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Here are the photos of the cars, what do you guys think?
Anybody own these models?
Afternoon,
not much happening for me today wrapping up some loose ends at the job. The Water valve on the toilet was whislting so I changed it out, that is what was casuing the whistling toilet.
Afternoon Diners
Flo, Ed and I will have a please.
And I thought Wednesday was not a great day off!
Went to BOS to give them there blood money. Lost my brakes as I was pulling into there parking lot! This is the second time my car has died where it had to be towed when making the house payment! I am hoping I just blew part of the brake line, that could be a cheaper fix than I am thinking. I know I need front rotors, they are under discard speck. When they get a little warm you can feel them warping in the brake pedal. What I am afraid of is a caliper over extended and blew out! Guess I will find out Friday.
Ed Thanks for the tip on programing on the fly using Decoder Pro! It is nice being able to adjust the sound on the fly! Finally heard all 5 horns on the Bessmer SD 7. I like the Nathen P 3 the best.
Think if I can get the E-7 moving again.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Evening all.
Ken I hate working on brakes, I need to check th ABS on the wife's car I have an intermaittant lite on it.
Good morning all, eggs over easy and bacon Flo. Hurry up with that coffee.
Photobucket is back online. As promised here is yesterdays morning deer at Chama
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Steven .... Tell Cody "Happy Birthday" from the Diners.
Henry .... I like the photo in Chama. ... Oh deer !
Everybody else: .... Wake up ! .... The coffee and donuts are fresh !....
Lion .... Where are you? ... No sticky buns available this morning.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Heartland Division CB&Q Wake up ! .... The coffee and donuts are fresh !....
Wake up ! .... The coffee and donuts are fresh !....
Speaking of donuts... I brought these in to work this morning:
These aren't the actual ones I brought in, but I did the same thing. My wife saw the idea online and said, "You absolutely have to do this at work!" I've been here less than an hour and they're already all gone.
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Steven !.... Yikes !... Donuts are biting back ! ..
Good morning. Time for a sticky bun and a cup of tea. I have been back from Canada 2-1/2 weeks now. While traveling home we stopped at friends' B&B in Iowa for a couple day visit. The weather was so nice I took the dog for a three mile walk. Ever since I have had a strained right hamstring. It now is somewhat painful walking longer distances. Trying to get into physical therapy to see if I can "exercise" it better. Just got the call from the horsepital that I have an appointment to start next Friday. Getting old is a "female dog!"
Someone recently posted a request asking what projects you have now. i am in the process of installing seven Caboose Industries ground throws for turnouts. I think I have figured out what needs to be done to attach them to the throw bars. The next project will be to build a decent workstation for building models. I will post pictures when I get it done.
Johnboy, you asked about the rice harvest. It was a total bust. We hauled all the equipment to the lake and spent a couple weeks at the camp but only picked a little over 4,000 lbs compared to the previous years 110,000 lbs. High water level and way to much wind all fall doomed this years crop. Oh well, there is always next year. The people on the northwest side of Sask faired much better and friends were able to make up the difference buying raw picked rice for processing. They will at least be able to service their customeres.
I still have a couple of pictures to post from the Hudson Bay Railroad yard visit. Today's picture is motive power in Hudson Bay Railroad colors. Hudson Bay Railroad is an interesting shortline. It is the old northern end of the Canadian National services to the Pas, MB to Flin Flon and also Churchill, MB on Hudson Bay.
Steven OtteHappy Kalmbach Day! Around here, we call 10/27 Kalmbach Day because for many years, Kalmbach Publishing was headquartered in downtown Milwaukee, at 1027 N. 7th Street. . .
Steven: Your 10/27 post in the diner looks a lot like the 10/27 post on the MRR Facebook page. Is Facebooking another one of your responsibilities?
It continues to be unseasonably warm here in Arizona, where today's high is supposed to be 95. Dang global warming. At least the mornings are in the 60's.
Richard
RideOnRoad Steven: Your 10/27 post in the diner looks a lot like the 10/27 post on the MRR Facebook page. Is Facebooking another one of your repsonsibilities?
Steven: Your 10/27 post in the diner looks a lot like the 10/27 post on the MRR Facebook page. Is Facebooking another one of your repsonsibilities?
Yup, I handle social media for MR. Which, at the moment, is only Facebook and the Forums. We thought about starting a Twitter feed, but we don't really have a use for it.
Steven Otte. . .We thought about starting a Twitter feed, but we don't really have a use for it.
I have never understood the allure of "tweeting". What is scary is that all of the tweets hang around and can be later analyzed. A while back I saw a demostration of an application that would go grab all of the tweets for a given Twitter user, and use cognative analysis to determine a personality profile for the person. It was proposed as a tool to be used in the employee selection process. Potentially the same data could be used for health profiling, for example the user that tweets, "had another migraine today." People don't understand that tweeting is basically the same as standing on the corner and yelling for anyone to hear. The difference is that the tweets can be archived and retrieved later.
ROR, certainly agree with Twitter comments. When Twitter first appeared on the old ether, I was put off by the limits for message length. It appeared it was designed for people to just pop off.
By the way, I continue to be impressed by your piano efforts. I probably should engage an instructor and work a little harder on playing. Working on sonata 101 by the master, Beethoven. It's a pretty tuff piece to play.
Daughter returned my Silverado this afternoon. I can now get material to build work station.
Headed to local college choral concert tonight. They have a new director this fall.
Have a great weekend!
Jim
JAMES MOON. . .I probably should engage an instructor and work a little harder on playing. Working on sonata 101 by the master, Beethoven. It's a pretty tuff piece to play. . .
As a kid, my parents heavily invested in my lessons. My last teacher as a teen was with an Hungarian concert pianist that cost my parents a fair amount of money. Unfortunately, I was lured by the scent of perfume and gasoline and didn't make the make to practice so my parents "ceased to invest."
Later on in life (much later) I happened to cross paths with a piano teacher who is not only a very accomplished pianist but is also an excellent teacher. Between her ability to teach and my ability to listen it has had a significant impact on my playing. In the words of Mrs. ROR, "You sound like an entirely different person." High praise from someone who also plays very well.
Bottom line, if you want to increase the enjoyment of playing, I would highly recommend finding a good teacher and diving in.
Angel - Oh now I see. Pause hold as in hold up, wait...
Henry - Whats wrong with your toe nail ?
ATSF - I saw somewhere ( I think ) that Hot wheels scale is 1/87 ?
Ken If you want to hear about bad breaks talk to me. I drove a car from a county away to home with no brakes and my Ford truck I have had TERRIBLE rear brake problems, they kept locking up a LONG ways from home. After replacing everything almost twice, drums, padsm emergency brake cables, cylinders etc...it turns out it was some small valve. I think they are FINALLY okay.
James - That is bad. Not much Rice compared to last year.
Richard - When I was young tweet was tweety the bird !
YGW
Evening, all! 60 and unseasonable.
KEN: We are looking for a new bed. I have degenerative disc desease and arthritis in my three lowest vertabates. So, massive lower back pain. Looking at a king size because the wife is a bed hog. LOL! At one time I found THE PERFECT bed at the hotel at Phoenix airport, but don't remembe the brand. Coulda been a Sealy? Can you suggest something? Wish I lived closer to give YOU the sale. Willing to spend for what I need!
Trains: Got back 4 units my buddy put decoders in for me. Yay! Scenery refurbishment continues. All trains running great! ( well , now Murphy is gonna show up!!)
Hope all is well for everyone!
Terry
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
Evening Diners
Flo, Ed and I will have a beer please.
Work Front Figuers some wants to talk about Mattress Now! Yep, another Slooooooow day.
Terry there is no such thing as the perfect mattress for everyone. How old you are, weight, postion you sleep in, height and muscle mass come into play. All so one personal tast come into play. Some people hate memonry foam just because. But memonry can have diffrent feels. Some can be hard as a rock some very soft.
Firm Is Not Good For Most People Back's. All so most people think Support means firm, support is when you sink into the mattress and it comforms to you.
I be happy to talk with you on the phone, would save me a bunch of time. I miss spell at 14 words a minute! PM me your phone number and time frame you like to talk. Just let me know here at the dinner so I know you sent a PM. I seldom check my PM's unless I know one is coming.
Train Front I tried to re-set the QSI Sound Decoder in my PK 2000 E-7 using decoder pro. I picked re-set all QSI CV's and now Decoder Pro says there is no sound CV's? I hope I did not wipe out the sound stored in the decoder. Sound was the only thing the POS had going for it! Cold not pull worth a darn! Sure not like the older PK 2 E-6's!
See you all Saturday, Ken
Good morning ..... I'll have coffee and an apple turnover, please.
Where is everybody ?
Good Morning,
I'm here Garry. I haven't had a cup of coffee yet so barely here.
Weather is holding up very well, as in only a couple of mornings so far with a very light frost. Expecting about 40F today and up to 50 next week! A heat wave. At least we will be able to plant to tulip bulbs without chipping out frozen soil as we have done in the past. I have a special drill bit to bore holes for tulip bulbs that works great. I can bore a perfect hole in 15 seconds flat. Sure speeds up the process. Mind you I have to use an old corded B&D drill as my cordless just doesn't have enough power. The drill now tends to get very hot as I think the gears need lubrication. Not sure if I want to try to take apart a 40 year old drill.
I'm making slow progress on the N scale layout. I should be ready to start the ground cover this week. I plan on doing it slow and careful as I want to get the scenery done well. I think more care is needed with N scale as you tend to be a lot closer to the layout when viewing it.
Yesterday I saw a train go by powered by a GMD1 and a chop nose GP9. They were CN units on a switching run. The GMD1 dates from 1958. I think they are kept on the roster as the sidings have very tight curves.
Well, time to get going. We are heading out for lunch with some friends. I plan on giving them my bicycle as they are both keen cyclists. My bike is more of a nostalgia unit for their collection. It is a Raleigh 5 speed, an Engish built model from the mid-70s that is in very good shape. Raleigh and CCM were the big bike names in Canada when I grew up in the 1950s. US built bikes such as Schwinn were non-existent due to tariffs. CCM ( Canadian Cycle Manufacturing) is gone.
Well time to get going,
CN Charlie
Morning fellows
I'd like a mimosa, scrambled eggs with cheese, and toast. Butter and jam on the toast please. Plus a large container of coffee.
YGW, you were about a mile or so from where I'd grown up in Amissville Virginia. Small world huh? I'd like to back there and visit soon.
For winter projects, I'd like to get more resin kits built, painted, and lettered. I may need to get a quality spray booth for winter paint jobs. I'm also thinking of passenger car and loco projects to work on. The other day I put Cal-Scale steam traps on a Walthers B60b and liked how one little detail enhanced the model. I'll likely do that for my other heavyweight cars.
I finished another Red Caboose REA X29 kit, and have one more to build. I'll have seven in all. Nine whenever I finish the two that need to be assembled, painted, and lettered. I'm always on the look out for Red Caboose REA X29s. Especially the models with the flat plate ends.
I also acquired two Railworks PRR water columns. I painted one using Model-Master concrete and engine black. The other has some tarnish and I'll hold off on painting it for sometime.
Alvie
CNCharlie Yesterday I saw a train go by powered by a GMD1 and a chop nose GP9. They were CN units on a switching run. The GMD1 dates from 1958. I think they are kept on the roster as the sidings have very tight curves. CN Charlie
Morning Gang,
Chloe, If I may, I would like a blueberry bagel with p.b. and a chocolate Ensure, Please.
Cn. Charlie, We get to see those GMD-1s in the C.N. yards here quite often and lately we have even seen some slugs that were new to me here. I wasn't close enough to make out what they were made out of, but were definately of an early vintage.
HOpe you all have a great week-end. The weather here is still holding for us and it looks like we will be clear of snow for at least another week. It is great when it holds off until after all hallows eve.
Anyone dressing up as an Engineer or Conductor for Halloween ?
Br. Otte, sure loved the doughnuts. Can we expect them more often ??
Johnboy out...............................Boo.
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Flo, I will have a please and if Ed makes it in given one as well.
Work Front Well bu my current standerds I was busy today with 8 customers. Problem was they came in pair of 3's, well 2 sets of 3's that is. While I closed 4 of the 8 people nothing worth a darn. I am so close to making draw (where I make commison) it is scary.
Daughter Front My mature (43 years old) leveled headed daughter had most of her hair cut off. Top is dyed brown and the bottom Blue? I just don't get it, why do woman have to mess with there hair color? Now, if it is Mopar B-5 blue! OK, I am kidding, Blue?
BBQ is done so later.
Ken
Good Morning, Diners...
Thanks for the refreshment, Ken! always a pleasure. Hope you enjoyed your BBQ. Do you make your own sauce or do you have a favorite?
I took a chance on an ebay find the other day and it arrived today. Talk about a diamond-in-the-rough! I knew what these paper weights were worth and a bit of the history behind them. Either NYC—and/or Alco—comissioned them in 1928 to give to clients and customers. The remainder were sold to the public. They were even available to order from the dining car steward on board the trains!
So, I rolled the dice. No one else bid and I won the auction at what I feel was a very reasonable price
Here are two "before" photos...
This poor model had a thick coat of some kind of thick, white primer, then Ford engine blue with the red trim on top of that.
After careful stripping and some delicate brushing I began to reveal the splendor of the beautiful swan under that ugly-duckling paint!
What a sweet little prize. Well, not as little as I thought. This is the first one I have ever seen and it measures a good 12 to 13 inches in length and probably weighs close to two pounds! A little of the nickel plating has worn off but, for the most part, the 88 year-old finish is remarkably well preserved !
Thanks for letting me brag about it
It is amazing that there are so many trees with green leaves still on the branches here in NE Ohio! Today the high was nearly 75°F!
I'll check back later—just wanted to pop in and see how everyone is doing. I hope you are all well and having an enjoyable weekend.
Regards, Ed
Good morning ...
I'll have coffee and a pecan roll, please.
Ed ... The paper weight looks like a real prize after you worked on it.
Ken .... I see some crazy colors on young peoples hair. ... Crazy.
Have a nice Sunday, everybody.
I posted in the wrong thread this morning so skip the eggs
Good morning. Bacon and 1.5 eggs over easy.
Went to Timonium yesterday and bought some odds and ends including my first Funaro & Camerlengo kit. My preliminary search hasn't found any video or articles on making a cast kit.
It was a decent show but I made the mistake of looking at a box of 5x7 photos labeled PRR. The first in a series of photos of a wreck, was a bunch of guys loading a body into a caboose with a tender in the background with it's rear end jacked up about 70 degrees. One engine plowed into the back of another, I did not figure out what type loco, but the length of both tenders was striking.
I ended up feeling bad for the victim and wondering his exact cause of death. Enough of the morbid.
Then I got home and my favorite aunt called. She is not internet savvy and never returns phone calls, so I talk to her only when she calls me. She was unhappy with herself because she is involved with a man 30 years younger. She sold her home a year ago for a pretty penny, (Malibu beach) and did not follow my advice to find a financial advisor and just parked the money in the bank at 0.01% interest. Then she told me about her only blood relatives, her brother who has saved no money and is still working at 70 and his schizophrenic son who is about to get out of jail again.
I'm going to paint the trim on my interlocking tower, and watch the Nascar race from Martinsville. Yesterday was beautiful, today cloudy but highs will be in the 90's not bad for the end of October.
Afternoon Diners,
Oh my Ed. That is a beautiful paper weight! I wish I could get one just like it. What did you type in to look for one?
I decided to do for fun was if the Kato Carolina Central track plan actually worked. I found out on scram with the parts were listed. It was oversized by the original dimensions 28x64, but 29x78 and had three gaps.
I'll taking a little vacation on the 1 and 2 of November. I basically need a break from the dogs. Their driving me crazy especially Charlie.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
angelob6660 I wish I could get one just like it. What did you type in to look for one?
Hi, Angelo
I have just a few "followed searches" on Ebay. Every few days I check them to see if anything catches my eye. If you use the advanced search function, then use the "exclude these words" you can narrow down your search. In this case it came up when I searched "20th Century Limited".
Sometimes I find treasures by looking at the seller's other items. Often they are listing similar items and on a few occasions I have found things that are not in the correct category so that may limit the number of potential watchers.
There happens to be a similar paperweight listed right now... BUT the sad thing is missing it's tender!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/121992342041?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
Good Luck, Ed
Today was my piano recital and it was a bit of a train wreck. (<-- Making my post train-related.) I am blaming it on the drugs. I am still on the prednisone and it makes me a little anxious and jumpy. Shortly into the first piece I hit a bad note, causing a bit of an adrenaline surge, causing my left had to shake uncontrollably. Kind of tough to play the piano when you can't control your hands. I muddled through as best as I could, but it was really frustrating. At least I was an example, of sorts, for the kids that were also part of the recital--how to continue on when things go south.