Evenin' folks!
Janie, I would like a hot fudge sundae and a cup of decaf for the moment please.
Garry, good to see you back in the diner! Who's the new guy with his nose stuck in his i-thingie??? Jeremy? His is only one "r" and the other one has 2 I guess..... Jeremy, I checked out your post over in the electrionics forum.... You didn't get anyone mad over there. You would have to do lot more to get them mad.... But then Vinnie would be in to, ah, "keep the peace", you might not like the way he keeps the peace either.... My only comment is that you need to remember that it is easy to tell the "gender" of a skunk! What is difficult is explaining to people why you would want to know?
Personally I wouldn't want the Blue track, rail, or whatever it's called, simply because then I would have to go through all the trouble and expense of getting smartypants i-phony or somethin'...... I do have a dumb phone turned off in my pocket so it doesn't interupt me every time I am doing something. But I only have that for if I need to call 911. Personally can't see any reason to run a train with one. Besides I think that would fall under Rule E-4 in the Employee Timetable of the NORAC Rules 10th. edition: Rule E. Prohibitied Behaviors 4. Unauthorized use of electronic devices. At least it would be out at the museum. LOL
I spent an hour and a half driving to Auburn, NY and back to buy some much needed supplies for the aquariums in the living room. They advertise on their website they are open Saturday, Sunday, and Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. I get there and there is a sign on the door saying closed with a paper saying they will only be open on Saturday and Sunday for the time being and that they are closed this weekend too. This is the second time I have driven all the way to find them closed.... Not Happy! Got my grocery shopping done this afternoon when I got back, and now have 50¢ off per gallon for the PiP but will have to use it in the next two weeks before they start the program over. Guess I will have to go driving somewhere where the ICE will have to start and burn some fossilized Dinosaur dung....... Hmmm.........
We haven't had any good quotes recently... Here are some for one of the new guys!
"What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches" - The Quarterly Review, March, 1825.
"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share." - Steve Ballmer, USA Today, April 30, 2007
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), in a talk given to a 1977 World Future Society meeting in Boston.
Have a great 4th! I (used to) always celebrate the 4th. by buying a fifth on the third........
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
cudaken Anyone here has a fish pond? If you do, lets talk. There is no way I will keep the pool cover free of water. I like frog's and like fish, so why not make a fish pond in the pool cover this year? Zoning says using Mosquitoes Dunks is not suffecent and the water has to be kept moving. Any thought's?
Get one of those HUGE balls. About 6' in diameter. You pur that in the pool and then put the cover on.
No more duck pond.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Evening Dinners
Flo, please.
For a slow day it was a pain in the caboose at the end. Had a couple come in 1/2 hour before closing. They had a 10 year old mattres they bought from us 10 years ago that was still under warranty to a point. But they brought no proof of the defect and they wanted the same mattress. Problem is it is no longer made!
Got out of the store 15 minutes late and things went to heck after that. Caught every stop light all most. Stopped and bought gas and the station was having problems with there register. Took 5 minutes to pay my bill. Went to the store to buy a few things for tonight's BBQ. Yep there register's crashed as well? It should have taken me 35 minutes turned in to a hour to get home.
JEREMY CENTANNIBluerail
Jeremy I will bite, what is Bluerail? Far as it killing DCC, I am with Ulrich. I sure many folks thought DCC would do away with DC trains. While I finally went DCC I was a hold out for sometime. Sometimes I wish I had stayed DC.
Garry good to see you in the dinner.
Anyone here has a fish pond? If you do, lets talk. There is no way I will keep the pool cover free of water. I like frog's and like fish, so why not make a fish pond in the pool cover this year? Zoning says using Mosquitoes Dunks is not suffecent and the water has to be kept moving. Any thought's?
Later Ken
I hate Rust
Howdy ... Good to see each of you.
I just returned from being out of town for a week. Hopefully, the Canadians had a great Canada Day. ... Happy 4th of July, everybody !
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Since the last hour that I posted, I downloaded the free Atlas scram program. During the last hour, I got tired playing with it. It was getting frustrating... Laying track deleting a lot of track, ....
At the end of my experience paper and pencil are a lot easier, but I will keep the program when I might have a finished product.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Afternoon All,
Sir Madog When I grow up and get rich, I will build it!
When I grow up and get rich, I will build it!
We all have dreams like that!
I wrote about a week or two ago about not continuing 27x50 inch layout. I decided to change my mind and try to build it. The scenery and track plan hasn't been developed to 100% and either is the small town.
More work needs to be done, to make it succeed.
Haven't been in here in a while. Oddly enough, it was wondering how Jeff was doing that led me back; RIP brother, you are missed in this house and heart...
Good to be here! Again!
Streamlined steam, oh, what a dream!!
Not much going on in here today - I forget - it´s Independence Day weekend!
A rather boring day is slowly coming to an end. I was not up to really anything meaningful today. I had plans to finish the wiring on my Z scale layout to have it ready for sale, but I just did not feel like doing it. So it will have to wait.
I spend a few hours on finishing touches on my favorite Marklin tinplate dream layout, just for the fun of it.
It now has all the buildings correct and matching existing Faller kits (from the 1960s) and the Marklin working crane, so the 3D view is a quite correct rendering of what the layout could look like.
I really like this one a lot!
CU tomorrow!
Jeremy - similar things have been predicted before, but (fortunately) never happened. Believe me, DCC will be around for many more moons.
DCC is a world-wide standardized product. Bernhard Lenz, the inventor, had the luck to involve the NMRA at a fairly early stage and was able to help define the DCC standards.
Any other technology will have to get the NEM and NMRA approval as a standard technology, before it may have the chance to grow beyond a proprietary system for a handful of users - I have my doubts that this will happen.
As I see it, there is hardly any benefit or extra value in BlueRail train control, if you stay with track power.
Made people mad because I think something like Bluerail will kill DCC.
I'm 39, pretty tech savvy, set up and fix all my own stuff PC wise at the house, set up my networks and entertainment.
All DCC manual are garbage and finding complete correct information is about impossible for a new user.
Something plug and play that is an "app" will eat it alive, just depends on the "when" and "who" version it is.
Off to practive some more, write cheat sheets and start walking the 6 yr old thru it.
Ulrich - don't know when I will be in Germany again, but I will make the effort to visit with you in Hamburg. Many thanks. I agree with you about what happened toward the end of WWII; "Saint Franklin" handed over half of Europe to "Uncle Joe" instead of "standing up to him" ( All puns were intended ).
All the best.
Joe F
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Evening,
Been busy with work (yesterday & today). Work tomorrow as well. (12-9pm).
Got Mon-Thurs off, plan to spend time on this board or work on my trains.
Just purchased an HO Atlas #7003 Alco RS3 Locomotive lettered for Cotton Belt #357.
I have seen a SSW RS3 pulling 5 Daylight passenger cars in East Texas in the 1950's.
Might get some MTH Daylight cars or run a "pike sized train" with it.
Anybody model SSW/Cotton Belt?
Our Module Club is setting up a 16x20 layout at Discovery Cube in Santa Ana, July 9-10.
Well off to bed now, might come by tomorrow.
Anthony
Chessie reinhardThe weather must have been bad since it was completely overcast.
It´s been bad the last 4 weeks - with only one really nice day - the day we went to the zoo in Hannover!
Give me a holler should you come to Hamburg - it´ll be a pleasure to show you around!
jk10Wroclaw (or German Breslau during the war).
Not only during the war - the city became Polish by the same stupid act of Mr. Churchill, the at the time of decision already terminally ill Mr. Roosevelt and a Russian bloke named Josip Vissarionovich Jughashvili. My mother´s family had been living there for 500 years. Nearly all of them were killed in the bombing of Dresden on February 13th, 1945, where they had seeked refuge from the onslaught of the Soviet Red Army.
The Polish have an interesting way of creating a Polish history for cities and towns which were genuinely German. Nowa Ruda´s name is Neuenrode.
Sorry I had to correct you!
Just a chocolate ice cream/orange soda float for me tonight.
W*rk: What a weekend. Slammed on Friday (Triple whammy: 1st of Month, A Friday, and holiday weekend). Still busy today (Saturday) but not as bad. Thankfully next two days off. (Unthankfully 4th of July weekend has everything closed! Got to get creative for real world dinners the next two days. Most likely I will have to break down and cook on Monday. Not that I don't like to, I just haven't done it in quite awhile.)
Found out I have to help Mom & Dad with unexpected things this week. Mom's car has a tire that's leaking badly. (Tubeless tires so stop leak won't work.) Mom is thinking that she might take the car to a tire shop on Tuesday so they can check what's up. Thankfully I work a later shift on Tuesday. The other car seems to have drained the battery again without the ignition being on. The last time it was used I know the ignition was turned off, as I was the one that moved it down to the shop to fill the tires. (And of course, I'm not a mechanic.)
Maybe I'll get some train work in, who knows. (I don't even think The Shadow knows this one. Yes, I'm familar with the old radio show but it obviously predates me.)
Some of you will know that I still don't have a layout. I have deferred to my son's use of the layout space for his exercise equipment.
However, things are really looking up! He is actively searching for a house despite it being a tough buyers' market, and my better half and I have decided to install a decent sized garden shed so we can get more crap (is that word allowed?) out of the garage!
Unfortunately, my hobby funds have totally dried up, partly because of the investment in the shed, and partly because I promised my son I would give him a "New Home Starter Package", i.e. all, or at least most of the stuff that you need to establish a home when you don't have anything to start with. Today I spent $450.00 on a basic tool kit such as a cordless drill, several different pliers, hammer, drill bits, box cutter, and more. Included in that were a few things for their kitchen like a cutting board and strainer, as well as a garden hose and nozzle and some tote boxes. WOW does that stuff add up in a hurry!!!! There's still lots more to buy. His girlfriend is thrilled that we are doing all that grunt work for them.
Just to add insult to injury, my wife spent about $2000.00 on three pairs of new eye glasses today! No, that is not a missprint!! We will get about half of that back from her benefit plan, but I was still shocked at the prices! I think the industry, at least in Canada, needs to be regulated. No matter where you go the prices are ridiculous.
There, rant over! Thanks for listening.
All the best everybody!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Flo, Beer please and one for the new GM guy. Hum, I can put up with the Buick Guy guess Pontiac Guy cannot be any worse.
Jeremy Welcome to the dinner. I all so had a Firebird, bought it for the wife. It was a 1984 Formula 350 with a 350 Bow Tie Engine. Had the T/A susption with the Gator Back tires. Think the code was WS 6? It was nimble but in a turn it was on rails! From 0 to 60 my slowest Mopar would clean it clock. But, none of my Mopars are stock so what can I say.
Far as the LS motor's, only time I wished I was a Bell Button Guy. I have watched a lot of videos about LS engine swaps and I am impressed. Try buying a new Gen Hemi from a junkyard on the cheap.
Later, Ken
Friends 68 Charger I did, he is a PBR lover.
That's not me, I am 6'3".
Evening all.
Chloe, a butterscotch sundae please.
W**k: Store manager is now retired, her last day was Friday. No one was happy to see her leave, but all of us wish her a happy retirement. No interim or replacement manager has been named as yet. Had a horrendous numbers day, making less than half our sales goal, getting zero accounts, zero anything numbers wise, and did $800 last half of day.
Weather: Warm, 80 today, sunny, and nice for the day. Tomorrow is forecast as sunny, 85, and warmer for Monday.
Dad: Doing much better, home, and all is well.
Hobby: Finished a batch of trucks for the kits I am finishing, all have the base coat of paint, now will be getting bearings colored, then a black wash to tone them down.
Well, gots to go, DAYTONA Coke 400 is on tonight. Hope the finish is as close as last nights Xfinity race. So far it's been competitive, and crash free up till now. (Good IMO.)
EDIT: Nevermind.... Huge crash taking out half the field now, Including many big names, took the lead pack from 38 strong down to 17.... So, very possible to have a wild card winner now.
All have a good night!
Ricky W.
HO scale Proto-freelancer.
My Railroad rules:
1: It's my railroad, my rules.
2: It's for having fun and enjoyment.
3: Any objections, consult above rules.
JEREMY- I just got my first SCALETRAINS 50 footer- Great looking kit Need to get K-D's before putting it together. How do yours behave on the rails? What couplers did you use ? Any suggestions?
FLIP
Sir Madog I worked in Poland for 3 years as szef zarządu - that´s President and CEO of a large shipbuilding facility in Szczecin. Don´t even try to pronounce that. Behind this tongue twister is the German city of Stettin, which had been German for 700 years until Mr. Ill Church decided it should be Polish. I found the younger generation to be open minded, eager to learn and pleasant to be with, but those older folks who grew to fame in the communistic regime were quite difficult to deal with. All of them tried to play tricks on me, but, although I never admitted it, I had picked up enough Polish to understand them talking to each other in their language, so they never caught me off hand. Without my loyal secretary Renata I would have been still lost. What really got them is that my last name is Polish, but I am a 6´5" man of girth, with (formerly) blond hair and steel blue eyes - not really Polish looking.
I worked in Poland for 3 years as szef zarządu - that´s President and CEO of a large shipbuilding facility in Szczecin. Don´t even try to pronounce that. Behind this tongue twister is the German city of Stettin, which had been German for 700 years until Mr. Ill Church decided it should be Polish.
I found the younger generation to be open minded, eager to learn and pleasant to be with, but those older folks who grew to fame in the communistic regime were quite difficult to deal with. All of them tried to play tricks on me, but, although I never admitted it, I had picked up enough Polish to understand them talking to each other in their language, so they never caught me off hand. Without my loyal secretary Renata I would have been still lost.
What really got them is that my last name is Polish, but I am a 6´5" man of girth, with (formerly) blond hair and steel blue eyes - not really Polish looking.
My Polish friends enjoyed going out and about with us because they could translate what others were saying. I found the same with my experience, younger generations are excited to learn and get to know us, older adults were more willing to make the rude comments. I was located in Nowa Rude, very close to Wroclaw (or German Breslau during the war).
Back across the pond and a quick stop to the diner.
Ulrich - I was thinking of you as my flight passed very close over Hamburg this morning. The weather must have been bad since it was completely overcast. The flight was great. I have many friends from Hamburg that say the same about the city and the people, must visit Hamburg the next time I am over in Germany.
Good to be back in time to realize that I finally adjusted to European time. Time to adjust again.
Chessie reinhard JK10 - you have been to two countries which have been on my list to visit for a long time; Ireland and Poland. My wife and I are planning the UK for October to visit our daughter so a side trip to Ireland would be in order. Have to run, will stop in later for a late (or early in the states) coffee.
JK10 - you have been to two countries which have been on my list to visit for a long time; Ireland and Poland. My wife and I are planning the UK for October to visit our daughter so a side trip to Ireland would be in order.
Have to run, will stop in later for a late (or early in the states) coffee.
Ulrich
Sir Madoghow did you manage to get that old?
Some days I feel 150 year old!
V8Vega . JEREMY CENTANNI wrote the following post 11 hours ago: Cudaken- Nice ride! I have a 91 Formula that I have rebuilt the firewall on and now moving onto floor pan replacement. Once that is done I can go on completing the LS1 swap awaiting it in the garage as well. Have a 91 GTA to go along with it. The Queen of the fleet though is my 1989 Turbo Trans AM.
. JEREMY CENTANNI wrote the following post 11 hours ago: Cudaken- Nice ride! I have a 91 Formula that I have rebuilt the firewall on and now moving onto floor pan replacement. Once that is done I can go on completing the LS1 swap awaiting it in the garage as well. Have a 91 GTA to go along with it. The Queen of the fleet though is my 1989 Turbo Trans AM.
Completely rust free cars of that era are a dime a dizen here but rare models would take a little time to find.
Calif. has all but killed engine swaps like your LS1, you have to go to a BAR referee approvial that all smog equipment is working as original and its such a hassle most just don't do engine swaps anymore.
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Yes, but you are in California and I am in NW IN
On my list within the next few years is a west/south road trip that might involve a wad of cash and seeing what I can find car wise lol. Pole barn and house addition first.
This morning's ride was one with wildlife, living and dead. I had a lone coyote run across the road about 200 feet in front of me. They really are a beautiful animal and run with grace. The other member of the animal kingdom was a diamondback, the slithering kind not the baseball sort. It was in the middle of the road where it had an unfortunate encounter with the tire of a car. The highlight of the morning was pushing 37 mph down on of the hills. I feel the need, the need for speed.
For reference here is a picture of a diamondback I took when I was out hiking with Mrs. ROR. It was enamored with her--as she walked around it, it would turn to keep looking in her direction. It never coiled, so she was not at risk. It would appear that venomous varmints have a natural attraction to Mrs. ROR.
Richard
hon30critterHopefully next year will be better as it will be our 150th anniversary! Dave
We´ll be celebrating our 32nd this month - how did you manage to get that old?
Oh, I see - you meant your country
Thank you to those who posted good wishes for Canada Day. Unfortunately, here in Ontario at least, the weather was lousey. Thunder storms, rain off and on all day, high winds and cold. It got down to 58 degrees F last night. Not great for the fireworks displays.
Hopefully next year will be better as it will be our 150th anniversary!
Have a safe trip, Reinhard!
I can only echo what Reinhard said - Vienna is a great city to visit, may be not as great as Hamburg