Good Morning All,
Sir Madog said: “Et tu quoque, mi filii Brute!” “I am not having fond memories of that”
Ulrich: how old are you?? Oh sorry fond memories of school, never mind, LOL.Todd: I picked up 12 gondolas last train show, but that will be ok these are from Harley’s layout. He fine tunes everything before it even enters his train room. I will repaint these to LS&W colors.
Inch: I’ve been paying $3.77 to $3.98 for diesel all year, now it’s at $4.17, I do get 26 to 36 MPG but still if it keeps going up we will fall into another recession.
The train show at Lakeland College is tomorrow!! I’ll be there at 0900 for the 1000 opening…Galaxy, you want to visit the most pessimistic place on earth? Stop by Cleveland during football season!
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
It's always sunny in Tipton!
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
howmus Galaxy, you did notice the survey was done during the flooding last year....... Yep, I think the people in Binghamton had a good right to pessimistic at THAT time.....
Galaxy, you did notice the survey was done during the flooding last year....... Yep, I think the people in Binghamton had a good right to pessimistic at THAT time.....
Regadles of when it taken, this line about says it all:
"As to the reasons why, The Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin suggests that the weather and economy are valid reasons for pessimism..."
The weather here, {as with anywhere else}, is frustrating. Did you know that according to NOAA Binghamton is ALSO the #3area in the country to get the "least amount of sunlight-days" per year? The cloudy palor that sets in during winter adn often during the rest of the year keeps it that way.
Of course there is the continuatio of the above line that " Seasonal affective disorder, which can bring on bouts of depression typically in the winter, could be a contributing factor, but Binghamton's malaise is also a product of its residents' outlook. "The community is rather conservative and not very open-minded," psychologist Benjamin Perkus told the Press & Sun-Bulletin. "So it's stuck in the old paradigm of big industry, which is gone now."
We have long been known as "sticks-in-the-mud' and "conservative views", thanks to the like of IBM, Endicott Johnson SHoes, and Singer-Link employees on a "straight and moral track". Ha.
Neither of the quoted lines say anything about the flooding, and that was an event, not the overall demeanor-producing deciding factors.
I have lived in other areas of the country adn can attest to the cloudy factor here! If it weren't fo r the aging parental units here, we might be someplace else!
Oh well.
-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.
This Diner was in Marion IN.
TIPTON
GOOD MORNING!!!
Today is Friday, March 16th 2012!!!
Beware: leprechauns will be soon flouncing around with little pots of gold to put at the end of the rainbow!!!
Evening Fellow Dinners!
Flo, Beer Please!
Work Front was pretty uneventful today. While we where some what busy for awhile it was mainly Oil Changes. Got a few add on sales, but did not add up to a lot. I am real disappointed in my sale. Only $9100.00 for the 6 days. What really kicked my caboose was Tuesday. From 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM I did not have one customer? I only had $54.00 in sales that day.
Could Dave (manager / area supervisor) be a model railroader? Tonight when I was in his offices putting the deposit in the safe I saw 4 framed pictures of Steam Engines laying against the wall! Hum, going to have to ask him about that!
Looks like I have another 2 days off in a row! Guess my wife will want me to cut the grass.
Ken, your Cuda hides all that power well - wouldn't guess from the outside what all it has underneath.
Ah Jim It has Hood scoop's, hood pin's, Hockey Stick Stripes that say 383 and a Go Wing on the trunk lid? What do you want, a Tunnel Ram sticking out the hood? Hum, that would look cool. But yes, I try to keep my cars bodies, paint and interiors stock looking. But any thing under the hood (with the 69 Charger Blower Hangs out of the Hood) goes.
Psst Ulrich. Your ship has sails, not sales. Sales is what I am trying to do for a living. By the way I all so built the model of the USS Constitution. I love that model and it was a bear to build and I could see when I was 14! When I joined the Army Dear Old Mon gave it to the home town Library along with about 50 hard bound books about WWII. I was not a happy boy!
Well, time to see what Reruns CBS.Com will watch me watch tonight!
Ken
I hate Rust
Evening all!
Sorry about my recent absence. I've gone from busy to busier. Lacrosse season started in the beginning of March. It's six days a week, so I have significantly less time, particularly on school nights.
I'm still waiting on the whole college thing. Not much new news. The only thing is that I got my complete aid package from Rutgers (only the second school to get it from). The total cost to go there is about $7,000 less than to go to Northeastern, my top choice. With that, it looks like other schools will end up costing about the same. This pretty much puts Northeastern out of the running, since money will be the deciding factor. However, no decisions have been made yet, and won't be until I have all the information in front of me. I can still hope...
Other than THAT, not much else going on around here.
I'm pretty sure that, by this point, everyone has heard about Norfolk Southern's heritage unit program. Well, today, they released the first one! NS "Conrail" ES44AC 8098 came out of the Altoona paint booth in an authentic "canopener" scheme! Aside from a few minor things (such as the NS reporting marks below the number, and using the standard NS font on the cab numbers), they did what they said and painted it in a historically accurate scheme. It looks great, and I can't wait to see the others! Here's a roster shot (not mine):
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150627982784315&set=a.111336769314.98388.111336324314&type=1&theater
I don't have school tomorrow, so I have a more-or-less easy day ahead of me. Late morning, I'll be heading over to the United Railway Historical Society (URHS) yard in Boonton. I'll be working on restoring some old equipment (not yet sure exactly what, so I'll just have to wait and see). I signed up as a volunteer almost a year ago, but have yet to get a chance to go down there. I got an email that there'll be a work session tomorrow, so now's my chance. Can't wait to get my hands dirty on some 1:1 trains! I'll try and get some photos.After that, it's off to lacrosse practice. Not sure about how I'll be spending the rest of my weekend.
Well, that's about it for me. Catch ya later!
-Joe
The conductor stands guard as Morristown & Erie C424 #18 eases its train across Berkshire Valley Road on the recently-rehabilitated Chester Branch.
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Evenin' folks!
Janie just a cup of decaf, please.
Had a great program at the R&GV RR Museum meeting tonight. One of the members showed a series of 16mm film movies from the post WWII period promoting how absolutely wonderful the rail companies are and how the nation couldn't survive without the most important form of transportation known to man. In retrospect it is quite easy to see through the propaganda. The railroads were fighting to survive as the Federal government had pulled most subsidies from the railroads and used the $ to build the interstate system. Had a lot of great old steam and early F and P unit shots. Wonderful scenery as well.
I hope by tomorrow evening to have the first coat of paint (wallboard primer/sealer) on the new backdrop. I have to take the Yaris in for service and inspection when I go to feed my sister's kitties tomorrow as well. So i won't have a lot of time down there.
Have a great night all! Prayers for all in need.
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Howdy, everybody !
It's been busy here with non-model-railroad stuff. ..... Tomorrow will be a long drive to Detroit area with a stop in Cincinnati on the way. ... We have a load of stuff to move, and so I'll take the truck. Not looking for ward to the expensive fuel. ..
Jeff ... I've seen the IL village on line. It looked nice to me.
Galaxy .... Well........ you will have to take charge of things there and make everybody more optimistic. Actually, I don't think surveys like that are meaningful. People are basically the same everywhere.
Ulrich ... The ship model is looking great so far.
I might be off the computer a few days.
Cheers
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Time for me to call it a night. I had a very busy day so I'll probably be stiff as a board in the morning. See y'all tomorrow.
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
galaxy well, here's a happy thought: My area, is considered the least optimistic and most pesimistic area of the USA!!! FOr those who want to know more here is a link to AOL with the story: http://realestate.aol.com/blog/2012/03/15/binghamton-n-y-nations-most-downbeat-city-poll-says/?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl11%7Csec3_lnk1%26pLid%3D143814
well, here's a happy thought:
My area, is considered the least optimistic and most pesimistic area of the USA!!!
FOr those who want to know more here is a link to AOL with the story:
http://realestate.aol.com/blog/2012/03/15/binghamton-n-y-nations-most-downbeat-city-poll-says/?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl11%7Csec3_lnk1%26pLid%3D143814
In U.S. cities, that place is Provo-Orem, Utah, where 76 percent of residents say their area is becoming a better place to live, according to a Gallup poll released on Tuesday.
The findings show the Utah valley's metropolitan area closely followed by Lafayette, Louisiana; the Raleigh-Cary, North Carolina area; and Huntsville, Alabama.
Evening All,
Just got back from dinner with MOH which was nice. Her medical procedure went well today so that's always a plus in my thinking. Went to the LHS and picked up a pack of WS shoppers for the business district so now it's not bare.
Well once again I proved to myself I'm a . I was practicing different ideas for a coal loading operation and I noticed that several of my locos were starting and stopping or slowing down when running the inner loop. I pulled out the meter and checked power and the inside was running around 8-9 VAC where the outer loop was 10-11 VAC. I got looking for feeders and could only find 1!!. I guess I removed several during all the track replacement I have completedand never replaced them. I added 3 more sets evenly split and now both loops are 10-11 VAC.
The one positive out of it was there were no derailing or power issues in the coaling yard. That was a pleasant change from before, and I like the concept that I will be using there.
Galaxy- I'm not sure what to say about that article.
Everyone take care and prayers for those in need.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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Weather here has been very rainy today, nice and warm though.
Jeff: Two snakes? thats a pretty good take,lol, in my opinion a dead snake is a good snake.
I transferred a whole pile of old layout photos from my old computer (one at my parents place) to my flash drive. I have being uploaded to my computer. Probably take about two hours. My little flash drive is a slow one and my secondary hard disk is plugged into a USB 1.1 port, so it's slow too. Went to Wal-Mart this morning this morning to do a little shopping. Picked up some sandwich meat, cheese, some med supplies, some masking tape and a $1.50 bag of twelve foam paint brushes. Got that put away then helped my father rebuild the gate we built yesterday. He wasn't happy with it. Got the grass mowed this afternoon, ran over two snakes in the process. I had to get it cut before the next rains hit or rent a bush hog. This climate down here is something else! I was mowing a wet, soggy yard with wet grass and had dust blowing in my face. Hunted down the photos afterward then my father and I had chili dogs as a late lunch.
Jim: Thanks! I got them all saved.
Chloe I'll have the rib eye steak, med. rare, a baked potato w/ sour cream, and a trip to the salad bar along with a glass of unsweetenerd Ice Tea please.
Been a busy day, but one where I actually feel like I got some things accomplished. I was just about ready to drive over to my son's house to pick up some old TV's, etc. for taking to the recycling place when the guy showed jup to sand the wallboard joints... Did get the son's stuff picked up soon after that and then they came over and helped me load the old laser printer, the dead microwave, and a bunch of other associated stuff. Almost a full truck load. Took it over and got it dropped off, Cleaned out some more of #1 sons stuff still left here from his youth... Found a whole bunch of old photos. He was thrilled! Several dated back to when we went to Steamtown when it was in Bellows Falls Vermont!
Got home after feediong my sisters cats, andthe phone rang. It was the monument place calling to tell me the drain grid I took over to get sand blasted a couple weeks ago was done. Wouldn't take a cent (same family I just did the CDs for). Got that home and have the first coat of Rustoleum on it!
Now I'm off to a Museum meeting tonight!
Later!
Good Evening...
Sheeesh, got all kinds of weird stuff in the mail today...bills from people i never heard of going to people who used to own my home...like...oh 15 years ago??...I phoned up a couple of the companies involved only to find out they moved??...and one...asked me to check the date on the date stamp...none found?...so they told me that there seemed to be a problem with the post office...a bunch of bills and such, in a couple of bags, got processed by mistake...when they should have gone into a dead file....
JimRC: We got a lot of stuff in that space...
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/
Afternoon, Zoe, how about another RBF please - Still have a little room left after lunch. Thanks!
Darren, yep, that math teacher - when he was teaching, I think it was factoring (bear in mind, this was at a time when we had real chalk and chalkboards in the classrooms), he would say something like "This cancels this, POOF! Talcum powder!" (as he slapped the eraser on the board. One quarter (half-semester) I was pretty close to the next grade up (probably between a B and B+, I'm guessing), and the day we were to get grade cards, as I'm walking into the classroom he asks me "Quick - what's your last name?" (I got the higher grade that quarter). As they say, there's a fine line between creativity and insanity (even in teaching)...
Hey, Jeff, thanks for pointing out Ezra's shop for me. I had tried sending all of those building files (about 10 altogether), but the combined size was about 58MB, which my ISP balked at. So it's coming in four different emails to you.
The "liquid sunshine" appears to have run out for the daylight hours here. When I left the library around 2 or so, the sun was back out and the rain had stopped. Just 73 F now, and no particular heat index, either. I can live with THAT...
I'll be spreading out at the window booth; want to do some sketching of other ideas for how to expand my layout besides the plans I've come up with so far. But I can still talk (might want a 'break' every so often, actually...).
Blessings,
Jim in Cape G.
I'll have a diet coke Laura. Isn't this nice weather.... I know 67.... And last week the snow piles from the snowblower were above my head.... Yah I know, next week it will probally be Siberia.
Its so nice up here in Northern MI that I got to operate the layout today. Can't do nothing to fancy on my 4x8 MINRail layout but thats ok. Most of the time I just run a local from the south (Interchange with the BNSF). Switch a few covered hoppers at the elevators, maybe a boxcar at cenex fertilizer and the days work is done. The next time I run the layout the Local will come from the north (interchange with Rail America).
Other than that I took all of the autos on the layot off, and then put them back in different places. Just to freshen up the layout, and to have some fun. Also finnesed the office for my Lakeforest Co-op elevator with a few last touch ups and some signs.
Stourbridge Lion JimRCGMO: Math can be fun when when you get away from just crunching the numbers just to crunch numbers.
JimRCGMO: Math can be fun when when you get away from just crunching the numbers just to crunch numbers.
Math can be fun when when you get away from just crunching the numbers just to crunch numbers.
Case in point. Math to figure out how big the door should be on a building for my layout, fun. I get to see the end result, and the end result matters to somebody
Mindlessly doing algebra problems that ten seconds after the teacher grades them nobody on earth could give a care? agonizing
"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.
JimRCGMO Jeff, sorry to hear about that one site (maybe it was hacked); I've been to that site in the past, I think. (Well, the one I was thinking about was like "Illinois main street" type buildings. I will check if I have their downloads on my drive and send 'em to you if you want - PDF files, if I recall correctly. I can zip all of them that I find, or would it be easier to send separate emails (does your ISP have limits on file attachment size?). Hey, your current layout looks neat (and shows it off better now). Your previous layout pics looked great, too (especially that one with your photo backdrops!). ([ditto] about your trees on that one looking very good). Lot of w**k put into those ones, definitely! Hey, Jeff - I was trying to see (but didn't yet) - in what part of your layout is Ezra's place, in those 4-5 photos?
Jeff, sorry to hear about that one site (maybe it was hacked); I've been to that site in the past, I think. (Well, the one I was thinking about was like "Illinois main street" type buildings. I will check if I have their downloads on my drive and send 'em to you if you want - PDF files, if I recall correctly. I can zip all of them that I find, or would it be easier to send separate emails (does your ISP have limits on file attachment size?). Hey, your current layout looks neat (and shows it off better now). Your previous layout pics looked great, too (especially that one with your photo backdrops!). ([ditto] about your trees on that one looking very good). Lot of w**k put into those ones, definitely!
Hey, Jeff - I was trying to see (but didn't yet) - in what part of your layout is Ezra's place, in those 4-5 photos?
JimRCGMO Darren (Stourbridge) - after you mentioned Pi Day, I 'talked it up' at my w**kplace. And speaking of Pi, back in one high school math class, (they had older rooms, with the molding that was about a foot below the ceiling, for those who recall those things), and the math teacher had a paper up on that part of the wall - that went around 3 of the 4 sides of the room, with Pi to... a LOT of places. He made math more fun than some other math teachers I had, for sure!
Darren (Stourbridge) - after you mentioned Pi Day, I 'talked it up' at my w**kplace. And speaking of Pi, back in one high school math class, (they had older rooms, with the molding that was about a foot below the ceiling, for those who recall those things), and the math teacher had a paper up on that part of the wall - that went around 3 of the 4 sides of the room, with Pi to... a LOT of places. He made math more fun than some other math teachers I had, for sure!
Jim - Glad to hear that I could bring a bright spot to the day. Math can be fun when when you get away from just crunching the numbers just to crunch numbers. I know a couple of card tricks that are completely based on math but yet most folks don't know that when you show them the trick
Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
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Good Morning Zoe (well, a little bit yet) - I'll have a BLT with cheesey fries and a RBF please. Thank you!
Jerry - good to see you again in here! Also good to hear you're expanding your RR. Give Sallie a hug for us.
Ray, nice progress on the re-do of your layout area there. You'll have a nice-sized yard area, looks like.
Barry, that was one interesting photo you posted of the "flying car". (Gabe's driver's ed test...) Hey, that's one heckuva audio setup you have there!
Chris, more jobs you get, better for having some more MRR funds, right? Now, if you can get a little time for w**king on your MRR...
OzJim - on your trestle between the two bridges, I haven't looked at them in a while, but Rix/City Classics has a 'concrete' support for one of their bridge kits that (if you have any LHS that might carry their stuff) you could take a look at the dimenstions to see if it'd fit for what you need.
Ulrich, (I hope that since you first talked about 'craftsman' kits, that you've made some progress - and not on new word-learning...) from the photo I had seen of your ship, you're doing well in *spite* of inadequate instructions and less-than-ideal materials. Shows that your skills might just be better than their instruction-writing ones... Keep at it! (Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres...) Yep, took a couple of years or so of THAT language...
MoeCurlyLarry4 - hope your ear's doing better (or at least, less pain).
Lee, I see you're memorizing the motto of the RSA group, eh? Good luck (o' the Irish) at the train show on Saturday!
Galaxy, hope you can sleep tonight without needing any 'assistance'. And, that you get the 'groggy' out today!
Mike, sounds like you found a few useful bargains for your MRR'ing.
WIth as much as Jeff gets down in his area, it's very good that he's on the 'upside' of a hill there.
Like Ken - and Galaxy - I actually turned on my A/C at home last night (but somewhere in the night, got up and turned it off (then went back to bed, without even checking the time). Had my two fans running some, too - brick exterior on my apartment building can hold heat sometime longer than sundown.
It's been raining a fair bunch today - I'm on-call tonight (so out of office today), so I got to the library (using their WiFi) about 9:20 this morning, and since a bit before 10, it's been off-and-on rumbles of thunder, and I often can hear driving rain outside, too. Wonder how much the weatherguessers will say that we got by tonight... Think they were saying we were going to have rain chances through Saturday this week.
Might be a good day or two for w**king on some MRR projects...
I'll be at the window booth, checking out that horizontal rain that Sue mentioned. (Hmm...look at that...)
[Edit:] And lookee here - I have the TOP honors! Okay, Zoe, start my tab. Chowhounds?
Blessings and prayers,
cudaken I miss winter Had to use the A/C at the house yesterday and the wife is all ready wanting to know when I am cutting the grass? Hard to believe the grass is all ready growing and it is only March. If the weather stays like this for another week I bet most of the leaves will be out. Ken
I miss winter Had to use the A/C at the house yesterday and the wife is all ready wanting to know when I am cutting the grass? Hard to believe the grass is all ready growing and it is only March. If the weather stays like this for another week I bet most of the leaves will be out.
I DON'T miss winter, but we have had the AC running now for 2 days already, today will be the 3rd. We have it on because the trailer heats up fast in the rising hot sun, and because when it does run it keeps the spring allergens out of the house while running and keeping us at a nice temp. We both have spring/summer/fall/winter allergens that agrivate our sinuses and ravage them severely. SO the A/c keeps us temeprate and limits alergens!
I am a fresh-air freak, but when allergens come in and I can't breathe well, well the AC is a boon.
SO while we want to be stingy on the electric bill, we kinda need the AC.
Morning Folks!
Flo, Diet dew Please.
All most seems like a day off today. Got home yesterday at 4:00 PM (had to stop by the Vet's) and don't go into 2:00 PM today. Then I am off Friday!
Finally Changed out the trains I have been running. Ever get in the habit of running the same trains all the time? Been running the same 3 for some time. Finlay parked the BB Santa Fe A B last night, it had been pulling 40 cars for months now. Cleared my longest passing spur (still had to pull 6 cars) and giving them a rest. Running my Hudson in its places.
Rob The picture of the 63 Super Stock 426 Maxie Wedge is Geno's, he is a friend of mine.
Well, going to nap for a while.
gear-jammer Ulrich, Our friend Jerry is more of a boat modeler that a MR modeler. He has done some beautiful models. Can't wait to see your end project. Sue
Ulrich, Our friend Jerry is more of a boat modeler that a MR modeler. He has done some beautiful models. Can't wait to see your end project.
Sue
Me too, Sue!
It´s still a long way from being completed. I have got a fair idea how to put up the sales. I can´t use much of the supplied materials, though - need to somehow fabricate my own. I also took the piece of cloth that´s supposed to become the sails and transferred the outline of those two I will have to make. Discussed with Petra how to do that, and , with a little persuasion, she is going to get out her sewing machine and do it for me. Ain´t that sweet?
I also received a bunch of answers to my job applications in Canada To sum them up : "our client is looking for a person holding Canadian citizenship..."
Without a job, no immigration into Canada, without immigration, no job in Canada. Just to add to the pity, I am still waiting for the money from our job administration...
What a pretty day - the sun is shining, the birds are singing ...
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Good Morning Modelers!
It's another bright and sunny day; currently 36F but will be heading up towards to 70's by the afternoon. Went to Village Inn last night for dinner and had our Free Pie. Enjoy the day everyone!
Hobbs Depot-Hobbs IN
Italian roast coffee in a SUNNY SOUTHERN mug, please.
***Inch, congrats on the smaller catch, which is still better than no catch at all.
Have a good day all.
Should be up around 80F here today. Nice!
Rob
Good morning. It's 68° and cloudy with patchy fog. The high will be 82° and it'll be partly cloudy with a 20% chance of rain.Today I need to mow my parents yard before the rain moves in, otherwise it's going to get out of control. I'm going to take a flash drive with me and plug it into the old computer there and download any old layout photos I find. They're scattered all over the main drive. I figure a two gig flash drive should be big enough.