Evening all!
Zoe, I've already had dinner, but can I trouble you for some pumpkin cheesecake? That stuff is just amazing!
Nice quiet day today, wife gave me a haircut, and I took my son to work, but other than that, I haven't done a darn thing but watch train videos on Youtube or watch TV all day! Well, the DR. did tell me to take it easy on my feet, and since I'm going back to work tomorrow, I thought it would be now or never!!
Skunks in the diner,,,,Cool! We've had them around from time to time, even had a litter in the window well under the deck at one time. My ex-FIL had one in the house(descented of course) Named him after his boss! Cute lil buggers,,,,and smart too!
Galaxy,,I hope you feel less achy soon,, but just in case you think about puttin me on your "50+, he's gonna die" list, I'm officially changing my age back to 29. I'll just celebrate anniversaries from now on!
I'll be back later, maybe, or I may take a nap,,,,it's hard to tell on a lazy day!!
Karl
NCE über alles!
Evenin' folks!
Flo, just a slice of the pumpkin pie with a nice scoop of vanilla ice cream to go along with a mug of decaf, please!
I had a good day out at the museum. Spent the day as a museum guide as they had plenty of people to man the trains. We had a bit over 250 people there during the day. Good number for us. A lot of families with small children. We also had 3 or 4 of us as museum guides. One is a member who has just moved back into the Rochester area from the Big Apple. He was having a great time with the visitors and took over tours for everyone as soon as they got off the cabooses. I had a very easy day.....
I think i shall do a bit of reading up on bridges in a book I got recently from Kalmbach. Unbeknownst to me the book was partly written by a good friend of mine Harold Russell. It is way b eyond me at this point, but if I sit back and digest it, I may learn some things about bridges and how they were built by the railroads. Too tired to do anything with the layout.
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Thanks guys for your kind welcome.I just got back from having dinner out at a local restaurant.Everything they say about Montreal eateries is true.Great food at a reasonable price.Earlier today I was working on my G scale static RR and putting up the facade front on an old western saloon.Old west construction is really easy to do as it is really just a bunch of old wood slapped together.Havin' fun ! will post a pic later. Cheers!
Once Upon a time.........
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I quit drinking beer because the download was taking longer than the upload !
Heartland Division CB&Q jeffrey-wimberly galaxyI certianly hope we get a COLA this year...gas here is $4.05 a gallon! I go absolutely NOWHERE if I don't have to! and food,, everytime I go I am amazed at how little I come home with for what I spend.I hope so too. Not being able to walk more than 100-150 feet I have to drive everywhere just about. My old van gets about 10-12 mpg, 14 mpg if it has a good tail wind. In my opinion the 318 was never designed to be an economical engine. It was intended to be a workhorse. The CBO estimates COLA will be 1.3%. Seems a bit low to me because CPI as of August was up 1.7% from prior year. ..... Social Security uses September CPI numbers to compute COLA.
jeffrey-wimberly galaxyI certianly hope we get a COLA this year...gas here is $4.05 a gallon! I go absolutely NOWHERE if I don't have to! and food,, everytime I go I am amazed at how little I come home with for what I spend.I hope so too. Not being able to walk more than 100-150 feet I have to drive everywhere just about. My old van gets about 10-12 mpg, 14 mpg if it has a good tail wind. In my opinion the 318 was never designed to be an economical engine. It was intended to be a workhorse.
galaxyI certianly hope we get a COLA this year...gas here is $4.05 a gallon! I go absolutely NOWHERE if I don't have to! and food,, everytime I go I am amazed at how little I come home with for what I spend.
The CBO estimates COLA will be 1.3%. Seems a bit low to me because CPI as of August was up 1.7% from prior year. ..... Social Security uses September CPI numbers to compute COLA.
Hmm...A one percenter..gee I can buy another loaf of bread a month then! Oh, and maybe a pound of butter to butter said bread with...
SKUNKS? in the DINER?? Yep! They have been visiting here quite a while..he posts pics sometimes so people know he DOES have skunks...de-skunked of course!
Boy do I ache. GOt the injections the last Wed and not yet feelin' the healin'! My left knee is not any happier than a day camper deep in the woods who forgot the picnic basket and insect repellent! I know what the Dr will say..."loose some weight"...Gee when I was a drinker all my problems were cause of that, then when I quite drinking manymany years ago, it became the smoking was the cause of all my troubles, now that that monkey has been off my back for nigh on 8 years, it is the weight {some of which I gained after quiting smoking, mind you}.I wonder WHAT they will blame if I manage to loose the weight? The air I breathe? Oh I pay for that already..in the O2 machine at night!
MOH and I have noted that there seem to be a lot of people in their 50s passing on. We don't know if it is our imagination, or for real that there seems to be a lot who pass young-ish like us. MOH theorizes that maybe after WWII that "something in the air or water" might have caused things to go awry?. Radiation from the bombs maybe? Dunno.It just brings one's own mortality closer when people your own age pass who are not really that old...{well to a 23 y/o we are "older than the hills' at 50s.}. Both of us would hate to loose each other so soon.
Well, I have rambled enouhg and getting late {for us old folks}.
Have a good night all!
-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.
My old old radio shack nibbler takes a 1/4 hole. Just checked. Had to look for it, haven't used it in a long while.
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
When you said you were going to the "Skunk Show", I thought you were kidding So now you show up back here with pictures..... Who would of thunk???????????????????????????
saronaterry Not as good of job as Ray, but I'm also partial to the 3' rule. Oh, well.
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Thanks Garry, and all 3 are powered and DCC. I'll have to look into diaphrams. Cool idea ! Do any of your F's have them, and if so where did you get them? Install easy or rough? Pictures?
Welcome, John!
Boy, do I dislike ballasting. Did about 6-7' of sidings. Kind of a perfectionist so it took forever! I got right down to look without my glasses on, probably woulda been fine anyway. Not as good of job as Ray, but I'm also partial to the 3' rule. Oh, well.
Terry in NW Wisconsin
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JohnReid Thank you Garry for your kind welcome.Is it just for HO and N scale here ?
Thank you Garry for your kind welcome.Is it just for HO and N scale here ?
from me as well!!
As to scale all scales are welcome here!!!
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
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By ALL MEANS!!!
A few pages back I printed a list of the Diner's "RULES" for the "newbies". They are really few. I am the self-appointed "Rule Master" as I always get asked to post the "RULES" for the newbies when we get a bunch. If you go back a few you will see them clear as day.
I am also the "keeper of the flame"- the one who keeps a prayer candle lit as often as possible for those in need of prayers and special thoughts...the ONLY "religious aspect" allowed in here! It doesn't need to be of religious origins to have special thoughts for someone's ailing or passing. I really do keep a lit prayer candle as MOH { My Other Half}, in ministerial duties, does so if it helps anyone. If someone needs real extra special prayers for themselves I wil light one and say an extra prayer for them.
Now... as to the secret handshake and the secret knock....
John - this place is most likely the only one, where it does not matter at all, in what scale you do your model railroading, whether you run on DC or DCC, whether your layout is freelance, protolance, or prototypical, whether you love steam or go for Diesels, in fact, whether you have a layout or don´t, or whether you are building one or plan to build, and last, but not least, whether your layout is static, anti-static, volatile, moving or flying.
W e are just a bunch of folks, meeting here to communicate about the day, within the rules of the forum and in all due respect for each other.
The Diner has some, say, peculiar things about it and I bet, Galaxy will let you into the details of them. So, please be , take a seat and join me in a or , or a .
JohnReidThank you Garry for your kind welcome.Is it just for HO and N scale here ?
to the diner.
Terry .... Good idea to use drawbars on Bachmann F-units. If you installed diaphragms, it would also make them look closer. ... Do you have DCC in them?
Bob Seamonster.... I've not seen you here lately. Good to see you here.
Dennis ... I have one of those nibblers. I wish they would open farther for thicker plastic.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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Jeffrey...If you cant find some cutting gloves {butchers in grocery stores use the chainmail style} let me know and I will look around here for you. If you have a fabric store I believe they have ones really meant for shape blades like an exacto as the cutting wheels for fabric are one round sharp wheel to "speed up" cutting fabric.
I certianly hope we get a COLA this year...gas here is $4.05 a gallon! I go absolutely NOWHERE if I don't have to! and food,, everytime I go I am amazed at how little I come home with for what I spend.
The hobby budget this year and looks like next will be a goose egg for me.
rdgk1se3019 Here is a nibbling tool.
Here is a nibbling tool.
Good suggestions all around. I'll have to see what I can find locally. It'll have to wait until I have money though. I finished paying on my History Channel life membership this month and some things I ordered from there so that means I'll have about $60 extra to work with. With prices spiraling upward faster and faster that extra money looks real good. With gas prices here averaging $3.68 a gallon (reg) it costs about $74 to fill up from a quarter tank. Just ten years ago I could have filled it up for about $30.
This is what the nibbler can do.
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
Top AGAIN!!
Sheesh.
Eat up.
You could try a sports store too, Jeff. Go to the fishing department and look for the filet knives display, they'll have filet gloves for fish cleaning. Same thing but cheaper.
Seamonster Jeff: That suggestion by LSWrr for a cutting glove sounds like a good idea. It made me remember a segment I saw on a cooking show recently. I believe a chef was showing the host how to cut up a piece of meat and he gave her a glove to put on her left hand. It looked like chain mail and was to protect her hand from the razor sharp knife. If you can't find a glove at a sewing supplies store you might try a specialty kitchen supplies store or one that sells butcher's supplies. Hopefully the chain mail is fine enough that the sharp point of a #11 blade won't go between the links. As for nibblers, they've been around for a long time. I bought one many years ago to cut holes in sheet metal for electronic projects. The only problem I have with it is that it requires a large hole to insert the cutting head through before it can nibble at the material unless you're starting at the edge of the material. Micro-Mark sells nibblers. I don't know how big a hole they have to have to get the head through though.
Jeff: That suggestion by LSWrr for a cutting glove sounds like a good idea. It made me remember a segment I saw on a cooking show recently. I believe a chef was showing the host how to cut up a piece of meat and he gave her a glove to put on her left hand. It looked like chain mail and was to protect her hand from the razor sharp knife. If you can't find a glove at a sewing supplies store you might try a specialty kitchen supplies store or one that sells butcher's supplies. Hopefully the chain mail is fine enough that the sharp point of a #11 blade won't go between the links.
As for nibblers, they've been around for a long time. I bought one many years ago to cut holes in sheet metal for electronic projects. The only problem I have with it is that it requires a large hole to insert the cutting head through before it can nibble at the material unless you're starting at the edge of the material. Micro-Mark sells nibblers. I don't know how big a hole they have to have to get the head through though.
The cutting gloves I've seen (when I worked in a chicken plant, years ago) had a mesh fine enough to prevent a #11 blade from doing any serious damage. At most, you might get a tiny pin-***. They are designed to prevent you from cutting yourself as with a cutting motion, not so much an "impaling" (pushing) motion.
Although I don't have one, a nibbler is a great tool. I seem to recall you'll need a 1/2" hole to start with? Don't quote me on that without double checking, though.
Brad
EMD - Every Model Different
ALCO - Always Leaking Coolant and Oil
CSX - Coal Spilling eXperts
Morning All,
Currently 49 with an expected high of 78 under sunny skies.
Sundays on the work front usually mean an opening to closing shift 10:00 to 6:00 can be a long day depending on people traffic.
Stopped at the hospital after work yesterday. Wife had more than half of her ham sandwich that was her dinner. Then we went for a walk up and down the hall. She is doing great, getting stronger and ready to take on her next round of chemo. Thanks for all the prayers.
Ken - I hate those 6 day stretches of work. Really tire me out.
Happy bithday NAVY and to all current, retired, and vets of same, from one NAVY vet. SeaBees Can Do
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
Good Afternoon!
Ta Da! My ´ puter is back to work! It took Christian and me 3 hours (over the phone) to fix everything and now it is up and running again! Have not yet re-installed all the programs I had on it before, but there is no rush for that. Feels good to be connected again.
Took some time to work on the modules today, which are nearing completion. I have to admit those two modules, although looking kind of nice, are not up to my previous standards, but they are good enough!
Zoe, all drinks are on me today!
Have a good one!
Jeff: That suggestion by LSWrr for a cutting glove sounds like a good idea. It made me remember a segment I saw on a cooking show recently. I believe a chef was showing the host how to cut up a piece of meat and he gave her a glove to put on her left hand. It looked like chain mail and was to protect her hand from the razor sharp knife. If you can't find a glove at a sewing supplies store you might try a speciality kitchen supplies store or one that sells butcher's supplies. Hopefully the chain mail is fine enough that the sharp point of a #11 blade won't go between the links.
Another thought is the punches from Micro-Mark. They have two sizes of corner punches. I bought the smaller one for cutting window openings in a project I was building. The punches have a very sharp right angle blade and cut the corners of the windows. You can either hold them by hand and tap them with a hammer or better yet put them in a drill press chuck and use the drill press (with the power off!) to press them into the work to cut the corner. Micro-Mark also has a set of straight punches like little chisels of various sizes which are used the same way to cut the material between the corners. I bought them too. Between the two types of punches I can get beautiful square window openings.
Hope this helps.
..... Bob
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Good Sunday morning, Diners!
40f and cloudy.
In-laws here, had a nice dinner last night at the local watering hole. Burgers and fries, lotsa laughs and beer.
Found the cord for the camera. Here's the promised pics:
More ballasting today after the in-laws leave, then the Packers play tonight. They need a win.
Prayers for those that need'm!!
Not muched planned for today. I have some Cal Scale detail parts for my RS-1 that I want to prep and paint before installing on the loco. I ordered some lights for the TT section (exterior) so it won't be so dark when I run night time ops.
Still no change in my friends status in the hospital. The depatment had a special blood drive for him yesterday and I will be donating tomorrow at a blood center.
Yesterday was the US Navy's 237th birthday. GO NAVY.
Hope everyone has a good day and prayers ffor those in need.
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TMarshZIVA!!!! THAT”S IT!!! I knew something was missing this week. I have felt strange all week. Kinda blahish, tired, frazzled, irritable yet lethargic. Now I know why, I haven’t watched Ziva this week. Oh my gosh! Best get on that today.
gear-jammer jeffrey-wimberly Great gallery. I was wondering if there was something that would seal the card stock, but noticed that you are using styrene. I am impressed with the detail you have put into the silos. Sue
jeffrey-wimberly
Great gallery. I was wondering if there was something that would seal the card stock, but noticed that you are using styrene. I am impressed with the detail you have put into the silos.
Sue
Well what you're seeing in the photo there isn't mine. I was just using it to point out what I was talking about. I'll be real happy if my elevator turns out looking THAT good.