"Thank you for flying LUFTHANSA and have a good day!"
What´s this? Where are we?
Good Morning Folks!
It is October 1st, and I have moved this month´s diner to a new location. This month, we will be touring Germany, starting out in Hamburg. This is what we will do this month:
How´s that for the month of October?
Oh, btw, the old location can be found here
Well it looks like we will have a lot to do here.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Evening all,
It sounds like it is going to be a fun month with quite a bit planned. I finished ballasting today and painting on the "oily residue". I also fixed the ballasting in the coal yard by filling in the areas with WS fine rock then filling it over with the black ballast.
Tomorrow I have to work for 4 hours then I'm going to the train club. I haven't been there for 3 weeks so it will be good to see everyone again.
Simeon- That is a nice coal scene.
Sue- That is a great backdrop that shows real artistic talent.
Garry- Congratulations on being published in MRR. I just saw it today. This is real validation of your modeling ability.
Barry- That is a neat picture of the store/gas station.
Lee- Have fun at the show. I have been disappointed in the local one here the last 2 times I have attended.
Before
After
Everybody have a good night
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Today I got my bills paid, got my loan payment lowered by $23 and got close to $500 to play with, got my groceries and got home without breaking anything. This afternoon I installed a 9-pin DCC harness in a Bachmann FT (cut out all the resistors and capacitors in the process) and got it packed for delivery to it's new home. This evening I'm working on a Front Range GP7 kit. It's about halfway done so far. At this point it's main saving grace is that it has a Mashima motor. I'll have to really tone it down as it's low speed is faster than the fastest Olympic runner and the top speed is somewhere in the realm of warp 8.
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
Curt Webb Garry- Congratulations on being published in MRR. I just saw it today. This is real validation of your modeling ability.
Thanks, Curt!. Iam really HAPPY about how the photo looks. It is my third time in Trackside Photos.
My picture-taking skills were rather poor, but I learned a lot about layout photography from some of the threads in the Model Railroader forum.
Ulrich ! ...... Germany!.... . Okay, where's the apple strudel? Ulrich, that's going to be a great itinerary you arranged. Is there going to be tour guide?
Happy Model Railroading!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Happy October everyone!
Just got caught up from the previous edition of the diner. Now I'm starting off in here for the new edition. I always liked Germany, had an aunt and uncle stationed over here for 14 years at Ramstein Air Base. Even got to come over here myself once as a teen, my aunt and uncle paid for the trip and I loved it. Quite a beautiful country.
Well, not much happening at my house this weekend as Amy is at a women's conference out of town and the girls are with my parents (they gotta spend some time with grandma and grandpa you know). I went and saw the movie Courageous with some friends tonight and all I can say is WOW, its amazing!
Welp, I'd better get off to bed as I DO have to w**k tomorrow morning.
Rob: On your starter diagnosis. The small wire is what runs from the ignition switch and through the Neutral Safety Switch on the transmission. If you have a maintenance manual for it, there should be wiring diagrams in the back, if you don't, let me know and I will get one pulled up and give you the proper wire color that you need to check. Basically sounds like you've got a crapped out ignition switch (not the key half, the electrical half), or possibly the Neutral Safety Switch. You'll know as soon as you chase the wire back from the starter to the NSS, then up to the Ignition switch. Sorry that I'm not any closer to you (IIRC you're in northwestern GA, and I'm in southeastern Alabama). Again, I hope that this helps.
Nine sprechen ze deutsche.
Sprechen ze Englisch?
{hey, just cuz my MIL is German doesn't mean I know more than "nine", "danka shoene","kindergarten", "ich bin ein Berliner" [thanks to President Kennedy} and a few swear words I can't print here!!! I also speak Russian..."Nyet"!!!!}
GOOD MORNING!!!Today is Saturday, October1, 2011!!!!!!
Hold on to your little booties, maties, and warm up the "bier Garten" is gonna start getting chilly!!! {I'll take a glass of fine Rhine wine, please...never did like beer....}
-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.
JUMPING GERMANY, How did we get here?, I must have slept all the way.
One good thing about this location is that we will have one of the best Tourist Guides in the Country, Right Ulrich ???????????? For the time being, tell me where the hot potato salad and bratwurst is ?
In that sauerkraut is there any swebils.? [ check spelling}
I know Petra will have all the desserts ready or will be teaching the new staff how to accommodate us in that area.
I think I'm going to like it here. But I need more sleep.
Catch you all later......
Johnboy out................................and off to dreamland ZZZZzzzzsssss
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Good Morning again!
Just a few reasons why I selected Germany:
Just imagine all of us could do a tour like this! We´d ride in a special train, pulled by a pair of Pacifics! Actually, such a tour was done last year to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the opening of the first railroad in Germany. Must have been quite an experience.
Johnboy - I have never seen Zwiebel (onions) in Sauerkraut. I guess it is just a myth that we eat Sauerkraut all the time - it´s the Polish who live off that stuff.
Galaxy - I am just glad Kennedy did not give his speech in Hamburg . A "Berliner" is also a sweet pastry, filled with jam and covered with sugar glazing - plenty of toothache!
Petra has volunteered to provide the lady´s program - it will be loaded with art, history and cooking.
Have a good one!
Good Morning
Neat digs we found here...I also found something too!!
http://www.rhodes.aegean.gr/maa_journal/3_Liritzis%20et%20al.pdf
http://www.chiemgau-impact.com/
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/comet-04l.html
I came across this piece when doing some research for a friend of mine who is going there to do a little examining of his own there...google this and you find a whole pile of interesting information about this region.
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Well, it is windy and cold out there this morning...44F and winds of up to 50mph expected today, tonight, tomorrow..lasting into tomorrow night...hermetically sealed house is the name of the game here...
Have a weekend on-call that might be a little short today...my throat feels all scratchy ...when that happens, I expect to soon get a cold coming on...
Flo, I'll just have a bucket of OJ and a coffee for now please...I'll be at the RC for a bit..
An engine someone told me was not in a Ford Galaxie....
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/
Evening folks, Can't believe we've made it all the way to Germany in october!
Thanks Ulrich!!
Speaking of FORD GALAXIES we currently have a 72 sitting in the drive way. It is an American built imported and converted to RHD in Australia by Ford Australia. It is a great car. What we can't figure out if it's got a 427 or 460 in it. It also runs on LPG, good fun to drive. I do love those old fords.
Don't know if I'll be doing much work on the layout tomorrow. I'm looking forward to a sleep in tomorrow morning...Tough day of cricket today.
I'm curious, are there any Doctor Who fans around these parts?? I know we have plent of Ziva NCIS fans...
Anywho time for bed.
TTFN
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
Good Morning!! One of them pastries over there please. That “Berliner” sounds like it’s right up my alley. Yup, coffee too. Thanks. Germany huh. Odd with the places I’ve been, Uncle Sam never sent me to Germany. I will not be drinking any beer while I am here however. I have had German beer and quite frankly I don’t care for it. Or at least the ones I’ve had. I don’t like dark beers or anything bitter like Sam Adams. Give me a good cheap Pabst Blue Ribbon or a Lone Star if you got it and I’ll be happy as a pig in new mud. Germans would say I like to drink dish water. I like my dishwater. Barry- I’m not a bettin man, but everything I can see in that picture, radiator, engine, master cylinder, and I think I can make out a basic shape or style of the grille, says a 1963 Galaxie with a 427. And a very nice one at that. Still feelin blah. I don’t know. Kinda run down, tired. Just not myself. Haven’t been that way for a couple three weeks. Thought maybe it was pining for a lost love, then I realized I don’t have one so…..maybe I need to eat more fruit. ANYway, I’ll probably go out and mow Mom’s yard for the hopefully last time, then who knows.
Good Morning!! One of them pastries over there please. That “Berliner” sounds like it’s right up my alley. Yup, coffee too. Thanks.
Germany huh. Odd with the places I’ve been, Uncle Sam never sent me to Germany.
I will not be drinking any beer while I am here however. I have had German beer and quite frankly I don’t care for it. Or at least the ones I’ve had. I don’t like dark beers or anything bitter like Sam Adams. Give me a good cheap Pabst Blue Ribbon or a Lone Star if you got it and I’ll be happy as a pig in new mud. Germans would say I like to drink dish water. I like my dishwater.
Barry- I’m not a bettin man, but everything I can see in that picture, radiator, engine, master cylinder, and I think I can make out a basic shape or style of the grille, says a 1963 Galaxie with a 427. And a very nice one at that.
Still feelin blah. I don’t know. Kinda run down, tired. Just not myself. Haven’t been that way for a couple three weeks. Thought maybe it was pining for a lost love, then I realized I don’t have one so…..maybe I need to eat more fruit.
ANYway, I’ll probably go out and mow Mom’s yard for the hopefully last time, then who knows.
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.
(door flies open, comes sliding in like a Kramer entrance ) Someone say Ziva!? Where!? Oh.
Aussie Jim- Providing the engine in your Galaxie is one of those two only, the best way to tell, or possibly the easiest, is to look at the block. If the bottom of the block where the oil pan attaches is about even with the center of the crankshaft, or bottom pulley on th efront of the engine, It is a 460. Of those two. If the bottom of the block extends lower than the pulley say by a few inches, making the block without the pan look like a "Y" from the end it is a 427. No expert by any stretch so that's about all I know about those. Other than, evn though I'm a Chrysler guy, I sure wouldn't turn down a 427.
EDIT: (ahem) sorry. By "below the pulley" I meant below the center of the pulley. Or about even with the bottom of the Dampner.
Good Morning all of you guys in the diner, I just wanted to pop in and tell you all how much I enjoy following your post. You all seem like a great bunch of people! I really like the way you try and help each other. It's fun for me to see what each of you are up too. Anyway thanks for letting me snoop on you all. I hope you all have a great weekend!! Thanks, Thayne
Morning Folks
Flo, coffee please
Barry I knew what the engine was as soon as I saw the air clearer. Same engine I had in my Cobra Mustang. In 68 Shelby and Ford where fighting and Ford did not want to lose out in SCCA racing. So they started making Cobra Mustangs. They only made 500 of them and most i think came with 428's. The first 50 of the cars did get the 427's and I had one of them.
Jame's Ford here in the states stop making the 427 in 1967 (reason only 50 of them where used in the 68 Cobra Mustang) but In The Land Down Under these rules sure don't count! I would guess it would be a 390, I think they where still making them in 1972.
Have you ever seen the Australian Dodge Charger?
They could be had with a In Line 6 Hemi with 3 2 Barrel Carb's. Stock they where 14.5 cars in the quarter and did not take much to get in the 12's.
Ulrich With you being our tour guide this month, are you going to post some pictures of the highlights of the tour?
I will see you all later.
Ken
I hate Rust
Guys...my favorite discussion was at a cruise night when someone came in and bellowed abouts that they never put 427's in the Galaxie...I took him to my car and showed him the motor and asked the gentleman whether he even read the manual that came with the car....which I then provided for his 'enlightenment....
Guess he never heard of Ford Thunderbolts!
Morning All,
Only plans today are w**k then the train club. Tomorrow I think I will get the layout Skirt put up correctly. It's just hanging down now. I will try to get around here later tonight.
Folks,
we have arrived at Hamburg, starting point of our journey throughout Germany.
It is the second biggest city in Germany, sporting roughly 2 million inhabitants.
We will tour the port, spend a day at Miniatur Wunderland and will have our dinner at Övelgönner Fährhaus, a traditional fish restaurant, serving the best fish in the world.
Cocktails will be served at the Tower Bar, overlooking Hamburg and the port.
It´s wonderful (wunderbar) to watch the sunset there!
Tomorrow, we will travel to Bremen and on to Bruchhausen-Vilsen, where we do some railfanning along Germany´s first museum train line.
Good morning. It's 55 and sunny. Today's high will be 80 and it will be sunny.Today I'll see if I can get a couple of things sent out. Other than that I'll be working on a Front Range GP7 shell. I mounted Kadee coupler pockets to the chassis and installed Kadee #148's and put a slightly modified Model Power GP7 body on it so it's at least doing something useful. On the other hand it looks good there. I may leave it there.
Guten Morgen miene Freunde!
I'll have a couple of the Bavarian Creme Doughnuts and some dark roast coffee in a local RR mug. Danke.
Nice! So we are on a German Tour huh? Wunderbar! (I can see I'll have to brush up on my German this month a bit... Been about 45 years since I flunked it at Eastman.)
I didn't get home until later after the NAACP Chapter banquet last night. Keynote speaker was one of Geneva's own... Mr. Robert L. Woody, Deputy Secretary Florida Department of Juvenile Justice. He had a powerful message to all of us. Basically, grow up to be a contributing member of society, earn the respect of other people, and give your respect to all deserving people.
Today is cold, dark, and rainy outside. Currently 47°F with a high of 50° later this afternoon. Big thing for today is the 80th. birthday for a dear old friend of mine. She is quite a lady! Known far and wide for her hats... Here she is a year and a half ago at out MLK Scholarship Banquet. She is the little lady with the hat.... Standing behind her and to the left is Arun Gandhi who was our speaker at the event. The others were the scholarship winners (some of my students way back when they were in elementary school and Rev. Golden the President of the MLK committee. I am not in the photo as I was busy taking the photo....
Hope you all have a great day!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good Morning All!
Not much to report from the land of Buckeyes on this cold and damp Saturday morning other then I plan to throw another log on the fire and read a Western novel.Modeling wise I am working on a fun project of souping up a older BB SW1500.
I shall have a cup and look over the forum.
Have a good'un!
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
thortenney Good Morning all of you guys in the diner, I just wanted to pop in and tell you all how much I enjoy following your post. You all seem like a great bunch of people! I really like the way you try and help each other. It's fun for me to see what each of you are up too. Anyway thanks for letting me snoop on you all. I hope you all have a great weekend!! Thanks, Thayne
Well Thayne!
There are other "lurkers" here who follow our banter and amuse themselves at our expense I am sure...You are welcome to join us...
sit down and have a or a {if you are old enough} and a piece of or if you like....
The rules are fairly simple...shall we rehash the rules for you and any other newbies or lurkers???
The diner is open to all, no dues or fees to get in. The diner food has no calories so you may eat what you want when you want and all you want. The guy who gets to the Top of the page post "pays" for all the other diner's meals on that page for as long as the page lasts. The waitresses are pretty and great at serving your meals in a timely fashion. They DO deserve a 15-20% tip don't forget! Or you will be met at the door byour bouncer...Cousin Vinny hangs around to keep peace. No pinching the waitresses!!!The diner is both heated and airconditioned for our comfort no matter where in the world it may be. It Does generally travel teh USA, though, with some side trips to Canada . We just "came from" Canada and are now in Germany. The diner only lasts a month before the new one is started. That is to save bandwidth teh folks at Kalmbach tell us. The lucky person who gets to move it picks where it will go next, often on the suggestions of others.
We DO try to help each other, and are a place where there is NO judgemental conditions here. Stay away from "inflamatory subjects" such as politics, religion, who has the biggest or best layout....stuff like that that can turn into a flame war! We are peace lovers here. ALso...NO FOUL LANGUAGE or any "squiggles" {%8##(!!} or any other reference to a swear word.....the word "work" here is a four letter word and is usually spelled "W**K" to eliminate the "sting" of THAT dirty word!!!
SOme like to sit in a booth, others prefer to hang out at the "rivet Counter" for counter service, "RC" for short. The Kalmbach folks are pretty loose in what they allow in the diner....it is the only place to connect and chat about our life....all other posts must be about railroading or MRRing.
Try also to limit photo inserts to one or two per post and Kalmbach prefers they be of a Railroading or modern railroading {MRRing} in nature. SOme guys have been called on the carpet for misposting photos of -er-ah "other things" {even food pics are taboo} not of a railroading nature and NO ONE wants to be called on the carpet by the Kalmbach folks.
that's about it for the rules.
So, again, !!!
Afternoon all, I'll have a please, and by all means keep them coming.....
Today has been one ginormous clustergaggle! First things first, Amy calls me from Birmingham (she's at a women's conference/retreat) and the car won't start. I get off with her, call my boss tell him I can't make it. He tells me that there's already been one call out and we can't have two on the same day (and with me being a member of management, its also my responsibility to be there). So I grumble, gripe, and show up to work. I then call my relief, whom is supposed to be there at 4 this afternoon to come in as soon as he humanly can and let me go to fix the car. He finally returns my call at noon (by this time my FIL was there awaiting for me to get off work so we could ride up there together and fix the car), and tells me that he has to take a shower, make 2 phone calls, then he'd be in.....THREE HOURS LATER! He shows up, all apologetic saying he'd fallen asleep, yadda, yadda. By now my FIL is almost in Birmingham and now I'm off w**k and home waiting to hear if I have to go up there and help out....AFTER THE FACT
All right, all right, that's enough venting for me. I think I'm going to hang out right here at the RC and try to relax.
Extra strong coffee TO GO, please.
***Curt, like the layout pics. Nice work!
***Bama, I do not have any kind of manual for the truck. I looked around the tranny but couldn't identify the right plug. Hope your wife was able to get back on the road without much trouble.
***Ken, is that Charger lowered for racing or is it just the way it looks sitting in the grass?
Where has this day gone? Have hardly accomplished anything. Best do some outside work until dark. Have a good one y'all.
Rob
Rob: Thanks for your concern. She hasn't gotten back on the road yet, but I do have a pretty good idea of what's wrong with it. Its the theft-deterrent system in the Camaro that's gone bad. Speaking of which....on your truck when you shove the key into the ignition and try to start it, does the "Security" light on it stay on steady, or blink at you? If it stays on steady, then we're okay and can continue on with "regular" diagnosis of the starting system. If it blinks at you, THEN you've also got a GM theft-deterrent system problem that'll have to be solved. Speaking of which, you should be able to trace the color of the wire from the small terminal on the starter back through the wiring harness on the truck to the Neutral Safety Switch. If the truck is an automatic, it'll be on the driver's side of the transmission and will be located behind the arm that the shift cable attaches to. If its a manual, then we've got more to look for because for the life of me I can't remember where it is.
I'm all relaxed and cool and calm and collected at this point, guess I'll actually check out things around here and see what's happening.
Evening Folks
Flo, please. (you folks never saw that coming did you)
Rob I never seen one in person, but they sat pretty low. Not a bad looking little car. I think if you did around on U Tube you find some video's about them.
Been a pretty boring day, only thing I did was cut the front grass.
See you all later.
Todd: Thanks for that. Just went and had a look with the old man, definately a 460.
Ken: Sure have heard of those Aussie ones. My old man owned two when he was about 19. He has owned alot of cars. The one he regrets selling is a Chrysler Valiant Charger E48. It cost him about $8,000 back in the 80's, they are now worth alot more. I think this is the same as the one you posted a pic of as it had 3 two barrel weber carbys and had a four speed manual box.
It looked something like this one )
P.S welcome Thayne, please make yourself known!!
P.P.S looking at the two photos Ken they are the same car which is definitely a Chrysler!! Chryslers here originally started out as imported Plymouths in the 60's, ceasing production in 1985.
Anyway, time to get out of bed...