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Working on Your Layout, Mayan Style

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Posted by ollevon on Monday, December 17, 2012 6:10 PM

I hope your right about the Mayans Rich, because if its not on the 21st, it will be the 25th for ME, if I don't go out a buy my OH her Christmas gifts. I'm waiting for the 22nd to do that.  Think that's a good plan?

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Posted by richhotrain on Monday, December 17, 2012 6:24 PM

ollevon

I hope your right about the Mayans Rich, because if its not on the 21st, it will be the 25th for ME, if I don't go out a buy my OH her Christmas gifts. I'm waiting for the 22nd to do that.  Think that's a good plan?

  Sam

Sam, I like the plan. Yes

Meanwhile, keep a close eye on the OH, and monitor her cell phone conversations.  She may attempt to contact the aliens and barter your layout in exchange for her own safety.   Alien

What kind of steam engine are you planning to buy her in the event that we reach the 22nd?   Wink

Rich

 

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Posted by Phoebe Vet on Monday, December 17, 2012 7:38 PM

rdgk1se3019

I think it is time to lock this thread.......

 

.......end of the world mayan crap.........

 

............AIN`T GONA HAPPEN PEOPLE.

 

Did it appear to you like ANYONE in here was taking it seriously and thinks it's going to happen?

We are laughing at the doomsday predictors and having a little fun. 

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Posted by IRONROOSTER on Monday, December 17, 2012 7:49 PM

rdgk1se3019

I think it is time to lock this thread.......

.......end of the world mayan crap.........

............AIN`T GONA HAPPEN PEOPLE.

It's NOT!!!

Oh No, I just blew the rent money on a brass locomotive!!!

Maybe we could send some nukes to the sun and blow it up on Friday, that's better than telling my wife we can't pay the rent.

Clown

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Posted by ollevon on Monday, December 17, 2012 8:12 PM

Well Rich, now that you asked,  she always did seem to have this thing for BIG BOYS. Thanks for the suggestion.

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Monday, December 17, 2012 8:31 PM

When the Mayan calendar runs out, I'm switching to the Playboy calendar.  I like all kinds of models.

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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Posted by Texas Zepher on Monday, December 17, 2012 11:23 PM

mactier_hogger
Some of our boneheaded politicians up here in Canada believe that the world is only 5000 years old!

I guess it depends on ones definition of the world.   It is conceivable that one could consider the end of the world to be when everything one knows changes.   Like the old steam locomotive firemen.  Their world began in the 1830s and  basically ended March 1960.

I think one could easily make an argument that the "world" began with human's current recorded history.  There may have been world's before that but they were certainly not ours.

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Posted by richhotrain on Tuesday, December 18, 2012 5:09 AM

It is now 3 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes,and 0 seconds until Friday, December 21, 2012 at 11:11:11 AM (UTC time).

I am still waiting for the latest pour of Woodland Scenics Realistic Water to completely clear.

I just hope that it is all done in time.  I want this layout to be completed before it is all over.

Rich

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Posted by teen steam fan on Tuesday, December 18, 2012 8:23 AM

If you can read this... thank a teacher. If you are reading this in english... thank a veteran

When in doubt. grab a hammer. 

If it moves and isn't supposed to, get a hammer

If it doesn't move and is supposed to, get a hammer

If it's broken, get a hammer

If it can't be fixed with a hammer... DUCK TAPE!

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Posted by JoeinPA on Tuesday, December 18, 2012 8:58 AM

Good one Teen Steam Fan!

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Posted by richhotrain on Tuesday, December 18, 2012 9:04 AM

Teen Steam Fan,

Is that a copy of track diagram that the one Mayan is holding?

I ask because I see several reverse loops connected by those crossovers.

Rich

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Posted by teen steam fan on Tuesday, December 18, 2012 1:21 PM

There ya go, Rich solved the whole thing. The Mayans made the world's first track diagram. Complete with crossovers and reversing loops

A few hundred years before the first model railroad, but we will overlook that one

If you can read this... thank a teacher. If you are reading this in english... thank a veteran

When in doubt. grab a hammer. 

If it moves and isn't supposed to, get a hammer

If it doesn't move and is supposed to, get a hammer

If it's broken, get a hammer

If it can't be fixed with a hammer... DUCK TAPE!

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Posted by kbkchooch on Wednesday, December 19, 2012 7:25 PM

Nuf said? Laugh

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Posted by Motley on Wednesday, December 19, 2012 7:38 PM

Karl, that is one hell of a point!!!! LOL

 

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Posted by richhotrain on Friday, December 21, 2012 4:35 AM

Good morning, fellow modelers.

Well, this is it.  According to the countdown timer, there are just over 35 minutes to the end.

http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?day=21&month=12&year=2012&hour=11&min=11&sec=11&p0=0

I ran my trains last night for the last time.  The Woodland Scenics Realistic Water pour still has not completely cleared.  Now, it never will.

Nice knowing ya !

Rich

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Posted by Phoebe Vet on Friday, December 21, 2012 5:11 AM

There are still people moving around.  They must be zombies.

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Posted by HaroldA on Friday, December 21, 2012 5:30 AM

Well.....I am still here - now I have to go out and shovel snow.  Didn't get gas for the snow blower because I didn't think I would be needing it......Bang Head

There's never time to do it right, but always time to do it over.....

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Posted by Motley on Friday, December 21, 2012 6:43 AM

It's gone, it's all gone. We are gone we just don't know it.

Impending doom is here!!!!!!!! 

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Posted by NP2626 on Friday, December 21, 2012 6:47 AM

My working for a living- life is ending today.  I walk out the door here today and that will be it, I have retired!  Maybe the Maya knew this was happening and that's what the Mayan Calendar was all about!  How nice of them!

NP 2626 "Northern Pacific, really terrific"

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Posted by richhotrain on Friday, December 21, 2012 6:49 AM

NP2626

My working for a living- life is ending today.  I walk out the door here today and that will be it, I have retired!  Maybe the Maya knew this was happening and that's what the Mayan Calendar was all about!  How nice of them!

Happy Retirement and welcome to the club!

What's the plan beyond today?

Rich

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Posted by HaroldA on Friday, December 21, 2012 6:51 AM

NP2626

My working for a living- life is ending today.  I walk out the door here today and that will be it, I have retired!  Maybe the Maya knew this was happening and that's what the Mayan Calendar was all about!  How nice of them!

Yes, Happy Retirement.  It's a great life!

There's never time to do it right, but always time to do it over.....

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Posted by NP2626 on Friday, December 21, 2012 7:28 AM

richhotrain

NP2626

My working for a living- life is ending today.  I walk out the door here today and that will be it, I have retired!  Maybe the Maya knew this was happening and that's what the Mayan Calendar was all about!  How nice of them!

Happy Retirement and welcome to the club!

What's the plan beyond today?

Rich

No big plans, going to a beer joint to have a few with working buds, tonight, then get intensly into the hobby over the winter.  Taking a tour of Austria, next spring with side trips to Venice and Budapest.

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Posted by Steven S on Friday, December 21, 2012 7:31 AM

Still here.  Everything's is just....wait.   Hold on, what's that?   

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Friday, December 21, 2012 9:41 AM

I woke up this morning and looked out the window.  The world was gone.  There was nothing outside but blinding white light...

Then, I woke up a bit more and realized that I'm at a ski area, and it's snowing.

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Friday, December 21, 2012 9:45 AM

It is now obvious that the Mayans preferred continuous running over point-to-point.

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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Posted by andrechapelon on Friday, December 21, 2012 10:40 AM

MisterBeasley

It is now obvious that the Mayans preferred continuous running over point-to-point.

 
Actually, they never got beyond the oval because none of them ever figured out how to wire a reverse loop.
 
And, apparently, they never figured out DCC (Doomsday Calendar Control), either.
It's really kind of hard to support your local hobby shop when the nearest hobby shop that's worth the name is a 150 mile roundtrip.
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Posted by Motley on Friday, December 21, 2012 11:16 AM

According to "Doc", we have entered an alternate time divergant.

Our earth has in fact,  been destroyed.

But we are now in another world and the date is: Nov. 5th 1955. 

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Posted by andrechapelon on Friday, December 21, 2012 11:38 AM

Motley

According to "Doc", we have entered an alternate time divergant.

Our earth has in fact,  been destroyed.

But we are now in another world and the date is: Nov. 5th 1955. 

 
Oh goody. Now I can go up to San Jose and watch steam powered commute trains. Or down to Bakersfiield to watch the San Joaquin Daylight swap GS-4's for F7's (or the other way around depending on the time).
 
The Friant Branch is still using 2-6-0's.
 
 
 
It's really kind of hard to support your local hobby shop when the nearest hobby shop that's worth the name is a 150 mile roundtrip.
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Posted by Lehigh Valley 2089 on Friday, December 21, 2012 11:59 AM

I'm still alive. No real big events. 

The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.

-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.

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Posted by Lehigh Valley 2089 on Friday, December 21, 2012 12:01 PM

Karl, that is probably the best point that anyone can come up with!

The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.

-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.

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