henry - I wonder if that engineer got fired ? I will never forget driving near George Town Parkway along the Potomac river and I see this huge backup. Several miles later I drive past the source. I box van had entered the parkway ( they are not allowed on the parkway for good reasons ) tried to drive under one of the low bridges ...The top of the box van was laying on the pavement under the bridge. The poor guy was sitting in the drivers seat with his door open and his head in his hands. Wouldnt want to be eitehr one of these two guys !
Help I am being invaded by little black ants. They keep crawling up on my desk ! I have killed at least a hundred. How many of thiese things can be in a colony !
Mr. B - I assume that the bike riders wearing these outfits are in shape ? If I put one on ( like it would fit ) it would cause a national outbreak of sickness ! ER services would be required for anyone viewing that scene !
Garry - I had a 68 charger. But it only had a 318 in it.
Reinhard - LOL - Salt mine - that conjurs up some visions of suppressed labor toiling away in some God forsaken place !
Dave, Ulrich, Ken - That is a crazy round house configuration and what is even more amazing is that someone actually modeled it ! Looked good too
Ken - Oh that makes since. I think you and I have something called "rollingstockgottahaveitevenifwedontneedit" disease. I believe I saw an advertisment for this at the local sawbones specialist. Only known cure is to pass from this place to the great roundhouse in the sky
Ricard - I think that pretty wise to set up a sample and try it before you go to the layout. In construction when we are not sure how something is gonna work we always start on the rear of the house so that when we get to the front the work has been perfected and it looks great from the street.
Angel - Yea Steve is becoming a regular, not sure if that is good or bad ?
Tin Can - Well that is one way to get some MRR in, Glad you decided to stop in : )
Howmus - What is happening in your division meet tomorrow ?
Does anyone have Barrys or Galaxys phone numbers ? I sent Galaxy an email still havent heard from him. Ken do you have Galaxys number ?
Well gotta git back to w**k. Mental break over.
TTYL
YGW
One operator, two turntables, what could possibly go wrong?
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Oh, and I was hoping for some model railroading time today; guess reading the forum will have to suffice...
Taking the day off so we can go to my 40th high school reunion tonight. We are holding it in San Antonio, on the riverwalk, because no one comes back to the small town where we went to high school. I don't; my parents moved away, and I have no ties at all to the town. There were only 68 graduates, and I know of 4 deaths, so it will be interesting to see how many folks show up.
Have spent the morning taking the dog to the doggie hotel/jail; washed the car; cleaned my cpap machine; did 2 loads of laundry; got my haircut; took lunch to my wife at her school; and went to the store. Still have two loads of laundry to go, then I need to vacuum the house, re-make the bed, pack, and go to the drugstore. Sounds worse than it is; and with the dog at the kennel; don't have him underfoot, going in and out, cleaning his paws (with all the rain, the backyard is a swamp); so that helps.
Afternoon folks!
Chloe, just a refil on the decaf please...
I have gotten all the printing done and everything packed for the Division Meet tomorrow. Most everything is already packed in the PiP so tomorrow I can get up, shower, grab a quick breakfast, give Blackie his insulin and head out the door for the day! Now I'm sitting here wondering what I forgot....
I posted a couple photos in the WPF thread of the small Sears and Roebuck house I have been assembling. I got up to the point of putting on the subroofing when something hit me.... I remember seeing this house before.....
But something was a little different.... Then it hit me. It should be like this! (I flipped the house horizontally with photoshop.)
Yep that's better. It just needs a two bay wooden garage in back (with one bay made into a workshop) a back porch add on entryway into the kitchen... Hmmmmm Should be a little black and white Springer Spaniel behind the fence whinning for me to come and let him into the house.... OK!... Yep that was our house when we lived in Waverly, NY. There is only one change I found after looking up a photo in an old album. the top front of the house has a peaked roof with a window in the attic. Other than that it is a perfect match for our house back then....
Have a long interview meeting coming up fairly soon. May take 4 hours to get everything done. This is the tough part of the Scholarships. Deciding who gets and doesn't get the scholarship......
I checked local obituaries for Galaxy and Barry and they aren't listed so I hope that means they are both still with us....... Prayers going out from here to them!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
I intended to show pictures of an extraordinary well done layout, but out of magic, the pics disapperared - sorry!
I am more than worried about Barry and Galaxy - I sure wish we´d get an update on them!
Good morning!
I'm feeling particularly good today. That bike ride was perfect. The weather was just right - low 70s, low humidity, not a cloud in the sky. A bit of a breeze, but it was at my back on the way home and it was warm, too. It was my first time on the road bike since late last fall.
Even though it was a Thursday, there were still a lot of bikers out. All of us "serious" riders wear tight, form-fitting outfits, so I'm glad to see more and more young women taking up the sport. Seriously.
I've got to get out a bit earlier today. There's a band of T-storms that may hit us later in the afternoon.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Howdy ....
Ulrich ... I can only imagine how hard it would be yo line up all of those tracks with the double turntable in Z scale. Actually any scale. What a challenge !
Reinhard and Ken .... When I was young, my "show boat" was a 1962 Chevy Impala convertible ... Loved that car, but we had kids and it was traded in for a station wagon. I still dream of that '62 Chevy. I bet is was junked long ago, but I do not know.
I'm slowly working on my track project on the layout.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Morning.
Cup o' mud please before going to the salt mine.
Ken - a neighbor down the block came into money and bought a new 1970 Road Runner. The car was garaged during the week and came out on the weekend spring, summer, and autumn provided it did not rain. A year later he bought a new 1971 Plymouth Satellite which he used to drive to work. They moved from the old blue collar neighborhood a few months later. A very good friend of the family was a chauffer for a Manhattan fashion designer and she would lug around trunks of clothing to buyers and fashion shows. Her car of choice was a Chrysler Imperial Town and Country station wagon decked out with every option in the book. Those were the days that if you wanted a car like that you had to order it from the factory with a waiting time of 6-8 months if you were lucky. He would be allowed to drive the car when she did not have to be driven anywhere and I remember that boat pulling into the driveway my parents house. This may sound strange but how I would love to have that car now. Those were the days when station wagons were still station wagons, you know what I mean. Good memories were awakened by your photos. Thanks.
All the best.
Joe F
Hardly ever, Dave - they had the same operator!
Ken and Ulrich
I wonder how many times the turntable operators managed to bang the bridges into each other?
Regards all,
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Good Morning!
Still bright and sunny outside, but icy cold! This is April! 20 years ago, we had a real heatwave around this date. I remember it very well, as we had our son´s birthday party outside (which eased cleaning up the mess later on).
No plans for the day, other than running my Glacier Express train on schedule!
Ken - nice photo! Are you aware that it shows the dual turntables at Hamburg-Altona (not Altoona) during the steam days. The picture was taken in the early 1950´s. Some folks built a Z scale model of the turntables and the roundhouse:
Quite a job in that scale!
Janie, just a bowl of cereal (does the brand Alpen still exist?), with skimmed milk, and lots of coffee, please!
CUL!
Afternoon Dinners
Flo, Beer please.
Day Off My Caboose I spent 4 hours today doing all the running I needed to do.
YGW There is a reason I call my self Cuda Ken, in that photo it shows my 1970 Plymouth HP 383 Cuda. The 383 has been warmed over a tad, nothing nasty but not stock.
By the way I did make it to K-10 Model Trains and got your wheels. It will be next week when I get them shipped.
Gary I missed the fact you had a growth in your head, I miss read it and thought it was your hand.
Ulrich Layout is looking good. 85 passanger, I think my passanger train has 14 or so. But, most of the cars have no seat.
Chessie I never forgot about them, or the Charger and Cudas. I have owned the 68 Road Runner for 43 years now. Where you a Mopar Owner?
Train Sickness Boy I got it bad! Today when I picked up YGW wheel's from K-10 Model Trains I bought yet another 50' Covered Hopper! While the prices was great at $5.95, I still do not understand why? With out counting, OK I just counted. I have 125 rolling stock on the rails as I speak, another 110 packed up and this is a guess around 50 that I have never up graded to where I will run them? Mostly Tyco and Bachmann I bought off E-Bay.
This is my 10th year in the hobby and I bet I has spent well over $18,000.00 on it. I had went 3 years with out buying anything and started when I could still buy Blue Box rolling stock for $4.00 each.
I am sure I am not the only one, yet I do not understand why my Wife has so many shoe's!
A new photo!
Ken
I hate Rust
I think I am finally ready to attempt cutting gaps by my turnouts. I am convinced I am going to screw it up, so I made a test board with some track to practice on.
I am going to use a (knock-off from Harbor Feight) Dremel to cut the gaps. Let's hope for the best.
I mentioned before I completed my first piano tuning. Mrs. ROR was out of town when I did it so I was excited to hear what she thought. She sat down at the piano, played a little, and said, "Do you want me to be honest?" With a question like that, I knew what was coming, and said, "Yes." "It sounds pretty bad." Not to take my failure too hard, I decided to try it again. An interesting factoid. When tuning a piano, it is imperative to strike the key hard when tuning. When loosing the tuning pin, there is residual tension that remains in between all of the bridges. A sharp blow causes this tension to be released, something I did not do in my first attempt. I re-did the tuning with the requisite blows. Mrs. ROR's reaction after playing it this time, "Wow! This really sounds good." Now, I just need to decrease my completion time and I may have a secondary source of income.
Richard
Quick stop for a cup o' mud. It has been crazy the past 2 days working 13, and 14 hours each day due to issues at work. Looking forward to the days off; too bad 1 of those days includes a visit to the doctor to hear him say whats wrong.
Garry - wishing you a speedy recovery and thank God they caught it in time. Hope you are not in pain.
YGW - as well, I needed a sanity break from w**k (as you put it). Hope that today will be a "normal" day and be able to think of more important things (MRR). Hope you are feeling better as well.
Lion - always love the Subway layout photos, brings back memories of the old neighborhood. Any plans to model the A train Howard Beach station (where I grew up)?
Ken - fond memories of those vehicles, remember those Road Runners well.
Coffee finished, needed back on the field.
angelob6660Ulrich- I am really excited about your little layout, especially adding people into your coaches. I couldn't remember what size it was again.
Yup, I am excited as well! For the first time in my "career" of nearly 53 years in this hobby, I have installed figures to the coaches! And not only a few - if my counting is correct, there are 85 figures seated in my little Glacier Express train!
Btw, the scale is HO, the gauge is metre-gauge, that´s 12 mm, so 1.5mm wider than HOn3. The proper denomination is HOm (m for metre gauge)
Afternoon Diners,
Steven- It's amazing that your becoming a regular.
Ulrich- I am really excited about your little layout, especially adding people into your coaches. I couldn't remember what size it was again.
I'm surprised that Audrey isn't posted an update on Barry lately. And still wondering about our missing regular diners who are sick or missing.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
After what has seemed like an endless winter, it's 73 degrees and sunny out. I'm going to get out the road bike for the first time this year and take it for a spin.
Yes, I'll bring 2 bottles of water and 2 energy bars. I remember now how dependent I am on drinking fountains at my regular bike stops, and they haven't opened those up yet from the winter.
yougottawantaUlrich - Did you save the lucky bottle ? How in the world did you figure out the glue fogged the glass on the passenger cars ? Did it ruin the glass ?
I was really lucky! I saw it starting misting up one single window, so I opened the cars quickly and wiped the mist away with a damp cloth. I should have known - it happened to me before, ruining the glass of the little chapel. You wouldn´t think that the vapors of CA are that aggressive, would you?
yougottawantaV8 - In my case I would need the hubble telescope to se Z scale !
My eyes are also pretty bad. The trick is to bring the trains up to your nose - as close as possible. When your normal HO scale viewing distance is, say, 18" to 24", you should reduce that to 7", resp. 9.5"
I'll be out of town, and therefore away from the Forums, on Friday and Monday. So, as a precaution, I'll be placing all members of the Diner on moderation until next Tuesday.
APRIL FOOLS! What? It's still April!
But seriously, I will actually be out of touch the next few days. So behave yourselves...
Sending out the usual round of good wishes for recovery of various members...
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Good morning all !
Been an extremely busy day today. Had to go to this diner for a mental break
Ulrich - Did you save the lucky bottle ? How in the world did you figure out the glue fogged the glass on the passenger cars ? Did it ruin the glass ?
Garry - Did they remove from the external side or the interior of you head ? I hope the first ! Glad to hear they caught it in time !
V8 - In my case I would need the hubble telescope to se Z scale !
Henry - Oh my ! Thanks for NOT sharing that picture ! Really someone middle aged with a pot belly wearing a loin cloth - excuse me while I go ....I feel sick ....
Ken - LOL - No I think my eyes are okay. It is amazing what we let women talk us into I hated disco too. Still dont like it. Is that a challenger parked behind the road runner ?
Lion - LOL BIG RARE STEAK - Is that buffalo steak ? Mule deer steak ? Nice juicy corn fed Black Angus steak ?
Galaxy, Barry - Hope to hear from you all soon ???
Hi to the missing - DER, Cats think well of me, UP831, Reinhard, Grumpy Doug....
Gotta run w**k is calling
V8VegaI saw on a TV nature program once that a Mountain Lion can leap 30 feet, I think that is downhill.
30' is awesome, better sign him up for the cougars.
A LEOPARD can drop 60' feet from a tree and then move at full speed alsmost as fast as a Cheatah-- but far more manuverable.
Good Afternoon!
Quiet in here today!
It´s a beautiful day, sunny, but not hot, rather fresh and therefore refreshing - just the way I like it!
There was an envelope in today´s mail, containing a little box with 48 seated figures from Preiser. It was a bargain, about half of Preiser´s RRP, but therefore the colouring of the figures is predominately white. Nevertheless, I put them into the coaches and call it a hospital´s staff day out.
I was a little too quick in re-assembling the coaches, so the windows started to fog up from the fumes evaporating from the superglue I used to glue down the figures. Fortunately I was quick enough to open them up again. Now I will let them air for a few hours before putting them back together again. Strangely, the panorama coach is not at all affected.
I wish we´d get news about Barry and Galaxy!
Early morning diners,
Don't worry YGW I got the replacement fuse to run the cooler on high than low.
I decided to an replacement dvd of Superman Doomsday. Since the old one no longer works.
Good evening .
Tough times for several diners, but I have some good news. I had minor surgery last week to remove a growth in my head. I received biopsy results today. It was pre-cancerous, and the doctor did remove it all.
The yellow ribbon is up for Barry and for Galaxy.
Happy Model Railroading.
Good evening diners. This weekend I have a BMW Airhead motorcycle tech day. Airheads are the bikes produced roughly between 1960 and 1985 tho' they did make some as late as 1995. Medical problems kept me off of it for 2 years. I put fresh gas in it last weekend and made it as far as 3 houses down the street. So I am scrambling to work on the carbs, and misplacing parts as I go.
Went to one of the biggest BMW MC dealers and the parts guy looked like he rode a Harley to work. He tried to convince me that BMW never made model of bike until 2 years after mine was built. Don't get involved in vintage motorcycles.
Reenactors. Don't think I saved any pictures. If I did, I would post the middle aged pot bellied white guy wearing a feather and an native American style loin cloth. There.... you can see it, without the pic. It looked as bad as you imagine.
RIBEYE She who must be obeyed and I celebrated our 4th aniversary at Chop House, a high end chain of several different restaurants. It was $$$. I had my first and probably last "dry aged" ribeye. It was good, even very good, but not the best steak I ever had but probably the most expensive.
My wife's friend is staying with us for a couple days starting tomorrow. She lost her husband last year to head and neck cancer, and a grisly battle it was. She is a smoker, so I guess he was, but smoking may have nothing to do with it. Oral cancer is now a sexually transmitted disease. Anyway she is forlorn, couldn't bear to live in her house after he died and is living with her sister, sisters granddaughter and her mother. Don't ask about the sisters daughter.
YGW figured that's what you had. I was being considered for that, but my arrythmia was related to heart surgery. If you open and close a chest on mice they get Atrial fib too.
You probably had general anesthesia with a muscle relaxant called succinylcholine. It's the fastest acting and shortest lived muscle relaxant. Short lived is good, because if you are paralyzed and can't breath and we can't put a tube in your trachea, it usually wears off before really bad things happen to you. You don't have to remember the name of the drug, just tell any future anesthesiologist that your muscles hurt real bad. I'm sure your anesthesiologist would be happy to talk to you about it. The hospital/cardiologist should be able to put you in touch with his/her office.
All that sounds far worse than I intended, though Vinnie would not sanction my motorcycle mechanic language, especially when I misplaced the carb jets. I hope we can show my wife's friend Chris a good time. Airhead guys are about the same age as model railroaders. We are blessed that one of our group is French, and owns a French restaurant. We also have a South African, an Australian, and a guy that collects WW2 tanks. Timonium has a train show this weekend too.
Flo, please.
This day off as sucked so far. Well, there is some good news, wife foot is healing. Took her to her Dr today and he X-Rayed it, bad news is now she has to go to a Specialist and the Co-Pay will be $40.00 and not the $5.00 for her Dr.
Personaly I have not felt good all day, just tired. Guess it being a day has not help. I thought I sleep OK last night, but even after a 1 hour nap my caboose is still draging.
Gary Are you amazed that both me and the 68 Road Runner can still move?
yougottawantaI think you look better now than you did then !
YGW I think they messed up your eye sight when you had the work done at the hospital! I think I know why you think I look better now.
1 Phot was taken soon after I meet my to be wife. At that point I let her dress me funny and she did my hair the way she wanted it, not the way I wanted it. Plus it was 1973 after all, the start of Disco! I hated 95% of the stuff, but my to be wife loved it!
2 You can not see what is hidden behind my Road Runner's door! In the 1973 photo it was before I joined the Army, I was around 175 then.
Sure wish we hear something about Barry.
Later, Ken
yougottawantaLion - SO Glad they didnt mistake you for a mtn lion and cart you off to the far reaches of California mtns !
Mountain LIONS, aka pumas, cougars etc. are NATIVE to North Dakota. They even have a season on them : (
THIS LION went to Bismarck to see the Urologist, him says the water works. I had to drive all the way to Bismarck for that? Well, LION planned it correctly, and had a nace BIG, RARE, JUICY, RIBEYE steak!
Pricy (as far as the budget of a LION goes) but well worth it to sneak out and get a lump of meat that is not so grossly over cooked. I do not think that our cooks even know about an oven, they go straight for the potters kiln and crank that sucker up, and then call it dinner. Sometimes our poor LION cannot eat that stuff.
yougottawantaUlrich - It is amazing that you survived a hit of that kind. You are VERY fortunate.
Since then, my favourite car was and is a Mercedes (or a Volvo, for that matter). It was probably the load I had in the back of the car which saved me - bottled wine in cases. One bottle survived the crash ...
Born in August, I am a Leo. Cats are supposed to have 9 lives - I think I have spent 8 of them so far.