RAY...I am very good friends with Martin who owns Borodino Scale line. Check out his website www.borodinoscaleline.com . We operate together most every week at a friends house. His store has everything the craftsman modeler could need. I am sorry I could not make the meet today as I had wo&k commitments.. You should come over next month for our meet which is held at our train club in Syracuse..(you have been there before). www.syracusemodelrr.org for details. It would be great to see you again in my neck of the woods. Gotta go...the dog is sitting at the door....gotta love when you have to shovel your way out of the house...another foot of snow coming tonight!!!....Glad the sled is all gassed up. Take care all...Tim
A true friend will not bail you out of jail...he will be sitting next to you saying "that was friggin awesome dude!" Tim...Modeling the NYC...is there any other?
Oopps....top honors to me...just put it on RAYS gold card....what a swell guy!!!
Oh, Ray's paying for it? Well, don't mind if I do...
Not much from me. Had fun trying to rehang a sliding door and that was a few hours. How hard could it be he said. Pah.
Didn't have much done on that station model I'm working on. Still haven't figured out what to paint the floor. Then to figure out something to do with the lightbulb. It's plenty bright enough for now.
Got another project I've been wanting to start that I am starting tomorrow hopefully. Going to get my Dad's 1980 Arctic Cat Pantera running again. I know without a doubt that the carb will need new floats and a complete rebuild. A new belt my get installed and new spark plugs are another given. As soon as I get the work started, I'll keep you guys updated. Hey Ken, you wouldn't happen to know where I can get new carb gaskets would ya?
If you can read this... thank a teacher. If you are reading this in english... thank a veteran
When in doubt. grab a hammer.
If it moves and isn't supposed to, get a hammer
If it doesn't move and is supposed to, get a hammer
If it's broken, get a hammer
If it can't be fixed with a hammer... DUCK TAPE!
After that Steelers game, I have no finger nails left!!!
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Robby P. After that Steelers game, I have no finger nails left!!!
AMEN!! I had to physically leave the room and find somewhere else to be at times...VERY happy with the outcome though!
Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood Evening,
Anybody wanna start a betting pool how long the latest price increase thread is gonna last before it gets shut down???? I saw a few ignorant comments posted over there, allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllmost took the bait and chimed-in, decided against it. It'll erupt into an out-and-out full-fledged flame war soon enough; without my help.
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Good evening Diners: Haven't been in for a while, but have been looking in the window some. Completed the surgery on the LL GP 38-2 light board, checked that all the traces that had to be cut were in fact cut. Proceeded with the install of the TCS M4 decoder following the very clear instructions at http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/showthread.php?t=105512&highlight=decoder+install Checked for continuity where required, and lack thereof where not. Everything was aok. (found incidentally that cleaning the loco frame with acetone before trying to put Scotch tape on it for insulation does a wonderful job.) Re-assembled the loco mechanism. Checked again for lack of continuity where needed. All quiet from the meter. Placed loco on test rack, turned on DCC power. Nothing - no lights, no movement on Address 3. (Then again, no smoke either, which is some kind of a plus, I suppose ) Was it the test rack? No, it's got power. Was it something in the frame and drive? No - I disassembled and tried the decoder/lightboard/motor on their own out of the loco powered from the test track by alligator leads. Still nothing. I like the way TCS decoders work, when they work - but I have had trouble with installing them on a pretty consistent basis. I think I'll take a bunch of photos and send their tech guys an email. I really don't understand where I've gone wrong with this one - I've done everything by the book.
Galaxy: [quote] Speaking of my back, my surgery is next Monday the 17th so those with prayer chains or lists, please put me on it.[quote]..Roger that. ..and I've had a couple of positive responses to this as well.
I don't mind junk mail getting amngled, but CC statements and Paychecks...important stuff like that should come through clean as a whistle.
Todd: I'm sure there's a nice government job just waiting for that insurance agent's phone person!
Good news. The State of Illinoyz is raising personal income taxes by 66%. Finally they are doing something to offset their irresponsible spending. (The above statement is filled with more sarcasm than you have ever experienced in your lives)
(The above statement is filled with more sarcasm than you have ever experienced in your lives)
Fergie:
Thank you for posting a pic of the "Matthew" as the picture makes her look good!
Jeff: Close call with the Shellac can! Glad it had a happy ending -that the Shellac itself was still OK after that time is a bonus!
Oh, and the result for the visit to the docs office? My prostate health is much better than it was a year ago.
Ulrich:
We had a nice dinner at a Chinese restaurant, lots to talk about and enjoying ourselves.
Ken: Chiseled out a few too-short bolt spaces in my day too, not pretty, but who's lookin'?
Flipped it over and check to see if I have wore the plating off the drivers. Still no copper showing.
I think I'll call it a day - feeling fed up and a night's sleep may improve the outlook. Goodnight all, and God Bless. Prayers for all in need of Healing, Comfort, Prosperity and Peace.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Evening folks!
Flo, for everyone over 18, tap is on me.
Galaxy and Work Front. Thanks for the kind wish and we had a pretty darn good day concerning how it started out. We did not have a soul till 12:00, Chad sold 2 twin mattress and then I sold a twin box spring. While I was doing the ticket I looked up and the show room was full! This can be a bad thing, harder to find the right mattress (build value) for a customer when you are juggling 2 and 3 people at the same time. 5 customers left to shop around and we where disappointed. But 3 came back and bought so the day ended up pretty good. One went to Mattress Giant (my former store) and Mel (former Co Worker) bad mouth us. Said the mattress had to be used for the prices we had and the Buyer Must Be Ware! Nope, they are new sealed in there factory bag.
Vincent Aw, your story about the bushings brings back my days for the quest for speed. In other words trying to stick a square peg in a round hole! Been there and done that more times than I care to remember. Worst one was sticking a Ford 427 Medium Riser in my 68 Cobra Mustang. Took something like two weeks to figure that puzzle out.
Far as my BLI diesel fleet hum have to think for a minute. I have had 4 of them, 3 Blue Line GE AC 6000's and one RSD 15. First 6000 cooked after say 2 hours. Sent it back to Ulrich Model Trains great company to deal with I will add. Steve could not fix the problem and sent me a replacement. At this point I had added another one to my fleet, a CSX. CSX LED went bad, BLI sent me a front LED for free so great. But it was a pain in the caboose to take a part and then they sent me the wrong LED to boot. Sent it back for repairs at no cost.
Next the UP 6000 stopped getting power from the front trucks. If it was not the 6000 it would be easy to fix. But after fighting with the CSX I sold it at Yahoo Yard Sale to someone that was wanting to kit bash a UP 6000. Now the CSX seemed to have sucked up a track spike into the speaker again. Can not fish it out so I am going to have to open it up. In fact now that I am thinking of it, this will be the third time I had to get a rail spike out of a 6000.
RSD 15, sweet engine and does not have the downward facing speakers like a 6000. Sound great and a lighter puller than the 6000's. It will pull around 30 cars where the 6000's will drag 40 +.
If the 6000's where easy to take apart and did not suck spikes I would rate them as very good. RSD 15 I would rate as 9 out of 10 if pulling power is not the main issue for you. Motor, gearing and drive shafts are top notch and have had no failures so far.
My favorite manufacturer is Proto so far, but BLI Blue Line is still darn good and will buy more later when I have a budget for trains.
My the way my run time is down to around 4 to 5 hours a week now.
See You All Sunday!
Ken
I hate Rust
der5997 Jeff: Close call with the Shellac can! Glad it had a happy ending -that the Shellac itself was still OK after that time is a bonus! Oh, and the result for the visit to the docs office? My prostate health is much better than it was a year ago. ...I've been taking Saw Palmeto extract and a small cocktail of other defensive supplements for years now - so far, good results. My Dr. now says, however that with men over 70 the growth of any Prostate cancer is generally so slow that it isn't an issue - that doesn't stop me taking the supplements!
...I've been taking Saw Palmeto extract and a small cocktail of other defensive supplements for years now - so far, good results. My Dr. now says, however that with men over 70 the growth of any Prostate cancer is generally so slow that it isn't an issue - that doesn't stop me taking the supplements!
Robby P. Jeff........I was shopping at Wal-Mart and thought you would like this. They have a DVD "The Great Indian Wars" for $2.50. I bought a copy. Its looks pretty good.
Jeff........I was shopping at Wal-Mart and thought you would like this. They have a DVD "The Great Indian Wars" for $2.50. I bought a copy. Its looks pretty good.
Been a busy day for me. Went to town to get gas for the van then to Walgreen's to get a new clip-on sunglasses attachment for my glasses. From there to Autozone to get a couple of parts for the van. One was a new turn signal flasher. The old one still worked but would start out flashing slow and would speed up the longer it was on and the flasher unit would get really hot. It was likely too small as it was one of those little plastic import jobs. It would get so hot sometimes that it would pop the plastic body off. I decided I better replace it before it started a fire. Went to Lowe's and picked up half a dozen of those little green chemical light sticks and a small sanding blocks. I put the light sticks in my vans tool box. Never can tell when they'll come in handy. Also looked for an engine size emblem. Couldn't find one for 318 or 5.2 but I did find one for 5.3. That works out to something like 323 cubic inches. I grabbed it. I wanted two of them but the one was all they had. Later I'll go back and see if they have any more. That accounted for the morning. When I got home my father picked me up to go with him to the Toro Boat Service out by Toledo Bend lake to pick up his boat. The lights on it have all been replaced, the electrical system has been replaced, a new control station installed, new throttle cables and a new steering system put in and it now sports a newly rebuilt 90 hp Evinrude V4 motor. It had originally come with a 75 hp Evinrude motor. The greater engine weight had made the boats center of gravity on the trailer right over the axle. In fact it's balanced so precisely that I can push the tongue of the trailer up and down with two fingers of one hand. We put three 80 pound concrete blocks on the tongue to keep it down. Those three blocks together weigh as much as I do so I don't think it's going anywhere. But I tell you what, the brakes on his truck were letting him know there was something pretty darn heavy back there. It was just after 5 pm when we got back so it was time for me to get ready to go out to dinner with my sister and niece. It's not every day I get to ride in a six speed Honda Accord Si Sport with a true lead foot. That pretty much accounts for my day. No work on the layout today. Seems like almost every time I plan to get some work done other people want me to help them with their stuff. When do I get some time?
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AmanaMedic Robby P.: After that Steelers game, I have no finger nails left!!! AMEN!! I had to physically leave the room and find somewhere else to be at times...VERY happy with the outcome though! Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood Evening, Anybody wanna start a betting pool how long the latest price increase thread is gonna last before it gets shut down???? I saw a few ignorant comments posted over there, allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllmost took the bait and chimed-in, decided against it. It'll erupt into an out-and-out full-fledged flame war soon enough; without my help. Chris
Robby P.: After that Steelers game, I have no finger nails left!!!
Good Evening...
Chris:....oh but it would be a good thing to get involved in that thread!! You'd have a great time!!
The GB game seems to be heading Green Bays way right now.. which is where I want it....none of this furballs stuff...
Edit: YES!!!! they did it!!! Now on to tomorrows games....heeheehee...
Oh, chris: forget the thread...it got locked at 3 pages...I guess that s the new limit to threads like that...
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/
Gooooooooooooo *(yaaaaaaaaaaawn)* ooooooooooood Morning.
BARRY: Yeah...I coulda had some "fun" in there, but I've decided to behave myself more this year...well, at least when it comes to conversations in Kalmbach-Land!
A good night/good morning to all.
Gooooood Morning!
Again, seven hours of sleep without any interruption! Never thought I´d be so happy about a thing like this!
Zoe, coffee, bacon & eggs, sausages, buttered toast and a glass of OJ, please!
A gray day in northern Germany - nothing much planned for the day, maybe a little reading, a plain old book, with words printed on paper...
Have a good time!
Good morning all,
The high today will be a blistering 17F or -8.333C
John, just remember never to use acetone on rubber. It will crack and fall off.
Ken, there is a lot of competition now in the hobby for the best locomotive. BLI, Proto 2000, and believe it or not Bachmann have really stepped up their game. I bought a BLI 4-4-4-4 ($99) 2 years ago and it pulls 50+ 40FT box cars, the Bachmann Berkshires do a good job pulling the same number of cars around the layout. You really have to watch the sales; last fall I bought a Proto 2000 F3 A-B (both powered) set for $125 with sound and DCC. It was funny at the time the powered B was $5 cheaper than the unpowered B. Now that Standard Hobby is out of business it’s hard to find those deals.
Yesterday I went to radio Shack and picked up some more DPDT switches for the tortoise machines. Replaced a bad turnout on #3 main, and found I had to install an expansion joint in the #2 main. The bad turnout can be repaired on the bench, but not on the layout. Today I will finish the tortoise project and hopefully install the one block detector.
I learned something interesting: The local non-profit model railroad museum has 3 part time employees, paid for by the federal government. How does that work?
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...
Mornin' Flo....Lee, Bill....
We are going to go all the way up to the mighty 20F today...yes, Lee we will be warmer than you.
Our day will be spent in the train room and I will be actually be able to accomplish something today...don't know what, but, it will be accomplished......
I'm going to try to find a few more pix of my prairie towns to glean some more information about street layouts and RR crossings at odd angles..there seems to have been a few thereabouts...
Flo, I'll have a coffee and a breakfast bagel please...I'll be at the RC for a bit....
Got a migraine toady...started yesterday hope it goes away today as I cannot miss surgery tomorrow.
Gonna rest today is all
so TTYALLL8R
-G
-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.
Another cold day. The worse is yet to come thou!! VERY cold by the end of the week. Can't wait for that .
Not much planned today. Do some homework, and see who the Steelers play next week.
Have a good day.
Good morning all.
Just thought I'd stop in for some biscuits and gravy and to announce that my Port Able and Pacific is now history. It was fun while it lasted, but it is time to move on. Everything from the benchwork up is gone!
I figured I needed a new start and a new focus. I found it in the PRR's Trenton Cut-off. This was a freight only by-pass which ran from Morrisville PA to Thorndale PA - avoiding the congestion and grades in and around Philly. I am extremely familiar with that area as I grew up there. I spent many an hour at Whitford station, where the Trenton Cut-off crosses over the 4 track Philadelphia - Harrisburg main on a magnificent truss bridge, just watching trains with my friends.
My time frame will be August 1973, which puts me in the Penn Central era. Not everybody likes the Penn Central, but, although I love the Pennsy, I remember the Penn Central. It was The Railroad when I was growing up. Plus, one of the reasons I chose the Trenton Cut-off was so that I could run heavy electric freight ops. PRR electrics are hard to come by and expensive when they can be found. By moving into the PC era, I can logically run E33s. Bachmann makes a very nice E33. I have 2 and plan to get more!
So, I guess I've got my work cut out for me. I have the plan all drawn up. It was hard to get 30 inch radius curves to fit in my smallish basement, but I did it (the aisles are on the narrow side though), and I've even started construction of the Morrisville flying junction as a test scene to see if what I've drawn on paper will work on plywood and plaster!
-George
"And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers ride their father's magic carpet made of steel..."
PA&ERR Good morning all. Just thought I'd stop in for some biscuits and gravy and to announce that my Port Able and Pacific is now history. ...I figured I needed a new start and a new focus.
Just thought I'd stop in for some biscuits and gravy and to announce that my Port Able and Pacific is now history. ...I figured I needed a new start and a new focus.
It is always sad to see a former layout go, but more exciting to start a new one! Good luck with your new adventure!
Good morning, everyone.
George in Utah ... Great to see you in the diner. You have your work cut out for you with starting over. PC will always mean Penn Central to me instead of something else.
Todd.... The IL tax hike made national news.Feel free to locate in the Blue Grass State. I'm only about 65 miles from IL. Don't forget Abe was born in KY.
Galaxy ... Prayers continue for surgery. Have faith it will go fine and solve your back pain problem.
The Chapel Car has been dispatched to the diner for those in need. Galaxy's surgery of course is a concern. Also, Todd lost he Mom recently. There are others with health concerns and who have lost family members and freinds.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
Good Morning! Coffee please, with a stack of buttermilk flapjacks, and sausage patties with real maple syrup, not that California healthy who knows what it is stuff. I’ll take my chanceswith the real stuff. Thank you.
John- On this tax thing for Illinoyz. I know we had one of the lower state taxes and will continue to not be the highest. And that normal increases in spending due to rising costs etc etc will lead to the need for increased income. Usually that works with increased taxes paid due to increase in salary and new job entries, but we have had just the opposite lately. So at the risk of more holes in the roads and layoffs ( I do not want anyone to lose their job of course) we need more money and this is the only way to do it. What burns my …..boots, is knowing that a significant amount of debt is/was irresponsible spending and that is being polite. But, what is done is done and now must be undone and there is only one way to do it that doesn’t cost jobs or needed services. Cause you notice they don't cut the unnecessary spending items, just the needed stuff. "state worker furlows coming" or " snow plows may not run on interstates" or Illinoy public aide checks held up" never, " funding for the governors ball will be less" or " $6 million in funds to see if Chicago is a real Native American name will not be dispersed. So far they say a temporary increase, but what usually happens with any form of government, it starts out temporary and then waits for people to get used to it and then they extend or make permanent. Just wanted you to know I’m not reeeeeal upset about 2%. But it does lend credence to my argument about the use of percentages in arguments or decisions. They can be used accurately to create any appearance you choose. As you said a 66% increase by the news media reports actually works out to a 2% (rounded) additional tax. Or, 2 cents on the dollar. Depending on which side you’re on and how you want it to sound.
Lee- Somehow, I’m sure, there has GOT to be a way we can get a government grant to build our MRR’s at home. Gotta be.
George- Sorry about the teardown, but congrats on the start over! A posting of some progress pics would be very well received.
(siiiigh) internet is running slower than Molasses in January. I guess it wasn’t all the reboots and cookies and temp files, (which I have set to dump upon closing IE anyway, except favorites) after all. Must be heavy traffic on the cable network. Sometimes that does happen. Of course I hate to call because they no longer offer the speed I’m on as an option. (slowest of the three) They are going faster yet so I’m afraid a call will cost me an “upgrade“ so to speak. Which.....could be the problem too.
Hopefully some layout work today. As far as I can see, it’s a go Houston.
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. It's 51° and extremely wet. The high is supposed to be 52° and there's a 70+% chance of rain. Rain and a thunderstorm as the weather guesser calls it.No particular plans for today. I may get some more shellac onto the layout later. For some reason (rain maybe?) I don't think anybody will be calling me to help them with their stuff. But then again there's no telling what the future may bring. I have a Proto 1000 F3-A and I'm wondering if an Athearn F7 shell will fit on it or for that matter a Bachmann FT shell. I may experiment with that today.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! Uh! Huh??? Oh..... Just woke up (well a couple hours ago). First night in a week that i actually got a good sleep. Then I spent an hour hacking up gunk that had accumulated in the airways during said sleep. Good news is THAT I think the cold is getting better.
Zoe, how about a short stack of Buckwheat Pancakes, a side order of bacon, glass of Ed's OJ, and a pot of dark roast coffee for my FGLK Mug. Oh and bring that bottle of "Real" maple syrup over and set it right down here at the Rivet Counter for me.
Jeffrey, sounds damp to me.... 51°F.... To hot for my tastes this time of year. We got about right here in the Finger Lakes right now. Currently 19°F with a few little white thingies floating around from time to time. The thermometer is supposed to bottom out at 0°F tonight! Camping weather, YES! "We're havin' a heat wave..... Tropical Heat Wave.......!"
I have to print up a pile of MLK Art and Poerty awards today, but the rest of the day is going to be sit around and relax....
have a good one!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good afternoon Diners: Not many in this afternoon I see. I'm relaxing after an excellent roast chicken lunch and a walk (the wind was naughty, but the house is nice and warm - the sun's come out briefly too)
Jeff: I see in the January MR, in an article on paper shell scenery, that the paper is stiffened and sealed with oil based primer like Kilz. He favoured that over Shellac because of the fumes. How were the Shellac fumes in the trailer?
I've found that mustard also contains something that helps fight against prostate cancer and that's good for me as I love mustard. Especially the spicy brown mustard. The hotter it is the better I like it.
nothing much planned for the day, maybe a little reading, a plain old book, with words printed on paper...
Lee:
George: An interesting choice, Electric freight ops. Will there be any action on the 4 track main, or is it just "something for the Trenton cut-off to fly over" - sort of like a river of steel? Will you be powering by catenaries, or conventionally ?- I see from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7kQbiilKAo that out of the box it's conventional.
Todd:
So far they say a temporary increase, but what usually happens with any form of government, it starts out temporary and then waits for people to get used to it and then they extend or make permanent.
But it does lend credence to my argument about the use of percentages in arguments or decisions. They can be used accurately to create any appearance you choose. As you said a 66% increase by the news media reports actually works out to a 2% (rounded) additional tax. Or, 2 cents on the dollar. Depending on which side you're on and how you want it to sound.
They are going faster yet so I'm afraid a call will cost me an "upgrade" so to speak. Which.....could be the problem too.
Well, that's about it for me for today - depending on what's on TV tonight. Took a photo of the disembodied decoder install (TCS M4 on a LL GP 38-2 light board) to send to TCS technical. I can't see where I've done anything wrong - there are no shorts, but it just doesn't work.
TTFN
Cup of the dark roast please.
Darn NCIS marathon. Luckily there are comercials. Which means there is some progress being done in Toddland (of which I'm king). Slow, but progress non the less. I will be able to lay some more track should I choose, but I may just wait until I can complete the loop. Not sure just yet. To do that, I'll need another sheet of OSB and another sheet of the blue foam. Or pink. I think it'll be blue. Depends on what Menard's has, I recall they were cheaper, but don't recall which they had for sure. I think it was blue. Lowe's was pink I think. I kinda thought the blue was easier to work with. But it's OK if it's pin......
"ENOUGH of the pink or blue stuff! It doesn't matter for crying out loud!"
Sorry Vinnie.
Ray- Glad you're feeling better. I hope the.....cleaning out process ends soon.
Blue! (slam!!)
I'll have what Todd is having, but in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
***Garry, nice layout pic there. Put it on this puter desktop (wife's). She always enjoys seeing what others have created.
***Der, neat old loco pic.
Heading down to the train room for a while. Cheers! Rob
Evening, Janie - I'll have a Rio Grande mug of hot chocolate, please. Thank you!
Just popping by so everyone knows I'm just busy with (well, I'm) on-call (rather than dropped off the edge of our square/cube earth). Have been doing some thinking about the layout and what to start on next (kinda like you do in your train room sometimes, Todd. Also went looking online this afternoon at some photo backgrounds (trying to find something suitable for the Southwestern U.S. where my RR is allegedly located).
Galaxy, I have you on my list - and in His hands - for your surgery tomorrow. If you can check back in later tomorrow (or have your other half post for you), please do. If not, we'll await word later.
It's been an exciting weekend, trying to sort out some of the junk stuff. I got all my MRR booklets and the major model railroad supplier catalogs moved onto the bookshelves I had assembled earlier and located next to my bed. So now, I have an empty shelf on the bookshelves under the phone jack. Hmm, what can I put there...?
Think I'll sit a spell and finish my hot cocoa before I head on out. Only had one call out Sat. a.m., nothing last night or (so far) today. Sometimes I feel blessed when nothin' happens.
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
I've discovered that the Athearn F7 body will fit on the Proto 1000 chassis but it's a very tight fit and almost takes an act of congress to get it back off. The Proto 1000 F3 body fits on the Athearn chassis with no problem. The Athearn body fits on the Bachmann chassis with only a minor alteration to the pilot for the front coupler. The Bachmann FT body will fit on the Proto 1000 frame but I have to add a couple of shims to the rear of the frame to keep the rear of the body from sitting too low.
Bachmann FT body on Proto 1000 F3 frame.
Evenin' Folks!
Janie, just a cup of hot cocoa for me right now. I'll go and sitt near the stove in the back.
It is currently a nice crisp 12°F outside here in the Finger Lakes. The snow has a distinct crunch to it as you walk. Supposed to get down to 1°F overnight.
I have spent the entire afternoon trying to get in touch with the ladies who have the list of who won the Arts and Poetry contest. They are the ones who have the job of contacting the families and try to get the kids to come to the MLK Service tomorrow.... After many, many phone calls and a very long wait, one checked her cell phone messages and find my name come up several times.... She called, "OMG! I totally forget you needed the names............". So, she is trying to get the half of the list so she can come over to the house where I will scan the list and start printing the certificates......
Jeffrey, I was intrigued by the information you just posted........ But??? Why not just leave the Athearn F7 body on the Athearn F7 frame and the Proto 1000 F3 body on the Proto F3 frame, etc.??? I guess it must be a Diseasally thing or sumpin'? i generally leave my steamers on the same chassis they came with......
I may be back later with some photos of the meet.....
I like to experiment.