Good Morning. Coffee and waffles please. Oh, sorry, some maple syrup thank you.
Gonna miss this place when the big switch takes place (sarcasm). Sounds like folks take the change like the end of the Mayan calander. I myself, am expecting to have no problems other than possibly learning where they keep the spoons after the switch.
Got an inch of rain last night. I guess we needed it, though I'll have to admit, I was liking the fact the grass was slowing in growth.
Ray- Just where do you think you are? Walmart? Trying to stir up trouble in WPF. Shame on you. Didn't they have something called Thursday proto fun, or something similar? Or is that some other site I used to...... whatever you call reading without participating in a forum.
OH! Forgot to give the update on Missy's doctor appointment for those of you interested. If not, now's the time to do some skipping. I was right, she's fat. Brenda insists the vet said she should loose "just a few pounds", but in reality that means "your dog is fat". She thundered in at 73 pounds and should be between 60 and 65. Soooo, as far as losing some tonnage the dogs ok with. It's the treatment that she's not too keen about. Cut the treats in half........
Lee- I think enough duct tape would insulate the handle well enough on the flyswatter. Besides, is that not what they make circuit breakers for?
Ulrich- In Germany, Model Railroading is probably looked upon as another form of say..., Woodworking. Germans are well respected for their craftsmanship and it would be just another form of Craftmanship. Here, though, we have a large number of participants, there are a large number of Model Railroad "bashers". Those people who feel that something someone does that they don't is something to make fun of. Me, it just doesn't bother as most I know don't care what I do. Especially if they want me to help them, but that is another rant. Those that have, usually stop with a glazed look on their faces after I respond, "Yeah, I know. And I quit "playing" baseball ( or whatever sport they are wearing the attire of and are babbling on nostop about) a loooong time ago too." Most seem to catch the correlation and don‘t say anything when someone says "whatcha been doin today Todd?"
I'll have to agree with the earlier comments on British food. They sure have some strange things they eat.
Welp best get a movin. Gonna, hopefully get the bathroom floor down in Mom's master bath and several other things. Hopefully the floor in the upstairs bath started. Then, I think it be Bar-B- Que time. Maybe some roasted Groundhog, maybe some braised possum, possibly even some deep fried 'coon. One things for sure I'll start with some Crawdads. Another thing is for sure, no Kidney pie. That's just plain weird. Those crazy Brit's.
Have a Great Day!!!
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 Afternoon,
lunchtime is over, so I´ll just have some coffee, please, Flo!
Barry - it was the Weisseritz, not the Mulde, which destroyed the line close to Dresden, during the big flood of 2002. The line has been rebuild since, as it is a major tourist affair in that region. As it was the last line owned by Deutsche Bahn, it took a lot of political fighting to facilitate the rebuild, which commenced after ownership was transfered to the state of Saxony.
This is what the line looked like after the flood:
but as of December 2009, you now can enjoy this:
Good morning. Its going to be a hot one. The high around 90 degrees.
Well I'm off to do some shopping around town. Maybe work in the basement later today.
I hope everybody has a good Saturday.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Good morning,Ulrich nobody rents them up here, Maybe I’ll buy one then rent it out until it’s paid for.Looks like rain for me today. I went to the train room last night and cleared off the new bench work in the addition and I might even start laying out the track design for the ore docks and break bulk freight pier today! Why a break bulk freight dock? Most of the stuff on my layout has a source or termination point for operations. The port will allow me to have almost anything heading to the port; scrap metal, cars, large parts, tractors, rolls of steel, and so on and so forth.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Sir MadogTSF - there is a narrow gauge line in the Harz mountains, which is completely steam operated. The line has a length of roughly 100 miles and sees 20 trains a day.
mmmmmm---nice looking one too. I wonder if the one that ran through Mulde is still around. It's been awhile since I saw that--gotta dig through the photoboxes to find out what it was called----
Good Morning--
Well, the first night came up with nuthin' so I'l hope that the same happens for today---hope hope hope---
I've got some plans I'm working on to rebuild my layout a little bigger---see how that works out
I'll have a pile of pancakes and a large mug of coffee please---I'll be at the back window booth watching the sun come up.
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/
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Ulrich, Good morning. Wow all I can say it is a pleasant surprise to see you here back at the forums. I can honestly say, you have brought me great joy to hear from you.
You have been at missed, loved, and on the top of everyone's mind and prayers.
Keith and Jeanne
Good Morning Folks,
What a feeling to wake up and still be around
Chloe, I am on a diet, you know those low calories, low cholesterol things, so I´ll go for bacon and eggs, sausages, a muffin, cakes from the griddle and a mug of strong coffee, please
Had a good sleep for the first time in weeks - no getting up in the middle of the night, no nightmares, what a relief! Hope this continues!
Lee - you are right, it is much better to bite the apple and cash out $ 150 than to get electrocuted! But do you really need to buy one? Here in Germany, you can sometimes rent the Grassmaster for a small fee.
TSF - there is a narrow gauge line in the Harz mountains, which is completely steam operated. The line has a length of roughly 100 miles and sees 20 trains a day.
Just a few pics for you:
There is also a large number of "tourist" lines, offering steam operated weekend services during the summer months - just like many UK lines do. We have no regular mainline steam operation, but also a lot of steam specials. The love for trains is much more wide-spread here than in the US.
You all have a good day!
Weird, not only did my post disappear, so did my coffee?? Internet went down right after I posted, so perhaps it didn't get sent. We had big thunder boomers & torrential rain here this evening. Really needed the rain, so it was most welcome.
Hope everyone is doing well.
Cheers! Rob
I take it you guys know that the movie 'The Train' comes on next Friday at 7 pm central time on the Military Channel.
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PackerHey guys When I heard electric flyswatter I was thinking that you heald it and it did the swatting for you. Wrong, it's a bug zapper. Might get one to keep my brother and sister out of my room (read messing up all my glues, paints, brushes, etc) and another for the static grass applicator Ulrich, I thought the bubonic plague was carried over from central asia?
Hey guys
Ulrich, I thought the bubonic plague was carried over from central asia?
If you can read this... thank a teacher. If you are reading this in english... thank a veteran
When in doubt. grab a hammer.
If it moves and isn't supposed to, get a hammer
If it doesn't move and is supposed to, get a hammer
If it's broken, get a hammer
If it can't be fixed with a hammer... DUCK TAPE!
Good Evenin Folks!
I added the first layer of grass and track to the C&NW Diorama, like I said earlier this is my first attempt. next step is to add ballast and loose rocks.
I am going to watch the only Nascar race I still watch, Bristol night race. I used to watch Nascar all the time, but not much into it anymore.
Thanks Chris for another great C&NW picture
That SW10 (aka sw1000; BN dropped the last 2 zeros on sw1000 and sw1500s) showed up in the mail today. It's a really nice unit and runs pretty good with the DH123 (all for $69.99)
I'm gonna get either a TCS T4 or a DH163 for this unit, BEMF should make it crawl (although mine could stand to be run around)
Lee, When I heard electric flyswatter I was thinking that you heald it and it did the swatting for you. Wrong, it's a bug zapper. Might get one to keep my brother and sister out of my room (read messing up all my glues, paints, brushes, etc) and another for the static grass applicator
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.
AmanaMedic LSWrrI’m a Boatswain not an electrician by trade and feel the $150 for the Noch will be cheaper than the 5 days in the hospital, LOL! Awwwwwwwwwww c'mon LEE, where's your sense of adventure?? Besides, it'd only be about three days: just long enough to stabilize your heart rhythm, run some cardiac enzyme tests, and start recovering from the contact burns. I mean, think about it...what would RED GREEN do???
LSWrrI’m a Boatswain not an electrician by trade and feel the $150 for the Noch will be cheaper than the 5 days in the hospital, LOL!
Awwwwwwwwwww c'mon LEE, where's your sense of adventure?? Besides, it'd only be about three days: just long enough to stabilize your heart rhythm, run some cardiac enzyme tests, and start recovering from the contact burns. I mean, think about it...what would RED GREEN do???
Geeesh Lee, I wouldn't mind it if you "shared" a few RF burns like mine on my thumbs---CX1000A power pentodes tend to do that to ya----
Welp got the ol' cellphone strapped to me side and waiting for some strange call to come in.
Chloe, I'lll have a couple of quadruplex burgers and a tub o' fries as well please---oh and a giant barrel of RBF--gonna need the caffeine high I guess----I'll be at the window booth for now
ROBBY P: Can't wait to see THAT MRL hopper.
For the SECOND weekend in a row, I have..."no deeds to do, no promises to keep!" But, starting next Friday is the nine-week high school football season, meaning nine Saturdays of photo processing and game report writing for Sunday afternoon submitting to THAT. Might get some paint splashed around in the RR room... might do some w**k on some stuff receiving natural weathering (dust) on the w**k table...
Who am I kidding?
I'll be trimming tree branches, changing oil in the mowers (shoulda done THAT a few weeks ago), mowing the yard, there's a junk freezer in the garage the Wife wants to get rid of...and on and on and on it'll go.
TODD: Am I channeling you? Has Brenda been in contact with Kit??? I don't dare answer Mr. Bell's invention lest somebody "need" my time for something...
Hmmmmmmmmmmm, maybe I oughta go hide in the RR room now...might be my only chance!
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Ulrich, the same can be said for Netherlands cooking. I spent 30 days on a Dutch Frigate; dinner one night was fritters period and don’t make my mistake of calling them French Fries. The next night we had rice, with peanut gravy period that’s it. I was doing good eating the lunch meat until I found out what it was made from.Electric fly swatter: I have plans on how to take an electric fly swatter and turn it into a 110v grass applicator, I’m a Boatswain not an electrician by trade and feel the $150 for the Noch will be cheaper than the 5 days in the hospital, LOL!
Ray - there is something about British food - it is the world´s best diet, as you hardly go for seconds! Sometime ago, there was a report on an ostrich farm in South Africa. The owner called the ostrich "the Brit among the animals", as they gobble up just anything
Seriously, I have had some nice meals in Britain, but also a lot of not so nice ones.
Inventions? The first locomotive was Richard Trevithick's invention. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Locomotive_trevithick.jpg
The Brits gave steam locomotives to the world. The Germans gave the diesel engine to the world.
The following photo is not a recent picture of the "earthquake" on Jeff's layout. It is the result of a head-on collision in Colorado on the C&S (subsidiary of CB&Q). The F7-A was rebuilt by EMD into an F9-Am. See my photo in WPF for a model of the F9-Am.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe I'll have a breakfast bagel with cheese and a cup of dark roast in a R&GV RR Mug to start the day off right. I'll go sit at the Rivet Counter this morning for a little while.
Sir MadogProbably invented in Germany, like the automobile, cruise missiles, the bubonic plague and other important developments of mankind ...
Ulrich! ROFLMAO! Good to see you haven't lost your sense of humor. Just remember the English invented Steak and Kidney Pie..........
We appear to have ghosts out at the R&GV RR Museum! Got a photo of one last night as we were starting the photoshoot with RGE # 1941:
They have just started her up inside the Restoration Building.
How about a shot of some MU hoses? On the right is Lehigh Valley RS3 Hammerhead #211, on the left is one of our 80 Tonners, R&GVRR #1654.
I'll be putting more up in the WPF thread to see who gets upset with pics of 1/1 scale trains......
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
ULRICH!!!! You're back!! You had me scared too!! Great to see you back here!!
Good Morning from droughtyland. They are now telling us to water our trees--not our lawns as the young trees are starving of water---we had a 2 minute dribblefest here yeaterday--first time we saw any rain here since about 6 weeks ago. We will get barrels of humidity and no rain to be seen.
My weekend will be strapped to the cellphone again as I'm on call for the next 72 hours---grrr---oh well---
That usually means not much time for the layout--which means that the layout will be in a mess for the weekend
Anywaay---get ULRICH anything he desires here--it's on me!! Have a good one ---
TMarsh Do they have dish rags in Germany?
Do they have dish rags in Germany?
Probably invented in Germany, like the automobile, cruise missiles, the bubonic plague and other important developments of mankind ...
Lee: The grassmaster works great. A friend of mine has one. As Ulrich says, it eats batteries like they're going out of style. He uses rechargeable Duracell batteries in his. He always has another set on charge when he's using it. When he changes the batteries he puts the discharged ones in the charger and goes back to work with the freshly charged set. In 15 - 25 minutes the other batteries are charged and ready to go.
morning guys
At the suggestion of a friend I tried using an alcohol wash to try to unfade that GP9. It backfired. Whenever the weather is better I'm going to try to airbrush a thin coat of black. If that fails, then it'll be the very first loco I will repaint.
I might be tempted to lower the headlight on the unit if I repaint it, maybe even add the gyralight if I can figure out which type of gyralight the CB&Q used on its GP9s.
Ulrich, glad to have you back!
Lee, my answer would be the same as Todd's. I've seen some things about making your own for less though.
Good Morning. Busy day again today so that means no time for my little world, WHICH, is not getting any bigger lately by the way.
I'm liking all the positives on the Digitrax. Though I have no immediate plans to go DCC, as I only have one loco capable at this time, I plan on going in the near, yet not too near, future and plan on the Zephyr. I must admit at first it was, as Lee said, the knobs that swung me in that direction. Now I just like the way people talk about it.
ULRICH! Boy you had us worried! I'm glad you're doing better but sorry that it happened at all. You may not feel quite that way yet, but a late !!!!
Lee- $150 is the reason I can't answer your question.
Well once again I am getting a late start. So I shall bid you all a DerJohn TTFN.
Lee - I guess you are talking about the Noch Grassmaster. It works nicely, but has two major drawbacks - price and battery operation. This thing eats batteries like Barry eats burgers , so you´ll have to have a good supply handy if your are putting down the green on a larger patch of land.
I have a gadget which works equally well and hooks up to the 16V AC plug of an old Marklin transformer. It had cost me less than a third compared to the Noch thingy. It is, of course, not UL certified, so it is illegal to use in the US
Good morning all,Ray, well we shall see what happens with that, but I already told the boss I wanted to go out there and do a visual inspection of the bridge before we get too deep into the process. If I make it out there I’ll defiantly give you a heads up. I think the travel time will allow me to get a hotel over night in the area.Has anyone used a static grass gun? How well did it work and is it worth $150.00?
Good morning. It's 76 and somewhat cloudy. The high will be 98 with a heat index of 110 and there's a 30% chance of thunderstorms. Scattered showers are expected.Well if UPS is on the ball the steering column for my van should come in today. Total cost will be $120 ($75 for the part + shipping). After it's installed there's only a few more little things to do to get it ready for the road. On the layout front, I did a lot of work on the extension and got most of the clutter from the rebuild out of the way. Today I'll be doing the same on the main part of the layout. I still have some areas to smooth out so the track will lay flat. That should go fairly quickly as the plaster there isn't as thick as it is on the extension.
Ulrich, glad you are back home. Now, only have cheeseburgers here at the dinner, not at home.
Train Front I sat down yesterday and hardwired my PK 2 SW8 switcher. Used a Digitrax DZ 123, and the install was not that hard. I use to hate hard wiring and still cannot say I love doing it. But, getting a little better at it. Problem I did run into is it seems the motor was upside down in the chassis. So it is wired backwards, not a problem, just change a few CV's. I was very pleased with it's pulling power, it dragged 8 coal cars and a track cleaning car.
Next project if my drive shafts and NCE decoder is at my LHS will be my Athearn RTR Rio Grand SD 50. Model Maker, Jay is sending me a few left over Athearn motors. I hope they will fit my old Proto 2000 BL 2's.
Jeffery Good luck on the steering column. All so have enjoyed looking at the layout pictures as well.
Ken
I hate Rust
It´s past lunchtime, but I am still hungry! That hospital food was no good - I lost over 20 lbs.!
Zoe, make that a Hamburger special for me and a RBF to wash it down, please.
Feels good to be back, although I still feel like Jeff stated it - a wrung out dish rag. I need to get back on my own two feet soon. Despite that setback, I still have plans to leave this country behind me.Germany makes me ill!
Tomorrow, we will have a little party - just my dear friend Lothar joining us - to celebrate my "double" birthday in the old fashioned German way with coffee and a birthday cake. Petra will make one of my favorite cakes - cherry crumble - and I might even risk eating a slice of it.
Good to know, that you people care!
Good Morning Folks!
Just coffee for me today please.
I put the first layer of grass on the diorama last night, that was my first attempt ever. Like I stated before, this has been a great learning experience, I will be adding the other layers and textures over the weekend hopefully. Next I have to work on the loco that I will be adding to it. I already have ideas for my next project, which will include some scratch building. Have a great all, and enjoy your weekend!
Steven