Nice super market Garry!
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Hello all
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Have a migraine..its actually a continuation of one from yesterday. The new med seems to have taken away the pain, but leaves me sleepy. Worked yesterday, then when the rains set in I knew why I had one...the weather had changed. BINGO. Today I took another new med pill will see if it works today too.
MOH is off to do banking..goes out faster than it comes in y'all probably know the routine!
LAST PAYMENT on the furnace went out today! HOO RAY! The Prime A-1 bank who financed it can shoved their expected accrued interest out the window..we paid it off in the 6 month free interest period, {but interest accrues on outstanding balance at 29.99%!!} We own it now!
Good feeling.
MOH and I got into an argument this AM...Kia delaer is trying a new Kia sales blitz and MOH wants to go look like we did last year. I said NO we cannot afford a new {or newer} vehicle right now and I don't want to again disappoint the saleman whne we don't buy. SO we got into an arguement. MOH drives the older vehicle teh 98 carvan to work to spend the mileage on the older vehicle and "save" the new one. Oh well, wants a newer vehicle.
Late
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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.
Garry:
Ulrich .... The Bluenose II is on display at the Maritime museum in Halifax, Nova Scotia. We saw it when we were there. It's a very nice museum (Correct, Der John?)
http://blog.eastcoastproud.com/2011/03/21/rebuilding-of-bluenose-ii-in-lunenburg-ns-webcams-video/
IIRC, that site shows the entire process up to the present. If it doesn't I'll leave it to those interested to find the site that does!
On N scale mermaids, I wonder if they'd be worth the effort - you'd need a whole harbour full to make a decent fry-up - and with all the beer etc. necessary to see that many, I doubt that getting them to stay in the pan would be easy.
TTFN
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
TGIF Modelers!
It's 29F and Sunny in the Mile High city with highs in the 60's for the weekend and 70 by Monday. Got some of the mud and dust off the 4x4 yesterday from travels to a friends house in the rural east side of town where the streets are still dirt roads. Have a great Day and Weekend!
Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
Delaware and Hudson Virtual Museum (DHVM), Railroad Adventures (RRAdventures)
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Sue ... To answer, actually these are street cars. They are Bachmann models with DCC. If I install real trolley wires, the cars have a little toggle switch to change powere so it is both from the wire and the rails.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good morning!17f and clear. After today highs in the 50-60f range for the foreseeable future.
E-mail sent,Lee!
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
Howdy ....
It's good to see so many diners here! I continue enjoying the international "collection" of good people here!
Speaking of collections, Lee .... Your friend evidently has an abundance of locomotives. Actually, I have too many also as I am learning when I am installing decoders. For a while I justified a lot of railroads because so many interchanged with the old CB&Q. I have very slowly thinned out my fleet. ... Too many of us must try to remember we are "Model Railroaders" and not "Model Locomotivers" .
I posted more of my work in progress in WPF.
The last building I made was this neat little super market from a City Classics kit. The secret to making it a good model is to very carefully paint all pieces before assembly. (Actually, that is the case with all of the buildings.)
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Good morning, Chloe. I will have my coffee in a NP mug, please.
Last night we went to a slide show of climbing in Vietnam. My friend spent a month over there. Interestingly enough, the war we call the Vietnam War, they call the American War. It is amazing what a different perspective will do. Nice climbing though.
Garry, Is your cable car a functioning loco?
Curt, Which coaling tower is that?
Galaxy, You have had trouble with electronic banking, and I have had trouble with the mail being lost or sent to the wrong address. Any time you deal with people, there is a chance for error.
I ran out of scale lumber on my car shop. The hobby shop where I purchase my scale lumber is no longer in business. I guess the car shop will be on hold for a while.
Back to painting.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Morning All,
Flo I would love a second cup of coffee please. Today plans are to put down ground cover and ballast the coal yard. I will probably paint the POP rocks also. My son and I need to finish up in the side yard also. MOH wants to go to Kohl's tonight after work.
Lee- Thanks for thinking of me. I wish I had more disposable income now (don't we all). I didn't want to Email him as I would feel I was leading him on.
Everyone have a good day.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Good Morning All,
We went from high 50’s and 60’s all week to just above freezing, I’m ready for June!
Barry, London, ONT and London England is not confusing. What are confusing to me is the Canadian address and postal codes. I have traveled the United States, Europe, South America, Central America, and SE Asia and done very well with address, but give me an address in Canada and I’m completely lost.
CN Charlie, not sure you would make good consul working with both Horribly Oversized and N-visible scales at the same time, LOL. Terry, I’ll be thinning a few boxcars, gondolas, and 4 bay hoppers. I’m re-painting the hoppers so if you’re interested send me an email and we can go from there. I was going to letter the hoppers in BLE, but if you’re interested in painted undecorated let me know before tomorrow morning.
Jim, I only have a sampling of western roads that interchange in Chicago and a few Canada railroad examples. CB&Q, WP, ATSF, SP, FFF, PFE, CNW, CP, CN, CASO, ON, NWONT, EJ&E, IHB, CEI, etc…
Curt, I sent you the info on my friends Brass PRR locomotives to help you out, he isn’t hurting for money he is just cleaning house on a few things. My friend needs to join Locomotive Anonymous; I bet he has 10 storage tubs full of locomotives just at the club layout. It wouldn’t surprise me to see 10 locomotives pushing 1 boxcar and 1 caboose around the club layout, LOL. He has several Stewart Locomotive kits still in the boxes…
Garry, that Hudson is awesome; I’ve never owned anything that detailed. Brass always has been so far out of budget reach until this one.
Hi Diners,
Ken directed me here to see the roundhouse photos. There is also a separate thread he started on the subject.
The photo of the first Roundhouse is the B&O Roundhouse in East St. Louis. There is no doubt about this, it is well documented and you can find many references on the web.
The Sandborn map is not of the same roundhouse. It is of the Frisco Roundhouse several miles away accross the Mississippi in St. Louis MO, a bit West of down town. This was demolished in the 20's and the location can still be identified because of the street names, but there is no evidence of the roundhouse anymore.
The photo of the foundation closer to the river is probably the remains of the GM&O roundhouse.
Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum
Good Morning!! Coffee and a stack of buttermilk flapjacks please. Yes, maple syrup thank you. Sunny, with a high near 47.
Good Morning!! Coffee and a stack of buttermilk flapjacks please. Yes, maple syrup thank you.
Sunny, with a high near 47.
Galaxy- Wow. I don’t blame you for being cautious on the internet thing. Seems like you’ve the worst luck. There isn’t anything left for someone to do to you othern give you a ton of money. I don’t think I’ve every even met someone who has had their information stolen. Guess I run in small circles.
Ken- Yah, no Ziva this week . Checked and the next new episode won’t be until the 20th. I don’t know why they take these little breaks. Oh I knooooow! She’s probably taking time off to come out to see me for my Birthday! Oh isn’t she sweet. I’d better straighten up the sty a bit.
Charlie- If I had as many younguns floatin around as Inch does, I’d need the extra kick in my coffee too.
Welp, Brenda has picked out her counter tops. Black Marble. Now waiting for the place to call and come out to measure. Then they will make them and we’ll be set. Oh but first …. Remember the sink? Yup. Gotta get that today, juuuust in case it has to be ordered. She wil not want to be without a sink when the new counter tops come in. We’ll have to take off the old ones prior to them delivering the new, because they’ll want to fit them to the cabinets and the walls and do any tweeking that may need to be done before they say thanks for your business. They’re pretty good, there was no tweaking to be done on Mom’s. Of course the guy did say it was one of the straightest walls he’d seen in a while considering it had a double window. He will NOT say that on this house. Our countertops are of the garden variety measure where you tell Menard’s or Lowe’s or whoever, they make send and you say, “sheesh! I could slide a toaster between the backsplash and the wall in places. Especially at the non-ninety degree angle at the corner”.
Well..., this site is running pretty zippy today. Did they do something?
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.
Good Morning
Kinda wintery out here right now, cold and snowflurries be falling on our'n heads..high today will be 34F ...tonights low will be 15F...back to winter......oh..and we will see 40mph winds which means...windchill of 18F ....
Ken: The only roundhouse thing there is around here right now is the old Great West Steakhouse on York street..from what I hear tell it was bought by a developer recently...
Inch: Is there any information about the height of the viaduct?
Alvie: When you get an opportunity to come up this way let me know..we have all kinds of stuff around here over the summer....
Got a coupla minor doctor appointments to contend with today as well as a few honey do things...so I better be getting to those
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/
Mornin, yes Zoe an irish coffee,,,, thanks dear. Suns out, winds have calmed down some and the high is supposed to be in the mid 40’s
BOB,,,, one of the G- daughters was bout 2 or so [now 12] did the restaurant thing with me. She kept bringing me empty cup n plates, then leave the room. This went on for a bit, and then she brought a plastic tub with all the cups n plates, and told me it my turn to do the dishes. I still think G-ma put her up to it
KEN,,,,,, I’m trying to find out for sure, but I think one of those round house was PRR. The other one might have been C&EI
JIM CG,,,,, that viaduct is bout 7 mile E, it’s a left over from the Big 4’s [NYC] Cairo line from me on Big Creek. A friend of ours took the shot from his para-plane.
CN CHARLIE,,,,, normally by time I get in here for irish coffee, I’ve been up a couple-3 hour, and had a pot n breakfast. And in real life, I don’t start the day that way.
Plans for the day,, not much I got Earl n both girls. Thoughts for all in need n hope ya’ll has a gooden.
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
Gould Tower, Toledo-1977
TIPTON
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
GOOD MORNING!!!
Today is Friday, March 9th, 2012!!!
Rise and Shine!!!
Smile all day long!!! {It will make people wonder what you are up to!!}
Yeah, I'd been thinking of Britain :) I'd love to check out Ontario one day as well.
Alvie
CNCharlie: Just let me know..How long you be here? There is Doug's Trains and Broughdale Hobbies for sure....
Alvie: I used to live in London England at one time but I'm now living in London Ontario now...kind of confusing, eh wot?
Top of page, now?
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
Oh goodie, top.
Well as it is after hours I'm sure Chloe wouldn't mind it if you had a little night cap on me. Inch will likely save his until morning as that is when he seems to prefer his Irish coffee. Interesting way to start the day.
CN Charlie
Alvie, wish it were the London you are likely thinking of but no, it is the one in Ontario.
Charlie,
All I have to say is Oooh London! I'm kind of, quite, jealous really. My grandparents took my sister and I during my tender, but very much train-loving year of being 12. I'd love to go again for sure.
Good Evening Diners,
Ken, this will likely be top but even if it isn't have a few of your favourite bevies on me. I think you could use them after the time you've been having.
Ulrich, nice looking modules. I have a model of the Bluenose in my office at work. I didn't build it but it is wood. It is a little larger than yours as it is a metre LOD( length on deck) and about the same from keel to masthead. I had it at home on top of a bookcase downstairs but my wife complained that it blocked the light. I've been on the Bluenose in Halifax, well Bluenose II really. Can't tell the colour of the hull in your photo but it should be black. They're building another one as II was in such poor shape that it has largely been scrapped. Those Grand Bank schooners weren't built to last a long time. Bluenose was the fastest Grand Banks schooner ever built. As you can probably tell I have a soft spot for schooners, well most sail craft if I'm honest. I do miss my sailboat sometimes.
Tonight I just finished one of the most frustrating decoder installs I've ever done. It was in a N scale Kato RDC. The decoder was one from Digitrax made specifically for that RDC. The problem was that all the contacts are just friction with none soldered. I bet I took that thing apart and re-assembled it at least 8 times. I even took out the decoder and tested it again on DC as I thought that perhaps the engine was at fault. Well finally it is done and put away. I have another RDC but I think I'll sell it.
Lee, gee perhaps I could get a job as a counsellor at your RSA. I only have about 45 pieces of rolling stock and 13 engines. Well ok, that is in HO, I have about the same in N.
Barry, there is a good chance that I'll be in London next week on business. Are there any good hobby shops to visit? I won't buy any rolling stock, just look. Perhaps we could get together for a coffee at a Tim's? I should know tomorrow if I'll be going.
Well getting late and I'm tired so I'll sign off for now.
Time for me to call it a night. 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
OK I am off the hook! Not sure what happened, my last post was on top of the page, then not?
I hate Rust
Dang, top of the page 2 times in a row? I will never be able to afford the EM 1 at this rate!
Eat and drink up! Hum Flo, does the dinner have a payment plan?
Belch, sorry folks.
NBC.Com let me down (no Ziva) so I ran the layout. Broke out the BLI Hudson and ran 3 trains at the same time on the A line. Hudson ran like a champ? Last time out she picked the diamond ever other time around?
Got to love steam?
Time to
Ken
Evenin' folks!
Janie, I'll have a hot meatball sub and a cup of decaf for the moment. later i think I might go for a slice of the pumpkin pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream to round out the meal and a refill on the decaf. I'll be in back getting warm.
After being 60 degrees when I got up this morning, it is now 37°F out there. I just lit the wood stove here. been a busy day, but I'm not going to type everything out a third time. Last 2 times I was about to hit send when I let my finger touch the "Magic Mouse" top and the post magically dissapeared into thin air.... Jim, I finally read the little pamphlet THAT came with it and discovered you can scroll both up and down and left and right. The left and right scrolling will move a multipage document (like this site) forward or backward to pages you have already read.... It works like a touch pad rather than an old style mouse. I am getting to kind of like it, but I have to train my fat fingers not to lean on the mouse when I move it.
A very elderly gentleman, (mid nineties) very well dressed, hair well groomed, great looking suit, flower in his lapel smelling slightly of a good after shave, presenting a well looked-after image, walks into an upscale cocktail lounge. Seated at the bar is an elderly looking lady, in her mid-eighties.The gentleman walks over, sits alongside of her, orders a drink, takes a sip, turns to her and says, "So tell me, do I come here often?"
I should be finished moving emails from the old computer (which has now been on for several hours and is working just fine today) by the end of the evening (one more group should do it). Then I will give the hard drive one more look to see if there is anything more I might ever need again. I did find a couple of Railroad Fonts I bought a couple years ago THAT I have put on a flash drive to move to the iMac.
Had several errands to do today, and when I got home late afternoon I got a call from a friend to let me know one of members of the MLK Committee died yesterday after a long illness. I new she had been sick, but didn't have any idea she was THAT sick! She was a lovely, caring, ans kind lady. She has asked that people send donations in her name to the MLK Scholarship. I had to call the family earlier and make sure they had the right info. Sad. She will be missed!
Best get back to w*rk!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Jeff,
Donna's diner will need some autos and people mulling around their autos in the parking lot too :)
Today has gone alright, I got an order packed and shipped off, another few bucks for train purchases :) and had a great lunch with a friend of mine at this sweet little pub downtown. It's not the diner, but nice all the same.
My internet connection had been very strong yesterday, but now it is saying limited or no connectivity, yet it works very well, as I am using it now. So, I'm trying restore points and other maintenance tricks but always it says that I am lacking a winhttp.dll link that I've yet to figure out how to do recover. Ugh. I want to fix this myself before turning to my computer guy.
After emailing the guy who won an auction back on the 27th, I asked him if he still wanted the piece, having not paid for it yet about a week later, than no response after 2-days so I opened up a case with eBay, and after 2-days still no response. Sigh.
Hi, All! 26 and was snowing. Again. Wind at 20-25mph. Again. I hate winter.( with apologies to CudaKen! LOL!)
Lotsa good news I see lately.
Lee, I was serious . If you're going to thin the herd, I'd like a crack at it!!
Rob, MORE PICTURES, please!
Well, PFC Son "turned blue" today. Got his stripes and beret. Tommorrow is the formal graduation.Wish I was there! He's changed his plans some. Well, alot.Monday he starts Airborne training at Ft. Benning He says 3-4 weeks of that, not sure yet if it's the 101st, 173rd or the 82nd.Then he wants to" Catch up join a Line Unit."You Veterans know what that means. Spoke to him for 45 minutes last nite, he neglected( or protected) to tell me that last part. His big sister told me about an hour ago. Oh, well. His choices, my fears.I was under the impression he'd be heading to Ft. Bragg for SF training and advanced MO training, about 2 years worth.Things evidently change, whattayagonnado! Whew!
That's about it for now. Sorry for the sour grapes!