Jeffrey's Trackside Diner, November 2016 -- Belen, NM

[Anonymous]

Good Evening!

I spent the better part of the day at my friend´s place to work on the Christmas layout. Well, we made some progress, but did not accomplish what we intended to. Claus had painted the benchwork with a solvent-based paint the night before and the paint was still rather sticky this morning. He had left the benchwork in his garden shed, but forgot to put on the heater, so the paint did not dry. We managed to put down the grass mat and to put the track down. As Murphy had moved to his house for the day, there were two sections of track missing, so we had to drive to the not so near LHS to get them. This put us back for more than an hour, so we were not able to fasten all the track with those little screws he had bought for that purpose, before his grandson came home from school.  While we were at the LHS, I persuaded "grandpa" to buy a kit for a station building, but I think I will have to assemble it ...

We will finish the layout mid of next week, providing the weatherman does not send us any ice, which we had today.

[up831]

Good Afternoon Diners,

Flo, I'll have an extra large coffee with lots of cream please.

Weather here has been unseasonably warm like in the low 60s, but according to the weatherman it is going to cool off with even a chance of snow flurries by tonight.  Bummer!

Gary:  Don't know if I'll be able to do any MRR projects this next month or not.  It seems that something else always takes priority, but one can still hope.

YGW:  glad you got approval for your train room,....I mean barn.    I hope all goes well with the construction.  If this structure is permitted as a barn, what are the limits of interior enhancements?

Sure sorry to hear of the tragedy of the Tennessee fires.  That kind of thing is much more common back out west, but nonetheless, I feel for those folks.  

Gotta run.

Hello to everyone, and I hope everyone is OK, safe, and warm.

[der5997]

[color=blue]Rob:[/color=blue] good to say hello agian! (Anyone care to explain why that didn't turn Rob blue?)

Ulrich:

somewhere in the crowd you may find me!

– So, an ABBA fan as well? Seriously though, thanks for music postings – and we agree here about the general lack of subtlety and restraint in Christmas decorations/lights. We went to replace a storm damaged bow for our front door pathway decorations. The choice was limited by the enormity of most of the offerings!

 – and Ken

Tonight at Shop And Save (grocery store) they where playing Christmass Carol's?

They’ve been doing that in our stores for I’d say 2-3 weeks already. I agree, it doesn’t induce me to buy extra things. We shop pretty much from lists for budgetary self-preservation!

Seems like every engine I run wants a Wheel Job and hate cleaning wheels. They will run a lot better afterwards and I like them to run slow. C&O RS2 and B&O GP 7 where bucking so hard I lost a coupler spring on the Henrys Reffer that Ed sent.

– with DCC in N Scale clean wheels are an absolute must, I find. Favourite method is to place a tissue on the track, soak in alcohol, and place the front truck on that. Run at full speed with as much pressure on the front truck as may be wise. Move dirty tissue across to clear a new strip and repeat until no more dirt shows. Repeat whole process for rear truck. Doesn’t take too long. I choose a convenient close-to-layout-edge section for this routine.

Garry:

Does anybody have plans for working on their layouts and/or trains in December? 

– Oh yes indeed! No reason to stop as far as I can see. There are some functions and extra services which may limit mrr time; but I’m on a roll with the ballasting, then it’s on to scenery. So, Yes!

Ulrich: (again)

While we were at the LHS, I persuaded "grandpa" to buy a kit for a station building, but I think I will have to assemble it ...

  Ha Ha! So sad! Murphy didn’t stay very long as he showed up here at 8:17 p.m. AST with a power out which lasted until 4:20 a.m – and repeated at noon – 3:30p.m.  Cause said to be 1) “Transmission line interruption” 2) Heavy snowfall.  We were able to clear the driveway of the 8” wet and heavy – the snow-thrower dealt with it surprisingly well – before the power dropped the second time. The rest of today so far has been household accounts and email/Diner. Now it’s time to help with the chicken curry.  Later, maybe, and power permitting…..

 

 

 

[cudaken]

 Afternoon Diners

 Flo, Ed will have a Crown Royal and I will have a please.

 Did some running today, got the hated house payment made to BOS. Bought a medium duty paper shredder from Wally World and that pretty much sums up my day.

 Gary Rolling stock I enjoy the most are the junk Bachmann and Tyco cars I bought before I knew better. When I first joined this site one of the trolls here told me I was wasting my money and time buying used worn out stuff off E-Bay. I learned a lot from that cheap worn out junk! My answer to him was " I need to learn how to fix worn out junk so when the good stuff beaks, I can fix it".

 Just got the Bachmann MEC 40 foot box car on the rails for the first time in 9 years. On my first visit to K-10 Model trains first thing I bought was a Bachmann MEC box car, then had him order a second one that I got the week after. Not sure if this is the first or second one, either way I like seeing it making the rounds.

 BBQ is done and so am I. Cajun pork rib's

[Cederstrand]

Mint tea in an "UNDECORATED" mug, please and thank you.

***YGW, might post some pics later on. It's hard to hold the camera steady while the Diner is moving down the tracks.

So where is the Diner going to be for December?

Just finished watching, "And Then There Was One", full documentary. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Cheers!  Rob

[BigDaddy]

good evening.  For your viewing pleasure, the Hazards of Helen

[gmpullman]

Thanks, Henry! That was a fun ride...

Hazards Of Helen is amazingly déjà vu to the CSX "Crazy 8s" runaway a hundred years later. 

Same rescue, anyway!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSX_8888_incident

Bye-bye November!

Regards, Ed

[howmus]

Evenin' folks!

Janie, just a refill for my decaf please....

 [ color=red ]Rob[/color=red], the reason the color didn't work for your post is the wrong command was added after the word.  I did the same thing on this.  If you take out the  "=red" after the name and just type [ /color ]  it will come out like you want.  Like this... Rob.  Hope that makes sense to you!

I got home from a Scout District committee that wouldn't end tonight (had a presenter on fund raising that has a 10 minute training for us but he rambled on for over 50 minutes saying absolutely nothing....) to find a heavy box on my porch.  UPS eveidently was running late today and I had left before they arrived.  Opened the box (I was expecting it) and found my son's birthday present to me inside.  He got me a Cripple Creek EVSE 240v Charging Station for the Volt.  Totally cool!!!  This will let me charge to car twice as fast as the 110 curcuit can. Also should save me a few ¢ per charge as well.  He told me it was complicated and to call him when it arrived...  Nothing really complicated about it.  I will need to have my electrician come over and change the dedicated circuit on the porch to 240v (that is simple as there are already the wires nessessary to do that in the line I am using now).  He may tell me to bill him for it, I think.  Very cool...  I will most likely be the first person in the neighborhood to have a dedicated 240v charger for a car...  These things are a bit expensive also even though the price has gone down for them.  This one is only a 16 amp dedicated charger but runs about $400 with tax.....  Pretty nice birthday present I think.  It should let me use less gasoline over the life of the car, which is what I want to do!

Hope you all have a great night out there.  Prayers for those in need.

73

[fourt]

I will have a Plain hamburger and a side of fries please.

 What a day trying to do some work on things. First was drilling out the headlight cast into a metal boby with a 3/32 drill manged to break it about 3/4 done. It is broke in side the body so cant grab it with anything not sure how i am going to get it out.

 Then i went to paint a covered hopper bottom with some blue paint, second time i put the brush in the bottle i spill it all over table, the chair, on the shorts i had one, both legs, the floor, the wall, even the bottom of the table, how it got on the bottom i have no idea. So now have to buy some more of that paint. I decided then that was enough train work for one day lol.

 Hope all of you have a nice night and day.

 

[FRRYKid]

yougottawanta

FRRYKid - Do the lego trains run ? I have seen some you tube videos where they actually run.

Not the ones on the entertainment center. They are too small. (They are only four dots wide.) The ones that run are sitting on a bookshelf in my bedroom. I also have an engine and an observation car on my nightstand and a tree freight car sitting on the arm of my couch.

The ones on YouTube I think run on the newer remote control system. The ones I have use an electric truck system. (Only two power trucks per pack and four cars per set of power trucks.) I could convert them if I wanted, but other projects keep getting in the way.

[Steven Otte]

I'm locking her up. Move along to the December diner, folks.