jeffrey-wimberly The last time he decided to 'rest' the house grew from 2,400 square feet to 5,000 square feet.
The last time he decided to 'rest' the house grew from 2,400 square feet to 5,000 square feet.
***Jeffrey: MY FIL was just like your Dad, except in stature. Retirement didn't slow him down in the least. It's nice you still have him around.
NEED (DCC) HELP: Put the new Bachmann (HO) Climax loco on the Digitrax DCS50 ProgMode track and tried to ID the decoder. It kept coming up with [d nA] (note: checked my other locos on it, no problems) Then stuck the Climax on the regular track and it activates on factory address 03, but makes a constant LOUD HISS. The directional lights, whistle and forward/reverse all work fine. But that constant HISS is seriously LOUD??? Something isn't right. Please help, anyone?
Just brought the splitter home. It had a good cup or more of water in the fuel tank. How the heck? Anyway, going to have a coffee then start putting it back to work until dark or I run out of fuel (human fuel that is).
Rob
Well fellas,
Just checking in here one last time before I have to get something to eat and go. A 12 hour night shift will be a first for me. Worst part is I have been up since 7:30 this morning and couldn't sleep a drop at all during the day. Is it appropriate for me to ask in the night " I have never done a 12 hour shift or a night shift before can I leave early"? probably not Im sure I can make it.
Wish me luck guys, I will be back on to let you guys know how my first day went sometime tomorrow. Either it will be right after I get home and showered or after I wake up from hopefully a good sleep.
See ya tomorrow ( or after work for me,lol I guess its the same )
Hey Jeffrey, good picture of your Dad! He certainly is a BIG FELLA. All those years in the Military and he's still got his hair Hardly even grey.
Green grass Wow, it's been quite a few months since I've seen any of that! As in mid October.
Dennis
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
Here's a small announcement that may just be what some may be hoping to hear....
Since the Atlas Trainman Plus GenSet was released, there has been a demand for a high quality, accurate DCC w/Sound decoder. It has been a longer wait than most anticipated, but the wait is now over as SoundTraxx is releasing a GenSet Tsunami decoder.
Cheers
chochowillieHere's a small announcement that may just be what some may be hoping to hear.... Soundtraxx Announces Tsunami DCC Decoder For Atlas Trainman Plus GenSet Locomotives Since the Atlas Trainman Plus GenSet was released, there has been a demand for a high quality, accurate DCC w/Sound decoder. It has been a longer wait than most anticipated, but the wait is now over as SoundTraxx is releasing a GenSet Tsunami decoder. Cheers Dennis
Modelling HO Scale with a focus on the West and Midwest USA
chochowillieHey Jeffrey, good picture of your Dad! He certainly is a BIG FELLA. All those years in the Military and he's still got his hair Hardly even grey.
chochowillieGreen grass Wow, it's been quite a few months since I've seen any of that! As in mid October.
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
I got a JVC video camera today. Model GC-FM1. I got it for a good price. F-R-E-E. My father was going through some of my mothers things this morning when he found it. Still in the box and never been used. She bought it years ago to use when she went on her next vacation. That vacation never came and it sat in a drawer of her desk forgotten. I looked it over and told him I'd like to have it. After a few seconds it was mine. I brought it home and charged it while I read the manual. Pretty simple and straightforward. I then recorded a short video with it and uploaded it to Photobucket. Here is that video.Click on photo
Evenin' folks!
Janie can I please get a hot cup of decaf coffee and a seat next to the wood stove? Thank you Ma'am!
I don't know about Howahya, but here in the Finger lakes it is chilly outside. Currently 17°F outside and going down to 8°F overnight. Not only that we are going to have a good old fashioned Nor'Easter in the North East for the next few days. The weather channel says this for where I live:
ACCUMULATIONS... UP TO 2 INCHES OVERNIGHT THURSDAY NIGHT... 5 TO 10 INCHES FRIDAY... 4 TO 7 INCHES FRIDAY NIGHT... AND AN INCH OR LESS SATURDAY... LEADING TO STORM TOTALS OF POTENTIALLY 9 TO 18 INCHES. (Talking the white, "Partly Cloudy" stuff...)
I have a dinner reception to go to at Hobart and William Smith Colleges Tomorrow night followed by a lecture by the President of Rochester Colgate Divinity School. When I get home from that I shall bring in wood, feed the fire, and hunker down and enjoy the Blizzard. Probably won't be too bad here actually. Do hope my son stays safe as he will likely have to drive in some of the worst of it on roads that are known to have white outs if there is any wind....
Went shopping this evening so I have beat the rush to clean out the Grocery store of bread and milk. I did get bread and milk but only because I was almost out of both of them and need to buy them...
Jeffrey, great find. Glad your dad gave it to you!
Seems like there was some other things I wanted to mention... Oh, well, I'll be back before bed I guess.
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
alexstanchochowillie Here's a small announcement that may just be what some may be hoping to hear.... Soundtraxx Announces Tsunami DCC Decoder For Atlas Trainman Plus GenSet Locomotives Since the Atlas Trainman Plus GenSet was released, there has been a demand for a high quality, accurate DCC w/Sound decoder. It has been a longer wait than most anticipated, but the wait is now over as SoundTraxx is releasing a GenSet Tsunami decoder. Cheers Dennis That's definitely going to be mine. I'm glad I didn't get the MRC drop-in decoder.
chochowillie Here's a small announcement that may just be what some may be hoping to hear.... Soundtraxx Announces Tsunami DCC Decoder For Atlas Trainman Plus GenSet Locomotives Since the Atlas Trainman Plus GenSet was released, there has been a demand for a high quality, accurate DCC w/Sound decoder. It has been a longer wait than most anticipated, but the wait is now over as SoundTraxx is releasing a GenSet Tsunami decoder. Cheers Dennis
I'm currently waiting for a company to come out with a drop in decoder for the GP20 that Walthers recently came out with in N scale. May be a little while.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
It's amazing sometime what you end up with after a parent passes. I know that I ended up with stuff from my Mom that I didn't even know she had.
Your new video camera works just fine from the looks of the video you shot. You'll have all sorts of fun with it.
Where the heck did you find that ho scale shinny rv Jeffrey. .... My mind just went blank..... can't remember the brand.... OH Air Stream, that's it I just hate it when that happens.
Took Furnando our Burmese cat to the vet today for his Ännual Checkup" Vet says he's super healthy. He wasn't impressed with the needles for his vaccinations but he was a good boy and just hissed a couple of times. He's generally pretty placid. Anyway another $136 spent. At least it wasn't to the Government.
Other than that, it was a trip to Home Depot for some paint and some plywood to finish up the mine extension. Would you believe $23.95 for a 4 x 8 sheet of spruce 1/2 inch sheeting. That up $4 bucks since last summer. Crooks but what are you going to do.
Nice tractor by the way. On my lawn, it would take about 3 rounds and I'd be done.
That's bout it from the Great White North for today.
***Jeffrey, EXCELLENT video. Cool!
-Rob
chochowillieWhere the heck did you find that ho scale shinny rv Jeffrey. .... My mind just went blank..... can't remember the brand.... OH Air Stream, that's it I just hate it when that happens.
It's come that time again. Time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Janie just a refill on the decaf please!
I did some more cleaning down in the train room tonight. Also did a bit more foam construction for more scenery.
Blackie has been out and about quite a bit today. Twice came over and sat down next to me here at the computer and reached up with one paw to tell me he wanted me to pick him up... Doesn't seem to be getting worse at this point.... Time will tell.
Prayers for in need of them, and that would be most all of us...
Evening gang!
Decided to take a break from the diseasels today, so after dinner I got out a kit that came in a big lot of stuff from fleabay. Now I knew going into it that someone had been into the kit before, I knew the tender trucks were missing, no big deal, I had them. As I went along (with no instructions) I fount I was missing a siderod bushing, no big deal, I had that too!. Now the box also appeared to have the remnants of several other Mantua kits, along with partial valve gear from a Pacific, pipe holders,misc screws and springs (bonus!). However I soon discovered there were 2 things wrong here. Someone removed part of the rear frame. No place for the crew to stand and no way to attach the tender, AND the pipes coming up from the steam chest had been shortened!! Bummer, cuz by then I really had the mechanism turning VERY smoothly!
Guess I'll be calling Yardbird"s tomorrow for a steam chest and a frame. After I get that, the a basic decoder and test runs.Then paint, and If all goes well, maybe I'll give her sound !!
Well, Mr sandman is calling, catch up tomorrow with coffee!
Karl
NCE über alles!
Evening guys
I tried masking the stripe on the thrall gons and it worked. Somewhat. Out of 8 cars I tried, 4 had the white come off. Guess it was too soon. Then the masking tape didn't work out too well on the other 4. Guess I'll have to touch them up and weather them. Next batch will just have white painted stripes.
anyways, I'm going to bed. Nght ya'll
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.
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer Pleases.
Jeffery, not sure what happened but when I tried to watch the Video, it locked up Firefox Big Time! Had to reboot the computer twice to get Firefox to work again.
Infected Toe Front, thought I had some good news about it till I got home. Well the good news first, today when I changed the dressing the wound looked very shallow, just to the point where all I need is for the skin to go back over it! What has me worried tonight is my right calf is starting to hurt again! Could the toe be infected again and spreading up the leg like last time? If the calf still hurts Thursday, back to the VA I go again.
Train Front Just pulled the MRC F7's from services, think it is time for some maintenance. Staring to hear some whirling noise and guessing it is time for a lube job. While there are better detailed F7's out there, I am happy with theses.
See you later.
Ken, is he infected again?
I hate Rust
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
TIPTON
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Morning KONA coffee in the diner...
ALOHA!
GOOD MORNING!!!
Today is Thursday, February 7th, 2013!
At 11:30 pm HST it is a blamy 70 degrees F or 21 degrees C at Wahiawa, Oahu, Hawaii
The prayer candles are lit for those special needs!
Have 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.
JeremyB Any tips and well wishes would be great at the moment. You know how it is when you get encouragement from people, kind of makes things a bit easier.
Any tips and well wishes would be great at the moment. You know how it is when you get encouragement from people, kind of makes things a bit easier.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Italian Roast coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug,please.
Have a good day all. Healing thoughts to those in need.
Cheers! Rob
cudaken Jeffery, not sure what happened but when I tried to watch the Video, it locked up Firefox Big Time! Had to reboot the computer twice to get Firefox to work again.
Hi Guys
Well, I just had the worst day work wise I have ever had. Anybody wanting to know details can PM me and I will go into more.
Wow, looks like quite the storm is on its way for us.
Jeremy
(tags Alex as he exits and I walk in)
Good Morning from the U. S.!!! Oh wait, Australia is a continent, Good Morning from America!!! Or did he mean…it as a country…., or….never mind. I’ll figure that out later.
Howahya, howahya, howahya! (Cotton pickin Ray put that in my head from yesterday….blame him.)
Dr Pepper and a sweet Italian sausage sandwich with green peppers and onions covered in melted mozzarella cheese, and some potato chips please, thanks.
Occasional showers and possibly a thunderstorm. High near 51. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Oh I hope so. Maybe I’ll wash the truck just to help push it along. Yah, think I will.
Jeffrey- Nice looking mower. Hope it serves as well as the Peerless. Camera works great too!!
Ray- Bring the shovel in with you. On second thought, bring the snowblower in and you can just chew your way out.
Welp today.... ...you know I'm just not gonna say. Nothing works out as planned anyway except to go to w**k this evening. Yesterday I went to the Chinese Buffet when I wanted to go to Sonic for the foot long Hot Dogs and Tots thing, and the trip to Sam's club went ok until I got to the checkout to find that Brenda, the purveyor of misinformation, had written the wrong PIN for the debit card for the Foundation. So that prompted a phone call to her. Starting to think she is a bit dislexic. Is it possible to be partly dislexic? Like only when you write numbers? She can read them as written, but if she writes them down, she gets them mixed up. Not all the time either. Just sometimes. Mainly when she writes them down for me. Aaaanyway...., after that and a trip to Walmart WHERE by the way, I found soda $2 a case cheaper than Sam's, it was right up against supper time and I had a Church meeting so....once again, NOTHING got done here.....nothing. So today, I plan nothing and should not be disappointed.
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.
Morning All,
Have some errands to run today. Tomorrow I am teaching CPR all day (0830-1800) since I had the truck problems last week.
I have 1 more week then my w**k schedule changes to Sun, Mon, Tues and with a different partner.
Jeff- Nice video.
Galaxy- When I was stationed in HI our house was about 20 minutes from Wahiawa. I used to live in Makakilo but believe the name has since been changed to Kapolei.
I think I will run trains for awhile today since I don't have much to do.
Hope everyone has a good day and prayers for those in need.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Good morning. It's 58° with 97% humidity and patchy fog. It'll be cloudy with a high of 72°.Not a lot on my schedule today unless somebody changes it. The layout is in dire need of a cleanup but I just haven't gotten to it. I've figured out all the little things on the new video camera. I have video resolution set 720p (1080p is max, QVGA is min) and still photo resolution is set 5 mp (8 mp is max, QVGA is min). It weighs 3.4 ounces, records to an SD card (up to 32 gb), it has macro mode, lens aperture - F/2.8. The zoom is 4.0x digital zoom. The internal software though is pretty lame and the buttons are hard to use. Y\I have to be really careful with them. Some joker decided it should be blue (purple passion but looks blue to me) with gray characters. Both colors that I have trouble seeing. The AV interface is composite audio/video and HDMI. The unit is about as big as a deck of playing cards.
jeffrey-wimberlyThe unit is about as big as a deck of playing cards.
HO scale Vid Camera???
TOP so it looks like breakfast is on me today.
Here's my CC Flo and don't forget to tip yourself OK.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of pineapple pancakes with real maple syrup to start today. Oh, yes, my usual dark roast coffee in a FGLK Mug as well.... Thank you Ma'am!
It is a chilly 23°F outside (actually about normal for this time of year) with a high of 27°F later this afternoon. The Winter Storm Watch is now changed to a warning. Storm is predicted to start late tonight and continue through Saturday morning. Prediction has deteriorated to:
"ACCUMULATIONS... SNOW AND SLEET ACCUMULATING 4 TO 8 INCHES. ICE ACCUMULATING LESS THAN ONE TENTH OF AN INCH OVERNIGHT AND LESS THAN ONE TENTH OF AN INCH FRIDAY... LEADING TO STORM TOTALS OF UP TO ONE TENTH OF AN INCH."
The sn*w is no problem, but the ice is not a good thing... Hopefully it will mostly be just heavy wet sn*w. I have petroleum distillate for the old huff and putt sn*w removal contraption. Have some salt for the ice.
All you of you in the North east US, stay warm and safe!
Well
I went grocery shopping for a few items and to wally world. Between my back, knee and hip I came home in agony.
Fortunately my next injection session is next Tuesday for the steroid injections for my back. I cannot Wait.
Stomach/intestines feeling better, but still "restless".
We are only expecting 3-4 inches of snow, so no need to worry for us,. RAY.
Filling out gov't paperwork for renewals and anews. Goody.
Sent in new lease for lot.
sent my friend some papers he asked us to print off since his printer isn't working.
Postal service to drop Saturday delivery? all that means is a back-up of mail to be delivered on Mondays! I rely on the postal service,and like to keep people in jobs for processing my payments of bills, etc.!!! all we need in a bad economy is MORE jobs lost.
MOH is nervous...had a stop-loss meeting about loss of job, and MAY get reinstated, but has to Wait til Monday to find out! DOesn't isn't not sure if MOH wants job back?
Well. as sore as I am, I'd better resst.
Making copies of all your documents is a pain in the posterior region of the gluteous maximus! Fortunately we have a scanner/copier/fax/printer all-in-one for the job.
Well, I HOPE ULRICH is making out alright with the parents! A special prayer candle is lit for them!!!
well, I go rest now.
It is 68F, 20C in Oahu, Hawaii at a 1/4 to 7 am!!! MAYBE someday I will be there...I will return!!! I have faith!!!