PackerJeff, 27-28 ounces for an F-unit? That's pretty good. That's about what my P2K SD45s and Genesis F45s weigh. Part of me has toyed with the idea cramming the weight from an SD45 into the hollow of the F45's chassis to see what happens. lol
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Got the handrails on the Burlington F3. It being plastic made the job a lot easier. I used my Dremel with a 105 engraving bit to remove the molded on handrails then cut new handrails from a piece of wire that was salvaged from one of those big freezer bag ties. I drilled the holes for the top of each handrail then crimped the top of the rail at a 90 degree angle and placed it in it's hole, made sure it was lined up at the top and bottom the applied a drop of super glue at the top and bottom to keep it in place. There's black lines left where the molded on rails were removed but they'll be covered when the shell is painted.I'm performing an experiment with one of the metal shells. I'm attempting to make 'glass' in the portholes using clear tape and LocTite Go2 glue. So far it's looking good.Handrails, engineer side, Burlington F3A:
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
The 'glass' experiment was pretty much a success!
The mouse trap snapped twice today and no mouse. About half an hour ago it snapped a third time. This time there were sounds that wouldn't be coming from an empty trap. I got there just in time to see the little cuss twitch for the last time. He had gone to the trap for a free snack once too often and it cost him his life. I emptied the trap, cleaned it, added new bait then reset it and put it back. Then I looked into the depths of the cabinet and said 'Next'. My father will get some glue traps tomorrow and we'll set those out and see if they get any 'customers'.Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Jeffrey you've been really keeping busy with all these loco's you've been working on. It makes the time go by a lot quicker given that you are pretty much on a short leash for the next while.
I've been really enjoying your pictures of the progress, those metal bodies must be a real bearcat to work on.
Cheers
Dennis
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
Good Morning Gang!
It is way to early for decent people to be up already, but I am having a bad case of insomnia lately!
One week to go till showdown time! Polls are rising steadily, and there seems to be little doubt that we will make it into the Bundestag!
It´s about time that campaigning comes to an end. I have driven some 10.000 miles, held about a hundred speeches and shook what felt like a million hands. It´ll be a day of rest today, as I have decided to skip the trip to Berlin - there are others who are able to jump in for me. I need that rest, my old ticker is starting to act up again.
Jeff - good to see that the order book of Sundown Shops are filled!
Well, I´ll be heading for the sofa to get an early morning nap!
CU Folks!
Hey y'all! I've returned, for at least the time being. I've had a computer issue for about the past month and while it hasn't been resolved, I have picked my laptop back up from the friend that was supposed to be fixing it to make due for now (dropped it, the laptop stopped charging, so we're using my wife's battery -since we have the same model laptops- in my computer while "my" battery charges in hers and then we switch em).
Nothing at all happening with my railroad goals as life is in the way currently. Got all three kids running like crazy (speaking of which we have another little girl due in January, so it'll be four), job's got me going good, and well there just aren't enough hours in the day to keep it all going and get my required rest to do it all again the next day. I have, however, been keeping up with my reading and checking of the rails in my home area as much as possible.
Not going to say much more as it is time for me to hit the have (0530 comes early, and the work day won't end till 1630 or 1730 depending on our volume). Just wanted to stop in and say 'howdy" and let y'all know that I'm still kicking. I will try to stop back in tomorrow eve as I get off from work, but no guarantees. If'n anyone wants more information on what's had me out and gone, by all means PM me and I'll do my best to respond in kind and a timely manner.
Later taters!
Evenin' folks!
Janie just a cup of decaf please...
No model railroading today as I spent all my railroad time with the 12" to the ' scale! Today was the start of the Foliage by diesel train that will finish out our season. The New York Museum of Transportation had a collection of old fire engines on display, so it brought out a good crowd. There was a huge crowd of young parents with kids today. Good to see young people interested in trains.
Anyway... I came home and just vegged out for most of the evening. Tomorrow i get to watch Granddaughter #2 for a couple hours. That will take care of any hobby time tomorrow as I have to moving with the rest of the layout of the Reunion booklet as well.
Have a great night and stay safe!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Hi Gang,
Just thought I would say Hi as well.
Has been a nice weather week-end here, but that was about it. On Friday morning my wife and I decided to go out to our 5th Wheel at its permanent site on the lake and winterize it as I suspect I might not want to after my surgery, (I'm hoping for the best, but expecting anything.) So as we are leaving town my Wife says, maybe stop at Mickey D's and we'll get a couple of McMuffins to go for brunch -- and we did.
By the time we were ready to leave the lake for home neither one of us were feeling very good and the further we went, the sicker she felt and the tireder I got. At one point I thought I was going to have to stop for a snooze. Well the rest of the story is we have both had food poisoning for two days now. Just starting to feel somewhat better tonight.
Hope it is all gone away by Wednesday when I meet the Surgeon for this growth on my neck.
Other than that----No news.
Ulrich, We are all pulling for you here and hope you are successful on your trip to the Bungestad, But continue to take time for you or you won't be able to help anyone.
TAKE CARE, Brenda, Paul, Jeff, Galaxy and all others not up to snuff. Try that saying Galaxy.......
Congratulations to BAMA and his Wife, on two beach volley ball teams in the future. Lol.
Johnboy out.............................it is SACKTIME
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Good Morning!!!
Coffee and a chicken salad sandwich, sweet BBQ chips, the thin ones, not the crinkle, and that bowl of Rays’ potato salad I swiped the last time he made some please. Thanks.
Partly sunny, with a high near 71.
Say, this bread is stale…..oh. Well just twist the wrapper and tuck it under the loaves I suppose. Hey, he’s keeping busy and that’s good. Besides, we get to see what he’s doing this way. Remember the last time he had nothing to do? He tried to build that time machine. Instead it turned out he’d accidentally come close to building a master ICBM launch code device. Boy if the sync woulda been just right that first time…wow. Missles flying everywhere like gnats. As it turned out, they just got a few warning lights and all the batteries for smoke detectors went bad all at once. Duracell made a killing on THAT one. In his defense though, you gotta admit, on those plans, I6 did look a lot like L5.
Bama- Congrats on the news!! I guess with 4, you can truly have them running in ALL directions at once!
Johnboy- Yuck! Glad you’re feeling better though and I hope all still goes forward with the surgery.
I’m assuming G’s monitor conked out. At least I hope that’s all it is.
Yesterday we went to the Chinese buffet. All was well, but Brenda (She’s doing grrrrreat by the way.) noticed that there were too many waitresses walking by our table, and that our waitress was hanging around a lot and so was the one that worked the other half of the section. These two happened to be the remaining two from the old place so they were friendly, not like Suki or Nancy were, but it did feel kinda like the old place. Aaaanyway, Brenda made mention of a couple who were not in the area walking by and said something about them shopping. I made mention earlier about looking for another favorite waitress or two and since the one I thought won last week wasn’t there, she figured they were modeling…BUT I digress. I told her they were looking at the guy behind you. The one with the dredlocks pulled in a pony tail, but yet sticking out so I don’t know how the person in the booth behind him didn’t get whapped with the mess each time he moved his head, the weird tats, piercings on his nose mouth, face and a couple on his arms, those discs in the earlobes and the balls implanted in various designs under his skin on the back of his hand and several places up his arm. They are walking up and down, then going back to the waitress station where the others are and talking and giggling and making “ooo, that’s weird” faces. They’re lined up in there like they’re waiting on a carnival ride. (not really, but that’s what I told her.) She said that wasn’t nice, and I said hey, they do that for you to look at, so they’re looking. If he didn’t want anyone to see, there’s plenty of places people can’t see. Which made me wonder what was going on where we couldn’t see….., I then decided I think too much. Brenda agreed, I finished my ice cream and we left. I wonder what career path he has chosen and what company has decided to let him represent them to their customers. Hm.
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.
Sir Madog One week to go till showdown time! Polls are rising steadily, and there seems to be little doubt that we will make it into the Bundestag!
Ulrich: ... Yay! ... It must be the campaign fire truck!
Bama ..... Congratulations! .... Soon to be 4 kids! .... Tell your wife we are happy for her also. .... Also, glad you are able to post. Hope the computer is fixed.
Ray ... I envy you for being able to volunteer at the museum. The KY Ry Museum is too far from here for me to consider volunteering.
Todd ..... I think "body art" such as on the guy you saw is grotesque and disgusting.
Jeff ... you certainly are resourceful! ... Who else would have thought of using bread ties as a source for wire to make handrails on F3's?
On the layout, I worked on the track some more yesterday. Some ebay purchases are on the way here too.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good morning. It's 74° with 88% humidity. The high will be 95° but will feel like 100°.I don't really know what I'll be doing today. Something will come up I suppose. I heard a bit of something on the news this morning about an explosion or bombing or shooting somewhere but for now that's all I know about it. I'm sure the news media and the 'sky is falling' chicken little types that my step mother gossips with daily will make sure we have the whole story. My father is happy that we're light one mouse after last night. One less mouth to feed he says.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, can I get a refill for the dark roast coffee please? Oh. bring one of the Bavarian Creme donuts with it. thanks!
Dark and gloomy out there this morning in the Finger Lakes Region. I was awakened at 8AM this morning by a burst of sunshine that suddenly came through my bedroom window! I thought, hey it will be a sunny day today... Shouldn't have. As soon as I thought that the sun disappeared.... Most of the morning it has been producing a light precipitation out there. Currently 54°F with high of 56F sometime later this afternoon. Going down into the high 30's tonight with a possibility of frost in a few places.
Would love to spend the day down cellar in the train room doing the Blacksmith Shop, but youngest granddaughter will be arriving this afternoon for me to watch. I'm sure we will go down to see the trains, and she will be not happy I still don't have anything runnable. I need to do some layout of photos for the reunion booklet.
Best get to w*rk on it!
Later!
Afternoon All,
Currently it is 69 with an expected high of 87 under sunny skies.
Been busy at w**k, with the Reno Championship Air Races going on, lots of folks from all around stopping in the store to look around. Not too many stores have an operational 65 foot Ferris wheel inside. Plus schedule gets weird every few weekends, with closing one night than, opening the next day, I only get about 5 hours of sleep.
Broke a tooth on my upper partial last night, and am waiting to hear from the dentist to see when I can get in to have him look at, and hopefully fix it. I do have a closing shift today, so probably will not get to see him until tomorrow.
Todd - The discrepancy which was my fault, does not come out of my paycheck, but as an employee owned company, it does in less profit. What we lose in revenue, we make up in good customer service and repeat customers. Glad Brenda is doing so well.
Prayers to all in need.
Paul
Edit, Got top so lunch is on me.
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
My father got two packages of glue traps this morning. Tomcat Glue Boards and Catchmaster baited glue traps. We're trying them both to see which one performs better. The glue boards are large so I cut one in half. Now one trap is good for two locations. I folded a second glue board into a box that has both ends open. Anything that enters won't be leaving. The catchmaster traps are basically plastic glue pits. Anything that gets on it will have a very big problem.I got descent frontal shot of the two metal F3A's. They don't look so heavy in the photo.
Monday, with all that implies.
SWMBO is back from Florida. Before she even got on the plane, she had me book another trip down in November for her. The in-laws are stubbornly insisting on staying in their condo, where the stairs makes the M-I-L a prisoner, F-I-L takes his life in his hands every time he has to do the stairs, and neither of them should even be driving anymore. But, that did give me an excuse to make Thai Curry Soup for dinner, a dish I'd never make just for myself, but we both appreciated it after the two months she's been gone.
Sunday, I went car shopping. My old 2006 Saturn has reached the point where I would need to "invest" more than the car is worth just to get it through inspection this month, and there's no telling what will fail next. After 7 1/2 years, it doesn't owe me much. I looked at a Corolla and a Nissan Sentra, but I ended up buying a leftover 2013 Jetta from Volkswagen. I was surprised that I could get a German car for the bottom-feeder price I was willing to spend, but there it was. Since I'm retiring in another year or two, this may be the last car I buy. After the last couple of years in a car which didn't always feel stable at highway speed, this car feels a lot more capable.
Jeffrey, I'm not a big fan of the glue traps. Being a Scot, I like the Victor snap-traps that I can use over and over. I bait mine with peanut butter. SWMBO always invites the Terminix guy in when he does the periodic outdoor ant-and-termite spraying, and he puts glue traps in hidden places that I don't know about. Every year, I have to sniff around to find the rotting corpses of mice in corners of the basement I can't see.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
MisterBeasleyJeffrey, I'm not a big fan of the glue traps. Being a Scot, I like the Victor snap-traps that I can use over and over. I bait mine with peanut butter. SWMBO always invites the Terminix guy in when he does the periodic outdoor ant-and-termite spraying, and he puts glue traps in hidden places that I don't know about. Every year, I have to sniff around to find the rotting corpses of mice in corners of the basement I can't see.
Goooooood afternoon everybody!
Glue traps, THAT reminded me of a story from a few years back. One of the hospitals in Cedar cRapids decided to go with glue traps for the rare rodent THAT may stray into the facility...glue traps were considered "more humane" than snapping the little buggers' necks, apparently. Well (low, toads long gone), a paramedic based out of said hospital told me they got one...a mouse stuck quite firmly to the glue trap, and very much alive and terrified out of it's little mind.
Now the theory goes THAT you take the trap and the mouse out in the country, with a jug of cooking oil or some such, pour on the oil, loosens the glue and the now oily mouse runs off free to become "Country Mouse."
However, in our little story, the mouse caught on the "humane trap" was retrieved by one of the custodial staff, who promptly went to the hospital's incinerator...and flung it, trap and (alive and terrified) mouse, into the inferno!
Have a good, SAFE rest of the day, everybody! Thoughts and prayers continue for all in need, recovering, and/or helping someone to recover.
Chris (in Iowa) A CNW "treat:" An original SD-45 leads an SD-40 westbound on an empty WEPX (Wisconsin Electric) hopper train through Morrison, Illinois in the early fall of 1987.
A CNW "treat:" An original SD-45 leads an SD-40 westbound on an empty WEPX (Wisconsin Electric) hopper train through Morrison, Illinois in the early fall of 1987.
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
We used glue traps in Manhattan with great success.
I gave one to a guy in the next building. He apparently was not impressed with it.
It caught a mouse just fine, but he said 'the mouse was apart when I tried to remove it"\
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
So we are on mouse stories, are we? Well, I have one from many, many, many years ago. I was probably in 5th or 6th grade, and my sister and I came home from school for lunch. Yes, we did that in those days. Anyway, my Mother was standing on a chair and being hysterical. Yep, she saw a mouse. When I asked where, she pointed to a tail that was sticking out between the floor and the bottom of a baseboard furnace register. There was a junk drawer in the kitchen that had a pair of pliers and screwdrivers. So I took them and grabbed the tail with the pliers, with the plan being to then take the register off with the screwdriver. However, like a lot of my brilliant ideas, it didn't work out to well. The mouse pulled so hard the tail actually came off and I could hear the mouse going down the duct work. When my Dad came home, he went ballistic, citing the fact that the mouse would probably die in the ducts or the furnace, and then begin to smell to high heaven when it started to decompose. Promises of physical pain were promised when that happened. I was nervous wreck for about a week. Always sniffing upon entry into the house for the slightest indication that doomsday had arrived. Then the best news I've ever heard was told to my Mother by the old lady who lived next door when she described the strangest thing, she had caught a mouse in a trap, but it didn't have a tail.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
A small bird got caught in a glue trap at work.
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Hey guys, speaking of mice. We get little field mice in the house every winter, so we keep a pretty good supply of glue traps. Also works pretty well on the occasional six-legged varmint too. Not much happened today, just w**k and then home. I did get to run by the local shortline's "shop" area (where they tie down at day's end) and check out what was where. Instead of the normal three locomotives (a GP40, and two GP38s), they've only got one GP38 and the GP40. Kinda wondering where the other 38 went, but I'm willing to wager that it went to the paint shop in Georgia, or the main shop in Florida to be repainted into "corporate" (RR was bought out by GWI last year) paint.
Thanks everyone on the well-wishes for a 4th kid. We are looking forward to it, and of course, yes we will now have two beach volleyball teams. Of course, Michael (only boy), is built more like a Big Boy, so I dunno how good of a volleyball player he'll be, he might be suited more to the ole pigskin than the beach ball.
Well, that's about it from this neck of the woods, going to check out a few other things on the forum, then head to bed, as the kids are all crashed out, and I need to follow them.
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/
Coffee and scrambled eggs, bacon and whole grain wheat toast please, thanks.
Isolated showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 73. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Garry- First I wanna say I feel as long as it isn’t regarded as generally offensive in content, hey, to each their own. If that’s what they like, have at it just don’t get upset if people gawk ‘cause I don’t care how they feel about it, they know the average Joe isn’t quite used to it. To put it nicely. That being said, my personal opinion is I don’t understand why or what they get out of it. I don’t find it attractive or image enhancing in the least. But, I’m sure many people don’t find my apparel image enhancing, but I can change my clothes based on the situation too. Shock value I suppose. Hanging a sign “look at me” but when you do they look back like “what are you looking at!” You. What did you expect? Definitely not to just blend in with the crowd. Then I think I guess if they are locked away in an IT room or something or worked at a Body Mod shop or Tattoo parlor I can see them being hired. And then I think…., you know, I wonder if when he’s fifty…(shakes head) some of that stuff there’s no going back. Then I realize I’ve never seen someone like that sneeze. I wonder if it would resemble a garden sprinkler. Like 15 whales surfacing at the same time.
Ahhh Ray don’t feel bad. I’ve nothing runnable either. On second thought, never mind. That’s probably not much of a comfort considering.
Paul- Hey we do! Have a Ferris wheel that is. Imagine that. I don’t really give two shakes about that, but the big stuffed animal display is pretty darn cool. Well, I’m glad honest infrequent mistakes aren’t just reacted to like it’ll break the company like some places do. But hey, full profit or not, he bought something he probably wouldn’t have and may have looked elsewhere found something, “close enough” and you wouldn’t have sold him anything. Sorry about the tooth by the way.
Mouse traps. I use Snap-E mouse traps. Mouse can’t even get to the bait without tripping the trap. Only had on trip once and not have a mouse. Kinda hurt too. You can get them pretty much anywhere. Oh and for the ladies, the way the tap is built, you can release the carcass without getting your fingers “close to the thing”.
Welp, best get started on me day. Wo*king every night this week so not much on the schedule othern that.
Good Morning
A sunny morning with the high of 68 today..right now we are at a chilly 43.....
Another busy day for us...got the tongue and groove 6" wide yellow pine wood for both my studio and Audrey's attic workshop space....
Got some things need done this morning..have a good day!!
Good morning, Chloe. I will have coffee and a cinnamon roll, please.
Another late start of a work day. I don't go in until 2:00. Two weeks in a row I have a short day on Tuesday.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Good morning. It's 74° with 86% humidity. The high will be 95°and will feel like 101°. Anyone up for improving their tan?Well I guess today I'll see if there's some way I can make some number boards for these F3's. That should be a neat trick as I have none of the materials with which to do it. This situation may call for me to put on my thinking cap and get creative. As for any other plans, I have none at this time.
Hi Jeff, and the rest of the Diner Gang,
Looks like I got top of the page honors, so order up Gang, I did bring my wallet today.
Jeff,We are always glad to keep up on how those monster F-3s are doing, but, much more important is how you are doing. We haven't had a report on your status for quite a spell. I for one hope all is going well for you in your recovery. Do you have any kind of a time line you can share with us on that program?
I see my surgeon tomorrow and I think it is none to soon. This growth seems to be going further down my neck in one direction and up and over my jaw in the other. I didn't feel it much for a couple of months but now I am aware of it all the time. Seems to be putting pressure on my right ear. Also lots of strange feeling when swallowing.. Something needs to happen and soon.
Glad to see Sue getting back in from time to time.
Good luck to all the varmint hunters, now if you could just sell those little carcases for more MR funds.
We are back to serious Model Railroad Season as the Province had a couple of degrees of frost in some areas the last couple of days.
Johnboy out..........................Guess I've got some mowing to do before anything alse
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of blueberry pancakes with real NYS Maple Syrup, a side of bacon, and lots and lots of dark roast coffee in my R&GV RR mug.
What? Why yes! i am in a good mood this morning... The big bright thing is up in the sky and a whole lot of radiant energy is hitting the roof of my house. I can see nice crisp shadows under trees, near telephone poles, and stuff like that. Currently 50°F outside with a high of 64°F this afternoon.
Mice! Where? Oh at Jeffrey's... I keep them in check by having two cats, and several Victor type traps. Personally I think they are the quickest and the least painful way of doing them in. I don't like the glue traps and can't imagine the fear the little mousies go through after being caught... My sister being a "Buddhist" (LOL, she is when she feels like it but likes to espouse that philosophy which she is mostly clueless about...) Uses a Have a Heart trap so she can let them loose near other peoples homes so they can deal with it. The last time she caught one was in the middle of December a couple years back. When she found she had caught the sweet widdle mousey-wousie, she put on her coat, hat, and a warm scarf (it was 15°F outside) and took the sweet little thing out to the big park near her house. Put it down in the snowy grass, and let him go free to live out the rest of its little life in freedom.... She covered her ears so she couldn't hear me when I told her freezing to death is a much worse death for the mouse than "WHAP!" and its over.
Ahem... OK. I will be driving to Oakfield, NY to meet with a couple guys about the Division Fall Meet today. It's about an hour and a half away from here. (You might be from Upstate NY if you measure distance using time...) (You might be from Upstate, NY if you like Winter the best because all the potholes are filled with snow...)
Got stuff to do. best get moving!
last mountain & eastern hoggerJeff,We are always glad to keep up on how those monster F-3s are doing, but, much more important is how you are doing. We haven't had a report on your status for quite a spell. I for one hope all is going well for you in your recovery. Do you have any kind of a time line you can share with us on that program?