Good morning
Bill (RT) ... Sad to hear about your PTSD being so difficult.
Today, I'll work on the little bulldozer kit when not doing other stuff.
Where's Ulrich ?
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good Morning
Sunny and 47 out right now...going up to 55 later on.
Had some friends show up to run some choo choos and had 3 things go to the ground. Not the literal grround, just the ground..ie..layout ground. One did take out a diner and a feedmill though.
Garry: Yep. Chemo does do some weird things to me. Oh well.
Chloe, I'll just have a coffee please...i'll be at the window booth watching the switching out there.
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/
hello all
Dont have much time. Yesterday went well. 3.5 hour walk on the house and the HO only came up with three items. Now we have two units going for final inspections - promises to be an event, stressful day....Hope to pop back in later and have a cup of Joe and sit and chat while.
TTYL
YGW
cudaken I am sure one of the reasons Shawn likes helping me is because he can see the furit of his labor. Plus he feels useful and has something to do. (he has all ready re-roofed there garage) I am all so sure she is afraid he will get the Model Railroad bug again! Heck, I have got suffenct supplies he can have to where he would not have to spend a dime for a year! I still have around 20 engines that are still DC.
I am sure one of the reasons Shawn likes helping me is because he can see the furit of his labor. Plus he feels useful and has something to do. (he has all ready re-roofed there garage)
I am all so sure she is afraid he will get the Model Railroad bug again! Heck, I have got suffenct supplies he can have to where he would not have to spend a dime for a year! I still have around 20 engines that are still DC.
Ken: I found I have "too much" {is there such a thing???} of train stuff too.....I foudn I have some of multiple of the smae structures..not intentionally..accidentally bought a structure I already had again...and in one case again...even on my planned 8'x8' I cannot get them all in!!!
Problen IS...I don't know WHERE I am going to put my "empire",,,,,WHere we have laid out the basement {finishing it off to USE} doesn't leave much room for an 8x8...Ah I know over by the radon system and some under the stairs..MaYBE..
well,
DO a good deed nad MAKE SOMEONE SMILE!
-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.
GM, Men!
Today near 50 here, not bad for Dec 11.....posta B 60 on SUnday! MOH had a long talk with the man upstairs {can I say that?} about Warm nice no snow weather until after we moved. It seems to be working!
Hmm.I see Ulrich hasn't been in? Is he miffed at us? At least I have an excuse...i am moving....
Today's word:
Good evening everyone,
Spent the early part of the day helping get the Christmas decor up. We got a tree, put all the ornaments and lights on. That's seriously one of my favorite things to do during this time of year.
Decided to check out, and then join, a local club here. I ran my BLI K4s and it ran really well, smoke-unit output seemed good (as good as they can be), and though I enjoyed the sounds, I also liked just watching it run with the sounds turned off. I'm going to run it at the club's open house this weekend. The consist so far is just an R50b and a B60b (both Walthers) but I'll be expanding on that soon.
Wishing everyone here a good rest of the night.
Evening Dinners
Flo, wake up! I like a please.
Son-in-law and Yard Wars. Shawn was going to come over Friday and help me with the yard mess. My daughter told her Mom (Wife) he could not come over because "He has to pound the payment to find a job!"
Shawn quite his job he had for 4 years so he could live with my daughter after they got married. Shawn had been a live in care-taker of a 22 year old man with speical needs. (Longer story there, my daughter was to live there as well, but after they got married parnets of the man said NO she could not live there)
Sharyon and my wife seems to think he is milking being out of work! (My wife would know, she never would get off her cabosse to work full time) What neither one gets is Most Men Self-Esteem is based on there ability to support there family. I remember when I was out of work for 6 months, I felt lower than snake poop! I am sure Shawn is feeling the same way.
I am sorry, but the day of walking store to store dropping of resumes is pretty much dead. My wife nagged me into doing it, and I dropped off 20 resumes and never got a call.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
except moviing some schtuff this AM, I am taking it a bit easy. I also moved all but the generator {HEAVY HEAVY @ 450#!}out of the garage so I tryt o fit the minivan in it. There is 2" of clearance nose-forward inot it on either side of the morrors! SO I want to try backing it in nad see if it fits. It hsould, the garge is 20' deep.Also wnatt o see what tool box{es} I can leave in there with the van in there.
The cat is beginning to think me a a stranger, he actually bit me when I went to pet him! Now he is trying to ake up to me once he "realized" who his Pop-Pop was, especially when the treats came out!
Dunno, the elcetrician was in today hes a "friend of the {our self-made group}family' so good rates for about 13 things to do.
mny back was easing today,b ut then it spasms on me and I get a jolt of pain.
To whomever had the prostate biopsy: My father is about a 30 yr prostate cancer survivor....let me emphsize that: SURVIVOR! His father died of complications form it at age 92. I have had benign problems since age 25, and am now about my father's age when it occured in him {mid fifties}.Hope your results are negative as RAY said.
well, best DO somethign..pack some of my MANY CDs for instance.....nah..a day off is what I need. yet I will pack some things to go over in the mininvan as I won;t go back "empty handed".....I guess....nah day of rest. MOH has the weekend off, and thought aobut moving more, but we will see have to see if train nut frined is avaiable..his bearings are going in his ROUGE so probably won't drive ti all the way here from Conklin. We'd have to go get him THERE. some 1/2 hour - 45 min drive away.
dunno, a day of rest is tempting...tempting...
Good Afternoon Diners,
Flo, I'll have an extra large cup of coffee with lots of cream, please.
Wow! We're 10 days into the month and this is the first I've stopped in. Where does the time go. Obviously, I've been busy. Work is starting to slow down for awhile. I think folks are not going to Mae a major purchase like a kitchen from now to the holidays. I'm sure they've got too many other things going on.
I really have nothing to report on MRR wise. Last Sunday, a group from our church went to the Halocaust museum in Skokie. It was the second time we'd been there and we'd also been to the one in DC. No matter how one slices it, it is sobering. Then we went for Mexican food.
Saw law the posts with the roundhouse and the road grader. Excellent work gentlemen.
YGW: hope you're ok.
I hope everyone is OK, safe and warm.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Morn... Ah... Afternoon folks!
Chloe, nothing for me right now. I just got home from an early lunch with my son at Water Street Cafe.
Today we got the little trailer inspected so I can get it reregistered for next year. The trailer has been sitting at my son's house for the last two or three months since he hauled the old steel shed parts to his house. It still has some of the steel sheets in it that he will take over to a place in Waterloo to recycle (and make a few ¢ on) hopefully soon. All that they check on a light trailer is the lights, tire tread, and that the hitch is proper... No problems, so we went out for an early lunch when it got done.
Wow! Charlie, that must have been scary for you. Glad you are OK! Hope the biopsy comes back negative.
It is 53°F under mostly sunny skies here in the Finger Lakes Region today. I need to start packing materials for the RIT Train Show this weekend. Not sure what I will be working on at our Modelers Corner this weekend. One of the Gentlemen who is supposed to be there just sent me an email saying there was a death in his wife's family early today, so he may not be able to be there... I was hopeing he could critique the Girder Bridge while he was there. It is his plans I am using to build it, more or less.
Need to get going and get several things done in the next hour or so... 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!
I'm retired now as my PTSD got to the point I can't deal with more than one or two folks at a time. So I was becoming over come with the amount of folks I was dealing with. I've moved to a real small town and love it. ( about the size and it reminds me of Mayberry from Andy Griffith show) To goto store wife has to be with me which is great as she can't get to the store without me as she has never driven so were a matched pair now.
O gauge well acourding to my wife it's going to well lol I buy and sell a lot and repair for something to do don't really make any thing doing it it's more something to keep me busy.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Good Morning,
Our balmy weather is in the process of ending as it is snowing lightly from a front that is moving through. The temp is supposed to drop from 32F to a more normal 15F.
Yesterday was an eventful one for me. I went in to get a prostate biopsy done in the early morning. It went ok but not painless as suggested. I went to get up and felt dizzy but then it got a lot worse and I litterly passed out, low BP, pulse, etc. the procedure was being done in a clinic near a hopsital so the urologist called the paramedics who came and took me to ER. It took me about 6 hours resting in the ER until I felt ok to go home. They did the usual tests but found nothing. The doc said I likely had a vegal nerve reaction to the biopsy. Actually 2 docs came to the same diognosis. I feel fine now after a good nights sleep but it sure knocked the stuffing out of me.
Today I will take it easy and likely do a little work on the RR. Probably won't go to Tai Chi tonight as that involves a lot of twisting and I don't want to agrivate anything after the biopsy.
John(der) I have 133/4 and 12" radius curves on my N scale door layout. It is a twice round over and under. I do run some passenger cars and while they don't look great on the tighter curves, they are ok to me on the wider one. The door is 32" wide by the way.
RT, nice to see you back and yes, I do remember you. Seems to me you worked at a VA hospital. How is the O scale?
Well time to do something.
CN Charlie
Bill (RT) .... It is always good to see you. Please visit he Diner anytime. Hope you are doing well.
Hey guys a couple of you may remeber me but for the most part I don't know you guys anymore. I'm mainly a O scale collector/seller/buyer but with that said I came in to some lower grade HO items and was wondering if anybody would be interested in them for the cost of shipping ( in the spirt of Jeffery I sent him some stuff a couple of times) anyway anybody use some lower end HO cars and engines? You can contact me thru the forum.
Bill
Good morning .... Coffee and a donut please !
DSPP .... Wow ! .... That roundhouse is impressive!... I hope you decide to show it off in Weekend Photo Fun which normally begins on Friday.
Barry ... Sorry to hear about your issues with chemo.... Take care.
Still busy with Other Stuff here....... However, the January issue of MR has an article on building white-metal kits. It inspired me to assemble some I have had with my unbuilt kit supply for a long time.
I made this road grader, and completed it last night. It is a kit by Woodland Scenics. Another Woodland Scenics kit, a bulldozer, is now on the work bench to be my next little project.
Good morning all. This is the stone Como Roundhouse foreground model on my HOn3 C&S narrow gauge layout. It is an old Model Masterpieces kit and it just about 75 % complete. The machine shop and its overhead belt drive system need to be installed in the first stall on the left; I'm just waiting on the parts form Scale Structures Ltd. and Rio Grande models. The motorized turntable in the foreground is up and running and as soon as the slip rings arrive it will be complete. I weathered the top of the pit last night, but when I took this shot it was still "a work in progress, so please forgive its current appearance.
I'll catch-up on the conversations when I return from my Dr.'s appt. Until then - enjoy =D.
Had a decent nights sleep for once...a few hours..tops. reason? Dang chemotherapy left me with insomnia ...
Have some sun and cloud coming today. High of 50 forecast.
Got some runnin' 'roun' doin' stuff to do today...gonna be a busy day...
Catch you all laters!!
Well, I didn't do much other than get teh house "fit for company who knows we jsut moved/moving in"......in other words I took the paining supplies to basemnet, and other stuff too. I forgeot to bring over the used boxes to reload here at the trailer as we still have schtuff to move. i will bring more schhtuff over but not so much as I am moving slow myself {body}and careful today. Is 40-some degrees, and raining here, high will be 46 today. will clear out according to weather 1 on my cell phone.
Evening Diners,
Early in the year me and my dad fixed our cabinet but now the shelf gave way, and completely crooked. So I removed all the glassware. The shelf is bare except for plastic cups holding the top shelf. My mom said we might fix the whole kitchen next year after paying off all the credit card bills.
Train News: After 10 days of traveling and a detour into Salt Lake City I received my insulated boxcars in a plastic envelope instead of a box! The pieces of plastic lids were broken except one. It makes me upset on the packaging change.
My Amtrak ACS-64 lefted today so I hope it doesn't take long for delivery.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Evenin' folks!
Janie, I could sure use a cup of decaf this evening!
Been a very busy day here.... Had to print a few copies of my sister's next trip to the very far early next year so she can get all her Visa's in order for the countries she will be in. Had to post a bunch more donations to the MLK Scholarship fund and take the checks to a bank in Canandaigua when I took the printouts to my sister. She doesn't have a printer as it wouldn't fit with her decor, and she besides, she doesn't know how to use one.....
Did some cleaning up around the house, and actaully got to put more decals.... on the bridge (This time on the tops and bottoms of the girder itself). Was about to post a couple times and the site was runninging s l o w..........
Garry, I think the easiest way to post a photo from photobucket is to click on the IMG choice under "share your photo" at Photobucket, and simply paste it here. For me on the Mac that is "command v". eliminates one step and seems to always work....
Have a great night everyone!
The pagination seems borked here. I got the last page then when I clicked back a page I found I was back 2 pages..then click the next page and posted...just to see this page....mmmm
mmm...good evening
Still not much to say here. Did find a few bugs in my layout though...ballast coming apart, that sort of thiing..
Have a good night all!!
For posting pictures from Photobucket, I copy the "direct" code which is the second of four choices for each of my photobucket images.
Next, I click on the icon above the posting body which looks like a mountain and a sun.
I paste the code in the source box. I ignore the other two boxes. Then click "OK". The image then appears in the posting body.
It is easy once you are used to doing it.
der5997Now, why won't that show as an image? I did the [ ] and [/ ] "img" code thing....
You don't need to use the brackets with Your photobucket. Just copy and Ctrl V on site, press enter. When You click on Submit Your Reply...image will show.
Take Care!
Frank
BTW: This as You know...is Your image.....
YGW On both your SIL and Workfront situations, ...as to the
Ray - Man I needed that cat story - I was rolling on the floor laughing, humor is a great medicine.
Now, why won't that show as an image? I did the [ ] and [/ ] "img" code thing....
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Garry The Haifax, Nova Scotia Bridge Commission is well under way on a "Big Lift" for the older of the two bridges across the harbour. I'ts a re-decking to allow for larger container ships to access the Bedford Basin and the container terminal there. https://www.hdbc.ca/redecking/.
They put in a new section each weekend they can - the very first try was a boondogle as you might expect - but they are getting better at it...
Folks, if I go for a double track N Scale dogbone layout, and hide the ends of the "bone" in city buildings or artfully arranged removable hills, how tight a turning radius would you consider wise for that inside track? I'm thinking of passenger cars and possibly steam locos...I know it won't look pretty, hence the hiding - but I do want it to run reliably...
Thanks in advance for you thoughts.
Johnboy wrote "YGW, How are you feeling today?, hope each day is getting better for you."
I want to say THANKS everyone for their well wishes and prayers ( because of these beseeching Jehovah has heard and is healing ) for myself and SIL. I recieved some good news so far. They have ruled out cancer and some other eqaully awful ailments and think it may be related to low testosterone.
SIL still in ICU. Yesterday they installed a metal plate in her arm and her right eye is still swollen shut. She is still under and has not come to and is still in ICU, Brain bleed has gotten beter ( if a brain bleed can be described as getting better ) . She has a long road ahead of her
Jeremy - HAPPY Birthday
Galaxy - Love the Abe L qoutes on the fool and the tree
Angel - AWB...i THINK i BROKE MY TONGUE TRYING TO SAY THAT ONE.
Ken - Howdy and thanks
Lion - glad that you can make it to the train room - what a blessing
Derjohn - glad to see you here
Ulrich - hope you are okay ....
UP831 - Havent seen you in a while hope you stop in to say high !
W**k front - Have to deliver two houses worth about three million this week ( read intense pressure ) and then was stold I have to deliver another unit that we have NOT punched out yet by Dec 18th that they do not even have a ratified contract on ( meaning I cannot start changes ) and I do not have any paperwork on ! oh and try getting drywall people , painters, etc.. at the end of the year. You call the contractors up and say send someone anyone...and they reply "from where ? I already have a million more project than I have people !!" Its going to be a tough couple of weeks
The work continues on my MRR extension. The track is down and the switch motors are installed. The current activity is wiring. A tedious activity, but necessary none the less.
Years ago we had a motivational speaker come to a w*rk conference. (I am usually not a fan of motivational speakers, but this one resonated with me.) He told how he had tickets for an event one evening. The day of the event was a particularly difficult day. Whenever he started to get discouraged, he would think, "I can make it through this--I have tickets." He then went on to say that we need to find tickets in our lives. Sometimes they will be to an actual event, but sometimes they will be the simple events, like spending time with the kids (or grandkids). Since then, "I have tickets" has become part of my vocabulary.
Tonight I have tickets. I received a call last night telling me our new piano is ready to be played. It arrived in Arizona last week, was removed from the create and allowed to acclimate for a few days. Next the technician took it apart, re-regulated the piano, re-aligned all of the keys, and got it ready to be played. This is necessary as the piano as been on its side in the crate, and gravity has worked its magic. The piano is in the climate-controlled warehouse and this is where I will play it. We are waiting until after Christmas to have it delivered to our house. Mrs. ROR wants as much room as possible in the living room for opening presents with the grandkids. It needs to be delivered by 12/31 so the piano store can recognize the revenue in 2015. At 6:45 MST tonight, I will be smiling a big smile. I have tickets.
Richard
Good morning ........ Coffee and a piece of birthday cake, please.
Jeremy ....... ... Hope it is a great day !
Ray .... The cat pill adventure is funny. We've had some real adventures with previous cats and pills. Dogs have been easier. ... Your bridge is looking good.
Barry .... I've had similar experiences. Layout works great if I am by myself, but if others are with me everything goes wrong.
Ulrich ... Where are you ?
News in our neck of the woods.... The main arch of the new brdge over Kentucky Lake was lifted onto its piers. The arch was built on barges near the shore, and then floated over to its location.
The 80-year old bridge will be removed. Here is how it looked about three years ago after a river cargo ship went under the wrong span.
The bridge was closed for six months while a replacement span was constructed.
Meanwhile, the new bridge for the other lake ( the one we live next to) is still in early stages of construction. Work started a few months ago. We can hear the work from here.
Also, the main highway is being upgrade to a 4-lane dvided highway instead of an old 2-lane road.
Jeremy B.!!!!!
Good Morning.
There is sun out there...real sun....but that is OK...it will dull right back up later and become a raining kind of day here. High of 47 expected.
A do nothing sort of day here...getting a few things checked out on the layout will be the biggest thing here.
welm....mmmm...not much to say right now, so I be just sittin' with my coffee here.