Morning everyone. Flo could I have scrambled eggs with cheese and jalapenos mixed in and a samosa on the side. And an Arnold Palmer please.
Ulrich,
Those photos are great! Especially the one on the bottom with the how the colors came out and the overall composition.
Todd, thank you for the response. I do hope something good comes along soon. I have low expenses and some money saved up so I'll be fine for a while.
I'm up at 8, have to be at work at 9:30, for my other job. Riding my bike gets me there in 7-8 minutes and by foot it is about 20... I'll probably walk.
A friend hired me to babysit her son tonight so that'll be fun, and some extra monies, so in between getting home from work and going baby-sitting I'll try and put together a freight car kit. I have a bunch of Red Caboose PRR X29s to finish.
Alvie
TMarsh Jeff- Since, based on the passed few days events and comments, I don’t think you’ll want to roll around on the ground disconnecting and jumping the neutral switch in the near future if you don‘t have too, I’d just get a push button, jerk the wire at the relay, mount it conveniently or secretively depending on your feelings and get it over with. Then when you feel like it, for grins you can crawl under the thing and jump the harness at the switch, then see if the thing does it. If it does, you know it’s not that switch. After that I’d look towards the column. In which case it looks like, especially after the first time you dealt with it, you’d be putting in the button anyway.
Jeff- Since, based on the passed few days events and comments, I don’t think you’ll want to roll around on the ground disconnecting and jumping the neutral switch in the near future if you don‘t have too, I’d just get a push button, jerk the wire at the relay, mount it conveniently or secretively depending on your feelings and get it over with. Then when you feel like it, for grins you can crawl under the thing and jump the harness at the switch, then see if the thing does it. If it does, you know it’s not that switch. After that I’d look towards the column. In which case it looks like, especially after the first time you dealt with it, you’d be putting in the button anyway.
My intent is to locate the wire coming from the ignition switch, pull it off the starter relay, run wires from a button on the dash and connect one to the ignition wire and the other to the relay. Press the button to close the circuit, turn the key to start, start the engine, release the button and the key. After that it doesn't matter how much the ignition wire is energized, if the circuit is open the relay won't trip and the starter solenoid won't fire.
TMarshThat reminds me Jeffrey, I can't remember, is that....um......horn I suppose you could call it, on a separate button or did you use the steering wheel button? Just thought of something right up your alley. put the two fairly close to each other and label them backwards. You of course would know to push the "horn" button to start, but no one else would. Imagine jumping in and pushing the "start" button and have that thing go off. First they'd say it.... then they'd do it. You on the other hand would be laughing so hard.....well. Just a thought.
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Good Morning!! Coffee and a sweet roll please. Thanks. A chance of rain and snow between 9am and 3pm, then a chance of snow after 3pm. Cloudy, with a high near 37. Apparently the air compressor in the dining room seems to have lost it's decorative appeal and is now FROWNED UPON in this domicile. Jeff- Since, based on the passed few days events and comments, I don’t think you’ll want to roll around on the ground disconnecting and jumping the neutral switch in the near future if you don‘t have too, I’d just get a push button, jerk the wire at the relay, mount it conveniently or secretively depending on your feelings and get it over with. Then when you feel like it, for grins you can crawl under the thing and jump the harness at the switch, then see if the thing does it. If it does, you know it’s not that switch. After that I’d look towards the column. In which case it looks like, especially after the first time you dealt with it, you’d be putting in the button anyway. That reminds me Jeffrey, I can't remember, is that....um......horn I suppose you could call it, on a separate button or did you use the steering wheel button? Just thought of something right up your alley. put the two fairly close to each other and label them backwards. You of course would know to push the "horn" button to start, but no one else would. Imagine jumping in and pushing the "start" button and have that thing go off. First they'd say it.... then they'd do it. You on the other hand would be laughing so hard.....well. Just a thought. Alvie- Good to see you again. Sorry about the job, but if you can’t breathe, you can’t breathe and that’s kinda important I guess. Good luck on finding another soon. Barry- That’s why I went ahead and spent the extra bucks and bought premixed mortar and grout. I figured the extra spent would be worth it in the mess factor. Now if I was doing it for a living, or planned on doing it for more than just essentially three relatively small rooms, that might be a different story. But for a one time (hopefully) project…. It is worth it to not have to deal with the left overs and the waste. Ken- Glad you stopped in. I was just about to say, surely if his computer crashed he’d have found a way to let us know by now. Sorry about w**k. I hope things get better. Ended up getting my hair cut yesterday……(siiiiiigh) yes Ray, while I was there I had her cut them all. You’re right, it doesn‘t cost any more. (chuckle) I bet ole Ray is a real hoot to be around. Probably love him or hate him kinda guy. No in between. Sounds like most love him.
Good Morning!! Coffee and a sweet roll please. Thanks.
A chance of rain and snow between 9am and 3pm, then a chance of snow after 3pm. Cloudy, with a high near 37.
Apparently the air compressor in the dining room seems to have lost it's decorative appeal and is now FROWNED UPON in this domicile.
That reminds me Jeffrey, I can't remember, is that....um......horn I suppose you could call it, on a separate button or did you use the steering wheel button? Just thought of something right up your alley. put the two fairly close to each other and label them backwards. You of course would know to push the "horn" button to start, but no one else would. Imagine jumping in and pushing the "start" button and have that thing go off. First they'd say it.... then they'd do it. You on the other hand would be laughing so hard.....well. Just a thought.
Alvie- Good to see you again. Sorry about the job, but if you can’t breathe, you can’t breathe and that’s kinda important I guess. Good luck on finding another soon.
Barry- That’s why I went ahead and spent the extra bucks and bought premixed mortar and grout. I figured the extra spent would be worth it in the mess factor. Now if I was doing it for a living, or planned on doing it for more than just essentially three relatively small rooms, that might be a different story. But for a one time (hopefully) project…. It is worth it to not have to deal with the left overs and the waste.
Ken- Glad you stopped in. I was just about to say, surely if his computer crashed he’d have found a way to let us know by now. Sorry about w**k. I hope things get better.
Ended up getting my hair cut yesterday……(siiiiiigh) yes Ray, while I was there I had her cut them all. You’re right, it doesn‘t cost any more.
(chuckle) I bet ole Ray is a real hoot to be around. Probably love him or hate him kinda guy. No in between. Sounds like most love him.
Anyway, I’ll just keep laying tile. I should be done before noon at a leisurely not in a hurry to get started pace. Then grout this weekend. Also appears a trip to Sears to investigate this stove has been scheduled for Saturday.
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.
Sir Madog Good Morning - - from sunny Germany!
Good Morning -
- from sunny Germany!
ULRICH...you mean you got SUN???? What's that?
Well, I am back about on my regular sleep schedule. I was off due to one night the OH worked 8:30-11:45 PM one night setting up a Valentines Day display at work. I stayed up until 11:15 and couldn't stay awake any longer {we usually go to bed 8:30-9:30 PM} and so I went to bed. but it messed with my sleep schedule the next few nights.
VALENTINE'S DAY- For those of you who forget- it is Next TUESDAY THE 14TH!!!
Well, Laundry day. You knwo some tiem ago I spouted off about the musty smell eminating form the washer. Like Jeffrey said Mike Holmes on Homes would say..where there is mold or musty odors, there is water....so I started trouble-shooting the problem {besides running the Tide Washer cleaner through the washer} and came up with the fact that perhaps the "walking {backwards} washer" was crushing the exhaust hose. I pulled washer forward and foraward after every wash and THAT took care of the musty smell as it was now totally exhausting all water....now if I can figure out how to keep the washer from "walking"..it is level, and the traielr leans a little forward of the washer..so it walks backward UPHILL. There was a joke in Reader''s Digest aobut a housewife who siad her washer "had three cycles: wash, rinse, and 'shake whole house'"!!!! Holmesy doesn't like washers anywhere but in hte basement...to avoid 'shake whole house {apart}' but we have no choice,,,no basement...and I wouldn't wnat in the basement..i'd have to navigate the stairs, a basket of clothes AND my cane!!! I like it right outside the MBR where we "generate" dirty clothes!
DO housework too.
MOH has to do shopping for FIL for groceries....whooppie! Wants a nice beef roast for the MIL FIL says.
Well, that all for 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.
Good morning all....Been really busy on the layout since winter came to west central Ohio. Got my tt installed and wired got three roundhouse kits assembled and installed, got them wired. I pretty much have my engine facilitys ready for senery.Only trouble I had with the roundhouses was the doors kept catching on the engines as they went in,so I glued them open. I was thinking about if I should use n scale ballist around the turntable and roundhouses or a mix of ballist and ground foam,any ideals?
L&N.....Gone but not forgotten
Have a good one!
Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
NIS SAN
GOOD MORNING!!!
Today is Friday, February 10th, 2012!!!
The weekend is nigh!!!
Evening All
Flo, beer please.
Sorry I have not posted for such a long time, last time was 02-02-2012. Really only thing I would had to talk about was the stuff happening at work, so I have been quite. I have stopped by everyday and read what has been happening.
Bob K Where did you buy the EM 1? Does it have sound and if so what do you think of it? I really want one, but at last it is still out of my budget.
Work Front Boy it has been a mess. Head of H R was in the shop Tuesday and called me into the offices and asked me what was going on? I told him the truth (hope that does not bite me in the caboose) Larry the Services Nazi is out of control and is doing what ever he wants including lying to the customers, Jim the so called manager cannot control Larry and Bill was screwed over. I was not trained, after 16 weeks I have had maybe 6 to 8 hours of training from someone besides a coworker!
Manger threaten to quite and did not show up for work Tuesday because of the stress and cannot control Bill. Hum, Bill was never written up for anything, does that sound like he was trying? He all so posted 3 different Schedules for the same week? But he did not tell me or other employees. I made a copy of the original and that what I been using. Wednesday I noticed there where 2 schedules posted for this week and none matched the copy I have? One had me off Thursday, the other had me working Thursday? Yep, Jim is firmly in control?
Bill did get his wish today! He got fired, I don't know the details but he is gone. He was offered a transfer to another store and a increase in pay, my self I think he cabooses up.
Well that is the up date. Guess I am getting in the Ulrich Mode.
Ken
I hate Rust
Hon Da
Today is Thursday, February 9th, 2012!!!
Make it a GREAT Day!!!
Good evening everyone.
Bob K ... It's good to have you back in the diner. Feel free to be a "regular" again. I like your B&O EM-1. Hope the job situation works out for you.
Barry ... Your posts included the Pennsy T-1, which is a favorite locomotive of mine. I once built a Bowser PRR T-1, a real brute.
Where is Ken? .... I scrolled through and did not see him posting. Also, I think there are some MIA's.
Jeff ...... I'm really sorry to read about your suffering with health issues. Prayers for you. Glad you could make progress in Sundown Shops anyhow. You're a real trooper.
Rob ... How was the coffee in the Verde Canyon Railway mug?
I made a little progress on the layout today. I'm back to working on the city, and I am assembling another building kit. I also worked on some scenery.
Cheers, everybody
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a decaf for me at the moment. I'll be in the back booth by the stove getting warmed up.
This evening I started to build a new workbench from scrap materials I have laying around. Got it about half done. Would have gotten a bit more done, but I ran out of the right size carriage bolts I'm using for some of the side supports. Need 3 more. After it is leveled and put in place, I will reinforce them with some wallboard screws of which I have many.....
Curt, I am the one making, not a round, but Octagonal Blacksmith's shop. I have to buy some mold making rubber and create the original form. Hope to get to it very soon. Right now the rebuild of the layout room (#2) is occupying all the time I have for trains. Once I get the new workbenches done and in place, I can finish moving the rest of the items out of the layout room so it can have the floor painted....
Time to head in for the night I think! Prayers for all in need.....
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
He will take care or I will tie him down and make sure he does.
David Parks I am the terror that flaps in the night!
Take care, Jeff.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Hang in there Jeff!
Always look towards the positive things in life as that is what will help you through the pain...
Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
Delaware and Hudson Virtual Museum (DHVM), Railroad Adventures (RRAdventures)
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Time for me to call it a night. It hasn't been a good day. I can hardly walk at all. The pain is so intense I'm gritting my teeth and for that to happen to me would have a normal person screaming in agony. I can hardly think straight. Hopefully it will be better tomorrow. Many times this runs in cycles. Most of the time I can get around and the pain is tolerable. Other times it hurts like it is now and sometimes it hurts bad if I just think about getting up.Oh well, tomorrows another day. See y'all then.
Curt Webb Jeff- Hope the new boot (or the adjusted old boot) works better for you and you have less pain.
Jeff- Hope the new boot (or the adjusted old boot) works better for you and you have less pain.
Evening All,
Well I got done what I wanted to today. The framing went pretty easy and I test fit it without issue. I have all of it painted and sitting in the loft waiting for installation. I completed the coaling tower but was extremely unhappy with the quality of directions, in fact I used the picture of it to assemble it. I will have to really think about it before I buy another cornerstone kit.
I can't remember if it was Barry or Ray (sorry) who was building the round blacksmith building. I was just wandering if there has been any progress.
Hope everyone has a good night.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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bogp40 jeffrey-wimberly: Good afternoon. It's 58° heading to a high of 61° and it's mostly cloudy.Decided I desperately needed the rest so I slept in until noon. That's a long time for me since I usually get up around 5 am. Well, if the weather stays fair I'll soon have my first mowing job of the season. It only pays $20 per job but when the customer (my father) supplies the equipment, gas and parts and helps with the maintenance who am I to complain. The extra money helps out a bit and I like doing it. I don't think I'll be doing anything today other than relaxing and watching some movies and calling the bad guys dirty names.Look at the price for gas. Don't we all wish! Jeff, when I first got my license in '68, reg leaded was 25.9. Didn't take much $$ to fill up my first car, a '59 VW, that BTW got turned in to my real first project car a "Dune Buggy". Even when I ran my first muscle car, Chevelle SS396, premium was 33.9. Oh those good 'ol days. Now you're lucky just to keep them running and fill up the tank.
jeffrey-wimberly: Good afternoon. It's 58° heading to a high of 61° and it's mostly cloudy.Decided I desperately needed the rest so I slept in until noon. That's a long time for me since I usually get up around 5 am. Well, if the weather stays fair I'll soon have my first mowing job of the season. It only pays $20 per job but when the customer (my father) supplies the equipment, gas and parts and helps with the maintenance who am I to complain. The extra money helps out a bit and I like doing it. I don't think I'll be doing anything today other than relaxing and watching some movies and calling the bad guys dirty names.Look at the price for gas. Don't we all wish!
Good afternoon. It's 58° heading to a high of 61° and it's mostly cloudy.Decided I desperately needed the rest so I slept in until noon. That's a long time for me since I usually get up around 5 am. Well, if the weather stays fair I'll soon have my first mowing job of the season. It only pays $20 per job but when the customer (my father) supplies the equipment, gas and parts and helps with the maintenance who am I to complain. The extra money helps out a bit and I like doing it. I don't think I'll be doing anything today other than relaxing and watching some movies and calling the bad guys dirty names.Look at the price for gas. Don't we all wish!
Jeff, when I first got my license in '68, reg leaded was 25.9. Didn't take much $$ to fill up my first car, a '59 VW, that BTW got turned in to my real first project car a "Dune Buggy". Even when I ran my first muscle car, Chevelle SS396, premium was 33.9. Oh those good 'ol days. Now you're lucky just to keep them running and fill up the tank.
When my father recently got bitten by a model train bug and decided to dig out an "play" with mine/my brothers O-O/27 train layout from the 60-70s, I dug out the box of stuff on top that was packed up. When I dug out my old Exxon {or was is Esso?} gas station, it had a gas sign that read "399"...ANd I said 'oh, how apropriate it looks like the price sign is current with today's prices'......until I realized that the sign said "39 POINT 9" or 39.9 or $0.39 and 9/10th cents!!!!!!
Well of coarse I ended up w/ TOP, Order up on me, guys, and don't be shy. Chloe, you take Am Xpress or Visa, i think I'm gona need it!
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jeffrey-wimberly Good afternoon. It's 58° heading to a high of 61° and it's mostly cloudy.Decided I desperately needed the rest so I slept in until noon. That's a long time for me since I usually get up around 5 am. Well, if the weather stays fair I'll soon have my first mowing job of the season. It only pays $20 per job but when the customer (my father) supplies the equipment, gas and parts and helps with the maintenance who am I to complain. The extra money helps out a bit and I like doing it. I don't think I'll be doing anything today other than relaxing and watching some movies and calling the bad guys dirty names.Look at the price for gas. Don't we all wish!
Hi guys, really haven't been by for some time, but after learning of Jeff's serious troubles, just had to give KUDOS to David for helping out.
I'm glad that you're feeling so much better Jeff you have a good friend there. BTY nice pic of that KCS GP38
So, haven't done too much in the way of trains lately, been rather sidetracked w/ problems for W**K or should I say the lack of any at all. 4 jobs went POOF! all within weeks. On the road and calls to move up later scheduled ones has been priority #1. Real shame what happened to one of my main contractors that I sub for, he commited suicide last month and no one has a clue as to why. He used to contract w**k with CSX and affiliates at the new Ayer, MA automovive drop/ strage facility ( also the old site of the manufacturer of those millions of defective concrete ties). My partner and I have had quite a bit of site/ building work through him. All contract are dead pending review or reassignment. All of my contracted work is for later date, most pending weather. Kind of hunkering down and wait, hasn't been this bad out there since the early '90s. Hoping for a break, it is Tax time and may be able to "goose" some of those pending jobs.
I did end up receiving that fantastic loco that I've been waiting for. When Bachman announced the release of the B&O EM-1, this was the first opertunity to actually optain one that wouldn't croak me in one of the brass versions. I wasn't in a position to lay out $$ for it, but my kids got together and got it for me. There was a Bosch multi-tool that I had my eye on and thought that heavy box w/ my name on it was that. Wasn't I surprised to open it and see that Spectrum box. These things are a thing of beauty, run excellent out of the box, pulled 24 loaded (heavy Hydrocal) and caboose up a 2 1/2% grade at the club. I can actually stop on the grade and w/ a bit of wheel slip continue (not that I would torture it like that on a regular basis). Our next OPS @ the club is an "All Steam", guess what I'll be running? But since it is all my loco and hoppers, it runs as a unit train and will teminate and run to offline as such.
Garry Glad you had a nice trip and a safe return.
Well glad to see that ongoing "Floor Wars" is almost done. So now, do you feel like a casulaty or the war or a victor, Nah, never happens, only opens the door for more and more....to do.
Glad to see that everyone else is OK, within reason anyway.
So now that I have no "real W**k to do, I've fallen back on some auto repairs, did quite a bit of it years ago during restorations/ racing.
My next project is pulling the intake on that notorious GM3.8 that the plastic plenum burns out @ the EGR, what a pitiful design flaw. Well at least I can help out my neice, make a few bucks and she won't get taken to the cleaners taking it to a shop. Only problem, no garage available I have to do this in the driveway and hoping for temps to get at least up to 40, makes life easier.
Gooooooooooooood Afternoon (makes the appropriate bows to the Most Honorable Ladies of the Diner, and to the Most Honorable Diner Patrons). Bucket of coffee to go, please and thank you.
ULRICH: Sorry you had to w**k in here last night, but thanks for doing the dirty w**k.
LION: Hey, you wants honeysuckle? I've been trying to get rid of, kill, EXTERMINATE honeysuckle for coming up on seven years now. The nut-burger we bought the house from liked it. She liked it so much, she let it completely take over the wooden garage. It is now more or less destroyed (insurance co. won't even cover it if something happens to it). After repeated removal, digging up, and liberal applications of Roundup...it still lives.
I think all-out nuclear war armagedon could break out...and that durned honeysuckle will STILL thrive!
Busy day, best get back at it...
"Did those lions ever go home?"
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Asa no watashi no yūjin guddo!
What, Ulrich had to do house cleaning duties here last night? Hmmm. Guess I must have missed most of it by going to bed on the same day I got up? There were a couple questionable posts just poping up before I shut down, so I figure some things must have gotten out of hand. Thank You, Ulrich for keeping the diner neat and up to snuff!
Zoe, I have the breakfast buffet this morning. Just bring me my cup of dark roast coffee in a FGLK mug please and I'll go sit by the stove in the back.
Electrician is coming over early this afternoon to put in the new outlet for me. I'm hoping I can get him to help me cart the old workbench up the basement steps to the back porch while he his here. Then I can start building a new workbench and finish getting everything out of the layout room for the painters.
Found out THAT the glue I used to put the roof in on the powerhouse isn't plastic compatible.......... Don't ask! I will have make a new one for it and use a different glue....???? Glad I didn't get the floor with all the interior boilers and turbines in place before I found out about it.
I'm digitizing a couple things from a tape I made at Boy Scout Camp back in 1996. The camps 75th. anniversary is this year and they are putting out a new CD of stories and songs from camp and want to put a story told by a Scouter who was at camp for close to 70 years on it. It will go up on line as well. I'll give you a link when it is done for those who might be interested.
Catch you all later!
Italian roast coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
Have enjoyed the latest pics & vids being posted here. Have a good day all.
Rob
Here there be LIONS (with cameras)
Avenue H in Brooklyn. The station has since been rebuilt, but I have not yet been on the rebuilt platform. You are looking at the actual passenger platform at the north end of the station. I do not suppose that the new station includes the honeysuckle hanging over the wall.
This *is* a station that i will be modeling on my layout, as it is shown here (sort of) hopefully I'll be able to model the honeysuckle.
Good Morning Modelers!
It's 13F with the sun getting ready to shine; time to start melting all this snow off the side streets!
Good morning. A bracing 8f and clear. Winds calm. Pretty morning!
I went to bed too early, evidently. Saw a few posts, one in particular, have been deleted?
Will try to work outside today, still up in the (cold) air. Painted and planted some citizens,weighted some more coal hoppers and ran a few trains after cleaning the high windows yesterday. A productive day!
Another one for Garry:
BBL!!
Terry in NW Wisconsin
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