As usual the weather guesser muffed it again. I was just handed a weather bulletin and I can hear a thunderstorm getting wound up out there.Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Some thunderstorms may be severe with damaging winds...large hail and frequent lightning. Locally heavy rainfall possible. Near steady temperature in the lower 90s. Southwest winds around 10 mph.Got more news on my mother. The docs think they've stopped her infection. It was peritonitis. Her kidneys are working again. However, her liver which was already on the ropes is in very bad shape. She's being watched closely. Earlier today I read through the will and testament my parents hashed out so I at least know what to expect.
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fec153 JEFF- You're right! One picture IS a SHORT VIDEO ! lol
JEFF- You're right! One picture IS a SHORT VIDEO ! lol
Love your postings.
Flip
Did this short video today. It gives you a chance to see some of my dirty locos and cars.
Afternoon Modelers!
Well, we broke the record high for yesterday at 98F and they say it will be cooler today; only 90F
Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
Delaware and Hudson Virtual Museum (DHVM), Railroad Adventures (RRAdventures)
My Blog
Afternoon folks!
Chloe, I'll have the turkey club sandwich with one of those big dill pickles and some chips and a tall glass of unsweetened iced tea please.
I spent part of the morning down at City Hall chatting with the Code Officer (an old friend of mine) mostly about Scouts and things like getting old..... Oh, he also handed me the Permit all properly signed for the Solar Installation. I think THAT means everything should be in place and ready to get moving for the panels. I also had him answer some questions about a couple projects I have in mind for the property. Looks like all of the projects should be able to be done easily.
Currently 72°F outside, damp and cool while waiting for some more rain to roll through the area. We got about 2/3rds inch of precipitation here last night. I shut down rather quickly when a line of strong storms rattled through last night right before I was going to post.
I guess I'll head down cellar to the layout and continue putting together the mold form.
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Italian roast coffee in a SOUTHERN mug, please.
Hope everyone is doing well these days.
Cheers! Rob
Good morning All,
72 now with an expected high of 102. I think the weather guessers like to ratchet up the expected temps so when it only reaches 100 we do not feel like it is so hot.
Getting ready to take the wife in for an out-patient surgery to put the ports in so when they FINALLY figure what type of Lymphoma she has they can start treatment.
Gary- glad to see your back, hope the recovery continues to go well.
Paul
Living in Fernley Nevada, about 30 miles east of Reno, also lived in Oregon and California, but born In Brooklyn NY and raised on Long Island NY
LEE- I've been well. Hotter than all get out, sweatier than a race horse and my arthritis kicks in getting in and out of my bus. Hooking up the wheelchairs doesn't help either. Hey, it keeps my weight down.
CURT- What's for sale? Any ACL, SBD, FEC, Conrail, ? Let me know , please. You have my "E".
Prayers for all. Wish I could do more than ask HIS help.
Good morning, Diners. I will buy coffee because I have been away for a while. My brother and his family have been out from Wyoming. His daughter and her husband from Colorado were also here. We have been camping with them. No WiFi or computers for a few days. What a treat!
Garry, Looks like you are getting some layout time while you heal. Glad you are feeling better.
I don't work much during the next 2 weeks so I have planned a busy week.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Jeff ... I recall seeing you posting that nice picture before. ..... Also, Jeff, you are very good at explaining how to posting in the forum when there are browser compatibility issues. There is a guy who could not post in WPF, and if you feel like explaining what to do, he might appreciate it.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good morning .....
Good to see everybody here. I hope the MIA's will return and enjoy the Diner with us. Keep posting, everybody.
Galaxy ... You were feeling dizzy last time you were in the DIner, and I hope you are okay.
Ulrich .... Operating that train you mentioned the other day would be great. 7.500 HP in one unit is remarkable.
CN Charlie, Curt, Barry, and several others...... Thanks for your comments about my recovering from surgery. I'm trying to get back to normal, but it's taking a while still.
CN Charlie ...... You mentioned the Bluenose model. I recall seeing Bluenose II in the Halifax museum, and it is very impressive.
Ken ... Actually, I was not trying to razz you with the photo of the Santa Fe FM's. It is an older picture, and I happen to like it. I still run Santa Fe occasionally. ... Now I'll razz you. Have you pooped a CD lately?
On the layout, I'm not doing any big projects at the moment. I'm doing the small stuff sitting at my work table.
I had two decoders I had removed a few months ago from their locomotives because the headlight functions were not working. Yesterday I placed them in 2 F3 B-units, and they work fine now in those engines.
I plan to get a decoder in my older Bachmann GE 44T today. It's a little complex because each truck has its own motor.
Google is very helpful with learning to install decoders in specific locomotives. For instance, I search on "Install DCC Bachman 44 ton", and located complete instructions for this job at the website for Tony's Train Exchange.
Happy Model Railroading.
Good morning. It's 78° with 93% humidity. Step outside and you already feel wet. There's a fair chance of showers and thunderstorms. The high will be 92° but will feel like 106°.I would have posted earlier this morning but I'm having so much fun watching the GP38-2. SD37J and the F7 slug pull a train around the layout. What's funny is the noise level from the locos. Don't get me wrong, the Bachmann and Atlas are very quiet. They should be. They're well made models. The slug is even quieter, basically wheels on the rails with only a very slight hum. And it's built from pieces gathered from here and there and a set of gears from the junk box! Going on the pieces used it could be either a Prothearn or an Athroto or just a custom junk build. The next one I build would likely be a powered slug made from a chopped geep or SD. I'd need a thin, flat motor for it and that could be a bear to find.
Morning All,
Back from a visit to the Vampire. Have some errands to run today but should be a quiet day.
Later Gator.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Good Morning!!!
Coffee and a couple slices of garden pizza please. Thanks.
Partly sunny, with a high near 78. Yup, you read that right not reversed. 78. Hasn’t been that cold in a long time.
Illinoyz State Fair commences today. Sunday I must…er, will be in attendance as it is Veterens Day and we get in free. Ooo. Save 6 bucks for the two. We spend that much more for parking in the infield so it costs about the same. Not a big fair person myself especially when you’ve basically grown up with it and every year there’s something new. Usually it’s “oh look. That stain on the ground is new I think. Don’t remember it from last year. Good thing we came honey or we may have missed it.”
Milked the grouting yesterday , you can do that when you're retired. I should finish today by noon easy. Great, now I jinxed it.
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 WET Morning...
We had a couple of big ol' rain be falling on our heads t'underin'boomers come through...our raingauge has all of 4" of rain in it...and more be coming!!
Today is a day for staying indoors and getting some things done in my trainroom...I need a few more square inches of workspace in there...
Have a good wet day...if it be falling in your'n area!
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/
Good Morning All,
Thunderstorms, 65F, 90% humidity, Hi today 75F, ½” of rain expected by 1600hrs.
Ray, we require proof of financial undertaking before we issue a permit in the bridge world.
Ken, if you would take a break from those 5 mile runs every morning you wouldn’t have those blisters.
Flip, how have you been?
Curt, I believe proof that the safety laws work has been written in a “dead fish smell” most of my years in the Coast Guard. I think my tour in the Western Lake Erie basin was the worst where I picked up about 30. Several of them were sudden disappearance syndrome where a drunken boater falls overboard and they inhale after their head is submerged. I don’t understand why it happens.
Jeff, I hope things are going as best as they can for your mother and your family. The F7 slug at that camera angle almost looks like an auxiliary water tender for a steam locomotive.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
August 10, 2012 is the 223rd day of the year 2012 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 143 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Kin'yōbi.
TIPTON
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer pleases.
Man I am beat!
Ray, the blister is something new. When I went back to work on the 2nd I had not got my Diabetic shoes yet. So I bought a wide tennis shoe till I got my Diabetic Shoes. The 2 days I wore them I got blisters on the bottom of both feet. One on the left foot is about 1/4 inch by 1/2 inch. One on the right foot (Infected toe foot) is 1/2 inch by 2 and a 1/4 inch.
It been a week now and the blister on the left foot looks normal, well for a blister. One on the right foot does not look like it is getting better. So I have the Nurse coming out to look at it.
See you all later.
Ken
I hate Rust
Good Evening Diners!
Another beautiful day here in Winnipeg. A balmy 26C with an nice breeze out of the NW at about 10 knots. One of those days when I almost wish I still had the sailboat. At times I do miss it but not enough to buy another one. I suppose 35 years of sailing will have to just be sufficient. Maybe it was TA462's talk of visiting marinas to look at boats. Mind you if I want to look at a boat I do have a nice model of Bluenose on my credenza at work.
I'm on holidays until Monday but haven't done much of anything which in itself isn't a bad way to take a vacation. I did have a visit from Ken's Mr.Murphy though. I decided to replace the tender on my light mountain with a long one and in the process lost power pickup. It became intermittent and I must have re-soldered that stupid light board into that tender a half dozen times until I found out that the problem was the pickup in the loco. That took 2 days of fooling aroung but I traced it to the bronze pickup strip that just has a pressure fit onto a brass pad. They are now soldered so no more problems.
Hope everyone with health issues finds improvement, especially Garry and Barry. Where is Galaxy anyway? Hope he is ok.
See you soon,
CN Charlie
Curt Webb Jeff- I think you are the most productive model railroader I have ever seen. Well done.
Jeff- I think you are the most productive model railroader I have ever seen. Well done.
Time for me to call it a night. Still near 90 outside. 30% rain chance tonight. Radar shows some patches but nothing major. Expecting 40% Friday. Put a decoder in the F7 slug and put the L&A decals on it. Ran it in consist with the GP38 and SD27J. It runs flawlessly. See y'all tomorrow.
Evening All,
Flo I would love a Unsweetened Ice Tea please. While you are at it get everybody what the want on me.
Went up to Jon's today and we discussed DCC for several hours. I was thinking I needed to upgrade to a bigger system because I thought my track voltage was running 10-11v. He called Digitrax and found out how to actually check track voltage (back of command station) and in reality it is 13.34v. He could easily of sold me something but he didn't and thats why I like and trust his opinion. He did convince me to buy a DCC Specialties PSX-1 circuit breaker which I purchased online today since he was out of them.
I have been testing, taking photos, writing descriptions and boxing up the items that will be going onto Ebay to sell this week. I also renewed my personal liability insurance that I keep for my job.
TA462- Sounds like a good day for YOH. I have always wanted a jeep but it never seems to happen.
Ken- Good luck with the toe.
Galaxy- Hope you are OK.
Lee- I have to agree with you, most safety rules and guidelines are written in blood.
Hope everyone has a great night and prayers for those in need.
Hi Flip!
Janie, a hot fudge sundae and a decaf would be great for dessert tonight.
Late this afternoon I got an email from the City Code office.... The permit for the solar system is signed and ready to pick up. So by tomorrow afternoon everything should be go for the process to begin on the installation. There will be all kinds of "required inspections" and conditions to be met, but most of that is up to the installer to do.
Got "the boys" to their doctors appointments this afternoon..... Funny, Manét is the sweet and gentle one here at home, but required an assistant with the heavy gloves on to hold him still so the vet could check one of his teeth. He almost nailed my hand when I tried to hold him still while the vet tried to check him. He may be losing one of his fangs! Blackie gets terrified and goes into "if I hide my head in your arms maybe she will go away and leave me alone" mode.... Purrrrrr, purrrrr. puuuurrrrrrr! He has already lost 3 teeth, but seems to do fine with what he has left. He sure isn't wasting away at 19.75 lbs. He is now a half lb. heavier than Manét! Other than the teeth thing they are both in excellent health.
I was given a collection of old, mostly HO" equipment tonight by a friend from Scouts and my Church. He basically wanted to get rid of the stuff. I don't believe there is much that I would keep for my layout (couple cars might be backdated and brought up to good enough standards to use). Most are LifeLike or Model Power...... I'll be passing most of it on to others who might have a use for it. I will sit down sometime in the next week or so and catalogue everything.
Catch you all later!
Just came in to say "HOWDY".
Prayers for all.
I put a Digitrax DH123 decoder into the F7 slug today and speed matched it as close as I could to the Bachmann equipped GP38-2 and SD27J consist to which the slug is now coupled. It looks kind of strange back there but at the same interesting.
mmmm...thermometer at back deck reads....64F.....
and raining....hard....
Galaxy....where are you!/!?!?!?!
Good.... (stops and looks at watch), ah... That late already huh? Good afternoon diners!
Chloe, I'll have a Bacon Cheeseburger, french fries and a tall glass of lemonade for lunch.
Meant to get in earlier and got busy with some other stuff. Seems like it will be another week or so before the city gives me a permit to get the solar system installed.... I sure hope the company isn't waiting on the permit to file the for the grant....... There was a screw up in getting the required form at the code office. The contractor says it was sent over a week ago, but the code office says they are still waiting for it. I sent an email to the contractor asking where everything is at this moment and what still needs to be done to get it moving. [Update] Just got an email back from the installer. He says that everything is looking good and they could be ready to do the installation in about 2 weeks if all goes well..... YES!
Ken, is this "blister" something new or the toe problem from earlier?
Wonder what has happened to Galaxy? Not like him to be missing......
Catch you all later! Have to take the kitties in for their Vet appointments today.... Fun!
Morning Dinners
Flo, Coffee Pleases.
Jeffery Sorry to hear about your Mon. Sorry I missed it when you first posted the news.
Got up late again. When I close I need to go straight to bed rather than sitting out here in the Garage / Train / Snake room.
Nurse will be coming out here Friday to take a look at my blister.
Train Front Will try to reset the DB 150 tonight or Friday. Randy seems to think one of my phases of the track power has gone out. I will check the voltage after I do the reset. My guess the DB 150 is going on a vacation to Florida. Sure glad I kept the Bachmann E Z Command.
Can't believe it is all most time to get ready to go to work! Getting up at 9:00 AM has it draw backs.
Latter, Ken
Morning Modelers!
Currently 63F and heading for 90+. We average 33 90+ / year and the record is 61 and we set that record only a few years ago. So it looks like we might break the record given we have had 7 of 8 days in Aug above 90 already and the forecast is for more and more and more. Smoke from Out-of-State FIRES are starting to drift in again today. Hi Ho, Hi Ho, back to work I go...
Expected high today 104, right now at 0715, it is 70. Could reach that 104 I guess.
I have an opening shift today so need to leave in a little while, but home early enough to cook dinner, problem is do not know what to make.
Jeff, sorry to hear about your mom, you folks are in my prayers
I have to see if I can get the creditors apeased with less than minimum payments because dr bills and wife's health will need to come first.
Everyone have a good day.