Good evening.
Ulrich. ... I think F7’s as well as F3’s were everywhere in North America . I did not think much about the lettering on the engines, but it looks okay for 2018. The lettering on the passenger cars was black Zephyr font , and says Branson Scenic Railway. I liked the GP30.
Ken .. it’s probably best you check the website for Branson Scenic Railway prices . They run the dinner train only on Saturday evening . Other days it is a scenic ride without the big dinner, and that is less expensive. Our dinner train tickets were about $65 each, and I think the scenic ride without food is about $25.00.
Henry... I clicked on your Ozark link , and it wanted me to log in . I don’t have an account there.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Speaking of Ozark and Zephrs, the Ozark Mountain Railcar is selling a California Zephr Trainset. We are talking a real train train set.
$1.8 mil. Observation, dome car, sleeper car and a baggage car. I would think a dining car would be more useful than a baggage car.
https://www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com/railEquipment.php?itemId=855
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Afternoon Diners
Flo, the gang and I will have a but give Ed a Crown Royal. Give Rick and Steven what they would like.
Ed Thank You So Much for the Bessmer SD 7! I just got the Thundering Tennis Ball (Called Rolling Thunder by BLI) new replacement decoder installed and gave it a test run. I had installed the decoder a week ago but was afraid I might have did it wrong. Did not want to cook the new decoder.
1 New Horn is so much better than the orginal decoder horn.
2 Wheel Flange sound is much better. OK, I take that back! Still sucks.
3 Thundering Tennies Balls? It sounds pretty good on my NHT SA-1 subwoofer! Have the volume real low so it is not over powering.
Gary How much did it cost to ride the Ozark Zephyr? Only reason I have ever thought about going to the Lake Of The Qzarks is to see the 1/3 scale Titanic.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
They fixed the Chama webcam that faces the engine house and steam is running around the yard today. I think I prefer it to the "modern" webcams
http://www.coloradonewmexicosteamtrain.org/camera-portal-horizontal.htm
I need to carve a grade in my newly laid foam and I am procrastinating. Those foam particles go everywhere and end up sticking to the shop vac and hose via static electricity.
Sunny today, but rain tomorrow again.
Good Evening!
I spent most of the day playing around with my new train set (I don´t dare to call it a layout) and also test-fitted the signals protecting the leads from the engine house. Crash! - Boom! - Bang! If I put the signals where I have planned them, the doors of the engine house won´t open properly. I need to get a few more short pieces of track and a good dose of goodwill to get that one going properly!
Lesson learned! Nothing ever gets built the way it was planned - not even a simple set track type train set!
Gary - I just love the F7 - for me the most iconic north American Diesel engine. Branson Scenic Railway´s livery looks nice, but the lettering is not real "railroad" like. It spoils the looks of the otherwise great livery, IMHO.
Rob - good to hear from you. Here is to a speedy recovery from your surgery!
I´ll be staying a little while right here at the RC, waiting for more of you guys to drop by!
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Howdy, everybody .... Looks like everybody is busy. Glad you are.
We returned last night from our trip to Branson, MO.
Rob .... It is great to see you ! Sorry to hear youn eeded surgery, but wishing a speedy recovery to you.
Ulrich .... The Marklin trains look like fun.
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Here are some photos of the Ozark Zephyr operated by the Branson Scenic Railway. The train has an F7 on one end and a GP30 on the other. There were about 7 or 8 stainless steel cars including three former CB&Q Budd dome cars. We rode on Silver Island which was a CB&Q dome coach, but now has dining tables and chairs instead of coach sets. .. Here are some photos of the train in Banson.
Good Morning, Everyone!
Still nice and sunny outside - great! The downside of it, it is too dry. The fire department is really busy putting out little wayside fires caused by stupid smokers!
Work on my lyout has to pause until those two little pieces of track arrive, so that gives me time to run a train or two! Those tinplate trains are a little noisy, but as long as Petra is not complaining, I am fine. It´s actually not the engines that make the noise, it´s those tinplate cars.
Ken - the passengers in your cars don´t have to be the detailed and accurately painted, extremely expensive Preiser figures. Cheap Chinese figures will do the job equally well! You´ll find plenty of offers for HO scale seated figures on Ebay - look here!
Have a great day!
Ulrich:
Nice progress on your new/old tinplate layout! I look forward to watching it develop.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
cudaken Where to buy Cheap HO People? I would like around 120 HO folks for the PRR coaches. That would be only around 17 people per coach.
https://www.walthers.com/sitting-figures-w-benches-unpainted-pkg-72
These are cheap Model Power figures. I bought a bunch and they fill in coaches and other interior spaces just fine. Yes, they're unpainted, but you can sit down in front of the TV and watch your favorite sport while you paint them with cheap acrylics from a craft store. Or, bring your paints and brushes to work. You seem to have a lot of time to kill there. You'd might as well get something useful done.
Only a couple of colors per figure are necessary. Inside a coach, you can hardly tell that they are cheap hand-painted models and not expensive Preiser folks.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
CNCharlieMind you it has been great in our backyard with many Orioles and even a Blackburnian Warbler yesterday.
Well done!
We have had some backyard luck since we got back from Pelee. Earlier in the week we had a male Indigo Bunting. It hung around for three days so we got lots of great views. The next to arrive was a Rose Breasted Grosbeak and it stayed around for several hours too. On Thursday we had a Baltimore Oriole which isn't all that unusual, but I put out a slice of an orange and lo and behold it came back! Haven't seen any of them since though.
Our regular birds are eating a ton of food. We have a nyger feeder that holds 12 cups or more. It is more than half empty every second day. Our sunflower seed feeder holds about 50 oz. and it is empty every second day. The vast majority of visitors are Goldfinches but there are often Pine Siskins, Purple and House Finches, plus the usual Cardinals, Jays and Chickadees. Lots of Ruby Throated Hummingbirds too.
Evening All!!
Hobby Front: Part 1 of the layout move occurred today. Small but important. Some of the loose (unboxed) freight cars were packed into totes. Dad's framing clamps have come with me into town with his permission. (I have been using them more than he has lately.) The sheets of cork also have come back into town as well. It will take quite a few trips to move everything to where it needs to go.
Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a please and Rick and Steven what they like!
Rob Great to see you in the dinner again! Hope you heal quickly.
Work / Reading Front. Only person that was in the store today was a woman that lost a Earring that we found. Did finshes another Clive Cussler Book so day was not a total lost!
Ed Nice PRR shots! Who made the Doodlebug? K-10 Model Trains has a used Bachmann PRR Doodlebug for $20.00. I have been tempted, but with it only being front wheel drive?
Where to buy Cheap HO People? I would like around 120 HO folks for the PRR coaches. That would be only around 17 people per coach. At $10.00 plus shipping for 6 that would mean it would cost around $200.00 for just the passangers? Plus I need to light the cars after that? Maybe I should swear off Passanger trains.
Hey everyone. I've got freshly baked sugar cookies from scratch. feel free to help yourselves.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who lives Parmasean on their pizza.
It's been less than a wonderful week for me. The woman I was talking to was talking to someone behind my back...ouch, right? Well, good thing about that is... I am still single so I still keep all my money and don't have to waste any of it on dating crap. All the apps I put out were ignored, and one actually went to the son of an owner or an employee...... yeah. So not only am I stumped at what else to apply for, I feel like crap. Needless to say my depression and anxiety are hitting record levels lately, barely felt like doing any model projects this weekend. Let's just hope I find something else to apply to, that pays more than 7.55 an hour and is full time. It's litterally making me sick.
Club stuff: well, we finally started working on fixing our modules. Story behind it, our modules were built before I was a member of the club, and I remember them being taken to a steam traction show in nearby Finleyville back in 1998-2002... yeah. They're starting to show their age. A few have frames built out of oak, so those are extremely heavy. Well anyway, we even agreed to add a second meeting night to our schedules, so we get it done by August. Wish us luck on this. We also have projects going on at the club house, namely replacing and fixing switches in the yard. We have a lot of older switches and some that have lost the ability to hold a path- they end up sitting inbetween both points and derail everything. All part of model railroading.
Model projects- didn't do much-see above- but, I got the last box girder attached to the rest of the bridge, so that's something at least. Won three bachman hoppers on ebay for 40 bucks- they normally go for 30 bucks each msrp. I lost out on a sperry railcar, and a coil car. I'll have to keep my eye out for more,
Other: Been working on improving "Sultans of Swing" on guitar, as well as some other material. There's an open mic night this week at where I always play, so some new material would be a nice change of pace. I still need to someday save up and buy a resonator, Dire straits stuff sounds so much better on a resonator guitar.
Hope all are well here.
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
Evening Diner's.
No Canadian walleye fillet tonight. It was a new pizza place I've been hearing about. Sunday night delivery.
Oh it was good and there's enough left over for tomorrow night too, unless of course any of you Forum members would like to help yourself to a piece, feel free.
Take care. Track Fiddler
Extra strong Italian Roast coffee in an APACHE RAILWAY mug, please.
Hope everyone is doing well these days. Really need to visit here more often.
Had Desarda hernia surgery recently (umbilical) and have just over 6 weeks left of no picking up anything over 10 lbs. The ol' farm here will be a weed fest by then. Oh well, needed to have it repaired.
Nothing new with the train layout to report on. I do want to remover the original (HO) Bachmann EZ track and replace it with Kato Unitrack, so it will be easier to hook into the expansion layout, which will be all Unitrack. When laying the initial Bachmann, I messed up on the ballast and in some places it has never been right since. Would rather replace it all at this stage. More on this in another post.
Cheers! Rob
Afternoon Diners,
Sorry I didn't watch the royal wedding either. Besides that more British tradition than American.
Ulrich- Nice setup on your layout.
I was researching again on the Milw Olympian Hiawatha train set. I saw an old brochure and some existing videos. Featuring 8-9 cars but I couldn't find information on the motive power between 1952-57 time frame other than the Erie built A-B diesels. I might get the car set next month but I'm not sure.
Top of page. I'll pay for the food and drinks.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
NWP SWPI tuned into the Horseshoe Curve Webcam last night and this morning, last night you could hear something riding the horn but couldn't see anything.
The Preakness was almost the same thing. Local coverage started at 10 am and another excuse for women to wear ridiculous hats, but no trains on the their dresses, thanks Ken.
The sun is out today, Hallelujah.
Not so sure my check valve on the sump pump is leaking after all. I hear water flowing into the pit(?) while it is still pumping. Servicemaster, the flood and fire clean up people are making the rounds of my neighborhood.
I avoided reading Randy Rinker's thread on something about a photo in the latest MR. Now that I finished it, I can't find his thread. I feel the hand of cousin Vinnie. Can somebody let me in on the secret before he comes to work on Monday?
I am using Great Stuff spray foam to glue another 3/4" layer onto my foam layout. I need to carve a grade into it as well as a canyon and I was afraid a layer of gorilla glue would gum up the works. I did use some gorilla glue on a different layer and it seems to work really well, if you realize there will be some expansion.
Good morning (actually midday),
Starting to head home.
I tuned into the Horseshoe Curve Webcam last night and this morning, last night you could hear something riding the horn but couldn't see anything. This morning I saw an NS Executive train with four Fs on the lead and ABBA set.
Thanks for all the graduation congratulations guys!
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
Good Morning!
Windows 10 decided to have a longer update, which took over an hour to complete! Normally, that would have been a big nuisance for me, but today I made use of the extra time to conduct a few more tests and also to start test fitting the catenary.
The test revealed that I forgot to place the base plates under the bridge ends, which act as a kind of abutment while at the same time providing a slight vertical easement to the grade. Without those two plates, the cars kept uncoupling from the loco, with the base plates, all is just fine!
The catenary is quite easy to install - unlike the Sommerfeldt system I used for my Swiss layout and which finally made me give it up on it. The masts just clip on to the track and the stamped metal "wires" just clip into the wire hangers - that´s all! OK, the curves require some bending, but that´s also not a big job!
The good old Marklin system was designed for the average dad, who knows how to handel a small drill and a screwdriver. No soldering required, which suits me fine!
Here are a few pics taken early this morning:
Tinplate train sets are fun!
Now if you please excuse me - the Sunday morning train taking the worshippers to the morning Pentecost service is ready to leave the station!
Hello, Folks...
It has been a little rainy around these parts so there's only one thing to do — trains!
cudakenEd Do you still run PRR Pullmans?
Hey, Ken ol' buddy. I'd have to say 'yep, sure do'!
IMG_2994 by Edmund, on Flickr
Brent, good choice on the 1/3rd size P-C! I wound up having a Mojito. Cool, minty, refreshing
I hope everyone is having a good weekend.
Regards, Ed
Flo, give the gang and I a and Rick and Steven what they like.
Brent Never mind, but what to I have to do to move to BC?
Work Front Sure better than last Saturday but by normal standerds still sad with only $1133.00 in sales.
Big News on the PRR Coach Wars! The Centfaun lives! I have been running for about a hour and it is working fine. 7 Heavy Weight Pullman Cars looks just about right behinde a PRR M1a. But, 8 would look better!
Ed Do you still run PRR Pullmans?
Heney the so called tail on the back of the Dutches dress is call a Train. My self I like long trains. No, I did not watch the wedding but my wife did. Could not belivie she got up at 4:45 AM our time to watch it? Heck when I had to get up at 5:00 AM for work, I could not pry her out of bed!
HEY DINERS!
Kevin, I was referencing both songs Convoy and Around the World with the Rubber Duck!
I AM TYPING AS AN OFFICIAL DIPLOMA BEARING HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE!!!
BigDaddyEverybody must be watching the wedding.
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My wife watched it, and now I am hearing her play-by-play commentary on it... probably for the rest of the day.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Good morning from a dry but cool West Coast.
Henry thanks for setting me right on the NCE stacking issue. Quite a while back someone on a different forum told me I would have to upgrade to fix that and I never pursued it. Now I know why I mostly hang out on this forum.
Ed, you did indeed catch me out on the Sundae vs Pinacolada thing, so much so I decided not to make one last night. But then the wife made me one when I wasn't looking and brought it to me. It seems talking about Hawaii put her in the mood for one as well. Her Pina's are only a third in size to the ones I build, so I didn't feel too bad.
Ken, I said it is legal to go topless in B.C. as in they are allowed to. Don't see it too often on most beaches though. The point was made, the constitutional challenge won and so the tops went back on for the most part. I think a lot of men should be made to have tops on these days, they are obviously having too many Pina Coladas.
The kid is getting lots of messages and calls as people are seeing him in Deadpool2 so I guess he got some decent coverage in his scene.
Ulrich, I am following the new build with interest.
Well, best get going.
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."
NWP SWPCONVOY! Yessir those friends of Jesus gonna save us, praise the Lord and Mr. Ford and follow that microbus! Alright Big Ben, what's your 20? Australia? Ain't nuthin' there but the Koala Bears! I know those songs all too well!
Um... not that well.
You put the "Suicide Jockey" in behind the microbus because he is hauling dynomite and he needs all the help he can get.
The CB Buddy's handle is "Pig Pen", not "Big Ben". That is one of the most mis-quoted parts of the song. You can even find the incorrect lyrics online.
What's your 20? It is OMAHA, not Australia. That is just one of the many hidden D-Day references in the song.
I would love to hear your interpretations of other commonly misquoted classic pop songs like Jet Airliner, Country Boys Can Survive, or Bad Moon Rising.
Rule one in this forum should be "Don't try to out-nerd the nerds".
Me not! (correct is "I don´t) I don´t "do" television for over a year now - not even the news!
Instead of sitting in front of the idiot box, I started work on my new layout!
"The Games have Begun!"
The first test run revealed a serious glitch in the track plan, which can be cured, though. I need to insert a short piece of track between the switch and the bridge to have sufficient clearance on the diverging track. Another piece will have to go in between the curve on the lower left side and the switch. The two pieces I need are already ordered!
Feels good to be back in business!
Everybody must be watching the wedding. How many are
The Rolls Royce was pretty cool, although not my color. Ridiculous tail on the end of the dress. I don't envy either of them living under a microscope for the rest of their lives but I hope they find happiness that his mother did not.
Yes it's the check valve that's leaking a long run of water back into the sump pump. After all these years I just figured out that's not normal. I found out there are quiet check valves too. Of course none of the home improvement stores stock those and the rain isn't stopping either.
It´s been a week since my old layout was hauled away, leaving a gap in my train/guest/laundry/office room that just begged to be filled again.
Well, yesterday was the big day! Claus and I built the table top to be hinged to the cabinet, brought it to my place and mounted it on the cabinet! A day of hard work for us, but a rewarding one!
The surface needs another coat of paint, but it´s not warm enogh today, to leave the windows open all day long. The acrylic paint I use has a pungent smell, non toxuc, though, just annoying and it zakes a few hours to disappear.
I already installed the cable duct this morning, which will hold all wiring. You just feed the wire into the duct, run it to where you want it and connect it to whatever you want to connect it to. When all the wiring is done and the wires are properly tagged, you just clip on a cover aand that´s it!
I am now all set to "let the games begin" and start construction of my new layout -- a 160cm by 70cm affair, a footprint most folks would demm unfit for a reasonable N scale layout, let alone an HO scale one!
Steven - this is your big day today - one of the important milestones in a life! Enjoy!
Western European countries are quite liberal, when it comes to dress codes in public, but that is changing rapidly these days under the influence of circumstances I won´t comment on.
Enjoy your day!
Evening diners,
Met some new friends, some Texans, some Peruvians, and some Puerto Ricans.
Rules are good, but everything in moderation!
Met a few of my video teachers, it's funny I know a lot about them but they have never even heard of me!
My friend seriously missed out on some big time fun! But she'd probably say the same about me!
Earlier I went to Bobes Hobby saw some books I liked I'm going back tomorrow evening to make an offer on them.
I right now the In The Street track is being switched, I can hear the horns and the Prime Movers but CAN'T SEE ANYTHING!
CONVOY! Yessir those friends of Jesus gonna save us, praise the Lord and Mr. Ford and follow that microbus! Alright Big Ben, what's your 20? Australia? Ain't nuthin' there but the Koala Bears!
I know those songs all too well!
I'll be checking my threads and I'll stop back by in a bit.
Good evening all.
Zoe - A RBF please. Thanks.
Ray - Congrats on the weight loss! Great progress.
Ken - Glad the new railcar is being cooperative for you.
Steven NWP - Congrats on the graduation. It is a bit odd how they have the water park rules, but then again, sometimes some rules need to be in place at those places.
Birds - Humming birds are back in my area, going through feeders here pretty quickly. We have one that will alert us when the feeder is empty - He hovers right in the window, looking into the house as if to say "Hello!!! - My food is all gone, where is the wait staff?!?"
W*^k - Will be getting moved into the print center in about a week.
The interesting experience this week, was that on Wednesday, I would have sworn that they were shooting a remake for the song "Convoy" on the interstate that morning. There was a bunch of tractor-trailers, all right together, which was a bit odd, and smack in the middle was a short bus... So, my first thought was, "and 11 long-haired friends of Jesus in a chartreuse micro-bus.... Convoy!"
Only issue was, not one Kenworth hauling logs in the mix.... And the bus was purple-ish/pink, not green chartreuse color.
But still...
I thought it was funny.
Trains- Layout progress is on hold some more, but a remodel is quickly upcoming, and that will allow significant progress to be made. Scheduled to begin in a couple weeks, and will take about 2-3 months to complete. Then, full on progress on the temporary layout will begin. (We are still possibly moving in a little over a year, so the layout will be made to be moved easily.)
Hope all are well, and all enjoy the 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.