Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a decaf for me as usual.
NP2626, but of course this is the dining car! Gets moved to a fresh location everty month. Pulled by some of the finest lcomotives ever built it is! I even got permission to virtually borrow this beauty one time to do the honors! http://www.rgvrrm.org/about/railroad/lv211/index.htm
We probably should get back in the habit of letting folks know where the location is every month. I believe this month we are near Hamburg Germany in honor of our member and dear friend Ulrich.
OK, I have had one of those days. Tried to get in touch with the person who is scheduling someone to come over to look at the damage and get a dollar figure for what needs to be done here. The call came in yesterday from a cell phone registered in Kentucky! Needless to say i didn't call back until I was able to ID the number and make sure it is not a scam. My son came over today and finally was able to figure out that it was some lady trying to schedule an appointment for the adjuster... I called the number she gave me (a completely different number but still in Kentucky...) and the call went to a voice mail at another completely different number from what the voice mail said. I hung up! Sent an email to my Insurance Customer Service person here in town! She emailed me back and said come on over, i'll take care of everything for you. I got in the PiP and drove the two blocks over to the office. Walked in and she said, "Come on over here and we will see what is going on." 45 minutes later she had gotten exactly the same run around I got.... She, at least, now knows what the customer goes through with that insurance company! She ended up leaving 3 voice mails and said she will get an appointment made for the person to come to my house. I left her a copy of my schedule for the month so far so she will only have to do this once. Nice to talk face to face with a human being sometimes!
I got the 100 gal. aquarium moved out of the living room today and into the dining room. It hasn't had fish in it for 5 years so it wasn't a bad job for my son and I. Still have to find a place for the 20 gal. one that does have two very old and frail bottom feeders left in it. Have no idea where I will put that one.... Also have to find a place for a large chair and the sofa as well.
Have a great night!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
So, I can relate exactly to what your saying, although the building was never a dining car.
NP 2626 "Northern Pacific, really terrific"
Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association: http://www.nprha.org/
Mint tea. please.
I have always thought of this Diner as a rail Diner car and I always will think of it as such. After all, have we not been hooking up locos to it and carting it to the next months location? My two cents worth.
Have a good night all.
Cheers! Rob
Good evening all you wonderful Diners,
Ok, admittedly, that might be a bit of a stretch, but hey, why not?
Flo, I'll have my usual extra gigante cup of coffee with abundantly generous amounts of cream, please.
NP2626: if it'll help, in my home town there's a little hole in the wall cafe that is (or maybe was) just across the tracks from the towns main depot. I think it was called the Union Station Cafe. It was a gathering place for locals and in later years a late night munchies stop for local college students after the local bars closed for the night. It had a few booths and tables and would fit the definition of a stereotypical greasy spoon. There are little cafes in small towns all over the country like this. Does that not describe the comradery among the diners here?
Nothing to report tonight train wise.
i hope everyone is OK, safe, and warm.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
NP2626 You know, all these years of occasionally visiting this place and the whole time I thought this was a Dining Car on a train and not a simple restaurant! Anyone can go to a restaurant! What's railroady about that? Oh well, just another of lifes disapointments, I guess!
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COm'on in and sit a spell and tell us about your 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.
Paul W. Beverung Hi Gang: Would someone explain to me how to make a post with out doing a reply?
Hi Gang: Would someone explain to me how to make a post with out doing a reply?
You mean how do you start a new thread? There on the top right of the thread title page is a blue "Create a new discussion topic" button. Click it and enter an applicable title and your post.
If Not, I don't know what you mean?
As I said awhile back this new format has me buged.
I've been spending the last week trying to remember what I did with a box of passanger cars, Varney diesels, and some other stuff after I rearranged the basement. Yes! Old age strikes again.
Other then that I've been working on the Milwaukee Roads Everet street depot. It is not a snap together kit. I set the train shed roof trusses in place and that really looked nice. When it's finished it's going to be something.
Time to head out and to the basement. Hanging around here isn't going to get the depot finished, or any of the other 1000 and 1 other projects.
Rob, yes the feeders connect to the bus under the table. Unless your planned layout is very large or you plan on running many locos at the same time, I would think your Zephyr should be adequate.
Well not much happening here on the RR front. I haven't done a thing on either layout for a couple of months now. I have a few power/telephone poles sitting on the workbench, all painted but haven't got around to gluing on the crossarms. I just can't seem to get into doing much this winter. I haven't done a thing on the N scale layout since I finished ballasting the track in November. I have been trying to sort out some running issues with a couple of N scale locos and have had a little success. I am waiting for a new truck from Atlas to fix a RS10. Those N scale gears are just too small to try any sort of fix.
Nothing planned for this evening so might actually try running trains, or maybe not.
CN Charlie
yougottawanta Galaxy - Ouch - Not even Tylenol or Ibuprofen ?
Galaxy - Ouch - Not even Tylenol or Ibuprofen ?
NOt even them! I have a list of about 200 pain meds ONE CANNOT TAKE BEFORE surgery...
I do have one scripted med but it doesn't relieve like another verboten script med I could be taking for the pain...but can't take.
I wil have to suffer...It'll be a different pain after wednesday and I can again take the pain meds.
Coffee refill, please.
***C.N. Charlie, with DCC, do all those feeds simply hook up to a central line under the layout? With the new layout having much more trackage, I suppose it will need to have the extra feeds. Still plan on using the basic Digitrax system I already have. Wonder if it will be enough or require a booster of some sort?
***Galaxy, hope all goes well for you.
Back to resting and watching train vids, until it's time for evening critter rounds.
yougottawanta Galaxy - Hop your shoulder gives some relief today. Taking any pain meds
Galaxy - Hop your shoulder gives some relief today. Taking any pain meds
CAN'T TAKE ANY PAIN MEDS< they may cause extra bleeding during surgery...so off them for the week!
Cederstrand ***Ray, my cats leave the cpap alone, but Millie Kitty still wants to settle on my chest and massage my beard. Sad part is, even the weight of a cat on my chest sometimes makes it hard to breathe. Glad your son is going to give you a hand.
***Ray, my cats leave the cpap alone, but Millie Kitty still wants to settle on my chest and massage my beard. Sad part is, even the weight of a cat on my chest sometimes makes it hard to breathe. Glad your son is going to give you a hand.
Cud cuds {don't ask...he comes to it} will not bother the cpap, but what he does do is I lay on my left side, adn he climbs on top my right hip.lays down there and will fall asleep there, until I move, or he gets to warm, apparently!
Ok Ok, OK< since you asked his name is cuddles, and one day I could not get his attention whne I wanted him, so I said "come here cud cuds"..he came running, so it stuck...he hardly ever answeres to cuddles, but cuds or cud cuds he will!
Good Afternoon,
A balmy -6C and sunny here today.
Rob, I use DCC so no insulated rail joiners were used on the layout except for the engine service yard so I can cut the power to the whole yard. I have powered #6, manual #4 and powered #4 turnouts. Note that the powered and unpowered #4s are not the same at all. The construction is different. You can add power control to the manual turnouts by purchasing a seperate unit. Any other questions, you only have to ask as I would be happy to help if I can.
Garry - Oh thats right that season is approaching fast. I am dreading this year I think I may end up having to pay.
Rob - Isnt that amazing how bad some track is. I have seen video that I would bet donuts to dollars that the train would derail if it ran cross some of those noodled tracks. But it doesnt. Just wobbles and twist and runs on through !!!
Uncle bob - Here is a quick wy to settle the discussion. Take a thermoter and stick it in the either the supply or return vent and read it after an hour or so. The reading should be with in 5 degrees of the temp. setting. If it is lower than that there is a problem.
Lots of frozen rain and sleet out my yesterday. Went out to start the truck this morning and just standing in my driveway I was sliding down hill ! The wethermen are calling for more tomorrow after noon. I think I will head home early and try to beat the tangled messes of wrecks and back ups.
Welp down to one more BBall game for the girls season ( yhea !!) which has been about two and half months long and then onto some more RR modeling and me time. Except of course the honey do list which I have to catch up on.
TTYL
YGW
Italian Roast coffee in a Barnwell & Searchlight Railway mug, please.
***CN Charlie, did you use insulated UniJoiners between those 10' sections? What type of Unitrack switches did you use? I've planned on using manual #6 switches. On the old layouts, I never bothered with the turnout control switches and always ended up just doing them by hand. Figured I'll save some money this time around and just go with manual from the start.
The heat pump guy still can't make it out here. Looks like Weds now. So, I'll continue with the two space heaters for this side of the house. Glad not to be battling the temps Uncle_Bob is dealing with. Yikes!
Have watched some really interesting vids of trains rolling over very bad tracks. I doubt model trains could pull off some of what the full scale trains do.
Healing thoughts to those in need.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of buckwheat pancakes with real NYS Maple Syrup and a pot of Marrakesh Express Dark Roast Coffee please.
Galaxy, hope you get feeling more normal soon. I have still got some pain in my right shoujlder. I think it would go away if I could actually get to sleep lying on my left side.... Once I do fall asleep, I generally don't change positions until Blackie hops up on the bed and comes over to play with my CPAP.
My son should be calling me soon. He promised that he would come over and help me move the 100 gal. aquarium into the dining room. No way I could move that by myself. Once that is done I can start to move and clean a bit in there. Still waiting to hear back from the Contractor to get an estimate. If I haven't heard in a couple more days I will email him again. His business is very busy and he gets tied up with things so I will give him a bit of room on the time issue. Once he does set a date for the work, he will be here with his crew right on time!
I am going to try to get done with all the paper side of the tax stuff today. Get all the file folders sorted out and then get the stuff stored down cellar. Filed all my tax returns a week ago. Will get a bit back from the Federal and will owe both NYS and WI a few bucks. Anyway once that is all done, I can remove and store one of the leafs from the dinig room table which will give me more room in the dinigroom/office to oput all the living room stuff. Found out the electronic recycling place in town is closed until further notice. The original local company got bought out by a large recycling company (big improvement they said) based in the UK. That company just suddenly stopped paying salaries (nobody knows why) and then renigged ojn the rent for the building. So the city finally out a lock on the door and the closed signs up. Once again, the bigger the Corporation the more likey they are to not care about people! OK, Vinnie, I won't say any more......
Best get back to w*rk. Later!
Hmmm, do healing energies work for Uncle Bob's furnace? Nope. If it's an oil burner and it kicks off after 15 seconds after trying to start, chances are there's a problem with the fuel feed or the igniter. It's not going to fix itself, but it's probably a small part. We have a service contract with our oil company, so stuff like that is covered. Even if you don't, it's not a do-it-yourself repair. Make the call. It's cheaper than frozen pipes or pneumonia.
Oh, Monday. The "bah" factor is gone now that I'm retired. With my wife out of town, I don't watch any live TV at all, so I lose track of days.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I pm'd you Garry...
Thanks to all who donate/wish to donate!
If we can't help our friends, who can we help???
ANywho someties when a certian sleep aid/anti depressent it makes me all nervous and jerky litertally !
That was the probelmn last night why I was so restless...its like I have too much energy to disprese and can't focus on any one thing,,,literally my hands go rapid shaking..the Doc says when that happens to lay off it a few days..still a bit Restelss...
Well, I have to try to attempt some chores...
Good morning Diners.... Coffee and a doughnut, please.
Galaxy and I found out I could post in an old PM thread, and it gets delivered. I still can't send a new PM, and evidently new PM's don't get to me.
I can't figure out why my settings don't allow new PM threads.
Today, I am planning on working on the layout. I will take a break from working on taxes.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Still RESteless,,, i will explain later when not so restles...
I pm'd todd, cederstrand, and Heartland division!
Yep, GARry, It got to me! I have always saved old PMs especially ones with address or the like
I am RESTLESS tonight!
Janie, just a cup of decaf for me please.
The family went out to Kentucky Fried Chicken for dinner tonight as that was where Granddaughter #2 wanted to go for her Birthday Dinner. She will be 6 this coming Thursday. I dunno, I seem to remember that at least the chicken used to be good at KFC.... I wasn't impressed tonight. Was very over cooked and tasteless and the chicken was the best part of the meal...... My son had some sort of coupon that he used so the price was pretty cheap. Went back over to his house for cake and Ice Cream after dinner. That was good!
Driving was not good out there tonight. We got a mixture of sn*w and freezing rain. I decided to drive into Waterloo and take the main road home rather than the shorter back road over to Geneva that my son lives on. Good choice I think. Even the main road was treacherous on the way home. I arrived safe and more or less sound and headed down to the train rooms and got a bit more done. This is an area I am somewhat planning as I go. Have an idea of what I want to do, but need to make a lot of decisions on how to get there.
Uncle_BobShe also refuses to have the HVAC guy come out, even though her mom has had pipes burst the last two winters.
Uncle Bob, You might remind her the cost of repairing the damage that burst pipes would cause in the house and that insurance doesn't cover negligence! I would say if your furnace and the space heater together are only keeping your house up to 51°F there is a definate problem. Oh, and don't run the space heater without someone being up to watch it. Major fire hazard! Read about them all the time in the newspaper. Hope you are well insured. I would inform her that either the space heater has to turned off for the night or she needs to stay awake and watch it!
Be blessed my friends and stay warm!
A sunny day here in the Great White North. We are at -6C today which is a heat wave for us.
Galaxy, hope the surgery goes well.
Rob, if you recall I have Kato Unitrack for my HO layout that I laid in 2007. I didn't solder any rail joiners and have a feeder about every 10 feet. I have never experienced a power drop. One of the big advantages of Unitrack is the rail joiner as they are far more secure than the typical Atlas type. In fact if you tried to solder one I think the plastic would melt. If you use Kato's power feeders, you should not have any problems. At least I haven't in the past 7 years. The Atlas track and turnouts in the service yard are another matter. I have been tempted to rip up that yard and replace the track but it is a lot of work.
Well tonight is a big PBS night with the season finale of Downton Abbey plus a couple of other shows we like so I will be parked from about 6:30.
galaxy Uncle_Bob Two below zero at last report, and the furnace decides to go on strike. It tries to fire up.for about 15 seconds, then shuts down without any heat coming out of the registers. Good thing it stopped giving heat after the missus was in bed, though it means a surprise Sunday visit by the HVAC guys. If you hear an explosion coming from Endicott, Galaxy, it's probably just my house. And on such a chilly {read: BITTER COLD, negative ambient temps} night too! Good luck, if you have a fireplace or electic heaters, bring them out! Often, if they don't have the part in stock, they can't get it til Monday or TUesday anyway! By Wednesday we will be in the 40s! GOod, I won't have to wear a heavy coat after shoulder surgery...
Uncle_Bob Two below zero at last report, and the furnace decides to go on strike. It tries to fire up.for about 15 seconds, then shuts down without any heat coming out of the registers. Good thing it stopped giving heat after the missus was in bed, though it means a surprise Sunday visit by the HVAC guys. If you hear an explosion coming from Endicott, Galaxy, it's probably just my house.
Two below zero at last report, and the furnace decides to go on strike. It tries to fire up.for about 15 seconds, then shuts down without any heat coming out of the registers. Good thing it stopped giving heat after the missus was in bed, though it means a surprise Sunday visit by the HVAC guys.
If you hear an explosion coming from Endicott, Galaxy, it's probably just my house.
And on such a chilly {read: BITTER COLD, negative ambient temps} night too!
Good luck, if you have a fireplace or electic heaters, bring them out!
Often, if they don't have the part in stock, they can't get it til Monday or TUesday anyway!
By Wednesday we will be in the 40s!
GOod, I won't have to wear a heavy coat after shoulder surgery...
The space heater is doing its best, but it's not meant to heat a split level by itself. The wife is convinced the furnace is providing heat, so she's keeping between me and the circuit breaker box so I can't shut it off. She also refuses to have the HVAC guy come out, even though her mom has had pipes burst the last two winters. The last air temperature I saw inside was 51, and it's 45 in the train room. George Carlin was right!!!
Good afternoon Diners,
Flo, I'll have my usual abnormally large cup of coffee with copious amounts of cream, please.
Not much happening here today. The weatherman said we were to get snow all day. The sun is shining right now. Just helping MOH tidy up around the house because we both have to work all week, and that's a good thing.
YGW: I like the work well enough and it is enjoyable. It isn't actual design, but like I said, it is related. It is nice to be back in commercial again. But, as a result of everything, I find I miss kitchen and bath. Either way, I love what I do!
Galaxy: I truly hope you can take advantage of the potential romantic possibilities as a result of your surgeries. I hope that's ok to say and not have to talk to Vinnie and the boys downtown, ya know? (Feigned Don Carlione voice). Anyway, I wish the twain of you well.
Ulrich: Really good to see you posting again.
i hope you all are OK, safe, and warm. Spring is 3 weeks away.
Bowl of oatmeal with one last coffee, this time in a Heisler mug, please.
Looks like resistance soldering is the way to go for track using DCC. I've never tried this. Even though I will be using Kato (HO) Unitrack, the more I have read about it, the more inclined I am to solder x-number of sections together with power leads to each section. Still more I need to learn about this, so any suggestions will be appreciated as always.
Time to take more hay out for the horses and do evening critter rounds.
Afternoon folks!
Chloe, just a hot chocolate for me right now.
Got up early enough to get to church today. I don't think I mentioned that my DIL's Father who lives in the Southwest had a major heart attack and ended up getting a quadruple bypass. DIL flew out there to be with him for a few days. She was supposed to get back early this morning. My son dropped the girls off at Sunday School and just as I was sitting down to breakfast there is a knock on the door... I open it and my son walks in. First thing he tells me is that his wife is not happy... Her flight was cancelled due to sn*w out there. She is in New Mexico I think. Hopefully she will get in sometime late tonight. So I only got one cup of Marrakesh Express this morning cause I was nice enough to share the pot with my son while I ate breakfast.
Tonight the family is taking my littlest Granddaughter out to dinner. She picked kentucy Fried Chicken, so that is what I will have for supper. Not where I would have picked to go, but, it is her Birthday (on Thursday)! I was planning that we would celebrate her birthday next weekend so I haven't even got a card for her yet...
Glad to hear Ulrich will be getting his new spectacles soon! Galaxy, prayers for your upcoming surgery! Hope all goes well and you have a quick recovery!
Rob, I don't get up on the roof when I remove the sn*w... I use a roof rake that I can reach most of the panels from the deck on my house. I don't climb around on roofs anymore! I occasionally get Benign Positional Vertigo and up on a roof is really not a good place to be when I get one!
Starting work on a new part of the layout. The fun here is trying to figure out how to get out of the corner I painted myself into, so to speak. This is where the return loop will be that will end up coming over the lower tracks and onto the fill where the little grider brodge is. I need to make a part of this area easily removable in case I ever need to get to the tracks that are going to staging under where the mountain will be. Some of you may remember this spot:
The tracks shown go to upper staging. There is now another track on the inside which is the return loop. The return loop will come around to here:
The tracks under the bridge are the feeder to the return loop and to upper staging.
Catch you all later!
Galaxy ... Thanks for moving the diner.... Your surgery: I think you said it was in early March.Maybe this week. Hope it goes well... I have an old PM thread from last year when we talked about Jeff. I'll post another message to it, and see if it gets to you.
Frank ... I saw your truck in WPF... The company name was Galaxy. ... I've heard that name before. ... Thanks for commenting about steel mill.
Ulrich ... Best wishes to you. Will you soon be making a spectacle of yourself?
Todd ... Good seeing you. When I do ribs in the broiler I put a small amout of water in the bottom of the broiler pan to keep the meat moist and tender. It is better than boiling first.
Happy Model Railroading, everybody.