhaps cut out the area for the harbour but I don't think I'll do much more until I get the lighthouse kit and see exactly where it will go. We won't get down to our friends in Thief River Falls until the end of March where I have my internet purchases delivered so I have a lot of time to work on that water colour. I put a Branchline Blueprint boxcar kit on the work bench and if I work at my usual speed I might get it done by the end of March.
Still winter here but it is supposed to get to freezing tomorrow and it will be sunny so basically a spring day.
Well Robbie is ringing the little bell by the back door which means " I have to go Dad" so bye for now.
CN Charlie
I've applied a third shade. On this side I'm going from light to dark. On the other I'll be going from dark to light.
Good Morning Folks,
how can a decent hard-w*rking guy like me sleep, with all this a hum diddle dee doo and mah-nah, mah-nah going on in this Diner!
Chloe - Chloe? You can take those plugs out of your ears now, the guys have stopped humming. I´d like to have cafe au lait et trois croissant, avec beurre et marmelade de ceries, svp.
Did not sleep well last night, got up and dressed and went for a walk outside. It was warm outside, + 12 C. It´s those worries about Petra´s and my future that keep me from sleeping. I feel so helpless and insecure, because there is nothing I can do to prevent the worst from happening. Just sit down an wait for disaster to strike.
I wish I could be reporting on some mrr issues instead of ranting about my misery...
To be is to do! (Socrates)
To do is to be! (Sartre)
Doo bee doo bee doo! (Sinatra)
Have a good Sunday, all of you!
Sorry for the bad quality, but making digital pics out of slides does not always work well.
Heartland Division CB&Q Der john ... just for you ... it has bio-degradable fuel ... You don't want to smell the exhaust.
Its suspension wasn't dialed in!! No wonder there was a burnout on one side!! He was sittin' crooked!
Good Morning---
Another piculous day for us'uns as we still have the weekend seminars AND church. After that I get to try to deal with building up a conveyor system for my Williston Cooperative elevators----maybe
Ray, Chris: Ba doo ba doo-----I think---- Our office seems to do that A LOT.....
Chloe, I'll have a toast with jam and a large bucket of rawcaffeine please---I'll be at the RC for a bit here
Good morning, all. Janie, just toast and black coffee , please.
Jeff- the reefer is looking better. The second coat is very realistic.
Ulrich- What will be, will. To bad that loco got into the picture, was trying to see the city.
The temperature is at or near freezing at DeLand and Daytona. Many bikers camp out at the fair-grounds. When Deb was making things for the bikers back in 2001, we brought and gave some warm clothes to who ever need them. It is about 35* here in Eustis. No snow or rain at this time.
Too soon we grow old- To late we get smart.
Blessings and Prayers.
Good morning All,
Regular and a coffee roll to go please Ruthie. I see Vinnie has the debris from the critters mostly cleaned up. With the deer gone I suppose we can try putting flowers back in the vase ?
Back in the shop to take another swing at it. Found one last wiring fault on the Lotus11 and i need to finish the harness for the Lotus 23 then align and balance it. After that we need to load up the trailer.
I see we've been prolific again this weekend so I'll leave the catching up for tonight when hopefully I'll arrive home at a reasonable hour. CUL, J.R.
Good morning. Its cool, and no snow. Maybe its starting to slow down.
Not much planned today. Pretty much take it easy. I'm sure going to watch USA vs. Canada.
Hope everybody has a good morning.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Robby P. Not much planned today. Pretty much take it easy. I'm sure going to watch USA vs. Canada.
Should be doing the same today. NASCAR can wait for Olympic hockey lol; there's a race every weekend but I'm lucky to see an NHL game once a month
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Good morning all.
Did anyone else see, what appeared to be, an outhouse driving down the highway? Maybe I need some coffee.
Jeff-I’m no artist and I can’t match a color if my life depends on it. (that’s why my entire wardrobe consists of blue jeans, they go with anything, colors, stripes plaids. Neutral color hats, and black and brown boots.) And I can’t tell names of colors. I can see different colors, just don’t know what they are. But, there is a color or something I’m not diggin’ about the boxcar. My opinion, and I’ve been known to differ from the masses, but I juuuust can’t put my finger on it. Keep tinkering, you’ll get ’er sooner or later. But of more concern. The Hair Snakes. I see your problem with Hair Snakes you've mentioned before.
Colors, I’m real wacked out on colors. I have a color astigmatism. Example, Chloe, please lay out several colors, red, blue, brown, green, burgundy, maroon and aqua, for instance, and ask me to identify them. Thank you. Now give me tie to forget what I picked. dum de dum (three seconds have passed) OK long enough I've forgot. I can see 7 different colors. However, depending on the light and the density, value (whatever that is) and shade of the color, I may have trouble differentiating between the green and brown. Most times not. BUT, with those same issues with the light and the density etc of the colors, I may not be able to assign the proper name to the color. I may call Burgundy, Maroon, I may call the green, brown Aqua I may call aqua or green,or possibly light blue depending on what dominant color I pick at the time, and yes aqua looks like a blue green to me( I assume the same appearance to you) but I also round my colors in speaking. Now, and here’s the weird part for you people asking, “how did he ever work on car wiring” IF you were to say here is the colors you are looking for or pick this color out, I can do it without a problem, possibly except for like Maroon or burgundy, wine... something like that because, though they all look different to me that would be a color I don’t know, or care, which one is which. They're just shades of red. Odd eh?
I’m up and dressed for Church. No excuses this week I even went to bed early last night. Besides, the McVickers have fellowship and man can she bake!
Have a Great Day!!!
Todd: I can relate to your thing about colors. I'm somewhat colorblind myself. I have trouble with blues and grays. I can see several shades of blue but other shades of blue show up as greens. I can see light gray and dark gray but the various shades in between show up as white, black and silver, hence the reason I don't use blues and grays much.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe I'll have the #2 special, eggs over easy, bacon, home fries, and a double order of sourdough bread toast all to go along with my dark raost coffee in a FGLK mug. Thanks you! I'll go sit in the front booth and watch the little white thingies floating by on their way to Syracuse........
It is currently 32°F here in the Finger Lakes with a forecast high of 33°F this afternoon. There are a few sn*w showers and flurries hanging around being caused by the good old Great Lakes Effect machine. No real accumulation of the stuff is expected.
Huh? What's that Robby? War between the US and Canada........ What happened!?! Oh a game.... Hockey? Aaaaahh, the Olympics! USA playing Canada....... One or the other will probably win don't you think? (Dang hearing aids.....)
Chris, I did an arrangement of the original "Ma-na-ma-na" by Piero Umiliani with my 6th. Grade Middle School Chorus a couple decades ago. By concert time you couldn't go anywhere in the school with having someone go, "Ma-na-ma-na" and everyone else singing "Doot doo bah doo bah". Most of the faculty was no longer speaking to me as they couldn't get through a class with out it....... The "cool" teachers just played along and it died out in their classes. Of course a certain music teacher joined in every chance he got. Used to pop my head in a couple of the 6th. grade classrooms and sing, "Ma-na-ma-na" and then scoot down the hall to my room. I have always loved the Muppet version of the song. BTW I had several 6th. graders do some Scat Singing after we ran out of the original verses in the concert.
Overslept again so I won't make Church this morning..... I will do penance by getting everything ready for Deacons this coming Wednesday.
Time to get the woodstove fired up for the day.
Later!
Mor'in All; First things 1st. I'm totally colorblind to red and green,that was why I was used in country I could see what other people could not, Kathy made me a color wheel so that I can tell most color and thats why all of my photos are in black and white,and I still use a Nikon...........INCH WOW!!!!! 24 thats great also good looking youn'um....JEFF the boxcar looks alot like what we have sittin' out here after a couple of years of sittin in the salt air. Keep up the good work........RC I wish I could go back with you and team I enjoyed Sebring back in the '60's, usta race an old 3000 Healy lots of fun.............TODD Prayers are getting bigger now on proyer line thru church group here. My littlest Tiger ( cat ) nibbled on my nose this morn at 5am wanted food and then out so in process one out and one in (jr) left mole in driveway for me and then ate his fill of canned food,then went to sleep on his rug in front of heater...........Started to glue track down sat. got about 20 ft. ang got the switches done, took me about 2hrs for the switches alone then a break''butts n'coke ,sit down on stool" rest hips and knees gotta git a couple of those rubber mats to stand on someday..The RR is 51in. off the floor and sometimes I need to stand on stool 2ft square and 2ft high good solid plastic ....Alls well here 48 and a little rain no tsumani here.Fair Winds and Following Seas................chuck
Good morning. It's 42 and sunny. The high is due to be in the mid 60's and mostly sunny.I got hold of four solar powered lights yesterday that look like Tiki torches. I was looking for some lights similar to some accent pathway lights I already had when I chanced to look up at the top shelf where a bunch of different lights were in operation. I saw a couple that looked very similar to what I was looking for then I saw the Tiki torch and all the others paled into insignificance by comparison. It didn't just light a small area underneath it, it lit the area around it. I thought 'The heck with the pale blue ones I thought I wanted. I'm getting these!'. A box of two cost $24 and some-odd cents, so I grabbed two boxes. The lights are adjustable up to 52" in height. I set them up yesterday, two at the end of the driveway and the other two along a path that goes past my neighbors trailer. I saw them in action last night and they made their pale blue counterparts look like garbage. Each Tiki light has a flickering yellow LED that mimicks a flame and looks quite realistic. I'll be getting more of those Tiki lights in the near future.
Good Afternoon Folks,
it´s been a dull day so far. Spend most of the time watching British steam movies on youtube.com and doodling around with some more track plan ideas.
Germany is getting hit by the first spring storm of this year, but , luckily, we are being spared here in our region.
Jeff - that boxcar is coming along nicely!
Have a good day!