Well, errands day adn lots of fun stuff.
Went to the cable company..they offered us a BETTER package than the one we had, except this one come with the phone service AND a DVR! SO we have the HDTV package with hundreds of channels and a phone to boot. Now if they can just give us a derned NASA-sized instruction manual for the DVR unit... We won't use the phone much, we only have 2 friends who are local-long distance, but they boht have cable phones so they usually call us back so we can talk freely. Oh, and it gets BETTER...the new package is STILL a few dollars SMALLER than the package we just had, which was cheaper than the old 71 channels we had then! We WON'T give up the land line, though! It works when power is out, and I get a medical discount for it! I was right, they would offer us a last minute offer to keep us as a higher-payer subscriber, BUT you only get that deal when you show up at the office with the box in hand for a turn in! SO now we have turbo boost Internet, phone and HDTV some-odd-hundreds of channels all for less thatn we were paying for regular 'net and some-hundreds-odd channels!
WEnt to a nearby Credit Union to open accounts I do not live/work/worship in Broome county, and Tioga where we live is NOT included, but MOH works in Broome so we can join. As we are married, I get to flow in on MOH's tails... Not ready to give up on our bank yet as they do offer free services and are closer than the CU, but we have a foot in the door at the CU for better rates. So we may dwindle down our bank use.
MOH had orms to drop off at the dental clinic showing "we is po' folks" {we is SOOOOOOO poor, we can't afford to buy the other "O " and the "R"!}, and deserving of a discount for services rendered...I get my coverage through Medicaid.
Then we went to our bank to do a few tricks there too and get some ready cash as we put other cash on hand into the CU.
Now, I also have a headache that has been bothering me just shy of a migraine, so home and eaten, I took a migraine piull and will soon take a nap, hope that make it go away. The weather is dimal to say the best about it.Exhausting day for me and my back. Going horizontal will help,
Dinner was chicken, stuffing/gravy and corn.
-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.
jeffrey-wimberly ...I got news late yesterday that a distant relative of mine is rebuilding an old truck that until recently was holding up his backyard shed that was leaning against it. Today he's supposed to start on pulling the engine. He's going to try rebuilding it. As far as he knows it has a cracked crank shaft. I wish him luck. He has a big job ahead of him. It's a twelve cylinder Packard of the same type that was used in the WW2 PT boats. Where he intends to get parts, I don't know. Packard went the way of the dodo in '58...
...I got news late yesterday that a distant relative of mine is rebuilding an old truck that until recently was holding up his backyard shed that was leaning against it. Today he's supposed to start on pulling the engine. He's going to try rebuilding it. As far as he knows it has a cracked crank shaft. I wish him luck. He has a big job ahead of him. It's a twelve cylinder Packard of the same type that was used in the WW2 PT boats. Where he intends to get parts, I don't know. Packard went the way of the dodo in '58...
PARTS http://www.kanter.com/packard/pac-sen.html
http://www.pt-boat.com/packard/packard.html
"Despite the commonplace assumption, the new-generation Packard marine engine, initially tagged the 4M-2500, was anything but a re-popped Liberty. Instead, Vincent, Packards lead engineer, started with a clean sheet and designed a four-stroke, 60-degree V-12 with an aluminum block with a bore of 6.04 inches and a 6.50-inch stroke, which brought it to 2,490 cubic inches. Weighing 2,900 pounds, the 4M-2500 had four valves per cylinder, a 6.4:1 compression ratio, and a centrifugal supercharger, later models were also fitted with an intercooler. A Holley 1685F aircraft carburetor supplied the fuel, 100-octane gasoline, fired by two spark plugs per cylinder. The first engines developed 1,200hp, but improved versions with higher boost levels nominally made 1,500hp. Packard built 14,000 marine engines during the war, three of which went into each of the Navy's 768 PT boats, two astern and one amidships for better service access. "
From what is above, I really doubt the truck engine is the same as the PT boat used as it was designed as a marine engine from the start. One site said that Packard stopped making trucks in 1922 and except for some Packard cars custom-converted into trucks for dealers there were no more Packard trucks after that year.
See: http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/features/packard_cut_no_corners_with_its_trucks
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Afternoon.
Picked up all the paperwork and finished off the reports this afternoon..sent them all off and now have meeting tomorrow afternoon to deal with...
Todd: Hopefully you won't have to deal with a wrestling match!!!
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...
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Coffee in a SUNNY SOUTHERN mug, please.
Have a great day all.
Rob
Morning guys
Well I did it again. I stepped on another [expletive] nail. I'm up to date on my tetanus shots, so I don't think a doctor's visit is neccesary.
So far I've vaccumed my mother's Edge. Despite the fact it's an SUV it gets 24 mpg running around town, and is rated for 265 hp, out of a V6. I still wish we got the ecoboost version just in case we need to pull a big trailer.
Ken, Personally, I'd try calling Walthers becuase they take a few days to anwser emails. Were the dummy stewarts you mentioned dummies, or did they have the motors removed?
Darren, there is room for a layout in there. Maybe something to try if I win the lottery
Ray, I'm glad I only have one sister. One is enough to drive someone nuts...
Jeff, we are pretty much in the same boat today. It's just I have projects and time to finish them, just not the parts (hard to find some of them). Problem is I keep blowing money on new projects when I should finish the old ones.
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.
Happy Monday!
Flo, Coffee Pleases.
Reason I said Happy Monday? I m off Tuesday and Wednesday! Just to bad my LHS is closed on theses days.
Off to E Mail Walters, looking for some motors.
Ken
I hate Rust
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a raisin Bran Muffin with real butter and a cup (or 3) of dark roast coffee in a R&GV RR mug. Please and thank you Ma'am.
Huh? What? Just a second Todd, I missed what you said.... Let me turn the hearing aids on! Many years ago when my Father made out his will, he asked me to be the executor of the estate. He did so because Sister #1 lived in Florida and it would be difficult for her to be back and forth to handle it, sister #2 had just gone through a messy Divorce (second one) and he didn't think she was in any state to be able to handle it. Sister #2 threw a hissy fit and accused Dad of being sexist and figured that she knew much more than her little baby brother..... Dad responded by making us all co-executives. When my Father died, Sister #1 was living in South Bend, Ind. with a husband dieing of cancer... She said she would go along with however we wanted to do things. Sister #2 said she didn't know what to do.... She and I cleaned out the house (we're talking a 20 yard dumpster just to clean out the outside junk and part of the house). I was to handle all the financial stuff (the stuff the executor does....) We all verbally agreed to just split whatever was left 3 ways and call it even. It was supposed to be split by the amount of $ we had paid for the house which dad kept impeccable basically meaningless records for. Legally it didn't mean anything. Guess which sister threw a hissy fit because she had given our parents more money??? So I sat down and spent several days going through every receipt and doing the math. Final result? Sister #1 got the same amount she was going to get. Sister #2 got a couple hundred more, and I got a couple hundred less. Sister #2 was upset that the difference came out of what I got. She was hoping to screw over Sister #1 whom she doesn't like because the Rev. won't sit and just listen to sister #2s bull.
Oldest sister didn't want anything from the house. She ended up with a fairly valuable antique set of dishes my mom took with her when she went out to live (that ended 3 months later as Sister #1 couldn't take dealing with her). Sister # 2 got anything she wanted.... I got what was left.... Some things I did want (couple items of antique furniture, etc.) and all the too important to throw away valuables (like the Michlob bottle covered with elbow macaroni and sprayed with gold paint one of my mom's customers gave her for Christmas 40 years ago.....) which are still carefully packed in boxes in the closet in an unused bedroom. This Summer I plan to finally clean out and fill my little dumpster with most of it!
Todd, have fun with all the nonsense!
Looks to be a fairly decent day here in the Finger lakes. I will be going to my doctor's appt. early this afternoon and then dealing with loose odds and ends for the MLK Dinner.
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
It's Monday ( ) Modelers, can you say Monday? My that was a dirty hand signal
OK, who took the table and chairs out of the Coffee Shop car?
Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
Delaware and Hudson Virtual Museum (DHVM), Railroad Adventures (RRAdventures)
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Good morning. It's 66° and partly cloudy. The high will be 82°.I got news late yesterday that a distant relative of mine is rebuilding an old truck that until recently was holding up his backyard shed that was leaning against it. Today he's supposed to start on pulling the engine. He's going to try rebuilding it. As far as he knows it has a cracked crank shaft. I wish him luck. He has a big job ahead of him. It's a twelve cylinder Packard of the same type that was used in the WW2 PT boats. Where he intends to get parts, I don't know. Packard went the way of the dodo in '58.I have no idea what I'll be doing today. I'm fresh out of project locos until I find some more parts. I guess today I'll be watching some movies and watching the trains run. It's quite rewarding to watch something you created from junk box parts do what you intended it to do. Yesterday I got a surprise. I had just started on adding weight to a wide vision caboose. I hadn't taken more than a glance at it since I found it packed in amongst a box full of donated freight cars. It looked like a Bachmann wide vision caboose so that's what I regarded it as though I'd never seen one from them in Conrail. Well yesterday I turned it over and looked at the bottom for the first time and discovered that it's an Athearn model. Then I started noticing things like metal handrails and ladders instead of plastic. Right now it's at the end of a string of sixteen freight cars and still in Conrail paint as #22140.
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Good Morning!!!
Coffee and the breakfast scramble with bacon please. Tanks
Sunny, with a high near 79.
Well Mothers Day went off great. Had a last minute cook out. Nothing fancy, just burgers, some wings,(turn your hearing aids down Ray) store bought potato salad, baked beans and….cake. Reeeeally nice cousin and hubby came over as well as our daughter and son and his girlfriend. Son brought a nice card and some beautiful flowers. Daughter brought hamburger, cake, helped get things ready, even cleaned up. I’m not sure they were our kids. Looked like ‘em. Even Missy the dog was helping. She kept an eye on everyone just in case they needed help eating their food. Especially the kids and the “new people” who may not know she doesn’t get food from people, just what’s put in her bowl. Brenda was very happy.
Aaaaand out of left field…..BIL number two calls to report that a COUSIN has called to complain because she heard another cousin got to pick what she wanted first and didn’t think that was right because blah, blah, blah. The buzzards are starting to circle. Wait til after the funeral to see what happens with the thing.
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
Sunny and 44F right now...going to a high of 76F later on today
Going to go to the office later on today to get some paperwork to complete a couple of reports then it is off for a couple of days...
I actually completed Floor Wars London ON Division Part, I forget which number but we are now starting Deck Wars, yet another number...which will continue to Bork my mrr budget
Have a great day all!!
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
Got today off, but I have some errands to run later today.
GOOD MORNING!!!
Today is Monday, May 14th, 2012!!!
...Oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a wonderful day...Plenty of sunshine heading my way...
L&N.....Gone but not forgotten
Evenin' Folks!
Janie just a cup of decaf... Oh you got it for without my asking. Why thank you! I know, I am a creature of habit.
Been printing off more programs, putting some finishing touches to a few other items I will get printed as soon as I have the all the last minute Info, Reserved Tables, etc. Also have basically finished one more turnout for the layout. just have to glue it to the ties and install it on the layout. This one is for a crossover. It will have to be fit in place as the parallel tracks are 2" inches apart. Shouldn't be a difficult installation as I have done this before. Actually much easier than modifying most commercial turnouts.
Catch you all tomorrow.
Time for me to call it a night. Mowed the parents yard this morning then came back home and got some rest. Later I did some work on my current project. A 70's era Athearn GP35 painted in GT colors. Yep, one of the old wide hood units. It was pretty much stock mechanically when I got hold of it. Since then the old black ring magnet motor, spline shafts and coffee grinder trucks with their sintered iron wheels have been relegated to the junk box. In their place are are Proto 2000 motor and flywheels from an FA1, a pair of Proto 1000 Blomberg trucks with nickel silver wheels and a pair of drive shafts made from Proto and Athearn parts. The last thing done to it today was to patch the shell for the L&A. It sounded like a rolling coffee grinder when I got it. Now it's as quiet as any of my Atlas locos.
See y'all tomorrow.
Evening Fellow Dinners!
Flo, Beer please and Happy Mothers Days.
Boy I am exhausted. While we where slow today we made budget I think. Just being a mere counter person I have not been taught the correct way to read the Store Budget Screen.
Speaking of being a mere Counter Person. Dave called Jeff tonight. The shop was not off to a great start when Dave left Saturday at noon, in fact it was doing pretty Cabooseie. Dave told Jeff what a great job he did turning the day around! Well he did do a good job. Jeff had $2500.00 in sales, where I only had $3500.00 in sales? His GP was 49.5% and mine was only 51.2%. Yea, I only the counter guy that answers the phone and get people in the door, answers Jeff question and fixes his problems. No Good Job for me!
Well I am done with my pity party.
Evening guys
Just got back from taking my mom out to dinner.
The hunt for some F-units: I lost a bid on a stewart F7 AB in Reading on the bay. So I still have only an AB set. I searched some more and found 4 different BN F9 AB sets. 2 Stewarts and 2 Athearn Genesis. All 4 cost far more than I'd want to pay. The cheapest was a stewart set for 90... I found a few undecorated F9As that are right (DBs with 2 headlights), but can't find an F9B.
Jeff, It looks like the Details west kit for F-units has almost an entire rear door and such, and 1 F9 had a plow pilot. Looks like your F9s will get a new lease on life.
Good Evening...
Well, everyone left for the home ports so we are now just relaxing....
Our early afternoon operating session turned out great...we had 5 people show up for double the fun On two of the furthest out tracks we had trains derail....I was not impressed... One of them took out two elevators....
Had sister and BIL up here as well for the BBQ....and BIL and I howled about the incidents and accidents...
jeffrey-wimberly wetidlerjr: I just bought a new rider. It's a Bolens (MTD) and I'm thinking about mowing for a living. It's not a bad way to make some money. I did it for several years. I wouldn't even attempt it now. Gas prices are way too high! ...
wetidlerjr: I just bought a new rider. It's a Bolens (MTD) and I'm thinking about mowing for a living.
I just bought a new rider. It's a Bolens (MTD) and I'm thinking about mowing for a living.
It's not a bad way to make some money. I did it for several years. I wouldn't even attempt it now. Gas prices are way too high! ...
Actually, I was kidding about the "mowing for a living" but I did get a new rider and it looks to be a good one. I can, however, appreciate anyone that does mow for a living.
JimRCGMO Jeff, I was trying to recall - what are your plans for the old spot where that station was?
Jeff, I was trying to recall - what are your plans for the old spot where that station was?
Good afternoon, Janie - (okay, maybe almost evening, but the sun's still up and shining) - I'll have a RBF, please 'n' thankyouma'am!
Jeff, kudos/kudoes (? - Not sure how ya spell the plural of that...) on restraining yourself (and not doing any further damage). I was trying to recall - what are your plans for the old spot where that station was? And as Todd (and Chris and Vincent...) have shown us, the Sundown shops are right up there with the big time proto RR shops! (What's that I see? It must be summer, there's a ball game starting in the park!)
Goodness, we made it to 81 F this afternoon!
Ken, glad your new guy stuck around long enough to get his stuff figured out. Not that surprising that he didn't want to stick around, but once he has his 'legs' and you want to leave early, he may learn the wisdom of helping so you both get out as quickly as possible (but without major mistakes made).
Todd, as somebody once said about my kind of 'puter (and it could be applied to MRR'ing): "...It's supposed to be fun!" I kinda figure that there should be a balance between my hobby and the amount of time I spend for detail - which is why I definitely don't have a reserved seat at the RC, nosiree! Now, I appreciate the stuff that the card-carryin' RC folks can do - I just am not knowledgeable enough/skilled enough to do that without a lot of extra w**k to attempt what they do (and likely some muttering under my breath while I'm trying to get that done). My "good enough" is NOT the same as, say, Chris' knowledge about C&NW, or Ray's skills with his roundhouse interior, etc. But then again, it w**ks fine for Jim. (Yeah, I hear you about ballasting, too...)
Dennis - not wanting that to come out of its corner and all, but did the party in power out there take any contributions from the refinery folks when they were running for election? (Just a-wonderin'...)
Broadway - now THERE's a subway picture for you!
Today I dropped the Mother's Day card off at my daughter's (& SIL's) place, as they were gone to her Mom's and Andy's folks (likely for the weekend), natch. (No, Todd, my daughter isn't my Mom, either. But then again, I have no problem with only getting a card for my choice of a woman who isn't actually my mother... But it'd be nice to actually see daughter a bit more often (like say, on Father's Day?)...
Earlier today, I started epoxying some of the walls on my first Main St. Heritage kit. Almost had it epoxied to the metal magnetic gluing rig, but I caught that in the nick of time. Have most of the walls except for two or three smaller walls (it's an irregular shape, like a bigger building that had a smaller building added to the side, and then the smaller building had a shed added on the back of it, making it just a bit deeper than the original bigger building. (Yeah, I'll need to post photos; makes more sense to see it than to describe it)
Have tracked down about four generations back on most of my family - except for my grandfather on Mom's side - couldn't find a whole lot of anything on him. On one of my Dad's side's relatives, I got back to a fifth generation for one.
As for mowing lawns, I only mowed ours, and that was kinda good, since it was time that I wasn't gonna be interrupted. Push (gas) mower, just walking it back and forth (or around and back, depending on my mood that week...). We had one slope on the back side of the lot, where I would push the mower (or hang onto the handle and follow it down the hill) down, and then haul it backwards up the hill to the crest, move it over to the next row of grass and back down again until I got the thing done. Sort of my 'me time'. Ahh,,,,
Think I'll chill out here at the window booth with my RBF a while.
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape G.
Work was hit or miss as far as being busy. It was pouring like mad early in the day, then it turned nice out. Once it turned nice, buisness picked up.
I've been helping my father get his 84 LTD LX (with the suspension, electronics, and motor from a 1990 mustang LX with a 5.0) running again. The pushrods were too long and they hit the rockers. 1 new rocker and a set of new rods fixed the engine. He used a die grinder to give some clearence where the rocker and rods were hitting. I'm still suprised a rocker broke before a pushrod bent. He also upgraded the brakes from being the ones used on a 99-04 mustang to the ones used on an 03 mach 1 mustang. I personally like the car, kind of looks like a police car (has police crown vic wheels) but handles and drives like a mustang. Just with 2 more doors.
Jeff, not really too weird in my mind. The 2-cylinder mower engine probably has more torque, and/or doesn't have to struggle as much to make the same power. I had the same issue when I switched from a 2.3 mustang (rated at 98 hp) to a 5.0 mustang (rated at 210). Both got bests of 24 mpg in town. I figured the 98 hp 2.3 is struggling a bunch to move a 3200 pound car, while the 210 hp 5.0 isn't having that much difficulty with a 3400 pound car. the 2.3 got 24 mpg more often, probably because it uses less gas at idle.
Bill, I used to mow grass around the neighbor hood before I got an actual job. I think I made more per hour mowing, but I doubt it'd be that way now.
wetidlerjrmighty good. I just bought a new rider. It's a Bolens (MTD) and I'm thinking about mowing for a living.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
jeffrey-wimberly Well I got my parents yard mowed. The front wasn't too bad but the back was almost a hayfield. I windrowed the clippings into rows every ten rows apart so they could be collected easily. I'm not going to collect them. Not my job. Now as for this afternoon, the bed is looking mighty good.
Well I got my parents yard mowed. The front wasn't too bad but the back was almost a hayfield. I windrowed the clippings into rows every ten rows apart so they could be collected easily. I'm not going to collect them. Not my job. Now as for this afternoon, the bed is looking mighty good.
Mornin'....... Oops! Guess I missed breakfast today.
"The other man's grass is always greener, the sun shines brighter on the other side..." Huh? I dunoh! THAT song just popped into my head just now......
I'll have a Turkey Club Sandwich and an Iced Tea for lunch, Zoe.
Been up and at it for a while and just didn't get in to the diner until now. Still printing and getting material ready for the Scholarship Dinner this Wednesday. Also getting my BSA Health Form filled out and printed to take to my Doctors appt. tomorrow.
Currently 69°F outside, the high for today. Looking at the possibility of a few showers later this afternoon. This is the type of weather I love... Warm enough so the heaters don't kick on, and cool enough I don't think about putting the air conditioners in the windows..... I actually find I am tolerating heat much better after losing almost 40 lbs. The house also seems to stay cooler without the old G5 computer running it's 9 or so fans pouring heat into the room.
Hope you all have a great Mother's Day!
Strong coffee in a SOGGY & SOUTHERN mug, please.
***Jeffrey, looks like it's a peaceful day there in the little park.
Has been raining here since early morning. Good for the pastures and orchard, and for the weeds too I suppose. Ready for the sun to return.
Have a good day all.