Evening Folks
Flo, Beer and a electric blanket pleases!
Darn, it is cold out here in the Garage / Snake (surely dead by now) / Train Rom. Guess I turned the gas heater back a little to much this morning before I went to work. It been a hour now and I have the gas heater cracked all the way up and the electric spaces heater and it is still cool out here. Even the trains started out running slow till they warmed up!
Curt WebbI drove MOH down to Sarasota today to her quilting shop and then I went to a new train shop. I really liked the shop. Lots of inventory (including PRR) and a very friendly staff. Of course I found a couple of things I could not live without
Curt is a New LHS or is this just the first time you went there? Be great news to here one has just opened for a change and not just closed!
Financial Cliff Boy I hope they work something out! Main reason is I have a very good check coming next, well by my current standers.
Work Front Had another very good day and it made a very good week! This week I had $10,800.00 in sales! I had a few before but the Evil Larry X Services Manager rewrote some of my tickets! So I should get a $50.00 Bonus. I also had to cash in 2 vacations days (would have lost them after the Dec 31) so this week I should have made $913.00! Last week was also good at $650.04 so this coming check will be around $1563.00! It will be my best check ever working here. Now if I just could do that every two weeks.
Vince's You have a new PM
Got to run, I open again Saturday.
Ken
I hate Rust
alrighty vomit bonnet has been ordered as well as MTL's coupler conversion kit #1159...soon 724, soon... got some super glue, decals, and 3 new cars from Blitz hobbies today. man I love atlas N scale cars and locos.
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
http://www.youtube.com/user/SGTDUPREY?feature=guide
Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
Sorry to hear about the stomach bug Curt.
Well I managed to get my paint ordered. I ordered three tubes of oils ( mixing white,red oxide and orange oxide ) it was good too because they are having free shipping until Dec 31.
Afternoon All,
Hope everybody had a great Christmas. My daughter and I had a stomach virus on the 24th and 25th, so not so good this way. We are going to get together Sunday morning to have breakfast and exchange gifts.
I drove MOH down to Sarasota today to her quilting shop and then I went to a new train shop. I really liked the shop. Lots of inventory (including PRR) and a very friendly staff. Of course I found a couple of things I could not live without
Hope all of you in the snow are doing OK, but I'm going to stay in FL.
I will talk to you all later. Prayers for those in need.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Hi Guys
Went over today to the art supply store and as usual there out of the colors oils I need. So I went online to where I buy some paints from and there site is acting up,lol. Cant win in the paint department today.
I was up also for the Team Canada game. Cant wait for Sunday's game at 4am against the US. And on Monday there on at 8:00am against Russia.
Sheesh! Look at the time... Mornin', ah, Afternoon everyone!
Zoe can I get a cup of dark roast coffee and a couple sour cream glazed donuts to dink in it please.
Couldn't sleep last night. I have acquired a cold and duffed up doze. Every time I went to sleep I woke up a few minutes later gasping for breath... Tossed and turned most of the night. Don't feel to bad at the moment as I can breath as long as I don't try to sleep...
It is the usual mid winter gray outside today, but the sun has peeked through for a couple minutes a few times this morning.
Lee, looks like you got about the same as we did here to the East of you from the storm. Looks like we will be ending 2012 with lots of flurries and squalls they say.
I need to get a few things done today so I can hunker down and just get some RR stuff done for the rest of the year... Hope all of you are staying warm and have lots of MRing to do as well!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good Morning All...It cloudy and 31 here...Weather guesser on TV says more snow tonite...I'll have coffee and toast please...Thank You...Ran trains yesterday..planning to start work on small IC station today its a wood kit..Scored a double door ConCor TP&W box car on Ebay...Tootie one of my grand Daughters is staying with me..This little apartment sure is lonesome without Sallie...
You All have a good one....Jerry
LSWrrJeff, looks like you will be getting another batch of storms.
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,
The official measurement is 11” of snow fell on us the 26th. On the 27th I drove to Bowling Green and Toledo, OH to visit family and only ran into bad weather around the Sandusky area. Several tractor-trailers and small vehicles were still littering the ditches from the storm on the 26th. I was impressed the first “named” winter storm was EUCLID, the town I currently live in.
Bob K, Congratulations!
Jeff, looks like you will be getting another batch of storms.
Time to straighten up the house and recover from all the holiday merriment, LOL.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good Morning!!!
Coffee and an order of Bo Luc Luc please, or…however you say it. Thanks.
Simon- Happy Holidays to you too. I sure do know what happens when girls and cars enter the scene. Very thing happened to me. If they do, I hope it doesn’t take them til 45 to get back into it.
Charlie- Ya Brenda said we are gonna exchange just modest gifts this year too. I got a pair of pants and a dressy Sunday kinda shirt and some clamps (which will come in handy) and her modest gift was a desk. Not a computer desk, or a work station, but a “real” desk.
Jeff- Um, your life is anything but boring. Now MY life is boring.
Bob K- Congratulations on the Granddaughter. She is a cutie! An those eyes!
Speaking of getting back into it, I didn’t make it to the trainroom yesterday naturally, and today I have a plumbing job to do at the restaurant. Guys and gals, I tell you from the bottom of my heart, if you retire do NOT tell ANYbody!!!!! Their perception that you have just this abundant amount of free time (I do admit I’m not just blazing trails all day, but I am….leisurely busy. Ya, leisurely busy. he he) but that I’m just laying around itching to do something. Maybe this weekend. Maybe just wait until after the New Year, then I can say 2012 was a trainless year. Like 2011... I think. Can’t remember 2011 much. Shoot, did I even eat that year? Don’t remember.
Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!
Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
Good Morning
Dull dull dull is our word or today...oh...and little tiny snowflurries as well this afternoon...yay.
Ok..we had another one of those BrokenPipeVille incidents here yesterday...not much fun to be had when most of it turning into slushy goop...this lot occurred down the road from our crescent...which, of course, meant that we had no water for few hours...again...sigh...
Jeff: vids are excellent!!
Bogp40...she is a cutie....
mmmmmm...I wonder how Karl got away with that comment withou....KEEERRRRCCCLLLLUUUUNNNGGGUUUNNNGGUUUNNGG!!!
Oh!!! See the pretty little birdies!!!
*thud*
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. It's 54° with 100% humidity. The high will be 62 and there's a good chance of rain.Nothing going on today. I think I'll just take a day off from everything and try to get some more sleep. I may run some trains later.
Good Mornin gang!
Woke up coughing and sniffling this morning, DIL was commenting yesterday that the grandsons had come down with the sniffles,,guess they gave to to grandpa the other day before anybody realized they had it!
Still, I want to get projects wrapped up today, clear the workbench and get back to the 4 Midland units I have had under construction for quite a while now, like since April!
Ray, Sounds like my FIL's snow blower. 1st snow of every season, I wind up disassembling and cleaning the carb to get it running! Ya think he would use a little Sta-bil in it??
BTW, Question,,. Do you know how to turn a dishwasher into a snowblower Answer below
Bogp40. What a lil cutie you have there!
TA462 and Shreddies, whatever floats your boat, just don't yell at the TV too loud,,would hate to wake the neighbors!
Galaxy, Neat posting, lots of train related videos there, but the 30 second "commercials" between each one are a bit maddening..Made me want to kill Ron Howard!!
Jeffrey. Nice lil vid !
Ok, without further adieu, (and you married guys may want to keep this to yourself) the answer is;
Hand her a shovel!
Ok, I'm outta here for now,,,see ya for dessert Flo!
Karl
NCE über alles!
Hello folks!
I'm not sure I mentioned it in the past, but I recently sold *most* of my N scale equipment, as I was tossing up with a new layout idea based around local railroading here in Brisbane. Anyway I went to the LHS today to pick up a few Kadee #5 couplers for some freight car kits I built for my local models. Then something very bad happened. I stumbled across the US H0 section at the store.
I also stumbled across a Lance Mindheim book... I ended up walking out with the idea of a Miami themed layout, along with two Gondolas (One Trainman and one Walthers "Mainline") and two lengths of Code 83 track. Now I'm on the hunt for a couple of CSX locomotives. Will be heading to the only dedicated model train shop on the other side of town tomorrow on the hunt for a GP38-2 of similar.
My version of Downtown Miami will be a fair bit smaller than Mr Mindheims but I hope to capture a similar essence to what he has. Mine will basically be a loop on my 8x6 module I built for my N scale layout with an L shaped shelf off to one side which will run beside the river and be about 24" wide.
Exciting
I see a few of you folks are getting plenty of snow, I don't envy you! Stay safe all.
TTFN
OzJim
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
Here is an interesting train:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/27/worlds-longest-high-speed-train_n_2369382.html
If they can do it, so can we!
-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!
Our weather is playing roller coaster. It is actually a nice, crystal clear day, but temperatures dropped below freezing. Still no snow in sight.
I am still searching for the right paint for my little loco. I want to airbrush it to get a good & smooth paint job, but I am not sure whether I can use acrylic paints to do that. I found a lot of diverging opinions in the web, leaving me clueless.
Zoe, just coffee for me, please!
bogp40 - congrats on that grandchild of yours! She´s a cutie!
Have a good one!
Morning Coffee in the Diner...
GOOD MORNING!!!
Today is the 4th remaining day of the year, Friday, December 28th, 2012!!! The countdown begins...
Some may think we afre "crack pots" to "play with trains", SO:Meaning:
A crazy person; a crank
Origin:
There are countless words in the language that began as two-word terms, later to become hyphenated and later still to merge into a single word, for example, 'zigzag', 'forewarned', 'ninepence' etc. Crackpot is on that list.
If you go about researching the origin of 'crackpot' it won't take long to come up with the village of Crackpot, in Swaledale, Yorkshire. This is the site of the imposing ruined farmstead, Crackpot Hall. This name long predates the use of the term 'crackpot' meaning crazed, as it dates from at least the 12th century, before which the region had been taken over by Viking insurgents. Inviting as the idea might be, the Vikings didn't turn up there and decide that the locals were mad and name the place accordingly. At that time the village was called Crakepot, which derives from the Norse terms 'kraka', a crake or crow and 'pot', a deep hole or pit - neither of which has anything to do with the current 'crazy' meaning of the word. Crackpot was merely 'the hole where crows gather'.
To discover its origins, we need to ignore the Vikings and realise that 'crackpot' is a shortened form of 'cracked-pot', which splits into its constituent parts, cracked and pot.
Cracked:
Cracked is itself a shortening of 'brain-cracked' (or cracked-brained'). 'Cracked' simply meant 'impaired'; 'faulty'. Both of these terms were current in the 17th century. For instance, in Randle Cotgrave's, A dictionarie of the French and English tongues, 1611, we find: Estropié de caboche, ou de ceruelle, frantick, witlesse, braine-sicke, brain-crackt. And in John Canne's A Necessity of Separation from the Church of England, 1634, we find: If Mr. Bradshaw had found such a reason in Mr, Johnson's writing, he would surely have called idle head, cracked-brained, fool etc.
Cracked is itself a shortening of 'brain-cracked' (or cracked-brained'). 'Cracked' simply meant 'impaired'; 'faulty'. Both of these terms were current in the 17th century. For instance, in Randle Cotgrave's, A dictionarie of the French and English tongues, 1611, we find:
Estropié de caboche, ou de ceruelle, frantick, witlesse, braine-sicke, brain-crackt.
And in John Canne's A Necessity of Separation from the Church of England, 1634, we find:
If Mr. Bradshaw had found such a reason in Mr, Johnson's writing, he would surely have called idle head, cracked-brained, fool etc.
Pot:
In the Middle Ages, 'pot' was used to mean 'skull' or 'head'; for example, this piece from Guy de Chauliac's translation of Grande Chirurgie, circa 1425: Ye pot of ye heued
In the Middle Ages, 'pot' was used to mean 'skull' or 'head'; for example, this piece from Guy de Chauliac's translation of Grande Chirurgie, circa 1425:
Ye pot of ye heued
So, a 'cracked pot' was a 'faulty head' and crackpot is synonymous with our more recent terms 'numbskull', 'blockhead', 'brain-dead' etc.
The first record that I can find of the term 'crack-pot' (with a hyphen at that stage) is in a Broadside Ballad, recorded by John S Farmer in 1883:
My aunty knew lots, and called them crack-pots.
My aunty knew lots,
and called them crack-pots.
The prayer candles will be lit as long as I am home..
Pay it Forward and do a good deed for someone today!!
Make today a GREAT day!
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
Friday, December 28, 2012
TIPTON
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Looks like we're getting more rain tonight then a heavy chance of showers and thunderstorms tomorrow.Just been running trains today. Bachmann, Atlas, Athearn, Varney, Walthers, Frankenlocos. A lot of them got run today. A lot of locos got serviced. A lot of wheels were inspected.
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a cup of decaf to warm me up before bed....
Got the driveway and walk cleared this morning. Took a good hour to complete and i was both cold and soaked by the time I got through. The driveway had just about a foot of snow the whole length so I have to thing we got around that much snow. the porch was drifted a couple feet high, and the roof with the solar panels was buried. The system never turned on today at all... Later this afternoon a ordered a soft roof rake made to remove snow from solar panels. A few inches will melt off quickly when the sun decides to shine, but two or three feet of snow...?
WOW! I found something out I hadn't really thought about with the goings on in Webster, NY in tonight's paper. It seems John Ritter, the off duty police officer that happened on the emergency call in Webster, NY where the Firefighters were shot, grew up in Geneva! He is the one being called a hero because after his car windshield got shot out and several other rounds hit his car, he was able to back away from the guy and use his car to block the street so more Firefighters and emergency people would not drive into the area. He was injured by flying glass and shrapnel from the rounds hitting his car, but still helped out until other officers got there. Now what I never would figured out on my own is although his name sounded familiar. He grew up about 2 blocks from where I live. His elderly Mother still lives in that house, but at the time we bought the house I live in his Mother and Father lived next door to me. They ended up selling that home to their daughter who lives there now with her family and the parents moved back to the home they used to have. So my next door neighbor is the police officer's Sister! Small world!
Got some modeling done down cellar this afternoon and evening. Spent some time trying to complete the scratch built water tower for the Electric Plant near the quarry on Bare Mountain. Finally I have found something that will actually work OK with the iron bands that go around the outside of the wood tower. Not perfect, but the 3' rule should work in my favor with it.
Hope you all have a great night! Prayers for all in need...
Found a show on CBS internet that is pretty darn good, so I am sure it will be cancelled. It is called Veges and is set in the 60's.
http://www.cbs.com/shows/vegas/video/bbAv92A2U1srohdfzOcvHETmFV9o8ccy/vegas-pilot
Give it a try.
cudakenWhat do you think, time to contact a TV News Team? Bank Of America Holds Nation Veterans as Hostages? Like I said, I don't get it! Simple Swipe Of There Pen And This Mess Could Be Over! Yet, they do nothing!
I would have done that a long time ago.
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
Flo, Beer Please. Flo may I borrow the Soap Box?
BoS Rant
Had the confreres (hum, is it a confreres call if there are only 2 people on the line?) with my BoS rep Lashenia Lowery today. She was notified a few weeks ago about the missing reward letter for Sues SSI payments even tho they had them. She did E Mail the dumb butt that she had it and sent a copy to the underwriter that said they did not have it! Yet, my case was closed for Modification? Even she did not understand it? Then I I pointed out there is a reason I call the company she works for Bank Of Stupid (yes I been telling her that for a year now and I think she is starting to agree)
While I was on the phone she E Mailed her boss and my cases has been reopened. Big Wop, like that will make a differences, but it will buy some time.
Here is what burns my Cabooses! She told me the current interest rate for a Modified VA loan is 3.75% Yet here I am stuck at 7%. With me owing $53,000.00 and with my tax and insurances that would make the payment around $533.00 a month? Yet I am stuck at $1.000.00 a month?
I pointed out to Lashenia at $1000.00 a month I have no hope of making the payment. Even at $700.00 I could cut out some of the extras (internet and cable) and a few other things to make $700.00 payments. $500 range would be easy. But, Yet they will do nothing!
I just don't get it! They claim they don't want the house but they sit on there hands? Could it be it is because it is VA Loan and they stand nothing to lose?
What do you think, time to contact a TV News Team? Bank Of America Holds Nation Veterans as Hostages? Like I said, I don't get it! Simple Swipe Of There Pen And This Mess Could Be Over! Yet, they do nothing!
Simon my friend great to see you in the dinner! Folks, Simon sure knows how to raise boys! His son's (I called them the Lads) are some of the best kids I have ever meet! Here is a few shoots of them younger over at my house.
I think of them as the Grand Son's I will never have. When they where younger they would go Bench Diving as I call it and look to see what was under my layout I did not need! I am sure Simon got his fill of adding decoders and fixing the junk they left with! See you all later, I open Friday and 5:30 AM rolls by pretty quickly! Ken
I think of them as the Grand Son's I will never have. When they where younger they would go Bench Diving as I call it and look to see what was under my layout I did not need! I am sure Simon got his fill of adding decoders and fixing the junk they left with!
See you all later, I open Friday and 5:30 AM rolls by pretty quickly!
Afternoon everybody. I see lots of us got snow, nothing but rain my way.
Didn't do much today.......Went by the post office and picked up my package from MB Klein. Got some cars to rust!!! That will give me something to do.
Jeff.........Nice video!!!
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Good evening, folks, Thought I'd stop on by for a bit of a rest after all the festivities....
So I hope everyone had a great Christmas. Things have been a bit tight lately, told the kids to keep it low key and no trains...OMG! I do have a Spring Mills depot B&O I-12 coming though. Tired of that old BB stand-in running back behind that nice EM-!.
This Christmas was rather special, my son had my first grandchild, Isabella on Aug 28. She was the hit of all the family gatherings. Really went all out for a Christmas party/ dinner and decorated like the "old days" when they were young. I loved carrying on a family tradition of grampa giving a special ornament, porcelin "Booties" and sign the bottoms. My kids adore their's from their Pop-Pop.
Amazing how tiny they are- w/ proud Daddy
I get her finally
Her first "lil dolly"
Can't forget that Lionel set!
"Our wood buildings" can have many uses
Tomorrow we're off to the Christmas in NJ, (in-laws) kids always liked having Christmas all week All have a safe and Happy New Year
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
Well today I let the big Atlas diesels out to play. Here's a short video showing the H24-66 and the U30E645 pulling a freight around the layout assisted by the little slug.An Atlas GP40 and twp Atlas FP7's will be getting run later today. There's not much else happening today. As you can see my life is quite boring.
Was up at 5:30am this morning and went out to shovel the 8" of snow we got last night. I came in and grabbed a bite to eat and then went over to my parents and Aunts house to shovel there also. I was home by about 10:45 and went down to the rail yard to get some really nice winter pics. No train came through but the local was there doing some switching. After a shower and a cup of joe I am feeling a little tired now,lol
Still might pop on over to the art supply store to check out some deals.
Chamomile tea, please. After a night of insomnia, just not ready to start the day quite yet.
Been thinking (I know, dangerous thing to do) and have all but decided to return to the idea of building a door layout for N scale, which would replace the coffee table presently in the library. This is a location I can easily and at any time go play in and it might just look kinda neat in there. I still have the larger HO layout downstairs in the Train Room to finish. Just thinking with my health issues, it may make more sense to work on something small and convenient that can be finished fairly quickly and enjoyed. And moving many of my N scale trains into the display cabinet upstairs here (same level as Library), they would be ready to run at a moments notice. One day I may get back to the big N scale layout, just for now it is a bit overwhelming and I never seem to have any energy to make it down there.
Going back to bed for a bit longer. Have a great day Y'all.
Rob
I'm off this week so I get to visit the Diner during the day and as it is morning, how about eggs benie please Chloe with a mug of Ray's special blend.
I want to wish everyone Season's Greetings and hopefully Christmas was good for you. My wife and I just exchanged modest gifts this year as we are in major saving mode for the upcoming trip. I got a book, Steam over Hamilton, which is the fifth one in the series that I have now. We also spent a couple of days down in Thief River Falls visiting our friends returning home on Christmas Eve. We had Christmas dinner at my SIL which was a very quiet evening. Only 5 of us now and as my SIL and her 2 daughters rarely say much it was quiet indeed. I must say I don't enjoy Christmas much anymore. Both of my parents passed away just before the day and without my FIL too it really isn't much fun. Oh well, a new year is soon upon us and it likely will be an exciting one for us.
Not much new on the MRR front up here. I did some work on the N scale. My Lt. Mountain was derailing on a curve so I decided to rip it up and re-do. Turns out my 11" radius got a little tighter at one spot so I did fix it. I also decided not to put in a tunnel as the required hill just didn't look right. I think scenery elements have to look as though they could have been there naturally. I have seen many layouts where there is a tunnel just because the owner wanted one even if they are modelling the prairie. Looks very odd.
Well I have to get ready as we are going out to lunch with my wife's uncle who is in town visiting family.
CN Charlie
Mornin' everyone!
"Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow..." Ah... Zoe, I'll have a nice hot bowl of oatmeal and a couple of those fresh baked cinnamon rolls to go along with a pot of dark roast coffee served to me in my FGLK mug. Thank you Ma'am!
We got about 8" of white fluffy stuff total last night just like Barry... We generally have the same weather but normally it gets here 8 to 20 hours later! Still going to be a pain digging out as the good old city snowplows dumped several feet into the end of my driveway (part of the fun living on a corner lot). First I have to find and unbury the snow blower, find the can of starting fluid, remove the spark plug, spray starting fluid into cylinder, put spark plug back in, and then pull start rope on the snowblower. That thing hasn't started in the normal way since the 2nd. year I had it when the electric starter broke. It is on it's last year.
Simon, keep those kids of your on track! I mean... Make sure you do some training with them... If you have a working train museum nearby, get them involved with the 1/1 scale stuff! Then again... Girls and cars can be fun too! Zoe, I got Simon's tab this morning....
Best get myself bundled up and head out to the "Winter Wonderland" outside! (Leaves singing, "Gone away is the Bluebird, here to stay is the new bird, just singin' a song as we go along......")
Later!