I've just got a few minutes before we have to start getting ready to drive out to our granddaughter's grad. Can't go in jeans--or so my wife tells me. Just want to comment on a couple of posts then I'm off. Maybe a quick coffee to go, please.
CNCharlie: Glad you got a good deal from our government insurance agency. I've had some good, some bad deals from them. I always expect the worst and sometimes I get a pleasant surprise.
Yougottawanta: You had to pay court costs? I thought that happened only when you lost the case. Oh well, at least you don't have it on your license. I got a real nice surprise once back in the 60s when I had to pay a traffic ticket. I already had a conviction for carless driving. I shouldn't have tried to shake that town cop, but he was in an unmarked car and didn't have his uniform cap on. I guess I deserved that conviction. Back in those days they wrote the convictions on the back of your drivers license. I got stopped in the city for speeding. The cop was in a really foul mood and it didn't help that I tried to argue with him. When he saw the previous careless driving conviction on my license, he brightened up and charged me with careless driving, second conviction instead of speeding. When I went to pay it, the lady at the counter said that they had just changed the amounts for various offences and she didn't have the new fee for a second conviction but she did have the new fee for a first conviction. After a little thought, she crossed out "second conviction" and charged me with a first conviction. Afterwards, I asked her what the old fee for a second conviction was and it was almost double what I paid. Bless her!
Well, time to go see if my dress-up clothes still fit me. I don't remember the last time I wore them.
Oops, looks like I hit the top of the heap. Chloe, I left some money on the counter to treat the group. I gotta run now.
..... Bob
Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here. (Captain Kirk)
I reject your reality and substitute my own. (Adam Savage)
Resistance is not futile--it is voltage divided by current.
David Parks I am the terror that flaps in the night!
Good Morning All...Its sunny and warmer here this morning...I'll have coffee and a sweet roll please...Havn't been in for awhile but try to drop by everday to catch up on You'all...Just getting over a summer cold that settled in my lungs...Sounds like everbody is do'in well..I miss some of the "old timers" like PC,Ed,RT,whens the last time we got a load of OJ from Ed?...
I have always been a fan of the Wabash, did alot of rail fanning around Decatur Illinois where they had a big yard...I picked up the caboose at a train show 3 years ago...got the U 25 this spring and took some time to find M/T conversion..
I think the wait was worth it...You all have a good one...Jerry
Good morning. It's 81° and mostly cloudy. The high will be 93° . There's a very small chance of rain.Nothing much planned for today. Just going to sit back and rest and hope nobody calls. Maybe I can have my nieces Great Dane chase away the bible and encyclopedia salesmen and the people passing out pamphlets. Many times they don't come around but sometimes they show up in droves and seemingly totally ignorant that door to door solicitation is considered illegal in this area. Had one guy out here one day some years ago on a bicycle with a pack full of books. After only two doors he had a great incentive to leave the area. He was doing a very good job of making that bicycle go as fast as it could and pulling ahead of the two Doberman Pinschers that were chasing him. I'm not sure but I think he broke the land speed record for unmodified bicycles. Come to think of it that could make an interesting scene on the layout. Where could I get two HO Scale Dobermans.
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
Good evening Gang!
A somewhat slow day today. I spent most of the time playing with my "train set" . Actually, it was quite helpful to do this - I found out that I need to do some minor changes to the wiring, and maybe a little track plan change as well.
Flo, I´ll have a steak, add a small salad, a baked potato and a , please!
Jeff - good that you can get some rest today. Bible and encyclopedia salesmen? Have not seen those in ages in my neck of the woods. Reading seems to be not fashionable, and who needs an encyclopedia these days, where you can nearly find anything in wikipedia?
Jerry - the MIA list is getting longer. Some drop by occasionally, but quite a long seem to be gone for good!
Curt - my mother had an aortic aneurysm for 24 years, without being discovered by her docs. She could have dropped dead any time in those years. Unbelievable!
Galaxy - I hope the pain gives you a break!
I think I am coming down with a summer cold - my nose is getting runny!
CU tomorrow!
Afternoon all, just been to the Farmers Market in Syracuse.In my garden Corn and Sunflowers are up, tomatos going great. last year i gave half the tomaots away and still had enough for 2 gal of sauce. You can tell where i spend my time when i'm not working on the layout.
Galaxy, ive had rootcanal surgery so i can empathise.
Hi Chloe, what are you doing working the week-end? I'll have a double RBF, thanks.. I should enjoy that while the rest of the boys here have their history lesson for the week, Yes it is that time again, it is amazing how time flies when having fun..
OK Boys, sit up straight and pay attention. There will be a test later in the year.
We have given considerable space in our columns to the experiments with aeroplanes, as executed by Prof. S. P. Langley, Hiram Maxim and others. These experiments have led to the determination of certain facts. A flat plate or surface maintained in a horizontal position and moved horizontally through the air experiences a greater resistance to its descent than it would if it descended vertically. If the surface is inclined so that its advancing edge is higher than the rear edge, it will experience a lifting effect, and under proper conditions will rise upward. Such a contrivance is termed an aeroplane. An aeroplane short in the direction of its motion receives a relatively greater sustaining effect per unit of its area than does a large one. A set of Venetian window blinds gives the idea of a good arrangement of aeroplanes.
In the present issue we illustrate a proposed high speed railroad, in whose operation aeroplanes take a part. By this system the attainment of a speed of 150 miles an hour is claimed to be possible, while for long distances a rate of 125 miles an hour is hoped for. The projectors hold that the railroad of the present time must be supplemented by some system admitting of higher speed.
To reach this speed, curves must be abolished, as the centrifugal force will be too great to be withstood. Accordingly, as far as possible, the line will go right across country from point to point, without regard to grade. Next, the road must be free from interruption; there must be no possibility of any obstacle getting on the track. This makes an elevated structure the proper one, and the one shown in the cut has been designed to secure the essential features of strength and safety. It includes an upper and a lower pair of rails, and a pair of trolley wires or leads.
The cars are of special design, with sharp ends, so as to encounter the minimum of air resistance. In cross section they are of sufficient dimensions to present the comforts of a Pullman car. They will have a trussed steel frame and metal sides, tops and floors. They are carried by wheels four to six feet in diameter, which wheels are to be placed near their tops, so that the cars will be virtually suspended from the upper rails. The axles of these wheels pass through journals near the car roof. One or more pairs of these wheels are to have two electric motors connected to their axles, so as to serve as driving wheels. The speed being so high, there will be no trouble in using direct connected motors without gearing.
The current is taken from each trolley wire by its trolley wheel, which works on an axle at about the level of the axle of the driving wheels. On the trolley wheel axle, which will be insulated, are secured collecting rings, against which brushes bear. A closed metallic circuit is to be used, two trolley wires and a pair of trolley wheels being used on each car.
So far all is simple enough, the peculiarities of the system centering on the points of straightness of line, lowering of center of gravity of car below the rails, and high speed. It is essential that there should be no curves, and any grade met is to be climbed; no deviation of route to secure an easy grade is to be allowed.
This will give many severe ascents to be overcome, and it is here that the distinguishing peculiarity of the system comes in. The car carries a series of aeroplanes, each one twenty to thirty feet long and four to five feet wide. They are mounted so as to be capable of setting at any desired angle. At a speed of 150 miles an hour, a slight inclination would give them a very powerful lifting effect. On the level they will be kept practically straight. When a grade is reached they will be set at an angle, so as to have a lifting effect. This will be graduated, so as to leave just enough traction in the driving wheels to propel the cars. It is obvious that the limit might be passed, and the wheels might turn without getting grip enough to drive the train. Here a self-regulating feature is apparent. If the wheels slipped, the car would move with reduced velocity and the aeroplanes would lift less weight. At once the traction would increase and the car would move forward, so that eventually an equilibrium would be established. It is claimed that the amount of work necessary to drive a car at high speed up a grade would be greatly diminished by the use of aeroplanes.
Underneath the car is a second set of wheels, ordinarily inactive. Above them is a line of rails inverted. By a system of levers and an air pump the engineer can throw these wheels upward at will, so that they will press against the lines of rails above them. This affords a means of increasing the traction to any desired extent, as the upper and lower wheels are thus made to act as the jaws of a clutch. The increased rolling friction thus produced may be applied for direct traction or for braking. These wheels also provide a safeguard against all swaying, or lifting of the car from the track by the aeroplanes.
In the running operation the engineer will be guided by the nature of the ground. On the level he would probably hold the aeroplanes flat and inactive. When a grade is reached, he will incline them enough to partially lift the car. The car then begins to move up in part at least upon an inclined plane of air. Its acquired velocity as well as direct traction assist this operation. It reaches the top of the grade with slightly reduced velocity, but very quickly recovers its loss. On a down grade the aeroplane may be inactive or may be turned so as to provide an enormously powerful aeroplane brake.
It is proposed to use alternating current motors, which on present lines would admit of a distance between power stations of some 200 miles. It is claimed for the system that it is as safe as the present one, has greater speed and equal comfort and luxury, is adapted to all kinds of traffic, and will be profitable. It is calculated that a straight line from New York to San Francisco would be 500 miles shorter than the present one. The construction of an elevated road across the continent seems an appallingly great piece of work, but in the United States to-day there are railroad bridges enough to give a continuous line of track from Sandy Hook to the Golden Gate. The absence of snow blockades and washouts, the abolishing of the expense of replacing railroad ties and of maintaining a ground track, the economy of the trolley system, the power to utilize water wherever met with near the line, are cited as advantages. New York and San Francisco would be brought within twenty-four hours of each other, and a route crossing Bering's Strait would bring Paris nearer in point of time than it now is by the ocean route. The use of the structure for pneumatic tubes, telephone and telegraphic wires, is obvious and is suggested by the projectors.
You guys are all such good students, I will splurge for RBFs for all of you.
Johnboy out..................................for now
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
mmmmm...wonder if anyone wants to model that.....
Good Afternoon....
I've been rather busy with report writing and what all else today..now a little break....
Found this...
Full head of steam going....would have loved to be in the car taking a shot of that
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/
Sir Madog Johnboy - thanks for the input - it always pays to get a second view on issues! Before I could start this type of job, there is a ten week training, mainly on legal matters. In any case, I will go through that training and then see, what may come up. The pay does not really matter, as any amount above a certain level will be taken away to repay my debts. This will end in 2016 ... Here are some pictures of my test set-up: Looks a little more like a layout then before! It was a good thing to do this test set-up. I found out that I have to add some feeder wires! TTFN
Johnboy - thanks for the input - it always pays to get a second view on issues! Before I could start this type of job, there is a ten week training, mainly on legal matters. In any case, I will go through that training and then see, what may come up. The pay does not really matter, as any amount above a certain level will be taken away to repay my debts. This will end in 2016 ...
Here are some pictures of my test set-up:
Looks a little more like a layout then before!
It was a good thing to do this test set-up. I found out that I have to add some feeder wires!
TTFN
You know Ulrich, I would have sworn that there is a Western Pacific box car behind that beautiful Japanese Loco.. How would have that happened to get across the pond. I don't recall reading where there were any in service rail cars shipped across the pacific from the USA to Japan.
But just Maybe !!??
I am very impressed with your modules and your skill, can hardly wait to see further changes.. Maybe a little extension on that right end to make that a complete passing siding for a longer train. It really is looking GREAT. Keep up the great work.
Johnboy out.........................................and back to the Security Guarding for a couple of hours.
Hey folks
Urlich- Nice modules. best part is about that security job is that you can putts on a module during break.
Just got back from work and running. Have a friend of mine making a custom hitch receiver cover for my Jeep. Its nothing much and he's making it out of wood as a small business. I'll post pictures of it when he's done
I'll take a seat at the RC for a while
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!
Root canal pain seddling down. Must be the good drugs an a lot of sleep.I just got up but ready to go again.
I can tell you though with the good drugs make sit ahrder for me to type and I have enough trouble with that already!
Anybody seen or heard from the "Jeffster"? As in Jeffrey WImberly? Hope is doing OK
-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.
galaxy Anybody seen or heard from the "Jeffster"? As in Jeffrey WImberly? Hope is doing OK
Hey everyone, sorry I have not checked in for so long
I don't really feel like reading all the posts since my last, so can you guys fill me in on what has happened since then? I think it was on page 51 some...
What I did see:
Andy!
Thanks,
steamfreightboy
steamfreightboy Hey everyone, sorry I have not checked in for so long I don't really feel like reading all the posts since my last, so can you guys fill me in on what has happened since then? I think it was on page 51 some... What I did see: Andy! Thanks, steamfreightboy
Well not much Steamfreightboy,
Kalmbach Publishing has been sold and you have been elected the new CEO and Managing Editor.
So get busy Dude.
Johnboy out..............................................................................
JohnBoy .... When do you plan to start working on your model aerodrmoic railroad? It'll be a fun project for you.
Ulrich ... The layout is looking very good!
Jerry .... Nice to see you in the diner. I like your U25B.
Here, the young visitors have departed for Michigan.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
last mountain & eastern hogger steamfreightboy: Hey everyone, sorry I have not checked in for so long I don't really feel like reading all the posts since my last, so can you guys fill me in on what has happened since then? I think it was on page 51 some... What I did see: Andy! Thanks, steamfreightboy Well not much Steamfreightboy, Kalmbach Publishing has been sold and you have been elected the new CEO and Managing Editor. So get busy Dude. Johnboy out..............................................................................
steamfreightboy: Hey everyone, sorry I have not checked in for so long I don't really feel like reading all the posts since my last, so can you guys fill me in on what has happened since then? I think it was on page 51 some... What I did see: Andy! Thanks, steamfreightboy
Oh dear...you mean I have to oversee the knitting magazines too?
sfb
Edit: Hmmm...seems I am top again. Oh well, just put it on Kalmbach's tab
Evenin' folks!
Janie just a cup of decaf for me at the moment. I'll be sitting in the back booth napping across the aisle from where Duke is always cutting wood...
Never got in here this morning before going out to camp. Just been reading up on everything going on. I see there were some major train accidents posted. Who's on guard duty, Ulrich? what? Oh, "Whos on First...!" (Shoulda known.)
I got 3 tent campsites and Commissioner row cleaned up with the string trimmer. THAT leaves 3 and 1/2 more Tent Sites and three and 1/2 Lean-to sites to go. It will take 2 days to do the 3.5 tent sites as they are in more open areas and will have a lot of weeds and grass grown up and then one more day to do all the Lean-tos in camp. Probably won't finish until the first week of camp. I will get the sites they need for the opening week done first. The 3 I did today will be used the first week. I also sprayed some roundup on the resident poison ivy around the sites. I stopped to tell the Ranger there was quite a bit of the stuff in one site and asked if he had any Roundup and wanted me to spray. He looked at me, grinned and said, "Ray I would love to have you spray THAT ^%(%&^ Stuff"! Then he showed me his left arm... Covered with sores from poison ivy. He came up with a backpack sprayer filled with the mix.....
Think i will go put up some HO scale rafters for a bit tonight...
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Very interesting Johnboy. Someone envisioned a monorail system 75 years before Walt Disney made it a reality. and to top it off they were also envisioning the likes of the Chunnel, bridging England and France.
Had it gone through the Bearing as envisioned there is the possibility of the US putting several divisions into China from the north and cutting off the Japaneese in the Second World War.
Certainly they did not take into consideration the tornados or the Rockies. The latter could have been delt with by tunnel of course.
As for modeling, I agree it would be an interesting project, well above my skill level.
Here is a device one does not see in too many backshops....
Another view of it...
Hobble Hobble , limp , groan Worked on a side job today. Remodeling a deck. We removed above 240 sqaure feet of decking, beefed up the framing, installed joist hangers, and installed the decking. Didnt finish nailing it all. Air gun broke . Then went home changed the oil in the truck, unloaded the tools, watered the garden,cleaned up the basement and then tried to start THAT stupid weed eater. Cannot figure out why I have soooo much trouble keeping those things running. I have three and none of them run!
Bob - write it on a back of a license ?? How did they keep one from erasing it themselves and just not dealing with it ?
Jerry - Good name ! Yep ! Thats my first name .
Jeff - a bible salesman ?
Ulrich - if you do take that job will you still have medical coverage , will the pay be eqaul or better than the government assistance ?
John boy - that is an amazing amount of typing ? I must admit at first I thought it was some sort of joke. But amazing.
Curt - What besides small animals do they eat that is healthy for them ?
Howmus - LOL ! Largest tires right away ! Where did the pantyhose and duct tape thing come from?
Garry - great pictures , WOW
Blownout Cylinder - Those engines on top of each other looks physically impossible. Any clue how THAT happened ?
Galaxy - hope you feel better soon .
Coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
***Ulrich, excellent progress on your layout there.
***Barry & Johnboy, really enjoyed the neat photos.
Had to remove the posthole digger to put on the hay fork, then do hay rounds, then replace the fork with the posthole digger. Doesn't sound like much (never used to be) but it about killed me. Might need to start looking at some kind of framework to help assist getting that posthole digger on and off. Not easy to muscle anything anymore.
Hope y'all are doing well.
Cheers! Rob
Evening Folks.
Thank You Flo for the and I take a tuna salad sandwich.
Work Front Went to the meeting and learned about a bed my store will never see, store is to small sizes wise. Did get paid finally to bad it all goes to Bank Of Stupid.
Advertising Well the owner did take out a half page add for the next 13 weeks in a local Belleville IL paper, that is the good news! Bad news? The add states Get a extra $100.00 Off at are Fairview Heights Store Only! Yep that helps me with the Fairview Heights IL Store only being 6.5 miles from my store?
Fairview Store Had $7,000.00 is sales when I closed my store at 6:00. Oh what did I have is sales you ask? I had $0.00 in sales and only one customer for the day.
If you want to go to a Self Pitt Party, I am buying!
Bright side well there is none. Well I did get to play more today, about 3 hours worth. Finger tips are starting to flatten out and I am starting to get my calluses back on the fingers. You have to play Guitar to know that is a good thing. Need to start building up my forearms again so I can play bar cords longer.
Ulrich Does the possible security job pay less that what you are getting now? When I was on unemployment I got $425.00 a week, if I turned down a job making less than that, I would lose my unemployment. That sucked, why would a person want to take a job that paid less than what they got for staying home?
All so looking forward to your next installment of pictures, I am saving all of them. Are you going to fill in the center of the layout with modules with scenery?
See you all later.
Ken
I hate Rust
Evening All,
Just got back from the club. Helped MOH start moving her sewing stuff back into the bedroom it was in over a year ago today The first step to total control of the loft. I modified the 2 spots under the layout that needed it. I am off Tuesday so I figure I will start prepping switch machines then (centering, placing turnout wire and soldering the 2 leads on them).
We actually got about 20 minutes of downpour rain followed by about 40 minutes of a medium rain today. We really needed it.
John Boy- That is quite the contraption in that article.
YGW- It is a total raw diet. A example of food would be Super Worms, Sprouts, Egg, Fish, Oils, Pinkies, Assorted Nuts, Crickets, Organ Meat, Chicken Necks, Turkey Necks, Mushrooms, No grains, No Kibble, Very little Veggies. You can get the idea from the list. Also Vitamin supplements specific to skunks.
Everyone have a good night.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Good Morning,
it´s 5.15 am and I am up for about an hour. Had to get up early to run the morning service on my line
Zoe, I´ll go for an American breakfast, with all the works & lots of coffee, please.
Security jobs are about the worst paid jobs we have in this country. It´ll probably earn me a lot less than what we are getting doing nothing, but it will be topped off to this level by the authorities. Does this make sense? Spare me a comment. Any way, I will register for the 10 week of training - I cannot turn this down without facing severe cuts in our allowance.
Johnboy - tried to send you a PM, but it did not work. Nothing has yet arrived at this end ...
See you all later in the day!
Sir Madog Security jobs are about the worst paid jobs we have in this country. It´ll probably earn me a lot less than what we are getting doing nothing, but it will be topped off to this level by the authorities. Does this make sense? Spare me a comment. Any way, I will register for the 10 week of training - I cannot turn this down without facing severe cuts in our allowance.
HEY! Where the heck did this come from! Get that outta here!
Chamomile tea, please.
I worked security for an all suites in back in WA., as well as maintenance jobs, including some pools. Not high paid work, especially for the cra* I sometimes had to deal with. Took those jobs to fill gaps from my other life guard and aquatics teaching jobs back them. All of which eventually lead to my becoming a full time artist. Most of those were great times with no regrets.
Time to hit the hay. Hope to see ya'll here tomorrow. Take care!
Rob
jeffrey-wimberly I was forced to sell off three very extensive sci-fi collections just to survive. Two of those collections included Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica models and figures and the third was a very large Star Wars collection. I certainly didn't get what I had put into them, but I needed the money.
I was forced to sell off three very extensive sci-fi collections just to survive. Two of those collections included Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica models and figures and the third was a very large Star Wars collection. I certainly didn't get what I had put into them, but I needed the money.
Sounds familiar to me - this way I lost my model railroad collection. Got maybe 20 % of its value.
Jeff - life did not treat you nicely, but I owe you my sincere how you master it with all the handicaps and obstacles thrown in your way. For that, you are one of my heroes!
Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Morning!!!