Good morning.
2 hour delay today. There is some ice on the roads, but not too much. Watching some WW2 fighting videos on Youtube right now.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
Good Morning all,
Congratulations OzJim sounds like a win – win situation to me.
Curt, that mine looks pretty good.
Ray, I hate going to the DDS, I don’t know why but I would rather have my thumbs sewn back on than get a filling taken care of. I do go 2x a year for a cleaning but I dread anything else needing done.
Rob your locomotives should be at 1 amp each (stall rating). If your hooking more than one together I don’t think I would let more than 2 locomotives share a decoder.
No snow and no rain Saturday or Sunday, I guess it missed us or lost my Zip code.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good Morning!!!
Some of that Kona coffee stuff please and……ya know, I think I’ll be brave and try the pineapple and egg casserole please…..no…..yes…. Yes, bring it before I change my mind. Thanks.
Okee dokee…..left click Jeffrey’s trailer picture…good. Right click.., save picture aaaassss… save to Desktop….save….cool. Now I can zoom in.
Don’t know what the weather will be today, I just know now it’s pretty cotton pickin windy.
Paul- glad you’re feeling better.
Ooops, sorry Rob. I knew that. You talked of it and it reminded me of my sinus issues. Crossing my fingers for you too.
Luckily I rarely get sick, just sinuses (some say that’s an infection therefore an illness…I won’t argue) haven’t been really ill since I can’t remember. Early ninties? Late Eighties. I know I havent been sick since I've been married at least. Before that even hardly at all. Mom always credited the way she took care of me when I was young. You know, no wet head outside, oatmeal….corduroy (shakes head). Now you watch, I’ll be sick by the end of the week.
Galaxy- Hope YOH’s back feels better.
OZJim- Great news!!! Congrtulations.
I spent a good amount of time in the trainroom yesterday w**king on the bridge thing. Yup. Shore did. Also watched Ziva as well. Yup again. Ziva and model railroading…..Match made in heaven. Kinda like warm and donuts. I found my drywall mud a lot faster than Ray found his, but mine was however…..molded. Guess I gotta get rid of it. Dug down towards the bottom to get the little I needed for to raise the “ground” a bit for the supports. Didn't need a lot. Like Dippity Doo...just a little dab-L-do ya. After the Church bookwork and an errand uptown, but hopefully not into Springfield, I’ll get a chance to spend some more time in there today. Felt pretty good.
Thanks for the well wishes on the smoking. Won’t be the first time I tried….isn’t the first time you’ve wished me well on it either but I really appreciate it all the same. Actually you’d think it’d be easy since I can’t stand smoking, never have. Hate the smell, never tasted good even after eating or in the morning or whenever people say they taste good. And the hassle of one is annoying. Plus, I can’t stand to think something is control of me. Only two things should control me. A wife to control me by choice, not fully understanding at the time the full extent to which she would control me of course, and my digestive system by design. I should like to be in control of most everything else.
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.
james saundersHi all, Been a busy few days. I got a call from a friend today, Asking if I could come into his work about a job opportunity that was there. Luckily I happened to be pretty close by and although I was dressed pretty casually in Jeans and a button up shirt I didn't have time to get home and change so I went in as quick as I could. Got told a bit about the job and was asked a few basic questions and then was offered the job! so Pending a medical (which I should have no problems with) I have a job starting ASAP. The role is as a supervisor for Star Track Express, overseeing a particular section of the operations. I'm pretty happy with the offer as it's a step or two above my previous role so will be nice and challenging! The pay is good too. Around $23 an hour + a supervisor allowance of a couple of dollars (not exactly sure how much extra) and also a company phone. The best bit? It's at Brisbane Airport so it's only 15 minutes from home!! No more hour long commutes. Medical is wednesday so I guess I'll start next week. OzJim
Hi all,
Been a busy few days.
I got a call from a friend today, Asking if I could come into his work about a job opportunity that was there. Luckily I happened to be pretty close by and although I was dressed pretty casually in Jeans and a button up shirt I didn't have time to get home and change so I went in as quick as I could.
Got told a bit about the job and was asked a few basic questions and then was offered the job! so Pending a medical (which I should have no problems with) I have a job starting ASAP.
The role is as a supervisor for Star Track Express, overseeing a particular section of the operations. I'm pretty happy with the offer as it's a step or two above my previous role so will be nice and challenging! The pay is good too. Around $23 an hour + a supervisor allowance of a couple of dollars (not exactly sure how much extra) and also a company phone. The best bit?
It's at Brisbane Airport so it's only 15 minutes from home!! No more hour long commutes.
Medical is wednesday so I guess I'll start next week.
OzJim
Modelling HO Scale with a focus on the West and Midwest USA
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
Morning Kona Coffee inthe Diner...
ALOHA!
GOOD MORNING!!
Today is Monday, February 11th, 2013!
The prayer candles will be lit at 11 AM when I return from my Injections
Make it a great day!
-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.
Well the weather was pretty ugly yesterday, and not just one part of the day. All day. At times the rain was so heavy I could hardly hear myself think over the noise of the rain coming down on the roof. There's more coming today. I lost track of how many times the power went out yesterday. My internet service was down at least half the day and then it went down last night. Now here's the funny thing, my satellite TV service was up most of the day except of course during the heaviest parts of the storms. It was down maybe a total of twenty-five minutes all day while the cable was out close to seven hours all told. Over the entire day the power was out maybe a total of eight minutes. The power outages were just quick flickers, just long enough to make everything shut down. This occurred throughout the day. So naturally I didn't get much done as there was the constant threat of the power going off and staying off for a while. I hate days like that. According to the weather guesser the chance of rain today is 60%, significantly less than what we got yesterday.I had typed this post for my sign off last night but the cable went down again and this time was out until past midnight. See y'all later today.
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! from Tipton IN.
Monday, February 11, 2013
TIPTON
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Evenin' Folks!
Janie, just a decaf for me...
Galaxy, hope your wife feels better in the morning. Also hope your medical stuff goes well tomorrow.
Ken, sounds like you had a bad night and have been paying for it all day. Get some sleep!
I got a good workout today and finally got the panels cleared by about 3PM this afternoon. So they gave me about 2 hours of decent power.... Better than nothing. Tonight we will get some freezing drizzle, cloudiness, all followed by rain tomorrow morning. Currently 34°F outside and the low overnight will be 32°F. Lots of rain tomorrow will mean I will have to keep a close watch on the seepage into the basement and the sump for the next couple of days.
Blackie didn't have a good day today and could barely walk tonight when I brought him out to get his supper. Yesterday he was waking fairly good... seems to come and go. Poor little guy. He still wants to play as long as he can play and just lay on the couch.
Got to spend a whole hour down in the train room this evening, I turned the heat on down there at 1PM in expectation I would have some quality time with the projects I am supposed to be doing. Just didn't make it down there until 8PM. Then I spent 45 minutes trying to find the bucket of wallboard mud I needed for the next step with the scenery. Finally I found it right where I put it 3 months ago when I used it last. Got the area where I needed it done and cleaned up some more dusty cars. Turned out the light and heat and came back upstairs.
Don't think Jeffrey has been in since this morning... Hope he made out well with the line of storms down there. I know there was a tornado in Mississippi today.
Time to head out to bed I guess. 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!
Terry, I take it those are the newer run Bachmann Spectrums with the see-through DB section? Doesn't seem like a bad deal too me either.
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.
Hi, all! Got some sleet/rain/snow today, started on the way home from Church.
Went to the annual train show( such as it is). Picked up some BB kits and these:
Decoders are installed and speed-matched.Pretty good deal, $80 for both.
Hope everyone's getting better!
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
Ken- It was a PCM w/o sound.
Galaxy- I hope your wife is better in the morning.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Well the internet decided to give my family problems today. Everyone in NEPA with a 570- area code as a matter of fact.
Need to get up to bed however, sorry I could only come for one post. Maybe tomorrow I'll be able to check more often than once.
Prayers for those in need of them. Night everyone.
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer Pleases.
Have felt like warmed over death most of the day. Last night, well I should say this morning I woke up at 1:32 AM and could not go back to sleep till 5:30 AM. Turned of the TV around 2:45 AM and watched cartoons. Been a long time since I have seen Huckleberry Hound!
Have not been outside all day, just watched a movie channel that was running a old TV Series called North and the South.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088583/
About what lead up to the Civil War and northern and southern families that where friends.
Curt, who made the Y6 b you borrowed, was it a PCM with the Loksound decoder, or the BLI version?
Vincent I am sure the motor bearings are bad, that is the reason the rest of the engine was a oily mess! Oil the bearings, and it is quite for awhile. Then they started squeaking again! You know, I for got all about the fact I have a bag of detail parts for that engine I never installed! I will look around for them and get then sent out after we finalizes the deal. But, as I posted a few days ago, my car heater core puked, so it may be awhile.
See you all Monday.
Ken
I hate Rust
Calling for freezing rain here turning to rain and then snow again tomorrow. Nothing compared to what some got yesterday though. Three feet of snow in parts of Connecticut? Also scary weather down south. I see Mississippi got a tornado today. I hope Jeff was okay as it looked dicey in parts of Louisiana also.
Lasagna & a mint tea, please.
***Galaxy, YIKES! Hope the pain subsides soon for her.
***Todd, we graduated the same year. This cough is from sarcoidosis messing with me, not a cold or flu (which I would gladly trade this in for). Usually comes and goes, but this time has been sticking around a long time and is severe at times. Crossing my fingers right now.
Spent some time in the train room, just running the new Climax loco moving log cars around. It finds every little speck of misplaced ballast on the layout. I will probably be skipping the whole ballasting thing with the future additions to the layout and only add it to the outside of the rails. I just want my trains to run without issues, even if it sacrifices looks..
Healing thoughts to those in need.
Rob
Well
It is a balmy cloudy 80 F and 27C in central Oahu.
MY Other Half's back went out Friday withthe shovelling. Well, today it got tweeked badly. MOH has spent the better half of the day in the recliner unablet o get up or move much. MOH Has Strong pain meds for such incidences but I have stronger. I think we may be calling 911 if MOH doesn't improve..I have been suggesting it for the last 4 hours, but MOH rejects the idea. I may have to take matters into my own hands. Problem is if MOH refuses service when they get here, we can get into trouble for calling them...majorly trouble. So I await MOH's decision to do so. May have to sleep inthe recliner.
My back is nto in good shape as MONDAY I get my next injections! So the wounded are taking care of the wounded here.
I finsihed all laundry and MOST household chores...so I cna rest after the injections Monday. I have some errrands to run TUesday that MUST be run then. THen PT for knee and hip on WEd which may about kill me too. I will ask Dr. if ok to do PT or not.
Well, that is our life, tune in tomorrow for the next installment of "As the Body Aches" !!!
Have a great night, I may spend it int he hospital.
Evening guys
Sorry I haven't posted in a few. I've been kinda "distracted" working on stuff I recieved friday. I got a box containing a bunch of cars (including a few MNS ones) and a SD40-2 that was kinda rough. The cars I've set aside until later to check them against existing cars.
I was hoping this SD40-2 wasn't a snoot, so that I could re-use it as a BN loco. But it was a snoot and upon further inspection and research, I realized the ATSF SD40-2 had some potential and they weren't too uncommon on some BN coal trains. So I disassembled it to clean it up. I washed the shell with some warm water with dawn in it and it came out nice and clean. I re-attached the horn, and installed a new sinclair antenna where the factory one was missing. I added MU hoses, cut levers, lift rings, and windshield wipers to the model as well. I'll see if any of the 4+ ATSF modelers I know have any ATSF yellow and blue I can use for touch-up. The trucks were disassembled, and are soaking in the warm-dawned water. The motor was supposed to be bad. I tested it and it shorted out, smoking and sparking. I cleaned the commutator, and used an X-acto blade to clean out the crud between the comutator poles. I re-tested it and it works, but has some whirring noise. Some lubercation on the bearings may fix this.
Ken, Sorry about not getting to wiring those harnesses into those locos. I've been busy fixing and cleaning up that ATSF SD40-2. I should be able to get to those locos tomorrow since I just have to scrub the trucks and gears, then re-assemble the thing.
Rob, I've ran 6 sound-locos and 2 non-sound locos off of my Zephyer. I was running 3 sounds and a non-sound while the rest were idleing.
Evening All,
Just got back from Sam's Club and supper is on the rotisserie cooking (pork roast). I go back to w**k tomorrow so I will see you all Wednesday night.
Today I put together the coal conveyor (very simple) and then hot glued the cardboard lattice together for the frame work. I hope to do the plastering on Friday. Because of my work schedule change and my Dad's 80th birthday Saturday that is the only option this week.
Looking at the size of the mine, I will have to put in some smaller hills to tie it in with the other hills I just finished
Rob- The noise is from the sound locos. The DCS-51 is silent except when it is showing a problem. The sound of 14 sound locos just makes a lot of noise in a loft sized room. It actually washes out the subtle sounds from the trains you are running.
I hope everyone is surviving the snow.
Here is the concept for the mine.
I hope everyone has a good night and prayers for those in need.
TMarsh . To be honest I have been spending less time downstairs not because I’m that busy, but because that’s where the smoking happens and I find myself smoking out of habit down there. So, I try to stay away from those trigger areas seeins how I plan on trying to give up smoking for Lent. Never gave up anything before so this’ll be a first. We’ll see how it goes and hopefully it will lead to stopping for good. (crosses fingers).
. To be honest I have been spending less time downstairs not because I’m that busy, but because that’s where the smoking happens and I find myself smoking out of habit down there. So, I try to stay away from those trigger areas seeins how I plan on trying to give up smoking for Lent. Never gave up anything before so this’ll be a first. We’ll see how it goes and hopefully it will lead to stopping for good. (crosses fingers).
I'll try to tell you this without sounding like a Sunday Sermon on the Mount, BUT, I gotta try. You need to give it up, NOW! I used to smoke a pack of Marlboros a day, since I was 18. Then at the age of 50 I had a stroke. I wasn't overweight, I ate healthy foods, I was plenty active. Doctor attributed it all to smoking. I was lucky. I was able to be rehabilitated. Took a month before I could walk, 2 before I could walk down steps, 3 before I could return to work. If not for my wife, I would have been lost. 2 years later, I still walk a little funny, but for the most part I'm back to normal.
2 years lost. Thats just my story, I'm sure there are worse ones out there.
Karl
NCE über alles!
Morning All,
25 degrees and mostly cloudy reaching a high of 40.
After lots of anti-inflamatories and pain meds, my knee is starting to feel better.
We had a nice little get-together yesterday in remberence of my mother-in -law. Tough part was watching videos of her and my wife, can't believe both are gone and in a period of 2 and a half months.
Was able to get some more track down on the layout, and cleaned of most of the buildings that were in storage. Now it is time to fix the little issues of broken and missing parts. I should start doing scenery and ballesting some track this week if my knee allows me to. Layout work is a good distraction and so I am off to do more of it.
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
TMarshJeffrey you little jokester! I clicked on the picture of that trailer you posted this morning to get a better look at it, I like the looks of it by the way, and instead of a bigger picture, I got a radar map . Anyway, is that trailer a single kit or a Sundown creation made from two things that don’t normally go together.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, just a refill on the dark roast coffee please.
I have been out on the patio continuing the quest to get the snow off the solar panels and produce some power today... It is a bit of w*rk... Not mucfh better than hand shoiveling sn*w... Yeah, I know I shouldn't be shoveling snow either, but I pace myself and only w*rk for 15 - 20 minutes at a time. 8 of the 12 panels I cleaned up yesterday have fired up and are finishing clearing themselves. I spent most of my time trying to remove more of the crusted on sleet/snow mix on the other 4. They are in the middle row and I think when the storm started the top panels melted the first of it and it ended up on the middle row and froze. Today is bright and sunny at the moment and would normally be a 15+ Kwh day this time of year. I may get a couple Kwh if I am lucky... I will w*rk on it for a few more minutes before I have lunch.
Todd, good luck with ending the smoking habit! I was shamed into giving up smoking about 40 years ago by my second son who wanted to know why I tell kids at school not to smoke but I do.... He always was the one to ask the important questions and he was about 4 years old at the time. You will be glad you gave it up ultimately, and think of all the $$$ you will now have to spend on the hobby!
Jeffrey, I hope the storm goes somewhere else, but at least you have your Father's house to hide out in if it gets bad! Stay safr and don't take chances...
Enough sitting around... Back to w*rk.
Later!
TMarshI plan on trying to give up smoking for Lent. Never gave up anything before so this’ll be a first. We’ll see how it goes and hopefully it will lead to stopping for good. (crosses fingers).
Hey Todd, quitting the weed isn't a problem at all ....... I've done it dozens of times over the years. It's the staying quit that's hard The longest I ever lasted was 10 months and then fell off the smoking wagon again.
Good luck to you Todd. It's a tough one but if you truly want to kick the habit, you will.
Dennis
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
Hm....didn't think the post from yesterday posted. Hit the post button and it just sat there, nothing. Even the little blue spinny thing locked up. After a minute or so of that, I closed the browser (not a problem as I type in Word) and then couldn't get back on the site. After a few minutes I decided to give up. Guess it snuck in.
Coffee and let’s see, hey, what’s this con-soo-me in tassy and tongue? I think I’ll stick with the Sunday Breakfast Buffet please. I know, I know. We ate at a buffet yesterday. But that was the Golden Corral and this….THIS….(nods head with a slight crooked smile) …. is the diner.
Raining as I type and I have just given up on the required, yet impossible task of drying a Labrador Retriever. It can’t be done. You soak 2 bath towels and the dog is as wet as when it came in.
Ok, let’s see what’s been going on heeeere…..
Jeff- Actually, I keep trying to figure them out, women that is, so that probably explains all the crayons I have. And oh I do like that conex box you posted yesterday.
Rob- I know exactly what you’re going through with the crazy coughing until who knows when you finally get to sleep. Boy do I. Go through that usually once or twice a year. Spring and Fall. Since I've been a teen. This year I didn’t have it and there back a couple years I didn’t have it for I think three…maybe four years. Thought I was over it until last fall…nope.
Or was that last Spring…..??? You know, time just flies and I can’t keep up with it. Graduated High School in 1980, 6 months later it’s 2013. Which reminds me, I thought we were to be living on the moon by now.
Duke- I remember the bike now, I think. You and PC used to talk bikes and I remember that picture. Or at least one like it.
Which reminds me, wonder what happened to PC? His wife, Mrs PC had that surgery and changing Churches, then after a bit he just kinda poof!
Ouch Ray! $3000!? Well I guess we’re like horses, can’t make it long without teeth.
Jeffrey you little jokester! I clicked on the picture of that trailer you posted this morning to get a better look at it, I like the looks of it by the way, and instead of a bigger picture, I got a radar map . Anyway, is that trailer a single kit or a Sundown creation made from two things that don’t normally go together.
Welp, hopefully today I’ll do some odds and ends in the trainroom as I’ll be watching the Ziva marathon. Probably not continually, despite what I say, but I will watch many of them again. Or at least check to see what episode it is. Hopefully I will spend time on the trains though. To be honest I have been spending less time downstairs not because I’m that busy, but because that’s where the smoking happens and I find myself smoking out of habit down there. So, I try to stay away from those trigger areas seeins how I plan on trying to give up smoking for Lent. Never gave up anything before so this’ll be a first. We’ll see how it goes and hopefully it will lead to stopping for good. (crosses fingers).
Kona coffee please.
I have seen Duke's bike in person. It's such a beautiful machine, it eve looks good with duke riding it.
Jeff ..... Grass is green in that scene! Nice.
Last night was the annual "Chocolate Affair". It's a fundraiser in our little town, and it is held in a nicely maintained, very old victorian house. My sweet tooth was satisfied. They have lots of great tasting homemade chocolate goodies. After that we went with neighbors to Hopkinsville for good steak dinner. I ate too much. Gotta go. We're attending late morning church.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Italian Roast coffee in a SOUTHERN PACIFIC mug, please.
***Jeffrey, stay safe and be ready to throw yourself over the layout to protect it.
***Bill awesome steamer pic!
***Johnboy, unfortunately, I'm not up to much for more than a couple hours these days without the need to lay down. Miss having good health to do whatever I want. It is what it is.
***Ray, I'm in a similar dental boat, but will go the cheapest route this time around. That Bayer Garratt is looking more and more like a fantasy item. Oh well.
***Curt, what is loud, the transformer or the locos?
Have a good day y'all.
Cheers! Rob
Good morning. It's 69°F with 99% humidity and a tornado watch! Ugly, rainy and cloudy. The high will be 72°F.Well we're under a tornado watch until 2pm. Currently radar shows a very ugly line of storms moving across central and east Texas in an easterly direction. I'm hoping that a super-cell doesn't use this area as a bulls-eye. My old trailer shrugs off lightning strikes fairly well but it has no defense against high winds. It'll either ride it out or some model trains will be scattered across the landscape. I will have already bugged out in search of a more substantial structure, most likely my fathers place. I'll be keeping an eye on the storms with this weather radar link that updates automatically.
*No plans for any layout work other than a bit of vacuuming. No sense engaging in something complex just to have the power go off in the middle of it.
Good Morning..
Plenty of sunshine here this morning..going up to ...tada!!...36F later on...yay!!!
Got a few things to do myself today..such as replacing popped bulbs and resetting clocks and such...seemed a power surge decided to come long and make my day...
Have a good one!!.
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/
Morning gang
Just stoppin in to say Hi. Gotta reload the hearth rack today (about 1/8 of a cord, or 10 trips down the steps with a storage tote full of wood) then its painting the laundry/storage room part 2! Oh Boy!
I'll be back tonight, if my back doesnt give out 1st!