It was a pretty good day for me here in Pittsburgh. The wife and I got in a little railfanning early this afternoon. Although a little cloudy, the temperatures were around 50 degrees. Caught three trains in about an hour. One thing we both agreed on is that we enjoy railfanningmore while sitting in folding chairs than sitting in the car like we did today. Oh well, soon the weather will be improving.
Had a very good dinner this evening. A roast, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn, and dinner rolls. Of course it was accompanied by a Reisling. Pretty sure my stock of wine will be depleted around September, giving us an excuse to drive up to Seneca Lake for more. Maybe evan catch the Finger Lakes RR heading north out of Watkins Glen in the afternoon.
Hope everyone had a great a weekend.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Me again,
it is just past midnight and I just caught an hour of sleep. Woke up with a hammering headache. Thanks , Galaxy, for sending your migraine my way ...
Zoe, chamomile tea, please. Maybe that stuff helps.
Jim - yes, it felt good to have some kind of a normal social life again. Petra´s cooking was really tres bien - in fact too good,. We counted on having leftovers for Sunday, but the folks just ate it all up
Well, I´ll try to get some more sleep.
Boy Today Blew, wind was rattling everything on the roof today, sounded like a bowling alley was over head!
Afternoon fellow dinners!
Flo, I will take a NYC Hudson Sub with vinegar and oil, tender of rings and a
Well today was pretty darn good (besides taking the wife to work with me) and was way busier than Saturday? People where in the door 1 minute after I unlocked it. I hate that to a point, I need around 30 minutes to get warmed up mentally. Wrote $3900.00 in 5 hours compared to $2100.00 in 10 hours Saturday.
Jim I am sure the good weather had something to do with it being slow Saturday and not uncommon this time of year. Far as asking about taking over the warehouse manager job I have thought about it. But main reason I am keeping my trap shut is my health. My left ankle has bone spurs and after 10 to 30 minutes the pain can be pretty bad. Medication help's, but with out surgery fussing the bones I would never be able stand as long as I would need to to do the job right.
Train Front Ran them for around a hour before I went to work, boy I am so glad to have the Y6 b dragging freight again! Been pulling like a champ, 30 cars is nothing to it.
Hope you all had as good as day as I did, and enjoy the rest of it!
I hate Rust
howmus, the Rockville Bridge is quite a sight. I've been living around this area all my life and until I retired drove past it everyday going to and from work. It's only about 12 miles from my house and I still drive past it a couple times a week. And I am still impressed by it. A few months ago high winds blew four containers off a train into the river from the bridge. A few years ago part of the side of the bridge gave way and put three loaded coal hoppers in the river. Living this close and I still don't have many pics of it. Guess when you can go look at the real thing, who needs pics? :)
Evenin' folks!
Flo, just a decaf...... I'll go sit in the back booth and unwind for a bit.
Went over to my son's house for dinner tonight. BBQ Chicken, Baked Beans, Baked Winter Squash, Noodles, Rolls, Corn, and for dessert a freshly baked brownie with vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup... Wonder why I don't seem to be able to lose any weight?
Attaboy, I got a bunch of photos of the Rockville Bridge while doing some railfanning on my way home from the York Large Scale Show last fall. Leaves were just starting to turn, nice hazy day, with just enough sunshine to get some great photos. More from the trip can be found here.
I spent at least 3 hours today trying to track down my 500 watt incandescent light bulb for the photo lighting unit. I usually use a pair of 32w Full Spectrum 5000°K CFLs each equivalent to a 125w incandescent. They have a CRI of 93 which is fantastic color rendering. The guy's layout where I will be taking photos tomorrow is lit by plain old shop light tubes.... Probably running a CRI about 60 and a color of around 3000°K. The tungsten bulb as a black body resonator may be a better choice for extra lighting. we shall see. Anyway, I finally found the 500 watter to take along to try. I had hidden it very well......
Hope you all stay safe (I hear of some possibly very bad weather cropping up for parts of the country)!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Morning..
We have those ol' t'underin'boomers coming through with barrels of rain today as well as a high of..tada!!...64F!! Tomorrow we will be having a partly sunny day with the high near 37F
I have an evening class to finish then I'll be off for the summer...although I suspect that might be snarfled by a whole list of honey do's...
JimRC: That site has all kinds of stuff on it..what I'd like to know is what sources those 2 or 3 main contributors have been using for those...
Ray: If you are not getting awakened by these t'underin'boomlets...you will be soon..these things are annoying....Are you going to be conducting any workshoppy things at the convention in Woodstock?
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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Good Morning,
Well I had a productive weekend. I started laying track in the old canning kitchen in the basement. I extended the track from the main layout through the wall, under the stairs and into the old kitchen. The canning kitchen layout is a horseshoe shaped switching layout. The track is a single branch line that splits, one track heading ‘South” towards the coal fields of SE Ohio and SW Pennsylvania and an east-west line heading to the ore port. Connecting the two is a Junction (3’ x 12’) section that will be a time saver configuration with a wye (30” radius curves) in the lower left corner and 3 tracks running left to right. So far I have four #6 turnouts, one 3-way, one wye turnout, and about 15 feet of flex track installed. One departure track and two arrival tracks for the coal mine area are installed and soldered in place. The three tracks will connect to the break bulk port, Medusa Cement, and a ship supply-stevedore company. The center track will act as a runaround for switching the 6-7 industries, but will be modeled as a single track main. The coal mine will be a working loading coal mine so laying out an efficient loading system for handling 20-30 car coal drags was pretty tricky in a 3’ x 6.5’ area but I think it will work with a single switching locomotive or a pair of 70 ton switchers. Things are a mess right now with power tools, levels, drop lights, and layout tools so you’ll have to wait for the ore docks to be started before I send out any pictures.
I picked up some resin for casting and poured 50 crates for self unloading boxcars, some stacked 55-gallon drums, and a few stacked apple crates. I found the mold for the pile of junk tires was torn, so I will be re-casting that next weekend (I save all my originals). The de-mold time is 45 minutes and the cure time is 72 hours for this brand of plastic I bought. So far the items are firming up rock hard after 24 hours. I’m considering installing a scrap yard in the SW corner of the layout where I already have two sidings.
Ok now I’ll be catching up on the posts.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Today’s forecast includes 55 Kts winds and thunderstorms with a high of 59F. Tomorrow a high of 42F and cloudy.
Rob, I wonder how it would look to visitors if you had a tunnel in the volcano with locomotives hauling hot metal cars out of the volcano base???
Ray, please tell me the train orders were passed while the locomotive was sitting still. I remember hanging out at my Great Uncle’s switch tower watching him pass orders. The engineer would make a fist and stick his arm out the window to go through the hoop. Your picture looks like a jousting match, LOL!
Good Morning!! Coffee please and a lot of it if you don’t mind. Thank you A 50 percent chance of showers. Cloudy, with a high near 51. Breezy. Didn’t sleep well last night. No problems other than the TV was on all night and I can’t sleep well with that thing on. Brenda wanted to hear if the warning signal went off. We were supposed to have had some strong storms around 1 to 2 am time frame, but luckily, they calmed down quite a bit before getting to us. Heard one big loud low and long foundation shaking boomer but that was it. Kind of a misty sprinkle going on out there now so I think I’ll just confine myself to the basement. After the Church bookwork of course. Soppose I’ll have to go to Castle Trains (FLHS) tomorrow to see if they have the blasted rock tunnel portal from A.I.M.. I need that to be able to complete or at least continue on my little tunnel mess scene. Or area I guess. Could use something else I suppose and replace it when I get a chance. Hmmmm. Decisions. Did get some cleanup done on the workbench future expansion side of the room. Looks a bit better. But I need the removal of stuff not just a repile of stuff. Village cleanup isn’t until end of this month so I have to wait to get rid of some things such as wood, others can be thrown in the elevator's dumpster. Burn the wood? HA! The State of Illinoyz has a law that says, and I quote, “It is permissible for a person to wear perfume or cologne that is so strong and so sweet smelling it makes your eyes water, your toenails curl and your stomach churn so much so you wonder if you’ll make it through the checkout before you start selling Buicks right there on the spot. It is also permissible to wander around public places with your pants placed in such a manner that the upper few inches of the divisional crevice for the right and left gluteus maximus is exposed so as to create a sort of exhaust chute allowing a person to permeate the aisle with there own personal odor in a crop dusting manner. But it is illegal for someone to burn wood other than a tree limb, complete with bark, as it is offensive to others, and crates a health issue.” Some State. Ya’ll have a Great Day!!!
Good Morning!! Coffee please and a lot of it if you don’t mind. Thank you
A 50 percent chance of showers. Cloudy, with a high near 51. Breezy.
Didn’t sleep well last night. No problems other than the TV was on all night and I can’t sleep well with that thing on. Brenda wanted to hear if the warning signal went off. We were supposed to have had some strong storms around 1 to 2 am time frame, but luckily, they calmed down quite a bit before getting to us. Heard one big loud low and long foundation shaking boomer but that was it.
Kind of a misty sprinkle going on out there now so I think I’ll just confine myself to the basement. After the Church bookwork of course.
Soppose I’ll have to go to Castle Trains (FLHS) tomorrow to see if they have the blasted rock tunnel portal from A.I.M.. I need that to be able to complete or at least continue on my little tunnel mess scene. Or area I guess. Could use something else I suppose and replace it when I get a chance. Hmmmm. Decisions.
Did get some cleanup done on the workbench future expansion side of the room. Looks a bit better. But I need the removal of stuff not just a repile of stuff. Village cleanup isn’t until end of this month so I have to wait to get rid of some things such as wood, others can be thrown in the elevator's dumpster.
Burn the wood? HA! The State of Illinoyz has a law that says, and I quote, “It is permissible for a person to wear perfume or cologne that is so strong and so sweet smelling it makes your eyes water, your toenails curl and your stomach churn so much so you wonder if you’ll make it through the checkout before you start selling Buicks right there on the spot. It is also permissible to wander around public places with your pants placed in such a manner that the upper few inches of the divisional crevice for the right and left gluteus maximus is exposed so as to create a sort of exhaust chute allowing a person to permeate the aisle with there own personal odor in a crop dusting manner. But it is illegal for someone to burn wood other than a tree limb, complete with bark, as it is offensive to others, and crates a health issue.”
Some State.
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.
Morning All,
Flo just a cup of coffee please.
I'm just sitting here watching HLN. Supposed to be in high 80's today (until October). I need to get off my butt and vacuum the house so I can do what I really want to do...work on the layout.
Hope everyone has a great day.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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Good morning. OJ and oatmeal, please.
Todd, the Illinoyz law you mentioned stinks. Have fun at Castle Hobbies.
Lee ... Sounds like a very productive weekend.
Our refrigerator conked out this weekend. Frozen food is thawed. other food is spoiled. Awaiting repairman now.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Another miserable day with the same miserable migraine. I have 3 different meds to help, but they aren't.
Rainy and weather front moving through changing our weatehr. My migraines seem often to be accompanied by changes in weather fronts, so I think they are linked.
WEll hope you all have a great day.
I will spend most of it in bed. I did sleep last nihgt, but more out of shear exhaustion over the headache than quality sleep.
MOH going out to do some shopping for MIL and will pick up a few things for us too. We need to do our twice-monthly shopping for a lot of things as we are basically out of everything. MAybe Wed before my appt. with the Center For Pain Relief, when they will "radio frequency something something" the nerves in my back which is supposed to last 6 months of painlessness there. We shall see what we shall see when we see it. I will need a driver and a day to recouperate off my feet Wed.
-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.
Todd: Those laws are similar to some we have here, except we can burn all the wood we want as long as it's outside the city limits. Doesn't stop some businesses from burning huge piles of old pallets. On the other hand, you can still be hanged here for stealing horses.
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Good Morning All!
Not much to report from the land of Buckeyes on this thunderous Monday morning.I guess Spring as arrived since its 65 with thunder boomers and according to the old wives tale all the snakes wake up and go slithering about.
Well next Saturday is the Bucyrus train show and following that is the N Scale weekend in Columbus(Hillard) May 14/15 2011 and of course I am looking forward to that.Friends,I tell ya what...I just can't bring myself to abandon N Scale even after having couple of buyers lined up.Maybe when I get to old or my eyesight gets bad enough that I can no longer see it even with glasses I will give up N and maybe HO and "retire" from the hobby all together.
I shall have a cup and look over da forum.
Have a good'un!
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
(Walks in, clears throat, and in best crooner's voice.......) "........Though April Showers may come your way.... They bring the flowers that bloom in May........."
Morning everyone! Mornin' Bill!
Zoe, I'll have a breakfast Bagel w/ cheese and a cup of dark roast coffee in a R&GV RR mug please.
Gee Barry, thanks for sending the thunder boomers over my way.... actually I was in here an hour ago and was just about to say Mornin' when a rumble took place. Decided to shut down and go do a couple other things for a while. Oh, the next Region Convention is in, hmmm, can't think of the name of the place, but it is way the heck up North. about an 8 hour drive from my house. It will be held in 2012 I believe. The Woodstock thing may be a Division Meet... Next Saturday is the Lakeshores Division Meet in Hammondsport, NY.
Lee, the train was just starting up when the passing off of the orders was done. The Gentleman passing the "orders" was showing how it was done way back when. The person taking the "orders" was just a passenger in the cab who agreed to take them. I tell all about THAT when I w*rk as a docent out at the museum. We have a pair of upper quadrant semaphore signals at the museum as well. The office is set up with a working telegraph (run by an ancient old computer). I like to give the tour of the Depot.....
I will be heading to Rochester right after lunch time to do a photo shoot. Should be back by late afternoon. See you all then.
[edit] well, thanks Larry.... Looks like I have the top of the page. Good thing i paid a bit on the Credit Card last Friday.
Good morning. It's 74° and cloudy. The temperature will drop slightly this afternoon for a high of 73°. There's a 50% chance of thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight. A wind advisory is in effect until 8 pm. Winds from the south will be more or less steady at 20 mph with gusts to 30+.Nothing planned for outside today. I'm hurting too bad to even think of going out for anything less than an emergency. I had pizza (I love pizza but it doesn't love me) with my father last night but I paid the price for it. Tomatoes, whether they be raw, cooked or as sauce on a pizza, causes me some distress. I spent most of the night on the throne. I finally got to sleep around 4:30 this morning. There's usually about a 30-40% chance this happens, depending on how much sauce there is on the pizza. With a thin crust I may have no problem. The pizza last night had a thick crust and had more sauce. What was I thinking.
jeffrey-wimberly There's usually about a 30-40% chance this happens, depending on how much sauce there is on the pizza. With a thin crust I may have no problem. The pizza last night had a thick crust and had more sauce. What was I thinking.
There's usually about a 30-40% chance this happens, depending on how much sauce there is on the pizza. With a thin crust I may have no problem. The pizza last night had a thick crust and had more sauce. What was I thinking.
Probably just what my Mother used to when she would say, 'I'll probably pay for this later, but now it tastes so good."
Larry, I missed the N&W show last weekend, how was it?
Oh, I forgot to mention my new hobby: old RR lantern collecting. I picked up a NYCS car inspectors carbide lantern (acetylene powered). I haven’t found much history on them other than they stopped using them around 1932. Still looking for an affordable blue and a yellow lantern and I think my collection will be complete.
Sir Madog it is just past midnight and I just caught an hour of sleep. Woke up with a hammering headache. Thanks , Galaxy, for sending your migraine my way ... Zoe, chamomile tea, please. Maybe that stuff helps.
Try some Klosterfrau Melisengeist or Melisana Klosterfrau. Seeing as how it is a German product, you should find it everywhere over there, since we can get it here in the States. Pour some on a cotton ball and have your other half rub it all over your head. Helps to take some of the pain and throbbing away. It may not take away all the pain, but helps to easy the intensity of the headache. We are getting very low on it and I can at least order it from Amazon.com over here.
Coffee TO GO, please.
Our internet connection is pathically slow so this may be my only post until it is corrected.
Severe storms moving in tonight. YeeHaw! For those in the path, stay safe.
Have a good one y'all. -Rob
LSWrr Larry, I missed the N&W show last weekend, how was it? Oh, I forgot to mention my new hobby: old RR lantern collecting. I picked up a NYCS car inspectors carbide lantern (acetylene powered). I haven’t found much history on them other than they stopped using them around 1932. Still looking for an affordable blue and a yellow lantern and I think my collection will be complete.
Lee,I didn't make it either..I plum forgot about it.
The Bucyrus show is this weekend at the fairgrounds.
Man is this slow tonight.
Evening All,
Flo can I have a Ice Tea please.
Jeff- Did you use the Floquil paint markers on your rails?
Weather was hot today-very high 80's possibly into the 90's. I think we are supposed to get rain tomorrow.
I layed all of my turnouts today. Only took about 5 hours as half of them will be manual control so I did not have to remove springs or dill holes. My back is talking to me and it is saying you over did it today. I just wanted to get the job done so I can move on to something new. I think it took more time leveling the turnouts then anything else.
I just found out my youngest brother will be in my area for 2 weeks starting mid April for his job, which will be nice, I have not seen him in a couple of years.
Here is what my layout looks like as of this afternoon.
I guess Friday I will start laying Flex Track. I hope to be done with that by the end of April.
Everyone have a good night. Talk to you tomorrow
Internet is up, for the moment. Slice of Chocolate cake, please.
***Curt, excellent progress there.
***Larry, old RR lanterns....cool!
We're about to get slammed by Mother Nature. 90mph wind sheer and all sorts of warnings now. YeeHaw. Time to unplug the puter and enjoy the show.
Rob
Curt Webb Jeff- Did you use the Floquil paint markers on your rails?
Well tonight I avoided getting a possible fall injury by taking a fall. I was down talking with my father and when I got up to leave I lost my balance, which has never been all that great anyway and couldn't get my footing back. To make matters worse my cane got caught between my ankles. So I did the only thing I could do to avoid going down out of control. I sat down right where I was. I just gave up trying to regain my balance and just plopped down on the concrete floor. Best thing I could have done. From there it was a simple matter to grab the arm of the chair I had been in and use it to lever myself up.
Hello Fellow Dinners
Flo, beer please.
Nothing really to talk about today so I guess it was a good day.
With the site moving so slow when I tried to answer my Messages I finally gave up! For the folks here at the dinner I owe answers to use my E-M address at cudaken3834@hotmail.com
You will have to do a copy and paste for the email, I just used blue letters.
Ken
Evening all. It's been a while.
BIG News:
Tonight, I had my final Board of Review, and passed. I feel like some parts went well, while others were rough, but apparently I did good enough!
Just for that, a round of RBFs for everyone, on me!
It's getting very late, and we have a game tomorrow, so I can't hang around. Hopefully I'll be back soon.
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Good Morning Folks,
I had no chance of posting to the forum yesterday. While I could enter the Kalmbach site without problems, entering the forum resulted in time-outs "server not responding" routines. With the forum performing like this, I´ll never be able to catch up with our "postmaster" Jeff
Delivery for my order of track was announced for this week, so maybe be the time weekend comes, I will be able to "play" with my trains, i.e. give my Japanese mike a test run.
Nothing much planned for the day other than the usual grocery run to replenish our depleted stocks.
Janie, a bowl of muesli and coffee, please!
Joe - congrats on the Eagle Scout!