Good afternoon everyone
Janie just a cup of tea for me please
Me and my wife got are first piece of post with Mr and Mrs on it which was nice and it was the wedding certificate whtich is rather important
i was hoping today to get outside and get my M3 Lee kit from Tamiya, airbrushed but i don't think the English weather is going to allow me oh well more time to get some of my wargameing stuff finished and some more layout planning done
Apologies in advance for any use of UK RailRoad Terms
"there is the wrong way the Right way and then there is Great western railway Way"
Good morning. It's 64° with 100% humidity. It'll be cloudy with a fair chance of rain. The high will be 82°.These three words, gadulida ale osdá are the words for today. The word gadulida means 'damp', 'moist'. The word 'ale' means 'and, or'. Today I'm using it as 'and'. The word 'osdá' can mean 'good', 'just' or 'nice'. Today I'm using it as 'nice'. So the sentence is damp and nice. That pretty much describes what it's like here today. I think from now on I'll limit these lessons to just one word unless of course you like these little lessons and want more. One word can have several meanings and be used many different ways. This is true of virtually any language.I think today I should commit some of my time to cleaning up some of the layout. It's looking like a tornado hit it. There's tools, cars, loco bodies and bit and pieces scattered all over and it's getting hard to find things.
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
5/11/13
TIPTON IN
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Morning Gang!
I hope I´ll get a little rest today. The last days have been rather tiring, both at the party front and the family front. Lots of legal matters to take care of - I am just glad my brother has taken up the brunt of it.
Janie, just coffee, please - I have to watch my weight
CN Charlie - yes, the class 25 nC´s are hefty beast for a narrow gauge loco. Just to show the others what we are talking about, here is a picture:
South African Railway had 50 of them under steam, built between 1953 and 1955. 11 of them were built by North British, the balance by Henschel in Germany. There was also a condensing locomotive of similar design, but they were converted to NC´s (non-condensing) in the early 1970´s.
Without getting too deeply into politics, a common currency works only under one political and legal system, providing that the different economies involved are on just about the same level. Unless someone within that union is willing to pick up the tab for developing the weaker countries, that´s not going to work - hence Euro crisis.Tax payers in northern Europe (not only Germany) are more and more unwilling to do so. Come to think of it, Germany owes its national debt solely to the EU membership and the Euro. As a result of Frau Merkel´s politics, Germany is starting to look like the former GDR over 20 years ago - run-down streets with pothole you can sink a Sherman tank into, schools which are falling apart etc.
No Vinnie, I am stepping off the now.
Terry - I hope your soon will return from his assignment without any harm done to his body & soul. Just a few days back, another German soldier was killed in the northern region. When will this end?
Have a nice weekend!
Did I miss him?
Is he sick?
Is he on vacation?
Where in the world is BILL T.?
{i know he is hollding out to get top of page!}
EDIT: I BUY HIS BREAKFAST... Because I got top!
-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.
mbinsewi As far as a camera goes, the kids got me a Cannon PowerShot SD750, and it's great, WAY more bells and whistles than I can deal with. My only gripe is when I take pics of the layout, my trees have a yellow tint to them, and in person, they are a nice early summer green. As you approach my layout with the camera on, you can see in the display screen how the picture suddenly changes color, the closer I get. See: These trees are not yellow, they are as green as the painted backdrop behind them. I suppose if I dig deep enough into the instruction manual, I'd find an adjustment.
As far as a camera goes, the kids got me a Cannon PowerShot SD750, and it's great, WAY more bells and whistles than I can deal with. My only gripe is when I take pics of the layout, my trees have a yellow tint to them, and in person, they are a nice early summer green. As you approach my layout with the camera on, you can see in the display screen how the picture suddenly changes color, the closer I get. See:
These trees are not yellow, they are as green as the painted backdrop behind them. I suppose if I dig deep enough into the instruction manual, I'd find an adjustment.
Color and appearance is all about the light that is reflected from an object and what light is absorbed {that gives of the appearance color}.
MANY colors are a COMBINATION of tones and colors to get a specific coloring in appearance. FOr instance, yellow and blue make green, but there may be more yelow in it than blue, as is the case with your trees.
ALSO remember that LIGHT COLOR is different from PAINT color. Paint colors all mixed together make black, while all the spectrum colors of light together make white light....
Although the trees appear green under the ambien light, the camera/lighting is picking up the predominant underlying color of yellow-ishness. That is why their color is yellow rather than the green we see when looking at them in the room.
Aloha kakahiaka {good morning}
Morning Coffee in the diner..
GOOD SATURDAY MORNING!!!
Today is Saturday, May 11th, 2013!!!
I lit the prayer candles for those in need...
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!
Malama pono, Aloha mai e {Take care, I invite Aloha to you}
Good Evening Diners,
Ulrich, you win the rubber cigar!! Yes it was a 25NC and a very nice loco indeed in its dark green livery. It was built in 1953 and is a very good looking engine, sort of a cross between a European and N.A. loco. The tender was very long with a 14,500 gallon capacity which makes sense given the near desert conditions in some places. They said it ran at 60 mph even though the drivers are only 60". Good luck in your new career by the way. I am very interested in economics as is Garry and I have often wondered about the euro working in such varied economies. About 10 or 15 years ago some crazy economists here suggested that Canada adopt the USD as our currency and they were very serious. No offence to our southerly neighbours but it just wouldn't work for us.
Ray, I trust that decal is located right above the exhaust pipe.
Think I might take the drop sheet off the layout tomorrow as it is supposed to be a very cool day, as in 40F, so a little train time is in order. I would like to take the model of the Rovos Rail passenger car I bought for a little spin. They sold them as momentoes in the gift shop. They are HO and even have KD couplers. The detail is fairly good but not enough for the outrageous cost. Mind you they are made in South Africa and I bet they don't make very many.
Well time to head off the the land of nod.
CN Charlie
Evening folks, sure, what the hey, it's Friday night, I'll have one in a frosted mug please.
These trees are not yellow, they are as green as the painted backdrop behind them. I suppose if I dig deep enough into the instruction manual, I'd find an adjustment. Anyway! Terry, a big sturdy handshake to your PFC. My son was active duty AF, now in reserves. He's been to all those places related to sand boxes, and more, a couple of times over. I have a nephew over there now, Army grunt......door kicker.....he contacts family when he can. By the way, I hear everything finally melted up your way! Have one me.... Anyway, gotta go, rain here all last night and today, so I managed to get back down to the layout. By the way, tomorrow I'll try and get some pics of the museum and ice cream parlor I talked about, and remember, no dessert after diner tomorrow night, as I'm taking eveyone to the ice cream parlor! Have a great night! Mike.
Anyway! Terry, a big sturdy handshake to your PFC. My son was active duty AF, now in reserves. He's been to all those places related to sand boxes, and more, a couple of times over. I have a nephew over there now, Army grunt......door kicker.....he contacts family when he can. By the way, I hear everything finally melted up your way! Have one me....
Anyway, gotta go, rain here all last night and today, so I managed to get back down to the layout.
By the way, tomorrow I'll try and get some pics of the museum and ice cream parlor I talked about, and remember, no dessert after diner tomorrow night, as I'm taking eveyone to the ice cream parlor!
Have a great night!
Mike.
My You Tube
Ken, good to hear your daughter is okay after the surgery. the B&O hopper is 6 and 3/4 inches long from coupler to coupler. It's body is shorter than an HO scale 50' boxcar. The peabody thrall gon and the bathtub gon are the same as a 50' boxcar.
Say, does this guy look familiar ken:
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.
Good to hear the good news about your daughter Ken.
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Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a cup of decaf please...
Been dark and cloudy most of the day with an abundance of thunderboomers late afternoon and most of the evening. I ran a few errands before the storms rolled in, then just sat back and watched the light show here this evening. We need the rain, so I was glad to see the storms.
Ken, glad to hear your daughter came through her surgery well and should be coming home soon!
Hope you all have a restful evening! Prayers for all!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer Pleases
Daughters Surgery went off with out a hitch today. If there is no computations she will be home Saturday.
Hum, Slave Front? Beginning to not trust the Services Writer and starting to wonder about his honesty as well.
Had a customer (Little Old Lady, well my age) come in with a 1998 Ford with 75,000 miles on it. She had let the car get real ow on gas before she bought some. After she bought the gas, car would die at idle unless she gave it gas and held the brake to keep it stopped. After she took her foot off the brake, car ran fine! It would only die if she did not give it gas at idle!
When we got the car in the shop, idle like a champ and ran fine. No check engine light and nothing in the computer's memory! My self, I would clean the throttle body first and look at the MAP sensor. Tell her if it started to die again, bring it back in!
Tom the Services Writer sales her a fuel pump and filter (and possibly some of stuff, I never saw the written ticket) for $900.00? Theory is the fuel pump picked up some junk when the gas was real low, I can sort of see that. But, if that was the case, why would the car drive fine and just not idle?
The Slave Part? Tom loves to take in late job's that will take to after we closes, then leave and stick me with the problem! Today I was to get off at 6:00 PM, asked him if he had things under control it was time for me to go! Tom said, "You Close Tonight". Told him I did not, got off at 6:00. Tom said "Check the schedule, Tyler changed it!" Went and grabbed it, still the same, I got off at 6:00!
So Tom wrote up a 3 to 5 hour job at 6:00, we closed at 8:00! Bet you he is still there! Boy, I hope the car dies at idle after the fuel pump is installed!
Vince's how long in 1:1 inches is a 100 ton HO coal hopper? My coal cars are the older 3 and 5 bay outside braced coal cars that are about 4 to 5 inches long.
Time to field strip the NIB SD 9 Rio Grand.
Later, Ken
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I hate Rust
Karl- Thank you! And 30X zoom? wow! :O
Modelling HO Scale with a focus on the West and Midwest USA
Evening gang!
Whats that ya say Flo,, No COFFEE? Barry drank it all!! Well I hope his ride home was long and bumpy!! No matter, I'll take an ice cold
Got home from work at 4:30, and got on the mowers.(BTW, 2 weeks into it, and I don't miss the car biz at all!) After cutting and while I was trimming, I had the wife do something we almost never do,,,,,use the Cub to blow all the clippings into windrows, then piles. Then we picked them up in the dump cart and "donated" them to the neighbors grass/compost collection.(he "donates tomatoes to us all summer) . Had to, after 150 lbs of weed&feed last weekend,, that stuff was THICK!! Ordered Pizza for delivery as a cool breeze started blowing. By the time the pizza got here, BIG thunderstorm! Thank goodness it waited till the lawn was done! Delivery guy was kinda soggy,, but the pie was fine!Tomorrow is the littlest grandson's 1st birthday. Should be a riot! The last 2 were! Maybe Sunday I can get another "project engine" video taped and on youtube for y'all.
V8Vega That's an awful way to die. It's not the pits fault either. I know pit bulls I would trust around and infant. They are great dogs when raised properly. The animals that raise them to fight should be locked in a WWF cage and left to fend for themselves.
Alexander and about the camera. I use my trusty Canon Powershot A710 for most of the stuff you see here. I also have a new Fuji camera... No numbers on the case,, but It's 12 MP with a 30x zoom and a "super macro" mode , gets in real close. So close in fact, I see more flaws on the trains than before!! Not sure I like that!
Ray,, loved the bumper snicker....I'd have one myself but I have a bad phobia about stickers on painted surfaces.
Ken, I hope everything is well with your daughter
Gotta run for now, lightning again!!
Karl
NCE über alles!
Curt Webb Afternoon All, Got the cover installed on my truck bed. Did my laundry and packed my suitcase. We depart tomorrow. I looked at the NWS for the temps in Northern GA and the Strasburg area. Looks like temps in the 60-70's where it has been almost 90 here for several days (pants and jackets). I will be gone for a little over 2 weeks so I will probably be MIA most that time.
Afternoon All,
Got the cover installed on my truck bed. Did my laundry and packed my suitcase. We depart tomorrow. I looked at the NWS for the temps in Northern GA and the Strasburg area. Looks like temps in the 60-70's where it has been almost 90 here for several days (pants and jackets). I will be gone for a little over 2 weeks so I will probably be MIA most that time.
SAFE TRIP CURT!!!! ENJOY!
Terry-Tell your PFC thanks for his service and we wish him well with no harm to come to him. Adn Terry...don't cry!
Well, ordered new shirts from Hawaii, they are all on their way. Will probably order a few more, though most in my size are of the "muted" variety{and I like the "bold print" variety}, or what I call the "redculous"{or as I like to say the "redickalus"} I mean who really wants surboarders with giant pineapple drinks on giant leaves on their shirt? Ordering here in the East Coast in the AM, meant they were shipped today in Hawaii by nightfall our time. Pretty fast witth them 6 hours behind us. Should be here mid-next week or late next weeek at the latest, 4-7 business days.
ALso on its way is the second collection from Keali'i Reichel Music CD and a DVD of him in concert with HULA dancing...should please MOH. We actraully found a HULA dance teacher in Ithaca who MOH is going to contact to find out aobut taking classes as MOH wnats to learn the proper techniques for HULA.
We aways enjoy the shipments from Hawaii.
Well, I guess i shoud say g'nite. or rather...Aloha ahiahi, {good evening} & A *** kaua {until we meet again} {remember ALOHA means "hello, goodbye, affection, love"}
I found my camera and the batteries for it. It's an old (and beat-up) Canon Powershot A610. The case is falling apart and the guts are trying to come out. It has duct tape holding it together, but it works great. Just look at my WPF post.
alexstanNow, I have a question for you guys, what kind of compact camera, would you reccomend? For like general layout point-and-shoot? I'm looking at a Canon Powershot SX230HS..
Don'd know about the Canon. I primarily use a Nikon L20 point n shoot with an old Olympus D550Zoom as a backup.
Alex,I use a really cheap CanonPowershotA1100IS. Because that's what I've got.
Seems to work ok. If I was to submit pics to a Mag or something ,I'd upgrade. That'll never happen.
Facedbooked with PFC Son. He is good. Still at KAB, but things are moving along. I did pass along your comments and good wishes. He said" tell'm Thanks, Dad". So, Thanks ,Fellas!! Sometimes what he's doing gets shoved to the back burner, so to speak. You guys have NO IDEA what a few simple comments mean to him and his buddies.' Bout makes me cry. There was more that he said, but that about sums it up. Thank you. Terry in NW Wisconsin
Facedbooked with PFC Son. He is good. Still at KAB, but things are moving along. I did pass along your comments and good wishes. He said" tell'm Thanks, Dad". So, Thanks ,Fellas!! Sometimes what he's doing gets shoved to the back burner, so to speak. You guys have NO IDEA what a few simple comments mean to him and his buddies.' Bout makes me cry. There was more that he said, but that about sums it up.
Thank you.
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
Vincent, yes you guys can call me Alex, I get called that all the time.
Now, I have a question for you guys, what kind of compact camera, would you reccomend? For like general layout point-and-shoot? I'm looking at a Canon Powershot SX230HS..
Evening guys
Work was a killer. I wound up working from 700 to 1700. ugh. reason being is I usually put the truck up on friday. Well the truck was 6 hours late (sounds like amtrak) because they apparently got in an accident on the way (the driver described it as some lady hitting the truck because she was on her phone).
Remind me to find the bix box of batteries I have. I want to take pics of my SP F-units, the 2 C30-7s, and the ATSF SD40-2 I fixed up.
Garry, not really. SP is my #2 favorite road because I grew up with it as a kid in Texas. I got the 2 stewart SP black widow units (F7A & F3B) for about 25 bucks a piece with the kato drives. I was going to use them for my F-unit project, but the F3 is the wrong for the BN units. Around the same time, I had bought 2 of the stewart sound/DCC chassis. I decided "what they hey" and stuck the shells on the sound chassis and started running them. I have another F3 that is wrong for the BN that's undecorated, so I may paint it black and red and use it as a 3rd. (F7A, F3B, F3B). It's a pretty nice groupping to run at the club, especially when pulling the PFE reffers the club has a bunch of. The F-units will make it up the helix, but they slow down alot. They crawl if I add the manuta metal reffer to the head end. A friend has an intermountain Cab-foward and he'll sometimes pull that out and push the F-units with the reffers.
Thebarnet, congrats
Alexander (can we call you Alex?), happy birthday
Ken, hope your daughter's surgery goes well?
dennis, Personally I think it depends on how they are raised. I had a pit-bull (well a pit-bull, great dane, and black lab mix) a few years ago. He was really friendly and obeyed commands pretty well, and played well with other dogs (even little ones), but a bit of a knuckle head. He was never aggresive, in fact I think he was more of a pacifist than anything. He grew up to be about 120 pounds or so and about 2.5-3 feet high. Depite that, he got scared of a neighbor's chiuaha. So much so, that when he saw it he would run the other way with his tail between his legs. Kind of wierd when the chiuaha was only about as big as his head. Unfortunately, he developed a bad case of lymphosarcoma (sp?, cancer of the lymph nodes) and he had to be put down (that or give him steroids to live for a few more months, I elected to end his suffering).
Heartland Division CB&Q howmus Burlington Northern #24 Thanks heartland. I love EMD but I'm afraid exposure to the SP&S has caused Alco-haulism issues for me. Groan.... ....... and Ray is a groan man, too.
howmus Burlington Northern #24 Thanks heartland. I love EMD but I'm afraid exposure to the SP&S has caused Alco-haulism issues for me. Groan....
Burlington Northern #24 Thanks heartland. I love EMD but I'm afraid exposure to the SP&S has caused Alco-haulism issues for me.
Thanks heartland.
I love EMD but I'm afraid exposure to the SP&S has caused Alco-haulism issues for me.
Groan....
....... and Ray is a groan man, too.
ROFL!!!!! Now...who gonna hep me clean my monitor??
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...
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Gary- Glad your Grandmother is doing better.
Ken- Best wishes and prayers for your daughter.
TheBarnet- Congrats on the wedding.
Alexander-Happy Birthday. Welcome to adulthood.
V8Vega- We just had something similar happen here but luckily the woman survived.
Hope everybody has a good night and prayers for those in need.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
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Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
I hope all went well in your daughter's surgery Ken.
More thunderstorms. See y'all later.
I see I missed top again! Whew!
Went and got my natural toofers cleaned...good for another 6 months 3000 miles {what's left of them anyway}.
That and load of laundry and dinner and I am doen for the day.
I think a nap is order after the mail comes and I see what bills I have to pay.
*yawn*