Elliot's Trackside Diner JUNE 2011

[Packer]

Morning guys

Looks Like I too have beat Wetidler.Unless he posts while I'm typing this. edit, Wetidler beat me while I was typing...

Jeff, We should probably dicuss this one through PMs.

Garry, Thanks. Nice loking crane there, is it motorized?

Chris, Thanks for the comments.I have only used an airbrush on a few cars and I wasn't really happy with the results, and I find washes aren't really effective for me, so I stick with pastels. Probably need more practice with other mediums, but I believe I have the hang of Pastels. Good luck with the "facetime." The part of your post directed at Curt kind of makes me ask my grandfather if he had any stories from flying B-29s or B-17s from Korea.

Jim, Good to see you back in again; looks like work has been keeping you busy. Thanks for the compliments.

Ray, You don't have steamers at the museum do you?

Curt, congrats on 33 years.

[blownout cylinder]

Good Morning..

Ray:  Just wondering...does the museum have a website? It looks like an interesting place to visit....hint hint...

Kinda muggy kinda foggy out right now...going to a high of 75F...feeling more like 84F today....later on...30% chance of showers and the ol' t'underin'boomers out there as well

I did all the shopping for the weekend on-call yesterday..as well as hayfield, i mean, lawn cutting yesterday....so today is...tada!! trainday!!! Heeheeheee.....

Flo, I'll have a coffee for now thanks....I'll be at the RC for a bit...

[steamfreightboy]

Morning!

Have a doctor visit this morning. Could take anywhere from a few hours to past noon!

Trainfront:

Basic Oxygen Furnace is painted. The matte medium on the slag dump has dried. I now want to add an excavator or such to load the cooled slag into my hopper. I am also thinking of a modified chemical sprayer to spray the chemicals onto the slag that cause it to granulate for loading. Any suggestions are welcome.

Have a nice day!

sfb

[LSWrr]

Good Morning,

64F, 87% Humidity, High today: 79F

 

Rob, 5 or 10 pound fishing line and you sew a square patch to the screen.

[cudaken]

 Morning Folks

 Flo, English Muffin Please and a Diet Dew.

 Vincent Your weathering looks good, I have just been lost in my own little world as of late and forgot to comment.

 Curt Happy Anniversary.

 Motors I think Simon was as confused as I am on the New Bear Motors. Like I said, the little DC transformer cannot make 10 amps for the motor to use? I still wonder if  the motor could be making power and the meter is reading it, but even if that is what is happening, the motor should still get hot! 10 amps is a lot of power.

 Rio Grand SD 50 Guess I will be replacing the motor in this one. After some running the motor free wheeling amps use fell to between 0.50 and 0.60 and stalls at 0.98. Installed while I was watching James May's Train Story II. CV 2 is at 10 and I gave her a run, took 70%power to get the engine up to a decent speed, that just seems way to high to me. Will check the CV's 5 and 6 but I think 5 was at 255. Motor all so sounds slow when I was testing it on DC power.

 Ulrich Hope you have gotten some good news from the Doctor. When I don't see you post, I worry about you and your family.

 Simon Thanks for taking a peek at my meter mystery, any ideas?

 See you all after work tonight.

                                       Ken

[TMarsh]

Good Morning!! Coffee, hash browns with onions and green peppers with some crumbled up sausage, a couple eggs fried over easy, no make that three, piled on top. Please and thanky.

A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 88.

The piping is laid, and water, when poured in the window well end, comes out the ditch end. Today I have to bury it and come up with a way to keep the stray rodent from getting in, but yet let any sediment that may make it’s way in out. I need to get to town and pick up a couple bags of rock for the window wells too and a few things from the grocery store. Naturally I’ll do that last.

Ulrich- I pray for you and your family. After I looked at the other picture of the STUKA, I see it does not appear to have retractable landing gear after all. I just doesn’t have those skirts. What we are seeing is the shock absorbing system. Something not normally seen. Odd the museum would not put the skirtings on during the restoration. Unless that one of the many versions just didn’t have them. If so, that is the first I’ve ever seen without. But coming from me, that’s not saying a lot

Vincent- The car looks great. Good luck with the girl too.

Ray- You a Rivet Counter? Nah. If you were, there would be worn and dirty paths on the floor and a few stray oily………footprints. (bwaaha hahahahahaaaa!)

Rob- never used glue to patch a screen so I don’t know. We always just sewed the patch in. Oh I see Lee does too.

Curt- HAPPY (late) ANNIVERSARY!

Yes Flo I read the posts. You have too. With these chowhounds, if you don’t you’ll never get caught up. Somehow I missed that. Ah, yesterday I got in here late and speed read them. Must have slipped by.

Owen. I see you’ve stepped right up and ordered PIE. Good for you. Starting out on the right foot.

Gotta getta  movin. I want to beat the rain, if it does at all today. It’s got a better chance tonight so the rain will help with the dirt settling. Of course I have to w**k tonight so I’ll have to quit early. I don’t like w**king evenings. Throws off my whole day.

Ya’ll have a Great Day!!!

[ns3010]

Morning all! Sorry, I already broke my promise of trying to get in here every day, but I was still busy with life even though school was over...

Now, you may be wondering why I'm in here this early (no, it's not too bad now, but I've been up since quarter of eight) on the Friday of the first weeks of summer. Good question.

I turn 17 today, and I'm off to the DMV for "the test." Yes, THAT test! We have to make a few stops along the way (I'm craving Dunkin Donuts' mocha caramel iced coffee, need to get my important documents from the bank, and I want to practice parallel parking one last time), so we're leaving in ten minutes (my appointment is at 10). Wish me luck!

On a more serious note, please add my parents' friend, Dennis, and his wife, Beth, to the prayer list. Dennis was a fireman at the World Trade Center and developed cancer (probably because of the site) almost two years ago. He passed away on Wednesday after two long years of pain and suffering. He is in a better place now.

Well, it's almost time to leave for the DMV, so I'll see you guys later!

[Anonymous]

Good Afternoon Folks!

It´s been a busy day for me. Lotsa a household chores. It is nearly 3 pm now and I just find a few minutes of rest.

There are some good news - my mother will be discharged tomorrow. Bad news is that there is nothing the docs can do for her, we just have to wait and see how she develops. I´ll be staying on until Sunday morning.

USPS tracking tells me that the package had an "attempted" delivery at 8.19 am this morning. Well, no one showed up at our place, but maybe tomorrow. It´ll be Christmas for me.

Curt - happy anniversary - my 27th is coming up next month.

Joe -

Owen -

My dad wants his coffee now - I better hurry!

CUL

[B&O1952]

Good morning everyone!

  Sorry I missed everyone yesterday, I'm stuck running the rail museum for 2 weeks, not that I'm complaining, there's not much else I'd rather do, except maybe being back in the cab of an SD45! I thought I'd get a chance to get on the museum computer yesterday, but we had a steady crowd all day long. At least I had a chance to w**k on the museum's N scale empire.

  I worked a little on the K4 painting last night, I hope to wrap it up today or tomorrow.  Thanks to all for the nice remarks.

Rob, I'm humbled by your portfolio! Very nicely done! I used to do some animal portraits, and an occasional human subject, but I can't hold a candle to you!

Lee, I'll email you this afternoon and see if I can do something for you.

Simon, You got it. It's actually Acrylic. I dabbled in watercolors a few times, and fooled around with oils a bit, but acrylics always seemed to work best. I love the aircraft pics! I had a chance to attend probably one of the best airshows ever back in 1991 at Geneseo NY. Possibly the best exhibition of big bombers from WWII at that show. The grand finale had a flyover of 5 B-17's 1 B-24, a Lancaster, plus a handful of B-25's all surrounded by a squadron of P-51's! A friend told me to get to Geneseo as early as I could the day of the show, and so I showed up at 7:00 with my camcorder. Walking around the aircraft and hearing the stories of the airmen was great. I recorded the stories of a B-17 ball turret gunner as he sat on the ground leaning against the turret. The one Catalina did a test flight before the show, and I was lucky to catch it, because it ended up having engine troubles during the show, and was unable to fly that afternoon. They put on a great reenactment of the Pearl Harbor attack for the 50th anniversary of that tragic day with the fake Japanese Zero's and a P-40 warhawk. Lots of fun that day!

Jim, thanks for the comments! I usually use a photo of the locomotive at least, and in the case of the K4, the entire photo is used. I try to stick with old black and white shots, it always seemed to me to be rather redundant to paint from a color photo.

Ok, I'll wrap it up. Just coffee today Flo, I need the kick!

See ya tomorrow!- Stan

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Good morning. It's 77° and mostly cloudy. The high will be 94° and it will still be mostly cloudy.

Nothing much planned for today. I have to clean the battery terminals on my van but that shouldn't take more than thirty minutes at the most. My parents should be returning from their trip to New Orleans sometime today so I'll have to watch for that.

[Curt Webb]

Morning All,

Just going through the forums before heading upstairs to start wiring again. Thanks everyone for the congrats.

Jim- I by no means think badly about anything people do on their layouts real or imagined. I like protypical equipment but by no means am I a rivet counter. In fact although I  am using town names in OH on the Sandusky line south, the buildings and track plan  are nowhere close to being prototpical.

Heartland- Great modeling.

NS3010- . Good luck on the drivers license. Dennnis and Beth are in my prayers.

Ulrich- Prayers for your Mother. Merry Christmas.

Well everyone take care. 

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Todd ..... WOW... You're quite a chow hound this morning. 

Ken .... You have better control than Todd. Good!

i'll have oatmeal and OJ.

Joe ... Happy Birthday

Owen .. Welcome to the diner.

.SFB .... I'd like to see progress on your steel mill. Mine mill has the electric furnace instead of a BOF because I used Walthers kits.I did not include a slag pit due to not allocating enough space. Instead, I run the slag cars onto a track that goes out of view. 

Happy Model Railroading

[howmus]

Mornin' everyone!

Zoe I'll have a breakfast Bagel with bacon and cheese to go along with dark roast coffee in my R&GV RR Mug.  I'll have a seat in the front booth to watch all the activity outside in the yard.

Packer, we have one little old teakettle at the museum.  She is a Vulcan 0-4-0T Docksider from the Brooklyn Yard at one time.  She is currently in the Restoration shop and we hope to see her back under steam in a few years.  Here she is under steam back in 1988.  You can see there is steam showing up in all kinds of places where steam is not supposed to be on her.......  http://www.youtube.com/rgvrrm#p/u/39/97ZamN2O2Kg  We also have a "Fireless Steam loco"  that will be on display after a cosmetic restoration some time in the future.

Barry.....  But of course we have a website!  Would love to have you come stateside and stop at the R&GV RR Museum!  The website: http://www.rgvrrm.org/  The next time we will be running diesel locos will be for "Trolleys at Twilight" on July 16th.  Click on "Visit" and you will get lots of info, maps, times, etc.  Oh and the invite goes out to any of you folks in here!

Todd, Worn and dirty paths...... footprints....?  Hmmm.........  gotta think about those for a bit.  Probably can add some.

Best get moving!  Lots of stuff to do today.

73

[steamfreightboy]

I'll have a slice of Apple pie a la mode, please.

Garry: My steel mill has both!!!! Just no blast furnace.

See ya!

sfb

[tcwright973]

I must be getting old... All the discussion about the crash landing and destruction of the "Liberty Belle," and I forgot about this short video I took while railfanning in the "Strip Disctrict" in Pittsburgh a couple of years ago. Tom

 

[steamfreightboy]

Heartland Division CB&Q

.SFB .... I'd like to see progress on your steel mill.

Unfortunatly, there is not much to see.

I am still in the early stages of scenery, but the BOF is almost done!

 

Edit: Dang!!! Not again!!!

If any of you get a steak this page I'll...

[jeffrey-wimberly]

I'll have the steak and lobster please.

[steamfreightboy]

...be at the RC for a little

sfb

[steamfreightboy]

jeffrey-wimberly

I'll have the steak and lobster please.

 

JEFF!!!!!!!

[cudaken]

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOE! I remember when I looked forward to getting older!

 Ulrich, you did put up a Christmass Tree and left some cookies? Mail Box Helpers love Cookies.

    Ken

[jeffrey-wimberly]

steamfreightboy

 

jeffrey-wimberly:

 

I'll have the steak and lobster please.

 

 

 

JEFF!!!!!!!

I couldn't resist!

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Well I got the battery terminal posts and clamps on the van clean. The battery setup is a somewhat interesting arrangement. The van has top post clamps but the only battery I had on hand was a side post that took the GM type connectors. The young guys out here who claim to be great mechanics said it would never work, no way, no how. Well being that I used to rebuild cars as a hobby I knew better. I went to O'Reilly Auto Parts and picked up a pair of charging posts that would normally be used on a deep cycle marine battery but can also be used on a side post battery for hooking up a battery charger. I put them on and they're still on there to this day. As part of the cleaning process I have to remove the charging posts and clean the threads on them. No problem with a Dremel tool and an abrasive buffing wheel. It took the crud right off in no time. The whole job was done in less than ten minutes and I was taking my time. All I needed was an adjustable wrench to break the posts free, a ratchet with half inch socket, my Dremel with an abrasive buffing wheel. I still tell those young guys who think they're great mechanics that they don't know squat about battery connections. This point was driven home when one of them slathered axle grease all over the posts and clamps of his car battery and wondered why he wasn't getting the contact he should be getting. After he took the clamps off and cleaned all that grease off them and out of the clamps it worked as it should. Now he knows that the grease goes on AFTER the clamps are on, not before.

[AmanaMedic]

What's THAT? We're having a special on steaks today? Mmmmmmmmmmmm. Big rib-eye please, medium well with fries and a bucket of Coke please 'n thank-ya.

Goooooooooooooooooooood Afternoon,

Facetime went well, met the newest intern, nice gal. High school baseball tonight...yippee.

NS3010: Sorry to hear about Dennis, rest assured he will be remembered! Hope the driving test went well. As the old Sgt. said on Hill Street Blues: "let's be particularly careful out there..."

RAY: Diesels on Trolly night??? Looks a neat place to hang out and enjoy all things RR.

VINCENT: I think I've only used the airbrush for weathering once or twice...wasn't real impressed with it. I've had the best luck with a variety of washes. Some were true home-brew munge mixes, others received commercial products (Mountain Modelcraft). I've also had some spectacular failures THAT will eventually end up stripped and redone. I vaguely recall an article from RMC in 1980 about using...eye shadow or some kind of feminine facial make up product, for weathering. Don't know if I saved THAT one or not when I sliced and diced years of magazines, harvesting selected articles and "giving the rest back to Mother Earth (landfill)."

I'd best slip into a back booth (hopefully I won't wake Mr. DUKE), gotta make a PBX for an assignment from Mr. Boss.

Have a good-'un!

Chris

[jeffrey-wimberly]

This morning I was thinking about how far we've come in weathering, from hand ground mixed chalks to the prepared chalks, powders and paint we use today. An incident that took place in the early part of 1969 came to mind. I was just eight years old at the time. A friend of mine named Mike (he was twelve) was into model railroading in a big way. He had practiced doing some weathering with chalks on some old car models and was ready to tackle one of his prize Mantua HO locos. He did a masterful job on it. He sprayed a light coat of a water base sealer on it and let it dry. Afterward he put the shell back on the frame and put the loco back on his layout then he went out. His mother came along and seeing the extremely dirty loco decided she would clean it. IN A SINK FULL OF WARM SOAPY WATER!!! Chassis and all naturally. Mike was devastated. Not only was his great weathering job gone he now had a loco that no longer worked. The motors in use then and even the ones in use now don't react well to water. I don't know if he ever forgave his mother for that. My family and I moved to Louisiana later that year, early winter I think, and he was still ticked off about it.

[blownout cylinder]

Good Afternoon....

I just spent the past couple of hours sawing a bunch of sections off an 8' section of ABS piping down for grainbins for the Anson Grain Mills site...now all I have to do is get a roof over a few of them to put a few more elevators up.....then...another spur has to be put in..hopefully with a turn out that works here...

What is this about a steak special? Sure!! I'll have a 32oz steak special!! Oh and with a RBF as well please...I'll be at the RC for a bit...

[Cederstrand]

Extra strong coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.

***Lee, these are small bug holes in our screens, the largest is perhaps an inch wide. Just seems like there aught to be some easy to apply glue for patching them, rather than having to thread around them. Not sure which bugs are doing the damage, little bastar^s! 

***Stan, you're very kind. Thank you!

***Garry, your "ugly" crane is also very cool looking, or should I say it's "hot"!?! Neat scene!

Already tuckered out today and I haven't accomplished anything yet.

Have a great day y'all.

Rob

[galaxy]

STEAK???

ON SFB's account???

EXCELLENT! I'll have the T-bone steak and eggs!!! with a side homefried potatoes, steamed veggies and a side caesar salad!!

I've paid enough in the past, so I'm due a nice meal on someone else's dime!!

WEll, The dentist gave me antibiotic and we discussed a root canal for the tooth in question. Not sure we nailed down a root canal,. but he siad he would consider it if it didn't quiet dwon on paining me. He did grind it down a little and coated it with flouride varnish to help also. WE shall see.

Happy Birthday to those who have B-days!

Welcome to those who are new here!

ANd  special thoughts and prayers to those who need those! 

Tie for my afternoon nap especially since I only slept about 3 hours last night.....

Have a great evening.

TTYALLL8R

[ns3010]

Evening all. I see we're having steak tonight? Sure, I'll take one! Medium rare with waffle fries and a Dr. Pepper, please

Thanks for the birthday wishes!

And for those wondering, I passed! I got the easy instructor who supposedly passes everyone. She barely paid attention during the test, but that's not my problem!
The next step is to get a car... I need to sell a lot of pizza this summer if I have any hopes of a car...

Ulrich, sorry to hear about your mother. She is on the prayer list.

Curt, happy anniversary!

Jeff, I love that photo! It looks so realistic!
And that's a really sad story about the weathering. I hope my parents have more common sense than that!

to all the new guys.

Well, it looks like my food is here, so I'll TTYL!

-Joe-

[JimRCGMO]

Evenin' Zoe, Chloe - I see it's about shift change in the Diner, eh? I'll have a RBF, please. Oh? There's a steak special? Sure, I'll have one, like Barry did - but with some cottage fries, please (and the bottle of ketchup on the side, too). Thanks, SFB!! (And not to worry, 'cause the twins and Vinnie will let you wash dishes to w**k off your tab).

Curt, I didn't say what I meant to say. I'd just mentioned your name because I thought you were one of the people asking about the RC (or maybe you were answering the question). I don't think anybody in here thinks badly of someone else because of level of detail, etc. Ray just does (and some others in here, too) THAT good great of a level of quality on his w**k - like that enginehouse we've been drooling over. See how he picked up on Todd's suggestions about the dusty footpaths? Watch out, they'll be showing up sometime over the summer, I'd bet.

NS Joe, congrats on your driver's test - and a to you! I was wondering (after you said about practicing parallel parking) about what the examiners for the driving test will do if the person has one of the new cars that auto-park themselves (I think Honda has one, and maybe some Beamers have that, too) And can you turn off the auto-park, does anyone know?

Jeff, that's the best way to show those who THINK they know all about being a mechanic. Never tell a man there's NO way something can be done, unless you're 110 percent sure and have tried it dozens of times yourself (and you might get proven wrong anyway...)! Man, that was not good of your friend's Mom deciding to 'clean up' his loco. I can see where he would've got a bit 'peaved' about it.

I got a bit more last night than the night before; only had to sleep in until about 10 this a.m. One more night, and the rest of the weekend's mine (after laundry's done) for MRR'ing stuff.

Prayers for those with health problems, or in need of better night's , or house-hunting, job-hunting, and needing other kinds of relief (which covers about all of us).

 

Blessings,

Jim in Cape G-land

[jeffrey-wimberly]

JimRCGMO

Jeff, Man, that was not good of your friend's Mom deciding to 'clean up' his loco. I can see where he would've got a bit 'peaved' about it.

It's kinda funny now thinking back on it 42 years later.