Morning all
Is it Moinday again ? It sure seems that way. The excavator was supposed to grade a row of single families and he didnt listen to me about how the grade was to be run and now we have a large crew show up to plant a tractor trailer load of trees on site this morning and they couldnt work because the excavator mechanic is a ROCK HEAD and stubborn and will not listen ! Then I found a door that is half the size it is supposed to be, installed in an opening with a wide open space above the top of the door with no drywall over the top of the door!! Now one would think that if you put a door in an opening and the door was to short then you would think someone would say "Gee there is something wrong here and I need to check with the boss" NOOOOO and to make matters worse the door was painted, door hardware installed ....No wonder I am about to have a heart attack !!!
Father update and prayer request - They are still trying to find teh source of teh infdection. They are pretty sure it is in his intestine where they removed part of his intestines. He is not eating and with food he cannot sustain himself nor heal. I would ask those that pray please continue to do so.
ED - I didnt know they had a line called the Shenandoah. Neat. LOL - Yea that is better - trains How did the engine fall off of a turn table ? I agree you got a great wife !!!!
Ulrich - Said "but Petra dragged me away from my trains," Say it aint so ! Ooooh no ! You have a good one Ulrich she looks after you even when you are doing something you love and getting to much of a good thing.
FRRYKid - Yummy - Blue cheese ! Not sure about the mushroom part though.
ATSFGuy - $18.21 to pay to listen to radio every month ? Wouldnt be cheaper to buy an ipad or one of those little electronic gizmos and down load the music you like and listen to it for free ? Heck thats a piece of rolling stock every month or a very nice engine at the end of a year. Each to his own but I am just to tight to pay to listen to a radio station. : )
Ken - Can you post a photo of the B&O cars I would love to see them on the RR !
Terry - So am I. What type of builder are you ? Custom ? Production ? Semi custom ? Production Custome builder ? We are the latter. We buy land, develop the land, design the homes, build the homes and perform any warranty service that may arise. Nuts to bolts we do it all.
Mr. B - Man can you ship some of that low humidity and cool 70s weather here ? I am tired of the high heat and humidity !
Angel - Geez what type of dog is it ? Sounds like a nightmare ! What are you going to put back as a gate ? Wood again ? Metal ?
JaBear - You are not a subscriber ? Oh the horror, how can you live without MRR?
Gotto git back to w**k
YGW
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, looks like you have been busy in here this morning. Nice to see! I'll have a bowl of Vanilla Almond Granola and a pot of Seneca Lake Blend Dark Roast Coffee to start off the day...
Ulrich, Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiicccceeee!!!!!!! You do incredible work even with your medical issues and difficulties. If I lived near you, I would buy that from you in a second! With the understanding that your start on another immediately....
I will be driving to the Southern Tier (Hammondsport) early this afternoon to get one of my appointed officers signature asking for the Division to move to a different Region of the NMRA. Looks like things have finally started to fall in place on this.
When I get back from that, I will start some of the cleaning out of the back porch area that needs to be done before the Faculty Picnic later this month. May even get some quality time in the train room. Who knows?
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!
BigDaddy Are you sure that Hawaiian thing isn't made with Spam instead of ham?
Are you sure that Hawaiian thing isn't made with Spam instead of ham?
Yup, I'm sure that it's ham.
yougottawanta FRRYKid - Yummy - Blue cheese ! Not sure about the mushroom part though.
Discovered it many years ago and just liked the taste of it.
saronaterry: I was looking at the picture in your post closely and have a question: What kind of NP engine is that? The number I see in the picture is one I can't find in the roster. (NP is my favorite road and given I model the mid-70s, I can sneak some equipment of thiers in.)
Good Evening!
Me again! It´s evening alright! Time sure flies by when you are busy. Busy again? Why, of course! I packed up most of the scenic stuff, as I won´t be needing it in the foreseeable future. I might give a few things to my friend Lothar - the rest will go up into the attic. I need to check if there is anything I can sell up there I dearly want to have another loco, a string of modern Glacier Express cars and maybe a few freight cars to run over my layout. I also hope that Z stuff will sell soon - just to get some of the cash back and to get it out of my head. I know I´ll be losing precious cash on it, but maybe I needed that experience to go back finishing my Swiss layout.
I also put up my fake Grand Central Station clock, which is now happily ticking away the time.
howmusUlrich, Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiicccceeee!!!!!!! You do incredible work even with your medical issues and difficulties. If I lived near you, I would buy that from you in a second! With the understanding that your start on another immediately....
Ray - thanks again for the kudos. I am quite please with the outcome so far. More details will have to come, but there are only two little things still on order before Christmas - the two typical Swiss train signal bells to be put up in front of the guard´s house and a set of benches. I ordered it from a source in China via Ebay, with the total cost less than any shipping charge from a German source would be! Those 5 benches (nicely detailed ones, but a bit off in the color) cost about $2.50, delivered vs some $ 11 from a German source.
However, I doubt that I will start a new layout once this has been sold. I´ll be putting off the sale for as long as possible, but the layout has to be gone before we move, which will have to be earlier than I thought it would be. We have new tenants next door and they make life in this house, say, not very pleasant.
YGW - continuing for your father!
I wish I could. It's back in the upper 80s again. Not as bad as last week, but, well, it's New England. If you don't like the weather, just wait a few minutes.
Did the quote feature break? I had to do that one manually with BB code directives.
The weather is still nice. I need a good road bike ride. I was really tired from hockey Tuesday night and felt exhausted yesterday, but I'm better now and planning to ride right after lunch. My diabetes meds make me tired if I do NOT get enough exercise, which seems counter-intuitive, but that's the way it is.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Afternoon,all! Lots of t-storms today, now windy and mostly clouds.
YGW: Custom. Up here it's mostly lakehomes, remodels and additions. High dollar stuff, but i would guess I am not as big a builder as you. We do everything but electric, HVAC , excavation and plumbing. I do have great subs for that. Keeps me in beer and gas for the toys.
FRRY: I got it off the bay. #2500 and a U- something. It's a Rivarossi with the pizza cutter wheels. I had to redo some grade crossings for the deeper flanges since I haven't replaced the wheelsets yet. Runs like a champ though!
Here's a better side shot. One of you guys must know what it is!
I liked it so I bought it! It seems hard to find NP engines. I model 1972-3 after the merger. Lots of GN and CB&Q, not so much NP,unless you have a large bank account!
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
Good afternoon.
FRRY ... Terry's engines are a an NP U25C and a CB&Q U25C.
Ulrich .... The color scheme on some of the coaches in your Swiss train remind me of the color scheme of the Texas Special passenger cars. I like it.
Terry ... Recently Ricarossi upgraded its U25C model. Better wheels and better everything else.
Here is an older photo of my Texas Special. I was just learning how to use a digital camera, and I still had much to learn back then.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Thanks, Garry! I figured you would know. I've seen the new Rivarossis, but I'd be living in the garage if one showed up on the doorstep! I would LOVE a couple!
Terry
YGW sorry to hear about your dad's infection. Make sure they think about the orthopedic hardware they installed. A veteran on another forum had a pain pump implanted twice. Twice it got infected and it almost killed him.
Tried to install KD coupler in an Athean caboose and with the premolded coupler pocket, the lid was too tight to allow the coupler to swing. I knocked the brake wheel stand off one side and the brake wheel on the other side broke at all the spokes and I didn't even touch it.
For the B&O fans:
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Evenin' Diners,
I know today's special is Tuna but I'm in the mood for something greasy and drippy. Any chance of getting a gyro with extra onions and cucumber sauce, Flo? Beer chaser to get those onions going?
Thanks for posting that interesting equipment move, Henry! See my other post on Broadway Limited's release of this engine in HO! Wow, makes me want to be a C&O fan. I have some of the Chessie Walthers cars, too!
YGW, The Shenandoah was the name of one of B&O's daytime coach trains. All I have is this grainy photo in my collection of the 4070 nee 3734. Engines falling into TT pits happened fairly often!
Low steam pressure = low air pressure = no brakes! Hostlers were always supposed to chock wheels but it didn't always happen that way.
This happened in June of 1955, a year before renumbering.
Garry, the RED on that Texas Special is SO red it hurts your eyes! (In a good way, of course)
Is anyone else having "technical issues" with all things internet related today? Photobucket and MR both are acting wierd. can't quote, can't copy>paste. Can't click to enlarge photos?
Make that Gyro to go, Flo... more chores to do before sundown!
Later—Ed
Good Evening,
Ed, welcome to the Diner! I too have #3734 that I acquired a year ago. It is a great little engine. I don't mind the sound at all, at least after I adjusted some of the volume levels. One thing I do like is the increase in chuff intensity and volume with the application of throttle. Just like the real thing at least from my memory. I was lucky in that CN ran steam here right through 1959 and I used to ride my bike to the mainline to railfan. I model CN but bought the GTW livery engine as the paint scheme is closer to CN than the BLI CN model. Go figure.
Well time to watch a couple more episodes of 'I Want My Wife Back'. It is a slightly quirky comedy produced by the BBC.
CN Charlie
Evening everyone,
Could I get RBF and a slice of pie please. Haven't been in recent as I've been very busy with wife and mother in law over my father in laws health. He's had inoperable throat cancer for past 3 months and in a nursing home. This morning we recieved emergency call he'd been sick most of the night so I went to see him asap and had to get wife and MIL to home asap as well. He passed away at 5:55 and all the family but my youngest son was able to say their goodbyes. He did believe in a higher authority so we at least know hes gone to a better place and free of pain. One day we shall meet again. I haven't had a beer or alcohol in 23 years and really could have used one today, but it wouldn't have helped anything. Being sober I was able to comfort my wife and MIL and for that am grateful.
I think I will just sit in back booth awhile and relax. Today has really drained me as my FIL were really close and it feels like I lost my dad all over- we were that close.
Ken Amos Jr
Shanny10
B&O, C&O, PRR
Just lovin trains
Evening Diners
Flo, please and get Ed one as well.
YGW Boy do I undestand where you are coming from on the hired help! Back when I was in-charge of 8 states the dumb stuff my managers and there crew would do drove me nuts! Now that I am only a manager, well I have Jerry the . While he only messed up one thing (I think a record) on my two days off it would have been so simple to do it right. All he had to do was look at stock and not sale the floor model.
Far as the B&O coal cars I was planing on posting a phot.
Sure hope you dad fights off the infection. I do worry every time I go into the VA hospital that I might catch something new.
Train Front Thanks for the link you posted Ed! I was pretty sure that strip had to come off some how. I was luck that K-10 Model Train's was open tonight till 10:00 PM. While they had none of the need part for sale, owner Ken loaned me one from a used Empire Bulider he had there for sale.
Hooked up the new part, hit the on button, power light cam on and then the DB 150 started beeping and the power shut down to the rails. Turns out one of my loved B&O SD 7's BBQ a decoder. Thanks to Ed I have a DC plug I can install to test the power draw of the motor! If the motor is bad, well thanks to Tin Can I have a extra motor and the Proto 2000 SD's are not hard to take a part.
New Health Problem. I am sure most of you here have heard the phrase "He has Big Brass One's". Well mine are Big, about twice as big as normal but not made of Brass. I will go to a local ER in the morning! There are a few things I won't trust the VA with, and these are one of them! While I no longer need them, I would like to keep them hanging around a little longer. Ouch Flo!
Ken, running trains again!
I hate Rust
Just a just a couple quick notes tonight... I am going to bed shortly.
First - Ken (Shanny10 Ken) - Condolences to you and your family. So sorry for your loss.
Second - Ken (Cudaken) - Could be a infection. I had one once, boy did it hurt! (Just don't ask me to spell it - Like most medical terms it looks like alphabet soup!)
Good night all, more to follow tomorrow.
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.
Thanks for the cold one, Ken! Always a pleasure...
Glad that plug worked out for you, too. Sometimes those things are designed so you can only get a small electronic type screwdriver in there and there's not enough umph to get the screw loose! Worse than corroded battery terminals on a car.
On that health issue, I remember my son had a similar problem when he was an infant. Scared the living SP Daylights out of a new Mom & Dad. A doctor in the neighborhood was willing to have a look and he reassured us it was a common occurrence called hydrocele. Look it up, should be no major issue, I hope
Love that photo, Ken! Must be Cincinnati?
Thanks for the welcome and the GTW/CN stories, Charlie.
Ken, Shanny10- My condolences to you and your family
Gotta run for now, be back soon. Ed
Good Morning!
I am not sleeping well these days. Waking up still being tired is an awkward feeling.
Janie, coffee by the gallon, please, and a cinnamon roll to go with it.
Ken (Amos) - I am sorry to hear about your FIL´s passing. My sincere condolences to you and your family.
The loco shown in my Avatar is developing major gearbox issues - again. Installing a new gearbox won´t solve the issue, as they are prone to wear quickly. I have put her up on sale on as is basis on Ebay, which will leave me with one loco at all. Fortunately, that one still runs, but also has a glitch. Looks like I will have a nice layout without a loco to pull a train
Well, I have learned a lesson - don´t buy used Bemo locos as most of them do not have the improved drives Bemo started to use only a couple of years ago.
No, I am not a happy camper today!
Shanny Ken ..... Condolences for the loss of your father in law..... Yes, he is in a better place now.
Ed .... I recognize the photo of the GTW Mike in the turntable pit. The location is in Detorit. I have seen a picture of red and silver Texas Special sleepers running through on a Pennsy passenger train.
Cuda Ken ... That sounds very painful. I hope you will be okay. I like the photo.
Bear ,,, I did read the MR edictorial where Neil mentioned your comments about the current price of a "dollar car". Congratulations. ... I actually have a copy of the Dollar Car book which is decades old by now.
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On the layout I worked on scenery today. Adding vegatation to the scene.
Ken: My condolences to you and your family.
Flo, please get Ken whatever he may need to eat over the next few days and put it on my tab.
Garry: I pulled it up on my of the prototype picture sites that I have bookmarked before I saw your post, but still good practice for me.
Garry,
If I recall correctly, it was just north of Detroit in Pontiac. Amazingly, the turntable is still there!
Take Care, Ed
Mornin' folks!
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of blueberry pancakes with real NYS maple Syrup, a coule sausage links, and a large pot of Seneca Lake Blend Dark Roast Coffee to start the day.
Got up a little before 9AM to give Blackie his insulin, and the airconditioner was already running....... Gonna be anotyher hot one here in the Finger Lakes Region I guess. Currently 80°F with a high of 91° this afternoon. Possibility that a thunderstorm will hit somewhere around here today, but not in Geneva....
(Shanny) Ken, my sympathies to you and yours on the loss of your FIL. Do know that you are in my prayers!
Cuda Ken, do hope you will feel better very soon. Way back when I was teaching in Waverly, NY and after the birth of our second son, we decided that we didn't want a larger family. My wife had some bad side effects with the "pills" so it was decided that I should have the "operation". About two weeks before mine was done another teacher, Mr Quinn, had the same thing. Of course the week following that he was walking a bit funny, shall we say, as the swelling went down. After mine, I had the same problem for a few days. One of the 6th. grade teachers overheard a couple little 6th. grade girls discussing the "situation" and came down to my classroom at the end of the day that Monday. She was in hysterics! Most of the faculty knew what was going on, so..... She told me that one of the little girls, asked the other, "What's wrong with Mr. Howard? He's walking really, you know, funny?" The other girl said, "I not sure, but I think he caught whatever Mr. Quinn had a couple weeks ago!" The faculty had a "hey day" with all of that... Hope you will be walking better soon!
I already have several items on todays agenda to keep me out of the train room I see. Best get at it!
Good morning.
By coincidence, I'm heading out to the bicycle shop in a few minutes to get a new saddle. Traditional saddles result in a lot of pressure on the "perineum," that portion of your anatomy between one part I can't mention here and another part I can't mention here, but suffice it to say that it ends up in the center of the bike seat. If you think you need the Little Blue Pill, perhaps you really just need a new bike seat. It might actually be a "cycle-logical" problem.
Made a new video of the layout, just to get my mind off that nice looking, but hardly running loco:
While pondering my fate with that loco engine, I accidentally found the solution to my layout lighting problem. My initial idea saw two LED spots mounted somehow behind the backdrop, but it was that somehow which kept me from going for it, as I could not figure out how to mount them. My layout rests on that cabinet on casters, but I only move it around when I am w*rking on the layout or do track maintenance behind the backdrop. Most of them time it rests on the same spot, which allows me to get two cheap ceiling mounted spotlights and equip them with color-variable LED spots. With that, I can simulate different times of the day - from dawn to dusk. The investment is a minor one and is covered by a gift voucher I got from a friend. That´s going to be one of the next things on my layout to-do list - onece I get over that sulking phase!
Ken - ouch! Whatever it is, I hope it´ll go away soon!
gmpullman Garry, If I recall correctly, it was just north of Detroit in Pontiac. Amazingly, the turntable is still there! Take Care, Ed
Ed ... Then I should have recognized it as many times as I was in Pontiac. I recall that turntable being used to turn auto rack cars long after steam locomtives were retired.
Steven .... I see the ad in MR for Great Model Railroads 2017. I think you said you were working on it a few weeks ago. I suspect it is another good publication.
Ulrich ... Another nice video from you. I definately like the stone arch bridge.
Happy Model Railroding, everybody .
UG! What a day yesterday. This movie thing is going to be a parent killer.
Wednesday night both kids get their call times for 0700Hrs Thursday. So we are up at 0430Hrs for the one and a half hour drive in to Vancouver to the set location.
We check in and are sent to wardrobe. The studio had the kids measurements but they were told they could wear their own clothes and bring two extra outfits. Then if the costume director didn't like what they were wearing or had with them they would supply them. This wardrobe department was the size of large clothing store. They were told to dress like they were going to an upper-middle-class fall wedding in New York.
The first wardrobe person said you two look really sharp. After a while the grand poobah wardrobe person came in and said, boy, you guys know how to dress you will be fine like that. I looked at my son and said, "we both know your sister knows how to dress, what's your excuse". My son goes "just got lucky I guess". It was then off to make up for the buff and polish.
My daughter was taken to the set first and was shown where she would be and had a bit of a rehearsal. She spent the entire day front and centre and was in every shot/scene but one. She figures they did 25 to 30. In some of the scenes, they placed her close enough to the five main stars she is actually touching them. In between every shot and sometimes "many times" in between every shot makeup and hair would buff and polish her. She felt like a queen.
She was told not to talk to any of the stars unless spoken to. It wasn't long before she was yapping with all five of them all throughout the whole day as they were all a small captive group on the set. She said that one of them said they had started as an extra, and couldn't believe my daughter was given such a high profile spot the first time she had ever been on a movie set. She said you're on your way kid, they like you.
The Director had her do a couple of things just on her own. No lines just going and getting something and coming back.
Both kids were in a group of about 17 extras for close up work. My son was brought in and out as needed throughout the day while the daughter never left except for breaks. Later in the day 600 extras were brought in so they could have the big crowd behind them. This was the group my kids were expecting to be with when they first signed up.
At one point a paparazzi burst on to the set with this huge camera. Security jumped him quick and they rolled into my daughters legs. His three cameras, all with huge lenses "accidentally" got smashed to bits. The whole place outside was crawling with paparazzi.
So we got home at 2000Hrs last night We shovelled some food into them and they had to wait until 2030Hrs to get their call times for tomorrow and respond. At 0830 and 30 seconds they were both sound asleep. Daughter got a 0700Hrs call time and the sons was 1130Hrs. 0430Hrs rolled around this morning and I said to the wife I'll get the kids up, she said your daughter is already up. Well that was sure different from yesterday.
They didn't want breakfast, the little snobs were going to have Eggs Benedict on the set!
Today they finish what they started yesterday and then get into cold New York winter kind of clothes for the next part.( it's very warm here today) I told my son to wear his Vancouver Canucks toque. All New York Hockey Fans want to be seen in a Canucks toque. No logo's allowed Dad.
Neither kid really had much interest in doing this, they were bored and signed up as they thought it would be something different to do.
At the end of the day, they said to my daughter, she must be there tomorrow and even if she is dead bring her in and they will prop her up "Weekend at Bernies" style. If she doesn't show they have to do the whole days shoot over.
I'm sure glad Mom took them today I'm bagged even though I spent yesterday lying on a lawn looking at the Pacific Ocean. Well somebody has to do it. The food tent made me, yes I say made me, eat an awful lot.
Best wishes to all, I am going back to bed.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
MisterBeasley. . .I'm heading out to the bicycle shop in a few minutes to get a new saddle. . .
Mr B., which saddle are you getting? I have gone through a number of saddles and finally settled on one from Performance.
I have been traveling lately, both for w*%k and for fun. Mrs. ROR and I spent a week in the Pacific Northwest, including a couple days in Victoria, BC. One of the days was spent on a whale watch around the San Juan Islands, where we saw about a dozen Orcas and a Humpback. Seeing an Orca in the wild was on Mrs. ROR's bucket list.
The worst of the summer has arrived in the Valley of the Sun. In July and August we get moist air from the Gulf of California. When I went for my ride this morning at 5:00am, it was 85F and 70% humidity. Thank goodness the sun was not quite up yet.
On the train front, I am installing fascia. I was pretty amazed that I was able to bore out the holes in the right places for my turnout switches. I still have the tricky one to design and cut--the one that will "face" the mountain at the end of the layout. It also includes a 30 degree bend that I hope to accomplish by scoring the back of the fascia board, then bending. Fingers crossed.
Richard
Good afternoon!
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Ken Amos,
Condolences and prayers for you and your family---
J. White
Good afternoon all.
Flo, RBF please. Too hot for much else.
Weather - Hot, humid. Again/still...
W**k - Big weekend sale this weekend, 50% off sale started this morning, runs through close on Sunday. Expecting to be quite busy. We lost half the parking due to a newly opened car lot, really odd place for it, but worse as he takes up half the lot. That should make our weekend sale quite interesting....
YGW - Coffee and/or Cappuccino is my way of saying, without saying, that I am having pretty major asthma issues... I dislike coffee, and dislike cappuccino, but the caffeine content helps with the breathing. So, no, didn't fly through the projects. Only two got done, and neither were train related...
Hope all enjoy, and have a good day.
I got one from Lithia. It was with the "racing" saddles rather than the "comfort" saddles, but it's got significant padding. It's on the bike now and I'll be taking it out in just a little while. Hopefully, I won't have to spend too much time getting it adjusted right.
The old one is the original that came with the bike 32 years ago. The bike is a Guerciotti, now considered a "classic" or "retro" bike. It gets more compliments than its rider, that's for sure. Back then saddles were all convex and they did put a lot of pressure where you don't want it. As a younger man, I didn't notice, but lately I've found it kind of uncomfortable. Time for a change.
Is anyone else having trouble with the "quote" feature? It's not working for me. I run Windows XP and Firefox. When I hover the mouse over "Add Quote to your Post" the little window in the lower left says "javascript(void)" That's never been a good sign in the past.
It worked fine a few days ago, and I haven't changed anything at my end.