Sue- Had to laugh when I read the first line of your post. Thought you were talking about me. I was gonna have to agree.
Jeff- Nope. Actually I forgot about David. I believe at some time you made a comment about not having a sense of humor, but many of your posts give me a different opinion. At least as I read them. When you relayed your Fathers comments I believed my thought may be correct. We would probably get along well, you wouldn't take all I said seriously despite how serious it may sound. Many times others have to inform those who don't know me well that I'm not serious and am not by any stretch of the imagination, the exhaust port of a donkey.
Curt- I suspected a Spectrum. I was curious how they ran being they are so small. When I get a chance to get back to my world in the basement, I'm gonna w**k on the little plain Bachmann and see if I can't get it running better. If not, well looks like Spectrum will be in order. I want one for my tourist train and I like the looks of the 4-4-0's. Old west toruist trap town tourist train is how I get one in the modern world.
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.
Coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
***Jeffrey, I do not believe that full scale rusted car will fit on your layout. That really is an old rust bucket.
***Jim, Looks like 6" joists on 15" centers at perhaps 10' length from side of house to center beams. The floor is tonge-in-groove laminate with vapor barrier padding over 1/2 (or greater) plywood, over 3/4" treated plywood (it's been awhile since I installed all this, so I'm guessing), plus spray foam insulation in the dungeon/basement. Not an easy place to add a reinforcement post so near the basement door, but I could probably come up with something.
Have a good day all. Rob
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Good morning. It's 37°/3°C with some clouds and just a trace of a chance of rain/snow. The high will be 59°/15°C with clouds and sunshine.Yesterday I got the well car weathered - finally. Today I'll see what I can do about the containers. They look way to clean and new for my taste. Went clothes shopping yesterday. Among other things I got two new pairs of pants, so I now have twice the number of pairs of pants as I had before. As some of you may or may not know I've been using a text to speech program to listen to the postings here. I found that my computer seems to have a decidedly heavy British accent, somewhat like a combination of Graham Norton and Richard Hammond. Well, I've been tweaking it here and there and now have it at a point that I like. It now sounds a lot like Alfred Hitchcock. It's 'Good morning' sounds OK but it's 'Good evening' can send a chill right down the middle of your back. I still have to work on it a little. It sounds three thousand percent better than Microsoft Sam.
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Morning All,
Off today but it's raining, no idea how long that will last. I guess it is better than s**w. I will probably vacuum the house and watch the new Stephen King movie that came out last night. I have been reading and re-reading the directions for the LRT signal install to make sure I understand them. MOH left out the box from them the other day by accident so I know thats what I'm getting but haven't let on. Have I said what a great wife I have?
Thayne- I'm interested.
Todd- It's a Spectrum 4-4-0. It runs like a champ. Yesterday it was pushing 3 box cars and pulling a cabin car without any difficulty. I don't have sound in it but it is DCC. The only thing is to get it started the throttle has to be on 18, other than that no issues and it is a great little loco that I normally use for switching.
Lee- Those HW cars do seem like a good deal. If they are the ones I am thinking of they retail for $25 each.
Sue- No tripod. I usually either sit the camera down on the layout or I put it on something rigid that I sit on the layout. I probably take between 10-15 pictures a week and keep about 6-10.
Everyone take care.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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Good morning, Chloe. I will just have coffee this morning.
This is a dumb time of year to take on a major home remodel. We got some of the color up yesterday. SIL picked up the TV and console Saturday evening, so things are moving faster. It would be nice to have it done or to a stopping point by Christmas. Larry & I work well together.
Curt, Thanks for the comments. Do you use a tripod for your photos? Sometimes, I a just too lazy to get it out. Take 20 photos and keep 2.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
TMarsh Jeff- I’ve been told two things. One is you do not have a sense of humor to speak of and 2, you have a somewhat dry and sarcastic sense of humor similar to mine. (This was from the guy who lives kinda catawampus from your parents.) With your description of your Father, I don’t see how you could have made it without having a sense of humor. I’m leaning toward old number two. Kinda gotta know you to realize you’re not just some crusty guy. Like me.
Jeff- I’ve been told two things. One is you do not have a sense of humor to speak of and 2, you have a somewhat dry and sarcastic sense of humor similar to mine. (This was from the guy who lives kinda catawampus from your parents.) With your description of your Father, I don’t see how you could have made it without having a sense of humor. I’m leaning toward old number two. Kinda gotta know you to realize you’re not just some crusty guy. Like me.
Good Morning All,
It was really nice out yesterday so I did some yard work. Went to a train show and picked up some Spectrum Passenger cars. $10 each wasn’t too bad.
Curt, very nice pictures!
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good Morning!! (plops down at the RC) Coffee and eggs overeasy, hash browns, sausage patties and a couple buttermilk biscuits with oh…..Blackberry jam please. What? Oh yes of course butter thank you. Increasing clouds, with a high near 47. All in all not too bad for Central Illinoyz in mid December. No complaints.
Good Morning!! (plops down at the RC) Coffee and eggs overeasy, hash browns, sausage patties and a couple buttermilk biscuits with oh…..Blackberry jam please. What? Oh yes of course butter thank you.
Increasing clouds, with a high near 47. All in all not too bad for Central Illinoyz in mid December. No complaints.
Welp, the PC party went ok I suppose. I have no idea what she ended up buying, I’m afraid to ask. She did casually mention that two people booked a party off hers. I take that to mean she has to attend those two and support them as well. Here I thought her request a few years ago to switch to All-Clad pots and pans was scary. THAT conversion is still ongoing.
Curt- I like that Pennsy 4-4-0. Or so it appears. Who makes it? Does it behave? I have a Bmann “Jupiter” that I am gonna repaint, but not real happy with the performance. Not at all. I need to w**k on the pickups.
I like the wood burning stack of mine. Or should I say I prefer that for my lil dream world.
Thanks for all the pics on the Cattle pens. One feature I will have in Phase two will be a cattle pen since in Toddland (of which I’m king) cattle is still regularly transported by train. Prototyp….prototy….what’s that Vinnie? Ok….ok…I’ll go set in a booth. Yeeesh, my world, my rules.
Speaking of Flo and pants fires, have you seen the new Messin with Sasquatch comercial where he skips th guy like a rock down the stream….Now THAT was funny the first time I saw it. Which was admittedly just last night.
Brenda is not decorating inside for Christmas save the tree and a few things. With the flooring going on, I told her it would be a waste of time due to the disruption and moving of stuff. Won't be decorating outside either due to me w**king inside. She says no more distractions than necessary.
Speaking of flooring, Phase II of Floor Wars Williamsville is commencing today. The bathroom floor will be taken up to be replaced with Ceramic tile. Er, Porcelin I guess it is. It’s a full bath, but rather small, only about 36 square feet. Not counting the tub of course. Will also order the other 600 square feet of wood for the living room dining area. I should be here next Monday if I get it ordered by Wednesday which I will. It is on sale fo $2.99 and that ends Wednesday. Though the guy said if we missed it by a day or two he'd give us the price anyway, BUT I have to get it ordered by Wed if I want it by this Monday, which we do. Naturally the color we used from Menard's for the hall and entrance is no longer ah-VAIL-uh-BULL! But a Spice stained version from Lumber Liquidators matches real close and with the variations among pieces within each color, Brenda don’t think you would be able to tell. Me….I can’t.
Welp, as usual gotta do the books for the Church first, then I'll start on the floor. Since the room is right outside the office here, I may pop in from time to time. So I best get a move on could be a bit touchy for me to be here between the time when Jeff shows up and wonders how I know his neighbors and what I'm doing nosing around checking on him, and when he realizes I made that up.
Ya’ll have a Great Day!!!
(two blasts on the whistle)
Good Morning! Well It's Monday time to leave my comfort zone and hit the mean streets again dang it!! I had a pretty good weekend. I did the usual things chores etc.I also worked on my layout quite a bit. A new friend of mine named Scott Perry came over on Friday night he is one of the best railroad designers in the country. He just moved to Utah from Atlanta, Luckily for me.. We discussed my wants and did some measurements of my bench work. Now he is gonna start some track plan, He has also started a blog about the project that will show the progress and give others a chance to share ideas and make comments and suggestions. If any of you are interested let me know and I will post the link to the blog, I hope you all are doing well. See you tonight!
Thayne.
Good Morning
We be getting lotsa sun today, high of 39F is forecast for us'uns...
Got some exams to cover tonight then it is off for the Xmas break..which will give me more time to run trains here...as it is all the decorations are now up, we did our Xmas shopping early so the only thing I have to contend with is the turkey getting...
Flo, I'll have a coffee and a breakfast bagel please...I'll be over at the corner booth ...
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...
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Good morning from mid Florida.
Blessings and Prayers for all.
Flip
I owe,I owe, so its off to work I go. lol
Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Time for me to end a long day and call it a night. I'll see y'all tomorrow.
cudaken Flo, are you back there?
Flo, are you back there?
Evening, Flo - oh, sorry, you were napping. I'll get my coffee myself.
Peeked in the window and saw Ken talking to himself, so I figured he needed some company (especially after his 'nap' of a day at w**k today). I wouldn't have expected that slow of a day with it being close by the mall - guess everyone around was too busy doing their shopping for presents, eh?
Jeff, your Dad sounds like a fun guy (until your sides hurt, anyway).
Rob, another option would be to see how close in the basement that your support columns (if any) are to where you'd like to put the stove. On the weight, I would think the wood stove dealers might have had such a question about the weight at least a few times before. That, or they might be able to tell you of what things to avoid that others have/haven't done that helped/hurt the installation's holding up. I was wondering if the marking the stumps was for that kind of reason, and yeah, it makes perfect sense about used tractors, now that you explain it that way...
Nice stock pen photos you all are posting - I've saved some (for my sheep pens that I have at times considered for my layout).
I got the lights on my Christmas tree today, only to find when I extended the string of white lights (to go around the window that's next to the tree) with the colored lights strand, that the first light in the strand was missing. But the colored non-light strand makes a decent extension cord for the other strand that does w**k. Couldn't find any bulbs in the box for the colored light strand, so I pulled the other bulbs out of the non-functioning strand and saved them. Might try changing out and have white-and-colored-alternating bulbs in the next couple of days.Still have to put the ornaments on the tree. Eventually... (Hey, I celebrate 12th night, all the way to January 6th, so plenty of time).
I was reorganizing some of the MRR tubs (ones with scenery, figures, misc. items in them this afternoon too. Think I'll have to buy another of those magnetic gluing jigs, though. Went through all the possible boxes it might've been in (but wasn't) in my bedroom. Will double-check some boxes in the rest of the apartment and see if it's in them, but I think the gremlins took off with them.
Ray, sending you an email...
Prayers continue for those (and their loved ones) in need of comfort, good night's rest, bank meetings, and healing of other kinds.
Blessings,
Jim in Cape G.
Hello? Is anyone here?
Hum, guess it is self services tonight. Free , that will work for me!
It was just as slow at work today as here in the dinner. While we had a fair day, all the the customers came in between 9:00 and 10:00 AM. I came in at 11:00 AM and had 4 customers all day? I was pretty much bored silly.
Took the Wife's Town Car into work today. She said it cranked slowly the other day when starting. Tested the battery, it should have 850 Cold Cranking Amp's, it only pulled 188 amps. Time for another battery, my cost $77.00. List was $120.00 and I get a free install, like that is a big deal. Going to check on the 650 Amp battery Monday, but I rather have the 875 amp one. It all so needs a oil change, should have checked to see what my cost would have been today, I am guessing $20.00.
See anyone later? Boy the dinner is dead lately?
Ken
I hate Rust
Evenin' folks!
Janie, I'll have a Hot Roast Beqst Sandwich again tonight, a trip to the salad bar, and a slice of the apple pie with vanilla ice creame on it to go along with a cup of decaf... Thank you Ma'am. I'll go sit in the corner booth and harass Barry for a while.....!
I don't often double post anything here, but tonight I put photos of the RIT Train Show today in the WPF thread and figure I might as well share them here as well... So.......
This years RIT Tiger tracks Train Show is now history. I got a bit of modeling done but spent more time talking with other Model Railroaders aging from about 5 to in their 80s.... I did finish the turnout I started yesterday, and got about half of another one done. Here are all of the ones I have done over a 3 week period (Batavia Show and the RIT Show):
What I should be doing most of the weekend is telling people why they should join the NMRA...
Dave and Ned were there today (Ned is an MRR, Dave was a former Superintendent of our division for several terms. Both are incredible modelers!)
One other gentleman was helping out at the Modelers Corner both days. He is assembling a brass locomotive kit. He doesn't like to have his photo taken and doesn't want to be named but he is an MMR and is making the loco using the directions and drawings in an ancient article from a Model Railroader Magazine he has saved for many years. BTW, he is the author of the article................
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Evening All,
Ran trains today for around 2 hours, actually it was more switching and positioning to make up a train than just running. I find that since I have my own layout that I enjoy switching more. MOH and I went out to a local Italian place for dinner.
Sue- That scenery looks real. Excellent modeling skills.
Ulrich- I think I would make a surprise visit to my Mother to make sure she is OK.
Everyone have a good night.
Went to town today to do some clothes shopping for myself for a change. Got some new t-shirts, briefs, a couple of sweat shirts so I have something besides my heavy coat and a couple of pairs of relaxed fit jeans. Kinda hard to find those in 46x30 for some reason. Why relaxed fit? I need a big pants leg to get this deformed foot of mine through without pulling it on inches at a time. I spent close to $90. Glad somebody else was buying.
jeffrey-wimberly Good morning. It's 35° and cloudy with some sun. The high will be 53°. The weather guesser is making noises about rain and snow. Personally I don't think he knows what he's talking about. I'm hoping to get a chance to weather my well car sometime today but the way things have been going lately frogs may sprout wings first. Here I don't even have my morning post done yet and my father already wants something. He won't say what so I'm fairly sure I won't enjoy it. I guess since I'm the one who has all this free time I must have time to do things for everybody.
Good morning. It's 35° and cloudy with some sun. The high will be 53°. The weather guesser is making noises about rain and snow. Personally I don't think he knows what he's talking about. I'm hoping to get a chance to weather my well car sometime today but the way things have been going lately frogs may sprout wings first. Here I don't even have my morning post done yet and my father already wants something. He won't say what so I'm fairly sure I won't enjoy it. I guess since I'm the one who has all this free time I must have time to do things for everybody.
Missed your weekly photo fun posting on Classic Toy Train forum. I don't want to be the only HO posting over there.
Good Afternoon..chloe, I'll just have a coffee for now please....
Finally got to work on the Pike Stuff warehouse for Blue Circle Audio....as it is my suspicion that the yard at Williston could stand a bit of a re-organization has just hit...grumble grouch mumble snort ...so.....looks like the corner booth with the padding around the corner will be will I am going to be for the next little while..think I'll come in with a crash helmet for the real headbanging sessions...
The issue with Williston is that it sits at the end of a long stretch of benchwork ...and serves, supposedly, as the terminus and interchange with CP at the southern end of the imaginary route..now, if only I can find my photos of my plans here..such as any existed...
So, off to the corner booth I go....
Well I finally got some spare minutes to rub together and I was able to weather the well car. Next in line are the containers. They look way too clean.
What friends. One tries to get me to have to build an addition and another tries to get me living in the doghouse by getting a snoot full at the wifes party. Bad influences. I'll remember this.
Rob- It depends on the size of the floor joist (2X8, 2X10, 2X12), the span from the supported ends of the joist, and where within that span the weight is placed, and depending on how old the house and the builder, and the spacing of the joists. The thickness of your subfloor will also play some also. The only sure way is to set the weight and see if it falls through. Probably not your first choice I wouldn't think.
Columbian coffee in a BURLINGTON NORTHERN mug, please.
How do you know if particular floor joists will hold a wood stove plus the heavy base it will sit on?
Looks like the-bayer will be sending a replacement part for the problem item. We shall see. Still anxious to show it off here, but not until it's on my (N) layout.
Rob
While we are posting stock yards. There is more of that at the other end of the meat packing plant, too.
Ulrich ... Good luck with the banks. I think banks are being very tight with lending all over the world right now.
JimCG ... Great to see you. Our Imac has absolutely no problems. However, I'm downstairs with the Dell an XP at the moment.
YGW ... I can tell each of the diners can feel some of your emotions and we all care. Prayers continue.
Lion ... We don't have lions here. This is Wildcat country. Last summer I posted these pictures of bison about 15 miles from here.
A couple of days ago we watched a large eagle high in a tree very close to our house. The eagle then flew down to the lake to get a fish. The eagles are huge birds.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Morning Folks!
Flo, Coffee Please.
Have to be at the ZOO (work) today at 11:00 AM till closing which is at 6:00 PM. This shop in the parking lot of our largest mall in the area, so I better count on extra traffic.
Ulrich Hope things have not gone total bad for your Mon.
See you all after work!
Just sitting here reading the posts. Plan on running trains for a while today and maybe some shopping (depends on MOH). I don't go back to work on Tuesday so I guess it is clean house tomorrow and maybe a haircut.
Ulrich- I hope things go well for you on Tuesday.
Todd- Your "party" reminds me of a Tupperware party I was dragged to right after I got married. There was another husband in the same situation, well we started drinking beer and before you knew it we were laughing at the catalog pictures of cabinets full of Tupperware. Needless to say MOH was not happy but I was never dragged to a "party" again.
Everybody have a goood day.
blownout cylinder Flo, I'll have a coffee for now please...I'll be at the RC for a bit.
Flo, I'll have a coffee for now please...I'll be at the RC for a bit.
Chloe, I will have a coffee in this back booth with Barry. We will see who shows up this morning.
Nice photos Curt & Jeffrey.
I will add to Curt's & Ken's stockyard photos with my corrals at ranch.