Hey J.P. GLAD to see you back. Hope you've been well.
Flip
p.s. Ulrich- nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
Hello gang!
Chloe - How about a bacon cheeseburger, sweet potato fries and a Blue Moon to wash it all down? I will be in the corner booth watchin for trains... Thanks!
//signed// John Powell President / CEO CNY Transportation Corp (fictional)
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Hunter - When we met in January of 2000, you were just a 6 week old pup who walked his way into this heart of mine as the only runt in the litter who would come over to me. And today, I sit here and tell you I am sorry we had to put you down. It was the best thing for you and also the right thing to do. May you now rest in peace and comfort. Love, Dad. 8 June 2010
I love you and miss you Mom. Say hi to everyone up there for me. Rest in peace and comfort. Love, John. 29 March 2017
Sir MadogOn a side note- my "Add quote to your post" - function isn´t working - does any of you computer aficionados know how to cure this?
Ulrich,
Check to make sure Your Javascript is enabled and You are up to date.
You may also check Your browser settings for MRR compatibility by clicking on, ''up-date Your account'' on the right side top, under Your name. When You get to the site, on the right will be, ''cookies enabled''? Click on that and Your browers settings will show up for cs.trains. You should have all green circles next to the functions, for all to work properly. Will tell You what is wrong and a fix, or call.
Hope That Helps....should.
Frank
Good afternoon. It's 67° with 86% humidity. The high will be 75° with a high chance of rain.Was feeling almost like seasick last night so I took a Dramamine tablet before bed. Woke up around an hour ago. No plans for today except to stay dry.
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
Gee - I must be getting old! I meant 2 ft. by 10 ft., although there is a layout that small
Calling it a day - good night and CU tomorrow!
Afternoon guys
Cool and rainy last night and early this morning. The sun came out for a couple hours and took advantage of it by cutting the grass quicks and giving the gardens a quick clean. Just waiting for the post office to drop off a book I ordered off amazon. I also have the strat o matic basketball cards coming on Wednesday hopefully. Not much other then that. The wife is going to grab some dinner on the way home later. And as I have all my chores done today ( laundry,house cleaning and grass cutting ) I also will dissappear to the basement and strat central to play some games for a bit
Back to work tomorrow so have to get play time in now
galaxyGee, RAY, DO I bore you?
Nope!
galaxyOf course, a lot of other animlas all entertain themselves with feasting on weaker creatures, or in warfare and teritorial claims agression, I wonder who is worse for wear on that note....humans or animals.
Humans... (grin)
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
howmus "The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal." - H. L. Menkin
"The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal." - H. L. Menkin
Gee, RAY, DO I bore you?
Probably, I think I bore everyone else!
Of course, a lot of other animlas all entertain themselves with feasting on weaker creatures, or in warfare and teritorial claims agression, I wonder who is worse for wear on that note....humans or animals.
-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.
Sir Madog mikeGTW wrote the following post an hour ago: Ulrich I do admire some of your work it is quite good what I would like to know is what size is the room you are using for your layout ? Could you go around the walls with a lift out section where the door ways are just an idea I've built and torn down many different ones of my own went from a 30 x 80 room to my basement now a lot smaller MikeGTW - I actually don´t have a room for myself, which I could use for a layout. The only place I have is a shared room - office for two, guest room, laundry room - all in one little room. The maximum space I could dedicate to a layout is something like 2" by 10". In N scale or Z scale I could build an empire in that space, but I lack the funds to do that. What I am looking for is a little roundy-rounder with some operation, but also with a realistic atmosphere. I am still looking into various options, but most of them fail due to lack of funds. We may have a move coming up soon, and chances are that I will even have less space available. So whatever I will be doing, it must be fully portable and fit into our little car. On a side note- my "Add quote to your post" - function isn´t working - does any of you computer aficionados know how to cure this?
Ulrich I do admire some of your work it is quite good what I would like to know is what size is the room you are using for your layout ? Could you go around the walls with a lift out section where the door ways are just an idea I've built and torn down many different ones of my own went from a 30 x 80 room to my basement now a lot smaller
MikeGTW - I actually don´t have a room for myself, which I could use for a layout. The only place I have is a shared room - office for two, guest room, laundry room - all in one little room. The maximum space I could dedicate to a layout is something like 2" by 10". In N scale or Z scale I could build an empire in that space, but I lack the funds to do that. What I am looking for is a little roundy-rounder with some operation, but also with a realistic atmosphere. I am still looking into various options, but most of them fail due to lack of funds. We may have a move coming up soon, and chances are that I will even have less space available. So whatever I will be doing, it must be fully portable and fit into our little car.
On a side note- my "Add quote to your post" - function isn´t working - does any of you computer aficionados know how to cure this?
Gee, Ulrich, 2 Inches by 10 Inches is awfully small! That would be , what, "flea" scale?!!
The quote works for me, the spell check doesn't. Dunno.
Have a GREAT evening, and give Petra a smooch for us!
Afternoon folks!
Chloe, I would like a cup of Hot Chocolate for the moment, please. Yep, that time of year again...
I was exhausted last night. Two long, busy days out at the Museum, and I am not used to being on my feet for 7 or 8 hours a day any more. Yesteday I did find that one of my passengers just happened to one of my students from when I first came to Geneva. He was also in the same Boy Scout troop as my sons. IIRC the guy is an Eagle Scout. We kept looking at each other every time we past and finally he was just about to say something when I spoke up and said, "Are you from Geneva?" He immediatelty grinned from ear to ear and shouted, "Mr. Howard, it is you!" We took a few minutes to catch up with what has been going on in our lives (I was younger than he is now back when I was his music teacher....). I also got the whole family a tour of the 80 Tonner locomotive before they got back on the trolley to head to the NYMT.
OK, in honor of Galaxy and his words of wisdom, here are some from me:
"There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste." - Bertolt Brecht
"If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, it's full potential, that word would be 'meetings'" - Dave Barry
Have already been running around putting out fires for a few organizations I am involved with today. Also got some grocery shopping done and stopped at the Vet to get more dry cat food for the boys. I have to make a troop visit tonight as the commissioner and will be having a (hopefully) short meeting with Mr. Scoutmaster on rechartering the troop this fall. They have one very big problem. The Scoutmaster was trained for his position way back about 30 years ago, can't find his card proving he took the old course, the old council lost all the old records when the basement of the office got flooded about 15 years ago, the new council just passed a resolution that all people working with scouts MUST have proof of training to be reregistered, the scoutmaster has openly said he is NOT taking the training again (even though it is very different than it was when he took it) and I get to deal with him about all of this...... I know that sounds like more than one problem but it boils down to the last little bit of it! It is possible he may be passing the torch to one of the Assistant Scoutmasters who is trained or will get it soon.
I plan to disappear into the basement and do some minor little things with the hobby this afternoon.
Sending good thoughts to all in distess on the forum today. Sounds like a soap opera in here again at times...... It does.... Blessings to all!
well
Ulrich: I am not so sure we are allowed to such a word here!
I had all weekend to both seeth and to calm down.
~called the plumber, they finally agreed to remove the extra charge for his return to do the job RIGHT finally that they already charged me for! GOOD>
~ the insurance company lady called me as she received a message I was "unhappy aobut somehting regarding my policy" I explained i got the stack of denial letters. I did not cathc on that there were repeats in there. The Denials are for to make up my $200 deductible. I had asked my insurance agent a long time ago "to whom and when do I pay the deductible?" His answer Was "we'll find out sooner or later". Not the most descriptive, and certainly not an explaination, but I said "well alright, for now". NOW I know to whom I pay! I still that idea is WRONG, the insurance company should take my deductible and use it for full payment of the bills involved.
~ANd yes, i have no choice about the "independent reviewer" {whom I STILL think is paid for by them..has to be they don't work for free, you know, so i don't know how "independent" they actually are}, if I don't go, then they will refuse to pay ANYTHING. Shady, I still think. I should not be worrried. But I WON'T be giving him ANY regular health insurance cards, my D/L {except to show as ID} or my medical history to copy. All's he gets is that which pertains to my constant pain and exacerbation {?} of my back issues post accident! Ces't tout! {oh, Morticia, that's French!}
~Got a call from the regualr Dr. {our GP} htat MOH will get shingles vaccine when we get our flu shots on the 14th.
~I have to call the PT place as the orthopedic Surgeon wants me to go to PT. I DON'T know WHY they all think PT is a panacea to cure what all ails you? Hasn't helped me any along the way. I think is a waist of time, but insurance companies require it, liek getting an xray before an MRI, whne really the MRI is the only-est, best-est thing to show what is wrong and how bad {though the Dr. says my shoulder is "not as bad as i imagined by your pain description"! DUH!..It HURTS like that word ULRICH attempted to use above, that's all he needs to knOW!. The pain med's I have I shouldn't have ANY pain, and the shot he gave me didn't help anyway! I am NOT looking for surgery,mind you, but if it is the only thing that works, so be it.
I had less trouble when he did my carpal tunnel surgery. ALL I had to do was to say "My hands are numb all the time" and off we went to surgery. Apparently there is no real way to tell anything much until he opens you up....the right hand he said "oh yeah, it needed to be done", the left one he said "if it wasn't bothering you now, it would have soon enough". MUCH relief after! Thank you.
~what else? done a bunch 'o' things too.
~MOH is home early, sick client again. Started out but had to end early. MOH is sleeping now, as this cold has a way of making you do that, and mOH is sure a sleeper! I am the insomniac in the family!
well, I'd best get on with things.
Have A GREAT AFTERNNON!
Good Afternoon!
I woke up this morning with my right foot hurting like h.ll! Must have done something wrong yesterday. Each move sends big shots of pain through my leg, but it is quite OK when I just don´t move at all. Good excuse for being a couch potato today!
With nothing else to do I spent some time detailing this little Z scale layout a little bit more. I still quite like it, but the second thoughts remain. Well, here is the drawing:
More thinking to be done!
Make it a happy day!
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.
Happy Monday! (I'm a Patriots fan.)
Kind of an OK weekend. I got stuff done on the trains, which was my primary goal. Not much to see, but a lot went on "under the table," which is fine for us model railroaders. I have 4 Tortoise-controlled turnouts to install, and a DS64 quad stationary decoder to drive them. Two are running, but there's still frog wiring to do, and the others will be complete shortly.
I went to the first train show of the season, too. It was a bit of a disappointment. There were a few display layouts and a few vendors. I picked up a used flatcar cheap, with Life-Like Talgo trucks and horn hooks. My workshop is well stocked with what it takes to remedy those problems. I also got a Railway Express reefer, in an Athearn blue box but with "Walthers-Athearn" on the end.
Sunday night I made Thai Curry Soup. It's one of our favorites. The spices come in a package, but the shrimp and vegetables are all cut fresh and stir-fried. Dumplings come from the Chinese market over by my LHS. We had a chicken Saturday, so that produced a hearty broth base for the soup. Yummy.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
angelob6660 I got bad news today from my bank. Apparently someone had taken my car number and spending it in Illinois. Sadly I'm going to talk to them tomorrow after I talked Pete about my freight car pre-orders 2 days ago. The shock is still with me but I wonder how much money they spent. I feel sorry for Pete (hobby dealer) I hope he doesn't believe I'm making this up. I'll follow up tomorrow with the somewhat details.
I got bad news today from my bank. Apparently someone had taken my car number and spending it in Illinois. Sadly I'm going to talk to them tomorrow after I talked Pete about my freight car pre-orders 2 days ago.
The shock is still with me but I wonder how much money they spent. I feel sorry for Pete (hobby dealer) I hope he doesn't believe I'm making this up.
I'll follow up tomorrow with the somewhat details.
JeremyB I also had my credit card comprmoised a few years back, what a headache that was. The bank was great in helping me through it.
I also had my credit card comprmoised a few years back, what a headache that was. The bank was great in helping me through it.
~I have just ONE particular card I use online, out of town or in "Sketchy places"-such as trading posts at fairs, etc. {which I try to avoid}. It usually gets comprimised once a year. The first time I got a call about it, I called the card company back and they asked me if I "had just bought plane tickets to Bangladesh", or someplace like that. I said "absolutely NOT". THey went over the recent charges from the last several transactions since the last statement, and there we found the beginning of the flase fraudulent charges. Each year for a while I was getting a new card and finally they stopped about 2 years ago. Everytime I use it, I expect it to get compromised. It is not the highest balance card I have either, though I would like to have necessary options tmy other card provides!
~I DO have a couple cards, the other two get used around town and pay me back for purchases I make.
~I once authorized auto-deduct payments from the checking account. Twice. AND THAt got compriosed by fraudulent "auto deduct payments" were supposedly "hacked' and resulted in Monthly charges being deducted weekly, and anual charges being deducted monthly! I stopped THAT ONLY by CLOSING THE checking account out. Never did get all of my money back and of course those companies I no longer do business with.
~I DO have two auto-deducts...one is the Credit Union loan, I had no choice, and the other is my secondary medical insurance, which is the best way to do as if I am say in the hopsital, it will autodeduct from my auto deposit check and goes on without me ahving to write a check or charge to a charge card.It is safer that way, so far no compaints.
~I learned VERY QUICKLY NOT to use a DEbit card anywhere! We don't even know the pins for ours anymore! They are locked in the safe.
In short, angelob6660, I sympathize with you, and hope you get your funds back, but I will bet they drained the account as much as possible.
Good morning, it's October 6th, 2014! {yes, already}
Today's quotable quotes:
I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. -Jorge Luis Borges, writer (1899-1986)
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
Evening guys
Just got back from work. I'm more of a morning person...
I got that C636 in the mail Saturday. I've written a review on some other forums... Overall I like it, just some things I thing could have been done better or differently. I do love the loksound decoder it came with. I perfer my locos with sound to be too loud out of the box as they can be turned down; rather than the other way around (like my GP15, can't turn it up?)
But on a side note, since I got this engine I have been working at a feverish pace on my 2 C425s. I got the custom fuel tanks mostly finished. Just have to primer them and check to see if they need some touch-up in areas. Then a can of black will do it. I would still need to order beacons, antennaes, and correct horns. anyways, just an update. i'm off to catch some ZZZs
But on a side note, since I got this engine I have been working at a feverish pace on my 2 C425s. I got the custom fuel tanks mostly finished. Just have to primer them and check to see if they need some touch-up in areas. Then a can of black will do it. I would still need to order beacons, antennaes, and correct horns.
anyways, just an update. i'm off to catch some ZZZs
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.
Good evening. Temp is 69°. Low will be 62°.Nothing went on today. Just watched some TV and got a nap.
Evening Dinners
Flo I will have a Beer Please.
What a Day, I am beat! For only a 5 hour day I was ran in the ground! It was a beautiful day, so I thought it would be slow, I was wrong! Flood gate opned at 12:30 and I was not alone till 3:30. Two customers where there for over 2 hours. While I only had 7 customers they all took for ever! Store closes at 5:00 and around 4:00 I was alone and got the morning paperwork done. Pulled in all the flags, signs and such at 4:30 and thought I was home free, wrong again! Last customer came in at 4:35 and while they bought, a $129.00 sale is not worth working a hour after closing!
Little Good News For A Change If the scales are reading right, I have lost 2 pounds this week! At this rate I will weigh what I did when I was fit by 2018! Just kidding, I hope.
Latter, Ken
I hate Rust
Had dinner at my parenst house tonight, spaghetti and garlic bread. It was delicious but am just stuffed right now,lol. I am just browsing the net for a while. I am off tomorrow before heading back to work Tuesday. I have a long weekend coming in a few weeks so that is good. Im off the 17,18,19 and 20th. We might head to Toronto for the day on one of them.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
cudaken Sparkie The Rocket Dog One of the med's he is on (cannot spell it) is Preg-A-Zone and I do not like the side effects.
Ken......it is called/spelled Pred Na Zone........I know.....we give that to Sammie.
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
CNCharlie Dennis, so sorry to hear about Sammie. We have had Westies for the past 30 years and it is never easy when they get sick. How old is she? Sure is a cutie. Absolutely nothing like a Westie but then I might be just slightly biased. CN Charlie
Dennis, so sorry to hear about Sammie. We have had Westies for the past 30 years and it is never easy when they get sick. How old is she? Sure is a cutie. Absolutely nothing like a Westie but then I might be just slightly biased.
CN Charlie
She is over 12 years old.......she will be 13 this coming March.
afternoon guys
Cool and cloudy out today, a very fall like feel for sure. I think we had a bit of frost last night. I think we may have seen the last of the warm weather as the high all next week is 12c. We are going to my parnets for supper later on. Spaghetti and garlic bread .
Might play some strat o matic later on tonight also, I have strat o matic basketball coming sometime this week. I have alot of strat projects lined up for the winter time. Im off tomorrow so plan on staying up tonight to play some.
Good afternoon. It's 75° with 57% humidity. The high will be 82°.It's a nice sunny day here. So far I've cleaned and redressed my left foot, verified that a small infection that was giving me a problem has been killed off, had salad for breakfast and already made plans for dinner. As for the rest of the day, I have no plans.
I am late, this morning. I couldn't get to sleep by 12 midnite, so I took not only a sleep aid, but with the sniffle and cough {light cough} I took a "theraflu" knock-off. THAT all put me to sleep, when MOH got up, I started to too, but MOH said "sleep". SO I did...until 7:00!
I awoke to find an outside temp of 33F, here and 34F at teh Airport high onthe hilltop.
The thermostat said 66, so I pushed the button up to 67, no kick-on, tried up one more to 68, no kick on, nor at 69 or at 70. Hmm. It ocassionally does this: you have to turn it DOWN below the existing temp, in this case all the way down to 60 to get it to kick on! Then it runs for 5 minutes and shuts off, THEN you can turn it up as "normal". It must be dying. I had enough trouble tryign to get it replaced to this one, follwing the directions STEP by STEP, to make double sure I "got it right'. Not looking forward to it again. the batteries are fresh as of when the man serviced the furnace recetnly.
Then I had to go to the gas station, forgetting to use my 70 cetns off at another facility! But I got my FREE SUnday paper...its a FREE community paper circulated all over the county. COntains, news, local articles, sale ads, classifieds, etc. all that the big papers who charge you like $4.00 for {except coupons}.
SO now, here i are!
Boy I got a REMINDER and PREVIEW of winter's woe: first you HAVE To leave extra time to defrost your windows. I have rear heat and air on my van, but no heated mirrors. when the side windows get to "misty"and wet I take an old paper towel and swipe them off and use the wet paper towel to swipe the mirrors, works only it the icing is not caked on the mirrors. Then you find your lighter but heavy winter flece jacket, make sure you have gloves, and wait patiently while the vehicle warms up and defrosts. Soon, I gues we will have to wrory about extra time to clean off snow and chip Ice off too too!
well, here are your quotable quotes:
The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
Philip Emeagwali
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
MAKE it a GREAT day!
Good Morning!
Seems to turn into a nice day here. It is bright and sunny outside, but the night hwas quite cold, only a notch above freezing. I don´t have any real plan for the day, other than going to see Petra´s aunt in the nursing home some 18 miles away. These visits always put a heavy load onto me, as she stays in the same place my parents did shortly before my dad died. I still can´t forget all the circumstance that finally led to his death.
When I was a young boy, I used to build up my Marklin layout on my bed. I covered it with a green woollen blanket and put boxes underneath it to simulate hills. The track was just an oval with a passing siding and a couple of spurs. I could play endless hours with this set-up without getting tired of it. Each night night I had to dismantle it, though, which always resulted in a little fussing and fighting when it came to bedtime. With my layout, I sort of want to re-enact the feeling I had in those days, that´s why I want to have continuous running.
I don´t know why that Marklin Z scale stuff is so ridiculously expensive. The track for that layout is $ 260, if I buy used track. The little loco sells for $ 260 as well, plus about $ 80 for a handful of used cars. Although there are some used locos available, most of them have the old 3-pole motor, which is no good. So I´d prefer to buy a new loco. I don´t need a powerpack, as I still have a PWM controller I built many years ago. A 9 Volt wallwart will provide the "juice" for it. Benchwork will be on the cheap (the only cheap thing), maybe $ 30. All of that amounts to $ 630 to $ 650, just for the basic start - incredible!
Ken - thanks for pinpointing me towards my N scale layout stored iun the attic. I still have it, and I also still have the corner modules I built before I decided to go for the shelf version. I will think about refurbishing it and turning it into a German prototype layout. Could very well be an option (why haven´t I thought about it?).