GOOD MORNING!!!
Today is Thursday September 1, 2011!!!
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Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Good morning all....Ah Chicago the windy city everyone hold on to your engineers hats! Flo a cup of coffee and a bowl of Frosted flakes...what? ok some Captian Crunch then
L&N.....Gone but not forgotten
Hi Guys and Gals (that's for you Sue),
Well it is a rainy night here on the Canadian prairies, they say it will stay that way all through tomorrow as well.
This is a great location for the Diner this month, but hope you all enjoyed your Canadian August Sightseeing trip. Sure didn't take long to get to Chicago. (Union)..
I finally got back to the train room this afternoon. I had developed a problem with a tunnel liner on my long eight foot mountain (portal to portal). I hate to say it, BUT, you know that access that I didn't build in originally >>well I had to do it to get in to fix the problem. For years I never had any problem in that hidden section, but I think when we had the house settle 1 5/8 inches a couple of years ago and then the mud jacking to repair it all contributed to the change in alignment of that liner and it would usually catch the third or forth car westbound. Running eastbound it was fine. It is hard to understand why it would miss the first few cars and it didn't matter the length of them. It would catch on a 40 fotter as well as a passenger car.
SO, out with the DREMEL, and the access I now have--- and the repair is made and all works well.Also adjusted the track elevation in a couple of spots. There were no issues with those spots other than I didn't like the look of them. It showed up the most when running my A-B-A set of PAs pulling a string of lightweight smooth sides. (DRG&W) I know, I know, most of the LM&E is WP.
I think tomorrow (if it is still raining) I might start to carve the river into the scene. This will be the Feather River at the point of the Honeymoon Tunnels.
I have to work again this week-end so you folks know what that means ???? That's right, I have to come up with another history lesson for you. So stay tuned, I'll try to find a good lesson.
It is now past my bedtime and I bet Ulrich is up and getting ready to attend Col. Klink's Class. Hope that is going well for you.
Our thoughts and prayers are with all those enduring Mother Nature's Rath this summer.. It has been quite a year. Hope FEMA finds some more money for you.
There sure has been some fantastic modelling being displayed lately, I hope to do the same before too long.
Good Night Ladies. Time for some ZZZZzzzzssss.s.s
Johnboy out............................for now
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
...grabbed the handrail just in time to make the move "Hobo style". Speaking of which, seems there should be a Hobo Smilie, but I see none. Anyway, while I'm here, how about some good ol' chicken soup, please.
My dad was moved to an extended care facility the other day. At his age, I can't say it looks very promising for him.
Planted 10 more fence posts today. Progress is good. May need a day off tomorrow.
Hope y'all are doing well.
Cheers! Rob
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. Good choice ULRICH!
http://youtu.be/q-dr25O5z1s
I always wanted me a ride in a CNW SD40-2...
Good evening!
Plate of cheeseburgers with a bucket of Coke please 'n thank-ya, THAT-is, if the kitchen is up and running again yet.
Well (full from yesterday's rains), another day of creating content for THAT Editor, and adding one more part to an Intermountain PS 4750 covered hopper. Yup. ONE part. I for the very life of me, have no idea how those Chinese pump these things out like they do. Just to attach one brace, from the slope sheet to the side ladder, took well over an hour. Now some of THAT time was spent FINDING the brace after it rocketed out of the tweezers. And then again when it dropped out of my fat fingers. Seems THAT after considerable effort searching the floor, where it "just had to have landed," I found it accidentally. I bumped the chunk of sprue with two more braces, and viola! the missing part magically appeared! Seems it landed just perfectly into/onto the sprue from whence it originated.
I swore these hopper kits off a few years ago, but I "need" a lot more PS 4750 hoppers in my grain fleet...and I've got two undecorated kits waiting to replace already repainted Athearn foobies...so I'm biting the bullet again. I just can't wait to attempt to attach the air lines on the "B" end... Just attaching the brake valve to a brace took 10 minutes and a dozen tries. It finally just sorta slipped into position...not sure what I did THAT I didn't do the first 11 times.
The trucks/wheels are destined to become trackside junk. A replacement set with correct 36" steel wheels will be on the next Walthers order.
I'll grab a seat at the freshly shined up RC and see who makes it in...
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Greetings all!
Flo, bacon cheeseburger, fries and chocolate milk-shake for me please in the smoking session.
Tomorrow is my last day of work until the 12th as I'm going with my family on a vacation to Atlantic Beach in North Carolina, depending on the weather. I'm not thrilled to miss three days of work but the vacation is a much needed break after working hard, studying hard and just getting a bit worn from my scene here in Dutch country.
My latest project has been to "rehab" an old Westside N&W CH caboose with correct trucks and end railing parts from an Atlas Trainman caboose. The model as delivered had crude "air-hoses", incorrect trucks and had been missing several end railing parts (likely why it didn't cost a load). The smoke-stack flopped around so a well placed drop of CA fixed that. I also swapped the air-hoses for Cal-Scale plastic ones I have though think I might replace them one day with brass ones. New couplers, some touch up with paint and it's looking better. Later additions will be a set of Tomar Adlake markers, painted yellow of course. After doing this, I am thinking that if I want a model as a good stand-in for a fleet of N&W steam-era cabooses the Atlas Trainman model with a few new details, paint and lettering would work for me.
Alvie
Hey lookit, we moved! Ahh, I see that we're in the Chicago area, great choice, and lots of rail action to boot. I think I'll help Vinnie and the girls with spiffing the place up before everyone else starts piling in.
Good Morning Folks,
it´s September 1st, 2011 and the diner has been moved to its new location for the month. We are a back in the US. After a thrilling trip throughout Canada, I thought a more "stationary" location could be nice for a change.
Our diner rests on the tracks of the Illinois Railroad Museum in Union, Ill.
Have a good time!