Ladies and Gentlemen - last order, please!
This place is about to get closed and it will stay closed for the month of October, as Vinnie and the girls have decided to give it a major overhaul to be ready for the upcoming winter season.
There will be a bus service waiting outside for transport to the new location, so you will not have to miss this place, where friends meet & chat.
Last night in IL ...
Let's have CHICAGO STYLE STUFFED PIZZA for supper!
I made one suggestion for October's location. Anybody else have ideas?
I hope to get more done on my layout project this evening.
Cheers.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Morning folks, just a quick stop in before a long day of cricket.
Probably won't be back in until the move is done to October. See you there!!
TTFN
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
Cederstrand ***Jeffrey, check your regular e-mail, please. Thanks!
***Jeffrey, check your regular e-mail, please. Thanks!
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
Extra strong coffee in a SUNNY SOUTHERN mug, please.
***Ulrich, that's a heck of a sweet loco for $30.
Had hay delivered today. Good thing our neighbor doesn't know our pickup won't start, or he might charge us more. Actually, he's a fair man and handed me $20 back for one bale he felt wasn't as full as the others. Looked fine to me.
Rob
Afternoon Folks
Flo, yep and thank you.
Ulrich Was that engine made by Buick? Looks like a Road Master Hood Emblem! For $30.00 and if you can afford it, seems like a good deal. By the way, you have a PM from me.
Well sure cannot complain about the weather down here in Maryville IL, it is simply beautiful out side. Cool 68 degrees and all the tress are still green and the flowers look great. Doing a early BBQ, pick up some good looking steaks that where fairly priced. Now if they taste fairly well we will be happy, other wise get a refund. Last steaks I bought from Shop and Save the Wolfhound had a hard time chewing!
Model Supplies Picked up some paint to cover the rest of the pink foam and some gray to start working on the cliffs again. If I have not posted about doing work on the layout say in a few days give me some grief. I need to get off my dead butt and start doing something besides staring at TV and the Computer monitor!
Well, I am going to go bug the folks in the DCC section.
Later.
Ken
I hate Rust
Rain is coming down in sheets of rain.
Ulrich, Winston has a picture book; I think it’s called the last days of steam. A friend gave it to me for Christmas a few years ago. Great book!
Tom, I’ll be the guy wearing the orange Coast Guard hat, if you see me stop and introduce yourself! I’ll be storming the gates Saturday Morning, LOL. Yea I-71 would be your exit.
Sue those backdrops are vey nice.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe I'll have the #2 special this morning with bacon..... Don't forget the dark roast coffee as well!
Galaxy, glad you are still treading water..... Much the same weather here only less..... Currently gloomy and chilly outside, 64°F with high high later today of 63°F (THAT is what it says on the weather forecast!). Next several days it won't even reach 50° with everything between showers and rain. Guess Fall is catching up with us.
I will continue to bring in the winter squash from the garden as well as do some laundry (giving me some train time) today before I have to put on the "Sunday go to meeting" clothes for the banquet.
Catch you all later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Hmmmmmmmmmm.... "Where were you when the lights went out?".... .... "I don't know, Ulrich turned them back on." ...
Good morning everybody.
Good to see the progress with Sue and Larry's layout.
Ulrich .... I'm glad you explained what was on top of the locomotive. Prices for used or second hand model trains are getting Reasonable.
Jeff ... You, too are getting trains at low prices. I like the old Atlas FP7's and still have two in Northern Pacific ........... (Shhhhhhhhh ... Don't tell Sue, the NP fan.)
Galaxy ... Yoru furnace guy paid top dollar. New "built ups" are teh expensive way to do it.
My Union Station project is moving right along, and I may have more pictures of it in a day or two. Next project is the downtown area of my big city. .... Then, I'll get back to converting older sections to DCC ....... Then..... well.... a zillion other projects wait me.
It's already end of September. Amazing how time flies. Thanks to the Illionis Diners for hosting the Diner in September. ..... I suggest we have Chicago style deep dish pizza tonoght for the last meal in IL.
October? .... Where? ..... How about place where we may enjoy fall colors? We have some diners in Pennsylvania.,,,, What do you thinj? Shall we go to the Keystone State?... East Broad Top RR..... Pennslylvania Railraod Museum.... Horseshoe Curve ........ and more. ... Any thoughts from anyone else?
Sir Madog Galaxy - my for you folks in the Susquehanna flood area!
Galaxy - my for you folks in the Susquehanna flood area!
Well, It seems "good Lord willin' and tfhe creeks don't rise" is happening..He must be willing! Cuz the creeks AREN'T risin' today.
We ahve had some breaks and actually right now the SUN is Shining!!! WEll, it just went behind a cloud....
But that means the rivers ad creeks have a chance to "settle down" before reaching anymore flood stages...
Still people around here are nervous! ANd the forecast still calls for rain for the next 5 days!
So..it remains to be seen if more than Schnurbush park in Conklin will flood.....
With all the mix-ups here the pharmacies that DIDN'T FLOOD and Dr.s have had a time filling in prescriptions...have had 3 messed up on me.. wrong # of times a day is taken for the # in the bottle... got to clear them up!
Later guys got groceries to put away.
Later
-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.
Sue - I played a little with your picture, just for the fun of it:
Not really a nighttime shot anymore ...
I thought that I would experiment with a night time photo here. You guys are more forgiving than the general public.
Here is the park that Larry painted. The brick retaining wall with a walkway is the one that I need a railing on.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Lee - I've been to that show a couple of times, and I'm hoping to get up there sometime this weekend. It's about a 2 hour drive, but an easy one. I get on I-279 about a mile from my house, and it's all interstate until about what, 3 or 4 blocks after getting off I-71? Don't really need anything, but I like looking anyway.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Good Afternoon Folks!
Out of the STALAG! Only 3 more days until the exam - time to stick my nose into a book? No. We wrote 6 tests to exercise, and I passed all of them. The worst grade I got was 95%
Just watched my favorite show on TV - Railroad Romance. They had a very nice feature on a bloke named O. Winston Link, who documented the last days of steam on the N&W. The feature included some spectacular footage and pictures of N&W´s J´s and Y´s. I remember seeing some of these pictures in TRAINS, including the one of a drive-in cinema with a freight train passing in the back.There is a O Winston Link museum in Roanoke, VA., which seems to be worth a visit. Next month´s location?
I have been offered this loco:
It´s a Kato C 57 Pacific with a funny cinder trap on the smoke stack. I have no real use for it on my electric line, but´s a nice little loco and a real bargain for $ 30. Need to talk to Petra to free up the cash from the household money
The weekend will not so much of a MRRing activity. I am running out of material (and cash), but I will make some plans for the next module. It will have a depot as the main "attraction" - to house my EMU (and maybe another one in the future).
Have a good one!
gear-jammer Jeffery, Thanks for sharing a loco photo from my side of the world. Who is the manufacturer?
Jeffery, Thanks for sharing a loco photo from my side of the world. Who is the manufacturer?
Good morning, Chloe. Coffee and one of those cinnamon rolls with lots of frosting, please. Once it is daylight, I plan to kill some stubborn weeds that insist on growing in the driveway. It is not my favorite project, but someone needs to do it.
Ken, That job opportunity seems like a great place to advance. I hope the interview goes well.
Good Morning All,
I had to turn the furnace on this morning.
Saturday and Sunday at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds in Berea, OH is the NMRA Div 4 train show. 5 barns of train stuff!
Good morning. It's 69° and sunny. The high will be 83° and partly cloudy.This morning I'll be busy with the once a month task of paying bills. I can pay most of them from right here but there are a couple of places that insist on remaining in the stone age and want to be paid face to face. There's also the first half of the grocery shopping to get done not to mention the wallet emptying act of buying gas for the van. Later there's something I have to do. It seems there's a Union Pacific FP7 on my layout that's screaming to get patched. The Pennsy FP7 on behind it will also get it's patch.
Morning Folks!
Flo, just coffee.
Cost of Rolling Stock All I can say is thank goodness I got into the hobby while there where still Athearn BB kits available. I have around 250 cars, at $26.95 it would have cost me $6737.50 just for the cars? I know there is a lot of complaining about the cost of stuff. But, the prices increases in model train stuff is amazing! 6 years ago, Atlas Flex track $2.25, now $4.25 (I was told it was going up again) I thought $14.00 was to much at the time for Athearn RTR rolling stock, seems cheap now.
I just got wondering what it would cost to replaces all the items I have in today dollars? Maybe $15,000.00?
Oh well, what are you going to do? Right Galaxy!
Jeffery Thanks about the reminders on the brass blocks, I have all ready looked at them and they do look a little slimy. I am thinking first thing is make sure the metal plate on the truck is making a good contact with the frame. Then ( will see it first) make sure the wire did not break off the truck tower.
See you all later.
blownout cylinder Galaxy: yeah...what you gonna do....love that phrase..I suggest checking out the online stores..usually...unfortunately that really nails the LHS good and hard though. I've been watching some of those doppler radar things down your way...the bloody rain just keeps on a coming ...
Galaxy: yeah...what you gonna do....love that phrase..I suggest checking out the online stores..usually...unfortunately that really nails the LHS good and hard though. I've been watching some of those doppler radar things down your way...the bloody rain just keeps on a coming ...
Yeah, that storm is just sitting circulating and raining and raining and raining....It is the outer band that is banging us so hard...the storm is SUPPOSED to move in over us and pass on by...BUT dropping rain as it does!!! If it were over New England and NY. even PA states and were snowing instead it would be called a "nor'easter".
It just doesn't seem to stop!!! The rain that is...
They say flooding will be less this year...though Schnurbush Park in COnklin is aready under water...but it is the first "green space" to flood in that area. A green space is a palce that must remain open to fooding but must be used for things like recreation parks, ball fields, etc where the damage is minimal and no houses are lost. Were ever Conklin got money from FEMA last time {I think is was FEMA} to buy out those flooded house properties can never again be built for housing! That would destroy aobut a good percentage of the towns and cities around here though and leave LOTS of {useless} parks! But maybe that is what we need...
The last major flooding {besides moderate 05 and 06 major flood} was Hurricane Agnes in 1972, before that the "old timers" remember the "great flood of 1930-something. This time was Massive flooding. Much like the midwest got when the snow melted this spring....
I don't know yet what will happen. I know houses "done up" in the flood zones will be sold cheaply. Even those that have been stripped but still in good shape are seelling cheap. One house I saw on the Real Estate listings was going for a whole $18,000.00. It was flooded both in 06and now in 11. Houses on the higher hill sides or far enough away from the rivers, creeks and dikes will sell higher now. SOme houses have had their foundations undermined and will need to be destroyed.
Sad.
They also need to dredge the rivers and creeks around here to lower teh bottom of the river...it washes down sediment everyt time we get hard rains, flood or not and that mud is hard to clean up in a flooded house!
I hope the rain gives a break today...but rain is forecasted for the next 5 days!!!
Good Morning!! Coffee and an egg sandwich please. Thanks. Sunny, with a high near 65. Suppose to be back in the mid to upper 70’s next week. Usual stuff today. Nothing spectacular. Ya’ll have a Great Day!!!
Good Morning!! Coffee and an egg sandwich please. Thanks.
Sunny, with a high near 65. Suppose to be back in the mid to upper 70’s next week.
Usual stuff today. Nothing spectacular.
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
Ray, Rob: One of my neighbours has an old beaten on 1972 Chev long box pick up that regularly backfires and sends out thick grey smoke whenever he uses it...the long box was not even part of the original truck..and it does flap around as well....the thing is rather funny to watch..maybe not so much if one is BEHIND it!!!
We are supposed to get some of that stuff today as well..a lovely day to go doing one's shopping in...
Got a bunch of things that need done here..housework, paperwork for work, runnin' 'roun' doin' stuff...sheesh. I may actually get a chance to go and run some trains later...
Flo, I'll have a coffee and a stack of pancakes with real maple syrup please..no not that other gloop..the real syrup...sheeesh...I'll be at the RC for a bit.
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/
cudaken Evening Folks! Went to K-10 Model Trains... But what really SHOCKED me is Athearn RTR cars have now hit $26.95 each? I wonder why few people are getting into the hobby? You buy your son a train set, he wants a 2 more cars, dad finds out that will set him back $48.00 for 2 cars? Here son, let buy a new video game. Oh, I forgot that is about the same cost of a new game.
Evening Folks!
Went to K-10 Model Trains... But what really SHOCKED me is Athearn RTR cars have now hit $26.95 each? I wonder why few people are getting into the hobby? You buy your son a train set, he wants a 2 more cars, dad finds out that will set him back $48.00 for 2 cars? Here son, let buy a new video game. Oh, I forgot that is about the same cost of a new game.
The man who installed our furnace asked about my HO trains and if I used them often. I told him I was in the process of tearing down my old one and the small layout in the LR was for the xmass tree..it just never got worked on...
He said he went to a local {to him living in the same town} train shop, which usually carries an abundance of Lionel O guage, and he bought 2 HO scale buildings {built ups} for his 4 year old son and it cost him $85 dollars!!! FOr just 2 buildings...I said "I wouldn't have paid that, but I suppose your boy had his heart set on them"...to which he replied "yeah, what are you gonna do...." I told him to check on online at wholesaletrains.com and their brick in mortar store in Horseheads, NY. They would be cheaper in the store at least for him, I think! The prices in their store are a bargain and you don't pay shipping, but you have spent shipping in gas to get there....I live 45 mins away to the E of the store, the furnace man lives even further E of me by a long shot...aobut another 1/2 to the east...
SOme of the stuff amazes me at what prices they are coming in at...Even used cars are coming in higher! {in some rare cases even higher than the cost of a new one but people are so engrained into thinking used is cheaper that they don;t look at new prices...}
*sigh* as my father says {at least aobut needed items like gas and groceries and utilities "what are you gonna do, you're gonna have to pay it..."
GOOD MORNING!!!
Today is Friday September 30, 2011!!!
Been a busy day for me. I hard wired an F7B onto a previously hard wired pair of F3's then wired together two Atlas FP7's back to back. The size of the wires are a bit bigger than I'd like but they'll do. The wiring together of the FP7's makes up for the inconsistent pickup of the newer unit so both locos now run great together even though they have Bachmann decoders. I still have a pair of Bachmann GP30's and a pair of Bachmann GP7's to wire into permanent consists but I need much thinner wire. When I get my hands on some 30 AWG wire I'll be able to proceed.
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a decaf for me.... Ate way too much for supper!
Rob, the large nut and the heavy cable attached to it (at least on all the tractors and ancient trucks I used to work on as a kid) goes straight back to the battery and is hot all the time. That is what actually provides the large amount of electric current needed to crank the engine. The other one, the one you have no voltage with, powers the selenoid (sp.) on the starter that engages the starter. No power to that, and you don't crank the engine...... Jeffrey is right on in his diagnosis! Worst case scenario, you just bypass the whole key thing for the starter and put a momentary switch (aka: pushbutton) in line and it should start..... THAT's what we used to do back on the farm...... Since you're down in redneck country, what the hey!
I spent the evening in the train room! YES!!! Got a grade crossing almost done, finished some plaster for scenery, and then painted an area which has to get done before I start putting in more hills and buildings which would prevent easy access to the spot...... I also took several gallon plastic bags of beans, peppers, and broccoli down the Community Lunch Program, filled the Yaris with gas, and sorted some photos I need to print for an 80th. birthday party for one of Geneva's greatest ladies on Saturday. I will have to get them finished tomorrow during the day as I will be at a banquet tomorrow night.
Galaxy? You still treading water?
Hope you all have a great night!
Morning folks, Been a few pages since I stopped by.
I have a few bills to pay over the next couple of weeks, but I'm still putting a few bucks aside to purchase a DCC system by november and a few decoders to convert a few locomotives, I hope to convert my 9 Kato locomotives by christmas and the rest soon after. I will be only buying DCC locomotives from now on as the cost of buying the loco + the decoder works out to be roughly $5 less than buying it equipped with DCC, As i'm time poor the extra $5 is worth it for me. I will consider adding sound down the track too.
I've figured out I need another 6 structures for my small town on the layout. One of them I'm going to scratchbuild. I need a modern gas station and I don't want to pay $65 for the one offered by Summit USA. I might even scratchbuild a KFC or McDonalds as well. I figure I can make a good looking gas station for about $20 in materials (styrene etc.) and have fun building it too.
anyway back to w*rk
Cederstrand ***Jeffrey: OK, with the testers black probe touching the frame and the red probe on the Starter wire (the one attached by the large nut) I get a 12 volt reading whether the key is turned or not. That doesn't seem right, does it? Moving the red probe to the small wire attached by the small nut, there is no voltage reading period, including when the key is turned. At least as best I can tell with fumbling hands in dwindling light while being attacked by skeeters, which drives me nuts. Will test again in better light tomorrow. -Rob
***Jeffrey: OK, with the testers black probe touching the frame and the red probe on the Starter wire (the one attached by the large nut) I get a 12 volt reading whether the key is turned or not. That doesn't seem right, does it? Moving the red probe to the small wire attached by the small nut, there is no voltage reading period, including when the key is turned.
At least as best I can tell with fumbling hands in dwindling light while being attacked by skeeters, which drives me nuts. Will test again in better light tomorrow. -Rob