RideOnRoad yougottawanta Unfortunately, my excitement has turned to angst. In all of my excitement, I laid the roadbed and track, but forgot to drill the holes for the Tortoise motor control rods. I am trying to figure out if there is a way to retrofit the holes without pulling up all of the track. bordering on
yougottawanta
Unfortunately, my excitement has turned to angst. In all of my excitement, I laid the roadbed and track, but forgot to drill the holes for the Tortoise motor control rods. I am trying to figure out if there is a way to retrofit the holes without pulling up all of the track. bordering on
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Heartland Division CB&QLion ... That explains why I must enter a zip code when I pay at the pump in gas stations. .... I generally use cash for small purchases at grocery stores, etc. There is a lot to be said for using real money.
Correct. Gas pumps and subway ticket machines are ripe targets for someone with a purloined card. And all of the information is right there on it. BUT YOUR ZIP CODE is not there. But most terminals do not require a zip code.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Mornin' everyone!
I've been busy out amongst the world already this morning.... Zoe, I could sure use a refill of my dark roast coffee, dear.
Visited the dentist first thing. She put the crown that fell out last Monday back in place. That was a freeby... Then stopped at the natural food styore downtown to get more coffee and a couple other things. they were out of Marrakesh Express!!! So I got my Seneca Lake Blend and another dark roast they have. It'll do... Then stopped at the Pharmacy to pick up a prescription, and finally filled the PiP with Fossillized Dinasaur Dung so I can go to the Museum Holiday Open House tonight. I did get about 90mpg on the last tank...
Dark, gray, and gloomy outside today so far. No precipitation though. Currently 42°F and just about the high for today...
MisterBeasley, always nice to be needed! Hope you had fun...
My quote for the day:
"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." - Mark Twain
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Mr B: I opted for surgery. ("If it ain't worth doin' right, it ain't worth doin' t'all.")
Lion and Johnboy: Unfortunately I have chosen the tine world of N-Scale, so the turnout bars are too narrow to drill through. I was able to just remove the turnouts and now I can do it right.
The real fun will be scrapping off the old caulk to set a relatively smooth surface before I put the turnouts back down. Every once in a while, the universe feels it is necessary to remind me I am far from perfect.
Richard
RideOnRoadThe real fun will be scrapping off the old caulk to set a relatively smooth surface before I put the turnouts back down.
Ah, another advantage of foam roadbed rather than cork. Foam is much softer, so slight imperfections like bits of old caulk will be absorbed as the foam allows itself to be compressed. You might consider replacing the cork with a foam roadbed piece if you can't get the undersides clean enough for a flat fit.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
yougottawantaOff today for sawbone test at local hospital. Have developed a lump under the skin on my right chest. Going to get test run to figure out what it is and what is causing it. Very tender area.
I had the same experience back in the 70's, Whenever I would brush up against anything, I would feel it and touching it would feel a slight pain. I had it checked at the VA Hospital and they scheduled Me for a operation and found it to be a benign tumor, My right breast, just below the nipple.....I was lucky, it was not cancerous....Breast cancer, although rare..is possible in Males, I found out. Had the operation in 1977....twenty yrs. later...I had an operation for bladder cancer...which so far, I'm still clean.
Wishing You the best outcome of Yours....Hopefully Yours will be the same.....God Bless...
Mine also was the right side....now I have a inverted nipple on that side...with a 1''inch scar. I was awake during the operation, just heavily sedated, in a freezing cold operating room...I'll never forget that part.
Don't put it off, whatever You do.
Take Care!
Frank
yougottawanta Off today for sawbone test at local hospital. Have developed a lump under the skin on my right chest. Going to get test run to figure out what it is and what is causing it. Very tender area.
My prayers are with you,
Mine started out as a slight lump on my neck under my right ear. After much testing they finally figured out it was forth stage tongue and throat cancer even though I had no sensation of a problem in my mouth or throat. But I sure have now, after 3 shots of Chemo and 33 radiation treatments. Now all my food and drink goes through a stomach tube.
Heres pulling for you............
Johnboy out..
Evening guys
ygw I hope everything gets worked out.
just doing a little modelling work on my table top hockey nets, going to make them look a little more realistic. everything was going good until I nicked my thumb with the exacto knife, you know it's a sharp knife and clean slice when it stope bleeding you can barely see a mark. I think I will just out off working on that for the night,lol
JeremyBust doing a little modelling work on my table top hockey nets, going to make them look a little more realistic. everything was going good until I nicked my thumb with the exacto knife, you know it's a sharp knife and clean slice when it stope bleeding you can barely see a mark. I think I will just out off working on that for the night,lol
Hockey and blood go hand in hand. Wear your scars with pride.
zstripe Mine also was the right side....now I have a inverted nipple on that side...with a 1''inch scar. I was awake during the operation, just heavily sedated, in a freezing cold operating room...I'll never forget that part. Don't put it off, whatever You do. Take Care! Frank
When I had two rumors taken out of back at the spine {benign}, the first one I was put out. No problems. Due to my asthma, the second time for the second one the second {different} anestetiologist was ABSOLUTELY PARANOID about somehting happening to me. SO they did it with just a local shot.
I could FEEL the surgeon CUTTING INTO ME!
I told the attending nurse standing by my head I could FEEL him CUTTING me. she said "shut up the Doctor is operating!"
Then after the cutting into me was pulling, yanking feeling as he yanked it out, then MORE CUTTING as he CUT IT AWAY.
I'll never forget that part.
I told thatt to the surgeon at follow-up and all he said was "well that wasn't nice".
GRRRRR.
I have had so many surgeries I can come through jsut FINE, I tell ya!
Sheesh.
Well, I painted hte MBR, the first coat of deep red "Merlot" color isn;t covering so back to Lowes for another can. I will be painitng at midnight as it has to be done and dry before 2 pm tomorrow when we have friends showing up to help move stuff. I/We forgot the cardinal rule of painting reds: paint a tinted primer FIRST, then paint the red, especially deep reds!!!
I am tired and sore, nad MOH's back is threatening to go out, and has to worj=k the grocery store tomorrow morning. I HOPE not, we will have 5 of us moving stuff, two of with known bad backs, and now a possible third. My trian nut frined's back is so bad he actually has implanted {inside his body} electrodes to help ease the pain. So wiht 3 of us down with bad backs, I Don't know!
Later, better get back over to the house, to the durn painitng again!
later
-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.
"After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut." — Will Rogers
Morning Dinners
Flo, Cup of please.
Been visiting the dinner twices a day but just have not felt like typing, nothing good to type about.
I hate Rust
Good morning ...
Did Lion bring some sticky buns for us today ?
If so, has Barry eaten them up yet ?
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
* comes staggering in...sees a booth empty, flops into it.*
Good Morning people!!
Just finished a bit of a tour through the mid-west with our band and all that stuff.
My health has been holding up pretty well during this period and that makes Audrey, my doctors, and moi happy.
I'll be in and out over the next few weeks to check on you guys...oh....and no food fights either.
BTW...weather here be dull dull dull dull with fog and misty bits as well. Supposed to get to 45F later on
Make this a great day!!!
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/
Zoe, I'll have the #2 special, over easy on the eggs, bacon, home fries, and a double order of Sourdough toast this morning.
Weather here in the Finger Lakes Region is exactly as Barry mentioned. He is not too far, as the crow flies, to the north west of where I am. The sun is supposed to make an appearance this afternoon they say.
I didn't get home from the Museum party until almost 11PM last night. It was good to see the crew again. Good bunch of guys (and gals)!
Barry, good to hear you are doing well! How is the band doing?
I need to do some major cleaning aroiund the house and get the Christmas window lights out and see if they still work for this year. Can't find replacements that I want. They all are either battery operqated, or have automatic dusk to dawn sensors built in these days. I would rather use the timers I have so they aren't on all night...
Catch you all later!
73
Another bonus weather day for me. It's 50 degrees F, so I'm going out for a warmly-dressed bike ride in a little while. I'm approaching the caboose end of this cough, but my exercise program has suffered the last couple of weeks, and this is going to feel very, very good.
If this were a cold or rainy day, I'd be going to the train show. Instead, I'll be riding down an old railroad bed. Maybe I'll get up early tomorrow, hit the second day of the show and still be back in time for another ride.
Ray: We are doing pretty good for a bunch of oddballs, lol! Our agent is looking to get us booked for a bunch of outdoor festivals in the EU next year...this oughta be fun!
I completed the repair of the railroad stemming from my forgetfulness. In the end, it wasn't too bad, and as a bonus, I discovered that one of the rails was not correctly seated in the joiner. This would have caused me fits down the road.
Here is a picture of four of the five newly mounted turnouts, with control-rod cuts in place.
And a view of all of the track in place.
I'd love to see a closeup of the Monk on the Mountain. What I can see of it looks very nice.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
If Mr. von Leopard is indeed in the legal profession, he can perhaps reveal to his companion which relative generated Murphy's Law.
Ed
If this is the only Murphy that visits your life from now on you will be in good shape. Hopefully, he will keep the other one that visited you during the cat house incident away. Hope you are feeling better from that one.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Richard, all's well that ends well, so it's good to see "the best laid plans" have resulted in the best laid track as well.
I had a bit of a scare on my bike ride. When I got to the trail, it had been widened and flattened by modern machinery. I knew they were doing some kind of unspecified maintenance, but this seemed extreme, and I quickly developed a fear that the old Billerica & Bedford right of way was about to become a modern paved bikeway. Fortunately, I came upon the guy who runs the small shop at the end of the nearby Minuteman Bikeway, and he told me they would be putting down crushed stone dust, not asphalt, so the path would remain pretty much as it had been, just a bit spiffier.
Lion,
Hope your recovery is coming along well. Judging from the view of your father's painting in the background of your photo I can see the Lion's artistry lineage.
Regards, Peter
Evening Dinners
Flo, Please and I will need more than 1 tonight!
Work Front We where busy again? With it being Dec and a busy weekend last week I thought we be slow today, boy I was wrong! Paul (GM) told Jerry (new guy) I was to take all the customers again this weekend over the phone. (Jerry thought he was making commision this weekend) He was just to handle over flow. He took care of customers picking up stuff and others folks till I got to them. While I felt bad for him, there is no way he is ready to do any selling.
I hate to call anyone dumb, I am not as sharp as I use to be. At this point I don't turst Jerry to turn the store lights on! Saddly I am not kidding about it either! We have a bad Breaker that will be replaced next week. When Jerry turned on the breaker it started going Snap, Crakel and Pop, he looked at me and asked "Should it be making these sounds?" Give me a break, he is 62 years old! You would think he would know to flip it off?
Not math wise either! He added up all the tickets for today.
$893.65
$136.25
$345.16
$1693.16
$109.13
$72.78
Total?
$211.65 is what Jerry came up with and wrote it on the report?
Think he might be off a tad?
Richard That is some good looking track!
Has anyone heard from Ulrich? I hope he is just working on the messed up bench work and not taken a turn for the worse health wise!
Galaxy Hope your back is OK as it can be! You going to share any Photo's?
YGW Good luck with the health, you need a break health wise!
See you all Sunday! If Jerry does not burn the store down!
Ken
Ken: uuuummm....I do think he is a little off there...wow
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Good morning ......... Coffee and a donut please.
Ken .... Where does your boss get some of these people from? ... Doesn't he know how to use a calculator ? ........ I like the photo you posted.
Is anyone working on their trains or layouts? .... We've been so busy with other stuff, it is hard to get much done on the layout.
only here for a moment.
WE had 5 of us tro do the heavy hauling witht eh UHAUL 17footer yesterday. BUT: we have probably still only moved about 60% of what we need to!
ALl the heaby and I mean some HEAVY furniture went over yeasteday. Then our 2 frisnds who helped took us all out to dinner as a home warmning gift.
There is still lots to do!! Train mnjut frined is coming by todya to help again before I take the Uhaul back this evenign.
So he will be here in aobut an a half hour,s o i'd brst get to packin!
sorry for typos fingers are froxen cold here.
Lion ... Nice of somebody to send Murphy to you . .... Also, it was good of your Dad to paint Monk on a Mountain. .... Perhaps, there should be a Monk manning the controll stand in a subway train. ... Hope your recovery continues to go well.
Galaxy .... I hope the move continues to go well......
Ulrich... Where are you ?
Heartland Division CB&Q Lion ... Nice of somebody to send Murphy to you . .... Also, it was good of your Dad to paint Monk on a Mountain. .... Perhaps, there should be a Monk manning the controll stand in a subway train. ... Hope your recovery continues to go well.
He took the picture, but never made a painting of it...