Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of Buttermilk Pancakes with real NYS Maple Syrup, a couple sausage links, and lots of Marrakesh Express dark roast coffee for my R&GV RR Mug. Thank you Ma'am!
Already went down cellar and found the siphon needed to be started.... I guess the rain a couple days ago has soaked down in and has the water flowing into the Basement again.... I have a Dermatologist Appt. mid afternoon today. Then I/m going to head to Rochester early for the evening meeting at RIT for the Convention Committee. I plan to swing by the Hotel/Motel that I will be staying at for the Convention so I will know the route and exactly how long it should take to get from there to RIT during the convention. Since there are no rooms available in Rochester itself, I will be staying in one of the suburbs and it will take about a half hour drive to get to RIT I think.... Want to know the route so I don't take a wrong turn when I am pressed for time! I'll grab supper at a Subway near RIT and go charge my PiP at the charging stations at RIT while I have dinner and wait for others to show up...
Mr. B, I like your style of excersize! I need to get back to walking a mile or so every morning, and simply walking around the neighborhood just doesn't excvite me..... Don't think I would be safe anymore on ice skates... been about 25 years since I have had a pair on. As a teenager I was big time into Roller Skating and Jazz skating for several years. There was a time when I thought nothing of putting a 65lb. backpack on my back and hiking 5 or 6 miles up a mountain to go camping with the troop.... Today I couldn't make that far on the level with that much weight on my back. Probably could do that even without any backpack on my back.... Old age is catching up top me I guess.
Catch you all later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Ohhhhh, I'm sore. But, being sore on a Wednesday morning usually means I played a good game of hockey on Tuesday night. Over the past 10 days I've had 2 days of skiing, 2 hockey games, 3 more days of skiing and another hockey game. Despite the doctor's orders to get some exercise every day, I think I'm going to take today off and recuperate. Maybe put in some window screens this afternoon. Retirement is great. I feel like a new man.
angelob6660Do you have those feelings when your buying trains for the main layout and than buy more trains in different eras?
Oh, yes indeed. I was a committed Late Transition Era guy, 4 axle diesels but still cabeese. Then one day, I was smitten with a bad case of steam. Not only did I come home with an 0-6-0, I'd also fallen in love with sound. My quiet, well-defined time frame is now a noisy mish-mash of steamers, diesels and even a GG-1. I will eventually clean this up and run one era or the other, with the other equipment (and automobiles) stashed away, but for now I'm doing trackwork and I want to keep a bit of everything around for testing the track as I lay it down.
Best wishes to you all.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good morining.
Angelbob ... That's an impressive list of RR's and eras.
Vincent ... Interesting about decoders. I installed defective decoders with in some B-units. Sounds like your bosses like you more than you like them.
Ken ... I like that photo taken at St L RR Museum.
JohnBoy ... Hope you will eventually eat what what you dream about.
Ray ... Your scenery looks very good.
Last two evenings we went to the Rotary Club Auction. The auction will be each evening all week, and it raises money for education. .... We bid on stuff we could use and stuff we probably would not use. .... We did not bid on the squirrel skinner.
I finally completed all of the tax returns I was doing for people. Now I should have more model railroad time ........ except for ..... (yep, you guessed it) ... Honey Do !
Happy model railroading, everybody.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Morning guys
Haven't been in lately cause I've been too busy with multiple jobs and working on things. Now I do have some time, but the things I wanted to get done outside can't really be done now. Or for the next week according to the weather people. 100% chance of rain for the next 7 days... Glad I live on a hill...
Work threw me a kind of curve ball though. The 2 incompetent bosses I had at one of the places I work got transfered to another store. Well they apparently decided to drag me with them without asking, and didn't even tell me till the day before I'm supposed to start at the new place. I happen to think the place runs a lot better without those 2 here cause they both got replaced (and the replacement actually know what she is doing). There is a reason why I said 2 incompetent bosses; they combined to make a schedule, and not only cut my hours way down, they scheduled me only on days or at time I told them I can't work.
I actually did get some work on trains done. I have a custom-painted ex-GN SD7 that I had a TCS A4X with an MRC sounder for sound. Well the sounder lost it's bell, and my ABBA of SP F-units* had 2 Soundtraxx Tsunamis, so I decided why not swap on of the F-units sound decoders into the SD7. It worked partially, but it turns out the decoder that came with the F-units' output is 3 volts. It wouldn't work with the 1.5v bulb I use for beacons. So I had to order a resistor; and thus, the unit is kinda shelved for a bit.
*that one just kinda happened when I was picking up F-units, I ended up with and SP ABA set, and I had gotten a free ATSF F3B I couldn't use, so it got spray canned to match
Bob, I'm actually doing BN in the late 70's early 80's. My 70's holdouts are ALCOs, but then I have a GP15-1 which is an 80's (Frisco acquisition) unit.
Ulrich, Good luck there, hopefully it's nothing major.
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.
Today's word:
He switches from loud, effervescent,to moody and strangely quiescent.Mom, don’t be alarmed.It’s just part of the charmof a newly-arrived adolescent.
In the old days a small catacombWas the papal retirement homeBut now that’s too gloomyThey want something roomyAn alcove in airy St. Peter’s dome.
When Moses said “Time to perambulate”The Hebrews had no time to calculateThey grabbed all their breadFrom the ovens and fledWhich explains, dear, the matzo ball soup you ate.
Moving on:
“Here’s how we can Democrats expurgateWe’ll go and break into the Watergate!”The thought made him giddyThat’s G. Gordon LiddyAlas, ‘twas his boss he’d obliterate.
The fight caused quite the hoopla,Between the batter and southpaw,One punch to the mandible,Which was oh so frangible,So hence the expression, “glass jaw”.
-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.
angelob: do you get the TRAINS historical magazines?
I have really only wanted to model 1 line, the B&O and all incarnates. That gave me so simple.complex steam, to transition, to modern and ALL> I could "pick an era" and stick to it.
That was my plan, however, yours may vary by track mileage. Yours may vary.
Ah, well, I have collected odd bits of equipment and only once did get credit for getting the "right thing"...I can be "harder"on myself for an error than on MOH for not knowing something.BUT all things can work out and I am not such a disciplinarian that I can't have tollerances.
Its my railroad and I'll run it my way.
Do you have those feelings when your buying trains for the main layout and than buy more trains in different eras?
Is accuses many times thru the years. I buy railroad equipment for the modern era and then buy different freight cars for the 1980-90s. Then again for the 1950s and perhaps 1960s thru 1970s (if I can find a railroad I like to model the 1970s another than my favorite passenger train Amtrak.)
Here's my list in different eras:
Southern Pacific: "1940s during the war?" Or somewhere in between.
New York Central: 1957-1965 (sometimes I think about running more steam in the 1940s)
Santa Fe: Fall of 1956 in Kansas.
Union Pacific: 1957 in Nebraska.
Penn Central: 1969
1970-present: Amtrak
Burlington Northern: (late 70s or early 80s?)
Santa Fe: (1975 or around there to the present 1995)
Conrail and CSX: 1987-89
Conrail/CSX/BNSF/NS/UP: 1998-2007
*Some other railroads include BO, CO, ACL, NW, SOU, GN, CBQ, CS, SCL, DRGW. It's not my fault! I want to model almost every railroad, but I'm trying really hard to stay within 2007. My collecting is almost done well not really I got 1/4 gone. I started buying auto racks.
Don't be surprised if I start talking about different railroads other than the main one. I love reading about history during those/these times. I'm a complete railfan.
Good night diners talk to tomorrow morning. Bye.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
cudaken galaxy Hmmm....YOU'RE disgusted with life? ANd how your life is going? Try mine. Galaxy Lets no go down that road OK. You have problems, and I have mine.
galaxy Hmmm....YOU'RE disgusted with life? ANd how your life is going? Try mine.
Galaxy Lets no go down that road OK. You have problems, and I have mine.
Ken: That was a sympathy/commiseration line, NOT a direct comparison!
Hence, the reason I followed it with the quote "Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you."- Charlotte Whitton
And the "when you are down at the bottom, you can only go up^" line.
That was all meant as "I feel and understand your pain, brother, here is a quote to help ease it: ...."
Or as In: "Cheer up buddy..."
Just Like you have done for me all along with the situation of late....
Sorry if you mistook/misunderstood it!
Gold Afternoon Diners,
Flo, I'll have my usual humongusoid cup of coffee with lots of cream, please.
Just relaxing before taking a sanctioned nap. Have to pick up MOH at airport from visiting sister at midnight.
Ken: that looks like a nice layout. Looks like double track main for continuous running with separated industrial for switching. Would you plan to have frequent visitors?
Ulrich: I sincerely hope everything works out alright for you and that you can be Cured.
Dennis: The other side of that is they don't send out the SWAT team unless they think they might NEED one. Whoever they were after for whatever reason had the potential of making the evening news! Hey, I could have watched the vid on my KTLA app! :):)
i hope everyone is OK and safe.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
V8VegaI found out it was LAPD Swat Team, they rammed the guys gate to get in the fenced yard and they had the street closed off.
I thought you were going to say that the vicious neighborhood dog had gotten caught in the dumpster and the police came to let him out so he could do more damage.
I still remember one of the biggest police stories in our town, the one that made the front page of the weekly paper: Town Police Assist Air Force Security in Apprehending Pig. It seems that yet another one those cute little Vietnamese pot-belly pigs had grown to adolesence and the owners realized it was no longer cute or little, so they let it go. It had found the Air Force base and was romping on the runways, a situation for which the Air Force had no training, so they called in the pros.
Eveing Dinners
Flo, Beer please.
Just sitting here and sipping and watching the trains and trying to forget my problems.
galaxyHmmm....YOU'RE disgusted with life? ANd how your life is going? Try mine.
Track Plan I wish I had made the plan, one of the guys here at the site made it for me. It is on 3D Plan It and the photo does not do it justest. In 3D you can see more rails hidden under the montain and the grades. Has 2 main lines and a brach line. You can see only part of the branch line.
Urich I am in your round house and God Speed. Hope you can stay in touch with us here at the dinner.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Afternoon all, the weather finally broke here- or should I say unbroke, it's self. Its finally nice outside and stopped snowing.
Work's been interesting, and people really do like to cause trouble for no reason.
I had a serious cold/illness. It was a cold with a sore throat,headache,and congestion. My entire chest was clogged, and with my asthma I could barely breathe. If I wasn't in my 20s, I would have gone to the hospital instead of work
I'm looking at an airbrush to purchase for my models, and have started putting in DCC decoders easier than before.
I'm still looking at college/tech for a career, but I do plan to go. I also got a decent bit back for my refund- savings,car maintaince fund, fun fund.
Have a great day all. Healing thoughts sent to those who need them.
(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).
Afternoon diners,
That might be a good tip I'll remember to look and discuss the next time I go get some foam.
Take care of yourself Ulrich, don't freak out.
JAMES MOONMr. Beasley, I took me a good five years to finally gear down to retirement mode after actually retiring. Your wife needs time to adjust to a different pace of life just like me.
I don't think she has any notion of learning to relax, Jim. What I have to teach her is that I am not a "resource" that she can assign tasks to, just because I'm home.
I got very accustomed to retirement "my way" while she was in Florida, and I kind of liked it. Having an agenda is not in my plans.
Happy lunchtime, diners. Its a grey, overcast day in SE Ohio. More water in the basement this morning after last night's rain. I have four contractors lined up to give estimates to fix the problem over the next two weeks. Just wonder whether I can afford the fix.
Mr. Beasley, I took me a good five years to finally gear down to retirement mode after actually retiring. Your wife needs time to adjust to a different pace of life just like me.
Ulrich, hope you have good outcome on your upcoming treatments.
Time for a yogurt, my standard lunch and then lay some more track after I shop vac the wet spots.
Jim
Sir Madog -the third one says malignant. I´ll be in Hamburg at the University Hospital for further checks and possible treatments on Friday. I don´t want to take any chances.
-the third one says malignant.
I´ll be in Hamburg at the University Hospital for further checks and possible treatments on Friday. I don´t want to take any chances.
Ulrich, you know what I mean.
I am very sorry to hear this news. But rest assured they are doing great work these days and I hope you will come flying through this much quicker than Flip and I.
You will be in our prayers and I am sure Galaxy will have a candle lit on your behalf.
I was to Saskatoon yesterday for a follow-up on my hospital stay there in March. All looks well in regard to my right lung. it is healing nicely, but not quite there yet. I have gained three pounds back and will continue to work on that. The Doc left it up to me in regard to continuing with the dilation therapy and I should contact her when I have my strength and weight back to let her know my descion. Right now there is no swallowing where before after the second treatment I had some ability. It's goofy I know, but lately I have started to dream about eating and swallowing a number of my favorite foods.
Best of luck Buddy,
Johnboy out........................and still healing. Back to work part time on May 4th. In the mean time, a trip to Montana for a few days.
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Ulrich, I was afraid that is what you were saying..... You are right to agressively treat it and get it done with! You will be in my constant prayers for a good outcome with this.
Ray -the third one says malignant.
Galaxy - no, no trading in of the old body of mine. It´ll have to do until the end of the days. May that be a long time from now.
Good morning, all. May you feel well-rested. I am looking forward to warmer weather after this long and cold winter. The skis, boots and poles are secure in their locker until next season, most of the snow is gone from my yard, and I'm giving some thought to re-taping the handlebars on my bicycle. But, well, no rush.
Now that the wife is back from Florida, she was talking about "getting back on a program." I hope not. The whole idea of retirement is to step off the treadmill, not climb back on and crank it up. She's already filling up the schedule with appointments and dinner plans.
Zoe, I'll have the #2 special, over easy eggsw, bacon, home fries, and a double order of the sourdough toast (that stuff is goooooooood!). Please put on a 20 cup pot of Marrakesh Expressw dark roast for me too. Ah.... Yes, mu FGLK mug would do nicely.
Already been out getting some things corrected. Took the box of syringes over to the vet to see what she thought... She took one look and said, "No way should you use those!" She brought out the ones they use and it is even smaller than the ones I have been using. She said the 50 unit (1/2CC) ones are OK if I feel comfortable with them but not the 100 unit (1CC) ones he gave me. Even showed my what she wrote and she had written it for the .30CC ones. Also gave an opned bag she right there. Went to the Pharmacy and the owner said, you know I thought they might not work for right after you left yesterday. He gave me those as they are considerably cheaper than the smaller ones. He replaced them at no cost to me. He also has a box of the ones the Vet recomends that have been sitting on the shelf since he bought the store a few years ago. Those he will use to do the next refill and will give them to me at his cost.
Ulrich, glad the results came back as benign! Hope the 3rd place just has gotten back yet and that will be benign as well. Hopefully the spot in the throat will be able to be removed with no trouble for you. Keep a positive outlook my friend! I know it is tough, but......
Lots of pounding going on out in the living room at the moment.... May be putting up drywall.
Lots and lots of STUFF to get done done today. best get going on it!
Sir Madog Well, I received my verdict. Two out of three labs say benign. There is also a spot in my throat which will require attention. I may follow Johnboy. No, I am not a happy camper these days.
Well, I received my verdict. Two out of three labs say benign. There is also a spot in my throat which will require attention. I may follow Johnboy.
No, I am not a happy camper these days.
Ulrich: Sorry to hear of your troubles. At least my recent medical ones were solved easily by surgery {well at least the right shoulder, the left on may not recuperate so fast or well}.
Once, when I was in the ER for pneumonia, they were trying to get an IV started. They could not find a good usable vein to get the IV started in. After STABBING my muscles 5 times, MOH went off on the nurse who was administering it. The Dr came by, and MOH left so as to not get thrown out. The nurse said MOH was shouting at her to stop and she 'couldn't do her work'. I said "I am the patient, and I am telling you to STOP." {they have 3 chances or you can refuse}.
The Dr asked if she could try. I said "OK, but if you stab me too, I will call a halt to it" She HAD NO success either! she said to me "you need new veins, do yourself a favor and go down to 7/11 {a convenience store/gas station chain here} and buy yourself some new veins!" SO, ULRICH, Do yourself a favor and go buy a new body!
Morning Folks!
Running a train helps to get my mind of what may come.
No, Janie, nothing for me this morning, not even coffee. A little later, maybe...
Ride on ROad: often times Drs. DO know what they are talking about, sometimes WE know our bodies better than they do, and the Drs don't listen to us, but in your case, I'd listen to the Dr and SHUT UP!
{just think of Johnboy who can't even swallow anything he puts in to his mouth!}
cudaken Pretty muched discussed with life today! No real reason, well besides how my life is going later.
Pretty muched discussed with life today! No real reason, well besides how my life is going later.
Hmmm....YOU'RE disgusted with life? ANd how your life is going? Try mine...
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
BUT, maybe at least mine may be Looking up? You can only go UP^^ when you are at the bottom!
I will contact the counselor the Dr recommended.
So much for one night's proper sleep and being off the insomnia train!
I am up now after just 1.5 hours of fitful sleep!
Goodevening diners, Another nice spring day in SE Ohio, however, it is raining a little right now. The basement dried out enough to go back to work on the layout. Spiked down my first scratched built turnout tonight and the metal wheel test truck runs through the frog both directions without derailing. Glued down the ties for the second turnout for the wye under construction.
I will probably pay for working in the basement with 70% relative humidity as it will no doubt bother my allergy problem.
Ken, that is a pretty neat track plan.
Time for some zzzz's
Evenin' once again...
Janie a refill on the decaf would be nice...
Ken, I like the track plan.
Angelob, and other tip is to talk to some local contractors. They aften will break a sheet or two and simply throw it in the dumpster.... Might get it free even...
Even though I have been quite busy with other things, I did get to do a bit more scenery on the layout at Keuka Creek. Couple quick photos:
An overview...
Time to get to bed... Prayers for all in need!
Evening Dinners
Flo, please.
Pretty muched discussed with life today! No real reason, well besides how my life is going lately.
angelob6660After dropping him off I went to Home Depot to see if they had foam insulation board and they had.
Angelob Little savings tip. When buy insulation foam, see if you can find some that are damaged. Ask for the deparment head and ask for a dicount! Contractors will normally past the damaged sections up. I usually save 75% on the damaged sections. I think the last 2" 4X8 cost me like $7.00 or so. But I was cutting it up anyway so what the heck.
UP 831 That was a old idea I was playing with but will not be the next layout. If life ($) ever turns around this is the layout I would like to build.
Good evening all! I'm back from the last ski weekend of the season. There's still a significant amount of snow, but with bright blue skies and temperatures in the 60s, it was very hard to ski and we only lasted a few hours each day.
It looks like we'll have temperatures in the 60s for a while, so I will be on my bicycle this week. This will be fun. Finally, I can choose to ride when I want and not be confined to weekends and the high-traffic and high-temperature hours after work.
We finally started watching all those TV shows we've recorded over the last few months while Penny's been in Florida. Nothing quite like those shieldmaidens on Vikings.
Evenin' folks!
Janie, decaf........ just a cup of decaf..... Thanks!
Ahhhhhhhh.... Long day. Spent most of here at the computer handling a bunch of questions about the convention, most of which I had no idea of the answer, so writing emails to other people whom I hope will know. Took Blackie to the vet for his blodd sugar check. it was 159 (late afternoon). Vet loofed at the reading and got very excited... she said "WOW! that is womderful for this time of day.... In fact it is just a bit lower than we woiuld ideally like, but....." She also had to write a paper prescription for more syringes for him. I took Blackie back home and went down to the Pharmacy. He filled the RX. and I headed home. When I gort home I opened the new box of needles and.... they are twice the size (in capacity) of the ones I have now. I imagine they can be used, but it will be harder to give Blackie the exact dose... I will take one of the old ones and one of the new ones down to the pharmosy tomorrow and ask. The RX sticker on the box reads exactly the same as the one on the old box. He may have just given me the wrong size.... I dunno?
High today was 80°F!!!!!!!!!!!! Nice!
The flooding in the basement appears to be coming to an end. I will start the siphon right before bed tonight and see what is going on tomorrow. On the Rebuild, much progress got done today. The rest of the old sheetrock got taken off the North wall and the place cleaned up. Then the insulation was put in. The contractor also removed the old North door and replaced it with new. that is done aqnd locked for the night. The new sheetrock will be installed tomorrow, both wall and ceiling. By then he hopes to have the go ahead from the insurance company to remove the siding and replace the partical board used with new plywood. Then the facia boards will be replaced and the siding put back up. Lucky I have the leftover panels down cellar saved from when the siding was installed about a decade ago. Here is a shot I took today for insurance purposes:
RideOnRoad...... Shhhh! Save your voice, will ya!
Catch you later!