Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Ken: Where were those shot? Amazing imagery there...
Good Morning.
Well, it looks like my weekend on-call is going to be a busy one this time...had a full days worth yesterday.
I'm going to attempt to get some mrr time today..that is if I am permitted of course
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
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Good Morning,
The contractor came out yesterday morning and removed 1.81 tons of roofing materials from last weekend’s job. He even provided a receipt from the disposal facility where he dropped it off so I have proof of proper disposal. I haven’t had much time for train stuff this month, maybe in August I can set some time aside for myself and the layout.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good Afternoon,
just a quick update on what I have been doing since morning:
Still looks a bit odd, but I need to let it dry thoroughly before I can continue to "shape it up".
Good morning. A Tabasco mangosteen aqai please. It's 79° and mostly cloudy. The high is slated for 93°. There's a small chance of rain this morning rising to a 50% chance this evening. Radar shows a storm cell north-east of us moving this way.Well, my mother's Marquis was done the other night and my father and brother-in-law picked it up. It sits up quite noticeably in the rear now and the chair platform doesn't drag at dips anymore. My father's Tracer is still in the shop for it's mysterious starter problem. Speaking of thing being worked on, the approval from Medicaid for the unloader brace for my right foot came through recently and I have an appointment in DeRidder this coming week to see about having it made. I still have some clean-up work to do on the layout. I hope to get that done today.
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Morning Folks
Flo, Western Breakfast please and a OJ
Rusty Steamers Glad you folks like them. I found them on the web years ago and forget where they where taken. If I remember correctly they are sitting in a salvage yard and the owner will not sell them, nor will he scrap them. He all so has some switchers and tenders. I have a few more pictures I can post. I think it was ILL but just not sure.
Yea, be nice to see them in running conduction rather than be reclaimed my mother nature but they are still here so there is hope for them.
Most of you probably think like me. When I went to salvage yards I would look at some of the cars and wonder "why did they scarp that one, it would not take much work"? If I had it my way, all the B-17 bombers and P-38's would have been saved.
On the Tires I wished I could have stayed to see how they did things, but I had to get to the store. I trust very few people to work on my cars. I would have had my shop do it, but that was not a option.
Well going to poke around the rest of the site for a while.
Later
Ken
I hate Rust
Morning All,
Just sitting in the Diner by a window drinking coffee in a PRR Christmas mug.
Moh says she is sewing today so that means MRR'ing for me.
Ken- I actually find those pictures kind of sad.
Jeff- I'm glad you got approved for the brace. Hopefully it will help your mobility.
Ulrich- I think that it is going to be a very interesting module.
Everyone take care.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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Mornin' everyone!
Zoe just stopping in for a cup of dark roast coffee to go.
Just about on my way out the door to play docent at the R&GV RR Museum today. Finally got a bit of rain last night, all of .13" worth. Just enough to make some puddles in the road. Current temperature is 71°F out there.... YES! Only heading up to the low 80's today.
Roofer didn't show yesterday. I bet with the heat last week they worked a few shorter days or very slowly at least. he should be along sometime next week.
Best get moving!
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Hello everybody.
Ulrich ... Nice work so far on your module.
Ray ... Sounds like a great time! ... My Dad was an active live-steamer, and I used to spend time with his group. Live steam is a great hobby for those who want to make the locomotive most of the entire hobby and spend much time outside.
Stan ... Wow. Yoiur moving right along. You have made many paintings according to waht you are posting. What do you do with all the paintintgs when you are done with them?
Barry ... Let me guess. That track is not a high speed rail line.
Last night we went on a boat ride to have hamburgers at the marina. Must be summer.
My Union Station building is close to completion. Not much else to report.
Happy Model Railraoding.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good Morning All..Its a sunny day here...85 posta hit 92 with chance of T-storms...Hope so won't have to water plants...just about ready to pick some tomatoes...Started taking stuff off layout to make way for getting alittle more layout space..I'll have a double RBF please..Thank You..
You all have a good day...Jerry
Good Morning!! Coffee and The Sunday Engineer’s Special, over easy please. Looks as if my plans to w**k on the railroad may come to be today.
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 94. Heat index values as high as 110. Clouding up now and the wind is picking up but according to the radar it is clear and sunny where we are. In a way I’d like it to rain to give the ground some moisture. With cracks it should drain quickly. But on the other hand I wish it would not until this humidity situation goes away. It’s already a sauna out there as it is, add some rain and when it stops raining…. You can’t even hardly move without a knife to slice your way through the humidity.
Ray- Never realized there was code on the bottles! That wasn’t something covered on the expose I saw. Looks like you had a good time at the picnic. We also have some roofers around here who aren’t spending as much time as they’d like on a black or any color) roof in 100+ degree sun and heat.
Jeff- Good news on the brace. I always hated electrical problems when they were intermittent. Made you wanna pull your hair out when all checks out good then something touches and poof. All test well, no shorts. Hit a bump, throw a switch and.... poof. Sounds like they can at least maybe start around the AC circuit and it’s relationship to the starting circuit though.
Ken- Oh man, I hate to diagnose something sight unseen hoss. Could send someone on a wild goose chase. BUT since you asked, yes usually a vibration is associate with balance, or out of round. You may also have a flat spot on the tire. My guess is they have a spin balancer. The bubble balancer, though just as good if you are patient ( some claim better, but you won’t get an argument either way from me), is much much slower and more prone to operator error. Spin balancers do just about everything for you but put on the weight itself and it even tells you how much so there is no trying different weight combos to get where you want to be. An alignment may stop a vibration, but you referred to it as old and you are correct in assuming there should be telltale markings on the tires. Of course a tire hopping down the road should too, but not always. Some things you can do that may help to narrow it down. Run it with the wheel cover off. Jack the tire of the ground at the frame and check the suspension for looseness, take the tire off and shake it or roll it to see if there isn’t something in there. How does it get in there? You got me, I have yet to figure out but sometimes there’ll be a rock or little dirt clod or what looks like a handful of dirt in there. And when it’s back together on the ground and you’ve found nothing...., check the shocks. Second thought you may want to do that first. More than likely it is either the shock, or the tire/wheel thing, or something else (chuckle). Good luck and have a on me.
Welp, best get doin what I need to do so’s I can play with my choo choo’s.
Ya’ll have a Great Day!!!
Todd
Central Illinoyz
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Thanks much,
Johnboy
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Put in the track and the bridge, but I´ll be calling it a day for today. Tomorrow I will run to get some light gray color for the rock formation. Next weekend I´ll expect the module to be finished.
Here is last pic of the day:
Still looks a little odd ...
Italian roast coffee in a SUNNY & SOUTHERN mug, please.
Have a good day all.
Rob
Evening All,
Sitting here with MOH while she watches on of the Harry Potter movies. Spent several hours working on layout today and I got the majority of the scenery completed. I still need to put in my signals (after I build them of course and put in the backdrop. Tuesday I go in late to w**k so I am going to clean the tracks again to make sure there is no glue or tape residue on the tracks.
I noticed that I am at the top of the page so Flo, food and for everyone (root beer for Joe or anyone that does not want a beer).
Here are some layout pictures. The photography is not that great.
Everyone have a good night.
Good afternoon all!
Another busy one at the Museum. I managed to help a couple of people trace some of their relatives who worked for the local RR's fairly easily today. We have a ton of data to pour through here.
Garry- I usually frame and display my paintings right here at the Museum. Here's a few of them on exhibit:
I've been lucky to have the chance to get this many finished this summer. I'll probably try to get between 5 and 10 more finished before Christmas. If I do, I'll have to hook up with some of my old friends one who is a bank manager, she used to let me display 4 or 5 paintings there, and a local restaurant owner who will let me put a few on her walls as well. I'll find a spot for them somewhere!
Ray- looks like you had a fun time there! I like the little 8 wheeler. Looks like it can haul quite a few riders.
Ken- Those are interesting pics of the forgotten trains. I wish we had that Steamer at our museum! We missed out on a couple over the years, but we'll get one someday.
Tom in Ca- I'll start going through some pics of the M4. If you have a decent B&W pic of one you like, post it and I'll take a look.
I spent some time playing around trying to get a nice interior shot of our small roundhouse. Here's the best one of the bunch:
Everyone have a good evening!
-Stan
Stan:
Good Afternoon....
We had a busy day today as well...now I can actually get some mrr time for myself. Maybe...
Garry: It is not the most straightest track around, that is for sure!!
Chloe, I'll have a coffee for now please..I'll be at the RC for a bit...
Evening Folks!
Flo, just a beer please. I will BBQ in a few minutes.
Work / Reading / Guitar playing front.This weekend just totally sucked! I only had 3 customers in 2 days! All 3 bought but at this rate I am up the creek!
Tod Thank you for your answer. Shocks where install this spring on all 4 corners, and Bob said all the suspension still seemed tight. Tire ware is not perfect, there is more ware on the outside edges than there should be but not god awful. So you think aliment could cause a vibration, would you mind explaining what would cause it? More for the fact I like to know more than any other reason.
Car does need front tires, hope to replaces them soon. So I will get the front end aliened first.
Ulrich Good to see more work from you! But where is my portal! I know, I sound like a little kid going "where the present I gave you Dad"? Looks promising. Hum, where are the tress?
Curt I understand why the pictures could make you some what sad. Really sad is when you look at a bench vise and wonder "could this have been part of a Big Boy"?
Your layout looks fun to run and you have some nice buildings. What do you have pan for the grass mat if anything? I would guess you know who Motley is from the main pages. When he started I kept tell him (the grass mat is a mistake) and will be darned he made it work great.
Stan If you need some places to show your paintings, I have a few ideas! I know of a Mattress Store than does not have a single training painting in it!
By the way great picture of the insides of the engine house! That in it self would make a great painting!
Few more pictures.
Plus one that is running.
I will drop my latter after the BBQ
Hey KEN, I'll take my burger well done please and thank-you...since you're firing up the grill............
Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood Evening, been awhile, thought I'd better drop in if for no other reason than because I can!
It's been a hectic time lately: State Softball Tournament in Ft. Dodge ("my" team won in Class 3A), the invasion of the in-laws from Pear River, LA (great people); and of course, stuff for "That Editor." I've stuck my head in the take-out window several times, just to try and keep up on stuff around here. I see BILL has had a number of cuties in lately...
TODD: Sorry to hear about your MIL, sorry I didn't have the opportunity to say THAT sooner.
ULRICH: Another fine-looking module in progress I see. Dagnabit! Now I'm gonna have THAT Burlington/Wabash in SW Iowa layout dream again...
Oh yeah, the oldest nephew (college age) was among the invaders from the South. He's had pretty much a life-long interest in trains, but get this: the kid doesn't care for diesels, he PREFERS STEAM! I suspect RAY, DUKE, California TOM, STAN and others are smiling in agreement/approval!
Well (back to full after three days of heavy thunder-boomers all night long) I've got two, probably three Des Moines trips coming up this week with two baseball teams heading for the State Tournament. Add to THAT the County Fair to get photos at and it's going to be another busy week of content gathering.
Take care one and all, best wishes to all in need...
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Ken- I didn't use a grass mat although in the pictures it looks like it. I used WS ground cover. It took about 25 hours to do the layout.
Jeff- That is a great job on that boxcar on WPF.
Stan- All those pictures are amazing.
One thing I just got doing was installing track pans on my mains with the color coded targets (white for entrance and yellow for exit) for my steam locomotives.
Have a good evening.
Evenin' folks!
Flo, just a decaf for me at the moment...
It is, for the first time in 4 days below 70°F here in the Finger Lakes. It is also the first time the air conditioners have been tuned off a window opened in the last week...... Currently 69°F with a low of 66° overnight. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! The high was 83° today and it was a very pleasent Summer's day out at the Rochester and Genesee Valley RR Museum. Good crowd with lots of questions. Many of the people were attending a party at the other museum and of course came down on the Trolley and took the track cars to our end. Our Membership chair knew about an "interested" crowd so he stopped over and set up a small display of membership materials. Ended up getting a few new members out of it.
Have been doing a few odds and ends here tonight but mostly just resting for a change. Think I will sleep in tomorrow.........
Hope all of you have a great night!
Good evening..
Curt ... Your layout looks good.
Ken ... Nice pictures of a rusted locomotive from the guy who hates rust.
Ray ... Glad it was a good day at the museum.
Stan ... Impressive paintings... Where did you say the museum is located. Wish I could see your paintings in person.
I think we need to round up some MIA's here. JimCG, Duke, Vincent, PC, Dick, several others ... Where are you?
Chamomile tea, please.
***Barry, that inside the engine room pic is amazing!
***Ken, excellent paintings!
Have a good night all.
Morning all.
Ken- Sorry, no steamers. I was at those two units three weeks ago while out doing some sightseeing with a group of railfans from another forum. The photos from THAT whole last set (SRNJ) were from THAT day, along with the next set (which will start an the end of this post) from the Cape May Seashore Lines.
Ulrich, great w**k on THAT module!
Curt, neat layout you have there! How big is it? And when and where is it set?
Barry, THAT's a great photo of those hoppers! I really like that angle.
Well, it's getting late. Or, is it getting early... Hmm... Either way, I better head out. Catch you later!
-Joe
The historic Tuckahoe tower along the Cape May Seashore Lines in Tuckahoe, NJ. This is where the Cape May Seashore Lines separates from the Conrail Beesley's Point Secondary.
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79: How hot it will feel here in Northern Ohio today… Much better than the past few days!
Jeff, that is good news, hopefully the un-loader brace will make life easier on you.
Johnboy, I replied to you on Saturday, see if I’m sitting in the junk email bin.
Busy weekend for me; Saturday I picked up a computer for a friend, went to Sam’s Club and bought a bunch of food stuff, then went to Dorothy’s and patched a garage rafter with a couple 2 x 4 x 8’s. Then Sunday I spent a half day (12hrs) at a health and environmental fair manning a booth for the USCG as a volunteer. I need the warm weather to assemble some backdrops for the layout and build a few shelves and stuff in the train room. Some of my friends may need to fend for themselves in August so I can get my stuff done, LOL.
Good morning. It's 79° and cloudy. The high will be 96° and there's a 50% chance of rain for the late afternoon.No planes for today as I have no idea what's going on with my father's car yet. I don't want to get in the middle of something only to have to put it all down. I also have an appointment tomorrow that I have to prepare for.
Good Morning!! Coffee please. And a caramel roll thank you. ……..Why is Lee sitting in the trash can?…..Waiting for Johnboy? I shouldn‘t have asked. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 89. Yesterday was a bit on the chilly side as will today be. Not used to this, I may have to cover the plants in the evening. No I did not get to the train room yesterday other than to turn on the lights. Which, now that you mention it, I don’t remember turning off. HEY! I think that means the place is waiting for me….
Good Morning!! Coffee please. And a caramel roll thank you.
……..Why is Lee sitting in the trash can?…..Waiting for Johnboy? I shouldn‘t have asked.
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 89. Yesterday was a bit on the chilly side as will today be. Not used to this, I may have to cover the plants in the evening.
No I did not get to the train room yesterday other than to turn on the lights. Which, now that you mention it, I don’t remember turning off. HEY! I think that means the place is waiting for me….
Ken- Well, I don’t think an alignment is the issue per se. However I have learned over the years never rule anything out, especially if it is attached. Loose suspension parts such as idler arm joints, tie rod ends, ball joints, that kind of stuff can cause a wobble which could be felt as what some may describe as a vibration, and could cause the front end to be out of alignment for split seconds at a time then back in and then out and then in….(chuckle) Excessive wear? Have you rotated tires often enough? Or do you pretty much leave the tires where they are. A vehicle runs down the road pidgeon toed in order to go straight, so you will have wear on the outside of the tire as normal. Hence the need to rotate. One should not be significantly more than the other, unless you drive NASCAR or something. Most likely it is in the tire……or wheel bearing.
Usual Monday for me. I hope, again, to get some layout time in. I need to start just doing something every day. Even if it’s pick up a box. Or…straighten something up. Or run a train in a circle. Take a picture....SOMEthing! ANYthing!
At w**k today. It was 80 F when I stepped out the door at 0645 today. Heat index today is supposed to be 105 F.
Joe- The layout is 13' x 8'. The location is Sandusky, OH and to the south toward Columbus. The time frame is the 1940's. I also modeled the fall time frame.
Stan- Very nice photo in the roundhouse, of course it doesn't hurt that the loco's belong to the PRR .
Jeff- I like the black and white contrast on your loco.
Everybody take care.
Good Afternoon!
Zoe, I´ll have a mug of coffee, with milk, but hold the sugar, please.
I woke up with a nagging pain in my left hip. Got worse during the day and now I can hardly move - dang! As a good friend of mine once stated - when you are over 40 and you wake up in the morning without some sort of pain, you are dead.
As I cannot move around, Petra had to the the Monday morning grocery run on her own. That gave me some extra time to put in some w*rk on the module. I added a lot of clump foliage (the big bag lasts a long while, Ken) and now the module starts to look like what I wanted it to be. Sorry, no pictures yet, I have to wait for the glue to set. Still lots to do before it is finished...
Stan - your collection of paintings is just amazing. You should advertise in MR or Trains - I bet there are a lot of folks who would like to own one!
Ken - I am not much of an auto mechanic, but when that vibration is still around after the wheels have been balanced, it must be the shocks which need replacement. That´ll be an expensive undertaking!
One more hint on the tunnel portals - I was not really happy with the looks of those plastic portals, so I placed one of yours in front of it - dang, with a little sanding it just slipped into the niche of the plastic portal. Looks good! About the trees - there will be a little forest on the next module!
Chris - now it is I who is giving a firework of thoughts? Wait until you see the picture of my fourth module, once it´s finished! I have so much fun building these modules and seeing the layout grow, step by step. The nice thing is that the layout always looks finished.
Curt - nice looking layout - I wish I had your space!
Jeff - I am glad Medicaid is approving to you brace. Hopefully this will be of a big help to you.
I received a PM from Stein (steinjr) from Norway, stating that he and his family were not involved in the Oslo bombing attack. Stein was only a few minutes away from the blast and he initially thought it was just thunder. There are still a lot of people missing from the Utoya Island shooting, so the death toll is expected to rise. We keep a prayer candle lit for the victims and their families.
Lot´s of MIA´s these days - where is Jim, John, Bama, Trainman Sam, Ed, others?
Have a good one!