Tall glass of cool water, please.
Not doing particularily well here presently (health issues) so will make this a short stop. I know there is a package at the PO. Hope to pick it up in the next couple days.
Hope y'all are doing well.
Rob
Good Evening peoples...
Yes, I be spending my day at the emerg...and ...I now have a walking cast on me foot.... ...they didst find that I broke a bone in the ankle so they slapped this thing on to me foot...now I get to walk around in circles like Wiley E Coyote did when he nailed himself to the ground... ...what a lovely way to spend Easter.......btw...thanks for the encouragement to get it checked out...
So, Chloe, I'll have a large rib roast dinner with all the fixin's and a coffee please..i'll be at the corner booth with the leg up...
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...
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blownout cylinder Yes, I be spending my day at the emerg...and ...I now have a walking cast on me foot. ...they didst find that I broke a bone in the ankle so they slapped this thing on to me foot...now I get to walk around in circles like Wiley E Coyote did when he nailed himself to the ground...
Yes, I be spending my day at the emerg...and ...I now have a walking cast on me foot. ...they didst find that I broke a bone in the ankle so they slapped this thing on to me foot...now I get to walk around in circles like Wiley E Coyote did when he nailed himself to the ground...
GE U25B (Stewart/Kato) #192 with cab number, road name and tags.
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Evening and Happy Easter all,
Just got back from Easter dinner at Mom & Dad's, So Iam stuffed from dinner. I spent about 4 hours earlier today and finished the yard so all the track has been laid. It has taken 4 full months from start of benchwork to this point. On Friday I will go to Lowes and buy fascia board and paint. I am thinking of a deep Tuscan Red color in keeping with the PRR.
Are there any suggestions for drawing lines on a control panel? My hand is not steady enough to do it freehand, maybe some sort of tape?
Jeff- I hope your ankle heals quickly.
LSWrr- You do amazing work. I have made it thru the 2008 pictures. I saved your site as a favorite. In the future I want to put in a turntable and roundhouse. Can you tell me what size module you used for yours?
Healing thoughts to all of us that need sleep or medical healing.
Here are a couple of photos from the layout today.
Everyone have a good night.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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Good Morning,
the sun woke me up this morning - what a nice feeling. Going to be a beautiful day again here in northern Germany.
We spent a nice day at my parents place. My mother is doing fine, although she still does way too much in the household. She is still fairly weak, but her spirit is back to her old fighting mood. I am quite confident that her surgery will go well and that she and my father can enjoy a few more years.
Christian went home yesterday evening, leaving a slightly saddened mother behind. Petra likes to spoil him (why not me?), so there is always a feeling of emptiness when he leaves. He brought enough Styrofoam for me to finish off 3 of my layouts and also a hot wire cutter. I will try my hand at scenicking the bridge module in the next days, but I need to buy a mask before I do that - the fumes of that Styrofoam are quite toxic.
No plans for today, other than running my little loco around the loop and do a bit of daydreaming.
Have a good one!
Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Morning all
Hope you all had a nice weekend even if you don't believe HE IS RISEN!
I mananged, with my back grumbling at me the whole way, to fix a nice glazed ham with cloved pineapples, asparagus, and buttered garlic noodle dinner. Was gonna do Potato but didn't feel like baked and didn;t want to stand there and cut them on the cutting borad for mashed. Noodles quicker.
My back has been really killing either because fo the rainy weather we have had for 2 weeks, or because the injections may nto have removed 100% of pain, but they certainly reduced 50-75% of it I guess. Now I;m getting the run-around from the Dr.s Maybe I go back to my regular Dr adn see if he has somehting stronger that may work.
No house hunting as was a holiday weekend. No new house in email today either. I went through the listings in the area we are looking in and instead of adding listings, looks like listings are drying up as theyare sold! It IS a buyers market, but inventory is very low! At least in our price range. and it must stay our price range. We still have one house to look at this week, but we don;t expect much.
No work will take place on trains at all except to pack them up for moving sometime. One box will be left out for use under the xmas tree if we are still here next christmas {we hope not}.
I need to see what I can get rid of and post it for sale on another forum...mostly cheap stuff, or duplicate expensive stuff and a 90' turntable.
If my back could do it, I wouold have a yard sale, may just do that in MAy anyway..pushing through the pain! I'd rather give somethiong to someone who can use it at a cheap price and make a buck or two myself than just throwa away stuff we don't need anymore! 12" color remote control analog TV {buy yourself a digital decoder} for say $5-$10 bucks...who could pass that up?
TTYALL8R
-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 Mornig...
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Todite is goig to be ideresdig because I got a class to coduct...udless I have sobeone else do this thing....
Flo, I'll just have a covvee ad a toast wid jamb blease...I'll be id the corder bood fiddig new veids of c**p in by dose...
Curt, I would use pin stripe tape, or paint the board in PRR gold then tape the track plan, then paint the board PRR Tuscan Red then when you remove the tape you have a Tuscan and gold/yellow matching the PRR Keystone. The corner modules are 4 foot by 4 foot to accommodate the 36”, 38.5”, and 41” mainline curves. The rest of the modules are 3 foot by 4 foot. The new addition of the port facility is on two 3 foot by 8 foot sections and two 3 foot by 5 foot sections. The port section has 2 Hulett un-loaders, an ore bridge, one cement plant, break bulk port facility, and a coal loading dock. Space is a premium at a Great Lakes dock so I modeled several facilities sharing the river bank. Almost all the ports on the Great Lakes are inside a river or heavily protected port due to the violence of the storms we get up here. Looks like some good progress was made on your layout!
Internet Issues: I was reading some articles on internet slowdown this weekend. It seems AT&T lines and capabilities are significantly degraded due to the sales of the IPhone and the IPad that require 4x the amount of recourses of other cell phones. Even if you don’t have AT&T as your internet provider the additional needs on the internet hubs have been affected. I ran some speed (ping) tests last night and noticed a 33% decrease in my download speed on weekends. Hopefully with Verizon entering the IPhone and IPad market the two of the carriers can upgrade the internet hubs quickly.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good Morning!! Coffee and a sponge please. Thanks. (siiiigh) Today is a wait and see day. Suppose to rain in potential buckets today and tonight. Of course it was suppose to let go yesterday afternoon and night too. Didn’t rain til at least after midnight. Total was 0.2 inch. I’ll take it. Hopefully they will be as accurate today and tonight. We don’t need, like maaaany others, any more rain but they are calling for gulley washers. Send it to Texas where they need it. Not the storms, they can just go away, but the rain. Curt- What I used for my control panels is at Walmart auto section, or autzone type places, is the automotive pin striping. Comes in various widths and is somewhat stretchy for curves. I painted the panel face white (or whatever color you would want the “tracks”) then laid the striping as I wanted them, then painted the panel color over that, let the paint dry for a bit past the “wet” stage, then carefully peel the stiping up. Another option would be plexiglass or clear plastic. One I am thinking about this go around because I havea scrap protective sheet from an oldrear projection Big Screen TV. Do this just the opposite and on the backside of the panel. Tape the tracks on the clear panel, paint the background color, remove the striping then paint the track color. Today is make the Church deposit, then run out to Mom’s house just to check, then I plan on heading to the basement for some MRRing. That’s my plan since I doubt I will be able to mow today. Yes, I lazed out yesterday evening and didn’t mow during the hour between when we finally go home and dark. Why didn’t I mow during the day between Church and the 4 pm Easter dinner at MIL’s for which we had to leave at 3?.... I’m married. Now, sometime today, or maybe tomorrow, Brenda will make a comment on the height of the grass and how I should have mowed the grass last weekend. I will look at her… recall she had me occupied all Saturday, and the time between Church and dinner was spent in town getting stuff for another egg hunt for the grandkids to which I just haaaaad to go ( I was hushed when I asked just how many times the Easter Bunny stops by when I found out this was their 3rd Easter egg hunt of the day), smile and say….yes, I should have. Ya’ll have a Great Day!!!
Good Morning!! Coffee and a sponge please. Thanks.
(siiiigh) Today is a wait and see day. Suppose to rain in potential buckets today and tonight. Of course it was suppose to let go yesterday afternoon and night too. Didn’t rain til at least after midnight. Total was 0.2 inch. I’ll take it. Hopefully they will be as accurate today and tonight. We don’t need, like maaaany others, any more rain but they are calling for gulley washers. Send it to Texas where they need it. Not the storms, they can just go away, but the rain.
Curt- What I used for my control panels is at Walmart auto section, or autzone type places, is the automotive pin striping. Comes in various widths and is somewhat stretchy for curves. I painted the panel face white (or whatever color you would want the “tracks”) then laid the striping as I wanted them, then painted the panel color over that, let the paint dry for a bit past the “wet” stage, then carefully peel the stiping up. Another option would be plexiglass or clear plastic. One I am thinking about this go around because I havea scrap protective sheet from an oldrear projection Big Screen TV. Do this just the opposite and on the backside of the panel. Tape the tracks on the clear panel, paint the background color, remove the striping then paint the track color.
Today is make the Church deposit, then run out to Mom’s house just to check, then I plan on heading to the basement for some MRRing. That’s my plan since I doubt I will be able to mow today.
Yes, I lazed out yesterday evening and didn’t mow during the hour between when we finally go home and dark. Why didn’t I mow during the day between Church and the 4 pm Easter dinner at MIL’s for which we had to leave at 3?.... I’m married. Now, sometime today, or maybe tomorrow, Brenda will make a comment on the height of the grass and how I should have mowed the grass last weekend. I will look at her… recall she had me occupied all Saturday, and the time between Church and dinner was spent in town getting stuff for another egg hunt for the grandkids to which I just haaaaad to go ( I was hushed when I asked just how many times the Easter Bunny stops by when I found out this was their 3rd Easter egg hunt of the day), smile and say….yes, I should have.
Ya’ll have a Great Day!!!
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 72°, cloudy and windy. The high will be 86° and it will be mostly cloudy and windy.Sustained winds of 15 to 25 mph are expected today with gusts up to 35+. I wonder how many people will insist on going out on the lake today. No plans for me today. I'm still recovering from Friday and Saturday. Yesterday wasn't too bad. Helped my nephew diagnose a problem with the carburetor on a 6.5 hp Tecumseh engine. The float sticks so the carb floods out. He thinks he can rebuild it. I told him it would be far easier to just get a new one as rebuilt Weber side draft carbs can be temperamental at the best of times and it would in all likelihood require almost constant attention and adjustment. I've never had a rebuilt Weber perform as well as a rebuilt diaphragm type Carter or Kohler. There is one thing I can do today that can be done indoors. I have to remove the shell from the Stewart/Kato U25B and spray it with Clear Flat.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, A bowl of hot Cream of Wheat w/ brown sugar would be a blessing this morning.... Along with a cup of dark roast coffee in a FGLK Mug that is!
It is dark, dreary, chilly, damp, rainy, and all kinds of icky outside today. So i think i will put off doing much out there today and concentrate on indoor stuff once again.
Had a wonderful Easter yesterday. Nice Ham dinner, baked beans, scalloped potatoes, rolls, succotash, and cake and ice cream for dessert along with some Finger Lakes Pink Catawba to finish it all off. Lots of candy was given out during the afternoon (I will have to hide the 2 baskets I got for a couple of weeks..... Blood work coming up!) as the Easter Bunny got rid of all his extras at their house.
I have to run a few errands today and do some shopping. Best get at it.
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Cederstrand Tall glass of cool water, please. Not doing particularily well here presently (health issues) so will make this a short stop. I know there is a package at the PO. Hope to pick it up in the next couple days. Hope y'all are doing well. Rob
Rob I hope you are feeling better.maybe some will help ?
Zoe, can I have a diet coke and some salad . Jim and I must have the same doc. They said something about using the scales down at the local M&W yard next time I came in When Jeff and blown out cylinder show up I want to treat them to a piece of P--I--E. they are laid up with bad ankles and probably could use the encouragment.
Ray - Ooop on the 73, try not to make that mistake again .
Ulrich - good news on your mother and the sunshine. How are you holding up? Did you get to run some engines ?
Galaxy - sorry to hear about the housing market. I do believe if you have some patience you will find something. Some day when I have more time , maybe in a PM I will share the miracle of our housing needs being answered by Him.Hang in there , He has the right house for you.
Todd - I mowed this weekend, mistake, it was more like mud bogging. My nine year old daughter thought it was great. At one point I got stuck , down by the wet weather creek which is no longer dry. Had to tie a rop onto the front , enlist the family to hel me pull it out while my nine year old steered it out. She was covered in mud from the tires spinning in the slop . MOH half sent her straight to the shower. I got the "what were you thinking" look for trying to mow that section of the yard.
Curt - nice pictures. What is the white stuff under the Ys ? Caulk ?
Has any one heard from Johnboy? I hope he went to the doc/sawbones .
Ken - understand the frustration with customer service. Very difficult sometimes to keep it under control. Hope you get the issue resolved.
Easter for our household was probably the best in years. Made all the sweeter by the realization that MOH is still here and for the first time she is talking about the future vs funeral arrangments. Those discussions were I could barely keep it together on. Sometimes I had to take a little walk before I could continue. Anyway we had an awsome Easter weekend with friends and family, extra great Easter service at Church and for the first time in a year dusted off the HO M&W rails and ran some locs with my nine year old , Sweeeeet ! Gotta get back to w**k. Hope you all had a great Easter.Oh, before I forget. Please keep my co-worker whos Aunt commited suicide last week via a freaight train , she is not handling it well (understabndably) and is off again today. She had a bit of a breakdown last night.
yougottawantaWhen Jeff and blown out cylinder show up I want to treat them to a piece of P--I--E. they are laid up with bad ankles and probably could use the encouragment.
Hi Gang,
Thanks for all the comments on my missing fifteen minutes. The answer to Zapped is, no I didn't get zapped. I didn't have the light fixture apart at that time and it was and is working fine.
Think it must have been electrolites, dehyrdation, it was pretty warm in there with some work lights on.
I am still not feeling 100%
Will find out for sure later today when I see the Doc.
Will fill in the balnks later.
As Jerry would say, "Ya all have a good one"
Johnboy out........................................and back to work.
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Tall glass of water and a few Saltine crackers, please.
Enjoyed seeing the progress pics. Keep posting them.
On top of the other health issues, I may have Giardia or Salmonella. All last night was rough as nothing worked. My wife had an extra pill tucked away for such an emergency and it helped, but considering the treatment is usually 5 days worth, guess I need to see the Doc this week. Oh joy!
Nothing to report on. Have been stuck inside the house. Perhaps tomorrow I'll be up to driving to the PO for that package.
Afternoon All,
Now for the third try (computer issue).
Warm here today and it looks like it is trying to rain (we need it). Spent time cleaning up the layout area and reorganizing all my tools and misc. things that are needed when working on a layout. I can actually find stuff now. It is much calmer for me now (I hate clutter). My wife gave me a 4 drawer set of drawers to use which helps tremendously.
I ran a boxcar and a passenger car around the layout. It actually worked pretty well. I had issues with turnouts slipping while running cars over them. I will have to move the passenger station so I have some thinking to do on what would work best. At least I have a couple of options.
YGW- The white things are WS incline ends. The boards are slightly uneven so I needed a way to smooth it out. I tried carboard first and was not happy and ripped up that and the roadbed and decided on WS as I had extras on hand. It appears to be working as planned.
Johnboy- Good luck with your doctor. Hopefully it is only dehydration.
Rob- Hope you feel better soon.
LSWrr & TMarsh- Thanks for the idea about pinstriping. I would never of thought of that. I think it will look awesome.
Everyone take care.
Rob .. Sorry to hear about your illness. See the Doc and get better.
Johnboy ... You have us worried. When is the Doc appointment.? Glad you think you are OK though.
YouGottaWanta ... Pleased to learn there is hope for your wife. Prayers continue. Prayers, too for your co-worker.
Jeff ... Prayers continue for you too. You remain a real inspiration for hanging in there with your health amtters.
Ray chowed down a big meal. Why am I not surprised?
Todd .. You said send the rain to TX. They can have all they want.
Rains continue here. The weather guessers forecast 6 more inches in next two days. We are soaked already.
I'm doing miscellaneous projects on the layout between other stuff (non-mrr) this week.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
trainobsessed What exactly is this undying thread about?
What exactly is this undying thread about?
Good Afternoon and to trainobsessed!!
This diner is where we come to discuss whatever..up to a point..is going on our lives. Treat it pretty much like a diner in any town or city around with the regulars etc.
Thank you to UGW for the P.I.E. , I appreciated it...
Well, my sinuses are still pretty well stuffed right up and my ankle is at least not as swole up as it was even this morning..lying on my back with the leg up does work up to a point...
So now ...Chloe, I'll just have a coffee for now while i peruse the menu for a bit..I'll be at the RC for now...
Good Evening All,
One of those days in the shop. Got in this morning and had to fix the rental tractor so the rig could leave the yard. Driver called at 5 to say he broke down. Went to load customers car into his trailer for test tomorrow and found roof of trailer buckled. And so on. Car that messed up in New Jersey is back and in fact there is a problem with the gearbox - we just haven't found it yet. Believe it is time to retreat to home and spend some quality time on the layout.
Hope the wounded army is doing better. And welcome Trainobsessed. As noted, this is the virtual diner where all manner of things get discussed, advice given and requested and a less formal tone kept. Anyone is welcome to drop in and hang. Anything on your interests in Model Railroading - scale, railroad, layout, etc?
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This is the first race car I helped with. Went to one race, scrapped stones off the tires between runs and was hooked for life. Catch y'all later, J.R.
Evenin' folks!
Rainy and dreary today. Supposed to get a half inch more tonight.... And this place is down to a crawl again...... Flo I'll have a cup of decaf if you please.
Oh, Happy Dyngus Day everyone! What!?! You don't know about Dyngus Day? It's a Western NY thing... Very popular in Buffalo the day after Easter... OK, more about it here.
I am building an HO extension ladder... Not perfect, but should do.
Evening guys
Not much doing today as I've been at college since 8am. Yesterday was kind of busy. Worked, then when I got back I went with my family to Pensacola to watch Atlas Shrugged. It wasn't showing at a local theater so I had to go an hour out to watch it.
I'll be back in later
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.
Good Evening,
Well spring is finally here this week and we are expecting a high of 65F tomorrow!! Break out the shorts and sunscreen!! It is supposed to last a whole day and then we are back to 55F.
My Volvo saga didn't end with the fender bender. On Friday we were heading out to visit our friends in Thief River Falls when the car started to miss and the engine light came on which is supposed to indicate a fault in the emission system. Luckily we were just on the edge of the city so we headed home. I thought that was it for the weekend but my wife suggested we rent a car. As Good Friday is a holiday up here everything was shut except for the airport rental locations. I called a few and got a Ford Fusion for 25 bucks a day, weekend rate. It turned out to be a loaded model with AWD and every possible option. I enjoyed driving it and was quite impressed with it. Seats weren't up to the Volvo's though but few are.
Volvo is in the shop and I don't expect any word until tomorrow. I'm also getting the plugs changed and an oil change.
Did have a great weekend with our friends and I picked up my Klein's order. Must say I like that ME track, at least the N stuff is nice. I now have 6 decoders to install so I can keep busy over summer, assuming that I actually get some RR time as I have a fairly long HD list.
I removed the traction tires from my SW8 tonight and put in the regular axle I got from Walthers. It did make an improvement over the turnouts so now it doesn't seem to stall as before.
Rob, hope you are feeling better soon and I will keep you posted on my N scale adventure.
Barry, sorry to hear about your ankle. I bet that hurt a bit.
Well time to think about getting ready for tomorrow.
CN Charlie
Evening Folks and Well Train Obsessed.
Flo, may I have a Big Boy Sub and a please.
Work Front Boy has this month been a let down. At the began of the month I was on pace for a new record of $58,000.00. Middle of the month things just fell apart! This weekend the nails where driven into the coffin lid! Saturdays have been averaging $3200 to $3800 days, last Saturday I only did $128.00 that will be delivered this month and a real weak $1200.00 layaway that I only got $20.00 down. Sunday is all so a $3000.00 + day for the store, well with it being Easter we where closed.
Bottom line is if I am lucky I will get $30.00 to $150.00 in commission for May. Man that is going to make paying the bills real tuff next month. One of the reasons I really did not want to get back into sales, this month I got $1,000.00 in commission and next $100.00. Sure makes planning a budget hard. While it is not much, at lease I have the small savings to fall back on. All so the reason I did not buy the Big Boy I was talking about.
Speaking of Trains Well I have re lubed ever part of the Y6 b I can get too and the whirling sound is still there. It definitely (Todd, better double check the meaning I used my dirty spell check) sounds like gears. Guess the next step is to pull the engines (it is a 2-8-8-2 and each set of drive wheels is a engine) and roll them to see witch one is making the noise. Then open it and see if I can find what is making the racket. My guess is I just plan wore it out and the gears are badly worn with 600 + hours. Then hope BLI has replacement gears or engine.
Then there the Bib Boy. Guess it time to take it apart again! Still shorts out every time it hits a frog. I am 95% sure I need to add washers between the Engines (4-8-8-4) and mounting points to raise boiler. I think one of the engines are grounding out against the boiler and causing the short. As much a I love steam, they can be a pain in the caboose.
Guess I am just getting lazy I think I have more engines of the RIP track than in services, but I do run them a lot. I have most of the parts I need to fix them. But I just cannot seem to make time to do so. Getting old sucks and you can quot me on that one.
Well, see you all Tuesday.
Ken
I hate Rust
Finally able to eat again tonight. Hope I didn't go overboard. So, just a tall glass of cool water, please.
Was a chore to do even minimal critter rounds this evening. Getting way behind but hopefully can do a little more tomorrow.
Have a good night y'all.
Good Morning Campers
Still here, but Oh what pain!
Finished putting in the rest of the fence posts (real) around the garden, 5 in total. Here because of frost one has to go down 36", through glacial till, which is comprised of heavy clay and lots of rocks and the occasional small boulder. Lets just say I feel for Wylie Coyote with a vibrating pick. My hands will be numb for a week.
Lee: Unfortunately, when I return to work I will be back in the XO position as my rotational assignment is over. The good news is I made the list so all I have to do is wait for some of the "Old Timers" to retire, which will be in about a year or so.
Todd: Yes I am working slowly on the MESS, however my next phase will require about 6 people as I intend on sliding the whole layout out from the wall by 4". Hard to do as the layout is 24' long and is a giant "L" shape. If I was smart I'd jack the whole thing on wheels and do it myself... hmmmm
Charlie: No new brass... yet. Waiting for the latest BLI Hybrid 4-12-2. Which will require 30" radii curves which I am slowly achieving, Phase after I move layout from wall, circa 2018. I did get an A-1 for Christmas and yes she can haul better then the Allegheny and the Challenger.
My end game is to have 2 main lines!
Howard: Sorry you couldn't make it for Easter as Lisa made two apple pies, which are to die for as they are scratch made and all so good! Sorry they don't ship well!
Well work to be done
Later all
Fergie
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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
Trainobsessed, this thread is about nothing and everything, just like Seinfeld…
Days of our lives and all my children may have been cancelled, but we still have the diner!
Ray, you’re not going to get far on an HO-scale ladder.
Ken, did you check the turnout(s) and the Big Boy wheels with a NMRA Gage?
Ok, now the track is laid on the port side of the new expansion (not the left side, the side where the ships will be moored to the pier). Time to move over to the coal mine area, I found 1” copper water pipe and 4” well liner to make the coal loading station. I also need to sit down and assemble the last mine building. I ordered a Digitrax auto reverser for the wye at about half the cost of a Circuitron unit and a duplex radio command port for the room. Very expensive equipment I might add!
Since when did model railroading get so darn expensive?!? I remember when I was 10 (in the mid-late 70’s) I could pick up a HO-Scale boxcar for $2.50. I was looking at the Walther’s sale flyer last night and they have boxcars for $28.00??? How did the cost of the hobby increase so much if we have a weak US dollar? While I’m at it; what happened to the hobby? I use to walk into Woolworths, Montgomery Ward, or the corner drug store to pick up MRR supplies. Now I have the choice of the internet, or LHS. Friends that are retired can’t afford the hobby that is really sad, I’m glad they built their basement empires when they were young and could afford it.
Before retirement: pay off house, finish train layout…
Fergi, a hydraulic jack and temporary legs with casters would do it. XO not a bad place to be…