Good morning, Chloe. I will have my coffee in a NP mug this morning, please.
Todd, Yes, it is a great scene, but it belongs to Terry.
Went to an Irish play last night. It was way too long and depressing. I won't be recommending it to anyone. At least the actors were strong.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Morning All,
Supposed to be around 80 F today. It looks like it wants to rain, but none is predicted so it will probably pour. I have to go to the vet and pick up a prescription of prednisone for Raine. He is getting better but very slowly. The vet reviewed the x-rays and told MOH that he is leaning toward a soft tissue injury now.
While I am out I'm going to the LHS and look for ideas for my vertical mountain/hill back drop. Could be dangerous.
Talk to you all later.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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Mornin,,, an irish coffee please dear, my Zoe you smell nice today.
Another day of 50’s and sunny, rain coming in tonight and into Sunday morn. No train time last night, had a legion meeting. Most always an enjoyable time for me, adult conversation a couple barley pops and no kids, almost hated to come home.
JR,,, The bigger kids help on the layout sometimes when they’re here. I remember the 135’s very well, spent 3 years working on them; mostly the EC’s [white tops] was crew chief on one, 8053. Did get some time on the KC’s, just a wing wiper those times.
CURT,,,, I seen a passager coach and a baggage heavy weights cars in PRR colors come through on the tracks headed towards St Louis here Wednesday
TERRY,,,,, really like the field and cattle pic
TODD,,,,, sadly dealin with kids 24/7 does seem to normal round here anymore
DER,,,,,, like the car scene. Don’t think I could do it even with magnifiers, finger no work good anymore
Best get ta chores and shut this thing down. Earl will be here shortly and him n Yazee love to push buttons
Thoughts n prayer for all in need n hope ya’ll has a gooden
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Good morning. It's 65 and raining. Chance for rain is 70% this morning decreasing to 60% this afternoon.I'll be getting the second half of the grocery shopping done today then I'll settle in and go through this collection of old rolling stock that was sent to me. Primarily I'll be seeing which pieces I want to keep. Some of them are too old for my general era. I have no use for stock cars and wood side reefers including two Dairymen's League refrigerator cars that are missing only the brake wheels.The ones I want to keep will be going to the shop to be fitted with Kadee couplers and if needed serviceable trucks. These trucks will be taken from the cars I don't want.Yesterday my father and I were trying to get the OnStar system on my mother's car working. No dice. It seems OnStar isn't available here.
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
Sue- Oops sorry.
Terry- Nice moo cow scene!
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 Folks!
Flo, Pleases.
Der Thank You for the AVG link.
Lee Knew it was one of the F buttons on the keyboard. Going to try the safe mode first and see if I can get the current AVG to work.
See you all later.
Ken
I hate Rust
Japan?? Really!
Check in occasionally, my regular bagel and coffee please? My grandson will be here this weekend,we will probably lay track on the as yet completely designed layout. I definitely need to learn how to post pictures to get some help with track plan. So far I have mainline and yard along one side of the approx. 12 x12 ft. room with rest of bench-work to complete circle around the room.
jerrold
Extra strong coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
Felt a thud this morning: either a limb hit the roof or a tree came down somewhere. It's gusting pretty good here.
Y'all have a good day!
Rob
Good Afternoon!
Today´s Japan pic is this one:
Yes, that´s a train! Got a bit of a Duffy Duck face to it, IMHO.
Have a good one!
Minasan, kon'nichiwa!
Zoe, Is it possible to get a couple eggs over easy (fresh ones I mean) a few slices of bacon, and some sourdough toast? OK, No toast, bowl of rice would be OK.... Oh, and find me some decent dark roast coffee if you can. Thanks!
Another dark, gloomy, gray, late fall day here in the Finger Lakes. Sure wish Winter would arrive! I may try digging some parsnips tomorrow if the rain holds off. Some nice fried parsnips would be good this time of year.....
I found one more poem THAT needs to be returned to a school... I will try early this afternoon and hope someone is in the office. They have an early dismissal today and a Superintendents Conference this afternoon. New Superintendent and she is doing a good job of meeting her staff and the community so far.
Rob, Hope the thud doesn't mean damage for you to fix!
Think I will go back to cleaning up the junk around the house....
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
So far I've converted two of the cars to body mounted Kadee's. One is an AHM GN boxcar an dthe other is a Roco covered hopper. The hopper had a pair of oversize trucks secured to it with large ugly screws. They had Fleischmann couplers and huge flanges that could cut the thickest pizza. I refitted it with AHM trucks. A big improvement.A major thunderstorm is moving in so I'll be getting off of here pretty quick.
こんばんは フレンズ
Konbanwa, furenzu-san
Needed to get my mind off the icy cold weather, so I searched the web for some nice pictures. Here is my find:
I hope you are enjoying our stay in Japan. Oh, btw, we are just riding the 秩父本線 Chichibu-honsen, which links Hanyū and Mitsumineguchi, both in Saitama Prefecture.
Got two more cars done. An AHM Niagara covered hopper and a Tyco Red Box NH boxcar.Thunderstorm blew through so I went to town to get the second half of the grocery shopping done. Got the groceries put away and now I'm working on another car. An AHM/Roco dry ice reefer.
I have five more cars done. The AHM/Roco dry ice reefer and four of the seven AHM/Roco KO&G boxcars. I was working on them two at a time. Time to take a break!
Some dark chocolate, please.
***Ulrich, great photos. That high speed duck-billed train is especially cool winding through the station.
***Jeffrey you are quite the endeavourous MRR'er today. I'm often impressed with how much you get done. You put some of us entirely to shame.
Can't believe I forgot to get an ankle brace while in town today. Limping around and written on my To Do list, yet it never occured to me. D'oh!
Well, time to hobble off and do evening critter rounds. Rob
Cederstrand ***Jeffrey you are quite the endeavourous MRR'er today. I'm often impressed with how much you get done. You put some of us entirely to shame.
I got the last three KO&G boxcars and a thrall Weyerhaeuser boxcar done. That's thirteen cars in all. That leaves ten with wheels and couplers.Here's a list for the curious so I don't get buried in PM's.One AHM/Tempo MKT stock car. Fleischmann type trucks/couplers.One CARX 50810 plug door boxcar. Fleischmann type trucks/couplers. Brake wheel missing.One ART 700 Walthers Berghoff Beer reefer. Broken horn hook coupler. Missing One roof hatch. One broken stirrup.One EKSX Kahn's brine tank refrigerator car. Horn hook couplers. Missing brake wheel. One broken stirrup.Two Life-Like URTX 4750 Dubuque reefer cars. Horn hook couplers. Missing brake wheel on both cars. One car has a broken sroken stirrup.Two Tyco Dairymen's League reefer cars. Horn hook couplers. Both cars missing brake wheels.One Bachmann Swift Premium reefer. Horn hook couplers. One coupler broken.One Lionel HO? (Athearn) stock car (D&RGW 78573). Horn hook couplers. Missing brake wheel.Five other cars, just bodies.One AHM/Tempo MKT stock car. One broken stirrup. No trucks/couplers.One AHM/Rivarossi Oscar Mayer reefer. Three broken stirrups. No trucks/couplers.One Roco? SRLX 4226 Swift reefer. Missing brake wheel. No trucks/couplers.One Life-Like Soo Line 29647 stock car. Missing brake wheel. Loose door guide. No trucks/couplers.One AHM NKP 50491 stock car. No trucks/couplers.
Hi, all!
Thanks for the kind words for my son, I'll pass them along in the next letter.
And thanks for the comments on the hayfield, it is starting to grow on me!
I might try to "mow " a scrap piece to see if it looks a little better ( thanks, Rob! Good catch! )
Got half the roof shingled today, 44f and sunny!! Tired and sore , though! Turned 54 a couple weeks ago and feeling ALL of that!!
I also got the benchwork and 2" foam down for the new Altoona ( Eau Claire ) staging track installed, hopefully the "honey-do" isn't too bad this weekend and I can get it up and running.
An "in progress" pic from last year:
That's all for now!
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
Evening All,
Nothing happening this way tonight, sitting here watching Jeopardy. Will probably go to club tomorrow since I go to work Sunday at 4 PM. I wonder if I will be able to see the Super Bowl. I finished the back section and took some photos. I'll post a couple and I put some before and after in WPF this week.
Everybody have a good night.
Terry: I sent you a PM.
Jeff: You are doing good work on getting that rolling stock in running order. Be careful. These guys might think you are trying to show them up with how fast you work. It must be nice to have all that free time.
David Parks I am the terror that flaps in the night!
Thank you, Jeff!! Don't know what else I could say. I'll pass that along to Steve.( I still can't reply to PMs.)
Jeff, PM me your site? Thanks again!
Just looked at the radar. Looks like we might be getting another line of storms later tonight.
David: As I told Rob I'm not trying to show anybody up or show off. I'm just trying to get them done before they get pushed onto the back burner by something else. The absent-minded professor has nothing on me when it comes to getting distracted.
saronaterry Jeff, PM me your site? Thanks again! Terry in NW Wisconsin
Time for me to call it a night. It's been very busy day what with all the work I did on the rolling stock and I'm very tired. Not to mention bringing the groceries in. Trying to balance a load like that while coming up the steps is hard and I almost have to drop to my knees to get in the door. Well, nobody said life was easy. See y'all tomorrow.
Good Evening Modelers!
Well, it's been SNOWING! here for about 30+ hours now and will continue through the night. Would say I have about 12-18" on level snow and might reach 24" by Saturday. Some cities are reporting nearly 3ft!!!
Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
Delaware and Hudson Virtual Museum (DHVM), Railroad Adventures (RRAdventures)
My Blog
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a decaf please.
Jeffrey, nice train. i assume it will get dirty in use on your layout?
Did a lot of odds and ends today. Ran over to one of the elementary schools and dropped off the last piece of poetry THAT had somehow gotten separated from the rest going to the building., came home and headed down stairs to remove the lighting which was over the old peninsula of the layout. Turned off the lights on the layout after bringing in another large lamp to help light the room while I worked, unscrewed the fixture and dropped down the fixture to where I could unhook the wires from the part I was removing... Bent the fixure over a bit, and saw a spark..... Thought this is not good! Went and checked the circuit back where the lights come off the wiring by my workbench and found out two not good things!
First I found the "hot" wire (black) was not, and the white wire was hot! I also found using a test set that the reason I didn't throw a breaker when I made contact was the ground was weak as well. Hmmmm. I usually do much better electric than THAT so I started checking. Sure enough when I had the new electric circuit put in on a wall switch. I wired the extension cord to the electric at my workbench (which powers everything train related so one switch turns everything off) backwards and had the white on the hot side. I must be getting old or just wasn't thinking. That happened a little over a year ago. I corrected it and went looking for the ground wire problem.... Ended up spending most of the day rewiring all the wiring at the workbench including replacing the ancient box I installed almost 30 years ago that was old back then..... I now have properly wired and grounded power on the layout at least.
I did finally get the lighting removed and stored for when I rebuild the area. I also got a phone call from the painter. I am getting the floor done professionally as it is concrete and he has the right stuff to do it! He starts by telling me he would be glad to do the job as long as I don't need it done yesterday. I replied, "Oh no, tomorrow would be fine!" He will stop over sometime next week and give me an estimate on it and a tentative date when they can do it for me. I have plenty of other things to do in the mean time, and I have a lot of moving of items to do before he can have a crew come do it anyway.
Time to go feed the woodstove and head to bed.
Prayers for all in need!
Chamomile tea, please.
***Darren, are you going to make a "snow train" once it lets up?
***Ray, congrats on figuring out the wiring issues. That didn't sound good.
***Jeffrey, fine looking train. Looks like a lot of weathering work for you in the near future.
Been feeling cold tonight. Have the heat turned on and am using an electric blanket. Sometimes this body needs a little help. Time to hit the hay. See y'all tomorrow. Rob
Good evening/morning y'all. Just stopping in to see how everyone is doing. I'm about to head off to bed, I just had to get some laundry finished up before heading that way. Have to w**k tomorrow, so can't stay up too awfully late anymore, but that's all right too, I like getting some sleep.
Later taters!
Evenin' Everyone!
Just dropping in to say "Howdy"
I got a new job & it is taking quite a bit of time, with the commute & what not.It's seriously cutting back my modelling efforts, but at least I am able to still work at it & have a a place to stay, afford some detail parts, & keep things on the rails!Just at a slower pace than before..
I'm pretty happy that I can continue to do these things, & hope to keep contributing like before, even if it may be less often.
I wish you all the best, & let me buy you a round!
Take care!