sorry guys, not feeling up to snuff this AM. A col turned into brochitis last night.
I ahd two appts today I have to cancel to see if I can get into the drs office if not hte walkin.
-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.
Very early morning diners,
I noticed that Kato will have the Amtrak Southwest Limited 8 Car Set and a ATSF 2 car add on. Now I can model a correct reputation of the train.
I was also looking at the cars. The baggage car 1171 is an ex CB&Q CZ (don't know if they are going to do it correctly)
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1999236
A ATSF 4-4-2 sleeper Regal Dome is still in Santa Fe paint in 1974 without the name.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1739192
I'm excited about getting an Santa Fe 11 Double bedroom sleeper to model the El Capitan in the 1960s.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
RAY..
I will send you a PM tomorrow morning... Look for it...
Thanks!
Galaxy
Evening Dinners
Flo, please.
Last night I had a nice long post, then hit a wrong button again! I tried closing the window I was using for Photo Bucket, closed the wrong one.
BoS Up Date I got the papers I need to fill out last week, and filled them out and sent them in. Today I had to go to the Edwardsville BoS branch and sign another form. Looks like I will be closing on Jan 19th. Best part is I can skip Jan payment. Good thing! My normal Avg Mid Month Commision is between $250.00 (poor) $400.00 (OK) and high around $700.00. THis coming one is $48.00?
Train Front I all most got a turnout machine wired. Got 2 of the 3 wires ran, cut the control panel, mounted the Life Like power supply and mounted 1 machine control switch. Then I heard Sue yelling, seemed I need to do more laundry and make dinner. What little time it took, I was done afterwards.
yougottawantaWhich do you think is pretty ? Moron ? Sante Fe ? B&O ?
YGW Hum, I did say pretty. I should have said best looking. Hands down Santa Fe Warbonnet Passanger engines. I fell in love with them when I was around 5 years old.
Lion Soory to hear of your lost.
Later Ken
I hate Rust
Afternoon folks!
Galaxy, are we still sending the $$$ to you for the YGW Fund or sending them to his Church? I plan to get my pledge out by early next week at the latest.....
Been busy with a couple errands and taking the candles (electric) I have in my windows over the Advent/Christmas Season down and storing them down cellar. I also had the doorbell ring and it was a man in Brown who gave me a package I have been waiting for. It was supposed to be two packages but one that was scheduled to be delivered today appears to be stuck in Colorado for the past 3 days.... The one I got is my new toy for my other hobby! Photography. Since my 18-85mm lens decided to go Pffffffftht... And crap out on me and I am not going to spend another $180 sending back to be repaired... (The problem seems to be rampant with that particular lens.) I decided to get me a bit better piece of glass. This one is an 18mm - 135mm and set me back a little over $600. Got some test photos of it downstairs in the train room just to make sure it works correctly and to see what it can do.
All of these photos were taken with the camera about 3' from the corner you see in the first photo. All photos were done with the aperture stopped down as far as possible (f/22 or above, didn't check how high) in AV Mode on my Digital Rebel Sxi. As I always do with layout shots I used manual focus.
This is at 18mm.
These two are at 135mm.
To my old eyes everything I want clean and crisp is clean and crisp... In the second photo I got just about the amount of blurring I was expecting in the foreground... I think I will have fun with this lens!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
der5997 Galaxy - mailed today.
Galaxy - mailed today.
der: Thank you very much~~!!! Glad you got it worked out...
BroadwayLionRIP The Daddy LION has passed away this afternoon, he was 93 years old.
Lion, prayers for you and yours at the DER household. My father made it to 98 - he was trying for the 100 as he had been given a prophecy to that effect in the Philippines in the 1980s. So, I know perhaps something of your feelings. Just to illustrate how interconnected we are, my father told of how he was working outdoors in Australia when his father died in England. He sensed that his father was standing right beside him - knew it was physically impossible, and just waited for the telegram! (Oh, sorry kids, that was texting back in the 1930s, but a wee bit slower )
YGW Saw your info request email. Will reply - for now, that would be Retired P. LOL
You can split the flex track at desired position. To do that, select the flex, right click over the place where you want to split it and finally select "Split" from the context menu. You can split the track as many times as you need. You can also reshape the already laid flex track, by use of "Reshape" command in the context menu.
Teatime! A small green please Chloe, and a couple of those dark chocolate covered Digestives. Ta ever-so, and I'll be over in the back booth...
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
yougottawantaHowmus - That wasnt 267" at once was it ? That was the whole season ? Does any of it melt between snow events
That was season total. Usually a lot will melt before the next storm, but....... Last winter that didn't happen much. So in Western, NY and places like Boston they were having some real difficulty dealing with where to pile the stuff. Here in Geneva, they had the big John Deere machine and the big bucket on it to put snow into trucks and dump it out of town someplace (that also had to be dug out to accomodate the stuff.). In one huge parking lot of an abandoned factory just west of Geneva they had 20+ foot high piles of it. It was the first of August before all of it ahd melted... This year, the couple inches we got a few days ago is almost gone.
Do hope your year improves for you and yours!
Goooooooooooood Mooooorning Everyone!
(Walks in and sings...)
"Gaudeamus igitur Juvenes dum sumus. Gaudeamus igitur Juvenes dum sumus. Post jucundam juventutem Post molestam senectutem Nos habebit humus. Nos habebit humus.
Vivat academiaVivat profesoresVivat membrum quodlibetVivat membra quaelibetSemper sint in flore,Semper sint in flore."
Ah yes, great song! Johannes Brahms used the tune in his wonderful Academic Festival Overture in a fortissimo rendition performed by the full orchestra! Wonderful, wonderful!!! One of my absolute all time favorite songs to bellow in my wide open very fortississimo basso prufundo voice to start faculty meetings way back when.... (I got spoken to a lot back then.......)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZLaWx0597Y
Back to w*rk!
Lion: Condolences from the Valley of the Sun.
Richard
Lion - sorry to hear about your father. Here is a for you and your family.
Galaxy - Can you tell if the leak is coming from a supply line or waste line ? If it is a waste line then it should be pretty easy to fix yourself.
Jim - Yea I bet you all up noth roll your eys at us in this area when they start talking about a "blizzard snow storm" of 7" LOL
Howmus - That wasnt 267" at once was it ? That was the whole season ? Does any of it melt between snow events
Der - 100 emails ? Geez I hope most of that is advertising notices ???
Ken, Garry ...Howdy
I tell you this year is not starting off well. Last week one of my friends tried to commit suicide - again - , Last night my sister had to have emergency surgery for kidney stones, my moms best friend is in and out of the ER and they do not expect her to live long, three coworkers have been laid off and then there is my SIL and all of her and her boys struggles. I sure hope 2016 gets better soon !
TTYL
YGW.
OH, GREAT!
we have a leak in the basement when someone showers!
I was down there while MOH showered, and heard drips.
Sure enouhg we have a leak somewhere!
have to call hte plumber after joint counselling.
good way to start the day!
GM, MEN!
Ulrich must not have wifi where he is. Sad to not hear form him!
Today's word:
-probably TOO MUCH gaudeamusing going on on college campumses!
Today's quotes:
The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined. -John N. Bahcall, astrophysicist (30 Dec 1935-2005)
Well, two public servants here have been arrested fro skimming money from hte public!
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.
[color-red]MAKE IT A GREAT DAY![/color]
PRAYERS for those IN NEED
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Lion Brother Elias ..... Sincere condolences regarding the loss of your father.
The Chapel Car has been dispatched to the Diner so your friends may pray for you and your family.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a decaf for me right now. Thank you Ma'am...
Brother Elias, my condolences to you and the rest of the Pride on the passing of the King of the Pride.... I would say he lived a long life! Do know I will be keeping you and yours in my prayers at this time.........
I tried to order some rock castings that I use for the cut stone on the layout today. The gent didn't have them listed on line so I sent him an email to see if I can still get them. He does still make them and had been going to put them up at his site. He said he will make a bunch for me and will now get them back up at his site so I can order and pay for them there. It will be a few days probably before they are ready to ship. Tomorrow I should get an order for Caboose Hobbies and my new lens for the camera should also arrive.
I guess I'll call it a night... Still have to clean the kitties litterbox and take some meds before bed. See you all in the morning!
My condolences to you and the rest of your pride, Lion.
Dear Br. Elias,
My Wife and I send our sincere condolences on the death of your Father.
It is indeed a sad time for us left here to mourn. However as we are promised we will be reunited in Heavenly Father's Kingdom and what joy we shall have at that time.
It is indeed a sweet peace that we have in knowing where we came from, why we are here and where we will go at the end of this mortal journey.
Prayers and Blessings for you and your family at this time and for your travels.
Johnboy out...................
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from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Lion: condolences for your fathers passing. I ahve lighted a candle for is "safe passage".
One enters a different stage of life when One's parentous begin passing on. I found that out in 2003 whne my mohter passed away.
BEst wishes toyou.
Condolences going out to Lion. It is always hard to lose a loved one.
YGW, your area of the world does seem to have its share of problems with snow. We have taken care of the grandchildren in early Febuary several times when Arlington received 5 -n 7 inches of snow and you would think the whole world comes to a standstill with a little snow. We are on tap this year for another early Febuary visit and have been joking about seeing an other Virginia "blizzard."
About time for my weekly hockey fix -- the Penguins vs. Blackhawks. Should be an interesting game.
Jim
RIP
The Daddy LION has passed away this afternoon, he was 93 years old.
He is survived by the Mommy LION and four little cubs (now in their 50s to 60s) some grandchildren and assorted great grand children. We will hold a service of sorts on Sunday, with Interment of the cremains in a veteran's cemetary sometime in the summer when more of us can get there. Besides who wants to model cemetaries in the wintertime.
I'll travel to North Carolina on Friday, and return on Wednesday.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
der5997 Quick reply before dinner - I’ve been looking for large sheets of styrene without much success, (there’s nothing wrong with Plastruct or Evergreen products), I but I think I may have found a supply though the new local merchant refers to it as High Impact Plastic. I hope to be getting an off cut soon to see how it compares. If that High Impact stuff isn't quite the thing (doing a test with the plastic glue you intend to use right in the store might be a way to go) you might try this...If the petrol stations have advertizing signs over the pumps, they may very well be made of (your equivalent of) PVC. That's what i've found here in Canada - and those signs are generally thrown away at the end of the advertizing campaign, just ask for them..
Quick reply before dinner -
I’ve been looking for large sheets of styrene without much success, (there’s nothing wrong with Plastruct or Evergreen products), I but I think I may have found a supply though the new local merchant refers to it as High Impact Plastic. I hope to be getting an off cut soon to see how it compares.
If that High Impact stuff isn't quite the thing (doing a test with the plastic glue you intend to use right in the store might be a way to go) you might try this...If the petrol stations have advertizing signs over the pumps, they may very well be made of (your equivalent of) PVC. That's what i've found here in Canada - and those signs are generally thrown away at the end of the advertizing campaign, just ask for them..
Plastic advertising signs sounds like a good idea.
I have used plastic "For Sale" signs purchased from the hardware store for a low price.
The retaining wall in the photo below is made from "For Sale" signs which I cut into strips and held it all together with PVC cement. I sprayed it with fleck paint and weathered it.
Ray .... It was hard for me to sell the live steam locomtive because of sentimental reasons. However, it did not want to change from indoor model railroading to outdoor live steam trains. It was sold to a man who was a member of the live steam club in which my Dad had been a member. I have thought about tracking down the engine to see if I could buy it back, but really the live steam locootives require a lot of work to operate them. I have several other things that belonged to my Dad which I keep for sentimental reasons.
Good late afternoon on the Feast of Epiphany in this year of Grace 2016! - thought you might appreciate that Lion
yougottawantaDER - I sent you a test email. Did it come through ?
Must change my avatar now it's after 12th night.[Done - but will it show on this reply???] All the Christmas decorations were dealt with today - including the outdoors as it is only -2 C and bright sunshine.
I'm waiting for a reply from SCARM's PM system to tell me how to cut into Flex track on their track planning program so as to insert a turnout. Slowly wrestling the early stages of that program to the ground.
The final season of Downton Abbey was on Maine Public TV on Sunday night - too late to stay up for for us here in Atlantic Canada - so we put it on the PVR and watched it last night. I have to learn to be more detached about these things - I tend to take them seriously!
Salmon fish cakes with broccoli on the menu tonight.
Tomorrow is the dreaded housework-after-the Christmas-decorations-are-down day. Oh well it's not as if this is a difficult house to maintain, and neither of us are that nit-picky about these things. that's more SWMBO than me - but a maid service would be nice, even so! LOL
Well, "I see by the clock on the wall" (nod to Johnny Wayne) that it's tim eto getthings ready for dinner (my part of the process anyway). I may be back in later...
JaBear To be fair though we do have our own local terminology problems, I’ve been looking for large sheets of styrene without much success, (there’s nothing wrong with Plastruct or Evergreen products), I but I think I may have found a supply though the new local merchant refers to it as High Impact Plastic. I hope to be getting an off cut soon to see how it compares.
To be fair though we do have our own local terminology problems, I’ve been looking for large sheets of styrene without much success, (there’s nothing wrong with Plastruct or Evergreen products), I but I think I may have found a supply though the new local merchant refers to it as High Impact Plastic. I hope to be getting an off cut soon to see how it compares.
I've heard of something called HIPS, for High Impact PolyStyrene, though I couldn't swear it's the same product as what we modelers call styrene.
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I will have a pot of Marrakesh Express Dark Roast coffee to keep my FGLK mug filled for a while and a half dozen or so of the sour cream glazed doughnuts to keep my blood sugar way above where it ought to be.....
yougottawantaHowmus - GEEZ !!! 5' of SNOW
Heck, that was just one little snow storm that did that.... In that area they get a lot of "Lake Effect" snow all winter (and fall and spring at times).
"This winter featured another snowy season as lake effect events, and numerous clipper-type lows brought snowfall totals up to above normal. Both the Buffalo and Rochester airports received more than 100 inches this season. The greatest snowfall totals east of Lake Erie generally fell across the hills, with the higherterrain across southern Erie, Wyoming, and the western Southern Tier topping 200 inches. The greatest observed snowfall total occurred in the town of Wyomingin Wyoming County, where 253 inches of snow fell.
East of Lake Ontario is where the greatest observed snowfall totals occurred for our region. The hamlet of Hooker in Lewis County measured 268 inches this season. The axis of heaviest lake effect snow this winter east of Lake Ontario was across the climatologically favored area of the central Tug Hill, different than last winter where lake snows favored the northern Tug Hill and Watertown area. Even so, Watertown finished the season with 147 inches of snow, still well above average. "
Lets see, that means last winter in Hooker, NY they had over 22 feet of snow.... We don't get anywhere close to that where I live in the Finger Lakes but it did look like this outside at one point:
The most we actually had at any one time was about 2'. Over the winter we got about double that much, but it did melt down, The roof was covered with snow from late Dec. to mid April. I never could get enough snow off the solar panels to get them to start up and clear. I lost about 2 months of production from them which is why I was down 200 kWh for 2015 from the levels of the first few years. When it did decide to melt it caused this:
which resulted in major damage to my living room in the house.... My father used to tell me about having to dig tunnels through the snow as a boy to get out to the barn to do chores and milk the cows.... During the worst time when I was a kid, the roads would be completely blocked (one 35' high drift blocking the road a quarter mile away) and he had to dump the milk for a week or so until the roads got cleared.... Not good when you are trying to keep the bank from foreclosing on the farm!
My Quote for the day: "The aging process is a lot like grapes, some turn to vinegar but the best turn to wine." (unknown)
Well.... (deep subject) I need to get over to STAPLES to get the banner ordered for the MLK Committee. Later!
Good morning all
Howmus - GEEZ !!! 5' of SNOW ! Do you know what would happen around here with five feet of snow ? They would declare it a national emergency, it would be on the news 24/7, the talking heads - heads would turn 360 degrees and they would spiyt peas soup and then fall on the floor shaking as though they were having a siezure. Heck we got two feet a few times and it shut the area down for seven days ! How often do you all get that much snow ? I had a friend who was from Minnesota and he would tell me that they had so much snow they would build tunnels through the snow. To a kid like me at the time that would have been a dream come true.
Blown Out cylinder - Hope all is alright here is a for you.
DER - I sent you a test email. Did it come through ?
Angel - If you are a member of the NMRA they have a collection of photos that members can see for free.
Galaxy - defriend ? Are you thinking of defriending someone ?
Ridon road - I will seng you a PM
YGW
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. -Carl Sandburg, poet and biographer (6 Jan 1878-1967)
Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Good Evening.
It got to 28 here this afternoon...in the sunshine.
I had a couple of incidents off shortness of breath today..seeing the doctor on Thursday...hopefully nothing has decided to mess me up...again.
Have a good evening!!
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/
yougottawantaHowmus - Snow already ? Man you guys get it early !
ROFL........... Early??? Usually by mid November we have snow built up and have been running the snow blowers to get out of our driveways a couple times a week.... Check this, about 60 miles due west of where I live in Buffalo, NY mid November a little over a year ago: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~mecardwe/
You Southern folks down in Virginia don't know what SN*W is....
Today was 17°F here... Nice balmy Winter day! Sun did shine and the Solar panels are almost cleaned off from the white stuff that fell the last couple days. Actually made 1 kWh today... Whoopie!!! Tomorrow is supposed to be sunny all day so I should see considerably more from them. Had a nice chat with our city Assesor today... He said I don't need to fill out the exemption form for the solar power as on my residence it isn't considered to be enough to worry about. The form is more for large solar or wind farms, biogas and other major Green power units intended to be "for profit" and what I was told when they were installed was correct. He did tell me that all the assesments will be going up in my neighborhood as will most areas of the city. I told that doesn't bother me at all because 1. there is no way I would consider selling my home for what it is currently assessed for, and 2. as long as the change is equitable I should not see a raise in my taxes. He agreed and said I shouldn't see much if any more in the tax bill.
I done spent way more $$$$ today than I probably should have on one of my hobbies. My 17-85mm Canon EF-S lens that is my normal go to lens for both hobby shots and when I do photos of events has decided to develope an electrical problem that these particular lenses are prone to. I take a photo or two and then the camera shows an error #1 code and doesn't take the photo. Says the camera can't communicate with the lens and to clean the contacts and try again.... Got the same code with it after a couple photos in the other camra body I have. The other lens that is similar is the original kit lens that came with the old body. That one seems to work fine with the camera, so I have to assume it is the lens. I just had this lens in to be repaired, to the tune of $180 and I'm not going to waste any more $$ on it. I figure since it is a totally different problem that would also cost me $180 to get it repaired. Time to upgrade. So I just spent a bit over $600 for a new EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS lens.... That one gets excellent reviews and should be one I can use in more places than the old one. (used to have to change lenses a bit when I was doing event photos... only other lens I have for that is a fixed 100mm lens I use for distance and close up shots). The 100mm lens is what I used to get this one which got published in the local paper a few years ago:
Did you find the wasp? That lens still has some good uses so I will keep it. It gives me a wonderfull small field of focus for shots like that. I also have a 10-22mm EF-S lens that is great for certain hobby shots like this one. The camera is set right in the doorway of the Engine house...
Dinner is calling me. Then back to w*rk! Later!
digestive biscuits---Winston Churchill once said "America and England are two countries separated by a common language"
herrinchoker