Howmus- Did any one yell TIMBEEEEER . With the tree gone it look's like you have a bigger and brighter front yard. Just think how much HO scale lumber that was in that tree Otto
Afternoon people!
Flo, a nice cool glass of iced tea would hit the spot at the moment. What? Oh, unsweetened please....
Ken, nice interior shots of the cars. Good luck with the resumes! It would be nioce for you to find something that would allow your blood pressure to stay a bit lower....
Speaking of cabooses..... Well one of Ken's photos is! Here is what I was part of last Sunday! I'm even in a couple of the photos.... Ah, the old guy in the yellow shirt with the beard.... (as if you didn't know, and no comments about his rotundness!!) http://www.flickr.com//photos/rgvrrm/sets/72157629823483402/show/
Took about an hour for the tree to disappear! Got one last shot of her before she perished.....
Going....
Going.....
Gone!
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Well, it is that time, get ready for work.
Got off my duff today and sent out 8 Resumes.
See you all tonight.
Ken
I hate Rust
Afternoon All,
I go into w**k at 4 PM today. I vacuumed earlier and finished the farm pond today. I will post some pictures tomorrow. I guess the last project I have is when I receive the new Cornerstone Pennsy Tower the end of June I will replace the one that is on the extension now, other than that the layout is complete.
Tomorrow I'm going to start researching car cards and waybills. I want to use this format for ops but have been putting it off while working on the layout. If anyone has any suggestions I would appreciate them.
Everyone take care and prayers for those in need.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Morning Folks
Flo, Coffee please.
Up late again as you can see from my posting. After I turned off the computer I played with the trains for another hour. Really starting to like my BLI Hudson again. It fell out of favor when I got my Y6. Have it pulling passenger cars and it looks good doing it.
See you all later.
Shot a short video earlier of the freight coming through with the Frankenstein trio in the lead.
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Good morning. It's 78° and partly cloudy. The high will be 92°.First order of business today was to pick up a MKT tank car and three LS&W hoppers from the SW spur in Sundown then cut out four tank cars and spot them on the spur. Then a change of motive power from the GP38 and SD27J to the F7A/F3B/F3B. Later I'll run the Trainmaster and U30EM645 to check that the electrical repairs made yesterday are what was needed. I also need to do a general cleanup on the work area.
Good Morning Modlers!
It's 59F and clear heading for a record breaking heat in the low 90's; yesterday we just missed breaking the record high.
News on the Bunny front. We now have seen two babies but the neighbors got serious and have so far trapped the mother and one of the babies last night. They hope they can catch the other baby today and the drop off the whole family down at the park along the canal.
Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
Delaware and Hudson Virtual Museum (DHVM), Railroad Adventures (RRAdventures)
My Blog
Hi Folks,
yes, I am still visiting the forum, as I am still a moderator. I give the forums a run-down each morning and also check on what´s going on with my friends in the Diner.
Keeping my chin up eats a lot of energy and I find more and more difficult to find it. Haven´t left home for quite a long time now. Petra does all the shopping these days. The trip to the mailbox has turned into a nightmare for me. It is just outside the door...
Prayers to those in need!
Good morning, Chloe. Just a quick coffee before heading to the pool, please.
Tomorrow, I will put my lumber order together. Then I can get back to my car shop.
Later, Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have the Eggs Benedict and a few cups of dark roast coffee. Oh, yes the Seneca Lake Dark Roast Blend is my favorite. Put it in the R&GV RR Mug please.
Dave and Johnboy... Already installed! The ones they installed are a clear acrylic. They are above each door and along the walkway roof on the deck. I'll get a close up photo later today. Thanks for thinking of me!
With everything going on here, I haven't even been down in the train rooms for several days. Should do some laundry today, so i will use THAT as an excuse to do a bit of stuff down there.
Currently 67°F outside here in the Finger Lakes Region with an expected high only in the low 70s. May be some scattered thunderstorms later today as well.
Catch you all later!
Good morning from New England. Coffee and mixed fruit, once again, please. Yeah, eggs and bacon taste great, but they leave me feeling "ballasted" in the morning. Mixed fruit is a tasty, light alternative for those of us on the wrong side of our "ideal weight."
Packer We tried a new (to us) italian place, and after eating there; I don't think I'll be at the local olive garden much anymore.
We tried a new (to us) italian place, and after eating there; I don't think I'll be at the local olive garden much anymore.
Since we got back from Italy, we've had trouble thinking about local Italian eateries, too. I've never been anywhere that offered such consistently excellent food, every day, in every hole-in-the-wall restaurant we tried. We're cooking better food ourselves, though, somehow not being able to sink back into the rut we were in before the trip.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good Morning!!!
Scrambled eggs, hash browns and gravy please. Thanks
Sunny, with a high near 77.
Moelarrycurly- Sorry for your loss.
Not much special going on today. Full day of w**k day and in between “shifts”, gotta mow the back yard and continue with the cleanup. They extended the burning until Thursday so I have the last pile drying. Pulled some Rhubarb yesterday. Not gonna be very good crop. Lots of stalks but all spindly. I didn’t split the plants like I should have last year. Actually two or three years ago. Too many stalks trying to grow at once. Oh well.
Ya’ll have a good 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! from Tipton IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good mornin, y'all. Darn beat the cooks this morning. Coffee aint even ready. Watching RFD -Trains and Locomotives. Reading 2102 doing its thing. Temperature 70 going up to 90 later. Deb is turning me into a vampire-up at night sleep during the day. Good thing WallyWorld is open 24 hours.
Thanks again for your support and Prayers for Deb.As always we have everyone in our Prayers.
Flip
Ulrich, I see you are on line.
You can have this one when you are ready to
Happy Tuesday!
Guess it is time to head here!
Finger Lakes Ray,
I am definitely of the same opinion as Dave.
You must install snow and ice guards over your doors and preferably your doors and windows as well.
They look like upside down rakes and they keep the snow and ice from breaking your neck when you step out and someone slams the door. OR, the ice piles up and the next shot of it goes through your window.
It's a must have and get your contractor on board before you sign off and pass the check. It won't be much more.
Prayers and Blessings to all in need this evening. Hope this coming week is a great one for you all.
Happy rails to dreamland.
Johnboy out............................... and off to ZZZZzzzzland
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Good Evening Fellow Modelers!
Flo, Beer Please.
Work Front I was stunned when I showed up early! Dave acutely said "Thank You"! Met the new Services Writer. Really have no opinion yet, he has been with the company for 5 years and not much of a personally that I have seen so far.
Jeffery Far as over oiling, boy you are perching to the choir on that one! Pretty sure that is how I killed my PK 1 F 3 motors. Out of 6, only 2 are still running. Guess my problem is the clearances between the flywheel and the motor is so tight, I can not be sure I am getting oil on the shafts. So I over do it and mess up the brushes.
Jim Well that section is the part of my layout that looks like a 10 year old built it. Reason I have so many Santa Fe engines is 3 fold.
1 My grandfather house over looked the B&O yard in Washington Ind. I guess I was around 4 to 6 years old then. I got real excited when I saw a Warbonnet Engine pull in.
2 Just plain love the colors.
3 When I got started I bought a lot of the cheap Santa Fe Life Like engines. Reason being my wife would look at the colors only. If they where all the same color's, I must not have bought anymore train stuff! She finally caught on when I had around 10 engines and 60 rolling stock! But there was no stopping me at that point!
Vincent I will answer your last PM later tonight or Tuesday.
Cuda Ken
Ray!
Great looking roof!
I do have one suggestion since you are in snow country:
Snow tends to slide off metal roofs quite easily. If there is nothing to stop the snow from sliding you could get a nasty suprise if you step out of the front door and slam it. You could trigger an avalanch (sp?) when you close the door. Even if you don't get hit by it, it won't do the front porch any good. At our cottage in northern Ontario we installed a metal roof without the snow guards and the next spring we had to replace the vent stack for the composting toilet. It was torn completely off.
There are various devices designed to prevent the snow from sliding off en masse. I would suggest you speak to your roofer about them.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
PackerWe tried a new (to us) italian place, and after eating there; I don't think I'll be at the local olive garden much anymore. I had a bunch of mix-n-match pasta (all I could eat too) and the chicken parmesan my brother had has HUGE. I mean the chicken *** was as big as a whole chicken I get at the store. I only made it through 2 bowls of pasta, but my brother not only finished the chicken but ordered a side of pasta... Remind me how he's skinny?
Vincent: I used to be like your brother. Eat and eat and eat and not gain an ounce. Now I can look at a peanut butter cookie and put on two pounds!
Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just my usual cup of decaf please.... Oh, the FGLK mug would be great! Thanks!
Been an interesting day around here. The roofers showed up at 8AM, and drove off at 4:30PM and the roof is completely finished! Yep Jim, This company does your roof in one day! The owner said it night take two, but he may not have originally planned to have a dozen men doing it! They had the easy side done before lunch even. That includes removing all the layers of asphalt shingles and roofing felt that have been put down before, inspecting all the sublayment (a chunk had to be removed and repaired as I thought it would.... Rotted completely through), doing the repairs, putting down new felt, installing the steel roofing, and the trim. The rafters were all still sound which was one of my big worries..... They did a beautiful job of cleaning up scraps and have hauled all the old stuff off to the county landfill to help pollute our water supply sometime in the future!
Now all I have to do is meet once more with the roofer and hand over a check for the sum total..... Half way through the morning one of the Code inspectors for the city shows up.... He is an old friend of mine who once worked as a Boy Scout District Executive. He was not happy as the roofer had not gotten the permit yet!!! I talked with him and let him know I just signed for the project last Friday and they had a cancellation so could do the roof today.... I think the roofer had gone down to City Hall to file the permit after he got the crew working on the roof. Sure enough early afternoon the Code Inspector was back and posted the obligatory Permit sign in my window! Technically I'm not supposed to be in the house tonight as the final inspection and approval of the roof has not been done........ The guy did give me some information of another company which is currently putting in solar system in the city. He seemed to be impressed with what he has seen so far and suggested I check it out.... Photos? OK here are a couple of the finished roof:
The last one shows the actual color of the roof the best.
Close to calling it a night. The tree surgeon will be here tomorrow or Wednesday to take down the Blue Spruce in the front yard. He stopped in today and agreed with my reasoning and added that the tree is infested with a beetle whose grubs bore into the bark layer and that is what is causing the dead lower branches.... So I will be taking a preemptive strike to get it down before it takes out the electric, phone and cable lines or my brand new roof.....
My folks took my brother and I out to dinner for our curricular achievements. My brother has finished all his IB tests, and I had an A-B average in the last semester of college. We tried a new (to us) italian place, and after eating there; I don't think I'll be at the local olive garden much anymore. I had a bunch of mix-n-match pasta (all I could eat too) and the chicken parmesan my brother had has HUGE. I mean the chicken *** was as big as a whole chicken I get at the store. I only made it through 2 bowls of pasta, but my brother not only finished the chicken but ordered a side of pasta... Remind me how he's skinny?
Well the 2 other F7 shells showed up, so most of the building blocks for my F-units. The only one not present is the F9A I got off of ebay last night. the L&A F9A probably won't be used now that I have a correct and NIB stewart.
And my very first Kato (not Atlas/Kato) locomotive showed up:I must say, I'm impressed with this one. It looks good and performs very well, even compared to my newer Genesis and Atlas locomotives. I'm leaning towards making it a C&S unit that hasnt gotten the green paint yet. The numbers would still be the same.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Today I had to track down a loose connection in the Atlas U30EM645. This affords a rare glimpse under the hood. Atlas chassis, Proto Power West motor, cheap Bachmann decoder, no lights, lightboard or DCC socket. This loco is second in line behind an Atlas Trainmaster so all this baby needs is motor control.
Thanks for saying thanks.
I apologize for my rant.
Packer Jeff, the Southern boxcar is actually a con-cor.
Jeff, the Southern boxcar is actually a con-cor.
Afternoon, Zoe, I'll have a RBF and a grilled cheese sandwich, please, on this gorgeous afternoon. Thank you!
Flip, that was good to hear about Debbie's procedure going well. Now you get to pamper her a bit more while she heals up at home.
Nittany, that's pretty cool that you've seen just about all the AmTrak paint schemes. You live close enough to railfan, eh?
Barry - how much did you have to bribe Mr. Murphy to stay away from your operating session? What is the going price, anyhow?
Ken, nice Santa Fe run-through on your layout photo.
Vincent, sounded like the proverbial you 'got rode hard and put away wet' type of day that you had. Hope your folks don't have a furniture-moving itch again anytime soon. (And best wishes on disposing of those hives - NO fun!).
Todd, in THAT ongoing epic of the E&SDETwins, think maybe you'd better get you one of those face shields - like they use in surgery to keep the blood out of yer eyes? (except in this case, to keep something else brown off of you...).
Ray, sounds like your kitties may have post-traumatic roofers' syndrome after that roof is all done, maybe with nightmares and all. How long will the process take 'em - one day, two, a week?
Darren, looks like an excellent trip you're having, Rio Grande and everything.
Rob, hope your barn cats don't take out after the coyotes for their dinner.
MoeLarryCurly4, good to see you back. Not gonna say anything myself, since it's been a few more days than I had hoped for between my last time here and today.
Weekend on-call was pretty good - no calls for the most part... until a bit after 1 a.m. today, and the LEO (no, not Broadway...) who had me paged knows better than to bother if the person is still drunk (hasn't sobered up). So I (re-)explained to him our protocol, and said I would inform the day shift at 8 a.m. to call the jail (when the person should be sober. Sheesh...). Once I get through tonight's on-call, I am OFF w**k for almost a week(!)
Have been doing some more on my resin structure kits. Got the Magnuson print shop/post office building put together, still need painting and weathering on that. Also have most of the walls up for the Main St. Heritage one (Moffat's Bookstore):
(The little wall by the magnet isn't glued in place yet, nor is the triangular one from the bigger wall across to the rightmost wall)
And a view more from the back:
Pretty fair number of pieces to put together on this kit. Need to keep reminding myself to slow down and take my time...
Have also been using my freebie trial on a genealogy site to track down more of my family history. (Nope, Todd, so far as I can tell, no horse thieves - or at least, none that got caught/convicted...) But I do have a fair bunch of my maternal grandfather's family that lived in, or were from, Illinois. On my Dad's side, a bunch were/are from the Nebraska plains (where it gets kind cool in the winter and they do occasionally get a snowdrift or two - that stuff that Barry and Johnboy and our other NOTB Diners just laugh at.
Not too surprising that I can take winter better than I can take August, eh?
Think I'll chill out (so to speak) at the window booth a bit.
Blessings and Prayers,
Jim in Cape G.
Afternoon guys
Work was pretty busy today, but I managed to get out within 10 minutes of my scheduled time. I think that's a first. Didn't see Ashley when everyone was getting their checks and looking at the new schedule. I saw her best friend and asked her but she said she just recently changed numbers a few days ago. Her friend said she'd let me know. Strange situation with her, but it doesn't really affect work because the most we've ever worked together was a few hours. I guess I'm not used to girls asking me for my number and to hang out...
Moving on to trains, I went to the LHS after work for some .06 styrene sheet. They had no styrene sheet of any kind, but the girl at the counter ordered some for me. So I'll check back on Friday or Saturday. The seller of the Details Westt F-unit kits said they sent me the wrong ones, so they are going be sending me the right ones today. I'm gonna send the others back unless they tell me to keep them. USPS's tracker says my Kato SD40 and my 2 F7 shells will be here today. Only thing is the mailman doesn't come around here until about 4-4:30.
Good to see you MLC4.
Got two boxcars I'm working on today. One is a Con-Cor 65' double door Southern box. It needed some repair on one end, one of the coupler boxes needed to be reattached and it needed a little cosmetic work. It rolls very well and is now #9 in the string of cars on the layout. The other car is a LBF UP 50' boxcar. It needs to be weighted and have couplers installed. Think I'll save that one for a 'fall off the log' project.
Good afternoon all,
Just checking in have not been in for a while. Sill alive, been busy with work and having to deal with a death in the family. But all is well.