Good morning all,Hot car pics! Very cool, my layout is stuck in the 1950’s so pimp muscle cars are limited, LOL.Ray that’s tough news to follow indeed I hope things go as well as possible for your BIL. Can you believe they sold Benzene as aftershave in the 1800’s? I wonder if all the new EPA laws will extend life or not in the future. My Grandfather died of asbestos, and those in the family that worked for the railroad died of one form of cancer or another. Then you have my grandmother that smoked, ate bacon, pancakes cooked in bacon grease, and used real butter on her toast for almost all her life lived to be about 96.Jeff, can you extend the right side of your layout and make it a big letter “U”? Maybe add a fiddle yard on the “J” design? If you saturate the ballast on the turnouts with Goo Gone (the orange citrus cleaner) the ballast will fall off with the aid of a soft toothbrush. I would set them up in a cookie sheet overnight so you can re-use the goo gone. Don’t “soak” them, just spray it on thick, it’s a gel type cleaner and will stay where you spray it. Garry, what waterway is that? Yes CN has changed a bunch; they picked up all but one of the former USS owned railways and a few docks. They grew a lot in a short amount of time and inherited several outdated infrastructures.Jeff, Earthquake that looks like downtown Detroit on a good day, LOL!Keith; GREAT PICTURES, THANKS FOR SHARING!
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Morning all an extra large coffee and a corn muffin please. Well it's another beautiful in the peoples republic of New Jersey. The humidity is so thick you can cut it with a knife Good thing got most of my outside work done just after sun up. Was a busy weekend , took advantage of teh nice weather we had and worked out in the shop on my Nomad, did a lot of welding and grinding and then did some more welding and some more grinding. Ah the neighbors love me when I work with the doors wide open......lol
Also did a little modeling in the evening, my first attempt at making latex molds of a Chooch retaining wall didn't make the cut so I'm on attempt #2. I figure 3 or 4 bottle of latex and I should be like an old pro.........lol
I actually had this mold making clay in my hand when I stopped in at AC Moore the other night which seemed to take a lot of pains out of making molds so why didn't I buy that one I have no idea but as soon as another 50% coupon comes along I'll give that stuff a try.
Been working on some DPM and Smalltown USA aka Ricks Products buildings I purchased an entire layout from a local guys a few years a go and included were some 60 unbuilt kits and about 90 completed structures After sorting through the junk and selling some of the well lets say not so well built kits I kept what I wanted. I found a Smalltown USA furniture store that I wanted to use for an LHS seems this guy was into putting kits together with a hot glue gun! yup a hot glue gun so like a bonehead I said I'm gonna disassemble this thing and rebuild it the right way. I need to make an appointment real soon to go have my head examines......lol It's just one of those things that is a challenge and nothing else.I wish I had the presence of mind to take some before pictures but hey I get a little fuzzy at around 2:00am
Well everyone have a god day and stay out of the heat
Jeff what steering parts are you looking for? Making a pilgrimage to the old salvage yard some time this week. If a steering box and linkage for a 56 Chevy Nomad will fit your welcome to the stuff I removed out of my Nomad.
This weekend: I installed the finished backdrop on the north wall of the layout. The backdrop is alternating wheat and corn fields broken up with dirt or gravel access roads and a tree line on the horizon. I used the computer (Corel Draw and Corel Paint) to airbrush the clouds, and the edges of the pictures to make it a continuous 11” x 288” picture. Sunday I started building the backdrop for the east wall that will be a transition between small RR town and farm fields with a gravel road on the layout matching with a picture of a gravel road drifting off into the horizon.
LSWrrJeff, can you extend the right side of your layout and make it a big letter “U”? Maybe add a fiddle yard on the “J” design?
Allegheny2-6-6-6Jeff what steering parts are you looking for? Making a pilgrimage to the old salvage yard some time this week. If a steering box and linkage for a 56 Chevy Nomad will fit your welcome to the stuff I removed out of my Nomad.
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"Coffee .. just Hot Coffee please"
Hey.. I'm glad you all enjoyed the field trip to Bob Grech's layout. Ray, I only wished some of you guys were there.. hours.. of pure fun. I consider it a few magic wishes.. and I would rather visit Bob again later on in my layout building. I feel it would make more sense to me.
Now I forget who said it.. I think it was Lee.. but what? "Pimp Muscle Cars" .. lol. And Ken.. well 1970 to me was the last year of pure muscle.. well at least in CA, I beleive it was the compression ratio from a 7 to 1 verses an 11 to 1 compression ratio. I think I was all of 15 years old, watching Bonanza with my parents.. waiting for the end of the show. Why? cuz Chevorlet was going to give a special commercial concerning the new look of the Chevy Sting Ray. The Sting Rays first debut of its new body style.
And now for Jeff. Jeff only because its me.. I"m just that sort of person.. but here's where I am.
http://www.autop.com/ yep.. I'm checking for ya.. Yeah I know.. I beleive you've already located one.. or maybe time or money is a problem. But I just had to check on the info you gave out.
Take care all of you.
Keith
I wish I had a VIN # but just wanted you to know.. I'm with ya on this one. Nothing like being without wheels, I hate it.
Good morning. It's 83 and mostly cloudy. The high will be 99 with a heat index of 112. There's a 40% chance of rain.The tear down on the layout has gone on. The entire passing siding has been ripped up as has the front half of the inside loop. Great care was taken to get turnouts up without damaging them as they are quite expensive. Later I'll pull up the rest of the inside loop and the inside spur. This includes 3 more turnouts for a total of 9 that will be pulled up (5 #5's and 4 #4's. Funny how that worked out like that). After that it's just a matter of time for the new track to come in. After the new stuff is put down I can throw the old track into a bucket of water to get the glue and ballast off it then put it away in case it's needed again. Some of the track didn't come up easily and had to be sacrificed. That's one of the dangers of embedding the track in plaster. Sometimes the plaster gets a death grip on it. But it does make the EZ-Track look much more realistic once it's in place. I have a 30 degree crossing I was thinking about using (it's been in the spare track box for many years) but it takes up too much space in the plan, so back in the track box it goes.
Just a quick stop.
A few pictures of the new (was new looking) boxcar.
*EDIT* I put this car for sale on "the bay" at 1:00pm and it sold at 1:30pm. Talk about a quick sale!!! I think I have to go to the LHS tomorrow .
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Jeff ..... Oh, I may have figured it out. Godzilla was a stowaway on a freighter that arrive in Port of New ORelans. Godzill escaped and foung the way to Sundown, LA.
Robby ... The PW boxcar looks real!
Keith ... Nice photos. I recgnize some of the buildings as ones I made from craftsman kits when I had a layout of the 1900 era.
Lee .... We're on Lake barkley (Cumberland River).
I just was at Gus's.... His boat was damaged in addition to teh diock. It's a pontoon with dents and a slightly twisted frame. The local boat dealer here had a pole barn lifted up and carried by winds for about 200'. It was rough on boats inside.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
very nice Robby!
Jeff, well who put a door there in the first place!
Hello diners, this is a test post - I can't get a "copy and paste" post to work in either Firefox or Explorer, so I'm just typing this directly to see if it will work. TTFN.
So, OK, that works - but pasting my original post into here under "EDIT" gives a big BLUE Ooops Error message. So, if there are mods watching over this, can you email me any suggestions?
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
LSWrrJeff, well who put a door there in the first place!
Hey guys, not doing much at the moment other than hiding from the T-boomers.
Well my dark wash on the GP9 didn't work out very well. Looks like I'm gonna try to airbrush over it with a dark grey color. If that fails, I could strip and re-paint it. I hope it doesn't come to that, but if it does, It would get me a chance to detail it right for the Q unit it once was.
What bugs me is this wash only fades out p2k geeps. It worked fine on a atlas U30C and P2K SD45. I was going to try it on my GP30s, but after the results with the gp9 I think I'll go with the airbrush or pastels.
I have made a new rule for myself regarding busted handrails. If they break, get new metal ones. I'm already in for 3 or 4 GP9s (same for HH 20), an, sd40-2, and a U30C. Does anyone know where I might be able to pick up some .015 brass (or phosphor-bronze) wire locally?
Ken, would those happen to be the dummy couplers that come with accurail kits? Do they have a square shank and a non-opening head?
Robby, good you don't have to pay that one back. Nice job on the car though
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.
I put some track down temporarily to give you an idea of what it will look like.
Coffee in a SULTRY SOUTHERN mug, please.
***Jeffrey, I think you are frightening the wee folk on your layout!
A Census worker left one of those notes on our gate. Didn't think they would come past a NO TRES & BEWARE OF DOGS signs, not to mention a padlock. Already sent in the form long ago with the required info, "2 people". Thinking of writing across the note, "census form was mailed in" and then stapling this to the note and leaving it out on the gate for when they return: http://censusfacts.info/files/censusfacts.pdf
Bad insomnia these days nights. Nothing much to report on. Hope y'all are doing well.
Rob
Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooood Evening, stopping in for a quick RBF before heading off to Fire Dept. Training. Apparently and allegedly...we be doing hose testing tonight. Was 'sposed to be either practice with the new hydraulic rescue tools set or a class on meth labs. I'ma guessin' the training officers crapped out on both guest instructors...so we'll drag some hose around instead.
JEFF: Good grief! Has POTUS seen those pics yet? He might have some FEMA dollars or stimulus money for you... presidential disaster declaration for Sundown, LA for sure! How's Ezra coping???
ROB: I read the appropriate parts of the Constitution of the United States of America to the dolt the Census Bureau sent out after I'd sent my form in, showing the Constitutionally required information. They haven't been back since. Seems odd they'd send somebody out now...I thought they were done
I'll leave both comments at THAT...lest I cross the line again...
Welp, time to take Rerun out for a bit. The cooler air has finally arrived from Canada! Thanks to BARRY, CN CHARLIE, et. al for being kind enough to send it down... Of course, this means Rerun will want to hang out on the deck for awhile before I head out. The Wife will be delayed getting home tonight...the 4th trip to Worst Buy "should" finally result in the correct part for upgrading my 'pooter. We be crossing the fingers...
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
evening guys,
just thought I'd pop in to say Hi.
Jeffrey-looks like Katrina hit your place after all! Which do you enjoy more, the building up or the tearing out? LOL.
Ray hope all is going as well as possible with your BIL.
Robby P..nice job as usually impressive.
Have a great evening guys!
TTY'ALLL8R
EDIT: OOPS! for this I got top billing {groan} I got out the CC again guys so eat what you will!
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Evenin' folks!
Flo I'll have a foot long hotdog dragged through the garden and a side order of potato salad w/ a trip to the salad bar tonight. A Dr. pepper to wash it all down would hit the spot.
Thank you folks for the prayers and wishes for Bernie my BIL. Got an email today from his sister (aka: my SIL) saying he will be moved by ambulance tomorrow to a Hospice Care center near where he lives and very close to where his daughter and her family live. It should make it easier on his daughter to have him nearby.
Got to take the kitties in for their annual check ups and vacinations today. MEOW, MEOW, MEOW, MEOW, MEOW, MEOW, MEOW, MEOW, MEOW, MEOW, MEOW, MEOW, MEOW, MEOW, MEOW, MEOW, MEOW, MEOW, MEOW, MEOW, MEOW, MEOW, MEOW, MEOW, MEOW!!!!! MEOW! Meeeeeeeeeoooooooooooooooooooooo huh huh ow!!!
Both are in good health and both tip the scales at 19.5 lbs these days. I asked about a discoloration Manét has in one of his irises (right eye) and she said it is common and amounts to the same thing as a liver spot on our skin. She said we need to watch it though as it is usually something that occurs in both eyes and in rare cases it could be something more serious. She didn't really seem concerned about it. Blackie has lost one of his teeth. He was having a problem with it a year ago. She thinks he should heal with no problem. he now has a problem with another tooth on the other side. I may see about having it removed and all his teeth cleaned. Probably involves $$$$.
Robby, you ever do weathering on old 1920's cars???
Gotta go finish the lawn. Catch you all later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Thanks for the comments.
Ray.......I've never done any older cars. Why????? I don't have any pictures to go by. I know they won't be rust buckets, and more dirt/dusty look. I have people ask me, but I honestly haven't even tried a car.
jeffrey-wimberly
Jeffery I love that picture, can I brow the bulldozer? Is that my old engine house in the background, if it is you fixed it up great. Have you ever tried foam? Your layout is more plastered than me!
On the van steering box, guessing it is leaking, am I right? If it is leaking, have you checked to see if there is a rebuild kit for it? Last time I looked, I could get rebuild kits for my 68 to 72 cars. Any idea if a trucks would work? I have a Mopar Truck Fan as a friend, he might be able to help. What is wrong with the steering column?
Todd I have no idea how old the kits where, they are from the Fallen Flag series and the box is marked $29.99. I picked them up from Jeremy from the Jeremy project last year.
Packer Yep, just like you said. If you by chances have need of them, let me know before I throw the box away.
On the home front Finally made my self do some paperwork I have not been wanting to do. As some of you may know I went into foreclosure in DEC 2008. Bank of America picked up the note and I went into Forbearance, they lowered the payment from $925.00 to $481.00 a month. Well about 4 weeks ago when I was let go from the VW dealership for not lying to customers I get a letter telling me I was out of Foreclosure and Forbearance and I was all caught up! But, they now want $925.00 again, they gave me a whole 3 day notices I will add?
So today, I finally got all the paper work together and start the needed hardship letter, plan budget, bank statements to see if they will lower the payment again. Still hard for me to believe I am in this position, in 1983 I made $43,000.00? I bought the house in 1993 with fixed rate so I did nothing stupid. Was approved for $200,000 spent $89,000. Only good news only payments I have are the utilities, food, dog food and medication.
Train Front Section I ballast yesterday works fine. Athearn RTR Dash 9 is doing great as well. Hard to believe it was side line because it ran so badly. Have a few more NCE decoders coming for the next project.
Time for supper, see you folks Tuesday.
Cuda Ken
I hate Rust
Yo! Jeff, last night I was going over your plans posted in WPS, and then I looked at this!
I gotta know.. did you place that Dull Dozer there on purpose?.. well I noticed it. Keep us posted on your progress.
Todd, I hope you enjoyed the country songs.. I know you like the rural vid. I swear between you anc Chris.. you two make me wish we all lived next door to each other, in fact all of us... lol.
I wish I had the energy to put in some time today, but after looking at Bobs layout, I was a bit timid to even think about it laying more cork. Perhaps tonight.
Take care all
cudaken Jeffery I love that picture, can I brow the bulldozer? Is that my old engine house in the background, if it is you fixed it up great. Have you ever tried foam? Your layout is more plastered than me!
cudaken On the van steering box, guessing it is leaking, am I right? If it is leaking, have you checked to see if there is a rebuild kit for it? Last time I looked, I could get rebuild kits for my 68 to 72 cars. Any idea if a trucks would work? I have a Mopar Truck Fan as a friend, he might be able to help. What is wrong with the steering column?
Blazzin I gotta know.. did you place that Dull Dozer there on purpose?.. well I noticed it. Keep us posted on your progress.
Hey guys
Just sitting at home watching the football game
Ken, It's not really a need as much as a want. They'd be good since I could use them on coal cars which are usually in groups. I only have 3 (don't know how I got an odd number). Speaking of the fallen flags set, was it the BN or UP set?
Robby, Have you tried a 40's-50's car as it would appear in the 70's or 80's? IMO, some of them would be close to what you do already, just no graffiti
cudakenwhen I was let go from the VW dealership for not lying to customers
CUDA KEN: Sorry to hear your financial woes... Dontcha just love how the financial outfits spring these little surprises with "pay now or else..." deadlines?
Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood Evening, large Canadian bacon pizza please...huh? No...no sauerkraut, no pineapple...just Canadian bacon, cheese, sauce, crust. Oh, with a bucket of 1970s recipe 7-Up please 'n thank-you...
Welp, hose testing went well...only one section was crap. Afterward, I told the Training Officer "gee, that was so much fun, we should do it again next year..." It's an annual event. He said he was gonna make a motion I be Training Officer next year. I told him "good luck" as I do NOT want THAT title. I want no title other than "firefighter." I've been a TO before...never by choice other than the Chief's choice... But, THAT said...I know I'd take the job far more serious than the current guy.
VINCENT: You looking for the dummy couplers not-so-ACCUrateRAIL uses? I think I've got some floating around here. If I find 'em, I can sure drop 'em in an envelope and ship 'em your way.
What's THAT Flo? No Canadian bacon??? How did THAT happen? I mean, we be in Moosonee right??? Oh heck...BARRY-sized double cheeseburger then.
Oh, an update on the simple, quick, easy upgrade to my struggling computer. Tomorrow will be Worst Buy trip number FIVE... It's a long story...suffice it to say, all she's trying to do is put in a second hard drive to alleviate a serious space crunch in the blasted thing... Now we're short one cable...and trip No. 5 "should" take care of THAT...
I'magonna grab me a seat at the RC...
Weather has been pretty nice the last couple days.
NOMAD!!! Someone said Nomad! I like Nomads
I watched an old episode of Bob Ross on PBS today. Boy he always made everything look so easy. Almost made it into the train room but.....
Robby- As good as the PW car looked I surprised it lasted a half hour! You still got it hoss. I think you're kinda the Bob Ross of the weathering world.
Ken- Sorry about the problems. Banks are a necessary evil that run with their own rules they seem to be able to change as they choose. Unfortunately the same doesn't apply to us.
Psssst. Chris- They don't call it Canadian Bacon here.
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.
Good Day Folks!
Some bacon, sausage, waffles, and a strong cup of coffee please.
I have another question, if you don't mind. I am looking for some low cost air brush paint, I am just going to use it for practicing on paper. What would you recommend? Would you recommend "pre-mixed" with thinner already in the paint or mix your own with thinner? I have a dual action, bottom feed air brush, and will be using can propellant. I decided, to save up some money, and buy a quality air compressor.
Thanks in advance,
Steven
Good morning.
Not much planned for me other than a trip to the post office, and on to the LHS. We found a new company to get us approved for the refinance, but we have to get my wifes credit number up. He said we are just a few off. Hopefully we can get some things paid down by October, and get the house redone.
Vincent........The one hobby store I go to, doesn't really carry much older cars, but another does. Next time I go to that one I will see what they have. I've wanted to do a few older cars, and maybe I can look onto that era.
Todd......I use to love watching Bob Ross (lets paint a happy tree). I was looking at a old cd that had some cars I did years ago, and man was I laughing. Those cars I did were HORRIBLE!!! I try to tell people to stay at weathering and you will see a improvement.
AmanaMedic"Volkswagen of Cedar Rapids" THAT was more dishonest, crooked, and downright scummy.
My self Chris, I don't think it is a VW dealership thing as much as a owner thing. Only time I felt dirty in sales. Worst part is when you finances through the dealer, they tack stuff on what they call the back end. If anyone here is going to buy a car, have your financing when you go to the dealer!
Packer I may have spoke to soon, I just looked in the box and all the spurs are missing. I will take a quick look in the trash for the couplers. Cars where B&O, C&O and WM.
Todd Yep, they play by there own rules. Plus no one there seems to know what the other hand is doing. Heck, they cannot even get the address right! Sure be nice if they could get the payment to around $600.00. I am tired of working 50 plus hours a week to keep the house. I have been working 50 plus hours for 27 years now and I am tired of it!
Home and Train front I would guess it is around 75 right now, don't even have the A/C going in the garage! Yesterday it was only 90, 90 sure felt cool after what we have been having! Besides finishing the paper work I have a little running to do.
I all so hope to hard wire a Southern Pacific SW 8 today. I have been using a SD40-2 and a SD7 for switching duty. Smaller engine will sure help.
See you all later today.
Ken
Morning all
Have to go into town today but nothing else planned.
Thought I'd just stop in to say hi.
Good morning. It's 77 and mostly cloudy. The high will be 97 with a heat index of 107. There's a 50% chance of rain.All that's left of the original track (in place that is) is the south 180 degree curve on the left lobe of the layout, the long straightaway along the west wall, the long straight along the north wall (in front of the AC unit) and the short straight along the east wall to the new 180 degree curve on the right lobe of the layout. All the new curves are in place. I'm just waiting on the new straight pieces to come in. Now that the destruction is finished it's time to get started on the cleanup. I removed enough plaster pieces last night to fill two Wal-Mart bags and there's still more to be collected. After the bigger pieces (anything larger than a small marble) are collected I'll go over the layout with the Shop-Vac. I knew there was some reason I got that 12 foot hose for it. The rolling stock still on the layout also needs a good vacuuming as it's all got a thick layer of gypsum dust on it. I have a set of microvac brushes that are just perfect for getting into little nooks and crannies.