Coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
***Garry, nice pics!
***Curt, how about a pic of the new loco on your layout?
Trying to decide if I should drop in on the Inlaws at the assisted living home. Kinda one of those things I only did with the wife as a call of duty. Really have not felt like it yet. And as fast as their memories have declined, Don't know if they would remember the visit after I leave anyway.
Same index finger is still messed up. For it to still be giving me this much grief, must have done something bad to it, like ligament damage. Oh well.
Hope to make it down to the train room this evening. Need some train time. Chance of Severe Storms this afternoon. Oh boy!
Rob
Good morning everybody.
Wow! Todd is hungry this morning! I think Barry met his match!
Jeff ... You're doing well with painting those resin castings. I have used several vehicles from a couple of companies for my scenes.
Curt ... I hope you like the 2-6-0.
Here is some branchline activity. The doodlebug is making its morning run from Hinterland (end of branch line) to Valley Heights (junction with main line).
My scare crow was "kitbashed" from a Q-Tip. Not a functioning scare crow. Crows are everywhere.
Later in the day a GE 44T hauls a short freight train.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Morning All
Flo, Coffee please.
Go into work today at 12:00 AM? Or is that 12:00 PM? Anyway I go in at noon. Will be working till closing so I will get out around 9:15 PM if everything goes well. Friday I have to be at work at 9:00 AM, going to be a little tuff on me.
Curt How about a video of he new engine, like to hear what it sounds like.
Well, time to take my meds. See you all later.
Ken
I hate Rust
Good morning. Winter begins today. It's very wet here. The temp is 48°, the high will be 60° so the weather guesser says and there's a near 100% chance of rain this morning.If my calculations are correct last night was the longest night of the year (5:16 pm to 5:30 am). I checked the rain gauge yesterday to see how much rain we got on the 20th. Three and three eighths inches. That brought the lake up a bit but nowhere near where it needs to be. It will be interesting to see how much we get today.Well, this morning I moved the painted castings out of the project area. Problem is the space has been taken up by more unpainted castings. Unless the rain clears out I won't be able to start on them today. They first need to be lightly sprayed with gray primer. Otherwise the latex paint I use won't stick in an even coat, rather bead up, run off or both. These castings are mostly assorted crates, a few wheels and a junk scene with a couple of Model T's and a few other pre-1930's cars.
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Morning All,
At w**k again today with a high of 81 F today, and there definitely is no snow skiing any where around here. I painted the roof cab on the mogul last night grimy black since I really did not like the red color they used on it. It came out well. I will post pictures later. Tomorrow I plan on testing signal leads and soldering the wire extensions to them in preparation to installing them. THe leads already have resistors attached so I don't need to add them.
Todd- I can sympathize with you about home projects having done numerous ones.
Lee- Have you passed it yet. I've been lucky so far. Knock on wood.
Everyone take care.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Today is the last day of work until after the 1st of the year. I will have a quick coffee and head for the pool.
We are still painting, but I am hoping for some layout time.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Some Stickee Buns, just as soon as I can get Callista off of the ladder.
She had heard that breakfast was on the house this morning.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Good Morning!! Coffee and scrambled eggs with swiss cheese, onions and green peppers please…, no wait. BBQ ribs with fires and mozzarella sticks sounds better. Thanks. Increasing clouds, with a high near 41. Oh, Lee has a bugger. I though he had a kidney stone. Me, I’d just use my finger. I KNEW IT! It isn’t me. Alexandria IS messed up. I knew it. Now if I could just get someone to say Texarkana is a real jewel of a road design… Welp, would have got more done on the floor yesterday, but Brenda decided we, yes we, needed to “run” in to her Mom’s to move a chair for her. Then on the way it went to set up a bed. Then when we got there she cleaned the room. Three and a half hours later….. Now today, cause like yesterday, I have some things I have to do in the morning and w**k in this evening, she will question when is the floor going to be done. Saturday is my next full day I can w**k on it and of course, Christmas Eve is at 3pm at her sisters. Christmas Day is in the morning at her Mom’s. Basically over the next 4 days, I maaay have a total of just shy of a day to w**k on the floor. I don’t mind, but she will want me to do something like oh, I don’t know NOT watch Ziva when the floor needs done and her house is a mess, but it’s ok if she wants me to ride with her to the Walmart while she looks for some $5 trinket for some yahoo, or so I can see a color for a paint that I’m gonna say “looks fine to me” anyway. Women. Can't live with 'em. Can't shoot 'em. Sorry Sue. Present company excluded. ( I need to hang a bell around her. I look around and don't see her, then next thing you know, BAM! she's standing right there)
Good Morning!! Coffee and scrambled eggs with swiss cheese, onions and green peppers please…, no wait. BBQ ribs with fires and mozzarella sticks sounds better. Thanks.
Increasing clouds, with a high near 41.
Oh, Lee has a bugger. I though he had a kidney stone. Me, I’d just use my finger.
I KNEW IT! It isn’t me. Alexandria IS messed up. I knew it. Now if I could just get someone to say Texarkana is a real jewel of a road design…
Welp, would have got more done on the floor yesterday, but Brenda decided we, yes we, needed to “run” in to her Mom’s to move a chair for her. Then on the way it went to set up a bed. Then when we got there she cleaned the room. Three and a half hours later….. Now today, cause like yesterday, I have some things I have to do in the morning and w**k in this evening, she will question when is the floor going to be done. Saturday is my next full day I can w**k on it and of course, Christmas Eve is at 3pm at her sisters. Christmas Day is in the morning at her Mom’s. Basically over the next 4 days, I maaay have a total of just shy of a day to w**k on the floor. I don’t mind, but she will want me to do something like oh, I don’t know NOT watch Ziva when the floor needs done and her house is a mess, but it’s ok if she wants me to ride with her to the Walmart while she looks for some $5 trinket for some yahoo, or so I can see a color for a paint that I’m gonna say “looks fine to me” anyway. Women. Can't live with 'em. Can't shoot 'em.
Sorry Sue. Present company excluded. ( I need to hang a bell around her. I look around and don't see her, then next thing you know, BAM! she's standing right there)
Best get movin, Ziva’s waitin’
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!!!
Today is Thursday, December 22, 2011!!!
Welcome to the Winter Solstice!!! It arrived at 12:30 Am EST!!!
Only 3 more days til CHristmas!!!
Only 10 more days til the end of this year!!!
-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
I am up and all energetic this morning..watch what happens around 10am..be asleep by then, lol.
Lee: My dad used to say whenever he had to pass one of those things...A man's gotta do what he's gotta do...
Going to be a mix of sun and cloud today..high near 44F...we might see some little tiny snowflurries tomorrow and saturday.....
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,
We hit 65.08” of rain yesterday. That’s almost 179,216 gallons of rain on my 1/10 of an acre lot.
Thanks for all the get well wishes.
Its 0226, I can only sleep 2-4 hours at a time, but I’m getting about 10 hours of sleep a day so I think I’m ok, LOL. I went to the urologist and the stone is actually 4.5mm. I was ok until I looked at my drill gage now I’m a bit nervous. The plan is for me to pass it on my own before the 29th. Doc has an operating room reserved for me at 1300 on that day. The stone is stuck right before entering the bladder so I’m on tamsulosin to help dilate the opening. I try to take the pills at the first indication of pain, the pain is starting in an area only the menfolk can relate to then radiates to my lower back so I don’t hesitate to take the pills as needed.
Well I’m afraid change of diet won’t help me, but thanks for the advice. I have a high calcium content in my blood, always have, and it looks like I’ll go through this every 10-12 years.
Lion, try www.microcenter.com for a laptop battery. They have a wall display of generic batteries that will fit almost any laptop and they are a dell, Toshiba, HP, and Powerspec, certified service center. If that fails look up Bull Dog Battery in Wickliffe, OH they rebuild everything from locomotive batteries to cordless drill batteries.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Evenin' folks!
Janie, I'll have a decaf and a slice of the pecan pie. What, hey, my sugar is 91 I just tested it.... Sheesh! I'll go sit by the stove in the back and warm up a bit.
Been too warm here today (low 50's) to fire up the wood stove here today so the house is chilly.
Finished the CDs and the lady came and picked them up. She paid me quite well. I told to give me whatever she thought was fair. I'll have a bit of hobby money over the Holidays..... Ran a few errands and got my hair cut this afternoon. My barber is just back to w*rk after having a serious heart attack a couple weeks ago. He was very lucky it happened at his shop and there were a couple customers there, one of which is a doctor... He ended up in a hospital in Rochester, NY and had a couple stents put in. His major artery to his heart was 95% blocked. This is his third heart attack I think. This time he is giving up smoking! He is 10 years younger than I am....
Made up 50 blank CDs for recording the church services for the next year, and then spent most of the evening in the train room. Glued the last of the three new sidings in place, and then did some wiring for feeders. You know, It is a heck of a lot easier to crawl around under the layout after losing 30 lbs.!
Mr. Beasley, Going Skiing I see! By golly, THAT is one thing they can't do in Florida now can they.... I used to do some Nordic skiing back not too many years ago actually. Still have the old skis down cellar. Most probably the boots are shot though. May get them out if we actually have any snow this winter.
Jeffrey, nice work with the resin vehicles! They look great.
About time to call it a night I think. See you ijn the morning!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Reporting to you live from the mountains of Maine. Ski season has started, which does put a dent in my modeling. Pretty much all the snow is man-made, although we drove up in a mist at 33 degrees F.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
It's been a busy day for me so I'm calling it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Thanks for the compliments on the painting of the castings. For those who are curious, I painted them with latex paint after giving them a very light spray with primer gray spray paint. One of my own forum members had asked me how I got the latex paint to stick to the resin and that's how. The latex was brushed on and the rust color paint was dry brushed. With these having come out so well I may get more. Being they're flawed casting I can get a bag full for a few dollars.
Evening Folks!
Flo, Beer Please.
Rob The tree looks way bigger in that last shot. There is no way in Heck I would think about climbing that thing and start cutting.
Work Front I think I smell a Rat. Again I find another ticket that Tim has written that does not have the oil change on the ticket? Most of our customers pay by credit card so I don't know if he has found a way to pocket the oil change funds or if he has something else up his sleeve? Bet it has something to do with the profit margin, oil changes are not high profit. Commission goes up with your profit margin. All so explains why our inventory is a joke.
See you all later.
Evening All,
Home for the evening since it was my short day. It was very busy today and the high tomorrow is supposed to be 81 F about 10 degrees above average.
I ran my new Mogul for around 20 minutes tonight before MOH got home. It ran well at low speed and has nice sound features. I believe it was well worth the price and I may buy another after the first of the year.
Lee- Hope you are feeling better tonight.
Rob- That tree looks much bigger in today's pictures.
Jeff- Nice job on those cars.
***Jeffrey, sounds like an exhausting kind of day. Hospital ventures often feel like you're feeding a time bandit. Hey, notify the junk yard there is an old green car on the tracks so they can send out a tow truck and remove it before a train comes by.
Good evening. It's 55° and cloudy. Looking for it to be 50° tonight with a 40% chance of rain increasing to 75% by sunrise.Took my mother to Alexandria this morning for her medical appointment. I hadn't been to the hospital there in so long I forgot where it was. Finally found it by crossing through the side streets. The place has so many up and down slanted corridors I frequently thing it was designed and built by a committee that studied the absolute worst in architecture. I got her to her her appointment on time. We were there for a whole thirty minutes before she was called in then sent back out twenty minutes later with a couple of prescriptions. From there we found our way back to the parking garage (parked on second floor). You have to go up to the fourth floor to find the exit ramp back to the first floor. Top of the exit ramp was blocked by a disabled car so we had to turn around and go back to the bottom on the entry ramp against traffic. That was interesting. Finally got out of there. We went to Applebee's for lunch. We both had BBQ ribs with fries and fried mozzarella sticks with ranch dressing. From there over to Kroger. I was pretty sore by then from all the walking I had done so I stayed in the car. While she was inside picking out new weeds (plants0 for her plant menagerie I watched the birds huddling around a lamp post in the parking lot and tried not to get bored out of my skull. She finally appeared at the exit door and I drove over and picked her up and we headed home. Got her back to her home about 4:30. Took care of a few things there then came back here to my home. There you have it, my day today.
I could swear I hear crickets again. Where is everyone?
Who here has the Slaughter House model? (Heljan, I think) Would you be so kind as to measure the base and let me know what you get? And is yours HO or N scale? Another pic would be nice, too. Thanks! Rob
Tillie *did* take down that tree, and she didn't need any chainsaw to do it. I had cut the wire that held the cine to the column, and it leaned over. She went up, and it broke off. Down came the vine and one surprised little cat!
Hamburger patty smothered in onions with a side of mixed veggies and a coffee refill, please.
***ROAR, can your kitty handle a chainsaw? If so, might need to borrow him/her for a day.
Took the strings of a hay bale and scraped it down to about 1/3rd normal size before trying to take it out to the pasture. Mud was so deep it grabbed the bale off the rear fork. Didn't realize I'd lost the bale until out at the hay ring. Went back and barely got it out of the mud. Serious mud fest out there. Might need a load of rocks if it gets any worse.
Ah, there's my lunch. Rob
Cederstrand ***Roar, my loader wouldn't even reach the roof. Here is another pic of the tree to give a better perspective on the problem: I think it looks worse today after all the overnight rain. Not going to be able to put this off much longer or I'll lose the shed. Yikes!!! -Rob
***Roar, my loader wouldn't even reach the roof. Here is another pic of the tree to give a better perspective on the problem:
I think it looks worse today after all the overnight rain. Not going to be able to put this off much longer or I'll lose the shed. Yikes!!! -Rob
LEE, I work at two different places One kind of regularly and the other about twice a month.
There are fellas that I work with at both places who have been plagued with kidney stones over the years and they both are high in praise of lemon juice. They both consume large glasses of lemonade daily and they report that from this their K. stone attacks have stopped.
Maybe something this simple with the increased acidity might dissolve the calcium and cure the problem as long as your stomach can handle the lemonade.
For your consideration.
Johnboy out...........................................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe I'll have a bran muffin with real butter, and a cup of your best dark roast coffee please.
Lee, I do hope you can pass the little bugger.... Sounds like you have had problems before! My first stone hit me when I was visiting my oldest son in Maryland. He was working at the Conowingo Dam fish lift. Snacked on a can of mixed nuts he had laying around, got myself a bit dehydrated and just as we were leaving to go over to the dam, it hit me. I ended up driving 300 miles home while passing the stone. I almost stopped several times to find a hospital on the way home, but each time the pain would subside and I went on. I passed it after I got home on my way to the emergency room. They asked for a sample and "plop" there it was..... The emergency room doc grinned and acted very upset they would not be able to do the dye contrast x-ray and all.... He couldn't believe I drove 300 miles with the pain! He did say the vibrations from driving probably helped me pass it. Good luck!
Another dark, wet, gloomy day here in the Finger Lakes Region. Currently 43°F with light rain. I need to get a bunch of stuff done today so I will pop in when I can.
Later!
Rob... r/t Tree.
You have a tractor, does it have a loader? If you have a helper, perhaps a neighbor, you can install him and a chain saw in the bucket and lift him to the top of the tree and start cutting off pieces there. No chance of him falling or the tree falling on him.
Remove overhead wires before going aloft in a bucket.
Extra strong coffee in a SANTA FE mug, please.
Have a good day all.
LSWrr I’m going to hold out as long as I can before taking another Oxycodone-Acetaminophen…
LION is (among other things) an RN. Pain meds really do work better if you take them before the pain gets really bad. We don't need you hooked on them, and you can use the Acetaminophen (Tylenol) more frequently, then maybe you do not need to take the Oxycodine at all.
We will send Bushy Lion to you. He works better than pills anyway.