bogp40Hi guys. Have been out of town and buried in a w**k project for the past month. Just got back from Fort Lauderdale (Hollywood) FL.
Beautiful work Stair reno's are always so time consuming. The ones I used to really love were the spiral stairs. Painstaking to build but very rewarding when finished both to the eye and my wallet.
Rest time
Dennis
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
bogp40, nice work!
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
Lehigh Valley 2089 bogp40, nice work!
Oh, and forgot to mention the "Scale is 1:1".
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
I put the new tractor to work today. Went down and hooked the trailer up to it then came back here and loaded the trailer up with the drawers and bits and pieces from my kitchen cabinet as well as a water heater box. Took that all down to the burn pile and unloaded it. Then moved a few dozen edging pavers for my niece. Then I showed my nieces husband how to operate the new tractor putting special emphasis on DO NOT step on the brake pedal (only foot control on the thing) until the drive lever is in neutral. Pressing the brake while the drive lever is in forward or reverse will wear out the drive belt real fast. After that I parked it in the shed and came back home. Nothing more to report at this time.
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
WEll
A lazy day for us.
RAY- The cramp thingy...My Doctor covered the gamut form : Hydration { I drink plenty of H2O already but lack of can cause cramps}, to Needing Potasium { I take it anyway as every blood draw shows low on me}, to needing magnesium {so I added that}, adn finally to A MUSCLE RELAXER for mine to STOP!!!
MOH did the unENJOYment applying today so that will be set, the check for this week will be late as Monday is a holiday!
Jsut think when the mail stops Saturday deliveries on holidays there will be no mail for 3 days! I like my catalogs thank you!
Planning retirement stuff to be in place WHEN MOH gets new job,, will also depend on benefits they offer at the job to add to basics here..
MOH has an appointment Thrursday at the Unenjoyment assistance center, maybe turn somehting up? MOH is hard to place..at 53 isn;t no spring chicken, has good work record, but hard to place older worker like ULRICH... HEY where is hE?
I didn't feel like doing any more research on Hawaiian trains today so I didn't.
I think nap time again. Then dinner. Tehn bed again.
Haven't been sleeping well either of us.
later...
EDIT: HEY WHO CHANGED THE FONT AND ITALICIZED IT ON US??????
-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.
Bob K .... Condo looks great. Good to see you.
Rob ...... That coughing problem must be solved. I recall being unable to sleep because of coughing. It lasted for weeks. I could not lay in bed without coughing. Doctors found out why. I had congestive heart failure. Not saying that's your problem at all, but you don't want this to continue.
I'll be under the layout today wiring my street lights.
Cheers.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
LION will now go to train room. Photos to follow.
NOW here there be photos.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Good Sunday afternoon! 26f and mostly sunny.
Great job on the staircase, Bob!( From one carpenter to another!)
CapeJim, received your e-mail and replied! Good to see you in the diner!
Well, finished the passenger car wheelset replacement, so that project can get Xed off my to-do list! ow I'm on to weathering those cars that aren't.
Watched Danica take the Daytona pole. That was cool.
That's it for now, hope everyone has a great day!! MOH put this on my phone for a screen saver. Boy I love her!!
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
I have yet to run my NW2 poor baby's just sitting there on my shelf.
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
Weird font...
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer pleases!
OK, whats up with all the Bold Font?
Work Front Well I am off today and I sure needed it! I am just so tired all the time, I am starting to really worry about it.
Health Front Well the toe is looking much better! If it keeps healing at this rate, the open wound will be covered in the next few weeks. But, I now have other worries!
For some reason my Figures are sweating? I have been watching my blood sugar and it seems to start as my blood sugar is starting to drop. Sugar is still high in the morning around 200 and when I hit between 160 and 140 the sweating starts. Tuesday I had my best reading at 107 around 2:00 PM, did not check after that. Rest of the week lowest reading I got was 140?
I am starting to think it is because of Anxiety being caused by work!
Jeffery, any thoughts?
Vince Any decision on trade value? I all so have a Stewart Dummy chassis if you could use it, it is wearing a NYC PK 1 shell right now but I wont need the chassis after I get the PK 1 power engines.
By the way Jeffery, I am 99.9% sure now you where right about my NYC PK1 F-3 having a bad worm gear bearing! After I lube the rear bearings it quite down, after a few hours, it starts squeaking again.
See you all later.
Ken
I hate Rust
james saundersWeird font...
Modelling HO Scale with a focus on the West and Midwest USA
I knew it would happen, I just knew it. Woke up this morning and saw a blizzard going on. Guess whose snow blower is still in the repair shop. Fortunately the 2 to 3 inches was of the light and fluffy variety. So it wasn't too bad clearing the walks and steps. But that 110' driveway, well, spring weather will take care of it I suppose. It better, because I'm sure not going to.
We went railfanning again and caught 7 trains in 2 hours. One was a very unusual intermodal. Two dash nines pulling 5 double stacks. Talk about a short train. Another was all tank cars, and all very new looking. I thought they were ethanol, but when I got home I found out the placard (1267) is for petroleum crude oil. I don't think I've seen these before. Another mixed freight had one 89' flat with trash containers. I usually see these on unit trains. Just goes to prove that all those model railroads are okay running only one type of a car in a mixed freight.
As I mentioned earlier in the week, I visited my friend and neighbor in the hospital this week. He just can't catch a break healthwise. His COPD is requiring higher and higher oxygen levels. I was talking to his son this morning and he told me that he is back in isolation because he has contracted Mersa (MRSA) while in the hospital. There's no way he is going to be home for his 50th wedding anniversary on Saturday.
Dinner tonight was a Lodon Broil, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet peas, dinner rolls and a bottle of Riesling. Bet you can't guess what area of the country it's from Ray. Hope everyone has had a good weekend. Best wishes to all.
Dennis/Curt - You guys mentioned shift schedules. Ours were very open the last 5 or 6 years I was on the job. For most of my 23 years, I worked 4 on with Monday thru Wednesday off. Daylight worked 10 hour shifts and nights 14 hours. I was pretty much steady daylight as the guys who worked nights all had daylight jobs and preferred not to rotate shifts. Towards the end you had the option of working 24's. That would give you 5 days off. Some even worked 48 straight. I tried it and didn't care for that at all. Took me a second 48 hours to recover.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
I got some photos today of my mothers 1962 Lone Star Medallion ski boat. It's name is 'Myna Bird'. We had intended for the work on it to be completed when she would be able to see it running again. Unfortunately she passed away before that could be done. Work was completed this last week and today my nephew took the boat out on it's initial trial run. The results couldn't have been better if it were brand new! Low speed performance is great and the top speed clocked out at 54 mph. Not bad for a heavyweight like that. I really wish she could have been here to see it go out and back. She would've been so happy. I would have loved to get some shots of it on the water but I was too late for that.The dent in the front in the first photo is where hurricane Rita dropped a tree top on it. Fortunately it was just an empty hull then.http://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/l608/scott-running-bear/DSCN3214.jpghttp://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/l608/scott-running-bear/DSCN3216.jpghttp://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/l608/scott-running-bear/DSCN3217.jpghttp://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/l608/scott-running-bear/DSCN3219.jpghttp://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/l608/scott-running-bear/DSCN3220.jpghttp://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/l608/scott-running-bear/DSCN3223.jpg
Good evening.
Got taxes done today, mainly for FAFSA. Tax refund turned out to be $310 dollars. I know where that's going to be going.
Performed another test on my 6466W. It is still "trigger happy (likes to continue blowing after I have let up on the whistle button)", but it is still better than having it short everything out. However, the 2020 is still having problems with it's E-unit. It is, at least on occasion, changing direction, but it now changes on it's own on occasion. Other times it doesn't change at all. I'll be looking for an E-unit at the next train show.
Nice boat Jeff.
Well I cleaned the fish tank today and went to my parents for a pork roast and potatoes and gravy for dinner. Only thing I managed all weekend on the layout was to paint a few figures, seeing as tomorrow is a holiday here I might try to get at a few more.
I tell ya, when I make a list of things that need to get done on the railroad I find it alot easier then just remembering "oh Yeah, I need to do this" or "Oh I have to do that"
I work so much better when I have my railroad to do list in front of me. What I usually do is around Sunday night after dinner I start work on "next weekends to do list" and just add to it until Thursday night and the I have my railroad projects already set. But then again house chores and other commitments get in the way there too,lol
Will be going to bed soon. Getting late. Night everyone!
No layout work today. I was too busy with things outside the home. Well, it's time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Well hey y'all. Finally get back in here as the family is finally well enough to allow me to have some "quiet time". I have, however; been able to find the driveshafts needed for my 8-40CW, direct from Bachmann, which is a good thing. Downside is that I don't have the connecting end for the trucks, which leaves me in a slight pickle, although I think I can make something work without trouble. Been doing a whole lot of arm chair model railroading recently and I'm glad to be in here and try to catch up with y'all (even though I know y'all are all a chatty bunch!).
As far as the family is concerned, there's been ear infections, viruses, and flu to contend with amongst the three children, so most of my time not spent at w**k is spent helping out around the house. I do have good news from the w**k front as I got a promotion, which means more money coming into my pockets at the end of the week. Combine that with having gotten our tax return and having paid off several debts. I just might be able to get that MRR budget set in stone!
Welp, back to trying to catch up a little bit, might be back in later, might just call it a night and try to get some sleep (been trying to catch up on that too!)
BamaCSX83 I have, however; been able to find the driveshafts needed for my 8-40CW, direct from Bachmann, which is a good thing. Downside is that I don't have the connecting end for the trucks, which leaves me in a slight pickle, although I think I can make something work without trouble.
Evenin' folks! Janie, just a decaf please...
G'nite Jake.. G'nite Jeffrey! Sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite!
Been a busy day around here it has! I had just come up from the train rooms after turning on the heater down there and was checking email on the computer when the doorbell rang. It was my sone and Granddaughter #2 bring a box full of boxes to me. The boxes inside the box were several varieties of Girl Scout Cookies... Back when she was selling the cookies, I told her Grandpa couldn't make up his mind so just order one box of each variety... I will be eating Girl Scout Cookies for a while! I wrote a check out and gave it her and she said, Papa can i see your trains? Well she didn't have to ask twice, and the three of us headed down cellar to check out what was new. She was disappointed that she couldn't reun trains as I had too much stuff laying around from projects I am doing, but she had a whole lot of questions about the new scenery I am doing. She went over and got the box she stands on and was checking out a whole lot of items. She is now asking about things like what the coal tower does. So I got to explain how the steam locos had to fill up with water and coal. She is starting to be interested in more than watching the train run around and around. I promised her I would get trains running again soon and she could come over and run some.
I then decided it was time to clean the kitchen floor which hasn't been cleaned in a couple months I think. That took about 2 hours and a couple of moppings after some serious vacuuming. By the time I was finished with that I had to change clothes and head out to my son's house for dinner....
A couple shots of the new scenery area I didn't post in the WPF thread:
Have a ghood night, and prayers for all in need!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
Monday, February 18, 2013
TIPTON
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
KONA Coffee in the diner...
ALOHA!!
GOOD MORNING!!!
Today is Monday. February 18 th, Presidents Day {USA} 2013!!!
The prayer candles will be lit at 8 AM for those in need.
Make it a great day, help someone in need!!
Maui Sugar Cane Train:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ws9h7pP0iyU
alexstanjames saunders Weird font... I don't see any weird font...?? Also, how do you guys get those smiley emoticons and stuff in this forum?
james saunders Weird font...
When you bring up the window to enter a post, there is a tool bar at the top with 2 lines to it, bottom line all the way to the right is the "smiley icon" click it, a window of smileys will come up. click the one you want and *presto* *bingo* * Bongo* there is the text written format of your choosen icon which will appear as the full icon when you hit "post"....
Some people birng in outside smiley emoticons, but most use the ones supplied.
Most of you folks would recognise the below photo as a funnel cloud. I took this photo on Saturday afternoon, right in my suburb of Bracken Ridge. It was quite exciting to capture a rare event, just glad to be in the right place in the right time! I was happy it didn't touch down! All in all it hung around close to 3 minutes before roping out in the time I was watching it.
I posted it to a facebook page for storm chasers here in QLD. It has nearly 5000 'shares' 2500 'likes' and at last check 1500 comments. It even got shown on Pay TV weather channel. Everyone in the local shops is saying I'm famous because it's been popping up in their news feeds after being shared by friends... I believe the 'reach' of the photo is around 100,000 people!
A local shop keeper caught it on video, but it has a few swear words so I won't link it, but if you wish - search youtube for "tornado forming in Brisbane" - be warned, make sure your kids aren't around and the volumes turned down.
James (locally famous)
galaxy alexstanjames saunders Weird font... I don't see any weird font...?? Also, how do you guys get those smiley emoticons and stuff in this forum? When you bring up the window to enter a post, there is a tool bar at the top with 2 lines to it, bottom line all the way to the right is the "smiley icon" click it, a window of smileys will come up. click the one you want and *presto* *bingo* * Bongo* there is the text written format of your choosen icon which will appear as the full icon when you hit "post".... Some people birng in outside smiley emoticons, but most use the ones supplied.
Good Morning
CCold and sunny this morning...posta get to 38F later on this evening..and, of course, do it's raining kinda thing tonight....
Off today, so get to do a fair bit of trainroom stuff...after spending all day yesterday and Saturday doing honey do and get things...
Have a good day!!!
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/
Coffee in a SANTA FE mug, please.
***James, neat capture!
***Bill, cool pic of the steamers steaming!
***Ray, Granddaughter #2 sounds so sweet. Try not to eat all those cookies in one day now.
***Tom, sounds like some terrific railfanning. Sorry about your friend, that's nasty stuff.
***Ken, hope you turn around the remaining health issues asap.
***Terry, nice pic of the BN.
Have a good day all.
Cheers! Rob
Well
Many of you may think the "lil Critter" locos are somewhat fantasy, but there is one real on at the HAWAIIAN RAILWAY SOCIETY. It is Diesel Locomotive 7750, a 150 horsepower diesel electric built by General Electric in1942 Used as a switcher by the military. Four wheel Weight: 25 tons.
http://www.hawaiianrailway.com/Train%20Images/javascriptphotos/operational/large/7750/7750_1.jpg
Another purdy loco is the Steam Locomotive - Ewa 1, a loco Built 1890 by Baldwin Locomotive Works Wheel Arrangement: 0-4-2T with tender. Weight: 12 tons First steam locomotive used on the Ewa Sugar Plantation.
http://www.hawaiianrailway.com/Train%20Images/javascriptphotos/historical/large/Ewa1/ewa1_1.jpg
With the prospect of irrigation water available from underground sources, Ewa Plantation Company was incorporated in 1890. Mr. B.F. Dillingham sublet more than 11,000 acres of land to the newly formed company, considering the future hauling business a necessary factor in the success of his Oahu Railway plans.
Clearing the land began on January 6, 1890 with 15 men, two horses and nine mules. The first seed cane, the Lahaina variety, was planted two months later. During the first year of operation, 22 wells were bored and 775 acres were planted at Honouliuli and Ewa. In April of 1890, the first Japanese laborers arrived at Ewa Plantation.
Excavation for the mill began in January 1891 and in the same year the high lift pump began bringing water into a reservoir.
The first crop, harvested in 1892, produced 2,849 tons of sugar. By 1923 Ewa Plantation was the first sugar company in the world to raise ten tons of sugar per acre and, by 1933, the plantation produced over 61,000 tons of sugar a year.
By 1910 the Ewa Plantation Company community of 2,500 people contained several laborers camps, the plantation store, kindergarten, clubhouse, hospital and dispensary, and several outlying camps.
Approximately 30 miles of railroad track serviced the plantation. Sugar form the mill was conveyed by the Oahu Railway and Land Company to Honolulu Harbor or shipping.
Ewa Plantation was considered one of the most prosperous plantations in Hawaii and in 1931 a new 50 year lease was executed, completing the agreement with Oahu Railway and Land Company and beginning an association with the James Campbell Estate.
A new hospital was built in 1935, part of an exemplary health care system which included kindergartens, child health clinics, and nutrition studies.
By 1936 Ewa Plantation Company was the first plantation to have a fully mechanized harvesting operation and by 1946 tests were made to convert the hauling of cane from railroads to large trucks. {HOW COULD THEY??? TRUCKS? MY OH MY}
Due to the proximity of Pearl Harbor, Ewa Plantation Company suffered some damage from machine gun fire and anti-aircraft shells during the December 7, 1941 air attack. With the entry of the United States into World War II, the Army took possession of over 500,000 acres of Ewa Plantation land. As with all Hawaii sugar companies, Ewa Plantation's most serious wartime problem was a shortage of laborers.
By 1951 a good sugar crop and substantial investment in new equipment and development had mitigated the effects if the war and a labor strike in 1946, and a record crop was produced.
In 1962 Castle and Cooke Ltd. Purchased majority control of Ewa Plantation Company stock and in 1970 Ewa Plantation Company merged with Oahu Sugar Company in Waipahu, Oahu.
Afew more PURDY Steam locos:
This one, A Steam Locomotive - Kauila 6- Built 1889 by Baldwin Locomotive Works. Wheel Arrangement: 0-4-2T Weight 12 tons. This coal burner was the first locomotive bought and used by Oahu Railway & Land Company.
http://www.hawaiianrailway.com/Train%20Images/javascriptphotos/historical/large/Kauila6/kauila_1.jpg
At its peak in the early 1900s, the Oahu Railway and Land Co. one of seven major railroads that served the Islands, extended 160 miles, hauling sugar to docks, pineapples to canneries and construction materials to work sites. It also was used for military and civilian transport, particularly during the World War II years.
One of the most sophisticated systems of its day, the "narrow gauge" line featured a double-track main line, automatic block signals, commuter operations and four Mikado locomotives similar to those used on Colorado's Durango line.
The first nine miles of the OR&L opened on Nov. 16, 1889, King Kalakaua's 53rd birthday, with more than 4,000 residents taking advantage of free rides.
OR&L was started by Benjamin F. Dillingham, who had opened a hardware company to serve the burgeoning sugar industry.
It wasn't long before Dillingham, who had arrived in Hawai'i in 1864, started leasing land in Kahuku and 'Ewa for his own plantations.
Recognizing the need for more efficient transport of agricultural products to O'ahu ports for shipment, Dillingham got permission from Kalakaua to establish the railroad system.
The rapid expansion of the railway played a significant role in generating new land sales and new agricultural industries, including pineapple.
The development of roads around the island led to the slow demise of railroads.
OR&L's fate was effectively decided by the 1946 tsunami that destroyed long sections of track and by a series of sugar strikes that drastically reduced the amount of freight that needed to be moved.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/dailypix/2006/Jul/02/sesq2oahurailway.jpg
One more PURDY loco:
http://www.hawaiianrailway.com/Train%20Images/javascriptphotos/historical/large/Waco6/waco6_1.jpg
Hope you have enjoyed this bit of Hawaiian Railroad history!
*sigh* aren't the steamers PURDY??
Have a GREAT day!
Good morning. It's 57° with 86% humidity. There's a fair chance of rain. The high will be 68°.I'll try again at some layout work today. I'm moving pretty slow after all the activity yesterday and I ache all over. Hopefully today won't be so busy.