Rivvaashubi ficklin flunmshites miken riverfravins!
What!?! Oh, sorry Flo! Didn't know it was you... No, no I wasn't swearing, just using some, ah, words to let off some steam. Yep, THAT's it just letting off soem frickinfrafer, ah, steam.... I will have a cup of decaf if you please. Thank you very much ma'am.
I have spent most all day under the &(*%$^&* layout crawling around fixing bad track.... Removed a small section and added a longer piece then relaid it to a wider curve in the tunnel. Supported the track properly this time and the loco ran through without derailing....... Backed the whole train through the tunnel and the back truck on the 4-8-2 derailed on the other end of the tunnel. Derailed each and every time! Grrrrrrrrr......! This area is considerably harder to get to. But, I was able to isolate the problem. It was the same basic crappy track work I did on the other side. No proper support under one side of the track. I was able to shim and glue under the track to level it and stop it from moving as the loco ran over it. I also figured out this was done after I returned to the hobby just a few years ago.
I have run the train through the tunnel several times before shutting things down for the night with no problems now. I did back it through the tunnel once and it didn't derail. I shall run it several times in reverse tomorrow to see if I finally have it done.
I too feel relief that Bin Laden has now met his just reward, but also fear and more than a little sadness that humankind is so destructive and causes so much pain and suffering. The victims and their families of 911 and all of us may feel a happiness that he is dead, but that doesn't change the horror, sorrow, and anger they/we have had to live with for the last decade. I also have to remember the saying, "Those who live by the sword, die by the sword", so true in this case. While justice has been served, I have difficulty rejoicing. Rather I will be offering prayers for healing and strength for all good people of this world (both here and around the world and of all faiths). May there be peace for all those of good will!
Have a great evening!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good Morning,
oh, what a night. THAT (beep, beep) hay fever would not let me sleep. I have a hard time breathing properly. I am praying for some run to wash the pollen away, but still none in sight. We are at forest fire watch now and people are asked to refrain from smoking outside (which is a funny one, because they are not allowed to smoke inside public places).
Chloe - Coffee in an IV bag, please.
Ray - thanks for the lesson in Serbo-Croatian, or is it Finnish? I hope you get yout track problems resolved without any further back breaking jobs.
Ken - legal age was 16 for "soft" liquor and 18 for the stronger stuff. In Bavaria, where beer is considered to be liquid bread, you could also see some 10 year old quaffing a few, under parental guidance of course. But that has changed. Alcohol is the # 1 drug among teenagers, so the "bar" was raised to 18, but that did not change the situation.
Good to see so many new faces around. The power of three little words? We have quite a few MIA´s, though. I am worried about the well being of Keith, Bama, Jerry, CalifTom, Sawyer, CajunChief Ryan. DerJohn has also not been posting for a while, although I receive emails from him. Have not seen a post from Sue for a while, either. Cousin Vinnie hinted to me that there are some open accounts to be settled, so will those folks please report back in?
OSL joining the ranks of his ancestors certainly does not mean a loss to us, but unfortunately not much of a gain, either. We will continue to suffer from his heritage for many moons to come. Only education can overcome fanaticism and that´ll be a long way to go.
Have a good day, folks!
Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Just got my June copy of MR.
Robby P. - Congrats on making it into MR´s Trackside Photo pages! I hope to see you soon back in the Diner.
Good morning from Central Indiana. Forecast here calls for, hmmmmm, let me check...... Oh yeah, more rain. I'll have a heapin' helping of the lowfat low-carb biscuits and gravy, please.
Ray, I must warn you that I also speak fluent Yosemite Sam, and your mother would be very upset if she heard you typing like that!
Hi Ken, good to be here. Hey, did you get any damage from the twisters that came through your neck of the woods a couple of weeks back?
Decided on my next modeling project. I'm going to represent my parents' hometown of Orleans, Indiana. First up is Herle's Cafe (that's pronounced "Hurl-eez" - what a great name for a restaurant). My grandfather ate there all the time. Hated the food, kept going back. It's closed now, but the signage is all still there. Got some good photos of the place last summer, and I have a DPM kit that vaguely resembles the building. Pretty pumped for this project - will post progress pictures.
Jim
"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
Good Morning...
We are currently under the dull rainy skies of early May here...and cool...only 40F for a high today....
Ray: I know that feeling..I have a non switching switch again...I want to tear it out.... ..but it also is under the layout......right at the back...
Today I get to do some medical stuff..such as another vampire visit then another X-Ray..again...
uuummmmmm...Flo, what are you doing with that frying pan? No!! No!! Not my noggin' again!!
KKKEEEERRRRWWWHHHHHAAAAANNNGGGG!!!!!!!
*thud*
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/
Curt nice job on that board! Now maybe a PRR Logo in the top corner with your division name in yellow/gold.
Thortenney welcome aboard!
Todd my girlfriend has learned that she needs to let me know what she wants to do in advance. I do have to remove a concrete and cast iron sink from her basement and install a new fiberglass tub and faucet.
I went to the Firelands train show in Sandusky, OH last Sunday. I picked up 8 Athearn Blue Box 40FT flat cars; with Kaydee couplers for $5 each and two Varney/Mantua metal 250 ton rail cranes with brass pulleys and blocks for $10 each. These will be re-painted in LS&W livery some time soon.
Now to try and catch up on posts.....
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
howmus ... frickinfrafer,
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frickinfrafer,
Hey RAY, is that anything like the fricken fracking they want to do for Nat. Gas Drilling here in perfectly beautiful upstate NY and destroy our beautiful surroundings??? I still say it: NO FRACKING!
Have to see the cardiologist today, groan. He will once again tell me i need to loose weight I'm just sure of it. THe diuretic he gave me in Jan took off 6 pounds immediately, but I think it has stopped working. When I take it in the morning, I pee like a tennesee race horse for 3 hours, then it stops. You can tell I still have fluid retention in my legs as you push in the flesh and leave indentations there. SO I think he will have to increase the diruetic I hope.
Nothing else but laundry planned today after cardio.
ANd the pest guy old neighborhood friend of mine must be very busy as it took him about 6 hours to get back to me yesterday and I was out when he called. Then he never did call agian later. I will call him after I get home from Cardio and see if he gets back to me.
Boy oh boy! gas is getting to be $4.10 here. Have to pick and choose where/when to get it. MOH and I are treating the household as a "one car family" as far as gas goes. MOH has a full work week this week and I have many Dr. appts. and a colonoscopy on thurs, but after than the calendar is dry for me going anywhere so the KiA sedona will sit and only get run once in awhile so we are only filling one gas tank effectively. We think if this keeps up then we will NOT go anywhere this summer, 'cept maybe down to Steamtown and see if they got the new engine rebuilt and running. we were going to do a trip to another steam tourist train in Connecticut, but think we won't. Gas could be around $5.00 a gal then in July when we celebrate our anniversary. For those in other countries with higher gas prices thatn the USA, it's not exactly how high it is that is sticker shock, its the fact taht this time last year it was what...$2.50 a gallon? Steep jumps in pump prices that change daily going higher is hard to budget in than a more stable price!
WEll enough from me gotta get ready for the DR.
TTYALLL8R
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Good morning...
I'll have oatmeal and OJ, please.
Hopefully, I'll get to one or two hobby shops to purchase supplies whil e visiting here in MI.
Neighbors back home say the lake is up to record levels. That means its very close to our house.
As Jerry says: "Have a good one".
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good Morning!! Mug of Dark Roast and a…. Whoa! Ray. Wow. I may not be fluent in Yosemite Sam, but I speak it well enough to know ……must’ve been a real bad spot. Feelin a bit slow today. Don’t know what I’ll do before w**k tonight. I know I have to get a sump pump and some stamps. Maybe today, maybe not. Also need to get more grass piles off the yard since I have more bags now. Ya’ll have a Great Day!!!
Good Morning!! Mug of Dark Roast and a…. Whoa! Ray. Wow. I may not be fluent in Yosemite Sam, but I speak it well enough to know ……must’ve been a real bad spot.
Feelin a bit slow today. Don’t know what I’ll do before w**k tonight. I know I have to get a sump pump and some stamps. Maybe today, maybe not. Also need to get more grass piles off the yard since I have more bags now.
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 49° and cloudy. The high should be 63° with a good chance of thunderstorms.There's an 80% chance of thunderstorms today. I hope we get more than the miserable 0.03" that we got yesterday. That was barely enough to get my parents back patio wet and settle the dust. Today I have to see if the parts house can match up the part on the steering arm for the tractor. I also have the other half of the grocery shopping to do today. Must remember to pick up some DVD-R's. Two 10 packs would do. But what I want most today is to hear rain on the roof.
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
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe... What? Oh I am in a better mood this morning.. No, I didn't know so many of the good folks in here were fluent in Yosemite Sam.... I'll be on my best behavior this morning. Honest (don't want to end up like Barry). What did he do? OK, I don't need to know.... I guess I'll have a breakfast bagel and a cup of dark roast coffee.
Another lovely day here in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State! Currently 43°F outside under dark gloomy damp skies. Raining again this morning. Supposed to rain this afternoon, and tonight, and all day day tomorrow and the day after THAT. Predicting a little over an inch of liquid sunshine in the next 24 hours to add to the 1/3 inch we got yesterday and the 5 3/4 inches we got last month. "Row, row, row, your boat, gently down the (flooded) stream...." The lawn needs to be mowed again... already! No way can be done until the weekend. Does Rob need hay for his critters? He can have it if we can figure a way to dry it!
Galaxy, looks like you have a busy social schedule this week......
I will very likely spent much of today down cellar fiddling with things on the layout and cleaning up. If I start grumbling again, it may be the situation hasn't been solved yet in the tunnel, or that the place is under water....
Hope you all have a good day!
Five o´clock - it´s tea time!
Buttered toast, scones, tea and two profiteroles with a banana, please, Janie dear!
Ray - would some of you folks be so kind and send some of the wet stuff over to us., please - I need a break from my hay fever. It comes with a blocked nose, sore throat and a headache. Yuck!
My MRRing activities have come to stop - can´t do any more ballasting, just a sneezer sends the ballast into orbit I had planned on finishing the ballasting job this week, but won´t be able to do it. The coming two weeks I will be with my father in northern Germany, taking care of him while my Mom is in hospital. This means two weeks of shopping, cleaning the house, cooking, keeping my father´s spirits up, driving to the hospital, keeping my Mom´s spirits up. I guess I am eligible for a vacation after that.
Hobby Search in Japan has informed me, that there is a shipment on the way. I have found out what it is:
Looks a whee bit like one of those Swiss EMU´s.
Good Morning All...Its sunny and cool here but not rainning!...I'll have coffee and a sweet roll please...sallie has eye Dr. apointment this morning so not much going on in apartment..Kinda had the slows on the I&S havn't ran trains for aweek or so..gonna have to clean track...You all have a good one..Jerry
GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE! I got off w**k, I stopped at the IFA (intermountain farmers association) I bought some tomato plants, seeds, steer manure,and some compost, it's probally manure but it costs more? and some weed and feed for the lawn, dandy lion season is in full bloom here. All for my wifes garden,( I do all the work shes takes all the credit) Then I got the oil changed on my old gmc, had to get emissions and safety inspection also, then i stuffed it all in the mail with a 135.00 check to the great state of utah. I was figuring I spent more on the way home than I made working all night! No wonder I never seem to get ahead?? Any way things are good here, I hope the rest of you are doing ok? Thayne, livin the dream in salt lake city!
Afternoon All,
This is my third attempt posting. Computer is having connection issues and is very slow. I ran a complete virus check with no issues found so I don't know. I am using a Sprint 3G air card.
At w**k today. Temp got to 93 today with no rain, So another hot, dry day. We just all got new uniforms and I am not sure I like the pants yet, they are thinner which is cooler but I think there will be an issue with the knees. I looked online last night at the Tichey site and wrote down about $40 of detail parts I want to get when I get to that stage. MOH called me to let me know my buildings came in today so hopefully I can work on them Friday.
Galaxy- You know what frosts me? It is that companies like Exxon made Billions in profit last quarter and no one can do anything about rising gas prices. A Hess station by work raised their prices by 10 cents in one day. Ridiculous.
Lee- That is a good idea, but based on the small size of the control panel I think I will put it on the fascia instead. I showed the club president a picture and he said "You Pennsy guys are unbelievable". I don't know what he means .
MOH had another run in with her half sister at the house. I will be so glad to get rid of her (SIL), hopefully soon-it's only been 13 months now with no end in sight. MOH refuses to throw her out..
Well I hope everyone has a good night.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
We always wanted to see a tornado, just didn't think we'd actually ride one out. We're OK, all our critters are fine and our house is still standing. Damage on the farm includes missing roofs and lots of trees down. Most of our power poles went down and the road was blocked by downed trees for a good mile. Could have been much worse. I'll post a few pics in days to come. What a rush!
I'll have a strong coffee in a STORMY SOUTHERN mug, please.
Hope all my friends here in the Diner are doing well. Cheers! Rob
ROB,
It is so good to hear from you. The lot of us here have been quite worried about you and Bama, He hasn't checked in yet.
We of course new it was bad down there but were praying that you could duck for cover and that you folks and your critters and home would be spared. So good to hear that it was. Sounds like you have lots of firewood for next winter with all those trees down. Take it easy cleaning up, we are not as young as we once were. You've got all summer to get it back in order.
Johnboy out.............................................to w**k at City Council tonight.
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Hey guys
First day at the new store went very well. No drama, and actually had a fairly fun crew to work with (as opposed to a conspiring crew of people who should be in jail). Only issue I had was I was told to come in at 6, but really didn't have to be their till 7 and I was suposed to get out at 2, but got out at 2:30. But since i was scheduled 40 hours, I already have 1.5 hours of overtime. Raise the roof I guess
One of the girls that works their really cracks me up. We were talking about cars; and then she told about how she had an escort and hated it enough to sell it; and grew a disdain for fords. She then said she like Toyotas and Kias because you could "drive them off a cliff and they'd still run." (Galaxy, I know you have something to say about that one) If anyone can recall when I wrecked my 97 mustang, I was ale to drive it onto a trailer and then off the trailer into the garage to be gutted. I asked her if she drove, and if so what. She replied she had a 2000 camry, but didn't drive it because it needed a new engine (my mind is already telling me to start laughing). I asked why and she said the heads leaked oil and her roommate ran it dry and caused the engine to sieze up, and that it couldn't be fixed because it was an aluminum block (I've messed with aluminum heads, but not blocks). I asked her how many miles she had and she said it was around 96k. I had to walk a way to chuckle a bit. My car has 215K+ and doesn't leak oil, and has only broken down once on me (original distrubitor died around 213K) but it's a fairly easy fix. I didn't let her know about that.
Took one of my books back to the college now tha tI'm done with my general ed classes. I paid $50 for this book since I bought it from another student, and got $44 back. It was also the very last book of that type they would buy back. Lucky me.
Rob, Good to hear that you, your house, and your critters are alright. I've never seen an actualy tornado per-see, but I have seen water spouts and dust devils (all in florida)
Jeff, Never seen a van with dual exhaust before. Looks different (in a good way)
Wayne, That's a good one, but a shot and a splash of what? I told some friends about that one and they suggested bloody mary and a napkin over the top of it that looks like a turban. (too over the top?)
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.
Packer Jeff, Never seen a van with dual exhaust before. Looks different (in a good way)
Good evening everyone. Flo, could I please have a Coke(no, not the steel mill kind) with ice. I haven't been doing anything much lately except for school. I have been debating on relocating my incomplete paper mill against the back wall of the layout though I still have to make the pulpwood tracks work. This way, the warehouse will be able to hold more cars. Other than that, I'm not to happy about the gray weather.
The Lone Geep
Lone Geep
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lone geepI'm not to happy about the gray weather.
Then can we make an exchange? LOL Fortunantly, Corner Gas is offering some grey-day relief.
Evening.
Well, just got a hit on my Jeep's scheduled return to the road. My dad's shop's now backing up. I can't do any final assembly until everything's buffed and the gas tank door is repainted. (I sorta sanded through, Maybe just a bit.) I was hoping for the end of the week but no. Aw well. there's nothing I can do.
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!
Not sure if I can post a pic from face-book or not, so this is an experiment. If it works, this will be a view of our mailbox and the road which was blocked by downed trees for a half mile.
and one of our barn...
Rob
That's quite a bit of storm damage there Rob. Good to know you made it through OK.
ROB, Thank god you are ok! Glad all of your animals made it also! That must of been one heck of a storm to snap the trees in half like that. WOW! Thayne.
Evening Folks
Flo, Rob's tap is on me tonight. Looks like he could stand a beer.
Monon Jim Last storm passed on either side of my neighbor hood and no real damage.
Ulrich Looks like the fleet is growing.
Well I am beat, see you all Wednesday.
Ken
I hate Rust
Rob- I am glad you and your family are OK. It is also good news that your animals are fine. Sorry about the property damage.
Rob, boy that could've been so much worse. Count your blessings. Sounds like Ken might be able to do the same.
Well, another evening fighting another battle in the Great Homework Wars. Trying to help my son grasp three-dimensional curves, when he never really got very good at two-dimensional ones. So much for train time tonight. I'm off to bed.