Evenin'folks!
Janie, I would like a nice cup of hot chocolate to warm me up toninght before bedtime. What? yes, with marshmallos would be nice....
I packed uo the old small Canon Printer that stopped working and set it out in the shed to be taken to a recycling center. I have two printers and a Hepafilter machine and a bunch of smaller electronic stuff (including my old Macbook) to get rid of. Supposedly Staples does that here in town. I'll check next time I go over there.
Finished mowing the lawn this afternoon, almost came back inside and put a jacket on. Fall has arrived here in the Finger Lakes. The temperature got all the way up to 64°F outside today. Currently 48°F on its way down to 45°F overnight. Yep, the air conditioner is off and has been for the last two days. Almost turned the heat on this morning, but didn't....
Got started today building the last bit of benchwork that I need to do on the SLOW. This shouldn't take long to do, so I expect to get started on the scenery and trackwok in a couple days if all goes well. Monday I will be out at Boy Scout Camp installing the new speakers on the stage. Monday Night I need to visit one of my Troops. Every evening this week has something going on, but I hope to find some time during the day to work on the layout.
Zandoz, good to see you again. Wondered where you had been. (Janie, I have his tab tonight....)
Hope you all have a great night!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Evening Dinners
Wake Up Flo, I will have a and if Ed makes in tonight give him one as well.
Work Front Seems work is not the only place that is slow. Only 2 posting here at the dinner today so far. Work was not much better, while I made some sales, nothing that helps me pay check wise. I see digging into the savings again next month to make the house payment.
Ed Thanks for the Round House link. One of the things that sparked my intrest in B&O (besides Uncle Charlies being a engineer for B&O) is when I found out that for years every day I drove by a old B&O Round House in East St Louis. When I finally knew where to look from the interstate, there it was! Not much left right now. Any chances you have any good links to it?
All so, any links to the B&O yard and round house for Washington Ind? My grand fathers house over looked the yard. That was when I started to get hooked on trains. I remember how excited I would get when I saw War Bonnet engines get serviced!
YGW First I am glad your Farther is doing so much better! On the coal cars, I am tickled pink (did I say that? Must be Panther Pink being a Mopar guy) With a little work they are all great rollers and only had one de-rail and that was a easy fix. I will post some photos, need to clean up the layout first.
Fiddling with more coal cars, Ken
I hate Rust
<wanders in after a several year absence>
Hello folks!
I'll have a patty melt and a diet Dr Pepper, please.
I hope all are well.
If anyone is wondering, the reason I've been gone is that I took a shot at my #1 "bucket list" project...designing and building a car from the ground up.
I got as far as the designwork being mostly complete, and around 2/3s of the components aquired, before recent health setbacks left me physically unable to do the construction work. The project has taken most of my time and all of my disposable income for the last 4 years. Now that that distraction is out of the way I can come back to my model railroading.
Reality...an interesting concept with no successful applications, that should always be accompanied by a "Do not try this at home" warning.
Hundreds of years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...But the world may be different because I did something so bafflingly crazy that my ruins become a tourist attraction.
"Oooh...ahhhh...that's how this all starts...but then there's running...and screaming..."
Hello everyone,
On the work front, I am working five evening shifts in a row, Friday afternoon to Tuesday night. Hoping it all goes well.
On the hobby front, I ran a short train at my local club's open house today. I only had three hours, and did have fun, aside the problems listed next... I brought, a BLI K4s, an Intermountain Pfaudler milk car, Red Caboose REA X29, two Walthers R50bs, Walthers B60b, and four BLI P70 coaches. Well, within an hour I had to reprogram the K4s, do a decoder reset, and had to take out the B60b, and three coaches. One coach ran without issue, but the tight curves and close-coupling of the BLI coaches had been problematic for a string of them. The B60b coupler broke a knuckle and will be replaced. I has much fun, meaning none, when the coaches derailed in the tunnel where they would be hardest to reach. Also acquired some new trains this month, I'll post pics of in the future.
Tomorrow is my youngest sister's birthday, so I'll take her out to breakfast.
Wishing everyone here a happy and healthy weekend.
Alvie
Good morning, everybody.... ... Coffee and a pecan roll please.
Ken ... The photo of the roundhouse is impressive.
Ed ... I clicked on some of those images. In their day, steam locomotive terminals were very interesting.
Ray ... Yes, retirement is never dull.
YGW.... ....and still working is not dull either ...
Happy Model Railroading, everybody.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
cudakenand if Ed shows up, give him one as well.
That was mighty tasty, Ken!
It was nearly 85 here in N-E Ohio today, muggy, too. Finally cooling off tomorrow.
I'll be hanging out with a bunch of "Steampunkers" at the Cuyahoga Valley's maintenance shop with the Nickel Plate 767 as the star.
Hopefully, I'll have a memory card in the camera this time.
Ken, If I were a betting man, I'd say your mystery roundhouse is the Pennsy's Crestline, Mingo Junction, Ohio roundhouse.
http://www.crestlineprr.com/PhotoGallery.html#rh
Of course, no one could save it and there is nothing but grass and some concrete there today...
Thanks for the brew!
Edited to correct location to Mingo Junction. This is what it looked like in 1997—
Good day and best wishes to all,
Ed
Flo, I will have a please and if Ed shows up, give him one as well.
Work Front? Feel like a Maytag Repairman today! One stincking customer wanting a Futon Cover! We did not have any she liked!
My dying car front. Tried to get my Town Car in the repair shop on my 2 days off. With the running I needed to do and with Bob being busy just did not happen. Biggest problem is I am lossing Power Steering Fluid. I had been using a quart a week, that was not hard to deal with. Leak is now 1/2 a quart a day, that I cannot deal with.
Wife Fight Told Sue I will need her car, I will nurse mine to work Saturday and Sunday she could take me and pick me up at work. (12:00 To 5:00) but I would need it Monday. (I hope to drop my car off Sunday for the repair) BAM, off to the races! She started up with a What If List! What if Sparkie gets sick, what if she gets sick and on and on and on. She does not want me to drive her car, and well I Don't Want To! Heck I don't want to work either, but you do what you have to do right?
Der Good looking layout, when do you think it will be running?
Train Front Might be time to get the N&W Y6b out to drag the B&O coal cars. While the B&O F7's are doing very well, don't want to kill them! Coal train is up to 17 feet long.
YGW Man I like these coal cars, thanks for snaging them for me. I will have some sprung trucks to send you. I am down to 5 that are not on the rails, hope to make that 4 tonight.
Time to fiddle with the coal cars again, Ken
Der - There is a You tube video of a guy who has built his N scale on a door. Have you seen it ?
Don't know much about retirement do you???
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
yougottawantaHowmus - Busy ? I thought you were retired ? How can you be that busy ?
Afternoon folks!
Chloe, a tall glass of Lemonade would suit me fine right now.
Taking a break from mowing the lawn. The inch of rain got the dang thing growing again. At least all the weeds and rye grass in it. I think the blugrass and other fine lawn grasses all died from the dought. I stepped in a spot where I had a huge Silver Maple taken down about 15 years ago and it gave way. Guess the stump has finally rotted through. I'll get a bag of topsoil to fill it in and top dress the area.
Had to go over to the vet and buy a bag of special canned food for the boys this morning. It has gone up in price again. Oh well, they are worth it. Then went to the Credit Union to get some pictures of Dead Presidents to spend. Should have gotten my hair cut this morning, but was short on said pictures of Dead Presidents to get that done. Probably will stop by tomorrow as he is open on Saturdays.
Should have some photos of the work on the SLOW tonight. Have the pasture mostly done. Need to start now on the gates for the RR Crossing to get the Moo Cows back to the barn.... Have a good idea what I will buyild for that.
Catch you all later!
Lunch Time !
Well another one bites teh dust ! Walked my third house in ten days ! First house 4k sq ft 6 items on list, 6.5k sqft house 3 items on the walk through list and todays 3.5k sq ft house 0 items ! Know I can breath and stop running at a high rate of speed ! Phew glad that is over for a while ! Now maybe I can focus on getting my barn w/hobby room started !
Garry - What a neat work bench are you sick ! Just kidding ! Man I like that work station well done !
Howmus - Busy ? I thought you were retired ? How can you be that busy ? Your work bench looks like mine !
Ken - Time to change jobs my friend, I am so excited about those hoppers. I am on the edge of my seat waiting on you to post some photos. Heck those things were a steal at the price you got them for !
Angel - Walk a cat ? I saw a you tube video of some one "walking a cat" they had a body harness on it and they were dragging the cat across the deck ! No walking going on there !
Richard - Upper 80s Oh geez thats horrible. It is in teh 70s/80s here. At night down into the 50s. Love this weather !
To all the rest of "you'uns" ( as my PA friends say ) hello, prayers for those in need, will talk to you later
YGW
Garry,
I will upload them once I figure out how, it just may take some time, but you will see them at some point.
Nice workbench display! So neat and organized.
Good morning....
ATSF ... If you read the first topic in this forum, Steven posted an explanation of how to post photos, and other forum members have added some helpful comments. ... It is easy....Looking forward to seeing your ATSF F7's.
Henry ... You have some good suggestions....
ATSFGuyHow do you guys upload photo's to the forum without your computer freezing up?
You need a site that will show a link to your photo ending in .jpg. It looks like Imgur willl do that, as does Photobucket. Google and Flickr don't normally give a link like that, I have done it on occassion, but I cannot consistently get such a link from the later 2 sites
Adobe Flash locks up my computer frequently. I do not 'allow' it when using the forum and only allow it on Photobucket when I am ready to copy the link to my photo.
I email photos from my phone to myself, download them to the computer and work from my computer to upload and link them.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Evenin' Folks!
Janie, I could use cup (or two) of decaf, please. Yes, all the usual stuff......
Somebody mention workbench? I figure a real workbench should look like this:
I weighed in about 35lbs heavier when that photo was taken, BTW.
Been a busy day today.... Yeah, I know, what else is new...... After sending a bunch of emails out to finallize a work session to put up the new speaker system on the stage at camp and a couple other items I am dealing with, I headed out to Rochester to see if Despatch Junction might have any WS Dairy Cows in there figures collection for sale. They did have, but just one set. I needed at least two more for the new area (pasture). I may pick up a large bag of unpainted ones and have it as I have another cow barnyard to fill. I'd like to have some Guernseys somewhere on the layout. Besides WS thinks that you pature your bull with the cows and calves in the same pasture. That would not be very safe when you go to round up the herd......... And with the exception of beef cattle, you don't pasture the calves with the (milk) cows!!! That means that in the package with 6 items, all of three of them can be used... I will hide the identifyable sexual features of the bull behind some shrubbery I guess......
I then headed a few mile over to an Aquarium/tropical fish store in Penfield. I now have some swordtails and a couple catfish getting used to their new home in tyhe 20 gal tank. I also got a Plecostomus ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypostomus_plecostomus ) for the 55 gal. tank. They are algea eaters so it might help keep the algea down a bit in that tank. They can get quite large. I had one that was about 8" long way back when. I have seen them in large aquariums well over 18". In the wild they get a couple feet long and are considered sport fish....
OK, I'm going to the train rooms in the cellar to put some cows out to pasture.....
Later!
Afternoon Dinners
Flo, Ed and I will have a beer please.
Made the house payment today, so I am in a foul mood. Had to take $300.00 out of savings to do it. Worst part, I had to use my Discover card to pay Charter, using credit card to make ends meet is a bad sign. I am now down to saving only $3.62 a week? What seems like a long time ago now I was putting away around $100.00 a week.
Guess it is time to see if the Lap Top still works. If it does, I will take it to work and work on my resume.
C&N Charlie The owner thinks running ads is a waste of money! Guess he should call Wal Mart, Lowes, Home Depot and show them how to make more money!
Real Car Front Any of you folks watch Road Kill on U Tube? Well the host's would have been proud of me! I half Caboose fixed the trunk of the Town Car I am driving. Why spent $140.00 when you can use Zip Locks! Trunk works normal, used the Zip Locks to hold the clasp down about where it should be. Still about a 1/4" to tall, but I still call that a Win.
Train Front Went to K-10 Model Trains and bought some Kadee #27, Kadee # 5 and Proto 2000 wheels. Spoted a Walthers / Proto 2000 Santa Fe War Bonner F7a engine for $189.00 with sound! I was a good boy and walked out with out it.
ATSFGuyThose F units in the photo looks like a Monon F3 A-B-B set in Black/Gold.
ATSF I mormaly ran the Monon F3's as a A B B A lash up. That photo is about 7 years old and do not remember why it was only a A B B lash up? I became a Monon fan when I found out the ran though my home town, Carmel Ind.
Well BBQ is done and time to fiddle with more B&O caol cars. YGW close to working on the Die Cast cars. Dang, that is why the box weight so much!
Ken, broke again.
I have an Athearn Genesis Santa Fe Blue/Yellow F3 A-B-B-A lashup, I would like to try uploading some photos. Can anyone list the directions for uploading a photo to the forum?
I know photobucket works with this site, but do any other sites work?
My thoughts:
I'll let you guys in on a little secret: I'm more of a visual learner, so If someone is with me in my office, knows how to upload photos to an online forum site like this one, and is explaning how to take the photo from google/smartphone, save it in photobucket, and then show me how to transfer it from there to here, that would really be helpful. (one-on-one benefits me in a lot of ways)
I know this sounds crazy, but that's my little "what if" on this subject.
Now you can probably understand how I feel about this photo uploading thing. especially when my computer and photo don't like each other.
How do you guys upload photo's to the forum without your computer freezing up?
Afternoon Diners,
Der5997- No I don't have spare track. I'll buy some next month with extra pieces.
I have a nice little story.
I decided to walk Charles yesterday at 5:40. I got to this house with a brick wall covering the height of a dog. In the corner of my eye I saw a black blur running towards him, while he was eating some grass.
I saw a small little black/white kitty. It stopped by the wall and realized it wasn't a cat it was dog. By pure terror it slowly walked backwards running onto a chair in attack mode.
I thought it so was funny. That a black cat ran towards with the same colors as this dog. With that reason that I wished I was walking a cat.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Ken,
Those F units in the photo looks like a Monon F3 A-B-B set in Black/Gold.
Richard
Garry:
Heartland Division CB&QDave .... Congratulations on joining the club. I bet it was a treat seeing your McKeen motor car operating there.
Thanks. It was very rewarding. I also discovered something - that is that the Tenshodo powered trucks won't win any races. Pretty slow in fact, but probably fairly prototypical. IIRC the maximum speed on the McKeen cars was about 55 mph. Could be wrong.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Morning all
The craziness is just about at an end at w**k. Next week I should be able to pop in a bit more often. The rehab center sent my dad home and he and my Mom actually went out to lunch togther. It was an emotional time for both, just that simple pleasure. Meither thougtht after he was hit that they would ever be doing that again.
Train front, Took a chance on an ebay item and made the purchase. I bought an MTH J #600 for half the price of a new one it went for $190, I also bought a 2664 #1218, I bought that at of all places a pawn shop ! I got that one for $200 !
Prayers for those in need.
TTYL
Good morning ...
Dennis .... Feel free to share apricots with the Diners. I bet they are good.
Dennis and Ray ... We don't have car inspections here in KY. The advantage of retiring in KY is when the world comes to an end, KY is 25 years behind everybody else.
Dave .... Congratulations on joining the club. I bet it was a treat seeing your McKeen motor car operating there.
Ken ... I like the photo of the Monon F3's. Glad you had time for your fence project.
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Have a great day, everyone !
Hi everyone:
I got a very nice suprise in my e-mail tonight. I have been accepted as a probationary member of the Barrie - Allandale Railway Modellers Association! The approval has come much sooner than expected. I guess I made a good impression.
http://www.barm.ca/events.html
The club rents a small room in an industrial unit. They have a portable layout which travels to shows regularly, and they also have an around the room layout that is more or less permanent, although it could be dismantled fairly easily. Both layouts are HO scale with Digtrax, and there are plans to construct a couple of modules that will connect the two layouts.
Everyone has been very welcoming, and I even got to run my McKeen Motor Car at the second meeting I attended. That was a bit embarrassing because I had neglected to clean the wheels so it would barely run. A couple of club members jumped into action and cleaned the wheels for me and away it went! That was the first time I have been able to run any of my locomotives for any distance. Up until then I had been restricted to a max. 12' test track. I'm pleased to say that, after the wheel cleaning, it ran almost flawlessly for about 10 minutes.
I should have joined the club long ago. Don't know why I didn't.
Regards,
Janie, Can I get a nice cup (or two) of decafe please. Organic Half & Half, and some Stevia would do nicely as well.
Had an appointment with the Dermatologist this afternoon. She asked how my psoriasis was. I told her I think it is much better than when I saw her last. She had me sit on the exam table and took a look for herself...... She says, WOW! That is an amazing difference..... It was really bad when I saw her two months ago! We agreed to continue on the regemine she had me on, and I will see her again in 4 months... One of the orders is to sit out back and soak up sun with as much clothes off as possible.... May have to join one of those, ahhhhh, clubs??? Colonies, I think they call them... That's it.
Gee, Dennis / V8, If you hate the place that much, why don't you move??? I hear there are lots of cheap appartments for rent in Detroit and Flint, MI. Or maybe Camden, NJ...... Don't come to NY as we have to have a safety inspection done every year here.... We try not to have vehicles on the road that have tie rods, wheels, tail pipes, and other things falling off them.... I have to pay $21 a year for that and I don't even have to have the emissions checked on the motor.... (The PiP is exempt as a PHEV.) Most of the danger here is the idiots behind the steering wheels of the vehicles. That is dangerous enough! Hope your car gets fixed properly and you will be able to drive it for another 18 or so years.
Tonight I canned some string beans for use this winter. Crop is finally starting to come in (Blue Lake Pole Beans). Like to put up 15 to 20 pints if I can. Only other thing that did well this year is the Peppers.
Found out that the Scoutmaster of one of Troops (as a Commissioner), who is a recruiter for the Army is on his way to Kuwait at the moment. I emailed him to see if they had a Troop meeting this coming Monday so I could do a visitation. He said yes, but he won't be there.... Guess I will have to keep a closer watch on that troop in his absence to make sure everything is going well. The guy is top shelf as a Scoutmaster, so I don't worry much about that unit.
Have a great night everyone!
Afternoon Diners
Flo, Ed and I will have a please.
Day Off Front Got some of my running done. Paid a few bills and took a nap. Getting old sucks! Felt a lot better when I got up and worked on the fence. Still chaps my cabosse that I am working on a fence that I paid $1710.35 to have it done for me! Got another set of stringers up and installed the pickets.
Started up the old Town Car with the bad A/C Clutch. Dang, it does run good, well till the cluch breaks and the serpentine belt breaks! A/C still blows cold and I do miss A/C.
B&O Front Running the B&O F7's like a rented mule. Now dragging 34 cars, added 2 more B&O coal cars last night. Hope to have 2 more done today.
Later, Ken
Heartland Division CB&Q FRRY .... I hope the vacation was good. Sounds like you acquired some good freight cars.
FRRY .... I hope the vacation was good. Sounds like you acquired some good freight cars.
So much so that I got eager enough with them that I ended up ordering $30 worth of Adair weights. (3 sets for the flat cars and 3 other sets I had been looking at for some of my other cars. I have many of their sets in my cars.) Took a few emails with the company directly but they were nice enough to work with me on getting the sets that I needed as where I would normally get them doesn't show them as onhand. (And I should get them quicker even if my normal shop had them onhand.)
wetidlerjrAdd Quote to your Post
Bill T !.... Nice to see you again.
Tom in PA ... The I-Phone 7 is a nice upgrade, but we would not do it if AT&T did not offer buy one get one free. So, after they do the deal, AT&T backs out of their commitment and charges for both phones in our account. ..... Ticked us off. We spoke with several unfriendly agents on the phone yesterday who refused to help out. When we said we would return the phones, they said we would still be charged a connection fee for each one even though we would not be using them. Finally we got one guy who said our bill will be adjusted to reflect the deal. So, it looks like we will keep the 7's after all of that. There is more to the story, but suffice it to say we are mad at AT&T.
Der John ..... Glad to see your first run on the new layout.
CN Charlie ... I'll take your advice under advisement. LOL ... Glad you have the sound decoder installed and you like it so far.
FR RY .... I hope the vacation was good. Sounds like you acquired some good freight cars.
V8 .... You are right. If a retailer says soemthing is free, beware.
Dave .... Mental health? ... You don't need to be crazy to be a model railroader, but it helps. ... Glad to hear you have more space now for the model railroad.
UP836 ... That quote is a good advice about having nothing to lose.
Ken .... Actually , work goes faster if you don't have search through piles of stuff to find a part or a tool needed for the next step of a project. .... Speaking of Caddy's, Shelley's car is a Cadillac SRX. It is 12 years old with 160,000 miles. It just keeps going and going. There were some electroinc problems at about 100,000, but after correcting them it has seved us well.
Ed .... Oh. I see. The prototype observation car has an entire train of funny looking cars ahead of it.
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Happy model rairloading, everybody.
Good morning!
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Heartland Division CB&QEd ... I like the NYC observation, but wht is that funny paint scheme on the sleepr ahead of it?
I just model 'em as I sees 'em...
http://www.railpictures.net/photo/186634/
I wouldn't know how to act in a shop like your's, Garry! Do you wear little paper booties over your shoes, too?