Well, since the end of the world didn't come, I'll have a coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
Hope y'all are having a great day.
Cheers! Rob
Afternoon folks!
Flo I'll have the hot chicken sandwich, side of fresh asparagus, and a trip to the salad bar. Oh and a tall glass of iced Tea please. No, no unsweetened please.... Thanks!
Hmmm..... everyone around here appears to be accounted for...... Oh except the guy across the street hasn't been around for a few days now.... Actually I am worried about the guy. His girlfriend has been walking his dog several times a day for the last few days, and today some guy stopped in and mowed his lawn. NOBODY touches this guy's lawn! NOBODY! I did see an ambulance going down the street a couple of days ago... Do hope he is OK.
Speaking of lawns..... Spent part of the day trying to finish mine. Have one strip left which I will get part of done right around sunset tonight. The rest will be tackled after i get home from the Museum tomorrow.... rain or shine. I can't believe how much it grew in a weeks time! It is 7 inches tall now and very slow going with the mower I have. Mow down and back (about 80') and have to empty the grass catcher. On Monday I will set the height down a notch and start mowing again! So much for any time in the train room. Did a bit of house cleaning as well today, and have almost finished assembling the NMRA Newsletter THAT needs to be mailed out by last Thursday. Did a bit of laundry today so I just might have some clothes to wear to the Museum tomorrow.
Tuesday I have an appointment with a Nurse Practitioner to learn what I already know. How to do a blood sugar reading.... Fun and games!
Hope you are having a great day!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Hello? Heh-LOW-oh... Hm. Maybe it was 7. Nope, nothing on the news. Looks like we'll be going to Nebo after all. Do you think the guys that quit their jobs to drive around in motor homes to advertise the event are feeling a bit....upset? I wonder if he comes up with a different date later (even I saw flaws and irregularities in his reasoning reading what very little I did.) will people still believe him. I doubt God moved mens hands and altered their thoughts to create the Bible as one big puzzle book. Me thinks he watched too many DaVinci Codes and National Treasures. No one knows the hour or the time. (thunder clap)
Brenda decided our last day on Earth should be spent acquiring other peoples junk. Sherman had their all town garage sale. Luckily most people were closed up by the time we got there. New items...none. After stopping at a few stragglers, we decided to have our last meal at her favovorite place, the International Buffet. A Chinese buffet with a frozen pizza and tub of macaroni and cheese, hence the "International" part. Came home watced some TV then decided I'd lay down and spend my last hour and a half asleep.
Now I'm up and the new world is before me, sun shining looking much like where I left off in the old by the way, and I think I'll start off with a trip to the train room. Yup, I have a trailer that needs some continuing work among other things.
TTFN
Todd
Central Illinoyz
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I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
There's only one thing different in these photos and it doesn't take a sharp eye to find it. Once you see it you'll wonder how you never noticed it before.
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Howdy ...
I'll have the "World-Did-Not-End" Special with an RBF.
On the non-model railroad front, I'm done removing logs, branches, and junk from the grass.
Also, my friend and I spent a lot of time trying to start Shelley's car. The blankety-blank anti-theft system has decided to disable the car. It just won't start. Also, the key gets stuck in the switch. I had to crawl under the column and use a screwdriver to free it every time that happened. The car will have to be towed to the dealer to correct the problem. The car is in great condition mechanically, but this is electronic stuff. Irritating.
So, not much to report on the layout.
Jeff ... I see what you are talking about in the picture. I'll let somebody else post what it is.
Barry .. Where are you/
JimCG .. Are you still busy?
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Jeffrey, your pics are making my head spin!
"I am lapidary but not eristic when I use big words." - William F. Buckley
I haven't been sleeping. I'm afraid I'll dream I'm in a coma and then wake up unconscious. -Stephen Wright
PackerJim, I have a crack in one of the upstairs walls in my house. SHould I be worried about it?
I don't know, but if you want to fly me from Indiana down to Florida, I'd be glad to take a look at it!
Jim
Good Afternoon (well, maybe Evening), Flo - I'll have the roast beef with mashed potatoes and some of that fresh asparagus, and the half a peach, please. Oh, and a glass of your Finger Lakes wine. (and I'll have a Santa Fe mug of coffee when it gets to time for dessert) Thanks!
Besides, I heard Garry was getting ready to send the bloodhounds out for me (and a few other Diners). Didn't want him to have to 'hound' me..
Welp, guess the predictions of The End were a bit off on the calculations, since I'm still here. I saw that Mayor Bloomberg had a Top 5 list related to TEOTW (The End Of The World). Got a chuckle or two out of THAT...
Jerry, good to see your pic of the layout, especially since you're not in here very often (like me...). That looks like a thriving metropolis there! Good to see your derrick photo, too.
Ulrich, sorry to hear about your mother's recent health problem, but good that she is doing better. It's great (for her and for your father) that YOU are able and (ahem, cough, cough..) willing to help them out. As for (no offense to her) Petra's thoughts about you, mein freund, I thought about all wives thought their husbands were crazy...?
Sir Madog I will be home on Monday!!! Oh joy, oh rapture!
I will be home on Monday!!! Oh joy, oh rapture!
Curt, I'd agree with what Todd said - post away, indeed! (And [ditto] about Jeff and the other regular posters of pics in here (who post way more often than I ever do). Nice photo of that Pennsy diesel, also. I am impressed with how far along you are with your layout - I remember when you were first starting to figure out the tracks (I'm not thinking of the wrong person's layout, am I?)
Galaxy, keep on checking out those houses, and one will surely turn up (in time) for you and your OH. Keeping your hunt on my list.
Simon - IMPRESSIVE layout they have there! And thanks for posting those! On THAT one house with the foundation PROBLEMS, I'd say 'all of the above' that Jeff mentioned...
Jeff, maybe you could PM Andy S. about that spell-checker thing? And about THAT Museum of Sci. & Industry layout that Simon showed us - how'd you like to be on their 'layout dusting' committee? (Think I'll quit griping about having to dust my little layout!) As for Curt's enginehouse, I think it is the Cornerstone, but I also think they copied from the Pola version (which I have). The Pola version has the squarish covers instead of the straight pipes that the Cornerstone one has. Hey, and kudos for the 'rust' job on that gondola - did you use chalks or something else? (Never mind, you already answered)
Ray - I think your lawn's 'progress' and growth has something to do with Mr. Murphy, but I could be wrong... Maybe you could rent a Bush Hog to get the yard done?
Ken, I think Mr. Murphy's been squatting on your DB150 (and maybe a few throttles?). Hope Digitrax gets things straightened out (or just replaces them with new ones). Ah, I see Simon found it for you.
CN Charlie, sorry to hear of Colin's cancer. He has a very impressive layout (even 'unfinished'), and thanks for posting the link. His article was a very good read as well as 'twas great to see the photos of his layout. Is he close enough for you to get a visit in with him?
OzJim, I guessed that 'arvo' was afternoon (but looked it up to check...). Hope you get/got some w**k done on your layout this weekend.
Lee, your 'How to FInd it" theory makes sense to me, as I've had just that happen. Now, if I could just use that to find that gluing jig of mine... Only thing I haven't (so far) tried is to go through every MRR box (maybe just every box...) in my apartment. It's not in the tubs or other places where my other tools are, and I need it for a small church I want to build. (Oh, and check your email...)
Johnboy, that's an interesting piece of history. Were the dummies somewhere close by your area (the RR kind, that is)?
Larry (Brakie) - you're one of the few retired guys I know of, who isn't busier now than they ever were when they had a job to keep their weekdays busy. Hope you get more luck on your railfanning next time.
Todd, I can understand how you mistook the Museum's layout for yours, except that the Museum's layout looks pretty much finished (unlike yours or mine...). Your International Buffet sounds, uh, interesting... Pizza and oriental food, eh?
Ooh! Ooh! (Waving his hand wildly in the air) I know, I know, Jeff!! It's a CLEAN diesel!
Garry, I hear you about the 'fun' of electronics (which were supposed to be there to help us, right?) misbehaving. Ain't it grand? (NOT!) Hope the dealer gets it w**king correctly without major waiting-for-replacement stuff.
Being encouraged by everyone else's photo-posting of progress in here, I'll post a few of some progress on some buildings I've been w**king on over the past week or so. First off would be my 'background' factory, which I (in honor of Wiley E.) have decided to dub "Acme Manufacturing Co.":
It's hard to see, but there is a (small) roof on the top (the building is less than 2 inches deep). I have measured, and there is room enough in front of the loading doors for a small dock (possibly half-inch/centimeter). Still debating about an awning over the dock.
I also (FINALLY) got all five walls of the 'town jail' glued together and except for the roof and windows material, am about done with it:
And here is my version of Main St. Mercantile (one of the DPM/W-S 'Pre-Fab' kits):
Yeah, I noticed that in the 2nd pic, the bottom half of the drainspout is missing (I *did* glue it on, I know I did), so when I get home, I'll have to check the building and see if it just wasn't on and I took the picture before gluing the bottom half on, or if it fell off somewhere. (Todd, what was that theory of yours again?...) I tried masking off the window frame areas before I spray-painted the 'bricks', but have some window trim painting to do yet. The kit comes with some signs, but I'm thinking of putting some other businesses in some of the store areas than what W-S/DPM chose (no, won't be using "O'Neal & Prey, Attorneys at Law", though I might go with "Dewey, Cheathem & Howe"...). I'll be repurposing some of the details (the two bicycles and the (cigar-store type) native American figure which they had for "Chief's Books". I've always associated those mannikins/figures with tobacconist's places (where I have seen one, years ago). (Wonder how that came to be the figure they used, anyways? Maybe because the native Americans were the first to develop the idea of smoking tobacco. Or some other reason...)
Anywho, that's some of my structure-building progress so far. Hope to get the roof on the town jail, and find the bottom half of THAT Main St. Merc building (don't want a wet basement, y'know...) (Well, one of those kinds of buildings would have a full basement, unlike the jail, which looks like it only has a half-basement or so, where the furnace would be)
Hope everyone else gets their yards mowed (or bush-hogged, as the case may be) and some MRR'ing time in the rest of this weekend.
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape Girardeau (yep, we're still here)
Evening fellow survivors!
Flo, a Death and Destruction Special, a Here After Salad and Please!
Work Front Well if the world would have ended today, I would went out with a good one! Ended the day with a solid $3500.00 and a 64.6% Margin! Now, if we are here Sunday and I have another $3,000.00 day there is a remote chances I will make commission for next month!
Had a meeting in St Louis today. Boy I am ill equip theses day to get up at 5:45 AM and drive to St Louis for a 7:00 AM meeting, then work till 7:00 PM.
Simon Glad to see you drop by the dinner again! Hope your team kicks caboose this year!
I was going to respond ti a few other posting, but I am to darn tired to remember to who.
Ulrich Hope you get home soon, and have some good Petra cooked food and get to play with your packages! That did not come out right, but you know what I mean.
Ken
I hate Rust
Evening All,
Just got back from the train club. We did Operations tonight so I really enjoyed it. I went in early and made up my cables to daisy chain my UP-5's and UR-92. I also used a spare club DPDT and Tortoise soldered everything together then hooked it up to a pwr supply and VIOLA it actually worked. The club president told me to take everything home as a sample to follow. Lee thanks for your insight and picture, it helped tremendously.
Ulrich- I am glad your Mom is doing better and I am glad you will soon be home
Jeff- Like the Byrds used to sing...Turn, Turn,Turn.
Well I am tired so I will see you tomorrow.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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Good Evening,
A soggy day here in Winnipeg and not too warm either with a temp of about 60F. Didn't do much except go out to eat at a nice restaurant as guests of friends. Despite the weather we had a very pleasant afternoon.
I did run trains a bit today. It was the last day for CP on the Mortimer sub so the RS3 and S3 are now on the shelf. I backed the CN Mountain out of the engine shed up to the coal dock to get ready to haul a high speed express: reefers, baggage and RPO. That will be to tomorrow's fun.
As it will be too wet to do much outside I plan on finally getting at a painting job I've been putting off for over a year.
See you tomorrow,
CN Charlie
Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Guess I still suffer from insomnia here in the afterlife...or was I left behind. Tall glass of cool water and a bowl of mixed nuts, please.
***Cape Jim, it might be just as realistic to have one building missing half a downspout. Just a thought.
Have a good day all.
Rob
The World did indeed end yesterday, my team lost, on penalties, after extra time, the cruelest way to decide something so vital.
To put this into some sort of baseball context that might be understood by all my American friends, image if you would that at the end of the baseball season the team with the worst record was demoted to the minors and the team with the best record in the minors came up to the majors! This is essentially what happens in the English professional football leagues. My team just missed out on the jump to the majors. But as they say, there is always next year!
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
Morning
Got the garden rotortilled yesterday. Worked straight through Apocalypse hour. One thing's for sure, I must be in Hillbilly heaven. Free beer, (too young, dang it) Skynard blasting out everywhere and sweet lifted 4x4 and not an import in sight. Oh yeah, Saint Pete's been replaced by Dale Earnheart Senior.
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!
Good Morning!! I’ll take the Great to Be Alive Special please and a cup of Dark Roast thank you. Boy that is such a relief, at 9:30 last night I began to wonder if the world might have ended at six and I just didn’t know it (Einsteins theory on energy never ending thing you know). Then I realized the fingers stuck to the roof with super glue, felt a little more real than a dream would. Luckily t'wasn’t much of an attachment. Jeff- Is that electrical, or mechanical? Or are you just shifting for the next shot. Garry- Sounds like the battery has given up the goat.
Good Morning!! I’ll take the Great to Be Alive Special please and a cup of Dark Roast thank you.
Boy that is such a relief, at 9:30 last night I began to wonder if the world might have ended at six and I just didn’t know it (Einsteins theory on energy never ending thing you know). Then I realized the fingers stuck to the roof with super glue, felt a little more real than a dream would. Luckily t'wasn’t much of an attachment.
Jeff- Is that electrical, or mechanical? Or are you just shifting for the next shot.
Garry- Sounds like the battery has given up the goat.
Jim-Weeeell look what the cat drug in! Good to see you again. Building pictures show you are doing a good job so with my blessing..., you may rest . Cigar wooden Indians? Funny you should ask. The Native American is credited with introducing Tobacco to the Settlers. (which I think is a funny name to be called. Like we were the first in the new land) Therefore, the "Wooden Indian" was used to depict them selling tobacco. some find it insulting, some don't. Ironic though isn't it? We gave them the flu, they gave us tobacco (chuckle). Guess they knew. Oh well, turnabout is fair play I suppose.
Simon- You’d make a good Cubs fan.
Well like I said, last night after zero hour I went down stairs, well, not right away, I spent like an hour on the you tube watching banjo playing people. Wish I could remember the name of the group, but it’s three young kids and they are faaaantastic! The banjo player is I think at the time, 8. OH YA! "Sleepy Man Banjo Boys" Here's a sample http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3qbB4Kq3Y0 Warning, be careful, it's addictive.
Anyway, I did work on one of the mobile homes, the three sectioned roof one. Built some furniture for it and a counter. Not a full interior just enough so when you see inside, it of course isn’t empty. Also put a wife (or GF) waiting for hubby to get home inside. Mainly to cover draw the eye away from no kithchen table. Maybe they eat out alot. This is the one when I glued the front section of roof on, I guess I got a teensy dab of super glue on my finger when I placed the roof and when I used it to hold the roof down….
Today, though, I don’t believe I will have much time other than maaaybe this evening. We are going to visit my Aunt today in Nebo. Dinner is at 1. We’ll leave here at about 10.
When we do get home, I hope to go downstairs and do a little work on the scenery. I’d especially like to get the tunnels done to the point where I can close them up. I sincerly doubt I will get that far.
Welp, I had some zippy closer to leave you with BUT, alas, I forgot what I was gonna say.
Ya’ll have a Great Day!!!
TMarsh Jeff- Is that electrical, or mechanical? Or are you just shifting for the next shot.
Good morning. It's 76 and cloudy. The high will be 89 and humid.I'm down here at my parents place again. My mother is still in the bed but I expect her to be up and around soon. I brought along a movie to watch later. 'The Train'. I also brought a couple of locos and some freight cars. I'll be changing out the couplers on them. Other than that it'll be another long slow day.
Howdy ... RBF, please.
Evidently, somebody left the side door open, and JimCG entered the diner. .... Jim the buildings are lloking good so far!
Jeff .... Now we know the sign rotates clockwise.
Todd ... We did replace the battery thinking it would solve the problem, but it did not sole it. At least I don't have to worry about the battery for a long time. Evidently, the dealer has to re-program the electronic gizmo. It's somewhat like a kill switch. If it does not detect a signal from the key transponder, the car is disabled. Frustrating. ... The closest Cadillac dealer is 50 miles away. .... This has been a very reliable car. We've had it 7 years, and this is the first problem at 98,000 miles.
Good Afternoon..
I had been rather busy here with work and home related stuff going on...now I have a few days off to relax...well... sort of....
Right now it is sunny and a wee bit dryer out here..we are not seeing huge lakes out on the fields around here...now they are just largish ponds...
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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/
Well, the deed is done. Got the final divorce decree in the mail yesterday. The ex-wife hit the ceiling. Complaining about how I said I would wait to file them and how I agreed to this and that. Now she's trying to be all sweet and loving to "salvage our relationship". Since she is already refusing to move out and crying poverty getting her out of the house may prove a bit more...raucous.
Jeff, layout pics are looking good. Like the rotating sign.
A coffee TO GO, please.
***Barry, that sign gives me some ideas for the back of the wife's drive in theater, when the day comes I can return to MRRing.
Heading out on the tractor to start removing sections of a big tree which came down and crushed a gate to the front pasture. This is just a break from working on roofing. Whew!
Have a good one y'all.
Well, Attaboy, you have my concurrent congratulations and condolences. Your story just breaks my heart. Here's prayers that things will only get better for you.
I finished decaling a boxcar & hopper today. Before taking them up to the garage for a shot of Dullcote I thought I'd work on a coal load. Found a scrap of styrofoam packing and used a utility knife to cut & hack it into loads for two hoppers. Figured a quick coat of paint, coat with some white glue, sprinkle on some black ballast, and boom that's it. So I trot up the stairs with my two cars, two little styrofoam blocks, a can of black spray paint, and a can of Dullcote. Dullcote felt almost empty, but it turned out there was enough to cover both cars. So I sprayed both cars and set those aside to dry, hit the foam with the black paint, then stood there and watched the paint attack the foam until it had shriveled down to a crinkle. So off to the trash with those. Stupid. Checked the cars later and saw both covered with a hideous splotchy milky white coating. Bottom-of-the-can Dullcote is apparently bad Dullcote. So what did I have to show for my efforts in the end? Two shriveled styrofoam remnants and two ruined freight car projects.
Evenin' folks!
Flo, just a decaf for me.
Had an easy day at the museum. Probably a couple hundred visitors total. Big change from last week. They decided to run a diesel today expecting we would get a lot of the people from last week who didn't get their trip to our end of the line. By the time a train crew was made up they ended up firing up LV #211 and ran the coach like last week. I will be going out for a small group visit on Wednesday morning. probably a school group of some kind. THAT will be track cars, so it will be a small number of people on site at any given time.
Barry, good to see you here! I was about to send out the hounds to find you....
Attaboy, this too shall pass! If you have trouble "evicting her", don't hesitate to call in the local police dept. for support...... As necessary!
Oh! THE LAWN IN FINISHED....... Sorry, didn't mean to yell. Tomorrow I shall drop the level down a notch and start mowing again. This time with the mulching unit in place. I would hope to do at least half tomorrow and maybe the rest on Tuesday. If the rain holds off, that is. Calling for some thunderboomers tomorrow around here.
Have a great evening!
Good Evening, Flo, and you will notice that (once again) I came in the front door (despite Garry's thoughts on THAT). I'll have a RBF an order of cheesy fries, and a BLT, please. Thanks!
Rob, I may do that on another building - when I got home last night, I found the other part of the downspout (the pin that fits into the cute little hole in the building was missing, but otherwise it was all there). I glued it to the wall under the still-attached 'top' part. I still have yet to get some TV antennas on the roof of a building (that one or some other one); I expect on that detail I will have some intentional bent end(s) to the antenna... Hope you get your storm cleanup done this year!
Simon, I'd agree with Todd - what you described about "Wait 'til next year" sounds like the Cubs (or a few other baseball teams with less-than-stellar won-lost records).
TSF - your picture of "Hillbilly Heaven" sounds okay, but I don't know if a Japanese car w**ker would love the lack of imports.
Todd - yeah, Native Americans got the flu (and a few other medical conditions I doubt that they had before those European refugees arrived...) I saw on one website that another of the Navajo codetalkers had died in 2010 (at age 91), and there are only two of the codetalkers still living. Sorry to see their numbers dwindling so. Hey, as for rest, I got the roof for the 'town jail' cut, painted and glued on (except that I'll have to go back and re-do the paint with Floquil - the acrylic I used flaked off of the styrene too easily). I also got the one little (unpainted) section of 'brick' on the Main St. Merc. building painted, and the window frames and the doors for Acme Manufacturing Co. glued into place. I painted the roof for Acme, but it was with the same acrylic paint, so I'll be re-doing that also.
Jeff, I've seen some 1:1 station signs that moved kinda jerky, too, so Ezra's is very prototypical. (I still wanna vote for the bigger difference - the 'clean' diesel)...
Garry, I hope that Caddy dealer has a lot of 'open' hours so you can get the car done. Is there a LHS not too far from the Caddy dealer (as long as you're in the vicinity anyway...)? What've you been up to with the CB&Q lately?
Attaboy, I'll second MononJim's comments on your decree. It sounds like the deputies may have to 'help' her get moved out (but hopefully it won't come to that...).
MononJim - not great when a can does like that Dullcote did, especially when it fowls up a couple of projects in the process. I'll have to keep that paint compatibility in mind when I get ready to make some ballast loads for some hoppers I have.
Ray, good to hear you didn't have to rent the bushhogger for the lawn. The train museum attendance probably would've been just as heavy as last time if they hadn't decided to get the diesel, don'tcha think? What'd they use, a 44 tonner?
I'll be heading for home soon - there's a Jesse Stone special movie on tonight, and I like Tom Selleck's character in that. Then tomorrow, time to go back in to w**k (the office), but it'll be payday tomorrow, so that's good. Need to figure tonight, what gets paid out of this one and what stretch for MRR stuff there might be in this paycheck.
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Hello, anyone here?
Slow Day Flo? Yeah I know the feeling! I take a in a frosted Monon Mug.
Work Front if you can call it that. Did not sale a darn thing today, goose egg, nata, zilch. Whole company had a bad day. Have no idea what has happened to my Sundays? I was doing $3000.00 like clockwork every Sunday!
Monon Jim On the white spots, I bet you can use 600 grit and then 1000 git sandpaper to get the bad spots off the cars. On the foam, been there and done that! One time I need just a little lacquer thinner, went to m painters work bench and poured a little in to a foam coffee. Yea, you know what happen! I am sure you know you can use water based hobby paint to paint the foam with.
Hey guys
Lots of trains for me this week. 3 operating sessions, and have been working on my trains.
Also made some progress with a girl at work. I gave her my number, and she won't quit texting me. even at 11:30pm when I'm trying to sleep. Unfortunately we were wrong when we guessed each others ages. we both though the other was 18-19. But she's 17 and I'm 21... jailbait I suppose...
Jim, I could take a picture of it.
Attaboy, Sorry, to hear about you're divorce, but congrats on doing what needed to be done. Is PA one of those "maritial asset" states?
Ken, You're not the only one having issues with digitrax stuff. At all of the ops sessions I went to, everyone that had a DT402D (or whatever the newest one is) was having issues. Occasionally one of the DT100s would cause the system to go buggy. Anyone with a DT100 or DT400 couldn't control trains, but my DT4R could...
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.
Flo, how about a refill on the decaf? Feels good to just sit back and relax for a while.
JimRCGMO Ray, good to hear you didn't have to rent the bushhogger for the lawn. The train museum attendance probably would've been just as heavy as last time if they hadn't decided to get the diesel, don'tcha think? What'd they use, a 44 tonner?
Jim, if they had used the track cars (2 units) that can hold about 14 each, I can be reasonably assured we would have at least 30 people in every trip.......... We do have a 44 tonner out there, but haven't used it for service in the few years I have been a member. We used LV #211 RS3m for the motive power again today. Mostly because she was still hooked up to the Empire Express Coach we used last week. There would have been several switching moves required to bring out the cabeese we usually use with a diesel (or two). Normally we would have used ex US Army 80 Tonner #1654 but she was parked on the wrong end of the 2 crummies, hence the switching moves involving 2 locos to do the job. Time was short as the move to the diesel was only decided early this morning. So LV #211 RS3m did the honors again.
Personally I love to just stand around near her when she is sitting, idling in the yard.... The EMD 567B prime mover she ended up with has a wonderful, distinctive, glub, glub, glub, glub, glub, glub, glub, glub,... it is also fun to watch kids jump when she lets loose with the 3 chime trumpets on top.... Even if only one still works! i have offered to clean and repair the other 2, and have gotten a "look" and been told, "Are you nuts!?" All 3 of them would definitely wake some people up!
Later!
Flo I would like a decaf coffee please.
Well today was interesting (frustating). When I made up my loconet cables I made them like the picture on the Digitrax site. Pin up on one end and on the other end pin down. Hooked everything up went to use my DT-402D with the throttle plugged into the UR-92 and I kept getting all kinds of wierd throttle displays and could not insert a loco number. Checked wiring ect., ect., ect. Of course I did not check their operation last night at the club (stupid me).
I called the club DCC guy and he said the only thing he could think of after talking awhile was to redo one end of each cable so that the pins are on the same side. Of course this means going to the club to use the crimping tool and to test them this time. . After I went to the club I made the changes and tested the cables one by one with my throttle.
So I come back to the house hooked everything up and it all works like it should, but I do not understand why it is working differently than it should. What do they say about looking a gift horse in the mouth......? I also glued down the wood blocks that the tunnel portals are going to sit on. I also ordered wire for Tortoise wiring. I could only find small spools of it locally. Friday with some of my OT I am going to the LHS and pick up 1 Miniatronics PDB-1 and 1 PDB-2 for power tie in to the DPDT's.
Before that though Tuesday (go to w**k at1600) I need to build a hanging shelf to place the Miniatronics PDB's on. We have a spare wood table that I could use but I would need to cut down the legs and MOH says no .
Simon- Sorry about your team. Some of our PRO teams need the same system.
Todd- I had a guy in the Navy that was in my division that was a Cubbie fan. His faith in them never faltered no matter what they did.
Jim- I bet a neat detail under a broken down spout would be a green mold flowing down the wall.
Attaboy- Congrats on the final divorce decree, I know you are happy but please watch your back.
Everyone have a good night.
Since I live well and truly in Cardinals Nation, I find it rather amusing that it is suggested that I become a Cubs fan!
Actually, there are quite a few die-hard Cubbies here, who are very happy to be vocal about the team they support. A good friend, and Catholic Priest in a local parish, delights at dropping the following blessing into a baptism, especially when he knows the parents well and that they are Cards fans
"I baptise you a Cubs fan"
Have a wonderful rest of the evening. I can hear the thunder rolling in. The storms that killed in Joplin MO this afternoon are making their way into the area. Tornado warnings abound, so here we go again!
Grilled chicken, rice & black beans, please.
The road behind us (top of the hill) was finally cleared and we took a drive. OMG, the tornadoes path is something to see. Now that I can easily get there, I'll have to take a pic to share. We were luckier than first imagined. It will never look the same in our lifetime. Wow!
Got the mangled metal gate pieces & most of the tree to the front pasture piled up. Still a lot of chainsaw work to be done on that beast of a tree. All this cleanup is a pretty long term project.
Healing thoughts to those who Mother Nature visited earlier today and tonight.