Good Morning!!!
Coffee and the Sunday Breakfast Buffet.
A 30 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 66.
Cinco de Mayo……Sinko da mayo…naise. (siiiigh)
You know…..I had sooooo much to say but after that…… (shakes head)
Hauled a lot of rubbish to the Township dumpsters. Three truck loads. On and about a half was for me…, no maybe two. The other one was for the restaurant and the bank. Could have taken more, but alas I was summoned to the community Center to assist in the cleanup for the sale they had there, and then of course she was hungry and didn't feel like cooking. Imagine that.
Now with the ground so wet and soppy (2.4” so far) I need to get that lawn roller filled and roll the lawn smooth again. But alas, Brenda wants to take another trip to Nebo today to bring my Aunt a piece of Salmon. I don’t mind as she is literally on her death bed, but I really need to get some stuff done around here. Monday, she will complain because her car is still outside and I haven’t got the stuff out of the garage that was put there for this weekend. And will "notice" some things that could have gone to the dump but I didn't. Oddly, she has yet to grasp the idea that when you want someone to do something, you cannot take them away and occupy their time to do this, then expect it to be done. Which she does constantly. Like she waits for you to be doing something, then wants you to do something for her all of a sudden. Lays in wait....like a Trap Door Spider. Maybe some day.
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.
JimRCGMOJake, hope you're feeling better by now (I'm still catching up on the posts - took me a while to find the breadcrumb trail to the new location).
Yeah, better now. Just a bit tired.
Good morning.
Typing up an English research paper today. Beyond that, no plans for today.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
Howdee gang!
Flo, just coffee please, (for now)
Been mucho busy with the new job, finishing up another article, and yesterday, got 5 engines dropped off for paint & DCC/sound , and 2 more coming! man, when it rains, it pours!! Last night after returning home from a viewing, the wife informed me washing machine no longer agitates. Found washer needs to be unhooked from the hoses to turn it around and inspect it, BUT the cheap plastic shut off valves in the house WONT SHUT OFF!! So its off to Home Depot to get new valves, so we can disconnect the washer, to figure out what's wrong with the *** thing! Then another trip to get parts. Who says the washer won't agitate. I'm agitated!!!!
I WAS going to spend the day shooting and editing some video of the latest engine,,oh well!
Barry, getting the band back together?? LOL! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzOHq5WbQ8k
Jerry, my condolences to you and yours on Sallies passing.
Ulrich Go get em! I'd vote for you if could!
Vincent and Alexander to both of you!
L8ter Gators!
Karl
NCE über alles!
Good morning. I'll have coffee and derby pie left over from yesterday.
Everybody ........ Galaxy had a super idea. Pay attention.
Galaxy said: " Jim: The diner is in Anytown, Anywhere state, USA OR Anywhere, Earth. I told everybody the diner was in their own backyards and to provide links to what was going on in their backyard...so far no one has done it. {except the pics of layouts-they don't count}."
Bill T has been doing that all along with many photos from the Hoosier State especially close to his town. Many are historical.
In KY ....... Here is My Old Kentucky Dinner Train operated by R J Corman.
Here I am chowing down (as usual) with Shelley and friends. Actually, it's my friend, Reggie and his wife from Illinois. (Yes, he is who I named my scrap yard after) The train was stopped next to a box car. Thanks Galaxy for a good idea. .... Next person?
Here I am chowing down (as usual) with Shelley and friends. Actually, it's my friend, Reggie and his wife from Illinois. (Yes, he is who I named my scrap yard after)
The train was stopped next to a box car. Thanks Galaxy for a good idea. .... Next person?
The train was stopped next to a box car.
Thanks Galaxy for a good idea. .... Next person?
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Condolences to Sally and Jerry's families on Sally's passing
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
Sunny and a high of 74F for us today...
Got a bunch of things done yesterday but the list kept right on a'coming as well...so today will be another one of those days
Rn into an old band mate and friend of ours and was invited to help get the band together..we need to find our drummer....
Better be off and doing stuff...have a great day!
That was close....
Good to see Bill T post..though late, but good to see...I thought for a minute I was going to have to light another candle for him!
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.
Curt Webb Here is the finished section
Here is the finished section
That looks VERY good!
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
"Good Morning!" from Tipton IN
5/5/13
TIPTON IN
JIM in Cape G wrote:
I'm kinda like Ray, still trying to figure out where we are... Anybody got a GPS handy? Turn it on and let's find out where the Diner is.
Galaxy, I've wondered what a Lowbiscus looks like - got any photos of one? (And careful there - remember, those plastic cards also have a very annoying thing about sending the bill to you, and for some weird reason they expect people to pay...).
Jim: The diner is in Anytown, Anywhere state, USA OR Anywhere, Earth. I told everybody the diner was in their own backyards and to provide links to what was going on in their backyard...so far no one has done it. {except the pics of layouts-they don't count}.
I haven't had the top in awhile {now watch I jixned it}
A LOWbiscus looks like a HIbiscus, but it is lower, naturally. We actually have a Hibiscus I bought MOH a few years ago it is about now 6 feet tall on one branch, 4 feet on another! The blooms of a HIbiscus only bloom open for ONE day!!! {then it closes and dies off If you didn't know}. I told MOH to buy a BEAUTIFUL Hibiscus for the MIL as it is big beautiful bright yellow with dep red center, had lots of blooms, and is now compact. MOH is afraid the FIL will kill it. I said we have tried with no sunlight in winter, scattered sunlight in the summer, little/no water fore a few days, etc tried to kill ours, and it still grows like a weed! SO I don't think the FIL will kill it. We need to cut ours and start some new plants! Ours blooms year round, but not as many buds as on MIL's! Ours is too busy growing to the ceiling from the table {it is there, so we have to trim it! If we had HAWAII's weather, I'd plant it outside, along with some colorful splashed anueanue* crotons {which should grow like bushes} {croton {look closely to see the color splashes}: http://houseplants.about.com/od/foliageplants/p/Crotons.htm }
MIL's hibiscus is like the middle top picture the "Concorde": http://www.trop-hibiscus.com/.
I could find no picture of a LOWbiscus, though....
*Pi'o mai ke anuenue nou, e Kalani {anueanue {ponounced "ah-new-ay-ah-new-ay" as one solid word} is the Hawaiian word for RAINBOW and one of my favorite words}
have a GREAT DAY
Morning coffee in the diner...
Is Bill T Sick? he's behind...
GOOD SUNDAY MORNING!!!
Today is Sunday April 5th, 2013!!
Happy Cinco De mayo to those who celebrate it!
I lighted the prayer candles for those in need....
Make it a Great day!!!
Hu vale Ke aloha niu, e Kalani
Pi'o mai ke anuenue nou, e Kalani
Good evening ...
Jerry .... If you are looking in we are thinking of you, our good friend. We saw the notice about Sallie jeff posted for you. Obviously, Sallie was a wonderful person. Prayers for you and your family. Keep in touch and let us know if we can do anything for you.
JimCG ...... The water is high than normal here, but I don't think it is bad as on the Mississippi River where you are.
Curt .... I really like your recent layout project. What are you using for ballast? Looks real with the dark color where locomotives are serviced.
Cheers, everybody.
Good Evening, Flo - I'll have a D&RGW mug of decaf, and a hot fudge sundae, please. Thanks!
That was a bit of an unnerving video of the passenger train's loco (almost) bumping into the freight train. Is the engineer supposed to cut the engine before he jumps, since he doesn't have to "go down with the ship" (loco) like a captain of a ship? Guess that's a RR company policy vs. union regs kind of thing, eh?
Jeff, as I was watching your video, I was thinking that if you had the layout lighting set up for "night" running, that opening shot (as the train goes by Ezra's) could almost be the town's equivalent of what we called "watching the submarine races"...
Garry, you fishing off your back porch at your place yet? (Hopefully NOT!) On Thursday evening, I had to park my car on the street (in front of our apartment building, and under a tree (oak, I think, but maybe not), and it rained that night (quite a bit). So, come Friday morning, all these pollen-y things had washed off the tree and were all over my car. (and of course, that morning, I was running late for the office.. I used the car wipers to clear the windshield off and hoped for a really heavy downpour during the day while I was at w**k (didn't happen...). I think tomorrow morning I'll take the broom out with me and sweep the remainder off. Oh, and I have been parking in our parking lot at home, plus every time I go out to drive someplace, I wipe off a few handfuls of the "tree droppings" from the car.
This morning, I drove up the interstate to see my buddy Mark (and hoped that some more of the gunk would blow off the car; not much did...). We drove back to Cape G. and ate at Ruby Tuesday while we caught up some on what we've been up to since last time we got together (couple/three months ago). Ran him by Wally World to get groceries (he said his fridge & cabinets were almost bare), one other stop on the way back to his place. (He's waiting to get his license back, but it's still a ways off - makes it tough for him to get odd jobs and such).
After I got back home again, I did some MRR stuff. Sprayed a coat of white primer on some resin castings for junkyard and/or a small shed (both with bunch of clutter around the buildings. Also primed the resin casting of the junkyard itself. I had posted photos of the unprimed castings earlier, but I'll see about some photos tomorrow with some of the painting I've done. This afternoon, I also took the silver spray can to some roofs for my Co-op Elevator roof pieces (that silver - the one that definitely needs toning down - THAT, or provide a pair of for anyone looking at something I've painted with THAT silver. Yep, will need a bunch of rust, dirt and other colors to mask/tone it down...). And then tonight, I started with some washes on the junkyard and shed (using darker colors - burnt umber, etc. - that go in the crevices and cracks where there are lots o'shadows). I want to add some red-oxide in a secondary wash tomorrow afternoon, since 'CAW country' has some reddish tones to the dirt in much of the area it serves.
Ulrich, my best wishes and for your electioneering/campaigning for the Bundestag! May you serve your constituents well.
Oh, and uh, Barry? Maybe the cardinals up your way are singing, but down thisaways, our Cardinals (the St. Louis kind) are running a streak of wins (five games in a row, I believe it is now). But I've been hearing the birdies around here singing in the mornings (not sure if the sun's even up when they start...).
Alexander - hope you have a Happy Birthday!! this month (hopefully I haven't missed the actual date yet)! Have you been leaving the Walthers sale flyer open (turned to a page with a few items you had already circled) in some place around the home that your folks are sure to see? Y'know, the 'subtle' approach to 'hint' for birthday presents... That, and write the name of a not-too-far-away LHS on the cover (front or back) of the sale flyer (just so they know where to get you some MRR goodies).
Vincent, you might be able to pull that trick for your Happy Birthday!! too (depending on whether you can figure how to sneak it into your folks' place, without it being toooo obvious). Hey, 24 is a good year, as well. Enjoy! (And has your brother always been... uh.. stupid like that? )
Richard (NarrowGuageNuke) - I am SO jealous! HOW did you get your doctor to tell you to eat all those things - that our doctors are telling the rest of us (the older ones, not Alexander and such) to give up? Well, more power to ya! Eat my share of that yummy breakfast, will you? Thanks!
Curt - you had some nice photos of your layout in WPF. Like how you redid the turntable lead, also.
Jake, hope you're feeling better by now (I'm still catching up on the posts - took me a while to find the breadcrumb trail to the new location).
Well (frogs are treading water here in Cape G. over the weekend, and their legs are getting tired...), it's about time to get ready for some 's for me. Prayers for those soon-to-be-celebrating birthdays, as well as for those in need of healing, comfort, a good night's rest.. (Hmm, that last one sounds really good about now...) And I'll finish catching up some tomorrow after church.
[Edit]: Aaack!!! TOP got me again! Okay, Flo, here's my card, I'll be by tomorrow to settle up the tab). Looks like the midnight snacks (and possibly breakfast buffet) is/are on me, Diners!
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape G.
Thanks Jeff.
Ray- The before shots are on WPF this week. It pretty much looks the same as before but the lead coming out of the yard is 5 inches wider terminating at the TT at the same point. Now I can run my large steamers on that track giving me some more flexibility.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer Pleases.
Boy I hope I feel like working on some engines Sunday (hope it rain's so I don't have to cut the grass). Want to get the new B&O GP 30 on the rails, get Shakey the N&W GP 20 going, the cursed PK 2 SD 7 and 9 Rio Grand hauling freight. And if, I make it to K-10 Sunday, I just might bring home another PK2 GP 30? With cracked gears I am sure!
I all so found a good running (If there is such a thing) Athearn RTR motor that I could uses in my SP SD 50 or the UP Dash 9.
Ken
http://s83.photobucket.com/user/cudaken/media/Real%20Trains/pictures_8261_BO1840vjb_zpsd8f04226.jpg.html]
I hate Rust
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a decaf for me please...
Curt, nice job on the rebuild! How about a before and after shot so we can see better what was done?
I spent most of the afternoon out at camp, figuring out in my mind the best way to mount and wire the new speakers on the dining hall. I also mounted an electrical box that will be used for another microphone plug in the middle of the hall. The Program manager has requested there are times it would be nice to be able to have 2 mics to use. I will need to buy about 150 feet of mic cable to do the job. Looking at buying a new miser for the system as the old Shure Mono ones out there are running out of inputs to use, and they are awkward to use anyway. generally the mixer is set where it should be and left alone! Of course there are always "experts" who seem to think they should play with the knobs to see what they will do. I replaced several outdoor PA speaker drivers before I finally put in a compressor/limiter in line to protect them. New speakers won't need that, nor will it need a separate EQ in line. The old PA speakers were fairly limited in fidelity. Something like 800 Hz to 5000 Hz?
Need to get the installation up and running within a few weeks. Also will need to find some help as I no longer climb up ladders as tall as the roof line on the dining hall....
Hope you all are ready to have a great Cinco De Mayo tomorrow. I'm not up on the festival but hear it has something to do do with a ship containing a cargo of Mayonnaise that sunk off the coast of Mexico during a storm on May 5th. Or something like that....
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!
Curt WebbCan someone explain how to do a private conversation with someone?
*
Been working on this old Bachmann Plus loco today. It's running great. Of course there wasn't anything it didn't need.I'm still very tired. About to call it a day. It's 83 in here and I still feel cold in jeans and a long sleeve shirt and sweater. Believe it or not working on the loco about wiped me out. I have little energy and my arms feel like they're going to fall off.See y'all tomorrow. Too tired to do any more.
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
Can someone explain how to do a private conversation with someone? I guess I am stupid because I can't seem to figure it out.
Jeff and Vincent thank you.
Saw Iron Man 3 today..........it`s a good movie .......but the plot got lame half-way thru the movie............wasn`t what I expected.
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
PackerJeff, Are you going to model the Penn Central?
May the 4th be with you all.
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
Hu wale ke aloha nou, e Kalani, E Kapuakuhaki kau i ka hano, hanohano no 'oe i ku'u maka, Ke kama ho'oheno a ka Malie. Pi'o mai ke anuenue nou, e Kalani, E Kaleihiwahiwa kua i ka poli, 'Olino ha'aheo i ka pu'uwai, No na hana maika'i i au i hana ai.
I'm now bored -did all my chores and now dinner is in the oven roasting.
MOH home in about an hour and a quarter.
The optical at Sams club just called to cancel my appointment. Seems the poor Doctor won't get a lunch if he sees me at the original time as I will need an hour appointment and he needs at least a half for lunch! SO we rescheduled for later, tough that may change again as he doesn't like to dialate eyes late in the day...though MOH has the day off and can take me. So there. Take that.
will do somehting special for sides to raosted beast. MY deserves it. Maybe Asparagus tips {have to use canned I forget to get fresh at eth store this AM.} and maybe scalloped pots...a fav of MOH.
MOH deserves a special dinner for first "full day at work" in since January 8th.
I see by called Id MOH called while I was out getting the mail...no message on the machine, so wonder what it was? I'll find out when MOh gets home I guess.
Well, I guess if Scalloped s are on the menu, best get peeling....
later
Afternoon guys
Today's been mostly a train day so far. I brought the ATSF SD40-2 to the club to see how well it runs. Turns out I've got it working really well, runs quiet and isn't jerky. Even better after I cleaned the wheels (I think someone oiled the track again, that stuff gets sticky). Pulls pretty decent too. When I got home I broke out the airbrush and started weathering a few cars. Turns out if I use reducer with the rustoleum that it dries pretty quick. I'm getting a bit better with my strokes when going along the car side (the last car I did looks like it's blended perfectly), but I just wish my airbrush could spray a wider pattern (i.e. the pattern would be tall ennough to cover the model in 1 pass). I'll have to ask Robby P. What he's doing for that as (or at least the last time I recall him mentioning it) I'm using the same airbrush as he is. Although I should by another jar as the cap on mine doesn't go on tight.
Jeff, Are you going to model the Penn Central?
Curt, progress looks good.
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.
That's looking fine Curt. You're a truly gifted artist.
This morning I took receipt of two Penn Central geeps. A GP38-2 and a GP40. I wasn't expecting them until the middle of next week. Somebody must have removed the tiddly-winks games from the post offices and made thumb twiddling a crime. I also got two decoders ahead of schedule.Now I'm feeling extremely tired again. Time to go lay down for a bit.
Yeah todd I should probably shut my yap.
Ok Jeff, Ok I perish that thought.
worked some more on ti"N"y #50's getting a bit shaky for some weird reason I should clean the wheels and perform some maintenance.
BroadwayLion The building with the water tanks on top must be the telephone exchange. The building to the left is the opticians? Some of my buildings are just as easy to recognize!
The building with the water tanks on top must be the telephone exchange. The building to the left is the opticians?
Some of my buildings are just as easy to recognize!