Dan, you ARE the Man! Have a on me and Rerun. I didn't think or expect you were gonna go searching, so appreciate it greatly.
Now if you can get Photobucket to complete their "maintenance," then people can see what Elevator G looks like...
It looks like the wheels/pit rail will be tough. I see he went with cut stone pit walls, the IC used timbers. Where Mr. B. went with a truss, I'll use girders... oy vey! Darned prototype-based modeling!!!
Chris (in Iowa) **insert eight ball when Photobucket gets their bucket fixed***
Now...back to w**k
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Chris: Elevator G is looking good. Photobucket had a server crash last week so they're probably still having a few problems with it.
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
Hi Guys
I need some advice from you guys who are more experienced in the workforce then I am. I am 30 years old and have only ever had two jobs in my life. One I started when I was 16 until I was 20 and the other from when I was 20 until I was 30.
Well Thursday I have a job interview, unfortunately its through a temp agency but the job will be close to 45 hours a week and after three months I would be hired on. I have to admit right now Im nervous about the interview and job. I have always been uncomfortable around new people and new surroundings so yeah a new job kind of freaks me out. Would you guys have any advice on how to stay calm and get through it. Im really not looking forward to this....
Jeremy
On the railroad front I havent done much at all lately. I have been trying to work on the railroad and my RC tanks today to calm my nerves but its not working very good. I know people here are always friendly and do a good job on cheering people up so I could use some calming words.
I guess when it comes down to it though at least I have a job ( possibly, if I don't fail the interview somehow,lol )
Evenin' folks!
Flo, I'll have the BBQ Chicken with Yellow Squash Casserole, and a slice of fresh Cantaloupe for supper tonight. Since it's cool outside, I think I could go for a cup of decaf along with the meal...
Jeremy, just remember that an interview is a two way street. You are interviewing them just as much as they are interviewing you. Most of it is just keeping everything in prospective. They are interested in you just as much as you are interested in them, or you wouldn't be getting the interview. Put your best foot forward and just be your self!
Got a bit of ballasting done today on the upper staging. Little by little... I also took my little trailer down to the local independent Tire store to get it inspected. Took about 30 seconds since it doesn't have brakes. Thursday I will be loading up the Log Splitter at my son's house so I can take it out to the museum this Saturday.
Progress happened again to day with the Solar panel installation:
The lady next door just walked by while I was turning the chicken on the grill. She was walking her dog and gave me a big thumbs up and said she likes the combination and it looks great on the new roof. Been quite a few gawkers driving by this evening...
Catch up to you all a bit later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
howmusJeremy, just remember that an interview is a two way street. You are interviewing them just as much as they are interviewing you. Most of it is just keeping everything in prospective. They are interested in you just as much as you are interested in them, or you wouldn't be getting the interview. Put your best foot forward and just be your self!
Thanks Ray I appreciate the kind words. I will try to remember that on Thursday.
Time for me to call it a night. I had intended to work on the tractor today. I got down there and started getting the tools together and my body said 'Oh no you don't!'. My energy was gone and my get up and go got up and went. So I got some laundry done then went back home. Tonight my father and I went to KFC for dinner. It gave him a good chance to tell me that my mother is getting bad off again. She has another abdominal infection flaring up and they're trying to head it off before it gets too bad. He has to take her to Alexandria tomorrow to see a doctor there. So far that;s all the information I have. See y'all tomorrow.
Just a quick hello. 911, I was working for Midas as a manager, I watched in horror as the towels came down in the customer lounge.
Tooth is better.
Ken
I hate Rust
Good evening, plate of cheeseburgers and a tall, cold 7-Up please 'n thank-you.
JEFF: Sorry to hear the latest on your Mom...thoughts and prayers continue for her. Thanks for the kind words on Elevator G, it's got a long way to go. Just trying to get smooth joints on the silos has resulted in a lot of "fun." I can't wait until I join the three sides of the main building (scotch tape is holding it together currently, for planning purposes).
Here's a "how I'm doing it" shot, now THAT Photobucket is functional again...
And a shot of the real thing:
As you can see, it kinda dominates the neighborhood.
Even with a 30" deep shelf, it still eats up quite a bit of real estate. The other sections of the plant will be much "flatter" flats. Although I did have a crazy idea of making the "sub-attic" habitable and building more of the plant in there. Maybe after all of the other home improvements are taken care of (in about 100 years), I can go and do THAT.
I know I'm not planning this layout as the experts would recommend, and it may bite me in the butt. However, drawing plans hasn't gotten me anywhere thus far other than up to my eye brows in frustration. I know what I want to do, I know what kind of space I have...I just have to knock stuff together to see how it all fits, or not. The good thing is, mock-ups (like the IC/ICG/CCP roundhouse) are mere cardboard. I'm only out some time with those. IF my plans go to crap..."Elevator G" can become part of something else, or even sold-off if need-be.
Speaking of selling, did I mention I have a factory-new in the un-opened box Walthers ADM Elevator available? *hint hint hint*
Have a good night folks, best wishes for all in need and a dose of good luck to those needing some of THAT too!
Chris (in Iowa)
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
It's Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Depot, Noblesville IN on the former IMC Dist of the NKP (LE&W)
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Morning Coffee
GOOD MORNING!!!
Anything that doesn't agree with our ways or thinking,
we may think of as BLADERDASH!!! SO:
balderdash - nonsense - nowadays balderdash means nonsense, but it meant ribaldry or jargon at the time of Brewer's 1870 dictionary. A still earlier meaning of the word was more precisely 'a jumbled mixture of words', and before that from Scandinavia 'a mixture'. Skeat's 1882 dictionary provides the most useful clues as to origins: Scandinavian meanings were for 'poor stuff' or a 'poor weak drink', which was obviously a mixture of sorts. In Danish 'balder' was noise or clatter, and the word danske was slap or flap, which led to an older alternative meaning of a 'confused noise', or any mixture. Certain dictionaries suggest an initial origin of a frothy drink from the English 16thC, but this usage was derived from the earlier 'poor drink' and 'mixture' meanings and therefore was not the root, just a stage in the expression's development
-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 Morning
Wherein we can has one of those days of heat some haze and a bit of humidity for our viewing pleasure. Supposed to go to 82F for the high feeling like 88F today....
today will be our BBQ day as well as relaxing from a day of doctor appointments and various other things...my CT scan is scheduled for next month....
Ray: The solar panel installation looks good from here...are they doing the back part as well?
Chris: Elevator G looks like it will dominate any corner of that layout...more like the so called Purina plant did to Woodstock ON....
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,
59F, 69% Humidity, HI 83F, sunny
Jeff, I know, I’ve led a sheltered life….
Sorry to hear about your mom, hopefully Doc can help her out, let us know how things go.
I did go in search of a Gooseberry pie, even going to the Gooseberry River north of Duluth, MN. Just south of the river I found a roadside pie restaurant. Yes I said PIE and they served almost every kind of pie in 2 pound slices. I asked if they had Gooseberry and they laughed at me so then I asked for Rhubarb Pie and they had never heard of that either….
Tom it’s not just family trying to ruin our plans. I’ve been trying to go to the Lodi Train Show for 3 years now and every year something pops up. This year I have to take Katje to the vet so I’m going to try to sneak out Sunday for the second day of the show.
Garry, one of the guys in my duty section was in Disney World at the time and he and his family had to rent a U-Haul truck to drive back to Ohio since all flights were cancelled and all the rental cars were gone.
Atlas Turntable: B&O used that style of turntable in their fully enclosed roundhouses.
Jeremy just be yourself, answer the questions direct and to the point.
Ray if your neighbors ask questions just tell them it’s to power your train layout.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Chris: One of the things I learned from the many books I've read about making scenery is not to let any one part of the scenery, be it a forest, structure, etc, dominate the layout. Everything else becomes a slave to it and suddenly the trains aren't the focal point anymore and the purpose here is to have the trains as the focal point. The scenery is set dressing and the trains are the actors. The actors can't do their job of getting the attention of those viewing the layout if they're lost amidst the scenery. Sometimes the thing to do is to make the huge items a bit smaller to keep them from making the rest of the layout looking smaller.
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Good morning. It's 65°, partly cloudy with a small chance of rain. High of 88°, wind SW at 5 to 10 mph.Not feeling good this morning but what else is new. Plan for today is to stay inside and catch up on my movie watching. Layoutwise there are no new projects to work on so I see no reason to mess with it. If I feel better later I might get some scenery materials out, at least what little I have and see what I can do. I have some trees on the layout that the foliage has rotted away, they need some attention. Humidity here is murder on scenery.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe I'll have a bowl of the Organic Pomegran Cherry Granola cereal with blueberries added and a cup or two (Maybe 3) of my dark roast coffee in a R&GV RR Mug.
Nice bright sunny day here in the Finger Lakes in NYS today. Temperature is 57°F with a high in the low 80's later this afternoon. I have a Dermatologist Appt. and then an Appointment for a service for the Yaris after that in Canandaigua this afternoon.
It's official! # cars from the New York Central Empire State Express we are restoring at the R&GV RR Museum will be used for an excursion on the LA&L (which goes right by the museum on what used to be Erie tracks). It is open to the public. Date is Saturday, October 27. The cars will be pulled by 2 of the LA&L's pristine Alcos! More information can be found here: http://rgvrrm.blogspot.com/2012/09/rare-mileage-fan-trip-oct-27.html It is filling up fast. Only made public a couple days ago and there 75 people already paid for the trip....
Barry, there are 18 panels. They want to be positioned on the roof to make the best use of available sunshine so no panels will be placed on the other side of the roof. The installer should be finished by noon today (or so he thinks). The Code officer will do final photos and look around late this afternoon hopefully after I get back from Canandaigua.
Have a good and safe day!
Morning Folks,
Currently 54 with an expected high of 90 and humidity 49, which is kind of high for us.
Jeff- sorry to hear your mom may have took a turn for the worse.
Jeremy -Be yourself, answer questions truthfully, look 'em in the eye, and you should be fine.
Chris - I have drawn plenty of plans for my layouts over the years, and have never stuck to one. I usually use them as a rough guide and then build as I go. It may not be the way the "experts" do it, but it has worked for me.
Colonoscopy on my wife did not show where she was bleeding from, but as of last night it stopped. Doc will not discharge her unti she has not been bleeding for 48 hrs, and he may want to hold off of the next chemo treatment until he sees how she is doing with all the othe stuff.
I have the day off so I have to cut the green stuff in the front yard, do laundry, and some general house cleaning, then off to the hospital.
After two downloads of JMRI, and a check on Digitrax web site to install the driver for the PR 3 on my new lap top, everything is working as of right now.
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
Paul, I’m glad to hear your wife is doing better, but staying in the hospital for an extra 48 hours is the pitts. What version of JMRI did you download? I can’t get it to run on my 64 bit WIN7 machine.
Lee - My new lap top is a 64 bit Win7 also, I down loaded version 3.0 NOT 3.1.1
Goooooood Morning, bucket of coffee please, thanks.
JEFF: Yup, good points! The area I'm trying to replicate has the world's largest cereal mill and a large power plant. But, those two...set pieces...are concentrated in one area. After THAT, going South the line runs through downtown Cedar Rapids. Going North, the line passes the ex-RI roundhouse and into the ex-RI yards. Everything is going to be selectively compressed, out of necessity. I could use the entire second floor of my house, with the interior walls removed, and probably still not have enough space to model the Quaker Oats complex in full. When I built the ex-RI roundhouse, I used the Atlas kit. It has the same lines, but is shorter in length. I also made it nine stalls vs. the dozen of the prototype. I've already had a "Joe in the know" say it captured the "feel" and matched his memories of the place. THAT's what I'm going for.
PAUL: Thanks for the encouragement. I'm a firm believer in learning from the mistakes of others...so I realize the "experts" say how things "should" be done for a reason; and i guess THATs what makes them "experts." I'd like to think I'm a "pert." I'm not an "ex-pert" yet!
Gotta get moving: Rerun needs his late morning bombing run on the back yard, and I gotta get ready to go to w**k. Today's agenda includes a doctor's office celebrating 25 years in business (without affiliating with any of the "health networks" in the state), and a City Council meeting. Yip. Yip. Yahoo. I'm still a bit taken aback from the high school volleyball game I covered last night: no mention whatsoever of 9-11. I thought maybe a moment of silence, at the least. Nope. Nothing. As it is, some in the student section were screwing around during the National Anthem.
Have a good day everybody,
Hey, I think I just saw the lunch special for the day:
Was not able to post yesterday, was in Jackson, MS all day. One of my brothers was shipped out to basic trainning (not the mrr course) for the Air Guard, he is going into services.
Samuel A. Kelly
I can draw pictures with my keyboard!
-------- ( It's a worm)
sakelWas not able to post yesterday, was in Jackson, MS all day. One of my brothers was shipped out to basic trainning (not the mrr course) for the Air Guard, he is going into services.
Thanks all
I appreciate the kind words on the passing of my best half. Robin. It has been a very tough road. There are days when even the thought of model railroading will not get me going. Appreciate all of the prayers very much.
Samuel - congrat on your brother going into the svc. Give him a pat on the back from us. If he is heading to the middle east I have some advice for him. This came straight from the front over there and is a true story. There is a marine on my site who fought in all of the major conflicts in the middle east. While stationed in the middle east they had some bad guys that were using a nearby village to drop shels in on the marine base. Out of frustration after several attempts to root out the baddies the marine seargent told the locals that if they didnt stop shelling teh marines they would fly a large plane over there village and rain pigs blood on them. The shelling stopped. You know why ? They believe the pig is an unclean animal and if a pig so much as walks across the ground that section of teh land has to be abaondened FOREVER. I think I have a quick cheap way to end the war !
AmanMedic - hear you about your frustration with the students. Send them to me. Let me take them to the pentagon where a friend of mine was killed , some more injuried. I will show them where my friend died and where my other friends were injured. I will show them the blackened sections where Americans were burned then I will let them meet my marine friend who fought to stop the muslim terroist. That will stop some of that foolishness
Paul - will keep your wife in prayer.
AmanaMedicSpeaking of selling, did I mention I have a factory-new in the un-opened box Walthers ADM Elevator available? *hint hint hint*
Good Afternoon...
Sitting out back with the laptop and enjoying the fresh country air...while BBQ'ing some Angus Beef Burgers....
Had a bit of a surprise this morning...boss showed up with company bonus check...knew I missed something somewhere........which means more ca$h for mrr....hopefully...
So much for a quiet night. Looks like we have storms moving up from southeast Texas. Looks like it could get noisy.
strong to severe thunderstorms developing over southeast Texas and eastern portions of central Louisiana will move northeast at 20 mph. Rainfall rates up to an inch an hour will be possible in and around Kirbyville and eventually Newton as well as Marksville and Opelousas. Small hail, gusts to 40 mph, and frequent lightning will be possible with these storms.
Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Janie, i could sure use a cup of decaf right now... Maybe a slice of peach pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top.... What? Oh, I'll eat it standing up, that way it doesn't count.
Long day around here. My Dermatology Appt. was rescheduled due to some emergency that took the Dr. away for the day. I got the Yaris Serviced. Oil change and tire rotation. Lets see, something else happened??? Oh! I know! I got to see my electric meter spin backwards! Yep, the system is all in stalled and working. At about 1:30 this afternoon the installer threw the cut off switch and I started producing Electricity right here at home. Last time I looked around supper time, the meter wheel was standing perfectly still and the panels had produced 12 Kw of power so far. That was about 5PM. The Certified inspector who was supposed to be there to certify the system never showed up so we still have that to do. The Electric Company installing the system is going to find a different person to inspect it. Guess this one has pulled the same thing before.
Jeffrey hope the weather isn't too bad around your place tonight!
Prayers for all in need!
Goood eve, uh, morning...
YOUGOTTAWANTA: First, my deepest condolences for your loss, I can't imagine what you've been going through, but we're all here for you. Second, I agree 100% with what you said. What surprised me the most, was I could've gone to the other school I cover, a more "urban" school. I figured the small-town school would be more respectful than the one with thugs wandering around with their pants half-way down their...rears.
Maybe not, I don't know.
What I do know is THAT every high school has it's collection of jack wagons, they just happened to be concentrated in one small area, I guess. They were a far cry from one of the 2012 graduates I got to know pretty well over the past four years: a stand-up guy, noble and honorable. He was in the car behind a car full of teens last fall involved in a high-speed collision near the school. As a volunteer firefighter and EMT, he had multiple patients ranging from DOA to critical to minor. Then he realized his parents were in the other vehicle. He kept his composure and did what he could before Fire, EMS and the LEO's arrived. Two weeks after graduation, he joined the Marine Corps. I'm proud to say I know him.
This same school district held a Veterans' Day event last year with a color guard made up of then-current, and recent grads who had joined the Iowa Army National Guard. Again, awesome and decent kids. I just wish they'd been there to knock some sense into the butt-clowns.
Maybe patriotism just isn't "cool" anymore...
Morning Coffee in the Diner!!!
Good Morning!!!
Today is Thursday, September 13th, 2012!!!
Have you ever wondered where the "&" symbol and its likenesses came from? Or what it is called?
It is the "ampersand", and here is where it is from:
ampersand
- the '&' symbol, meaning 'and' - the word ampersand appeared in the English language in around 1835. It is a corrupted (confused) derivation of the term 'And per se', which was the original formal name of the & symbol in glossaries, alphabets, and official reference works. 'Per se' is Latin and meant 'by itself', as it still does today. Traditionally all letters were referenced formally in the same way. The letter A would have been 'A per se', B would have been called 'B per se', just as the '&' symbol was 'And per se'. The ampersand symbol itself is a combination - originally a ligature (literally a joining) - of the Letters E and t, or E and T, being the Latin word 'et' meaning 'and'. The earliest representations of the ampersand symbol are found in Roman scriptures dating back nearly 2,000 years. If you inspect various ampersand symbols you'll see the interpretation of the root ET or Et letters. The symbol has provided font designers more scope for artistic impression than any other character, and ironically while it evolved from hand-written script, few people use it in modern hand-writing, which means that most of us have difficulty in reproducing a good-looking ampersand by hand without having practiced first.
September 13, 2012 is the 257th day of the year 2012 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 109 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Mokuyōbi.
Interurban passenger and freight depot, Tipton IN-1930s
Good Morning modelers et all,
66F, 70% Humidity, HI 82F, mostly sunny
Ray, those are mighty fine looking solar panels, I look forward to your reports on future electric bills to hear about the savings.
Sakel, that’s outstanding news. Retired myself and served in Kuwait during the 2003 conflict. Funny I was sitting on a short stack of sandbags one morning outside of the Army’s dining facility waiting to go on patrol when an Army private sat down across from me and asked how he could join the Coast Guard and get the heck out of the desert, I told him sorry I’m stuck in the giant litter box without any hope of going home soon….. I was based out of Camp Spearhead and we had every branch of the service there except for Air force. The Air force stayed at Camp Wolf. We figured that was because Camp Wolf had a golf course and we didn’t, LOL!
Paul, thanks I’ll give that a try.