Heartland Division CB&QLet's thank Steven and Model Railroader. I hope each of you agrees with what I am saying.
Ditto
I sure hope Ulrich is back on the tour bus when I get on in the morning. I hate breakin in a new man! Nothin worse than trying to make a new tour guide understand my weird sense of humour.
Mark, I am sad to read about your dog. Being married to a Vet I have been around many times while owners have had to say goodbye to their pets. Heartbreaking is the only way to put it.
The dinner bell is ringing.
"Dunkirk" was a 2-hour tug at the heartstrings and well worth seeing.
Til tomorrow.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Henry,
I concur with your observation. I talk with Ulrich once, sometimes twice a month. He is observing things that happened in 1935, and he is afraid that path may be trod again. I was in Germany in 63, stationed at Ramstein, near Kaiserslatern. Patton had gone through the area in 45, and the destruction still evident was incredible.
There were still areas with signs posted "ACHTUNG-MINEN", not a place to go on a outing.
Places near Landstul that were farmland are now row houses, and the microwave site I worked at is now a mushroom farm. I can barely make out the parking lot in front of what was the main entrance to the caves. The entire area has been built up almost beyond recognitiion.
His world view has been shaped by when, and where he grew up, at that time just barely above second world conditions, plus he has traveled and worked worldwide and has observed what works and what does not. Unfortuniately, he is watching a country he loves very much being radicalized, and is unable to impact the outcome because of several factors.
Ken
Still here, #4 Son has been having some real challanges, back in the hospital again, Dana Farber, in Boston. He will be released tomorrow, but will have a nurse come to his house every day to give him IV antibiotics. He has had a port established in a vein near his clavicle. This makes seven trips since March, the infection keeps coming back in his stoma-- his frustration level is equal that of Ulrich's in that the source of the infection has yet to be found. Big problem is he only has 1/3 of one kidney due to an infection when he was young, and the problem was missed by the doctors treating him at that time. It was finally caught by a local doctor, but by that time the damage had been done.
My #2 stepson is holding his own, barely, he has had to increase his flow of O2 to 6L, up from 2, and has cut back on some of the more strenuious things he did. (carpentrey being one, and welding is definately off the table)
Bear
Has that arrived yet??
This is that time of the year when zuchinni squash become problematic, when going to places such as: friends, family, church, various and assorted outings--best to lock the doors on your vehicle- to not do so will cause you to run the risk of a front seat loaded with the "GREEN MONSTERS"
Rain still going around us, we will get tagged on of these days--hopefully?
Mackerel have landed, massive schools in the area now, tuna have worked up into 6 fathom feeding on them, along with a small pod of Menkie whales. Weather still hot (for us, 88F) enjoy it while you can.
Mark, sorry to hear about your dog, the loss of one hurts.
Time to take my nite-nite medicine, prayers for those in need----
herrinchoker
ouibejamn Heartland Division CB&Q Let's thank Steven and Model Railroader Steven Otte is one of the best moderators on the internet.
Heartland Division CB&Q Let's thank Steven and Model Railroader
Steven Otte is one of the best moderators on the internet.
Agreed.
Thanks for all you do Steven. Make sure Flo and the girls put your next drink on my tab.
As a moderator on another site, with far less posts and far less people, I can say for sure I would not want to be responsible for more. It does get crazy sometimes. Can't imagine how this site compares though.
Ed - Bellevue museum, huh? I like it! Been there once, and have wanted to go back.
Mark - Sorry about the puppy.
Thats all I will post tonight, as nothing new from me.
Hope all are well, and all have a good night!
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.
BATMAN "Dunkirk" was a 2-hour tug at the heartstrings and well worth seeing.
From what the reviewers have said, it looked like is was very good. Dunkirk was a changing point during WWII. If not for certain things the world could be very different. I do want to see it but it probably won't be until it premieres on the movie channels. I have a DVR as part of my cable service, so I record things that are on while I'm at work and take the opportunity to watch it later. (Sometimes later is quite a bit later.)
On a totally diffrent subject, it won't be tonight but probably either Sunday night or Monday, I have to remake my bed. (And I mean that in the literal sense of remake, not the sheets sense.) I have a futon and important parts of the support structure decided to break. Not enough to cause immediate problems, but they do need to be replaced. (Given the thing is somewhere between 10-12 years old, I'm not surprised.) I have new frame pieces, but I'm just too tired tonight to get them installed. The plan is to "kitbash" the pieces together. To get the new frame was actually cheaper than getting a whole new unit of the same type as I have. Just getting the box home was hard enough. Mom was nice enough to come in and help me. But trying to get the frame into Mom's Focus was a challenge. (Drop down backseat helped. But Mom wouldn't drive with the trunk lid open. We ended up both pretzeled in the car. Thankfully only about a 2 mile trek and we decided to stay off the primary streets as to not foul up traffic with Mom wanting to go a little slower for safety. Once I got it home, I managed to get it wrangled up the stairs. (Mom insisted that I reset all the seats before she went home. Easily done, however.)
Edit: Not that it will mean much, but I see I'm getting very close to having made 1000 posts on the forums. Quite interesting, though.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Cheers, the Bear.
So much for Eds’ railroad diversion.
SO you want diversions "avec de l'eau" ?
THIS I can do...
B&M_20_3635 by Edmund, on Flickr
My dad's brother-in-law, Stanley Mackenzie, took this photo after the big storm of 1936. Stalled in the flood is #20, The Alouette, from Montreal to Boston.
I "believe" the engine is CPR # 3635.
Amazingly, the location is pretty much the same (sans H2O) today!
Plymoth_NH-1 by Edmund, on Flickr
The road is the Daniel Webster Highway, the river is the Pemigewasset and the railroad is the Boston & Maine.
http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/great-new-england-flood-1936/
Neat Stuff!
Good morning everyone— I hope the day finds you well!
Regards, Ed
Good morning.
Ed and Bear ... Thanks for posting very interesting photos.
Here is photo from the Rocky Mountaineer Facebook page.
Mr. and Mrs. Bear are tresspassing, and should be arrested.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
LION *editing* a Wildebeest.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Der .... Looks like a good plan for the Nn3 part of your layout.
I hope each of you agrees with what I am saying.
Don't think I'll ever be able to glue track of any sort to foam.
der5997, I don’t recall Calvin and Hobbes ever being syndicated down here, I got an appreciation of Bill Watterson when my folks bought back a volume of Calvin and Hobbes from one of their overseas sojourns some (18?) years ago.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Bear... . LOL
Some friends and I are taking a small road trip to Prescott Wisconsin tomorrow to sit and relax, have a few beers and watch the double stackers go back and forth over my favorite Bridge overlooking the river with the big boats Bobbing around. I do believe the boats can only call for a lift on the hour once an hour. Haven't been there for a while should be fun
Evening Diners,
It's been a quiet place without Ulrich. No more information about Germany.
I finally got a Micro-Trains boxcar that I been chasing for 6 years. It's a white Guildford Boston and Maine.
Ed- I find a Conrail picture within yard limits. Right next to it a row of houses painted in dark green and maroon in the late 70s. When I searched the area where the photo was taken. It was basically the same, but the houses now are painted white. So no longer variety.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Evenin' folks!
Janie, any ribs left to gnaw on from the Wildebeast, Lion caught earlier? No? Well then I'll just have a cup of decaf to get me in the mood to crawl into bed for the night.
As usual I got a lot of odds and ends accomplished around here, but still haven't really done any house cleaning. Took the kitties in for their blood sugar check, helath exam and Required shots this morning. Blackie's blood sugar after a 12 hour fast was lower than his non-diabetic brother.... The Doc is going to have him come back in a week or so and check him in the afternoon without a fast to see if he is still in the almost low range. He may be taken of the insulin to see what happenes. Cats can actually go into remission with diabetes (his brother did) so we may want to dicontinue the insulin..... Got home from that, had my own breakfast, fed the kitties, and ran some errands. Drove over to the Chevy dealer to pick up the correct tube of paint for touch up on the Volt, stopped at church to turn in my monthly pledge $$$ and a check to the memorial fund in rememberance of the friend who passed last week, and then to the pharmasy to pick up a prescription and a couple cards for people.
Found out that the wife of my old dentist, who was a teacher I worked with, just passed a day or so ago.... Had no idea she was sick. I guess the family kept it to themselves so most of the community didn't have any idea. I taught her kids as well, so that was one of the cards I got.
Tomorrow I will be heading out mid morning to Rochester to run trains at one of the members of the NMRA Divsion's home. We have two operations events schedule on consecutive weekends. I will be at both of them. Both are great layouts and fun to run trains on.
Have a great night and I hope to pop in tomorrow evening!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Evening Diners
Flo, Ed, Jan, Brent, The Buick Guy and I will have a please. Set one out side for Ulrich if he stop's by to look in the widow.
Gary Thank you for posting the site rules. With me never feeling like posting about politics I never really read the rules. I had no idea immigration was on the no no list.
Work was a Sloooooooooow Day but a good day for me! Had a be back from March and bought a good spiff mattress from me. Made a extra $115.00 that is needed badly.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Good morning ..
Ken .... You are welcome. I do suggest each of us review the rules from time to time. I don't want any of my friends to get in trouble .
Angel ... Hopefully, Ulrich realizes his friends like him and enjoy his presence here.
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Model Railroading .... We are getting ready for out of town visitors, and I'm putting away my scenery material. Time to clean the tracks and run trains.
Eclipse. .... We will have out of town visitors at our house from a few days before the solar eclipse to the day after it. The solar eclipse will be on August 21. In this region, its path will be approximately over Interstate 24 between Paducah and Nashville. About 500,000 out of town visitors are expected in western Kentucky for it, and Kentucky is preapred for it. People from other countries will travel to the USA to see it happen.
Hello!? Hello....? Hmmmm......
Guess I'll help myself to a cup of decaf since I am the only person in the place. Guess it has been a little SLOW today. The local frieght showed looking like this:
Later....
Flo, Ed, Jan, Inch, Brent, The Buick Guy and I will have a please.
Ray, that engine must pull! Even the Amazing Spiderman could not stop it!
2 of the 3 last days have sucked rail spikes! OK, I had a good sale Friday so that is why it did not suck rail spikes.
Thursday My roof started leaking! I still count my self luckie with it being 35 years old + but with my current income still a big problem. Right now it is a very small leak so I am thankfull for that.
Saturday I have been with this company 4 years! Had a whole $246.00 in sales!
Then as my wife said it "My Car Is Broke!" Tonight I checked and yep it is broken! Seems the starter gave up it's ghost. When I was in my early 50's I would have said not a big deal, I will change it, well if it was a Big Block Mopar! Now, I am not to sure? I think I may have 6 metric tools to my name! God I am getting old, $150.00 for a starter? Last one I bought was $39.99?
Bright side is the Trains are running well!
There is a hole in my roof and my mind goes woundering Ken
Ray.... good to see you. . ... An itsy bitsy spider ..... LOL
Edit. ... just noticed Ken posted a minute ahead of me. .... Howdy, Ken.
What's going on here? Everybody sleeping in after a Saturday night bash or what...
The wife & I had a busy, but great Saturday. It included having our usual good railfanning outing. Mostly in the late morning, but also & hour or more in the evening. All together we caught 12 trains, 4 intermodal, 4 mixed freight, 1 coal train being switched out at a transload facility behind us, 1 empty gondola unit train, 1 auto racks & 2 engines running lite. Listened to a conductor reporting on a tresspasser & a block being placed on all tracks for 15 minutes due to a bridge inspection. That backed things up somewhat for the dispatcher, who sounded a little harried for a time. The only foreign power was a Union Pacific. I did catch a Norfolk Southern locomotive that I have been wanting to see. It was one of the SD90MACs that NS picked up from CIT Group still in its Indiana Railroad paint, but now patched for NS.
We left the tracks & returned home early as my oldest nephew & his family were visiting from South Carolina & stopped in for a couple of hours. They introduced us to our newest great niece, who is now 10 months old & cute as a button. My niece & her family, from Harrisburg, were also in town & they too dropped in for a visit. It was simply terrific to see all of them.
After they left, they were all headed to the Pirates ballgame, the wife & I had a light dinner of hot dogs & a salad. For desert, we went to an ice crean stand & picked up a couple of milkshakes & returned for a final round of railfanning.
Did a little yard work this morning as it's nice & cool here. It was in the high 50s when I got up, & it's only 70 degrees out now. This weather could stick around for awhile & I would be happy.
Garry - I'm not into boats, but you mentioned the other day about purchasing a pontoon boat for the lake. We saw a beauty on a trailer yesterday & you immediately came to mind. It was bronze, white convertable type top, & probably one of the largest outboard motors I have ever seen. I think one of those would be the type that I would like if I ever became interested.
I had an appointment with a dietician this past week. Something my Doctor wanted me to do. I haven't seen one for many, many years, & didn't expect much from this one based on my previous experience. Was I surprised... She was very helpful & cleared up a lot of things for me. I know her recommendations are going to be very good for me. The important thing was she seems to be realistic about what can & cannot be accomplished.
I wish you all a great week, & stay safe
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
I was going to mention in my previous post that while we were railfanning yesterday, we didn't hear a single transmission on the scanner from CSX across the Ohio River. I suppose that means that traffic is still shut down due to the derailment at Hyndman, PA. Major headache for CSX & Amtrak.
Tom ... Good to see you. Glad to hear about your busy Saturday. ... Looking at your photo, I would say red locomotives look better than black locomotives. Ditto for blue, yellow, orange, green, or anything but black. I wish NS selected another color than black. ... CONGRATULATIONS to your family regarding your new great niece ! ... I hope you enjoyed the ball game.
Not much to report here. We were in Bowling Green yesterday. ... I'm running trains on the layout. ... We're getting ready for out of town guests coming in about a week and a half. .... Thunder and lightning outside right now.
I did not hear about the CSX derailmnt your mentioned.
Happy Model Railroaidng, everybody !
Evening Diners!
Flo, Jan, Brent, Ed, Inch, Brass Buick Guy and my self will have a
Man I am beat, work was busy! Guess the Liguid Sunshine brought in the customers! Had $3404.00 in sales and made around around $60.00 extra in spiffs. Had some fun with a few customers, they where picking on me, so I started picking back. Then we started having some fun with each other.
Ulrich I hope you rethink about not coming back to the dinner! For goodnes sake you where a great Monitorenter so I am sure you know the rules way better than I. If you don't come back, well I hope you have other friends on other sites that like you as much as we did.
Galaxy Hope all is good with you and the other half.
Todd Miss seeing your mug in the dinner as well.
We have way to many MIA's in the dinner and the Military
I will have four fingers of Glenfeeder's please--one ice cube only---
Ken-
$150 for a starter is a shocker----I just lost my booster pump for the injector rack, of course when that happens the injector pump burns out as it is lubricated by the diesel fuel---so replace booster pump and injector pump----are you sitting down?
$3200.00----kiss one of the CDs goodby. At least I don't have one of the 59 series blocks made in Brazil that have defective castings.
Cleared second growth on the west side of the house today, mostly oak, some pine, had reached 20 feet or so. Only consolation is I will not have to do it again, won't live that long, and if I do, I will be so feeble won't be able to, another 20 years will put me so close to 100-not woth talking about. I will leave the stuff lay where it fell and let the leaves suck the moisture out of the trunks, and work it up late October, or early November to burn this winter. I still have just over a cord of oak to work up I cut two years ago. I did good--only dropped one tree onto the living room roof, just a small top-no damage.
Bought a 14 foot fiberglass boat that has a 5 foot beam from a on-line auction held for a local marina that went under. One thing to run rough shod over the employees, but when you do that to customers they have a propensity to go elsewhere. I paid 23.00 for it. Easier to take inland to use for trout and salmon fishing than dragging a 52 foot commercial rig. Taking down the antenna and mast on a commercial boat to fit under the overpass is a pain.
Trains--
Have harvested some elk horn moss, and after it dries a bit more I am going to dip it in thinned brown latex paint, let it dry, and then dust it with ground foam to represent greengrowth. I have a large bald ledge behind the house covered with the moss so thought, why not? Given the clinker piles a look-over as well, if I grind up the burned clinkers it should make a reasonable facsimile for ballast. I will take some pictures when I figure out how to us the new camera I bought. This one, like the last, is not impervious to salt water--HOWEVER-the one I bought for Miss Daisey is suitable for everyday use underwater. She can now take all the dog pictures she wants down at the cove. :)
Got tagged with a large bag of cucumbers, forgot to lock the doors when I had Miss Daisey's car at the shop when I was working on the truck--at least it wasn't zuchinni squash, I do like, and make, bread and butter pickles.
Miss Daisey made some applesauce muffins yesterday, instead of applesauce she used spiced applebutter in it's stead--came out quite good.
Getting dark under the kitchen table, time to hit the rack---best wishes for all, prayers for those in need.
Evening All!
Hobby Front: Now I have two projects on my plate. I have the drop end gon waiting for decals. (Will be ordered Wednesday night.) I also got the hopper car on Saturday. In looking at the picture online, I thought that the car could be used as is for the decals. (Yes I have decaled on an unpainted car before. It just takes more decal solution.) Unfortunately, the color doesn't quite look right, so I'm on the hunt for the right color paint. I will also need to get the decals. (Also to be ordered Wednesday night.) Seriously thinking about getting a weight upgrade kit for it. I have quite a few of my cars that have weight kits from this company. Of course, the only problem is that shipping is way more than the one kit. I may have to breakdown and buy a few more kits to make it worthwhile. Tuesday's plan is to check some cars and see if I can put some of the other weight kits this company makes in them.
Other Things: Tomorrow is the remake the bed day. I've been too tired after work to do it otherwise. It should be quite interesting.
Good Morning All,
A regular and a blueberry muffin toasted with butter please Zoe.
Rules is rules but I hope Ulrich reconsiders and returns.
Shipped 8 cars to Monterey Saturday for the big race meeting out there next weekend and the week after. I have my hillclimb at Mt Equinox this weekend with two Lotus 7's for my son and I (my lotus 18 is still in bits after the shunt at Albert Park in March).
I had yesterday planned for a day off but though I didn't go to the shop, I spent the day wrestling with the washing machine as it went Tango Uniform Saturday night. After that was done I did watch the Watkins Glen NASCAR race. They get boring when they degenerate into a mileage contest at the end. Anyway, no layout time as I ran out of ambition. Did clean the hobby bench a bit in looking for missing tools for the washer repair.
Der, If you're handlaying directly on foam, how about latex caulk or white glue to hold the ties and then the contact cement for the rail followed by whatever you use for spikes like the prototype ? Power routing always escapes me but if you gap between the rails and frog and power route the frog would that do?
We have lots of diesels here at the shop. We now use an additive (I use Wynns but there are lots of others) to keep the pumps and injectors lubed as the fuel without sulpher tends to destroy everything otherwise. Found out the hard way when the KW lost the lift pump and the debris took out the rest of the system. It's not cheap and fixing it was beyond what we could do here. I think a tin of additive every fill up is cheap insurance.
Time to finish up the coffee and head back into the shop. CUL, J.R.
Howmus wants ribs? Howmus gets ribs. Howmany ribs?
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Good morning from the smokey, can't see very far West Coast of America (the Canadian part)
WE ARE SAVED!
Just like two years ago Bear is sending us a plane load of New Zealand's best firefighters to help tackle the 126 raging fires in the Province. Firefighters have been pouring in from many different countries. I sure hope the smoke clears by the time the eclipse happens or all we will see is the dark. Right now all you can see is roughly where the Sun should be as the smoke is so thick.
I spent Thursday and Friday spray painting the textured ceiling in our kitchen/family room which is about 960 SQFT. I bought a spray painting rig for $137.00 on Ebay that was highly rated and it did an amazing job. I first had to remove all the recessed fluorescent lights and patch all the approximately 2' x 4' holes in the ceiling. You can't even tell they were ever there, so I am happy as blending textured surfaces so you can't see them is tricky. I still have to cut the holes for all the pot lights, I hope I don't screw up and ruin my perfect ceiling.
Today is B.C. day and is a holiday, we are celebrating with a big crowd over for RIBS! We won't be having a bonfire afterwards as there are plenty already going thank you very much. It will be nice to have some room in the fridge again as the ribs are taking up a lot of space. I'm not sure how many people are coming, but they are all welcome. I will be leaving my monster compressor in the middle of the kitchen just to irritate my MIL. She always questions how we can have people over when the house is such a mess. She gets the usual answer from us and that is, "those that matter won't care and those that care don't matter".
Went for a killer long walk through the forest yesterday with my favourite dog. He is twelve and I think a few miles will be his limit as he had a tough time making it, although it could have just been the smoke slowing him down. We didn't go as far as we would have in the past. I have a good selection of Golden Retrievers to choose from for a backup should I need one.
I think it will be a "small job's" day today as I am still recovering from doing the ceiling, my shoulder is killing me and I think a trip to the surgeon is in order as he keeps me going with repairs. A shoulder replacement may be necessary this time though. If I see him in October he will book me for early November and that should fit a quieter time in the year for recovery purposes.
Ulrich, you are allowed to get mad and take a break from the forum, we all do from time to time. However, if our tour of Germany doesn't continue soon, I will be wanting a full refund!
All the best to all.