I knew it!
Somewhere in the back of my head I knew I missed a birthday!
Ray!
This one´s for you!
Hi Ken,
Just my thoughts here for what it is worth.
I like your layout plan a great deal, but, I feel much like Ulrich does, and that you are loosing your original concept of a mountain road.
I do think you can recapture it though. I don't know whether you have considered a second level. (I would)
Take a set of tracks off the right side area and let them go down to an area under what you have on the left side. Move your large yard and servicing area down to the lower level leaving that top level for more rugged landscaping. " BINGO"
Just my worth.
A very Big Happy Birthday to Ray of the Finger Lakes. I still have you beat Ray I'm 70.
Johnboy out................................and back to work
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Just a quick stop.
Thanks for all of the b-days yesterday. It was a good day!!
Ray.........Happy b-day!!
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Good afternoon
Slept in late, very late, but have been up a time or two. Ate some leftover trukey and stuffing.
My Other half {MOH} has a cold and I think I'm getting it. Supposed to go collect both conforters form INLaws beds and wash them and supposed to go see MIL in the hospital, dunno if that all will get done as we both seem to be sleeping a lot today. From the cold I imagine. MOH Say Michael at work shared his cold, and I joke that "he shared and he didn't even kiss you when he shared"- the reaction I get is "EWWW GROSS I wouldn't want him kissing me, he's ugly!". I feel sorry for the guy.
HAppy Birthday RAY! And you need how many did you say? 64 *spankings*...more than twice what RObby P. got yesterday! I'm sure the grand girls will give you a {left hug} and a {right hug} for your birthday!
-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.
Hello everyone...
I'll have a turkey sandwich, please.
Happy b'day, Ray!
House is still full of vistors. Grandkids have the Brio wood train set all over the big room floor downstairs. ... I conducted layout tours for familiy members yesterday.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Happy birthday Ray.
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Afternoon all...Its sunny and cold here..I'll have a plate of left overs please..Thank You..Not much going on here on pearl street..We are having our Thanksgiving saturday with the new baby..I got a real surprise yesterda when they brought the baby by...They put him in my arms and said "meet Jerry Otto Cox" They had told me his name would be Otto Franklin but they had realy choose to name the baby after me..Yes I cried!...
Happy Birthday Ray!!..hope You have a great day!...
You all have a great one..Jerry
Gooooooooooooooooooooooood Afternoon. A pot of coffee please 'n thank-ya. Whilst cogitating on this week's articles to write, I've got "the First Cav Medic radio station" cranked up via Live 365 (live365.com). The "DJ," Jon Dennison, was a combat medic in 'Nam. Since 2000 he's had an internet radio station blasting out music of the era with cuts from AFVN broadcasts. Good stuff, and a good guy. If your internet machine can handle it, give him a listen sometime.
RAY: Happy Birthday to ya!I won't spank ya, but I'll shake your hand.
CUDA KEN: I'll enthusiastically second the motion you look at a double-deck layout. You've got the room. You've got the trackage... I think it all but screams for it. I think you've even got a long-enough run you wouldn't have to mess with a helix to get from one deck to the other. I mean, IF I'm reading your plans right, you've got 4' wide sections??? I'm questioning my sanity at going 2-1/2' wide. For all the "stuff" you want...I really think you'll about have to go double-deck...maybe even triple deck! Don't go wide...go UP!
Hey, wasn't there a three-deck layout plan in MR some years back??? I think it was called "the mushroom" or something like THAT...
TODD: If your belly still be bloated and needing a wheelbarrow...I think I still remember how to "drop an NG tube," could do THAT and see if we can't reduce it some...
Think I'll just slide into a corner booth, spread out my notes for five articles...and see what I can hammer out for THAT Editor. So THAT's the Cowboy Church, the Horseman's Club, A dead TIGER (grant), an update from The Battle of Ireland Avenue, and school board looks at space issues. Yup...gonna be a hoot and a hollar for sure.
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Afternoon all.
Robby! (sorry it's late, but it got lost in my post yesterday.
and Ray!
(also lost in my post yesterday,) We won on Wednesday, 7-6! We're undefeated! Well, at least until our next game on Wednesday...
Well, I've gotta get back to my English paper...
Catch ya later!
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cudaken Mourning AZ Hum, everyone one must be sleeping off there Turkey Day. Well Morgan, I like that plan a lot. I will have a few questions latter today. I all so agree that the 4 lines running side by side one of the reasons I not in love with the last plan. But I am trying to avoid (and failing) some of the common pitfalls such as to wide of a bench. One of the reasons I was originally looking at around the room plan. Can you E Mail a working RTS plan of the last layout? See you all later today. Ken
Mourning AZ
Hum, everyone one must be sleeping off there Turkey Day.
Well Morgan, I like that plan a lot. I will have a few questions latter today. I all so agree that the 4 lines running side by side one of the reasons I not in love with the last plan. But I am trying to avoid (and failing) some of the common pitfalls such as to wide of a bench. One of the reasons I was originally looking at around the room plan.
Can you E Mail a working RTS plan of the last layout?
See you all later today.
Ken
Would be glad to. If I knew where to send it. (Which was the PM Conversation I tried to sendasking about a locale, though it may have been eaten by the digtal postal monster)
OOH! Been playing with a Google site last night, I bet I can toss it there for you (and others) to download, since the one I was building in Dreamweaver failed spectacularly...
-Morgan
Good Afternoon All,
And a Happy Birthday to Ray and a belated one to Robby.
Finished tearing apart the Cooper/Chevy motor, added some mising pieces and fixed a couple of other things so it's off home in a bit. Electrician has finished up for today and the equipment is working as intended so that's all good.
I see PC has found what happens when you pay peanuts (you get monkeys or at best elephants).
Speaking of elephants - here is an elephant graveyard.
And here in the deserted streets of the panicked city, the Martians are preparing to land. Will they be handing out peanuts? Fanmail from some flounders? Sorry too many fumes today I guess.
Off to home or just plain off. CUL, J.R.
Hey, JR, where'd you find that RS11 (or, well, that half of it)?
A few weeks ago, I found its sibling, ME 7205, at the Morristown & Erie shops:
I knew a few of those units were parted out (some scrapped), but I wasn't sure where the remainders were sent.
Thanks!
RAY!!!!
Welb, I got told that there will be a pre-admit on Wednesday--the 1st of December for the surgery---the surgery will be on the 10th of December for my ICD---I can haz normal heart rythym?
I'm all too busy with work stuff---have a good weekend!!!
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/
Coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
To my fellow Americans, hope y'all had a nice Thanksgiving. And a belated Happy Birthday to any I missed.
Have not made it to the Diner in a while. Will have to work on that.
Cheers!
Had a very good Thanksgiving yesterday but last night wasn't so good. It sometimes takes me a while to get comfortable enough to get some sleep due to pain in my neck, back, ribs or knees. Last night it was all of the above and I got only an hour and a half of sleep. Hopefully I'll get more tonight. It's supposed to be 30 tonight then in the low 60's tomorrow. Don't you just love yo-yo weather?
Evenin' folks!
Flo, just a decaf for me... Overate big time at my son's house today.
Thanks for all the good wishes for you folks! I did have a great day. Got to watch my Granddaughters for a few hours while my son, his wife and another couple (old high Shool buddy and his wife) did a bit of the local wine trail. After everybody got back home, we had a great supper of "Thanksgiving Leftovers" (just as good the next day), celebrated my birthday, then play Cutthroat Euchre for a few hours........ My son had the fixin's for White Chocolate Martinis..... I had a small one as I am not supposed to consume much alcohol with some of the drugs I take... Not bad!
Hope you all have a great night!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Morning (it´s lunch time here)
a bright and sunny day, but icy cold, only 25 F. The land looks beautiful, with its layer of snow.
Zoe, just a coffee for me, please!
You all have a good one!
Good cold morning.
Well its the last day for the MIL. Plus I think shes ready to get back to the warms temps of Florida, and have a bedroom with heat.
Not much planned for me today. Maybe go by Lowes and get some things for the layout.
Hope everybody has a good morning.
Ditto of what Rob said .
Jeff- Its called "Georgia Weather".
Flip
GOOD MORNING ARIZONA!
Hope you all had a great day yesterday.
Cold and furiously flurrying here!
I did NOT go freaky friday bargain hunting though I may have missed a deal or two. We are done with xmas shopping and nothing in the ads screamed "come get me,take me home!!!!" at me so I slept. and slept and slept. MY Other Half {MOH} has a cold and so spent a lot of time in bed as did I as I think I am coming down with it too.
Could use a nap again now and think I will as soon as I am done wih the forum. I also think that the higher dose of muscle relaxer the nuerologist gave me aslo puts me to sleep.
Not much else to report.
Have a great day!
Good morning. It's 32 and sunny. The high will be 62 and it will remain sunny. Wow, a whole 30 degree spread there.Didn't get much done yesterday as I was busy disassembling the computer power supply that I use for powering the structure lights so I could clean the dust out of it. Taking it apart was easy, cleaning it was even easier, putting it back together was a bit tricky as I almost needed 3 hands for the job. Masking tape works wonders when you need something held in place temporarily. There was a 1/8th inch thick layer of dust on everything in the power supply. Not too bad considering it was a 10 year plus accumulation. A small paint brush and a Shop-Vac made short work of it. I also got several structures wired with 3 lights each.
Morning everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of ghot oatmeal w/ brown sugar and several cups of good hot dark roast coffee in a FGLK mug to warm me up this morning.
Lawn was white when i got up this morning.... First measurable snow of the season. looked nice, but it is windy and cold out there. Currently 34°F with snow flurries predicted this afternoon.
I have to deliver the cahin saw to the museum, so i am about ready to head out the door. Hope to get back home before the white stuff starts blowing around too much.
Later!
Good Morning All,
37F and partly sunny today - I'm back in the shop again. Just a regular for me please, I'm just passing thru.
Joe - a few years ago ME scrapped out a few of their RS-11's. We have an ex New Haven example in the yard at the museum that's getting a cosmetic restoration and we needed parts so we wheedled our way in and bought some stairs, chairs, window frames and some other stuff. We also needed trucks and cab filter frames, but that stuff was already spoken for or gone by the time we found out. The prime movers were being sent to river barge duty and I'm not remembering about the generators butI think they were going to the same place. The trucks are used on almost all 4 wheel Alco's as well as many early U-boats so they were snapped up right away also. The company doing the scrapping was from Miss. and had lots of contacts as well as a yard full of scrap rail equipment somewhere in Ohio. Clever people, they pretended to be somewhat slow but you tell after a couple of minutes that they were real sharp operators. After a few minutes back and forth, they decided we were ok and let us buy what we needed and also let us remove most of it ourselves which gained us all the special stuff that is normally cut off and tossed. We helped them load a couple of the dumpsters as well and scored a bunch of valves and couplings as well that were scrap to them and a fortune to us. Figure we parted with both sides happy.
Another couple of shots of the line up - all on a siding probably a half mile or so north(east) of where you took your picture. CUL, J.R.
(Slams restroom door) DON”T…., GO IN there.
Good Morning! Turkey and ham omelet please with lots of cheese and salsa. Coffee too thank you.
DANG IT! And I wanted to wish Ray a HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Yesterday. Dog gone memory. I remembered all day Thanksgiving, (well off and on) and Friday morning but as soon as I signed on POOF! Like last weeks salary…., gone. Oh well,
HAPPY late BIRTHDAY RAY!!!! Sorry you didn’t get Salmon on a slab, but I‘m sure you were quite happy with Thanksgiving leftovers. That is my second favorite meal. First being Thanksgiving Meal.
Jerry- A great surprise! What an honor to have someone think so highly of you to give their child both names after you .
One item I missed out on by not watching the adds for the door busting, people trampling, make up new words because the age old cusswords just aren’t sufficient for dealing with the people and their actions Day After Thanksgiving Day Sale. Menard’s had a 6 ft Keller stepladder for $9after mail in rebate. In store credit, but that’s ok. I’ll be in there for $30 worth of stuff sooner than later . Odd. The ladder, a 250lb limit was on display for $52 for the last couple weeks. Now they must have dropped it to $39 then the $30 rebate. Hmm.
Best get out to Mom’s house so’s I can get back at a decent time tonight. Once again running late. Nothing unusual about that. Problem is, I’ll need to go to Menard’s today for some trim. I think I’ll just pull my hair out right now and get it over with.
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.
NEWS FLASH!
I did it. Sucked it up and decided, it's MY world.
I ordered a caboose.
Worst that could happen is someone gets upset with me for having a caboose in the current era. I will cry then move it to a stationary display. Many places have those. I remember as a kid there were many places in our travels that had cabooses-es-es-es parked around and were used as displays, or most I remember, playhouses. That was as they were phasing them out and definately before they phased out the "sorry your child was hurt, but you as a parent should have been watching them better. After all they are your children" law was phased out and the, "if your child gets hurt doing something they shouldn't have been doing or because you felt it wasn't your rresponsibility to check out the equipment you were going to allow them to play on and/or feel it's too much trouble to watch them as they play so you can sue" law came in.
Me like caboose. Me think caboose useful.
*Backs a flatcar with an outhouse up to the DIner.* I think someone has earned their own private throne for the next week or three. I vote we move to someplace EXTREMELY cold, since that old barn is badly sealed.
TMarsh NEWS FLASH! I did it. Sucked it up and decided, it's MY world. I ordered a caboose. Worst that could happen is someone gets upset with me for having a caboose in the current era. I will cry then move it to a stationary display. Many places have those. I remember as a kid there were many places in our travels that had cabooses-es-es-es parked around and were used as displays, or most I remember, playhouses. That was as they were phasing them out and definately before they phased out the "sorry your child was hurt, but you as a parent should have been watching them better. After all they are your children" law was phased out and the, "if your child gets hurt doing something they shouldn't have been doing or because you felt it wasn't your rresponsibility to check out the equipment you were going to allow them to play on and/or feel it's too much trouble to watch them as they play so you can sue" law came in. Me like caboose. Me think caboose useful.
Whadja get? Huh huh? We wanna see! Whadja get?
Ken: try this thingy: https://sites.google.com/site/cmpaho/ken-s-site free download of your trackplan, as well as the track curve template I used to make the 26-34" curves.
Todd,
FWIW I see cabeese all the time on the Hudson line as parts of work trains so they are still prototypical. We use one in the museum yard similarly as a tool car so don't worry about those rivet counters and go for it. J.R.
Morning all.
JR, I didn't realize that you had come down to Morristown when you took those photos. At first I thought maybe their frames had got sent somewhere after getting parted out, but I immediately recgonized that location from that second set of photos. That would be the South Jefferson Team Track, (like you said,) about a mile east of the M&E shops.
Todd, congrats on the caboose! If you ever get sick of being told that your layout is too modern, then you can consider having your shop forces transform it into a shoving platform (SPLAT). That's what the guys at TSR's shops are currently doing to one of their old cabooses. See my shots over in WPF:http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/p/183033/2003360.aspx#2003360
Well, I gotta go. Gotta do homework, then practice and other stuff.
Todd: You almost have me at the point that I want to run off to the Bachmann site and order 2 or 3 cabooses just for the heck of it.