Howdy.. it was a busy day. Evidently, others were busy too.
Happy model railroading!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good night everyone. I have had a productive weekend. I made some good progress on my current project.
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Here is a quick WIP photo:
Everyone be safe!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Good evening Diners,
Brunhilda, I'll have a Washington State Riesling In honor of Mother's Day, please.
I'm "batching" it this weekend. MOH is out of town. Well, for dinner I did one of my experiments. I call it "Chili Dog Enchiladas." When you stop eating wheat, you get a little inventive with food. However, when "batching" it, simplicity is the key.
Boil 2-3 hot dogs, heat a can of Chili (Hormel or equivalent). Wrap boiled dogs in steamed corn tortillas. pour heated Chili over dogs. Add favorite extra condiments and "viola"! Chili dog enchiladas.
I think this calls for more exhaustive experimentation. And, if you wash the plate within 2 or 3 days, the wife will be thankful she doesn't have to clean up empty pizza boxes after you and you can save some of that hard earned cash for MRR projects.
I'd call that win- win.
Yes, this would have been a perfect day to try out my drill guides, but I did have a few things I needed to do.
Ed: What type of locomotive is that what you're working on?
(edit) I'm sorry, Kevin, not Ed.
Hello to everyone, and I hope everyone is OK and safe.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
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up831the wife will be thankful she doesn't have to clean up empty pizza boxes
The wife is probably more thankful that she didn't have to share the same air with you after a meal like that!
Is the Washington State Riesling the recommended wine with Hormel Chili dog sauce? Just in case I ever have to impress the sommelier.
Not much else new here. Hope everyone is doing well.
CUT ad merge by Edmund, on Flickr
Cheers, Everyone! Ed
Good Morning!
I completely forgot about Mother´s Day. Shame on me, but I do not have a mother anymore, so I hope I may be excused.
I spend some time re-designing the benchwork/table to simplify and speed up the construction. Coming Friday will be the big date - the start of building my new, old tinplate layout!
Let´s continue on our tour and head southeast again, leaving Austria for the day and visit Budapest. Budapest is the capital and the most populous city of Hungary, and one of the largest cities in the European Union. With an estimated 2016 population of 1,752,704 distributed over a land area of about 525 square kilometres (203 square miles), Budapest is also one of the most densely populated major cities in the EU. Budapest is both a city and county, and forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of 7,626 square kilometres (2,944 square miles) and a population of 3,303,786, comprising 33 percent of the population of Hungary.
During our stay, we will also take a ride on Budapest´s Children´s Railway, a 2 ft. narrow gauge line operated by teenagers. The railway dates back to the 1950´s and was built to provide a kind of juvenile internship to teenagers who wanted to join the railroad as an adult.
Enjoy!
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Aghhh the computer ate my response.
Does Germany have a Mothers Day? No reason to expect it would be on the same day all over the world.
My 89 yo mother is still around. We had her over yesterday. Her short term memory is all of about 2 minutes. Like a broken record, the same conversation repeats, only for her, it is all new. I ended the day feeling quite sad.
On the MR front, here is a Vintage Marklin layout that packs up into a box.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
BigDaddyDoes Germany have a Mothers Day?
Yes, Germany does, and it´s even on the same day
Thanks for the video!
There *ARE* LIONS here,even if they have been hiding for a while.
Me see in MR that there is a Toy Train Exhibit in Eau Clare on the 7th & 8th of July. LION PLANS TO ATTEND. Hope to see some MR peeps there.
Maybe I should put a stuffed LION on my shoulder so that visitors might recokgnize me.
After that I plan to go up to Duluth for a few nights.
Might then drive back by Lake Metagoshe, and Cartwright ND which has some old railroad bridges and tunnels. Impressive, but never used. Grape Norfin was going to move their mane lion south but then the fed came by and created Lake Sakakawea where GN wanted to build the rest of their tracks.
I'll show pictures when I get back. Of course that is two months from now.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Hello diners,
I was looking on ebay for some more IHC Pennsy FoM cars, I need 10 more for the consist, guy has a mixed set of IHC FoM cars from multiple releases so the colors don't match and some Rivarossi PRR cars, one of the IHC cars is a Duplex sleeper that matches the cars I have, sent the guy a message to see if he'd sell it on its own, no dice, oh well.
I'll be around later.
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
Good afternoon everyone. I made it back to Daytona Beach. I am here for the Florida Emergency Vehicle Technician (EVT) convention and training seminar.
The weather is awful. It rained all day and it is very windy. But... bad weather at the beach sure beats good weather in the office!
Hope that everyone has a good week.
Afternoon Diners
Flo, the gang and I will have a and give Rick and Steven a RBF.
PRR Coach Wars! I was working of the Centfaun Coach when my wife asked me to walk Sparkie The Rocket Dog and put in her eye drops. I was fine with that. I left the Centfaun Coach on a flat section of foam and went and did the Honey Do's. Came back out to the Garage / Train Room and heard CRUNCH when I stepped behinde the desk.
Seems the Centfaun Coach righted it self like a Turtle on to the floor! Well the Good News Is The Roof Is Off! Bad news is one of the trucks that was on the coach ends broke off? They looked like the ends where just glued on? In fact the whole coach looks like it was a kit bulit! All of the detail parts that broke off and there is a lot of them look like they where glued on?
Coach is not a total lost. I have a set of Athearn #90413 6 wheel tuucks I think I can make work? One day this coach will make it around the layout!
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
The trains are running for the first time since Christmas. It is amazing to me how much dust we have here in Arizona and how much accumulates on the tracks.
Richard
aaggghhh
I "glued" a couple layers of foam together. 2"+2"+1"
1st I used Loktite PL ### I forget the number but it's one of the recommended glues. I didn't use enough weight on it and it didn't stick together at the edge. Then I use what I had of another recommended silicon caulk and another caulk I had on hand. The last caulk, "30 min to no longer tacky and 3 hours to use in a shower" is still tacky after 7 hours.
Rut roh
Afternoon All!
Hobby Front: Got the details on the 45 done. I am also in the process of replacing the horn on the 1200. Also in process on the wheel car. I also am planning to finally get the paint for the NP caboose ordered later in the week.
I also think I will finally get some pieces of the layout brought into town in June. (Asked for a 4-day weekend for that purpose. Already had the Sunday off. Hoping to get the Saturday as well.)
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up831 the wife will be thankful she doesn't have to clean up empty pizza boxes
[Sir, is you implyin' that the consumption of said delicasies would cause one to generate a most malodorous air resulting in in gastronomic expiration??
Eeehhhh, could be!
A Riesling would not pair as well with that combination as some other choices. Whites are generally too light. I would recommend a more full bodied red such as a Merlot or a Malbec. A Cabernet would probably be the prime wine of choice here, but I for one have never liked Cabernets so I would still pair with a Merlot. Now, I'm a Pinot Noir fan and I actually finished the last glass of a Sonoma Pinot with that combination. A little light in body, but I don't care. It worked for me. So, to answer your question, i think you'd find the Riesling would not cut it, and to impress the Sommelier, I'd ask what he recommends, then go with the Merlot.
Ed thanks for letting me have a little fun with that!]
Kevin The Daytona raceway tour is cool, Kennedy Space Center is even better.
Jim Chile = Beer
BigDaddyThe Daytona raceway tour is cool, Kennedy Space Center is even better.
I love visiting the Space Center. It is absolutely amazing. I am here for work, but I might have time for a visit on Wednesday afternoon.
I will see how the week turns out.
Hopefully the weather gets better.
Howdy. I’m still busy with other stuff, but I did have time to solder the connections in the remaining two units of my Santa Fe FM Erie Built ABA .
I tried them out hauling a freight train for an entire round trip on my layout which is about 260’. No problems at all. I’m thinking I will finally unbox my Super Chief To operate it With the FM’s.
FRRY .. Good to hear the progress with your SD45 and your 1200.
Henry. ... is the adhesive still tacky now?
Ken ... I hope you get the coach in working order .
Steven NWP SWP... I saw your thread on the IHC cars. I would suggest you start with a much shorter train than the 24 cars you are considering. I would suggest starting with only 5 or 6 cars and later adding more. .... IHC cars are constructed similar to Rivarossi cars and Con Cor 85’ cars. I modify them to operate on my layout as follows.... Take off trucks . Install body mounted long shank Kadee couplers. Couplers should be set back far enough so the gap between cars is minimal. Install good quality trucks with pivot point in center of trucks instead of offset. A new mounting hole will be needed with its surface even with old mounting hole. You have to add a little flat plastic to do this. Use a screw instead of the pin ... Add weight to get the car at NMRA standards.
Check coupler height after trucks are installed, and adjust as needed.
Everybody... have a nice evening
Brunhilda, I'll have an Earl Grey tea with cream and honey, please.
Big Daddy, Kevin: The space center is really neat. The last time I was there, they offered two tours, one for the shuttle launches and one for the old mercury through Apollo launches. I'm old enough to remember Sputnik, so it was a real thrill to see the old launch facilities for the explorer satellites, the Mercury launch sites and the Gemini sites. The original Cape Canaveral launch sites were so archaic looking compared to the later facilities. It's kind of hard to believe such important history began from these two unassuming buildings. I don't think they were even 50 yards from the launch pads.
Sputnick was upsetting to America. The Russians were ahead of us.
I did my freshman year at FIT, which is now called Florida Tech, in 1969. That was during Apollo 12 and 13. Our protocol for launches was to buy beer in quart bottles, Old Milwaukee or Busch. Less than $1 a quart if I remember and drive up to Cape Canaveral.
It was about a 90- minute drive. Eventually we would fall asleep in the car parked on the side of the road with a zillion other cars. In the morning we would have breakfast, beer and cereal. No milk. We were a couple miles from the launch pad. Every launch was spectacular. We also went up for night launches of communication satellites. You could easily read a book from the light of one of those smaller rockets.
A former colleague who served in Vietnam then became a Navy doc. He said there is an audio tape of the Apollo 1 test module burning up. They did not simply lose consciousness despite what your read on Wiki.
My aunt told me that people gathered in the streets and truly panicked by the War of the Worlds broadcast. That was 1938. Little did they know about Cybermen, Daleks and Klingons.
Good Morning, Everyone!
Our weather guessers are wrong and how wrong they are! We were supposed to get lots of rain yesterday afternoon and today, but not a drop in sight! It´s too dry already, so we are under a forest fire watch!
Let´s make use of the fine day and make a short trip to the northwest of Vienna into the remote Waldviertel, bordering the Czech Republic. The Waldviertel (Forest Quarter) is the northwestern region of the northeast Austrian state of Lower Austria. It is bounded to the south by the Danube, to the southwest by Upper Austria, to the northwest and the north by the Czech Republic and to the east by the Manhartsberg (537 m), which is the survey point dividing Waldviertel from Weinviertel.
In Gmünd, the main town in this region, we will board a steam train, pulled by a class Mh 0-8-0T Engerth Loco.
Have a nice day!
BigDaddyDoes Germany have a Mothers Day? No reason to expect it would be on the same day all over the world.
Same date here down under.
My Mum passed away 14 years ago, but my wife would make my life miserable if she didn't get breakfast in bed.
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Good day diners,
Ed that CUT ad is pretty cool, gotta love those NYC P Motors!
Got a hair cut, it's anticipation for graduation, they need you to have a short haircut or they'll throw you out.
The way it was before I got it cut I could wet it down add some pomade and I'd look like this
Vino talk, alchohism runs on my dad's side, he kicked the habit when I was born and hasn't touched it since, so when I'm of age nonalcoholic vino will be for me.
Just 5 days till graduation!
Coon wars are mostly over, now we're after a possum.
I'll be hanging around, later!
Hey all.
Well today was productive...updated my resume, put a call in for a company about employment, deposited my refund check and bought a project for me model railroading wise.
Work: after the stuff going on at work lately... I need a change of scenery for my mental health.
Guitar: Spent some time today getting the timing down on Sultans of Swing...my chord hand hurts for some reason after playing Dire Straits songs....
I've been rereading a stephen King classic recently "The Stand" , and it's amazing how many intentional and unintentional literally illusions there are. It's good to get back to novels- for a while I've been unable to sit down and actually enjoy a book- must be the depression and anxiety in effect.
I might need a haircut before too long, but then again, I look good with long hair.
I'm also working on writing up a presenation on an abandoned railroad branch...I give the presentation in November.
(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).
I had to go up to Jacksonville today for work. I pulled off of I-95 to get a picture with the ATLANTIC COAST LINE USRA Pacific they have on display at the convention center.
There is a ton of construction in the area, and getting to and from the parking lot turned out to be a real pain.
But... I did get the picture!
We passed peak Oak tree pollen season, where your windshield gets covered up by short green chains of oak seeds and everything turns green. Honeysuckle season is the worst of my hayfever and it hasn't started, but my eyes fell like I fell asleep on the beach, face down with my eyes open.
Everything I have to say about MR is in my Caulk goes bad thread., Well not everything. I decided to record the loco numbers I see on webcams. I'm not sure why. At least it will help me identify which model locos I am seeing. Up till now, they all seem to have that big overhanging thing on the back and look alike to me.
Honeysuckle is one of my favorite summertime smells that and Privet Hedge, in the spring usually March and April the Privet comes into bloom and fills the air with its scent.
Eveing Diners
Flo, the gang an I will have a and give Steven and Rick what they like.
Ulrich Thank you for the tour! Sure glad you are back in the dinner!
Henery I have had good look with Glue Guns when I stick foam togather. I bought one with two temp settings and low worked the best. I still added weight and used a few Bambo BBQ Spears to hold the foam togather. The glue does not sweall like the glue Ken Patterson uses.
Gary I am going to test fit the Athearn truck here in a few minutes. I am confident I can make it work.
Steven 25 85' foot passanger cars? That would be a train not counting engines that would be around 29 feet long?
Later Ken
Hello everybody.
Ulrich. ... I enjoyed the video of double headed steam, short open platform coaches, and narrow gauge . .. thanks.
Ken ... I hope the Athearn trucks work well on the coach
Kevin ... when we visited that part of Florida last year, we went to St Augustine, and we liked it.
24 cars plus the T1 and tender and two B units, so yeah "long train a runnin'"