morning coffee in the diner...
GOOD SUNDAY MORNING!!!
Today is Sunday, September 29th, 2013!!!
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!!!
Today's fun limericks:
I bought a new Hoover today,Plugged it in in the usual way,
Switched it on - what a din;It sucked everything in,
Now I'm homeless with no place to stay.
An epicurian dining at CreweFound a very large bug in his stew.Said the waiter, "Don't shoutAnd wave it about,Or the rest will be wanting one too."
Olde Tyme strange words:
fulgurating: intense, sudden pain, like flashes of lightning
Pampination - To trim vines
Doodle Sack: an Olde English word meaning a bagpipe
-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.
Karl!
Good plan re the free papers! Made me laugh.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Good evening.
PA Tom ... Glad to see the load on the gondola because that is one less over sized load on the highways to get in the way.
Karl .... Sounds like you had an adventurous day.
Jeff ...... I bet you will be glad to see the day when your F3's will be on the rails of your layout.
Barry .... Good to hear about a good year you had.
Vincent .... you mentioned U25C's and they were not common in HO. The AHM models were the only ones I can remember.
I worked on the second of my two newly acquired Budd sleepers. The first one is in the photo I posted yesterday., and it was a 6/5 type and was used on the Denver Zephyr. The scond one is a more common 10/6 type which was sued on most of the CB&Q overnight trains.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a cup of decaf please....
Got my sister to the airport this afternoon... She was all hyped up for her trip to the "Very Far". She was in one of her touchy feeley, interrupt you half way through your sentence moods as well. I do hope she has a great trip and arrives back home safely in a month. Her indoor cat is a character and I do enjoy playing with him when I go over to feed him. He is very sociable. I will be plugging in the PiP when I arrive to get at least a partial charge to help me get back home with running the ICE as much.
I have a couple of the walls ready to stain with the door and window openings cut. I think I have a color mixed up from an earlier project that may work for it. I may take a small block of the cut out window opening that I tested the color on with me to the museum tomorrow along with a photo of the Blacksmiths shop to ask a professional modeler who will be working train crew with me what he thinks of the color... Need to get seriously moving with this building.
Karl, sounds like you had a fun day!
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!
Hi Gang
Just a cold pop for now Flo, maybe some chocolate chip cookies too if you dont mind.
Wow, today had it moments Had to bring the tire chains and snow plow brackets out from the shed. The brackets are mucho heavy so I decided to use the Cub Crapette and the tow behind cart. Tried to start the Cub, wont crank. Walked back to the driveway and got my car. Drove car in the back yard, hot shotted the Cub and put the car back. As I got out of the car I notice total silence in the back yard . No, don't tell me. A quick check revealed the Cub was out of gas!! Curse you Murphy. So back to the garage for gas, then another hotshot and finally with the Cub still running I got the bracket and chains loaded and drove up to the garage where I put the Cub on the battery charger. Just as Mr CSX_Road_slug arrived with his NCE system, laptop and cable to figure out his JMRI issues. No sooner did we start that but the new Owners of the JD model 40 show up (yes, I sold it on ebay) so I drove it up into the trailer for them, loaded the brackets and chains, collected the $$$ and returned to the basement. After an hour or so we found his issue, then stepson # 2 showed up , then it was chimney cleaning time, then we cleaned out the shed.
Dag,,,,now I'm pooped!!! Needless to say, the only MRR time I had today was figuring out Ken's problems with JMRI and Windows 8. The problem appears to not be his laptop or his NCE or JMRI, but on his serial to USB adapter.
Tomorrow,, Church, lunch, Nascar and some MRR time!
Galaxy, for you and your MIL.
Karl
NCE über alles!
Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Good evening all,
Been kind of busy lately, but at the same time don't have a lot to show for it. Yesterday we were up early as we had to go to a seminar at a local hotel. The wife's former employer is making significant changes to how her "post retirement medical account" is handled. There was a lot of information given, but to be honest, it is really confusing. It's going to take careful thought about the various options that are now available to us. Some good, and others, not so much.
Later in the afternoon, we attended the wedding of my cousin's son. Following the ceremony, was the dinner and reception. That was held about an hour's drive from our home. It was a great meal, and the reception was a lot of fun. We stayed much later than we planned to, but it was worth it. I admit I did sleep in today. Getting kind of old for these late nights it seems.
Then we went railfanning for a couple of hours today. Not bad with 7 trains. Saw something I haven't seen before. At first I thought it was a unit train of "coil cars", but after about 40 or 45 of them, it was a mixed freight. I always see coil cars, but never in such quanitees. Later on, another mixed freight had about 10 or 15 more of them.
Tomorrow will be busy, as I'm going to start putting up the wife's Dept, 56 Halloween Village. After I bring two platforms up from the cellar and get them erected in the dining room, I'll start bringing everything down from the attic to the 2nd floor. If all those trips don't do me in, maybe I'll even get some of it down to the 1st floor. I'm not counting on getting that far though.
Here's a load in a gondola I saw today which would be nice to model. It was a large metal plate much too wide for a rail car. It looked like the bracing was tack welded to the plate.
Here's hoping everyone is enjoying the weekend and that it only gets better...
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
MIL update:
She was always 5' 0" tall, and weighed 98 Lbs soaking wet. Now at about 82 Lbs soaking wet, she had the blood transfusions yesterday and in the proces they {finally?} realized she is now DIABETIC. SO now they can treat THAT for her. Maybe because the kidney infection could have "harmed" the pancreas? SHe IS a "tough old bird"...
THAT is how I became HYPOglycemic {NOT HYPERglycemc} after the gallbladder grief and surgery to remove it. {my sugar always DROPS from normal levels to dangerously low levels}. I carry sucrose sugar tablets {big giant ones, my!} with me at all times in case I need them and can't get to something to eat, or need to raise it in a hurry. I always have peanut butter crackers in the glove box too.
I have had a mild migraine all day so I have not accomplished a thing.
Went to the Dermatologist for anual checkup. I said I had a mole that had appeared{I didn't reemmber if it was tehre before?}, but had balooned out the last 6 months and was irrritating and agrivating near my under arm. He looked at it and said "Oh, I agree with you, I don't like the looks of it either. I will shave that one off". SO he shaved it off, cauterized the underskin, and it will be sent off for biopsy. Having had other basal cell carcinomas removed I wonder about it, but will hear the results later.
I hope: A} He got it all and B} if he didn't that it is not cancerous. Being fair of skin, I now avoid the sun as possible, but the damage was done as child of the 60s when such things weren't monitored then.
well, I had best forage for something to eat some thing. I usually don't eat with a migraine, but have found a LITTLE something makes the nasea go away without the usual nasea results. MOH is home now nad foraged and went ot bed for a nap as I got up. foraged-ate already too.
Hope everyone has a GREAT Evening.
Afternoon guys
Been chipping away at another U25C. I kind of messed up the first 2 because I was rushing to remove the grills. I took my time on this one, but it took an hour to remove the top grill. 1 down, about 5 more to go (doing the version with the open area behind the cab.
Jeff, that SD40-2 looks like a MoPac product, just backwards. They had GEs with EMD cabs.
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.
Morning All, Currently it is 44 with an expected high of 76 under sunny skies.
A w**k day for me. Store should be busy. There is a gun show in town, as well as Street Vibrations, Reno's smaller version of Sturgis Ralley. Lots of motorcycles in town until Sunday night. Got a little w**k done on some small detail stuff, and am w**king on the location of another mini scene.
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
Good morning. It's 76°F with 45% humidity. The high will be 90°F and will feel like 95°F. Wind SE 5mph.I'm not feeling up to my best this morning so I have no real plans for the day. Just take whatever comes along I guess.Not same photo as last night. Slightly different angle.Another entry from the weird loco gallery.
"The sun is a shinin' to welcome the day"!
Zoe, I'll have a small bowl of organic granola cereal with some fresh blueberries and my Seneca Lake dark roast coffee this morning in a R&GV RR Mug please.
Barry Glad you have had a good year! May you have many many more good years all in a row!
Todd, that reminds me, I need to clean the train room!
Last night I didn't even bother to take my blood sugar.... Didn't want to know! Went to the NAACP Dinner here in Geneva at Club 86. Club 86 not only feeds you very well at dinner but puts out all kinds of nice Horses Dovers to fill up on before you sit down to eat.... I ate way too much of them while standing up (I didn't think it would count) but only ate half of my dinner (The rest will feed me tonight). Blood sugar this morning was 135! I decided to wait a half hour to see what happens before I have breakfast.
Get to drive my sister to the airport this afternoon. She is once again visiting the "Very Far" to see artisans at work. This time she is going to a bunch of the "Stan" countries in the Middle East. I get to drive to Canandaigua every day to take care of the cats. Aren't I lucky?
The Solar Panels have been working for just a few days over one year now. Doing some math I found the first year yielded 4502.51 kWh of electric. The prediction was 4700 kWh. June and July were exceptionally cloudy this year and yield was down those two months. So basically they are performing as promised. Total so far from the day they powered on is 4640.28. I have also decreased my usage by about 3 kWh a day (and that included the addition of the car that uses about 3 kWh a day). So... I am very happy with the investment.
Todd, you remind me I need to do some major cleaning in the layout rooms and the workshop down cellar....
Later!
Good Morning
Had a wonderful evening of pile ups here......had the op gang here to run some trains...we had 6 going all at once. No head ons or such...just...grrrr...things going to ground....
Going to be sunny today...high near 70 feeling like 77.
Thanks for the well wishes guys...Audrey is pleased I made it through this year without more issues
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!!!
Coffee and egg fu yung please. Thanks.
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 4pm. Increasing clouds, with a high near 84.
Karl- I agree with the dumping the papers at the newspaper place. Seems they don’t have a problem with throwing things on your lawn.
We don’t get many free newspapers here, once in a blue moon. Ours put the paper online for free and couldn’t figure out why sales plummeted.
Heartland Division CB&QTodd ... Of course, I was kinda razzing about clutter in the train room. Here, it is the workshop that fills with stuff that belongs elsewhere. If I want to cut wood, I must move stuff off the work tables and clear of the saws.
I know you were Garry. We all probably have that same problem, just the areas differ based on what is available. Those that don't are either lucky or more disciplined than I.
Things haven’t changed here and the list is the same. Yesterday I spent most the day running around looking for Brenda’s stuff she wanted and I got nothing done around here. We’ll see about today. Actually I hope it rains and I don’t get anything done. We need the rain, just not enough to stop the harvest. Too late for any good to be done in the crop area, maybe it might help out a few peoples beans, but I doubt it. So far crops don’t sound bad.
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 SATURDAY MORNING!!!
Today is Saturday, September 28th, 2013!
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!
Continued prayers for my MIL, please, she was having blood transfusions yesterday, as her red cell count tanked badly.Thank You. {although we may expect that the end may b here it would be nice if it wasn't a nasty ending}
Today's fun limmerick:
An elderly bride of Port JervisWas quite understandably nervis.Since her apple-cheeked groom,With three wives in the tomb,Insured her during the service.
There was a young woman named BrightWhose speed was much faster than light.She set out one dayIn a relative way,And returned on the previous night!
Olde tyme odd words:
Paregmenon: (puh-REG-muh-non): noun: The juxtaposition of words that have the same roots. Examples: sense and sensibility, a manly man, the texture of textile. From Greek paregmenon, from paragein (to bring side by side). Earliest documented use: 1577
When running, OUR TRAINS are Motatorious - {In constant motion}
If the TRAINS have harmonic rocking, they could be said to be Quagswag- To shake back and forth
Had chicken and garlic Rice a Roni for dinner tonight. Added a cap full of olive oil and some jalapeno pepper slices to make it a bit more interesting.
Good Evening
Audrey went to sleep early tonight..busy day for her today. Me? All energetic, too much caffeine....and thai chili tuna in a mac and cheese mix...heeheehee
Garry: Pretty darn close....
Heartland Division CB&QJeff .... Flat Black. Why am I not surprised?
Good afternoon. It's 87° with 45% humidity. The high high will be 92° and will feel like 97°.Got the doc visit taken care of. It was OK with the exception of my blood sugar level which was very low, 55. Blood samples were taken for the lab work then they gave me a chocolate covered donut to munch on. A little while later they check the blood sugar again and it's down to 46. What, did they expect that chocolate covered donut to bring it up? Guess I should have told them I could eat chocolate all day long and it wouldn't effect me much except to make me sick. It's strange, I can eat a bunch of chocolate and my blood sugar rises just a little if at all. But if I even look at a peanut butter cookie it goes through the roof! After the 46 reading they gave a me Charm's Super Blow-pop. Right! At that rate we'd be there all day. My father said he knew of a way to get the level up and fast so we went to Fox's Pizza Den next door (how many doctor's offices are so conveniently located right next to a pizza joint? We're talking adjoining wall here. There's a prototype for it in Leesville guys so you can put it on your layout!) My father had a lasagna bowl with a side salad and I had a small taco pizza and half of his side salad. Mustn't forget to mention the ever present Dr Pepper. We went back to the docs office where they checked me again. 115. Good to go!Now back at the house I see that my step mother has worn herself out rearranging the back porch. I'll have to check it out to see if she's compromised my new work/paint area.
Well now Vega, aren't you just full of joy and happiness this morning.
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
Good morning ..
September weather can be very nice as it is here and other locations you are posting about. ... Too bad September is almost over.
Karl .. That was a clever repair for Mr. Murphy's screw up. ... We do not get free pares delivered here. The junk mail still comes, though... I normally wait until the next day or longer after painting before decals.
Todd ... Of course, I was kinda razzing about clutter in the train room. Here, it is the workshop that fills with stuff that belongs elsewhere. If I want to cut wood, I must move stuff off the work tables and clear of the saws.
Ray ..... You sound busy. Must be hard to find time for you blacksmith project.
Barry ... Does that other Diner serve Barry-sized food, too?
Vincent ... That does sound like quite a lot of new train stuff.!
Speaking of decals, I applied some on this sleeper a few days ago. It is one of 2 recently acquired Budd sleepers. This morning I applied decals on a second Budd sleeper. I recently purchased 2 plated brass CB&Q sleepers, and these are what I am working on.
Be happy, everybody!
Hey guys
Looks like I missed a bunch. I really haven't felt like posting the past few days...
I did go to the Dothan Train show. I had fun and got a bunch of stuff. just wished I had like $5 more to buy an E&C woodchip hopper in GN blue. for 127 bucks I got the following:
7x Accurail ACF hoppers. 3 BN, 2 GN glacier green, 1 GN blue, 1 Penn Central2x Atlas Trainman Cabooses, both BN1x P2K covered hopper in ATSF2x Walthers PS covered hoppers. 1x BN, 1X Continental1x Empire of the North DVD
Not a bad haul. I searched for detail parts first but found none. Now I need some Kadees and Metal wheels for them. On interweb purchases I got a Rapido Baggage car in Amtrak phase 3, a Mckean 63' center beam in BN, and two intermountain kit covered hoppers in MILW and CN. I'm finding a difference in the Mckean and front range kits, the FR aren't decaled, but the parts fit better.
Anyone know if anyone makes a code 83 bridge track with guard rails? I have the ME track for the AME bridge, but it has no guard rails....
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of Flax Plus Maple Pecan Crunch cereal with some fresh picked blueberries to go along with a pot of Marrakesh Express dark roast coffee this morning. I'll go sit out on the porch in one of those vimineous chairs Galaxy brought. Hope they are comfortable...
Another beautiful day here in the Finger Lakes! Currently 52°F with a high of 70°F predicted for this afternoon. Lots of sunshine out there as well. I am busy printing the Lakeshores Limited newsletter for those of our members in the Division who have not yet reached the last couple decade of the last century and still get printed copies every month. Fall is a great season around these parts. The air conditioner is off and the heat doesn't need to get turned on yet (although I did kick it on for a bit a few days ago when it got down into the 30's over night...) I have a lot of chores needing to get done like window washing, hedge trimming, bringing the rest of the onions and harvesting carrots in the garden, and such. I guess it will wait until mid October looking at my schedule between now and then. At least I'm not bored!
Best get back to w*rk!
Hiya gang!
Flo, forget the mug of Java today, just fill this I.V. bag with the hi-octane stuff, I'm bushed! No sure as to why, just my mind would not slow down last night, so sleep was scarce. Got any chocolate bars behind the counter? I'm really hankering for a Hershey bar.
Yesterday was a busy day too, I should have passed out before bedtime! My experimentation yesterday with number boards didn't turn out like I planned, but a thought struck me (no, it didn't hurt) and I modified my process and the results are very much encouraging. More on that later.
Then Mr Murphy arrived. While I was handling the cab for my Canton RR engine, I must have has some thinner on my finger, and made a large hole in the paint and cab lettering. Right before I started swearing like a sailor, a thought occurred to me. Off to my scanner I went, cab in hand, and I scanned the other side of the cab, the trimmed the image and tile printed it out on white decal paper. The fix was under way! Take that Murphy!! Also painted an F unit and a GP9! They will get decaled in about a week. BTW, am I the only one who waits til the paint smell is gone from a model before I decal a model or mask another color??
Not to mention a phone interview (why do they have to call at lunch time?) that took almost an hour. Keeping my fingers crossed there! Plus it was Son #3's 24th birthday. Had to chase him down to wish him a happy b-day! Like I said, busy day!
Anybody have a paper guy who can't read the "no free papers" signs? They are all over our community, but everybody gets a free paper! We put up a sign, and it never phazed the delivery guy, and I'm getting tired of it. My neighbor and I have a plan. We are saving up our "free" papers, even considering going around our little community and picking them off of lawns & driveways where they are decomposing. Once we get a sufficient amount, we are dropping them in the local papers parking lot, right in front of the door.
Coffee and …..nah, just coffee please. Thanks.
Sunny, with a high near 84.
Garry- Oh the light will go to either Goodwill or the Habitat Store. Just until I get there it has to go somewhere and well, the only place othern in the middle of the floor or on top the table WHICH is full of her drop it here stuff, is in the trainroom. There is a bit of an open space now. I have been ducking in there probably once a week before trash day and hauling at least something out that is no longer needed. So I am making progress towards getting it cleaned up though slowly.
Didn’t do anything yesterday to speak of. Nope, no phone calls, just me. Lazy day and I’m admitting it. Sooo, that means the list, like the song, remains the same.
Having sunshine and a high near 72 today..right now sitting at 41
Going out later on to see the gang at the diner then off to get some food supplies in for the weekend
Have a good one!!
morning coffee in the diner..
GOOD FRIDAY MORNING!!
Today is Friday, September 27th, 2013!!!
Today's Fun Limmericks:
It filled Galileo with mirthTo watch his two rocks fall to Earth.
He gladly proclaimed,"Their rates are the same,
And quite independent of girth!"
Then Newton announced in due courseHis own law of gravity's force:
"It goes, I declare,As the inverted square
Of the distance from object to source."
But remarkably, Einstein's equationSucceeds to describe gravitation
As spacetime that's curved,And it's this that will serve
As the planets' unique motivation.
Yet the end of the story's not written;By a new way of thinking we're smitten.
We twist and we turn,Attempting to learn
The Superstring Theory of Witten!
Olde tyme Odd words:
Lapsus Linguae: {P:LAP-suhs LIN-Gwee, LAHP-Soos LING-Gwy}
Meaning a slip of the tongue {From L {latin}, first documented use in 1668.}
{NOTE: Malapropisms and spoonerisms are two examples of Lapsus Linguae}
Insangelous - A very rare word that means "To be equal to the angels." {That I am...}
Vimineous - Being made of wicker
Jeff .... Flat Black. Why am I not surprised?
Ray.... No new Cubs? .... Hope that does not happen too often.
V8 Dennis. ... I recall when CA was the Golden State, but sounds like it is tarnishing now. 3000 moving out each week is a lot.
Took a break from layout building, and worked on a passenger car this evening.
Cheers!
Janie, just a nice cup of hot decaf coffee for me tonight. I'll go relax by the wood stove in the back. love the radiant warmth of the stove. Makes me feel all happy inside, it does.
Nice crisp beautiful Fall day here in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of the Empire State today. Lots of sun, temperatures in the high 60's and the best part of the day is that it was in tonight's paper that the Yankees are eliminated from post season play. Yep only good news from this part of the country (unlike the other end of the country I guess....). Oh and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra opened it's 91st. year tonight in Rochester. We even have arts and entertainment in these parts...
Spent much of the day getting some letters run off and mailed to the members of the Division who don't have listed telephones or emails to get their vote on a poll of the Region that affects the Division. If they don't respond in a week their vote will be marked "abstain". Ran a bunch of errands and then went to a Pack Cub Scout recruitment night. Had a lot of fun but no new cubs showed up....
I best be off to bed. Prayers for all in need!
Did some work on one of the F3's. Stripped the windows and portholes out of it then wiped it down with lacquer thinner to help remove the skin oils an ddirt that had built up on the shell. Then it was sprayed flat black with the exception of the roof insert which is still unpainted Zamac. That was it with that project so far. Tomorrow morning I have a doc appointment in town. General physical and lab work.Time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.