Good Morning Modelers!
It's 16F with a hint of sunshine here at Mile High. So, who won the game yesterday, I'm thinking Betty White of the dog that fetched the beers, the Viper Party was also good. Our latest snow storm broke a 100+ year old record and my back believes it...
Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
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Hello ...
Darren .... I believe what you are saying about your snow. We changed planes in Denver on our way from Phoenix to Nashville. In the Denver airport, I looked at the big lighted board with all of the flight information. No flight was less than one hour late, and many flights were cancelled. We were over two hours late to Nashville. All outbound planes were sprayed with de-icer before leaving.
Barry .... I recall EMD had the "world's largest locomotive plant" near where I lived in my childhood in Illinois. I remember later the plant was closed permanently, and all production was moved to London, ON. So, now the new owner of EMD (Caterpillar) is closing the London plant as you said. I suspect much of the work will be done near here where Progress Rail (EMD) has been rebuilding locomotives in Mayfield with non-union employees. In the global economy, manufacturing jobs are not secure, and manufacturing workers should beware.
The collapsed bridge .... I heard that about half the 20-man crew of the river freighter was drunk. The source of that info was a guy who has contacts with the Coast Guard. Our neighbors who make rountine trips to the other side of the Land Between the Lakes are now adding lots of extra miles to their driving.
Super Bowl ..... We're not big fans of pro-football, but we attended a Super Bowl party anyhow. It was good to be with the neighbors. Shelley made a super rich chocolate brownie-cake to take there. .... Good stuff. ........ along with other good food from others.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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I'm fine Zoe, how are you? I'll have the Tamagoyaki and a few cups of dark roast coffee please. I'll go sit with Ulrich for a bit. he seems to understand the Grumpy Old Men thing.........
Sunny and 42°F here in the Finger Lakes this morning. There will be be slight 20 to 30mph breeze out there as well.
Have a dentist appt. early this afternoon and then back to cleaning out unneeded stuff! Todd, since I have gotten the water from the back roof and the sump emptying over to the street on the low side of the house, I haven't have much water in the basement (cellar we farm boys used to call it....). When my ship comes in, I may see about having the back side of the foundation dug up and some kind of seal put along the walls that are problematic.... Every Spring when we get heavy rain, there is still some seepage in the main layout room. Mold and mildew? Very likely!
Best get moving.....
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
TMarsh Jeff- I take it by you’re response to Terry, that Valspar or Krylon do not cover as well as Dullcote or did I just take it wrong? Also are there any spraying differences between the large cans and the Dullcote intended for models. Like the spray for Dullcote is thinner and you have to do something different with the general purpose sprays. Or is that just a misconception leading to a substantial raise in cost to the consumer. I’ve never heard that question asked or answered before, and since you’re the spray can Rembrandt… I figure you know.
Jeff- I take it by you’re response to Terry, that Valspar or Krylon do not cover as well as Dullcote or did I just take it wrong? Also are there any spraying differences between the large cans and the Dullcote intended for models. Like the spray for Dullcote is thinner and you have to do something different with the general purpose sprays. Or is that just a misconception leading to a substantial raise in cost to the consumer. I’ve never heard that question asked or answered before, and since you’re the spray can Rembrandt… I figure you know.
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Coffee in a VERDE CANYON RAILROAD mug, please.
Have a good day all. Rob
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
The battery of my camera has been recharged, and here we go - the first pics of my beauty queen:
Can you picture her teaming up with my D51 Mikado and pulling a string of cars through rugged Japanese mountain scenery? One day I´ll be able to take that picture on my layout!
Sir Madog The battery of my camera has been recharged, and here we go - the first pics of my beauty queen:
Be CAREFUL Ulrich- Don't let the wifey hear you calling your loco a "beauty queen"- SHE {your wifey} should be your "beauty queen".
A balmy 37* according to the TV or 40* at my house.
Well, in other news with the taxes done and out of the way, its only sit and wiat for the refund. Not much, but more than last year as we adjusted the withholding for MOH to help make sure we don't PAY. Was close last year. ALready spent and gone to pay off some bills. SHould be here soon as we opted for direct deposit, though they don't guarantee DD to be much faster than a check in the mail!
Wishing I could spend some on a new K4 loco, but other bills are more important!
MOH DID say dept. supervisor is going to try to "gurantee" more hours towards full time between two depts, so THAT is good news!!! But we don't want to JINX it.
Now its laundry day.. 3 or 4 loads to do. Whew. for two people over 4 days. how DO we do it?
Dishes are done.
Hiney mustard chicken over rice pilaf for dinner.
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.
Galaxy - as long as I call a miniature loco my beauty queen, I am sure she won´t mind. I expect greater problems with a speci(wo)men of the two-legged kind
Now all I have to do is to figure out how to install Z scale knuckle couplers to the front and the rear of her (no, not Petra - the loco)!
Heartland Division CB&Q Darren .... I believe what you are saying about your snow. We changed planes in Denver on our way from Phoenix to Nashville. In the Denver airport, I looked at the big lighted board with all of the flight information. No flight was less than one hour late, and many flights were cancelled. We were over two hours late to Nashville. All outbound planes were sprayed with de-icer before leaving.
The Airlines out of DIA (Mainly United) cancelled some 200 flight in-advance of the storm as they knew they would not be able to get them in/out during the peak of the storm and did not want to strand planes at DIA and mess up more schedules.
Good morning. It's 48° and partly cloudy. The high will be 60° with increasing cloudiness.Laundry day. No time for modeling now. I may have some time in the late afternoon.
Good Afternoon..
Have a couple of things need attending to this afternoon then it is off to classes this evening...not much mrr time today..maybe tomorrow...
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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Got top again....have fun people!!
Coffee refill, please.
***Ulrich, she's a beauty and will indeed look good teaming up with your other loco. Congrats!
***Dennis, a number of my relatives who still reside in CA., or as they call it, "the left coast" often tell me of the crazy goings-on there. They also say they want to leave that state. Yet, they never do. I wonder if there is something in the water or food they ingest? (like in the 1974 movie: "Planet Earth")
Rob
Got the laundry done. Yes sir, general sir! Three bags full!Well I got something in the mail today other than the usual from Capital One and AARP. A friend of mine told me he was sending me some Kadee coupler boxes. I was expecting a small envelope. What I found was Priority Mail small flat rate box. That was a just a little big for coupler boxes. I open it up, there's an Athearn blue box C&EI 50' double door boxcar body, several trees of coupler boxes (242 and 232 and what look like pieces of a couple of 233's), a Casadio HO lit dead end bumper, a pulpwood load (intact) for a Tyco pulpwood flat, six Athear box car doors, a Tyco block switch, what looks like some porch rails and posts, a green roof walk for a 40' boxcar, two patch cables probably for a video camera (one video to video, the other left right audio), one light blue crimp connector (I know exactly where that's going).Now I have to get something to eat. I'm feeling light-headed so my blood suger level is likely the cause.
Gogo no hitobito!
Chloe, I'll have a cup of hot chocolate to tide me over to suppertime.
Got up to 51°F this afternoon.... Way too warm out to light the wood stove, so i have been feeling clod all day. Just did go and light it as it will be going down to 32° tonight.
Moved all the small power bench tools I have off the old more or less of a workbench in the workshop today. Need to finish getting stuff off the shelves and then move the old what was the original kitchen cabinets out to be dismembered and trashed... I'll gave to get a photo of it before dismemberment takes place.....
Decided I want some fried parsnips tonight.... Went out to the (muddy) garden and dug a few. Most i will leave in hopes that we get enough Winter too turn them nice and sweet. Looks like I have a good crop though.
Later!
Guys, I have some bad news right now but it looks like it will improve. I am over at Jeff's place. After he said he was not feeling well I tried to call him on the phone to check on him. No answer. I assumed it was bad and got a blanket and two of my mom's glucose tablets and a small first aid kit and went over to his place. Knocking on the door there was no answer. I banged harder, no answer. I unlocked the door the way he showed me -no key- and there he was out on the floor on his side - sweating like he was in a sauna and hardly breathing. I checked him out and turned on his back with his head turned the his side. Breathing was better. I broke up a glucose tablet and put it under his tongue, braced his feet up then covered him. I have done this before. I gave him water when he could take it and he quickly came back around. As soon as he was able I helped him up and put him to bed and gave him the other glucose tablet and a glass of water. At 245 he is no light weight and he freely admits it. He looks better but he is real weak. I went ahead and cooked the dinner he had made and I will feed him as much of it as he can take. I will stay with him until he can do well on his own.
David Parks I am the terror that flaps in the night!
Good job, David! Keep us informed?
Bless you!
Terry in NW Wisconsin
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God bless you David Parks, we should all be so fortunate to have a friend like you.
I speak now for the whole community here, I believe, that we are so pleased that you are there with him and that you decided to check on Jeff when you did.
Give him our best wishes and we will stand by until he is back up and on the forum again.
Prayers and blessings to both of you.
Johnboy out......................................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
good job David, like others said keep us informed as to how Jeff is doing.
***David, THANK YOU! *** good thing you caught that post and thought to check on him.
Well, let me have the Ribeye DInner, please. Thanks!
Gee, David, within less than an hour he was in desparate shape. Sounds like he shoulda had a glucose tablet or two BEFORE cooking after his last posting!
TG you were there to help! You are our {collective} HERO!!!
Take good care of that boy as he just got a box of new goodies he said!
I am hypoglycemic so I know the ins and outs of sugar problems. I have learned to eat right away when necessary and I carry glucose tabs with me everywhere. I know it can happen *snap* just like that!
Special thoughts and prayers go out to our Jeffrey!
And a HEARTY THANK YOU and a WELL DONE to YOU David!
Evenin' again,
David! You are quick on the uptake, young man. As others have said Jeffrey is very well blessed to have a friend like you! Keep us informed on how Jeff is doing.
I had a hamburger and a mess of fried parsnips for supper so all I need is a couple cups of decaf in a FGLK mug please. parsnips were Gooooooooooooddddd! Nice and sweet, so I think they can be harvested any time I find the time.
Almost every day I check out my Credit Union accounts online.... Usually just something to do, but also I can monitor and see if there are any strange things going on. I checked out my credit card while I was at it and there was the charge from the Dentist which I expected, but right below it in the "pending" column was a charge from a company I have never heard of nor done business with...... So I spent several minutes on the telephone trying to get through to a real live human being... Ever notice how company telephones will do almost anything today to prevent anyone actually speaking to a human??? Anyway now I am without a credit card for a couple weeks while I wait for "official" forms to arrive by snail mail and get sent back and then a new card to be sent to me. Dang, the car is almost out of gas too. I told the guy I would have to resort to "pictures of dead presidents" for a while. There was a pause, then he laughed and said, "Oh, I get it!" Guess it is a good thing I check my accounts regularly......
Got in touch with the electrician (he is Scoutmaster of my old Troop) and he will be over Wednesday Afternoon to put in another electrical outlet in the layout room for me.
Wa atode!
Guys, the prayers and good wishes are appreciated. You do not have any idea how much he cares for the people here. He is doing better but is still weak. I was scare4d he might go into coma. It has happened before, but I think he is past the hard part. He is coherent but he cannot get out of bed. I will go home now but I will come back to check on him later and through the night if needed. Keep the prayers coming guys.
David ... You're like a guardian angel.
Jeff ... Prayers for you.
Evening All,
At w**k today.
David- It sounds like you did exactly right with what you had available to you. Excellent Job. It would be a good plan (as you stated) to keep tabs on Jeff tonight because he could have some more issues with his BS dropping again. If he has any more problems tonight I would recommend a call to EMS. Additionally I would recommend putting him on his side when possible to help prevent possible aspiration if he vomits during these episodes. Thanks again for being a good friend and caring.
Jeff- I hope you feel better real soon.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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David - I do not have the proper words to express how much Petra and I appreciate what you have done (and will do) for Jeff. May God bless you and keep a close watch on our friend Jeff. Though we are separated by an ocean, he is very close to our heart.
Jeffrey,get well soon.
Russell
I see the forum is moving slower than snail mail. At least I'm moving faster than something. David just checked on me. I feel much better. He checked my blood sugar, temp and blood pressure. All are OK.
Mit su bishi
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