Good Morning. LION will have Pancakes for breakfast, with butter and real clear maple syrup!
LION has been fooling around with Helicon Focus, looks like him kneads more work on it, but here is my first attempt. Eventually this will be the Prospect Park Station.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Southern Traction & Power Honey and Cinnamon, has possibilities jerrold
Honey and Cinnamon, has possibilities
jerrold
Cinnamon flavoured honey is delicious! There's a place in a tiny little town less than an hour away that sells locally produced honey with different flavours in it. My favourite is cinnamon. I love it! Interestingly, the place that sells the honey is a cheese manufacturing plant. They make the best tasting cheese you'll find anywhere. They make many different varieties of cheese from milk from local dairy farms. Our favourite is their two year old cheddar. It bites back! Now that's what cheese should taste like. We usually drive out there at least once a year and stock up on cheese and get a jar of the honey.
..... Bob
Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here. (Captain Kirk)
I reject your reality and substitute my own. (Adam Savage)
Resistance is not futile--it is voltage divided by current.
Good morning. It's 53° and cloudy. The high will be 67° and it will be cloudy. There's a 10% chance of rain this evening increasing to 50% after 2 am.Nothing in particular on the schedule today but I'm sure I'll find something to do. There's a bunch of movies on the DVR that need watching before I delete them. Also need to transfer a bunch of Battlestar Galactica episodes (not as good as the original series) to VHS. Someday I might be able to afford a DVD recorder.
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Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, short stack of Buckwheat pancakes, sausage, and NYS dark Amber Maple Syrup please. Oh! Don't forget the Dark raost coffee.... Thank You Ma'am!
Late getting in here for breakfast as I already had an hour and a half meeting to re-register the Cub and Venturing Units I am commissioner for. It is a pleasant 46°F here in the Finger Lakes with a predicted high of 44°F today. Ah......... yep, THAT is what it says!
The Good News around these parts is the two wind turbines at the Zotos International plant in the Geneva Business Park now has the Wind Turbines they installed over a year ago turning and producing power... This 7 Million Dollar project got put on hold as NYSEG prevented them from starting them because their power lines were too close to the plant and if the turbines suddenly just fell over or something they could fall on their power lines..... yeah, right! Anyway NYSEG moved the power lines and now Zotos is starting up the turbines. They will provide 60% or more of the electricity they use and 5% of the power will be given to the Geneva Schools to cut their electric costs! They figure the project will pay for itself in about 20 years, and should produce power for well over 30 years. It was nice to see one of them operating when I drove home from my son's house last night.
Jeffrey! Don't you dare dirty up THAT Airstream!
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!
Afternoon Modelers!
Temps are falling and so is the white stuff. Hot Chocolate and a Splice of Hot Apple Pie please!
Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
Delaware and Hudson Virtual Museum (DHVM), Railroad Adventures (RRAdventures)
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Wouldn't you know it..it warms up some today and I get a migraine. so far not so bad as others, but with a new cold front and that massive strom heading our way, I imagine I could be in for a triple-dayer headache. Hate them with a passion. Have gotten worse as I get older.
SO needless to say I won't be doing much today.
NOH is off today but went in to work to show new Dept. mahager how the computer schedule COrporate policy says all are to go by differes from what the New Dept manager supposedly put in for MOH. She says she will confront the General manager, who she {and MOH] think is playing with teh schedule after she finalizes it. GOod.
So nothing else now 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.
Afternoon all. Just stopping in before heading off into town to do some running around and a small side job. I've been a bit lazy today, although I've been more active than other days off I've had. Yesterday I had to w**k, so I got nothing done. Oh well, I'm going to get something done today. I'm not 100% sure of what I'm going to do today, but I think I'm going to weather my Dash 8 (FINALLY!). Welp, I think I'm going to head off for now, I've got to get all my girls (including the wife) out the door.
Joe: Great on your acceptance!
Ulrich and Todd: I have to agree with what y'all both said on the work issue, its good that you hold yourself to a higher standard than just achieving material wealth.
Well I'm off y'all!
EDIT I've got TOP, y'all eat up
Hey all. Just wanted to pop in and say hi. Thanks for the welcomes i recieved. My family had christmas a little early for my wife and i this past weekend as I'm working christmas. My mom bought me John Armstrong's book on "Track Planning for Realistic operation" and she also got me The Model Railroaders Guide to Trackside Structures. I started reading John Armstrong's book and wow I'm impressed and only 25 pages in. Havnt started on the other yet.
Good Evening
mmmpph....ended up getting a phone call earlier this morning about a meeting this afternoon..get there and...nothing Turned out that the supervisor had left a message for the secretary to phone me up on Friday..changed hiis mind then forgot to tell the secretary about the changed plans....oh well, gave me an excuse to go to a LHS to pick up a few styrene sheets again....
As for the woodstuff I ended up getting it without rain be falling on our'n heads..so now I have the framework necessary for the expansion..heeheehee
Chloe, I'll be having a cofee for now please..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/
Can't believe it's getting so dark out and it's only 5:30pm. Guess I'll go ahead and have one last coffee refill, please.
That tree leaning into one of the long sheds is now doing some real serious damage. I'm waiting to hear back from several tree removal companies. The middle of the shed is bowing outward under the weight, and it is not a small structure by any means. There are 4 horse stalls with a tack room in the middle (which is where the tree hit) plus an open drive in end. Getting rather concerned now. Yikes!
Rob
Evening Fellow Dinners!
Flo, Please.
Rob I am being to think you have way to many trees! By the way, did you order the Amp you PM me about?
Keeping The House! Had the wife call ILL Hardest Hit Program and I guess it is sort of Official that we won the appeal. Again, I am not holding my breath till I sign some paper work. Sue was told I will need to sign the paper work in apx 3 weeks again. I have heard that before, but maybe this time it is real. Todd, we still might meet faces to faces yet. I will give you as much notices as I can. Sue will be coming as well, Marcia (My Rep) wants to meet her. Boy that is going to make a long drive longer!
Ken
I hate Rust
Today I received a package from Stoney Mountain Classic Castings. It's a bunch of clear and white resin castings that are seconds or flawed castings, mostly old car and rucks bodies. Once the flash and extra material is removed and they're painted they should make good background fill and a small line of junk cars. A bit old for my layout but on a freelance layout anything can happen. The clear castings had a bunch of excess material on their bottoms but I sanded that of with no trouble. Gave me an excuse to use the shop vac.
Evening All,
Not much happening this way. I ran trains for about an hour today. Ran my Dad's WM 2-6-6-2 and was surprised that it ran with no issues on the inner loop, probably because of the articulation. I also cut the wire lengths that I need in 5 colors for the PL signals and tinned one end of each. This is a classic case of OCD on my part:
White-Center Common yellow
Red- other 2 horizontal yellow lights indicating stop
Yellow- other 2 diagonal yellow lights indicating approach
Green- other 2 vertical yellow lights indicating proceed
Black- ground
The color codes will help me when I am wiring under the layout.
Everyone have a good night.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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Decaf coffee, please.
***Ken, that sounds promising. Check your messages.
***Jeffrey, those castings look good to me. Look forward to seeing what you do with them.
Got the first quote for that tree removal. $1,500. For $1 in gas, I could try to chainsaw it in sections and pray it doesn't come down before I get off the roof. It could cut through the roof even if it did come down slowly. Probably don't have much of a choice if I want to save that building, which I certainly do. That is a lot of dough for 1 tree. Ouch!
Today I spent the afternoon with my parents. We were on the road most of the time going from Leesville to DeRidder looking for some new furniture. To be exact, two new couches. There were plenty available but my mother didn't like most of them. Too soft, too long, too thick, wrong color, doesn't like the cushions, arms are too big, arms are too small, etc. After nearly two hours my father and I both were ready to kill her. I had already done plenty of walking today (have I mentioned the walking is difficult and very tiring for me?). She finally settled on a combination of size, color, and feel that she liked on one of the couches. We ordered two, identical! We got back to their home and started on preparing dinner. Pinto beans, home fries, cream corn (yick), onions and french bread. It was a good meal. But now, as a result of today's activities I'm very tired and I'm having a hard time making my fingers move. I'm making more spelling mistakes than a dyslexic first grader (and believe me, having been a dyslexic first grader -with ADHD and speech/hearing disability yet!- I know how many can be made) so the spell checker is very, very busy. It's time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Here are a couple pics of the tree. Been thinking, what if I take much of the scrap lumber I have laying around and try reinforcing those parts of the shed that would take the biggest hit from this tree coming down and then cut it? It's bigger than it looks, so not sure if this idea would work or not. I know there is no way I'm climbing that tree to cut it in sections, that's for sure. Thoughts?
These pics do not do it's size justice. -Rob
Good evening.
Long day in Nashville yesterday and long day here catching up on stuff.
One of our computers went haywire last evening. Am apparent malware virus sent a strange email to everbody on my email account list. Some were Diners here. Sorry about that. That's not how I normally extend Christmas greatings.
Jeff, I had fun with those Stoney Mountain vehicles this year. I included some in my scrap yard, and I also have four model trucks of the 1940's and early 1950's from thise kits. Enjoy your fun with them.
Welcome new diners (New to me anyhow) ....Southern Traction & Power and Goodness181, ... Feel free to tell as much as you want about yourselves, your layouts, and whatever.
Rob ... I hope the tree can be removed soon before the building suffers more damage. Does insurance cover this expense?
Lee ... I know what you mean about DCC. Right now my focus is on building my city, and I don't want to spend much time installing decoders at the moment.
Not much layout work to report. I had a few minutes, and I used the time to replace wheelsets on a Proto 2000 GP7... Another locomotive with cracked axle gears.... Also, I did some tidying up of the layout room.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
***Garry, hope you can get that computer fixed up OK. As for insurance, none of the outbuildings are covered. That is why I repaired the other shed and part of the barn roof myself, among other damage. That amount of money though has me seriously thinking of trying this last one myself. At worst, the shed would be cut in half. Regardless, there is already much repair work to be done to it. Guess it depends how much added work I want to risk making for myself. Ugh!
Time to hit the hay here. Rob
Cederstrand ***Garry, hope you can get that computer fixed up OK. As for insurance, none of the outbuildings are covered. That is why I repaired the other shed and part of the barn roof myself, among other damage. That amount of money though has me seriously thinking of trying this last one myself. At worst, the shed would be cut in half. Regardless, there is already much repair work to be done to it. Guess it depends how much added work I want to risk making for myself. Ugh! Time to hit the hay here. Rob
I built my train tables from a building like that! We *do* have insurance on our outbuildings. Just enough coverage to clean up the site if something happens to them.
ROAR
Evenin' folks!
Janie just a cup of decaf.... The pie looks great, but the sugar is elevated just slightly so I think I will just stick with the decaf....
Rob.... From the looks of the photos, I wouldn't try to take that tree down without a bucket truck. I'm sure the roof is not safe to go up on, and I don't see a way to safely drop it. At least wait until you get the other estimates. Hate to see you lose the shed and your life at the same time......... I have done enough messing around with trees like THAT to have them scare the "you know what" out of me. I'll cut up a tree on the ground, or drop one that I know will go the way I want it to (if I have multiple routes of exit). But no way would I attempt to take down a hanger like what I see there. Leave it to a professional who has the right equipment!
Finished the last of the Christmas Shopping today. I am sending a few bottles of wine to my youngest son from a winery on Seneca Lake (Fox Run). Picked up a toy for the youngest granddaughter at the LHS along with a few odds and ends I needed, and bought a half a dozen half pound bags of Organic, fair traded, coffee for some others for "stocking stuffers". Now I just have to get busy wrapping everything.
Spent quite a bit of the day w*rking on the recording for a friend. Her first husbands Mother was an excellent pianist! Some of the tapes were made in 1977 when she said she was 71 years old. The Christmas Songs I transferred over the past couple days were done in 1989. THAT would make her 83 at the time. The ones I have left to do were done in 1991 at the age of 85! Too bad the originals weren't done on a good recorder.....
Did make it down to the train rooms as well today. Made the last siding I need for the new mini yard and glues ties in place for both of the new sidings. Painted the first coat on the PC ties on the rails. Tomorrow i should get the second coat on them and get them installed in place. Probably will get the electric feeders done for them as well. Then on to more replacement with more turnouts to be made.....
Hope everyone has a great night!
Rob - Have you thought about using your tractor ( or your friends backhoe ) with a chain attached to the upper part of the tree to pull the tree back away ( or at least rotate it away) from the shed to clear it before starting to cut up the tree ?. It might be an option.
Otto
Good Morning All,
Haven't been in much though I have driven by a few times and looked in the window, Lots going in the shop and I've been sleeping a lot but not feeling rested. Some seasonal thing most likely,
Rob - if you can't slide the tree off the roof to the ground without losing the rest of the building, a pro is the only safe bet. Dropping the tree as is will likely take the structure down and there appears to be no safe practical way to get to a point where you could cut it in pieces. As Ray said you'd need a bucket truck at a minimum and more than one person to run lines to swing stuff out of the way. That is one big tree and most of it seems over the shed roof. It would be too risky to even try to climb the tree to afix a rope to the upper part and try to winch it off. Just not worh the risk I think. Hope you get some better bids.
Layout news is slim, I did finally break down and repaint the walls a light bluish/gray. Looks better I think. Have started trying my hand at painting hills and trees on the backdrop but have painted over any tries at painting structures. Just can't cut a straight enough line to suit me. I'll probably go back to cut out pictures for the urban areas. No progress on track laying until I get more backdrop done.
Tried earlier to add pics to my Trainboard gallery but this new puter doesn't get along with their site yet. If I ever get the hang of it you'll finally be able to see what little I've been up to.
Hope the rest of you are doing well. I'll try to keep up and stop in more. CUL, J.R.
GOOD MORNING!!!
Today is Tuesday, December 20th, 2011!!!
Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Morning
It will be a mix of sun and cloud today with the high at 30F ...as we prepare for a raining kind of day at 50F tomorrow...oh...with lotsa wind.
Today we are finishing, HAH!!, the decorating of our'n house as we have to put some decs under the tree..namely the Lionell set we got from last Xmas..this oughta be fun...lets see how long the train lasts with Spring ...
Remember Springzilla?
He has been awfully curious about the Lionel box we got by the tree lately..picking at the box and all...
Anyways..tomorrow I'm going also to pick up the turket and all that other stuff then see about getting some work done on my layout..that is if Murphy will allow one day off from his onslaught of stuff to do ...
Anyway, Flo, I'll just have the full breakfast platter with all the fixin's..no, I am NOT gaining any weight here..sheeesh..when was the last time I bought a huge platter anyways? People think I'm on a tear with my eating ..sheesh....oh no..not the frying pan!! NO NO!!!...
CLLLUUUUNNNNNNGGGUUUNNGGUUUNNGGG!!!!!!....oh wow, nice reverb....
Oh look at the pretty birdies!!
Good Morning!! Coffee please. Thanks. Rain. High near 44. East wind between 5 and 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Good Morning!! Coffee please. Thanks.
Rain. High near 44. East wind between 5 and 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Christmas gifts? I’m not giving any this year. I usually only buy for Brenda anyway and I think, now this is just me thinking mind you, the floors and a new TV with a stand to be chosen later will be enough. I think. It’s all coming out of my pocket and I would have been happy with just replacing the carpet, so …..Merry Christmas. Her gift to me sounds like she’s allowing me to do this AND…. I get to keep the air compressor IN THE LIVING ROOM until I’m done. Well, at least in the house anyway. When the living room’s done it’ll have to move I suppose. Though it doesn’t HAVE to, she’ll probably backstep on that part. Usual.
G- Your meds were kicking in. Who is with YOH on thinking who is messing with schedule? Is the GM with Your Other Half, or is she the one messing with the schedule?
Rob- I’d leave the tree to someone with a crane or bucket capable of holding the tree parts being cut. Not worth it. Oh, Seems Ray and JR are on the same sheet as I am.
Because I’ve been kinda busy here lately, I’ve kinda sorta skimmed through some posts. I’ve noticed a few new folks and wanna say!. I know it’s no excuse for a proper welcome, and I hate to admit, but in my haste I fail to recall a couple names, BUT, I’m still glad ya’ll dropped in and hope you stay a spell so's I can get to know you better when I get the chance.
Gotta get back to the grind stone.
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, I will have coffee in a NP mug, please.
Rob, What a mess. Hope the tree didn't do too much damage.
If I disappear for a few days, it will mean that my moniter died. I am trying to squeak every ounce of life out of my present one.
Later,
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Coffee an bagel,
Looked at the tree,have an idea but would hate to be the cause of someone getting hurt.
Probably no RR work today, too many projects on the list yet.
Mornin Modelers!
It's 20F this morning with a light dusting on the white stuff on the ground. Got the sound of little feet in the house last night; all 4 of them.
Morning All,
Flo can I have a cup of coffee please, oh and a plate of Christmas cookies.
At w**k today so no MRR time for me. I hope the new loco comes in Thurs or Friday. Man is it hard to believe it is Christmas on Sunday. The temps here will be in the high 70's to low 80's all week.
Rob- When I was a brand new PM I had a call where a man was cutting branches off his parents tree and he fell landing on a cut branch severing his spinal cord. He survived but is now paralyzed. True story. Please pay the money.
Everyone take care and prayers for those in need.