Good Afternoon Diners,
Weather seems to be good here this week, considering that it's February.
Went to the Chicago Auto Show last weekend with MOH, son, and DIL. It's sort of a family tradition. Of course, I had to see the high priced cars. But, I was also looking at the stuff I could maybe actually afford. Not sure whether that means I'm growing up or just resigned myself to defeat.
Anyway, had a fun time.
Ray: that's a very nice bridge. One assumes the tracks will eventually go somewhere. Seriously, that's excellent modeling.
Mr. B: You're right. Having variations in what is essentially the same structure makes it far more interesting.
YGW: I'm hanging in there although I'm pretty busy at work, etc. Hope all is well for you.
Hello to everyone, and I hope everyone is OK, safe, and warm.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Still here comtemplating life.
Still fighting with the mortgage company over getting credited properly for the EXTRA $1241.27 PRINCIPLE ONLY payment we sent in Dec 20, arrived Dec. 27, 2015! WE have more to send extra, but NOT UNTIL they credit the account properly, and meanwhile we are accumulating interest on the INCORRECT BALANCE. I Think Franklin American Mrotgage Company is OUR BOS to Ken's BOS {BOA}..... Called the originator of the mortgage, he will help,but I gave FAM until Friday to get it corrected, and as of yet today, thursday, they haven't. I alerted her to the fact that if NOT done by then, I'd be forced to contact my ATTorney GEneral's office about mis-management of the mortgage funds and account,and anyone else I could about it.
GRR
still 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.
Good morning, everyone! Kind of seasonable weather today, just about freezing but with clear skies. I still see no "bad" weather in the forecast through the end of the month.
Today I get my phone interview for long-term-care insurance. My wife's got hers, but I had trouble with the medical last time. My blood pressure was too high. It puzzled me for a while, but then I realized that I always had done physicals in the late afternoon after work, and that reading had been taken in the morning. Yup. Coffee will raise your blood pressure about 10 points, so this time I skipped the coffee and my BP ended up where it should.
Yes, I still do trains!
This is the first photo I've taken for a while. These are a pair of City Classics "Company Houses." There's a third one "across the street." I love kits like this. Each one is a little different, with or without sheds off the back. I customized the second-floor porch on the left with some parts-box stuff, and added illumination and various "window treatments" to each of the buildings.
Best of luck to all of you who must deal with hospital food. My wife went to a nutrition lecture yesterday, so my daughter and I went out to a new local restaurant for beef and beer.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good morning, all. Time for a cup of tea.
We had a six hour drive in the snert, the stuff you get the day after a snow with tons and tons of salt dumped on the highway. Ran the wipers almost all day as it either rained or was just nasty with road spray. Sounds like we may have another snowy mix this weekend.
Had an interesting conversation with daughter after she returned from the Olympics marathon trials. She had VIP seating at the finish line thanks to her job as executive director of Road Runners Clubs of America. She has become acquainted with all the top marathoners in the USA. Unfortunately for her she returned with the flu. Hope my vaccination wards it off for me.
We are off this weekend to pick up a new rescue airedale in Little Rock, AR, one of our previous homes. Adele is a two year old that came into rescue after severe flooding in Mississippi this fall. She was in a shelter and never claimed. Looking forward to having a "buddy" to walk with.
Need to finish up the demo on the road bed that is not going to work and layout new roadbed for the entry into planned yard. I am trying to do the entry on a curved section of track using no. 5 turnouts (26 inch radius curve for a no. 5 turnout).
Well, its time to accompany MOH to the grocery store. I need some different assortment of cereal for breakfasts. MOH hardly ever eats cereal so it is my choice.
Hope everyone is having a good day.
Jim
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of Vanilla Almond Organic Granola cereal (bring over my stefvias too) and a pot of Seneca Lake Blend Dark Roast Coffee and my R&GV RR Mug. Please and thank you Ma'am!
Man, I wish they would turn the spell checker back on at this forum!
Barry and Garry, thank you for your kind words... I do think the project will turn out well.
Currently 18°F outside (10°F with the wind chill) but with a nice bit of bright sunshine. Tomorrow should be considerably warmer, up into the mid 30's they say. Saturday mid 40s and then a bit of colder temperatures next week. The couple inches of sn*w that fell over night are melting off of the driveway and I hope the panels on the roof!
Have to do major house cleaning today and tomorrow morning for the meeting tomorrow night. Don't want to gross out all the ladies coming to the house. Or the gentlemen for that matter. Also have to drive to Canandaigua to take care of the kitties there and get everything ready for my sister's arrival from Phnom Penh. Yep part of her trip was to Cambodia. Her flight will leave Phnom Penh late this afternoon and she will arrive at JFK tomorrow morning and then be in Rochester mid afternoon. I will chaufeur her to her house and then head home for the meeting. I figure I have spent about $70 out of pocket to take care of her kitties while she has been gone....
Best get busy! 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!
John good news, hope you are seeing well again real soon.
My son drove over for dinner last night from DC. Got stuck in traffic so we didn't eat till 8 pm, not good for someone with reflux. Tossed and turned even though I was sleeping on bunches of pillows, tasting the red onion sauce on my burger.
The dog came up immediately after breakfast and I was still in bed. He usually noses me but today he decided to head butt me then promptly threw up.
Tony Hillerman, who writes mysteries based on Navaho's; says a day that starts bad ends bad. I think I will forego using the chop saw to work on benchwork today.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Good Morning
Good ol' breakfast here. Orange juice, cheerios, toast with jam and a regular, good!, coffee as well as my banana and apple. Y'know? Things you could identify as food?
My day nurse told me it was near 0F this morning when she got in...now it is just 8F going to 28F later on....
Oh...now they are getting me ready for my MRI's ....have a good one!!
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/
Ummm...Garry: did the face plate at the front of the mirror got knocked off or did that poor thing get the holes punched in? I am surprised it did not knock the mirror clean off!!!
Oh...and Ray: IIRC I told you the tale of the Starbuck's downtown here and how I got some lady so miffed at me that I got hmmmmpphed by her? And how the friend with me blew out coffee out of his nose at her response?
Well I also had someone come up to a window we were looking out from and yell at me..."I am not a goat!!"
Good morning ...
Oatmeal and OJ please.
Ray ..... the bridge scene looks great .
We arrived home late last night. I drove 625 miles yesterday without breaking the a mirror.
Below is the broken mirror immediately after it happened in Louisville last week. Workers left a sign with its metal legs in the left traffic lane. I tried to avoid it, but could not move far enough to my right with vehicles in the right hand lane which were crowding into my lane. Had I braked too abruptly, I would have been hit from the rear. At first, I thought it would hit the windshield, but I moved over enough to prevent that.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Hi guys
Weather is still staying comfortable rather than red hot
Well I don't have a video link show on my screne from sir madoc's post so can't comment.
But I think a coffee to start.
Well I will be off line most of next week heading to the big smoke for a pre opp exam at long last so thats one frustration out of the way.
Then early March the big opp a corneal graft.
This will be the last of three Eye opp's the last two where complicated cateract ops so took two hours instead of the usual twenty minutes or there abouts.
Will be glad when its all over and I can get back to doing propper modelling. Instead of only doing the big part bits
I will be able to get the full compliment of glasses instead of only one pair for distance vision not helpfull for modeling.
Which is close up work even for big bits.
So I think spoiling John time Apple pie with cloves and cream thanks.
Hopefully when that lots over I can get some short sharp points and start on the Narrow gauge layout
The wood and other stuff for bench work now has quite a layer of dust on it, as I wasn't game to try using power tools
Not looking forward to the Honey do list, I know that's mostly small anoying jobs that should have done ages ago nothing particularly interesting unfortunatly.
regards John
Ray: Oh my...love that scene!!
As for the broken off bone bit....hey...that's how I seem to roll. Remember, I can fall upstairs as well, lol!!!
Evenin' folks!
Janioe, a large pot of my finest French Roast Decaf Coffee and a couple of my R&GV RR Mugs tonight. I'll take everything to the room off to the side and asit with Barry for a while!
You know, you are the only person I know who broke a bone in the hospital! I have known many people to end up IN the hospital after they broke a bone... My own Mother managed to break her hip, then fall, and spent the next couple of weeks ion the hosp[ital before they got her into the nursing home... But you! You go to the hosp[ital and then break your leg.... I dunno about you, my friend! I am keeping you in my prayers for quick healing and recovery. Who knows in a coupl years I might get back up your way for a NMRA convention again and we can get together for a couple hours. I still have mug shpot of you on my hard drive.......
I shoveled and used the little snow blower for several hours today. By 3PM the driveway on the East side of my house is now completely done. Even got the block of ice chopped down to size and removed by the mailbox! Also made a run to the Pharmosy for Blackie's insulin, mailed a couple items at the post office, and went over to the vets, not once, but twice today. First time was on my way to the pharmosy to pick up a case of canned food for the boys. Second time was after I got an email from my SIL letting me know that my sister once agian can't seem to count and we are two cans shy of running out of Canned food for her kitties. My sister copmes home Friday, but won't be able to get to her vets for more food (here's are on the Urniary tact formula that mine used to be on) until Monday! They are also out of Kittie Litter (I already bought two 24lb containers for them...). Again my sister is basically clueless about these type of things. She can't actually sit down and figure out how much her kitties need to go a month and have it in stock. She claims to be the really bright one in the family BTW.... So I ended up going to the vet again and bought 3 cans to get her through the weekend. Then went over to Tops Market for more kitty litter. I think this time I shall present my sister a bill for the amount of $$$ I have spent out of my pocket to have the privelige to drive to Canandaigua and take care of her cats... Good thing I like the kitties!
OK, enough of the rant. I baked some cookies tonight to have for the Troop/Pack officers and the Scout Executives when We meet here on Friday. Oh!!!! Guess what is now glued in place on the layout??? Aw... You guessed!~
Is it my imagination or does the width of the forum keep getting narrower and narrower every few weeks or so???? If you want to see a viewable photo of the work I just posted, just click on them and they will come up at the size I saved them at Photobucket!
Hope all of you have a good, safe, and peaceful night! Prayers for all of you in need...
Had Everyone and all else show up today...it was nuts in here, lol!!!!
Since I appear to be here for awhile I also got a whole lot of hobby related stuff to work on. Audrey came up with some rr planning books for me plus my laptop and MIDI keyboard to get something down on.
Doctors did say that I have a lot of fluid around my lungs/heart as they looked at my chest X-ray. No farging wonder I was so fatigued. My shin has a couple of bone fragments bouncing around where I took the shelf whacking.
Hopefully nothing else will show up.
Late evening"on the road" - so I don't have acces to the reply sitting in my WORD fle back home. That will have to wait. Barry I'm glad you're alive and kicking. The leg insult (old world meaning there) is one you didn't need.
Went to the old LHS and scored some Z track for the tourist N3n line, and a couple of cars a covered hopper and I'm not clear on the other. Just need to build the fleet back - but it's compatible with posible industries. Thought there was also some cork road bed - but it was HO filed under N
This part of the Maritimes is swimming rather than digging out this time!
Florida Phil: Good to se y'all again!
Have to go - fo those in need.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Ulrich, I second Angelo's comment: the rock formation that you added looks nice! And I enjoyed watching your video with the added sounds - also very nice. Good Job.
I am afraid that adding scenery to what I have is going to be my downfall. We will see, as I have just started .
Afternoon Dinners
Flo, Beer Please.
Pretty beat after the running I did today. Did make time to work in the backyard a little. Then I started the running.
Tin Can I will check the PM Thursday. If it is how to fix the cracked center gears of a Proto engine, heck I think I fixed all of them on my Proto Monon fleet. I did open the engine and every gear is cracked. Leaning toward a refund right now.
YGW Need to know if you are still intrested in the N&W coal cars. PM me your cell phone number and post here at the dinner that you have PM me. I will call you while I am at K-10 Model Trains. If you want them, I will hold them for you with my Credit Card.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Good Afternoon!!
After a morning of tests and vampire pokings I am getting a lunch of Irish Stew with rye rolls with a pear and banana. And t'is good!!!
Oh, and the nurses just look real good.
Tomorrow is when I get a couple of MRI's done. One for my brain and the other for my heart.
Think I will take it easy this afternoon.
YGW: they did a massive overhaul of the meal thing here. It is apparently contracted to some catering agency here.
Angelo: good going on that!!!
Have a good day!!
Good morning diners,
Ulrich- I like the rocks.
I received my Atlas Conrail hoppers yesterday and noticed some differences. The new ones has a darker paint and has a somewhat logo in the middle of the hopper. The old ones has a lighter brown, and doesn't have that logo.
http://www.atlastrainman.com/Images/NFreight/n90ton/0715/50002373.jpg
The new one.
http://www.atlasrr.com/Images/NFreightCars/n90tonhoppers/81505/32774.jpg
The old one.
http://conrailphotos.thecrhs.org/Images/CR-490490-Class-H1C
The prototype car.
I hope you enjoy it.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Digging out, Johnboy? Not here in Massachusetts. Yesterday it was 55 degrees and raining, and today it's about 40 with sunny skies. What snow we had (a few inches total over 2 or 3 brief storms) is mostly washed away, and is hiding in shaded spaces or plow piles. Roads and driveways are not only bare but dry, and the roof on the house is almost completely clear as well. The long-range forecast has no cold weather and no significant snow through the end of the month. I'm contemplating a bike ride for the weekend. Last year at this time, it was too cold to go skiing.
Had a good evening of Tuesday Night Hockey last night. We had a good crowd of guys.
howmus Galaxy, good to see you back putting up quotes again. Hope that means you are feeling better! Catch you all later! 73
Galaxy, good to see you back putting up quotes again. Hope that means you are feeling better!
Catch you all later!
No.
Just going through the motions while I contemplate life....
Ken:
Check your messages/conversations. I think I can help you with your LL GP7.
YGW- It"s BOWSER .And yes, quality is high.
bowser@bowser-trains.com
Phil
Afternoon!
A bright and sunny day again, with the daytime high just a notch below freezing. Actually, this is my kind of Winter weather and it should cheer me up, but it does not at the moment. Like Galaxy, I am contemplating life. One of the reasons for me to take a look at my life is ongoing health issues, the other one are political and economical reasons, but I won´t be going into any detail here . only as much that it is about time to pack up and leave, which I can´t.
I am trying to keep my sanity, which gets more and more difficult. W*rking on the layout or just running a train helps me get my mind off the rough situation we are in - but for only a few moments.
Today I thought giving the creation of rock faces a try was a good idea - just to see how they come out or whether I have to go down a different route to achieve my goal.
As my digital camera is giving up its ghost, I made a short video of what I did today.
I am not sure whether I should be happy with it.
I´ll be moving to the back booth - sulking
Mornin' everypne!
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of buckwheat pancakes with real NYS Maple Syrup and coupl sausage links, and a large pot of Café Justo Organic, Fair Traded roasted by the growers coffee to keep my R&GV RR Mug filled for a bit...
Huh? Oh, yes, knowing the things I like, my DIL got me a coupl p[opunds of the Café Justo Coffee for Christmas. Good Stuff and sold through my church....
Last night the City of Geneva was kind enough to clear the street of sn*w again and left another very large pile of ICE at the end of my driveway. I got up an hour early figuring I would have to get my garden spade out to chip away at it and try to get out. Took my morning shower, came back out and someone has plowed the end of the driveway for me just enough that I can get the car out! I still have to get the rest of the driveway done, but that should not be a problem.
Been in touch with my SIL and she will take cat duty at my sister's so I can clean out the driveway completely and run some errands here that I need to get done. I'll be going up tomorrow and will skip the Museum Meeting in Rochester tomorrow night. I need to get ready for the High Level Meeting for Scouts being held at my house Friday Evening anyway.
Morning all.
Flo can I have a BLT, with a side of scrapple, some of those fried apple pies and grits with lots of butter, salt and pepper. Biscuit ? Yes please with butter and apple butter. Hmm make that two biscuits I want one with strawberry jam too.
Yes I heard Barry is in the horspital so I decided I would eat some good food for him since I know he ismt getting any. Especially if he is in the heart unit. Yucky food there ! If that is what one dare calls it.
Barry here is another for you.
Johnboy - Most of the foul weather stuff we had has melted away. In fact we have had some flooding. The perps who tried to kill my SIL the last I heard were in jail, while the police perform a homocide investigation. That must be crazy expensive to build a shell a with tarps and plastic then install propane heat. Heck a 100lb bottle of propane hear cost around $100 and we go through one or two a day in some of these units. Fortunately we only have to do this occassionaly.
V8 - Have you looked outside of your area ? Have you tried on line after market sites ?
Henry - LHS just dont cary much train stuff anymore. They cannot compete with online outfits.
Jeremy - hope to see you back in here soon.
Garry - here is a traveling for you.
Lion - Meow - Roar !
UP831 - How are you.
Galaxy - good morning...
TTYL
YGW
Flo, I need a triple mocha cappuccino blast please (whatever that is).So I am reading the new "classic trains " magazine and see a photo of an E7A with a caption of "cab-booster set" which I assume is the E7B units behind it - is that correct. Never heard of a "cab-booster set".
Thanks Flo, this triple mocha cappuccino blast looks like black coffee in a cup. But it tastes like coffee and its good.
Chris.
Loco Guy - is a state of mind - not an affinity to locomotives.
Sit back and enjoy your track...
G'd Morning All,
Not much action in here this morning. Probably won't hear from the Gang on the east coast and north east today at all, they will all be busy digging out. Probably the boys from Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes will be busy as well.
WOW, some parts of Virginia got 50 - 60 cms, while we here on the prairies today have +6 temps. (go figure). I hear via the grapevine that Br. Elias has dug out his bathing suit and will start on his summer TAN today.
Hope all goes well for you that are battling the elements, and illnesses.
Prayers and blessings for all.
Johnboy out.............................till later
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
GM, MEN!
How's life? I am still contemplating life....
Today's word:
Brunhilda, I'd like a a big glass of beer like the have in Hofbrauhaus - Ulrich what is the real term or name.
Anyhoo, Lots of you northern folk have posted about the cold weather - but here in Mississippi we are getting sub-zero temps too. I had to cover the outside faucets in case of a freeze (which we had a lot of this past month) - unheard of in these parts.
If we can deal with it in the swamps of mississippi - you can too :-)
FYI, if we got a foot of snow tomorrow - we would be having a snowman party. Only seen snow here twice in 14 years. :-((
Good gravy!! Did I clobber my shin!! It is swollen out like a baseball and is all Technicolor!!! I got told they'll have to get my shin into a compressed bandages.
Sheesh... I am an accident!!