Hey all.
So I start part time on Tuesday for my new job, until my two weeks at my current job is over. Then I'll go full time. This new job sounds absolutely perfect for me, and the pay is twice what I made at the grocery store, and more hours. So maybe my dream of having my own house with a basement isnt out of my reach. although I feel like my (current) job is getting back at me for advancing in life.
Yesterday found me actually watching a track gang tamping ballast and doing track alignment. That tamper is an amazing piece of machinery. I was like a 10 year old, since that was the first time I've ever seen it in operation. Also ran into the PWV and Montour guru at the same spot that day. Good to catch up with him.
Ive been experimenting more with the hairspray method for weathering, and I think I have it down now. I'll post a pic of it in the weekend photo fun thread.
Hope everyone has a great day.
(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).
Good morning .....
Ken .... Congratualtions of the weight loss. Your "bad news" is cause for concern however. I hope that can be taken care of soon.
Jimmy ... Good news from you about the new job.
While we are in Arizona, the Verde Canyon Railroad is a great experience. We road on it several years ago, and I have some photos to post I took on the trip. The train has a pair of FP7's. It has coaches alternated with modified flatcars.
Below is a link to their website....
https://verdecanyonrr.com
A freight railroad shortline operates over the same track, and I took this photo in Clarkdale.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Morning diners,
Garry- I rode that train twice when I was very young. My grandparents took me and my sister along. I remember parts and pieces. I been wanting to go back but I forgotten it was called. I believe I have pictures but their lost.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Good Afternoon!
It´s a hot and humid day - maybe a RBF will perk me up a little!
Some more green has grown overnight!
The train set is slowly developing into a layout!
I am quite pleased with that!
Garry - thanks for sharing your pictures and memories with us!
TTFN!
Edit: I was not really happy with the position of the big tree next to the church. Fortunatelöy, the glue hadn´t set yet, so moving it an inch forward was no big issue. Makes a big difference. Now I have to find a handful of grave stones to scatter underneath the tree...
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Sweet! Page 5--my favorite!
You know it is summer when, while out for your morning bike ride at 6:30, you try to find respite from the heat in the shadow of a light pole while waiting for the light to change. (I may be skinny, but not that skinny.)
As for the cologne/scent discussion, my wife picks mine since she seems to have strong feelings in the matter. Her choice--Polo Red. (She also likes Polo Black.) I remember reading years back that men are more driven by visual stimuli, while women respond more to olfactory stimuli. Who am I to argue.
As promised, here is our next stop in the Flagstaff area. Just north of Sunset Crater is the Wupatki National Monument containing the ruins of the settlements of the Cohonina, Kayenta Anasazi, and Sinagua peoples. These were a pueblo-buiding people. The area was first inhabited by the Sinagua people in 500 AD when they built a multi-story dwelling containing over 100 rooms, including a community room and a ball court. Perhaps LeBron would have had better luck playing the much shorter Sinagua Shooters. (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
The pueblo:
The ball court:
Richard
Afternoon Diners,
Well our dead tree in front of the house is gone. It took two chainsaws and a metal chain to pull it out the front yard.
Ulrich- Is there going to be more scenery like roads and grass?
angelob6660Ulrich- Is there going to be more scenery like roads and grass?
Yes, indeed!
Basically, everything not covered by grass will be roads, hence the grey color of the board. Of course, there will be some more scenic details, like sidewalks, gully grates or covers, a little roundabout with a statue, gas street lights, people, street signs, a group of nuns heading from the church to the station and maybe a lot more I can´t think of right now!
Hey diners, I passed drivers ed!!!!
I'm now emotionally exausted and mentally bankrupt!
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
NWP SWPHey diners, I passed drivers ed!!!!
Congratulation, Steven!
I did that 45 years ago and I still have vivid memories of my first attempt to drive the driver´s ed car, a 1969 Plymouth Fury with a rather touchy brake. I must have stepped a little to vigorously on the brake and that sent my driver´s ed teacher, Richard Okada, bump his head on the windscreen. We both learned a lesson - I learned what a "touchy brake" is, and he learned never to forget to buckle up for safety!
I just searched for his name and learned that he passed away on November 20th, 2005. May he rest in eternal peace!
SeeYou190My wife has insisted I wear women's Secret Baby Powder scented deoderant for 25 plus years.
SeeYou190Maybe there is something to this.
While "Dating" in highschool I discovered that the lady's liked the scent of " Loves Baby Soft" .... Sure, it's NOT a "Manly scent" .... but the girl's seemed to hang around longer when I wore it.
I also picked up a VERY worthwhile tip from my Grandmother. She suggested that I put a "Dab" of Vanilla Extract behind each ear. It make's the lady's think of home ( A familiar, comfortable, and safe place......)
Tried this on the last woman I ever dated...... we have been married for 10 year's now.( Of course now I stink of Diesel every night when I get home.)
Rust...... It's a good thing !
NWP SWPHey diners, I passed drivers ed!!!! I'm now emotionally exausted and mentally bankrupt!
That's great ! Now just remember this...
It take's 1,873 Bolt's to put a car together.
But one loose NUT can scatter it all over the road !
Dont be "THAT GUY" !
Ulrich, the layout looks great
SWP, congrats on the license. I remember taking mine 6 (already!?!?) years ago. Took me three tries to get it.
What a long day.....at least I only have to deal with that place for 9 more days. Then I move to my big boy job. I'm too tired to hang out.
Tinplate ToddlerHonestly, instead of using that manly fragrance of Old Kerosene, use baby oil and you will get more attention from young girls than your wife will allow you to!
Very funny! Don't worry, it's not my after shave. I can't do after shave, kerosene or otherwise. I have a nasty allergy to most scents.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Evening diners,
Got the back pasture bush hogged.
Thanks everybody for the congrats, I got a average 93% on the classroom instruction, I have the four days of road instruction the first week of July.
Got some people's phone numbers, gave the girl (Anna) mine, she said she'd text me.
This morning I watched CBS This Morning, they had a segment on Mr. Rogers, I remember watching it as a wee little lad, gosh I feel old, times have a changed a lot!
Evening Diners
Flo get the gang and I a Royal Crown (see if I can draw Ed out) with a chaser. Give Rick and Steven what they like.
Work sucked rail spikes while derailed in the ash pit! I will be if the company makes it though 2019.
I rember Drivers Ed. I took the Link Corse (not part of High School) so dad could get a 15% off insurances. I remeber the teacher telling me I needed to step on the gas when changing lanes. Not a problem! I like pushing on the gas pedal!
Ulrich Your layout looks like a little kids layout. So does mine in many respets. But I know that is the look you are looking for and I do like it!
Ed Any word on the HO scale Chines Imagrants? PRR coaches are looking pretty empty. I will add the I love the Tundering Tennis Balls Bessemer SD 7. I am thinking about having Tundering Tennis Balls Decoder installed in the M1A. Well that is day dream that will have to waite till I get my credit score up another 9 points.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Little TimmyOf course now I stink of Diesel every night when I get home.
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I stunk of diesel for the first twenty-five years of my marriage. Sometimes it was diesel mixed with AW-32, Ethelene Glycol, Mineral Spirits, or Crankcase Oil!
As long as I took a shower as soon as I got home, and left the uniforms in the garage, my wife was happy.
The "dream house" actually was built with a shower in the garage just to make my wife happier!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Worst thing in the world is having fuel on your hands/body, no matter how much you wash it still smells. I don't know how diesel is but gas is nasty stuff.
Still we are lured in by the aroma of motor oil, gasoline, and rubber; the rumble of an internal combustion engine at idle and the roar at redline.
I wax poetic... occasionally!
Yesterday at DE we watched a video on grade crossing safety, the other students were quite shaken by the film, some people just don't get it, a train can't stop on a dime! There was one clip of a limo driver who had gotten his limo stuck at a crossing, well he walked no more that 40 or so feet up the track towards the train, he was waving a red hanky yelling "stop! Stop!"
Really?
Did he really think the train could stop that fast?
Another issue I mentioned is if you are running away from the crossing you should of course run towards the train but not along it, in the event that a car becomes derailed it wouldn't be pretty!
Don't forget your camera!
Well I am falling asleep so goodnight everyone!
Tinplate Toddler I did that 45 years ago and I still have vivid memories of my first attempt to drive the driver´s ed car, a 1969 Plymouth Fury with a rather touchy brake.
I did that 45 years ago and I still have vivid memories of my first attempt to drive the driver´s ed car, a 1969 Plymouth Fury with a rather touchy brake.
You are so right Ulrich, those after the war 50s and 60s Chrysler products had extermly touchy power brakes on them. You could almost stand them on their nose.
Johnboy out.....................My best to Petra and You.
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Good Morning!
Sunday - time for my big breakfast. Zoe, coffee - and I mean real coffee, not that Latte something insult thing they serve at Star"suck´s", buttered toast, jams, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausages, mushrooms and a tall glass of OJ, please!
cudakenUlrich Your layout looks like a little kids layout. So does mine in many respets. But so does mine. But I know that is the look you are looking for and I do like it!
Actually, my first layout was a liitle bit more sophisticated than this one, but you are right, Ken - my layout looks like a kid´s layout - as they built them in the early 1960s. So your statement is a real compliment for me!
I have still quite a lot of work with that layout. Grass, road markings, street signs. street lights, lots of figures - and, not to forget, a little more hardware, like the still missing signals. Anyhow, this layout means more fun to me than I am allowed to admit in this forum without being called names. I don´t miss the lack of detail I wouldn´t be able to see anymore, but when that heavyweight (2 lbs.) electric loco rumbles by, it gives me more of a real railroad feeling than any of my previous highly detailed plastic ones were able to!
Talking of olfactory experiences, I think we can commonly agree that Diesel stinks, but the scent of steam and hot oil is the sweetest perfume there is!
Have a good one, y´ all!
Me again!
Some of us may remember this - a few years ago, we had a series of threads called "Philosophy Friday" - a place to discuss more esoteric views on our mutual hobby. The were fun reading material and I regret they have not been continued.
Well, this is not Friday, but Sunday, but I do have an issue that I would like to adrress to the Diner visitors and not the broad public.
Let me jump right in - I think this forum has an attitude issue! This may sound neurotic, and maybe it is, but over those nearly 10 years I have been active in this forum, I got the notion, that anyone, who is not into the mainstream of the hobby - North American HO scale model railroading on MMR level, is not really welcome here. A recent thread, in which the OP asked the simple question, why there is not more O scale model railroading resulted in the usual tirade about the usual O gauge tinplate prejudices and why anyone in command of all his/her senses simply must chose HO scale - anything else is just rubbish. I don´t think we will hear from the OP anymore. The same happens to N scalers - too small, lack of detail, not suitable for switching operation. Dare to like Bachmann products? Or BLI? Or MTH? Well, if you do, you should better not tell it in this forum. Going for a foreign prototype. Don´t expect any feedback. You are a newbie to this hobby? Heaven forbid! You get a ton of advice, which will most likely scare you away, but don´t expect an answer to the simple question you have asked.
Over the years, a number of people from all over the world have tried to establish a communication with this community, but most of them if not all have gone elsewhere in the meantime.
The place has acquired a certain elitist and intolerant air, which is also apparent in the magazine. I find it interesting that some of the folks with that attitude never show any of their work! Maybe it isn´t as elitist as they pretend it to be!
Other than Jeffrey´s Trackside Diner, which also has seen better days, I don´t think the MR forum is a worthwhile place to visit, let alone to contribute.
Maybe it is time that we all remember what used to be MR´s slogan for many years, but has disappeared from the magazine:
Model Railroading Is fun!
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Sunday - time for my big breakfast. Zoe, coffee - and I mean real coffee, not that Latte something insult thing they serve at Star"suck´s", buttered toast, jams, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausages, mushrooms and a tall glass of OJ, please!....
Hi Ulrich,
I love your old Marklin gear. I have a small collection myself. (I cut my teeth on Marklin as a youngster.) Every now and then I set up a layout on the dining room table, and wonder where I went wrong in life!
You actually have a Starbucks near 53 33 N, 10 0 E? I guess I shouldn't assume they are domestic US only.
Frank
Rip TrackYou actually have a Starbucks near 53 33 N, 10 0 E?
They have spread all over Europe like the bubonic plague in the middle ages! They are even in Vienna, the cradle of European coffee house culture! How can anyone drink coffee out of a paper cup with a plastic lid on?
Good mornimg ....
Rip Track ... Good to see you in the Diner.... Feel free to visit again soon.
Angel.... Thank you for commenting about my Verde Canyon RR photos. It sounds like you have good memories.
Ulrich ... Thanks also to you for your remarks on my photos. It was a very good trip. ..... I'm enjoying your Marklin photos, ... Regarding your comments about coffee in paper cups with plastic lids, I use cup holders in the vehicles when traveling. McCafe sometimes. LOL... As for your thoughts about people being what you call elitists, I will simply say I try not to let people bother me. Commonly, people will blow their own horn trying to appear they are important. I don't think it is a big deal, and try not to be annoyed. ...
Richard ... Your photos of Wupatki National Monument look like they belong in National Geographic. .... Thanks for sharing !
Steven NWP SWP .... Good to hear you passed drivers ed.
Here is another trip to AZ. Several years ago, we rode the Grand Canyon Railway from Williams, AZ to the rim of the Grand Canyon. It was on a line that was a branch line on the Santa Fe Railway. We paid the extra fare to ride in the dome of the Budd dome car in the last photo. (Cheap camera; bad photo quality)
Tinplate Toddler
Garry Is the train ride to the Canyon worth while? Is the landscape interesting. I've only seen the Grand Canyon once, and it was spectacular. As you drive there, other than knowing it is the destination, there is no hint of what you are about to see.
Elitism, I think much of this is just plain every day social media/Internet rudeness. Separate sub forums for O and N scale would help, but the former might cannibalize MR's other forum.
Congrats for passing Drivers Ed. I took it in summer school and they used us as messangers to drive to schools all over the county. There were no Fax machines or internet back then.I don't think that is possible now. Traffic is too slow to get anywhere, even though the Beltway has 6 more lanes then it did then.
I remember the guy I took driver ed with; he was extremely handsome, son of my dad's dentist. I just looked him up on facebook. I hope it's not the same guy. Some of the personal info fits, but it looks like he had a falling out with his dad and the entire dental profession.
There were a couple classmates and one teacher that looked like they walked straight out of the year book at my 20th reunion. Now, 30 years after that, the ones I see on facebook, are unrecognizable as the same people. At least we are still here.
Going to play with some sculptamold and permascene today. I have never used either.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Good morning diners!
Ulrich, I feel ya, some people just don't like newcomers or new ideas, I've seen this in our, OUR HOBBY, and elsewhere both on the interwebs and in real life.
Anyone who chooses O or N more power to 'em.
Now here in the diner we could use some more patrons, perhaps add newcomers welcome to the title?
As far as coffee goes I rarely drink it, when I do I try to find some decent stuff, nor mccafe.
Well I'll be back in a bit!
Well, I am not on a crusade against fast food or fast drinks, but my life has been at stake too many times that I´d like to savour any moment of it. And that goes as well for the food I eat! As much as I enjoy a decent hamburger (with all the works) now and then, as much lets the thought of drinking coffee imposters out of a paper cup shudder me. No one thinks of drinking a 1959 Chateau Lafite Rothschild out of a paper cup or a mug!
BigDaddy Garry Is the train ride to the Canyon worth while? Is the landscape interesting. I've only seen the Grand Canyon once, and it was spectacular. As you drive there, other than knowing it is the destination, there is no hint of what you are about to see.
Henry .... The scenery from Williams to the canyon is not very interesting. When the train gets to the destination, it is a short walk from the train to the canyon where it is spectacular as you said. Unforgettable.
NWP SWPStill we are lured in by the aroma of motor oil, gasoline, and rubber; the rumble of an internal combustion engine at idle and the roar at redline.
Not me.
If I am not bringing in $140.00/hour to repair it, I could care less about any internal combustion engine. Diesel fuel smells like money. If there is no money to be made, just walk away.
The first quick & dirty video of my new train set soon becoming a layout: