thebarnet: The model is made by Tamiya and is of 1:48 scale, perfect for my O scale fleet of locomotives. Also have a P-38J Lightning decorated for Dick Bong and a Me Bf 109G-10.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
Oh an F-4 phantom known as the largest distributor of MiG parts in the world. is that Your F-4 lion?
LEHIGH VALLEY what make and Scale? Mustang is it
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"
howmusJeffrey, since they are delivering the nice big bed, you could just have a nice nap right where you are until your father gets back home at least....
My eyes are feeling better now but the pupils are still dilated quite a bit. The room is still quite bright and I have sunglasses on with the lights out!
Think I found the source of my internet problem. There was a program conflict that was causing the IP address to become scrambled. I stumbled across it quite accidentally while examining another possible cause. Time will tell.
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
BroadwayLion Lehigh Valley 2089 Good morning. Well, I'm now officially a high school grad. Don't know how to feel about it right now. Feeling real tired right now. Well, that is OK! I graduated from High School in 1966. From there I joined the NAVY, and they sent me to Vietnam. BUSHY! I don't think we are in the Bronx anymore!
Lehigh Valley 2089 Good morning. Well, I'm now officially a high school grad. Don't know how to feel about it right now. Feeling real tired right now.
Good morning.
Well, I'm now officially a high school grad. Don't know how to feel about it right now. Feeling real tired right now.
Well, that is OK! I graduated from High School in 1966. From there I joined the NAVY, and they sent me to Vietnam.
BUSHY! I don't think we are in the Bronx anymore!
Good afternoon.
Feeling pretty good right now. Better than I thought. Currently working on the P-51D Mustang, it's really starting to look like a Mustang of the 332nd FG.
I did about 6 or 7 loads of laundry yesterday, and also trimmed the hedges and cut the grass in the front and back yard. The only thing I earned doing the yard work was a good sunburn on the top of my head. You would think I'm old enough to know when to wear a hat. It sure got my attention when the hair brush hit the scalp this morning.
Today we had to get up early so I could take 5 or 6 trash bags of old cloths and a couple of boxes of glassware, etc for the veteran's thrift store. They were suppose to be here around 8:00 am, but we left around 10:00 or so for Doctor appointments and they still weren't here. Could have slept another hour or so.
Really good news for me as I weigh the same now as I did 6 months ago. First time that's happened in many years. Everything else was fine, but he did change one of my blood sugar medications. Sometimes in the afternoon my blood sugar will drop and I become hypoglycemic. He thinks this medication will help with that. It hasn't been a big problem so far as I can tell when it's happening, and a candy bar or a glucose tablet will take care of it. But it is taking longer and longer to reverse the effects when it does drop.
The wife's appointment was good, although she did gain a few pounds about which I am smart enough not to talk about. She will probably come to the conclusion that those pounds were meant for me and I switched them while she was sleeping. Nearly 50 years of marriage teaches you about these thing, right Todd.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a short stck of blueberry pancakes, side of bacon, and leave the NYS real Maple Syrup right here at the table for me. Oh, and can I get a cup or two of dark roast coffee for my R&GV RR mug?
Jeffrey, since they are delivering the nice big bed, you could just have a nice nap right where you are until your father gets back home at least....
Cool day outside here in the Finger Lakes today. All of 61°F at the moment with a high late this afternoon of 67°F. Cloudy out there as well so I doubt I will get the nice 30kWh yield from the PV panels I got yesterday....
Have a bunch of odds and ends to get done today. Need to dep[osit some checks and cash from the MLK Scholarship Dinner that were late coming in, drop off a check to the bank that handles our 501c3 account for the scholarships, make a bunch of phone calls and emails that should have gotten done several days ago, and plant squash in the new raised bed garden. Then tonight there is an Ice Cream Social for the District (Boy Scouts) to thank all the volunteers in our district.
I do wish i could find some time to get things done on the layout! It has been months since I have had any serious time down there...
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
BroadwayLionModem? People still use modems? LION has fiber optic with a static IP number. Which reminds me, I'm going th have to get the tech in here (at $100/hr) to trouble shoot these firewall issues.
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Good morning. It's 85° with 67% humidity.The high will be 92°.Well (full to the top and sporting a large frog population), I tended to my eye appointment this morning. Right now I can't see much. The screen is mostly a hazy sea of flickers with dim black letters floating in it. I have some retinal damage due to diabetes but no worse overall than on the last checkup a few years ago. I also have some cataracts floaters, not unusual for someone my age. I have a prescription for new bifocals. Now I just have to dig up the cash to get them.Right now I'm at my fathers place waiting on a king size bed to be delivered. My father had a doctors appointment this morning so he's off tending to that. I'm not going to be doing anything else today. Just laying back and relaxing. Maybe catch up on my sleep later.
jeffrey-wimberlyI have to do a complete system reset, computer, modem, everything to get it back and then the cycle starts again. I've had this happen before and it was due to a bad IP.
Modem? People still use modems? LION has fiber optic with a static IP number. Which reminds me, I'm going th have to get the tech in here (at $100/hr) to trouble shoot these firewall issues.
GRRRR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
JUST FOR TODD-
"Plum {plumb} forgot":
The word 'plumb', (pronounced 'plum') derived from the Latin 'plumbun' (lead), the same word that 'plumber' is derived from, because a plumber works (used to) with lead pipes. Since a plumb line is a completely or absolutely perpendicular straight line, the word 'plumb' became an adverb meaning "completely or absolutely" in phrases like plumb crazy or plumb forgot. Its use is usually confined to informal or colloquial speech
Hope everyone has 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.
Morning All,
Currently it is 55 with an expected high of 93 under sunny skies.
Day off so I have a load of laundry going right now. need to reassemble my friends rifle and get it back into the stock. Stop at my insurance agent and get odest daughter on my car insurance, as she needs to borrow one of my cars long term. pick up a RX, and stop at the lawyers to see about Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Still getting dr bills for my late wife, and do not have her income to help pay the bills.
Switch Tenders should be here today or tomorrow. Track from Caboose Hobbies should be here tomorrow. Turnouts and WS Track Bed from Walthers should be here on Tuesday. So next Wednesday should be spent in the train room if all goes well.
Prayers to all in need.
Paul
Maybe get into the train room later on today.
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
Good Morning!!!
Coffee please. Already ate.
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 79.
Getting a little worried about Lee too. Seems to me he had been having a bit of problem with heatlh. Or maybe a slight concern or… something. Might have him confused with someone else too. Either way I wish he’d stop in just to say “I’m ok just busy.”
You know, I’ve noticed a lot of talk about Model Railroads on this site. I wonder why I’m on it all the time. Oh yah, I forgot, I’ve got one! Hm….plum forgot about it.
Now THERE’s a term Galaxy can research while he’s waiting for his van…”Plum” as in “Plum forgot”. I guess it’s spelled plum. Could be plumb depending on how it came about. Guess I could research it myself, but hey he seems to like it and I like reading about it so kinda works.
Ulrich- Over here it is against the law to harass someone over the E-mail. Keep ‘em.
Well Brenda has been cleaning in the basement starting last weekend. She has done a remarkable job in such a short time, but she has made this pile of stuff to be thrown away and is….um….concerned we’ll say, that I haven’t taken it out. Well, the dumpsters I’ve been given permission to use if I need them don’t get emptied until Friday mornings and I don’t put stuff in them until Thursday evening after the businesses close. That way I don’t take up space the people who pay for them may need. After they close, they don’t dump anymore until after they are emptied. She knows this because that was the issue (mine, not the businesses they said they didn’t care but appreciated it none the less) during the remodel. I remind her every day. Odd she can’t remember that, but can remember every single tiiiiiny oops I’ve done for the last 1000 years.
Off today so yardw**k and laundry are in store.
Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!
P.S. STILL don't know if the dishwasher that just HAD to be repaired/replaced NOW, washes dishes or not. Just sayin.
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.
Oh, Wednesday again, the day when I have to drag my old bones out of bed after a night of playing ice hockey. Last night was a one-goal thriller, and I had to make a save at the buzzer to hang on to the victory. Yeah, OK, it was 15-14, not exactly Stanley Cup quality, but for a bunch of guys who have been lacing 'em up for 20, 30 or 40 years after college, we're doing fine. In a way, we embody the true spirit of amateur sports - minimal organization, and everyone leaves the rink with a smile on his face.
Now that it's effectively summer, my LHS has gone to a 4-day schedule. With tomorrow being SWMBO's birthday, I won't get there until Saturday.
I may have to add a second layer of Envirotex to the carfloat after all. It's still sticky, so I don't think I got it mixed well enough on that first pour. I'll give it a couple of more days, but if it doesn't harden up that will be a must-do for the weekend.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Goog Bordig..
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I'se be goig to the bagbood to curl ub ad try to heat this code oud ub be...
Hab a bedder day thad I ab habbig
Ulrich: I have a few choice words for people like your brother...none very pleasant...I'll leave it at that....
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/
Lunchtime!
Flo, a chili dog and an RBF, please!
Unlike the southern part of Germany, we enjoy nice Spring weather in our neck of the woods. Southern Germany was struck by heavy rainfall, causing severe flooding in some parts. This year, the flood is worse than 11 years ago. All the promises to invest into flood control now appear to have been just a lip service...
Oh, well - politics ...
I have received a number of nasty emails from my dear brother - wrote back to him that I keep all of them to be used as evidence against him. He must have turned nuts. I don´t want to hear from him or see him, for the rest of my life.
Have a good day!
morning coffee in the diner..
GOOD WEDNESDAY MORNING!!!
Today is Wednesday, JUNE 5th, 2013!!
I will light the prayer candles at 10 AM for those in need....
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!
"Good Morning!" from Tipton IN
6/5/13
TIPTON IN
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Evenin' Folks!
Janie, just a cup of decaf for me please.
I actually did get a few things done today.... Not nearly as much as I should have, but some at least. Tonight I finished up the second Raised bed garden. Will hopefully get some summer squash planted in it tomorrow. Earlier I had drop off my large diaphram mic at church. They want to use it for Sunday School Sunday this next Sunday. Then went to pick up some Rxs at the little pharmacy I use. Would tell about the new problem with my Diabetic testing supplies, but there have been enough political stuff in here already today, and I try to avoid breaking the rules anyway... Lets just say due to some changes in insurance I will now buy certain things over the counter rather than using a mail order house somewhere in the very far from where I live which is the other option. This way is actually easier, I trust the pharmacist, and I am helping keep a locally owned store in business, and saving me money as the price of the same item over the counter is less than the price of the co-pay under the insurance. Guess I should have stopped a couple sentences ago.......
Then I had to go over to the hearing center where I was to pick up a new $500 dohickey that would allow me to connect my hearing aids to such things as TV's and other sound sources so I could control the sound that I hear without having others be affected by it. Turns out this dohickey replaces the little easy to use remote I already have to control the hearing aids, would be a complete pain to use, is twice as big, and can't be used in addition to the old remote. I was looking at something simple, not a Smart Phone all by itself (it connects to your Smart phone for pleasant conversations while you are texting and driving the car at the same time, while watching the DVD play in the car.....) Told them to send it back.
Then I stopped at Lowes and got 3 more cedar 1 x 4 x 10" boards for the top of the raided bed garden.
The mail came and with iot my monthly NYSEG bill. I went ballistic when I saw they want me to pay for 70 kWh I didn't use!!! I produced 216 kWh more than I used! I turned in the Self Read via email as I always do, but they somehow decided to "estimate" my usage using somebodies guess of what they think I should have used. I sent a very nasty email to the customer service demanding they send me a correct bill. If I don't hear from them tomorrow, I will be visiting the local office here in Geneva with all the supporting proof that they are not correct and do some jumping up and down and screaming!!!
Got to chat with the next door neighbors tonight also. Wanted to let them know I will be having the hedge between our two properties taken down sometime in the next week or so. Once it is down we can look at what kind of fence we want put up. The fence will be on my property, but I want them to have a voice in what I put there. "Good fences make good neighbors".
Been enjoying the photos here in the diner lately!
Have a great night, and prayers for all in need!
kbkchooch Hey Gang! Mister B, Lion and Galaxy,,,,shhhhhhhhh, Vinnie be given you the hairy eyeball!! You could say he has a poly-tick to the side of his face!
Hey Gang!
Mister B, Lion and Galaxy,,,,shhhhhhhhh, Vinnie be given you the hairy eyeball!! You could say he has a poly-tick to the side of his face!
Karl ..... Big thanks for reminding about "poly-tick"...... Comments were going too far in that direction, and I was not agreeing with some of it. . "nuf said.
Also, Karl ..... The cement hoppers look great. Have fun weathering.
Curt ...... I like the photos.
Ken ... I like the rail yard photo, too.
Jeff .... Glad to see the ABBB F-units. Nice work.
Barry ..... I hope your cold gets no worse. I've had a doozy of a cold for a week and a half, but it is improving now.
I'm wondering where Lee is. I've asked a few times in recent weeks about him, and nobody responds. I tried sending him a PM several days ago, and nothing came back. .... So, can anybody help find Lee?
Been busy with more never-ending non-model-railroad stuff today.
I've been struggling with the lighting on my E7's which includes a mars light. Trying to get decoders to cooperate. Now, I'm thinking this over. Burlington E-units did not have mars lights. .... Duh..... I think I'll take the mars light out of each Burlington E7, and then put in a suitable decoder. .... Brilliant thinking.
Have a nice night.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Flo,,,,might I get a cup of tea, no not iced tea,,,hot tea please. Its a bit chilly here!
I finally finished a project I started back in 2010. I wanted some 2 bay Trinity cement hoppers. So as an experiment, I got an Athearn RTR car and another Trinity 3 bay,(IIRC Atlas) and cut them apart! I packed them away half done when we moved, and recently re-discovered them. Now Painted and decalled (not weathered yet) I'm happy with them.
One is a little taller than the other, shims can fix that.
Curt, keep the choo-choo pics coming!!
Prayers for those that need em, for those that don't!!
Karl
NCE über alles!
Good Evening...
Well, I got the meetings done and away with...came out with a scratchy throat....now am sneezing everywhere I go....great...creeping crud is back
Back to Fisherman's Friend and other such things...now...where is my kleenex box....
I'll be around some yet...hope ...hope...
mmmmm...why does "do you have your papers" sound so odd....mmmmmm
cudaken Work Front Shop I am at now is a disaster! Short staffed in every position and out best Mechinic walked out today. Heck, the shop does not even have a manager!
Well for a while now I've been having internet problems. I can stay online for a little while, usually thirty minutes to a couple of hours and then the connection just goes away. I have to do a complete system reset, computer, modem, everything to get it back and then the cycle starts again. I've had this happen before and it was due to a bad IP. Once Suddenlink stabilized the IP the problem went away. I think that's what's happening now. This staryed about a week ago when a storm knocked out the cable service here. I haven't had good service since that time.Got an eye appointment in the morning so I'm calling it a night now. See y'all sometime tomorrow.
Evening Folks
Flo, Beer Pleases.
Just dropping by to say hey. Been on the Mopar Site a lot of late. Things have changed in the world of 1 1 cars, mainly prices!
Work Front Shop I am at now is a disaster! Short staffed in every position and out best Mechinic walked out today. Heck, the shop does not even have a manager!
Home Front Central Air system is DOA. So I guess I am buying another window unit, something around 1100 BTU. Oh well like I need any more train engines.
Ken
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I hate Rust
Curt Webb Next week I am going to renew my drivers license. It is unbelievable the paperwork I have to bring in. What frosts me is all the hoops I have to go through to renew my license, never mind I have served in the military for 21 years, paid taxes my entire life, vote every year, and have no criminal record. . OK Vinnie I am done. Sorry.
Next week I am going to renew my drivers license. It is unbelievable the paperwork I have to bring in. What frosts me is all the hoops I have to go through to renew my license, never mind I have served in the military for 21 years, paid taxes my entire life, vote every year, and have no criminal record. . OK Vinnie I am done. Sorry.
BroadwayLionAnd they made you take your eyeglasses off.
I do believe you're right! I was about to say that they made me leave my glasses on, because I am supposed to wear them for driving, but I looked and lo and behold, after putting my glasses on so I could see the picture better, my picture has no glasses! Around here, we get new licenses every 5 years, but only need a picture and eye test every 10, so for the intervening years we have a mail-in system. Still the same charge, of course, but I don't have to wait in line.
Still, it makes me wonder why anyone would want us to have a government-run health care system that would be as cost-effective as the Department of Defense but run as efficiently as the Registry of Motor Vehicles.
Curt WebbNext week I am going to renew my drivers license. It is unbelievable the paperwork I have to bring in. What frosts me is all the hoops I have to go through to renew my license, never mind I have served in the military for 21 years, paid taxes my entire life, vote every year, and have no criminal record.
And they made you take your eyeglasses off. All IDs are going to a higher standard of identification to meet federal requirements. The reason why they made you take your eyeglasses off is that they are using Facial Recognition Software, and are building an ID base which is almost as good as finger prints. If you hold a second license somewhere, or try to change your name and get a new one, they will ave a better chance of finding this out.
Next time congress gets a feather up its world trade center your ID will have biometric data embedded in it, probably based on DNA.
The upside of all of this, is that, with a secure ID system, we will soon be able to vote on line just like they do in Central Europe.
ROAR
Evening All,
Went to Quintin's kindergarten graduation so he is officially in first grade now. He goes tomorrow to get a cast put on his arm. I go back to w**k tomorrow to a projected very wet 3 days. School is officially over tomorrow here so only 1 more day having to deal with the idiots going to the high school in the morning.
My train club is helping some Scouts with the MRR merit badge this Saturday.
Here are some trip photos
Hope everyone has a good night and prayers for those in need.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Just a quick post, in case RioGrande5761 is listening. RGrande, Elliott (AKA BigBoy4005 - not sure on the number part of his old handle) was the one who started this Diner, then known as the Coffee Shop, as a place where off-topic posts (non-MRR-related) were permitted. Before the Diner (and another topic, which I believe was the Beer Barn), if you got off of MRR topics you might get a talking-to from one of the forum moderators (not quite as hard on you as Vinnie is, though).
From what I recall, Elliott was involved with a MRR club (in Minnesota, I think) which had a layout (modular?) that they would set up in one of the enclosed malls in their area at some point in the year (like around the holidays) and run trains to infect expose the general public to model railroading. He wasn't as active in the Diner when I started hanging around here (and I would have to look up when that was - 2006, maybe?), and a few years ago (maybe even 7-10 by now), his health began to give him problems, and he did eventually die. We renamed the Diner after him several years ago, in his honor.
Hope that fills you in some (in addition to what others possibly already have). And though I will likely find what you wrote as I get caught up on the posts this month, what's your layout like? (Yes, as one Diner mentioned, we're sure that the D&RGW is amply represented...)
Jim in Cape G. (still catching up on the posts...)
MisterBeasley I've got these old MOW cars. I think they were made by True Line back in the 1960s. I remember saving up for these on my teenage allowance to get to the $30 the set cost. I think I've got metal wheels on all of them now, and of course Kadees.
I've got these old MOW cars. I think they were made by True Line back in the 1960s. I remember saving up for these on my teenage allowance to get to the $30 the set cost.
I think I've got metal wheels on all of them now, and of course Kadees.
Those same cars now come in a MOW set from Walthers. I had that car you show in the center, I think they called it a tool car and when I bought the set from Walthers, low and behold there it was again. This time it was "grey", originally it had been "orange". And guess what ? The set is no longer thirty dollars either.
Johnboy out..............................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)