Now I'll try that again in WORD a nd see if the margins go wingy
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
der5997Now I'll try that again in WORD a nd see if the margins go wingy
All of your posts on this page look fine.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Well, well, well,
FIL visit at his house today yielded extra funds to pay down the mortgage! We will have it paid off in 5 years or less instead of 30! GOOD GOOD GOOD> He was generous for once.
I should get busy doing things and stuff and stuff and things.
DOn't feel like it.
Here I sit, FAT DUMB and contemplating life.
-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.
G-Man -
MrB: I am on a bunch of things here. Amiodorone, Toloxin, Coversyl, Carvedilon, Coumerin, Spironolactone, Furosemide, Atorvastatin, and at least two other things... oh, and 0.8 mg Nitro patches.... so for me it can be all of them mixing it up.
Good afternoon...
More tests scheduled for me this week, so I am going to be stuck here for awhile...
At least my planning books are keeping me busy...
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/
Sir Madog G-Man -
Yes!!!!! [tu]
Afternoon Diners,
I noticed today when I was going to get track. My favorite hobby store raised their shipping $0.80 more. I have trouble buying things at $8.95 but now $9.75
I decided a few days ago last week to change my layout. I was looking at the past past MR layouts and found one in HO Scale in the Dec 1992 called the NH Berkshire Division. It had a good outline for single and double mainline. I'm still thinking of redesigning the town size and operating situation.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Sir MadogSorry for the picture being a little too dark, but I didn´t want to use the flash. I think the river looks OK.
John - I was expecting you to say "the river looks cracking"!
What is that I am wearing ? Oh you mean the arm sling, the leg cast, the head dressing, crutches and ice pack ? That is from the beating I took today ! I think this week ends run of bad luck rolled on into Monday. I was glad to get back to w**k until I got up this morning. Recieved my first nasty gram email at 6am. Then the stuff hit the fan and kept blowing all day. A vender failed to show up, the VP came out and was grouchy and kicked butt all over the place ( maybe he slept with the mutts too this weekend ??) , My plumber handed me an extra first thing this morning laughing as he requested a signature then he had the gaul to wave the stinking Dallas football star in front of me !!! , Site inspector showed up belly aching, one the kids threw up in the car all over the place and I had to leave w**k in mid crisis to take her home.
Oh and to add insult to injury my wife comes home and ask "so what did you break now ! "
Angel wrote " My favorite hobby store raised their shipping $0.80 more. I have trouble buying things at $8.95 but now $9.75" Angel one of the things the few LHS around here that are still in buisness will order and offer free shipping. Of course you have to come to their stores to order and PU.
Bear - Not that my vote counts but I think the first one is pretty neat.
UP831 - I am almost finsihed with the laundry room. Little more drywall. Tack some trim that I precut and then caulk, putty and paint !
Garry - LOL ! Thats the day I had.
V8 - I know you know this but I am gonna pass on an old phrase the ole timers used to say to me - " looks dont last but cooking and cleaning do" There is a little bit of wisdom there. Yes look matter for a while. But what really last is her devotion to God ( sound like she has a head start there ) her faithfulness to you and her God, if these things are in line then everything else will fall into place. Years ago our Pastor showed us this traingle. At the top of the triangle was God. On the bottom left was the husband and on the bottom right of the traingle was the wife. As the husband and wife moved closer to God the distance between the two mates became less this they grew closer. If they moved away from God the distance between them grew greater. Thus they grew apart. That is the key to a joyful relationship, move closer to God and your life will have blessings poured out that your house cannot contain.
BO Cylinder - Working on and in the ceiling is a real pain in the caboose ! Glad my wires were mostly in the wall.
Galaxy - chin up my friend life does get better and congrats on teh generosity of FIL
Ulrich - hope the adjustment on the water thing works.
Ken - Howdy I will send a PM with my number as soon as I can.
Lion - Never did explain why Lions need plates or how the big kitties was with paws ? never seen a helix with four tracks. Thats amazing.
Anyone seen Jeremy ?
Guys I am gonna hobble over into the corner, prop the ole leg cast, move teh ice pack to the elbow, drink a cup of cold water and down a couple of aspirin to help relieve some of the pain. Ouch !
YGW
Ulrich great job on painting the rocks. I would add a few weeds here and there.
BO you're on more drugs than I am! Carvedilol is what knocks my pulse down, 41 on Sunday. I thought I was titrating it pretty well based on my BP & HR, but it snuck up on me.
YGW bourbon is my favorite pain med
Stripped the paint off a caboose with 91% alcohol. At 3 days it look like nothing was happening but a little scrubbing with a tooth brush and 90% of the paint came off. Another 2 days of scrubbing got me to 100%
My colors are orange and blue. I have another caboose in a dark red (paint mix long forgotton but probably Floquil mix) Should I go with orange or blue?
This is a dark blue but I've decided to use a brighter lighter blue in the future for photographic considerations. I don't want to do a stripe, because the next caboose will be the other color. I'd love to get a undec Spring Mills Depot caboose
http://www.springmillsdepot.com/index.htm
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer Please and if Tin Can shows up again, give him a beer.
Boy what a great day at work! A Day With Out Jerry Is a Day With Sunshine! Besides the fact I was working alone I had a Good Day is sales with $2800.00 and around $170.00 extra in spiff!
Galaxy Wow, have the new house paid off in 5 years! Bet you like your FIL a little more right now!
Ulrich Layout looks pretty good with the lights on!
yougottawantaWhat is that I am wearing ? Oh you mean the arm sling, the leg cast, the head dressing, crutches and ice pack ?
YGW Did Jerry work with you today?
Sort of got a early prestent from Tin Can Jeff today. I have another Proto 2000 GP 7 chassis with motor and fixed gears! I hope to use the extra motor in one of my Monon BL2 so I can get one back on the rails. I love BL2's!
Later Ken
I hate Rust
Very quick drop in before dinner. Ulrich I found a light switch! LOL - River looking good - I think you're right - it won't take much to cover any cracks.
Nice river. 1st cut and paste. May try again someday. Be well. Ron
Good Morning!
It cleared up somewhat over night, so at least it´s going to be a bright day! I won´t be able to do much on my layout, as we have someone coming to install smoke detectors in our apartment. It´s a good thing I have given up smoking
I bet it is going to be a heck of a clean-up job to do when those folks are through with the installation.
I found two stunning videoa on Youtube, which I would like to share with you. The first one shows a guy riding a bike on an HO scale layout.
The second one shows a tremendously detailed urban transit system layout.
Enjoy watching them!
Here I sit all broken hearted, FAT DUMB and contemplating life:
Today's words to look at:
If you have ever wondered why a petticoat is called a petticoat, here’s the scoop. It is, literally, a petty coat. Or used to be. In the beginning it was an undercoat worn by men. Over time, it jumped from men to women. And then it slipped from shoulders to waist. That’s language for you. Don’t try to make sense of it.And, whatever you do, do not look for much logic in it. Or claim that because a word meant such and such earlier, it should mean the same today.
BigDaddy Stripped the paint off a caboose with 91% alcohol. At 3 days it look like nothing was happening but a little scrubbing with a tooth brush and 90% of the paint came off. Another 2 days of scrubbing got me to 100% My colors are orange and blue. I have another caboose in a dark red (paint mix long forgotton but probably Floquil mix) Should I go with orange or blue?
Both sound good to me!
But seriously, folks... I'd use orange on the sides, dark blue on the ends. Lots of railroads used similar two-color schemes.
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
galaxy Today's words to look at: If you have ever wondered why a petticoat is called a petticoat, here’s the scoop. It is, literally, a petty coat.
If you have ever wondered why a petticoat is called a petticoat, here’s the scoop. It is, literally, a petty coat.
And "petty" comes from "petit," French for "small," which also gives us terms like petty theft, petty officer, and petty cash.
Afternoon!
Getting the smoke detectors installed was a matter of a few minutes only and left no mess to be cleaned up afterwards, so I gained some unexpected MRRing time.
About half of my pending order of scenic material was delivered today, the other half (the one with the paint for the bridge) is due within the next days.
One of the boxes containing rock compound hat a hole in the bag containing the powder, spilling the stuff into the parcel. I was able to salvage most of it, but had to start using it up asap. To cut a long story short, I can now see the light at the end of the tunnel with finishing the base scenery of the layout.
Here is the usual (well, almost) arial shot:
... and some detail, showing the first trees growing on the layout:
To quote Hannibal Smith "I love when a plan comes together".
I really should get started on painting the bridge. It´ll make the scene look more complete. I also should install the curved backdrop, which will also improve the look of the layout (and hide those hole in the wall behind it). But before I can tackle that, I need to get a few street lamps and install them along the road behind the chapel - just to be a little closer to the prototype scene.
Morning diners,
I decided to buy some Kato track (3 packs of 13_3/4" and 3 feeder tracks) after that rant about the shipping charge. I hope that this track plan stays before I changed my mind again. I will make some modern changes to it and the scenery will be spring/summer.
Ulrich- I don't know that was a chapel, I thought it was a very decorated building for the bridge.
Henry- I like the orange and blue paint on the locomotive. That paint scheme might work on the caboose.
(G.N.O. Railway history)
I bought a brown center caboose and painted it blue half way. The caboose was getting repainted until it was placed into active duty. (No caboose was available) It never got it's name, or number on it. The number was added months later. The car is on the coal caboose roster.
angelob6660Ulrich- I don't know that was a chapel, I thought it was a very decorated building for the bridge.
I think thios picture shows the purpose of the building:
The chapel was built in 1727, after the old one fell victim to a landslide a few years before.
I wish I could post a picture of the original track plan. To recap on the layout.
New Haven Berkshire Division in the Dec. 1992 HO Scale. 4x8
It will be converted into N on a door. Probably in modern 1980s Conrail or early 60s New York Central. The curves are a little shape for me for modern UP/BNSF 2007. I might place my G.N.O. Railway on this layout if it would look like the Carolinas.
The New England bridge will be replaced with a Monroe Models concrete girder and a Rix modern highway on top on it. It's still undecided if I'm going to keep the river. I know I'm not keeping the switching side of the town, and the town would be changed too.
Ulrich- Thanks for that picture it looks better. Pretty fascinating.
Busy day!
Ist the weatherization/energy audit guy was here. He siad we really need to re-apply in a year as then we can get the exterior walls insulated for *free*, after a year'shistory of energy usage. Hard to tell wht sucha MILD winter. SO we wait and re-apply in a year.
Then the O2 machine guy is due to come service the oxygen machine, and get me a new O2 CPAP feeder tube connector and hoses.
Then the contractor is coming to see if he can unstick the door.
Thent the electrician is coming to finish {hopefully} the outlets we wanted installed.
The only person not here is the train nut friend, and who knows he may show up too.
Hey all
Just when I though the Weekend curse was finally over more arrived it appears the George Mason assistant Professor who lives directly behind our site has called the City officials again - on us - and lied - there are a bunch of students who either cannot find parking on campus or do not want to pay for the parking. Anyway they are parking on the edge of our site just within our "limits of construction" anyway this assistant professor called and told them that we are filling up the street, making to much noise etc....and he doesnt want us parking on the street. So now I get the pleasure of having a big meeting tomorrow with the city officials, this Assistant Professor and explaining to him in front of the officials that it is in fact his students or at least the Universities student that are parking and creating the problem. His last stunt almost got me arrested. We removed some parking signs that our permit and approved plans said we could remove. The police started handing out parking tickets to my men before we removed them. So I took them down soooner than planned, So this guy calls everyone in the city and the cops after we removed them. The cops showed up ready to arrest me !!! I only avoided jail after I showed them the permit and the approved plans. What a jerk this guy is.
Ken LOL - No he wasnt here but maybe his brother or cousin ? Is he an assistant professor at George Mason ?
Henry - I found in my youth before repenting of my ways that that particular pain med, Bourbon, actually caused more harm than good. At least for me. Oh and the headaches afterwards .... Drink all you want but I find that aspirin works better for me : )
Ulrich - Thanks for sharing those videos. The bicycle one was so neat !!!! I was REALLY IMPRESSED with the second video. That is top notch MRR. It looked so great I wondered for a moment about how to model a string of model railroad cars within a city street scene like that I was also impressed with all of the details to the area with the people, parks, all of the little city details etc...
Galaxy - Hang in there a better day is coming. Heck look up. Now that your FIL has helped out you can pay the home off sooner and then have more money for MRR !!!
DER - Did you finish your plan ? Have you started construction yet ?
Garry, UP831, Lion and the rest of the gang. Hello hope your day is going great.
TTYL
Beh...today was a bit too much. I got portered all over the place and had one thing done after another. Now, on Friday, I am scheduled to undergo another procedure. Cardiac Revascularization Therapy.
At least my I N R is where it should be for this....
BO Cylinder are they doing Vascular bypass ? Angoplasty surgery ?
Afternoon folks!
Chloe, I could use a cup of hot chocolate to tide me over to dinner time...
My son helped me get a 4 x 8 sheet of half inch plywood today. This sheet will finish up the benchwork on the layout. May never have to buy another sheet of plywood ever again. That means that he had to have his wife's car today and she had to drive my son's old Ford Escort to work and she hates that. He said she didn't mind since he was helping me..... I get along good with my DIL! I have already cut a triangle from the plywood to finish the addition to the yard at Kanadarqua (old Seneca pronunciation of Canandaigua) on the layout. It has to be altered to fit in a couple places as the plywood that is already down was cut with a very dull table saw and is a bit wavy... When done no-one will notice the bad cut on the inside plywood. I have printed and filled out an insurance certificate request for the NMRA to give to the church where we are having our Spring Meet. Just need one little piece of info to complete.
Have a mlk Committee meeting this evening to go to. We have a number of plans to finalize so I hope we have a quarum to do business. I know of three members already that will not be there. two are out of town (in Florida) and one is dealing with a sick husband who probably doesn't have a lot of time left..... (Cancer).
This is for Brother Elias, But I'm sure many of you might enjoy. Rochester. NY actually had a "subway" way back when. Never was finished and most of it ran in a ditch rather than really underground. The R&GV RR Museum ownes and is doing a cosmettic restoration of the last remaining subway car from the subway, car #90. Here are some photos from way back when Rochester, NY had a subway... https://www.flickr.com/photos/rgvrrm/sets/72157664274126189
Barry, good luck with the procedure! Keeping you in my prayers...
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!
YGW: Vascular bypass, I think. The bottom part of my heart seems to have occlusion issues. Which is different from blockage.
Hi Barry,
I hope they find that everything is in it's place and that the procedure goes well. We are pulling for you.
Prayers and blessings.
Johnboy out.............................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
BO cylinder that sounds like a very serious "procedure" once performed how long before they let you out of the "horsepiddle"? here is a prayer going up on your behalf
YGW: Hopefully within a week or a bit...
Welm....I am heading off to ....night all.