Over 5 hours since my last post!
Well, I was hoping for some company here, but now it´s too late for the day - i am heading for the hay!
CU all tomorrow!
Edit: I got TOPS! Janie, here is my CC - put whatever these chowhounds will have for the rest of the day on my tab, will ya, sweetheart?
Afternoon Folks!
I am not a happy camper today! My ear is acting up and I won´t be able to see a doc about it before coming Thursday. I hope it´s not too late by then.
Garry - yes, it is a lovely station. Faller has a kit, which is only available in Switzerland. I don´t understand why, as there are plenty of model railroaders in germany modeling Swiss prototype, resp. Rhaetian Railway prototype. I am lucky to have a friend in Switzerland who had sent that kit last Christmas. I was able to assemble it before my stroke struck.
Just for the fun of it, I did some more detailing of my drawings! I have added signals, the overhead wire, a fountain, the last missing building the prototype location has, changed the color of the buildings to resemble the wooden facades and added a third track to the staging yard. I sure wish I could build this layout, but without massive help, this won´t be possible.
Here are the enhanced drawings:
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Good morning ...
Vincent ... Good to see you and Happy Birthday. . please visit the DIner as often as you can.
Ulrich ... I like the photo of the passenger station. It would be a great station to model.
Happy Friday to everyone !
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
GM, MEN!
Today is Friday, August 28th, 2015
Well, I have a veritable TON of things to get done today.
SO, even though It is 5:45 AM, I'd best get crackin'!
May you all have a great day!
Ohm todays word:
-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.
Evening Dinners
Flo, please and one for Vincent
It was restful today at work, and to honest I glad. After yesterday low blood surger I was beat, I slept 14 hours last night.
Another reason I have been tired (Besides the fact I am old and Fat) is in the last 16 weeks I have worked 15 6 day weeks. Well this is the last week, sort of sad about that and glad at the same time. While I need the money, it was getting old.
Drunk Dave is being left on his own at my store. Well, they are hoping it will be trap. Everyone was up set that Dave keeps going to his Van when he is working at my store! So this last Monday Dave had the Law Laid out for him! He was to bring everything in when he comes in the store and not to go to his Van till closing peroid! Friday Paul (GM) is going to watching the store and see if Dave stay's inside, then later will go in and see if Dave has been . He could be bring in with him on day's he works a lone.
YGW Real sorry to hear about your friend!
Galaxy Good luck on yoor house quest.
Ulrich Hope the ear problems get's cured quick!
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Packer/V9ncent {or is it really "vinnie'?}
You have now passed your first quarter century of life, may you have 3 more!
Well, I really tried hard to get on here today, but it kept coming up "the page you want is not available". or whatever it says. Multiple times.
So I try now and it works..must have been down?
well, we are letting the sellers stew on the offer, Tomorrow we wil let our agent know ot let hte seller's agent know we
1} are going up $200 {I know whoopie},
2} IF we have to go any higher, SELLER CONCESSIONS WILL be added back in to ANY future price point we offer! {they don't seem to want to give any concessions. SO..now if they want a bigger # on the sales price line, it WILL get subtracted on the seller concessions line!
SO, IF, say, it was our offer price of $8k, with no concessions, no selling our place as a contingency, Net to them: $8K-----and their last offer was say $12k w/ no concessions--------and we go UP to $11k WITH $3k in concessions, They will STILL net ONLY the $8K! SOUNDS STUPID to us for them NOT to take the $68k net straight. BUT if they want to see that stupid "1" in front of the offer, MAYBE we can do it. {depends on financing for the "11K" number.. we are prequalified for the $8k number and it was mentioned going to the 11 number, but MAYBe if we have to, we can.
3} we have other options, even if it means waiting the winter out.
so, well, it is 8:20 here, and it is about past my bed time..
so 'later
Hey you guys!!!
I've been occupied with 2 jobs and, trying to find parts for the new motor for my car, actually working on my model trains for a change that I forgot to hop in here.
As for the trains, I haven't really bought anything since the last time I jumped in. I have been working on a lot of my proto 2000 kit cars, but I will have to order some #5s someday. I weathered an Intermounain tank for a friend, and a few boxcars for myself. Sadly no pics as my cell phone's camera sucks and my camera is a power hog (it can''t function on rechargables, I bought 8 thinking I could use them over and over, but nope).
As far as the new motor for my car, I really haven't done much work. I got the pistons in the block with the connecting rods, but stopped there. My father is trying to work a deal with some of his friends so I can get a cam and better cylinder heads. But then the heat index has been 120 F or better most of the summer....
I am a bit upset with my jobs though. I had to work on my birthday (today I turned 26). Then when I was at work Fed-ex came by. So I missed my present to myself (not train related).
Anyone else have any hidden audio advertisment play on this site? I had one when I had multiple tabs open, but couldn't make it out cause I was listening to some music.
Anyways, I don't know if I can even catch up....
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.
Me again!
I am just back from the doc, who could not help me. I need to see a specialist asap, as I am running the risk ol losing my hearing on the right side. Not happy about this!
howmusUlrich, I just love your mini RR designs.
Ray - it´s a bit of a hobby within the hobby for me. I like using the new freebie tool called SCARM - especially its 3D feature. Landscaping is a little bit awkward and designing the buildings is also a tedious job, but it´s worth it!
Btw, the buildings on that plan are close to the real thing!
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a pot of Marrakesh Express Dark Roast Coffee for my R&GV RR Mug and a couple sour cream glazed donuts to dunk this morning.
I am sore this morning.... Lifted too many concrete blocks yesterday I guess. Want to get a bit more done on the porject before I head over to me Son's house to watch the girls while Son and DIL have a date for their 10th. anniversary.
Dark and Gloomy here in the Finger lakes this morning. Currently 63°F with a high of 70°F later this afternoon. Not supposed to have any precipitation though.
Ulrich, I just love your mini RR designs.
Lion, nice photo. Shows quite clearly why the windows don't open on the subway cars! I always tell folks at the Museum that we want you to go home with everything you brought.... Camera, hats, heads, arms, kids..... Stuff like that!
Guess i best get moving if I am to accomnplish anything. later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good Day, Folks!
The spell of nice weather we recently had is definitively over. It´s wet and warm (not hot, though), a rather unpleasant mix!
My ear is acting up again. It feels hot and there is a little conductor inside, constanly blowing a whistle. I have a late afternoon doc appointment for having that checked.
I really miss building a layout. The one my friend built from using leftovers does not work well - the curves are too tight and the locos tend to derail at the switches - caused by the tabletop switch motors. I have packed up everything and may sell a few bits of it.
If I ever come around to being able of building a small layout - I´d go for modelling a prototype location in Switzerland (or it least part of it). Imagine running your trains according to the prototype´s schedule
This could be a plan for such a venue:
It´s more of a diorama than a real layout,mounted on drawer slides and embedded into a loop, which folds up, when the layout is not in use.
It´s a quite close model of the Stugl/Stuls station on the Rhaetian Railway´s Albula line.
Maybe one fine day...
G-Man - how´s the house hunt coming along?
Good Morning Diners,
Started new job this week as my assignment was finished a couple of weeks ago. Nice thing is I was only off work for a week.
Just checking in to see how everyone e is.
i hope everyone is OK and safe.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Today's word:
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Make it a great day!
Hi Gang,
Hope you all had a great Day. Very sorry to hear about new health problems. YGW, prayers for your good friend who has a hopper load of problems.
YGW, you were asking about several things about the LM&E. It is old school, DC, code 100 Atlas track, Peco turnouts, mainly manual, some remote, layout is powered by three MRC ControlMaster20s. Locos are Athearn, Bachmann, Atlas and one Kato. Era is early 70s. Railroad if a fictious Holding of the Western Pacific .. >> Last Mountain & Eastern RR.
The water out of the drain pipe on the retaining wall. It is one strip of clear silicon placed onto some waxed paper until set-up, then pealed off and stuck into the pipe, cut to length, and then I added WS. water effects to show the splash and the flow in the river. (Envirotex lite)
Below you will see the same process used for the waterfall under the bridge, only this time on the waxed paper I put multiple strips to creat the width needed and then jammed at it with a popcycle stick to get the strips to form together and creat a roughness. This then was cut to fit onto a piece of foamcore that I had painted in a camoflage pattern with blue, green, brown, gray, etc. to give it some depth and then cut the whole thing to fit in behind the bridge. It does work very well. --- Enjoy
It was a tip out of MR sometime ago.
Off to work for the next three days, so had better get some sleep.
I'm also Batching as my Better half is in British Isles and France for three weeks with her Sisters. But I don't have to cook much, just pour it in out of the bottle or can. Saves on cooking time and dish washing. Always looking for the silver lining.
Br. Elias, glad you are back home safe and sound. Did you have a good holiday?
Can't think of other Q&As I should have at this point, so its off to bed..
Johnboy out....................Later Gators
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Evening guys
just stopping in quick before the ballgame is on. I have a interview for job tomorrow before I go to work. Not much new to report here. I have some new strat o matic cards coming at some point tomorrow also.
Flo, Beer please
Today went to heck in a hand basket.
1 Started Sue's car and heard nothing odd, well that is pretty normal when it comes to her car problems. (lets just say she is a little nuts and hear things most of the time) Dropped her car off at Bob's and we where 15 mintues late to get the tires ordered for today. So she will not have a car for Thursday.
2 Went to the bank and stopped by and paid my Cable bill. I was not feeling well by then.
3 Needed a roof rack for the car so I could haul the lumber. Only place that had one was by my store? Best hidden auto parts store I ever found, drove by it 3 times. What should have taken 45 minutes took a hour and a half.
4 Went to the libary and picked up a DVD about Pearl Harbor and a book for Sue.
5 Went to Lowes to get my lumber. Went to install the new Roof Rack, straps and channel hooks are junk! Rack it self is OK, but I need better straps to hold it down. By this time I was having a low sugar attack so I said Caboose this and came home.
Hello all
WOW lot of medical issues in here today. Here is a prayer and an for everyone in need. Ulrich and the dust health issues, Galaxies father, Rays DIL Uncle.
I have a special prayer request for one of my best friends, Yesterday he attempted to commit suicide. Pills, alchol and a gun if the first two didnt work. We contacted the police and they were able to find him and now he is a hospital being cared for. He is going through a really bad spot. He lost his leg, then lost his job, then lost his home and now his family. His wife is divorcing him. He needs a LOT of prayer.
Lion - yea that first step is something else !
Ken - Geez that is a LONG list ! Good luck with that. Will send you an email once things have settled down with my friend.
Garry - It was a small tractor its only an L2350 Kubato. Its not like those giant dual wheel mid west tractors ! But I tell you it is a scrappy fighter ! I go back to the cardo doctors on the first. Thanks for asking : )
Gott run my friend TTYL
YGW
well, I spent all morning and afternoon in the ER wiht my father. He had low sodium issues again. His sodium gets low as he's afraid to use salt due to BP! and he won't drink Gatoraid liek I tell him too, but I insisted at teh pharmacy to get some.
SO I took him at 7:45,a nd now at 3:53 just got home.
Home viewing is sitll on.
later , i gotta eat something before I pass out!
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We look at another house tonight. It's not as nice as the one we are negotiating over. But it has more sf. 1366 vs 990. it has an extra family room, a dining room ove the other house, but NO BASEMENT! it is a slab. not so keen on that...
Afternoon, Folks!
Again a rather dull day. Nothing to report. I have way too much time for gloomy thoughts ...
Ray - for your DIL´s uncle! I had my first heart attack at the age of 34.
Running a high level of frustration today. We urgently need to find a new place to live, both Petra and I are sick and tired of the noise and the dirt around us. But without money we are stuck here - makes me ill!
CU
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of Vanilla Almond Organic Granola cereal and a pot of Seneca Lake Blend Dark Roast Coffee to start the day....
Well..... The day has started off not so well. I started my computer and opened up my mail to find a note from my DIL that was titled "Bad News"... Her uncle (who ows the pharmacy I patronize, had a heart attack early this morning. All we know at this time is that he was airlifted to Strong Hospital in Rochester.... That is both good news and bad news. Good in that it is thee best place to be with any heart problems, and bad news that is is evidently bad enough to warrant him being air-lifted there. I do pray that he will be alright. He just became a Grandfather a few weeks ago. Also a very fine gentleman and is all of 57 years old. Those of you that are the praying typs, please do say a prayer for his complete recovery!
I have a Boy Scout District Committee meeting tonight. Will be continuing to clean out the sheds and dispose of uneeded stuff. Hope to fire up my old rototiller (borrowed it back from my son) and prepare the area where the last of raised bed gardens will go. The yellowjackets appear to be immune to the pyrethrin wasp killer. Just as busy out there as before.... First frost will take care of them. In the meantime, they are keeping the bugs down in the garden! So I will just be very carefull not to annoy them.
Currently 64°F outside with a high of 69°F predicted for this afternoon with some showers added in. May get to spend some time in the train room after all....
Have a good day out there!
WATCH YOUR STEP GETTING OFF OF THIS TRAIN!
Good morning .... Coffee and a donut please .
Galaxy ... ... I bet the Big G has plans for Mr. and Mrs. G to buy the right home. Just be patient.
Ken ... Oops . I misread your post about the fence. So much for speed reading !
GM, Men!
Wednesday, August 26, 2015.
we will see..
Flo, 's please and keep them coming.
What a day today! Some good, some bad. Day started off wiht my wife telling me she head a thumping sound when she dove the car. So I took it for a test drive and all I heard was tire sounds. Car needs tires badly, left rear is bald. So I planed on calling Bob (loacl shop) and order some tires.
Got to work and all heck broke lose! It was a great day with $4300.00 in sales, I stayed busy all day. That was the good part sort of. I did not have time to call Bob so there are no tires waiting for the car Wednesday to have them installed. Need to call the VA, my CPAP mask fell apart last night and I hardly had time to eat much less call the VA!
Got home and was ready to relax and plan Wednesday. That plan got shoot to heck as soon as I walked in! Sue said when she started the car it made a squealing sound and the idle went up and down, up and down. I can think of about 10 things that can cause that. While I did not start it my self tonight I would guess a bad A/C Clutch, Bad A/C compressure, bad sep belt or the belt tensinor. Repair cost any where from say $200.00 to $500.00 plus the tires. Great!
I now need to.
1 Go to the bank, cash my check.
2 Get Sues car to Bob's and pick some tires and get her car reparied.
3 Get Sparkie The Rock Dog's meds
4 Goes to Lowes, and pick up lumber
5 Cut back grass
6 If I had time, cut out a tree stump, shovel more gravel and maybe start the retaning wall!
Gary I sure wish the fence was done, not even close! Dpending on what Sues car repair cost, well who knows when!
Rob Bench work looks real good so far.
Ulrich Just saw your PM / E-mail and could not find what you asked me about this morning. Was it took care off all ready?
YGW I have not seen your E-Mail yet. I hope you are getting around better after your Tractor Fight. By the way, who won, you or the tractor?
(knock, knock, knock....) Hello? Hmmmmm. Door is open, lights are on, Oh! Hi Janie! Where is everyone? (Janie srugs....)
Well, I will have a large slice of the Carrot Cake and a cuop of decaf to tide me over for a while.
Uncle Bob and YGW, yep Agnes hit the Southern Tier of NYS and the Northern Tier of PA the last week of June, 1972. My oldest son was all of 5 years old and his little brother was 2. I was driving a 1971 Super Beatle and my wife had a beat up old 1961 Beatle. When we decided to take a shopping trip to Elmira late that summer we had to take old NY rte. 17 and some back roads as the new Rte. 17 had some bridges that were unsafe and had to be redone. They were brand new, only a couple years old at the time. We didn't attempt to drive to Corning until the year after that. I'll have to get out our old photo albums and see if we took any photos of the "Valley" (Waverly, Sayre, and Athens) during that time. If I can find anything I will post them.
I've been doing more repotting of plants for the house. Marked off a spot for the last of the raised beds (the second one I was going to build last April....), cleaned out a lot of junk from the steel storage shed (that will be going bye, bye...) and found some stuff my son wants. I have a "Super Duper Pooper Scooper" hand made by my FIL many, many years ago. It was given too me to help clean up after Chuckie the dog back 30 years ago +. Since I don't have a dog, and the one given to my son has totally worn out, he was excited to get the one I have. I also will give him my splitting axe and wedges for splitting firewood, and a few other things. All that is already loaded into the PiP to take over to his house on Thursday when I go to watch the girls while he takes his wife out for dinner and a movie to celebrate their 10th. anniversary!
Catch you all later...
Howdy .... Benn a bit busy.... Just returned from Nashville, TN a while ago.
Ken ... Glad the fence project is done. Also, I like the photo of Santa Fe locos.
JohnBoy .... I really like your layout photo with WP locos. It would be nice t osee more.
YGW .... Next time, you should pick on a smaller tractor. Sorry you were hurt. Also, I hope the heart siutation is manageble.
CBT ... Good to see you in the diner.
Rob .... It is very good to see you are busy "making saw dust" for your model railroad.
Ulrich ..... The Swiss lco and railcar are very attractive.
Lion .... Interesting photos.
Galaxy ... I hope things work out and you do get a house
Happy Model Railroading !
YGW: I sent you a PM!
Responded with lots of details. Have much more but send me an email. Its easier.
Lion - ROAR to you too : )
Ulrich - I think it is long past time that you start building some track. Time to get back in the game my friend !!
Galaxy - I am with Ulrich on the waiting. Dont push it "Lord willing and the creek dont rise" there will be a home just right for you two. And maybe some MRR space !!!!
Angel - The word "yardwork" just saying it makes me sweat !!
Ken - Thanks glad to be back.
Uncle bob - I think you are right. I was about 11 years old then. I was absolutely amazed at the storm and damage. I have never seen flooding like that since.
Johnboy - Nice photo. Some questions what type of track did you use ? How did you get the water to "drain" and stay in place at the weep hole in the retaining wall. Very impressive.
To all who are lurking or just checking in or havent had time to post - Hello hope to see you here.
Galaxy - I will check out teh PM. Shoor me an email next time you will get a faster response.
TTYL