This should give young Vincent some food for thought:
Been finishing the bracing and styrofoam blocks for my Thrall gons, Now I need to figure out what to affix the styrofoam to the wood bracing, and probably add something ferrous to the underside to I can pull them out if I want to run them as empties. I normally use hot glue, but I'm out. Liquid nails or double-sided duct tape may work... I'll test on scrap with the liquid nails.
Ulrich, I like the plan you based on the MR Great Northern Layout. But then the code 80 plan I posted has room for expansion. I might try your plan and see if I can add some "expansion tracks." Are you using Atlas's program?
As of now I'm leaning towards making it an HO scale diorama. I have everything except for legs, fascia, and scenery materials...
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.
Heartland Division CB&Q Jeff Thanks for sharing the word of the day. Glad it was not the word for "spider".
Jeff Thanks for sharing the word of the day. Glad it was not the word for "spider".
Just be sure to sidestep all the lanalana or the na'nana'na when in Hawaii! Not sure which ones there that are poisonous! And maybe the Mo'o too! {Lizards and snakes}}
Glad to know Gus is home and recovering well! Can't help but to think our prayers helped!
-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.
jeffrey-wimberly Good morning. It's 75° with 92% humidity. It'll be cloudy with a small chance of this afternoon. The high will be The word for today is tolatsukua. It means 'grasshopper'
Good morning. It's 75° with 92% humidity. It'll be cloudy with a small chance of this afternoon. The high will be The word for today is tolatsukua. It means 'grasshopper'
Wisconsin guys .... We're headed for the Badger Stae in July.
We're leaving for Nashville TN shortly so I can go to appointments tomorrow. Looks like we will be in stormy weather coming from the west. .
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Morning All,
Currently 58 with an expected high of 82 with gusty winds.
Stopped at H. D. yesterday before w**k and picked up a sheet of pink foam insulation. Cut it to size last night, and since I have a closing shift today, I will glue it down right after I finish this.
Congratulations to all the grads and soon to be grads, and their proud family members.
Prayers to all in need and special prayers to those in OKC and surrounding areas.
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
Hey folks! All of you regular patrons of the diner, just thought I'd stop by on my way to a doctor visit, and have a tall glass of sweet tea. MMMMMMM...yea...that's good ! Thanks dear, and catch everyone in here a drink of their choice, and keep the change!
I just did a quick scan of everyone's activities the last few days. Good hear the spider bite victim is doing good, congrads to all the graduates! I was at our place in norther WI since Thursday, last week. Excellent weather, and the lake water levels are getting back to normal. Didn't get the boat in, I'll do that next trip. We did catch a nice bucket full of "slab" bluegills and sunnies. That will make an excellent WI fish fry. Oh yea, the reason for the doctor visit today. I don't believe the luck (or lack of) I have had the last month or so, with injuries. Last month was the episode with a 4" angle grinder, (the cast comes off on Wednesday, and none too soon, it's getting gross!), and this month, while finishing up installing the garage door on our place up north, I was working off a 4' high ring of scaffolding, installing the torsion spring. I wound it up a couple of turns too much, as when I took the clamps off, that hold everything in place while installing the spring, the door flew up, and knocked me sideways off the scaffolding, and I landed on the fire wood pile. I know for sure I have at least one broken rib. We'll see what the x-rays show today. I got to learn to SLOW DOWN ! I'm retired!! 40 yrs in the construction industry, working on everything from houses to multi-story concrete buildings, and now, after retirement, I start with this getting hurt thing!! Good thing the retirement came with an excellent health plan ! They didn't make any money off me this year!.
That tea hit the spot! Gotta run guys. Have a great and safe day.....!
Mike.
My You Tube
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of blueberry pancakes to start the day. Don't forget the NYS Maple Syrup, and lots of dark roast... No, think I have the Organic, Fair Traded, Rattlesnake Gutter Blend this morning just for a change. thank You Ma'am!
It's a hazy 82°F outside the door this morning here in the Finger Lakes and since it is now 75°F inside the house I just turned on the Air Conditioner for the day. Figure I might just as well keep the temperature cool rather than letting it get hot then making the system work harder to bring it back down...
Today is crunch day for the MLK Scholarship Dinner. I still have a bit of stuff to do on the Slide Show and a few more things to print. Also have to make a bank deposit and get starting cash for the cash box as there are people coming that still want to pay at the door. I need to find the telephone # for the person in charge at Hobart and William Smith Colleges to make sure we will have the projectors and sound system all set for our use. I had the # right here at the computer and now it has disappeared.
Ulrich I like the first layout plan... It appears to include John Allen's Timesaver in it! That would give him lots of switching fun.
Best get my self moving and getting all the stuff done!
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Here is another one for Vincent:
It is basically the MR Great Northern layout, adapted to the space Vincent has.
A rather simple layout, which could be turned into a gem by a lovely scenery and a lot of attention to detail. I am afraid anything more would be overdoing it - there is no room for a decent runaround o more sidings!
jeffrey-wimberly The word for today is tolatsukua. It means 'grasshopper'.
The word for today is tolatsukua. It means 'grasshopper'.
In the spirit, the Hawaiian word for grasshopper is 'uhi'ni.
Listening to O'li Hula {Hula chants-no surprise there}
71* here already Expected to be around 82. 82 tomorrow and then-get this- only a high of 60 on Friday!
The ups and downs around here are about the 20 degree difference....
Well nothing planned but regular chores and dig out stuff to send to Jeffrey.If I can find where I had put it! Its all in VIP...{Very Important Place..}.
Today is bread day too, so that is in the works I am sure.Have to drop off containers for goodies..they get recycled there...
so what else is new?
Good morning. It's 75° with 92% humidity. It'll be cloudy with a small chance of this afternoon. The high will be 90°.The activity for today will be mowing grass. I had originally had it scheduled on my calendar for Thursday but it looks like there will be rain tomorrow and possibly Thursday so I moved it up to today. Nothing else is planned.The word for today is tolatsukua. It means 'grasshopper'.
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
By the way, forgot to mention. The 109 has been christened as "White 1". Has the crosses, swastikas on its rudder, yellow nose of a Luftwaffe ace and a white 1 beside the cross on the rear half of the fuselage.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
Vincent - here is a quick & dirty idea for you:
Slightly bigger than the 21" by 39" you have mentioned. Difficult to fit something more than just an oval of track with some sidings in that sort of space...
Good Morning
Lots of heat, haze and humidity here...central air is on and we be at 74F inside with 20% humidity....outside? Try 78F feeling like 90F right now...70% chance of t'underin'boomers later on...
Was outside earlier picking up branches and such from windstorm last night...cancelled fireworks display..will try next weekend....
My heart goes out to OKC after the devastating tornadoes that struck there
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!" from Tipton IN
5/21/13
TIPTON IN
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Morning!!!
Coffee and a Denver omelet please, thanks.
My Heart and prayers go out to those in Oklahoma.
A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 84.
Mr B- CONGRATULATIONS to your daughter!!! Wow! You should be proud.
Karl- Great picture and you should be proud as well.
Well, gotta blow the condensers out on the refrigerators at the restaurant today. That is if I can get the compressor into the back of the truck so I can even gt it up there. Not that young anymore you know. I don’t have one of those small jobs though……could be a good reason to get one for the airbrush and maybe a few things around the RR instead of stretching a hose through the door and down the stairs. Aaahh, don’t use it inside enough to justify that anyway. But it would come in handy sometimes….hmmm. No.
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.
Good morning.
Will be going over physics and trig this morning for the finals later this week. Don't need to come in for classes that I don't have finals for. Happy about that.
Good Afternoon Gang,
I just woke up from a short nap. I don´t sleep well since I am into politics. There too many loonies in that business to make me feel well.
Our weather is definitively back to normal, i.e. wet and too cold for the season.
Flo, coffee in an IV bag, please. i hope that´ll get me starting again.
Mr. B. - congrats to the summa *** laude of your daughter!
Karl - congrats on you son´s achievement. I bet you are one proud father!
A year ago, I was "glowing" with pride when my son got his master´s degree - summa *** laude. I am also proud that he got a good job - not the usual case nowadays.
Vincent - 21" by 39" is not a lot of real estate, even in N scale. You won´t be able to go for a bigger radius than the "standard" 9.75" minimum radius, which is a little to tight for those 50´ cars you intend to run. Any chance to go a tad bigger? Like 2´by 3´ ? If not, I will try to fit some old ideas of mine into that space, but it may take a little while...
Out again - politics are calling...
Good morning!
Thanks for the good wishes for my young graduate, everyone. And thanks, too, for the picture, Karl. There's a comforting similarity to graduations, isn't there?
Ray, yes, that's a Bachmann. It runs well, and pulls better than I would expect for such a small engine. I'm planning to replace the original decoder with one of the TCS keep-alive decoders. They've got a new one that's a bit smaller and should fit. I'd love sound in this engine, but putting in a larger decoder and speaker seems pretty impossible, although I saw a magazine article where someone had done it. Since this engine does all its work in the tight confines of Mooseport, I put a Soundbug into a small building with a decent-sized speaker. I plan to add some seagulls and maybe a tugboat whistle to the Soundbug, but that will involve tinkering with the code itself, a more time-consuming effort.
Best wishes for those in the tornado area.
We've got some rainy weather in the forecast, with thunderstorms possible. It's the night I've got to take the garbage out, so I'm not surprised. In the can is my old pair of hockey pants. Now that I've lost some weight, I was able to fit into the new ones last week. The old ones were, well, "heavily weathered" and weren't even worth saving for emergencies.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Morning Coffee in the diner...
GOOD TUESDAY MORNING!!!
Todya is Tuesday, May 21st, 2013!!!
I have set out an EXTRA prayer candle for the victims and suvivors of the massive Tornado that struck the mid-west. The regular candles are for those in need.....
MAKE it a GREAT day! You Have the Power! Just click your heels 3 times and repeat "nothing will bother me today {and} I will brighten someone's day"!
Packer Evening guys internet has been down for a while I got remainer of the wooden braces together. I tried some black styrofoam my father gets (come with the ammo his jobs tests) and it cuts better than the stuff I use and paint. Gary, A real life GP9 is only 56' 2" Alex, I'm using SCARM. Sound like a military acronym, but it stands for Simple Computer Aided Railway Modeler. It even has a 3D mode I think it can do scenery. Best part is it's free. I exported the layout desings to paint (bmp file), and then had to save it as a PNG file http://www.scarm.info/index_en.html
Evening guys
internet has been down for a while I got remainer of the wooden braces together. I tried some black styrofoam my father gets (come with the ammo his jobs tests) and it cuts better than the stuff I use and paint.
Gary, A real life GP9 is only 56' 2"
Alex, I'm using SCARM. Sound like a military acronym, but it stands for Simple Computer Aided Railway Modeler. It even has a 3D mode I think it can do scenery. Best part is it's free. I exported the layout desings to paint (bmp file), and then had to save it as a PNG file
http://www.scarm.info/index_en.html
Modelling HO Scale with a focus on the West and Midwest USA
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
tcwright973 Been a busy couple of days here. Saturday I got all the flowers planted which we bought earlier in the week. Also got the grass cut in the front and back yards. Sayurday night I hurt all over. Makes me more deternined than ever to get all those flower beds converted over to perenials. And now altogether class, let's spell "SUNBURN". What was I thinking... Also turned on the air conditioner when we got home. Although it was only in the mid-eighties, the humidity was kind of high.
Been a busy couple of days here. Saturday I got all the flowers planted which we bought earlier in the week. Also got the grass cut in the front and back yards. Sayurday night I hurt all over. Makes me more deternined than ever to get all those flower beds converted over to perenials. And now altogether class, let's spell "SUNBURN". What was I thinking...
Also turned on the air conditioner when we got home. Although it was only in the mid-eighties, the humidity was kind of high.
I got sunburned for about 1 1/2 hours cleaning off the enclosed porch and hauling to the curb last week. I wore a sweat band, but no hat...guess where fair skinned white boy me burned? I have flowers to plant too, Merrygolds... in the front raised planter..it needs work but I will be lucky to get them planted..I can't work it like I used to could...
You turned on the A/C? now? we have frun ours a few hours a day, but then again a trailer is a tin Can that heats up rather quickly. We would run it only about 4 hours in the late afternoon to evening..Fans do a good job for awhile.
The olderer I get, the less I need the A/C apparently..I didn't turn it on yesterday until it reached 80F in here..I used to sweat like a stuck pig at antything 70 and over.
Now Its a matter of also NOT giving my money to the electric company!
Heartland Division CB&QJeff.... That's a neat billboard. Have you heard from Lee lately? I'm missing his posts.
Good evening.
I have the Chapel Car spotted at the DIner again. Prayers for victims of this afternoon's terible tornado disaster in Oklahoma.
Karl .... That's a wonderful family picture. Congrats to you and yourson. Glad you and Mr. B. posted good news like that today.
Jeff.... That's a neat billboard. Have you heard from Lee lately? I'm missing his posts.
Tom, Galaxy, JimCG and others. Thanks for the comments, prayers, and concerns for my good model railroad friend. Yes, it is amazing how powerful the poisen can be in a spider.
Ha[[y Model Railroading
Well I spent much of the day doing a whole lot of nothing. I took the time to clean up a couple of structures but watched movies most of the day.Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Packer Gary, If I go the N-scale route, I'd probably go with the code 80 plan. just cause there is more to do. I thought an N-scale GP9 and a 50' car would be shorter than that. An HO P2K GP9 and a 50' boxcar are about 39.5 mm... Isn't the Atlas/Kato GP9 longer than a real GP9?
Gary, If I go the N-scale route, I'd probably go with the code 80 plan. just cause there is more to do. I thought an N-scale GP9 and a 50' car would be shorter than that. An HO P2K GP9 and a 50' boxcar are about 39.5 mm...
Isn't the Atlas/Kato GP9 longer than a real GP9?
Garry - Hope your friend Gus has a quick and full recovery. Isn't it strange how a little insect can cause such serious problems. One of the fire fighters I worked with was doing an inspection in a pump house years ago when he felt a sting on his elbow. He looked down and saw a spider which he instantly smashed with his other hand. So there was never any way to tell what kind of spider it was. It could have come in on a cargo aircraft from anywhere. Anyway, he developed a hole in his elbow the size of a quarter which took a little over 2 years and some plastic surgery to finally close it up. He always said it hurt like the devil.
Sunday was railfanning. Not to busy this week, just 5 trains in a little over 2 hours. On an east bound unit train of tank cars, I spotted a new to me hazmat placard. The very next train was a west bound unit train of tank cars bearing the same number. Looked it up when I got home and it was denatured alcohol.
This morning we left the house a little after 8 o'clock for breakfast, then shopping and many, many errands the wife wanted to get done. Never got home until after 4 o'clock this afternoon. But the day was a winner for me as I was able to aquire another locomotive for my Western Pennsylvania collection. This one is an SW-9 painted and lettered for the Pittsburg & Shawmut Railroad. And no, I didn't misspell Pittsburg, that's the way it was spelled for a short period of time by order of the Post Office. The railroad was chartered during that time and when the spelling was changed back to Pittsburgh, the railroad just kept the old spelling. And thus concludes today's history lesson. I think that gives me locomotives for 36 or 37 different railroads now. I certainly picked an expensive criteria for a collection. Should have done a little research first to see what I was dealing with.
Also turned on the air conditioner when we got home. Although it was only in the mid-eighties, the humidity was kind of high. Lot's of laundry to get done tommorow, and I would like to wash the windows some day this week. No small task as this old house has 23 windows, 2 doors with glass panels and 3 storm doors with glass panels. Oh yeah, the wife wanted to stop at the nursery to get some more flowers which she thinks I can get planted tomorrow. She only made this suggestion after I bought my new locomotive. She can be clever at times.
Hope everyone has a good week...
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
MisterBeasley Forgive me some fatherly pride. When our daughter Annie crossed the stage to get her Bachelor of Science degree, they added summa cum laude after her name.
Forgive me some fatherly pride. When our daughter Annie crossed the stage to get her Bachelor of Science degree, they added summa cum laude after her name.
Congrats Mr B! I got on of those Summa cumlaude kids too!
Me, stepmom & "the graduate#
The weather threatened rain all day, but it held off til the evening. Dad, Stepmom, Aunts,Uncles and the EX all turned out to see him get his BA. Now its time to work all summer and go to China for grad school in the fall!
With his younger brothers prom the night before, plus an all day operating session I attended in Pittsburgh on Saturday, I literally had to go to work today to get some rest!
This week, it's back to our regularly scheduled life!
Gonna skim over the rest of the forum, and turn in early. May you all have a blessed day tomorrow, we'll cya tomorrow night!
Karl
NCE über alles!
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer Pleases.
Today was not a truly productive day off but I got a few things done. Messed with the SSI for Sues paper work because they keep over paying her?
Spent $190.00 today to get my central air working. Seems the compressor was not kicking on due to a burned out capacitor, it burned out because the compressor was running hot due to being 1.5 pounds low on freon. Seems the A/C unit fan and blower motor was kicking on, but it really was not cooling the house.
On the bright side, I did get my Income Tax Refund today! Feds did take out $75.00 for the VA med's I have not paid for in 2012 yet (just found out how to pay a few months ago on line and have been making payments) but it more than covered the A/C repair.
Train Front Messed with the PK 2000 B&O GP 30, found one wheel set was just a tad to wide. While it still moans it not quite as bad but still getting on my nerves. Sure hope the other 2 I have coming are quieter.
See you all later.
Ken
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I hate Rust