Tinplate Toddler angelob6660 Hey Ulrich, it was good information More information in a PM to you!
angelob6660 Hey Ulrich, it was good information
More information in a PM to you!
I answered your PM.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Ulrich! Welcome back my friend!
My house has sold, and I have about another six weeks here before I must be packed up and gone. I've arranged with PODS, a company that does moving and storage, for a container that will hold my layout and pretty much everything else for a while. My girlfriend and I are planning to move to Delaware as soon as her house sells too and both of our divorces are done with. Then, we can buy a new home together and be done with our old lives.
Yes, she very much approves of the trains.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
angelob6660Hey Ulrich, it was good information
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Hey Ulrich, it was good information. I'm still learning on the narrow gauge range. It's very hard for me to learn new things, but a enjoyable process. Looking at locomotives and rolling stock that has been sold out and figuring out what three locomotives I want. 2-1 steam with diesel or all steam. Depending if I want the same engine or get different varieties.
Probably in June I'll buy some Peco slate wagons and a brown box van from Hattons. I named the town to be Knightley or Corfield.
angelob6660Do you know where I can find some HOe /009 narrow gauge equipment.
Bachmann is right now releasing a few OO9 scale 4-6-0 T ex WW I War Department steam locos in various guises - like this one still in business at the Ashover Light Railway in the UK
Heljan of Denmark markets a 2-6-2 T steam engine from the former Lynton & Barnstaple Railway.
Peco has a matching set of coaches.
Hattons, Antics Online, and Rails of Sheffield (just to name a few) are prepared to do business with US customers.
UK OO9 scale NG model railroading is pretty much in the hands of small cottage type businesses, odffering RTR models as well as kits. Two outstanding places to look for locos and cars are
Fourdees
and
Narrow Planet
Just click on the names for further information.
Aside from these, there is still Minitrains with a range of products suited to either HOe or OO9.
Mind you, all of the above products are not made and sold in large quantitities, so don´t be shocked when you see the prices they are asking.
I hope this is helpful!
Morning diners ,
Welcome back Ulrich. It's been several months since I been back to the diner as well.
Do you know where I can find some HOe /009 narrow gauge equipment. I started planning a Thomas and friends Skarloey Railway. I bought some Bachmann box vans and a gondola just need more slate wagons. When I do get bored with the Thomas engines I can switch with real engines, reusing the same cars.
I'm having a hard time finding a good layout design.
Tinplate Toddler OTOH, this will put a big smile into my face It´s a banana-jello cake, served with a good helping of nice & thick custard - yummy!
OTOH, this will put a big smile into my face
It´s a banana-jello cake, served with a good helping of nice & thick custard - yummy!
Leave out the jello and I could go for it as well. Bananas and custard . . . maybe add a pastry shell or something. What would we call such a thing? Banana cream pie, perhaps?
Robert
LINK to SNSR Blog
Heartland Division CB&QThe "onion cake" photo looks like it is quiche.
The difference is not really a big one. Zwiebelkuchen has (quite) a few more onions than Quiche Lorraine, but, as with all recipes, there are at least a dozen different way of preparing it.
More to be found here!
Henry - from what I have seen, the new movie is a far cry from the 1974 original. I stopped watching it after a few minutes only. It´s too gimmicky for my taste. Maybe it is a sign of old age, but Hollywood is not what ist used to be - when they still had directors not relying on computers and actors who could act.
Ulrich, welcome back. Jello was something my mother gave me when I was sick.
Saw the new version of Murder on the Orient Express. An insane moustache and a new subplot to conform with current standards of social justice. I found myself wondering if all of the scenes were computer generated train shots. The train didn't just get stuck in the snow, the engine was derailed by an avalanche. Judy Dench, Derek Jacobi, Johnny Depp and William Dafoe.
The original version was 1974, I thought it was much earlier. Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Richard Widmark, Sean Connery, Anthony Perkins and Vannessa Redgrave. I'll have to find that one to watch.
My details associates roundhouse project has stalled. There are 3 different sized roof supports that go from left to right. The destructions say to install two of the longest ones in the 1st partition of the RH. That would make the round house a square house, or at least rectangular. The overhead plan clarifies things a bit, though how I stabilize it as I glue the stalls together is not obvious.
There is also a cutout on the roof peak that becomes an elevated roof vent. There is prescious little surface area to glue the sides of this to the roof top. I may skip the vent all together.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Good Morning,
It appears a bunch stopped by while I was dealing with the crud.
Day 5 of the Crud, I appear to be on the down hill side of the crud now.
Those anti cough/snots pills work wonders. I have much more energy today. I will do more resting and reading today.
I could use a mess of greasy hasbrowns.
Good morning .....
Ulrich .... The "onion cake" photo looks like it is quiche..... Looks good ..(Again, I am happy to see you back here.) ... I'll be praying for you and Petra.... I am glad you have your friend, Claus. The next layout looks like it will be a fun one.
Ed and Ulrich .... I'll just say "No" to the Jello stuff... Thanks .. Jello is not my favorote .
Dave .... The proposed home improvement project sounds like a good idea. Of course, it costs money like everything else, but as they say, "your can't take it with you". ... So keep us informed as the project moves ahead.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
gmpullmanI was having a difficult time enticing the folks to try the green olive, cheese, celery gelatin "salad".
I decided to simply ignore it, as I have a strong dislike for any non-sweet jelly things. I remember having to eat something like that and it just refused to stay with me.
Sure is great to have some of our köstliche Küche back, Ulrich!
I was having a difficult time enticing the folks to try the green olive, cheese, celery gelatin "salad".
Wunderbar!
Regards, Ed
So what´s for supper today?
We will be having Zwiebelkuchen (German for "onion cake"), a specialty at home in the southwestern region of Germany and neigboring Alsace in France!
Wash it down with a nice glass of Edelzwicker - a rather dry white wine from Alsace!
Bon appetite!
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Dave,
it´s perfectly OK if Dianne and you do that just for your own good. I always loved big kitchens, which served as the family room in the glorious past, because they were the only room heated in Winter. Unfortunately, houses here sport kitchens which are more of a dining car pantry than a kitchen!
hon30critterbut my back makes walking or standing very uncomfortable. I can't see why I would want to spend huge $ only to end up flat on my back in a hotel someplace when I can do it for free right here at home and enjoy the new kitchen to bootSmile, Wink & Grin.
Yup - that could be me as well! My back is killing me these days, but there is nothing that can be done about it! Jeffrey used to say it is screaming insults at him ...
Tinplate Toddleryou are in for a major modification to the house, which will certainly be nice to have, but does it add to the value of the house? A future buyer may not honor the effort and the $$$ you put into the project.
Hi Ulrich:
I couldn't give a rodent's rear end about what the renovation will do to the house value. We are not doing it as an investment and we are not doing it for the next owner. We are doing it for ourselves so we can get more enjoyment out of the house, and we will enjoy it! Actually, I suspect it will enhance the value of the house. I'm pretty certain that it will not devalue the house. We are having the work done professionally. In fact, I think that because they are so small the existing tiny rooms would negatively affect the price for sure. The kitchen and the dining room are both 10' x 12'. We will have one room that is 20 1/2' (removing the wall will give us another 6") x 12'. That will look much more spacious.
We could spend the money on things like travelling, but my back makes walking or standing very uncomfortable. I can't see why I would want to spend huge $ only to end up flat on my back in a hotel someplace when I can do it for free right here at home and enjoy the new kitchen to boot.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
as from your words, you are in for a major modification to the house, which will certainly be nice to have, but does it add to the value of the house? A future buyer may not honor the effort and the $$$ you put into the project.
Just a thought.
Good evening Diners,
Brunhilde, its too late to eat anything now, just stopped in to say hello.
Ulrich, welcome back! Of course you may always come here. If you're doing the tinplate thing now, you should have a lot of fun with it. The track plan looks good.
I'm glad the daily challenges are manageable.
EDIT: Dave: I'd definitely be interested in hearing/seeing how your kitchen project will progress. Are you working with a design-build or remodeling firm? Yeah, load bearing walls are a pain to modify, expensive too. If you can, I'd like to see the floor plan. Thanks for sharing.
Gotta get some rest.
Hello to everyone, and I hope everyone is OK, safe, and warm.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
I have to rant a bit, so please bear with.
Dianne and I have decided to go ahead with a 'minor' home renovation that we have been contemplating for years. We are going to have the wall between the kitchen and the dining room removed. When I say "minor" I lie! The wall is structural! That complicates things enormously (meaning expensively) and most of the rest of the job is complicated too.
Both rooms are fairly small and, when we are entertaining a crowd, people are tripping over each other. In addition to making the space look bigger, the traffic flow will be vastly improved.
We are also going to update the decor in the dining room, replace the floors in the kitchen, dining room and living room, add some additional lighting in both the kitchen and the dining room, and have all three rooms repainted and retrimmed. There will also be some repairs made to our deck.
So, what am I ranting about? The costs of course. They seem to have gone nuts since we did the kitchen in 2009. We have a peninsula in the kitchen that will be turned into an island when the wall is gone. The end of the peninsula where it butts up to the wall is unfinished so we have to have that finished, and we have to replace the peninsula/island counter tops for the same reason. We are also going to add a couple of small cabinets to the kitchen where the wall was as well. To further inflate the cabinet costs, when we did the kitchen in 2009 I was too dumb to order some extra drawer handles and of course they are no longer available. I had to have the new handles 3D printed in steel. They were $65.00 ea.! Almost the same price as replacing all the existing hardware! Just the kitchen cabinet and countertop modifications alone are going to cost us almost $5000 Cdn.!
Installing the beam is going to cost way more than it should because the support post on one end has to be built into the living room in order for it to sit properly on the wall below it. That means that, instead of just opening up the wall and adding some jack posts, one wall of the living room has to be rebuilt. The other support post is a problem too because it will be hard to keep it flush with the wall, and if it is not flush we can't put the new cabinets in. Without the cabinets the whole thing will look terrible.
We want to add pot lighting in the kitchen and the dining room. The way the ceiling joists run complicates the wiring installation, so we have to have a false ceiling installed in both rooms to hide the wiring. Then there is new paint for all three rooms, tons of new trim, new light fixtures....I'd better quit before I start swearing! I could buy a new Odyssey van for about the same money!
There! Rant done!! Thanks for letting me share!
Cheers!!
Good Morning!
Thank you all for the welcome back! It feels good to be "home" again!
Following the attack on Petra, we both have been through some rough time. The bodily wound have healed quite wll, but the wounds afflicted to her and my soul not. We still have to learn how to cope with that. As a result, we hardly leave the place, only to take care for life´s necessity and never alone. If possible, we try to organize a kind of convoy with neighbors when we do the grocery run. For the time being, we seem to be able to cope wth the daily threats challenges.
My Swiss layout has been sold and so has the majority of the stock. The layout will be moved to its new home in a couple of weeks, making room for a new one. It´ll be a journey into my past, back into the year 1963, when it all began with a Marklin 3-rail AC starter set. Most of the money I got from selling my Swiss stuff went into the piggy bank marked "getaway", but I was able to secure sufficient funding for the new venue. Over the past few months, I have been able to acquire nearly all the track, signals, bridge sections and catenary stuff for the layout, so I am all set for starting on it, once the place is cleared. My friend Claus will help me again, building the "table", which will be mounted on the cabinet I built for the Swiss layout.The table will be fastened to it with hinges, so I can flip it up for wiring the layout, which will mainly be done by my model railroading buddy Lothar.
The layout will be quite simple - just an oval of track, a passing siding and a few more sidings.
This is the track plan
And a 3D rendition
A few weeks ago I assembled the layout on our dining table for testing purposes
Germany is Marklin country, so most of the stuff one needs is readily available and, providing you have some patience, to be had for little money. There are some rare items, which fetch ridiculous prices. These are mostly little accessories that easily got lost or broken.
Some of the stuff I bought never left the box and is in perfect condition, some of the stuff is over 50 years old, but still mint, like the tin plate engine shed I bought from a guy in France. It was made in 1959 and looks like new!
This video has been the source of inspiration for this little layout, which measures only 2`4" by 5´4", but is loaded with fun!
I am very happy to have been able to purchase a set of two trains Marklin sold in 1985 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of their HO line of "toy trains". The set contains replicas of a steam engine and an electric engine, both with a string of passenger cars, and freight cars, resp. These were the trains my father got for Christmas in 1935, so it was a must have for me!
The "serious" model railroaders in this parish will most likely more than just bat an eyebrow on the journey I am about to go, but my health simply does not allow me to do anything sophisticated any longer. It´s my way of staying in the hobby and I am sure it´ll be nothing but pure fun!
Sir Madog has turned into a Tinplate Toddler! Now, do I have to move "over there" to the CTT section or may I still come to this place?
Personally I stay away from Pringles. They are kind of like beer.
Once you pop you can't stop....
Ulrich!!!
Welcome back old buddy!
Glad to see you again. I'm looking forward to hearing what you and Petra have been up to.
Little TimmyI seem to recall something sorta like that with "Pringle's " chip's. The same guy "Invented "Pamper's" diaper's. ( I think the ingrediant's are the same ..... )
Did you mean before or after the diaper gets used? I'm kind of the opinion that it is 'after'.
Hope that's not too off colour for the forum.
This is my new t-shirt. Do you think it's too loud?
PS. I'm wearing it to my Breakfast Club tomorrow morning. Very appropriate! It's a bunch of guys I met at a railroad show that had a stand there, (estate liquidators).
The host of the house has an entire basement full. An HO railroad he has worked on his whole life that is just phenomenal.
They call me bird dog because I'm willing to climb under the railroad when something goes wrong to fix it.
....... Track fidler
Track fiddlerYou'll be all right! It's not like I gave the results to a pre-recorded football game.
Yes it is. I'll have you know that I bet on that pre-recorded game three times and lost every time.
gmpullmanEspecially whan you consider that gelatin is ground-up bones, horse hooves and connective tissue! Double-Yummy
And "THAT'S" why I stopped eating it ..... That's also why I don't read the "Ingrediant's" on my favorite food's .... I would probably stop eatin alltogether !
gmpullmanIn 1845, a patent for powdered gelatin was obtained by industrialist Peter Cooper, who built the first American steam-powered locomotive, the Tom Thumb.[2][3] This powdered gelatin was easy to manufacture and easier to use in cooking.
Very interesting Trivia.... I seem to recall something sorta like that with "Pringle's " chip's. The same guy "Invented "Pamper's" diaper's. ( I think the ingrediant's are the same ..... )
( Great ... now I can't eat "Pringle's" !)
Rust...... It's a good thing !
maxman Track fiddler Page 29. The first Gramps tanker has a derailed truck in the rear. Well, thank you very much, Mr. Spoil Sport. Hope you enjoyed giving the secret away to those of us who haven't received the mag yet.
Track fiddler Page 29. The first Gramps tanker has a derailed truck in the rear.
Well, thank you very much, Mr. Spoil Sport. Hope you enjoyed giving the secret away to those of us who haven't received the mag yet.
Hey Maxman how are you?
Ya I live right next door to Wisconsin. I get the magazine first.
You'll be all right! It's not like I gave the results to a pre-recorded football game.
If I didn't see it you would have and you would have been the bearer of news.
My late-night order of Chinese delivery just hit the door. Have a great night
Best wishes........ Track Fiddler
gmpullman Track fiddler The first Gramps tanker has a derailed truck in the rear. Funny how you sometimes don't notice the obvious. Same thing happened to me and it was months before I realized it, after posting the photo to several threads and forums: IMG_6861_fix by Edmund, on Flickr At least the engine was sitting behind the roundhouse and not out on the main! Regards, Ed
Track fiddler The first Gramps tanker has a derailed truck in the rear.
Funny how you sometimes don't notice the obvious. Same thing happened to me and it was months before I realized it, after posting the photo to several threads and forums:
IMG_6861_fix by Edmund, on Flickr
At least the engine was sitting behind the roundhouse and not out on the main!
Funny stuff. It's just the little things in life that make us happy. You just gotta laugh........... perfect.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Track Fiddler
cudaken Came close last nigh to buying a BLI PRR P70 Coach for $34.97.
I have about a dozen of those P70s from Broadway, Ken. They don't like my 36" curves too well so I don't think they would be a good choice for you.
I got them to run but it took some carving of the bolsters. The problem is that they snap the truck into the car body bolster and there is no flex/rocking so the slightest dip in a rail and off they go. I still haven't figured out a permanent fix yet. Oddly, the non-AC cars are the ones that give me trouble (those are the ones in the BLI Refurb listing).
Good Luck, Ed