As an infrequent, but occasional visitor, I wanted to pop into the diner for a quick hello and wish you all a prosperous and healthy New Year. I hope that the Christmas season was kind to you?
With my 2 boys now teenagers (13 and 15) I am pleased to say that there was still a lot of interest in MRR on Christmas Day. They are both very excited about heading to the K-10 model trains open house on Sunday to run their new trains. I hope that they keep their interest, but we all know what happens when girls and cars start to come onto the scene.
Good wishes to all the regulars, and the other occasional visitors,
Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum
Good morning. It's 30° with 100% humidity. It'll be partly cloudy with a high of 55°.No plans for today other than running some trains. I might bring out the Atlas H24-66 and Atlas U30C for a run.
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 ....... We continue to have our visiting family here, and we're busy with them, of course. .... Yesterday was the first snowfall of the season, and it was not much.
Bill T ...... Can you tell more about the derailment?
Cheers everybody.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good Morning!!!
Coffee and oh how about a couple sweet rolls please. Thanks.
Next year….I’m following Ray around for Christmas. Whoo boy they eat good.
Last nights supper dishes got washed this morning, and I got that done already so now I just have to poke around abit and see if all is a go for me to hit the trainroom!! Unfortunately I’m sure I will run across something. Then I will venture uptown to w**k.
Jim- You ain’t a kiddin when you say perfume isn’t cheap. My gosh that has to be the biggest racket out there. No wonder all these people have a perfume line. The bottle and the spray thing costs the most of the whole shuhbang. Oh an Brenda wasn’t too bad with the time it took. She was the most happy about just having a desk. She did offer to help a couple times, but handing pieces was about all she could do and that apparently got boring so…. But they did get theire left and rights mixed up once in the instructions, and I tell you what... I can sure see how with as many left and rights as they used, so I used that pretty much as an excuse as to why I’m going so slow. Just making sure I didn’t have to go back later and take half the thing apart if they did it again don't you know. I think she miiiight have bought that.
Best get a movin.
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.
Well, MOH set out at about 5:15 AM and found in about 4 miles that the roads were too slippery to go into work. SO turned around came home and set out again about 6:25 AM, got there at about 7:00, not bad.
The plow has come around again since mOh went to work here in the park. That means I may have to do my best to shovel out the end of the short driveway for MOH to get back in the driveway. Groan.
MOH shoveled last night and twice this AM before work.
About oh 10 inches I guesstimate.
Yesterday I went and built {put together} a cabinet for on top the bathroom counter to "hide" stuff off the counter top in. I got wood grain to match the- over- the- toilet cabinet, but MOH is unhappy with it as the base to the sink is white, and wants white cabinet for on top of the counter! {never happy} I paid $3.00 extra to get the wood grain! Since i put it together {OH watched and never said a word about the color} I cannot take it back. Trying to figure out what we can do with a cabinet with cardboard back {so cant be wall hung really} that is 1 foot wide, 1 foot deep and about 30 {or is it 36"}? tall. If I went and got a new white one for the bathroom. Could paint it but the fake wood grains may not take paint well. Oh well.It is a closet maid cabinet seen here:
http://store.closetmaid.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10051&storeId=10151&langId=-1&top_category=10001&parent_category_rn=10062&categoryId=10169&productId=10508
I can get anohter and attache them to each otehr and another set of somethting on top for the BR. Thinking of this {two of them} on top two cabinets:
http://store.closetmaid.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10051&storeId=10151&langId=-1&top_category=10001&parent_category_rn=10062&categoryId=10169&productId=10526
what you all think?
Or one of tehse top/bottom of the cabinets?
http://store.closetmaid.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10051&storeId=10151&langId=-1&top_category=10001&parent_category_rn=10054&categoryId=10087&productId=10444
I dunno.
Well, I have some house clenaing tgo do as we are expecting company so I have a LOT to do to get "spiffed up" for MOH's sake.
ANd dishes and laundry what else?
later.
-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
Well...we got about 8" of the white stuff here...lot of plows are out and about doing their thing....
Neighbour was out doing their's and our driveways...and we are now sitting around the kitchen with the hot choco having a good ol' laugh over this...
Have a few things to do today...better to get after them before wife starts on her list 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/
Good Morning!
No snow here - just lots of rain and temperatures in the low 40´s. Not a day to spend much time outside! According to the weather guessers, we will have a wet New Year´s Eve.
I spent some time in the Internet, searching for the right colors for my little loco. The ones I´d like to paint it in ae not available as rattle cans and the airbrush i have is no good. Good enough for weathering track and the odd paint job, but not suitable for spray painting my little loco. I found a cheap, but supposedly good one for the price of two rattle cans - maybe I´ll order it next year
Locos like my little critter usually have a very decrepit and beaten look, which I also would like to have. There is a weathering kit called "Rustall" which looks suitable, but it is not available in Germany
Ray and all of you in the snow belt - stay safe!
Have a good day!
Morning Coffee with Friends
GOOD MORNING!!!
Today is Thursday, December 27th, 2012!!!
There is lots of snow on the ground here!!
Some of us around here admit to being " no spring chicken"...SO:
Meaning and origin:
New England Chicken farmers discovered that chickens born in the spring brought better prices, rather than the old tired birds who had gone through the long winter. Sometimes the farmers tried to sell the old birds as new born spring birds. Buyers often complained that a tough fowl was "no spring chicken" and so the term is now used to represent birds or people who are past their plump and tender years.
{funny, I am now at my 'plump years"}
And then there is the phrase "lay an egg", SO:
Unlike when a chicken lays and egg and is given high praises for doing so, in the human world that is NOT the case at all. The term goes back to the days of Cricket when called a "ducks egg" because you had no runs, was a zero, Like an Egg {shaped}. So rather than saying a team had no score, they said the "laid an egg". Today any event failure in sports or not means to "lay an egg".
Then, Of course, is "bring home the bacon", SO:
This phrase originated from the days of County carnivals and the prize a contestant would win for catching the greased pig. Since a pig was the target, the winner was said to have "brought home the bacon" or the winnings! Today the term is used to mean bringing home money earned form a hard task at work or after a lot of running around to get things done!.
~OR Better still~
The origin of the phrase 'bring home the bacon' is sometimes suggested to be the story of the Dunmow Flitch. This tradition, which still continues every four years in Great Dunmow, Essex, is based on the story of a local couple who, in 1104, impressed the Prior of Little Dunmow with their marital devotion to the point that he awarded them a flitch [a side] of bacon. The continuing ritual of couples showing their devotion and winning the prize, to considerable acclamation by the local populace, is certainly old and well authenticated. Geoffrey Chaucer mentions it in The Wife of Bath's Tale and Prologue, circa 1395:
But never for us the flitch of bacon though, That some may win in Essex at Dunmow.
The derivation of the phrase is also muddled by association with other 'bacon' expressions - 'save one's bacon', 'cold shoulder', chew the fat' and so on. In reality, the link between them is limited to the fact that 'bacon' has been a slang term for one's body, and by extension one's livelihood or income, since the 17th century. Of course, the source of that 'body' meaning is that bacon comes from the body of a pig or, more accurately, a pig's back and sides.
An additional invented explanation that links 'bringing home the bacon' with the culinary habits of mediaeval English peasantry is given in the nonsense email 'Life in the 1500s'. That, and all the other supposed derivations above, ignores the fact that 'bring home the bacon' is a 20th century phrase that was coined in the USA.
One field of endeavour in which one's body, i.e. bacon, is the key to one's fortune is boxing, and it is in that sport that the expression first became widely used.
Joe Gans and 'Battling' Oliver Nelson fought for the widely reported world lightweight championship on 3rd September 1906. In coverage of the fight, the New York newspaper The Post-Standard, 4th September 1906, reported that:
Before the fight Gans received a telegram from his mother: "Joe, the eyes of the world are on you. Everybody says you ought to win. Peter Jackson will tell me the news and you bring home the bacon."
Gans (on the right in the picture) won the fight, and The New York Times printed a story saying that he had replied by telegraph that he "had not only the bacon, but the gravy", and that he later sent his mother a cheque for $6,000.
A month later, in October 1906, The Oakland Tribune reported another boxing correspondent, Ray Peck, predicting the result of the impending Al Kaufmann/Sam Berger fight in California like this:
Kaufmann will bring home the bacon. [He did]
There are no newspaper records, or any other printed records that I can find, of 'bring home the bacon' dating from before September 1906, but there are many, most of them boxing-related, from soon afterwards. That's not exactly proof that the expression was coined by the good Mrs Gans, but we can say at least that she was the one who brought it into the public arena.
The prayer candles are lit for those affected by the storm, for those who just lost loved ones, and for those in need for medical or other reasons!
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
Thursday, December 27, 2012
TIPTON
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Evening Snow Birds.
Flo, Beer P Leases!
Did it snow at my house today?
Nope, yet to see a snow flake this year! Above picture is from 2 years ago When I Did Not Sell Tires!
Still working on a good check, today was fairly good.
By the way Jim, Idiot with the $400.00 smart phone is my daughter.
Got run, got to be up and awake early to fight with BoS.
Ken
I hate Rust
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a hot cup of decaf for me right now.
We have about 5 inches of the fluffy white stuff on the ground at the moment. Depending on what part of the forecast you read for here, we are predicted to get 10 to 15 inches more tonight and tomorrow morning or 10 to 16 inches total for the storm.
City snow plows are out dumping snow in the driveways of those who have been out cleaning their driveways. The only other vehicles crazy enough to be out there right now are the private plowing businesses who are having fun driving 70 mph or so down my 30 mph speed limit street in the blizzard to get to the next "emergency" ..... "Hey man, we gots four wheeeeeel drahv. We kin goes anywhere ya know!" I think I'll wait until they stop plowing and clean out my driveway once sometime tomorrow afternoon... LOL
[edit] Just looked at the closings from a local station... Ontario county (where I live) is officially closed! No unnecessary travel!
I worked up a jig to drill the itsey bitsey tiny little holes in the proper places to install the metal bands around the staves. I have the first four levels of the holes drilled. I now have to work out a way to hold the jig as the distance frokm the dremel in the drill press gets farther down the tower. I have run out of space to put the clamps... I thought I had bought some small clamps I could use for it at Micro mark, but couldn't find them tonight.
Think I will go sit in the front booth and watch the blizzard outside for a while.
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Been running some trains today and not doing much else. The GP7's and GP35, The F unit trio and the GP9 trio all got run. The F unit slug was run with each set. Inspected the outside of my trailer and took photos of any damage and the storm debris. A 10 - 12 foot tree top was the biggest bit. Luckily it didn't make a direct hit. I came off better than my sister did. She had a 60+ foot tall Liquidambar styraciflua tree (also known as sweetgum) in her yard. Now it's 33 feet tall. The top half got snapped off and took out her porch and porch swing. Fortunately none of her dogs who use the porch as a lounging area were hurt. They were all in the house at the time.Time to call it a night. see y'all tomorrow.
Hi Guys,
Snow is coming down pretty good here. We got home from my parents and had a decent snowdrift by the side door. I have to put the garbage out in the morning and I might have to do a bit of shoveling. I am spending the night right now looking at a few books on amazon and am working on a 1/35 Sherman tank. Not alot of layout work these days, I guess when you have pretty much completed a layout projects and things really slow down. I have a few spots on the layout where I need to solder the joiners to improve reliability but other then that there isn't all that much to do. I cant believe that Christmas ( for us ) is over, it really comes quick and goes quick at the same time.
jeffrey-wimberlyWhen you get looking you may find you have at least one pair of feeders crossed. Happened to me even though I was being careful.
That is 1st on the hunt for shorts list Jeffrey. Then there are 3 metal frog turnout's that I suspect... After that, I'll just have to keep on trucking till I find it or them
Dennis
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
I have 8" on the ground now
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
jeffrey-wimberly Burlington Northern #24trying to figure out DCC, can't seem to figure out the diagram on how to make a non dcc loco dcc converted.It's not too difficult to figure out once you get to looking at how the loco is put together. I've converted many standard DC locos. Many have the motor isolated from the frame (IE motor not grounded to the frame). I've worked on locos that are forty years old and converted them to DCC with no problem.
Burlington Northern #24trying to figure out DCC, can't seem to figure out the diagram on how to make a non dcc loco dcc converted.
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
howmusBatten down the hatches folks... Time to hunker down next to the wood stove, grab a good book (or a model or two to build), and ride out the storm!
Batten down the hatches folks... Time to hunker down next to the wood stove, grab a good book (or a model or two to build), and ride out the storm! Started coming down pretty good about 45 minutes ago here in the Finger Lakes. Not much wind yet, but we are getting a nice steady snow falling outside. They are talking 6 to 12 inches of blowing, drifting snow tonight and a storm total of 8 to 16 inches by tomorrow afternoon.
".... but since there's no place to go... Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!" I may spend some time this evening doing some model railroading... Haven' been down there to do anything in close to two weeks, so I think it is time. I went grocery shopping to pick up some things I needed and picked up enough points at TOPS to get 50¢ off gasoline per gallon and since the car was under 1/4 tank I went over and filled it up at the brand new TOPS grocery store gas station... Anyone remember the old days when you bought groceries in a supermarket and gas at a gas station, and Rx's at a pharmacy and stuff like that? Anyway I filled the car (7.2 gallons at $3.129). Cost me $22.55. Milage was below what I expected, but it is mid winter and the gas engine has to run to keep me warm and stuff.... Oh I only got 47.5 MPG this tankfull. Should improve in Spring.
Time to warm up leftovers for supper!
trying to figure out DCC, can't seem to figure out the diagram on how to make a non dcc loco dcc converted.
chochowillie Finally got my digitrax partially set up and have most of the feeders soldered. Now, I have a short somewhere on the main line. It was fine till the feeders got put in place. Grrrr . Now to find the short(s). I'm thinking some of the metal frog turnouts may be the blame. Any ideas anyone???
Finally got my digitrax partially set up and have most of the feeders soldered. Now, I have a short somewhere on the main line. It was fine till the feeders got put in place. Grrrr
. Now to find the short(s). I'm thinking some of the metal frog turnouts may be the blame. Any ideas anyone???
jeffrey-wimberlyAs I said, some of the stuff that hit my trailer was pretty sizable.
Jeffrey: That is indeed some pretty good sized stuff that came down. Just on of the joys of living in a forested area I suppose. We moved about 3 years ago into a sort of new subdivision. The developers here take a section of land, take all the topsoil off and stockpile it. Then the "contour"the whole section to their specifications so they have lots that have walk out basements, big storm sewer catchment ponds/park areas an pretty much make it look like a moonscape.
After all that is done, the services all go in underground including the cable/electric and then the streets are paved, sidewalks etc. get put in.
After all that the houses get built. If there were any native trees on the section - gone.
No body seems to care about trees in the city anymore so no birds, no nothing. I hate it. Our old place had a ton of trees and we had all sorts of critters coming to be fed in the winter. So much for new subdivisions.
Anyway, that is the way it is till we move into a condo or seniors lodge twenty years from now. By then, the multiple trees I planted here will just be getting nice. Sigh, such is life.
Sounds to me like you got lots of sweet stuff..... maybe a secret plan to "sweeten you up". Just kidding
Glad you didn't loose power again. That seems to be a regular thing down your way. What a pain.
Let's see what else.. Finally got my digitrax partially set up and have most of the feeders soldered. Now, I have a short somewhere on the main line. It was fine till the feeders got put in place. Grrrr
Sounds like everyone had a not too bad of Christmas so that is good news. Our "quiet" at home christmas got turned on it's head with one phone call this AM. Overnight company company coming. There went any plans we had out the window.
Cheers
Ok I see I got top of page so he's my cc Flo, A round of for all who want them.
Gidday All, Have managed to catch up with every thing w**k wise,(famous last words) so the family and I are going to take up a friends offer to use their holiday bach (NZ for cabin) for a week or so, and go Bush. If I climb the hill out back I can get cell phone reception, so am still "on call", but with access to the interweb being somewhat problematic, I'll take this opportunity to wish you all......
A Happy and (hopefully) Trouble Free New Year.
Thoughts and Best Wishes to All that Need them.
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
well, I got MRR's "The DCC guide" so I can get an idea then I peered over to my Kato F7 BN #724 and see that it isn't DCC ready *gulp* I' really in it on this one.
As I said, some of the stuff that hit my trailer was pretty sizable. That's a two inch drain pipe under that tree top.
JR - If you were asking about "George Aiken Restaurant on Forbes Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh, I'm sorry to say that after 43 years at that location, they closed for good this past June. An office tower/hotel will be built on that site. They had a great reputation for family comfort food. It's suppose to be progress, but it doesn't seem like that to me anymore.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Good morning. It's 33° with 95% humidity. It'll be cloudy today with a high of 45°.No plans for today except to stay inside as much as possible. There's a northwest wind blowing and it's coming right off the lake so 33 feels more like 23.Speaking of wind, it got pretty savage last night but the power didn't go out at least. The cable did though. They just got it back in service a little while ago. I hope we've seen the last of that kind of weather for a while.I've already eaten a small part of one of my Christmas presents this morning and I really enjoyed it. The present is a bag of those little Kit-Kat bars. Also got a bag of Snickers bars, a bag of Reese's Trees and a bag of Milky Way bars. I also got three boxes of cookies. Sugar, peanut butter and snickerdoodle.Later I'll be going outside to see what damage the wind did. There were several large branches thrown against my trailer. Hopefully the worst of the damage will be just a small dent.
Happy Boxing Day!
It´s been a quiet day here - all businesses and shops were still closed for the holidays. Public life will awake tomorrow.
I spent some time at my friends place to continue on the assembly of the kit. It´s pretty much finished - all it needs is a little trimming here and there, some gaps have to be filled, a good cleaning job and a coat of primer. That´s about as far as I can go - I need warmer weather to do the painting.
Here are the latest pics:
Have a nice day!
Good Morning All,
Wish Sallie was better but it's good to see Jerry dropping in again. Also good to see Robbie back as well as the rest of y'all (yes you too Fergie).
Hope Jeff made it through the storms ok - lots of funny weather down his way. We have a lul before the storm starts to hit this afternoon so I'll get done what I can here and sky out for home before it gets too bad. Just the CFO and I in the shop today doing tidy up and maintainence plus some gov't stuff.
TC - did I ever ask you if Aikens Diner on Forbes is still open? We used to have breakfast there walking to the track during the PVGP weekends. It was a classic place open IIRC 24/7, We stay on the South Side now over by where you often shoot trains so it's not on the daily itinerary any more.
Ken - glad the sound redo worked out for you. Those EQ's are handy. As far as the rest is concerned, I had a lot of opposition when I first returned to the MRR hobby from the CFO. But she sees how much I enjoy it and has softened her position (though I don't advertise how much some of my bargains really cost). I figure in the end I spend a lot of time working and deserve my hobby and don't feel I need to defend how I spend my leisure time. Hang in there.
Gotta run - coffee's ready and I need to get into the shop. CUL, J.R.
Good Morning All....I'll have coffee and a sweet roll please...Thanks You...This is the veiw from the train room window..
TV says Wabash Valley could get 14 inches with much blowing and drifting...Travel Advisory till 6 am Thursday with Blizzard conditions...My caregiver couldn't make it and Nursing Home called and said they couldn't get Sallie to Mattoon for Dialysis....Got the Firehouse Five plus Two playing and working on the railroad latter a date with the Lazy Boy and an old movie on TCM...You all have a good one...Jerry