Good morning, everybody
Ray .... Your photos are outstanding !
Jim .... Is the Airdale liking the new home and family?
Galaxy .... Regarding the missing iphone cover, we looked in all the obvious places several times and the not so obvious places too. It remains a mystery how the cover came off in the first place. It fits snuggly and is not easily removed. ... Weird stuff happening.
Ulrich ... Good to hear you will go to an outstanding cardio clinic. Praying for heeling.
Planning a model railroad related trip to Paduch later today.
Happy Model Railroading !
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good Morning Diners,
Flo, I'll have a Giants cup of coffee with lots of cream, please.
Spent all day yesterday with MOH cleaning out stuff. Discovered things I didn't even know we had. I went through one of my drawers that had a knotted together glob of lanyards collected from trade shows. She started digging around and my reaction is leave the stuff alone. Don't move it around. I know right where it is. She took the knot of lanyards, untangled them, and placed the ones I'm keeping in a little box and placed them neatly back in the drawer. Well, I'm thankful because it does make things neater, and I still know where they are.
Ulrich: I hope things turn out ok, and that you're back and in the groove.
Gotta go.
Hello, to everyone and I hope everyone is OK, safe, and warm.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Ulrich: Sorry to hear that. We want you with us, not as a spirit who interferes with the forum! READ Gandolf the Grey's quote below:
Never put the key to your happiness in somebody else's pocket.- Anonymous
"I am only brave when I have to be. Being brave doesn't mean I go Looking for trouble"
-Mufasa, The Lion King
"Once you'velearned good work habits, you'll discover you're capable of more than you think"
~Mr. Ratburn, Arthur Comic TV show
"It's OK to lose to opponent, It's never OK to lose to fear"
~ Mr. Miyagi, Karate Kid Movie
"Do Or do not, there is no try"
~Yoda, Star Wars
"if you let other people's perception of you dictate your behavior you will never grow as a person"
~Mr. George Feeny, Boy Meets World TV show
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us".
~Gandolf the Grey, Lord of the Rings, Book, Movie
-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.
cudakenUlrich I am reading between the lines here and I hope I am wrong. But do you need a Heart Transplant?
Ken - this could very well be the case. I am in for a series of check-ups to find if there is any other way of boosting the performance of my old clockwork. It probably means I will be put in a hospital for a few days - might find that out in the next couple of days.
Ken - I am heeding your advice! Those check-ups I wrote about in my answer to Ken will be done at one of the most renowned cardio clinics in Germany.
Until all that is settled I´ll just have to grin and bear it!
Here is one more video which I think is wothwhile watching:
The video is tells the story of the Glacier Express in some spectacular footage. You will see scenes which will look familiar to you and you will hear sounds you heard before when watching my videos ...
Enjoy!
Good evening diners. Finishing up a rather busy week. Our institute for learning in retirement finished up the winter term this past week with the viewing of Butch Cassiday and the Sundance Kid. The Friday course this winter session was called a Fist Full of Westerns and started out with the first western ever filmed, Edison's the Great Train Robbery filmed in Edison, NJ around 1903 using a real steam locomotive and passenger local for the train being robbed. The course was lots of fun. Enjoyed watching several classic old western movies.
Speaking of old movies reminds me that our little corner of Southeast Ohio has recently opened a renovated 950 seat theater built around 1905 for live stage performance and for showing movies. It survived as an ongoing movie house up till the late 70's when the owner basically retired. The building sat empty for many years but was purchased by a local businessman who had the vision of restoring the theater. Well, after a couple of million dollars, the theater is open for business and is a real jewel. We went to a Kathy Mattea concert Saturday night. She is a faboulus performer at 56 years of age with over 18 major recordings to her credit. She is somewhat of a local girl having grown up in West Virginia. For a small town, it is really fortunate to have a performing center capable of hosting name entertainers and putting on Broadway types of plays. The theater will host a performance of Oklahoma in June. My 13 yr. old granddaughter has a part dancing in the young girl dream dance scene. I am really looking forward to seeing her get to act and dance as she is already an accomplished award winning dancer.
Railroad scene, I finally am back to spiking down track. Should be ready to fabricate another turnout some time this week.
YGW, you asked about what appeared to be copper track on my layout. I think the color was due to the 2700 K LED lightbulbs overhead as the rail is Microengineering Code 83 nickel silver rail. I enjoyed your painting experience description. I have had similar experience with having Habitat volunteers prime trim. Both the lack of common sense to lay down a few more boards to dry the trim and the painting the wrong side have been experienced by me working with volunteers. What seems so obvious is alien to the uninformed and unskilled.
Healing prayers for those in need.
Time for a few z's now that day light savings is upon us.
Jim
Evenin'....
Back a couple pages ago UP831 asked about the Girder Bridge I was building... Well the bridge is now in plce on the layout, checked to make sure my longest Passenger Car and my 2-6-6-2 will go through it without a problem and I am now finishing the scenery around that area.
Here is a shot from under the bridge looking toward the tunnel that leads to the lower staging.
Hope everyone has a pleasent night. My prayers to all who are in need!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Neal unless you are on Airforce 1 or riding with the Donald, there is no hope for good coffee on an airplane. Used to be better but then so did train food.
Dennis Ebay allows air rifles? Some things go for crazy prices on Ebay.
Ulrich I thought for sure I was headed for a transplant last year. AFAIK hearts are in short supply everywhere. Somehow Dick Chenny managed to get one. Politics aside, he is an old man. See if you can get an appointment with a heart failure specialist. I had the same cardiologist for 30 years and I don't think he kept up with the latest.
I'll share a family ghost story with you. When my mom was 8 or 10 her aunt died of what they called 'dropsy'. Congestive heart failure, probably rheumatic heart disease. She took food over to her cousins house and there in the living room with her cousins was her mom's rocking chair, rocking. The cousins said it was just mom. A couple years later she saw that same aunt at the top of the stairs in her own home. She dropped all the laundry she was carrying and almost fell down the stairs. She didn't tell my grandmother what really happened until 60 years later.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Evening Dinners
Flo, please.
Work stunk and Jerry was a hour late. I knew he would be.
Ulrich I am reading between the lines here and I hope I am wrong. But do you need a Heart Transplant? If I am right, I am so soory to hear that. When you said you need a new Motor that is what got me thinking this way.
Ken
I hate Rust
Evenin' Folks...
Just got home from dinner and Wii at my Granddaughter's house... #1 got her Guitar lesson before dinner (Lasagna) and then we played Wii Golf after that.
Chris, seems that no one has given you simple answer to your mph question.... I could go into all the math about HO scale being 1/87.1 and the number of seconds on an hour and the scale length of a mile (1/87.1 mile), etc. but simply put and accurate enough for hobby use, if your locomotive travels one foot in a second, it is going about 60 scale mph.... If it takes 2 seconds to go one foot, it is going 30 mph, if it is going 15 mph it will take about 4 seconds to go one foot..... So measure off a one foot length on your layout and time your train covering that one foot. That will allow you to approximate how fast the train is going in scale... Hope that helps.
Janie, I could use a good cup of decaf, please.....
Catch you all later... Maybe tomorrow.
Ray
Chris, since there's no diner where I'm currently at (35,000 feet in the air), I'll reply. You may want to look into getting one of those railroad speedometers and put it on an area of the layout and run the loco thru it. While I don't know how to determine it visually and without doing any type of math calculations, I rely on the speed steps of my NCE Pro cab. Slow and steady especially when the engine has quite a few cars on it. I always slow down thru switches, even on the #8 which are supposed to be hig speed crossovers.
Now, how to get a good cup of coffee up here? Anyone, anyone?
Neal
Heartland Division CB&Q last mountain & eastern hogger GARRY, Tell us more about the latest ghost event. Johnboy out.......... Shelley's I-phone has had a protective cover on it. The cover is hard to remove, and we have no need to do so. It has been on her phone for a year or two. She put her phone in the charger. She returned to the phone after a couple of hours. The cover is gone, and we can not find it. ... Another mystery
last mountain & eastern hogger GARRY, Tell us more about the latest ghost event. Johnboy out..........
GARRY, Tell us more about the latest ghost event.
Johnboy out..........
Shelley's I-phone has had a protective cover on it. The cover is hard to remove, and we have no need to do so. It has been on her phone for a year or two. She put her phone in the charger. She returned to the phone after a couple of hours. The cover is gone, and we can not find it. ... Another mystery
Spirits move in mysterious ways, OR the "borrowers" have it. It will tunr up sooner than later,no possibility it fell off in her purse?
I forgot to mention in the past post, thanks for the advice on the pigeons. I will do that when funds are available. Thanks.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Good Evening!
I am around, but I was forced to spend most of the day either in bed or on the sofa. It isn´t some kind of a bug that makes me feel so terribly weak, it´s the old ticker again. I guess I will have to have a new motor installed ...
Ray - you seem to have had a good time, great! Easy on the eyes, eh?
Back to bed - CU tomorrow!
Late morning afternoon diners,
I am upset. I found a roach in the spice cabinet. I finished cleaning the spices and the cabinet. Waiting for them to dry. I sprayed that sucker and tortured it roach spray than hot water, and finally squish him my can drainer. I really hate cockroaches, I wish I could live in a cockroach free house.
Train News: I didn't know the BLMA NS TopGon came with Accumate coupler (3rd release).
I measured the dimensions of my Amtrak station I got yesterday converting it to N Scale being 6_7/16"x 4_5/8" a little longer than HO by 3 by 1 feet.
Well, most of the clocks are reset, anyway. I walk around the house with my cell phone to get them close to correct. I slept as long as I felt like, pretty much like any other day. I'm still catching up on sleep as this cough finally fades into history.
The weather gets cold and dreary again tomorrow, so I'm going to grill some steak tips and make a steak tip salad. It's one of my favorites.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Mornin.... Uh,,,, Ahem... Afternoon folks!
Uh, Chloe, I could use another pot of dark roast coffee to keep my FGLK Mug filled for the next couple hours, please.
Combination of the daylight wasting and not getting home from the Banquet until the wee hours last night. Was a good evening though, I must say. Mike Smith, the presedent of the FGLK Railway was the featured speaker for the event. He brough with him a lovely lady who has worked as the person in charge of the Passenger Operations on the FGLK way back when to be his asst. in charge of running the slide show. Deb is very, very easy on the eyes... I met her when she did a clinic for the NMRA Division back about a decade ago when I was first the Super of the Division. After the program I went over and shook hands with Mike, told him my name, and said we had met down at Lake City Hobbies back several years ago. He thought for a second and said, Yes.... I believe we did! Then went over to say hi to Deb, who immediately recognized me as well. They gave the history and what is hoped for the future of our little short line here in the Finger Lakes Region. Very enjoyable night! It was about 1AM when I pulled in my driveway and then had to feed and water the kitties, take my meds, and head to bed after changing the clocks....
What is the echo in here this morning??? Oh Lion showed us an empty subway station.....
Currently 52°F and hazy outside here in the Finger Lakes Region today. Yesterday was a good day for solar energy. The panels kicked out 20.64 kWh yesterday! Likely the first day this year the panels have made more electricity than I used.... Today won't be as good. Probably about half that much.
Catch you all later!
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Good morning ....
Once again I question the foolishness of Daylight Savings Time. No matter what you do, there are still 24 hours a day because of Earth rotating. Changing clocks makes no difference.
We still haven't figured out the lates ghost event. Perhaps it has something to do with our man-made lake submerging ancient burial mounds.
Raining today; so maybe I can work on the layout late this afternoon.
Happy Model Railroading.
I'm going to borrow this here thread for some stream of consciousness rambling.
Today I made contact and introductions with a local modular club. I'm cursed to rent forever in these parts (in order to assemble the down for a house, I'd have to not spend a penny for two years) and I've tried to have a sectional layout that can move with me, but...not always a guarantee I'll have the space for it. Plus, I'd always sort thought I'd like switching layouts until I had one. I mean, I like breaking down a train and putting things where they go, but once I "solved the puzzle" so to speak, it wasn't very interesting. I like watching the trains go, apparently.
A few years ago, I'd picked up a P42 and two Superliners with the idea of putting together a Capitol Limited for display. That seed has grown to a pair of P42s, three sleepers, lounge, diner, and one coach. Two more coaches and a baggage car and I've got the whole thing. Will be lovely to actually run the dang thing!
Did not sleep worth a darn last night, had a lot of nightmares that woke me up.
Work, was a little busy, but mainly Frame Kickers and the buyers where low end stuff. Jerry beat me by $5.00.
Barry Great to hear you are getting out soon. More than likely you have posted videos of your group but I must have missed them or just forgot. Getting old sucks! Blue Grass right? Do you have a viedo of Old Rock Top? Or Smokey Mountain Breakdown?
I am beat, so later.
Sir MadogOh, yes please - bring back the spell checker! I am with Garry on this, my typing gets worse day by day and I now have to go over a post a minimum of three times before I post it, only to edit the post a couple of more times. Even that is no guarantee for having it right!
Er... Um... Works not that way it does...
Your BROWSER provides the spell check. But these forms are not normal HTML but are part of a PHP or FLASH or whatever they used, and so the browser is blind to what happens inside of this text box.
Din't used to be so, but so it is now.
To fix it will require a whole new forum system, or perhaps a third party spell check on your computer.
Good Afternoon
Been a busy past couple of days...I'm expected to be well enough to leave on Tuesday.
Once I am out of here I will be entering the recording studio to start up on the new project and begin prepping for the tour for the summer concert series in Europe!!!
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/
Henry, you will have to cut the ties to fit - nothing special, that´s something you always to to account for. The ground throw can go either side - just as in real life.
Past 10pm here - to to go to bed!
Good Night, everyone!
Coffee Zoe, it's 52˚ and starting to sprinkle. Spent a couple hours this morning cleaning up the neighborhood. 46 homes plus some waterfront yielded 2 trashcans of trash + cans and bottles. Only 4 of us showed up and I had to take a nap after lunch.
Chris you need an exact distance to measure time and a stop watch or a smart phone.
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/165951.aspx
sorry I cannnot seem to make the above clickable today.
SCARM tells me I can put a Wather code 83 left had turnout on the end of the right side of a right hand turnout. It does not tell me what to do with the point ties that overlap the other track. Since I haven't laid 1" of track yet, it is not a crisis, but I wonder what other surprises I will find.
Speaking of those ties, on what side is a Caboose Hobbies ground throw supposed to go, the point tie, or the pair of ties on either side?
1Password works reasonably well in Firefox to generate or remember passwords and logins. I think I have 200+ different logins and passwords saved. I have the Iphone editon as well and that works less well because mobile sites are different than what you access on your computer.
Flo, gimmie a shot of espresso and some dutch courage.
So I have a 25 X 12 layout - the two 12 x 4 boards are connected by a 4 x 4 board - so its basically a "U" shaped layout. My question is how do you figure out the "scale" speed of the locomotives. It takes about 1 minute to get from "A" to "B" in other words a compete circuit.
I know this is the Diner - but since I have been here I know that this is a good place to go for comment or help. I am just hoping I can get "estimates" not absolutes.
Or I could just mention ATF as a good way to clean tracks and get swamped by the waring factions. That's a joke folks - I don;t need that type of attention.
Chris.
Loco Guy - is a state of mind - not an affinity to locomotives.
Sit back and enjoy your track...
Yet another fantastic video - this time traveling the Bernina line in Switzerland.
This video reveals why I just love Swiss narrow gauge trains!
Oh, yes please - bring back the spell checker! I am with Garry on this, my typing gets worse day by day and I now have to go over a post a minimum of three times before I post it, only to edit the post a couple of more times. Even that is no guarantee for having it right!
Well, I couldn´t resist installing the sound device - withouth the help of my electrician friend Lothar. It´s a redneck style installation, involving a lot of duct type, but the electrical side of it was just a plug-in matter, so that should be safe. I will re-do the installation when I turn the layout upside to do the final bit of wiring (street lights, signal).
I am into my 10th week of working on the scenery, so it might be a good idea to match the achievement with the plan I made:
I think I am quite close to the plan!
Only two big things are yet missing - the backdrop and the catenary. The remainder is just those many nitty-gritties which give a layout this unique character and atmosphere. This will come - eventually, most certainly, but not right now!
Well, I certainly wouldn't want someone to hack into my account and change all my rolling stock to Life-Likes with plastic wheels and horn-hooks.
Back when I was working, I had way too many passwords for various things at work. For some of them, they insisted that I change my password every 90 days. The passwords had to be 16 characters and contain letters, numbers and "special characters" like #%&#! and others sometimes used to represent impolite language. And, because I was working on classified systems, I couldn't write them down. Some of the computers had different rules, and no one, not even the admins, could tell you what they were.
Anyway, it's a pleasant sunny day outside, even though it will probably not meet the predicted 62 degrees and my exercise will be walking instead of biking.
Today's political climate is one reason I retreat into the Transition Era. The cars and trains were more interesting, gas was under 20 cents a gallon, and the music was so much better than anything on the radio today.