Good Afternoon All,
Didn't drop in for Christnmas as we were running all day. Got back around 8pm and tired enough to doze off right away. Hope you all had a nice day as well. I'm at the shop just now between runnning errands.
Welcome Chad. So long as you didn't "find" the piece of rail attached to someones' main lline there is no rule against owning bits of rail head. When they installed welded rail there were all sorts of pieces and whole sections of rail just laying around behind one of the shops I w..ked at. The rail is high grade steel and though it's a dickens to cut, it also makes a good anvil.
Good to see some of the gang stop in thats been missing. Catch y'all later, J.R.
Thanks Jeffrey!
Yeah, that piece is just about 10 inches, & is has some serious mass to it, geez! I was just glad that little bench I have propped up did not collapse & smash everything!I still can't get over the size differential, they almost could be lied to, as N gauge units posed on that piece of iron!!
I'd like to put a couple HOn3 units on it but don't want to cut up my very few pieces of NG track....
Thanks for the positive support, I appreciate it!
Chad: Looks OK to me. I have a couple of pieces of old rail myself but no way am I going to try picking them up!
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Hey, another round on me!!!
Belly-up folks!!!!! Yipppeeeee!!!!
Good Afternoon Guys!
Say can I get an opinion on a photo? The reason I'm asking is that I have the impression that having & owning pieces of real railhead is taboo.... Please let me know if this is OK? Thanks!!!
This is a picture of a pair of BC Rail locomotives, staged on a real piece of 133LBs mainline rail. It shows the scale of what is being modeled here. This small section of rail weighs just over 30 pounds, the 133LBs comes from the per-yard weight, & dimensional data of all of the surfaces on the railform. The models are; lower: Overland Models, GE Dash8-40CM, & top: Athearn EMD SD40-2, both are on Kato track sections for display use in this picture. I have heard that ownership of such rail is illegal, but I can assure you this was purchased legally in the early 1970's & used as a metal working form in my fathers auto customizing hobbies. Being a model railroader, I just had to borrow it & stage a picture with it, like this!
The LION has updated the Abbey Website, if you are interested click on the "Christmas Album" tab to see what our place looks like on the inside. The LION took all of these photos.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Good Evening Gang
Just a short stop to grab some coffee and a bite.
The young ones are with us, so there is only little time to come here. I hope you all "survived" the holidays...
, Chad - good to see you here!
Hey guys,
WOW! Thanks for the kind words & warm welcome!!!I really appreciate all of your responses!
Lets have another refill on me!
I had fun this morning taking silly pictures & putting them up in different threads today. Last night (well, really this morning) I made & added a decal to a custom cab I made for the Unstoppable AWVR 1206. In the movie there is a cab top number, I watched it again but never saw that "split second" shot of it... The internet only has had ground shots.. Another windup is that in the beginning of the movie it has std sunshades, then does not, oh there they are, there they are -not! So since I have sunshades on everything, I decided to leave them off this one, but it bothers me.. Ha hah.. The unit is posted in the "Rivet" thread if anyone want to see it. My cab sucked itself in a bit, & the interior kit floor is not sized to punch it back out, I'll have to shim it, but that is OK..
I think at first glance, most folks will think it is just another 'Chadley's' IC&E/DM&E unit!! ha hah The real funny thing is that I had the GE AC4400's in the paint stripper tank before I even saw the movie, & the SD40-2 came much later.. The GE's are held up over the number boards, ready to just put strip stock down like I did on an old RailPower shell, everything else is ready to go.. Silly hold-ups!
Well sorry to distract ya all, hey, have a great day!!
Thanks again guys!!
Fruit & veggie smoothie, please.
***Garry, yes it is still there. Should have someone out this week to put a bid on it's removal. Nobody can get to it until Jan. though. Wish it wouldn't keep raining, as that cannot be helping any. The trunk of that tree sits on the edge of a ravine behind that building.
Rob
Morning and Merry Christmas to all of you. Huh? No, today is still Christmas! It is a season after all. 12 days long just like the old secular song about it...... Goes on until January 6th. which is the Feast of the Epiphany. Today has something to do with Turtle Soup Doves or something like THAT.
Anyway, I'll just have a bran muffin and lots of real butter to go along with my dark roast coffee.... Ate way too much yesterday.
I got all kinds of train stuff for the Holiday yesterday. Mostly items (tools) from Micro Mark. Even got a couple sheets of rivets! Guess word is getting around about me. My DIL's Uncle and his girlfriend gave me a a beautiful framed picture of CN 0-6-0 #7470. Did some research and found she is evidently still in service on an excursion road in New England.
Chad, welcome sir!
I have to create this years flier for our annual Martin Luther King service and dinner. Need to have done and printed by tomorrow night for distribution. Just got some of the information I needed yesterday....
Best get moving!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good morning .... Coffee and some strudel, please.
Chad ... Welcome to the Diner. I enjoy your posts in other threads. I hope you return to the diner.
Todd ... You said you have a neice in Nashvile. Do you ever visit there? If so, feel free to schedule a layout tour here in Western KY on teh way to Nashville.
. Rob ... Is the tree still there?
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
***Ken, hope you survived work and are feeling better.
***Jeffrey, good luck with the kid conversion to the world of MRRing. Sounds like a promising start there.
Good Morning Modelers!
Hope all had a good holiday with friends and family. It's currently 27F here and overcast but the forecast looks to be heading for a small heat wave that should melt most the snow that fell the over day.
Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
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Thank you and welcome to the diner!
Morning All,
Nothing going on here. It is trying very hard to rain today. Tomorrow the high is supposed to be 78F but on Wed/Thur the high is supposed to be in the mid 60's. Hey it's FL give it a day and the weather will change.
I thought I was going to install at least one set of hardware for the PL signals today but after reading the instructions for the 10th time (over several months) I had several questions that I need answered before I start hookup, so hopefully I can work on it this coming weekend. For the most part LRT has well written directions and the problems are most likely my electrical inexperience.
Chad- Glad you made it to the Diner.
Ken- Hope you are feeling better.
Garry- Sorry to hear about your church. I really believe the economy is just a excuse for a lot of people and businesses for bad behavior and treating people/employees badly.
Everyone have a good day.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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Good Morning
It is another dull day for our viewing pleasure here..temperature sitting at the big 32F...
I had a pretty quiet Christmas here..we got each other what we needed this year ....
Flo, I'll just have a coffee for now please...I'm going to sit at the RC for a bit..
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Good morning. It's 50° and wet. The high will be 56° and there will be more rain. There's a 60-70% chance of rain and thunderstorms all day. The lake is now only a foot and a half below it's normal level. It had been more than four feet down.Welcome Chad.Well, nothing but rain and more rain today IF the weather guesser is correct. I can hear the rain pounding on the roof at this time. At the moment I'm fresh out of new projects to work on. I have more things to work on coming but it's going to be three days to a week before they get here. One thing I found is an Accurail DT&I covered hopper. It looks way to clean! It should be here in two or three days. Two other items, HO Mystery Machine van and package of Stoney Mountain vehicle castings should be here at the end of the month or the first few days of January. I believe I mentioned I had talked with my niece and her son yesterday. Colorado is a good distance from here but they came through loud and clear. My mother was talking with them on the phone in the library (her favorite room) and I was on the phone in my fathers study. The kid is an out and out train nut. My niece blames my mother and I for that. I've been a train nut all my life and my mother liked to play with trains, cars and guns when she was young (none of the doll stuff for her!). She really enjoys holiday trains. My younger sister was the same way pretty much. She was forever invading my train room and running my trains while I was out. The flanged wheel fever seemed to skip her daughter (my older niece). Is it any wonder that her daughters kid has train fever? Well, there's also the fact that I've been helping inundate him with all sorts of train related stuff for the past couple of years. My mother is the prime offender. She set him up with the whole Thomas series. When he's old enough to appreciate them I'll send him a bunch of photos of what I've done and see if I can kick him into the world of layout building.
Good Morning!! Coffee and a Porterhouse med rare, baked sweet potato with butter brown sugar and cinnamon, them glazed little carrots, and a salad with Western please and thank you.
Increasing clouds, with a high near 46. Now that’s for today, check out tonights; Rain likely before midnight, then rain and snow likely. Cloudy, with a low around 33. Course it’s supposed to be sunny and 43 tomorrow. Daytime temps predicted in the 40’s the rest of the year. Can’t complain. At this rate Brenda and I won’t have to retire to the Hill Country. It’s coming to us.
(said in an amazingly accurate Mary Tyler Moore voice) “Ooohhh Rob”- I’ll suggest the alien thing.
Galaxy- Boy what you say your symptoms are sure do sound like what she describes. I don’t recall the itching, but she did mention on her toes once or twice. They don't look fluidy though, and they feel.... well they just feel swollen. Not softish like usual. I shall Google. Didn’t have time yesterday.
Garry- The attitudes of most of us were changed by the same types of people who stole your AC units from the Church. They will steal your water pipes too so don’t be surprised if the basement is flooded someday. If they’re nice, they’ll shut the water off if they can find the valve easy enough. Mom had a rental house in Springfield that apparently was too hard to locate. I think some day they'll find out they have to answer to someone way more important than you, me, or the law on this one. Anyway, everyone has, and is entitled to their own views for whatever reason and I make no judgements on that just because they may disagree or not see things the way I do. That too is what made America and I don’t forget that either. And by the way, anymore, over all, I’m not near as trusting as I used to be.
Cornish Hens! Just remembered we have a couple in the freezer. We like them because each can have chicken the way we both like at the same time. Think I’ll pull em out.
Chad
Glad to see some long time gones have popped in for the Holidays, looking forward to hearing from a few more. Maybe this year will see them get the chance to stop in more often.
Christmas was a new TV and the floors. Brenda and I have just about give up on trying to find something for each other anymore. It’s usually better to just get something from us both to us both. Next year at our age I forsee an extra large bottle of Centrum Silver. I did get a new Carhardt coat. She didn’t like the holes in my old coat and decided I needed a new one before I duct taped the sleeves again. (Long story). Don’t usually buy Carhardt’s. I’m a Wall’s guy. About 10 to 20 United Statesian dollars cheaper.
I won't mention the time I spent getting the toys out of the package for the Grandkids. About 20 minutes on this one. That's just insane.
When I get this floor done, Living room and Dining room, I have been given permission to take a break from floors. Now don’t think she’s softening up any, she wants her car fixed. Then I can tackle another floor. However, once the car is running, then I may get to have some normal days. Yes I’ll be w**king flipping pizza's at night and doing flooring by day as most retired super heroes do anymore, but…I foresee a different UND(that’s Urgency of Need Designation. Or is it designator? Can‘t remember)so possibly I can get into the train room for reasons other than cutting wood. Let’s hope.
Welp, best get a movin, Bank’s closed today so no point in doing Church stuff and my Perfect Niece is up from Nashville and will come by this afternoon. She is great at keeping in touch for such a busy young girl. Plus I need to run an errand in Springfield this morn too. Brenda wants as much of the Living Room floor done as possible before she gets here (sound of cracking whip snaps through the diner). We’ll see.
Ya’ll have a Great Day!!!
(two blasts on the whistle)
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!
Flo Coffee please.
Survived another Christmas! I do mean survived,around 10:00 AM I came down with a fever. So I was pretty much out of it for the rest of the day. Have no idea what brought it on unless it is the start of another bladder infection? Pretty much laid on the couch all day in between Christmas Lunch and opening presents.
Over all I did pretty good as far as presents. No big ticket items but stuff I like. More Hot Wheel Mopar cars, from my Daughter and her boy friend.
Best Present? Great American & European Railroads! It is a 3 CD set and from what I remember it is pretty good. Started watching it after the guest left. I was nodding in and out while I was laying on the couch watching it. Best Train CD I have seen to date.
Not feel great today, but not sufficiently sick to not go to work.
See you all later tonight.
Ken
I hate Rust
Good morning. Happy day after Christmas. We had no Christmas celebration, with the house in disarray. We managed to get the living room back together. It was the best Christmas ever. Today, we will tackle the dining room. I am anxious to get the painting project finished.
We exercised the Mike yesterday while working out. That is one of my favorite locos.
Later, Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Hi Fellers!
Although I'm new to the Diner Establishment, I want to wish you all Happy Holidays, & buy everyone a 'round!'
Elias, Love that photo, the reflectiveness on the windows & floor make it mystical & unique!!!
Barry, I absolutely love all the classic pix you post, love those!!!
Thanks guys, enjoy!!!!
One more Christmas Tree, if you can stand it. This is the tree that I set up in the Refectory on Saturday Afternoon, and so last night was its first appearance. I think it turned out better than I had expected.
Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Here on the east coast at EST it is now:
GOOD MORNING!!!
Today IS Monday, December 26th, 2011!!!
Watch for the store lines for returns and shopping!!!
-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 evening.
Rob ... The Christmas Services sign at the church has another message on teh other side. The store always has the same display in the window. .....
Dennis ... Your Amtrak trip reminds me of a trip my family took when i was a kid in 1957 on the Southern Pacific Shasta Daylight from San Francisco to Portland. .... Yes, I hear many Californians are upset with their state. Here in KY, we rank 4th best in the nation for taxes on retirees.
Here is the luggage tag:
Jeff ... Sounds like a very good family get-together.
Lion .... I have no subway, but here are mye streetcars:
I'm still bothered about thieves stealing from the church on Christmas Eve as I mentioned in my earlier post. .
Also ........ Galaxy, Flip, John, Simon, Todd, Curt, Barry, Ray, Ken, Bob Seamonster, Bill T, Ulrich, Lee, Chris, Darren, and CN Charlie ... Good to see you on Christmas.
Good evening. It's 48° and cloudy. The low tonight will be 45° and there's a 70% chance of rain tonight and tomorrow.I still have three Christmas items coming. A pack of flawed castings (vehicles, crates, wheels, etc) from Stoney Mountain Classics, an Aurora HO Mystery Machine Scoody Doo van and an Accurail DT&I covered hopper that I nearly tripped over for $10. It's condition is rated as C6. It's missing the ladders on one end.This evening I went to my parents place for Christmas dinner. Cornish game hens, homemade dressing that puts StoveTop to shame, green beans, collard greens, french bread and green onions. Not a fancy meal nor simple. I helped them out by collecting the dishes, put the leftovers away and cleaned up the kitchen while my mother washed the dishes. I had no sooner than pulled into their south driveway than my van had a vacuum line blow apart and went to running like crap. Luckily I carry a redneck vacuum line repair kit. JB Weld and electrical tape. I glued the line back together and taped it up good. By the time I was ready to go home the glue was dry and the van runs good again. The hose should last until I can get another one. I also came away from heavy one bag of seven oranges my father gave me. My older niece (the one in Colorado) called while I was there and I got a chance to talk with her and her three year old son. The kid is a CERTIFIED TRAIN NUT! I can't imagine how THAT happened! I've only been sending him toy trains, train pictures and a Thomas puzzle and maybe a few other train related toys since he was old enough to know what a train is. His mother says he's absolutely cuckoo about any and all trains. Seems to me I was like that at that age. Oh well, time will tell.Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Cederstrand Last coffee refill of the day, please. ***Flip, "OOPS". Blame it on this "middle-aged-timers". Thanks again, Flip! Earlier I painted some more landscape areas on the (HO) layout and got it totally toooooo dark. Could paint over it all with white gesso and try again. Or, perhaps add lighter colored foliage and stuff, which is probably a lot easier. Oh well. Probably a good thing I wasn't at the easel today...yuck! Rob
Last coffee refill of the day, please.
***Flip, "OOPS". Blame it on this "middle-aged-timers". Thanks again, Flip!
Earlier I painted some more landscape areas on the (HO) layout and got it totally toooooo dark. Could paint over it all with white gesso and try again. Or, perhaps add lighter colored foliage and stuff, which is probably a lot easier. Oh well. Probably a good thing I wasn't at the easel today...yuck!
My father does a lot of painting and runs into this all of the time. He likes to put a light on his work while he works, and then when the painting is viewed in normal light it is way to dark. You really have to paint in the light under which the painting will be seen. Which of course I cannot do because I cannot see what I am doing. But then I am not critical about how things look anyway. Besides which, Subways run in a hole in the ground, so who is going to see them anyways.
Rob- You're welcome.
FLIP
Veggie plate with brown rice, please.
***Garry, nice Christmas touch on the layout. Is that something you leave up or only through the holiday season? Sorry about the thieves. That is a rotten deal.
CSX pushed the cleaning car around quite a bit this afternoon. Only got stuck (repeatedly) going through one particular switch and only when going strait. So, I can live with that. Thanks, Todd!
Almost time for the evening rounds here. Rob