Elliot's Trackside Diner OCTOBER 2010

[cudaken]

 Evening Folks, boy I miss being in Madison Indiana.

 Flow, I will take a Medium Rare Prime Rib, Twice Baked Potato, Green Beams with Chunks of Ham, Side Salad, a slices of Cheese Cake and a Pitcher of please.

 Well, I did and didn't get a lot done. I worked on the hallway for about 4 hours today. It does not look like I got a lot done, but Monday I will finishes the section I started and it should (knock on wood) go quickly. I need to trim off 1/8th of a inch on the next 4 tiles so they will fit the hallway. I did luck out at the bathroom door section. I have to have 2 sections that are only 3 inches wide to fit toward the Marble Transition Plate in the bathroom. As luck would have it, I have scrap that fits all most perfectly!  After I am done with the section I started, only 70 inches more to go! That will cost me right around $38.00.

 Vincent One of the reason I brought up the bigger engines will run through the number 4's is I have seen many times on the main page Big Engines will not handle 18 inch turns and no smaller than #6 turnouts! I get sick of seeing new people being told that! Far as how they look on the number 4, well It is the looking I was going for with it being a passing spur, slow speeds and all.

  Time to sand on some cabinets doors, watch NCIS and drink

                         Ken

[nik .n]

Vincent: Thanks!

[ns3010]

Geez it's quiet in here... What's up with THAT?

[jeffrey-wimberly]

It's Sunday.

[teen steam fan]

everyone must be watching the football game or the NASCAR race. 

[the North East Rail Modeler]

I know that I have been outside most of today. Down here in Florida, it's a nice 71 degrees outside.

Man, I whish I knew where my tent is. I'd love to be comping tonight.

[Packer]

Hey guys.

Messed with some trains today, but it all went so wrong.

1.  I put together one of my Centuries and the decoder was dead when I went to install it. I have no idea how it went bad when it's been sitting in a box for a few weeks... Even better, with the BRAND NEW kato motor is still was just as noisy as the one with the olde one. Checked the trucks and they were lubed. So I took the flywheels off to have them machined at a later date.

2. I decided to test the new athearn RS3 I got. went threw my decoders with the 9-pin plug and all were toast too (they were sitting as well) It ran noisy and stalled alot so I opened it up. Upon first glance the solder connections to the trucks were bad, all the axles were busted. Cleaned the trucks out and swapped the axles out, then put it back together and it was still noisy. Take it apart again and try to see if the mtor is the culprit. It iwas/is so I pulled it and turned it by hand. It binded in several spots. After spending almost an hour and a half trying to get it to quit binding by afjusting the end caps, I decided to check the magnets. They weren't sitting right (I didn't want to prod like last one) so I tried to pull a flywheel off, only to find out that they are glued on. Guess I'm gonna have to call athearn to get a motor that costs more than the loco that it's for.

3. Tried to put together the Milwuakee Front range thrall centerbeam I got. Only to find out it's missing the ends. I don't even know where to begin looking for those things, cant really build one because I don't really know what they are supposed to look like. The instructions drawing is too small to make any good guess on ridges or anything.

Teen steam, Or messing with trains...

Ray, must have missed the memo going back to monthly...

Sawyer, Yes, really. I think that the parents having him pay for everything to fix it on his own may have taught him his lesson (then again, I think a 1400 dollar mistake would teach anyone a lesson). He got lucky though because he did it just after I lost my 1997 mustang and had no use for the front end pieces I had for it, so he got them from me for a lot less than OEM parts.

Ken, The smaller turnouts would be good for a branchline or urban industrial area. Maybe a yard, but it would depend on wether or not my BB 85' flats (with A-line end weights) could handle it. They derail on snaps and 18s.

[JimRCGMO]

Evening, Janie - I'll have a bowl of cream of mushroom soup, a peanut butter and honey sandwich on wheat bread, and a glass of whichever of Ray's wines will go with THAT combination... Thanks!

Zan, those decoder/install prices sound good.

Chris, like the pics you've been posting in here.

Ray, loved your list, and [ditto] most all of the comments on it, plus those about my least favorite form of communication (texting on a cell phone). Good to see that our teens are 'ahead of the curve' (so to speak) when it comes to wisely using any technology (as well as their continuing good attitude about their educational progress).

[welcome] to the Diner, Skipper, and fill us in about your RR/layout/plans for same.

Vincent, good to see you found your way here.

Has anyone heard from Good to see you made it in, Ulrich. As the song says about rainy days... and I think I recall that Europe has been getting a bunch of that (back from your previous - pre-move - post).

Bama, I'm sure, has been busy with his w**k stuff and family (at least, he was the last time he stopped by).

My original post for tonight got lost - I'll blame it on Bugs - because I was trying to look up how to spell connoisseur and didn't open up another tab FIRST... (Diner patrons heave a quiet sigh of relief...)

As for my weekend, it's been nostalgia time! Have been putting together an old Revell diesel fuel tank kit and started on their sanding station also. But I decided that the ORANGE supports Revell made (that looked okay way back then) do not resemble any color of supports I have seen under fuel tanks, so they got sprayed silver as well. (Rattle can of somewhat shiny silver from Hobby Lobby) Here's the diesel fuel tank currently (mostly assembled and a start on weathering - mostly a bit of rust):

On the sanding station, I'm still deciding about the 'sand boom' thing with all its back-and-forth tubing. I have the main part of the building (where the HO scale people can go in and out) walls together, but want to modify the dark brown doors (the two that swing on their pivots) lighter/weathered before I set the doors in place and put the roof on. Yeah, the plastic pieces that are supposed to be for holding the doors in place are nowhere to be found that I can tell, too.

I'll chow down for now. Prayers continue for all of us in need of rest, healing, peace (and more MRR'ing time available...). (And sorry to everybody I missed when I lost my original post into the ether...)

 

Blessings,

Jim in Cape Girardeau

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

[the North East Rail Modeler]

Packer

Hey guys.

Messed with some trains today, but it all went so wrong.

1.  I put together one of my Centuries and the decoder was dead when I went to install it. I have no idea how it went bad when it's been sitting in a box for a few weeks... Even better, with the BRAND NEW kato motor is still was just as noisy as the one with the olde one. Checked the trucks and they were lubed. So I took the flywheels off to have them machined at a later date.

2. I decided to test the new athearn RS3 I got. went threw my decoders with the 9-pin plug and all were toast too (they were sitting as well) It ran noisy and stalled alot so I opened it up. Upon first glance the solder connections to the trucks were bad, all the axles were busted. Cleaned the trucks out and swapped the axles out, then put it back together and it was still noisy. Take it apart again and try to see if the mtor is the culprit. It iwas/is so I pulled it and turned it by hand. It binded in several spots. After spending almost an hour and a half trying to get it to quit binding by afjusting the end caps, I decided to check the magnets. They weren't sitting right (I didn't want to prod like last one) so I tried to pull a flywheel off, only to find out that they are glued on. Guess I'm gonna have to call athearn to get a motor that costs more than the loco that it's for.

3. Tried to put together the Milwuakee Front range thrall centerbeam I got. Only to find out it's missing the ends. I don't even know where to begin looking for those things, cant really build one because I don't really know what they are supposed to look like. The instructions drawing is too small to make any good guess on ridges or anything.

Packer, I know it's a dumb question, but do you think your locomotives/ decoders may have been affected by the wether and climate?  If your layout and workshop, there is a good chance of that happening. It use to happen to me all the time when I had my layout in the garage.

I, too live in Florida, and I know that sometimes a garage (or even, sometimes a whole house) can be affected by the climate.

On my front :

    Right now, I'm just listening to some Lynyrd Skynyrd, and looking at some photos of GP 15-1s, and I'm hoping to scratch-build one out of some sheet metal soon, using some drawings I found in an old issue of the Model Railroader for refrence.

      I'm going to use a Model Power frame, trucks, and motor for the base, but I plan to scratch-build everything else (and, mabe experiment with working doors on the cab, mabe...) Crazy? Mabe, but I love a good challenge. And metal sounds right up my alley.

[der5997]

 Hello Diners: Nice location you have for us Ray - BTW, I recognized the G&S quote, but didn't immediately place it from "that infernal non-sense", Pinafore.  The Google result pulls up "Oh Joy, Oh Rapture  unforeseen" , and that threw me as I hadn't clued into the Finale. I go with Daffy Duck, and just stick to the Oh Joy, Oh Rapture!

Now, Dinner - I'll have the braised Stewiake Valley Lamb liver with bacon and onions please, with the baked apple and blackcurrants dessert with custard ( Crème Anglais , if the fancy wines Ray brought in have their way )

 

Have been able to progress things a bit on the layout details. The siding for shuffling bakery/mill cars and serving the metal fabricator is in.    The turnout is a Trainshow used Atlas #6, and falls where there is no way I've yet seen to put in an under table mechanism ( a culvert is directly under it.) The turnout did have a switch motor at one time, and I cut off the mounting lugs for appearance. So, since there is nothing to hold the closure rails in place I've made a hook so I can hold them closed while trains go through.  The throwbar on the opposite side was missing when I got the turnout, so a machine link that side is not an option.  The Fireman has actually to do something on those switching moves! LOL  

I thought there would be room for a "Team Track" approach there,(see below, reply to Lee)  but the workable alignment left barely room for a ramp!  

Also, I've got the shed at the mill for unloading grain cars and loading flour cars under cover pretty much done.

Thanks again Barry for the photos, they were a great help in doing the silo loading auger thing, even simplified as this one is.

Here's some unfinished business from the old Diner location - plus maybe a bit from here.

 

Lee:

Der John, a metal fabricator would need sheet metal/tube steel/wire steel so loads of raw steel of one of these would be good as an incoming train loads on flats or gondolas.  The finished product would need to go out maybe in boxcars? Let us not forget the scrap metal gondolas hauling away the refuse. 

...Todd:

DerJohn- There is always 55 gal drums of cuting oil and solvents etc. that need stored. Rolls of metal....and of course, boxes of fish sticks .

Thanks - that's a huge help - I'd not reckoned on wire, and tube (not that the difference between rod and tube is going to show in this scale that Ulrich  holds to be beyond sanity! I had also totally forgotten scrap  I did think about the drums (as detail item that is - I didn't know what would be in them - thanks Todd)  I figure there will be some in-bound boxboard, for the outbound product - so, if I can configure the road and teamtrack-like area beside the spur, I should be able to get a decent amount of traffic. 

 

RobbyP:

 DerJohn.......I forgot to mention.....I like how the fence came out.  Looks good!

...Yeah, thanks, I'm quite happy with it too. I couldn't find my roll of mesh that has a grey metallic look to it, but this white looks sort of grey where it's sitting anyway. [lol]  I didn't measure carefully for  overall height, and it turns out at about 11 feet - which should represent a stiff climb and drop before meeting Boris-the-watchdog!

 

Barry: Hope your birthday is going well (as I wrote it was still THAT!) I know there's a huge amount of cake virtually disappearing in your honour LOL

Also, Can one use black styrene--the thin stuff for N scale mudflaps for grain trucks?

  I'd be inclined to use paper - it's  not as if they are going to get a lot of wear and tear!  On the weathering of vehicles, the little I've done has included dirty windshield with the wiper area clear. General grime/mud spray aft of the wheel wells, and tires are seldom show-room clean....I'm just sayin', haven't done a lot.

 

Ken"

 Any tips on applying decals?...... Set is by Micro Scale and I am guessing they are old.

  You might try heating with a hair dryer or similar for a few moments before soaking. That sometimes restores an older decal.  A small wet  paint brush can be useful in pushing the decal into final position. Also, do you have "Solvaset" or some other solution to settle the decal down into the details once you've got it in place?    Stale-dated prices like you had have to be "sucked up" by the store in Canada.

Fly in the ointment!  I used the brass turnouts I picked up at the St Louis Train show about a month ago and knew nothing about them. Power or none powered frogs, and did not look and to be honest would not know what I was looking at. I have the turnouts divulging rails end to end. And because I on a tight budget I used old rail joiners, to be safe I solder every section of track. Might add I am getting go at it.  Anyway, you know the Chirping Sound that happens if there is a quick short, but does not shut down the DDC system? When a train pass through the west bound runaround going from the Passenger spur to the main, I hear the Chirping! East runaround is fine?

   It's a pain now they are installed; but I'd be putting an insulated joiner between them, if only on the frog rail join.

 

Sam: Congratulations on the Engineer promotion!

 

On the subject of dumb High School students, I'm in awe of the level of Math you guys are doing - way over my head (unless we just took other stuff at the same level, quite a possibility)  On "are today's kids dumber?"....well, we had our moments too. Like when a bunch of us found an artillery shell from WW1 (our estimate from knowledge of local history) on the flood plain across which we had to walk to get to the river and the rowing club. We judged it to be a dummy practice round (about 9 inches diameter, well over a foot long - and looking to be solid - no apparent fuse mechanism in the nose)  Made work for ourselves carrying THAT back to school unobserved, and up to the third storey dormitory (all male boarding school) window, from where it was released to the flower bed below "to see what would happen"   I'm able to type this because it WAS a practice round! Definite "Darwin Award" material there!

 

On cell phones - never had had one, and can't see the point here. We'd need it for emergencies in the car on the lonely stretches of highway around here - but of course there's no signal in them thar parts!

 

Galaxy:

you dont need "vast amounts of space" or "miles and miles of track" to have just about any type of operations you like. {WEll, switching in and out of the 4 spur mini yard is not the same as a timesaver switching detail.}

  Come to the Dark Side G! You can put a one-sided Timesaver in a small space in Normal Scale.

 

Vincent:  ( I see  Galaxy has replied already - but I had this typed up in Word, and hate to waste electrons )  The Diner location changes monthly - and that happens to be roughly 50 pages (last month's 53 in 30 days shows we had a lot to say!)

 

Todd:  Yup, I think Bugs was fond of Barber of Seville quotes.http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3874699082182535289#  (just checked that and it said it was not available right now - that may just be my server)

 

Ulrich: A relief to see you drop in again. That depression thing is a black bear....I know you'll tell us if Tanzania brightens any

Vincent:  I've two brand new Atlas GP15s and a GP38 that were, and still are noisy out of the box. Sent the 15s back tot he factory, they claim they fixed them , but t hey are just as bad. Have to live with it b/c I don't have the cash to pursue it further.

I'll take my JR Regular to the back booth and see if I can interest Duke in a diesel

TTFN.

 

 

 

[Anonymous]

2 am and no sleep - Janie. I need my insomnia special , please and thanks!

Jeff - I love that picture. Looks like this engine has seen better days decades ago. You have captured that hand-me-down look so well!

Jim - yeah. we get plenty of that wet stuff right now. The East of Germany has seen some bad flooding, but not as bad as in 2002.

Galaxy - the GG 1 is the most elegant US loco ever built. I never understood, why PRR and later PC messed it up with those ugly paint schemes. The tuscan red livery is also my favorite.

Well, I´ll better give another try - CU tomorrow!

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Sir Madog

Jeff - I love that picture. Looks like this engine has seen better days decades ago. You have captured that hand-me-down look so well!

Thanks Ulrich. It doesn't take much. A little powder here, a little paint there, a handrail bent in the right place, etc. I especially like the way the decal turned out. I had a batch printed for me by another party. He did a really good job on them. My own printer can't print a good decal worth beans.

[howmus]

Evinin' folks!

Just a cup of decaf for me Flo.

Been a long day.  The kabob dinner went very well.  Everything THAT needed to be cooked was done to perfection, and everything else was perfect as well.  The Gross was over $800 and since a lot of the food and other things needed were donated, we should have a good chunk left to benefit the Pastor's Discretionary Fund.  Came home, turned on the computer and fell asleep in the chair.......  Woke up in time to go over to my son's house for dinner.  Had a great pork roast dinner with all the trimmings and then sat down to watch the latest rendition of "The World's Stupidest Videos"  Starring a massive bunch of people filming little kids injuring themselves, and phases like, "Hey, Yall, watch theeis..."  After a particularly idiotic group of clips showing men having hair pulled off various parts of their anatomies and screaming like Banshees... I reiterated my reasoning for leaving the TV off at my house and decided to come back home and stare at the computer screen instead......

JimRCGMO

Evening, Janie - I'll have a bowl of cream of mushroom soup, a peanut butter and honey sandwich on wheat bread, and a glass of whichever of Ray's wines will go with THAT combination... Thanks!

Psst, Ah, Janie, THAT would be a bottle or two of Richard's Wild Irish Rot Gut.....  Without any doubt at all the worst crap ever created in the Finger Lakes Area.  If you ever come to the Finger Lakes don't bother with anything marketed by "Consolation" Brands.......  It's the Mall Wart of Wines!

Der, actually the line is uttered by Sir Joseph after he realizes he cannot marry Buttercup Josephine (looked it up) but rather will marry his "cousin" Hebe.  He takes her in his arms, looks at her and says (rather blandly), "Oh Joy, Oh Rapture" and grimices.....  Then the Finale begins........  "Oh Joy, Oh Rapture Unforseen".

Well, (deep subject) I think I will go hang out in the back booth and see what goes on this evening....

73

 

[Tracklayer]

Hello all. It's been a while since my last visit. I'm still fighting these old health problems and trying to hang in there. I haven't done any work on my layout in a good while but have been getting out to the train room now and then and running the trains around, my favorite of which is my little Santa Fe Consolidation with a good mix of about six or eight cars and a caboose.  Just last night I changed the layout over to modern day and am running the Amtrak Texas Eagle right now.

You guys take care and I'll check back in on you from time to time.

Tracklayer

[TMarsh]

Goood evening! I think I’ll have a ………Kitchen sink burger and sweet potato fries. A glass of sweet wine also please, and a glass of water to wash the taste of wine away if need be. Thanks. Oh, and don’t forget, it’s on Ray. Unless he’s wearing his good clothes, then wait until he’s wearing his work duds.

Jim- Hey! You got in a bit of modeling! Good for you. Looks great too. Very nice work.

Got about 90% of the wood floor laid at Mom’s house yesterday. Well, it’s got wood in it, but isn’t really solid wood. The laminate stuff but doesn’t look like it. Went to Menard’s and got some flat transition strips to use as a border at the fireplace and then I should be able to finish the family room and the kitchen tomorrow with any luck. Something that I have been running short on lately.

Chris- Daffy Duck was my favorite character. Hm. I guess he still is. One of my favorites he would say was after something happened to him that was like a play on words, and he would drop his shoulders he had say, “droll. Very droll.” It was a lucky off the wall guess on the HMS Pinafore thing. It just sounded familiar. (actually, a really reeeeally good guess and was the first thing out of my mouth. Don’t tell Ray. He thinks I’s super duper smart.)

Der- Depending on exactly what the fabricators would do, usually they require some sort of cutting oil. Machine oil for lube to the machines, hydraulic oil and solvents to clean and prep metal plus, again depending on what is manufactured, metal preserving coating stuff. Some places even buy their cleaning liquid soap for floors in 55 gal drums. Just a few suggestions as I know if you do use drums you will eventually want to label them even though some of us couldn’t tell if you did in N sane scale except in pictures.

Well think I’ll set in my chair, if I remember where it is and how to make it recline it’s been so long, and watch Sci Fi channel. Tomorrow it’s back to the Floor Wars East. OH! I did get the yard mowed this eve upon my return from Old dirty Springfield. Restaurant was busy so I didn’t even stop in. We wenbt across the highway and ate at the Huddle House. Another chain that is almost identicle to a Waffle House for those of you who don’t know. The buildings even look the same. I think if one goes out of business all the other has to do is replace the H-U-D-D or the W-A-F-F depending. Actually..., kinda smart.

DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24^th AND A HALF CENTURY!!!!!!! (chuckle) Another favorite Daffy character. Funny.

 

[Flashwave]

Hello all!

Well, yesteday I did Student Conductor for ITM (Oh how I wish I could be doing it and get paid). Glad to see Indiana FINALLY got the rain we needed. But could we have waited until AFTER ITM was done running trains to a pumpkin patch? Really didn't need the cold, the damp, and the six inches of mud. But hey, the floors are higher now...

Droped by the club on my way home. NEXT weekend, Naptown & White River is hosting CIRROPs. (An Operations group) so we're racing to get the layout as spit-shined as we can. Now have 5 more engines DCC'd and lettered. Need to go back and do lights, and one of the GPs I just decaled straight onto the undec plastic a la the Primer schemes UP and NS did. (they needed engines and told GE and EMD to screw painting, seal them for weather, slap name and number, and send them engines) Those will get done after CIRROPs though, so oh well. Least they run. One of the BL2s had to be cannibalized, but I think we're gonna drop that shell onto the sound chassis of mine. So for CIRROPs, we'll actually have 6 engines in NWR plus the 2 SW1200s, the RS3, and the two F unit pairs.    

Need to get a Caboose going tomorrow for them, we're low on those too.

Oh, and by the way, next weekend is Great Train Expo too. EEK! 

Ah, Looney Tunes. Still my favorite cartoons. (yes, I am 18.75 yrs old. Your point?)

[gear-jammer]

Good evening, Chloe.  I would like a RBF, please.  I know that Jim will join me if he is around.

Jim,  Thanks for sharing your modeling.

der,  Looks like you have been staying busy.  You have made alot of progress since I last checked in.  Life just gets busy.

Garry,  Have you added any new NP items to your layout?

It is fall and I am back in the tree making mode.  First I will make blackberry vines with weeds I picked in the woods, then on to the furnace filter trees (Aggro trees).  I plan to make some that are flatsided allowing me to get a few more next to the wall.  We will see how that works.

Later,  Sue

[der5997]

Sue: Good to see you in again. Busy - oh yes, THAT's a virus around here too. Just too many things vying for too little time.  Flat Aggro trees? Do you trim them before or after final assembly? Just currious.

 

Jeff: A spider in the shower the other morning made me wonder - how is your resident wolf taking to the disturbances in it's hunting grounds?

Todd: Thanks, that's a lot of different barrels. I think if I get that far it would be just the different stripes - my printer sounds to be a cousin of Jeff's - even if MS Publisher ( the only program I have for that sort of thing)would take a picture or word down that small, it wouldn't print off worth a darn.

Ran some trains this evening. Found one boxcar kept derailing the trailing truck at turnouts (not every one, but at least three) Nothing else was having problems there. Took a look at the truck - the wheels were crud crusted (metal, not plastic where that happens more often IIRC) After cleaning and checking the gauge, things were much better. Thinking f instituting a policy of cleaning wheel sets on any car removed from the layout from the interchange before that car is put back on the layout. Anyone do that sort of thing on a regular basis?

Well, better look to getting to bed.Goodnight all, and God Bless. Prayers for all in need of Healing, Comfort, Prosperity and Peace. (Sleep too, Ulrich)

[ns3010]

Evening all.

Finished paint on the GP50. That's done, except for the decals that I won't have for a long time.

NE Rail Modeler- oh, how I envy you. It's been around 50 here yesterday and today.

Jim, I hate losing really long posts. I lost one the other night. I guess I forgot to hit the post button before closing the window... DOH!
That's a neat fuel tank!

DerJohn- mill looks great!

What, did I hear someone mention Nsanely small scale?

Hey Sue, great to hear from you again!

Well, tomorrow's Monday, so I guess I'd better get going! I've got captains practice after school tomorrow (yay...), but hopefully I'll be able to make it back in after.

Later!

[Packer]

Jim, nice work on the old revell kit

NERM (you okay with that or do you have something shorter we can go by?), I highly doubt it since all my locos and stuff is in my room. I even went as far as to keep them in ziploc bags. Although something may be up since I get a bunch of decoders just dropping dead for no reason. So I've got 5 decoders (3x DA-SR, a DH123, and a DH120) that went poof for no reason. may be a static electricty thing.

John, odd your atlas locos are noisy. Atlas and BLI are the only 2 brands I've never had problems with (that I didn't cause anyways). But until I got this RS3 my 2 Kato C425s were the noisiest.

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Good evening ...

Ken ... Wow... You at the entire prime rib dinner. Another chow hound I see.

Ulrich ... glad you found the way here.

Jim ... The fuel tank looks great.

Der John .... your layout is progressing nicely. Looks like big buildings.

Galaxy ... You're welcome. This hobby is the best!

Todd ... Sci Fi ... was it a good show?

Sue ... I have no more NP stuff. I'm slowling converting to DCC, and have too many locos already. I do run NP from time to time. In fact, My NP RS-3's (Atlas/Kato) are on the mainline now.

Morgan ... Perhaps, you should make being a paid conductor your goal. Let people know you are interested.

Where is Keith ???? I'm mising his posts.  Did Jerry find his way here this month? Several others are missing, too.

[AmanaMedic]

Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood Evening, sedation with the insomniac's special please...

Well, looks like a lot of folks through here tonight... Is THAT DER JOHN over there inscribing N-Sane scale drums with contents labels???? If anybody can, he can.

I heard somebody say he was looking at GP-15 pics, wanting to scratch build one. Well, maybe this will help, maybe it won't. With so many various variations in how EMD built the durn things...

Two sides, one shot...how 'bout THAT???

VINCENT: You said you got a Front Range/McKean centerbeam flat...without the ends? Geesh. THAT might be a blessing in disguise. I've toyed with the idea of getting one of those since about...1988 or so. I see 'em on TheBay all the time. But, I've never heard/read anything good about them. I read about warped floors, parts THAT don't fit worth snot (McKean/Front Range stuff always seems to require a little..."attention"...and some finese, finease, heck! fiddling to make it FIT!.

TODD and CUDA KEN: You guys are gonna guilt/shame me into tackling Floor Wars too one of these days. Fortunately, I have your experiences to learn from.

Daffy Duck. Who wouldn't, who couldn't like Daffy Duck? Classic stuff! I went and found some Daffy quotes:

"Obviously, I am dealing with inferior mentalities."

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, sounds like RAY was stuck watching a TV show full of "inferior mentalities." I guess the only value of those stupid human tricks shows...is at least they have something to show the doc in the ER when the idiots are hauled in, and he asks "what happened to this guy?" Idiot's friends can show the doc the video, show him the Mechanism of Injury (MOI).

"I'm not crazy, I just don't give a darn."

I may adopt/borrow/steal THAT one...

"I am a duck bent on self-preservatimum-minum."

AMEN

 

Good night, Good Morning to ULRICH...

Chris

"We salute our armed forces, police officers, FIREFIGHTERS, and emergency personnel." - Mark Levin

[wetidlerjr]

 

Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.

 

[Anonymous]

Good Morning Folks,

Daylight is breaking at this side of the Big Pond. Seems, as if the weather guessers are right with their prediction this time. It is going to be a fair autumn day.

Janie, just coffee for me, please!

Has anybody heard anything from Keith? He has not been in for a while now and I am getting worried. I hope he is just taking a break from us and all is well at his end.

Good to see, that we have some new folks joining the Diner gang - a big welcome (back) from this end!

John - sometimes, I find it hard to believe that you are modeling in N scale. There is so much detail! I could not do this - my aging eyes just cannot cope with those minute parts anymore.

Chris - Daffy Duck was also one of my favorite characters, but I cannot chime in quoting him. On German TV, he was of course speaking German and I guess, that a lot of the word play got lost in the translation.

Sawyer - I saw your picture of your now defunct layout in WPF - a sad sight! I hope, it won´t be long before you can start to build your new layout!

I miss working on a layout of my own so much! There are so many ideas for small layouts in my head, but I have given up putting them "on paper". Planning a layout without having even the slightest chance to build it just adds to my frustration and puts me down even further. 

You folks now the key difference between the US of the 1960´s and me? Well, the US had Bob Hope and Johnny Cash, but I ain´t got no hope and no cash

A happy start of the week to all of you!

[blownout cylinder]

Good Morning

This morning, outside of our back deck we are now looking at 35F as the current temperature---and it already is back to being cloudy with the ever popular 60% chance of another rainy day--that after the weatherbeguessers forecast a week of sun---no such luck this morning

I am going to be rather busy this week as we have a weeks worth of w**kshops to attend to--so I'll be posting a little on the early side I guess.

Flo, I'll have a IV bag with rawcaffeine please as well as some toast with jam ----I'll be at the RC for a bit

[ns3010]

Morning all.

Somehow, I had extra time before school, so I dropped in to say hi.

Catch ya later

[Wisconsin Railfan]

Good Morning Folks!

A cup of coffee please!

Hope everyone had a great weekend.  I picked up new drill press this weekend

Chris - Excellent C&NW picture, thanks for posting.

Steven

[Robby P.]

 Good morning.   Looks like rain today and tomorrow.

 Took the car to the shop today.  Hopefully they can fin whats wrong.    We are also getting a grinding noise from the Sonata (the one that was wrecked) from the area that was hit.  So......It might have to go back to the body shop AGAIN!!

 Not much planned for me today.  Work in the basement, and around the house.

 

 

 

[galaxy]

Morning!

Cup of coffee please!

Off to Lowes to get some gravel and a new bulb for the fan fixture in the BA.

The other half wants to pop into work to talk to some people too.

Stop at the bank to turn in some rolled coins for cash as we need it.

And see what other trouble we can get into!

Have ag reat day!