Good morning all
V8 - What is Fiero forum. Is that a car forum ?
Ken - I am so glad I dont have to sneak stuff by MOH. She actually buys me stuff !
DER - LOL Rosie teh RR dog ! bI love it ! How did Rosie get that name ? I am gonna check that site.
Ulrich, DER - For some reason not understood by myself many Americans ( myself included ) have this deep interest in castles and all things related to castles such as Knights, moats, dungeons etc...We chaf under a king or queen but we love castles. Go figure...
BO Cylinder, James, Henry, Lion, UP 831, Garry, Gary......Hello
Have to get back to earning my keep. - W**k
TTYL
YGW
Good Morning
Little bit of snow overnight...crashes galore.
Going up to 32F later on in a mix of cloud/sun. Right now it is 28F.
Got a bunch of runnin' 'roun' doin' stuff to do...honey buy stuff, don't you know...
CYLTR!!!!
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/
Good morning everyone. Above freezing overnight but it will be in the teens tonight.
Sold a couple things on Ebay. They left Baltimore for CA at 8 pm on the 15th. One arrived on the 19th, the second vanished until this morning. 12 days for priority mail
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Good morning .
Catcing up on computer work here with the Trio with me. At the moment it is Sassy's yurn to walk in front of the monitor.
Galaxy .... Cuddles souns like he lives up to his name.
Ken ..... Of course, I like dogs too even though currently don't have any. I like the old photo with you and the "lap dog" and the other too.
Henry ... Your dog sounds like a great pet.
Penny .... A monitor blocker ? Cats do that, don't they?
I had time to operate trains yesterday. I am switching cars at the industry which takes a while.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good Afternoon!
In Barry-speak, today is a dull day - overcast and wet, but rather warm for January. I heard a flock of geese heading north, so that´s that for Winter!
I spent a couple of hours to integrate the right tunnel portal into the foam scenery. As with the left one, I had to take away a considerable amount of the scenery I had put in earlier. I´ve go most of it done today, but the tricky part has yet to be tackled. I need the glue to set properly before I can give it a go - time to run a train!
YGW - initially, I though using the city gate of mine as a kind of castle was a good idea, but my Swiss friends vetoed it. They are right - the few castles to be found look very much different - predating the year 1291 AD, when the Swiss outed their Habsburg king. With that curved backdrop now, there is no place for a castle left.
Zoe, time for some coffee and a slice of that apple crumble ... - thank you!
Mornin' everyone!
Janie, I would like a pot of Marrakesh express Dark Roast Coffee and a couple of the Sour Cream Glazed Donuts to dunk in the coffee... Please and Thank You Ma'am!
Ulrich you appear to be having the same weather over there as I am having here in the Finger Lakes Region. I am getting some little white thingies falling out of the sky though. Lake Effect Fluries I guess. Current temperature is 31°F with a high of 32°F sometime .........
I have already been out and around this morning. Had to take a corrected certificatre over to the Middle School and then run over to the grocery store to get kittie litter for my sister's cats. She left one container with almost nothing in it for us to use... She still owes me dinner form the last trip to the very far... She is going to have to take me to a good restaurant now... LOL I also need to change a couple of shop light 40w florescents down celler at her house. She has no clue of how to do that. I have a bunch of them sitting down cellar her so I will give them to her. It looks like the tubes have been there about 30 years.... I checked them yesterday. I hope that is all that is wrong with them, and it doesn't need a new ballast. If that is the case she can have her electrician take care of it.
I see noon has just arrived, so I need to get ready to drive to Canandaigua to take care of her kitties...
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!
Oh, it's Wednesday? A question for the rest of you who are retired - do you lose track of the day of the week? I sure do. With stores open 7 days a week, and an almost complete avoidance of the garbage on television, I have few things to synchronize my day-by-day schedule with.
I did play hockey last night. (Remember, this is pickup hockey with an age range that spans 50 years.) Halfway through, we were down 9-1, but we rallied and won 13-10. I slept very late this morning, which is usually a sign that I put in a very good and tiring effort, win or lose.
It's still unusually warm here, and the driveway is clear of the ice and snow and even starting to dry out. I see no bad or cold weather in the forecast, and it looks like my drive to Springfield for the big train show on Saturday will be easy.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Evening Dinners
Flo, please.
Well Today Was A Ash Pitt!
Sue Foot Front. Well the surgon took some more X-Rays and there no signs of the fracture healing. In fact the fracture is worst from Sue walking around with the Boot And Cane! Yet, he does not want to do surgery? He wants to give it another 4 months or so to heal on it's own!
He also wants to to use a walker and keep all weight off the bad foot. Wants her use her arms to support the weight off the Left Foot and Keep it off the ground! I am soory to say it, but there is noway she will be able to do that! This part I do not feel sorry for her, it is her own fault! Even when she was in good shape as far as her back and knees she would never do anything hard. Even when I first meet her when she was 23 year old, she would not carry a 10 pound bag of patatos because it was to heavy? She all so would not take PE in school, she got her mon to write a note.
To make matters worse, I am coming down with something. Feel like I am coming down with a fever and feel like Caboose. Told Sue she was on her own tonight, all I was going to do is walk Sparkie The Rocket Dog. Bought some Fried Chicken, Mashed Patatoe and Gravey and Green Beans from shop and save.
Well, I am just done in.
Ken
I love all dogs, but big dogs are the best!
I hate Rust
YGW:
…yes, and I’ve noticed a similarly inexplicable fixation on Paris! For the castle possibility, I think I’ll measure the footprint of the Caernarvon model and see if ther might be room. The thought has introduced itself that a Nn30 (think Z track) branch from the “tourist trains’ tot he “Castle Theme Park” might be wicked!
Henry:
Ken: It seems that every good project demands a blood sacrifice! (Anyone else noticed that, or am I just accident prone? This is, for me, not just an mrr phenom. Sorry about Sue, and I know what you mean as we have a daughter who used to play the “I’m too little” card – and still thinks like that.
Mr.B: I hear you on the days merging thing.- but we generally have set things on a Mon (wife=Tai Chi), Tue wife=Bible study, me = prison visitation (well every 2nd. one, that is) Wed = Garbage every 2nd same as the 2nd Tues Thurs (wife swimming) Fri = groceries as often as not. Sat (every 2nd me = men’s prayer meeting) Sun church. So, there are reference points, but during any given day I’m finding times where I wonder, as do you.
I’ve gone over the castle book and now have basic shapes and dimensions for the various components (only 17 which affect the footprint.) So, with some scissors w*rk and a bit of patience, I should be able to see fairly soon just how big that puppy would be.
Time to call it a day tonight (OK, so March 17th is a bit away, but I thought I’d get in some Irish practice!)
Good night all for those in need.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Good Night All, catch ya all tomorrow.
Johnboy out.........................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
last mountain & eastern hogger
I went to my new favorite bar tonight to hear some music, drink some beer and enjoy some companionship. I overheard a conversation between a woman and an old man. He said something like "It's terminal." I assumed that to mean that he had a bad diagnosis.
But y'know, I've seen this guy at the bar before. He's probably close to 80. He's doing the same as me - sitting at the bar, having some wine, listening to the band and talking with friends. No, he's not dying. He's doing more living than most people.
Get out there and live. All of you.
GM, MEN!
Today's 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.
cudaken Evening Dinners Flo, please. Well Today Was A Ash Pitt! Sue Foot Front. Well the surgon took some more X-Rays and there no signs of the fracture healing. In fact the fracture is worst from Sue walking around with the Boot And Cane! Yet, he does not want to do surgery? He wants to give it another 4 months or so to heal on it's own! He also wants to to use a walker and keep all weight off the bad foot. Wants her use her arms to support the weight off the Left Foot and Keep it off the ground! I am soory to say it, but there is noway she will be able to do that! This part I do not feel sorry for her, it is her own fault! Even when she was in good shape as far as her back and knees she would never do anything hard. Even when I first meet her when she was 23 year old, she would not carry a 10 pound bag of patatos because it was to heavy? She all so would not take PE in school, she got her mon to write a note. To make matters worse, I am coming down with something. Feel like I am coming down with a fever and feel like Caboose. Told Sue she was on her own tonight, all I was going to do is walk Sparkie The Rocket Dog. Bought some Fried Chicken, Mashed Patatoe and Gravey and Green Beans from shop and save. Well, I am just done in. Ken I love all dogs, but big dogs are the best!
BIG CATS are nice too!
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Afternoon Folks!
Well, I am a grouch today. I tripped over my own two feet early in the morning and fell down hard on my b.tt. As it it comfortably cushioned, it does not hurt that much, but I must have pulled a muscle in my right foot during the procedure and that hurts like mad. I am somewhat immobilzed due to that and for trhat, certainly not in the mood for MRRing - other than run the daily schedule of trains over my layout.
Chloe, I think I´ll have some hot chocolate and a slice of that cherry crumble cake, please.
I´ll be staying in the back booth, so if you´d like to join me for a chat, that´s where you´ll find me!
Weather here be dull dull dull and coolish...only 34 for a high today.
Man, my handds are shaking bad today...I have to use a straw with my decaf today, lol. And typing is interesting,. Every other wordd gets doubled uppp letters, lol!!!
Intentional tremors are so much fun.
Oh...here comes Lucy, up for a cuddle sesssion..
Trainroom has been cleaned again of clutter....and, into the other little shed it goes.
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of Vanilla Almond Crunch Organic Cereal and a pot of Seneca Lake Dark Roast Fair Traded Coffee for breakfast this morning. Oh bring over the Organic Half and Half and my Stevia, please... I go sit for a while with Ulrich in the back booth by the wood stove.
Barry, Ever notice how cuddling with a sweet kittie calms the nerves? It sure does with me! Last night as I headed for bed, I picked up Manét to take him in there and put him on the bed. I guess he was happy about it as all the down the hall he was nuzzling my beard with his head and purring like crazy!
Last night was dinner and introductions at the home of Mark Gearan, President of HWS Colleges. Very nice gathering, and the lecture over at the college later was excellent. The speaker this year was Peggy McIntosh, Ph.D. I won't discuss on here the content of the evenings lecture as it isn't something we can/should discuss in the forum.... I did get personally introduced and recognized for my work with the MLK Committee here in town. 'Twas late when I got back home so I didn't say howdy before I caught some "zzzzzz".
Today is "Madly clean the house in a frenzy day" as there is a bunch of Cub Scout leaders coming over here to use my computer system(s) to complete Youth Protection and Leader Specific Training tonight. Better get started!
Catch you all later (If I get caught up with the house cleaning...)!
Morning
Flo,
I still feel bad. Last night I got the shaks like a paint shaker. Hot and Cold at the same time.
I hope I feel better later today, I have a bunch of running I have to do.
Afternoon all. My locomotive I ordered two years ago finally came in stock. But wouldn't you know it, I had gotten a new credit card in the two years between it. So I'm waiting for Walthers to call me back so I can update the information for the order.
(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).
Jimmy_BraumAfternoon all. My locomotive I ordered two years ago finally came in stock.
When I was talking to the owner of my LHS about why he decided to retire and go out of business, his biggest problem was the large rent increase he was facing. But, the other thing he was very unhappy about was the long lead time for many items. Customers, it seems, don't want to wait 2 years for a locomotive. This way of doing business does not help the hobby one bit.
And, I hope his former landlord is enjoying the empty store in an out-of-the-way strip mall. 2 months now.
Hey diners,
It's been a dull week for me. Nothing to talk or write about, but believe me I would.
I was thinking about making a hypothetical $1,000 budget layout with the freight cars and locomotives I have, and probably a hand drawn or planed design.
I thought of modern era with Union Pacific and Amtrak. I got the locomotives and coaches and probably choose four diesels. I could make the 1990s but the locomotives that Atlas makes has no ditch lights, and can't find a manufacturer that makes them in N Scale. Conrail in 1987 can be possible but I need more locomotives than 2 GP35, and one 89' flat car.
Model Railroading is easy and hard at the same time. Decisions, decisions.
Train News: A few days ago I bought a Micro-Trains 2 bay LO in CNW/UP WWD paint.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Afternoon folks!
Chloe, I see your still on duty... I'll have a big mug of decaf to tide me over to Dinner... Thanks!
Today has, so far (and I hope putting that in print doesn't jinx it), been the best day I have had in weeks. I got most all the cleaning done I needed to get done before people show up for the online training session here for the Cub Pack (the Handicapped unit) leaders, got the wash almost done (third load is in the washer right now and the second load is drying), AND!!!!!!! When I went to put the vacume cleaner away I looked in my bedroom to see if I could find my hiding kittie cats, and there, up on the bed, with his brother cuddled beside him, was (and is) Manét!!! This is the first time in over three months that I know of that he has gotten up on the bed by himself. Diabettes had left him with a lot of difficulty walking and he was not even close to being able to get up there by himself just a couple weeks ago! I ran in there shouting and being excited. They both looked at me as if to say, "What the heck is wrong with you daddy!" They have been on the bed most of the afternoon....
Angelo, actually I think those kind of decisions are part of the fun of creating your own miniature world! Hope it turns out great for you...
While far from being the worse day I have had (worse day was sitting in a fox hole at 3:00 AM, it was rainning, 40 degrees and my poncho was leaking) I will still be glad to put this day behinde me!
Got my running done, took around 3 hours and then to the train room, may have been a mistake.
Train Problems. I tried to oil up the motors of my PK 2000 GP 30's and clean the wheels with a DC power supply. They both have Digitrax decoders and have DC emabled. Every thing seemed fine till I tried to run the lead engine on DCC, all I could control was the lights? Tried reading the decoder using Decoder Pro, kept geting 308, no responce from engine. Ran it on DC again, and it ran, then stopped, ran then stopped.
I hope I just cooked the decoder and not the motor. I could have over oiled the motor, if so maybe a good cleaning with contact cleaner will get her going.
Offf to bed.
Sick Ken
Good Evening.
Gee, what a dull day we had here. Got to 36F here but now we areonly going to 28F tomorrow...in the snow.
So, everything seems to be non-tremoring now. Kinda wonder what brought that on this morning
Anhow...got some layout work to get tonight ...so have good evening!!!
Ray: Just when I opened the laptop up here comes the little one...headbunting and schmoozing right along, lol!!
Angelo: Always a good feeling to start planning as well!!
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a refill of the decaf right now, please...
blownout cylinderRay: Just when I opened the laptop up here comes the little one...headbunting and schmoozing right along, lol!!
I just had a couple Cub Scout leaders over here doing their Youth Protection Training. One was using my iMac and the other brought her laptop and used my WiFi to connect. The one using WiFi found that the Scout Website wouldn't let her connect from this location... So she called the National Office, explained the situation, tried again, and was let into the training area. All told there ended up being 6 people here besides me by the end of the session and only one that my kitties had ever met before. One lady who takes her grandson to the Troop brought one of the others over. When she arrived Manét who had never ever seen her before, comes right over and is nuzzling her leg as she was standing here. She was in hysterics that a cat would come right over to someone it has never seen before and be so friendly. Even when everyone was here at the same time the kitties were right in the midst of everything going on..... Blackie wants some canned food right now, he is pawwing at my leg as I type.
I guess I'll stop back again later... He is very demanding!
I'm Baaaaaacccccckkkkkkk!
Ken If the loco runs on DC, your motor is fine. The motor runs on DC period... The decoder creates the DC current to power the motor. So It is something with the decoder. Try resetting the decoder to factory settings (use a programing track) and see if will run on address 3. If it does. then reset the values you have changed back to what you want. if it does not run after resetting the decoder to factory settings, you probably fried the decoder somehow... Might also be a loose or broken wire going to the motor from the decoder. Remove the decoder and put it into another loco. Does it run now? if so look for a bad connection from the decoder pins the decoder sits in to the motor... just my 2¢
Today's word:
Zoe Coffee please, black and strong.
Things happen in 3's. Paul Kantner is gone. Old rock starts can rest easy now.
Need to get my fat butt to the gym today, then work on some benchwork.
I got the plumbing squared away on my new 6 gal Porter compressor & water trap. No splatters of water, woo hoo.
Went to the local model RR club last night. Severna Park MRR. They still run DC. There were only about 7 guys there and only 2 were running trains. Complicated piece of trackwork here.
Some one did nice rock work.
To the left and behind the switcher is a bridge over the mainline. It's hard to see, but it has vertical steel supports, it is too narrow for anything much longer than that switcher.
hey all
Very busy morning. Two meetings plus regular duties etc... Will touch check in later.
Henry .... Wow !... That's a nice layout. I like the complex trackwork in the top photo. You may wish to participate in Weekend Photo Fun.
YGW ... Don't work too hard.
My foot is much better today, so I don´t have to be a grouch any longer!
No work the layout today - I thought giving Petra a break from having to complain about dirt&dust would be a nice gesture for a change
I have come quite a long way with the foam base of the scenery - only a few bits left to do before launching the next step, which will be installing the facia.
Sorry - no picture, Photobucket is down for maintenance and wouldn´t let me upload the picture.
Henry - I like your rock formation - very inspirational!
Heartland Division CB&QDon't work too hard.
Hey Garry! Watch your language, sir!!!
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of buttermilk pancakes with real NYS Maple Syrup, and a pot of my usual dark roast coffee for my R&GV RR mug.
Lst night about 2;30AM I woke up after hearing a strange sound... It could very well have been one of those tricks your ears play on you when you are deaf, but. I got up and checked out the house to see what might have fallen on the floor or anything else. Looking out the window of my dining room there were 5 deer in my front lawn. They come through the neighborhood to eat some of the now dried friut ofrf the flowering quince in my yard. When I looked out, they all looked back at me and one of them moved into the road. She must have been the leader as soon she walked away down the street toward the city with rest following her. I just read an ariticle that deer are waiting to come out and feed during the night as the temps have been warm and the sn*w is basically non-existant. I think the sound may have been Manét trying to jump back up on the bed. He is walking like he hurts this morning..... I'll be keeping an eye on him...
There is a stream of water running down the side street by my house this morning, I have seen a couple City trucks going by and one of there tractors with a backhoe just went by.... Broken water pipe??? I still have water here.
I will be dirving to the Mac Store I do business with to buy an anti-virus program to put on the computer... Used to be Macs didn't need such a thing, but today....... Mostly I want to check and see what might be lurking on my iMac that could have been involved with the Identity Theft concerning my ebay account.
Hope all of you have a great day! Stay safe and warm.