Simon ... It's good to see you in the Diner
This bridge is on US 68 very close to where I live in western KY. It was hit on January 27 by a large river cargo ship moving in the wrong channel. Our neighbors were on the bridge on another span and saw it happen. It is on Kentucky Lake which is man-made on the Tennessee River.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
GOOD MORNING!!!
Today is Saturday, March 10th, 2012!!!
The weekend is here YIPPEE!!!
-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!
A typical Spring day in northern Germany - overcast, with the odd spell of rain. Temperature is at 7°C and won´t go up much more. No business outside the house, so I don´t mind.
Spent an hour carefully sanding the hull with fine grit sandpaper, just to shape the typical "schooner-type" bow and get the hull as smooth as a baby´s butt. I had some primer left, so right now the hull is up in the attic with a nice coat of primer. More sanding to do after the primer has cured, and, following that, I´ll give my hand a try painting the hull.
Barry - the kit is made by the Italian firm Mamoli. Here is a link to their web page:
Mamoli
AFAIK, the Bluenose is their only N scale kit, most of the models are in a different scale.
If you are looking for N scale model ships, it might be worth looking at this page:
Artitec
Those are cast resin kits, which sport a lot of detail, but are a PITA to assemble and paint.
Not plans for the day, maybe just running a few trains down the line to keep the dust of the rails
Have a good day!
Good Morning,
If you’re eligible for food stamps take advantage of them without remorse. Over the years you, me, and others have paid towards them and now is your time to get a little of that money back. I’m not eligible for them (I was in the past), but it would make me feel better knowing someone deserving of a little help is using them.
Garry I’m glad the span is being replaced if I see anything on the Federal Register Digest I’ll let you know.
Last night I painted a few of the finished castings in a base color, if Dorothy comes over we may detail paint the first castings.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
TIPTON
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Morning
Getting ready to go to w**k at w**k this fine morning..supposed to go to a high of 33F today with a 30% chance of little tiny snowfluffies this morning...tomorrow it will go all the way to 60F!!
I may, if I'm lucky get something of a chance to see if the turnout works tonight..as I might get a chance to run some choo choo's....
Ulrich: Tnx for the info!!
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/
mmmm...got the top again...have at it!!!
Mornin,,,, an irish coffee and a short stack, please Janie. Suppose to be sunny, high near 50, and the wind not as strong as the last couple days.
The kids weren’t too bad yesterday, other than they wanted to hang on me all day for some reason
BLOWOUT,,,,, no I don’t have info for the other than it’s the tallest in the county. Guessing it’s 80-90’ or close to it.
GARRY,,,,,, your city is really growing lately. Hope the governor’s right on the replacement
CURT,,,,,,,,,, coalin tower looks good.
Got a busy day planned, a couple stops in Casey [one of those is the barber for my spring shearing], then, the train show at the mall in Mattoon [Mother will be shopping], we’re taking a load of cans to the scrap yard, a stop at HD for a couple boards. A stop at County Market Charleston and I’m sure Mother will find a reason for Wally World.
Thoughts for all in need n hope ya’ll has a gooden
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Moaning folks, still PM Caturday here... I'll grab a glass of Californian hand juiced OJ, thanks
Head on over to the WPF thread and check out my pics, I'll post a teaser here...
I got this today for $75 from our Home Depot equivalent Bunnings, 2 year warranty, 1250 watts, plenty of suction, and about 10 different attacments. It is of course wet and dry.
I worked on a few little things on the module, cut some abutments etc out of timber... check out WPF for pics. Hopefully get a bit more done tomorrow PM. Busy morn ahead.
Anywho, bed for me - been awake over 16 hours...
OzJim
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
Good morning. It's 54° and cloudy. The high will be 65° and mostly cloudy. There's a 40% chance of rain today.There's still a bit of cleanup work to do on the layout, put away some tools, sort some things out etc.Well, my nephew had a starter problem on one of his trucks. It seemed to be hung up and wouldn't engage with the flywheel. The starter would just spin. A couple of weeks ago he crawled underneath and tapped on the end of the starter with a hammer while one of his friends tried to start the engine. After several hard taps there was a loud clack and the starter worked and it's worked every time since. He knows it will eventually hang up again but he's hoping it'll work until he can get another starter for it. He's between jobs (nothing surprising there) so funds are a bit tight.
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jeffrey-wimberly
Nice evening shot, Jeffrey.
I will have waffles and coffee, please, Chloe. Then back to painting. We should finish today, then I can think about the tax preparation. And then back to hobbies.
Garry, Nice location for your market. Larry liked that City Classics market, too. Did you have fun deciding which sale posters to use?
Curt, I thought the coaling tower looked familiar. I chose it for my first plastic kit ever. It was a bit complicated for a first kit. We planned to have the inside track abandoned, so the inside chutes are hanging down and appear broken. That was harder than having them functional. I am impressed how fast you got things working again.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Good Morning!! Coffee and a stack of blueberry flapjacks with blueberry syrup please. Thanks. Sunny, with a high near 60. South southwest wind between 11 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Looks like we’re heading to the 70’s by Monday. Picked up the sink yesterday. Today it goes back. When I got it home, Brenda didn’t like it. Imagine that. This time she goes with me. Ya’ll have a Great Day!!!
Good Morning!! Coffee and a stack of blueberry flapjacks with blueberry syrup please. Thanks.
Sunny, with a high near 60. South southwest wind between 11 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Looks like we’re heading to the 70’s by Monday.
Picked up the sink yesterday. Today it goes back. When I got it home, Brenda didn’t like it. Imagine that. This time she goes with me.
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.
gear-jammer ... then I can think about the tax preparation. And then back to hobbies. Sue
... then I can think about the tax preparation. And then back to hobbies.
Sue- Taxes were done a month ago for usand refunds in our hands and spent to "help the economy"...we don't delay, but we don;t have complicated taxes either...Even if we did, we would not put them off.
TMarsh
Todd, ANY purchase for the remodle, I would DRAG her along to let her pick the pink and turquise octagonal tiles she likes for the bathroom..or anything else needed! AND ONCE she made up her miond...NOTHING goes back... I know, I know,... if moma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy, but daddy being worn out with her staggering tastes ain't no good either!!!
How it works here is MOH will want input from me, and If I say "pick what you want", invariably I get the "you are no help" so I offer a suggestion and USUALLY it gets "choosen"!!!! {sneaky aren't i?}
Well, my head is a dull ache now. The aftermath can be as bad as the headache....
Well, laundry today, dishes already done.
Chicken Parm over pasgetti. {note that it is NOT over "spaghetti"} for lmy unch. MOH is going out for lunch...with an old friend, without me....
dinner will be salmon over rice-a-roni, the San Fransico Treat...ding ding.
Later
Italian Roast coffee in a VERDE CANYON RAILROAD mug, please.
***Jeffrey, excellent lighting on that loco.
***Sue, usually do the extension and hire someone else to figure out all that nonsense. The hole system needs to be flushed down a toilet.
My sister forgot she had stuck the rental car keys in a shoe before putting on boots to help me take hay through a pasture gate. They missed the first flight and hopefully got on the second. Had a great time though.
Will be in the corner booth attempting to recuperate from an exhausting week.
Rob
Good Saturday morning.48f and partly cloudy on the way to 60f. Looks like we're gettig the same forecast as Todd!
****** LEE, did you get my e-mail?
Great pics everyone, keep them coming!!
Talked to PFC Son again last night. He's at the Airborne training center at Benning. They start 3 weeks of training Monday. After that he'll go to Ft. Bragg for immediate SF training as the hold on his class has been lifted. When/if he passes the selection process he'll have about 24 MORE weeks of training, so his hope to go directly to a line unit is on hold for a bit. GOOD!! He shot Sharpshooter at Qualifing, 35/40 at targets ranging from 50 1 sec. pop-ups ,150 ,275 and 300 yds. If he'd got 1 more it would've been expert. Said a "couple of good ole boys" aced it!
A friend is bringing her 2 boys over after church Sunday to see the layout. Hope Murphy takes a day off! I want to fill in this spot with a couple 3 houses before they get here. I've got 1 kit and I'll have to scratch a couple from " for sale" signs. Then sidewalks and a chainlink fence along the ROW.
That's all for now!
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
Good Evening,
it has been a somewhat boring day here in northern Germany. As I could not w*rk on my boat, I went over to my friend´s house for some steam talk. He is not only a gifted model railroader, but also a model shipbuilder. He is building a 1/50 scale model of this beauty:
Got some valuable hints from him how to do a few things with that Bluenose model of mine. AND he gave me his tripod, so I was able to shoot a few pics from my layout.
Jeff - I like that night shot
Y´all have a gooden...
Thank you Sue, Rob and Ulrich. That photo was taken with a Nikon L18 camera, f3.9, 0.5 sec exposure time, zoom = 0, gain control = high at 2, light source = fluorescent.
WHERE ARE WE ????????????
I'm having trouble finding the Diner. I know we are in the North West, but no one has been to clear on the diner's resting place. Or are we doing a mobile tour like we did in Canada last year. Help me out here Gang.........I'm missing your company and the good Diner food and bevies. and Girls.
Got a few days off here and just recovering from a wicked head cold that I have had for over two weeks. Because of that I hadn't been able to see my New (First) Grandson, that was born last Sunday morning. His name is Solomon. I did sneak over yesterday to get to know him a little, but I didn't hold him or get to close as I don't want him starting out with a cold like this. He is a handsome fellow, just like his Grampa. Lol.
Finally getting some of the bleaps out of the branchline. It has been a pain, every step of the way it threw something up at me. If I wasn't a patient man I would have said "SCREW IT" and just tore it out. But I didn't as I really want it as it is my reverse loop and will be an access to a little mine.
Other than that I have mainly been catching up on my RIP Track maintenance, some couplers and trucks etc. Built a couple of loads for a flat and gondola. Also built that flat out of an old shake the box BB. kit. BN 40 footer. It has a couple of diesel engines as a load. Haven't been able to find small enough chain to use on it. Any hints on that ??
Well I'm off to the train room. Think a little more land forming is in my sights today. I'm certainly not as fast as Curt is with these issues, or even Sue for that matter.
I'll sign off for now, trusting you will all have a great week-end.
Johnboy out......................................but staying close to home.
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Evening All,
I decided not to go to the club tonight since I was tired, so instead I took a 2 hour nap and feel better. I haven't been sleeping real well at night lately. I will probably do some prep work on the layout tomorrow before going to w**k at 4 PM. MOH has a medical procedure (routine) at 0645 Thursday so it will be a early start that day.
Don't forget to move the clocks ahead tonight.
Oz Jim- I look forward to seeing your completed bridges and surrounding area.
Tom- Your layout looks amazing as always.
Jeff- You nailed the lighting and perspective on that GP-?. Sorry but I don't know the difference between the different Geep's.
Todd- I feel your pain buddy. It reminds me of the saying "There but for the grace of God"
Terry- It sounds like your son is doing very well for himself.
Ulrich- Very nice pic's. I am always amazed by how much larger your modules look compared to their actual size.
Johnboy- Hopefully you will get to hold your grandson real soon.
Sue- I really wish Walther's had come up with a different design for the coal chutes. In my opinion the design they went with is ridiculous with all the tiny parts needing glued together.
Well everyone take care and prayers for those in need.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Good Evening
Had a quiet day today..thought I'd get a bunch of calls..nothing so far
And, I went and didst do the train running thing and didst find, as pper usual, that nothing untoward happened with any turnout..therefore no crashes, derailments, rearendos, going to grounds......now just you watch..I will be having an operating session on Tuesday night..it'll all happen then...
Found top again..be gentle on my CC please!!!
Curt Webb Jeff- You nailed the lighting and perspective on that GP-?. Sorry but I don't know the difference between the different Geep's.
For ALL diner patrons in the USA who change clocks to Daylight Savings Time:
TONIGHT MOVE YOUR CLOCKS AHEAD ONE HOUR!!!
This has been a special Toot Toot! Steamer announcement!
Evening Folks!
Flo, and a straw please. Why the straw, I am to tired to like the mug.
Work Front Boy I took a beating today! I worked 8.75 hours and was off my feet maybe 2 to 4 minutes! What sort of sucks I was not scheduled to work today! I could had had 3 days off in a row! But when I called last night Dave told me to come in at 8:00 AM today. (by the way he did want me to work yesterday)
Was sort of glad I worked, while you don't make a lot of commission of the Buy Two Get 2 Free ad, you do make some. I had a few $1,000.00 + and a lot of $600.00 + tickets.
Terry Can your son take some Pictures of Benning? God, it been what 39 years? Wondering if they are still using the WWI barracks when I was there? Far as Bragg, some photo's as well. I was 18th Airborne, 16 MP Group, 503 Division 118th MP and 108th MP Company.
So he is a sharp shooter? Guess I was one of the Good Old Boy's, I was Expert with M-16, Colt 45, M-60 and Geraned (spell check) launcher. (blowing on finger nails and polishing them on my shirt) But hen again my dad was on a rifle team and taught me to shoot. DI's gave me all kind of stuff about how I want to hold my M-16 and I am Right handed but fired the M-16 Left handed. (brass was hot, til they gave me a Left handed M-16) They shut up after I got the weapon zeroed in, and started hitting the target's.
Jeffery I was all so taken by the UP engine.You have a PM coming.
Simon Have you gone to the Train Show Yet?
See you all Sunday after work.
Ken
I hate Rust
Eveninj' folks!
Janie, just a decaf for me please. I'm still stuffed for the party today. I will be in the back by the stove... still cold here in the Finger Lakes here tonight.
Today has been a very long one. I was up more than two hours earlier than normal to be able to make the Rules Class this morning at RIT in Rochester. Love there classrooms... Acoustics are perfect. Very easy to hear in them. Oh, yes, I passed with flying colors so I can be working train crew again this year.
Grabbed a doughnut for lunch and headed to my sister's house to feed the cats and clean the litter box.... Then headed out to a park owned by the City of Canandaigua on Canandagua Lake for a party for my new Grandniece (her adoption papers got signed last month)! That was a blast! Kids everywhere... My Granddaughters were leading the charge most all afternoon. Their mom was not happy with them.
Got home and had a message on the computer from Epson Support about the printer problem. Turns out to a simple fix. I must have brought over an old driver from the laptop. Didn't even know it was on it. Anyway, I just had to remove the printer from the printer list, and then add it back. Did a test print, and it w*rks fine. Found the new driver with no problem.
Jeffrey, nice night time photo, sir!
Looks like the diner was busy today! I'll be catching up on my reading a bit. Then back down cellar to remove some more of the old backdrop.
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
ahem! (whispering) Ok, so it goes like this. About a week ago we were in Lowe's and just walking past, I pointed out this stainless sink that I thought looked nice. It has one of those small basins, but not so small as to be kinda useless. Anyway, she gave the skrinkly look and said no, I don't want the small side and besides, we already have a stainless sink. She was looking at the black ones and kinda saw some she liked and some she didn't but didn't really decide. Zip ahead to Thursday. She says I need to get the sink because the counter people will call for to measure and they want the sink juuuust to be sure. Think I already said that. So she said just get a black sink, not the acrylic and not the cast iron, but the composite granite ones. I know what she didn't like and the others she really didn't have a preference. It really made no difference if it had a smaller side, as long it wasn't real small. Ok. Friday I go pick out this sink. It's nice but basic two bowl thing. Get it home and she say.....it's got freckles. I said yes, it's granite look. I didn't know that she said. It looks grey and kinda like it should be in a laundry room. It did look lighter at home than it did on display at the store I must admit. SO, we take the thing back today and she looks at the sinks again at Menard's and picks one out form there, but of course we have to go to Lowe's to return the other so she wants to peruse those first. Right? Right. she's decideing between two. One is like the one at Menard's but more expensive because Menard's sinks are on sale. If she picks that one we will go back to Menard's ( see Jim? Like I said, having the two right across the street has it's advantages), She picked a faucet out from Menard's and didn't like the ones from Lowe's, but she wanted to see what the stainless faucet would look like. So I went to the faucets and grabbed a stainless one in a open box and went back to the sinks where I saw her standing in front of the stainless ones. (you see where this is going don't you) we walk back and forth between the three sinks in question and she says " you know, I kinda really like this one. The stainless one. OK, whatever you want I said. After a few minutes of walking up and down the display, she says. Yes. I like that one the best. The stainless. It of course was not down with the others it was 47,000 feet up on a shelf and they were running short handed that day so there was a good 25 minute wait for someone to get a ladder stair to get the thing. AS we were walking toward the check out with a sink and a happy wife, I opened my mouth without thinking and said....YOu turned up your nose at this one when it was my idea, now that I was with the fake granite ones, now you want this one. It's all about not being my idea right? Didn't go over too aweful bad. Better than her catching me looking at the cuuuutest little Chinese waitress's (cough!) as she was wiping the table next to us. She's my favorite waitress. She comes and gets us or waves the host to seat me/us when she there. "Haylo! You want Dr Peppo o Coke? I get. You enjoy." Funny thing when Brenda's with me she always gives the bill to her not me. Other tables she gives to the man. I laugh and say I guess she thinks with a catch like me you should pay for me. ROFL! That doesn't always go over that well either. Probably won't get to sit at her table anymore when she's with me. She is pretty. (hehehe).
Hi everyone!
Just dropped in to say 'Howdy!'
My newish work schedule has severely impacted my modelling & accessibility.I hope all is well & I miss all of you.Please keep up the great work, I will try to do more MR as time allows!
Take care, & have one on me!!!
Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Today is Sunday, March 11th, 2012!!!
I hope you who change clocks in the USA moved them one hour ahead, or you will be behind all day today!!!