Good Morning All,
Ray, In Wisconsin we removed 2 RR Bridges and the local historical society wanted the ring from the base of the bridge with the wheels and gears; that was a challenge; the contractor had to push the ring up river on a crane barge ad set it on a concrete pad in a park. If I remember correctly one museum in NY has an animated miniature model of the bridge. The idea is to hook the original bridge controls to the model’s motor so visitors can operate the bridge. I think the other museum wanted them for a static display. My only job in this whole thing is to coordinate the in water work for the next 10 months and issue work permits. So I’ll be busy right here pushing papers…
Let us know how the steam pageant went.
Looks like we will get some much needed rain this week. Weather guesser said it will be a down pour for 7 days and nights starting this afternoon.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
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Anything that uses a shotgun shell to start the thing is cool by me!!
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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Morning all,
I'll have an ice tea and a sausage and egg biscuit.
72 currently, but headed to upper 80's with a real feel near 100. Probably get afternoon storms too just like the last few days.
In honor of the steam theme, if you have half an hour to kill here is a video I found on YouTube of the railroad my grandfather and g-grandfather worked on. They may even be in this video. I didn't even know this existed!
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Robert H. Shilling II
Ray:
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Good Morning
We are going up to 84F feeling like 93F later on...in the sunshine....
I'm going to be spending the day mostly at the various malls around town as it appears I have shrunk. And, of course, having shrunk, the poor belt is starting to make me look more like a tulip than a person...according to my sister
Flo, I'll have a superhuge breakfast special with the fixin's and a large coffee please...I'll be at the RC for a bit
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
August 8, 2012 is the 221st day of the year 2012 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 145 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is miércoles.
TIPTON
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a decaf please. I'll go sit in the back booth and relax for a bit.
Took the keys back to the museum and put them away this afternoon. Then I hung around and mostly watched other people w*rk on some projects.... I did a few odds and ends to help out, steadied a ladder, moved some things out of the way.... Stuff like that. Then had supper and came home. At home I got 2 of the other old RR ties broken loose and moved from the spot they have been sitting in for the last 30 years. Looks like one, possibly two (the one not moved yet) is still solid.
Lee, haven't heard anything from any of the news sources locally about the project. I talked to one of the Museum Board Members today and asked what he knew. He knew they were starting the project soon. i asked if we were going to get anything from the bridge here at the museum. He shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't know".
Barry, what is that glow in the sky over your way......? Oh, Radiation treatment? Hope all your news will be good news! Keeping you in my prayers. Nice videos, BTW.
Tomorrow afternoon I am going to the Steam Pageant near Canandaigua with my son and the Granddaughters. Antique steam and gasoline tractors on display and running. They have an antique tractor pull every year and a slow race for the steam ones. The object is to see which tractor can go the distance in the longest time without ever stopping..... All kinds of good stuff to do and see. Should be fun!
Guess I will call it a night. Prayers for all in need!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Looks like folks are roasting from Louisiana all the way up into Ontario, Canada. It's still 87 degrees here at 9:10 pm.
Time for me to call it a night. It's been a busy day in the shops. 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
Oh Look! It is summer time in London, Ont. The only way I know that is because the sun is out. LOL, just kidding. I know you guys have been baking up north also.
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One of the cars I worked on today is a Bachmann trainset hopper. I removed the truck mounted couplers and pockets. I then body mounted Kadee #242 coupler boxes and Kadee #5 couplers. I marked out the road name and logos then patched in the L&A. The car sits a little high on one end. In fact I've never seen one of these cars that doesn't and I've seen a bunch of them. It has to be something in how the car is made. Later I'll take the frame apart and see if that can be corrected.
Dennis, glad your friends got a laugh out of that.
Ken, where is the picture from?
Ray, I’m watching the internet for news to see if there are any comments, nothing yet.
Well, good evening....
I probably have enough radiation in me to actually start glowing ...although I have not seen that happening...yet.......supposed to find out sometime before the week is out what was found, if anything...
We seem to be seeing something of a cooling off happening here...tomorrow we are supposed to go to 83F feeling like 90F and then the next three days, showers and 70-72 for highs...
Oh, btw, I used to live near this little bridge over the CP here in London ON....
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Found this gem on youtube.com:
UP FEF-3 and SP GS-4 4449 roam the Pacific Northwest
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galaxy The dizziness comes and goes. As does the lightheadedness. Maybe they are the same thing?
The dizziness comes and goes. As does the lightheadedness. Maybe they are the same thing?
The Dr. is not in. I will have t o wait.
I think it is time to eat somehting I have been sitting here on line doing things and so I could use some refreshment.
Spag and balls soudns good...{pasghetti and meatballs} I have a microwaveable entree for trhat.
Well I here the recycle truck out fdornt so I should go get the recycvle bin. How mnay of you recycle hwere you are? We ahve been recycling for yeras. I am big into it as I once lived on an island where everything had to be recycled not put into a ladfill. That wsa in thelate 80s. They reduced 80% of what went to teh landfill here when they startted the recycle program about 15 years ago. Now of course, even so, the landfil is about at capacity.
Now if I can make it to the kitchen I wil be ok I think.
Funny thing is I get dizzy when sitting too, not jsut standing or rising ior walking.
dinner will be what was suposed to be last nights dinner.
-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.
Morning All,
Expected high today 100, probably only hit 99.
Well it is Tuesday so that means another closing shift for me. Will not get home until after 11;00
Not much work getting done on my layout, but still having fun listening to the Tsunami.
Ken, I quit smoking over 7 years ago. It was easy after a minor heart attack and double by-pass surgery. And you know what I feel waaaay better. It took the emergency surgery to repair a perforated bowel and a diagnosis of Lymphoma to get my wife to quit. I hope. She has not been feeling well for a few months so had not been smoking, now that we have this news and waiting for more results to see how bad it is, I think she has quit for good. We go to hospital tomorrow for a pre registration and lab work for an out-patient procedure on Friday.
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
Good Morning All....Its sunny dry and 85 here....I'll have a large diet Coke please...Thank You...Havn't checked in for awhile but stopped to chat for some time...The hot weather has kept Sallie and I in most of the time...I keep plugging along on the railroad...I am working on a control panel...
You all have a good one...Jerry
Still no news on that engineer training - I am getting nervous.
I am daydreaming about "piloting" one of those:
Being the master of over 7,500 hp is something!
cudaken Will I am sleeping late again all ready. Did not get up till 8:30.
Will I am sleeping late again all ready. Did not get up till 8:30.
I'm finally getting into the habit of sleeping late. I almost always wake up early (4-5 am). A habit I hung onto from my army days. I only got out of the army thirty-one years ago.
Morning Folks
Flo Coffee Pleases.
Todd, what time did you go to bed last night? Reason I asked is Murphy seem to show up here last night. Was running my passenger train and 1 of the cars kept falling over on the same turn again and again. It is one of my bigger turns but yet would track just fine around the tighter turn I have.
Ulrich Hope you get to go to the engineer school! That is something I daydream about. Not so much as getting to be around trains, but have a secure job.
See you all later.
Ken
I hate Rust
Ken: Continuing smoking will only make your foot problems worse. The toe is only the tip of the iceberg. One of the effects of smoking causes the blood vessels to constrict.
I make typos also but I've always been great at spelling and I use a spell checker to catch the occasional error. There are times though that I ignore the spell checker or I'm not feeling good that I don't want to take the time to correct any errors.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of blueberry pancakes, real maple syrup, a side order of bacon, and a few cups of dark roast coffee in my R&GV RR mug, please and thank you Ma'am!
Ken, I hope you know I'm just playing with you... We all make typos. THAT one was priceless and I just had to say something. If your stereo problems are from you smoking, I sure hope you have/will give it up. I know it is hard, but there are just so many good reasons (like staying among the living) to quit! I know you were trying a while back with the foot problem!
Lee, it probably has been in the Rochester papers, but I don't get them. Haven't seen much in the Finger Lakes Crimes lately about it. Nothing on YNN (Time Warner News channel for Rochester). The're way too busy telling us who shot whom on what street last night, how many police officers it took to kill the neighborhood pit bull that it's druggie owner lets loose, and interviewing all the least intelligent people they can from the area........ Oh, Thursday's pre-opener game of the Bills will be blacked out locally..... Since I don't watch the idiot box here, I have no idea how much time has been given to the bridge coming down on the tube either. If there is a huge protest when they start working on it, I'm sure it will make all the channels!!! They will be interviewing some mental midget who is complaining about the noise........ The News just ain't what it used to be, and never was!
Ulrich, 574KPH!!!? Sure beats Amtrack over here! So, you want to pilot one of those?
Darren, nice video!
Starting to get warm in here.... Time to turn on the air conditioners.
Later!
Good Morning Modelers!
It's 70F and will get up to near 90F today but they say we might see a 100F later this week.
Uploaded another Rio Grande Southern Galloping Goose Video last night
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Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
Delaware and Hudson Virtual Museum (DHVM), Railroad Adventures (RRAdventures)
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Talking of HST trains - watch this:
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Good morning. It's 76° and the humidity is 91%. There's a fair chance of rain with the possibility of some heavy showers. The high will be 95° and it'll be mostly cloudy. The heat index will make it feel like 109°.Only projects today will be getting a Bachmann hopper ready for body mounted Kadee's and finding out what's making a squeak on a Varney hopper.
Ray, I’m surprised it wasn’t all over the pages of the papers when I released the radio broadcast. I know parts of the bridge will be on display for everyone to enjoy, where I haven’t heard. I know two different organizations have requested elements of the control booth interior and a couple appurtenances from the exterior.
Todd, Well I think I have everything under control to get back to the 4x8 project in the garage. I have the table top built; tonight I should build the legs and hopefully start painting. I have half a case of flex track, dozen or so turnouts and a full case of cork roadbed. I also have a couple of buildings that need to be assembled.
{grumble]
Good morning!!!
I may need hte thoughts and prayers!
Still not feeling well..will make an appointment wiht the DR. today.
Still get dizzy spells and awkward lightheadedness. I will ask a starving appointment so they can check my sugar then. I expect it will come out normal though it usually does.
My sinuses have been plugged lately, so that may have someting to do wiith it or inner ear problem.
Sometiems I can barely type antyhgin as I draw blank, or can't make words out of the keys {yes worse than I regularly do}. That part is scarry. I wait till I can try try again.
Still have leftover headache remnants too.
Special thoughts and prayers are requested for my MIL...MOH says she is nto doing so hot she is 85..MOH thinks we will loose her soon...she gets disoriented very quickly and forgets everything rihgt afterit happens. SHe was totally incoherant to FIL the other day SO MOH had to go and get her re-oriented.
Well, That is all I can mange to type for now.
hmm..dizzy again
Good Morning!!!
Coffee, two eggs over medium, maple bacon, hash browns and a side of biscuits and gravy please. Thank you.
Sunny and hot, with a high near 97.
Jeff, Lee, Ray………ANYbody!!!!! Please do something. Start a project. Something. Murphy has nothing else to do but hang around! I’ll spare the details, but let’s say the Church’s bookwork to waaaay longer than it normally does and then, well I didn’t get home til almost 2pm, so late start on floor and then......, well Please. I’m begging. Do something.
Paul- No problem about the not asking the rules. Most of us didn’t ask either. We peeked in the window for a while and kinda figured it out or someone else asked while we were peeking or not long after we showed up. As you can see, not much to them as all we really do different than any forum rule, is we are allowed to talk “off topic” Kinda like a break room at a Model Railroad club. We are not biased to anyones modeling preference or their skill level regardless of how long they have been modeling. In fact, this is one place where the term “Rivet Counter” is not a bad name simply a style of modeler who is interested in creating miniature “models” as accurate as possible. Hey I am in awe of the detail and skill and absolutely love to drool over their work, but not what I do. We even have named the counter here in the diner “The Rivet Counter” where you sit and contemplate or talk about detail and/or prototypical oriented work. Originally the thread was created to help keep the other forum threads cleaned up from the inevitable chit chat that some did due to friendships made on the site. Kalmbach allows this, I assume, because that is one thing Model Railroading does is bring people together to create friendships with a common interest in MR’ing. So to help foster that aspect…., chinnngggg. Here we are and they allow us to exist so long as we behave and do what they ask, which really isn’t much, and we do.
You know, I need to find my old Diner intro that used to be posted periodically and post it again to kinda keep the story/history of the place alive and help the newer folks find their way around the place a bit better. I recall I was gonna edit the thing to include the RC. Hmmmm. Wonder if I did.
Well this is my busy day I suppose you’d say. In between jobs, I need to clean up all the mess of stuff I no longer need in the bathroom and adjoining bedroom because it’s grouting time after I reset the terlit. We’ll see how that all goes.
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.
cudaken Hum, just pooped in a CD
Hum, just pooped in a CD
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