Kinda noisy here tonight. The wind is NNE at 10 mph with gusts to 20. A piece of old corrugated vinyl panel hits the front slope of the roof during the gusts and makes a thunk, thunk, thunk sound. Not loud but enough I can hear it without it being irritating. At least there's no rain in the forecast tonight.Tired tonight. It's been a busy day for me, so it's time to hit the sack. See y'all tomorrow.
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Heartland Division CB&Q Lion ..... If I understood corectly, you areselling black cows on day after Thanksgiving. Is that your version of "black Friday"?
Lion ..... If I understood corectly, you areselling black cows on day after Thanksgiving. Is that your version of "black Friday"?
Well, all of the cows go on sale on black Friday, but then, all of our cows happen to be black.The sales ring said that Black Friday would be a good day for a dispersion sale. All of the wives will visit the malls and stores, and all of the guys have to do something, they may as well go to the sales ring.
She comes home with a new pocket book, and he comes home with 20 new cows.
But I am a city boy, and I like my cows rare and on a plate.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a decaf for me right now. I'll be relaxing by the stove in the back.
Galaxy, yes, it has been a long day for me as well.
The funeral service for the 11 year old boy filled the church to standing room only. Went well considering most of the time I had to guess what was going to happen next and what needed to be turned on or shut off on the board.... People always just assume that the sound guy can just read their minds and come up with what they need.... Also had a mike, the podium mike, start popping and humming... Sounded like a short somewhere in the line. This happened once before a couple months back and we were not ever able to reproduce the problem to be able to solve it. Lucky our hand held radio mike was right there, and we finished the service with that. I am convinced it is in the mike itself as it was still acting up when I put it into a different channel on the board and before the guy switched out the cord and line to the board and it continued. I did hear that one of our members was fiddling with it after church last Sunday... this is an old dairy owner who has dabbled in small portable sound systems for a (Country) Gospel Quartet in the church. He knows just about enough about pro sound to be dangerous around expensive equipment.......
I spent about an hour and a half creating a vCard file for the emails of all the NMRA Division membership so I could send out the monthly newsletter as the email from our website wasn't working the last few days. Found 7 of the emails i have bounced back to me saying they are not working email addresses. A couple of them I know were working a while ago. One is the email of a gentleman who has served o the region board and is one of my people I lean on for advise.... He was not in good health a few months ago and hope he is OK. Of course, as soon as got the email sent out, the list owner got in touch and let me know he is upgrading his servers. His new servers can't read the software for the email thing so he is setting us up with a Yahoo Group..... Hopefully that will be useful.
Actually got a few minutes to do a bit more on the brickwork for the powerhouse structure this evening.... Not much but at least something.
Hope you all have a great night!
G'Nite Galaxy!
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Evening all. Just stopping in for a RBF before bed. Had an interesting day today. Of course I had to w**k, that went well, although it was wiper blade day, aside from being the normal Wednesday truck day. Rained pretty well here, had severe weather just to the north and northeast of us (Montgomery, AL, and Auburn, AL respectively). Never got too bad here, just lots and lots of rain.
Well, that's about it for me, I'm heading off to bed. Goodnight all!
Good evening everybody !
Ray ... That's sad about a funeral for an 11 year old boy.
Lion .... I hope I don't sound too nosey, but you have me wondering. Are you a rancher in ND? I wonder how you became interested in subway modeling. Looks like you are doing great work on the subway laout.
Galaxy.... I'm wondering where the diner is now. Did we pass Paul's ranch in TX, yet? Are we in Texas?
I was born in TX, and I suppose I could comment on TX railraods a bit if we are in TX.
Did you guys know one of the orininal Santa Fe Alco PA's is in a museum in TX as of May 2011? Its hulk was moved from Mexico to the US a number of years ago.. There are plans to restore ths Santa Fe Alco.
http://www.museumoftheamericanrailroad.org/News/tabid/61/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/20/Rare-Museum-Locomotive-Arrives-in-Frisco-Texas.aspx
As I said, I was born in TX, but much of my youth was in IL along the CB&Q, but close to the Santa Fe. I saw the Santa Fe Texas Chief many times.
On my layout, I can run the Texas Special (Frisco-Katy) and the Texas Zephyr (Burlington's C&S and FW&D). I can also put together a version of the Texas Chief.
Here is a Katy PA1 meeting a Burlington (C&S) E5.
An older photo of my Texas Special.
This train can be the Texas Chief with FM passenger units (Erie Builts)
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
GOOD MORNING!!!
Today is Thursday, November 17th, 2011!!!
-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.
Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Morning All,
I’m still around, just way behind on the Dinner. I took a few days off to visit my kids up near Utica, MI and have been completely swamped with work. I’m pushing to get caught up on everything by this weekend. I haven’t been able to post at home until I figured out IE9 compatibility mode has to be turned on to read the dinner. ~Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Lee: Some of the other forums I'm on seem to be having issues with FF6/7/8 whatever version they are currently on...Good old Memory Leak.
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Good Morning
CCCOLD!!! 27F and a windchill of 18F out there...with the ever popular chance of snowflurries this afternoon.
I'm going to get some stuff done on the layout today..after I get groceries, pick up prescriptions, buy some basic buys, pay bills, get some honey do's done, check w**k schedule, ....OK...I MAY have a LITTLE bit of time for the trainroom today
Flo, I'll just have a coffee for now please..I'll be at the RC for now.
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/
Morning Folks
Flo, Coffee to go.
Getting ready to head to work, working 9 to 5 today. Still have the bankers hours! Going to be chilly today, it is 29 out now and high will be in the 40's.
Later
Ken
I hate Rust
Holy flaming burnouts Barry!
Good morning All,
58F and drizzly this morning. Did nothing after returning home last night alseep by 9pm - guess I was tired. Still securing track and proving sections when I get back to the layout. Did go to the museum Tues evening - fixed an O scale Ross turnout and fiddled with the HO getting the automated GP9 in the yard scene to cooperate. N scale has functioned properly now for over a month. Did have a coach uncouple and get pushed for a day by the DL109 but no harm done there and it hasn't happened since. Between the newConCor fixed couplers and a gradual acceleration module in the controls, the display has really calmed down. Likely that will change when we relocate the entire display.
Jeff - package heading your way today - let me know. Glad the tornados that hit were all north of you.
Garry - a restored PA would be a treat especially in Sante Fe livery. We have the remnants of a New Haven FT in the yard now at the museum - it was turned into a LIRR control car and then scrapped so we glommed it. I guess my album was eliminated when Trainboard rebooted so no pic just now.
Gotta run - lots to do today. CUL, J.R.
Good Morning!! Coffee and a bowl of Malt-O-Meal please. Thanks Sunny, with a high near 43. It’s currently 25 out there. Yuk. Sounds like I will be picking up a freezer or the restaurant today. Then putting it in and removing the old one. At least I only have to set that one out back as some one wants it for parts. At least I shouldn’t be alone for this. Then back to w**k tonight.
Good Morning!! Coffee and a bowl of Malt-O-Meal please. Thanks
Sunny, with a high near 43. It’s currently 25 out there. Yuk.
Sounds like I will be picking up a freezer or the restaurant today. Then putting it in and removing the old one. At least I only have to set that one out back as some one wants it for parts. At least I shouldn’t be alone for this. Then back to w**k tonight.
Ken- Interesting theory on the Transmission fluid. I wouldn’t bet my hat on it, but interesting.
Welp, guess I’ll piddle around and wait for my activation call.
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.
Morning All,
At w**k today. Supposed to be 84 F today and some rain. A cold front comes through today. The high tomarrow is supposed to be 78F then back up into the 80's.
Last night I finished putting in the risers and let them dry. A couple of hours later I painted them and when that was dry I glued down the cork roadbed. Tomorrow I will reinstall the track and test it. The real test will be the J1.
Garry- Very nice photos. I love the PA's. They always remind me of a old chevy or ford. What part of TX are you from? I grew up in El Paso. My first train as a kid was a Tyco Santa Fe GP-something and freight cars.
Lee- I have stayed away from IE-9 because of compatability issues. I don't know enough about computers to start changing settings.
Everyone take care.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Good mornining, diners. I will sit in this back booth and have coffee in a NP mug, Chloe. Let's see if anyone shows up. Is Curt buying?
Ray, I think I mowed the lawn for the last time last Thursday. I doubt if there will be another chance.
Tom, It is good that you are back in the layout room. You will have to show some photos of your current project.
Curt, I reason I asked about the fence, is that our staging areas is split into 2 towns. I was thinking that a small section of fence would make it more obvious.
Ken, With your current problem, have you considered contacting one of your Senators or Representatives to help move the government along with the VA stuff. It is possible that they might help you solve the problem. I have heard of similar things happening in our neck of the woods. The fact that you are working should be positive for all parties involved. Hope you can resolve the problems.
Later, Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Good morning guys & sue! I took today day off, I have to take my little buddy Snoop to get his hair cut and I think I will stop at the barber on my way home and see if she can do anything for me.... I will have some time to work on my bench work today have a dentist and a optometrist appointment this afternoon. Camille is at the office so Snoop and I should have a good time today. I will see you all in a while.
Thayne.
GMTRacing Jeff - package heading your way today - let me know. Glad the tornados that hit were all north of you.
Good morning. It's 47 and sunny. The high will be 63 and it will be partly cloudy.Nothing much going on today. I have to go to Lowe's later to pick up a few things and I have to clear some project debris off the layout. I need to get it done today as tomorrow I have to attend a dinner at my father's work site. He insists on it.
Coffee in a SOGGY & SOUTHERN mug, please.
***Garry, those are some mighty fine layout pics. Impressive!
Except for Storm Cat meowing at a porch door, it is terribly quiet here. My life has certainly changed. Not much else to say.
Rob
Of course I'm buying
Jeff- Nice Photo.
Sue- The fence I used may be to new looking for your use, I would look at it first before ordering. Just my opinion.
Rob- You are still in my prayers. Take care buddy.
Heartland Division CB&Q Lion .... I hope I don't sound too nosey, but you have me wondering. Are you a rancher in ND? I wonder how you became interested in subway modeling. Looks like you are doing great work on the subway laout.
Nope, although I do know which end of the cow is input and which end is output. ☺ I was born in NYC and grew up on Long Island, spent four years in the Navy in Vietnam, and after a while I became a monk in North Dakota. The Abbey has been raising cattle for over 100 years, but the monk who has been doing most of the work is now 77 years old. There are no young sprouts to take his place. We still own three (square miles) sections of land, but will now rent them out to a local rancher.
We get to do all kinds of interesting things out here. When I was living in NYC, I worked for the Franciscans as a building manager, when I came out here they sent me to school for nursing. What the heck, pipes are pipes! I also manage the computer network and the wine cellar. In my spare time I build model trains. Model SUBWAY trains. ☺ Monks are encouraged to have hobbies. Some make rosaries, others make soap, some go fishing or play golf. The LION builds trains, but money for hobbies is very limited, and so I must make do with a lot of found and reusable materials. Fortunately, monks never throw anything away, so I can find lots of stuff to work with.
We used to run a school, we do so no longer, and so one of the classrooms has become the train room.☺
I am also a member of the local zoo. One day they almost did not let me out again? ☺
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of Buckwheat pancakes to start the day. Oh, also need a cup of dark roast coffee and you can leave the bottle of NYS Dark Amber Maple Syrup right here at the counter for me.
Currently 38°F here in the Finger Lakes with a high of 40°F (maybe) later. Low will be in the high 20's tonight and we are scheduled for some "partly cloudy" to fall out of the sky today. No significant accumulations is what they are saying..... THAT is good as I have to drive to Rochester to the R&GV RR Museum meeting tonight. I will be turning in the paperwork for the Association Official Certificate and picking up a NYC Switch Lantern a friend has been reconditioning for me. I'll post a photo tomorrow.
Lion, I had read in another post a while back that you are a monk. Benedictine I see. Have you ever heard of a gentleman by the name of Ray Repp? He spent some time at Weston Priory way back when. I believe they are also Benedictine Order. I have worked with Ray Repp on a couple of occasions both singing with him and accompanying him on both piano and guitar back close to 30 years ago when I first moved to Geneva. I have worked as a musician in many different denominations but I am an ordained Deacon in the Presbyterian Church. Looks like you "bearly" made it out of the zoo....
Sue, I sure hope so! (unless you actually LIKE mowing the lawn....). I hope to do one last run over mine early next week and then put it away for the winter. The battery for it will get brought in the house (they last longer if stored above freezing). Here is mine:
Black and Decker battery electric.
Hope everyone has a great day.
Good Evening Gang!
Home from w*rk again - with a bundle of good news (at least I hope they are good news)
Item 1: I seem to get hold of the corporate finances. Although the business is far from being well established in terms of corporate financing, there is no immediate threat any longer. That gives me a break to w*rk on a proper mix of bank loans and private equity.
Item 2: My son Christian has been asked by his mentor at university to go for his doctor´s degree. He is most likely to also get a job at the university to finance the time he will need to get his degree. Now this will not make him a rich guy at first, but it will pay his living. Guess who is a proud father!
The downside of all what´s happening right now is, that I don´t have time left to w*rk on my layout. I haven´t run a train for months now, and Petra is starting to complain about those dust collectors on my desk. Oh, women!
Come to think of women - I need to talk her to make some strudels for the bunch in here. It´s the time of the year for it ...
Blessings to all!
Edit: In his thread on the Pueblo & Salt Lake RR, Wolfgang has mentioned that he has been diagnosed with cholangio carcinoma. Surgery has been performed and he will be up for chemotherapy. This form of cancer is a mean and vicious one - please include him in your prayers.
Afternoon all from NotSoSunnyCal: (at least it's still afternoon out here on the Left Coast, LOL!). We've got 3 days of rain and snow supposedly coming in from the Arctic, and it's overcast and getting nice and chilly around here, so it seems a perfect time to go out into the garage and do some actual work on the layout.
Which I did. At least a little. After I got Chester back from the vet for his daily bandage change. Now I only have to take him over every other day. Seems the flesh on the leg is granulating, which means he's starting to recover. I have to look forward to a skin graft a little later on, after he's all stable in the leg, but he's slowly getting back to his old self. Eats like a horse, is very good about his litter box now and purrs a lot if you even reach for him behind the ears. I think he'll make a good house cat after all of this is over. Uff-Dah seems fine with the idea, and even Spooky has let him come out of the den without a fuss. Speaking of those two, they look less like cats and more like Yaks every day, so winter is DEFINITELY a'comin'!
Hope you guys in the Southeast haven't been hit too bad by that series of storms--it did not look pleasant, at least on the Weather Channel.
Lion: I was going to ask which Order you belonged to, but Ray answered my question. I'm a Third Order (so they tell me) Franciscan, being a Music Minister at my Parish for the last umpteen years (St. Francis of Assisi, here in Sacramento), and I just retired from teaching at Jesuit High School. Oddly enough, a great many of our Faculty are active Franciscans, which made for some interesting conversations around the Faculty lunch table, LOL!
Garry and Sue: Okay, here's a photo of my twin #1711 Rio Grande Northerns (still haven't found that darned decal sheet yet, and I'm too cheap to go down to the LHS and get another MicroScale set unless I have to). I STILL don't understand my camera, so the photo isn't that clear, but the first loco in the double-header is the most recent one that I bought for a song at the Roseville train show. Personally, I think these M-64's are the prettiest steamers that Rio Grande ever owned. And these two little ladies really like running together. I'm going to renumber the second #1713, so I only have to change one number.
Oh, and BTW, here's a photo of the mess that is eventually going to be the new freight yard. The overpass is just 'set in' for positioning, I still have to finish assembling, painting and detailing it. Have no idea what I'm going to do with the water tower and the switch tower. I'm sure I'll find a place for both of them, hopefully. I'd sure like to find an icing platform for the yard that isn't as gigantic as the one that Walthers makes. I'll keep looking. Any suggestions?
Well, that's about it from notsosunnyCal, going to go over and get something for dinner, then come back and FINALLY tear out that darned crossover. Which means I have to re-position my semaphore signals--wish I had a little man that I could just hire to come over and crawl around under the layout for me, LOL!
Best to all, prayers to those in need.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
WEll, MOH had interviews today.
MOH has been on edge and testy and hard to live with lately. Won't know anyting directly tonight.
But, at least the pressure will be off.
MOH went in early and will stay late to be sre all department work was/is done around the interview time-outs. so will be exhausted. WIll most likely eat and go to bed direclty.
FIL called...wants somehting form the store Im sure,,but i WON'T disturb MOH at worl with it..as I siad MOH will be exhausted I am sure..if nothing else coming down form adreanelin {sp?} rush? I would have taken call but 1} I don;t have authorized use on FIL's CC to buy things for them and 2} its dark and I don't see so well after dark to drive and avoid it alt all costs. FIL will jsut have to wiat til tomorrow. DIdn't sound panicy so MIL must be fine, jsut wanting something form the store.
WEll...I may or may nto check in later.
Later guys
'Allo 'Allo
Short day for me at w*rk! I'm leaving at 12pm to get home to meet the Internet guy as I'm getting Cable installed... Looking forward to 10,000mbps speed! No more using my phone as a modem haha!
Have a good weekend!
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
Coffee refill, please.
***Tom, excellent pics.
I have seen photos of the scoop trucks in Soylent Green in both basic construction yellow and a bright orange color. I don't seem to have a copy of that movie anywhere, so might be time to look for it on the-bay.
Temps will drop into the 20's tonight. House is well insulated, so should be fine sleeping upstairs. Will be nice to eventually have a wood stove though.
Was invited to a neighbors thanks giving dinner, but think I'll pass. Don't feel like being around a bunch of folks right now.
Hope everyone is doing well.
I found some stuff today that's great for cleaning dirty rails. It's called 'Krud Kutter'. It's a stain remover that's a concentrated cleaner and degreaser. Just wipe it on, allow it to stand a couple of minutes then wipe off. The amount of crud that comes up is amazing. It will even take off old dried latex paint with a bit of scrubbing. Now, a warning. It says non-toxic on the label but take it from me, you don't want to use this stuff without proper ventilation. It will really get your head spinning. On the price side, it's $1.99 for a four ounce bottle, a bit less than a three ounce bottle of Goo-Gone at $2.98 (I got it for $2.83 as I got a discount for using my Lowe's card). I tried the Krud Kutter on an exceptionally dirty piece of track and after less than a minute it was cleaner than new with no greasy film. Don't use it on varnished surfaces or leather.
Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood Evening peoples! Haven't been in for awhile so thought I'd best stop in.
JEFF: Which "flavor" of Krud Kutter did you get? I've looked at their website, seems they have quite a few options. I've got some 40+ year old Lionel track with crud/rust to clean up. The Wife loves having a Lionel train up at Christmas...and this year I'm gonna knock her socks off...uh, THAT is IF my brilliant plan succeeds! But first, I gotta rehab the track.
Too much stuff in here lately to comment on, suffice it to say thoughts and prayers continue for all in need.
Chris
***EDIT***
GEESH! Stop in to say "howdy," get stuck with the supper tab... OK chowhounds (LIONS too), order UP!
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
AmanaMedic JEFF: Which "flavor" of Krud Kutter did you get? I've looked at their website, seems they have quite a few options
JEFF: Which "flavor" of Krud Kutter did you get? I've looked at their website, seems they have quite a few options
Good Evening...
We ended up getting snowed on...but only for a few minutes here..thank goodness.
I'm having a not so wonderful day of getting stuff and doing honey do's and all that other stuff...ended up with only a few spare minutes in the trainroom today...
I am thinking of what to do with some roads here...which, of course, has got me crabby...I've been thinking of doing one road as if it was almost overgrown with weeds and such also there is this little issue of washed out concrete looks...oy
Anyways..Chloe, I'll have the 8 quadruplexburger platter with the tub of poutine and the strawberry shake as well...I'll be at the corner booth for now...
Hey all
Just popped in to say hello.We have had a rough time here lately. MOH recently had another MRI and the cancer has grown again and is now in a second place in her brain. The docs will not operate again. We have had a rough time with this latest news. Very disheartening.Have to get the kiddos to bed talk to you all later.