Good morning diners. Here in Jersey, it's damp and overcast on back to work day.
Need a dry day, as the lawn is suddenly in need of a cut.
Dave - I have sent you an answer via PM!
Ulrich:
I have a better idea. I sent you a PM with the details.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Do you know anyone you could occassionally borrow a camera from, or ask to take the pictures of your stuff?
Good Morning!
I hope you all south of the 49th had a great Independence Day! It´s my Patron Saint´s Day as well, so I was also in the mood for a celebration - Petra cooked one of my favorite dishes.
hon30critterAny thoughts about buying a used one?
Thoughts, yes, plenty, but without money, it´s no go!
I tried whatever there is to bring the patient back to life, but to no avail. The thing is gone for good. Well, 10 years of heavy use is a good service record and I shouldn´t be unhappy about that. It´s just that I can´t afford a replacement - if I don´t spend a dime on trains for the next 2 to 3 years, I might have sufficient funds for a good new (used) one. But then I wouldn´t have anything to take decent pictures with...
Can´t say that I am happy about this. Life sucks!
ATSFGuy FRRY Kid, Some sellers have good feedback and some don't.
FRRY Kid,
Some sellers have good feedback and some don't.
Exactly to my point. Avoid the sellers with the bad feedback and stick with the ones with good.
I've been using ebay since 2009 and I have not been hit with negative feedback (at least not yet). Personally, I only use ebay when I get paid monthy, I treat it as one of my "go to" sites (the other site being Amazon). I have seen stuff listed on there that was released by Athearn, Atlas, Bachmann, Intermountain, Roundhouse and Walthers in the early/mid 2000's. It's a good price to find bargins and stuff tends to sometimes showup without warning. I even scored two Mail in Matchbox Across America cars, (Texas & Flordia).
ATSFGuy V8Vega, Before buying something on ebay, I always check each photo and read the description of the item so I'm aware of what I will be getting. If you can ask the seller a question about the item, I'm sure he/she will do thier best to provide additional photos of the item, or test the item to see if it works or not.
V8Vega,
Before buying something on ebay, I always check each photo and read the description of the item so I'm aware of what I will be getting. If you can ask the seller a question about the item, I'm sure he/she will do thier best to provide additional photos of the item, or test the item to see if it works or not.
Given that I don't have an LHS and some of the items I look for are OOP, I use eBay a lot for my train items. I would second what was said. I would also add check the seller's feedback rating and read the feedback. Additionally, sellers that are willing to combine shipping on items help as well.
yougottawantaDave - WOW that is nuts ! Three pair ?
The doctor recommended getting two separate pairs, one for reading and the other for distance. She is already annoyed by having to carry another pair. Then she had to replace her sun glasses because one of the lenses was starting to chip. That means she has to carry three pairs!!!
Life isn't getting any cheaper or simpler! The bank balance had actually started to creep up. The glasses blew that nicely.
Too bad about the camera. That takes away a lot of the fun.
Any thoughts about buying a used one? eBay seems to have lots of bargains, although shipping might be a deal killer for you. Just make sure the listing says that the camera actually works. Lots of them don't specify that. No use starting a collection of dodo cameras!
Regards
I would like to thank yougottawanta for the friendship request and say hi to everyone. My daughter and I have been around here for about 4yrs. lurking in the back and learning from some of the best help around. Been busy scratch building a Howe truss bridge under "Which trestle" and posted few photos there. Hope everyone had nice 4th, rained out fireworks here in Westminster, MD.
Ken Amos Jr
Shanny10
B&O, C&O, PRR
Just lovin trains
Hey all
Recovering from to much w**k and weekend. I spent the entire last week mowing and picking up the house for the "future in laws" visit to our home. They are good people. Fist generation Americans from Italy. We played this game they brought "Bocci" (sp?) pretty fun. Ate way to much. Sunday I was exhausted. Did not attend sinday night svc. Slept throught it. Spent today eating and sleeping and watching you tube videos of great Nascar races and accidents. No train stuff this weekend.
Lion - LOL "REALM OF BUZZARDS !
Reinhard - I am still around just been way to busy. What mower did you buy ?
Jeremy Cent - What is "Blue Rail" ?
Dave - WOW that is nuts ! Three pair ?
Ken - Why is there a PBR sideways on the engine ? Is that a hose running in and out of it ? What was the difference between the Plymouth superbird and the Daytona Dodge ? What was a 440 super commando ?
Moneybucket - Classic supply and demand problem. I assume there is still a lot of ore in the ground ?
V8 - I will be sending you a PM
Hello to all the rest - FRRYkid,ATSF guy,Flip,JK10,Howmus,Dave,Rastafarr,Alvie
OOroo
YGW
Evening Dinners
Flo, please and a Barry Plater.
Other than being the 4th of July nothing speical today. Nancy did now show up at the store. Reason I am banging my head is I went in a half hour earliy to get the things done she likes.
BroadwayLionGet one of those HUGE balls. About 6' in diameter. You pur that in the pool and then put the cover on.
Brother Lion I thought of that years ago. Problem is keeping the cover so tight that the water would run off and not pool on the edges. Plus, with the cover sticking above the pool and tight, the wind would rip it apart.
Herion Choker Well I never thought of growing bait in the cover. But the frog's would eat the Mosquito Larva as well. Main thing is the water has to stay moving so the mosquito larva does not live.
Ulrich Sorry to hear about the camera. I am fighting the same battle with my Cannon 720. It has to be 15 years old now. If you have some contact cleaner you might try sparying it down. What do you have to lose, it dead anyway! By the way, was Clause able to fix the Z-Scale Steam Engine?
YGW Hope you are having a good 3 day weekend. Hope all is well with you family!
Guess my layout needs a power plant! With the coming 50 B&O coal cars I will have around 96 coal cars! Boy I need a B&O EM 1.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
howmusSo...... Where has Lion been hiding??? Him hasn't been in for coffee in several days. Him has posted out in the main forum, but not been in to see friends here. No Wildabeest on the menu???? Afraid of Fireworks??? Him see trophy hunter???
Here is LION. LION is here every day, but him not always post here.
LION has be fussing over drawbars of him. Some were too short, or rather they had too much slack in the push mode, and with motors in the middle of the consist something is always in the push mode. The drawbars provided by Walthers/Life-Like kinda assume that youor power car will be inn the lead on your consist, not realizing that subway trains run in both directions. The buff forces allowed contact between the anti-climbers and these forced the cars to derail and for the LION to ROAR.
Him building new drawbars out of strips of copper with precision distance and holes. Works Great.
NOW LION is fretting over a short circuit somewhere on the +12v dc system. Cant run switches without the 12vdc circuit. LION has the 12-24-12 system down and is trouble shooting the issue. But is to HOT to work up there in the afternoons. The Abbot has given me permission to use the mornings up there when I can get away from other duties.
This past week, other duties were king of the road, starting with one monk who had a brain tumor. It was non-threatening, non-cancerous, and so now he is home recovering. And I had another monk who needed cateract surgery, and so I had to sit around Bismarck all day while the doctors worked on his ocularorium. (LION wnet ot zoo to visit Ramu). I let my patients pick the restaurant... this dude wanterd Mexican. LIONS do not like Mexican. Chinese is good, but gets old, Spaghetti is great, the new steakhouse in town is great, but Abbots do not hold with eating in resturants. Him thinks I should pack some leftover wildbeest from the kitchen, which would be ok if these primates knew how to prepare wildebessts in the first place. they try to COOK the poor things. : (
Oh whale... tomorrow I shall work on the trains in the AM, and on the computers in the afternoon.
PS... we had a picknic, it rained, I was thinking Hot Dogs or Hamburgers, the cook was thinking pulled beef (over cooked as usual).
Oh well... Supper will be more sismple, and the LION *did* get RARE WILDEBESST on saturday night. Ate two steaks, him did, and would have eaten a third they were soo good, him fears for the leftovers,,, Those will be cooked to utter distruction.
Such is the Life of a LION in the realm of Buzzards.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Happy 4th of July!!!!
Anybody doing anything fun?
Happy Fourth to all, have a safe one.
herrinchoker
cudaken, get some silver shiners put them in the liner water, they eat mosquito larve, breed like rabbits, and can be sold for bait in the fall and winter months.
Afternoon Diners,
4th of July is basically cooking hamburgers and hot dogs outside on the grill, watching fireworks. Well that's just a fantasy.
Have a safe and happy independence day.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Lasagne - one of my favorite dishes! Come to think of, both Petra and I like the Italian kitchen very much - it´s a fresh, well tasting kitchen without the need to be sophisticated.
I have w*rked on yet another design, always searching something which could come into my range of literally non-existent funds. The designs I have so far, are quite OK, but either too simple, or too big and expensive. I have tried to combine both approaches into one design, which looks like this:
The TT is gone and so is the still expensive roundhouse. As I may eventually run electrics only, I don´t need a TT anway. This design sports also a few switches less, so it comes closer to what may become possible - one fine day, when I grow up and get rich.
OK, I need to incorporate a couple of structures, i.e a factory and "the landscape". Will do that tomorrow - time to relax with a hopefull good old movie on Youtube!
MonkeyBucket I'm going to have the Lasagne for dinner...bit of cheeze on that as well thanks...
I'm going to have the Lasagne for dinner...bit of cheeze on that as well thanks...
That's a little bit ironic. I'd actually been thinking about that for lunch as well.
MonkeyBucket FRRYKiD... thanks for the info update...I am quite partial to a bit of railway history...
FRRYKiD... thanks for the info update...I am quite partial to a bit of railway history...
Not a problem. I figured that some first hand information would help everyone to put some dimension to a flat map image.
Mornin' and a Happy 4th. of July, Independence Day, Fireworks Day, call the Fire Dept. because you shouldn't have set off fireworks Day, Siren day, and lastly big celebration parade day, here in the Finger Lakes Region.....
Hope I covered all the bases with that.... Zoe, you still had to w*rk on a holiday???? Oh, well yes, I'm glad to see you. I'll have a short stack of blueberry pancakes with real NYS Maple Syrup, a couple sausage links, and a large pot of Seneca Lake Blend Dark Raost, Organic, Fair Traded Coffee to start the day. Thank you Ma'am!
The 4th. of July Arbors Neighborhood Pee-raid just went by (they marched, drove, and waved flags going up High St. just 3 houses down from where I live. I was able to have a great view from my kitchen table of the whole thing. This is the first year the association has done this and I was surprised by how many participants they had. The parade ended at the little tiny park at the end of High Street. I still have to take my morning shower and get clothes on (sitting here in my bathrobe at the moment). I'm still in recovery mode from all the w*rk out at Boy Scout Camp last week I guess.
So...... Where has Lion been hiding??? Him hasn't been in for coffee in several days. Him has posted out in the main forum, but not been in to see friends here. No Wildabeest on the menu???? Afraid of Fireworks??? Him see trophy hunter???
'tis good to see some new faces though.
Some quotes for today....
"Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain
"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please." - Mark Twain
"That the automobile has practically reached the limit of its development is suggested by the fact that during the past year no improvements of a radical nature have been introduced." - Scientific American, January 2, 1909.
Have a great and safe day!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Just being the purest. Everyone has a fourth of July. Today, the folks in the U.S. are celebrating Independence Day, so Happy Independene Day.
My goal for today is to spend a little a little time on the railroad today. I have some track that needs to be glued down, and a tiny piece of benchwork to build. The biggest challenge will be to uncover the table saw to cut the plywood.
I was able to get out for a ride. It was a great ride. We are having a respite from the humidity so, even though it was 85F, it was still a pleasant morning to be outside.
Richard
Good morning !
Who needs fireworks with all of the thunder and lightning we had last evening and are expected again this afternoon and evening ?
One of our cats likes to look out the window and watch the storm. Another hides under a bed. The third one pays no attention to the storm.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Chessie reinhardUlrich - sorry to hear about the camera. Is it possible to put a different battery (same type just a different one) in the camera, sometimes it is the battery that is the culprit.
That´s what I thought, so I replaced the battery, but no luck. I tried everything, including reseeting the dang thing.
It remains as dead as the dodo. RIP
Happy 4th of July!
A cup of coffee to start the day on a good note. The weather in Northern Virginia should be rain all day puting a damper on bar-b-que's and fireworks alike, but we will make the best of it. Took care of all the gardening yesterday after my weeks abscence. I finally got to use my new self-propelled lawn mower (the push mower still worked, just got tired and winded pushing it). The new mower runs great and its built like a tank; the engine even has an oil filter which I have not seen on a small engine in a long time.
Ulrich - sorry to hear about the camera. Is it possible to put a different battery (same type just a different one) in the camera, sometimes it is the battery that is the culprit.
YGW - are you still out there; long time no hear.
Will try to stop by later.
All the best.
Joe F
Happy 4th July America...
Sooo...its ski masks and large knives with a night of bloody violence? Or have I got the wrong 4th of July?
Hope yall have a great day...
G'day Galz...your both lookings fine as usual...
Cudaken... I have to say it mate...but my heart sinks everytime I hear the "can you come have a quick look at this" at the end of my day...One knows its never gonna be a quick look...
V8vega... I have no idea how to work those tablet thingies properly...but thanks to my wife winning one on a radio quiz the 5 year old son has become an expert...so he is the man to talk on the subject
Sir Madog... Thats unfortunate mate about the camera...hope you come across somethig to fill its place.
Cheers...
Chris from down under...
We're all here because we're not all there...
Good morning!
Well, it ain´t a good morning! My true und trusted Panasonic DMC LX-1 I bought 10 years ago died, struck down by a bad case of built-in obsolescence. I started out with the camera switching itself on - just by magic. Only removing the battery kept it off. Since this morning, the lens does not retract any longer and taking a pictures is not possible.
The dang thing is as dead as a dodo.
No more pics from me, I am afraid - I just can´t afford to buy a new one.
Sad, but true.
Happy 4th of July to all our American friends!!!
So for a break and with the help of Google street view I visited Miles City, Montana. I must say the use of City seems a little ostentatious, though the use of, what looks like, a very nice honey coloured brick on some of the official and commercial buildings and at least two substantial churches did give an air of permanency. I had a look at the depot and though the street view was 3 years old, it didn’t look in to bad a shape; at least it didn’t appear that the spray can vandals had been up to no good. After cruising the Main and N7th Street, (I had to keep reminding myself from driving on the wrong side of the road), I had a look down Valley Drive E and spotted a long consist of hoppers but couldn’t get any closer. Although Montana is Spanish for mountain, my overall impression was Flat, though to be fair Montana appears to be a very wide state. The Big Sky Country nickname certainly does hold merit though and I did like the tree lined streets. All in all, a good place for the Diner to visit.
As to the "City" reference, we are one of the larger towns (approx 9,000 people) in Montana, especially in Eastern Montana (small for world standards though). The honey color brick is what is called "Hebron Brick" from a historic brickworks in Hebron, ND (still in business last I knew. Lion might know better than I do). There are many of the buildings on Main Street that are on the National Register of Historic Places, including the church at the corner of Main and Montana and built from the afore mentioned brick. They put in an elevator about 5-10 years ago or so on the side of the building and were able to have the bricks matched to what was existing! (Presbyterian in case anyone is wondering.) There are also other areas that many of the buildings in them are also listed.
As to the depot, the main reason why there is not evidence of spray can vandals is that the building has a pigeon poo problem (but them of course so does Miles City in general). So much so that a few years ago the EPA was asked about a brownfield assessment, which normally takes 6 months to agree to, in about 1 month. (Reason: No previous exposure standards for pigeon poo.) Just as an aside: Where the BNSF crosses Main Street also has a pigeon problem as well. (On the map, it is around where the rear engine is.)
The hoppers you're referring to along Valley Drive look like a maintanance train siting on the siding. Probably tie cars if I had to guess. If one were to follow Valley Drive out of town, the area that looks like a big yard is the former Milwaukee yards now used by Transco.
While the area may look flat, there are areas in our county where, without the radio repeaters that are setup around the county, our Sheriff couldn't talk to Miles City. Additionally, there are areas on the ranch where I grew up that one can go from a full cell signal to no signal in 50 feet! Depending on one's definition of flat, there are quite the hills around Hysham to our west. (During major winter storms, that area sometimes closes due to snowpack and ice.) True mountains don't happen until between Billings and Livingston and points west. As to size, Montana is the 4th largest state in the US, behind Alaska, Texas and California. (And the single largest Congressional district in the country.)