Galaxy - WAY TO GO !!! 2000 posts that is impressive
I just caught up again in the Diner. Feeling like I'm part of the community again.
Very cold these past 3 days, and SNOW has been here since Wednesday. Time to wake up the quad and snow blade.
I had 3 medical appts this afternoon (massage, Dr, physio) = MVA connections, starting to feel like it's working - so much for my day off. At least the weekend is here. Between sports, honey sales table, and Sun church - Monday is when I can sit back and relax a bit - oh yeah, some work has been scheduled for that day.
Blessings and prayers
cheers, krump
"TRAIN up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it" ... Proverbs 22:6
krump Galaxy - WAY TO GO !!! 2000 posts that is impressive
It just means I have WAY to much time on my hands LOL.
-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.
Good morning.
I'm off this morning to the LHS, and pick up a "early" b-day gift. Then comeback home and help clean the house.
Barry.......That's fine. I will keep a lookout for the PM.
Galaxy........2000 !! Maybe one day we will be at Jeff's 14,000 +
Ken.........May I suggest a "lift out". I had a duck under and it was getting to be a pain, plus Jessica couldn't help me on the layout. She has bad knees from years of softball and she has a hard time "ducking" under. On the layout I have now I installed a lift out. Much easier and if you have to get something or do something you unplug and lift instead of ducking under.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Robby P. Galaxy........2000 !! Maybe one day we will be at Jeff's 14,000 +
Yep, and by then Jeffrey will be at 30,000! Boy, some of us have way to much time on our hands, don't we?
Good Morning All,
Back in the shop this morning to do some cleaning in the office, fiddle the CFO's mighty and majestic RAM50 (nee Mitsubishi) and other assorted friviolity. I'll have a regular coffee please (cream, no sugar for those of you not living in New England or otherwise needing translation).
Ken - besides the duckunder you could do a swing bridges as well. If Ican get them tocopy, I did one on the previous layout as it was in a 9 x 9 area and had only one access point (two outside walls, the staircace to the basement, and banked up to the furnace and water heater on the fourth side)
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This was a three level swing bridge and due to poor planning on my part had a pair of curves as well as a wye on the top level the secind level was a curve and the first level never got done as it was all wrecked in the fire and later flood (no pestilence though and my water never turned red).
Back to it. I'll stop in later for lunch. J.R.
galaxy Robby P.: Galaxy........2000 !! Maybe one day we will be at Jeff's 14,000 + Yep, and by then Jeffrey will be at 30,000! Boy, some of us have way to much time on our hands, don't we?
Robby P.: Galaxy........2000 !! Maybe one day we will be at Jeff's 14,000 +
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Good Morning! Denver Omelet please and a big ol honkin’ cup of coffee.
Feeling like I’m living in a Railroad town. They aren’t suppose to be here until the 1st to tear up the crossing, but they are standing at the crossing now and the tie load train shows ever once in a while and the little whatevers they plunk on the tracks. I hope to get some pictures soon as they are in Sherman now working their way north.
I have done the research and discovered that Soy oil does indeed have a very high smoke point. Well passing what I need. Now I will use soy oil. But not this year. I did make a trip to town yesterday, and remembered to stop at the Farm and Home store for the oil. They did not have Sunflower oil, but they did have peanut blend for (sitting down?) $4 a jug CHEAPER than Walmart. Yes true.
Lee- Huh, thank you. You know I never thought of GFS. Well I did, but the actual warehouse. I keep forgetting of the GFS….store, I guess you call it. It is cleeeeear on the other side of Springfield, but my Mother now lives about ¾ of the way there from my house. So it’s much closer. There I know I can get my soy oil in larger, therefore cheaper, jugs.
If you’ve ever had to clean up vegetable oil after frying guys, try Soybean oil.You cannot tell the difference in anything except the cleanup. You will switch I assure you. I can see why it’s better for the arteries.
Ray- It is no wonder they were willing to work for you. That was a Princely sum back then. Of course, If you want good help, you’ll have to pay for them and pay to keep them too.
There has been some thinking going on in my noggin. Very funny Vinnie, Hardy har-har. Anyway. There are things I want that would not be very prototypical. I’m thinking Toddtypical is the way to go. Something that looks good, naturally but not necessarily for any given place. Like I’m building my own world. Which... I am. I’ll have to think some more.
I’d sure hate to be one of the signal guys. They stand there at crossings from sun up to past sundown with a stop/slow sign waiting for a train or something else to come so they can switch the sign from slow to stop. Talked to one of them yesterday, their first day in town. Yes it is boring. Until after dark. When a train comes or whatever else, he then must step out in front of the vehicles with his sign and his little light on his hat and wave the stop sign hoping they see him and stop. Now, you'd assume people could see that, but then again, how many pull out in front of trains.
Better get out to Mom’s house. I have a wall to replace.
Y’all have a Great Day now ya hear?!!!
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 morning all. Not much going on today, though I have a paper for a online class that I need to work on today.
Maybe I'll get to the little layout later. I don't know if my pic worked last time....so I will try again![View:http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/themes/trc/utility/
:550:0] There we go! This is my Gn15 micro layout. More details forthcoming. I'm hoping once I am done, I can get it published on http://www.carendt.com/
Well, I think I just have mug of hot chocolate. It's a little chilly this morning.
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Well here's my new "work horse". Its a GP38-2. Of course it will get the "weathered" look. I will start on that this weekend. First the fade, and some grime, etc...
Robby ... Perhaps this unit will help with roof top weathring. It's a GP40, but that may not matter.
I took the picture in Nashville last summer.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Mornin' everyone! A nod and a grin to those who are new or returning after an absence..... Good to have you on board (again).
Zoe, I'll have the same as Barry was munching on to go along with my morning dark roast coffee in a FGLK mug. I'll go over and occupy my "reserved seat" for a while.
Well (deep subject), Galaxy I see you have hit # 2000..... Good, THAT means you must be enjoying the forum as much as we enjoy having you around!
Robby, nice diseasally thingy you got there! Bet she will be looking like she has done some w**k soon. I know you will post updates for us.
I have a long list of things I should be doing today to get ready for Family showing up on Wednesday, but instead I will be spending much of the afternoon at a MRR openhouse being put on by one of our NMRA Members in my division. He has an outstanding layout and I always enjoy seeing it (even though I saw it a month ago...)!
Todd.... I got news for you. There are a lot of things you can often get cheaper at local stores compared to Mall Wart! For myself, if the only place I can get it is Mall Wart, I don't need it! (I don't like the store in case you didn't notice.......)
OK, if I'm going to get anything done on the list, I best get under motion...
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good morning. It's 54 and mostly cloudy. The high should be 73 and it will remain mostly cloudy.Had to go to town this morning to get a new roll of solder. 60/40 rosin core .050". I usually use a lead free type but they didn't have it in stock. I had to pick up a few other things also so it was a fairly good errand run. I also grabbed a 50 count box of Christmas lights. This will be cut up and used for structure lighting. I figure that they're 2.4 volts each so 3 in series on 5 volts should be good.
Good Afternoon Folks,
a little later than usual, but I am just back from my second day of consulting the two guys who want to run that TV station. It feels good to be back in to my "old" job routine.
Zoe, a , please, and something to munch on - how about crackers and cheese? Thank you.
Galaxy - 2000 posts? A long way to catch up with Jeff, who is only surpassed by Crandell. I am zeroing in on post # 3,000, which I will most likely achieve by the end of the year.
Ken - preparing track plans can become a hobby of its own . But beware of being caught by a bad case of analysis paralysis, which I tend to be. That´s why I don´t touch my track plan any more. I am still having difficulties putting your druthers into a basic concept for a layout. One of the issues is to keep those 4 mains which you´d like to have, separated from each other, without cramming too much track into the given space. Accessibility is a big issue, and if you incorporate too many duck-unders, fly-overs, lift-outs and poop-ups, you are going to hate this one day. A layout of the size you envision may easily take 10 years to complete and believe me, 10 years ago I did not have the problems crawling on my 4 feet that I have now.
Bob - Hamburg has changed a lot since the 1970´s. The re-unification of Germany brought back Hamburg´s "Hinterland", turning the city into a boom town. St. Pauli has lost lots of its old character by turning into a fashionable quarter with a demi-monde touch. I still find it to be Germany´s most attractive city!
I am still pondering about my benchwork issue. The problem I have is its irregular shape an the lack of professional woodworking tools to cope with any other angle than either 45 or 90 degrees. The benchwork needs to be lightweight, as I may have to be able to move the layout. What I have come up with is a mixture of L-girder and open grid benchwork. My idea is to use two 1x4s as a "spine" and set plywood "ribs"every 12", to which I fasten the plywood "baseboard". The whole contraption will be mounted on shelf brackets, attached to wall-mounted metal rails. Does that make sense?
A big to all the Diner´s new patrons!
TTFN
Garry..............Thanks for the picture!!! I really needed that shot. By the way, I got your letter today.
Ray............I just now got the body off. I will post some shots later this week. Its not going to be a rust bucket, but more along the lines of a "used" engine.
Good Morning all..Its cloudy and damp here...You all have a chunk of my birthday cake...This is my 63rd!...I am going to listen to Casey final 4 football game this afternoon on the radio..Having one of my favorite meals tonite for supper..Chili and hot dogs!..been a favorite of mine since I was a kid..finnished kit bungled transfer caboose yesterday..gonna weather it and then I'll try to get a photo of it...You all have a good one...Jerry
Jerry - !
This one´s for you!
Good Afternoon Jerry and a very HAPPY 63rd BIRTHDAY to you mate. May the next 50 be kind and enjoyable for you. You have our very best wishes.
Would love to sit in with you for the Chili and Dogs, and buy you a double RBF. and play with your " Illinois Southern."
And Ulrich, thank Petra for making the cake.
Minus 23c again here today. Don't even think I am going to go out today. Spent the day yesterday blowing snow and a few household chores. Train room here I come.........................
Johnboy out.............................for now
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Hi all,
Leftover pizza for lunch - yumm[C=:-). Still cleaning the office. Can anyone see what I missed when I tried to post those pics earlier today? Can't find the prompt I had a dn can't seem to see where the forum search function has gone to so I can look it up myself.
Happy Birthday Jerry - and many more I hope. And your favorite meal besides - what could be better?
Ulrich - with the convoluted shape of your layout you could try the 1" x 4' turned on side with 1/4" ply (I used the cheapest stuff I could find) on top cut to the shape you want and 2" foam bonded to that. Should be sturdy and stable. I did most of the upper level of my last layout that way and will repeat the application on my next. Fascia can be anchored to the bottom of the plywood with prefab angle brackets. Thin stuff again will conform to the curves. I used scrap aluminum sheet from a sign shop for some of it. Just a couple of thoughts.
Well, back to it if I want to leave here at a reasonable hour. J.R.
Happy birthday Jerry
to you JERRY!!!
Afternoon folks!
Hey, what's this? A party? OK! All together now....
Just got home from a layout open house. The owner just had an artist paint a new backdrop on the walls all around the room. His layout is spectacular. Really captures the look and feel of the early 1900's.
Now I have some items I really need to get at here at home, so....
Happy Birthday Jerry!
Flo, I will take care off Jerry's tap. I will all so like a Big Boy Sub, toasted, 2 tenders of Onion Rings and a
Robby P and JR. Advices is noted. Simon has a lift out bridges and he hates it as well. I am guessing because the boys are running in and out all the time. JR I would love to see the pictures and thanks for trying.
Ulrich I am working on breaking up the Branch Lines, but the mains, I will keep them side by side. I have visions of my Big Steam racing around the bench side by side. Again you are welcome to comment on the coming plan. I think you will like this a little better.
I am becoming addicted to the Track Planning, like when I first got into video games.
Here is today's version.
Morgan Thanks for showing how to do a proper yard. While not perfect but way better than the messes I had been posting. Yard it self is around 77 feet and will hold around 125 50 foot cars. That is about 1/2 my cars. I could move the yard a little and add 2 or 3 more ladders on the other side.
May have finally found a spot for the mine. I all so finally figured out how to install the buildings and rotate them! Seemed odd they did not have the New river Mining Company in there inventory so I made my own.
I all so broke up the Branch Line's! See I do listen, I just react slowly.
There will be a Lift Out section for the K-10 Mountain, the big round thing. I thinking about putting the town of Kingsdown to the top.
All so remember the 2 out side lines will all wise be 4 to 6 inches higher than the Branch lines.
See you all later, Ken
I hate Rust
A couple had been married for 25 years and was celebrating the husband's 63th birthday. During the party, a fairy appeared and said that because they had been such a loving couple all those years, she would give them one wish each.The wife said, “We've been so poor all these years, and I've never gotten to see the world. I wish we could travel all over the world.” The fairy waved her wand and POOF! She had the tickets in her hand.Next, it was the husband's turn. He paused for a moment, and then said, “Well, I'd like to be married to a woman 30 years younger than me.” The fairy waved her wand and POOF! He was 93.
.......... OOOOPS ! .... Oh, Hi, Jerry! .... Happy Birthday!
jeffrey-wimberly galaxy: Robby P.: Galaxy........2000 !! Maybe one day we will be at Jeff's 14,000 + Yep, and by then Jeffrey will be at 30,000! Boy, some of us have way to much time on our hands, don't we? Well, no job to go to and I don't get out much, so what else can I do?
galaxy: Robby P.: Galaxy........2000 !! Maybe one day we will be at Jeff's 14,000 + Yep, and by then Jeffrey will be at 30,000! Boy, some of us have way to much time on our hands, don't we?
Same boat Jeffrey, i'm just in a different cabin!
Well, we went to Scranton to Harbor Feight Tools to get a few things...like a heat gun to shrink wrap the soldered wires on the layout; a new good bigger soldering iron to solder the wires and track connections; a new hot knife to shape the foam for the layout; A new battery drill for my father { he dropped and broke his and the battery is wearing out eh couldn't make up his mind whether to buy the new set or to buy a new battery that might fit} for his birthday I think; a few other things and a hand truck for lugging things around that are heavy.
On the way back from Scranton, once again after a long trip on the hiway when we got off at our exit the Kia BUCKED harder this time and it is DEFINITELY a tranny buck. Monday will call the dealership AGAIN and have them look at it AGAIN. Hope they get it fixed before we go on a road trip to mass/conn to the Amherst Train show, for which we are pinching pennies to go to. We don't want to be on the road that far from home and have teh tranny drop out from under us and be stranded!
Oh, and we stopped by what used to be Internet Hobbies brick store { internethobbies.com} in Mayfield Pa North of Scranton. Dark as night and locked up tighter than a drum. On a Saturday. Close to Christmas. The sign was one of those you put the letters and numbers in for the hours of operation and all the numbers/letters had been pulled off and the sign was marked with the "Closed" sign on top. I have not ordered from them in awhile so I don't even know if they are still operating? THeir website is stillup I see. I wonder if they effectively closed the store to concentrate on internet orders only and only ship Mon-Fri, so only operate Mon-Fri or what? I mention it because I thought y'all might wanna know if you order from them. They usually have fine web ordering service, so I jsut wonder what is up with the store?
Sometime this week I have to get a new board cut to 42"x42" for the new under-the-table-top-tree-layout, then paint it white for the "snowy look" the ohter half wants. You know how it is what the other wants, the other half gets! I don't really snow but what cvan you do?
DId i smell when I came in to the diner? Jerry! hope you get lots of good !!!
And a hearty belated to our recently joined new members to the diner. We are generally a pleasant group of peeps. but watch out or vinnie will keep you straight! {Captain somebody and who else?} Flo set up the NEW members with a or a or a on me please! It will go great with teh being passed out.
Well I shall check out the forum now and see what I missed all day being gone all day for a road trip!.
Hey Jerry.......
Hey Jerry- HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!!
Flip
Happy B-day to Jerry!
Well, did some looking through some old photos, found some interesting photos from railfanning the mill job on my old layout.... enjoy!
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Apparently the Empire doesn't pay well. Darth Vader must have gotten a second job on the side as a brakeman. Here he signals the engineer to couple on to the tanker.
Here is again, coordinating another car pick-up on the other side of the mill...
Hopping back on board to head back home after a long shift working the mill job... time to get back to that Death Star!
Good Morning America (and Canada, too!),
Got up fairly late this morning and I am hungry! Flo, I´ll go for my big Sunday breakfast with all the works - coffee, a glass of Ed´s OJ, bacon and eggs, buttered toast, pancakes, sausages, please & thanks!
OzarkBelt - nice pictures - I knew that Darth Vader needs a second job to pay his living!
Ken - did I understand you correctly? You would not mind having those 4 mainline tracks paralleling each other to a large extent? That would make things less complicated and could lead to something like a Horseshoe curve inspired layout. Other things to include are a fairly large yard, a station, a mine operation and maybe some staging. If that´s a way to go, I am getting ideas how to put that into your space, even with no lift-outs and only 1 or 2 duck-unders.
Blessings to all!
Morning all,
another early one for me.
Welp, checked out all the "toys" from yesterday's harbor freight tool run. They all work! {naturally but you never know}. They are also part of xmas presents {another $102 dollars} and so were teh new winter clothes the other day at a early doorbuster sale to the tune of $150 with tax.{not bad really for 8 items of warm clothing heck my 2 HEAVY WEIGHT flannel shirts in solid colors so they go with anything that I often use as jackets this time of year and in the spring were $24 a piece- and they had them in my 2XL size!!! I would have paid twice that cuz they were in my size and were solid plain colors and hard to find in the heavy weight and solid colors- two bad they only had 2 colors of gray {light, dark} in my size but gray goes with eveything..}. I also already hae a blue solid and a red solid, so I can match to any tshirt under it and can match to my gray or blue light weight pants or flannel camo or strips or black stretchy fleece pants I wear until hard cold weather sets in. Then I settle for sweatpants.
Enough of that.
SInce I won't be working on the layout as I will be working onthe under-the-table-top-tree-layout-42"x42"-board which I must purchase early this week BEFORE the mad rushes to Lowes and HD takeover to get teh 3/4 ply {anyone else notice for a long time it ISN't 3/4 ply by what 22/32" just a shade under 3/4" anymore}.Since it will be laying flat on the table, this wont' have a boarder frame yet...although it just occured to me that maybe 1x2 good straight stuff might make a nice raised border that will also keep trains on the board when "pickle" gets up there to see the shiney sparkly things on the tree up close. I will paint the board white and order WS snow and some more gray medium mix ballast to mix with the snow to make it look like a winter wonderland the other half {OH} wants. What teh OH wants the OH gets! Since I have my mini HO layout year round and OH's Nscale trains only run at from TG day when I put up the tree to Orthodox Christmas and take it down Jan 8th. SO i conceede. My only allowable demand is to have my one barely an oval more like a circle of HO track that I can run HO's under the tree too. Then we get two ovals of Nscale...one for my old Nscale sutff OH likes to see run especially the "Jupiter" 4-4-0 OH bought me for xmas 2/3 years ago and what I call my "big boy", though it isn't- its a 2-8-8-2 instead, bu it the biggest Nsacle {or HO for that matter} taht we got, so we call it "big boy", and one oval for my other half's Nscale.I will add 12.5 R" curves to the Nscale with new code 55 track. Next year maybe we add z scale. HHM...will have to get some 1" WS foam flexible risers to raise up the Nscales so they can be seen better over the HO no choice the HO must go on the very outside. This year I will have an 18R' circle/oval instead of 15r". WHoo HOo!!
Deer season opened here yesterday and already one man has been shot to death.Tsk Tsk when WILL they learn? Not much more details..like was he wearing orange or camo, etc. More later.
WEll, I need to get some breakfast a ham and cheese and egg sandwhich ought to do it just fine!
Not much planed today. Watch the Steelers vs Raiders, and maybe work on the layout some.
Have a good morning guys!!