Tinplate Toddlerthe postman brought the backdrop print. It is printed on vinyl canvass with a cloth backing, which makes it easy to glue on a üiece of hardboard. A trip to our local DIY store resulted in a board and a length of lumber, cut to size - all for less than € 5. Two hours and quite a number of 4-letter words later, everything is on its designated place and the layout now looks like this:
WOW Ulrich!!
Once again you have worked miracles with your backdrops. It looks fantastic! It totally brings the layout to life IMHO.
Based partly on your inspiring work I'm going to suggest to the club that we invest in some decent quality backdrops for the new layout. Right now all we have is blue walls with some clouds spray painted on them. We will have to invest in some lighting as well or the backdrop will not stand out.
Thanks,
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
NWP SWPMy truck is a 93 f150 it's an OBS F Series (Old Body Style)
Handsome truck Steven! Much better looking than the newer models IMHO.
We just got back from Prince Edward Island. We had a great trip except for two things. One was the mosquitos! About the worst I have ever experienced!! Fortunately they only lasted a couple of days.
The other was the rental car! We were informed by the very friendly and polite rental company representative that we were being given a complimentary upgrade to an SUV because they didn't have any of the full sized Chevy sedans that we had asked for. OK, so far so good, or so we thought. The upgraded SUV was a Volkswagen Tiguan with 3000 kms on it.
Let me first explain that I have never been a Volkswagen fan. I won't get into why, but this rental proved to me that my opinion was correct.
The first weakness, again IMHO, was that it shut off the engine every time you came to a full stop. OK, I'm in favour of reducing greenhouse gases, but the problem was that when you wanted to go again the throttle response from a dead start was very feeble and the power increase as the car accelerated was very uneven. If you did want to accelerate faster, the engine jumped to insanely high revs but the acceleration was still poor. I learned that I could beat the system by stopping a little further back from the car in front and then slightly letting up on the brake before the light turned green. That started the engine before there was a need to accelerate so the throttle response was much more linear.
Keeping the thing at a constant speed was also nearly impossible. The feedback between throttle position and speed was non-existent. It was hard to keep the car within 5 kph without constantly watching the speedometer, that is if you could find the speedometer. The Tiguan has both analogue and digital speed readouts. Unfortunately the analogue speedometer is positioned such that the normal highway speed range is blocked by the steering wheel, at least for me. Read on about the digital speedometer.
The other criticism is that the IT systems are way, way, way too complicated!!!! There are so many options that figuring them out is like trying to learn a new CAD program or other similarly complicated software. As an example, I wanted to simply have the speed shown in the central digital display. What I got was anything from who the Bluetooth phone was trying to connect to, to what my gas consumption was over the last period (with no indication of the length of the period I might add). It took me four days to figure out how to get the information that I wanted on the central display. Part of the problem was that if you made the slightest contact with the readout control buttons on the steering wheel spokes the readout would change. Then, to add insult to injury, there was no choice that simply said 'speed', and deciding which option would actually show the speed was a crap shoot!
Another example is the multiple drive train setting options. There is a knob on the console that offers 5 or 6 different driving settings from normal road driving to four wheel drive mountain climbing. OK, I wanted normal road driving so I selected it. That should be it, right? Not so. The 'Normal Driving' setting gives you four more options like 'Sport" setting. I can't remember the rest. Who needs all of this?!?! If they were smart they would offer a simple setting for stupid people like me so we could tell the car to just drive down the road, PLEASE! Just select 'Stupid Driver' and go!
I might add that the driver's manual was pretty much useless too. The rear interior dome lights stayed on when we were driving. We never did figure out how to turn them off.
Enough ranting!
I guess the bottom line Steven is that I envy your old and simple Ford F150 that doesn't require multiple degrees in IT and engineering to figure it out. I dread the next new vehicle that I have to buy. I don't want to have to go through the learning curve figuring out how to operate it.
Sorry for the long post.
Tinplate ToddlerDave - I like GL´s music, but I never dug into his or anybody else´s "vital statistics". I am just not interested in such kind of information. Sorry for being such an ignoramus
Ulrich, no need to apologise. I wasn't trying to be critical. Sorry if it came off that way.
I don't follow those sorts of details either, and I have to admit that I had to search for Lightfoot's information for my post. I know what music I like and I listen to it, but there are very few songs that I can remember all the lyrics to or remember who wrote and performed them.
Sorry to hear about the backdrop problem. I'm glad that it should be a simple fix.
All the best!
Tinplate ToddlerI learned to drive on a 1970 Ford F 100 2WD in boxwood green.
Another beautiful classic Ford truck!
I learned to drive in a totally clapped out Jaguar XK150S that my brother owned. It was rusting and the tires were bald, but it still went like a cat out of hell, that is if the roads were dry!
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
hon30critterI’m considering getting my name tattooed on the inside of my left arm, in case I forget who I am!! Don't bother Bear. You will forget which arm it is on! Dave
Don't bother Bear. You will forget which arm it is on! Dave
Ummmm! Wots an arm????
Cheers, the ........????
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws-_syszg84
A Johnny Cash song that fits steven's Truck
Thanks MLC great cheerful morning tune to start my day. Sure wish I could post a Johnny Cash song. I have a hard enough time posting pictures without worrying about infringing on copyrights.
Positive thoughts and best wishes to all that need them.... have a great day y'all.
PS I like Ford trucks Steven. I've been driving one all my life. Nice!
Mornin'.....
I'm up a pound this morning.... Grrrrrr. Probably just too much salt in the diet yesterday.
First truck I learned to drive was one that was the big brother of this one:
That is a 1934 1.5 ton pickup. The one we had on the farm was a 4 ton flatbed that dad built a mechanical unloading gate on. I was all of 7 years old when I learned to drive it. It was blue but likely had the same inline 6 engine and 4 speed transmission. I was probably the only 7 year old in the country that knew how to double clutch to downshift. We also had a 1936 version of the same truck as well. Dad found an old really beat up 1935 one that we used for parts and for a major home for wasp nests parked out in the back pasture behind the barn. LOL
New sport that some of you would probably like!
Best get my butt out and start to mow the hay field around my house before the rain comes back!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Mornin all. It is another warm sunny day so I'll just have a quick coffee and be out the door.
I just dropped in to show Ray this new doorbell he can get for his house and it is for sale close to home. I'd offer them $50.00, you never know.
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/antique-train-steam-locomotive-engine-brass-bel-af540ebb1b
I was searching auctions and it popped up as I was expanding my search internationally.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Here is the Depot in Gracey KY which is near the KY / TN Border going towards "Nashvegas"
Paducah Shops 1940
Paducah Shops 1927
Paducah Shops 1967
Morning All!
Hobby Front: The foam production has advanced greatly. I finally found the right machine to get the foam the right size. It just will take awhile to get all the foam I have chopped down. (Two shoeboxes full of foam of one color and a bit more of another.)
Afternoon folks!
Tinplate ToddlerThere was that certain, rather secluded spot, which was a favourite Friday night place to go to with your date.
Growing up in Canandaigua, NY there were several spots overlooking the lake that were, ah.... had the same reputation. Personally I knew some other places out in the country which weren't quite so crowded though....
Afternoon folks,
Yeah there's nothing like those old trucks, I've been driving my truck for about a week straight, then yesterday I drove my mom's new minivan, not fun at all, the steering is much to sensitive, the brakes are wonky, and the throttle response is numb, makes for an overall weird driving experience.
I think I've squashed the gas gremlin on my truck, I modified the intake system on the dirty side of the filter, these old trucks have a "snorkle" that goes from the air box to right under the tip of the hood. Problems one and two were the baffles in this snorkle duct and the duct inlet itself, seems as thought when the throttle is opened the inlet squeezes down and cuts off flow, a piece of 2X2 in the inlet fixed that.
I'm contemplating replacing the O2 sensor to try to boost gas mileage further.
I'm also thinking about buying three buildings for a mine diorama, the two Walthers mine kits, (the three track and two track tipple) and the old grain elevator kit, I might need some conveyors too.
I also have to finish the heavy flat car and load.
Well I'll be in later.
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
Evening Diners
I was very sad to hear Burt Reynolds died today at the age of 82.
I really enjoyed Burt in all his movies. Everyone loved Smokey and the Bandit, how could you not? He had a few good ones he starred in with Dom DeLuise as well.
Burt always seemed the same person in real life as he was in his movies. On talk shows for instance.
I'm sure he's in a better place now.... Here's to you Burt. Thanks for a lifetime of great entertainment
Good afternoon ..
NWP SWP ... I think a pick up truck is a great choice for a first vehicle.
Ulrich .... The backdrop definately, makes the scene look real. ...
Everybody .... Thanks for the Anniversary greetings..... Also, glad you like my "Skookum".... Speaking of gifts from my wife as well as pickup trucks, I'll tell you in 2002, my wife gave me a very big surprise..... She paid cash for a brand new Chevy Avalanche. I still have it !.... Remarkably, it has never had a mechaical problem with one exception... One of our cats got under th hood several years ago. I started the vehicle injuring the cat and breaking the surpentine belt.
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MLC .... You are doing a great job of posting historical photos of mostly the IC in KY. ... The IC Hopkinsville depot is gone, but the L&N depot is still there and the local art association uses it. .... By the way, we had our anniversary dinner in Hopkinsville last evening.
I have a book entitled "Kentucky and the Illinois Central Railroad" by Clifford Downey. Below are photos from it.
Fort Knox, KY was a station on the Illinois Central Railroad. Today's Paducah & Louisville passes through there.
Soldiers arrived and departed by IC trains at the station below.
In 1936, the US Treasury estblished the US Bullion Depositary in Fort Knox. During the next five years, 84 heavily fortified trains deliverd gold.
In the photo below, gold has been transferred to trucks, and a convoy is headed to Ft. Knox.
In the last photo, the convoy is entering Ft . Knox.
If you want to model a gold train, this was how it was done.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Better late than never.... "Happy anniversary Garry" !
Heartland Division CB&QIf you want to model a gold train, this was how it was done.
Oh, Thanks Garry!
After I've already built a roster of these guys...
Lionel_Knox by Edmund, on Flickr
Well — maybe I can turn them into aquarium cars and fill them with gold fish or Nemo?
Lots of great photos, MLC!
Cheers, Ed
Afternoon Diners
Flo get the gang and I a and Ulrich, Rick and Steven what they want.
So Gary, it was a catastrofic beak down?
Down in the dumps today. Brain still hurts from all the poop I had to deal with at work. While vented to you folks and my wife I am sure you don't understand the pressuer I feel.
Had to get away from the wife and vent to someone that understand! So I went to our Fluorsent Store and vistied with my friend and fellow manager Larry S. Spent about two hours with him and we Laughting Our Cabooses off! While it was not funny when I was dealing with it, it is now and I feel a little better!
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Evening Diners A beautiful cool evening here in Minnesota. I am out on the porch enjoying every minute of it. I hope it's cool for a change where you live
Can someone please help me out here. I am still quite a bit computer, smart phone illiterate. Ed explained it to me once, somehow I lost my notes.
How do you post a link from the internet to post on the Forum?
My appreciation and thank you in advance TF
Track fiddlerHow do you post a link from the internet to post on the Forum?
1) click on the URL address, thats the area in the browser (any browser) where the address is something like
www.csx.com
It should turn blue. Touch the control key and the 'c' key at the same time. That is a universal copy command.
In this forum, when you post, there are 2 rows of Icons. Below the Italic I is a thing that is supposed to be a diagonal chain symbolizing a link. Click that. A new window will open and your cursor will be flashing in the URL box. Touch the control key and V at the same time. That is the universal Paste command.
Don't monkey with text to display, for now. Click open in new page. That preserves the readers place in the thread, while opening the link in another tab.
Just click OK.
If you go back to edit your post, this forum forget what you just did and that link won't be clickable. Drag and highlight the link, hit control X, which is the "cut" command, then click on the link and hit Control V again. That restores the clickability of the link.
Links to the forum or anything on
cs.trains.com
don't work this way. You have to type in your post an open bracket, not a parenthesis, URL and then the closed bracket, copy your link and the open bracket /URL and closed bracket. Don't use any of the icons to do this.
Every once in a while, the above instructions don't work and you can't make it clickable. I'm having problems with that right now. I can't get those two links to be clickable. In which case, it they are clickable now, the bracket url trick worked
edit I give up, links aren't clickable tonight. I swear it used to work.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Thanks Henry I will give it a go.
This internet idiot (myself) has no guarantees, I will see what I can do.
Things are a little trickier on a smartphone, which is recently new to me. Both my daughters have coached me quite a bit on operating a phone that's smarter than me Mind you, I haven't owned a computer for 5 years.
Wish me luck
The site is a little goofy, very slow. My post messed up more than once. Have a great night everyone TF
PS It's deader in the Diner tonight than brown toenails
Evening all,
My truck is giving me trouble, when I'm accelerating to highway speed the AC stops blowing cold. I turn it off and on again and it starts blowing cold. I don't know what that's about.
I'm wanting to go to pull a part tomorrow to get some parts for my truck. I'm Looking for a early 90s 302 intake manifold (upper and lower) off a Mustang or Explorer, they're supposed to give a bit more power.
Back to trains,
Tomorrow I might order a building kit or two.
Well I'll be around.
Hey Stephen How you doing? I like your truck.... you might not like it so much right now
Things could be worse if you needed a Freon recharge this late in the year.
Sounds to me like the switch is jacked. I could be right I could be wrong.... I've had my share of problems with switch relays with my Fords TF
PS If that's what it is it's a simple fix
I think it could be the switches, I will check them, somebody told me the AC was leaking, I think it was Ben at the rr club. He didn't elaborate just that it was leaking.
My dad is suspecting that it's because I cut the baffle out of the intake "snorkle" which it isn't I didn't cut it while it was in the truck and it's nowhere near the AC system.
Do you know if those "AC Stop Leak" recharge kits are on the up and up? Should I just get it looked at by a shop?
Thanks, I need this sorta wisdom with those old trucks.