Good Afternoon All,
Just a quick word before I head out the door home. 54F and sunny according to the weather guessers but it sure feels 40's and looks overcast to me. Must be my aged bones and vision. Not much to report though I did take gander at the fascia job for the layout last night. Ended up home early as we zeroed out trying to move my Kenworth out of storage to the shop. eems it got a nail in the LF tyre and sitting it seems to have come off the rim. Couldn't budge the wheel nust so called the service people to do the job and was informed you can't run a repaired steer tyre so new one needed (would have loved to get more than 5k out of the tyre but....). Of course no road hazard guarantees on heavy duty truck tyres so I'm out the whole amount. Anyway they got the wheel off and then couldn't locate a matching tyre so the unit is down til next week and I got to go home early as it was all too much to take. "Other than that how did you enjoy the play Mrs Lincoln ?"
Jeff - I feel your pain. All that delay and paperwork of dubious value and now they've misplaced an entire jet liner. Go figure.
Todd - happy flooring. I like the idea of running whatever you please on your layout. It is after all - yours. Thugh I have a New Haven layout I cleverly included a pepresentation of the loop and yard at Danbury where the museum now resides so I can conceiveably have anything running out of the museum I want.
Well, time to hit the road and start chores so I can maybe get some train time tomorow. Cheers, J.R.
C-Liner and short string of cars approaching the bridge section.
Went railfanning today, and it was just great. We caught a total of 14 trains in 2½ hours. It wasn't boring, that's for sure. There were 4 intermodals, 2 crude oil, 1 road railer, 1 trash train, 5 mixed freights, and 1 coal train. Foreign power included a BNSF & a Union Pacific. One had the Norfolk Southern "Erie" heritage unit leading. One of the crude oil trains had 2 brand new NS SD70ACe's (they have a build date of 2/14) along with a helper on the rear. I've never seen a helper on this stretch of track before, but another fellow who railfans in the same area told me has seen that a couple of times in the last few weeks. Seems they are possible putting helpers on if there are 100+ tank cars.
I've been forunate in that I've caught 10 different heritage units, as well as the "Veterans" unit. Looking forward to catching the Pennsylvania and the Monongahela some day.
Todd & JR remarked about running different trains. It has never bothered me one bit to see multiple RR's running on a layout, or for that matter, different eras being represented. I just like a mix of everything I guess. Don't get wrong, if a layout is restricted to a certain time frame and era, that's okay too. In other words, I like them all.
It was in the low 40's here today and mostly overcast. The sun did peek out from time to time, but the wind was gusting and very chilly. Yesterday, we were in the low 60's. I wish the weather would make up it's mind. I just don't adjust well to these temperature swings anymore. Here's hoping everyone has a nice weekend...
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Well.
MOH had a busy busy day at work.
It was supposed to be 40sF today, but Like JR said, It felt like 20s. Now supposedly 36, but the tinkling on the roof tell me sleet and frain {freezing rain}rule the evening, that and the old north wind sure is howling out there! Postabe like only 10 tonight and only 17 tomorrow for a high, so the Old north winds still blow here!
I think I forgot to share...last Sunday we had dinner with the the grandpas of the nearly 5 year old whom I bought nad shopped trains for. The little tyke was there too, awaiting a meeting with his parents, whom we had to see also. When we arrived, we rang the bell, and the tyke answered the door, and the FIRST THING OUT OF HIS MOUTH? "COme see my trains!" We waited till after dinner, and then saw the train layout his one grandpa built. The big oval of track caused a minor problem with the DCC ...that is that he had no feeders wires on the non-connector side. He said it slows down there and I mentioned to add some feeder wires. I shall have to get grandpa # 2 the book for DCC wiring from our hosts. DCC is completely new to grandpa #2 as he had DC when he was s kid. They also have a steamer loco, it may be the lube needs to be done, I am sure though I siad to, they haven't. I am sure they have worn it out and it IS in a dusty-type basement. I can also send grandpa #2 the Tony's trains "DCC primer" in an email. It would have been cheaper to have DC but, the kid may still want trains in the future, and I see DCC as the definite wave of the future, thought the staunch DC members may disagree.
Well,
I did nothing but laundry and some shredding of documnts all day. SHame this day in age that we have to shred everything that might have an ounce of personal information or data on it!
Oh, OH, I see a new compoany has a new Credit card that has the magnetic strip for USA and the "Chip" for international use now on it! MAYBE they will get smartz and put them on ALL USA cards too! It also generates a code need to be punched in to access the number view to use like on line, if you don't know the pass code, you are out of luck. MAybe this is the wave of the future.
You would think that the costs of fraudulent usage would be high enough banks would WANT to spend the money for the more expensive cards to avoid the fraud. Oh well, I see vinnie is getting red in the face... this could be one fo those "flame war topics" you hear tell of.
well later guys have a safe night...
-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.
galaxyOh, OH, I see a new compoany has a new Credit card that has the magnetic strip for USA and the "Chip" for international use now on it! MAYBE they will get smartz and put them on ALL USA cards too! It also generates a code need to be punched in to access the number view to use like on line, if you don't know the pass code, you are out of luck. MAybe this is the wave of the future.
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jeffrey-wimberly galaxy Oh, OH, I see a new compoany has a new Credit card that has the magnetic strip for USA and the "Chip" for international use now on it! MAYBE they will get smartz and put them on ALL USA cards too! It also generates a code need to be punched in to access the number view to use like on line, if you don't know the pass code, you are out of luck. MAybe this is the wave of the future. That could be a great card for the person who has a spen-thrift in the household. Just don't tell them the code.
galaxy Oh, OH, I see a new compoany has a new Credit card that has the magnetic strip for USA and the "Chip" for international use now on it! MAYBE they will get smartz and put them on ALL USA cards too! It also generates a code need to be punched in to access the number view to use like on line, if you don't know the pass code, you are out of luck. MAybe this is the wave of the future.
That could be a great card for the person who has a spen-thrift in the household. Just don't tell them the code.
Yeah, it has a code to punch in that temporarily makes the CC # and Expiry date visible, then it vanishes. SO the plain card # cannot be seen regularly.
Problem Is, these things will all have codes for things nowadays adn people will be either stupid in choosing one # for codes easy to find out, or they will never remember ALL their code #s!
I HOPE the USA card companies DO something, though! I am tired of compromised cArds.
Good Evening from Winterpeg,
Yes we are still in the deep freeze up here. It is 0F right now and going down to -11F tonight plus a windchill. The normal for this time of year is a high of 30F but nowhere near that today. It was closer to 0.
Got the car filled with gas yesterday which was expensive as I paid about $5.50/gallon. I find it amazing the number of new 4x4 new pickups on the road which aren't renown for their great city milage especially in the winter.
Nothing much new here. I got a little tired of the DPM buildings and so I am laying off for a few days. I had bought a Woodland Scenics package of 13 buildings in a box which are all DPM and now have just 2 left to do. Mind you my little town is looking fairly good. Next up will be the roads and sidewalks but I'm not sure if I'll get to that before fall as I hope to be at the yard work by May. It will take that long to melt all the snow as we've had 65% more than normal. I have been running my HO a bit and am giving a BLI Pacific some run time pulling a few express reefers and my Rovos Rail passenger car. I suppose a South African passenger car looks a little strange but my railroad, etc.,etc.
If I had the space, time and funds, in other words a dream, I would like to have a layout with the focus on passenger trains but console myself with a few Athearn heavyweights and the express reefers. I just like the look of high driver steam more than any other locos, at rest or in motion. I did consider buying one of those BLI Dreyfuss Hudsons but since I found out I will have a large income tax bill to pay, I decided I don't need one that badly especially as it would really be a shelf queen. I just like steam and Art Deco so getting both in one seemed like an ideal combination.
Well hope everyone is doing fine,
CN Charlie
Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just my evening decaf please....
Got quite a few things done today. Of course one was driving to Canandaigua to take kare of gthe kitties... Claude has been friendly and greets me at the door every day. Clim (the former ferral cat) stays in hiding down cellar. i have been taking his food down there for him and the bowl is empty when I came back the next day. I do check his hiding place down there and he looks back at me with a "You want to kick me outside don't you look..." Hopefully he will become friendly again to me before my sister gets home. He would come over and let me pet him outside last time she was on a trip. He and Claude are best buddies now.
On the hobby front, I finished both main trestle pieces for the King Post Bridge over the racks from the Blacksmith's shop and got most of the foam covered with plaster cloth. By tomorrow I should have all gthe plster cloth in plcae and start putting on a few coats of diluted plaster to complete the base. The tricky part will be getting the cloth perfectly aliened around the Blacksmith's Shop. Tomorrow i will also put some "O" scale "rivets" on the wooden trestle to simulate bolts. I gave the trestles a coat of gloss coat tonight to give the rivits somegthing to hold onto. As soon as they have dried I will give everything a coat of Dull Coat to finish it off. Then onto the bridge itself... I hope to get a could photos tomorrow too...
Hope you all have a good night. My prayers all in need! Oh! I should mention that my DIL's little niece, Lexie, came home from the hospital last Sunday after finally getting the feeding tube put in and is doing well. Thanks for your wishes and prayers!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good Morning!
I don´t dare to look outside - all I see is gray and wet. It´s one of these days I ask myself why I got up at all..
Well, it´Sunday, so there is one highlight - my big Sunday breakfast here in the diner! Janie, my usual Sunday order, please, and make everything Barry-sized!
No plans for the day, yet. I might give my friend a ring and join him for a cup of coffee and some MRR talk. He is finishing his Z scale briefcase layout he built from leftovers I gave him. Other than that, he is concentrating his modelwork on finishing that tug he has been working on for 5 years now. He is planning to build a new HO scale layout once his son moves out.
jeffrey-wimberlyAs much as I spent in Germany? That was nine years I believe.
Jeff - no, not nearly as much, but apparently already too long. I adopted quite a lot of that strange Brit humor while I was over there, plus an aeful lot of colloquial lingo you don´t necessarily find in a dictionary.
I am going to sit here at the RC for a while, watching that yard goat doing the chores. Now, wait a minute Flo, a yard goat is ... bang, slap - ouch!
CU later!
morning coffee in the diner...
{YES! Halfway through March already!}
There was a man from Co.DubHe was a regular at the local pubHis wife made him get soberSo he started in OctoberAnd joined the AA club
There once was a young man named Jerry,He usually spent his days quite merry,One day he got high,And felt he could fly,And jumped off a bridge like a faerie
Quote of the day:
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from that of their social environment. -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)
Morning guys.
Up early to watch the Australian Grand Prix. Havent been in much lately, I guess being buys doing my fanatsy baseball teams ( which were picked yesterday ) and playing alot of strat o matic baseball which I am placing a order sometime this week for some older season cards. I have been playing some mlb the show also. Just really into a baseball mood right now.
Received my Canadaian trackside guide in the mail last week so have been alos reading that. Did a little track cleaning and general cleanup on the layout yesterday too. Ran a few trains. I want to get some more train running before the warm weather ( if it gets here ever ) because I find when spring summer hit the layout slows down a bit. I will run trains but as far as building ( kits, structures,etc ) that has come to a end for me. I went nuts building all I could over chrsitmas and right after so I wouldnt have a log jam of unbuilt kits sitting here all summer.
Might get out my bike today and give it a much need maitenance, might do that now before the wife gets up in a couple hours.
Temperature in TIPTON IN
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Bill - good to see you back! Been missing you!
Have a on me!
Good morning. It's 57° with 100% humidity. The high will be 68°. Cloudy with a fair chance of rain and thunderstorms all day. with Close to eighteen hours straight of rain with more due today. Spotted one leak thus far, at the bottom of a window. When it dries out a bit I'll back-fill that area with foam. Hope that'll be enough for now. Really need to get the damage to the over roof fixed. No way that's happening with rain coming down and not with muddy ground under the ladder. Part of that work will be taking place right next to the service pole so care must be taken or it could be a very shocking event. I can't be out in wet weather anyway as my prosthesis can't get wet. I had ordered one for all-weather use but I guess some bean counter decided I didn't deserve that. What I got feels like it's covered in foam or cork with a thin flesh colored outer covering. I guess it's enough that I can walk on it and drive a vehicle. Getting in and out of my van is easy enough but a car or a pickup without a step is a different kettle of fish.No plans for today except to stay dry.
Mornin' everyuone! Mornin' Bill!
Just got home from church where I was one of the ushers today. Had my coffee early this morning and will soon chow down on some left over pizza...
Will be way too busy today and may not get as much done as I want to.
Sure wish they would turn on the spell check again! I spend way too much time readikng my post 10 times to find all the typos I make....
Catch you all this evening.
howmusSure wish they would turn on the spell check again! I spend way too much time readikng my post 10 times to find all the typos I make....
You could type up your post in a word processing program as I did with this one using LibreOffice Writer. It underlines in red any spelling errors I make so I can just point and click to correct them. I have Notepad and Wordpad but neither seem to have this function. If you have Microsoft Office it should do the same as my LibreOffice. I saved it on Skydrive as a text file then opened it with Notepad, copied it then pasted it here. It's simple once you get the hang of it. The beauty of it is if anything goes wrong such as the forum sneezing and blowing the post away all I have to is paste it again.
Me again!
Just got the confirmation that my order will be shipped by coming Tuesday, so the track should be here by Thursday. That will mean there is some serious MRRing ahead of me! My friend came over instead of me going to his place (I know this is not correct English), so we talked things over. With some luck, I´ll be able to put up the benchwork by next weekend! We also talked about how to wire the layout, as he is an electrician by trade who loves to solder ... I am glad to have him as a friend, not only because he is such a help to me. He is the only one who stayed with us in dire times, buying food for us when we had no money at all. Who needs a dozen friends, if you have one who really cares!
howmusSure wish they would turn on the spell check again!
I second that motion.
Howdy ....
Spel checck? Woo Nedes thhat?
Bill T .... Thnaks for the coffee. It hit the spot today. Feel free to visit the Diner more often. I would have had a breakfast roll, but I think Barry ate them all.
CN Charilie ... I know afer a while assembling those building kits can be tedius and monotomous. I like to rotate the various projects to break up the boring ones.
Todd .... I know what you mean about the nasty non-model-railroad stuff. I eventually decided, the model railroad is my priority, and work on it before other stuff when posible. Have fun.
I cleaned up the weathering stuff that was spreading all over my work table. I weahered 14 freight cars in recent days, and that's enough for now. Weathering was getting monotomous for me.
With a clean work surface, my next project was to solve a problem with a P2K SD9. It would not run at a steady speed. This is an engine I bought used, and it had been running fine until recently. These P2K engines need very little lubrication, but I thought I would try doing some of that. I disassmbled, and HOLY COW! The previous owner had overlubricated with brown colored grease that had become too thick. There was a lot of it all over the worm gear, the idler gears, and the axle gears. It wasa caked in the gear boxes. It took a long time to remove as much as I could. After cleaning, I properly lubed as instructed by the manufacturer. Now, the SD9 is back on the rails and running as it should.
Happy Model Railroading
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Had chicken for lunch today. My blood sugar was absolutely wild for a couple of days and my blood chemistry is still shot to * (that place with the fire and pitchforks). Everything tastes like acetate, even with ketchup or barbeque sauce! Spicy brown mustard burns through a little though.
Got my new Bachmann GP7 and GP9 programmed for use on my layout whenever I get it up and running again.
Latest comp project, I need a set of Apple II+ ROM chips, cheap. All the complete sets I've seen are priced like gold. Keeping costs down is a hobby within a hobby. That goes for model railroading or computers or anything else. You wanna see something that can get out of hand quick, that's commemorative coins. Wow!
Nothing much today other'n usual stuff/chores.
MOH went in early in case was needed at work at the second job and was needed. GOod thing an extra hour of pay won't hurt. MOH kinda has to keep the second job as the primary job is still only 30 hours a week,and the health plan carries *yikes* a $2600 deductible! That is for health/scripts and then there is the joint deductible for dental and eye care for both of us. THAT is another few hundred dollars. Need to go to open enrollment for HSA and get MOH signed up for at least something put in it to offset the health plan costs. That and about half the premium for health costs is offset due to MOH being "healthy individual" according to our Dr. That money, plus setting even just $25/pay peroiod away will help. Basic plan is more or less a "catastrophic plan". The $2600 may be less than many of you have for a deductible, but I'll bet you make more than $13-15K /yr. Scripts for MOH cost about $100/month, barring any extra needed ones. At that rate, it will be twice the whole year before MOH gets any thing paid over the deductible.
rant over. wasn;t really a rant, just a "get it off my chest" thingy.
Cold and chillly here and overnight as well. when will it end???
Later dudes, have a great night!
Jeffrey:
I ma not diabetic, but am HYPOglycemic, and often have trouble regulating my ever dropping sugar levels. SO I know what you are going through and can fully empathize. There are days I wish it woudl just "settle down to normal"!!
Take right now for instance, an hour after dinner and it is dropping rapidly. Glucose tabs only do so much to raise it, and I had a balanced dinner as I usually do. Mihgt have been too much activity on the chores, things like vacuuming really take it out of me and drop my levels dramatically fast.
I used to carry a meter, but now i know by "how I feel" about where it is.
I seem to make too much insulin and you have not enough.It could change on me though, and I could become diabetic in a snap of your fingers.
I carry the tabs in my Swiss army travel bag {read: Man purse} at all times, along with some emergency script pills in case needed for various things.
Hope you get to feeling better, as I hope mine comes up and stays even for awhile!
Hello again everybody ...
I'm way behind with eamils, but I did take time to send one to JohnBoy this morning. I've not heard from him in quite a while. Hope he is improving.
The SD9 problem has been corrected. I ran it today hauling empty coal hoppers, and it is running like a new locomotive.
Cheers!
Hi Guys,
I dont know about you guys but Im ready for winter to be done. I like to think being a Canadian I have a high tolerance for snow and ice and bitter cold, but enough is enough now,lol
I cant wait until I can hit the trails with my bike and spend a day biking. Nothing better then a day out on the bike. I remeber last year I was doing a day out ( I take my hydration pack and a bottle of gatorade and plenty of snacks ) I like going on a weekday as its pretty quiet out on the trails. I was going down the trail and it was one of those days that was so humid that you knew a storm might blow in later in the day. I was making my way down the trail which is a old abadoned rail line which they turned into a bike trail, anyways as the storm was moving in the sky was night black at 4:30 in the afternoon and look like it was going to be a real doozey of a storm. All we got was a huge downpour and lots of rain and wind. I was able to take shelter under a old bridge ( sat down and played on my phone until it passed )
Cant wait for summer
Here kitty, kitty, kitty....
LION was up in train room, running trains and cleaning the work bench. Needless to say, more trains were running then benches got cleaned. But what the heck. I also painted some track webs.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Haven't done much today. Sprayed some liquid rubber sealer up under the window frame where I saw the leak this morning.Tested a disk drive. Had to make a couple of minor adjustments. Now it works like new.Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Top O' the mornin' to ye...
Wrap your head around this one:
A dozen, a gross, and a scorePlus 3 times the square root of fourDivided by sevenPlus five times elevenIs nine squared plus zero, nothing more.
For all of you with Irish blood in your veins (are we not all a little bit Irish today?)!
Monday morning - that means there is a long HD list waiting for me. First , the usual grocery run, then vacuuming the flat while Petra is doing the laundry. I should give the windows a wash, but is drizzling wet outside, so that doesn´t make sense today. I may find some time to w*rk on the wiring plan. I was thinking of using suitcase connectors, but with $ 1,80 a piece, I think I will better go back to terminal strips and a lot of soldering. I have to give Petra a warning before I start that job, so she has plenty of burn ointment on stock
Have a splendid day!
Special thoughts for Johnboy and Flip!
Good morning and Happy St. Patrick's Day!
So I normally get into work early and read the dinner. Unfortunatly work never updated their IE since 2006. Well this weekend we finaly upgraded to IE9 and I can log into the diner once again!
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good morning and top 'o' the day to all of ye. It's 38° with 92% humidity. The high will be 55° and cloudy.Morning Afternoon Looks like somebody up north left the door open and the cooler weather came through again. Somebody hasn't had enough yet I guess.My right knee was hurting last night so my leg spent the night leaning against the bedside table. I've gotten to where I can put it on in under half a minute.No plans today except to stay inside where it's warm.
Jeff - certainly not a common sight on US rails!
Well, my plans on developing the wiring plan went up in smoke. Instead, I am w*rking on a translation of a marketing brochure for a MRT system. Never thought I would dig deep into medical terminology It earns me a little extra money, some of it to be spent on my layout