jeffrey-wimberly 70° here, cloudy with a 12 mph SW wind. Low of 45° tonight with a 40% chance of a shower or two.
70° here, cloudy with a 12 mph SW wind. Low of 45° tonight with a 40% chance of a shower or two.
Sure, Jeffrey, Sure...rub it in!
-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.
galaxy jeffrey-wimberly: 70° here, cloudy with a 12 mph SW wind. Low of 45° tonight with a 40% chance of a shower or two. Sure, Jeffrey, Sure...rub it in!
jeffrey-wimberly: 70° here, cloudy with a 12 mph SW wind. Low of 45° tonight with a 40% chance of a shower or two.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Good Evenng All,
Yep, 25F here same as it was this morning when i arrived at w..k. I'll have a regular coffee, swiss burger and some onion rings please. Right over here at the counter please - still gotta trot home.
Interesting in the shop since I basically have no strength or movement in the right arm yet. Can't put any weight on it but motion is less painful than it was yesterday. In light of everone elses issues this is really nothing.
Ray - love the pics of the S.L.O.W. All the featured roads were nice but being somewhat biased I liked yours the most.
Ulrich - super job on the mini layout. Enough track to do some good switching and still have continuous running in and out of view.
Ah, here's my chow - I'll just sit at the rivet counter for a spell and eat. OUCH Chloe - I meant chow in the nicest way possible. Honest - no slights intended and please ask Vinnie to put down that fry pan.
Once I finish, it's off to home for me. Catch Y'all later. J.R.
mmmm---interesting piece of Xmas music...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDc2FD-vy8M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVwr5B6VQZk&feature=related
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/
Afternoon guys
I tried replacing that water pump gasket today. It got complicated. One of the bolts broke, so I had to take off the timing cover (have to take off the harmonic balancer to get it off) to get the rest of it out of the block. It's stuck so I've hit it with PB blaster and will let it soak overnight. Turns out there was a hole in the bottom of the water pump that was causing my leak. spending a lot on matenience instead of part for making it faster Already ordered a new water pump from o'riellies. Should be here tomorrow, While I'm there I'll check on new balljoints and a throwout bearing. I forgot to tack one on to my father's summit order, but I did get my urethane bushings and the gifted 3.55 gears the other day.
The weather was around 70 today, but the on/off rain made working on the car kind of tricky. Dunno how tomorrow's is supposed to be, but I'm supposed to put the car back together (with a smaller crank pulley and a larger water pump pulley (pulled of a 95 5.0 cobra so should work fine on my 94 5.0 GT)
Ray, nice article there.
Barry, I liked the sunday school one.
John, how are you getting your fiber optics to be bright. I tried some (for lighting beacons) and wasn't impressed with how dim it was.
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.
Barry ... I hope you're doing great with the implant. Has Audry found the dimmer switch for it yet?
No progress on the layout today, but I did run some trains. I like doing that for certain!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Evening all. Glass of sweet tea, half rack of honey bbq babyback ribs, mashed taters, and a side salad please. Not much happening tonight, just had an incident involving my LL GP38-2 taking the long plunge to the floor. No major damage although the back steps and rear pilot are pretty busted up. Should be able to glue it all back together, if not, I might just use the engine to practice painting and weathering until I can find a suitable body to slap on it.
Speaking of parts, pieces and other assorted mayhem, does anyone have a set of front, rear, and walkway rails for an Athearn GP40-2? I've seemed to have lost mine, which does me no good especially since I've already started the repainting process on it. Its really the first engine that I was planning on repainting, and I've already gotten the first coat of paint on it, waiting for it to dry before going any further.
I've also been doing some thinking about my layout. I know that the subdivision that I'm modelling interchanges with several other rail lines along the way. The question is do I model them all, or just model certain ones selectively? I would love to have an engine or two from each of the connecting railroads that the Dothan Subdivision interchanges with, but I also know that will be a pretty penny to spend on engines that will only be used here and there, as compared to the numerous CSX engines that I will be employing to run the various through trains. Hmm, decisions, decisions.
Glad to see and hear that everyone is doing well as of tonight, Vincent, sorry to hear of your water pump troubles, but I've been in that boat more than once myself. Probably going to have to pull an intake off a 97 Ford Taurus to remove a broken thermostat housing bolt on a friend of mine's car either tomorrow or monday...
Welp guess I'll sit here at the RC and eat my food, probably going to order a sundae to top all this off when I get done, but who knows, I might be so full that I'll move to a window booth and watch the winter weather, and other happenings outside.
Wow, Bama ... Sorry to hear about your GP38-2 becoming a "floor model". My "floor model" is an SD9 which plunged about a year ago. I repaired the damaged truck, and did what I could to repair the step in one corner. ... I recall seeing CSX trains in AL, and they included several units from leasing companies.
Nice F3, Jeff.
Evening all.
Been one heck of a week. Haven't been in in forever.
I have some of the photos from the Toys For Tots train up, if anyone is interested. One is my avatar, but click on the "Flickr" link in my signature to see the rest.I'm having trouble uploading the videos, so I'll try to get those and a full report up ASAP.
I'll be working on a 5 pg. Theology paper based on Toys For Tots this weekend, and it's due Monday, so depending on how that goes, I can't promise if I'll be in much, if at all.
I gotta go, so I'll catch you guys whenever.
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Joe, good luck on the theology paper.
Garry, you're right, CSX does seem to us a lot of lease power at times, seems like they just can't keep enough power in their own colors, so they end up leasing out a lot. Seems like Helms (HLMX) seems to get the most of the lease, but for some reason I don't see all that many down this way. Most of the leasers I see are northbound out of Montgomery. Now I will ocassionally see run-through power from another road, but I don't really see all that many leasers. And on the issue of the GP38-2, its not a huge deal, it is just a LL trainset locomotive, so its not all that great of quality nor all that great of a puller, but, its still a functional locomotive, so having it damaged isn't exactly what I want, but oh well, I'll fix what I can and what I can't, I won't.
Now, girls, I think I will take a RBF after my ribs and other goodies I just had. Thank y'all.
Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Morning,
I ordered an illuminated Christmas tree this week for the layout and I found the Bachmann EZ Mate couplers are on sale; 67 cents/pair when you buy 25 pair. 160-78105. that’s not a bad price and I haven’t had any trouble with their couplers (yet).
I didn’t do anything last night, but I hope to get some layout time this weekend; maybe the whole weekend….
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good Morning...
It is a dull morning for our viewing pleasure as our snowcover will likely get a little coating of---ta dah!!-freezing drizzlle! Yes, the fine weatherbeguessers are telling us that there is a 60% chance of freezing drizzle this morning...yay.
Anyways...I woke up to a herd of charging rhinocerii and then rustling and clinking---guess what was trying to hide...
...and not one decoration ended up on the floor or on another branch...how he does this I'll never know..
Morning all. Sadly, I must make a dishareartneing report on the state of the MRR world. We as modellers lost a good man last night. His name as JC, and was one of those "Been there, done that, let me tell you the story" or "Here's the history..." kind of people. Wonderful man, very knowledgeable, and a lot of fun. He did a lot for the Naptown & White River and in getting many's feet wet in the hobby.
howmus Afternoon folks! I started this 3 hours ago and got sidetracked with other business THAT needed to be attended to (NMRA Promises to a little lady stuff).
Afternoon folks!
I started this 3 hours ago and got sidetracked with other business THAT needed to be attended to (NMRA Promises to a little lady stuff).
Fixed that for ya, thought I'd help get your prioriteis straight... :P
-Morgan
Good morning.
Its FRIDAY, and I hope y'all got most of your shopping done. Jessica and I wasn't going to spend to much on each other this year. Plus our wedding anniversary is just five days after Christmas.
Not much planned for me today. I have a couple of "Accurail" hoppers I can start on. Maybe get one ready for "the bay". Other than that, just a normal day for me.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Good Morning! Coffee please. Thanks. Mostly sunny, with a high near 24. West wind around 8 mph. Not much going on today. Just watching Mom. Hopefully tomorrow and Sunday with Brenda home, I will be able to get out to the house and finish up and we can get that thing back on the market. If all goes even reasonably well, it can happen. (crossed fingers)
Good Morning!
Coffee please. Thanks.
Mostly sunny, with a high near 24. West wind around 8 mph. Not much going on today. Just watching Mom. Hopefully tomorrow and Sunday with Brenda home, I will be able to get out to the house and finish up and we can get that thing back on the market. If all goes even reasonably well, it can happen. (crossed fingers)
Lee- You mentioned not having any trouble with EZ-Mates. I’m with you. Actually I have not had any problems with any of the couplers out there. I take that back, the two piece overlapped kind Accumate? I‘m pretty sure it was on and Accurail kit. I did have trouble with those. Well, one. Two. They didn’t want to hold a car on a curve. I suppose I should say I don’t have trouble with most. I do choose KD 148’s when I have to change couplers for whatever reason, or if the kit has those half coupler things. But I don’t change em unless I have too. Part is “why?” the other part is….., I’m cheap.
Best get a movin. Got the groceries to put away about 1130. My own truck to unload of stuff from Mom’s house (tools and some supplies), depending on the situation I may slide out to her house for a few more things to pick up, OR! I just may slide down to the train room for a bit. One can always hope.
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.
Two part Accumate Couplers, I feel those were developed by a slightly deranged evil scientist somewhere to promote the use of horn hook couplers....
LSWrr Two part Accumate Couplers, I feel those were developed by a slightly deranged evil scientist somewhere to promote the use of horn hook couplers....
Good Afternoon,
O joy - no more snow! Last night gave about a foot of that stuff, but this morning it stopped snowing. As our roads are not cleared, our attempt to take the car for shopping failed
Actually, we don´t have that much snow, but the folks here don´t know how to handle it anymore.
Zoe, just a coffee for me, please.
Lacking a victim for whom I could draw up a track plan, I played a little with the drawings of my virtual D&RGW locomotive roster. I reworked the T-12 and added some changes to the C-18.
Blackstone will be releasing their C-19 coming spring, but I am afraid I will not be able to cash out those $ 300 plus to buy one . So it will remain on my "Me Wants" list.
Have a peaceful and rewarding day!
Good morning. It's 43° and cloudy with a wind chill of 36°. The wind has swung around to NE. The high will be 52°. Tonight's low is expected to be 32.Nothing special going on today. I have some rolling stock and vehicles laying out on the layout right now. I want them right where I can get my hands on them to box up when they're sold off. Anything not gone by the 24th will be disposed of by other means. Either way it won't be here. Problem is I have to work on the parts of the layout where they are laying, so I'll have to move them to another part of the layout along with some others that are already boxed. It's all doing a good job of getting in my way. Guess I'll have to store the boxes under the layout until it's their time to go to the post office. Work on my Proto 1000 F3 continues unabated. It's been cleaned inside and out, the couplers have been changed out, a Digitrax DZ125 decoder has been installed and programmed and it has been patched for the L&A. What more can I do to it. I also have to change out a hard drive in a USB case. The drive has started to make strange and not so wonderful noises so I copied all it's data to another drive day before yesterday. The drive is an old 6.4 gig Fujitsu (MPD3064AT, date 07/1999) and is being replaced with an equally old 8.4 gig Western Digital (WD84AA, date 03/2000) that has a lot less mileage on it.
Good Morning All!Not much to report from the land of Buckeyes other then I may have to go 2' wide on Slate Creek in order to get want I want and use all of my buildings so,its back to the drawing board..I set all my industrial buildings on my test layout and it looked like a wild man went amok.Some times N Scale seems to eat as much space as HO especially on a switching layout using contemporary ISL designs.I like the concept of ISL designs set forth by Lance Mindheim since they are based on the prototype..I don't know maybe I want to much but,these are all new designs and far beyond the older ISL designs which was at most a glorified "Time Saver"..I suspect this will be my last N Scale layout since I'm not getting any younger and I want it done right.I shall have a cup and look over the forum.Have a good'un!
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe I'll have a short stack of Buckwheat Pancakes w/ Maple Syrup to go along with the dark roast coffee.
Currently 28°F here in the Finger Lakes with a high of 27°F........ Yep that is what it says at Weather.com! A bit gray and cloudy as well with even a few little white thingies floating down every so often.
One week to go before Christmas Eve and I haven't even got the wreaths up on the porch yet. Guess THAT will be part of today's list. I do have almost all of the "Shopping" done for the "celebration of commercial sales" this year..... just need to find a lovely Christmas Gift for my sister.... Luckily she has given me several catalogs with items circled to give me some very exact ideas on what she wants! I might add she has quite expensive tastes. I will say she has given me some fantastic things over the years (like a pair of NYC Lanterns). She has hosted "Christmas Dinner" at her house for the last 35 or so years.... have no idea what the reaction will be when she figures out she may be eating alone.... I plan to be at my son's house with them.... We will probably just have the ordeal a few days later. It is a year of transition for the family and I hope she will be "cool" with things.
I have spent part of the last 3 days trying to "solve" some NMRA issues for a local member. Nothing terrible huge, but important to the member.
So! Part of today IS going to spent in my layout rooms playing with trains! (As soon as get all the other stuff done.....)
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Just a quick stop before I start a load of towels
Ulrich..........Check your PM.
Good afternoon.
I'll have a grilled cheese made with sharp cheddar on whole wheat bread, please.
Regarding couplers. I don't care for the plastic substitutes for Kadees at all
Hey, Lee ... I have a parts drawer full of Acumates if you are interested.
Heartland Division CB&Q Regarding couplers. I don't care for the plastic substitutes for Kadees at all Hey, Lee ... I have a parts drawer full of Acumates if you are interested.
Robby ... You can see results of my weathering with powders in WPF. The yellow wooden GN express reefer and the Railway Express reefer following it are recent projects. The other cars were weathered previously with acrylics and with pastels.
Hi guys, hope you all had a great day.
I went to the dentist, UGH!
Jeffrey W. check the PM we have going please!
Have great night, I will have soft food I think tonight.
galaxy Jeffrey W. check the PM we have going please!
All is going well today. sssssssh!
Does anyone realize what happened? I actually talked about a MRR subject! Baby steps. Baby steps. Soon I hope to be able to speak of my layout progress. Baby steps.
Larry- Your comment on N scale vs HO space or more acurately the lack of, is why I decided to stay with HO. I figured my wants would be too much even if I switched, so I decided to just stay with what I have and narrow down to what I really, really want.
Guess I best grab a bite to eat then w**k tonight.