Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
GOOD MORNING ALL,
Seeing Galaxy and Tipton Bill arn't around I'll start the day for them.
HOT chocolate and Bagels (cinnamon) for everyone and put it on my tab.
It is April 25th 2014, T.G.I.F. Yes it is Friday once again, another week has flown by.
I'm on here as I woke at 4:50 and couldn't get back to sleep, so I thought I would check the Diner for action overnight, and found nothing since Jeff over seven hours ago.
I will burn out my eyes here for a bit and try to sleep some more.
Spring has finally come here, the snow is all gone. Had a good day of rain on Wednesday but it will be cool for the week end.
Still unable to swallow which is very annoying to me, but doing all the exercises that the Therapist has given me. Other than that I feel pretty good although quite weak most of the time. I am walking about nine blocks when the weather is good, so that is going to help.
Have a funeral to go to on Saturday as my BIL passed on Sunday evening. He was 75, just two years my senior. He was a great Guy, loved his family and his horses and had friends everywhere. He will truly be missed. RIP George.
ULRICH, very nice work going on in your train room. The bench work is immaculate. It is going to be a winner.
C.C. Willie, hope you both are feeling better and get out to play with that new set of wheels.
Healing thoughts and prayers for all in need, and in particular, our Galaxy..........
Well, I'm going to try to get some more shut eye for a while, will check back later.
Ya all have a good un, as Jerry would say. I wonder how he is doing, not seen him in quite a spell.
Johnboy out........................and close to being about, but not yet.....
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Ken: BoS wouldn't be able to find all the documents even if they were stapled together, locked in a protective case and carefully numbered with a big red crayon.
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Watched an old movie today. At least I think 1985 is old for a movie. For those who have seen it these few captured scenes should bring the title to mind.Boy did those guys pick the wrong train.Home Health nurse comes tomorrow to to put a new dressing on my foot. I've been teaching her how to build it up properly and it looks like she's learning. The last one lasted more than a day more it had a blowout and needed to be patched. The first one she did for me lasted a whole eight hours.The only work I did today was an old Apple //e add-on card. It needed some chips replaced so I sorted through my good ones and was able to replace every one of them. It's amazing how small the components have become. My //e's processor is slightly bigger than two postage stamps. If I were to shrink it down in comparison with today's components it would be smaller than a grain of sand. A ten megabyte hard drive back in 1983 was about the size of a large cereal box. Today I have a one terabyte hard drive that's only slightly bigger than one of my old 64k RAM cards (3" x 5.5"). Isn't technology grand?That's it for today. 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
I hate Rust
PackerHow does one check current draw? I have a multimeter that reads amps, but I forgot what I'm supposed to hook up...
jeffrey-wimberly Packer Jeff, what's weird is 3 of the 4 digitrax decoder failures have been the same engine... I'm wondering if the loco has a current draw issue (I forgot how to check) that is doing that. First one just died, second started working in one direction only, third causes a short... Sure sounds like that could be the issue. I believe CudaKen has or had one that was doing the same thing. It loved decoders. For breakfast, lunch and dinner!
Packer Jeff, what's weird is 3 of the 4 digitrax decoder failures have been the same engine... I'm wondering if the loco has a current draw issue (I forgot how to check) that is doing that. First one just died, second started working in one direction only, third causes a short...
Sure sounds like that could be the issue. I believe CudaKen has or had one that was doing the same thing. It loved decoders. For breakfast, lunch and dinner!
If it was that ATSF SD40-2 of Ken's, I have it now. It's not fried a decoder since I swapped the motor out with one I got from you, lol... Mine is another athearn RTR SD40-2
How does one check current draw? I have a multimeter that reads amps, but I forgot what I'm supposed to hook up...
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.
PackerJeff, what's weird is 3 of the 4 digitrax decoder failures have been the same engine... I'm wondering if the loco has a current draw issue (I forgot how to check) that is doing that. First one just died, second started working in one direction only, third causes a short...
Evening guys
I was down with the crud for the past week and a half (the longest I've ever been sick). But I feel better now.
I'm off tomorrow too, so I may work on some kits I got in the mail recently. If I find my #80 drill bits (I have 3 tubes of them) I may work on the 2 ex-CB&Q wood cabeese... I have an airlslide and an NP caboose to assemble/finish...
Jeff, what's weird is 3 of the 4 digitrax decoder failures have been the same engine... I'm wondering if the loco has a current draw issue (I forgot how to check) that is doing that. First one just died, second started working in one direction only, third causes a short...
Galaxy and Dennis both down? What's the world coming to?
Picked up the new wheels today, but by the time I got home, I was starting to feel kind of yucky and I can now confirm the I've caught MOH's cold/sinus/flu.
Exploration of the new wheels will have to wait till I'm feeling better. ARRRRGGG I HATE FEELING like this.
Just another of life's little what evers.
Time to blow my node.
Dennis
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
severe vomiting, daiarhea{?}, slgth fever, no happy.
MOH be home in bout 3 hours, maybe I go hsopital then
dunno.
-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.
Went to my fathers place for beans, rice and cornbread again. No power failure this time. Memory card and DVD arrived OK. The card seems to work well. Now I need to find software for it.
howmus Jeffrey, all that and gall blader problems too? If it weren'ty for bad luck you'd have no luck at all!
Ahem...., Afternoon folks!
Chloe I'll have a cup of hot chjocolate for now, thanks...
The sun has been shining so far today here in the Finger Lakes today. Current temperature is 43°F with a high of 53°F sometime later this afternoon they say. Low tonight is predicted to be 35°F... Probably won't light the wood stove unless the low arrives before I go to bed tonight.
Some trees are showing signs of life and are busy turning green. Others are still waiting for Spring to arrive... I went over to the Vets office this morning to pick up a case of canned food for the boys and then did some grocery shopping. They had some cat litter on sale, two containers for $10 and then you get 20 points toward the gas discount they do (10¢ off per gallon for every 100 points you collect). Of course I get to that aisle and there is only one jug of the cat litter on sale left... So I corner one of the managers and ask if they have any more out back. He goes to check, come back and says "nope", but he will give the larger size in direct replacement for the smaller one. So I used the discount, got the gas points and considerably more cat litter for $10.
I have to be at the High School by 2:30 to help interview one of the applicants for the MLK Scholarship award. Then we will hear from the Guidance Councilors about each of the candidates... Tomorrow we interview the rest of them.
Jeffrey, all that and gallbladder problems too? If it weren't for bad luck you'd have no luck at all!
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
chochowillie Jefrey with all the other things wrong with you, you'd think the gal bladder thing could have just bypassed you. Oh right, Murffey at work.
Jefrey with all the other things wrong with you, you'd think the gal bladder thing could have just bypassed you. Oh right, Murffey at work.
Pretty quiet round the diner this morning. Hmm wonder why? Well, today I go pick up the new SUV at 11. MOH is still under the weather with her cold/flu/sinus thing and can't come along. Kind of too bad because she is soooo excited about the new vehicle. Oh well, she can look out the window when I get home.
After yesterdays pouring rain and 60 km winds, today is beautiful and sunny. Only going to +9 C which is 7 degrees below normal but no wind is a blessing as far as I'm concerned. I hate wind... makes me all antsy and whatnot.
Bout it for now folks
Regards
Good morning. It's 67° with 97% humidity and dense fog. The high will be 85° and cloudy.Morning: Afternoon: Power went out just after noon yesterday and came back on about two and a half hours later. Our planned lunch became a late lunch/early dinner. I wasn't really all that hungry as I could feel a gallbladder attack coming on. So I had one serving of red beans and rice and cornbread then went home. I was down most of the rest of the day with only a little time spent online.Found an HO Scale Big Boy in my mail yesterday. It'll never run though. It's a Revell model kit. Eventually I'll get around to putting it together. Right now I have no room for it.Today I'm expecting to receive an AE 128k memory card I won in an auction. It's one of those hard to find things you don't expect to find. Got it at a great price but it still wiped out my fun money. Also expecting a 'Runaway Train' DVD I got for next to nothing considering it had free shipping.No telling what's going on today so wait and see I guess.
Good morning
Shelley thanks everyone for the birthday greetings, We had a good celebration with neighbors.
Karl ... Thanks for info. I'll gather up some bad decoders to send to NCE.
Ray ... Good to see the engine house again. Interior is fabulous.
Ulrich. I had good luck with Ray's method when I tried it. I made my own stencils. Take sheets of newpaper and tear the edges into shapes like edges of clouds. This works well and it is cheap. ... I still like your idea of having Petra do it too.... If you are going to do it, practice on old cardboard pieces that you can throw away when done.
Ken .... Have you become a book worm?
Galaxy ... Get well soon.
Mr B.... I like the GG1. I recall riding on Pennsy trains behind them.
Happy Model Railroading
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good morning! It's nice out, but chilly, only in the 40s on the way in. We had a "wind event" in the middle of the night, and no, it wasn't me eating chili again.
Ulrich, I was giving some thought to your backdrop. The coast of Maine is noted for fog, which might help simplify your job. You could, with perfectly good modeling fidelity, simply paint the back wall gray. If it were me, I would get some photos of coastal towns viewed from the water, and then convert them to gray scale. Next, I would play with them on the computer to "de-focus" the pictures and make them a bit blurry. Print them out full size and put them up, in particular paying attention to the roads in the picture and how you can attach them to the roads on your layout. Assemble the pictures on the computer the same way they are on the layout, into one long picture. Here, we can go to an office-supply place like Staples and have them printed on a single long sheet of paper.
I found this picture of Damariscotta, a picturesque town.
If you cut out the sky and the water, you'd have a pretty nice scene. It's even got clouds if you'd prefer a blue sky. This wouldn't be long enough for your whole layout, but with a few more pasted together you could have a very nice background at a fraction of the cost of a store-bought one.
Finally, here is Gigi, my new GG-1:
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Healing prayers for Galaxy and all others in need!
Good Morning!
A rather dull day here, overcast, windy - just uncomfortable. Better to stay inside.
No progress planned on the layout. I have to wait for material to arrive, which makes me a little itchy to spend some of that translation money on maybe another loco or rolling stock. So far I have "only" the Forney and that caboose/combine thing. I need a couple of box cars, a flat car and a passenger car, but that would be too big a drain on the budget. I´d like to keep some of those funds for rainy days, of which we have had plenty in the recent past.
Ray, Garry -- I had a look at Ray´s tutorial. Those clouds look fantastic, but I don´t get those stencils here. I may try the sponge technique I have seen in that video. Need to get the boards, first.
Blessings to all!
sttill not feeling well, internal distress, diarhea,cramps etc.
Evening Dinners!
Flo Pleases and a Roast Beef Sandwich with chips.
Really a dull day at work, if you can call it work. Mainly sit on my caboose and read. I have been there for 37 weeks and have read 37 books. Now while that does not sound impressive I have read serval that where 700 to 850 pages. Book about Dwright D Eisenhower called The Supreme Commander was the hardest read. 850 Pages, small font and a real hard read, but I made it. Just finshed The Patton Papers about General George S Patton. Very well written and while 855 pages was a easy read.
Well that tells you how boring of a day I have had, telling you about books I have read!
So Todd, do you still watch NCIS?
Cuda Ken
Evenin' Folks!
Janie, a cup of decaf would be great right now...
Aaaahhhhhhh.... Long day here! I went down to church early this afternoon and ran off copies of the letters of revomendation from the candiates for the MLK Scholarships, redid the listing of qualification we do of eacdh candiate for comparison as the one done by our president didn't translate from his program into a PDF or Word document well (stuff didn't line up the way it should), ran off all the materials and now have it all colated and ready to hand out to the committee on Friday when we do the interviews. We will be interviewing one kid tomorrow who has a track meet on Friday. That kid is a Scholar Athlete with a 90+ ave. and appears to really have his head on straight! One of the people he has a recomendation from is the Police Officer who has worked at the Middle and High School over the years! Glowing recomendation, BTW. All but one of the applicants this year is absolutely what we are looking for to get a scholarship! Great bunch of kids from what I see on their applications. We will find out more about them from their Guidance councilors tomorrow. Most of the interviews are on Friday.
I did several more signs for the turnout swicthes on the fascia of the layout today. I still have to print some different ones to get it all finished.
Lit a fire in the wood stove about an hour ago. Going down to 32°F tonight.... This could be the last night for the wood stove this season though. Don't fire it up unless it is down in the 30's outside. House is 72°F here where I am typing and the stove is shut way down.
Rob glad you have found a good worker for the farm.
Just about time to turn in for the night. Prayers for all in need!
Chamomile tea, please.
***Ray, what an awesome new neighbor to have moving in.
Very long and exhausting day here. New worker is worth every penny. I'll have to help him some tomorrow, but after that he is on his own. He catches on quickly.
Good night!
Rob
howmusUlrich, I love the designs you create! Don't forget to do a detailed interior for that engine house...
Ray - I was afraid you might say something like that
Why, of course, the interior will be detailed. I will build this one using scale lumber instead of cardboard & paper. Speaking of lumber, I just ordered all the lumber I need to build the piers. I found a source where I have to pay about 40% of what it would cost to get that stuff from my local store, including p&p!
Mornin'.... Well! I guess it is afternoon already.
Janie, just a cup of dark roast coffee right now, I guess.
Ulrich, I love the designs you create! Don't forget to do a detailed interior for that engine house... Something like this might be good:
I have, as always, a list of items to get done for a few of the organizations I am part of. Just about on my way dowbn to chruch to make a bunch of copies of the recomendations written for our MLK Scholarship Applicants. Then I have to stop over to the Insurance office to pick up a Canadian In surance Card for the PiP. Wnat to legal when I go to the Region Convention the first weekend in May.
There will be a household auction over accross the street in the house where the lady passed away several months ago. the p[roperty is being purchased by a gentleman who is a train nut. He was a lighting contractor for theater productions during his carreer so we have a bit in common. He should be a great neighbor. Also is interested in doing operations on the SLOW when I get to that point as well.
Best get myself moving and getting the list of items shortened down!
Heartland Division CB&Q Karl ... Is that NCE deal available to anybody? ... If so, do they care about the condition of the decoders you trade in? Also, Karl .... Any chance you can work less hours? Your frequency of posting has decreased in recent weeks .
Karl ... Is that NCE deal available to anybody? ... If so, do they care about the condition of the decoders you trade in?
Also, Karl .... Any chance you can work less hours? Your frequency of posting has decreased in recent weeks .
See the very bottom of this page for details,
http://ncedcc.com/customer-care.html
Hopefully the hours will decrease soon (I was supposed to be off today) but as they say, stuff happens!
Karl
NCE über alles!
BroadwayLionProbly does not fit your decor.
The missus may have objections ...
Just out of frustration, I drew up the engine house: