I was just wondering something...
Is there any was to change the number of posts under my Avatar pic? I want it to say 800, 850, or better yet 1,550 posts instead of a pathetic 161 or 162. I'm sorry I just hate being slow that's all.
I should have registered in 2002 vs 2015.
Everyone seems to have much better routes and connections then I do. And we all know the RI went the long way around and consumed a get amount of energy to get a small profit. I feel like the Rock Island Railroad sometimes.
Sir Madog,
Cool truck! Put it in front of a grade crossing with a train running in front of it.
Thanks, Ray - I start to like it very much.
Now picture this cute truck approaching the grade crossing:
Nice detail for a HO scale vehicle!
It´s a Swiss Saurer Berna dump track from the 1960´s, many of which are still around after 50 years of service. These trucks are so rugged one can´t kill them unless they are dumped into an abyss.
The model is high up on my dream list, but at € 55 - 60 (has to be imported from Switzerland and they were wise enough to stay out of the EU), no bargain. Maybe in a year´s time...
Heartland Division CB&QRay .... You keep busy. Perhaps, there will be no need to replace the PIP.... It may be like the Energizer Bunny.
Hi Garry, Yeah, I can probably get another 400,000 miles out of it without any trouble at all. It is barely broken in with all of 4,100 miles on it after almost 4 years... On the other hand I want to get a car that I will be able to drive almost all the time on electric! With the PiP I am only getting about 33% of the milage from EV and even though the gas milage is a great 51mpg with just gas, I would rather go pure EV or a car that I can go 1,000 miles between fill ups of fossilized dinosaur dung... The new Volt can do that I think since it gets over 50 miles of pure EV and then another 400 or so on gas if I take a longer trip. Cost of the Volt after all the figuring is done is less that the cost of the PiP. They have gotten excellent scores on the dependability of them and the new GM Dealer in town is getting some great reviews. My son's wife bought her latest car from them and had a great experience both with the sale and service after. So.....
Ulrich. looking good! Looking very, very good!!!
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!
There is a decided knock on the door of the Diner. The door flings open, and 5 strong men, wearing orange colored workman´s overalls and hard hats stomp into the diner with their heavy safety boots!
Is it allowed to join? Ulrich told us we could come in here. We are the RhB work crew that installed the cable ducts along the line. May we introduce ourselves? This is Reto, this is Urs, this fellow on my left is Walter, on my right is Beat and I am Ueli and , boy, are we thirsty from a good day´s w*rk!
Whatever you boys like to have, put it on our tab!
I forget to mention the w*rk crew also painted, weathered and installed a buffer stop at the end of the stub siding, just to comply with safety rules. The twin silo received a light weathering job, which improved the look a little more.
Howdy Diners ! ..... I'll have a Barry sized burger with a Root Beer FLoat (RBF) at the Rivit Counter (RC) please ..
Ulrich .... Your layout is becoming a beautiful work of art ....
YGW .... It's very good of you to spend the night at the hopital with your Dad.... Praying for him.
Ray .... You keep busy. Perhaps, there will be no need to replace the PIP.... It may be like the Energizer Bunny.
Ken and Douglas .... Thanks for the comments about scenery
Have a nice Saturday, everyone.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Well, the train show was not worth going there. Only one rather crude LGB layout to look at. Maybe 15 different dealers, most of them selling the usual used and well-worn Marklin stuff from the 1960´s and 1970´s at prices way above what you can find in "the Bay". One dealer was selling super glue, but also at a price equal to our home improvement store , so I did not buy any, as I get an year end bonus from my place. I did buy an old HO scale model of a Swiss billboard truck advertising Emmental cheese. Got it dead cheap at only € 2, after negotiating the seller down from € 15! The entrance fee was more than recovered with that deal! Back at home I searched the Web to found out more about my purchase, which turned out to be a 1970´s limited edition from Roskopf Miniatur Modelle - a realy collector´s item, usually sold for ten times my price! You should see my big fat smile as I type this!
As I was home early, I started w*rk on the cable ducts an after an hour I got all of them glued down, covered and re-ballasted. Installing two electrical cabinets (one for the signal, another one for the yet to come Swiss-style train signal-bells). Now it´s all done and drying!
... an a picture of the truck in its new "habitat":
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of blueberry pancakes with real NYS Maple Syrup, a couple sausage links, and a 30 cup pot of Seneca Lake Dark Roast Fari Traded, Organic Coffee please. Huh, well, I intend to share the coffee with some of the other guys.......
That is looking great Ulrich! You do amazing work...
So far today is the type of day we need around here. All of 68°F, dark and cloudy outside, and a prediction of a few hours of rain. We we get a good soaking rain! Probably it will consist of a few sprinkles.....
The PiP will be paid off the first week of December, and I am already looking at what I will want to get in another couple years.... This time I intend to pay cash for it. Whether I actually do or not will depend on several factors. Started filling out the form to give to my lawyer for the update of my will. Pretty much straight forward as I don't have anything to cause any complications. Sent my son in chicago an email last night asking how he would like to see things arranged and who should be executor, have power of atty, health care proxy, and all that stuff. he got back to me with what I expected that he is comfortable with his brother doing all that as he lives nearby. Hard to have him do that from the Windy City.... I probably will make them co-executors of what ever estate may be left at that time.
Time for me to grab my morning shower and head to the train room. Got some more scenery done last night. Decided I will put a pasture for dairy cattle up on the hillside and a long, wide path for them to get there leading off the layout and going over the tracks at edge of the layout... Made a jig to make the wooden fence in sections.
Good Morning!
I must be getting old!
I received a parcel today, containg a few detail parts I had ordered a couple of days ago. Aside from other stuff, it contained a figure set with a bridal pair and wedding guests and, separately packed, a photographer. The set looked like what I had ordered, but the photographer seemed to be a little too large! Checking the scale, it was HO scale alright, but the wedding set turned out to be N scale! I hope I can return it for a refund!
Well, aside from that, the rest of the stuff in the parcel was OK! More w*rk on the layout to come!
Last night, a work train ran down the line and the crew unloaded new concrete cable ducts along it, to be installed in the small hours of the day, when there aren´t any trains running.
Work will commence later this afternoon, as the work gang´s boss is invited to a train show this afternoon!
I hope to be able to buy some cheap superglue!
TTFN!
Evening Dinners
Flo, what? The Buick Guy bought me a ? Oh, I have to pay his tap, well that sounds about right.
Really nothing to talk about today. Work was OK and got rid of some of the backyard junk at the dumpster at work.
Tin Can Congrats on the 30 year mark. Did you mean I getting close to being done with Yard Wars? I have not done a thing to the layout for a few years. If $ are there and the yard wars are over next year I hope to tear the current layout down and start a new one.
YGW The engines are being Steamed Cleaned, so that is where the steam is coming from. Is your father life still in danger? When you said your watch, well that did not sound good to me.
Douglas Well you know me, Mirco Soft will have to pry my XP Pro from my dead figuers! My current problem with the replacment computer with XP Pro is I cannot get it to go on line. Do I have to go to control panel and tell the computer where the modem is hooked up? I am using the cable that looks like a big telehone cable. Either Net?
Going to fix a Old Duch Hopper and build a Accurail Hopper, so later.
Ken
I hate Rust
Good evening, diners. It has been a verible weather day after frying on the lake for the last three days. Spent three days fishing with a family from SE Montana. One excellent day of fishing for Northern Pike, my specialty and two days fishing for walleyes. Sent them home with limits of both species. The only draw back was I felt like I had been totally fried after three days in the summer sun even thow it was not hotter than 80 degrees.
YGW, sorry to read about your father. Prayers for continued healing.
CN Charlie, look for Amisk Lake, southwest of Flin Flon. Don't remember any Macleod stores in the Flin Flon area but have seen them in southern Manitoba. Thanks for the info on the roundhouse in PA. The one in Dauphin has been well maintained since becoming a city garage. Only its shape gives away its former use.
Nice gentle rain this evening helping cool off things. Hope for cooler weather tomorrow as I want to work on a boat tomorrow, part of my 1:1 modeling. Hope all or Canadian friends enjoy the holiday weekend. Will probably take in an old-timers hockey game tomorrow.
Jim
Hello Railfans!
Top of the blistering hot day to ya! Around our normal 95+ degrees here. Never a rain cloud to be seen. Or any other for that matter. I swear, when this planet shapes up enough for aliens to finally want to visit this rock, this will be known as the "beach planet". ALWAYS blooming sunny! ALWAYS!
Bad enough everyday is a blinding bright, hot, day. Now im starting to develop heat rashes on my arms from the exposure. What I wouldnt give for just one cloud. Just one! At least ONCE a decade would be nice! I can tolerate heat. But does it always have to be sunny? Every freaking day!
Ken - Hey man yard looking good. Have another on me! Hope your daughter is doing well. Keep up the good work.
YGW - very sorry to hear about your father. Typical drivers. One of the reasons why I left Va. Only to go to a place with drivers ALMOST AS BAD (which I didnt think possible)! The only saving grace here is this isnt the redlight capital of the world. Close.... but isnt. Thats still fRednecksburg.
Ulrich - Congrats fella, the layout is looking really nice. BTW, I love that style of bus. Youd probably know more than I would but in the Clint Eastwood movie - "Where Eagles Dare", is the bus used the same? Kinda looks like it but its hard to tell with that "Rio Grande" style snowplow on the front.
The body style is just an awesome design. I love the retro styling it exudes.
Garry - Impressive scenery work! Loving the snap shots of progress from begin to end. Keep them coming! Very inspiring.
In General - Folks, as you know today is the 29th. A year ago Microsoft released iWindows 10 for free. Today is supposedly the last day you can get it for free. I cannot stress to you enough about the DANGERs of loading iWindows 10 on your machines. There is a reason MS had to force it on you for free! Think about that!
Some of you know Im in the IT field, some of you dont. For whats its worth, if you want the inside information about iWindows 10 - DONT BE A VICTIM! DO NOT load this operating system!
As your friend and fellow Railfan I cannot emplore you enough to heed this warning. Please take this seriously. Loading iWindows 10 WILL cost you! Not in getting iWindows 10 - the trouble maker is free (until midnight tonight supposedly). Its getting out from under the mistake of loading iWindows 10 that will cost you DEARLY!
Now, on to good news.....
Rail front - While picking up an iWindows 10 machine today to be reloaded ofcourse, on my way out what do I catch? A trio of CSX GE units basking in the freezing 100+ degree temperature. Just purring away idling, waiting for me to take some photos. Atleast I hope they were CSX, it was so blindingly bright it was hard to see those 4' tall letters in dark blue even with shades on.
Not only did i snap a few shots off, i managed to get some recording time and a video of the train pulling off. This time the video took! As a bonus, from a pile of rotting old ties thrown down along side the right of way i picked a date nail. Too rusty to see the date though.
All in all a good day for a spur of the moment Railfan event. Hope you all have a good safe weekend. See yall next week!
Douglas
howmus Sir Madog Ray - how about something like this: Hold on... I have to hook up my pair of Alesis Monitor One Mk2s... OK! Well yes that would work well my friend! Thanks. 73
Sir Madog Ray - how about something like this:
Ray - how about something like this:
Hold on... I have to hook up my pair of Alesis Monitor One Mk2s... OK! Well yes that would work well my friend!
Thanks.
I think Petra would kill me if I´d do it! I think I´ll stay with the bells
Flo, could I get a club sandwhich, some cottage fries with white cheese on them and a glass of raspberry iced tea? Please and Thank you.
yougottawanta FRRYkid - Ebay trolling is dangerous ! I spent $1k dollars one month before I realized it ! I have had to take the biblical approach on sin to ebay. That is to "flee sin" or Flee ebay. My wallet likes it much better that way.
FRRYkid - Ebay trolling is dangerous ! I spent $1k dollars one month before I realized it ! I have had to take the biblical approach on sin to ebay. That is to "flee sin" or Flee ebay. My wallet likes it much better that way.
Just as a clarification, the gondola is a new release from Athearn that I have been waiting for since January. It is also on a card that is intended to be my railroad budget. A small amount is put on the card every paycheck and that allows me to save for big stuff or I can get small stuff as needed. ( Not that I have been sticking to that completely. But it is helping.)
It all goes back to the fact I don't have an LHS. If had to guess 80-85% of the items I have were Internet (eBay) purchases. Therest were Walthers or other mail/Internet hobby shop, the occasional brick & mortar hobby shop and the even rarer swap meet.
Afternoon folks!
I have already been emailing back and forth to several people on the Division, NMRA goings on. We may actually get this moving yet! Some good questions and several main players that are the ones who need to help get this dione have now joined in. I have also emailed all the other officers of my division to ask for input as well. Man, I will be glad when this is done and over with......
Did drive down to the post office to get a Birthday card in the Mail to my sister in Florida. She is turning 77 next Monday. She is the one with stage 4 cancer, BTW. At this point she is at least stable and the treatments are keeping it a bay.... Called the Painter that I want to come and do some outdoor painting and cleaning for me. He hasn't called back yet. Likely will be late this afternoon or next Monday... Way too namy things going on around here as usual!
Sir MadogAdding the sound of an organ playing Mendelssohn´s Wedding March while the chapel bells are ringing would be overdoing it a little, wouldn´t it?
Why Ulrich, I think that would be a great idea. Just don't include that abomination by R. Wagner! You know the one from an Opera of his where the "poor, sweet" girl is basically forced to marry the "Hero" whom she has never met, can't ask who he really is, and why he is there to save her... Yep great basis for a marriage...... LOL You will need at least a 6" subwoffer along with the midrange and tweeter to get some good fidelity. Another instance where the sound from an HO locomotive just can't make it!!!
OK, back to getting some needed items done around here!
Lunch Time !
Hey all. This evening I will be sitting with my father from 6pm to 8am tomorrow. I have Friday nights grave yard shift. I had to laugh at my one of my family members the other day. Him and my father watched Fox news for the evening. Yep he must be back on the mend!
Ulrich - Hmm the wedding march is played when teh bride comes in not outside ( at least here it is done that way ) then they play the bells ( in some churches) I think just the bells would be good. In rehgards to "almost N scale I still think that is amazing detail at so small a scale. Heck when one takes a photo it is amazing how much "sin" or imperfections shows up in the photos ! Your pictures looklike the work is perfect ! I take my hat off to you.
Tincan - Thanks and congrats on 30 years !!!!!
Garry - I am on bard with the changes
Cats - 13 days with a dbl shift ? Oh geez that sound brutal !
Howmus - Uhhhh, hey Howmus you gonna finish that steak ? mind if I have a nibble ? The food Nazis still have me eating cardboard !
Henry - Toby is a beautiful dog. It didnt look like he had all of those mixes in him.
Ken - Oh. What is the steam coming from ?
TTYL
YGW
Good Afternoon!
It´s a bit of an awkward day! Not as hot as in the past days, but still too humid for me to feel comfortable. Another "I won´t be doing much" day!
tin can - happy anniversary and welcome to the club of marital dinosaurs! Hardly a couple reaches this amount of years nowadays, we may be the last generation that at least attempts to make marriage last a lifetime. My parents made it up to 62 years!
After running the afternoon train on my layout, I thought I should try my luck with that rural road leading to the silos - desperately needing a grade crossing! Not much of an exercise, just piling up a bit of sand, shaping it with a flat brush, wetting it with "wet water"and using an eyedropper to apply diluted white glue. I still have bits and pieces of veneer left I will be using to make the boards filling the gap between the rails. What I also need is Swiss-style crossbucks. There is a kitchen counter business in Switzerland making them, but at Swiss-style prices. $18 a pair is not really a bargain! That will have to wait for some time!
Just a quick shot:
Looking at the picture I saw the missing paint on the masonite board I use for the platform - it´s been painted by now!
I am awaiting a delivery (also a present for my upcoming birthday) of some scenic materials and figures. I thought adding some "life" to the bridge and the chapel would be nice, so I will place a bridal pair, some kids and a Catholic priest in front of the chapel and a photographer a little further down on the bridge. Adding the sound of an organ playing Mendelssohn´s Wedding March while the chapel bells are ringing would be overdoing it a little, wouldn´t it?
Just got back from New Orleans, spent 5 days there for our 30th wedding anniversary. YGW, sorry about your father's injury, hope he recovers fully, quickly. Congratulations, Ulrich, you have 2 years on us. Ken, you are making good progress on the yard, what are you going to do when you get finished? Besides celebrate? Daughter heads back to college on Sunday, so proud of her, but already starting to miss her. Son starts his final college football camp next Thursday. Time flies...
Good morning ...
The month is almost over. ..... I believe we have an agreement about the new month. We will continue with Jeffrey's Trackside Diner as we have been doing, but will add a second post immdiately following in rememberence of forum members who have passed away. The suggested name for the post is "RIP Track" , and I believe everybody liked the idea.
Any questions ?
cudaken I did talk my self out of buying any new engines! Found a few more B&O Proto 2000 engines and came close on two Chessie B&O SD 7's, I like SD 7's. Now if they where straight B&O, they would be sitting here in front of me now!
I did talk my self out of buying any new engines! Found a few more B&O Proto 2000 engines and came close on two Chessie B&O SD 7's, I like SD 7's. Now if they where straight B&O, they would be sitting here in front of me now!
I didn't think I would buy the last 3 engines that I have (An S-4, the GP30 and the SD45). My engine buying seems to happen when I get bored and start trolling eBay. (At least the GP30 was that. The S-4 I talked myself into for operational flexibility. The SD45 was a case I decided I needed another engine in NP paint.) I think those take me up to 25 or 26 engines.
Freight cars seem to be the same way. I have a BN RBL that should come tomorrow (Friday). I also have a pair of BN bulkheads on bid as well. I should have a new gondola coming the end of next month or the beginning of September. I don't even want to know how many freight cars I have.
Between the freight cars and the engines, I probably have at least one engine or car from every major manufacturer over the last 25 years or so.
Good evening everybody, wishing everyone a good upcoming weekend.
On the work front, I have tomorrow and Saturday off so I'm going swimming if the weather's nice. Then I have 13-days on, including one day where I work a double shift. I'm going to try and get some MR stuff done if possible during those two days. Namely replace broken/missing parts, finish another X29 kit, and, and add detail parts to much of the rolling stock. Sergent couplers, Intermountain semi-scale wheels, and various detail parts. Eventually I'll get to weathering the rolling stock too.
Alvie
Cuda you use to be able to retire and then when her money started coming in you could pay it back and then retire later when you want. All with out leaving your job at 62 1/2 I think. Me I'm classified as unemployable by the V.A. so I can draw SS now and my wife is drawing off of mine. I'm thinking thou I heard they did away with that but you may need to check on that at that time
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
http://rtssite.shutterfly.com/
Evenin' folks,
Janie, I'll have a small steak, a couple ears of sweet corn, and a trip to the salad bar this evening. A tall glass of lemonade woul round things out nicely...
yougottawantaHowmus - Can one swin in the water or is it to dangerous ? The rock face is very interesting !
I don't think they allow swimming or wading in the natural pool at the bottm of the falls. There is a large swimming pool in the park though.
Spent a large portion of the day finding out why the Divisions request to move to a different Region didn't make it to the National NMRA Meeting for a vote. I won't go into detail here, but will just say, I'm not a happy man!" Now it will be Spring of 2017 before National decides whether we can move or not!
YGW it's called post operative cognitive dysfunction. Fancy words meaning the patient is not as mentally sharp as before. It is vaguely defined as occuring in the elderly and lasting for months before they return to normal. The exact cause is unknown.
Toby is a mix, beagle, coonhound and a touch of lab. This will cool everyone off. We just had the front come through, temp is now 77 but the humidity is 92%---air you can wear.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
No, it is not a tree trunk. Does this give you a clue?
That my fiends is a Wild Grape Vine from the Jurassic Period. Reason it got so big was it was hidden behind trees behinde the pool where I never go.
"You do know if you are retired she can draw off your SS don't you."
RT Yes I know this, and so does my wife, that is where I have a problem! If I retire at 62 like I hope to, I will need all the funds from her share and still work part time to keep the house hold going. I can all ready hear her saying "but it is my money".
Train Front Went to K-10 model trains to exchange Inter Moutain 36" wheels for the needed 33 wheels. Bought 4 packs of Kadee # 5's and now have 3 packs of inter moutain 33 wheels for the next B&O coal cars. Brought home yet another Accurail ACF 3-Bay Hopper (should have bought all of them at one time) and a Athearn Chessie B&O Caboose.
YGW Sorry to hear about the bad work day but to hear about your daddy doing better! Far as the B&O PA's (or where they shark nose?) they are going through a was station, so that is steam.
I am beat, so later.
Afternoon Diners
Flo, Barry Bugger with rings and a please.
Yard Wars I was out side at 9:00 AM which is early for me. Most of the time I was soaked with sweat, did no seem that hot but my body thought it was. Well the last of old fence is down! Got some of it cut up and hauled away!
Anyone want to guess what this is?
yougottawantaUlrich - That is T scale ? Even if it is N that is amazing detail for so small !
YGW - no, not T scale, that´s 1/450 or only about a third of N scale. It´s not even N scale, just ordinary HO scale narrow gauge on 12mm track, representing metre gauge.
I am glad your Dad is improving!
Thanks Cats, Angel,Ken, Dave, Reinhard, Herrinchoker, Steve, JaBear, Henry, Garry, Steve, Howmus, Ulrich, Ricky W and anyone else I may have missed. The Prayers are working. Dad is currently undergoing his last surgery right now they are installing plates in his head/face where the bones were broken. This is good news because they consider this cosmetic surgery, therefore all of the life saving surgery is over with. He is very alert and even has been joking. I am so thankful. I love my father and have so much respect for him. I owe so much to him for who I am, that I cannot ever repay what I would owe him for being such a great dad to me.
I cannot tell you all how much I appreciate your prayers and yes Lion Bushy the lion too ! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
Garry - That is really awesome the way you used the edge of the foam as rock face very clever ! How thick is the insulation 1" ?
JaBear - I agree with you about Ulrich !
Ulrich - That is T scale ? Even if it is N that is amazing detail for so small !
Henry - I LOVE beagles ! Have a photo to share ? My dad is alert his brain escaped major injury.
Ken - Dont you know that is womens job to worry ? That is built in to them. What is that behind the B&O ? Steam ?
Howmus - Can one swin in the water or is it to dangerous ? The rock face is very interesting !
Tom - Great picture !
Angel - Wow now that is bored ! I know what would get you going ! A movie of the N&W Y huffing and chuffing dragging up a coal drag up the Blue ridge !
Herrinchoker - CS Lewis of the Narnia and Screw tape letter fame and an Oxford intellect was Anglican !
Gotta run