Well, the Stupid Bowl XLVI is underway. Most kids today have no idea what the "XLVI" means. They don't teach Roman numerals anymore than they do cursive writing.
Just like Jeffrey, MOH and I only watch for the commercials. Not really into football. SO far not depressed impressed with the commercials. The best may be yet to come.
I gotta get teh hot wingdings out and roast em up. MOH enjoys them. I used to, but fake teeth now limit my eating of them, just like corn on the nob.
The cheese and dip and salsa is already out.
We shall see who wins. MOH kinda secretly hopes Pats do as work boss likes Giants like no tomorrow so MOH can rub it in to the boss that "nah nah, they lost"!
The halftime show with Madonna promises "no wardrobe malfunctions". I think all jokes along those lines are old and stale now. We watched that show and didn't see the "nasty" and we were watching it! THe micronanosecond Janet's b**b was exposed and we didn't see anything of it.
Oh well.
Enjoy the fun
EDIT: I got top so the wingdings, chips and salsa is on me!
-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.
ROB: Thanks! Actually, the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City (CRANDIC) has always used the yellow and gray. Their latest paint jobs really look like UP, which they interchange with at Fairfax, by Beverly Yard near the ADM plant, and near Wilson Ave. In Cedar cRapids, if you see a yellow and gray MP-15, you'd best take a closer look to see it it's Uncle Pete's or the CRANDIC's.
TERRY: Thanks for the input. I'm still skulling-out how many cars I "need" for this, figuring one set at the power plant, one enroute back to Wyoming, one enroute from Wyoming, and one being loaded...so far. And THAT's just the CNW hoppers. Then, I've got to w**k in the CRANDIC blocks of hoppers. I'm fudging reality as it is, the CRANDIC handled the plant exclusively (CRANDIC is a subsidiary of Alliant Energy, formerly Iowa Electric Light and Power Co.). I think the CRANDIC brought hoppers in every other week or so. I didn't keep real good notes back then, unfortunately.
Here's a couple of the CRANDIC cars as they were being finished sometime last year:
I'm also trying to w**k-out how many grain hoppers "should" be assigned for Quaker Oats, how many CC and SOO hoppers for National Oats, how many bean hoppers for Cargill, how many corn hoppers for the other Cargill, how many Airslides in flour service for Quaker, etc., etc., etc., etc.
Such great dilemmas for deliberation!
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Thanks for the quick answers, Jeff and Curt!
Chris, no they are not removable. I have 19 hoppers ( need more! ) that make up a 10 loaded and a 9 empty unit train, one each way. They both get new power when they reach Spooner Yard. It doesn't bother me that the car #'s aren't all different since they stay as one train or the other. Sooo, I need to build 8 more loaded hoppers( at least till I get more! ) You could make them removable, maybe by lining the car with wax paper as you build the load? A piece of metal glued to the styrene before you add coal and a magnet to pull it out? I'm still trying to figure out how to add weight to the mt hoppers without it looking stupid. They start at 2.5 oz.
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
Some dark chocolate, please.
***Chris, neat photo. Looks kinda like a Union Pacific re-name!?!
***Roar, I also thought that was an outstanding pic regardless of whose layout it originated from.
Spent some time on the little Beast and managed to grapple up a few stumps for a very small road from the driveway up to a pasture gate. Had to leave two stumps behind, as they will require the power of a trackhoe to remove.
I should have been working on a section of fence to keep the little goat frackers from escaping, which they just did again.
I'll be resting in the corner booth awhile. Rob
Gooooooooooooooooooooooood afternoon (makes the appropriate bows to the most honorable Diner ladies and most honorable Diner patrons). Plate of cheeseburgers and a bucket of Coke please 'n thank-you.....
GABE USMC: OK Pally, then how's about a hearty thank you for your decision to serve? You sound a bit like my favorite nephew who was going to join-up with the Army on a similar career path. A badly busted ankle in basic training canceled THAT out pretty quickly. I hope you have better luck!
TERRY: I like your operating plan. THAT is about how I figure I'll run the Cedar Crapids Industrial Branch (moving yesterday's Crunch Berries tomorrow) if'n it ever gets built. Between runs to switch-out Quaker Oats and Cargill on-the-river, plus transfers to and from the Chicago Central, run-throughs from the Iowa Northern, and a crosstown transfer from the CRANDIC...I'll have a week or more worth of operating sessions just to get through one "day." THAT coal load looks really good, by the way. One question though: is it still removable? I've got about 18 hoppers (CNW and CIC) assigned to the future Sixth St. Power Station, and they will eventually need loads. I can't stomach pulling a loaded "empty" from the power plant to go back to Wyoming.
TODD: Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! My wife is gonna hear you braggin' up how you're doin' all THAT w**k to make your wife's house nicer! This is unacceptable! Before long, my wife will start thinkin' up things for me to do!!!!
CURT: Have a safe shift Pal!
Stupid Bowl: For the past three years, I've been assigned to cover the North Liberty Community Superbowl Party at the recreation center. They did a community pot-luck, a church donated pizza, and the big game was projected up on the walls big-screen style. This year, they decided NOT to do it. A little cutie with NLTV (the city's in-house cable TV service) told me last night THAT the reason is: they didn't want to hit-up local businesses for the plethora of donations they typically get and then go back and bug 'em in a few months for MORE donations for the annual "Blues and BBQ" festival.
With neither my primary team (STEELERS) nor my secondary teams (multiple shifting loyalties there) in the big game this year, I too couldn't care less and thus will not be watching it. I won't even watch it for the commercials.
Have a good rest-of-the-day folks, and here's to a good and SAFE week...
saronaterry Thanks, Jeff. Whats's the NMRA recommended weight for a 40' car?
Thanks, Jeff. Whats's the NMRA recommended weight for a 40' car?
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Curt Webb Lion- Is that picture your modeling? If so you did a great job.
Lion- Is that picture your modeling? If so you did a great job.
If wishes were fishes, you would still have to clean them.
No, that was a photograph taken on the NYCT several years ago. I just punched up the colors a bit with a rendering program that I have.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Terry- A caution: I have used both and use Valspar now (much cheaper). I have found it's best to do it some place cool out of direct sunlight and high humidity. These can cause clouding. If I am doing a bunch I bring one out at a time to spray then immediately bring it inside and so forth. Just what I do.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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saronaterry Jeff, are those products used for taking the shine off plastic rolling stock? Do you have a favorite? I've only heard of "dull-cote". What are the price differences? Do they all work the same?
Jeff, are those products used for taking the shine off plastic rolling stock? Do you have a favorite? I've only heard of "dull-cote". What are the price differences? Do they all work the same?
AmanaMedic GABE USMC: Thank you for your service also!
GABE USMC: Thank you for your service also!
Whoa, don't say thanks just yet. I am almost seventeen, so I am not in the Marine corp yet. After graduation i will enroll in PLC, or platoon leaders course, where for two summers during my college carrer I will train to become an officer for six weeks each. After collage I will be commisioned as a 2nd Lt, I and I hope to make a career out of it. (or at least outrank my dad, he was a 1st LT in the 80's, also Marine)
afternoon SIRS
"Mess with the best, die like the rest" -U.S. Marine Corp
MINRail (Minessota Rail Transportaion Corp.) - "If they got rid of the weeds what would hold the rails down?"
And yes I am 17.
Already 40 and sunny here!
Jeff, are those products used for taking the shine off plastic rolling stock? Do you have a favorite? I've only heard of "dullcote". What are the price differences? Do they all work the same?
I'm a member at Dallas MW, Curt. Haven't tried the waybill generator yet, still have a bunch left from my Old Line Graphics ( now Micromark) Starter set I got years ago. They have some neat programs over there, especially the inventory one.
Welcome back, Garry!
Thanks again, Sue!
Rob, the next time the grandson visits, I'll find out how well it works. Last visit I just showed him the new system and got him used to it with one train at a time.Next, I'll start running one concurrently.Hope fully no cornfield meets!
DerJohn, got the PM. YES! PM me your e-mail address, I'll write you back.
Built another load for the unit coal train before church. Took about 15 minutes.
Started with this:
Added weight:
Cut a piece of a " for sale "sign 1/4" short in length:
Painted black, sprinkled on some reclaimedcinder ballast for "tooth":
Load up withdilute white glue:
Add coal:
There you have it!
Good Evening!
It´s been a boring day. Too cold to go outside, and nothing to do inside! My hands are itching to start work on that little layout, but no money, no layout!
Big
For those of you who don´t feel like watching Super Bowl tonight, maybe I have a valid alternative for you:
It´s some spectacular footage of Japanese steam, filmed in the 1960´s. There are two parts, covering about 45 min. - if you like.
I'll have the House Lunch Special, please.
***Curt, ankle will always be borderline worthless with all the ligament damage, but it is no longer painful from this latest incident. Need to be extremely careful with it, which I try to be. Thanks for asking.
Time to hang the latest load from the clothes washer out on the line. -Rob
Hey,
I got the signal working and changed the track pan day markers, and added a RR Xing sign under the plate girder bridge. I redid my 2 flat cars that carry tanks so they look nicer and lastly I put down ground cover around the last 2 signals that I had forgot to do.
I did do a video. The picture quality was good but for some reason the sound kept cutting out while I was gabbing so I deleted it. I will try again another time.
Rob- Is your ankle feeling better?
I will try to check in later.
jeffrey-wimberly I only watch the Super Bowl for the commercials. I could care less about the game.
I only watch the Super Bowl for the commercials. I could care less about the game.
***Unless a team from AZ., WA., or GA. is playing, I could care less, too. I used to watch for the Budweiser commercials. This year, having cancelled satellite tv, I will not be watching at all. Besides, the commercials can be caught online anyway.
Doing laundry and inside stuff today. Still trying to get motivated for more interesting endeavors, like painting and MRRing. Guess I'll have a coffee refill, please.
Rob
howmusQuite a bit of activity since I turned off the 'putter last night. Been catching up before posting. I managed to over sleep this morning. Probably needed the so I am skipping church again this morning. This is most likely a "Low Sunday" anyway since it is supposedly the #1 Secular Holiday in America today. Stupid Bowl Sunday or something like THAT. I'll be celebrating by w*rking in the train room!!!
howmus This is most likely a "Low Sunday" anyway since it is supposedly the #1 Secular Holiday in America today. Stupid Bowl Sunday or something like THAT. I'll be celebrating by w*rking in the train room!!! Anyone seen the Lion around? Don't think he has been in for a couple days. Hope he didn't try petting one of those little kitties he is fond of.
This is most likely a "Low Sunday" anyway since it is supposedly the #1 Secular Holiday in America today. Stupid Bowl Sunday or something like THAT. I'll be celebrating by w*rking in the train room!!!
Anyone seen the Lion around? Don't think he has been in for a couple days. Hope he didn't try petting one of those little kitties he is fond of.
LIONS are alive and well. We cancelled the Stupid Bowl because the GIANTS are going to win, and this is that, so why waste the time. But we do get some store bought pizza out of the deal. Mine is the one with the double pepperoni and no cheese on it. ☺
Curt Webb Jeff- You hit the problem many of us have squarely on the head. I had to laugh when I read it.
Jeff- You hit the problem many of us have squarely on the head. I had to laugh when I read it.
Asa no o tomodachi!
Zoe, start with dark roast coffee.... then I'll head over to the breakfast buffet and see what they got that might be edible.
Quite a bit of activity since I turned off the 'putter last night. Been catching up before posting. I managed to over sleep this morning. Probably needed the so I am skipping church again this morning. This is most likely a "Low Sunday" anyway since it is supposedly the #1 Secular Holiday in America today. Stupid Bowl Sunday or something like THAT. I'll be celebrating by w*rking in the train room!!!
Next step in the train room is to clear out and move the storage shelves under the layout. I have also decided to remove the backdrop (masonite) THAT didn't turn out THAT good and have sheetrock installed in its place....... Now remember, all I started out to do was remove the large peninsula in the center of the room..........
Barry, glad your feeling a bit better!
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Italian Roast Coffee in a SOGGY & SOUTHERN mug, please.
***Terry, doesn't sound that complicated as you explained it. Plus, such a system would certainly help prevent mishaps out on the rails.
***Garry, welcome back from what "could be" the true sunshine state, IMO. OK, Copper State it is, or even Grand Canyon State to some. I forget, have you done any mining tours out there? Glad you had a safe trip. Will check out the AZ Railway Museum link this evening.
From Barry:
Progress Rail Services -- the division of Caterpillar that opened a locomotive plant on Muncie's southwest side in 2011 -- announced Friday it was closing its Electro-Motive Diesel locomotive plant in London, Ontario. Workers at that plant have been locked out since Jan. 1 in a dispute with Caterpillar over wages.....this from...http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20120204/NEWS01/202040337/Caterpillar-closes-locomotive-plant-Canada-jobs-could-move-Muncie-s-Progress-Rail?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Frontpage%20DontMiss
According to Modelcar the plant had been open and PR was in there for about a year now...seems they were just looking for a reason to close the London plant down. Another poster on this thread...http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/t/202389.aspx?PageIndex=2 is saying that production will be between Muncie, La Grange Ill, and Mexico....
At Greyhound we went through that Mexican built scenario and believe me it was a disaster. So if that happens my thoughts and prayers go out to our US & Canadian Engineers. I disliked driving those Mexican built coaches. _no insulation ( certainly not built with Canada's climate in mind ) _windows that wouldn't stay in them _corrosion on electrical contacts _ excessive wind noise, it went on and on. Certainly they were far from the standard of our original MCI equipment made in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Pembina, North Dakota..
Having said that, it may depend on the Company and who has control. As I look at my Son's Avalanche which was made Mexico, it is a fine vehicle, well built and finished.
Johnboy out.............................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Good morning, Chloe. Just a quick coffee before I head to pool.
Terry, I am so jealous of your space. I had forgotten how nice your layout is. Thanks for sharing.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Morning All,
Just sitting here for awhile. I go into w**k at 4 PM today. I think I'm going to do some signage on the layout and try to shoot a layout video today but we will see. I think the high is supposed to be 80 F today and pretty much all week. It looks like the bank has got our checking account fixed and funds replaced after the Chinese fraud.
Garry- Glad you had a great vacation and are back home safe. During the March spring break MOH, me, our daughter (teacher) and our SIL are doing a cruise out of Miami.
Terry- I plan on doing something similar when I'm done on the extension (waiting on TT from Walthers). I found a company (Dallas Model Works) that has several applications for members (free) such as a car card generator and weighting of cars etc., if you are interested. I am not affiliated with them.
Todd- I feel your pain buddy. I went through what you are before I joined the forum. MOH is now talking about putting wood in upstairs. I don't see how that will work with the layout in the loft.
Everyone take care.
Good morning. It's 45 and mostly cloudy. The high will be 57, cloudy and cooler. There's a 20% chance of showers.The newly weighted and Kadee converted freight cars will be moved to the paint shop for weathering. They're way to clean considering they range in age from ten to forty some odd years. That's if the weather cooperates as the sealing operation must be done outside. I didn't have the time to get over to Lowe's the other day to get a can of Valspar Clear Flat as I was trying to beat the rain, so I picked up a can of Krylon Matte Finish while I was getting the groceries at Wal-mart. I also got two bottles of Loctite super glue gel whether I needed it or not.
Congratulations, Todd! Well done!
Rob, since it's usually just me running trains I run them in sequence using this chart( kinda hard to see)
Each train has a dedicated staging track ( for through freight and passenger trains ). The 6 local turns ( Superior, Ashland, St. Paul, New Richmond ,Altoona and Rice Lake ) originate and/or end at Spooner yard after their respective trips around the layout, staging where they are held, and back to Spooner. Only the Rice Lake turn services the layout's online towns. If I stop running to do something else, the trains are left where they are with the CC&WB packets along side so I know what train is what. Sounds more complicated than it is.As each train run in the sequence is complete, I move a marker to the next event and run that one, move marker, repeat. You get the idea. It's still a work in progress. As I go through the sequence, I've found bugs. That's why I had to add a seperate staging track for the Altoona (Eau Claire ) turn.
Hope that helps explain it!
Off to church, BBL!
TMarsh I think after this next room and between the Master Bathroom floor, I will spend some time cleaning up Toddland ( of which I’m king) as it is getting nasty.
I think after this next room and between the Master Bathroom floor, I will spend some time cleaning up Toddland ( of which I’m king) as it is getting nasty.
Good Morning!! Coffee and since it’s Sunday, my usual. The breakfast buffet please. Thanks. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 45. Looks like by Friday we’ll start getting back to more seasonal temps for February at least in the thirties and a twenties. At least for now. Seems this year we’ll not be waiting for the time of year to get the temps, but we’ll be talking of the season coming to match the temps. Terry- Fantastic layout! Thanks for shearing.
Good Morning!! Coffee and since it’s Sunday, my usual. The breakfast buffet please. Thanks.
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 45. Looks like by Friday we’ll start getting back to more seasonal temps for February at least in the thirties and a twenties. At least for now. Seems this year we’ll not be waiting for the time of year to get the temps, but we’ll be talking of the season coming to match the temps.
Terry- Fantastic layout! Thanks for shearing.
Floor Wars Williamsville: Phase….I lost track - Well, the Kitchen is done. Yup, completely. That makes, the Bathroom, the hall, the entranceway, the living room, the dining room and now the kitchen…, all done. Flooring laid trim work done, everything. So far my New Years resolution of completing one thing before moving on to something else is still good. So far, but the year is young. Nevertheless (wow, turns out it is one word),Brenda is just giddy with excitement that one, her floors are getting done, and two, they are getting completely done. Now to do the “oh look there’s an empty place, let’s set er there for now” room. It was the designed laundry room when the house was built, but we moved the laundry room to the basement in the furnace room. The way she leaves piles of clothes, wasn’t no way that would fit in the room they had built. Besides or kitchen size, or lack of size, is only rivaled by Jeffrey. We use the closet as a pantry, and the laundry room will get actual cabinets for proper storage instead of just that wire shelf and a…..thing to set stuff on with a drawer for her aluminum foil and wax paper rolls and, well, whatever else she can cram in the drawer. The cabinets will come a bit later.
I think after this next room and between the Master Bathroom floor, I will spend some time cleaning up Toddland ( of which I’m king) as it is getting nasty. For those new folks who aren’t as familiar with the geographical landmarks and their respective names in the diner, Toddland (of which I’m king) is the name of the train room at my house, or more accurately, the as of yet unnamed RR world of which I am attempting to build. What is great about being king of such a world is I can do…. Whatever… I… want! Boooohhahahahaha HA!
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.
I got the top...have at it !!
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....
Gonna go and attempt w**k at w**k today...sinusii are behaving themselves ...so far
If I manage to finish the day then it will be continue until Monday evening with the on-call.
Flo, I'll have the rawcaffeine in the I bag..set it at 40cc please...I think the 4 litre bag will work just fine...I'll be at the corner booth for a bit.