Guys:
I have bad news, very bad news.
SOme of you may remember a while ago I asked for special prayers for train nut friend's son. He had demons wiht alcohol/drugs and suffered at least great depression, if not bipolar as he would fly into manic rages.
Well, he always threatened suicide if he didn't get his way, often usually geting money for his beer and drugs from his parents, train nut friend and wife.
Speaking myself after 3 attempts, last on in 2008,and last June I was in suicidal ideations, so went to CPEP and was taken involuntarily,even thoug I was there voluntary BEFORE anything happened again.
Well, last night he succeeded. He hung himself.
He was just 24.
RIP, Christian.
Prayers please.
-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.
Good morning.
Galaxy .. Of course it is good to see you, but you should remove polical stuff from your post.
Frank ... I'll say it here too. Your photos in WPF of your scratch built porch shpw outstanding work.
Photobucket is back working. Here is a Santa Fe publicity photo of the Super Chief. I have a Santa Fe post card with that picture I got when our family rode the Super Chief in 1957.
Photobucket is back up
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
GM, MEN!
Today's word:
Evening Dinners
Flo, Please
Felt pretty good most of the day at work. Starting to fade right now so I will be heading in pretty soon.
Mr Mick and Ray I have not given up on the PK 2000 B&O GP 30. I have to agree that it could be a simple lose wire. I may have over oiled the motor and gummed up the brushes as well. I was under the weather a little more last night and should had let them sit. Plus it does not help that the Proto motors have the flywheels pressed on as far as they do!
One of the things I like about my Atlas B&O GP 38 is the lube points are easy to get to. What hate, is again I cannot get the darn shell off! When it comes off this time, I am cutting the pounting taps off!
YGW Sue leg is doning fine, her foot on the other is not. While the fractuer bone is part of her little toe it is close to the ankel. About 3/4 quaters of the way back. Reason they know it is not healing but in fact worse is they took X-Rays last Wednesday and comparied them to the day after the fall.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Evenin' folks!
Janie, I'll just get another cup of decaf to tide me over at the moment...
YGW, One of my favorite ways of putting it (I think somebody used on here...) Is: "Been busier than a cat covering poop on a marble floor...."
I have been busy sending emails out to the Division membership today. Actually have heard back from a few more. Guess we are going to have to pick up the phone and start twisting arms! Several of the folks will be at Springfield this weekend, but will be back home early next week. A couple are exhibitors and others are just going to the show. Sent a couple Scholarship requests to the bank that handles them through a 501c3 account for us.
Even got some time in the train room. Built the second cut stone support for the Girder Bridge. Got a couple photos of the first one sitting where it will go, but can't show you because Pffffotobouquet has been off line all day, as someone said earlier.
A few days ago I read the gas and electric meters and sent the readings into NYSEG (my supplier). Now I realize that this January has been a bit warmer than last January (but not really that much). Found my Natural Gas usage was down by 24 therms from last January. Now last January I was cranking the wood stove as much as I could! Hmmmmmmm..... Maybe the rebuild of the living room was not a bad thing in some ways. There is now better insulation in the ceiling (wasn't any there as the dumbies put it on the roof allowing the warm air to freely flow into the attic and out...) and side wall.
I'll catch you all in the morning. Prayers for all!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
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.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
well, I saw my Dr today. he is continuing treatment as is.
BUT: he had an xray taken. There is a shadow left lung lowest lobe. COuld be a pulmonary nodule? AND instead of treating me for asthma all htese years, perhaps emphasema would be better? I quit smokig 10 years ago but maybe not soon enough?
MOH already made the comment : I don't know what I will do wihtou you"...I am NOT dead yet {or rather again}.
Ulrich I like the wild life
BO Cylinder my tremors were bad after heart surgery. I couldn't hold anything on a fork for 2 days, not that I was hungry for synthetic scrambled eggs and turkey painted to look like bacon.
If anyone has July 1991
http://www.amazon.com/Model-Railroader-railroading-Moving-Severna/dp/B003PH6YCI
or Dec 1975
http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Model-Railroader-Magazine-December-1975-Severna-Park-Beginners-EMDs-F45-/370889863906 MR or access to the archives, that's their stuff on the covers.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Howmus wrote - "6 Saturdays and one Sunday every week...." LOL ! Never thought of it like that ! But I bet if you are like the other retired folks I know they are busier than a one arm paper hanger ! In fact friend excliamed to me "you know after seeing how busy I am in retirment, I just dont know how I had time for work ! "
Mr. Mick - Hello have you been to this post before ? If not if you have then again !
Oh and to everyone else that I forgot to say hello to earlier - Hello - had a busy moring and just to big of a rush !
TTYL
YGW
yougottawantaHowmus - I hope that word (w**k) Surprise didnt offend you to much ! Water breaks it is that season
LOL!!! Nah, just gotta have a bit of fun once in a while! Being an old retired guy I generally have to check to see what day of the week it actually is. I now have 6 Saturdays and one Sunday every week....
MrMick, if Ken's loco will run on DC then the MOTOR is OK! Otherwise it would not run at all on either DC or DCC.... If the MOTOR runs then the MOTOR isn't the problem! He needs to check other things (The Decoder for instance) to find the problem. If you have a light bulb that doesn't work and you screw it into another socket and it does work and you screw another lightbulb into the first socket and it doesn't work... The problem isn't the lightbulb!!! Basic electricity 101 my friend...
Got an email from the city letting me that there indeed was a watermain break up the street. They are asking us to run water to get all the loosened crud out of the line....
Ken - I think the oiling may have beentoomuch; I agree that if it runs on DC then the decoder may no be totally fried - maybe just wiping ouot any excess oil will fix it; also, I have a habit of not plugging inthe wiring harness tight enuf, and it vibrates loose and everything stops.
Henry, really nice layout pictures.
Hope all you diners have a good day. I gotta go troubleshoot a balky sound decoder; may have to package it up and send it back to the experts if I can't make it work.
We are almost plowed and cleared at w**k. Today we finsh the City sidewalk ( cannot believe the locals pay thousands and thousand and thousands and thousands of dollars to these local gov. folks and they DO NOT clear the sidewalks ! Some of these Homeowners pay 12 k to 15 k on just their house every year not to mention car taxes, food taxes, utility taxes etc and what do they get ? NOTHING - UNBELIEVABLE - so they fuss at me and ask me why am I not clearing the City sidewalks ? My response, you are paying the taxes for them to maintain the streets and sidwalks why dont you call up the city, the sidewalk do not belong to me. okay I feel a bit better - sorry for the
Ulrich You are a good husband I can tell givingh up MRR for a day for YOH
Garry Wow ! I didnt think that word was allowed in here ! But thanks for the good thoughts !
Howmus - I hope that word (w**k) didnt offend you to much ! Water breaks it is that season
Henry - That is some nice work at the club !
BO Cylinder - what is non tremoring ? Is there earth quakes going on in your neck of the woods ?
Ken - Hope you feel better soon. Why do the saw bones think YOH leg is not mending ? Is that a Big Boy in the photo ?
Jimmy Braun - I love the Peanut. When I was a kid I thought snoopy was the greatest. Especially his plane flying skit !
DER - Have you gotten any feed back on the operations on your plan ?
Gotta get back to w**k
Morning diners,
Blownout cylinder and Howmus- It's nice to know that I have people who understands than people who don't, specifically family members.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
RIP, Paul Kantner. The Jefferson Airplane was one of the most popular bands of its time, back when I was in college.
David Bowie, Glenn Frey and now Paul Kantner. 2016 hasn't been a good year for old rockers.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Heartland Division CB&QDon't work too hard.
Hey Garry! Watch your language, sir!!!
Mornin' everyone!
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.
Good Afternoon!
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!
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.
hey all
Very busy morning. Two meetings plus regular duties etc... Will touch check in later.
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.
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¢
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!!
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/
Flo, please.
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
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...
Catch you all later!
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.
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.
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).
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.
Ken
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...)!
Good Morning
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.
CYLTR!!!!