Well I went and uploaded a short video (one minute and small change) of my Bachmann GP7's making a run around the layout today. They're fussy and will derail if the track work doesn't meet a certain minimum. They didn't derail, so I did an OK job on the track.
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Evenin' folks!
Got a bit wild around here late this afternoon.... Had a couple of lines of thunderstorms pass through. Got about 1/4" of rain along with a good light show and some rumbling. Nothing really serious and we do need the rain at the moment. I did decide to shut down the computer and associated equipment though.
Hey Mark! I didn't see RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) on your list? It is only major college in the area that has a very active Model Railroad Club. You can check out a bit about it here: http://campuslife.rit.edu/main/clubs/details?clubId=194&clubName=Model%20Railroad%20Club Many of their members also volunteer at the Rochester and Genesee Valley RR Museum. Main page of the college: http://www.rit.edu/#148
I've been creating clouds and trees on the backdrop much of the day. May have some photos later tonight.
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Let the games of summer begin! The &%*#@ roof is leaking. Last March I had the roof replaced over the computer room and I chased a leak on the west side of the room most of the summer. Now I have a leak on the east side. I know what I need to do and that’s replace the siding on the upper addition.
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Hoople Afternoon all! Blegh. Some bug's been going around up here lately and it's gotten to me. Obnoxious. Oh well, figure I'll work through it. Jeff: Good to see you too, bud. I missed seeing all the pics of your layout in here every day! Cudaken: Nice to see ya' too. Hows that charger coming? Those '68 and '69 chargers are my favorite cars! Up near my school there's a guy who's got a really really nice 1969 one, as well as a couple dart swingers. I love those old muscle cars! Sue: I'll try my best not to be a stranger! School is pretty good. I enjoy all of it except AP chemistry. That class... not a fan of it in the slightest. Hardest class I've ever taken. Managed to hammer down a 3.4 GPA on the 4.0 scale last semester (that's equivalent to something like 87% or so). I've got the AP test for that, as well as the AP test for my Language and Composition class (which frankly is much more enjoyable, fun, and easy than AP chem). Taking the SAT on May 5th... same day I'm going to see VAN HALEN at the TACOMA DOME. Gotta love me some rock! As far as colleges- trying to aim high for the most part, we'll see where I can get in. The list looks a little like this:1. MIT2. Colorado School of Mines3. Carnegie Mellon4. Cal Poly5. Purdue 6. Cal Tech7. United States Air Force Academy- I put this one last because I'm not entirely sure if I would want to go or not. On the fence about it, really... I want to be an engineer and work with aeronautics or aerospace, and it seems like the Air Force would be cool to work in but I'm not sure if I want to do it. Also, the academies are extremely hard to get into. Luckily, the ROTC programs aren't!That's all for now.Mark
Afternoon all!
Blegh. Some bug's been going around up here lately and it's gotten to me. Obnoxious. Oh well, figure I'll work through it.
Jeff: Good to see you too, bud. I missed seeing all the pics of your layout in here every day!
Cudaken: Nice to see ya' too. Hows that charger coming? Those '68 and '69 chargers are my favorite cars! Up near my school there's a guy who's got a really really nice 1969 one, as well as a couple dart swingers. I love those old muscle cars!
Sue: I'll try my best not to be a stranger! School is pretty good. I enjoy all of it except AP chemistry. That class... not a fan of it in the slightest. Hardest class I've ever taken. Managed to hammer down a 3.4 GPA on the 4.0 scale last semester (that's equivalent to something like 87% or so). I've got the AP test for that, as well as the AP test for my Language and Composition class (which frankly is much more enjoyable, fun, and easy than AP chem). Taking the SAT on May 5th... same day I'm going to see VAN HALEN at the TACOMA DOME. Gotta love me some rock! As far as colleges- trying to aim high for the most part, we'll see where I can get in. The list looks a little like this:1. MIT2. Colorado School of Mines3. Carnegie Mellon4. Cal Poly5. Purdue 6. Cal Tech7. United States Air Force Academy- I put this one last because I'm not entirely sure if I would want to go or not. On the fence about it, really... I want to be an engineer and work with aeronautics or aerospace, and it seems like the Air Force would be cool to work in but I'm not sure if I want to do it. Also, the academies are extremely hard to get into. Luckily, the ROTC programs aren't!That's all for now.Mark
2. Colorado School of Mines.... My brother worked there for several years as the head of food services. He is retired now Winters in Colorado in the hills ABOVE Boulder and Summers in New York up in the woods near the Canadian border.
7. Air Force? Why not the Navy Academy. They turn out far more engineers. AND I presumen that you can swim better than you can fly.
Noticeably missing from your list is Dickinson State University.
ROAR
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Evening Fellow Dinners
Flo, Beer Please.
Well I am getting sick again. Throat is feeling a little raw, nose is starting to run and I am get chills. No a good sigh.
Far as the Mopar Picture's I am posting. Many of them I have worked on, lot of them are friends from the Charger Site that I was the Jeffery at. White 68 Charger with the storm rolling in belong to (his screen name) Rolling Thunder. He was 18 I think when he got the Charger. I helped him with whet he thought was a over heating problem. Turned out the 12 volt transformer that goes to the dash circuit board was bad and giving false reading's.
Ulrich Believe me, Gas was not $9.00 a gallon when these beast where being made. I think in 1968 I was paying .29 cents a gallon. Anyway, far as MPG it deepened on what motor it had. Chargers could be had with a 225 CI Slant 6 about 27 MPG, 318 CI which got around 19 MPG, 383 2 Barrel around 17 MPG, 383 4 barrel 330 HP was around 14 to 15 MPG 440 4 Barrel 375 HP was maybe 11 to 13 MPG. Now, if you got the 440-6 Barrel 390 HP(1969) or the 426 Hemi, last thing you cared about was MPG. In 1971 you could get a 340 HP 250 HP and then in 1973 you could a 360 4 Barrel and no body really cared!
Well, I am getting the chills, so time to go.
Cuda Ken
I hate Rust
BroadwayLion Hoople: 7. Air Force? Why not the Navy Academy. They turn out far more engineers. AND I presumen that you can swim better than you can fly.
Hoople:
Try PLC (Platoon Leaders Course) like I plan on doing(though you can become a marine at the Naval Academy). Do the hardest thing in the world. Lead peolple doing awesome stuff. Just start to run if you want to be a marine. 18-20 mins for three mile run. 15-20 pullups. 80-100 situps in 2 min. C'mon be come a Ooragh!
"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.
Guess I should have mentioned that the photo I posted IS the link for the video I mentioned.
Evenin' Floks!
Janie, just a decaf for me. I'll be sitting at the rivet counter for a few minutes discussing the clouds that showed up today on the Seneca Lakes, Ontario, and Western today. No rain down there, just some clouds.........
Hope you all have a good and blessed night!
Time for me to call it a night. Wiped down the track this morning and I've been running trains ever since, I have the pair of Atlas FP7's running as mainline while I do some switching with the pair of Bachmann GP7's. While the Atlas locos have Bachmann lightboard decoders the two Bachmann Geeps have Digitrax DZ125's and have a better degree of control. See y'all tomorrow.
GOOD MORNING!!!TODAY IS MONDAY, MARCH 19th, 2012!!!
Back to the work week!!!
-G .
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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.
TIPTON
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Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Morning All,
Mark, don’t discount the Coast Guard Academy, the only military Academy you don’t need a Congressional appointment, your entry is based on your performance. 4 years college for free then after a few years in the fleet you can apply to go back to another college for another 2 years for free. My cousins went to MIT and are doing very well for themselves…
I made several castings this weekend. I’m very proud of my steel wire castings and the little fork truck I made. I have several pictures to post but having trouble with the server, hopefully things are all worked out this week.
Good Afternoon Gang!
It is past lunchtime here in Germany, so I´ll just go for some coffee, Janie!
Today is a very special for us.
Our son Christian successfully defended his master thesis and has been awarded the academic title of M.Sc.Eng. His post-graduate studies were completed with a straight A+ average - we are so proud of him! He will start in his new job on April 1st., and in summer, he will also start to work on his doctorate.
The little one has finally grown to be an adult!
I did some w*rk on the boat this morning - here is an update:
Not really much left to do, just install the anchor, hoist the flag and fabricate and install the shrouds. My dictionary tells me that´s the contraption the sailors use climb to to the top of the masts.
Janie - whatever those chowhounds want to have today - put it on my tab. We have reasons to celebrate!
Have a good one, all of you!
Good Morning!! Coffee and sweet roll please. Thanks. A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 82. Breezy Jeff- Thanks for sharing the video. Looks good. Ray- Wow. Those clouds look so real. I think yer a funnin us. That there’s a photy-graph ain’t it.
Good Morning!! Coffee and sweet roll please. Thanks.
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 82. Breezy
Jeff- Thanks for sharing the video. Looks good.
Ray- Wow. Those clouds look so real. I think yer a funnin us. That there’s a photy-graph ain’t it.
Well as par for the course I got nothing done I wanted to do yesterday except I did get about a 30 minute nap before she woke me up with a question, “Honey? Honey!? Oh. Were you asleep? I’m sorry but do you think we could open up the windows? Maybe air the house out? Ok, well don’t get up I’ll get them. You go back to your nap.” (struggle, struggle grumble snort comes from the window across the room) “This window is stuck I can’t get it open.” I get up go across the room open the window. It wasn’t stuck but just… well yes I guess it waaaas stuck but only because it’d been shut for months. But it didn’t take any more effort to over come the stuckness than to open the car door. Anyway, I turn around and she’s gone. I open the rest of the windows and then go down to the basement to find her there sitting on the couch watching TV. Right where I left her before. “Oh, I’m sorry, I got sidetracked. Thanks. You can get back to your nap now”…..“Can’t. wide awake now.” I guess she went upstairs to use the bathroom and saw me napping and just couldn’t handle it.
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.
Todd - that´s why we love them, don´t we? Btw, could there be a chance the Brenda and Petra are related...
Ray Good job on the backdrop!!!! Hope you will share how you made those clouds as they have to be some of the best I have seen. I have a hard time painting clouds on sheetrock or hardboard. Just can't seem to get the detail right, on canvas it is no problem but when I go to do a backdrop like yours it just falls way short of my expectations! Thanks.
Jim
Good morning, Chloe. Coffee in a NP mug, please.
I finished my first quilt yesterday, I am mostly organized for taxes, and got back to my car shop. What a busy day.
Mark, Larry and I discussed going to the Van Halen concert, but the last concert we went to everyone stood up, and I couldn't see anything. I would need the perfect seat. Have fun. Good luck on the SAT's.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
BroadwayLion 7. Air Force? Why not the Navy Academy. They turn out far more engineers. AND I presume that you can swim better than you can fly.
7. Air Force? Why not the Navy Academy. They turn out far more engineers. AND I presume that you can swim better than you can fly.
I won't pretend to tell him which branch to go into if he wishes, that is HIS decision. BUT, This phrase brought up an old family joke... My MIL is from Germany, FIL from USA. When they moved here, they used to go summers every other year to germany as MOH was growing up. My FIL always wanted to take a "boat ride" {ship- as he was a Navy man} instead of planes to Germany every year, but my MIL refused every time. Finally, he asked WHY she didn't want to take a ship to Europe, and she said "because I cannot swim!'. My FIL retorted, "Oh yeah, well how far can you fly??!!"
RAY-like you, we have naturally broken temperature records too!!! ANd we are set to break records today too! BTW running the AC in the car on the warmer winter days periodically during the winter is GOOD for the system to help lubricate the seals and O rings and such...it helps to keep the AC in top-notch working order for the hot summer months, and makes it last longer. I don't really like the high heat of summer either, but the cold and damp air of winter can be just as hard on me. I'll take what we have been getting lately all year round, hence our desire to retire to Hawaii if we ever get the money to! we just don't care for florida much.
ULRICH- your Boat is looking good, but I think it to small to satisfy either my MIL OR FIL!!!! Will you set sail to the USA???
Well, off to the mailbox to mail a letter. Yes, I still do write letters to those who don't have access to computers regularly. I'm not exactly good at it, but...
Y'ALL HAVE A GREAT DAY!!!
EDIT: I got top, So Flo, here is my CRedit Card..and PULEEEZE, NO corned beef, cabbage, and potatoes!!! OR Green eggs and ham!!!
Morning All,
At w**k today and tomorrow. High this week is either 83 or 84 F all week. MOH had me dig out suitcases for the trip. She says it takes her all week to pack. My response was it takes me 20 minutes if that. Well the suitcases are out. Imagine that.
Ray- Very nice looking clouds. Are they the cloud we keep hearing about on TV?
Jeff- Nice video.
Ulrich- Your boat looks great and congrats on your sons achievment's.
JR- Hope you made it home safe and sound.
Everyone take care.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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RAy - I just saw that backdrop of yours. All I can say is
Wow!
Those are the best looking cloud I have ever seen! Now, if I let you have the dimension of my backdrop, will you make some for me
Galaxy: I enjoyed your story about your in-laws' trips to Germany. Your FIL has a quick wit. Did your MIL ever give in and travel over on a ship?
..... Bob
Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here. (Captain Kirk)
I reject your reality and substitute my own. (Adam Savage)
Resistance is not futile--it is voltage divided by current.
Seamonster Galaxy: I enjoyed your story about your in-laws' trips to Germany. Your FIL has a quick wit. Did your MIL ever give in and travel over on a ship?
Nine. Nyet. Nada. Nunca. Nope. No. Never.
Morning.
Flo, Diet Dew
Well I called off sick, going to take a nap now.
Ken
It is days like today, which make me really sad - we cannot buy even a small gift for our son to congratulate him.
Called my parents to tell them the good news, but they are not really interested in what their one and only grandchild has achieved.
Makes me also mad...
End of rant!
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of buttermilk pancakes with real NYS dark amber maple syrup (Day Bros. Farms if you got it) and several cups of Seneca Lake Blend Dark Roast Coffee in a R&GV RR mug please. Hih? OK, come as close to THAT as you can......
Another sunny morning outside the window here in the Finger Lakes this morning. Currently 66°F which already breaks the old record by 3° for this date here. High is forecast to be 70°F. Threat of a few thunderboomers later today.
Thanks for the comments on the clouds folks! I was taught how to make clouds by a guy named Harold Russell MMR #14 at the very first NMRA Meet I ever attended. I start with some stencils from New London Industries called "The Clouds" (Good name for them). They are taped to the backdrop and I have old newspapers taped to cover areas nearby I don't want any spray to get on. The basic stencil is sprayed with white spray cans. Since clouds are white on top but gray underneath, I follow up with one or two light gray colors to highlight the bottom. For this set I then added another cloud underneath the two stencils I used for the top clouds.... A fogging with the white rattle can paint then finishes the job. I still have to do some more with the horizon along the backdrop, as it gets lighter the closer you get to the horizon. The blue was tinted by comparing the blue sky here in the Finger Lakes with paint charts, BTW.
Ulrich, these clouds would be monsters for your backdrops..... I don't know whether they make the stencils for "n" scale or not. However, you could easily cut them yourself from card stock. Like most good hobby practice, study nature (prototype) and see how it looks out there, then copy it...... If I was able, I would be privileged to do some clouds for you! Oh and congrats on your son's accomplishments. Please send him my best wishes!!!
Have a great day, and stay away from Ken today...... He seems to be sleeping it off in the back booth.
Ulrich: Hats off to your son! That's quite an accomplishment. Shame on your parents for not showing more interest. Things like that only come around once.
Ken: I hope you feel better soon.
Good morning. It's 72° and cloudy. The high will be 82° and there's a 20% chance of showers and thunderstorms. Wind is at SSE at 9 mph gusting to 30. Lake wind advisory is in effect.Running trains again this morning. I have the two 70's era Roco/Atlas GP40's pulling the mainline freight. Their old motors are rumbling nicely. I discovered some internal damage on one them, presumably from a fall from the display rack last year when a hanger on said rack broke and spilled some of the locos on my bed before the racks fall was stopped by the window frame. One of the gear towers was cracked. A little epoxy fixed that right up. The FP7's and GP7's worked hard yesterday and are getting a rest. Had a problem with the newer FP7 yesterday. The motor (mostly plastic) was running quite hot. So I lubed the bearings and put a couple of drops of CRC 2-26 on the commutator, turned the motor by hand a few times then put power to it and ran it in. It runs better now but still runs a bit warm. Warm is all right, hot is not. As regards the Bachmann GP7's, I have nothing bad to say about them. They run quiet and smooth, no stalling, no gear noise and they pull like nobody's business (I run my two as an mu'd set). Same report on their GP9's. David brought his two over yesterday for programming and to have Kadee's installed. They just seem to float down the rails. I'd say Bachmann has made up well for all the trashy junk they sold in the 80's and 90's.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Sir Madog It is days like today, which make me really sad - we cannot buy even a small gift for our son to congratulate him. Called my parents to tell them the good news, but they are not really interested in what their one and only grandchild has achieved. Makes me also mad... End of rant!
Ulrich- Parents are parents as they are/were, and that is that. CHildren are children as they are/were and that is that. You have a choice: to be a better parent than your parents were, or be the same or worse. CHildren who make one parent proud are great, but children who disappoint one parent are as they are too. It is hte choices we make in interpreting that that makes us all different.
MOH wanted to go to Culinary school in Germany and had an uncle who would have paid it all, and my FIL said No you go to college in USA, and MOH wanted a year off either way. SInce MOH didn't finish college, MIL and FIL thinks MOH is a disappointment, but MOH kindly pointed out THEY were a disappointment for not allowing MOH to persue wishes!!! {and it would not have cost ILs any money to persue the culinary dream in Germany!!!}
SOme day, no matter how disappointing they are, your parents will be gone, and then you may wish they were still here, foibles and all. That is up to you how you handle the now they present. FIL makes MOH angry a lot, but I remind he will be gone someday, and MOH will wish he was here then.
There is a phrase that is not a clean phrase for the diner, but it goes "Don't let the {insert expletive} wear you down!!!"
Galaxy - don´t get me wrong. I am happy to still have my parents. In their age, each day is a gift. I just find it sad, that they don´t take any interest into their grandchild, as they only take little interest in Petra´s and my life. Yet they expect everyone to jump and hurry to help them. They have been that way the last 40 - 50 years. Maybe it´s their bad childhood during the Nazi times. I have given up on wanting to know - I love them they way they are.