Hello sirs, and Ma'am's, diet coke for me laura
Sue-. What did ya get?
TSF- Sorry man. Last winter I put down my shelty Poco, I still miss seeing her happy face and perky ears.
James- Well maybe you'll get them both at the same time. That would be pretty cool.
No MRing yet today, notice yet
See ya.
"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.
Good Moaning folks.
I just sent an email to kalmbach customer service, as I'm still waiting (patiently) for my April issue to arrive. I note the May issue is now the cover shown on the website.
Cheers,
OzJim
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
Still sleeping off the prescription med I took as I wasn't sleeping last night so I took another, now watch I won't sleep tonight. HAte relying on them!
Will shower and scrub kitchen floor. Maybe i should rethink that..and scrub first then shower.
Winter North winds have returned and it is blustery.
for those who need them!
Dinner will be belly of dead pig, severed head of cauliflower, and beaten rice grains and will be late as MOH works til 8pm.
Have a great evening!
-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.
Afternoon folks,
Been away for a while as I took a much needed vacation to the Smokies last week.
Here at w*rk right now.
Hope all is well. Had to cut hay in the front yard from all the rain and warm weather.
Ulrich, that N-visable locomotive looks like one they were giving away up here, it was un-powered, I can't remember what is was advertising, but I gave it to a friend for his N-scale club...
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
My guess as well would be "N"...
Johnboy out.............................................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Looks to be an N Scale 'torpedo tube' GP7 or GP9 likely made by Atlas. If it's a larger model somebody kitbashed they did a darn good job on it.
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
Look at this:
What scale is it?
Extra strong coffee in a AZER mug, please.
***Johnboy, having both HOrribly oversized and iNvisible scale trains, kind of wish I only had the HO now. Afraid the N will far outslast my eye's abillity to work with it. But have come to far not to carry on with both. Heck, sometimes O starts looking better and better these days. Z would be entirely to small for me, too.
***Ulrich, looks like a good track plan to me. Plenty to keep your trains busy.
Have a great day, all.
Rob
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have the breakfast buffet this morning. Just bring me a cup of dark roast coffee in a R&GV RR mug please.
Johnboy says you are 21 again....???? I heard something about it being #39? Whatever number it is may you have a wonderful birthday!
Somebody get the soap! I heard Galaxy using some really nasty language totally unfit for a classy dinner like we have here! What? Oh it was THAT really bad one. You know 4 letter variety, the one THAT starts with "W"! Foul Mouth....
The sun is busy shining here in the Finger Lakes today. The temperature outside the door is at 33°F this morning and on it's way down to around 22°F tonight. Very, very bad news for the fruit farmers here in Central NY. NYS is a major supplier of Apples, Cherries, and stone fruits for the country. Apple and Cherry trees have already started to blossom. They can stand a couple hours of below freezing temperatures without harm, but 22° may be over the line. Unlike the citrus growers in the south, they have little equipment to prevent the disaster from happening..... What we are having today is normal March weather. The trees normally blossom 3 to 4 weeks from now.
TSF, my heart goes out to you for the loss of Duke! Always hard to lose a pet. I keep thinking of the truth in one of the signs my FIL used to have on his porch. "The more I deal with people, the more I like my dog!"
Ulrich, I spent much of thew day yesterday at the train show assembling part of a Tichy Train Group flat car. Even with the magnifying visor, it was difficult to add some of the tiny little parts...... "z" scale? I doubt I could even get the cars railed on the track without help. Hang in there, mein Freund!
Have to get started on the MLK financial report today (meeting tomorrow), do a bit of shopping, and light the wood stove!
Later!
73
edit - I see I have the top of the page, so order up my friends!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Morning Folks
Flo, Lemonade Please.
Happy Birthday Sue!
Slept in late and I have to be in at 12:00 today.
Wedding Aftermath I knew this was going to happen and told Sue she should not be in the wedding. She can hardly walk today and is having to use a cane. I feel real bad for her, but I sure cannot call in to work today! She has really bummed up her right knee this time.
See you later, Ken
I hate Rust
Johnboy - I would not look at Z scale, if I had to buy the stuff. It is a borderline issue for my eyes and my hands. But I have a whole lot of that stuff, and it´d be just a shame to see it wasted.
So there are UPS and DOWNS today.
The Big UP is Sue's BIRTHDAY, She is 21 (again).
A Very Happy Birthday Sue, hope you have a really great year. oops sorry, hope Larry wasn't looking.
The Downer is STF's loss of Duke. My heart goes out to you. I have had to put down several dogs in my 71 years and it never gets easier. And you do mourn the loss for quite awhile, so give yourself some time.
This was a very busy week-end around our place. They had a shower for my DIL and baby Son at our house on Saturday for all of her friends and Church members. Then on Sunday was the Shower for them at my SIL's home for all the family relatives. My wife's main contribution (with my help) was the cakes. For Saturday we had made a Baby Buggy Cake with a little face and a pair of feet sticking out of it. For the Sunday event we made a Soother Cake. by using a decorated round cake with a Blue Balloon fixed in the center of it. She had many compliments on them and has been asked to make another one for a different shower next week-end. With all these showers they should be pretty clean ladies don't cha think ?
My major job for the week-end was to keep the dogs and myself out of sight, so we were not at home most of the time so that meant no work on the LM&E.
Back at work today and tomorrow //// actually six days this week.... Don't like that. Need another holiday.
Ulrich. I like what you are planning.. Really looks interesting. But "Z" is not for me actually "N" isn't for me with my eyes and missing fingers. I'll be sticking with the HOnorable Scale.
Hope you all have a great week, Glad the travelers are home safe.
Johnboy out.....................................and Back to the Salt Mine
Good Morning Modelers!
Remember last month when I was talking about record snow fall and we ended at #2 in history for February; well, we are now looking at the driest March in history and breaking record highs along the way. Summer may have gotten here all too soon which means we might be looking a lots of fires coming this year.
Let me also add in my Happy Birthday Sue!
Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
Delaware and Hudson Virtual Museum (DHVM), Railroad Adventures (RRAdventures)
My Blog
Just too get out of the low mood and trying to ignore the pain, I fiddled around with my z scale plan again. I did not like having only a small part of it scenicked, so I introduced some major changes, without sacrificing the overall concept. The tracks in the staging area are not angled any more, allowing the scenic part to be extended significantly. I also she the idea of having a big train hall to disguise the curve, as there is none available. i would have to photo-etch the steelwork - something I have never done before.
Well, here is the update:
Looks a little more "mature" to me.
Jeff - hope you´re feelin´ better by now!
SUE!!!!
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/
Happy birthday Sue.
I'll crawl off back to bed now.
Good morning, Gang. Chloe, I will take a large coffee and a slice of Birthday Cake to go, please.
Thanks for the birthday wishes, Lee, Rob, Garry, Todd, Jim, and G.
Jim, Larry is not trained. He works such long hours that we must make the most of weekends.
Ray & Lee, Yes, the price of the Bachmann locos are reasonably priced. Larry likes the fact that you can program the Tsunami's to automatically to use the appropriate bell and whistle sounds.
Garry, I am planning to use the Chooch panel to custom a sandstone depot.
Later, Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
, dear Sue, to yooohoo...
It is one of those days - whenever I make the slightest move, a nagging pain shoots through my body, so I better don´t move. Tried to get rid of it with a hot shower, but it didn´t help at all
It is closing in on 3 p.m. and the sun´s just out - took a long time for the morning fog to clear. Maybe that´s the cause for my pain - or maybe it is having received yet another negative answer on my job application front. Would you believe that we still have not received an answer or any money from our job administration? We have about $ 2 left for the rest of the month ...
I sometimes wonder what I may be doing wrong. Apparently having no chance to get a job anywhere in the world really eats me up. I feel useless.
Sorry for not being a good sport today.
Barry - Coumarin is not really a harmless drug. AFAIK, it is not approved here. I was on Marcumar instead of Coumarin, which is a synthetic coagulant. Wouldn´t touch a knife or even a pair of scissors while I was on that stuff.
Back to the sofa...
Have a good one.
Good morning!!
Sue! may you have lots of and a few trains related , or some diamonds of something.
for those who just lost loved ones...parting is such sweet sorrow, but those passing are far better off...
special thoughts and prayers for those who need them!
DIdn't sleep again last night, so I took a prescript pill at midnite, but IT , too, didn't work. best sleep I got was finally between 5:15 Am and 8 Am.
Later guys
Good Morning All,
80’s for the last two weeks, now we have upper 20’s to upper 40’s for the extended forecast; I guess global warming is on hold until further notice….
I did get the garage roof seams tarred and I built up several new molds. I’ll pour the negatives tonight: farm tractors, small loading dock details, Rivarossi parts for a Big Boy, tow motors, wire spool loads, individual wire loads from a steel mill, and hay bales.
Jim, I searched Google Earth for eastern coal mines and found the only thing out in the open on a flat section of earth was the rail loading area. Those buildings are a collection of all the coal and ore mine kits from Suydam. I plan on using brown and tan static grass between the ties to give it the proper unkempt look. A road will be built between the rails and the front edge of the area.
Jeff, friend of mine was running a brass 2-10-2 on the club layout and the firebox axel derailed on every curve. Found the fireman side wheel flange was out of round. Not sure how to fix it since the wheel is brass and the tire is nickel silver.
Sue, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Bachman Spectrum series has come a long way. I have 2 of the Berkshires and 4 Mountains on my layout and a couple of critters and I’m very impressed with them considering the cost. I got the Berkshires for $99 each new and the Mountains only cost $60 each (all with DCC). Any one of these locomotives will pull 50+ cars. The one Berkshire with frog snot pulls 98 forty-foot boxcars on a 0% grade.
Good Morning!! Coffee and a breakfast scramble with sausage gravy please. Thanks. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 61. Gonna be a bit chilly today.
Good Morning!! Coffee and a breakfast scramble with sausage gravy please. Thanks.
Mostly cloudy, with a high near 61. Gonna be a bit chilly today.
Sue!
Galaxy- Very funny and oh so accurate. Tenjoo berry much.
Jim- If I even looked like I was thinking about bringing her home I doubt if I would survive the wrath of Home Security. “But honey, I just got her to help you out around the house”. Building looks great by the way.
Welp, got part of the kitchen painted yesterday. Brenda seems to have filled the counters up. Again. Even though I had them pulled out and away from the walls to get the thing kinda fixed. She just couldn’t wait. Then she comes home and wants to paint. Like I said, “I was gonna paint” she said. So she started to paint the hopefully former oh look there's an empty spot let's put it there room. I got doing something else. ”Honey? Would you get this corner.?” She wanted me to do a second coat and so I said ok. Went back to kitchen and started only to get stopped several times by would you do this part I can‘t reach it. I need your brush, retape this, would you pour the paint I make a mess etc. Needless to say when all was done for the night she accomplished more and, in her own words, “gets things done faster than me”. I reserved my comments for later thinking…maybe that Chinese waitress would want to live in dogs room.
Today will be more of the same except Brenda took the day off to paint. Why? I don't know but she did. She wants to paint. BUT as usual, she said to some member of her family that she is taking off work and thy have, as usual, come up with some need for her. Something they can't do. This time it's her other sister (not her evil twin, just her evil sister) has made an appointment for their Mother and suddenly needs Brenda's car to do it so that means Brenda has to go too. Also, she (evil sister) has yet to find someone to carry MIL out and down the front steps. I can help but can't carry her and wheel chair down the steps by myself. So, THAT means I will also have to go there and also hang around until the doc appointment is over to get her back in the house. All the while listening to evil sister complain about having to do everything and others are just going to have to start doing something, to which at some point I'll say " the only thing you do is run your mouth set stuff up you can't do, expect someone else to drop what they're doing and run into town to do it and b....(female dog) about how much you're doing and not getting anytime for yourself, thereby starting Family War Who knows How Many. She's not really my favorite person.
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. It's 58° and clear. The high will be 82° and it'll be mostly sunny.The plan for today is to go back to bed. Not feeling well this morning as I seem to be battling some digestive system bug.I did get one thing accomplished this morning. I programmed my Bachmann GP7's so they now have MARS lights when going forward.
Be gentle on my CC guys!!!
Good Morning
Going to be clear later today, 30% chance of showers or s**wflurries this morning..current temperature is 29F...windchill...yes, that again of 14F...oh...the low for tonight? 15F.....
Well, it was touch and go yesterday but he seems to have stabilized last night..we just got back home from the hospital..all his family and friends were up there..so we took turns with the bedside visits...that hospital is getting a little too familiar here.......he had a bloodclot go through his heart and that was what put us on alert yesterday but they went after it and caught the thing later on with more coumarin ...hopefully that will do the trick.
Today will be getting some sleep..which was pretty rare yesterday..and then getting some groceries laid into the house so we could be in and out during the day...
Have a nice one!!
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
TIPTON
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
GOOD MORNING!!!
Today is Monday, March 26th, 2012!!!
Wake up with the songbirds with a song in your own heart!!!
Let the work week begin:
Evenin' All!
JIM: or should I call you Joe or Jeff or something because you called me MATT! Haha. We play traditional Croatian music- its a youth singing, playing, and dancing group. I play the bass for them- a traditional bass similar to an upright string bass. It's called a Berda, and it's got four huge steel would strings (they kill fingers for breakfast) and it's got frets as well. I play it with a really big pick. We've got people who play other Croatian instruments in it; I could list them but I don't think I could spell them properly. Phonetically sounding it out, there is the "Brach," "Bugarija," and the "Prim" (with an accented I.) It's quite fun playing bass for them.
That's it for now.
Mark
TSF: Sorry to hear about Duke but it was the right thing to do.
Time for me to call it a night. Today I set the speed table for the GP9 Frankenstein locos. I started with the Digitrax road switcher thrott;e response curve of CV2=26, CV6=48, CV5=98. The CV2 setting was too high as they started from a dead stop at about thirty smph and the CV5 top speed was too low for my taste. To get a creeping start required a CV2 setting of 7 and the top speed CV5 is set at 154. So now the locos will creep (mark the spot to see if they're moving) at throttle position one and top out at 74 smph. Throttle position 5 is a nice 42.3 smph. See y'all tomorrow.
RIP Duke.