HI EVERYBODY!!!Set Em'Up Flo and Play"Walking the Floor"!!!
Sorry for my absence,but I was"Stuck On The Wewoka Switch"*for a while!!
(*Stuck On The Wewoka Switch:During an Oil boom near Tulsa in the 20's,some supplies we were sent by rail to the town of Wewoka.However,due to labor or money troubles,supplies would languish in a siding until the problems were settledSo whenever things went wrong,the citizens of Tulsa started saying"It's Stuck On The Wewoka Switch"!!!Interesting,huh??!!).
Anyway,I got back from Houston a little while ago.Went down to visit my newest Grandnephew Preston Blake Coulter!!
He's a sweet lil'fella!!!Of course,his Uncle John got to hold him and sing"Blue Train";"Beyond the Sea";"Flip Flop and Fly"and"I'm An Old Cowhand(From The Rio Grande)"to him!!
My Wife was very excited as well!!!He's the first one born in the family since we've been married!!
All she had was one nephew while I've had her beat big time!!!
My neice's husband told me heard that Amtrak's supposed to start stopping at either Flatonia;Schulenburg or Weimar soon!!
I told him that I hadn't heard anything about it!!
Anyway Flo,#2 TexMex Breakfasts for everybody por favor!!!
Good evening,
Welp...put some more foundation pieces on the roundhouse, painted the base coat on some foundation pieces I put on/puttied/sanded a few days ago. Finally painted/weathered the roller bearing trucks for a BN cement hopper, and used up the last of my current Dullcote supply on a handful of cars THAT have been waiting for a more temperate climate in the RR room to get sprayed.
Whilst in the RR room, I noticed the height of the step ladder I've got in there, and how well it lined up with the sky blue wall... Grabbing Photo Set No.1(someday to be retired/replaced with the yet-to-be-designed/built Photo Set No.2), I stuck it atop the ladder. Sparks started flying in what's left of my mind... The tripod was deployed! The camera was un-bagged and mounted upon the Mighty BOGEN... A photo frenzy ensued!
And now...you guys will suffer for it, much like a Vogon Captain reading poetry before jetting somebody out of an airlock (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference...maybe the fumes were a bit much in the RR room today...)
Accurail "foobie" with Atlas parts, Athearn hatches, and additional styrene bits to...de-foobie-ize it.
The BN cement hopper started last fall.
Athearn foobie rebuilt from a Pullman Standard to a Portec hopper.
Atlas hopper bought on a whim, will be in mineral service to the Vigortone Feed Plant.
GARRY: I'll have to check-out THAT financial program. I listen to Ramsey occasionally. Usually within but a few minutes, I'm .
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Good evening ...
Thanks, Aztek ... TexMex sounds good to me. .. Glad you could see the grandnephew.
Pat ... I hope it does not take too long for a decision on the paint color.
Chris and Barry ... I think the course I mentioned is worthwhile. It is gratifying to see what people have done. Example is a woman in her 60's who took the class last year starting with massive debt. Since then she has whittled a lot of that away, and has a do-able plan to pay off all of the debt. There's much more to the class than paying off debt, too.
Some of this talk here about wives reminds me of things. Shelley and I have a special kind of relationship and we tease the dickens out of each other. Sometimes we really razz each other, and it gets to the point where if other people overhear our conversations, they could think we have problems which we don't. I recall a time just before Shelley retired from her job as CFO with one of the larger employers in this area. It was time for spring cleaning, and were were outside oon Saturday morning cleaning the deck. It was one of those times when we were really going at it. Our deck faces a large lake, and our voices will carry across the lake. .... Well, the following Monday, Shelley was back at work. A man came into her office who had been fishing on our lake and he overheard our razzing. ... He asked Shelley: "Did you call your husband a *&$% ?" .... Shelley answered: "I might have called my husband a *&$% . He loves it when I talk dirty to him." ... They guy was flabergasted. As he rush out of her office, Shelley heard him muttering: " If my wife ever called me a *&$% , I would divorce her on the spot."
We still laugh at that story.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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Evenon' folks!
Zoe just a cup of decafe for me tonight. Still stuffed from the Birthday Party for my little sweetypie. I'll go sit in the back booth by the stove to get warm.
"We're havin' a heatwave, Tropical Heatwave....." Hey got all the way up to 46°F today under full and gloriuos sunshine here in the Finger Lakes! Highest temperature this year around here. Sn*w is just about gone for the moment.
Well the whole famdamally was there for the party. All of the cousins in the new generation, all 6 of them were there. Yep, six beautiful little girls... Not a boy yet in the bunch! They had a great time playing. They range from 9 months to 5 years old and are great little kids. Sure hope they stay THAT way! Photos will be coming soon so I can brag a bit!
My son's new furniture finally arrived yesterday morning before the party for their friends. Sure helped to have a bunch more seats for folks. They actually bought one large couch and two small (2 seat) couches so they have seating just with them for 8 people.
My big toe ached all day but was bearable until i got home tonight. Right now even after taking an advil (only thing the Doc wants me to use) it is really throbbing. Gout ain't fun! Hopefully this time i can get it calmed down sooner than the last time which was about 3 weeks. I haven't eaten anything which should have brought it on so I really think this is due to the combination of meds the Doc has me on....
Jeffrey, another black-out today? Not good sir! Take care of your self! Sounds like your foot doctor knows how to make gooooooood coffee! THAT is the way I like it! None of THAT woosey stuff..... (Chocolate carmel, fudge, vanilla cream latte with whipped cream...... )
Have a good one!
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Decaf coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
***Chris, neat weathered cars there.
***Jeffrey, I'd take your Doc's Coffee challenge (Tae Kwon Do & Shorin Ryu Karate), but these days I'm a shell of my old self and just not up to that much caffiene. I rather like Elliot's here anyway, as long as it's fresh. BTW, I haven't blacked out yet, but a few times daily I feel close to it. Sometimes if I stand very quickly, I have to bend in half with elbows on knees and concentrate. The legs get tingly and vision starts to go funny. I can't predict when it will hit and fortunately it passes pretty quickly. (result of the treatment I'm following) Sure hope you didn't hit anything when you blacked out, Jeffrey.
Made some progress on the wife's layout tonight, around the farm & the church. Went a little better than the other night. Question: When you finish an area of scenery, do you spray it with something, like hair spray or what? I used the 50/50 elmers & water, mixed with some paint as a base upon which WS stuff was sprinkled, and some fine baked dirt.
Sometimes looking only at the wife's layout and all that needs to be done, it is overwhelming. Whew!
Rob
JEFF: Your coffee descriptions reminds me of the ONE time I was assigned to make coffee for the Central City Fire Dept.'s pancake breakfast. My Chief took a swig, then promptly dumped half the coffee maker's contents into the sink, replacing the discarded amount with water. "You'll put hair on the little old ladies' chests!" He hollered.
Tasted pretty doggone good to me...
After THAT, I went back to cracking eggs.
I got a buddy who is a career firefighter for Cedar Rapids. He specializes in making coffee which comes with it's own MSDS. He allegedly brews-up a coffee concoction he calls "syrup coffee." Again, allegedly (I haven't had the pleasure (??) of trying this stuff), he whips up a really thick, drips slowly off the spoon kinda brew.
jeffrey-wimberlyOther than a black-out earlier today I'm doing well.
***EDIT****
ROB: Thanks! On the layout I built back in high schoooooooooooooool, in my parents' basement, I used hair spray on completed scenery. Don't know if it did any good or not, don't know if it made any difference or not. Seems I read it somewhere, probably in RMC. When I dismantled the disaster area a few years ago, a lot of the ground foam/ground goop/lichen/etc., and who-knows-what all came up in large...sheets; like a dryer filter full of lint.
RAY: Good luck with THAT gout...does NOT sound pleasant.
Jeff, Chris: Yep on that coffee! THAT is REAL coffee! Not this pansie-a----ed Starbuckian dishwater that tries to imitate coffee.
Audrey and I went to our favourite Tim Horton's coffee place just down the road from here---it was a nice ice puddle free walk this time---supposed to be like this until Wednesday now----then we'll get some showers--
Ray: A co worker uses a box in bed to protect his foot from the sheets---no fun at all-- Hope you get well----
Jeff: I be wanting to find out why I be getting blackouts---they be no fun at all Hope you get that looked after-----
'Spring' is running around the house--on top of cupboards, into the yucca bush, into the garden house, on top of bookcases---all filled with piculous energy tonight--- Then he comes up here and bashes my head---he is a big headbutter this one
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/
Got the trainroom where at least I can walk and work somewhat easily around the layout and I have a picture ready for Show-N-Tell Monday.
I like my coffee in a mug. I can perty much drink it anyway it's served. Like tea or mud, I'll drink it.
Prayers for those in pain, healing and in general need (including black outs).
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.
blownout cylinderJeff: I be wanting to find out why I be getting blackouts---they be no fun at all Hope you get that looked after-----
Oh, and speaking of jokes, I was just laughing so hard at an email I got from a certain person on this forum who considers it his business to pry into my life. He says something illegal is going on if my sister got me some oxycodone. Let's see, a physicians assistant talks to her boss, obviously a physician, who talks to one of my physicians who then talks to me about the pain problem I'm having and gets me a 2 day supply to last me until he can see me. I see nothing illegal here. Yeah, it requires jumping through a few hoops but I can get an emergency supply if I need it anytime 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I was laughing so hard I could hardly breath. I'm going to show that to my parents tomorrow. They need a good hearty laugh!
jeffrey-wimberlyOh, and speaking of jokes, I was just laughing so hard at an email I got from a certain person on this forum who considers it his business to pry into my life.
Glad you aren't letting the twit get to you!
Good night everybody... gotta be up early to play newspaper again in the mornin'...
Good morning all,Been a rough weekend; Friday took my girlfriend to the doctors to have her foot operated on. They removed the bone spurs from in between her toes, removed the useless cartilage from around her big toe and installed compression staples to fuse the bones together. They sent her home in a compression bandage with a pain pump. She goes back today to have the pump and the compression bandage removed and a fiberglass cast installed. She will be off her feet for a while.Went to Detroit (Warren & Macomb TWP) to visit my kids, daughter belongs to a comedy club in college and they had a 2 hour benefit for a local family with a daughter who has some serious medical issues.To top things off my mother was admitted to the hospital for a low iron count and a friend lost his brother on Friday morning.I’ll be glad to go back to work in the morning so I can rest up. All is well here believe it or not.Thursday before any of this happened I ordered a new toy: If you look in the front section of the new Walther’s sales flyer you’ll see the ad for the new F7 units, look on the next page and you’ll see the F3’s are on sale. I bought a B&O F3 AB with DCC & Sound.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Jeff: Ah---an e-mail papparazzi! oh well. Do anything and the guy will get all upset, the poor dear I agree with Chris in that they really don't have a life--
Good Morning--
Everything seems to be OK here---no bust pipes but boy do we have POTHOLES! Our street looks to have been chewed on by asphalt eating critters of some type.
We be getting up to 11C today---in the sunshine. This will melt some of the ding snow that still has our backyard buried in it---I checked the depth and we are now at 10" still---the only place I can see bare ground is beside the maple at the side of the house
I'll just have a coffee--yeah my type o' coffee----and a breakfast bagel please. I'll be at the RC
Good morning. Its starting to finally warm up. Still got some snow on the ground thou.
Well it's been a busy weekend for me. Hopefully I can get some stuff done in the basement. I have a BN hopper I need to finish up.
Jeff.....Hope the blackouts don't get to bad. Might wanna make a appointment with the doc???
Chris..... Good looking cars!
Lee.......That was a rough weekend. Hopefully it will get better.
Barry...Don't talk about pot-holes. PA is famous for them. We have so many, the cops probably don't know who's drunk or dodging pot holes.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Good morning. It's 50, dreary and overcast. To top things off it's cloudy. The high will be 60 and it will continue to be cloudy and dreary.I'll be going to town later today to get some refills on several meds including more pain pills. I'll also go by the docs office so he can make an assessment of the pain I'm having. Other than that there's not much going on.
Good morning all. Coffee and a sweet roll please.
Jeff- You have got to be kidding.
Lee- Glad Dorothy is doing well so far. Prayers for your Mother and my condolences to your friend and his family
Barry- Nah, whoever it is will probably get irked that Jeff chose to say something about the e-mail, as if he had no right, and make it sound like it's someone elses fault then publicly lambaste him and us for this and that. Some of us will look up from our coffee's and calmly say something to the effect of "nice to hear from you again" and the rest will ignore him. Oh there'll be a couple who miss the whole thing and come in to say, " gee did Vinnie have to throw someone out? There seems to be something missing" Then he will head out to the main yard and cruise the tracks for other posters he can set straight until he stops in again. No big deal.
OK SHOW-N-TELL Monday!!! Here's where I am on the layout progress.
The OSB is just setting on the near part of the bench. I want to get a feel for how things will be as I work on the peninsula. I may want to have easier access to the back for a little while until I need to move to that part. Then I'll have some track and the elevator to rough in to see if and where I can have an access. I'm feeling sur I will need one now that I see it with the plywo... OSB. I still have to do some bracing on the peninsula and some surface work before I can add the rest of the second tier. The middle back portion of the peninsula will be a lumber yard and the trailer park toward the back on the second level, with hills behind. EDIT: Oh and yes the baseboard trim will be replaced.
Church bookwork then more cleaning and dumpster filling at Mom's then work. No time for MRR today. Maybe.
Have a Great Day!!!
P.S. By the way, if it looks like I might miss something today (I might not make it back until late tonight), would someone copy and paste anything that may seem of value or interest and PM it to me.
Coffee in a SOUTHERN mug, please.
***Todd, Nice progress there!
Not much sleep. Went ahead and got up to do the barn chores early. Waiting on wife to return from the hospital (work) so she can give me a hand with getting through some gates without any great critter escapes.
Speak of the devil...er, I mean BELOVED, there she is pulling in now. Rob
TMarshBarry- Nah, whoever it is will probably get irked that Jeff chose to say something about the e-mail, as if he had no right, and make it sound like it's someone elses fault then publicly lambaste him and us for this and that. Some of us will look up from our coffee's and calmly say something to the effect of "nice to hear from you again" and the rest will ignore him. Oh there'll be a couple who miss the whole thing and come in to say, " gee did Vinnie have to throw someone out? There seems to be something missing" Then he will head out to the main yard and cruise the tracks for other posters he can set straight until he stops in again. No big deal.
Right said!
BTW---good progress on the layout
Good Afternoon, Everyone.
It is a sunny afternoon here, but still too cold for the season. Can´t remember a cold spell in winter lasting THAT long...
Zoe, I´ll have a coffee and some biscuits to munch on - oh, no - not the kind for pets, I mean cookies.
Boys - I did it. I have just ordered the "so cute" loco from a source in UK. Petra more or less commanded me to do so. I am already itchy - can´t wait for it to arrive.... I still need to figure out how to build the baseboard, errr, benchwork. I want it to be light weight but still strong. I cannot use styrofoam as a base - that traverser needs a stronger construction. Time will tell...
Lee - I am sorry to hear about all the bad news you received over the last days! My for all concerned!
Jeff - so you are getting love letters from a certain person? How nice of him . The bad thing about e-mails is you can´t return them to the sender... Please don´t take those blackouts too lightly - I have an appointment set up for me to check on my blackout from last Friday.
Chris - THAT I call great pics - Yessir!
Rob - never heard of putting hair spray on the finished scenery - I guess, THAT sticky stuff would just make the dust cling on much better. If all your ground cover etc. is properly glued down, you don´t need hair spray to affix it.
Good *yaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWwwwwwwwwwwwwwn* Mornin',
Bucket of coffee with an IV bolus please 'n thank-you.
TODD et. BARRY: I concur. Funny thing, I was expecting him, but not for a couple more weeks. I figured once we started exchanging Easter greetings would be "the grand return."
TODD: Good to see Toddland coming back to life!
LEE: Wow...THAT's a "full, rich," weekend. Hope her recovery goes well, best wishes for all others around there.
Weather Speculationists blew it...again. Was supposedly supposed to be sunny today (cloudy with rain yesterday, cloudy with rain starting again tomorrow...today was the "good day."). Rerun and I are heading out later to photograph the various school buildings in the Clear Creek Amana district, for THAT. She wants all of 'em for our forthcoming 2010 North Liberty Community Guide. So...I'll have my co-pilot with me today Oh gee...now it's getting foggy too...THAT'll make for wonderful pics. May have to re-evaluate this.
Have a SAFE day everybody...
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ULRICH: Hey, THAT's great news (ordering the locomotive). Kit does the same thing sometimes when I'm agonizing over "should I order or shouldn't I?"...darn enablers!!! Thanks for the very kind words on the pics too!
TMarshJeff- You have got to be kidding.
"Coffee Please~"
Mornin All~
Todd, wow.. now you're coming along~ Woot.. you gotta be feeling good.. like you've accomplished something.
So thats the name? Toddland? I never gave my layout a name. Hmm.. better give it some thought.
Well since Mondays are Show and Tell.. I'm next.~
If anyone remembers I was having a small problem with painted lines on streets.. especially Cobblestone. For any kind of street for that matter.
If you actually take the time to click on the pic.. you might see the Yellow lines and white lines.. decal sheets. Perfect for what I need.. and I don't want to ruin what I've done.. so decals seem to be my best shot. MICROSCALE DECALS.
At the bottom of the pic, some plastic stairs.. railing.. structual railings.. and structural 'L' shape girders.. for trim and 'belly boards'
As far as this last weekend.. well.. I had fun.
I taped a flashlight to the work table.. and the mold to the table.. and got this.
As you can see .. I didn't have time to drink my coffee.
Jeanne walks in.. and says.. "Looking good. So thats the front of it?"
Hi,
just little me again.
I found this fantastic British steam video on you tube - listen to the bloke´s comments!
Jeff - you´ll find this type of person all over the world. It is the likes of him who make dictatorships work so efficiently. You´ll find them on the payrolls of the Stasi, Gestapo, KGB, Securitate, Tonton Macoute - you name them! I had hoped that, with the demise of the McCarthy era, they were extinct in the US of A - my error!
I have a name for them - it´s "Voelkischer Beobachter" - after the leading Nazi newspaper!
OK, Chloe, I don´t need the soapbox...
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe I'll have a nice bowl of oatmeal with brown sugar and a cup of dark roast to wash it down with. I'll be sitting at the Rivet Counter with the other guys.
Currently 43°F here in the Finger Lakes with a high around 44°F later. Nice sunny day ad well. Most of the white stuff should be gone by this evening.
So........... Everybody seems to be grinning in expectation of something going on today? Oh, I see it's time to play, "Spot The Loony"! I know! It's Jeff's neighbor..........
Jeffrey, I see you got an email from a friend. One thing I like about the Mac email program is the little button you can push that says "Bounce". Don't know if yours has it or not. Probably can't be used with the forum as it would block you out. It effectively says, "This is not a working email address" to the person who sent you the Spam. I have used it with a couple people who I don't want to recieve the garbage they keep sending. "Poof" they are gone!
Toe is no worse this morning, but I'm sure will be talking to me badly by this evening. I have a dentist appointment early this afternoon, and need to run items over to the Hogh School and take information to a printer downtown. The last 2 may not happen today.
Well I need to get limping around, get dressed, etc. Hope I can get my sneakers on the left foot........
Sir MadogI have a name for them - it´s "Voelkischer Beobachter" - after the leading Nazi newspaper!
LUNCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Todd......Looking good.
Ray......First your toe, and now a visit to the dentist. Seems like your week is starting bad.
Here's a few shots of the BN hopper. Not a rust bucket but it has some spillage, and body rust.
Hey ya'll
Jeff, I'm not sure how you would get rid of a person like that. Sounds like my mother though.
Robby, The hopper looks good. I've never seen that style of paint (without the "burlington northern" lettering, and the logo on the other end of the car from the marks) scheme though.
Chris, How'd you come up with the Protec hopper from an athearn PS? Those make good projects if I pick up a few undec or duplicate ones. Any chance might know about the paint scheme on Robby's hopper?
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Vincent.....That hopper was just released by Athearn. Not sure on the paint scheme thou. http://www.railcarphotos.com/ had one hopper like this, but it was a hand painted logo.
Greatings from soggy north-central Texas. I got the road grader out the other day and graded the road down to the corrals from the house so I'd have a smooth surface for the trancher to dig the trench for the water line. Of course it's been raining since then. It's supposed to stop tomorrow and then rain again starting Wednesday.
Maybe I'll be able to take some rain time and work on the MRR. That sure would be nice and I wouldn't have to feel guilty about not working on the ranch.
That said I need to get busy on some office work. Oh, Sorry for the four letter word there.
I'll see you all later.
Take care.
Afternoon folks!
Flo I need one of those RBFs to tide me over to dinner.
Robby P.Ray......First your toe, and now a visit to the dentist. Seems like your week is starting bad.
Well the dentist at least was painless until the receptionist handed me the bill.....
Robby, nice hopper there.
Paul good to see you sir.
I'm just waiting to hear from the LHS if some stuff came in THAT I need for the Engine House. I am now at a standstill until I have the materials. Right now i am sitting at the computer printing off scholarship forms to take over to the Guidance Offuce at the High School.
The white stuff has been melting quite a bit today. It was 49°F here a while ago. A couple more days the lawns will all be a brownish green color. Tulips, daffodils, and other bulbs are already peeking through the ground..... Ah geesh! THAT means it won't be long before I have to get the lawn mower out...... Haven't accomplished half on the layout this Winter as I had hoped to.
Oh! Ulrich, congrats on odering the loco! Sweet!