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Posted by saronaterry on Saturday, April 18, 2015 4:50 PM

Good Satuday afternoon, Diners! 66f and gorgeous sunshine. Yesterday was even better! Took the bike out with some buddies, first ride of the year. Alas, rain, snow and colder next 2 days. I hope they are wrong.

Had some guys over for an ops session couple weeks ago. Everything went well! Ran some open turnouts, but that was it! Not bad for 4 guests that are NOT model RR's.

 Here's a run -by for Garry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBF9EfvtdCo

 

 Hope things are good/better/looking up for all!

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Posted by saronaterry on Saturday, April 18, 2015 4:54 PM

Well that didn't work!

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Posted by howmus on Saturday, April 18, 2015 5:19 PM

saronaterry

Well that didn't work!

Lets try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBF9EfvtdCo

73

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Posted by saronaterry on Saturday, April 18, 2015 5:43 PM

Thanks, Ray. Don't know why it didn't work. Did the same as I've always done. Oh, well.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Saturday, April 18, 2015 6:52 PM

Good evening.

Terry .... I watched the video. It looks great ! 

Todd .. In case you are looking in. It's time for the Toddland report. ... Also, you may recall we talked about the bait shop pizza here. The place has been closed for several months, and the property is owned by the highway department. Bulldozers  are pnly about a 1/2 mile up the road and getting closer. Soon it will be history. 

Mr. B ... Speaking of smoking, when I was a kid my "friends" urged me to smoke as they did. I took one puff, and that was all for me. The flavor was awful. I did not understand why anyone would like such a terrible flavor in their mouth. I never tried it again. ...

 

Happy Model Railroading, everybody. 

 

 

 

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Posted by angelob6660 on Saturday, April 18, 2015 7:11 PM

Evening Diners,

Don't worry smoking isn't for everybody Garry and I don't do it neither. Hey Terry I saw the video and it was very good. I forgot to wish Happy Birthday to Frank yesterday.  Everyone else who's having MOH Ulrich, Galaxy, JohnBoy, and everyone else who needs help.

It's been a boring day today. I caught up watching Hell's Kitchen and Season 5 of Royal Pains today.

I'll call the post office on Monday since I can't call them tomorrow, it's their day off.

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Posted by galaxy on Sunday, April 19, 2015 3:05 AM

GOOD SUNDAY MORNING!

APril 19th, 2015!

for those in need:

healing energies,

Positive thoughts, go

out your way, the

candles are lit

MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!

Geeked

-G .

Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.

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Posted by BRAKIE on Sunday, April 19, 2015 6:37 AM

Good morning all from the land of Buckeyes..

Yesterday evening I went railfaning and seen 13 trains in 4 1/2 hours.. Not bad at all. Modeling wise I finally got around to adding stacks and vents to my industrial buildings yesterday morning. A simple project..I used Walthers roof detail kit.I painted these parts old silver several days ago with high hopes of adding them after they dried.Oh well..High hopes do fade. My next project is adding Walthers dust collectors to Standard Plastics.

Not much on tap for today other then going to the club.

I shall have a cup and look over the forum.

Have a good'un!  Thumbs Up

Larry

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Sunday, April 19, 2015 8:04 AM

Good morning.

 

Larry .. Glad you are having fun railfanning and also adding details to buildings. 

Yesterday had good weather and we focussed on doing outside work. Today's rain means inside activities which should include the model railroad. 

 

GARRY

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Posted by Cederstrand on Sunday, April 19, 2015 9:00 AM

Extra strong Italian Roast coffee with a pinch of coal dust in a STORMY SOUTHERN mug, please and thank you.

***Terry, nice vids!Thumbs Up

Lost my most beautiful cat, Yinyang a few days ago. She was an older bengal, very easy going and sweet. She was never the same after being spayed and wasn't my oldest cat. Perhaps some kind of cancer or something. RIP, Yinyang.

No work yet on the new layout benchwork. Have the lumber sitting with bricks on it so it won't warp a lot before I get it all cut up, then glued and screwed together. Still looking forward to it.

Line of thunder boomers heading this way for early afternoon. The farm is already a soggy mud fest. Weeds are in full swing and it's too muddy to brushcut them. Going to try a weed spray in a week or so that claims it is safe for all types of livestock, including horses. (I still won't have my horses out on any area I spray for a couple weeks though).

That's it from the ol' farm. Hope everyone is doing well.

Cheers! Cowboy Rob

 

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Sunday, April 19, 2015 9:03 AM

saronaterry

Well that didn't work!

 

 

 

Humph... Seems to work for me.

 

Nice! About 18 miles per hour.

HUMPH... My subway trains run at about 50 mph, and that is too fast for the NYCT. Maybe I should try to slow them down. 35 is about the top the ever do now, but in older days 45 to 50 would have been about just right.

 

 

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Sunday, April 19, 2015 9:08 AM

Smoking?

There is no way I could ever quit smoking.

 

 

 

 

Perhaps because I have never started.

I tried givving up smoking for Lent, but the Abbot just laughed at me, said Nice try, pick something else.

 

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Posted by Mr. Dispatcher on Sunday, April 19, 2015 9:19 AM

Going to try a weed spray in a week or so that claims it is safe for all types of livestock, including horses. (I still won't have my horses out on any area I spray for a couple weeks though).

Why spray just get some hungry goats (wait goats are always hungry)Big Smile

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Sunday, April 19, 2015 9:33 AM

BroadwayLion
I tried givving up smoking for Lent, but the Abbot just laughed at me, said Nice try, pick something else.

For several years, when my Mom asked what I was giving up for Lent, I would think for a minute and say "Chewing gum."  I think my thought process involved something like, "I don't chew gum, but this worked last year."

Bright, sunny Sunday morning here, but only about 50 degrees.  I'd like to get in a bike ride, but that's a bit chilly.  It's supposed to warm up to 57, so maybe later.

The MOW tank car needs another coat to cover the Texaco lettering.  I found some brake parts from some Tichy box car kits, so I'll use those under this tank car.

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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Posted by howmus on Sunday, April 19, 2015 11:01 AM

Mornin' folks!

Chloe, just a a refill for my R&GV RR Mug please.

Sun is out so far today...  Going to get cloudy this afternoon according to the weather guessers.  Yesterday was a nice bright day and the solar panels kicked out 26.55 kWh of electric.  Always love to have a day when they make more electric than I use...

Another week I will have to get the lawn mower out and start keeping the grass in check...  According to the contractor the living room will be pretty much done by the end of this week.  Then I can decide on wall color and start looking at furniture.  Will be nice to get some of the stuff out of my dining room/office and back out in the living room as well.

Catch you all later!

73

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, April 19, 2015 11:50 AM

Afternoon Folks!

Lots of sunshine at this side of the Big Pond, too! Not really warm, but actually quite the way I like it. I must have polar bear blood in my veins!

The sunny weather revived my spirits a little. I try not to think about what most certainly lays ahead of me. Like Martin Luther said "If I knew tzhe world to end tomorrow, I´d plant an apple tree today".

I am not much into MRRing these days, though I miss it. I am still trying to find ways to build a little layout, just to have something to play with.

Janie, supper time is coming up here, so I´ll go for a Barry-sized burger, fries, a side dish of mixed salad and an RBF, if you please...

Have a great one!

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Posted by up831 on Sunday, April 19, 2015 12:35 PM

Good Afternoon Diners,

Just a quick note, so Brunhilda, just a cup of coffee with lots of cream, please.

Not a lot to report train wise.  Still enjoying my acquisitions from the train show last week.  I'm going to have to go to that more often, but then again, all I can do there is look at trains and spend money.Big Smile  

When I was young I irreverently would say that for lent I gave up watermelon and enchiladas.  I don't say such things anymore.

i hope everyone is OK, safe, and warm.

Less is more,...more or less!

Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)

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Posted by angelob6660 on Sunday, April 19, 2015 12:56 PM

Hey Ulrich I found a track plan that Lance Mindheim made. It's small in size 12"x48".

Type Lance Mindheim track plans and you'll find a track plan that covered around water with a industrial scene. I typed the website, but it don't work.

I changed a little bit off the original plan and made it into a Merchandise Industrial terminal for the New York Central. It can hold up to 7 cars and a diesel engine. I'm going to try to build it without interfering with my modern era. 

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, April 19, 2015 1:35 PM

I already have my "dream" layout - based on track I already have. At the end of last year, I bought some used Minitrix track and switches for a projected N scale layout. The N scale stuff is mostly gone, but I still have some leftover track, a HOn30 loco given to me by a friend, and some cars to go with it.

Some time this year I will have saved up a sufficient amount of "nickles and dimes" to by the lumber for the benchwork. I mean that literally, whatver is left in small change goes into a piggy bank named "layout". Bills go into the piggy bank named "Glasses"...

Well, here is my layout idea:

It´s a modular set-up, which fits on that cut down hollow core door I have put up on the wall. The setting is a narrow gauge line serving a northern German coastal town on an Island descriptively named "Schietwedderooge", or "Bad Weather Island".

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Posted by angelob6660 on Sunday, April 19, 2015 1:57 PM

I thought you might wanted something a little smaller. Don't worry I like your dream layout.

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Posted by JeremyB on Sunday, April 19, 2015 2:00 PM

Hi Guys

Went to a train show this morning. It was very busy, there was quite a lineup. I managed to pick up twn freight cars and some micro sol and set. There were also some great running layouts. Nothing like a train show to get the juices flowing again. It will probably be the last show around here now until the Fall.

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Posted by saronaterry on Sunday, April 19, 2015 5:40 PM

Good Suday afternoon, diners! 58f and cloudy. Yuck.

Thank you Brother Elias for putting up my video! That is what I was trying to do. For some reason the usual way I use to post Youtube vids didn't work! Thanks again!!!

I 'll try it one more time. Get ready to fix it, Lion? Ha!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_semr7VvVk

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Posted by Cederstrand on Sunday, April 19, 2015 5:45 PM

Coffee refill, please.

***Mr. Dispatcher, I used to raise pygmy goats. Had LOTS of them. They never could dent the weeds during the growing season. And the worst part was when a few got into my orchard and basically killed a bunch of apple trees by chewing the bark off. Only took them about 15 minutes to do all the damage. I sold them and haven't missed them a single day since. DevilCute little critters, but never again for me.

***Ulrich, layout design looks good!

Cheers! Cowboy Rob

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Posted by cudaken on Sunday, April 19, 2015 7:00 PM

 Evening Dinners

 Flo, Beer Please

 Sorry I have been MIA a few days, just nothing fun to talk about.

 Work Front It has had me in the dump the last two days. Found out that Cary is being let go because we are losing money, yet the Idot Dave is keeping his job? On a per sales stand point, I would have picked Cary as well. He is not that great and has the lowest sales so that I understand. Dave is still good at sales, but is just totaly lost on every thing eles!

 Paul the GM and all the other staff wanted to let Dave go! But Nancy (owner wife) thinks Dave is great! Sad But, she is a ding-bat in her own right.

 I have two main worries.

 1 I have busted my hump getting the store straight and clean. Cary was covering my store 2 days a week. Last thing I want is to have Dave in there when I am not! Then there is the Power Struggle, I don't think anyone has told Dave he is not still the Manager yet? Whistling

 2 If we are doing that badly how much longer will I have a job? Marv (owner) is starting to fix the store front up, and he is cheap! Where the store is and it sizes fixed up some it could bring in $1.5 too $2 million dollars.

 Well I am out of here tonight and will drop by Monday.

 Ken

 

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Posted by howmus on Sunday, April 19, 2015 7:22 PM

Evenin' folks!,

Janie. I'll have the BBQ chicken, a spring salad, and some fried parsnips for dinner tonight...  I'll finish off with a slice of the rhubarb pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top.

Been a nice day here in  the Finger Lakes with the sun staying out all day.  We are supposed to have some rain tonight but it was a beautiful day here.  I just got this announcement and thought I would pass it on to all of you.  Especdially since i know several of you are bicycle riders and hikers and like to vist the parks and forests around.  Do be safe and watch out, please!

I'm going to disappear down to the train rooms for about an hour...

later!

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Sunday, April 19, 2015 7:56 PM

saronaterry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_semr7VvVk

You have it exactly correct, but do not post it in your post like that. Instead use the tool button above that looks like a movie frame. click on that  and put it in te box marked source, then click OK.

 

 Looks like about 40 mph if those first six cars are 50'

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Posted by JAMES MOON on Sunday, April 19, 2015 11:12 PM

Goodevening, spent yesterday attending a dance competition as my granddaughter's dance recital conflicts with mid-regional NMRA convention in Lexington which I have already signed up for and made motel reservations.  My granddaughter had a great day winning best solo in her age division of 24 dancers.  Glad we went and stayed through the awards ceremony.  She was really thrilled to win.  A couple of the other girls on her team also won in their divisions and one girl from the team was the overall winner.  On the train front, spiked down some more rail.  My butt joints are looking better with more practice and the use of the mini-grinder to square up the ends where the track butts together.

Howmus, enjoyed the excellent bear joke.  My other daughter would appreciate it also as they had a black bear decide to den under the deck of their cabin in the western Maryland highlands.  DNR successfully convinced the bear to pick another hibrenation location without eating the bells or pepper spray.

Time for some zzz's

Jim

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Posted by BRAKIE on Monday, April 20, 2015 6:31 AM

Good morning all!

Not much to report from the land of Buckeyes other then its another typical Ohio spring day--cloudy.

I never did make it to the club yesterday thanks to my arthritis in my lower back  flaring up due to the wet weather and change of seasons.I did manage to watch two Pentrex videos-Conrail Hot Spots East and Street Running.Not much on my agenda for today other then watching rail cameras this morning.

I shall have a cup and look over the forum.

Have a good'un.

Larry

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Monday, April 20, 2015 7:51 AM

good morning

exsqueese the lack of capitolization....but the little spring is snugged up on my other arm....and i is typing single finger stylee here.

not much but dull, showery coolishness here.

gonna spend the day out at the mall with friends and seeing my doctor...again.

chloe....i'll have a couple of 4 litre iv bags of boot coffee and a bagel please.

i'll be at the rc with a sleeping arm here...

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...

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Monday, April 20, 2015 8:22 AM

Ray .... Thanks for the warning. LOL .... Grin and bear it. 

Jim .... A big congratulations to your granddaughter for her winning at the dancing competition. 

Barry .... Sounds like Spring has a mind of his own. (Or is Spring a female?) 

Larry ... I hope the back pain was only temporary. 

Ken ... Sounds like an ongoing problem at work. That Dave should have been fired already. . I like the photo of Santa Fe freight F-units. 

 

My plans for the model railroad were interrupted by an unexpected home repair yesterday. Our closets have the wire type shelving which is attached to drywall. One of the shelves is designed so you hang clothes from it as well as putting things on top. The shelf had too much stuff on it and pulled itself off of the wall along with another shelf which came down with it. So, I'm working on that. I am patching holes, and next I will repaint walls. Then I will re-install the shelves. We won't put as much stuff back in the closet when the repair is complete.  

Happy model rairloading, everybody 

 

GARRY

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