Awesome sir, thanks. I've always liked the shots from it, just never really got an idea of how big it was until now.
BamaCSX83 Jeff I really like the caboose, and I like the bus. I do have a question which I know has been asked before, but how big is your layout?
Jeff I really like the caboose, and I like the bus. I do have a question which I know has been asked before, but how big is your layout?
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Afternoon all. I'll take a bowl of seafood gumbo, couple of pieces of cornbread, and a sweet tea. I'll take a seat at the RC and enjoy the time. Nothing much going on today as its still damp outside. Might do a little more painting on the two locomotives. Thinking about doing some painting on some rolling stock too, might even try a little weathering of them once I get some paint down. Will post pictures as they come along. Also have to go by the church today and get lesson plans ready for the next couple of weeks for the kids church workers. Other than that I think I'm going to just enjoy my day off from w*rk.
Ulrich the modular approach looks like it'll work great, and give you some interesting track alignments to play with also. Good luck with it.
Welp, guess I'll enjoy my food before I have to get going.
Later taters!
Cederstrand Coffee in a Santa Fe mug, please. ***Ulrich, I like that whole modular approach. ***Jeffrey, that is a substantial work caboose. Should comfortably fit the crew. Have a great day, y'all. Rob
Coffee in a Santa Fe mug, please.
***Ulrich, I like that whole modular approach.
***Jeffrey, that is a substantial work caboose. Should comfortably fit the crew.
Have a great day, y'all.
Rob
Rob - it is more like playing with dominoes
A single track module is less than $ 10. OK, the switch modules are a little more expensive, but it´ll work with me.
Here's a quick project. Remove the toylike wheels and axles from a Johnny Lightning bus and replace them with the wheels and axles from a Boley GMC truck and this is what you end up with.
Fergmiester Anyway it's not been a good week on the MR as the Russian Decapod is being perverse and still shorting out. I have a few ideas that I may work on tonight to straighten it out, one that includes a hammer but no sickle... What? it's a sickle joke!
Anyway it's not been a good week on the MR as the Russian Decapod is being perverse and still shorting out. I have a few ideas that I may work on tonight to straighten it out, one that includes a hammer but no sickle... What? it's a sickle joke!
Hey Fergie!
I had a shorting problem with my Bachmann Decapod as well. Started on the very day I was having the SLOW Certified for the Golden Spike NMRA Award... At the time I have to demonstrate how everything runs, It started up ran half way around the layout and quit! Nothing seemed to get it moving again. I was panicky. Finally took her off the layout and brought in a different loco..... Everything was back up and running. Turned out the flat wiring that connects the electrical contacts from the drive wheels to the Decoder had bent upward just enough to cause a dead short. I took it apart and tried to correct it with some insulation, but it made matters worse. Contacted Bachmann and the tech said, Yep, there is a problem with them. The early ones had wiring that was slightly out of specs and caused the short. He was going to mail me a new style replacement for it.... That was 4 years ago, I'm still waiting. I reworked it myself and got it running fairly well. Let it set for a few months, started her up, and had a smoking loco.... She has been retired until I get around to get the other wiring and a new decoder for her.
If you haven't already, contact Bachmann and they will probably send you a new wiring harness for it if that is the problem.
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Me again.
Played a little with that modular system and designed the first modules.
These can be assembled into something like this:
I start to like it! Building a module involves only a handful of $$$ - that´s much to my taste!
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe I'll have a breakfast Bagel w/ cheese and a cup of dark roast coffee.
Slept in again this morning. Didn't even wake up until 10:30..... Must have needed the rest. Still haven't heard back from all the school buildings for correct spelling of the students names.... Guess i will be contacting the ones who haven't gotten back to me. I would like to get all the 1st. place entries over to the Newspaper today. Then I can scan and photograph the others, go through the photos from the Memorial March and Service and them up on line.... THAT should take care of today!
Sir Madog Good Afternoon, are we into a "spot the duck" contest? Here is my today´s share:
Good Afternoon,
are we into a "spot the duck" contest? Here is my today´s share:
Well, personally, I'd rather play this! Remember...... It is as bad as you think, and they are out to get you!
Currently 25°F and Partly Cloudy here in the Finger Lakes. May get an inch or so of Partly Cloudy later today. And as Barry would say, "Dull, dull, dull....."
Best get moving so i can be officially ready for the day prior to Noon...
I wondered what had happened to Duck Dick... Talk about getting all your ducks in a row and just in time to get your goose cooked. My my my.
Sorry Dick I don't table dance no more as it doesn't pay enough and the insurance rates jumped! Kinda what hapens when they have to surgically remove a pole from ones anatomy!
The way I'm going I suspect I will having to add staging tracks as the rails are full and I only have 1/3 of my rolling stock out of the box.
Howard how about some of that apple pie please..
Lee: Hope you canh share more pics of the layout as it's been awhile since I last saw them.
DerJohn: Glad you got my e-mail. They are definite winners. Have you been to Georges lately?
Anyway back to the grind
Fergie
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=5959
If one could roll back the hands of time... They would be waiting for the next train into the future. A. H. Francey 1921-2007
Good Morning All!Not much to report from the land of Buckeyes other then its snowing..We suppose to get 1-3 inches...I have plans on going to the hobby shop Saturday but,I may cancel if the weather gets nasty.Nothing new modeling wise other then adding KDs to 3 Athearn RTR cars..I'm actually getting some HO projects done...As a interesting note I used a damp flat tip paint brush to remove dust from the 100 & 150 and I like the results..I may be nuts but,I'm going to add mu hoses to the 100.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!"
I started working on the modular layout concept. It is pretty basic, but simple to build. No need of deep-down woodworking knowledge, no need for precise alignments. I might change a few things, though. What I especially like about it, is the fact, that you don´t need a fixed layout plan. It just develops along the way. Makes things a lot easier for me, as I don´t have to layout a big lump sum before I can start. We will see...
My loco should be somewhere between Tokyo and Hamburg, but when I try to track the shipment, it just says "Dispatch from outward office of exchange" at Tokyo Metropolis - whatever that means
Janie, coffee in a JNR mug, and a slice of that cherry crumple pie, thank you, dear.
I hope you are all having a good time!
megh...need one of those in another forum....
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/
Morning Folks
Flo, Diet Dew and a Muffin please.
Sitting here trying to decide if it worth the effort to go talk to the idiots at unemployment today? Guess I should, but I am 99.9% sure there going to make me wait till the 31st.
Found another Duck.
Need to get shocks today, the Town Car is ridding like the above duck.
Latter
Ken
I hate Rust
Good morning. It's 45° and cloudy. The high will be around 60° with partial sunshine. I'm still working on the work caboose today. The wood sides I attached to the stakes are so thin that light shows through them. However that won't be an issue once they are painted. The entire car with the exception of the trucks and wheel sets will be painted MoW gray and marked for the L&A. I'm hoping to get that done sometime today. Tomorrow morning I have an appointment with the foot doc. He'll likely want to take X-rays so he can see how big a train wreck my ankle and foot have become. I can hardly move either one. I can move my toes a little but I can't flex my foot nor can I turn move my ankle. It seems like it's all locked together which is no real surprise to me. A good X-ray will tell all. No real plans for today except to move around as little as possible.
Good Morning! Just coffee please and thanks.
Today:Scattered flurries before noon. Cloudy, with a high near 24. Northwest wind around 6 mph. Tonight: Snow. Low around 19. North northwest wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible.
As you can see I should get my OSB and foam soon or ….., I guess it’s not a big deal. I’d like to get it though and then I can lay some track as far as I haveroadbed for at least.
Not much planned for today, just some odds and ends. I still have the W-2’s for the Church and to pay the taxes. Payroll taxes that is. The State of Illinoyz still allows Church’s to be tax exempt. So far.Then a Trustees meeting at the Church tonight. I’ll have to drive halfway across town in the potential snow storm they call for. (4 blocks if you don't count the park. 5 if you do.)
Maybe I will find my way to Menard’s after all. That will at least give me the supplies I need to work on the layout in my spare time. Seems, though, whenever I have the stuff, I don’t have the time. And when I have the time, I don’t have the stuff.
A duck goes in to the drugstore. Gets a tube of Chapstick and takes it to the checkout. Lady asks, “cash or charge. The duck says "just……..put it on my bill” HAAAAA! HAHAHAHAHA! HAAAAAA! ROFL
Oh my sides hurt. I think I pulled something
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.
Ulrich: PM coming your way. Gary
Good morning.
No snow but its on the way. Off to school for a long day!! Got a couple of test today so hopefully I have studied enough.
Have a good day guys!!
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Good Day Folks!
Cup of coffee please.
Hope everyone has a great day!
Steven
Ulrich; Now THAT is a Mallard!!
Good Morning...
We are getting up to 2" of snow this morning...then just straight dull dull dull for the rest of the day...isn't it fun?
On Friday I get to go to the hospital to the ICD clinic and get the ICD checked out..then it'll be visit them in 3 months time for another check up...hopefully by then I should have my drivers license BACK!!!
...anyhow, I'll be quiet Vinnie....
I actually get to spend the day in my room as I do not have any work to do today..it seems I'll be back to my on-calls on the weekend and Monday's again...lots o' bucks on this job...heeheehee .
Flo, I'll have a coffee this morning, please...I'l be at the RC for a bit this morning...
Good Morning,
Welcome back Trainmaster!
Galaxy, good to hear you came out alright. I would heal up and have a word with the doctor about the pain during the procedure.
I haven’t seen RT in a while…
Dorothy has to have a couple of gall stones removed, the ultrasound came back yesterday. Doc said 3-4 day recovery time. Don’t know when we will have the operation done, but they better put her all the way out.
Tonight I’m hosting an layout open house…
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Morning Everyone!
Seems as if winter is coming back to our neck of the woods. No snow yet, but the weather guessers predict a drastic drop in the temperature as well as a lot of precipitation, which usually means snow. Not really a comforting thought for the folks in the flooded areas. I am glad that we are "high and dry" at an elevation of 100 ft. above sea level.
Barry - roasted duck, yummy! Add dumplings and red cabbage and you have a good old fashioned German meal.
Ken - how´s that for a Mallard:
This loco is said to hold the world speed record at a little over 125 mph. 3 of them are still in working order and can be seen heading steam specials throughout the year in UK.
Bama - hey, that´s really nice of your wife! I can see nothing wrong in her surprising you with a subscription of MR. Mine will be running out with the April copy and I still will not be able to renew it. It is an either/or situation - either subscribe to MR, or go back to active MRRing. No question which way I will go, but I know I will miss my monthly "MR has arrived" day.
Galaxy - I have been through a similar experience, a surgery with local anesthesia. Man, I felt every single cut and scrape and nearly jumped off the table. Never again, I say!
Nothing much planned for the day - we did the weekly grocery run yesterday, so I will stay inside and maybe do a little tweaking of my layout plan(s).
Janie, just a mug of coffee and a bowl of muesli for me, please.
Y´ all have a good day!
Good late evening/early morning all.
Galaxy glad to hear that you got out of your operation just fine, but continued prayers for a speedy recovery and the like.
Not much happening this rainy, cool, Alabama evening, we got rain falling on the roof and fog rolling in, going to be a overall nice night for sleeping. Although not sure if I will get much sleep tonight since Mikayla (my 1 year old) has an ear infection and isn't sleeping too much herself.
Found out some interesting news about my wife today, apparently she's been looking into getting me a MRR subscription so that I can stop buying it off the newsstand and possibly missing a month. Not complaining at all, and of course when the first issue arrives in the mail I'll be extremely happy, but I dunno, wish that perhaps she'd told me.... Oh well.
And on the duck front, my vote would most certainly have to go with Daffy! He's the greatest. Kinda quacks me up, you know....
Welp, that's it for me, time to go and inspect my eyelids for light leaks.
Later Taters!
This place is quacking up. Time to fowl out! (So to "beak")
Dick .... Good to see you in the diner. Winter is nor over yet; is it? Sounds like you received a great Christmas present.
This evening, Gus, Dan and I went to Hopkinsville. A guy there has a great layout of the L&N and Clinchfield. Plenty of coal hauling. It has workingm realistic signals, too.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good evening. Cup o decaf please. Uh oh, somebody step on a duck? G! - Good to see you made it! Though with all the prayers I figured you would. Now the prayers are shifting to healing, tumor being benign, and of course, it alleviating some of the pain. Sorry about the surgery but I can sort of identify. Had a surgery done on my big piggies maaany years ago. In office but the Doc said I’d need the pain killers after I got home more than during. Thoughtful of him tho I didn’t appreciate it at the time. Nor the wire cutters and pliers it felt like he was using. I, um (ahem) lived through Disco. (whips into the classic John Travolta white suit pose). We disco’d down at my Proms. (does a very complicated move that is impossible to describe but you all are extremely impressed whether you realize it now or not.) Yup, even us “country boys” did a little Disco in our day. Dick- Welcome back! It still gets a bit out of control in here form time to time, though the New Years Eve parties have calmed quite a bit. Haven't had to repaint because of THAT in a while. And, in case you haven't noticed, the chandelier is gone. Jim's getting a bit older now and we figured it'd be best for him if nothing to hang/swing from.
Good evening. Cup o decaf please.
Uh oh, somebody step on a duck?
G! - Good to see you made it! Though with all the prayers I figured you would. Now the prayers are shifting to healing, tumor being benign, and of course, it alleviating some of the pain. Sorry about the surgery but I can sort of identify. Had a surgery done on my big piggies maaany years ago. In office but the Doc said I’d need the pain killers after I got home more than during. Thoughtful of him tho I didn’t appreciate it at the time. Nor the wire cutters and pliers it felt like he was using.
I, um (ahem) lived through Disco. (whips into the classic John Travolta white suit pose). We disco’d down at my Proms. (does a very complicated move that is impossible to describe but you all are extremely impressed whether you realize it now or not.) Yup, even us “country boys” did a little Disco in our day.
Dick- Welcome back! It still gets a bit out of control in here form time to time, though the New Years Eve parties have calmed quite a bit. Haven't had to repaint because of THAT in a while. And, in case you haven't noticed, the chandelier is gone. Jim's getting a bit older now and we figured it'd be best for him if nothing to hang/swing from.
Ken- Ya beat me too it! NCIS fans think alike.
My favorite duck I musty say is Daffy. Hi-lar-ee-us.
Time to hit the hay. PFTIN
Made some more progress.
Evenin' folks!
Flo, just a decaf for me if you would please.
Well.......... (deep subject) Today has been a lot of wasted time at least where the hobby is concerned. I spent most of the day getting caught up with all the bookwork for the MLK Service and Art an Poetry Contest. Emailed information over to the schools and asked fo9r them to please check spelling of the winners names. Two buildings got back to me within minutes with several changes. Haven't heard a thing from the other 4.... they will wait until i send the list into the local paper and it gets published wrong... Then they will send me a nasty email telling me I screwed up.... This happens every year. I then send them an email asking why they never got back to me with the corrections.
Then I started getting several emails from the Deacons who have self declared themselves as creating a dinner party before the next meeting to say goodbye to our associate Pastor who is leaving to take a parish in NJ... There were things like, "I could call the church secretary to set up the times..." 5 minutes later and before the Moderator can get back and say yes or no, he emails back saying all set! They hadn't actually decided the schedule yet. So I emailed back and asked if some others were taking over. she was starting to get annoyed and didn't know quite what to do. Several conference emails followed. she took my advise, and everything appears to be back as they should. One of the things i told her to do was to start handing out assignments to these people. I later sent an emailk to all of them raising a point of order that 4 members and 2 non current mambers of the board were making decisions that should rightfully be made by consensus of the entire board, not by 4 people. Dead silence for a couple hours. Then I get an email from one saying, As always, Ray, you make a correct call. We do need to get the vote of the entire board. When I got home tonight there was an email from the Moderator who said, I agree, that's why i like having you around for a mentor. Thanks!
Oh, I was at a meeting of my High School Class Reunion ad hoc committee tonight. Class of 1964. We are planning our 50th. reunion! Have no idea who most of the old pharts were that were there or the elderly Frumpy ladies were either. Supposedly I went to high School with them. Was enjoyable to see so many of them again. Had about 20 people there. Two others and myself were given the credit for getting this going. We never had a 40th. Sad to see the list of classmates who have passed away. 33 of them. Several were close friends in high school that I had lost track of.
OK, I have rambled on long enough. Hope you all have a great night!
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jeffrey-wimberly blownout cylinder: Maybe I should ask about turduken.... Don't even think about it brother!
blownout cylinder: Maybe I should ask about turduken....
Maybe I should ask about turduken....
Don't even think about it brother!