Just a quick coffee, Chloe, please before I take off. On Tuesdays, I try to swim before work.
Ray, We paint the Walthers kits, too. Good luck with your project.
Curt, Nice diesel facility. Hope your ultrasound is clear.
Later, Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Morning All,
At w**k today. Supposed to get to 81 F today and thru Thursday. I don't have a lot going on this week, just finish up in the kitchen and possibly bench work. I picked up 16 hours of OT next Monday. We use the money for Xmas.
Jim (not Australia) (yes Missouri) the diesel area is 12 inches by 20 inches.
I really like this photo. I think it catches the 1940's during the war. The Bowser cabin car was one of the very first cars I built. At the time I did not know about clear glue for the windows (I tell myself they are fogged over) and I installed the trainphone with Cal Scale supports and phosphor wire.
Everyone take care.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Morning Fellow Dinners!
Flo, Coffee and Toast please.
Don't go into the Salt Mines today till 12:00, so I got to sleep in. Need To scan the bank statements and get them sent in.
Face Book Some old friends have tracked me down on Faces Book. Talked with my old room mate Brian last night for about a hour. Seems my friends have all so had there up's and downs.
Well I will talk at you folks later.
Ken
I hate Rust
Just in time for the lunch wagon...
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Mornin' everyone!
After the breakfast I had yesterday, I better be good today... Zoe I'll have a bowl of Nature's Path Organic Smart Bran cereal topped with sliced banana and a cup of dark roast coffee in a FGLK RR Mug please. Thank you Ma'am (very quick service around here!)
Todd and Ulrich......... No! No! No! The mortar is gray and the brick will be a Terra Cotta color....... Sheesh! I will try to get a couple photos today of how it is turning out. I know I will run out of the Terra Cotta colored pencil about half way through it. I'll send my sister an email to see if she has a spare pencil of the right color........ Them things is expensive for pencils!
Have to finish getting the house ready for an invasion of Boy Scout this evening. As of reading my emails this morning there are now 5 Scouts and the parents coming over to finish the Merit Badge tonight.
Today is Local Voting Day here.... I get to cast my vote for my favorite for Mayor and City council. (They are all good folks so how ever it comes out somehow the city will manage to survive the next 4 years.... I think!) What is a Hoot is the two gentlemen running for Mayor are best friends and have been since high school. You would never know from the way one of them has run his campaign....
Best get myself moving!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
For my project of the day I made a paper shell of a 45' Hi-Cube container for the Tyco container flat. With dozens to choose from it wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. I finally settled on a rusted design, downloaded the jpg image and printed it out on card stock. I made a slight error in the scaling and it came out as 46' long but who's counting.
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
Good Morning, Zoe (It is still morning, well, for a few more minutes, at least...). I'll have a cinnamon roll (no, not the Barry-sized one, just the regular one will do) and a Santa Fe mug of coffee, please. Thanks!
Ray, I was thinking (yeah, that can be dangerous at times, but anyway...) - depending on how thick that coat of grey is, you could maybe take a plastic (unused) scrub pad and scrub off the gray on the (higher level) brick top, which would leave you with maybe less of a difference to have to cover with the pencils. Somehow, the idea of having to individually shade each brick with colored pencils is a bit, uh, daunting for me. My brick color is one from the spray can at H-L, and then I'll weather or 'mortar' that. There is one color that I think is a tad more difficult to 'stomach' than DPM red, and that would be the color that I've had some DPM kits come in: DPM 'yellow sandstone'... THAT definitely can stand some color adjustment, IMHO. Best wishes on your brick-coloring.
Todd, I trust that your description of your wife (or whoever that person you mentioned was) was exaggerated some (or that she isn't looking over your shoulder when you type your posts, anyway!
Ulrich, for your 1:1 cabin, you maybe could use the services of one guy I know from church. He wanted to build a better doghouse for his dog, but said "I don't know how to build a doghouse, but I do know how to build a house" - so I think his current phase of the project involves about $100+ or siding for it, etc. Yeah, he did say that one part of his spending this much effort on the doghouse was just in case...(well, you married - or formerly married - guys can likely finish that phrase). On your next module, I was just thinking you might have started some drawings/designs for it (like you have done for yourself or other MRRers in the past). Look forward (when you get to that point) to seeing what you come up with on the EMU module.
Jeff, you must be getting the lower edge of the storm front that's still to our west up here in Missouri today. I think tomorrow night, it's supposed to move through, so that might mean you may have a couple of days of the 'liquid sunshine' in Louisiana. At least it will keep the dust down (here, at least), and besides, this time of the fall (or even earlier) is when a lot of leaves get r**ned off of the trees here. Liked your photo of Ezra's 'doghouse' - did he spend last night out there? Good to hear you're feeling better than yesterday.
Galaxy, how're you doing today?
Say, where is the Diner today - are we still in New Mexico, or in Texas yet?
Last night on the way home, I picked up groceries. Think that was the biggest grocery bill I've ever had by myself. Of course, the cupboard was almost bare, and I was pretty much out of about all my meats, so I needed meat, lunchmeat, chicken, some cans of tuna, plus ordinary every-week grocery stuff. Also, I'd earlier got gas, so at least that should hold things until next payday on the gas (and Thursday we get our mileage checks from w**k).
Think I'll chill out in one of the lounge chairs in the observation lounge car for a bit...
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape G.
Afternoon All....Its partly cloudy and 61 here can't beat that 'round here for 2nd week in November...I'll have a Windy City Dog..drag it thru the garden,onion rings and a shake please...Thank You..Did alittle cleaning on layout and storage...got most of engines and rolling stock in rolling chest that rolls under layou..should make it easier to get to things...
Curt...I like the War Bonds Pennsy Cab...Did you paint and decal that?...
Jeff...Nice modeling on container...I like card stock modeling...
You all have a good one...Jerry
JimRCGMO Galaxy, how're you doing today? Say, where is the Diner today - are we still in New Mexico, or in Texas yet?
Lousy. Headache worse, havea medication hangover now and headache stil there. Not geting done what needs to be done.
NM. WIll stop in Santa Fe shortly.I think. I hope.
-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.
Jim - this is my first idea of the new module:
Ray - I am glad I was wrong! Still curious ...
Time to hit the hay - I hope I can find some sleep, as I have somehow developed a toothache.
CU tomorrow!
Afternoon folks!
Just a cup of hot chocolate right now, I'll have dinner in an hour or so...
Ulrich, ask and thou shalt receive! OK, here is where the recoloring job stands right now. Remember the yucky, horrid red color it started with.... looked about as much like brick as..... well...., plastic can I guess, straight out of a mold.
Here is what it looks like right now (nothing like photos to show you where more needs to be done). Notice at this angle on the left side, you can see the primer gray as it was applied to the building. The right side has the first coat of Terra Cotta color pencil put on it.
Another shot of the part done now. It still needs to be gone over with some other shades of red on some individual bricks to finish it up.
Catch you all later!
Good afternoon everybody.
It's election day here in KY also.
Jerry ... Are you using the Kato Unitrack? If so, can you use other brands of track, too?
Ulrich ... Looks like a good plan for the next module.
Rob .. Are you with us today? Prayers continue for your situation.
Galaxy ... Hope you feel better. Thanks for the good job you are doing moving the diner. New Mexico, eh. Santa Fe is now the location for many artists. Perhaps in TExas, we can follow the UP line that passes Paul's farm.
On the layout, I'm progressing with my downtown. I have just installed a flat plywood area inside the loop formed by my streetcar line. Now, I have a place to put downtown buildings of which I have made several.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Meatloaf dinner with green beans and carrots, please.
***Jeffrey, the container looks great to me.
Ran some require errands today. Not particularilly productive, except perhaps for my disease. Feeling especially poorly this evening. Not much else to say.
Rob
Evening All,
Still at w**k and will be until midnight. I have been doing some thinking about my RR empire expansion. I figure that it is kind of dumb to have the separate sidings for diesel and steam servicing that I have now when the expansion is done, so the structures will be moved to consolidate all those activities in one location. I think I am going to put in the AMB coal yard and trestle where the current diesel servicing is. It will fit easily and it has a long lead for the trestle elevation.
Jerry- The cabin came decaled from Bowser. The only painting was on top the roof because the train phone install was in a brass color.
Ray- I like the color of the bricks. They have the deep red color that looks realistic.
Ulrich- I look forward to seeing your new module as you work on it.
Rob- I continue to send prayers your way. Please take care of yourself.
Everyone have a good night.
Gotta go! Just checked the weather radar and there's a bunch yellow, orange, red, brown and black stuff coming my way.You've seen the Airstream, now here's a trailer similar to mine.
LION was up in his train room. Some electrical gremlins were tracked down and eliminated. That one train just cannot make it around the layout with that 7703 car leading, but does just fine when it is trailing. LION thinks that whole train needs to go on the bench for service. Well, ALL of them will have to be benched for a new lighting system if that system proves out, but that is not an urgent job. Maybe I can put that recalcitrant train on one of the express loops with 7703 trailing, and that will have to do for now.
LION was wasting some time (painting third rails) while thinking about how to build my new model-board. And in the depths of my thoughts the mechanical details of this project materialized and I'll start work on it this week. There really is no point in chasing any more electric gremlins at this point because the solution ultimately lies in the new model-board.
Today we were installing a new boiler in our power house...
Evening Folks!
Flo, I will all so have the Meat Loaf dinner, all so some onion rings and a please!
Jeffery The more you show the shiny Air Stream Trailer the more I think I want one. would look good sitting at the speed shop behind a Dodge Charger. Personally I would like to see you keep it looking new.
Curt Good looking pictures! More I see your layout the better I like it. Do you have a over all shoot or track plan you could post for us to enjoy?
Ray Who made power house kit? When I start on the new layout my plans do call for a power house. You know, with some work, it would make a good looking church as well!
Ulrich Glad to see you planing the new section. Will the new section be where the engine house will be going?
Galaxy Hope you feel better Wednesday. My head hurts as well, but for a different reason!
Well I am off again Wednesday, so I will be hanging around a little more!
hey all. Stopping in for dinner tonight. Think that I'm going to have the meatloaf too with a LARGE glass of sweet tea. Today was a VERY bad day, as we practically lost two very large accounts on the commercial side of our business. One is the local university (as they are a state U and require that ALL suppliers now work on a bid system) and the other has a guy that's a prima dona and just got his panties in a wad! Oh well, I guess. Sorry for venting, and no ma'am, I don't need the soapbox, I'm all done.
Tomorrow is going to be a good day though, I have to pull the head off a 2.2L in an S10 for someone and then I have to go to my "real" job and close that night. I don't mind closing as things are fairly easy to do at night, and thankfully I don't have to open the next morning, so easy peasy lemon squeezy!
Glad to hear that we are in NM now, seems as if we are making good progress towards my neck of the woods. I've been still trying to work through getting my Dash 8 into the paint booth (it seems I need Jeff's determination to get stuff through the shops). Well, that's about it for me, guess I'm going to try to get ready for bed here in a few, then get a full night sleep.
Evenin' Folks!
Janie just a decaf for me tonight.
Well..... (Deep and full) the Scouts have left, and I spent about an hour chatting with the guys who came over to run trains while the Scouts were here (and watch for little fingers and such....). Yes I know a good Scout is Trustworthy! I like to keep track of who the "good" Scouts are anyway. The guys had fun running the Trains and actually figured out a couple problem spots for me. I did some ballasting a couple nights ago and the passenger train found each and every little spot where ballast shouldn't be. I'll give it a good going over before the bunch arrives next Monday evening.
A couple of the Scouts got very hooked on the Inglenook Timesaver. One of them didn't want to leave at the end of the evening.... And he is not one of the 2 that are into model railroading. may have a few boys interested in the hobby by the time we are finished.
Thanks for the comments on the brick powerhouse! Ken, it is a DPM (Design Preservation Models) modular building. You may want to take a good look at the separate modules they make and design your own if a kit doesn't do what you want. I hope to have the brickwork done on it before Monday.
See you all tomorrow!
GOOD MORNING!!!
Today is Wednesday, November 9th, 2011!!!
TODAY {in Latin} is Mercury's Day, Named after the god Murcury of course!!!
Have a great day!! in Latin Salve or Salvete {good Health rather than "good day".} Sounds more like a toast with vino, than a greeting or parting comment}. See Also Die dulci freure .
That concludes your latin lesson for today.!!!
Good Morning!
It´s a foggy November day. Temperatures have dropped to just an inch above freezing - shudder!
Janie, a cinnamon roll and coffee, please.
Ray - goodness gracious, how could I have thought about gray brick and red mortar! Looking very nice now!
Ken - yup, that´s where the engine house is supposed to go. See the gray rectangle? That´s it. I am still nt quite comfortable with the size. I think I have to put up the layout on the yet to be installed shelf before I can start on that module. Just to make sure everything will find its place.
Nothing planned for today - maybe just reading my December MR, which has arrived yesterday.
Have a good day.
Good morning.
I did not do my usual sign off as I took all my night time meds including the impending sleep ones AND an Ambien {prescription Sleep aid} at 7 pm and by 7:30 I was in bed and barely coherent, so much so that i left my partial teeth in which agrivates the tissues cuz I grind my teeth at night. I woke up just now and will be back in bed shortly.
Just Popped in to do the daly sign on!
KEN,JIM, ULRICH- Feeling "OK" now..Thanks For thinking of me! I stilll have a dull throbbing ache and "medication hangover", as long as it doesn't repeaton me I will be OK. I hate marathon days of migraine headaches.
Jeffrey, buddy...hope YOU get to feeeling better. You worry me {as does Ulrich} when you are not feeling well. for you!
Heartland Division CB&Q Galaxy ... Hope you feel better. Thanks for the good job you are doing moving the diner. New Mexico, eh. Santa Fe is now the location for many artists. Perhaps in TExas, we can follow the UP line that passes Paul's farm.
There are NO SERVICES at THe Santa Fe Depot according to Amtrak, so plan accordingly.:
http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?c=am2Station&pagename=am%2Fam2Station%2FStation_Page&p=1237405732508&cid=1229726268488
Here she is: {hopefully the pop ups are gone}:
http://www.360cities.net/image/santa-fe-railway-station-new-mexico-usa#124.20,-12.10,70.0
We will be riding the New mexico Rail Runner Express to see Santa Fe and Downtown Albequerque. ALl the way from the top at Santa Fe to the bottom at Belen, if you'd like. Here's a map:
http://nmrailrunner.com/route_map.asp
Tickets are NOT part of diner's fare, so they are extra, and like the Grand Canyon route, vary in price depending on what you want to do. Seats are 1st come. 1st served, even regardless if you have a ticket or not! here is a helpful list {and pay atttention to the discounts lISTS!!!! They DOn't take AARP, but will offer discounts to those with age, student ID, MEDICARE CARD, Etc.:
http://nmrailrunner.com/tickets.asp
Ticket Types
Reduced Fares are available to
WE WILL BE HERE FOR 3 DAYS. SO CHeck out the hotel package{unless you'd LOVE to return to the train every night! :
http://nmrailrunner.com/hotels.asp
More later...
Have fun on your excursions!!! This trip may rack up a few bucks...but well worth it! Especially the side sojourn to Jeffrey's HOUSE to see Ezra's house!!!
later head still dull ache and dull throb.
cudaken Face Book Some old friends have tracked me down on Faces Book. Talked with my old room mate Brian last night for about a hour. Seems my friends have all so had there up's and downs.
KEN- I DOn't like facebook, I Don't like facebook, I DOn't like Facebook at all. I do NOT belong NOR will I. MOH doesn't like it either. We have seen to many lives ruined becasue of it, in person and on the news to know better.
Our trian nut friend has had his face book account hacked and into his computer email address book that he gets his own "invites to join my face book page" email sent out to every one in his email addy book!!! I've gotten 2 of them, and MOH got one!, BUT MOH has 2 OHTER firends who have face book that that has hapened to. Since the train nut friend KNOWS we don't "DO" face book, he said he would never send an invite!!! But there it was! I showed him! SO now his account has been hacked...what's he to do? apparently facebook is of little help. They have PEGGY to help them!!!
So beware, they may have tracked you down, and may not have...it may have ben "accidentally on purpose".
I also feel it is wrong of emplyers to MAKE you join facebook so they can get all the "dirt" on you in you private life, past, present and future, whetehr you posted it or some vindictive {or not} friend did. I would call that an illegal invasion of privacy. But they get away with it.
Just saying..
Oh? what am I standing on? how'd that get under my feet???? put it away..
Good morning! I have been keeping up with all of you and I hope everyone is doing well. I seem to be having a hard time lately finding a happy healthy balance for everything. Things like w#%k, sleep,wife,dog,house,chores,hygiene,hobbies etc. I was wondering how people do it? any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks,
Thayne.
Thayne - I think all of us are somehow in the same boat, finding the right balance of those things which occupy our time. I don´t think there is a general recipe on how to do it, but I found getting rid of those tiny and unimportant things, nibbling away our precious time, was the best way to get my life back into a certain balance, at least to a degree. Finding those things out and getting rid of them will decelerate your life and you will be much more relaxed.
Hope that helps!
Lunchtime!
Zoe, I´ll go for a burger, fries, salad and a , thank you!
Good Morning!! Coffee and a couple waffles with bacon please. Thanks. A 30 percent chance of showers before noon. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a temperature falling to around 42 by 3pm. Breezy. Ray- OH! So the mortar will be grey. I get it…. I hope terra cotta is a contrasting shade of grey otherwise you may not be able to see. Um, hm. I see your new pictures. Guess I don’t see how… so were does this red fit in. Ah! staring over. Personally, instead of starting over, I’d just leave it the way it is colorwise, I think it looks great. But if they used grey bricks in that area..., I suppose you have no choice. Them New Yorkies and their grey bricks. Jim- Yes, it was exaggerated a bit, well, let’s say embellished , for entertainment purposes. But there is more truth than embellishment. The GPS part was added as were the glasses. Well, I can’t remember what I was gonna do today but it was a doozy I’m sure. I did get my truck cleaned out and found another seat for a passenger and a floor there. Next is to vacuum. Don’t know if that’ll be today or not. Depends on what happens. We’ll see. Ya’ll have a Great Day!!!
Good Morning!! Coffee and a couple waffles with bacon please. Thanks.
A 30 percent chance of showers before noon. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a temperature falling to around 42 by 3pm. Breezy.
Ray- OH! So the mortar will be grey. I get it…. I hope terra cotta is a contrasting shade of grey otherwise you may not be able to see. Um, hm. I see your new pictures. Guess I don’t see how… so were does this red fit in. Ah! staring over. Personally, instead of starting over, I’d just leave it the way it is colorwise, I think it looks great. But if they used grey bricks in that area..., I suppose you have no choice.
Them New Yorkies and their grey bricks.
Jim- Yes, it was exaggerated a bit, well, let’s say embellished , for entertainment purposes. But there is more truth than embellishment. The GPS part was added as were the glasses.
Well, I can’t remember what I was gonna do today but it was a doozy I’m sure. I did get my truck cleaned out and found another seat for a passenger and a floor there. Next is to vacuum. Don’t know if that’ll be today or not. Depends on what happens. We’ll see.
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..
Going to be a mix of sun and cloud today with temperatures going all the way to 65F...tomorrow will be different..high of only 48F...in the rain...
mmmmm...spent the last couple of hours doing the computer maintenance thing..clearing cookies, deleting histories and all what else...now the laptop is running way quicker than it used to ...also have to go and get more photos up onto my photobucket account ...as it is/was, found a card that just may have my pix of the truck weigh scales I modeled so hopefully I'll be able to load them up onto my blog....
I have now been officially declared another IBS client..Irritable Bowel Syndrome..wonderful name for this..they did the full scenario with me yesterday and from what the doctors told me..yes..antibiotics and such are part of my future regimen ....yay
Since my blog is also about music and music making as well I'm a gonna have to get cracking on that as well... I have some opinionated opinions about THAT btw....
Flo, I'll have an herbal tea..peppermint please...and toast with jam as well...I'll be at the RC for a bit...
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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/
Good morning travelers... Stickee Bunz and Orange juice for the LION...
Here is a pic of the south wall of the LION'S layout.
On the top is Pitkin Avenue in Brooklyn, and just below the street level is the 76th Street station that NYCT never built, but whom conspiracy affectionados insist was built and covered up.
On the middle level, the Avenue H station (on the Brighton Line) is much further along than this, but still has a long way to go. I have some photos of the area, so I know what I want to build here.
On the lower level, all of these staging yards are gon, and the new Chambers Street Station is taking shape. In a spare slot under the Prospect Park station I will build several tracks of Penn Station. They will not connect to anything, and the trains will not run, but at least I wll be able to display the equipment that I no longer use.
Coffee, please, Chloe. Looks like BL got the top of the page.
Everyone has been posting lots of great photos
Ray, Your progress is great. I use photos to check where more work is needed, too.
Curt, Fun photos. I like the flat car load. We are always looking for ideas for flat car loads.
Jeffrey, Nice job on making the cargo container crusty.
Extra strong coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
***Ray, glad to hear you're finding some future MRR'ers. The hobby sure can use them. My sister was never successful in enthusing her two sons, even though she loves model trains.
Busy day here. Wish me luck! Rob