Good Evening!
Will be calling it a day soon. I spend nearly all day long drawing a set of construction drawings for that critter. Got some info on the prototype from folks in a German forum, which I incorporated into the final drawing.
Here is the colored version of it:
There are a number of open questions on actually building it, but I am positive I´ll find the right answers. In any case, this one will have sound (2-cyl. Diesel), flashing beacons and a siren (just to tax Petra´s nerves when I am running it
Tomorrow I will have to work down a mile long HD list Petra just now told me. Getting the household ready for Christmas. We will spend Christmas Eve at my son´s place and are not expecting anybody to pay us a visit on Christmas Day or the day after, but anyhoo, it´s Christmas and the home has to be ready for it ...
Special prayers for Johnboy!
Hi Guys,
That ice storm has made quite a mess around here. There are trees limbs down all over and alot of peoples bushes are flat to the ground, im sure they will perk up once the ice melts we usually get bushes flatten by snow. My rose of sharon is kind of flat so am hoping it pops back up after the ice melts. We only have a few small trees in the backyard but the neighbor has some that hang over into our yard.
Todd
Central Illinoyz
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Good morning. It's 55° with 100% humidity. Isolated showers continue this morning. The high will be 65° with isolated showers this morning then partial clearing later.This morning with . This afternoon No plans set in stone today. I need to get in more practice going up and down steps. This leg has a flexible ankle and that tends to throw me off a little if I'm not careful. I can get up and down steps now if I pay close attention to where ad how I place my feet and I don't dare do it while carrying something. That'll have to wait until I have more experience.I may be able to do some work on Oliver's adventure. I've decided that one of the things he'll encounter in the Kings Port and Western baggage car is a caged pterodactyl. A living exhibit from The Land of the Lost.
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A little more picture painting done:
Cutle lil´ critter!
Morning guys.
That ice storm came through last night. The trees,power lines and roads are all covered in it. The car looks like a ice block. Its suppose to wamr up later on and melt which will be good. I have to go have blood taken tomorrow, if its nasty out might put it off until the new year. See how things are in the morinng, and if I feel like going over,lol
still here and not raining now, but more coming! May just give us the break we need!
-G .
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Good Morning Folks!
I woke up way too early this morning, as my heart attempted to win the Capetown Races. It´s down to its usual beat now, but I will sure have this checked up tomorrow, first thing in the morning.
It´s Sunday, the 4th Sunday of Advent, so we will light up the 4th candle this afternoon.
Made use of the extra time I gained and finished the drawing of that critter. Gn15 locos always look a little out of proportion, but as long as it looks as a "could-have-been", it´s OK with me.
Here is the drawing:
Tt´s really a fair and square job to built this one, the only parts I need to turn on my improvised lathe are the air intake cap and the exhaust pipe. All other parts can be made from 1mm styrene sheet. The mechanism will be borrowed from that tram model I still have.
This is the way it´ll look when painted:
... and "integrated" into my layout plan:
Gives you a feeling for the size of that beast.
Time for breakfast! Janie, I´ll go for my big Sunday breakfast, but be easy with the coffee, please!
Make it a great day!
Well it's been a very wet and uneventful day. The power went down a couple of times but only for very short periods. The cable went out in the wee hours of the morning and was off until a bit after noon. Several storms swept through during the day. As a result I only had three or four hours of internet time. No progress on Oliver's adventure today. I did get in some practice at going up and down steps when I was checking out the dryer this morning. I did finally get it to work but everything has to set at maximum and even then each load has to be run through two or three times. Some of the dial settings are no longer working. It's very definitely dying. My niece has already picked out a matching front loader washer/dryer set and they are big. Not the biggest home units you can get but they're close.Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
HO! HO! HO! Merry Christmas!!!
Ahem... Still in Santa mode I guess. Had a ball out at the museum playing the patron Saint of Mal Wart for the evening. We were sold out for both runs. Had all the usual crew out there working. I got to give each "Good little Girl and Boy" a candy cane as a reminder I would be there on Christmas Eve to bring them all toys! I also looked around the crowed and told them my elves were right I wouldn't need the bag of coal as all these were nice children!!!
It was a clod steady rain though so we made the formalities short and got them back aboard the train to ride back to Industry Station from the North Pole... (Midway Station about a mile North on the line.) The evening was fraught with some problems, but nothing the guests really knew about. They had our 45 tonner BeeBee Station (1941) all fired up and ready to do duty when I got there, but one of the Prime Movers quit. Seems she was out of coolant. We are hoping she just has a leak somewhere and not a victim of some vandalism. So she was taken out of service using the other prime mover and replaced with our old standby the 80 Tonner 1654. Then on the first trip we heard a bunch of radio conversations that one of the brakes on the old Erie Caboose was stuck on and they couldn't move the train... Everyone was on board waiting for there ride to the North Pole at the time... Took about 10 minutes to fix the problem and they headed North. I was glad when we were finished and I headed out for home. No ice here yet but they are saying there could be 3/4" on the trees by morning.
Galaxy, if I could, I'd come down there and power your home with the PiP. I have 1000w pure sine wave inverter (2000w peak) in it. If the pwer goes out here it will provide me with enough power to run the sump, refrigerator, and a few other things. Good luck, I'll keep you folks in my prayers!
I have to go out and plug in the plug in, just in case there is still power in the morning and I go to church. My granddaughters are in the Christmas Pagaent being done in the 10:30 service tomorrow. Don't want to miss that!
Have a safe and warm night... 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!
Well
Todya through Monday 7 am, we are under flood warning!
So, IF it floods here { and I PRAY it does not}, that means our electric substation will be under water and flooded, and so, NO ELECTRICITY.
SO, Iff'en y'all don't hear from me, that will be why!
Of course after the floods we have had recently, we all may just sue the electric compan{ies} responsibe too! There will be a large class action as it is not just us in the trailer park.
It is bad to be afraid of flooding now as the power goes out for 5 days automatically because the power company won't move a substation in the flood plain! It willl freeze the trailer and may burst pipes even the PEX ones we have. Because of freezing temps are coming behind the flooding.
Oh well
Have a safe, good night all, especially those in Icy climes now!
JeremyB, glad to hear you are feeling better. I have an appointment Monday too, as long as this ice storm doesn't do what they are forecasting and cut off to the doc's office power. A couple of hours ago Burlington was 27 and Middlebury (about 40 mi south) was 51. We're still at 40, light rain. Just said Burlington has 0.3" of ice, not good.
I've done my best to prevent power failure, have the generator hitched to the tractor, ready to go. All I have to do is start the tractor, put PTO in gear, crank it up, throw the switch. Don't need the mother-in-law getting cold and coming over from her trailer. Hopefully the insurance move will work, if not we're ready.
Good luck to everyone.
Richard
We just had a line of bad storms whip through here. Lots of wind and rain but only one close lightning strike. We were having dinner at the time. The dog (under the table) tried running for cover and ran into one of the table legs. These are big heavy wood legs so she hit it with quite a wallop. The cat was sitting on the coffee table and jumped about three feet straight up. My father and my step mother bother both jumped but I didn't for some reason. I'm so used to close strikes at my trailer that it really doesn't bother me very much. Now next door my nieces dogs were going bananas. You ever seen a fully grown Great Dane fit under an average sized couch? Hers can. The pit bull just curls up into a tight ball like he's trying to disappear.
Feeling better. Have some blood work to go to on Monday and a docotors apointment on Tuesday. But I am feeling better. There calling for a ice storm overnight and into Sunday so we will have to wait and see. I have been doing some work on the railroad today.
Good afternoon. It's 76° with lots of rain. Humidity 82% if you can believe that. The high will be 77°.The cable (therefore internet) has been out all day thus far and is still out. I'm typing this up in Notepad so I can copy and paste it later. I don't have any plans for working on Oliver's adventure today. The power is just too iffy. It's been out for short periods several times already today. Right now I'm entertaining myself watching some old World War II movies. At the moment I'm listening to a historian give her take on 'The Longest Day'. It's pretty interesting.Well it's happened. The dryer went toes up this morning. It still turns and heats but the amount of heat is very very low and it has to be on the highest settings to get that. So my father has admitted defeat and called my niece this morning and told her. Since it's her house that makes the washer and dryer hers too. She says they're both going. She has her eyes on a matching front-loader washer-dryer set.That's all for now.
Good Evening Gang!
Already time to call it a day here at the computer and retire to the sofa for some dumb movie in the idiot box. I spend most of the day doing some more research for my planned layout, which gave me the idea to develop my own loco for it. I was looking for a more modern critter - just for the ease of construction, as these are fairly square jobs.
I found this as a suitable prototype:
I still have a HO chassis with motor and flywheels which I could use for it, so it will be a somewhat loose interpretation of the prototype. The drawing for it is starting to take shape:
I will finish it tomorrow.
Have a good weekend and an enjoyable 4th Sunday od Advent!
Prayers for Johnboy and all others in need!
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of buttermilk pancakes with pure NYS Maple Syrup, bacon, and lots and lots of dark roast coffee tol wash it down with.
"It's a lovely day today.... And whatever you've got to do...." Weather people are calling for all kinds of Doom and Gloom today! We may get a couple inches of rain and about a half inch of ice as well before tomorrow morning. What doesn't seem to be agreed upon is the timing of what comes when... Of course, tonight is the Evergreen Special out at the museum. The train (80 tonner and a couple cabooses) will bring the little kiddies from Industry Station up the line to Midway Station where they will be greeted by Santa Clause (yours truely). After a hearty Santa like greeting, Santa will pose for photos with the little ones out in the pouring rain by the locomotive as possible. Then they head back down the line back to Industry, get some hot chocolate or cider, and go home! I will be in the little Midway Station trying to dry off and get warm while waiting for the next trip.... Sounds like a lot of fun doesn't it! Not sure at what time it will be cancelled if the weather turns really nasty.... Will check my email and the local online news before I head out to the museum.
I nead to make sure my cell phone has a full charge before I leave, put the emergency inverter back in the car and pack an emergency travel kit... Best way to not get into any problems is to be prepared for them!
Need to get going. Lots to do!
OH... And a happy Yuletide, Winter Solstace, beginning of Winter (Modern), and a happy Mid-Winter for those using the more correct ancient calendar! "In the deep Mid-Winter, Frosty wind made moan...." - Christina Rossetti/Gustav Holst (English Hymnal 1906)
Golly gee, its 48F out there!
Morning coffee in the diner..
Happy First day of winter!
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Good evening ..
We have a full schedule for Christmas Time ..... Late tonight, one of our daughers arrives with her family from Michigan for a few days. Next, we go to Alabama for Christmas.... We return home right after Christmas for Ohio son and his family to be here. ..........
It will be a busy time
Cheers !
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Evenin' folks!
Janie, how about a cup of hot chocolate? Thanks!
Been a busy day around here too, Jeffrey. Ran a couple errands downtown, then started wrapping presents. Got quite a few done after I finally found all the tape and bows and stuff... I then had to take a bunch of checks from the MLK Scholarship appeal to Canandaigua to get them deposited in our account. The office here in town is basically closed... I saved about half the EV power in the car for when I got there for driving in town and then was going to use the remaining whatever to offset some gas on the way home. Of course, true to form, Main Street Canandaigua was busy as can be today with no open parking places anywhere near the front door of the bank. I trtied to see if I could find a parking space out behind the mansion and fianlly did manage to find the back door (servant class I guess) entrance but again, no parking spaces open. So I did a drive around the block for half an hour with little luck using up both my available EV and my temper. Finally I found an open space a couple blocks away from the bank and walked. I needed the excercise anyway.
Inside the marble mansion (very rich old bank back in the day... still is!) I see a sign stating that the bank would not be open on December 25 to celebrate Christmas.... I mentioned that to the lady who waited on me and asked her when Scrooge sold the place? She laughed... Evidently thought I was kidding or something.... I'll stop there except to say I really don't like this bank and wouldn't ever do personal business with the place. Still owned by a very, very (If you know what I mean) local family that is far above the rest on the social ladder.....
Got home and tonight got delivery of two of three packages I have been waiting for. Do hope the other one gets here tomorrow or Monday. It is for Granddaughter #2!
Never made it down to the trains today and tomorrow I will be going out to the museum for the Evergreen Train event where I get to do my imitation of the patron saint of Mal Wart.... They are predicting up to 3/4" of ice tomorrow night so I hope that stays to the West of the museum or the salt trucks are out in force on my way home!!!
Prayers for all in need!
Somewhat of a busy day today. I wrapped a few gifts that hadn't been done. Later the 'FloppySD' that my niece and I had ordered as a gift for me came in today. I took it out of the box long enough to test it and see that it worked properly then I put it back in the box, wrapped it up and put a gift tag on it to myself from my niece, my sister and their respective husbands. They all chipped in for it so they should be recognized. The last gift I wrapped is from my father to his grandson (my nephew). It's a 12-pack of Bud-Lite and two strap-on holsters. Each one holds a 10-ounce beer can. One holster is for him and the other is for a guy he works with. They do almost everything together. I have got to see the look on his face when he opens it. Same for my sister. I got her a collectors set of Star Trek drinking glasses. Kirk, Spock, Uhura and Nero. The two husbands are getting DVD's they said they wanted. I got my nephew a 1/25 Scale Nascar model, a Bobby Labonte 'Interstate Batteries' Monte Carlo. My niece will about flip when she sees the manicure/pedicure station I got her. It has everything the usual kits do and a lot more they don't. It set me back a bit.No progress on Oliver's adventure except that I saved a copy of it on the 'FloppySD' as a test.The dryer broke down today. My step mother and I both were hoping it had gone toes up after thirty-four years (bought new in January 1979)and it would be time for a new one. No dice. The belt had come off. My father put it back on in about thirty minutes. But there's still hope! He looked all over town today and can't find the proper belt for that dinosaur. The model and serial numbers don't even come up on the computers at the places he went to. Also the drying time is taking longer and longer. the timed cycles are meaningless as it often needs to be run a couple of times to dry a medium load and this is a heavy-duty dryer. My father thinks it's the thermostat but I'm betting on the heating coils. A faulty thermostat would usually result in the drying temp being too high. It's happened before with this dryer. It actually set fire to a load of clothes once.Looks like a good chance of rain tonight and tomorrow.Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
We went to Wal-Mart today. My father had to get some things for the house and I needed to get a bottle of Tums antacid tablets. I have GERD and they help relieve it. Couldn't find a ride-on cart this trip so I had to walk. Fortunately the section with the antacids isn't far from the checkout and doors. My leg is a bit sore after that workout.
slow train Ed hope I can do this I haven't talked in here and wanted to thank jeffery for getting me back into the forms. So if it works THANK YOU JEFFERY aswas before got booted slow train Ed
hope I can do this I haven't talked in here and wanted to thank jeffery for getting me back into the forms. So if it works THANK YOU JEFFERY
aswas before got booted
slow train Ed
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Went to do the checks/CU for MOH.
I had to go to the dentist {another filling fiasco} and we adjusted working times to get things done. I have Appts. "just in case" and had to make another apt. He found the tooth wiht the crown has a chip? at the gumline? that will ultimately be bad.
The five lane divided highway on the way is was CROWDED. Mind you that is where the major shopping "mall/plaza" where wally world is and the next block is the plaza/shopping center where Target is, so packed with peoples trying to get in/out of those places!
I went to WAlly world this AM but at 7 AM, I no estupido!
Its called a "parkway" but today it was a "Parking lot"!
Oh well, some people wait til the last minute to Xmas shop. I did it all before TG day! I schmartz!
well, dinner tongiht is Beef. Chuck roast to be exact we only get it if they have it marked down so we can enjoy it budget wise.
Laundry going. IT never ends!
well, that about it for me, waiting for the mail with bills to come for the $ gone in to be $ gone out!
Never ends on THAT either!
Have a great night.
CONTINUED PRAYERS FOR THOSE WHO NEED THEM!
Mornin'..... er... ahem! Afternoon folks!
Zoe, I see you're still on duty. Is it too late to get breakfast? 24 hours a day? Great! I'll have the #2 special, over easy eggs, bacon, home fries, and a double order of sour dough toast.
I've been out shopping for wrapping paper, bows, and the obligatory flavoring for the egg nog... Myers Dark! Also got some Comforting Southern stuff to sip from time to time..... the 100 proof old style variety!!! Now I have to get doing all the wrapping and imbibing I guess!
Hope to do more on the door of the Blacksmith's Shop today also.
Later!
Good morning. It's 68° with 98% humidity. The high will be 75°. with Not much going on this morning. Just watching it get darker as the clouds build up. There are sparrows all over the back yard snapping up anything they can find. I'd sure hate to be a bug out there.Put my leg on this morning and stood up to test the fit. Ouch. Too tight. had to take it loose and take off a sock (had two on) and try it again. Much better. If it isn't too wet outside later I'll go out and practice going up and down some five inch high steps in front of the house. Going up isn't too much of a problem. It's coming down that can be hair raising. The guy who told me I'd have to learn to walk all over again wasn't kidding.I don't have any plans to work on Oliver's adventure but if I do he'll be starting to explore the baggage car. I've been toying with the idea of throwing in a caged pterodactyl. Yes I know they're extinct but anything can happen in a computer game.
PackerHaven't been in in a while as my defualt browser (Internet Exlporer) keeps saying it can't find this site. So I'm using Google chrome now.
Dump the cashe (history) on the IE browser and it will work just fine.
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