JeremyB I asked a question the in the part of the forums here asking about florescent lights. I use a couple of "natural sunlight" I think there called T8 bulbs and Im trying to find some that give off a cooler blueish color does anybody know if they make something like that?
I asked a question the in the part of the forums here asking about florescent lights. I use a couple of "natural sunlight" I think there called T8 bulbs and Im trying to find some that give off a cooler blueish color does anybody know if they make something like that?
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T8 has to do with the shape of the bulb. T= Tubular; 8 = 8/16th of an inch.a P32 would be a Pear shaped bulb 32/8ths of an inch or 4" in diameter.
To get a bluer color you need to find a bulb with a higher K (Kelven) number. You probably want something in the 5000 - 7000 range. More numbers, more bluer.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Brrrrrrr, cool out today
Temp right now is 11f going down to -2f with windchill tonight. Spent the afternoon doing some tree planting on the layout and while its freezing cold outside its always summer on the layout. I wired up my old MRC synchro sound box and while its not cutting edge sound it does the trick for me.
Well going to go turn the furnace up and go back to doing a little layout work while I listen to the hockey game. Still thinking about going to a local train show tomorrow, Its usually jam packed and really hasnt been that great the last couple years so will have to see how I feel in the morning.
The LION has some new photos.
How do thses look?
Meanwhile, I hear our kitchen is serving leftovers, so I think I'll stay here for some nice rare Wildebeest!
Grilled Chicken and while waiting, one last coffee for the day, please.
***Terry, I am ignorant of DCC stuff, but believe others here have nailed what happened. Have fun re-programming everything.
***Chris, although MsBeDownTown wouldn't understand your well wishes if I told her, I certainly do. Thanks! One more thing: that pic of the Creamsicle loco, I wanted a model one of those so bad as a kid and ended up with a GM blue & white instead, which I learned to enjoy.
So, nobody here has (or once had) a Mantua Goat Switcher?
All the farm chores are done, except after dak feeding of the barn cats. Time to relax.
Rob
"Speaking of retired RR employees, my friend living near here was an IC (CC and CN) locomotive engineer who worked in Iowa. His layout includes locomotives he operated in Iowa."
Hiya GARRY, I'll bet THAT guy can tell some tales about the Paducah geeps they ran. The CC looked pretty ratty most of the time. I loved watching their daily Cedar Rapids to Manchester turn leave town though: multiple geep-somethings seemingly at full-power, black smoke blasting out of the stacks, and a wonderfully deplorable string of empty ex-IC/ICG grain hoppers, ADM traffic, paper products boxcars and a caboose. I think it was the summer of '88 when I journeyed to Waterloo in the hopes of hiring-on as a brakeman. Obviously, they didn't take advantage of the wonderful opportunity I was offering them!
THAT's another RR (my "second RR" if you will) where I mostly have memory and photos to w**k from. The CC will pretty much be limited to a greatly condensed portion of the "A" yard (ex-IC). The CNW will do transfer runs, as will the CRANDIC. IF I remember right, it shifted: CNW delivered to CC for so many weeks, months...something like THAT; then the CC delivered to the CNW for an equal period of time. No idea why they did THAT. I toyed with the idea of doing the CC operations: two yards (IC and MILW), runs to National Oats (home of "3-Minute Oats"); or their "Louisa branch," the ex-MILW mainline across Iowa from the CC line to Marion.
Maybe I'll just make a loop of track and watch the locomotive go around...and around...and around...
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Good Evening All,
Long day at the shop doing odds and sods mostly to the street car fleet. Spent last evening doing the drops for the electric buss for the track. Tedious drilling and fishing wire through the foam and out the bottom. I attach the wire to the soldered track joiners as once it's all done I have power to both diverging sets of rails at the turnouts. I will have (so far) one reversing section which I'll hook up with the ARX from the old layout . Time to scoot - I'll try to check in tomorow. CUL, J.R.
Saronaterry: Sounds to me like you programmed a loco on the main with other locos on the tracks. Boom! They all got changed to the new address! If you have to program on the main set up a length of track separate from the layout. Have your track wires from Digitrax unit go to a DPDT switch and connect them to the center terminals. Connect the layout track wires to the left terminals (left of the center) and the wires from the track length to the right terminals (right of the center). When the switch is over one way the power is going to the layout. When it's over to the other way the power is going to the length of track. Only one will have power at a time. Or you could make sure to take all the other locos off the layout first. Or you can isolate a dead end spur on the layout and hook it up with the DPDT as described above.
Hello everybody. I'm glad there are several of you here.
Thanks for the remarks about my velcro idea in my steel mill electric furnace.
Curt .... You asked about layout size. Our home is on a hillside, and the lower level would be called a "walk out basement" in northern locations. The uphill side has a foundation wall. The layout follows the foundation wall. The layout room is 64' long. The width varies from about 10' to about 15'. It is enough to keep me busy with model railroading. I am still not done with the original plan. We move in the hous in August 2001.
Chris ... Speaking of retired RR employees, my friend living near here was an IC (CC and CN) locomotive engineer who worked in Iowa. His layout includes locomotives he operated in Iowa. He goes back to Iowa oocasionally to see family...... I was with CN-GTW in Michigan.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Terry- It sounds like you used your layout as the programming track and when you did the new loco address every loco was changed. That has happened to a lot of people. I program at my club for that reason and I like to keep several loco's on the layout all the time. If you are going to program at home I would recommend a separate track from the layout or a totally isolated one to do programming. Smile it's all part of MRR'ing.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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Well, I think I really screwed something up on my Digitrax Se. I went to dispatch unit #53, tried to aquire unit #67, nothing. Go back to #53 and ALL my engines respond???? Tried turning off power and back on, tried reading the manual, tried the same steps that started the whole thing, NOTHING! All units respond to address #53.
What the heck did I do??
HELP!
Terry in NW Wisconsin
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Gooooooooooooooood afternoon/evening,
Well (frozen, finally), I've been hitting the take-out window lately so only loosely following the goings-on around here. Hope all are well, or as well as can be with hopes for improvements.
JEFF: Sorry to hear you had to leave the Fire Dept. A tip of the helmet to you for your years of service. Look at the bright side: no more oh-dark-thirty page-outs! I just hope the Dept. does something to give you a proper "thank-you" for the time you spent, the effort you gave and the difference you made. As for THAT CSX geep...I like it! What you did isn't too far different from what the Iowa Interstate (IAIS) did to an all-gray geep-something some years back. They patched-over the "C" and the "X" and put up same-sized "IAI" for a quite large IAIS on the side. Quite the departure from their usual black with yellow band trimmed with red stripes look.
TERRY in WISCONSIN: You lucky dog you, having retired CNW brains to pick! I'm trying to design/build/develop a layout loosely based on the CNW in Cedar Rapids. I had a bunch of switch lists until a very young Rerun decided to shred them one fine day. So, most of my "knowledge" of the North Yard operations is from photos I shot then ('87-'93) what I think I remember, and what I thought they were doing. Obviously, THAT leaves a lot of room for mistaken impressions! I like your idea of mapping-out the operations and "events," with the ability to "end a day" or start one whenever, just picking up where you left off. THAT is exactly what I'm trying to figure out. You've got through trains and w**king Spooner Yard. I'll have switch jobs w**king Quaker Oats, transfers to and from Beverly Yard, transfers to and from the Chicago Central, the CRANDIC moving through to the CC... At least, THATs the goal!
I might just make a little oval of track on the floor and watch a CNW GP15 go around, and around, and around, and around, and around...
Best wishes to all in need, and THAT includes skunks and horses.
Got two more locos today. Two F3B dummies. One is a cast metal Varney unit, the other is a plastic lookalike with a late 50's, early 60's Athearn/Cox/Lionel frame. If I can figure a way to get that cast metal body on an Athearn power frame, traction city!
Good Aternoon
Had a full day planned at work to do things but it came apart as our computer system, at work mind, crashed and left us with nothing.....so I be doing some of my w**k at home now....
Jeff: I've been doing the used market for a long time now myself. In fact, my parents raised the 3 of us well...we know deals when we see them.....the b/w photo is excellent!!
Rob: mmmmm...I'm looking for a couple of maintenence crews like that....
Well, it got all sunny out here so I befigres that I might partake of a coffee and sit by the fireplace in back....
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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Coffee refill, please.
Does anyone in here have (or had) an HO scale Mantua Goat Switcher? How many logging cars (somewhat weighty skeleton cars w/ logs) would you expect it to pull on a flat layout?
Got MsBeDowntown (palomino horse) up in the barn. Must have taken 20+ minutes to walk her in from the pasture. Now she can relax and hopefully recover with good feed and much rest.
Afternoon folks!
Chloe, I'll have the Turkey Club Sandwich and a cup of hot cocoa please.
Spent all morning helping with the MLK Art and Poetry contest. There were some fantastic entries this year from the High School. Many were from the after school program run by Hobary and William Smith Colleges here in town. Went very smoothly and all the ones that aren't winners of some kind are in the back of my car all sorted by school, grade level, and teacher. The wife of the College President was one of the judges and stayed to help sort everything out, asked, "You used to do all this yourself!?" I replied that I did, but you didn't want to be around me during those 2 or 3 weeks it took me to do at home! I spent most of the time staying out of peoples way and taking photos for use later in the year of our activities.
Todd, nope! Not through a window, the bottom of the building is open and the building is not permanently glued in place (in fact I don't usually glue the buildings down, I figure gravity will take care of THAT). I'm hoping all the measurements I took and used will allow the floor to be put in place without having to do any alterations..... I forget who mentioned a removable side, but it ain't gonna happen... Building is already glued together, and I'm not going to take it apart!
Company should be arriving soon, so I'll 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!
jeffrey-wimberly Cederstrand: ***Jeffrey, doesn't bother me any. It's not like you ruined a beautiful Union Pacific loco. Heck, the colors are still nice! You mean like this one?
Cederstrand: ***Jeffrey, doesn't bother me any. It's not like you ruined a beautiful Union Pacific loco. Heck, the colors are still nice!
***Jeffrey, doesn't bother me any. It's not like you ruined a beautiful Union Pacific loco. Heck, the colors are still nice!
***Jeffrey, yea, like that one!
***Terry, tragic for that young lady. That is going to be extremely rough for her to deal with.
About time I head back down to the barn and finish the cleaning. Then I plan on bringing in MsBeDowntown, as she came up lame out in the pasture yesterday. Didn't need the extra workload, but it needs to be done.
Cederstrand ***Jeffrey, doesn't bother me any. It's not like you ruined a beautiful Union Pacific loco. Heck, the colors are still nice!
Hi, all!
Heatwave up here,13f but a little windy. Sunday's high 36f.
Found out last night the young lady who leads our church chior lost control of her car during the snowstorm on Thursday. Rolled it a number of times and her 3 year old son was killed. Very sad. It'll be a tough morning at service tommorrow. They were coming home from a Church function,too.Less than 4 miles from home.
After a couple days off because of cold weather I 've been putting together an operation plan for the Spooner Subdivision. Since I'm pretty much a lone wolfer, I'm using a train sequence type system. A while back I had a chance to chat with 7 retired C&NW guys, two of which are close friends. They gave me a wealth of info on train #'s ,what they did, where they went, schedules, etc. The upshot is I have 22 numbered trains that actually exsisted! I came up with a sort of train sequence based on their info and have 30 what I call "events" that I can run thru before repeating, although I "work Spooner Yard" 3 times due to the volume of traffic moving through there. I made a poster board chart to help me keep track of where I am and can start up a new "day" anytime I want. Just move the thumbtack to the next event and I'm off! I started to work out the bugs Friday and this a.m. It's a LOT of fun!!
Hope today's a good one for everybody!
Garry, I like the mill.Velcro is a neat idea!
Chips with bean dip, please.
***Ulrich, seems like you've done your part. It's time for him to choose and get on with the "building it" phase.
Been cleaning out a couple horse stalls today. Taking a needed break now. Rob
I got the decals applied to the CSX GP9. It looks good to me but I might not be able to enjoy it for long. I may get scalped, hung, shot, drawn and quartered and burned at the stake by a rampaging mob of incensed CSX fans.
Cederstrand ***Ulrich, looks like a nice layout plan to me. What more would your friend want?
***Ulrich, looks like a nice layout plan to me. What more would your friend want?
Poor Pascal is currently stuck in a "I want all, but I don´t know what that shall be" - routine. I keep telling him he shoud go for a layout that he likes, and not for one which occupies all the space he has for it. His layout will be in a basement of about 15´ by 15´ and he could dedicate 10 by 15 of that for his layout.
I made 4 different layout plans for him now, which he all likes, but .... It is up to him to decide now. I wouldn´t be doing it, if I did not enjoy making the plans, but it is about time he makes up his mind
Morning Fellow Dinners!
Flo, Mug of Coffee Please.
Driving Miss Daisey Well, looks like today I will be playing chauffeur for the wife. She will not drive if she see's any snow on the ground. So that means I will be spending my day off taking her places I don't want to go.
Still trying to wake up. I will drop by later when I am a little awake.
Ken
I hate Rust
Good Morning!! Coffee and a breakfast burrito please. Thanks. A 30 percent chance of snow, mainly before noon. Partly sunny, with a high near 27.
Good Morning!! Coffee and a breakfast burrito please. Thanks.
A 30 percent chance of snow, mainly before noon. Partly sunny, with a high near 27.
Ray- great job on the interior, but how you gonna get it inside? Through the window?
Jeffrey- Your Grandfathers right. I always said it’s tough to kill a 318. I had one in my old ‘79 Power Wagon. What it may have lacked in brute power, it more than made up for in determination and stamina.
Well. Friday the Thirteenth lived up to it’s rep for me and I don’t believe in superstition. I won’t go into details because it‘s very long and over years. Well…, long story. But it arose again yesterday and it culminated in me telling Brenda I’ve had it and I’m ready to walk away. Again. This happened about 5 years ago too, but this time she got the message that I really, really mean it instead of just really mean it. Last time things changed for a couple months or so, then gradually went back to the way they were. I guess she thought the coffee made and breakfast, supper on the table, the house all cleaned up and the unusual and uncomfortable doting was the solution to the problem and that a couple months of that was good enough. Besides the issue has nothing to do with "domestic chores" that some see as a womans duty around the house. Oh well, I probably won’t. I do love her terribly. We’ll see if it lasts this time. 3rd times a charm though. Last night I came home to the kitchen all cleaned up and this morning I awoke to her saying my coffee is sitting in my office waiting. Déjà vu? Deja vu
Floor Wars Williamsville: Phase….I lost track. Needless to say the events of yesterday didn’t allow for anything to be done as the phone call happened just after I signed off.
Ya’ll have a Great Day!!! Today looks to be better for me too.
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.
Extra strong coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
***Sue, would enjoy seeing progression pics of the Laramie, Wyoming backdrop project if there is any chance you can post some when the time comes. I love Wyoming for its scenery. Haven't been back there in too many years.
***Barry, sounds like it may be time to send out multiple little maintenance crews.
***Garry, nice looking scene, especially with the removable side. Neat detail stuff in there.
***Ray, good job tracking down the problem!
Very sad to hear of the China based MRRing supplier closing. Hmmm, perhaps I should not be selling off stuff right now!?!
Will be in a corner booth awhile. Rob
Good morning. It's 35° and sunny. The high will be 63°. Looking like 32° for tonight.Had a slight problem getting my van started yesterday. Weak spark. I had a very good idea what it was but didn't feel like tackling it just then. Took care of it this morning. The breaker points needed a slight adjustment. I don't have a gauge to use for it but a matchbook cover works in a pinch for me every time. Made the adjustment, test cranked it and got a good spark across the gap. Put the cover, rotor and cap back on then cranked it over. Fired up the first time. Engines thirty-one years old and still purring like a lion. My grandfather said it's hard to kill a 318. I believe he was right.Today I plan to do some work on the junkyards. I had intended to do that yesterday but a CSX GP9 showed up and that project got pushed onto the back burner. Some bushes, a little glue, some weeds and a few details here and there should do it.
Morning All,
Sitting here before the vet visit. Last night before going to bed I painted the WS items and bare wood brown and this morning I glued down the cork roadbed so it would be set when I get back home. I'm also going to try to get to the PO to mail the circuit board back or it will be Tues before it goes out.
Ulrich- That new plan looks pretty neat.
Garry- How large is your layout? In your pictures it always looks huge. Nice shot this week in WPF. Also I have to give you a in creativity with the Velcro.
Everyone take care.
Coffee, please, Chloe.
Jeffrey, We are doing it too. There is very little out there at this time that comes with NP logo, unless you buy brass. That puts things a little out of our budget. Larry is getting quite good at repainting/relettering. We do however use numbers from the NP roster.
Today, Larry is getting ready for the backdrop clinic next month. Our friend's garage layout depicts Laramie, Wyoming. That is so different than the evergreens of the Pacific Northwest.
Later, Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
blownout cylinder Just in time for a weekend on-call and we get this in the mix...http://cprailmmsub.blogspot.com/2012/01/chinese-manufacturer-of-model-trains.html...oh well Want to bet that this thread will be pulled before it gets to 2 pages?
Just in time for a weekend on-call and we get this in the mix...http://cprailmmsub.blogspot.com/2012/01/chinese-manufacturer-of-model-trains.html...oh well Want to bet that this thread will be pulled before it gets to 2 pages?
Good Morning,
The automotive repair industry received an economic boost yesterday with all the ice and snow on the roads. People forget how to drive.
I received an anniversary letter from the VA; basically it said we haven’t forgotten about you and we are still processing your claim.
Curt, I received my PRR signs from www.oddduckfoundry.com , very cool!
This past week I cleaned several locomotives for my friend in Mentor and applied Bullfrog Snot to the drivers. All but one came out well, a little 42-yearold steamer that caught fire on the test track.
Today I’m helping out a friend build a Kemtron brass caterpillar tender kit.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes