Good morning, please.
Evidently, the Forum was on the RIP track all day yesterday.
Ulrich .... Glad to see you! Of course, we were concerned about your absence. ... I like the track plan. Do you live near Lother? If so, it would be nice if he wanted some help with construction. You do great work based on what you've showed us.
Curt .... Of course, you and your family are in our prayers.
Vincent..... I'm impressed with your work on the F-unit. I'm sure it will look great when you complete it.
Thanks for the ideas about the turn signal bulb replacement. Car Designers must not have thought much about maintenance. For those who asked, Shelley's car is a 2004 Cadillac SRX. We've put well over 100,000 miles on it with many road trips. The computers in car the have acted up lately, and caused some very expensive repairs for the electronic stuff. Those issues are now corrected. Mechanically, it's still in outstanding condition. Meanwhile, my vehicle is a 2002 Avalanche which has never had any problems at all for all 10 years we have owned it. We have no reason to consider replacing either one at this time.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Morning All.
Currently 59 with an expected high of 87 under partly cloudy skies.
Ulrich - Glad to see you back.
Curt - Keep up the anti-biotics and get well. Prayers for you and your son.
Ken - Keep an eye on that toe so it does not get worse.
Since the forum was down yesterday i did get some track weathered, will more in a little while. I do not want to do too much layout work, as I expect to move it downstairs, to one of the larger front rooms before the end of the year, so I can expand it, and do not want to do too much damage to what I already have done.
Spent some time at the hospital yesterday visiting my wife. The daughters showed up and we went out to dinner. Their treat. While we were eating, got a text from wife that they were moving out of CICU and back down to Oncology. Since she is almost stable, chemo will start again tomorrow if lucky.
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
Curt - for your son!
Garry - Lothar lives a 10 minute walk from my place, but he is more of a lone wolf when it comes to doing modeling work. Nevertheless, he is a helpful guy, always around whenever I run into a problem with what I am doing. he is also the only one coming to see us. I´d say he is the only friend I have on this side of the Big Pond.
Morning Coffee in the Diner
Well, I see I t'weren't the onlyest one who couldn't get into the forums yesterday!
That is good to know!
Well, I everyone back!
I said "ARRRRRGGGGHHH" all day long at this site, but I already enlightened us on the word "AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGHHH".
Today I am so amazed at getting in, I will just let it go for today.
Well, See ya later!
It's a chilly day out there,,,getttng that way here,....highs only in the 60s all week, a few days barely above 60. REsisting the urge to turn on the electric room heater to "take the chill off". I want to resist tha urge until Nov 1st!
WEll, I have some paperwork to attend to and a nap to take. THe pain meds make me real sleepy.
-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.
Good Afternoon....
Dull and cold here..only 49F outside....
Ulrich!!! Good to see you back here!!! Take care....
Welp, better be getting some garage stuff moved...again....
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/
Afternoon/Evening, Flo - I'll have a BLT and a RBF please 'n' thankyouma'am!
Looks like a lazy afternoon - not many in here since this morning.
Ken, we expect you to keep yourself (and your toe) healthy (with or without VA's approval/help...) and posting in here for a while, got it? We have enough MIA Diners to check on, as it is. Good to hear the news on Sue's (not-so-)stress(ed) test.
Jeff, hope you are taking good care of your sunburn. Didja put any aloe or such on it? I had heard of some meds that make a person extra-sensitive to the sun - NO fun!
Curt, I've added your son to my list, and it was good to hear that your ailment is 'only' bronchitis (and not somet'in worse). On your fridge, hopefully that hose is not a speciaized part, but easier to locate (and pay for).
Ray, do a search on the internet and you can probably find a brief synopsis of that show. And should I feel badly that I don't feel that badly for the phone-yakkin' drivers behind you and their mishap? Even when (for w**k only) I am driving and have to take a call, I am first of all checking traffic ahead, beside, behind my car, and only secondly worrying about getting every detail from the phone call. I figure I can - if absolutely needed - stop by the side of the road when I get a chance and call the person/whoever back. Your story sounded like "Smart phones - dumb users"... Hey, I wish our city/town had a hazardous materials trash day (but if they did, I don't think apartment buildings get in on that). We did a couple of years ago have a thing at the fair grounds where you could drop off computers, monitors, etc. (and I let them dispose of my ancient 17" Trinitron behemoth which no longer w**ked).
Speaking of... rather odd/depressing stuff, I went looking for a synopsis of The Hunger Games last night, and after a bunch of looking, decided that I wasn't going to look for the book. See enough doom and gloom on the evening news, thanks.
OzJim, now that we know you have a 'Cape' near you (too), it may be more confusing for people wondering which 'Jim' they're replying to. (Unless they look at the time of day when a post was - that could tip 'em off...)
I also had fun yesterday when I was trying to get into the Diner, as when I log into the Forums, it directs me through Kalmbach's site (and they were doing maintenance yesterday, so it wouldn't pass me back in here...). As Ken and Ulrich (and myself and a few others) noticed, the login process was out of whack (Galaxy? Need a description on THAT term...) - methinks because the usual route somehow involves the user being run by Kalmbach's page to check our credentials at the door (and they were doing the maintenance thing). I found that when I went to the Kalmbach page, if I returned to the Forum page where I had entered my password and userID and reloaded the page (with the cookies set), the Forum would load. (But then again, because of the time I was here, I didn't have time to try to post...)Luckily, that seems to be fixed now.
Garry, the modern equivalent of those light bulb jokes would be that: "You have to have 29 specialized tools that only ASE certified mechanics in a manufacturer-authorized dealership are allowed to have, plus the gazillion-dollar SuperMegaAutoDiagnostic computer (to translate all those codes) - with specialized cables, and will require one ASE-and-manufacturer-trained mechanic and two authorized-and-factory-trained mechanic's assistants, and the job will take three days, MINIMUM!" (Any resemblance to how real mechanics operate is merely coincidental, and not intended...)
Ulrich, are we glad to see you back again! (Whew!) Nice job on Lothar's layout design there! Rest up as long as you need - we'll let Barry handle the heavy moving around here for you.
Flip, thank you for checking in on Jerry (& Sallie), and for your report.
Don (DigitalGriffin), to the Diner! An honor to have you here (and can we toss our DCC questions to you? ).
Anyone heard from Rob, or from Chris? Wondering what they've been up to - seems like a while since either of them was in.
Paul, good to hear of your wife's progress (good idea of putting her oncologist in charge!), and hopefully more progress is coming soon enough.
I have a crock pot roast going at home for my dinner, so I won't eat a lot in here (No offense meant, Flo!)
Today I went through some of my freight car kits and took a look at them. Had some boxes which contained assembled cars, a few I need to renumber. One ATSF plug door car which I need to re-decal for closer to when the car was new (and more in my RR's era that I'm modeling), some ATSF 2-bay hoppers. Also, yesterday afternoon I went by H-L and picked up some (craft) paint bottles, a bottle of gloss spray (for some auto/truck kits I have, or have coming), and a container of X-11 blades for the knife.
Want to start getting the switcher, freight cars and buildings off the layout so I can get to the wiring stuff. If I can get enough things off, I might be able to detach the top from the support legs and flip it over, which could help ease the wiring task.
My back is 99 percent up to snuff again. Feet are still a problem, so will likely see about doctor's appointment and see what he can do for it. Just having pain and stiffness, with off-and-on swelling to go with the stiffness.
I was thinking that maybe we've been having some sunspots or such - this morning I had some trouble with my CU's card, and when I checked online, it looked like they had trouble with showing transactions, although they could show my account balances. So I wound up going by the ATM for cash, just so the card wouldn't be declined or such if I tried to buy lunch. Just checked, and it's now showing transactions, so I guess they were doing update this morning when I had looked earlier. Well, at least the banks haven't collapsed... yet.
See everyone tomorrow - almost time to go home and check the pot roast.
Prayers for all those needing healing, strengthening, comfort, good night's rest, and a few other things...
Blessings,
Jim in Cape G.
Evenin' folks!
Ooooohhhhhh! Long day out at the museum... I sign on duty at 0935 this morning and w*rked straight through the day and then signed off duty at 1655 this afternoon. Got to sit down and gobble lunch during a 15 min wait at Midway Station. Good ridership and a mostly nice crowd. Only a few complete idiots! Most of them parents of kids who were just fine. Go figure?
Flo, I could use a nice big plate with some of the pot roast Jim has with all the timings and lots of hot decaf coffee to warm me up!
Nice day today, but on the verge of being downright cold! Was in the low 50's this morning when I left for the museum and got all the way up to 60°F out there. Currently back down to 55°F
Jim... Feel bad? Not me! I loved it! Justice served...
Ulrich! Good to see you back my friend! I was very worried we wouldn't hear from you again! Had us real scared, you did!
Nice to see the place open again after the housekeeping yesterday.
I'm going to just take it easy tonight. My back is killing me after standing all day on the caboose and walking around on the ballast.
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Gooooooooooood Evening, I'll take a plate of cheeseburgers and a bucket of Coca-Cola please 'n thank-you.
I heard JIM in the Cape Giradeau area was looking to see if I was/is/are still around. Yup. Just haven't had much of anything to say...not THAT THAT has ever stopped me before... Very glad to see ULRICH back among us, and am hoping for the best for several others and their family members going through a multitude of troubles.
VINCENT: Your crack patching on those shells looks good...I'd hit 'em at least one more time and sand with the finest sandpaper on the planet. I agree THAT the fuel tank on your model seems lower than on the prototype. Any way to shave down the girders/beams you installed? You may have to fudge things for appearance there.
Think I'll go hang-out in a corner booth somewhere. I'm tossing stuff up on my Flickr page. Why? I don't know. The odds of somebody looking at the 1,658 photos on there and saying "my God! I NEED to hire this guy to be my ace full-time shooter" are somewhere between slim and none. I think I saw Slim getting on the train, so...
Chris (in Iowa)
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Evening All,
Just finished pork chops and scalloped potatoes for supper.
It amazes me how much like a family we are even though we have not met each other in most cases. I want you all to know how much I appreciate your support. There is still no word from my son so we are in standby waiting.
Well the fridge turned out to be more than the hose. The solenoid valve was actually leaking not the hose or hose connection. It is a Kenmore so I had to drive to the other side of Orlando to get a new part (no parts stores open on Sunday any closer). Replaced the valve then the water valve in the wall started leaking so I had to take it apart and use some Teflon Tape inside the body and that stopped the leak. So a 15 minute job turned into a 4 hour job and a cost of $43.
I really felt like doing something on the layout this afternoon so I made longer track pans, glued them down and painted them.
Oh I almost forgot. I have started installing building lighting on the layout. I have finished the RH extension and I will try to do some on the main layout tomorrow. I figure to do a max of 6 at a time so I don't get burned out doing it.
Paul- I'm glad it sounds like your wife is doing better.
Hope everyone has a good night and prayers for those in need.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
JimRCGMOJeff, hope you are taking good care of your sunburn. Didja put any aloe or such on it? I had heard of some meds that make a person extra-sensitive to the sun - NO fun!
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jeffrey-wimberly JimRCGMOJeff, hope you are taking good care of your sunburn. Didja put any aloe or such on it? I had heard of some meds that make a person extra-sensitive to the sun - NO fun!SolarCaine burn relief with Aloe Vera. At least one of the meds I take causes sun sensitivity. I used to tan. Now I just burn, even with sunblock. That's just one of about forty-five possible side effects.
Remind me of when I was 15, I was on Tetracycline for acne. Over the summer, between being outside for the farm, and maintaining my parents pool, I got dark, real dark. When I returned to school in the fall, some kids barely recognized me ! Clear skin ,,,,I was tall,dark and handsome, so the ladies say!! Shame I couldnt bottle it.....I could use a little now!
Karl
NCE über alles!
Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Just got back from racing at Fountain, and I had a few passes in with slicks. I got a 8.60 at 81 mph as my best (previous was an 8.7-something, but that was in the winter) with most of my runs being in the range of 8.64-8.72. As per usual best run was the first, but I know I can get into the 8.5 second range while it's still summer. The 8.60 run I "granny-shifted" instead of speed shifted and spun a bit. I got it to hook a few times, and speed shifting almost got me a new best on a hotlap. The highlight of my day was running .1 second behind a 2012 Mustang GT that has a new exhaust, intaks, and tune. So I could be a stock one (even with them having close to twice the power, 425 vs. 275) Somehow, I think JR, Todd, and Ken are the only ones who understand what I'm talking about.
Chris, Thanks for the compliments on the crack patching. I could probably go again and finish with some 2000 grit sandpaper. As for the tank, I kept everything in the stock place. and shaving down the girders would bring the tank up, but may require modifying the frame. I'm thinking some .06 quarter round styrene glued to the top of the tanks would help the tanks and give it some semblance of a tank profile. But then I'd have to move the piece of the skirt (something for the battery box) I cut off and glued to the tank up by about the same amount so some .06x.06 stip would be needed as well. I think I have some .06x.06 laying around though.
Garry, Thanks. Hopefully I'll finish them by the end of the year. As for the light bulbs, some cars they are a pain. I remember the 2003 expedition my mom had, it was kinda tricky to replace lights too. All the plastic "dress up" pieces seem to get in the way on the newer cars. My car requires some contorionism to extract the bulb from the car. Removing it is easy, is just getting the buld out of the car itelf is tricky.
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.
Evening Folks
Flo, Beer Pleases!
Work Front, Lets say it was pretty dull. Highlight was while we where bored and Eric stated they where going to get rid of Brad. "He calls in sick a lot". I then asked if he need to see my Doctors Note, he said "NO, we are getting rid of you too"! I wish, well sort of. I priced a pair of brake pads for a car today, our cost $24.99. Computer marked it up to $75.00 and that is with out install labor?
Toe Front Got a good look at it today out side in the sunlight. Left side of it is Yellow and looks like a big Callus! That is what started this whole mess in the first places. I hope I see my Surgeon this week, she seems to have a brain! I hope!
Ulrich Glad to see you back! What happened, heart attack?
For a short day I feel pretty beat up. Will see you all later.
Ken
PS Vincent JR and I are not the only Drag Racers here you know!
I hate Rust
Jannie just a refill of the decaf please...
True to my word I have just sat around and done nothing tonight. I am pretty much tuckered out for the day.
Checked the Electric Meter when I got home tonight. at sundown. It was 10 Kwh less than it was yesterday at that time. i also went down cellar and checked out the solar panel output for the day and found it had generated 18.74 Kwhs today.... Since I wasn't home there wasn't much of anything running all day. With it being cold, the air conditioners are off as well. According to my calculations it has been up and producing power for 10 days. The meter is read the 26th. of each month (usually). It also looks like the next 3 days should have a reasonably good amount of sunshine and should at least break even on electric production. So... Last year in September I used 765 Kwh of electricity here. So far this September I have used 348 (and that is with only 10 days of saving from the panels...). (Grin, Grin)
Oh, I was going to tell you earlier that we almost had to bring out the 45 Tonner Beebee Station this morning to fill in for power. One of the student Engineers who is almost finished with his formal training hours was told to start up US Army 80 tonner #1654 for service. He got in the cab, did all the usual start up sequence, pushed the start button and it only went "click!" So he started checking it out and after 10 minutes of looking found the bolt on one of the cables connecting to 6 batteries (8 volt deep cycle marine batteries) was sheared off. The Vice President of the museum was up at the shop and looked around and found another bolt to repair it while I got a step ladder so they could reach the battery compartment to fix it (the sum total of my contribution except for making a lot of wisecracks about who broke the loco). After THAT the engineer pushed the start button and she cranked right over and started. Since he had gotten there early and was 10 minutes ahead of schedule, we were only about 20 minutes behind schedule by THAT time.
They brought the 80 tonner over to the arrival/departure track from the storage track and coupled onto the Erie Caboose, and then had to shove back another foot to couple onto the PC Transfer Caboose we were also using for today. Hooked up the glad hands all the way around and pumped up the air. Did the brake test... No brakes! Rechecked everything (I got on board the Erie which usually wants to play games getting the brakes to work to make sure we were getting air pressure). Tried again... Still no brakes... Bled off the air again and started over... On the 4th. or 5th. try the cylinders both decided to play good and the brakes went on like they should. Released the brakes and they released as they should. Now we are a half hour behind schedule to get up to midway and get everything set up. We left the yard and somehow managed to get Midway station opened and all the exhibits set up just as the Trolley arrived with a full load of people! Gotta love working with 50 to 70 year old equipment... I keep telling visitors that all our equipment are antiques.... just like the folks working at the museum! The car hosts and conductor made sure we were near the hand brakes just in case for the first couple of runs...
Have a great night! Prayers for all in need!
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
Monday, September 24, 2012
NKP 765, Walnut St., Muncie In-July 2012
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
GOOD MORNING!!!
Sometimes when buying a used loco online, it is like buying a "pig in a poke" SO:
pig in a poke - something sub-standard that is bought without proper examination - from the country trick of a putting a cat in a bag to pass it off as a suckling pig; 'poke' is an old English word for bag, from the French 'poche' for bag or pocket: See Also let the cat out of the bag
ALSO:
let the cat out of the bag - give away a secret - a country folk deception was to substitute cat for a suckling pig in a bag for sale at market; if the bag was opened the trick was revealed. See also 'pig in a poke'. Additionally this expression might have been reinforced by the maritime use of the 'cat 'o' nine tails' (a type of whip) which was kept in a velvet bag on board ship and only brought out to punish someone?.
Have y'all enjoyed the origin {sometimes an assumed origin} of common phrases? What would you like to see for next month?
The Prayer candle is lit
Good morning. Well maybe for you it is. It's 69° and the humidity is 99%. We have patchy fog. The high will be 92° but will probably feel like 99°. It'll be partly cloudy.I'm not a happy camper this morning. I was awakened at 3 am by intense back pain, tightness in my chest and a burning sensation from my neck down to my knees. I;m somewhat lightheaded and dizzy. It sounds alarming but 90% of it is med side effects. The other 10%, the burning feeling, is due to a pinched nerve in my neck. Some Aleve has dulled that but the nerve problem will require I spend some time in the traction rig. That's hung on the closet door and awaiting my presence. I know where I'll be for the next hour or two. Depending on how I feel later I may get some layout work in. I also have plans to start on scratch building a grain elevator similar to the Walthers ADM elevator. I'll have to get measurements for the approximate size of the buildings.
(post was written Saturday morning prior to me realizing the site was down for maintenance. Due to the fact the notice on my screen said the site would be up again Monday, I didn’t try to stop in yesterday. Nothing happened here anyway. )
Good Morning!!!
Coffee and Huevos Rancheros please. Thanks.
Got about ¾ inch rain last night!! (Friday)
Carpenter ants…..hate ‘em. Luckily, only heard about them, never met one. I don’t think. I understand they are as bad as termites.
Bob- I look about the house and I see my Mom’s house and that scares me. The basement has become a couple of path’s (exaggeration but not much) and stuff is everywhere. I told myself when moving her that I was NOT gonna have all that stuff thinking of my “passion” for keeping every car part I could right down to the nuts and bolts.
I was so proud of myself when I let all that stuff go with my BIL on his scrap metal run. Of course I realized later that I let my rear bumper mounts and the rear license plate/fuel access assembly go. Some of us older guys know what I’m talking about. That beautiful design that allowed you to pull up to the fuel pump on EITHER side of the car without having to circle the pumps like a bunch of Comanche’s trying to locate your fuel filler on the correct side while watching the pump you were going for get taken before you could get there. Why can’t they leave the good ideas alone.
So…….Ken. Don’t know what to say. Sorry for….your loss? Sue’s loss? Hey, does this mean you still have to pay taxes? Gotta be some loophole where you can stay dead and still get a paycheck. I mean they do it in Chicago all the time.
Ulrich- Whew. Good to hear from you. I was afraid something was wrong. My prayers continue for your health.
Flip- Thanks for the update on Jerry and Sallie, I pray for them as well.
OK, big excitement in Williamsville last night. Getting ready for w**k when the police and then rescue squad come blazing by. Turns out, the guy who lives on the next block, “Dave…or Bob something, cut some “dude” off on the highway. Or at least so the “dude” felt.” (Sorry events were told to me by the two neighbor girls about 14 or 15 years old.) Anyway, “ “dude” followed Dave or Bob something home and started arguing and yelling at him. Then, get this!!!! (eyes get real big) Dude SPITS in his face and like I guess hits him. Then they started fighting and the fire truck is washing the blood off the drive now I think.” After a later debriefing of the Police Chief, Dave or Bob something is fine. I think he had a scuff. Dude however, went to the hospital before the pokey to get several stiches in his head, have his incredibley swollen face looked at ….as well as his 4 newly missing teeth.
Lesson learned here folks. Never follow a guy home to kick his rump due to road rage. Juuuust may not work out as you envision while in pursuit. Bet he won’t be so quick to follow anyone else home. (ring, ring) “Hello?” “Hi honey….sorry I’m late, um when am I coming home…? Haha. Well funny thing. Um, You um…you know how you always say not to get so Billy Bad *** with people cause someday someone’s gonna…. Well…haha…. Guess what? HEY! I thought it was a sure thing. He was driving a Volvo for crying out loud. And he had golf clubs in the back! And a “My kids an Honor Student’ bumper sticker. All the signs were there!!!”
Heeeere’s your sign.
Ya’ll have a good day!!!!
Oh and Curt…..Your refrige-a-deezer ice maker repair sounds exactly like everything I get involved with. Remember this shower rebuild started with just replacing the door.
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.
Lunchtime in Germany!
Flo, I´ll have a chili dog with all the works, fries and a RBF to wash it down, please.
The weather is pretty miserable in our neck of the woods. Lots of and - a perfect day for staying inside and let the mind wander around.
Drafting up that plan for my friend Lothar made me think about my own MRRing activities. N scale has its limitations, at least for me.It´s fine for letting trains move along a nice large layout, but if you only have space for what our friends from the Great Island (UK) call avidly a "shunting plank", it is too small. What if I also go back to HO scale, German prototype? I could exchange locos and rolling stock with Lothar - an intriguing thought. Sourcing should also be less cumbersome than buying just about every bit and piece in Japan...
Well, I spent the better part of the morning putting some ideas on paper. Basically, the layout is nothing but a timesaver, with a fiddle yard added. It fits on the shelf I have with my N scale layout being relegated to the upper deck of it.
This is my idea:
I will have to equip the locos and cars with Kadee couplers, but that´s an easy game, as Kadee offers a drop-in replacement.
Motive power could be something like this:
It´s a 1960´s 0-6-0 Diesel-hydraulic switcher, which also saw some road service. The local passenger train could be handled by this:
I think Jeff remembers those railbuses quite well from his days in Germany. The had a distinctive sound to them, which is well captured by the model.
Just thoughts
Jeff - I hope you´ll be feeling better soon!
Have a splendid day!
Good Morning
Nice and sunny but kinda coolish out there...42F right now...and of course the weatherguessers are saying a 'mix of sun and cloud' with the ever popular chance of rain be falling on our'n heads here...high? 57F....
Today is another day of grocery buying and general cleanup around the house/yard....
Have a great day!!!
Ulrich: Which models are those? They look familiar....
Good morning, Diners. A quick coffee before I head to work.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Barry - they are the standard branch line locos of the late 1950´s and 60´s in Germany. Nearly all manufacturers sold them, be it Marklin, Fleischmann, Trix or Roco. They were at home at nearly any layout of my youth days.
Funny thing just happened. i was watching my favorite TV show "Railroad Romances". In this 2002 feature they ran a report on "billboard" tank cars, advertising household chemicals. The person they interviewed was the girlfriend of my student days! What a surprise. We lost contact over 3 decades ago. I can´t say she looks the same now, but I would have recognized her on the spot! Shouldn´t let Petra know
Sir Madog I think Jeff remembers those railbuses quite well from his days in Germany. The had a distinctive sound to them, which is well captured by the model.
Jeff - I have fond memories of rides in one of them "red buzzers" or in German "Roter Brummer". During my final year at the University of Cologne, I was sick and tired of being stuck in a traffic jam every morning and every evening, so I opted for taking the train. It cut traveling time down to half! At the beginning, it was still a Roter Brummer making up the train. I always managed to get a front seat, right behind the driver. The buzzers did not only have a distinct sound to them, but also a very special smell in them. A mixture of Diesel, toilet odor and an undefined smell coming from the plastic upholstery. I never got around taking a picture, as they were nothing special in those days - at least that´s what I thought. Later in that year, they were taken out of service and replaced by a V 100 Diesel hydraulic loco pulling a string of "Umbauwagen" - coaches rebuilt on the platform of at that time 80 year old Prussian 6-wheeled cars. Not much of an improvement, but a little faster, cutting 5 minutes off the timetable. A typical consist looked close to what Fleischmann offers in N scale:
A lot of those "Red Buzzers" were sold to Greece, Croatia and other exotic countries. Only a few are preserved now.
'morning everyone (or suppose 'afternoon to some of you )
Nothing much happening here ... haven't been active in the [model] railroading scene for a number of months (though I have started posting here again in the past week or two). Have been working on the 12" to the foot scale ones though. BIG difference in weight there .
-Dan
Builder of Bowser steam! Railimages Site
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, need lots of very hot dark roast coffee in my R&GV RR Mug!!! Mostly just to warm up my hands as I have already had one pot of it before I came over here...
It was 53°F outside when I rolled out of bed this morning... I slept in for an extra hour too. Right now it has crept all the way up to 55°F under partly cloudy skies with a predicted high of 60°! Good day to do some baking I think. May have to light the wood stove for as while to get a bit of heat in the house.
I see we have another 12" to the foot modeler here this morning... Welcome NE06874, good to see you!
Ulrich, so good to see you planning again! Love the little layouts you come with.
I have a long list of items having to get done today so I won't spend a lot of time sitting at the computer (except for those things requiring the computer, which seems to be quite a few items on the list...)
"Welcome Back" is probably better -- I used to stop by the diner every so often about a year or two ago
howmus Ulrich, so good to see you planning again! Love the little layouts you come with.
Ray - those plans keep me from thinking about my future, which does not look to good, both in terms of health and finances. Both issues are connected to each other...
Morning All,
Currently 57 with an expected high of 79 under "mixed skies".
Supposed to have a closing shift today, but oncologist just called and said he will start second round of chemo later today, so I do not think I will be going in.
On layout front, used a rattle can of Rust Oleum reddish primer to weather the tracks. They came out OK, will look a lot better once some ballast is applied. Speaking of ballast, I have never tried Arizona Rock and Ballast (at least that is the name I think) but have heard good reviews, Anyone have thoughts on this brand?