Strong coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
Audiophiles here: Only reason I don't have a super system, is the cost. LOVE great sound though. Interesting is how with quality systems, you are not aware of the volume because distortion is practically non exsistent.
Have a great day, all.
Rob
Fergmiester Greetings one and all! a Cup of Java please Yes it's been quite awhile since I stepped foot in here. Some familiar faces and big smiles that always have kept the room bright and cheery. Anyway I'm glad to see the place is alive and well All the best in 2011 Fergie
Greetings one and all!
a Cup of Java please
Yes it's been quite awhile since I stepped foot in here. Some familiar faces and big smiles that always have kept the room bright and cheery.
Anyway I'm glad to see the place is alive and well
All the best in 2011
Fergie
back Fergie !!!!!
We certainly missed your presence here...
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Good afternoon...
I'm actually getting some photog progress here...I'm going to be able to show something that is non fuzzy eventually!!
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/
Gooooooooooooooooooooooood afternoon, bucket of coffee please, and thank-you.
I think I might've goofed. While going through a bunch of rolling stock which had been in storage for the past five years or so, I found a heavy-duty TTX flatcar. From some quick research, it looks like Walthers based it on a four-truck flat TTX got in '91 or '92. I weathered it a bit heavy when I got it back in '97, and had a load glued on way too thickly; so decided to just pull the truck assemblies off and dump it into the stripping soup.
I mean, there HAS to be suitable decals for such a car once it's been repainted...right??? Surely Microscale would have the correct set for something like this...right???
Or not.
Soooooooooooooooooooo, it looks like I'll be cobbling together something sorta close to "right" when I finally get THAT far on it.
DER JOHN: Yeah, I think you're right: the big cable is the "MU cable," and the N-sanely little ones you put on probably are air, signal, etc. Details West and Detail Associates calls 'em MU hoses, so THAT is where I got THAT nomenclature for them. In HO, they are enough of a pain to install, and DA and DW cast them as one piece!
Well, another "damfine job" was done by the Pispoor Construction Company yesterday in the RR room, thus completing the base frame for the future layout. Maybe next weekend I'll be able to start getting plywood purchased, cut to size, and installed. I'm almost scared to do so however. The frames, standing by themselves look "good." I've got a hunch though, a nice straight slab of plywood is going to reveal various alignment deficiencies in the braces. But, it shouldn't be anything a little un-screwing, adjusting, cursing, re-screwing, more cursing, un-screwing, further adjusting, cursing, re-screwing, cursing, un-screwing, adjusting further, cursing more, and screwing again shouldn't be able to fix!
Model railroading...a relaxing way to spend the day.
Hello to FERGIE! Greetings as well to our new Diner patrons!
Have a SAFE day everybody...
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
der5997
Hey guys,
DerJohn- is that a GWR or LMS engine? I can't tell.
We just had a friend stop by with his little Morkie. Tiny little thing and it was playing with my 100 lb plus yellow lab. Almost got sat on 3 times.
Saubraten for me. Thanks
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!
Coffee refill, please.
***Chris, best to get the plywood up asap so as not to give the frame work time to dryout and warp.
***Der, check our message thread.
Question: What online vendor has decent prices and is good about shipping orders out in a timely manner? Wifes B-day is approaching and I'd like to pick up a couple Woodland Scenics for her.
Cederstrand Audiophiles here: Only reason I don't have a super system, is the cost. LOVE great sound though. Interesting is how with quality systems, you are not aware of the volume because distortion is practically non existent. Rob
Audiophiles here: Only reason I don't have a super system, is the cost. LOVE great sound though. Interesting is how with quality systems, you are not aware of the volume because distortion is practically non existent.
Rob, you are 100% correct. The distortion is what causes the discomfort not the db. Well unless it is my wife!
Ray 600 watts a side is at 8 ohm, by the way where did you get the ohm symbol, never seen that on a keyboard before. Power caps in the Amps are huge, close to the sizes of soda can's. Owner manual tells you to shut down the Amps first and leave the preamp on till all of the power is drained out of the Amps. Even with the DQ 10's it takes around 15 seconds to lose power to the speakers.
I have a db meter and when I use the slow setting I stay around 90 db. While that sounds like a lot, on the fast setting it will swing from 60 to 110 db depending on the piece I am listing to. If I remember correctly it takes 1 hour of 85 + db to start to effect your hearing. About the only time I have a hard hearing is when my wife is talking, then she sounds like the teacher from Charlie Brown cartoons!
By the way, when I was into hard core in to listening, I played mainly classical and it is way more demanding on the system than rock. Last few years I have really toned it down as far as how often I even start up the stereo.
Todd My old Kustom full stack had a 250 watt head, when I played with a band I could drown out the whole band. It had 2 15 inch speakers and a horn. Sounded pretty darn good dirty or clean. One of the best amp's I had was a Crate, think it was all so a 30 watt amp. It would keep up with the band just fine and sounded great dirty! I think it had 2 8 inch speakers. I bought it after I found out when I was not at the house we practiced (bass player house) he was running his bass through it. It was to big to take home every night. I think the Peavley is a 10 watt amp. I will add now that I have been playing with the Less's tone and pick up controls it sound's better to me.
Train Front Tore down the PK 2000 E-7 today, and while not as hard as I thought it was going to be it was still a bite! It should not take 30 minutes to lube the needed parts! Ran it with out the PC / Decoder on straight DC with wires to the motor and it pretty quite again. I am going to hard wire the wires back up, I hate the plastic clips they use.
Meet up with Simon 1966 and his son's at K-10 Model trains. Had a good time chatting with Simon, it was all so good to get out of the house. One of the trains I enjoyed watching was a DCC with Sound Thomas the Tank Engine. Going to sound stupid, but kind of like to have one.
Phone is dead again! Thank You Charter! Said if they where not out by 5:00 PM it would be Monday. Gee that is just great with me hoping for the Job phone call! Just great! Charter suck's cabooses! It is now 4:54 PM and No Charter!
See you all Monday!
Ken
I hate Rust
Evening all, just about to go and wake the family up (they're all taking naps...) before heading off to church for our monthly night of worship. Been a good day so far, went to church this mornign, then to Quiznos for lunch then over to a friend's house for about an hour before coming home and putting both girls and the wife to bed for a nap. I, however; have taken the time to relax and do a little digging around online for different stuff. Thinking about checking out thebay for anything interesting....
Welp Janie, I think I'll just take a slice of chocolate pie and a glass of milk please ma'am and I'm going to sit happily at the RC and see whom else comes in.
Hey Ken, just popped into the diner for the first time in years to say how much I enjoyed our chat at K-10. The boys has a blast running for about 2 1/2 hours before deciding it was time to go home. Looks like I have to reset Andrew's new AC6000 but other than that all seemed to run good. Crispy's Kato SD70MAC ran like a champ and once it had been run in a bit was silky smooth and real quiet. I just wish it did not have so many detail parts to add! Take care, good luck with the interview feedback tomorrow.
Since I am here, Happy New Year all you other diners!!
Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum
Evenin' folks!
Zoe I'll have a hot roast beast sandwich, fries, and a trip to the salad bar tonight. Oh and large Dr. Pepper.
Ken, on a Mac at least the Ohm symbol is "option z" as in Ω. I have no idea about where or if it even exists on a PC. With "Pro Sound" you always turn on the amp last and turn off the amp first...... Prevents losing a pricey speaker if it happens to hit the cycle just right. It also helps keep your ears intact.....
BTW, I highly agree that what hurts with audio is distorted sound from cheap equipment or from driving the system too hard. However..... It is Db level that destroys the hearing. IIRC, 0 Db is no energy at all in a non existent wave. About 10Db is the threshold of normal hearing. Using that as a base point, 20Db has twice the energy in the wave. Every time the Db goes up 10 decibels it doubles the energy in the wave, so 30Db has twice the energy of 20Db and 4 times the energy of 10Db. By the time you get to 80Db the wave has 256 times as much energy as a 10Db wave. 90Db has twice as much as 80Db and so on. Some live concerts out there are pushing 140Db or higher at 20 foot away from the source. How close you are to the sound source increases the Db..... Oh, and doubling the Db makes it sound twice as loud. So if you Double an 50Db wave, it would be 100Db and would sound twice as loud, but would have 32 times the energy in it.....
I think the average push rotary mower with a working muffler averages around 81Db and they say at that level most people should limit mowing to 3 hours or less at a time....... No problem with that here! Age is also a factor. Young people will recover faster and have less permanent damage than old pharts like myself.... A scary statistic from about a dozen years ago.... 80% of all 8th. graders in the US already have a treatable hearing loss... I found that out after getting my first set of hearing aids. My audiologist told me that most violinist go deaf in their Left ear..... Almost all the retired music teachers I know are sporting ear pieces. Occupational hazard, I guess... So take care of those ears!
Ken, sure hope your phone gets back in service before they try to contact you about the job!!!
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good Evening Diners!
Fergie, great to see you back in here! Are you still on the Hudson? Seems to me I recall that you are now skipper of your own ship but I can't remember. My wife says I can't remember anything and blames it on my age. What was that you said?
Nice day here today, only -10C , sunny and no wind. Plus it is dry so almost balmy.
Certainly appears to be a lot of audiophiles in the Diner. I do like good sound but I don't know much about it. I did work with an audiophile a few years ago who sent me to a good audiophile shop here when I bought my system a number of years ago. They did give me good advice and even let me try various amps and CD players at home. I had an Acoustic Research amp and CD player but when the CD drive died a couple of years ago I replaced it with an Arcam unit. One thing leads to another and I wound up buying an Arcam amp as well. I have a pair of Mirage M series speakers that are bi-wired with speaker cable that looks like dryer wire. It isn't a very powerful system but it does well with the classical music I listen to and I don't like it too loud so it is fine for me.
Well tomorrow is my last day off and then it is back to 'mill' . I wonder what the new year will bring with the new owners? I can't believe how lucky I've been in my working career as this is the second time a new owner has come along just before the company went under. It is 33 years this month in the same building. Maybe I'm in a rut? Anyway legally there isn't a mandatory retirement age so I will just keep going until they decide they've had enough.
See you tomorrow,
CN Charlie
Huh? Not a word. Not a word. Missed the whole conversation.There was a train passing in the background. If there is more than one noise, doesn't have to be louder than the conversation but about the same to some point softer, conversation seems to be just additional noise and I can't distinguish well what someone says. I still hear pretty well at all volumes even real soft except at the level of a rifle shot. THAT is not much of a problem anywore. Hah! Even if it was, hearing loss at that level would save putting in ear plugs.
Seriously, hearing loss is all what Ray said........ I think.( alot of numbers there ya know). The volume is one reason I don't like to go to the movie house anymore. It's like they want to show off just how loud the sound will go. It's crystal clear but still irritatingly loud to me. Went to see David Allen Coe a couple years ago at some club in Springfield. Always wanted to see him. Won't go to see him again. He started out loud, but not too terribly loud. Then he got progressively louder throughout the show. Bart and I were getting ready to walk out when he quit as it got so loud our ears were actually hurting sharply and deep. There was no sense in that. I remember as a kid the louder the better, now let's keep it down's my feeling. If you like it loud that's fine, I've mellowed.
DerJohn and Ulrich- Thanks. No problem with the mining John.
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.
Oh Rob- Been meaning to comment on your three points in your signature block. If people would realize just how true those statements are, maybe, just maybe there would be some sensible decisions made out east.
Hey, all! I have to second (or fifth, maybe) what all said about hearing loss. Lots of big guns in the army and then a stint as a videographer for a bar band didn't do my ears any favors and although I'm not deaf by any means I often regret not wearing my earplugs more religiously when I should have.
Someone asked "...care to tell us more about your mrr plans, (scale? / era?/ that sort of thing)"
Sure. I'm just about to actually start planning. My rough ideas are:
- HO scale, standard gauge
- L-shaped shelf layout along two walls in my home office concentrating on switching
- Small free-lanced WV city by the Ohio River (inspired by Kenova)
-C&O along one wall, B&O along the other, interchange in the corner.
- Hopefully removable staging on each end
- WWII era
I've been learning about layout design, now it's time to put it to the test.
Sean
HO Scale CSX Modeler
Good Evening All,
Busy day again. Got the chores out of the way and got after the rest of the spray foam and bracing for the train room. That's all done now and I'm ready to get some sheetrock and try my hand at fitting and taping again. We'll see if I've gotten any better at it.
This talk of stereos and music and hearing loss hits close to home for me as well. My actual hearing loss is more from my first two years as a pro racing mechanic when Mazda brought out the RX-7 and bridgeported motors were still legal for them. We'd be doing suspension adjustments in the pit lane during practice or qualifying and they'd drive by with all 115db's right at ear level. It actually hurt. We didn't wear earplugs or head phones because we needed to communicate with each other (this before all the crews wore radiohead sets). Playing out earlier we were loud but I didn't notice any hearing loss nor did I have an issue when I was in the Navy wearing headphones 12 hrs a day and 7 days a week often a high volume trying to pick a signal out of the static and distortion. After I finished my service I continued to play but mostly country or country/rock (whatever that is) in bar bands where we couldn't be that loud. I did keep the twin VT pa speakers in the apartment for stereo speakers but that's another story entirely. Long story short the years of unmuffled race motors did a lot more damage than loud music ever did. Catch y'all tomorrow, J.R.
Well, (high water table round here so not that deep of a subject) I ran out of screws. Don't want to use nails in the benchwork framing so construction has ceased for now. Tomorrow I will find myself in the city so I'll buy another box. Got the thing all done except for the inside curved corner supports.I can still lay the OSB except for those, but the foam I want to be complete with no seams in those places. Not essential, just my preference.
Colorado- Sounds like a good plan. Please by all means put the track plan up here if you can. There are a few people who would be more than happy to offer any suggestions from their standpoint. Maybe they can add or something, thhat you may not have thought of. Don't worry, they will not be offended or degrading if you choose not to accept their ideas. THAT does not happen with the patrons of the diner. They just want YOU to be happy even if it's something they wouldn't necessarily want. I have a freelanced RR in the early stages set somewhere that just happens to be nowhere in particular. I call it Toddland, a place where I am king and things go as I want them. Great place though I haven't worked out the taxes yet. I use the Texas & Pacific in current times. Mainly because I was going to model that railroad in the very early '70's originally, but alas that was to restrictive for my wants. Hey, it's my RR right? Anyway, feel free to ask anything and do it however prototypical or non proto'd or any mix inbetween without fear of being chastized in here. Like i said, we just enjoy the hobby and think others should too regardless of their differences.
I figured I'd let him experience one of my long comments right off the bat.
PFTIN
EDIT: Rob--I don't order off the web except for the Bay, so I don't know of any places first hand. I think Jim does most his purchases by ordering as does Ray I think, so maybe they can offer some suggestions.
Veggie plate, please. Ordered a few (HO) items for the wife's B-day, the end of this month. Lets see...
1) W.S. Farmers Market to place on the decks of "Kathry's Feed & Seed".
2) W.S. Cougars, although only require one of them to place in the trailer park by "Bubble's shed". The rest can go somewhere in the mountains. Perhaps a scene with mama cougar protecting her cubs from a bear.
3) Bach. Park Assortment, to add stuff around town.
4) Several sections of Chooch Random Stone Wall to place between her fire station and the rocky mountain behind it.
Also picked up some non-MRRing items. RC stuff.
Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Morning Folks!
Cup of coffee please.
The new place looks great! Hope everyone has great day!
Steven
Morning California.
Yawn, Flo coffee pleas and a cell phone!
Simon Thanks for dropping by the dinner. It was fun watching the lads run there new engines. I lean more toward the 50's engines, but I must say I like Crisp's Con Rail engine.
With all the talk about db, I wonder what db a Top Fuel Car puts out? I did not know what loud was till I next to one of them in the pits at fire up! You more feel them than hear them!
Colorado Good luck with your WWII theme. At one point I wanted to do a WWII air field, but there is not much in the way of WWII American Air Craft. Key air craft I was hoping to find are B-17's and P-38's. Was thinking a long the lines of a Army Air Corp training field.
Need to track down one of my soldering irons so I can get my E-7 back on the rails.
See you all later today and hope I have some good news to share on the job front!
Good morning.
I'm off to school this morning to see about some books, I think I need those to learn!! Also I will have to see about work study. This is my last week off, since school does start next week.
I will pop back in later today.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Good Morning All,
28F this morning with lots of cloud cover. I'll have a regular and a blueberry donut please Zoe.
Robbie - good luck with school. Most of them seem to acknowledge people needing w..k/study but not so many really accomodate it.
Ken - Drag racing was what got me interested in racing in the first place. We had friends with a AA fuel dragster (Masters and Richter Special) and we'd go see them - get inthe pits, scrape rocks off the tires between runs - all the cool stuff a 12 year old could stand). At Raisin City in Fresno they'd run 4 fuel dragsters side by side for the finale at the big shows - now THAT was loud !
I'll drop in later, nice to see some new names and old familiar ones here last week. CUL, J.R.
Good Morning..
Today will be partly cloudy with a 30% chance of little tiny snowfluffies...and a high of 28F...tomorrow will see a bit more snowflurry activity and a high of 30F.
Today I'll be...
...and...
I have enough spare time today to actually do these things...
Flo, I'll have a coffee and a toasted breakfast bagel please...I'll be at the RC for a bit..
Good morning. It's 28° and partly cloudy. The high should be 57° and it should be mostly sunny with cloudiness increasing tonight.Have to go into town to get my grocery shopping done as well as pay the cable bill to keep my internet service going and I need to drop some books at the library. I'll see if they have any new model railroad books while I'm there. They don't have much as it is, just half of a 3 foot shelf. As to what I'll do with the rest of the day I have no idea. That depends on how I feel when I get back home.
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
WELL!
I thought I had two Dr.s appts today,,,the urologist this Am {real fun early in the AM}} and the cardiologist at 1. The urologist changed my appt from Dec 29 last year a month ago and I wrote it down on the calendar for today, adn it's really NEXT Monday!!
I wondered why I recieved no reminder call last week. HTought maybe they were all off last week.
Thank goodness the holidays are over, now all can return to normal, and people will actually at work doing their job if they have one, and things can get DONE. DONE RIGHT may be another matter.
Still waiting to hear on the HEAP application. In mid-Nov we were assured "we would hear within 30 days"...putting it at mid-Dec, but it never happens taht way its always the end of January before we hear. We should be approved, adn approved for the max they payout. The thing is usually in Jan there is often a second allotment of HEAP and we often hear of the second allotment before we hear of the first allotment! Will help greatly with the heating bills. ALways does, but this year the "delivery charge" is going up on us by quite a % for both elec and nat gas {same company}. WE always choose fixed cost rates even if we pay a bit more than market as we know for sure what we will pay for the year for units used on both electric and nat gas, but have no choice on the "delivery rate" they charge to "deliver it to us".
Well I should go eat some breakfast.
Talk to you all later.
-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.
Just a brief stopover to enjoy a coffee with the gang!
Not much to report from this side of the Big Pond, other than the weather conditions are slowly improving and the snow has started to melt away, icing up the roads at night ...
I have packed up all of my MRR gear in boxes and put them out of sight, as looking at it just made me sad. I hope it won´t be for long and I am able to make a fresh start in not too long a time.
Ken - hope you did get the job!
TTFN
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe Egg on a muffin w/ cheese for me I guess.... Oh and a cup of dark roast coffee in a R&GV RR Mug.
Currently 28°F with sunny skies outside here in the Finger Lakes. The high will be 27°F..... Ah, yes, I know but THAT is what it says at the Weather Channel......
Ken, Hmmmm, Top Fuel....? I would bet it is a bit more than 120Db (from a hundred yards away)....
I have done a lot of those other things that cause deafness in life too.... I tell people I had a lot of fun going deaf and then On the other hand the original plan was THAT now I was going to be singing professionally as a second career after teaching..... Model Railroading is just as much fun!
I have 3 days worth of w*rk to get done in the next 6 hours... Finally got all the info for a project I need to have printed by tonight!
later!
Charter Sucks, Charter Sucks Every Body Knows Charter Sucks!
I had Sue call Charter to make sure they where fixing the phone this morning. They said Tuesday now, give me a break!
I had to call Mattress Sources to let them know our land line was down and gave Ben (manager of the store) our track phone number and my E-Mail. I asked if he had a idea if I was going to get the job. Said they where busy Saturday and Sunday and him and the owner never had time to talk about it. Well, I am taking that as a bad sign at this point. But, there is still a chances. Waiting is the hardest part.
Happy New Year!
Here is hoping this year is a great one for all!
I ran across this time-lapse video of the Church Street and 30th Street MUNI track replacement in San Francisco. This was captured avery 15 seconds for 3 1/2 days and took over 18,500 images to piece this together into a 12 minute video. Quite impressive in the production of the video, but impressive also in watching all the work that got done in tearing up the track and putting down new track, then rebuilding the road all in 3.5 days. Amazing!
http://vimeo.com/15780202
Cheers!
P.S, Hey Garry, congratulations on getting into the MR Jan 2011 issue in Trackside Photos!!!
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Howdy all...Its sunny and around 30 here...Just coffee for me..Hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year!..Doing some cleaning on the I&S..You all have a good one...Jerry
Any lunch left?
Well..............Got my books at the cost of $380.00 !!!!!! Talk about high prices!! I also made sure I could find my classes. I don't wanna get to school and be completely lost.
Not much planned now, by maybe clean the house. Vac, and make some sweet teas.
JR.............I had to fill out a application for work study, so maybe I can get something at school. The first month or so is real bad for me, well schedule wise. Maybe after that if the work study doesn't workout, I can find a part-time job.
Ken........I hate talking to company's about a problem. They make it sound like it's your fault, and they will get to the problem when THEY GET TO IT !! I hope the job works out. Don't get to discouraged yet.
I guess I better clean up a bit.