Hello ....
Ken ... Good to see the boys enjoying the hobby!
On the layout I am working on what I believe will be my last downtown building. I'm getting anxious to get all of the downtown together.
It was a lady at church who died of cancer. Her husband, two sons, their wives, and the grandkids survive.
Good night. everybody.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
TIPTON
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Morning Gang!
It is Sunday, February 26th, 2012 - time to start thinking about next month´s location. Any ideas?
Flo, I´ll have my Sunday breakfast with all the works, please.
Tried to get some more pictures of my now installed "layout". without a tripod, this was some task. I built a contraption using Petra´s ironing board, cardboard boxes and books to get my camera up to the height I needed it. The track is at 62" above the floor, which is good for viewing the layout, but not for taling pictures without a tripod.
Well, here are the latest pics:
Have a good one & stay safe!
Evening here... I'll have a coke, thanks.
If anyone has been following WPF you would have seen I've been busy this weekend building a little extension which I'm calling the bridge extension. I'm not too sure about the right hand side foreground bridge... May use a deck bridge instead.
I've also reconfigured the yard to suit, Not permanent yet...
And installed a short extension to increase one of the yard tracks, this might turn into a 15' or so 3 track extension. Just need to move the freezer thats in my way...
Just need to get some foam tomorrow to fill in the valley to the river floor and add a gentle cutting to help disguise the transition to the hidden trackage behind the backdrop.
Thats all for now, time for bed!
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
Syon Ara
Good Morning!!!
Today is Sunday, February 26, 2012!!!
Enjoy your day!!!
was late this AM due to this site not letting me in!!!
-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.
Mornin, I’ll try an irish coffee Zoe, yep I came down with everybody else’s bug around here yesterday, but I’m some betters now, just a 24 hr one. One good thing, being sick got me out of baking another 3 doz cupcakes.
Yesterday was cold, cloudy, windy n spitten sn-w, high 37. Today’s supposed to be sunny calm breeze and 54, no wonder everybody’s getting sick.
ULRICH,,,,,,,,,,,, Glad yur back, hope things start getting betters. Like how your layout is comin along.
CHUCK,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, glad your back and still with us. Don’t worry head n hands will get back together shortly I’m sure.
GARRY,,,,,,,,,, I seen those bout the bridge. Last I heard it’d be 3-4 year for a new one.
We’ve talked bout comin down yur way again, but it won’t be this year, think we’re going up the #1 daughter’s by Cleveland. We haven’t been up that way for 3-4 year and Roni didn’t make it down last..
Speakin of Roni,,,, I got a package from her and the girls in the mail Fri, with a Bachman Diesel Express set in it [not something I would buy], a wood craft train kit, and a small wooden train. Seems her n the girls were at a flea market, and the girls decide G-pa needed a B-day present.
On a sad note,,,, there was a car/train crash in the county last Wed, 2 adults [23& 24] died at the scene, 2 children [4 & 2] died Fri at Riley in in Indy. The 1 year old will recover. The crossing is marked with cross bucks and yield sign, but without lights. Terrible that folks are in such a hurry, they can’t stop, look, n listen.
Best lay down for abit, still no energy for much. Might get in some play time later. Thoughts n prayers for all those in need. Hope ya’ll has a gooden.
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309
Morning, all. 22f and nasty winds.
DerJohn, got the geological samples, very cool! Did you get the czech?
Ken, neat pics with the boys!
Anything in the mail yet, Jeff?
Welcome back, Ulrich.
Healing thoughts for those that need them.
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
Good Morning
Periods of sun and cloud today with a 30% chance of snow flurries ...and a high near 36F...
Today will be getting a few groceries and getting a walk in...something I missed for a couple of days..
Chuck: After my little adventure with the heart attack come cardiac arrest scenario it took awhile for me to actually get into the swing of a new way of living...take care...
Inch: Don't you just love the up and down winter? One day it is up next day it is down.....and then we see all these people getting sick
Curt: It supposedly is a part of Buffalo's Grand central Station...I'm guessing some kind of a trainshop of some sort?
This one is labelled Sir Vival...not sure as to date it was taken...
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...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
Good morning. It's 44° and sunny. The high will be 68° and it'll be partly cloudy.Nothing in particular planned for today. I'll go to my parents place later and see if anything of interest has arrived in the mail. The layout can stand some more cleaning up. I took my Bachmann GP30's off the market yesterday. It seemed like people were thinking I should give away two DCC equipped locos.
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Good morning, Diners. Chloe, I will have my coffee this morning with a large cinnamon roll.
Chuck, I thought that it was awful quiet in your neck of the woods. Keep pushing and healing. Sorry about the setback. Glad to have you back.
Curt, You did more track ripping than I expected. I can't wait to see the end result. Are your intentions to have the layout better for operations?
Terry, When I see that roller coaster road, I expect to see air under that car?
Ulrich, I will bet that Petra likes the layout on the shelves. It looks great.
I got started on siding the car shop late yesterday. It will go much faster now that I am in the groove. We cut up the big birch in the front yard that went down in the ice/snow/power outage storm in January. I can't believe how much wood was in that tree. Birch is also heavy. It felt pond dried.
Later, Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Good Morning!! Coffee and the Sunday Breakfast buffet please. Thanks Sunny, with a high near 57. Breezy, with a south southwest wind between 17 and 25 mph, with gusts as high as 37 mph. Chuck- Welcome back! Sorry to hear about the stroke, but glad you’re improving.
Good Morning!! Coffee and the Sunday Breakfast buffet please. Thanks
Sunny, with a high near 57. Breezy, with a south southwest wind between 17 and 25 mph, with gusts as high as 37 mph.
Chuck- Welcome back! Sorry to hear about the stroke, but glad you’re improving.
Ray- I think a picture or two in that link loaded kinda S.L.O.W..
Garry- Sorry for the loss of your friend.
Oh forgot to tell you, I got my tires yesterday. No package so I have no idea who made them, but they are HO slot car tires. Haven’t made it down to the train room to see how close they are to train HO scale. I guess slot car HO is the same, but I don’t know. Some say Hot Wheels is HO scale. Either way they look cool.
Made the bookshelf front last night and the glue is drying. I can take the clamps off now and will probably w**k on that some more before the weekly trip to the Chinese Buffet so ai can do what Ray did without the walking around part.
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.
jeffrey-wimberly Time for me to call it a night. I was digging around in the closet today and found my old 0-6-0 rust bucket. What a beautiful wreck it is. See y'all tomorrow.
Time for me to call it a night. I was digging around in the closet today and found my old 0-6-0 rust bucket. What a beautiful wreck it is. See y'all tomorrow.
Does it run?
Russell
No it does not run. It does not have any legs. It has wheels and so it rolls.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
BroadwayLion No it does not run. It does not have any legs. It has wheels and so it rolls.
I will let you go Big Cat on this one,This Time.
csxns jeffrey-wimberly: Time for me to call it a night. I was digging around in the closet today and found my old 0-6-0 rust bucket. What a beautiful wreck it is. See y'all tomorrow. Does it run?
jeffrey-wimberly: Time for me to call it a night. I was digging around in the closet today and found my old 0-6-0 rust bucket. What a beautiful wreck it is. See y'all tomorrow.
Well
Foto feeling a little better this AM, but I guarantee by evening it will be sore if I do some of my chores.
maybe a good day to watch the Desi-Lucy Comedy Hour on Hallmark Channel under the title of "We Love Lucy"! That way I can keep my foot up and have something to do.
Dinner will be ...chicken and such for dinner...I don't have to cook it...was planning Polkska Kielbasa and onions and peppers {heart attack on a plate}, but that would require standing and chopping.
Maybe I cook that anyway. MOH not fond of chicken and we did just have chicken the other night.
Well, later
See some terrific layout pics being posted in here.
Italian Roast coffee in a SOUTHERN PACIFIC mug, please.
Have a good day all. Rob
Well I checked my mail stack and found a padded envelope containing two Athearn loco shells. One of a Soo Line (red and white) SD40-2 and the other for a C&NW F7-A.
Ah..... Afternoon folks!
Just popping in for a quick lunch before the Granddaughters arrive. I get to watch them while my son and DIL get their taxes done. I spent the morning vacuuming and cleaning up a bit. You know i should clean more often. The cat hair, dirt and dust does get a bit deep when you only vacuum once every couple months.......
Jeffrey I see you have some more new (used) toys to keep you occupied.... THAT's a good thing isn't it!
Roads are clear and dry here today, and most of the white stuff has already disappeared.
Best make this short and get going!
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Snowing here, roads are icy, temperature is 12°
Here is a locomotive that I am working on (but not at the moment)
howmus Jeffrey I see you have some more new (used) toys to keep you occupied.... THAT's a good thing isn't it!
Hey every one. I'll have a diet Coke, Laura
Yesterday i went to a hobby shop in near-by harbor springs MI. This hobby shop is in the upstairs of an interior decorating shop. The guy who runs it is the friendlest, nicest guy but unfourtantly he has to close up. hes been there for three years and has a very hard time turning a profit, mostly because no one knows he is there. in fact there was one guy up there that just found it yesterday!
anyways i bought some stuff. First som trees (what layout dosen't need more trees) and a Walthers Laser cut wood structe Lakeshore Coal and Ice. I am going to use it as an office to my Lakeforest CO-OP Elevator. I will probaly add a deck out front of it, a defintly won't need the coal bunk. This being my first wood/lasercut kit I am surprised by the ease it is going together. The only problem was that two of th walls were a little long, but I fixed that. I will tell ya'll how it works out.
See ya 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.
gabeusmc Hey every one. I'll have a diet Coke, Laura Yesterday i went to a hobby shop in near-by harbor springs MI. This hobby shop is in the upstairs of an interior decorating shop. The guy who runs it is the friendlest, nicest guy but unfourtantly he has to close up. hes been there for three years and has a very hard time turning a profit, mostly because no one knows he is there. in fact there was one guy up there that just found it yesterday!
Did he advertize in Model Railroader? Or even in the local paper. Heck, radio ads out here are $5.00 each.
Oh well, our local guy *does* advertize in MR and has tried radio, but he too will be closing up. I guess Bismarck is not a big enough city for a hobby shop. (Besides he never carried any subway trains.)
[well of course he can order them, so can I!]
ROAR
Door swings open, an old man limps to the counter and winces as he sits down......
Afternoon folks! Ahhhh, man am I beat! Those two little girls sure know how to wear out Grandpa......!
Actually we all had a gret time for about 2 hours. The only ones that aren't sure yet are my two kitties who are pretty much terrified of the girls... With good reason I might add. Although, the granddaughters are learning to be gentle around the kitties. Blackie did come out and sit on my lap and let them pet him. Then the little one shreeks with joy and he was gone like a arrow in flight! We got Thomas out as soon as they arrived. I asked them if we should. Oldest said, "Uh huh!" and went to get it out. Youngest said, "Thomas? yes, I think that would be great. I like Thomas...." Or something like that only twice as long. She makes up for being littler by being very verbose most of the time. Of course I have trouble understanding what she says at times. We colored and drew on some paper, then took rides in Grandpas computer chair. Round and round and round and round... We were just starting to play, Hide something so we can look for it Grandpa, when the parents arrived back to pick them up. I am now in recovery mode before going over to their house for dinner tonight.
No trains for me today.
Coffee refill, please.
***Ray, your description of the day with your grandkids put a smile on my face. I'll bet you are beat, too. Rest up now!
Sad when hobby shops close up. Sure can understand it though.
Found someone to do some work around the farm, mostly fence work. I'm not up to doing everything presently, so for $10 an hour, it will be money well spent. Who knows, it might look like someone lives here after a little while.
Will be sitting next to Ray, trying to recover from my less than exciting chores.
Rob
Evening All,
Well I survived the early start today but I'm beat. Early to bed tonight. I was thinking about working on the layout tonight for a little bit since I got off early but once I got home tonight I looked at the layout and thought no way. It was cool, windy, and overcast all day with short light rain storms (not like Daytona). I w**k Mon and Tuesday until midnight.
Sue- You are correct. I really like doing operations/switching. The 2 curves had very sharp turns that I thought I would be good with. As they were only my 4-4-0, 2-6-0, and H10-44 would run through them at a crawl with 40 ft cars. The more I used that siding the more frustrated I became. I would like to run my Sharks, FP-7, and K4s through the siding, and possibly my M-1b.
The new area that I ripped out was having continuing power issues and derailing issues which made it practically unusable. And once again I was very frustrated with it. I think it was a case of trying to do too much in too little space.
Lion- I did not realize you ran anything besides subway cars.
Gabe- I almost ordered that kit this week but went with a couple of kits from American Model Builders. I have not built any of Walther's wood kits but the last plastic one I did pretty much turned me off of Cornerstone building products.
Chuck- I hope you continue to improve.
Ken- Looks like the kids had a good time. I remember when I was a kid I loved going to my Uncle's house because he had a large layout in his basement.
Garry- When you finish the downtown area can you post pictures showing the entire area? I would really like to see them as I'm sure others would too.
Ulrich- That steamer looks great on the bridge.
Oz Jim- I look forward to your progress photos.
Prayers for all those in need or recovering from medical problems.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Very scary, a VIA derailment about 45 minutes from my house. I have traveled on this line dozens of times
http://www.cp24.com/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20120226/120226_Train_Derailment/20120226/?hub=CP24Home
That is not too far from Aldershot....
Life Flight helos are never a good sign. Hope it wasn't used, but it looks like a nasty wreck. Yikes!
Oh, I missed that several had died. Just went strait to the photos. Sorry for all the loved ones involved. Ouch!
Been thinking about going down into the train room and adding some little folks to the (HO) layout, just to tuckered out still. I know right where they are going, too.
Its sad and scary when something like that happens close to home, even scarier when Im watching the chopper video and I know exactly where that is and having traveled these lines before and that through that very spot.
Prayers for the people that have passed away ( there saying on the news here that 3 are dead )