Ulrich
I believe the Trolley Company will be going out of business, brought on by lawsuits from the passengers recieving head trauma injuries from abrupt stops when the trolley reverses.
herrinchoker
Bear,
You should'nt have any problems communicating with anyone in Maine--We were part of the Colonies as well---
Cudaken,
Cussler is one of my favorite writters. Be careful though you can get hooked. I would highly recommend "Raise the Titanic" and he also has a railroad based novel called "The Wrecker", also an entertaining read.
Afternoon Diners,
BATMAN Angelo, how much is the insurance company paying of your Dental bill if your part is so much? I get my teeth cleaned 3 times a year and last time my share was $4.00 The annual deductible for the family is $80.00. I think I may need a crown, so I am going in this week to see. They make them right in the office while you wait in the chair now, no second trip required.
Angelo, how much is the insurance company paying of your Dental bill if your part is so much? I get my teeth cleaned 3 times a year and last time my share was $4.00 The annual deductible for the family is $80.00. I think I may need a crown, so I am going in this week to see. They make them right in the office while you wait in the chair now, no second trip required.
The insurance company will buy $168 for the crown replacement out of that $1,234.00 I do have that appointment on the 17 next month. I believe I should paid less. I did go to get my teeth cleaned today and it did cost nothing.
Brent- Was that a picture of you and that airplane.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Good morning from the still sunny Fraser Valley, Approximately an hour South East of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Earth, Terran System, Milky Way.
Holy power consumption! Got the first Hydro bill to compare house with kid in it and house with kid at University. If Universities ever get their hands on it, they will ban Playstations from Universities. It is down a whopping 34%. Even so, I still wish he was here.
Netflix just announced that they are moving, even more, production here next year to the tune of over half a billion dollars. The movie industry is already paying premium rates and having a hard time getting staff. It could be interesting. The kid will really get to pick and choose. Amazon and Netflix production studios pay really well.
Ken, I flew line control planes for years and as soon as getting my drivers license was in sight, I built my first R/C plane. I needed to be able to drive to the R/C airfield to fly it.
On the line control planes, we went to a lightweight fishing line and made the diametre of the circle much larger. Three of us all bought the same planes and painted them with identical paint schemes. We would fly them all at the same time in the same circle. We had to hang on to each other's belt with our free hands to stay in position. One of us gave commands and we would all do loops or fly upside down in unison.
Here is a skinny kid with his model. Note the Cox .049 "Golden Bee", it had the larger fuel tank than the regular .049.
I still have a box full of airplane engines somewhere, maybe someday I'll get them out and see if they will start.
Bear, I was also taken with the artwork in the Motorman game. It is quite good. Designed to throw you off the game no doubt by making look at it instead of your driving.
Well, I already have done more tree cleanup before breakfast today than I did in the last three. Have to wait for ADT to show up to fix the alarm system. They showed a fault and phoned us last night and said they would be out to fix it today. When we got the alarm system it was with Brinks and the contract I wangled was to include all service including standby battery replacement. ADT bought out Brinks and still honours that agreement, so it should not cost us anything to repair.
I need to hop on the Deere today, so best get at it.
Galaxy, hope you are feeling better soon.
All the best to all.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
All done, now for eats at the Greek house, then home for a much needed nap.
Later
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Good...somwtbibg, afternoon I guess.
At the hospital...dont panic its just the Radio Frequency Ablation. Done outpatient ambulatory. But instead of used to be in the doctors office, is in surgical operating room.
So rest after this, nothing but rest.
About to go up to OR for the procedure. It actually takes 10 minutes but 3 hours total.
My best friend the train nut friend is here to drive me.
That's my day.
Heart a little jumpy don't know why, nerves may be.
Later gators
Mornin'... Well still AM for a few more minutes.
Chloe, I could use a refill for my Marrakesh Express dark raost coffee please!
Fall appears to be in progress here in the Finger Lakes Region of NYS. Trees are now turning to their fall colors and falling off clutering peopled lawns so they are out raking everyday to get every one of them piled by the side of the street so the city can come by with big old dump trucks and the Front Loader to take them away and pile them over in one of their places so they can rot and turn to mulch. Then the same homeowners can go over with big old Pick-em Up Tricks and load the the now called "Mulch" and for a small fee, take it home and spread it around their bushes and other plants next spring.... I just mow them up and leave them on my lawn. Does the same thing and saves a lot of work and Fossil Fuels.... I don't use commercial fertilizer either. That stuff just makes the lawn grow and makes me way too much extra w*rk! Nature does a good job all by herself!
Need to get the finishing touches on the NMRA Division Newsletter and get that sent out today! Tonorrow my Sister leaves for her month long trip trip the "Very Far" so my time to get anything done will be severely shortened for a while.
Bear, your Bill Watterson qoute for today is very appropriate to me right now...
My quote for today: "There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate." - Robert Frost
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Here though it’s still wet, the weather is unsettled, we can get all four seasons in one day. That said, the magnolia out the back, is in full bloom.
BATMANI played Ulrich's Motorman game and as hard as I tried I couldn't get it to plummet off the cliff at the end of the line
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
gmpullmanHas anyone else noticed a slowdown in bird activity?
Hi Ed:
Yes, we have noticed a real reduction in the number of birds. We normally have a dozen or more Gold Finches around every day but recently they have only shown up in twos and threes. There are still a few Chickadees around, and the Cardinals are still here, but even the blackbirds seem to be absent. The Hummingbirds are gone too, but that is normal for this time of year.
gmpullmanDave, how is your spiral finch feeder working out?
The feeder has worked really well! It holds about 10 cups of nyjer seed. In June and July the feeder would be close to empty in a week. There were birds on it constantly. What I really like about it is that almost no rain gets inside the feeder. The old one leaked like a sieve so the seed got soaked and wouldn't flow to the feeding holes. This one has only suffered a bit from damp seed, and simply shaking it vigorously clears almost all of the stuck seed away.
One thing that we do have in abundance is yellow jackets! We still have food in the Hummingbird feeder for any straggling migrants, but the feeder is covered in wasps. We give it a shot of insect repellent every day but that only works for a few hours. I know that the hummers won't try to feed if there are wasps around.
The fall colours are starting to appear in cottage country. We took a drive up through Algonquin Park last Sunday. The colours are not spectacular yet so we will take another drive in a couple of weeks. It is truly beautiful country.
Cheers everyone!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Eveing Diners
Flo, Ed, Gary, Ulrich, Galaxy, Jan, Inch, Brent and I will have a please.
Brent I remember buiding a few basla wood planes when I was a kid. 1 was a ME-190 and the other one was a P-38 Lighting. They sure took a long time to build. No remote control for me, you flew them with string. After a few minutes I was dizzy and I was done. When I joined the Army my Mom gave them and my model of the USS Constitution (took longer to bulid that booth the planes with all the rigging) to the Carmel Ind Libary! All so all my Military Hard Cover Books! They cost me around $500.00 in 1970's money! All while I was at bacis training?
Ed Good to see you post! Cover Wagons are running great I wil add.
Anyone Here Read Clive Cussler Novels? I have became a fan and found he is a ture under water explorer just like in his book. Found out the other day he helped find the CSS J L Huntely from the Civil War. She was the first submarine that sunk a emeny ship in battle. I all ready knew the Huntly was found but no idea the Clive Cussler was involded till I started reading his book.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Good Afternoon,
Ed, wow, we are re-filling our feeders twice a day. The influx of pine siskins has abated somewhat but we still have a flock of about 50 coming around. For a small bird they sure can eat a lot.
Last night the racoon was out early and I caught him trying to get at the bird feeders so I took them into the house. He then climbed up the crabapple tree and started to eat them. I also heard the great horned owl hooting nearby. They can take a skunk so perhaps that racoon needs to be careful.
Well, time for a little dinner,
CN Charlie
Hello Evryone!
Yep, sure is quiet in here... I'll wander over to the coffee urn and help myself— don't bother to put your book down, Chloe.
I hope all the folks that pass through here are doing well. Not much to report on my end. The "heat wave" should be ending tonight. Yesterday's official high was 90°F I believe but my weather station recorded a 92! Tomorrow a high of only 64?
I wonder where the birds are hiding? Normally I fill my feeders about every 4-5 days. After two-weeks they are still half full! Has anyone else noticed a slowdown in bird activity? Perhaps it is due to the hot, dry conditions here. No rain, to speak of, in about the same two-week period. Dave, how is your spiral finch feeder working out?
I hope things get better for you, Ken. I'm still about a year away from starting to collect S. S.
Here's a little bit of memorabilia from long-ago...
Don't forget— Travel By Train!
Thoughts and prayers to those in need...
Regards, Ed
Good morning from the sunny West Coast.
After two days of suffering from Arthritis to the point of hardly being able to get up, I am starting to feel closer to normal so I went down into the crawl space and sealed the vents up in anticipation of turning the furnace back on.
While I was down there I went into all my R/C plane stuff and found a gold mine of balsa wood. A lot of it is 50 years old and is as good as the day I bought it. I use to scratch build planes so had a good supply. I am not sure if I will buy many (if any) more MRR kits as I remember the immense satisfaction I got from building my own planes. They had to fly so there was even more skill involved in the construction process. I don't know why I haven't been scratch building right from the get-go in the train department.
I played Ulrich's Motorman game and as hard as I tried I couldn't get it to plummet off the cliff at the end of the line.
I think I will go drop in at PWRS today and see the new digs and have a visit. They needed a bigger place so I guess business must be good. Judging by the courier and Post Office trucks loading up at the end of the day, they must be doing something right. You're always welcome to wander around and snoop the aisles of product on hand, it is strictly a warehouse operation and you are read the riot act about making sure you put whatever you are looking at back in the exact same spot so they can find it. Fair enough.
A good day to all.
A woman is either pregnant or she is not.
There is no such thing as being a little bit pregnant
One is either honest or he is not.
There is no such thing as being a little bit honest.
FRRYKid- Yes I remember those Atlas bridges are they old? Impressive job!!
Ulrich- Playing that trolley game was quite difficult. After a few station stops I got the hang in them.
Back from the ocean. Listening to the waves for hours on end was quite relaxing. Caught up on some reading, which was difficult. After cataract surgery there is a membrane left behind that can cloud up. Mine has and I can't read anything on this page smaller than the New Reply up top.
Called my eye doc's office and when they thought I was telling them I needed cataract surgery they offered my two dates this weekend. When I said I already had cataract surgery, the earliest she could possibly see me was December 28th
Her husband and I were partners strike that, lest you get the wrong idea, in the same practice for 15 years; so I had to play that card and speak to my doc directly. She will see me tomorrow for laser Rx.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Howdeeee!
I am still off the track, but I try not to take notice of it. We are "enjoying" calm autumn weather, which means it is just grey but at least dry. Sometimes, I can even spot blue patches in the sky - I wonder what that is?
Ever felt the urge to become a motorman and drive a trolley? Well, now you can - by clicking on the following link:
A Short Trip
Use the arrow keys left and right to control the trolley. It´s not easy to stop it at the right place to load and unload the passengers. The thing reacts quite like a real trolley.
Enjoy!
Good morning, everybody ....
FRRY .... Good work on the bridge project.
Hey! ... Where is everybody this morning ?
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Evening Diners
Flo, Gary, Inch, Ed, Brent, Ulrich, Galaxy, Jan and I will have a please.
I will just stare out the window for a while and remember happier days.
Ken
Evening all! Flo (or whoever's handy), could I get a club sandwhich, some cottage fries with white cheese melted on them and some raspberry iced tea? Thank you so much.
Hobby Front: Got a few more projects done on the layout in the last couple of weeks. (I even have pictures of one. Didn't think to take pictures of the others.) Last week I got the rails on the end of the fueling track cut and the short section of track attached and got the curved track under the sand tower installed.
I also got a car purchased on my trip relettered to accurate weights and for my era. (Car was new in the early 1940's. It will be used as an ash car for the tourist railroad.)
As a side project today, I realized that my switcher stall tracks were a little too long. (It would have left not enought room for track vehicles to get out of the HQ building.) In the process of shortening those tracks, I also changed out the cork in the area. I took out the old bedding and the odd pieces of sheet and changed them to a single piece of sheet.
This week's main project is the one I have picts of. Finally decided to get the "canyon" when the road goes over a hole via a bridge sceniced better. This is what the area looked like when I started. If the bridge looks familar, it is made up of three Atlas Chord bridges. It was inspired by a now-gone prototype here in town that was a converted railroad bridge. It was a single lane and traffic could only go one way at a time.The roadway is made of pieces of the same shingle that is the rest of my roads.
The shelf is a couple pieces of plywood. 1/4 or 3/8" main with a smaller 5/8 piece screwed in the middle to strengthen the main board. (Scrap pieces I found around the room.) It was then covered with a piece of beadboard and then sprayfoam insulation was sprayed between the foam and the board to fill in the hole.
The shelf is supported by a number of inside corner braces screwed in such a way to support the shelf. There are pieces of polyisocyanurate insulation (with the silver film removed) glued to the sides of the sections.
This batch of changes consist of adding some approximately 2 x 2 blocks of beadboard insulation to fill the space. I took a scrap piece of 2" thick beadboard that was available and ripped it down to 2" wide strips using Dad's radial arm saw. I then trimmed the end pieces and one middle piece to fit the space involved with my razor saaw. They were glued to the shelf with some construction adhesive. As the shelf is intended to be removable, I didn't attach anything to the polyisocyanurate. The eventual plan to carve the blocks into something that makes the area look like a valley and the floor. (The prototype spanned a river.)
Pictures of the glued blocks: Left hand corner Working around the corner Left hand middle Right hand middle Right hand corner The corner shots show the polyisocyanurate backing. I most likely will start carving next week once the glue has had time to cure.
SeeYou190 Track fiddler This one door to be replaced was rubbing against the jamb top. I knew I had to lower the door a little. . I would have attacked the top of the door with a belt sander! . -Kevin .
Track fiddler This one door to be replaced was rubbing against the jamb top. I knew I had to lower the door a little.
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I would have attacked the top of the door with a belt sander!
-Kevin
Lol. Funny stuff Kevin.
Eager and aggressive. I like it. Ha ha
Kind of like Tim the toolman Taylor.
More power more power. Chuckle chuckle
The funny thing is your way would work but I ain't giving you no hand grenade either
Just kidding hahaha
Track fiddler
Track fiddlerThis one door to be replaced was rubbing against the jamb top. I knew I had to lower the door a little.
I guess I will never be a carpenter. Your way sounds like the right way to do it.
Living the dream.
Evening diners.
Interesting day at work today. I was replacing beat up hollow-core doors in this house today with beautiful 6-panel prefinished Oak slabs.
You take the old door and clamp it to the new door. You take a square and a utility knife and Scribe the hinge positions on the new door and route it out using a router jig.
This one door to be replaced was rubbing against the jamb top. I knew I had to lower the door a little.
This is where things can go south real quick if you're not thinking right. Your immediate response is to move the hinge down. It's kind of one of those dyslexia issues.
I had to think back almost 40 years ago.
I remember my carpentry instructor saying sometimes Up Is Down.
If you want to move the door down you have to move the hinge up. Go figure I'm sure glad I remembered that one.
Sometimes up is down. Huh!
Once you route the Knockouts for the hinges, there's no turning back. A mistake will cost you about 160 bucks. It's not like cutting a two by four short. Ha ha.
Take care
Evening Diners,
I decided to cut the MDF board for my backdrop. I didn't have a metal ruler but I do have a slightly bent metal shelf bracket. I lined it up to the edges and cramped them together. Luckily I bought cramps back in February or January.
Then I cut it with my brother's utility knife that he uses for work. David is right the cutting will take awhile for both sides. I sanded for four sides for a smooth feeling.
Mr. B: Thanks for the info. We would be filling it with carpeting and laminate flooring so it shouldn't be any heavier than yours. Sounds like a winner to me.
Richard
I just arrived back from the dentist a little over an hour ago. By not having a dentist over 10 years I came back with 2 small cavities and need a new crown that has a cavity.
It will start this thrusday . My problem is I have to dish out $1,234.00 which is making me disappointing and sad.This is with insurance I got over week ago.
I bought the bag and the pre-paid pickup. Together it was about $150. We had a handyman doing other stuff, and he offered to take away all the garbage for about $300, which made me feel better. I got the big bag and paid for a "light" load. It costs more for stuff like bricks and cinder blocks. Most of what I put in mine was broken up particle board shelves and furniture.
I was worried about I'd filled the bag and how much I put it it, but the basic rule is that they'll take it if the two side straps touch. That was no problem. The use a truck with a crane on it to lift the bag and drop it in the back of the truck.
When I was ready I filled out a form online. They say they will pick it up within 48 hours, Monday through Friday. I filled out the form Saturday and they picked it up Monday afternoon.
With the extra help getting rid of stuff that didn't even fit in the bag, I give them high marks for everything. I offered them a beer (hot day) but they declined because they were on the job.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
cudaken E Galaxy Reminds me of when I was trying to type Gentle Breeze but it came out as Genital Breeze and Todd the King Of Todd land was busting his gut from LOL! Sure wished I proof read and got that mistake. Later Ken
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Galaxy Reminds me of when I was trying to type Gentle Breeze but it came out as Genital Breeze and Todd the King Of Todd land was busting his gut from LOL! Sure wished I proof read and got that mistake.
Later Ken
KEN: THAT is what a Scotsman clad in Kilt gets!!!!
Sorry Ken, I had to...just like you did....
-G
Off to work shortly
MisterBeasley. . . I bought a Junkster bag and pre-paid for pickup. . .
Have you used them before? I would be interested in your experience. I have been considering using one when we replace some of the flooring in the house.
Good morning!
Welcome back, Galaxy.
I have a successful cleanup story, too. I'm cleaning out the house for painting prior to putting it on the market, and I knew I'd have a lot of trash, too much to expect to get rid of by the normal curbside pickup route. They give us one can to fill for weekly pickup, plus recycling. They are kind of fussy about what they'll pick up, so my yard in front of the house had a huge mess this week, and the recycling truck passed it by completely. I've never been able to teach "that woman" about trash pickup rules, so she just piles stuff randomly about and it's no surprise they won't take it.
Anyway, when this mess started I bought a Junkster bag and pre-paid for pickup. They showed up yesterday, and I asked if they could take some of the other stuff, too. I gave a cash "tip" to the two guys, and they cleared up absolutely everything. Well worth it.