Lunchtime!
Chloe, I´ll go for a tuna fish pizza and an RBF, please.
Spent all morning at the Renault garage, waiting for the technical inspection of our car. Our car is over 11 years old, so passing that inspection and getting the approval to roam the roads for another two years is like winning the state lottery - the chances are slim. Good news - it passed! Bad news - another $ 130 off the MRRing budget And more to come. Latest in Fall, I will need to buy a complete set of tires. The winter tires are worn, and the summer tires will have to go by October, or earlier, should I drive more than I did in the past months. I might get a set of all-weather tires - can´t afford to buy two sets.
I am going to take a nap now - did not catch much sleep last night.
Where´s Galaxy?
Have a great day!
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
August 7, 2012 is the 220th day of the year 2012 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 146 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
TIPTON
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Evening Dinners
Flo, I will have a bottle of Poop.
OK Ray I cannot spell! Far as what caused the problem, more than likely because I am a smoker. Gunk is building up at the jumpers (gold plated) and in the equipment. Computer sound board preamp is not very powerful. My CD player on the other hand has a little more power. So maybe it help get past the crude. I need to quite smoking and get the equipment cleaned.
Jeffery Me Like Monon! Want to do some trading?
Well work was very boring so nothing much to say.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Time for me to call it a night. I've been in layout work up to my eyes today. I also had a doc appointment to contend with. The doc says I'm in great shape for all the physical problems I have. my heart is good, blood pressure is more or less normal, cholesterol is under 90. That's great. Just everything else is outta whack. 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
Evenin' Folks!
Janie, a cup of decaf would do nicely right at the moment.
Nice cool night around here.... Currently 61°F and on it's way down to 58° overnight. The air conditioners are turned off for the night. I finished the lawn this evening and did a bit more to remove the old RR Ties out back. A couple of them are still heavy and very solid even after 50 or more years of use.... They have been sitting at the edge of the garden here for almost 30 years and were used old ties when I got them for a little of nothing. I have no further use for them so i will find out if they can be sent to the county landfill...... A couple of them will probably come out in pieces as they are not in as good shape.
Barry, sounds like you had a good meal. My prayers going out to you for good news at the hospital tomorrow.
As I was finishing up the lawn tonight a couple who lives up the side street from me who I see out walking a couple times a day, happened along just as I got the edge of the street with the mower. They stopped, and the husband asked me about the whistle post sign in the driveway. I told him the story of how I got it, and he says, "So you are into trains?". The conversation got really started then. It turns out they have been planning to go out to the R&GV RR Museum for one of our days we run diesels. Seems both he and his wife are railfans. Hopefully they will be coming out for Diesel Days in a couple of weeks. I gave them the Museum's business card with all the contact information on it.
I have to go out to the museum and spend part of a day in heavy toil as my punishment for obsconding with all the keys last Sunday! I got home and soon after eating dinner I sat down here at the computer and discovered I still had the huge set of keys ion my pocket. I immediately sent a "Mea Culpa" email to the Vice president and the superintendent of operations telling them I was the culprit. I said I could come out with them on Tuesday and the VP said, "No Problem, see you Tuesday"! I have been wanting to contribute some time to a couple of the projects anyway and Tuesday is one of our two major weekly work sessions.
Think I will turn in for the night. Keep track of Ken. He seems to be doing some strange things, like pooping in CDs and stuff........
Prayers for all who are need. Have a safe and sound night!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good Evening
I had the BBQ going tonight and had some ribs and potato salad...yay!!
Tomorrow morning I get to go real early to the hospital and have my MRI done as well as another bone scan of a different sort..kill two birds with one stone here...
So I'll be somewhat busy tomorrow....
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/
Well I've got both of my 'new' Mantua gondolas (NYC, Monon) in my train. They look good and track extremely well. I had to fit the monon gondola with Kadee #5's first. I still have to do some work on the two hoppers. The Bachmann hopper has horn hook couplers that are truck mounted. That's going to have to change. The little Virginian hopper squeaks terribly. Could be an axle or two binding.
Afternoon folks!
Chloe I'll have a tall glass of ice cold Lemonade please.
LSWrr Ray, the Hojack Bridge is coming down. Starting to remove asbestos next week, then in October the blue tip wrench will be on the bridge.
Lee, Yep... 'tis sad, but better to remove it before it falls on something I guess. The time to try to preserve it was 20 or more years ago. I'm sure there will be lots and lots about it in the local (Rochester) news.
Ken, it's probably from all that "pooping" in the CD......... You need to clean it! Actually my guess would be a broken connection in the wire leading to that speaker. Bad solder? Bad wire in the cable? Next time it does it try wiggling the wire going to the bad speaker. If you can, remove the cable going to the speaker and visually inspect the solder joints to the connecting plugs. Also try switching the wires (left speaker and Right Speaker) at the amp while it is playing. If the bad speaker now works, it is probably in the wiring. I once spent 45 minutes before a show outside trying to figure out why one speaker wasn't working. System was a large tri-amped JBL Pro system. The midrange cabinet on the left wasn't working!!! I finally went over and looked closely at the speaker..... The Speakon connecter from the cable to the speaker was just laying on the ground. My "cheap" help (It was at an OA conclave at Boy Scout Camp) never plugged it in! My blood pressure came back down in about an hour.........
Very nice day outside here in the Finger Lakes. All of 74°F right now. Got half the lawn mowed and then took a lunch break. Did a bit more on the cobblestone mold this afternoon.
Catch you all later!
WEll, well,
I had another dizzy lightheaded spell. I think I have narrowed it down to a sugar problem. I hope. I was dizzy and lightheaded and my vision getting "cloudy", then realized I was "hungry", though I ate about 3 hours before. I ate a Tuna melt and feel mcuh better. I think I will make an appointment with hte Dr. this week to do a starving blood workup. Being at the edge of diabetes can be almost as bad as having it, cuase you can register as "fine" when you are clearly not.
SInce I haven't been feeling "safe" so there is no lit prayer candle {MOH is napping now..we never leave a candle burning then}, but I have said prayers for those in need... sounds like we have quite a few..I will nod to all in need, rather than name them off one by one. Not sure I could right now anyway. Still a litle "fuzzy".
ALso getting a migraine. TOok my migraine script after I ate so it is working at alleviating the pain.It can also make me very tired and woozy-ish..feeling like i have "airplane head" but wiht no pain.
The weather has cooled off here compared to the heat we did have. apparently it is nice out. MOH will have to go get teh mail..as I don't know if Itrust myself to walk to the mailbox. I might get dizzy on the way.
Hope everyone's day is going along smoothly and nicely!
My you all have a great evening.
I will cheat on dinner tonight..Hamburger Helper it is. Easy quick but filling and does the trick.
-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.
Ulrich, No news is good news. It took them 3 months to tell me I was hired for this job…
Ray, the Hojack Bridge is coming down. Starting to remove asbestos next week, then in October the blue tip wrench will be on the bridge.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Afternoon Dinners
Flo, Diet Dew Pleases.
Well Rob, looks like I am in the same boat you where about 6 months or so ago. I have lost one of the channels in my Stereo. At this point I don't know if it is the speaker, speaker selector(separate unit) Power amp, or the preamp.
Hum, just pooped in a CD (mainly use the computer) and now both channels are working? I messed with it yesterday for 20 minutes and could not get the left channel going? Well I will take the break!
Time to get ready for work.
Ken
Got the box I was expecting. Two hoppers and two gondolas.
Bachmann 42' four bay hopper, MSTL 541085. No load.
Varney 32' two bay hopper, Virginian 23334, coal load.
Mantua gondola, NYC 580190, coal load.
Mantua gondola, Monon 3029, no load.
Lee - I was expecting the answer to my application today, but it didn´t come. Is this good or bad?
Yeah, O gauge or G gauge prices are outrageous. In Germany, O gauge is just being resurrected, but at prices easily topping the 1,000 $ mark for RTR locos. In the UK, there are many kitchen counter businesses offering kits at still affordable prices, unless you want to go for a Pacific or bigger. A kit for a little tank engine is in the $ 200 range, kits for those typical 4-wheeled cars are about $ 40 - 50. Compared to the prices for HO RTR or even N RTR stuff, that´s still reasonable.
Ulrich, I understand Germany still has an impressive fleet of ten wheeler, triple piston steam engines as well. Good luck on getting accepted to the engineer training.
I think the O and G scales were developed by watching people look at the price tag of the locomotives and rolling stock. “Oh my” and “Gosh!” must be popular remarks, I know they were when I saw the prices….
Morning All,
I guess I was amiss at not asking about the rules when I just popped in a few weeks ago for the first time. So I am sorry for that.
Galaxy, thanks for posting them for Rob, now I know.
Temp today will be 95 with about 20% humidity, not too bad.
Wife's oncologist called this morning, still waiting for pathology report, the waiting is maddening. I have a closing shift today and she says she is OK with me going in so I guss I will try and make some $
Prayers to all in need
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
cudaken Jeffery F slug looks pretty good. Weren't all F B unit's slugs anyway? Still a neat little project.
Jeffery F slug looks pretty good. Weren't all F B unit's slugs anyway? Still a neat little project.
Morning All
Go into work today at 3:00 PM till close. Kind of glad, did not sleep well last night.
K 10 Open House. The Parking Lot Looked Like Christmas when I got there! Plenty of kids running around and running trains. Kind of funny to see Thomas The Tank Engine being chased by a Big Boy. Meet up with Simon and his sons. Simon was busy installing a decoder for a customer. They was a wait to get a throttle so you could run a train.
Train Front One of my MRC F7a is starting to make a odd racket. Sounds like a metal part is vibrating against another metal part. I am thinking the motor may have shifted and is hitting the chassis. I hope that is all it is. So I have side lined the pair till I get around to looking into it.
Moved my CSX GE AC 6000 over to the B line to handle the hauling. I have never ran it on the B line before because of the tighter turns. It is perfectly happy there, no picking.
Been running my BLI Hudson last couple of days. Just one section I have to keep the speed down so it does not pick a turnout.
Gary Glad to see you posting again. Looking forward to the next batch of photos of the coming project.
Ulrich Hum O scale? Well building a kit will keep you busy for sometime.
Well, time to open some shells and do a little oiling.
Good morning. It's 83° and already feels like 91° out there. Humidity is 78%. There's a fair chance of rain. The high will be 95° with an index of 110° or higher.The high temp for the rest of this week reads like a broken record with a chance of rain every day. Probably all we'll get is the heat.Been to my doc appointment already. General checkup and getting stuck with needles. I'm in great shape for somebody with my problems so I guess that's something to be happy about.Postal tracking says I should be getting a box of freight cars today. Can't wait to see what they are.
P&Slocal First time dropping in the diner. What are the rules here? ~Rob
First time dropping in the diner. What are the rules here?
~Rob
Rob, and other new members...first a big to the diner!
The rules are fairly simple:
This is a family site with younger members {kids} so keep that in mind!
You can talk about just about anything in here that may not be MRRing related where as all other threads and postings must be related to MRRIng or Railroading. Talk about the weather in your neck of the woods, your life and goings-on, and whatever is on your mind that isn't "forbidden" as below:
There is no profanity {not even squiggles %*& as we know what they mean} AS my mother used to say " you can find a better way to express yourself". No dirty or profane jokes either.
Avoid "flame war" topics like politics and religion, economy, etc.
What IS allowed as far as religion is to say a "prayer" or "special thoughts" of someone who is having a rough time medical wise {surgery, feeling bad, etc}, or who has a member of the family who is distressed or has passed. This is usually symbolized by the emoticon I tend to keep the reverent "prayer candle" burning when there is problems for our members. If I am home the candle is actually lit and a prayer over it is said. If I have to go out, the prayer candle is "lit in thought" until I get back home to relight and say a new prayer. Many here DO believe in the power of prayer, and you don't have to be "religious" to say a prayer for someone who is having a hard time.
No Fighting with other members here..we all "agree to disagree" and avoid those inflamatory and certain topics. This isn't the local Boxing Ring!
You can post pics, but our hosts prefer pics ONLY related to trains/MRRing and only one or two pics per posting, please. They will dump risque pics or extra pic heavy posts here.
If you get the top of a page posting you have to "buy" all the posters on that page's "meal orders". You can use a "credit card" if you don't have the "cash" for the tabs. ALWAYS remember to "tip" your "wait staff"!!! Adding A good 15% or more is recommended!
There is security in the back booth...you will meet him somewhere along the way..preferably in the "pleasantries" rather than be "ejected" for bad behavior!!! AS Jeffrey WImberly says "he can bend crowbars and tire irons with his bare hands" so keep that in mind!
If you mention someone's name, it is always nice for them to see it in a bolded font or highlighted in some way so people catch what you are saying to them {like I did here with your name and Jeffrey's}. You can bold it, change size, colorize it, etc to make it stand out. You can also quote someone like I did yours.
So, in short, watch your P's and Q's and you should be OK in here.
The user-mods are in here periodically and WILL remove or Edit any post NOT in sync with the wishes of our gracious hosts. There are two who are regular posters...Darren {Stourbridge Lion} and Ulrich {Sir Madog}.
So, again
Good Morning Modelers!
It's 79F and heading for 90+; we got a break from the 90's on Saturday but Sunday was right back up to 90+ again. I see Oklahoma is now burning with many homes being lost *sad*
The next blog entry from out Alaska trip is now online
World Travel – Alaska 2012 – Cruise Day #2
Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
Delaware and Hudson Virtual Museum (DHVM), Railroad Adventures (RRAdventures)
My Blog
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a breakfast bagel w/ cheese and a cup (or 3) of your Marrakesh Express dark roast certified organic coffee this morning.
Currently 68°F at 10 AM here in the Finger Lakes. 'Twas a great night for getting some sleep last night, too cold to open up the windows actually so I left one of the air conditioners running on "fan" to keep some air moving. The high will be around 77°F later this afternoon.
Todd, I see THAT is a Wind-Blows thingie.... I guess it goes right along with some of the new BS Apple is including in the Macs these days. Touch the mouse wrong and you are immediately taken to someplace else where you have never been before and didn't want to visit. There is probably some setting where you can turn it off. At least there is on the Mac. F3 does basically the same thing on the Mac these days......
It looks like I will mowing lawn again today for a bit. Making up for lost time I guess. We got a bit over a tenth of an inch here (probably closer to a half inch over at the museum yesterday).
Garry, glad you are recovering well. Treat yourself to some time with the layout. will make you feel even better!
Hoping to hear about the solar installation soon.... I would think all the paperwork would be approved by now. I was going to have a big reunion here at my house for the old Fine and Practical Arts dept. retirees (and some still in the trenches) near the end of August, but it looks like it might be right at the time they would be doing the install, so I canceled out on it. We hadn't notified anyone yet anyway so it wasn't really a big deal.
Guess I will get started with some needed things to do around here.
Later!
Good Afternoon Gang!
Seems as if I am making good progress on the road to regaining my sanity. I am keeping myself busy with drawing locos and track plans, which had helped me already two years ago. Staying in the doldrums is no fun, I can tell you. I can´t change the inevitable, so I stopped fighting it. None of us knows how long he/she will be around, so worrying about it does not make sense.
I´ll be heading to a not so local HS these days to sell my remaining Z scale stuff. Petra agrees, that this money will be for me and I am making plans to spend it on something not so usual. Part of it will have to go to finance our car´s technical inspection - that´s going to be some drain on the budget, though. I am sure I´ll have enough left to buy a steam loco kit:
I have always wanted to give my hands a try at building one of those brass kits. Surprisingly, they are not that expensive, not more than a decent HO scale plastic steamer w/DCC. That should keep me busy and out of mischief at least for a year. Oh, yes, it is O gauge!
I am waiting for a reply of my labor administration counselor. I have asked them if they would pay an engineer´s training course for me. Such a course take 10 months to complete, but at the end, you´ve got a secure job, providing you pass the exam (and the physical). There are 15,000 jobs open for loco engineers in Germany! Well, let´s see ...
Galaxy, sounds like an inner ear infection ready to happen or maybe your sinus are stuffed up from pollen…..
Good Morning!!!
”Ooooooooh.we’re not ones to go ‘round spreadin’ rumors. Why really we’re just not the gossipy kiiiiind.” Wonder why I got that song stuck in my head.
Coffee and egg foo yung please. Thanks.
K. Didn’t stop in yesterday cause I wanted to get a good start and it’s a good thing I did. Mr Murphy I kid you not, was riding my back. THREE count ‘em THREE trips to Menard’s for stupid stuff I either because I wasn’t thinking got the wrong thing or forgot I needed OR thought I had but didn’t. Anyway I did get the floor to where I wanted it to be yesterday just not early. Today I’ll grout where the toilet sits and then do the closet, then start a groutin’ the rest until I get tired or my knees start hurtin whichever comes first.
Ray- On Windows 7, don’t know if you’ve heard of it there in the land of fruit, if youdrag your curser to the lower right corner, the window, page, program, whatever it’s called goes away or minimizes (sorry I’m terrible with the correct terms) and displays what windows calls the desktop. Haven’t seen a good purpose for this because you can’t open another program cause as soon as you move the curser, you page opens back up again. I guess if you were looking at one thing and typing another, but as a rule that happens very few times I would figure. As it stands, every time I go to type when on this thing and I move my curser, the screen goes away and I get a good look at my desktop screen thing. Annoying.
Tennessee Rob- Galaxy will be in to list the details once he feels a bit better, but in a nutshell Lee summed it up. In the meantime, to the diner.
G- Hope you get the sugar lined up and feel better.
Garry- Glad you’re on the road to recovery.
Got some rain Saturday night/Sunday morning. Stormed about 2 am nothing severe. Rain gage said 1.4 inches. Unfortunately too little too late, but I’ll take it and be happy.
Today is continue on with the bathroom after the Church stuff AND just remembered, I’ll need to get toilet anchor bolts I didn’t get. They cut the old ones flush with the nuts and with the added height of the tile, they won’t reach. I knew this so why I didn’t pick some up before is anybodies guess.
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, Diners. I have been away from internet access for a few days. We have been playing hard. I am so sore from playing on the water with the nieces and nephews in their 20's, that I can hardly move. Some of us never grow up.
Larry took 3 paintings to the fair. One of them got Best in class ( amateur acrylics/oils ) and one got 3rd. The third place was his 2nd painting on canvas.
Garry, Keep healing. There was a big echo in here while we were waiting to hear how you did. This will be a good planning time for you.
We will be heading back up to play on the water later today.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
GOod morning.
I do't feel like my big flashy greeting today.
I don't know whether I had a blood pressure moment, a sugar moment or a blonde moment {since I have a natural blonde streak among the hairs I have left}, but something didn't seem right last night.
Last night after dinner {which was at 8:30pm due to MOH working until 8} when I was coming out of the kitchen I felt like I was leaning to the left, and if i tried to "straighten up", I felt light headed. THen after sitting down, I leaned forward to get something and felt like I was gonna fall forward and was light headed again. Then I felt dizzy. I told MOH I didn't know what to say to do for me, whether to take me to hospital or call ambulance or what. It seemed to pass so we thought maybe sugar issue, since I WAS hungry an hour BEFORE MOH got home and while I was cooking dinner...
We went to bed later than usual as we were up til after 11 since MOH worked so late and is on second shift this week excetp one early morning shift, so I may not be up as usual.
ANyway, I went to bed and slept all night until 7:45.this monring.
SO I feel OK, but don't feel totally with it..just kinda feel out of sorts. MAybe more so than I think? I have slaughtered words here trying to type them, more so than my usual dyslexic typing and fat fingered typing,, I can actaully see the mistakes I am making as they are worse than usual. Usually I don't "see" my mistakes as the words look "normal" to me.
Well, I will see as the day moves along. I DO take a blood pressure reducer and we have had no changes in my meds lately,s o I wouldn't think that an issue.
My sugar may be off again this AM...I have to go eat something. MY A1c is always JUST inside the paramenters for not being diabetic, so I DO have to watch that too.
WEll, I am off {One bubble to the left}.
We will see what happens today. I said that already didn't I?
HAve a great day!
Good Morning All,
68F with 73% humidity right now
I picked, cooked, and froze 3.5 gallons of rhubarb yesterday and did some needed yard work, including spreading the grub killer on the front lawn to keep the skunks from visiting my house this fall. We did get some much needed rain Sunday morning. Saturday and Sunday it was in the low 80’s but the humidity stayed right around 86% so it was tough to get too much done out in the yard. I hope the weather stays cool long enough to get that 4x8 layout finished this month. I have a display shelf for the layout room to build and a new stand for Dorothy’s snakes to get done before winter gets here.
Garry you can always catch up on those back issues of Model Railroader and Railroad Model Craftsman. I have a ton of M-H-R, the online Model railroad magazine to catch up on some day.
Good Morning...
We are currently sitting at 56F going for a non-sticky high of 77F ... a beautiful outdoors kinda day for us'uns...
Today will be doing a few backyard things..namely fire up the BBQ later on and do up some ribs and veggies and get some gardening as well...maybe get some choochoo time in there in the mix....
August 6, 2012 is the 219th day of the year 2012 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 147 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Good evening.
Jeff ... Nice job (I think) of the F-unit. Perhaps it could be a prop for a Godzilla Invades Sundown movie where Godzilla sat on a locomotive. Your creativity is great!
Thanks everybody who commented on my situation. I just went back and read all I think. not sure I can ackwledge allm but thanks to Paul (NY), Ken, Lee, Curt, and each others. I could barely move around this weekend, but it will get better. I'm mentally planning more layout projects.
Regarding Atheran BB locos, my 3 Athearn Baldwin switchers in the steel mill are converted to DCC. Not having problems with them. I had help from a friend putting them together, and headlights work on both ends.
Rob of Knoxville .. Good to see you in the diner. hope to see you more often. Galaxy is good at explaining the Diner's rules and customs.
Galaxy ... I hope you did not mind my suggesting to Rob of Knoxville you explain the Diner.
Ray ... Good to see you starting to work on the historical stone building.
Barry .. I hope you health situation is okay now.
Ulrich ... I like the 0-6-0T steam photos you posted. Keep your spirits up! We care about you.
Darren ... The Alaska trip videos must be good, but I've not yet looked. Thanks for posting them.
Ken ... UP F's? Hope the chicken was good.
JimCG .... Saw your post, i did comment here about the operation. Since the doctor did not do everything, I can look forward to more adventures with surgery in the future. Hoping it can be postponed long time. I think I can feel okay for the time being.
Good night all.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU