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!
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
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
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
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
John - I was expecting you to say "the river looks cracking"!
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.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
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 Madog G-Man -
G-Man -
Yes!!!!! [tu]
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/
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...
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.
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.
Now I'll try that again in WORD a nd see if the margins go wingy
OK, so it's not apparently a WORD margin issue - so here's the photo I wanted to show with the lean-to greenhouse.
Just re-posting from WORD to test the margins.
MisterBeasleyOddly, I do not have this problem with anyone's posts, except for yours. I'm guessing that something you're doing with Word is resetting the internal margins on the page. Try just typing in a few lines without Word to see what happens.
Roger that - I was wondering if the image size has anything to do with it. Let me post one that I've got on Photobucket after we see how this plain text post functions. I'm alos going to copy this text into WORD and repost it here, if you guys can bear with me - I would like to get this sorted.
The red train and the pair of tracks below it are on the helix, or is it a nolix, or maby a combilix. The loops are about 14' long. Above the red train is a pair of tracks going up which make another helix going up to the upper level.
This is the other helix. On the 'back-40' the 4 track main line is alread gone up four inches before it arrives at the 34th Street Station. This helix takes it up to almost the middle level and the Prospect Park station. There is a little more up grade between the Prospect station and the Parkside Avenue station on the middle level of the back 40.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Morning everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of Heritage Flakes Organic Cereal and a pot of Café Justo Dark Roasted coffee to start the day today...
According to the Weather Channel Online it is currently 36°F outside with a high today of 28°F. Yep! That is what it says. Oh, If I go to the hourly chart it says it is 27°F with a high of 28° this afternoon..... It also says it is cloudy outside which doesn't appear to jive with the shadows from the trees and the sunshine coming in my windows this morning.... Hmmmmmm....
Ulrich, bummer on the Realistic Water pour! I have gone to using Envirotex Lite for my water scenes after having some issues with the WS stuff not drying properly (stayed tacky, so I just used the Envirotex Lite over it)
Have to get moving... I have a long list of STUFF to get done by tomorrow night. 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!
MisterBeasleyUlrich, how thick did you pour that Realistic Water?
About 1/8" - that´s what was recommended on the bottle...
blownout cylinderI did find one thing though. My heart rate was down to 33 last night.
I'm not sure about that one. Are they giving you Atenolol for your blood pressure, by any chance? Atenolol is what's called a "beta blocker" and it controls your blood pressure by slowing your heart rate. Now, this may be entirely fine in whatever condition your condition is in, but when I was on that stuff for a few months it made me feel extremely lethargic.
Ulrich, how thick did you pour that Realistic Water? All of those products should be done in multiple thin pours rather than a single thick pour. Cracking can be a result of trying to do too much with a single pour.
I think I get my new tooth today. This was one of those "dental implant" things. An old broken tooth was removed, and once that healed up a bit a metal implant went in to replace it. That had "bone graft powder" around it to stimulate natural re-growth of bone around the implant. After allowing about 6 months, I was fitted for a new tooth which will attach to the implant, and the new tooth is now ready. The whole process was kind of an uncomfortable ordeal, and was incredibly expensive, pretty much using up all my dental coverage would pay for both last year and this year. Oddly enough, my wife is going through the same thing on the same tooth at the same time.
Lunchtime in Germany!
Brunhilda, make that a big fat cheeseburger and greasy fries, please. Coffee to wash it down would be nice as well, thank you!
Galaxy - I know that life has been rough and tough for you lately, but please stop contemplating life, as you will miss it while doing so. Whatever your credo is, it is nowhere written that life shall be an easy one. I know that brighter days will come for you!
That said, back to MRRing!
The WS Realistic Water cured nicely over night, so it seems to be still fit for future use! There is one more water feature to do, but it will be similar to the one I did yesterday, which looks like this:
Sorry for the picture being a little too dark, but I didn´t want to use the flash. I think the river looks OK.
I used a mix of leftover latex paints to get a sort of grey which I used to paint the road and the platform. I don´t know yet whether I´ll leve it that way or re-do it. For the moment I am glad there is no plywood-look to the layout!
Painting the bridge must be next!
Have a great one!
Edit: I just found out that my "Realistic Water" shows some cracks! Guess I have to cover them up with WS Water Effects, which is nothing else than clear acrylic gel.
Here I sit FAT, DUMB and contemplating life.....
Train Nut friend was over yesterday most of the afternoon. His wifey went to her aunt's funeral, he couldn't bear to go to. OS he is alone, which he admits is not good for him, os he came over. He still doesn't sleep well, as he says every time he closes his eyes, he sees Christian Hanging there dead. Wednesday Night, Hopefully I get him the "FOr those left behind" support group at General Hosptial, IF I can find out WHERE in the hospital it is. I think he will be over today and tomorrow too, as he will be alone both days.
FIL stopped by UNANNOUNCED {GRRR} while Train nut friend was here. He annoys the heck out of us whne he does that, but he is being NOSEY whe he does that.
Well, TOday's word:
V8Vega Mon. 87/52 Tue. 88/54 These temps are way above normal. was this way last week and also this week. I go to a big church Sat. at 5:00 and have been talking to this lady off and on for years. I 1st met her at Vintage, out Tue. morning seniors group but she has to work. I had forgot her name so for a couple of years I’ve been embarrassed to ask her her name. Last night she suggested we become Facebook friends, she’s good with computers and immediately set that up on her phone. Now I know her name. She volunteers for the media at church on Sat. and Sun. she drives a tram. Not overweight, face OK but doesn't really do anything for me, hair good, complexion good, dresses kind of sloppy.
Mon. 87/52 Tue. 88/54 These temps are way above normal. was this way last week and also this week.
I go to a big church Sat. at 5:00 and have been talking to this lady off and on for years. I 1st met her at Vintage, out Tue. morning seniors group but she has to work.
I had forgot her name so for a couple of years I’ve been embarrassed to ask her her name.
Last night she suggested we become Facebook friends, she’s good with computers and immediately set that up on her phone. Now I know her name.
She volunteers for the media at church on Sat. and Sun. she drives a tram.
Not overweight, face OK but doesn't really do anything for me, hair good, complexion good, dresses kind of sloppy.
Is there a hint of ROMANCE in the air????
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Good Evening Diners,
Brunhilda, I'll have an Earl Grey tea with cream and honey, please.
Well, I finally was able to scan my old b+w RR pics and save them as jpegs, hence the new improved avatar. Now, if I can only find a way to economically convert my slides. The avatar is of a grain elevator taken either 1961-2or3. The structure is no longer there. However, it made a very brief cameo in opening scenes of the movie "Picnic."
YGW: best of luck with that laundry project from a guy who can turn an hour faucet install into an entire afternoon.
Ken: what ever happened to the "Buick Guy" you used to by a beer for?
Hello to everyone, and I hope everyone is OK, safe, and warm.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Welm....I am off to ....g'night...
Good evenng
Barry ....... 33 ? .... That's not good. for you.
YGW ..... You remind me of my 15 minute projects. ...... I head out the the garage saying "Honey I'll be back in 15 minutes after I fix _____." ...... Hours later I come back into the house, nothing was repaired, and more things need to be repaired.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
YGW: eeep!!! Sounds like a mess now! I have had something similar to what you are going through. Except the wire issue was on the ceiling!!
Good Evening.
T'was a quiet day today. I'll find out what is up here tomorrow, although I was already told I will be staying here for awhile yet.
I did find one thing though. My heart rate was down to 33 last night.
Hey all
Hope your weekend has gine better than mine. Geez, what started out as a simple remodel of the laundry room has turned into a nightmare project. First the dryer line clogged completely shut. Installed incorrectly. Had to install a new line. Then there were two plumbing lines in the way. Got that fixed. Next part was to relocate a door that bumped another door every time it opened. In the process of that I cut a electric wire ! To fix that required removal of a lot of drywall. In my haste I didn't cover the floor or my wife's dryer and washer ( new ones ) so I guess me and the mutt will be keeping company the next few evenings. Momma ain't happy !