GOOD MORNING!!!
Today is Saturday, February 4th, 2012!!!
Enjoy your day!!!
-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 ! from Tipton IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Morning Gang!
Saturday morning - time for a hearty breakfast!
Janie, a gallon of coffee, scrambled eggs, bacon, buttered toast and a tall glass of OJ, please.
Found a note in my mailbox, that there is a package waiting for me at our local post office. We were in, but nobody rang. It was probably too cold outside to wait that second until we could open the door . This morning I went to our post office - no package. I am supposed to drive all the way to Hamburg, that´s a 65 mile round trip, to pick it up. No way, Sir - they have to deliver it again, but this time they´ll have to wait for us to open the door! I had to wait half an hour on their "hot"line until I could get through! So much for service.
At least I know what it is - my JNR class C62 Hudson, sponsored by a friend from Australia. All I have to pay is the VAT of about $ 30.
Jeff - that´s a nice looking string of "blue" box cars you´ve got there
It is still icy cold here, but not much snow, just a little dusting. I could certainly do without.
Have a good one!
howmus Jeffrey, nice train. i assume it will get dirty in use on your layout?
Jeffrey, nice train. i assume it will get dirty in use on your layout?
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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, Chloe. I could sleep in today, but oh no, my head was full of the meeting yesterday. I just couldn't let stuff go. That's why I don't like to work on Friday. Coffee, please, and one of those cinnamon rolls with frosting oozing all over.
Ulrich, Nice photos. Thanks for sharing.
Terry, I like that hay field as is. It looks like mischief.
Later, Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Well, today is tax day!
MOH should be getting quite a healthy refund this year, we hope. Last year barely got anything, so we adjusted the tax rate as not enough was taken out to cover actual taxes owed.
It is already spent before we get it! as always. It will help pay off a few bills. I think we will go with Direct Deposit so we get it faster in our hands.
Only 2 more {fairly high for us} payments due on the furnace then it weill be paid off with no interest due or owed!!! THEN we can get about paying off the other bills I have been making minimum payments on the get the furnace paid off in the 6 months no interest period!
Well, talk at you later!
Good morning. It's 68° with heavy clouds and thunder. The high will be 72°. There's an 80% chance of rain and thunderstorms.Here it is 7:25 am and it's still pitch black dark. We're under a flash flood watch for what looks like a good part of central Louisiana. The lake is back up to it's normal level and probably a little above by now. I'm glad my home is on a hill top about thirty four feet above lake level. The highest the water has ever come up was twelve feet. It couldn't go any higher as the water was pouring over the top of the dam. For some reason the flood gates wouldn't open. Jammed up with logs I think.Well, already this morning I've added weight to all seven of the KO&G boxcars. It took a piece of sheet lead the length and width of the car to raise the weight to 3.9 - 4.2 ounces. The dry ice reefer is next.
Good Morning!! Coffee please. Thanks. Occasional rain, mainly before noon. High near 46. Not much to report or say this morning. Guess I’ll get grouting. Ya’ll have a Great Day!!!
Good Morning!! Coffee please. Thanks.
Occasional rain, mainly before noon. High near 46.
Not much to report or say this morning. Guess I’ll get grouting.
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.
Morning All,
Pretty quite here. Just reviewing the forums drinking a coffee. Going to the club later. I go back to work Sunday. It has been good to hear from some folks that haven't been around much.
MOH and I are part of the FL skunk rescue organization which is part of a informal rescue covering the US. Last night we received word that some woman took her 1 year old skunk to a taxidermy shop to be stuffed (it was still alive) but the guy refused to his credit. Now several people have been trying to contact the lady (WV/KY/OH area, no one is exactly sure) to rescue the animal but no one has been successful. My opinion is the lady should be stuffed. Unbelievable.
I think I am going to repaint my mountain. The Grey color looks funny next to the brown that I just finished.
Barry- I remember the first cloverleaf that was built in El Paso during the 60's.It was a big deal then.
Ray- I look forward to seeing your progress photos for your new layout. I'm sure it's an exciting time for you.
Jeff- You are a MRR working machine sir...
Talk to you all later.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Extra strong coffee in a SOGGY & SOUTHERN mug, please.
***Curt, people like that turn my stomach. Hope the skunk is located.
Have a good day all.
Rob
Morning, all.
21 and clear, going to 41. Nice for Feb. 4th!
Jeff got the pm's,thanks. Nice string of cars, too! I use lead tire wieghts I got from a buddy to add wieght .Gotta mush them down with a hammer.
Curt, the new scenery looks great!
Thanks, Sue!
CapeJim, Sent you an E-mail. Watch your mail box.
Ray, keep up the rebuilding pace, looking good.
Rob, hope the ankle feels better!
Going to work on the new staging track today, pics a little later. Here's an oldie:
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Ulrich- That sounds like the USPS.
Terry- In previous photos there appears to be a narrow place in the room where both sides of the wall jut out a little almost like a room separator. Where is that in relation to your last photo?
Good Morning Modelers!
Finally got shoveled out this morning. It's still slightly snowing and the yardstick shows 19" here at home. A few of our foothill cities are reporting in at 4ft! Should see some melting over the next few days but they say another storm should arrive on Tuesday...
Hamburger and a Diet please and a serious side of fries too...
Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
Delaware and Hudson Virtual Museum (DHVM), Railroad Adventures (RRAdventures)
My Blog
saronaterry Jeff Nice string of cars, too! I use lead tire wieghts I got from a buddy to add wieght .Gotta mush them down with a hammer.
Jeff Nice string of cars, too! I use lead tire wieghts I got from a buddy to add wieght .Gotta mush them down with a hammer.
Even better idea, Jeff! Free, I assume?
Curt, maybe this will help. The layout's in the 30' x 42' basement ( I got the WHOLE thing!! ). There's 3 pennisulas creating 4 "bays ". This is the 42'(minus 10' where the staging/furnace room is , directly ahead,angled wall) north wall. on the left are the 3 blobs.
Bay 1:
Bay 2, back to Spooner yard, looking south:
Bay 3:
Bay 4, Same spot I shot First pic:
The end there is where the main enters along the south 42' wall to staging in the furnace room. Just one big circle. It reappears behind me in the 1st pic and enters the yard.
Sorry for the crappy pics,and the mess!
saronaterry Even better idea, Jeff! Free, I assume?
I like those layout photos. Certainly makes what I have look bad.
Terry- You sir are a lucky man to have that much room. You have done a excellent job with your modeling.
Coffee refill, please.
***Terry, your layout is so small. Have you ever considered expanding it a little? Kidding aside, that is impressive. Wow! How do you keep track of your trains?
Well.
Whew!
It is over.
The pain has subsided.
The weeping and gnashing of teeth are gone.
The agony has passed.
The Taxes are DONE!!!!!
Yippee!!!!
now THAT is off our minds and out of our hair!
We can rest on our laurels and wait for the money to roll in and watch it go right back out!!!
Diners! Sunshine here, but a bit chill - at least the wind died down some, so yesterday's wind chill has gone like Galaxy's taxes.
Well (no worries about running dry so far since last Spring), my part of the house chores yesterday- vacuuming everywhere - took just 70 minutes, including the bits that don't get done every time. So no real inconvenience; added to which, since we hadn't been out to eat for a while, we had Dinner Out at a favourite Pizza and Pasta place. We'd not tried the Greek - it was awesome!
Thanks for the kind words re the village scene, it's getting to be very much as I thought about 7 or 8 years ago! - I'm hesitant about adding Boyz to the 'hood - I've a ton of figures, but am not sure who fits where yet - or how to adapt them to be doing what I think they might be up to.
Curt:
I did not tape the rails before I started so I spent a enjoyable hour scrubbing track with Q-tips and alcohol. I doubt that I make that mistake again.
Plus some sedimentary
News yesterday that Barry (Hope the cold clears for you soon) may know more about:
By The Canadian Press TORONTO - American-based heavy equipment maker Caterpillar is closing its locomotive plant in London, Ont., after failing to win a labour agreement with the factory's 450 workers. Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT - News) subsidiary Progress Rail Services says the cost structure at the plant was unsustainable. The company had asked employees to take a 50 per cent pay cut to help keep Electro-Motive going, but locked them out Jan. 1 when the Canadian Auto Workers union members rejected the proposal. Just two days ago, Premier Dalton McGuinty criticized Caterpillar, although not by name, during a speech in London, saying the company was not living up to Ontarians expectations. Prime Minister Stephen Harper had used Electro-Motive as a backdrop in 2008 to promote big tax breaks for industrial capital investments, but the federal government declined to get involved in the labour dispute. The union has called Caterpillar greedy and immoral after the company reaped record high sales and a profit of nearly US$5 billion last year and chief executive Doug Oberhelman received a $10.5-million annual paycheque.
TORONTO - American-based heavy equipment maker Caterpillar is closing its locomotive plant in London, Ont., after failing to win a labour agreement with the factory's 450 workers.
Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT - News) subsidiary Progress Rail Services says the cost structure at the plant was unsustainable.
The company had asked employees to take a 50 per cent pay cut to help keep Electro-Motive going, but locked them out Jan. 1 when the Canadian Auto Workers union members rejected the proposal.
Just two days ago, Premier Dalton McGuinty criticized Caterpillar, although not by name, during a speech in London, saying the company was not living up to Ontarians expectations.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper had used Electro-Motive as a backdrop in 2008 to promote big tax breaks for industrial capital investments, but the federal government declined to get involved in the labour dispute.
The union has called Caterpillar greedy and immoral after the company reaped record high sales and a profit of nearly US$5 billion last year and chief executive Doug Oberhelman received a $10.5-million annual paycheque.
Mike: Glad you're still around! Didn't realize you were up to your armpits in little people!
Jeff:
( By Rob ) I'm often impressed with how much you get done. You put some of us entirely to shame.
Keeping up the musical theme, [music note icon] I see trees of green, box cars of blue....[mni] that's a great sight, quite the train! From the sound of it you are surprised how much weight you had to add. Did they feel unusually light? Ws the "factory fitted" weight just a small piece of sheet steel?
Tipton Bill: ...last quarter of 1941....their world was about to get a whole lot busier for the next little while!
Taxes - saw this on a sign at a tire store last time we were in town:
It used to be Death and Taxes, now there's Shipping and Handling!
Terry: You make keeping the 10th Commandment just a bit difficult! Nice to have the space, but it's what you've done with it that really turns the screws.
Well, looks like it's time to get potatoes peeled - Kris is making fish pie, sort of like Shepherd's pie because the top is mashed potato and cheese, not pastry. Should it be Fisher's pie?
TTFN:
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
hello everybody. Laura just a diet coke for me. thanks.
Got to operate the layout this afternoon. The weather is preety warm, so there was no real need to bundle up to operate out in the Garage.
Terry- I know that this is a respond to an old post, but i like to give your son a hearty slap on the back for his good job at the firing range. I read alot about the SF (or Green Berets) in such books as "From OSS to Green Beret" by Col. Aaron Bank the Founder of the SF, and "Horse Soldiers" which was about the take down of the taliban with the northern alliance. Both are very interesting, and I highly reccomend them to you if you would like to have abetter understanding of what great things your son is doing.
see ya'll
"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.
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....
Oh well, more unemployed people coming right up for London ON...
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Good Avterdood...
I ab stardig to ged bore ov by voice bag...slowly....the siduses are geddig a liddle glearer as well...sniff sniff...HONK!!!...hobefully I will be bedder toborrow...
Well, because of my cold coming on like it did I had to get someone to cover my shift..but if I am better tomorrow I'll be going back to work at work. But it does look like I'll have to take time off of Floor Wars, London ON division part 2 .......thad bay give me some tibe to rud by choo choos....
Chloe? I'll have a coffee and a large bowl of fries please...I'lll be back at the corner booth for a bit
der5997 Jeff: Keeping up the musical theme, [music note icon] I see trees of green, box cars of blue....[mni] that's a great sight, quite the train! From the sound of it you are surprised how much weight you had to add. Did they feel unusually light? Ws the "factory fitted" weight just a small piece of sheet steel?
Thanks for the kind remarks, guys. You're makin' me blush! Believe it or not, only a few people that know anything about trains(1:1 or MRR) have seen it. Makes a guy feel pretty good to have his peers make such nice remarks.I'm sure you know what I'm trying to say. Thanks.
Der, those rocks look great, espescially the sed. rock. Wonderful job!
While this was drying.......
I tried my hand at a coal load. If any of you have a protoype pic of what it's supposed to look like , please post?The era is 1972. Glue's still wet!
Thanks again and BBL!
Terry: Thanks -Just thought the Grey-to-Brown transitions might encourage you to not have to over-paint what you've done
Many Diner locations ago Tipton Bill posted a yard full of coal gondolas. I copied it and re-posted in the context of a discussion about running out of coffee, IIRC - looks like you have some choices!
Nice pic, Der. So the loading should have 1 long end to end kinda humped over look, not 2 seperate humps. I'll have to add a little more to the center of my load! I should give credit to Curt and KudaKen for the load inspiration. Thanks ,guys.
Thanks for the comment, Gabe. I'll add those two to my reading list.
Got the new staging track in and wired up. Now what should I do? Didn't think it'd go that well or fast! I'm short one CI 202s ground throw, though. There's a train show this month in Rice Lake so I'll pick one up there. Tryin' to keep up with Jeff!!!
Guess a guy COULD fire up the layout, huh?
saronaterryThere's a train show this month in Rice Lake so I'll pick one up there. Tryin' to keep up with Jeff!!!
David Parks I am the terror that flaps in the night!
Goooooooooooooooooood Evening (bows to the most honorable ladies behind the counter, bows to the most honorable Diner patrons).
TERRY: Please pass my "thanks" to your son also! Here's a loaded hopper I found in the late 1980s or early 1990s. The hopper itself pre-dates all THAT by several years...
Thanks to loads like this, I was able to obtain some real coal which I was able to crush easily enough with a hammer.
GABE USMC: Thank you for your service also!
Just passin' through, so I'll grab a very large coffee to-go for the trip back...
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!