Back again, I have top of page so order up guys.
I have been weathering my ballast a light shade of grimy black today. Looks good as it tones down the too gray look of the ballast. As I went along I had to skip a few spots where the ballast has come up a bit. Id say that's pretty good. the layout is 10 years old and has been moved three times and only now are there a few spots where the ballast is coming up. I did do a good job of cementing that ballast back then If I do say so.
So before the weathering continues I'm going to call in the track crew to fix any remaining ballast issues,lol. I also have a few other maintenance items on the layout to get at tomorrow sometime.
Well, ended up not doing anything today other than resting. Don't regret it, would be able to focus better in the morning anyway.
Also think Spunky has had it. Doesn't seem to be breathing or moving at all now, nor is she responding.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
Evening guys,
Yeah Jeff, congrats on your dads upcoming wedding.
It is getting warmer here today, 80F at the moment but nothing compared to the 102 its going to feel like on Tuesday. I have resisted turning on the A/C but might have to go on tomorrow or Saturday especially with the humidity.
Evening guys!
Flo, just a cool drink for now,,were goin to a carnival tonight,so I'll eat there!
blownout cylinder! Karl: Garry is telling you a fib about my chow-houndiness...I always ate reasonable portions..
Karl: Garry is telling you a fib about my chow-houndiness...I always ate reasonable portions..
Barry,,,,,sir,,,I'm no rookie here, you can't buffalo me! I've seen you eat. Even Vinnie won't stick his hand in front of your face while you are dining!! And Vinnie's fearless!
Ray,, for your sister
Cya all later,,,SWMBO sez time to go!
Karl
NCE über alles!
Jeff: Congrats to the newly weds!
End of work week here on my end of things. Tired, but may try to do something on the P-51D Mustang tonight. then I may get the Spitfire's canopy on.
last mountain & eastern hogger JEFF, Are you the Ring Bearer this evening ?
JEFF,
Are you the Ring Bearer this evening ?
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
Our Congratulations to the Newly Weds to be.............
John & Sandy.
It has been raining most of the day here, sure hope it stops before the football game tonight.
Chochowille, stop sending it this way. I then have to forward it to our guys in Winterpeger. CN Charlie, Seamonster and Blind Bruce. They don't like it either. We Want Summer, in a few hours it will be the 21st.. So bring it on.
Johnboy out..................................and back to work.
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
I got out my Z80 master disk today and tested the Apple's on board CP/M. It's working fine. Went to my fathers place and looked at the preparations taking place there then came back home. I'll be going back at 5pm.
You may LOOK but DO NOT TOUCH!!!!!
Ask Cape Jim what will happen.
Flip
galaxyWatch it RAY! I don't think that there are Many forums where one man can compliment another man on his caboose and GET AWAY with it!!! ONLY here....tee hee
Ah, Chloe thought I was taking about her caboose.... Well, it is pretty nice now isn't it.... Shhh! LOL
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
howmus Afternoon folks! Chloe, I'll have a tall glass of iced tea for the moment please. Hey Jerry! Good to see you sir. We've been missing you. Nice caboose you got there... What Chloe? No, no, no, Jerry brought in his train caboose, you know... No need to get Vinnie.... (Whew!)
Afternoon folks!
Chloe, I'll have a tall glass of iced tea for the moment please.
Hey Jerry! Good to see you sir. We've been missing you. Nice caboose you got there... What Chloe? No, no, no, Jerry brought in his train caboose, you know... No need to get Vinnie.... (Whew!)
Watch it RAY! I don't think that there are Many forums where one man can compliment another man on his caboose and GET AWAY with it!!! ONLY here....tee hee
Well got my injections..sterooidal ones so I will be feeling the pain for awhile. though if liek last time with different one, it will be easier on me.
Received a package in the mail...The 2012 Merrie Monarch Hula Festival DVDs! MOH will surely enjoy them..there are 4 DVDs in the case. It is called the Merrie Monarch after King David Kalakaua, the Merrie Monarch , and his key role in reviving hula in the nineteenth century. Hula was thought by the Missionaries to be of a lewd nature {some actuallly IS} adn banned it. HULA was oringinally only perforemed by MEN. Women got into this past century as a tourist ploy to lure "business men" to Hawai'i..BOTH men and women {as well as children} perform it for the Merrie Monarch Festival.
I found a "begginers Hula" DVD set for MOH for CHristmas too I think...MOH wants to learn to hula. If I could sing/chant, I'd do the chant/mele while MOH danced the HULA. You guys already know I am hooked on the chant/meles. Now I get the DVD video too.
Well enough of that.
Dinner is heat N eat Beef tips over mashed taters....with a side of something for a veggie...
-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.
I am never going to get everything done I need to do before Saturday's yard sale, and when my son will be arriving from Chicago... Cleaning the house will be a quick once through.
This morning I moved enough topsoil to be able to get the hand cart down the path to the shed so I could put away the speakers from the sound stuff. Then finished the rest of the woodpile. had to use the little battery powered chain saw to cut up a bunch of pieces that were too long for my stove. Then I headed over to the grocery store to get stocked up on items I need for the weekend and then put some hydrocarbons mixed with sulfur, nitrogen, oxygen, and some trace metals into the tank on the PiP so I can drive over to the Museum tonight... Did pretty well on the last tank. Got 648 miles out of 7.27 gallons. 89 mpg in actual fact. Best tank so far.
Got to get started mowing the lawn.... Later!
73
HI JER- WELCOME BACK.. Door is always open for you.
Caboose looks GREAT. Darn good job.
Prayers for all.
Good Morning All...Its sunny and 70 here..weather feller on TV says low 90's this week-end...I'll have a double RBF please...Thank You...Havn't been in for awhile...been working on the layout...got a couple of coal drags running and a pig train...helps to get my mind on other things...
I picked up a GM&O GP 38 awhile back..I needed a caboose for it so I stripped old Con Cor repainted,decals, and changed trucks and couplers..
You all have a good one..Jerry
Morning All,
Currently it is 48 with an expected high of 77 under mostly sunny skies.
Met the electrician right on time at 9:00 yesterday morning. He had the problem fixed and was finished in an hour. Only cost me $100.00, Then stopped at Radio Shack to exchange some resistors that were the wrong wattage. Met younger daughter for lunch. Did some grocery shopping and came home. Not much time for railroad stuff.
Back to w**k today after 5 days off. I hate taking time off, well not taking the time off, the going back after time off. Mid-day shift 10:00 to 6:00, then home, cook supper, shower and Skype with my son at 8:00. So should be a busy day.
Prayers to all in need.
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
blownout cylinder Karl: Garry is telling you a fib about my chow-houndiness...I always ate reasonable portions..
Who said that? Pinocchio ?
Jeff .... Congrats to the bride and groom.
Mr. B. ...... I prefer to say the Blackhawks won.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good Morning!!!
Coffee and some of the breakfast casserole please, Thanks
Mostly sunny, with a high near 88.
Ray- Prayers continue for your sister.
Jake- Sorry to hear about your dog.
Jeff- Congratulations to the newly weds!
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. It's 76° with 95% humidity. It will be cloudy with a fiar chance of rain. The high will be 90°.Well today is the big day. There will be people coming and going all day. Tonight my father and his loving bride with be getting hitched in my nieces back yard in almost the same location my niece and her husband were wed. The lake looks much better as it has water in it this time. I'll try and get some photos of the newly married couple. Owing to the heat and humidity here there will be at least two swamp coolers on the property. The reception will be held on the terrace beside the pool.There will be no layout work today owing to the above family matter.
Today is sunny and getting warmer...74F feeling like 82F later on....
Yep...going to get ready to tackle the lair of doom...otherwise known as my garage...I'ma gonna see just how much stuff one can throw out'n this doom-ridden lair before i start hacking up pieces of my lungs...
Have a good day!!
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! NOT! The Bruins lost in overtime, after falling behind and coming back to tie it up. If nothing else, this is a more exciting series than the 4-0 sweep of Pittsburgh. I still have to get up early to go to work, so I only watched the first period last night.
Our supermarket makes a point of using separate bags for items like fish or soap. I was wondering - if it's that important, what do they expect people who bring their own bags to do? Personally, I'd just put everything in the same bag.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Lunchtime in Germany!
Janie, just an RBF, please - it is way too hot to eat anything!
Currently, the temperature in my neck of the woods hovers at 90°F, with a humidity at 90%. Not my kind of weather. Inside it is only a little cooler, but still to hot to feel comfortable. I wish we had A/C ...
Plastic bags ate not banned, but you have to pay for them since about 30 years. This has limited the use drastically. Petra and I use shopping bags Petra made some 30 years ago. They still look nice - there is a little personal touch to them.
Still busy collecting the support for our party - in two weeks, we have achieved about 50% of what we need. It is a lot more difficult to enlist the support than anyone of us has thought. People are very reluctant to sign up for a new party to run for Bundestag.
MRRing has been completely put aside - much to my regret. I hope to regain momentum soon.
Have a good one!
Venceremos!
jeffrey-wimberly galaxyI use cloth bags for two of the stores I go to as they don't give out bags. I get paper ones usually with a few plastic ones for garbage pails...they all get palstic bags in them to keep the pails clean. The paper ones get the recycle paper in them and the shreeded documents for recycling in them. SO they all get used twice.The Wal-Mart here is uses mostly plastic bags. They do have canvas bags you can buy.
galaxyI use cloth bags for two of the stores I go to as they don't give out bags. I get paper ones usually with a few plastic ones for garbage pails...they all get palstic bags in them to keep the pails clean. The paper ones get the recycle paper in them and the shreeded documents for recycling in them. SO they all get used twice.
Here Wally world uses plastic and has the canvas bags you can buy too.
I meant ALDI grocery store and Price Rite grocery stores DON't give out bags, Where they DO give them out, I get a mix of paper and plastic for the paper recycle and the garbage. It is interesting to know we have "single stream recycle/garbage separation" capabilities, yet we still have to separate!
I am all for recycling. I once lived on a {man made} island that we HAD to separate AND recycle ALL waste..the gooey food waste was put in the "landfill" and often control burned off at night.The recycled stuff was sold off island to be reused. Had to separate our glass by color-clear, brown, green, into big truck sized bins at the dump. Ditto for newspapers and magazines. Ditto for boxes. Ditto for metal. Ditto for the plastic containers...by color..into truck sized dumpsters. Then the household gooey trash all went one place too. There was a "miscellany" bin, but if you got caught by the dump guards just "dumping" all your trash in there to avoid separating it, well you got a hefty fine to slap you silly.
I sometime take the canvas and mesh bags to the bag give away stores too as one gives 3 cents off per bag you reuse.Big whoop, but it works!.
Morning coffee in the diner..
GOOD THURSDAY MORNING!!!
Today is Thursday, June 20th, 2013!!!
I will light the prayer candles and say the prayers when I come back from my spinal pain injections...
MAKE it A Great DAY!!!
GRAVE YARD SHIFT:
Meaning: A late-night/early-morning work shift
THe simple story:
All companies that work around the clock have a 'graveyard shift'. It has nothing to do with graveyards or burial places. Actually, any thick liquid was called "gravy", and if you laughed till you cried you were called "gravy-eyed." Lack of sleep lead to bleary eyes, and sailors who had to stay up on deck all night were often "gravy-eyed" from weariness. When the term was used in pubs and other places on land, these people did not quite get it. Because superstitions were so rampid at the time, they assumed it had to do with graves, being dead tired, etc. So the seafaring phrase was reformed by the landlubbers to mean "graveyard shift."
Another version: The "Graveyard Shift" is actually tied to the phrase "Saved by the Bell." First, to explain "Saved by the Bell": at one point, being buried alive was a common occurrence, so people who were paranoid about such a fate were buried in special coffins that had a rope to pull from the inside that attached to a bell above ground. At night a guard was set to watch the graveyard and to listen for any bells to ring, and thereby dig up the living person from underground, 'saving them by the bell." The guard that sat watch overnight was said to work the "Graveyard Shift": the night shift at a graveyard.
Here's the real whole story:
This story is a cockamaimy tid bit, and while loathsome to do it, as there may just be someone who will take the following passage as literal truth, we will examin a reprint of the last (and quite possibly the least) paragraph of the collection of invented and untrue stuff that has been circulating on the Internet for some time, under the name of 'Life in the 1500s':
England is old and small and they started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a "bone-house" and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, one out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they thought they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the "graveyard shift") to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be "saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer."
We will debunk the "saved by the bell" {which is actually mening boxing slang that came into being in the latter half of the 19th century. A boxer who is in danger of losing a bout can be 'saved' from defeat by the bell that marks the end of a round} and "dead ringer" {meaning 'exact duplicate' and came from a horse"ringer" who was a substitute} myths later, but now let's take a look at 'graveyard shift'. Given that the derivation of the phrases 'saved by the bell' and 'dead ringer' had nothing whatever to do with burials or graveyards, it might be thought that 'graveyard shift' could be dismissed without further investigation. That may be a little hasty. Those phrases may have had nothing to do with bells being attached to coffins to guard against premature burial, but such devices did exist and were occasionally used. Given that some people had sufficient fear of being buried alive to invest in such coffins, it is at least plausible that they would also have made arrangements for someone to monitor the grave so that their coffin's bell could be heard in the event of them ringing it. Nevertheless, and as usual with phrase etymology, plausibility and truth are only distant relatives.
The Graveyard Shift, or Graveyard Watch, was the name created for the work shift of the early morning, typically midnight until 8am. The name originated in the USA at the latter end of the 1800s. There's no evidence at all that it had anything directly to do with watching over graveyards, merely that the shifts took place in the middle of the night, when the ambience was quiet and lonely.
The earliest example of the phrase in print to be found is in the US newspaper The Salt Lake Tribune, June 1897:
The police changed shifts for the month yesterday. This month Sergeant Ware takes the morning relief. Sergeant Matt Rhodes the middle and Sergeant John Burbidge the graveyard shift.
The 'graveyard watch' version of the phrase was normally used by sailors on watch - hardly a group in a position to supervise buried coffins. The graveyard link was made explicit in this definition, offered by the American mariner Gershom Bradford, in A Glossary of Sea Terms, 1927:
"Graveyard watch, the middle watch or 12 to 4 a.m., because of the number of disasters that occur at this time."
One more nail in the coffin of folk etymology, let's hope, or do we still hear a faint bell clanking in the Internet graveyard?
Tomorrow we will examine "go off half cocked" so we may not go off half cocked in the future! {actually most of us never will}
Good evening ..
Ray ....Prayers for your sister, Janice. The Chapel Car is coupled to the Diner.
kbkchooch Hi everyone! Flo, since Dennis is buying, how about an 18 oz filet. a baked potato and a banana split smothered in fudge sauce (no nuts please) for desert! rdgk1se3019 What is going on with the "Show Me" thread.......when I click on it ......I start to hear some kind of music...........is it just me?
Hi everyone!
Flo, since Dennis is buying, how about an 18 oz filet. a baked potato and a banana split smothered in fudge sauce (no nuts please) for desert!
rdgk1se3019 What is going on with the "Show Me" thread.......when I click on it ......I start to hear some kind of music...........is it just me?
What is going on with the "Show Me" thread.......when I click on it ......I start to hear some kind of music...........is it just me?
Karl .... That is a "Barry-Sized" portion...... We diners use the phrase, Barry-sized, as appropriate. It's named after Barry Blownout Cylinder who is a chow hound like no other.
Vicent .... SOunds like a good train show!
Dennis B .... As Karl said, you are not crazy. The Show Me thread is not supposed to have prototype pictures.
Rob .... Good to see you.
Ken .... Glad work was good.
Jake .... Sad about your dog, Spunky.
Jeremy ... A hornet. Ouch.
VB Dennis .... I don't think it is the job of government to choose types of bags used by shoppers. Don't they have real problems to solve?
Paul ... Did you correct the electircal problem in the Carson house?
Jeff .... It's amazing to still ee those old computers. They work too.
Galaxy .... You mean "Double Cross" is not a railroad crossing with 2 tracks?
Mr. B .... I see the game is tied 5-5 last I checked.
We have a house repair being worked on this week. There is a leak in the roof.
Still no word on our theft loss.
Been really busy with non-mrr-stuff lately.
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a decaf please....
Aaaaahhhhh.... I am beat! I moved about 1.5 face cords of firewood from the driveway on the side street to the back porch where I keep it for use during the winter. The dump truck with the 5 yards of topsoil showed up right on time as I figured he would. He didn't dare drive the truck back through a couple of holes where the hedge had been yanked out so the two piles of topsoil aren't exactly where I wanted them, but hopefully I will have help moving the soil to where we need it. I may rent a walk behind little tractor with a blde to push most of it where needed.
Tonight was my Church's annual Strawberry Festival. This has been going on for close to 50 years here in Geneva and is always attended well by the community. We had lots and lots of strawberries left over, I bought 2 quarts to take home. One will be frozen for later, and one will become strawberry shortcake sometime this week while my son from Chicago is home. My old sound system worked fine tonight and it was good to find out I can get the whole thing loaded in the back of the PiP. Did live sound for two groups using mics brought in by one of the groups and used the same set-up for the 8th. grade choir from the Middle School here in town. The main reason for me to bring it was for the MC to be able to announce performing groups and the other things going on. This event is the big reason I even keep the equipment... There is a gentleman in our church who is close to 80 years old (if not already there) who used to own a local dairy. He still has two freezers he saved from his store front. He too has them still only for use at the Strawberry Festival. This is the first year ever that we ran out of two of the 3 flavors of ice cream... Big crowd tonight.
Tomorrow will be busy as I have to mow lawn, do grocery shopping, fill up the gas tank in the PiP (that time of month again... I should get a 60¢ discount per gallon though on the fossil gunk, and then head out to the Museum for the monthly membership meeting and train ride....! This tank should be the equivalent of a 900 mile tank if It was almost empty. Should be getting 90 mpg by the time I fill it up tomorrow.
Have a great night, and my prayers for all in need. Please keep my sister (Janice) in your prayers as the news so far is not very good... The cancer has invaded her spine in two places as well. She is getting a catheter put in Friday for Chemo. They hope they can keep it in check for now.... Slow it down so too speak.
Had a busy day and I'm looking forward to a quiet night. Tomorrow's the big day for my father and his bride to be.No more work on the layout today.It's time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow..Some more wandering about in the forest.
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer pleases.
Good day at work, while a little busy and no lunch break (had time to eat, never clocked in or out for lunch) I made some good extra money, should be right around $131.00.
Still thinking about letting the Road Runner go, not sure what to do?
Later, Confused Ken again.
I hate Rust
Hello.
Spunky, our beagle, seems to be on the verge of dying since she is showing signs of her systems shutting down. She is cold, very limp, tired and had bloody gums. It's most likely from old age. She is, after all, 16-20 years old.
Nothing done layout wise or collection wise. Nothing done on model aircraft either.
BTW Dennis, contrary to popular belief,,you're not crazy,,,there is a post in the "show me" thread that plays bad music.
Had a strange happening yesterday. The counterweight strings came ot of Dannys bedroom window, so SWMBO has been propping it open with a piece of 2x4 (instead of telling me it broke) So last night she tells me. I looked at it, realized it was an Andersen window and told he I would look into it. So just for giggles, I put "how to repair an Andersen window" into Google
. Lo and behold, it brought up a video that showed just how to replace the counterweights!! Wow, it looks easy enough, I may have to try this! What will they think of next??
Ohhh,,, brain freeze from the ice cream (I eat desert 1st!),, be back later!
Evening guys
Haven't been in here for a bit. My real job combined with my side job (weathering for some friends) has kept me very busy.
The Tallahassee show went very well, even aside from loosing count of how many kids were trying to touch my open autoracks. I didn't sell much, but I found a bunch of good deals. I picked up the following:Athearn genesis F89F flatcar TTX brown, Walthers BN 3-bay PS2 covered, Undec P2K SD9 (with the parts bag from a GP7), Atlas BN standard coupla caboose, 2x Mckean UP centerbeams (the ones with all the labels applied from the factory), athearn RTR BN 40' trailer 2 pack, athearn RTR BN 45' trailer 2 pack, a stewart BN F9A shell, 2 life-like thrall door boxes, an MDC SCL waffle, some DW MU hoses (took forever to find), and some other things I'm probably forgetting. I sold my SOO SD40-2 and an Lifelike southern thrall-door box. I didn't want to sell the southern box (I bought it for a buck, body-mounted Kadees, metal wheels, and weathered), but one of the vendors was really after it. I sold it for $12... I only spent about $130, and I snagged the Walther's hopper and Genesis Flatcar for $35 together
After I spent my money I found a guy with a set of 6 Rapido passenger cars in amtrak phase 3, for $20 each, along with a micro-engineering 110' trestle for another $20. I have the number of the guy, and he said he'd hold them for me.
The other day a friend gave me 6 cars to weather, at $15 each. That'll put me most of the way to those rapido cars...
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.