9pm and nearly time to say Good Night, well not yet, but soon. Nothing interesting in the idiot box, so I gave the dock? jetty? pier? another wash of black water - looks much improved. Petra is listening to Rod Stewart singing some old song - I have to admit I have never neen much into Rock music - I am more for classic music, having w*rked for sony Classical more than 20 years ago...
For me, Rod Stewart is a gifted model railroader, with a voice sounding like he had to much booze, but decent songs I can listen to as background music.
Good Night Folks! See you all tomorrow!
Afternoon all. Spicy chicken and french fries. Thanks
I have today off, so I am just enjoying it today, and relaxing. I am listening to some Eric Church and my scanner(Interstate heritage unit is supposed to be leading a train north today through my town,and I have yet to see it leading a train yet). W@rk was interesting last night. 7 WIC checks, and one woman had 4 different checks. Then the other non-express lane cashier went on break and I got slammed with 15 people at once with at least 70 items each. It got so bad, they opened up the express lane for them as well as my lane. Strangely enough, only one offered to help bag their stuff-everyone else was ticked that I was not able to bag their 70 items each within a minute. So yeah, it was a stressful night last night.
No Model railroading stuff today,but maybe some railfanning. NS is doing track work on the rails through here, so the one that is not being worked on has a speed restriction on it, so that should make some photography options. Have a good day everyone else.
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, just a a cup of my dark roast coffee and a couple sour cream glazed doughnuts to dunk... Thank you Ma'am!
Currently 68°F here in the Finger Lakes with a predicted high of 72°F later this afternoon. Have a couple windows open at the moment to let some fresh air in.
I have a Doctor's Appt. early this afternoon... This is my 6 month recheck, hope there are no problems found and I can just keep on keeping on. My knee still hurts from when I twisted it last Sunday, but it is better today.
Been getting everything all set for the MLK Scholarship Dinner tomorrow. Have to pick up the "Educator's Award from the trophy shop this afternoon, and then early tomorrow afternoon meet with the guy from the AV dept. at the colleges to set up sound and AV equipment we will need for the evening. I always feel a major bit of relief after the dinner is done and everything went well! Oh, School Budget Vote is today, so I need to go do my civic duty also.
Best get myself moving! Later...
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
yougottawantaThanks Jeff. Several more questions if you don't mind. Are you mixing the alcohol or buy 70 % strength ? What method do you use to apply the powder ? Sprinkle it on or stipple with a brush ?
The layout is at a standstill. I have to keep off my feet as much as possible and much of the work that needs to be done requires that I be on my feet. The track is down so a train could make a complete trip around the layout if there wasn't stuff piled all over it. Right now I can't even see the track in many places.
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
Thanks Jeff. Several more questions if you dont mind. Are you mixing the alchol or buy 70 % strength ? What method do you use to apply the powder ? Sprinkle it on or stipple with a brush ?
I am sorry you are hurting with your knee. How is your layout coming ? Did you get the rest of the track laid ?
It´s past 5pm here, so I call it a day - I only w*rk 9 till 5 on my layout
Here is what happened today, aside from sticky fingers being covered with glue:
I am not yet happy with the weathering of the lumber - I think I´ll give it another wash...
Ken - I did not know you are fluent in German Take it easy on the spikes - no need to rush things. The pace of w*rk on my layout is set by the funds I have. Right now I have overspent my budget already, meaning very few, if none, purchases for it next month. I will have to get some stripwood tomorrow, so I can finish today´s job, but that´s to the tune of $ 2. I am glad I still have plenty of leftover material from past projects, so construction will not come to a halt.
I am trying to figure out how to do the railing on the upper part and the stairs. Maybe I use toothpicks as posts ...
Good morning. It's 73° with 85% humidity. The high will be 88° and it'll be somewhat cloudy.Didn't get much sleep last night as my right knee was hurting and prevented me from getting comfortable. As a result I'm not in the best of moods. I think I'll just lay back and relax today.
yougottawantaJeff. How did you install the rust on the side of teh hopper ? That is impressive work ! If I didnt know better I would think it real.
Guten Morgen Fellow Dinners und Herr Ulrich
Flo, Rührei und eine Seite in der Bacon gefällt.
Got the front and rear yard cut yesterday so that over with. Went and made another payment to the Vet for Shaddys last visit, I now only owe $58.00. Went to the store and bought a few things and all so a few flowers, bucket and Mircale Grow.
I all so BBQ last night, with the grill being so messed up I had to sit outside and watch it. Did not want to burn up the meat. I had bought 2 steaks and I like my rare, all so cooked some pork steaks. Tonight, my wife wants me to cook some ribs.
Boy, my grill has to go! I have to turn the rear burnner on high, and the front one on low to get close to the same flame level.
Ulrich, ich kam gar nicht auf den Post gestern, und ich hasse es zu sagen, haben nicht das nötige Geld für die Schiene. Ich werde sie nächste Woche. Layout is looking great! I think I have a section of On 30 track that came in a lot I won off E Bay.
Got to run, lot of things to do before I go to the VA Hosptial.
Ken
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I hate Rust
Jeff
Good morning. How did you install the rust on the side of teh hopper ? That is impressive work ! If I didnt know better I would think it real.
Good morning to all. Breakfast and coffe is on me this morning. Eat up !
Good morning...... Coffee and a doughnut, please.
Duke and Trolleyboy ........ Good to see you. Feel free to tell us what you have been up to.
Flip .... Glad to hear about your dooglebug operations. Presently, I operate my doodlebug with a trailer, a short branchline baggage/RPO car.
Yesterday, my old friend I knew in high school was here. We remember good times being young railfans. After getting our drivers licenses we chased trains in Illionis. Burlington and Santa Fe were our favorites, but we chased trains of several other railorads. Now, of course, the old Santa Fe Chiefs and the old Burlington Zephyrs are memorise to be re-created on model railorads.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Afternoon Folks!
It´s already past lunchtime, so I´ll just settle for a cup of coffee, served right here at the RC. Thanks, Janie!
Been busy glueing the parts I made yesterday into something resembling a jetty. I must have miscalculated the number of parts I need, so I am now short of a few pieces. I´ll have to make them, but I need to go to get some stripwood first - just a length f 3x5mm and a length of 5x5mm. I won´t go today, because that glue gave me a headache... The older I get, the more sensitive to fumes I appear to be
Y´all have a great one!
P.S. Where is Todd? Have not seen him around her for a while...
well,
having computer troubles, think we have a virus. It need to go in for a "cleaning" anyway. SO, If you'all don't see me here for a while, it may be because i am computerless!
Dealt with all the remaining bills for the month of MAY yesterday! good to know they are all done! Only one straggler will come either the end of MAy or first of June {It is never consistant}, then all the regular bills all come in about the 8th-20th. SO FINI!
Now, have a great day!
-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.
morning coffee in the diner...
Quotable Quotes:
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. -John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (1806-1873)
We were painting the church steeple gray.When the wind blew our brushes away.We said to the pastor."Oh what a disaster!"But he simply replied, "Let us... spray!"
A man, while drinking Light Bud,Crashed his car with a sickening thud,The car that he hit,Had a warlock in it,now he lives as a frog in the mud.
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!
Trolleyboy Very long time no see.
Best to all on sick call and those recovering
Duke
"Don't take a wooden nickel,because it isn't worth a dime" by my Dad
"There are only 3 things you need out of life:A gentle grade,the wind in your face,and cinders in your hair.....But keep an eye on the water glass!" Jack Evans
trolleyboyI'm glad to see the lights are still on. Smile, Wink & Grin
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Time to call it a night here. see y'all tomorrow.
good afternoon folks. Let me pick up a round for all of you,as it's been "forever"since I've been in. I'm glad to see the lights are still on.
Well,
Went to the PO to get off a bill that needed to go and it went out early pickup, so it is probably on its way to, if not already in, Syracuse. Used to be our sorting center here took care of such things, but due to cut backs, they now sort in Syracuse only. It gets it out early enouhg to make up for not neing in the mail on Saturday. I have seen a few news programs about how mail can "nysteriously get delayed" if mailed on a Fri, Sat. It can often get 'shoved aside' til Tues or Wed before it goes off, SO best to wait to Monday when all postal workers are working for the week again. I know, some of you htink I should go email payments, I don't think so that risks the compromisations I HATE.
So, next was DMV, I can get a clean title for an exorbitant amount of money to simply reprint it with "no lienholder found" on it, OR just keep the lien release letter with the title for later use. I guess i will just keep my money. It will be years before I sell/trade it in anyway. Although, there is a nice Dodge GR caravan, no frills model wiht spare tire that I can get IF I get what I want for a trade in, add a little cash and voila have a brand new one for a few dollars over the old payment. IF I want to saddle us with another payment!
Then off to the cable office...40 minutes wAIT! The new payment is correct, and they siad I'd have to bring the bloody box to get the "dopped channels" or "missing channels" {"XXX channel is not available, please try again"} FIXED. We are thinking of back-charging THEM for the droppoed/missing/not avaailable channels ass we spent 20 minutes last night trying to get some! Take a WILD guess who I saw a the cable office? {besides some college boppers turning in their equip {or parents doing it for their kids} My FIL! He ws busy talking to a young india kid who drove a Mercedes, who was probably studying to be a Dr. or scientist or somehjting. No doubt my FIL was "imparting some 86 years of wisdom" to the young man, who appeared to take it well. He doesn't have to routinely listen to FIL's chatter!
Then to BB&B. OT get the new curved shower curtain rod. It will give us a shade more room in the 2' wide narrow, 4' long shower we have. It says it will fit down to 48", it had beter, but looks very LONG in the box! I will put up later.Also picked a clearance set of Queen sheets for a song and a dance. Actually 2 songs and a dance. Then I ran across a clearance pillow for $5 I picked up for me at nigth time..I use it replace a well-worn pillow I call my 'snuggle pillow" you can figure it out form there.....
tehn home to meet my Ohter Half and off for a nap we went. My back has a SHOOITNG PAIN spasm that has been there since standing on the hard tile floor at Cable so long! It started there, I thought it would decrease/go away when I sat down, but it appears NOT,
Now for dinner will cook off some beef for dinner, bought some marked down specials on saturday to cook today must be cooked today or frozen. Don't knwo yet how it will be cooked...
well, have a great night...
Good afternoon. It's 78° with 52% humidity. The high will be 85° with some clouds.Not much going on today. Went into town to ship a computer off to New York City then went to Wal-Mart to get some things I needed. Got back home to find that a package with my Star Trek Voyager Season One DVD set had arrived. Looks like I have something new to watch this week. Now I'm just waiting on the Home Health nurse to call. Nothing else planned.
Just a quick update on the shoreline - right part of the layout:
Herr Ulrich- Very fine work you're doing.
Garry- I have a GN DoodleBug that I hooked up a 60 ft. passenger car to and the Walthers novelty passenger cars as a consist. Sure did look different going around on my pike. I think I sent a picture of it to Cape Jim. Can't remember.if did or not. Heck it was fun watching it.
Flip
Strong coffee TO GO, please.
***Ulrich, I definitely prefer #3 to the others. Your layout is coming along nicely.
Healing thoughts to those in need.
Cheers! Rob
Taking a break, enjoying a cup of coffee and a slice of that apple pie , which tells me "Eat me!"
I´ve been cutting stripwood for endless hours, starting right after lunch. Now there are all sorted and weathered. Better to do that before assembly! Guess how I learned that?
All these parts will finally end up as the ship´s landing opposite of the depot. A few parts are missing - I will make them as soon as I can get the correct measurements, i.e. after installing most of it.
yougottawantaUlrich Which scale is this N ? Isn´t that the scale you model ? Were the rails painted gold ? Incredible detail ! How in the world did they get the rail ties to look so realistic or did you do that ?
YGW - good to see you back in here. The ballast pics are manufacturer´s photos of O scale track (German prototype), handlaid on wooden ties. The rail has been painted golden, for whatever reason. Maybe to show the detail better.
I have switched scales, from N to On30, as my eyes are not getting younger. On30 is ideal for me. You get the heft of O scale, yet the space you need is only a little more than HO scale. On30 is really a scratchbuilder´s scale - due to the bigger size of structures, they are easy to make, using el cheapo materials - suits me fine, as my budget is very limited.
I´ll stay here at the RC for while, watching the yard goat doing some fine switching.
Thanks Garry. I have popped in a time or two and read a few post but have been overly busy with w**k, raising kids and remodeling my GF house ( 14 years of maintenance negelect ! ) and church . Finally will have GF house major items finished in a week or two and then I will have a bit of time until the new w**k project starts then I will be hanging on for dear life again. I have 49 houses to build near George Mason University with an overall project value of around 49 million in total sales. Also my GF and I plan to get married in August. So there is a lot to do.
Glad to see you here and a bunch of the others. I hope to be back in here more often.
Prayers to all in need and Hi again to all.
YGW
Good morning .
YGW .... Good to see you here. Hope you are doing well. I think Ulrich's photos of ballast are manufacturer samples, but I'll let him say for sure.
My agenda today includes a visit by a friend of mine who attended high school with me. Back then we were interested in model trains and real trains. We grew up near Chicago on the Bulington main line. After getting our drivers licences, we traveled around northern Illinois railfanning. We also road some of the famous CB&Q steam excursion trains. We'll do layout tours of my layout, Gus's layout, and Dan's layout.
Happy Model Railroading
Ulrich
Which scale is this N ? Isnt that the scale you model ? Were the rails painted gold ? Incredible detail ! How in the world did they get the rail ties to look so realistic or did you do that ?
Well
I have a few things to do today
Since the cable company put me off so long to get the ACTUAL bill OWED now with the new deal we have, I have to take it into the office, stand in line for goodness knows how long, complain about the lack of "in service" channels and pay the stooopid bill in person.
Then I have to find out from DMV exactly HOW to get the lein release off my title to the Sedona. I have only done that once before in my life, all other vehicles, new and used have been paid for in cash when bought them.
Then mail off another bill
then i think I will have something else to do, just can't remember what...
So I will have a SHORT but busy day IF I don't wait for eons in the cable office.
Then I will see what other trouble I can get into!
Have agreat one!
Use your fingers and rotate the cob, eh?
As soon as I saw that, I smiled. Yesterday was our first corn-on-the-cob of the season. It started showing up at the grocery store over the weekend. Butter-and-sugar variety, and really very tasty. It used to be we had to wait until the end of the summer to get it locally, and then the season was over in a few short weeks. I guess that's one thing to be said for the 21st century. We had ours with grilled burgers and a few beers.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Morgen, Herr Ulrich!
Morning coffee in the diner...
Use your fingers and rotate the cobGet some butter, a generous globEat across or around,But one thing that I've found,Corn is best when you eat like a slob
There once was a girl named Sam
Who did not eat roast beef and ham
She ate a green apple
Then drank some Snapple
Some say she eats like a lamb.
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. -Lorraine Hansberry, playwright and painter (1930-1965)
Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling, and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines. -Bill Bryson, author (b. 1951)
Morning, All - Guten Morgen, Ken!
Our place still smells, although we left the windows in the train room open all night long. Never again I will use solvent-based paint!
Mixed weather today, partly sunny, partly cloudy with a chance of ra*ny spells in between. Petra´s back seems to be getting better, that means some extra MRRing time for me today. Later in the morning, I will get some more stripwood to start on the platform/dock thing at the depot´s side. Thought I will make it in two levels with stairs connecting them. That should add some more visual interest and lets me use up material I already have, saving a few $$ I can use for other things. I have already dug deep into next month´s budget
cudakenOn on 30 scale right? is that HO scale track and O scale sizes body?
Ken - On30 is O scale on HO gauge track, you are right there. The track, however is not HO track, but bespoke On30 track from Peco. On30 locos and rolling stock look silly on HO track, the ties are too thin and too short, and tie spacing is too narrow. I´ll be using Peco HO track I already have ( a gift from a friend) only in the staging area.
Got to get going - CUL!
Have a great day!