Morning All!Not much to report from the land of Buckeyes on this warm and sunny Thursday other then I'm debating if I should get another Buds Trucking or Lauston shipping kit and eliminate the transload( team) track..On the possiblitity side there's a house coming available. I' been interested in and I might see about getting it.Anyway I will continue the march on Slate Creek since it will be portable.As I mention before the layout will sit on a 6' folding table since there will be room for waybills'car cards,my T6 with walkaround throttle and a place to sit my coffee or diet Pepsi or diet Coke.I got this idea from a portable N Scale layout at a train show.The guy simply set his HCD layout on the table.
Jeff,The early releases of the Stewart Baldwin used a Athearn drive.I shall have a cup and look over the forum.Have a good'un!
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
BRAKIEJeff,The early releases of the Stewart Baldwin used a Athearn drive.
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
Good morning. It's 75° at a mere 76% humidity. It'll be mostly sunny with a high of 85°.Nothing much planned for today. My younger sister and her significant other arrived last night so I'll be talking with them today.
Good Morning,
Home again today but am feeling a little better so likely I'll be back at work tomorrow.
Well you'll never guess what is falling out of the sky here right now. Here's a clue, it is white and drifts down. Luckily it is a balmy 34F so at least it is melting when it hits the ground. Hard to believe it was 80 on Saturday. Oh well we certainly need the moisture as we only had about 10% of our normal precip in Sept.
Not much on my agenda today. TV seems good or if I'm feeling really ambitious I might do something with the RR , HO or N I'm not sure, decisions, decisions. The default is TV.
CN Charlie
CN Charlie - Now where do you suppose all those SOAP flakes are coming from?
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Tom, those soap flakes came from North Dakota but I won't hold it against them as anything wet falling from the sky is welcome. We just heard from our friends in Minnesota and the grass fires there yesterday were really bad. Had to evacuate Karlstad so they will be happy with the 'up to 10 inches' of soap they could get today.
Well TV is beckoning.
Good Evening!
Not my day today! I did not get what I was looking for !
I have been grumpy and grouchy all day long. i guess Petra will be me sending off to bed without supper
Well, I am going to retire to the sofa, watching the idiot box...
CU tomorrow!
Sir MadogWell, I am going to retire to the sofa, watching the idiot box...
Howdy .....
Brad .... Good to see you in the diner. Looks like you are another chow hound. Watch out for Barry Blownout Cylinder. Instead of eating, he stokes down Barry-sized helpings.
Jeff ... Congrats on the Mod assignment. Does this mean the diners must behave themselves?
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GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good Afternoon/Evening
Got all kindsa sun here as well as a good stiff breeze blowing...and, it got up to...TADA!!!...75F!!...tomorrow? Not so nice...
Had the CT scan thing today..hopefully it is all kaput..the cancer that is....
Might get to run some trains today...if'n certain HD list thingees do not show up...
Garry: shuush!! I never ate THAT much....well..maybe a little...
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/
Evening Fellow Dinners!
Flo, pleases and keep them coming!
Day Off Front Sure not the day I hoped for. You know how your body get uses to doing certain things at certain times of day? Well my body is uses to sitting in the throne room at around 9:00 AM. I had to be at a meeting at 9:00 AM (mind you this is my day off) so I could not set in the Throne Room when I should have. I still feel the need, but nothing happens.
Meeting. It would have been interesting if it was not for the fact I want the heck out of here! To had insult to injury 4 of the people I trained have stores. They all thanked me on the side for helping them, yeah your welcome and all that happy stuff. Like that helps me to pay my bills. But I was glad to help them, I think?
Toe Front Well lets just say I liked what I heard at the meeting better than what I was told by a surgeon.Surgeon straight forward asked me when I wanted to have it take it off! Told him when it is Green and Black and fly's are flying around it. I will see my normal surgeon next Thursday and see what she says. If she says it need to come off, more than likely I will let her. Wound is deeper again where it was all most completely healed 3 weeks ago.
Surgeon I saw today said the wound has no chances of healing with all the pressure I put on it from work. I do know he is right. Now that I am working longer days, it has gotten infected again.
While losing a toe does not worry me that much. If I am out of work again for 3 to 6 weeks, I will lose the house!
Plus I have the Job Interview Thursday. Boy that would go over great if they make me a offer. Oh by the way I need a month off after I have my Big Toe Cut Off, and more than likely I will be losing parts as we go!
Going to go read a magazine and see if I get any where.
More information than you folks want to know Ken
I hate Rust
Heartland Division CB&QJeff ... Congrats on the Mod assignment. Does this mean the diners must behave themselves?
Hi Fellas,
Nice and warm here today, nights are cool and comfy for sleeping.
I also like Ken have a job interview tomorrow ( 9:30am ). I'm hoping I get the job as it pays decent but it will be working 12 hour night shifts.
I am feeling a little under the weather today so hopefully that passes in time for tomorrows interview. I will stop off sometime tomorrow afternoon and let you guys know how it goes.
Hi All.....,
I think I will be leaving the railroad soon..........
To many attitudes towards me.........had it out today with a guy because he thinks I am "too slow"..........I know I`m slower than some people .........I have been since I was a kid...............even my dad used to tell people I`m "pokey Joe".............well he`s been dead and gone now for three years...........guess what goes around comes around.
Guess I`ll just go back to welding and fabricating..........I think I did better in that because I tend to be more precise with things................
Oh well........sorry for the rant..........this kind of crap make`s me want to start drinking again.
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
Sure is quiet round these parts since the diner moved to Kansas. What's with that anyhow?
Just so you folks know that I really am working on a layout, here's a picture of it after a summer long hiatus.
...... Darn, now I can't get picture to load from photobucket...
Have a good evening all
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
Hmmm.... maybe this will work
Ahhhh so that's how it works, ok.. one more from a different angle on the dangle.
Time for me to call it a night. I've been busy with family, doing some work on the layout, moderating the forums, etc. See y'all tomorrow.
Evening guys
I'm wore out. Worked from 6am to 3pm. Came home, and worked on the car somemore. It took almost 2 hours to get the header gaskets in and the headers bolted. I swear I won't buy headers from this manufactuer anymore. Had to take the valve covers off, and the alternator has to be moved. Of course the cable has to be unbolted and the bolt broke in the alternator. My father has a spare, but since the valve covers are off, he wanted to change the springs, pushrods, and rockers. Easier said then done when the engine is in the car...
Didn't do anything other than look for some styrene Ls I could use for the remaining F-unit fuel tanks. I think I found one, I just have to get some other filler piece because these will sit in a little further.
Dennis, slow isn't neccesarily a bad thing. I'm pretty slow at stuff myself, but I keep plugging away at it. Hang in there
Anyways, I'm going to bed. talk to you guys later
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.
Regarding Noblesville and the ITM - and the late lamented Nickel Plate (last month):
My grandfather, Foster "Pop" Caple was a NKP conductor - when I was nine or ten (1952 or 3) he took me with him on a way freight run north from Indianapolis. We drove through thick early morning fog, and stopped along a country road where he knew of an artesian spring pipe with sulphur water - I didn't want to drink the stinky stuff. I have a vague recollection we started at Castleton (SW of Fishers, now part of 'Naptown), but could be mistaken. Rode in the caboose, about 7 or 8 cars, with a Geep on the front. I remember a good deal of street running, and breaking the train to not block cross streets when we stopped for lunch at a cafe - no more cooking in the caboose then. But I heard a version of the same folk tale that Utah Phillips embellished in "Moose Turd Pie" (you complain about the food, you get to cook next time) from Pop that day, telling me about the rule, and a brakeman who sat down to eat and exclaimed "This soup's too *** salty, and that's just the way I like it." Or as Utah's version ends, the moose turn pie eater says "Good Though" [ http://www.amazon.com/Moose-Turd-Pie/dp/B0010W2H8A ]
One indelible memory was the stink at the paper mill - perhaps a "strawboard" plant - we switched that day. Pop took me to see one of the foremen and I got a quick tour - phew!! Lots worse that the sulphur water.
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
It's Friday, October 5, 2012
TIPTON IN
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Morning!
I am running a little later than usual today, but I have already been busy. Went to Lothar´s place, as he had a piece of foam board left, just the way I need it. It took an hour to measure, cut and glue the stuff to the modules, and now the scenery contour is in place. It takes the PVA I use ages to dry when gluing foam board, so there will be no more action on the modules for the rest of the day.
Lots of rain coming down today - our usual October weather!
Zoe, just a cup of coffee, please, it´s nearing lunchtime here.
BF&D - thank you for the reminiscence on Noblesville street running!
Have good day , y´ all!
Good Morning
Well...here in London ON the start of the cool down is upon us...yesterday we hit 77F today? 57F and falling...tomorrow will be the high of 50F...with a little tinkly shower or two....
We had to water the trees around here ourselves pretty much through the whole summer as we seem to have had about 25-30% of the rain we usually get around here...and, apparently we look to be settling into a below normal pattern for the fall as well...yay.
Today will be not a relaxed day for moi...as I have a few things to still do...such as HD things have piled up...so I better be working here...
Morning everyone,
I will hold off on the breakfast and coffee for now I have to go to a job interview in about 20 minutes. I sure hope I get the job as like I was saying its pays decent. Well, better go and finish getting ready I will be back later on to let you know how things went.
- Jeremy
Good Morning!!!
(yaaaaaawn) Coffee please. No just coffee this morning I’ll grab something later.
Occasional showers and possibly a thunderstorm. High near 50. North wind 8 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%.
Guess I dozed off in the back booth. I thought I’d get an early nighty night time last night and make up a couple hours lost in the 4 am wakeup of yesterday on the frontside of the sleep cycle instead of the backside, which doesn't work with a dog and a wife who won't let the thing out in the morning. Her response to the dogs asking to go out? "ssssh. Let daddy sleep. You'll wake him up." So I get home from w**k and was in the sack by 9:30. Well. That didn’t go as planned. Woke up at 11:30. Didn’t get back to sleep til…well last time I saw was 0157, so shortly after that. During that time I stopped in to see what was going on and I guess I fell asleep.
Got about 1.2 inches of water in the rain gage overnight. While I was up it was raining and had a couple pretty good rumblings of thunder, but no lightning that I saw. Since most farmers around here are in beans, I doubt Brenda will get anything after their loads from last night. Of course those will drizzle in all day.
Vincent- Wouldn’t waste the money on headers for just that reason. Sometimes they go easy, sometimes you almost have to rebend the entire thing. Not to say I have had to fight with every header from every company, but brands that I've dealt with over the years some went on great and leaked, and some had to fight....and leaked. But I must say I have not had to fight with the headers from only two companies and they both start with the letter H. They are both quality headers and they last much longer than the el cheapo rust monsters. AND….they fit. Of course they cost more than $100, but you get what you pay for, and sometimes it’s worth the extra. And….sometimes it’s not. That’s where experience comes in. When it comes to cars and making them go fast, trust me, getting that experience is the fun part so have fun. Just don’t scrimp on safety. I’d rather be alive or even walking, than to be cool.
Today is STILL laundry day. My GOSH how much laundry can that woman have?! I mean, really. She can clothe an entire third world country. And I don’t know where it’s coming from either. It just.. keeps... showing... up. Like literally coming out of the woodwork. And I’m not talking a pair of pants here, a shirt there, I mean a load here a couple loads there. There is still a giant pile in the laundry room, granted there is a sheet set in there and some winter coats and some bath mats, but the pile is returning at her bedside. And the laundry hamper which she took downstairs MONTHS ago is still full. My laundry is done, but I’ll need to do it again before I finish hers. Trouble is, there is no place to put the clean stuff now. Every drawer, every closet is full. And there is still more. STILL MORE!!! I’m gonna wear out the washing machine before I get the laundry done. Probably run out of soap too. Best call Walmart and give em a heads up they’ll be needing to double up their order on soap powders. I might have to pay the water bill in installments. MAN…..I mean REALLY??? This is insane.
News Flash…..Woman has too many clothes.
To add insult to injury, she came home at lunchtime yesterday…..and changed clothes. Why? Too hot.
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.
Morning All
Flo, Coffee pleases.
Nasty rainy day with on and off. Yep, summer is over!
Vince Far as headers, I have found in most cases it save you time in the long run to pull the motor to install headers. Lot less fighting that way, plus when I was in my prime I could pull my motor in about a hour is not a little quicker.
Best headers I have ever bought are Hooker Headers, I love my Hookers! Ones on my Road Runner are around 30 years old now and have not rusted out and have never leaked!
Going to have to get ready today for the interview around 9:30 AM. Wish me luck on the interview, I really want to get away from where I am working now.
See you all later.
Ken
Good morning, Kansas. Chloe, I have time for a cinnamon roll with my coffee. I usually have one week a month that I schedule too much stuff. I thought that today was the end, but MIL decided that they need to see us before they take off. They live in a 38' 5th wheel so they are gypsies.
Dennis, Thanks for sharing the photos on your layout. Have you considered the geodesic foam made by Bragdon for you landscape? Your foundation would be perfect for it. I have found it easier to work with than plaster cloth.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Morning All,
Currently 50 with an expected high of 78 under sunny skies.
I have a wierd schedule today 11:00 to 7:00, so I will stop at hospital before and after work. This is also my weekend off so maybe I will get a chance to do some layout work.
Vincent and Ken good luck on those job interviews.
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 morning. It's 76° heading to 88°. Humidity is 76%. About as interesting as a root canal.Went to my parents place for breakfast this morning and had some face time with my younger sister and her significant other. I think I may get some work done on the grain elevator today. I need to study some photos and see what pieces go where. The closest I've ever been to one was about two hundred yards in a heavy thunder storm. Yeah, didn't see much. I'll also be looking in on the forum to see what mod duties I have to attend to. Other than that there's not much going on. Looks like the sale of my parents house isn't going to take place as soon as we thought. Stupid bank has had the paper work supposedly ready to go for a couple of months but didn't bother scheduling the termite inspection until this last Tuesday. People must have been trained by Ken's bank of stupid. The guy showed up yesterday. Couldn't find any termites but said a treatment was going to cost $3,000. If there are no termites why the heck does it need a treatment. It seems that termites or no it needs a treatment. Sure frosted my fathers butt. He more or less told the guy to pack up his stuff and get out. Time to get a second opinion.
Thanks for the suggestion of the geodesic foamt is Not sure what it is so I'd best do a Google on it!
The lay out room is 17 feet by 13 feet so I've a good bit of room at my disposal. I'm going to put the suspended ceiling in next before I do any more on the lay out. Not a problem to do now but it will be if I don't do it now!
Dennis