In memory of
Jeffrey Scott Wimberly
AKA Running Bear, Dr. Frankendiesel, The Spray Can Rembrandt
Volunteer firefighter, exceptional model railroader and friend.
Jeffrey´s Trackside Diner is a meeting place for all who wish to join. We talk on-topic, but also off-topic here, but always within the framework of the forum policy. Talk about your ongoing or future model railroading projects, show us your latest acquisitions or simply share your day. If you need to let off some steam, you can do it here, but beware - Cousin Vinnie, the proprietor, is keeping a close watch on the language and is unforgiving when it comes to violations of the house rule.
The finest foods and beverages are being served here by the staff - that´s the twins Chloe and Zoe, and Janie and Flo. There is a new menu, which now includes Chinese dishes (for you, Todd!) and JSTL - that´s Jeffrey´s special Tabasco lemonade. Other than that, you will fine good ol´ home cooking here.
Come in and enjoy!
I think we all had it with Winter now, so this month´s location is far away from the sn*w or ra*n we all had plenty of in the past months. May I suggest the state of Louisiana for this month? We can spend a good time in New Orleans, take a trip to Leesville to pay our respect to our gone frriend.
Good morning Ulrich. Oh don't forget Sarah she works for the diner as a dishwasher and sometimes an emergency waitress when the diner gets extra busy.
I haven't slept yet I'm trying to kill a cockroach in the kitchen and a second attempt to empty the freezer in the laundry room.
Talk to guys later in the morning, good night.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Ulrich! You almost missed it! I am just half hour behind you in the diner! I almost opened the new one for us! I don't mind taking turns, but I thought maybe you were asleep at the wheel!
Now, dear friends, although Ulrich makes reference to the "FORUM POLICY" or "RULES", and although I could see no blatant rule violations, Mr. Steve Otte, our esteemed host's leader here, has asked we remind every one that there are to be NO POLITICAL discussions or statements made here.
The "simple refresher" for the "Forum Policies" is found on the top of the "general thread page" of this forum.
Here it is in Mr. Otte's own"handwriting":
Stay on topic -- model train talk only, please (though civil off-topic discussion is tolerated in the Diner thread).
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See? That didn't take too long!
So there it IS! The basic rules we play by!
Thanks to all who make the diner thread the popular hit it is!
Join us and post about your day, your trials , tribulations, sucesses, failures!
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
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After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
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Orcast - Poverty; indigence.
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Good Morning
Waiting for daylight here....oh, hello...how be all of you?
Had to make a hospital visit, not for me, or my wife, but for a friend of mine who is now undergoing cancer treatments. Would appreciate .
As for other stuff I had some time to go over my tracks to clean them up...and run some trains!!!
Chloe...I'll have coffee and a toast/jam please...
For the guitarists out there...pay me and I'll be a compensated nut
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
Lunchtime!
It´ll be a bowl of spaghetti with tomato sauce and grated cheese "pured" over it - today is our vegetarian day
The weather on this April 1st lives up to it´s reputation. We have the whole lot within in 30 minutes - from ra*n to sn*w to hail, back to sunshine. Add to that gusts of wind up to 80 mph and it really makes a pleasant day!
We managed to do a week´s worth of shopping groceries in between two showers. The fridge, the freezer and the cupboard are now loaded with supplies, so we can stay home until after the Easter days. Shops are closed on Friday until Tuesday, but are open on Saturday for a few hours only. I hate to do shopping right before holidays!
Train service has just commenced here on our line. There was not a single train from 8 pm yesterday until 11am today. The overhead wires had come down on quite a few places, not only on this line. This has been quite some storm!
Douglas - there is no rule on who opens the month´s Diner. Any one can (and should) do it. Galaxy and I did most of the times in recent years, as we are the ones to be up first - Galaxy being a somewhat insomniac chap and I due to the time difference.
Well, lunch is ready - CUL, folks!
Sir Madog Douglas - there is no rule on who opens the month´s Diner. Any one can (and should) do it. Galaxy and I did most of the times in recent years, as we are the ones to be up first - Galaxy being a somewhat insomniac chap and I due to the time difference.
Yes, Ulrich has the 6 hours time difference ahead of us in the USA, and I being a person who either doesn't sleep or gets up early on the East Coast, USA, Are the first ones to usually do it.
For instance, a half hour after Ulrich opened this one, I was up, had had breakfast and just sat down to the 'puter to do it if Ulrich hadn't. He beat me to it. Besides it was "his turn".
Since we generally are the ones to do it, Most regulars here in the diner look for us to do it, and a long time ago it was suggested by several we alternate doing it. And thus it has been so since.
Prior to that, it was erradic, and sometiems didn't get done until a few days after the start of the month. Or someone would jump the gun and do it a day or two early.
So, for consistancy, and by popular "opinion/vote", Ulrich and I are the ones "choosen" to do the "opening ceremonies", much like it was "voted" by "popular opinon" to rename the Diner from "Eliot's Trackside Diner" to "Jeffrey's Trackside Diner" in honor of, and in rememberance of Jeffrey Wimberly, a fondly thought of member who was well-loved here and passed away recently!
Also there is this:
Since MOH is also a minister, and I would also actually physically light a "prayer candle" and promote "healing energies" {as not everyone is religious and religious items spoken of/fought over/opinions expressed are forbidden due to forum rules} in the direction of the ailing person, So, It is pretty much always assumed I am the "keeper of the flame"; and I often get requests to do so for a particular person{s}. I do it "generically" for ANYONE "in general" every day also, so everyone is covered, even without a specific request.There is no rule others can't offer up healing thoughts for those in need.
MAke it a great day!
Good Morning Diners,
flo, I'll have my usual gigante cup of coffee with copious amounts of cream, please.
Justa quick note before I'm off to work.
Galaxy: I seem to remember that the B&O museum also has a pretty nice HO layout. I thought it was worth seeing.
I hope everyone is OK, safe, and warm.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
APRILA already? No Fooling!
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Good morning..... Happy April, everybody.
Ulrich ... Nice job opening the place, and ...
Galaxy .... Good of you to post the rules.
Barry ... Sorry to hear about your friend. Too many people are fighting cancer. Prayers for all of them.
I actually had time for MRR last night, and I built part of the benchwork which will support the stockyard I built recently. I plan to keep adding to the benchwork to support tracks for the stickyard and also continue down the line to a coal mine yet to be built.
If any of you have any model railroading plans for April, I will be interested in hearing about them.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
I only had 4 hours of sleep, waking up to a nose bleed. Unfortunately I didn't get the cockroach last night. It escaped between the kitchen cabinets and where the dishes are being kept. I wish I had X-Ray vision so I can find it. I'm washing the whole section by hand where I spotted this thing. Dishwasher been broken for two years now.
The last time I spotted a cockroach in the cabinet it was the second shelf and I had dishwasher. That takes 4 cycles to wash everything.
I'll tell you another story later.
HELP!
I am taking a POLL:
How big {how many BTUs} is your furnace?
How many square feets do you have?
The reason I am taking this poll, is that the furnace guys and the "experts' at the Miller furnace dealer in Bingo town, have surmised that the reason we keep replacing parts on a "new" furnace {now 4-5 years old} is that we have an oversized furnace @ 100K BTUs for less than 910 Sqfeet if you allow for the deduction of the 2x6 walls is less than {our "box" is 14x65 {=910 sqft}} so really its 13x64 heated space so 832 sqft really. @ oversized, it is running too hot for it, and thusly burning out parts. It should be about 65K BTUs.
SO, naturally this firm wanst me to buy a new furnace, and we may just do it, with C/A this time. awaiting a call for the set up of the man to come out to give me an estimate.
So , I am asking y'all, so as to compare and see if the theory holds some water, or whether it is as above: they want to sell me a new one? SO: how big {BTus} is your furnace to heat how many sqft????
Just what we need. Just when I thought we might be getting ahead, this happens. More debt. But @ 36 intrest free, is still a car payment to us {About $180/month! assuming it is $6500. Ours was $3600 those years ago without A/c, and we were told A/c was about $3k more}
Dunno.
well that just bummed my day!
Ulrich: I sent you a PM. Did you get it?
Galaxy: Furnace? What's a furnace?
Richard
RideOnRoad Galaxy: Furnace? What's a furnace?
galaxy RideOnRoad Galaxy: Furnace? What's a furnace?
Some folks out here actually have a single unit that does both. (Not a shared blower unit, single unit.) It is basically a heat exchange unit, sending cold air in one direction and heat in the other. You swap the direction of the flow based on the time of year. They were popular years ago, but the issue is that they use significantly more electricity as a heater than a traditional heater, since you are, in effect, running an air conditioning compressor to create heat.
Galaxy,
Tell that furnace guy he's full of bs.
Mine is 185,000 BTU's, with central air. Aside from regular maintenance, filter's, little oil on the motor, clean the pilot vents, do that every year myself, have nothing gone bad in 15yrs. It's a Ducane.
Take Care!
Frank
BTW: Forgot: I live in a Cape Cod, with addition, finished attic, with dormer, that goes over addition. Never did figure square footage. Keep temp's. set 65/70 all year.
I'd get at least three quotes before I did anything. I personally have had nothing but bad luck and dissatisfaction with hvac guys.
Hope it works out. Let us know how you make out.
Derek
Richard,
I saw your PM and have sent you a reply!
Galaxy - I am no engineer, but I have a hunch that this guy told you a lot of BS. Each component of a furnace should be able to cope with the heat that thing produces, regardless of the sq.ft. you actually employ it for. If your furnaces is designed to heat a bigger area, so what - it only means it heats less sq.ft. in a shorter time. There should be actually less "wear and tear" on the unit.
Italian roast coffee in a SOUTHERN PACIFIC DAYLIGHT mug, please.I remember seeing a beautiful green loco at The National Museum of History in DC, a Pacific if memory serves me. That was probably close to 30 years ago. Enjoyed all the museums in the area. I could NEVER live in a city though.The MTH Southern Pacific cars are very nice looking. However, they arrived with close to a dozen loose detail parts (in the factory packaging), including one teeny tiny screw. WHY aren't such parts glued or better secured in place during the manufacturing process? Another thing, the MTH Daylight loco tender does not come with a coupler pre-mounted. That is (IMO) ridiculous! Lastly, if my passenger train was a real railroad, I would be out of business inside of a week with the occasional uncoupling issues. One of my barn cats has been missing now for several days. Not a good sign, as he is not a wanderer. I presume he met some ill fate. Keeping an eye out for vultures and my nose to the wind.
Going to see when I can get in to the dentist and have wisdom tooth pulled. Jaw hurts, probably another infection setting in.Healing thoughts for those in need.Cheers! Rob
Coal Delivery, Boiler room, and Chimney:
Inside the Power house Boilers 1 and 2:
Boiler 1 is fully decomissioned, disconnected and not on the insurance policy.
Here the new #3 boiler arrives... (I think I can, I think i can...)
I *knew* I could do it!
The new boiler has a far greater horse power than the older one, but of course it burns gas, where as the number 2 boiler burns coal. Coal is our primary fuel saving about $200 a day in heating bills over gas. The gas boiler is a back up and is used in the summer time when old number 2 is down for maintenance.
Once upon a time these boilers turned generataors that powered the town.Now they just idle along at 12 psi. But we do have a poer generator, just incase the municipal power goes out.
ROARING
Mornin'.... Ah, yep! Still morning here in the Finger Lakes for a few more minutes.
Currently 36°F under sunny skies. Little wheel down cellar is spinning very nicely so far today!
I have already moved one load of firewood over to my son's house this morning and taken down more pictures and moved a couple very special lamps out of the living room. The lamps are Alto Horns (similar to a French Horn) that my father made into lamps when he found out their history many years ago. He found them in a used instrument/repair shop on Rochester, NY. When he cleaned up the horns he found something inscribed on the bell of each. It read "Gift to the School of Music University of Rochester by George Eastman". These were given for the start up of the Eastman School of Music! They are now carefully stored until the living room has been rebuilt.
Hope to get the rest of the pile of firewood I never got stacked last Fall moved over to my Son's house today and then I need to change clothes and go to a Boy Scout Roundtable this evening. Nice to be retired and have so little to do....
Catch you all later! Oh, Ulrich, thanks for moving the diner for us!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Ooooh, I'm sore. Last night Tuesday Night Hockey moved to our summer schedule, starting half an hour earlier on the other rink. But, there was confusion with the schedule, and the ice time for both rinks ended at 10:10. So, we ended up playing an additional half-hour, for a total of 2 straight hours of hockey. We always include Joe the Zamboni guy in our apre-skate festivities and reward him with beer, cheese, crackers and pepperoni, so he gave us the extra time rather than the other guys.
I'm thinking about going up north for another round of skiing. It's Parrot Head weekend, the traditional end-of-season celebration. After that, they will be shutting down some of the lifts, although they plan to stay open with limited skiing until May 1st.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
V8Vega I got the idea Mr Otte wanted a no politics or other contriversal in the thread title. Jeffries Trackside Diner no contriversal topics. On the General Discussion page.
I got the idea Mr Otte wanted a no politics or other contriversal in the thread title. Jeffries Trackside Diner no contriversal topics. On the General Discussion page.
Nope. Just wanted people in this thread to avoid throwing out political provocations, however general (such as "that President" or "that Senate"), that the other side wouldn't be allowed to rebut.
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
How´s that for a new builder?
I bet this one has sufficient BTU´s to provide heat for all the homes in Galaxy´s park!
Hi, all. Haven't been here for a long time. Just a couple hot dogs and a coke for me.
Late fall through winter is usually model railroad season for me but this year I got a real late start because I was fixing up the house to maximize the appraisal for a reverse mortgage. That didn't get closed until mid February so I've been making up for lost time. Finally began my first ops session a few days ago. Still have some bugs to iron out both on the layout and in my operating scheme. I'm using car/cards and waybills and I'm going to have to rebalance the destinations so I don't end up with too many cars going to one place at the same time. I ended up with a 30 car (HO) train going into my staging yard and it wouldn't quite fit so I had to fiddle a few cars off the layout. I need to replace a number of switch machines. I use Atlas turnouts and components and I have a bad habit of leaning my big belly against the fascia. If you press those turnout controls for too long, you burn out the switch motor. My first indication I've done that is the smell of another switch motor being turned to toast. I'm working on intalling a guard rail to prevent that from happening.
Normally golf season signals then end of MR season for me but because the weather in Ohio has been so cold I haven't even had the desire to get the sticks out. That's good because it will extend what has been a very short MR season. Every year I promise myself I will spend some time in the train room during the summer and it never happens. This year will be different. Right. And Charlie Brown will finally kick the football.
Question:
Is a boiler a hot topic?
Heartland Division CB&Q Question: Is a boiler a hot topic?
I'm sure some folks would get all steamed up about it.......
BTW, why is there salt in the sugar bowl today?
Actually, while they all want to sell you something, He MAY NOT BE full of excrement.
I found a few online BTU calculators and one, for example comes up with a rating of just 58K and change BTUs needed for our home. Another has a chart for our climate zone and sq ft, the chart says 60K, and other one is a complex complicated formula {i THINK i got through all right} that comes up about 62K btus. SO NO, I don't think he is full of it. I think the 100K Btu might be a little much for 834 sqft. according to the chart, 100k btus should cover an 1801sqft to a 2500 sqft house!! Even 1801 is almost twice as much house!
I called both my father and FIL and asked {FIL just had a new one put in last year to the tune of $9500 for A/c, heat, filter-cleaner/humidifier unit one.} Neither one could right off hand tell what the BTUs for their much larger homes are, but my father has his running about 24/7 and still he is "freezing cold". {typical 1950s ranch with extra layers of insulation added to the attic years ago during oil embargo when he/we had oil heat. I was first on up in the morning{shocker there!} as a teen and I was ALLOWED To turn it UP to 58F!!!}. FIL keeps it high too, but he is cold, not freezing as he is always on the second main floor{third-its a split multi-level home}, where heat rises to. In either case I sweat like a stuck pig when i visit either one of them.
IF, and I say IF, I have to buy a new one , it WILL have central a/c in it.And yes, I/we will get 3 estimates, thought I won't ask the original company who screwed this up{in more ways than one} for one!
They are offering 36month interest free financing through Wells Fargo, how I did the last furnace. It will still be a hefty payment, though, as much I suspect as the last car payment we had {which might be half your car payment, mind you!}, which means for 3 years, I won't be able to put money into the "car fund" savings acount, which has no money in it anyway, really. oh well, we shall see on friday afternoon what the man has to say. We may try to delay until next year, and pay for repairs through next winter, as we may not have a choice!
later
Hi Guys:
If a furance component fails, you should be able to get it replaced, not the whole unit.
I had it explained to me by an electrican going to put in a couple of baseboard heaters for me that the reason you want the right size is that bigger costs more. Bigger meaning more BTUs. You want enough to heat on the coldest day expected or historically observed in your area, plus a small reserve. A bigger unit costs more to purchase, and cycles on and off more frequently, leaving more residual heat in the fire box to go up the chimmey.
So three quotes, with advice and options to repair/replace from quoter.
I'll go away for a few months now.
Dave
davidmurray So three quotes, with advice and options to repair/replace from quoter. I'll go away for a few months now. Dave
Back when Steve Thomas was still the host of This Old House, he made an appearance at the Home and Garden Show in Columbus, Oh. He told the audience that the best way to estimate the cost of a home improvement project was to get three estimates. That will give you a high, a medium, and a low. Add them all together and that will be your total cost.