Sir Madog yougottawanta Is the water really that color where the photo was taken ? The Vispa river usually carries a lot of sediment, giving it a milky, grey-greenish hue. The comments from a Swiss model railroading forum state that I must have come close to the real thing with it.
yougottawanta Is the water really that color where the photo was taken ?
The Vispa river usually carries a lot of sediment, giving it a milky, grey-greenish hue. The comments from a Swiss model railroading forum state that I must have come close to the real thing with it.
I think you have hit the colour just right. IIRC when I was there that river had a tone exactly like that.
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/
yougottawantaIs the water really that color where the photo was taken ?
Henry wrote "YGW I could say that about women, don't let me send you down the road to ruin." LOL Henry I think that could be said about a lot of things of this world. Dont worry not going down the road to ruin anymore I have a MUCH better replacement. There was aguy who lived nearby and he had family that left him over a million dollars. He hooked up with some fluzzy who he married and then she left him and what the lawyers didnt take she took. Amazingly enough someone else dies and left him another million. Guess what he did the same thing with teh same results. Unbelieveable ! Went through two million dollars in three years !
How did that driver escapre getting killed ? Unbelievable
Ulrich - very nice. I cant wait to see the church finsihed. Is the water really that color where the photo was taken ?
BO Cylinder - better watch out for those secret admirers. YOH may take of your heart problem !
Galaxy, Garry, UP831, Lion, Der ( where are you ) and all of the rest of the gang Howdy
My meeting with the City officials and the assistant proffesor got a bit warm. He didnt like being told that the property belonged to us and he didnt and the City didnt have a say in how it was used. I sent a very strong message to everyone this morning. I had construction fence installed with no trespassing signs and construction cones along the street so that everyone including the city understood we were staking out our property and where the boundries lay. He went away with out getting what he wanted for the first time in a while.
TTYL
YGW
galaxy - check your messages.
Still feels like morning. I played hockey last night and definitely slept late today. Big yummy breakfast.
Watched that collision video and breathed a big sigh of relief when the guy was OK.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Mor..... Uh.... Hmmmm... Ahem! Afternoon folks!
Chloe, I'll have an English Muffin with Cherry Preserves, a Bannana, and my Cherrybundy Lite for lunch today. That you Ma'am! Oh, I be in the back by the stove drying out.
Rain! Today there is RAIN here in the Finger Lakes Region. Ov er to the West of here it will produce some icy patches, but rioght here in geneva, just wet, and more wet. Currently 37°F, so it gets to be a cold wet if you venture outside which I did this morning....
Managed to get drive over to the fieldhouse and put in a mile + this morning. Did 6 laps of the indoor track. I now want to cut the time down by about 5 minutes and then head for 2 miles in increments.
Last night we set some new limits for the MLK Scholarship for this year. We increased the amount of the scholarship as we had a great year fund raising. I updated the forms and am just waiting to hear from the high School to find out how many of the forms I should print and take over to them.
Plan to spend a couple hours down cellar doing some odds and ends on the layout this afternoon. Have a District Committee Meeting for Scouts tonight.
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!
Howdy .
Barry Blownout ... Continuing
Ulrich ... Bridge looks great. Just don't translate the choice words to English, and Vinnie won't be upset.
Henry .... That video is quite remarkable. How could the truck driver not see and hear the train ?
Galaxy .... As Henry says find fun things to do. Watch trains or soemthing else enjoyable.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good Afternoon!
It´s been a busy day so far! The postman rang twice - but it wasn´t Jack Nicholson, just our regular postman, delivering a huge parcel with hardly anything in it. Just a few small bottle of paint and a bag of fir trees of the bottle brush type, which I will rework a little to look better.
I spent 5 hours painting the bridge, which taxed my patience quite a bit. Petra learned a few new choice words today!
Well, here is the result:
Barry - keeping a candle lit for you
Henry - in Germany, the car insurance rates depend on the type of car and your personal claims record. The car we drive is in the cheapest category and I have a record of 42 years without any insurance claim. Not that I was never involved in an accident, but I never caused one - so far (knock on wood). August can be quite hot here as well, which is hard to survive w/o air conditioning.
Galaxy - sounds as if your tarin nut friend needs a stronger medicin than a meeting once a month in the church!
Well, the afternoon train needs to be cleared now - CUL, folks!
Good Morning.
It is kinda wet outside, all we are getting here is about ..5" of rain here. North and East of here...el yuck!!!
Today, a few visitors showing up and a few flowers showed up here from a "secret admirer" I have no idear who this might be....
Henry: Hilarious video!!! Still not very nice to see happen but there are times...
Thanks for all the guys...my wife much appreciates them, as myself!!
Forgot, today's stupid human trick. Note the cop lets him do it without turning on the sirien.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Barry Good luck on Friday. I was in for 4 days after my valve job. I have to say it was not as painful as when the bone docs sawed on me, except for coughing, but they do give you better pain meds.
Cats You will love your compressor tank. I think I like painting the best, because you see results quicker than most things in the hobby.
YGW I could say that about women, don't let me send you down the road to ruin.Ulrich You amaze me: $150 for car insurance and you can quote Hannibal Smith. Rain again today, you would be quite at home in here at least until August when you can fry eggs on the sidewalk.
Galaxy, stop thinking and do something fun, drive down to the RR tracks or go to Broadcastify.com and listen to the train chatter.
blownout cylinder YGW: Vascular bypass, I think. The bottom part of my heart seems to have occlusion issues. Which is different from blockage.
YGW: Vascular bypass, I think. The bottom part of my heart seems to have occlusion issues. Which is different from blockage.
Best of luck to you and special thoughts and prayers for you.
-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.
GM MEN!
Here I sit fat dumb and still contemplating life:
Here are today's quotes on life:
All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography. -Federico Fellini, film director, and writer (20 Jan 1920-1993)
Life is a lively process of becoming.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.
we shall see what we shall see when we shall see it.
Morning all
Flo can I get cup of french roast coffee with a bit of cream and artificial sweetner
Cats - I bought a compressor and aurguns too this past year. I picked up some Tyco junk for a few bucks and practiced on those.
BO - cylinder once you go into surgery is there anyone we can contact to get word on how it went ?
Ulrich - I subscribed last night to the you tube BLM video. There is some amazing work going on over there across the pond.
YGW: Hopefully within a week or a bit...
Welm....I am heading off to ....night all.
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
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)
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...
BO Cylinder are they doing Vascular bypass ? Angoplasty surgery ?
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....
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.
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.
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.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And "petty" comes from "petit," French for "small," which also gives us terms like petty theft, petty officer, and petty cash.
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
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?
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.
Here I sit all broken hearted, FAT DUMB and contemplating life:
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.