Goodmorning,
(To the cops, ohh, goodmorning to my upstairs neighbor, to the kids at 42, anyone who lent me a favor)
Sorry that's a song.
Well I'm heading to the club for the open house.
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
Hopefully my divorce will be finalized this week and I can have access to MY money again so I can get a house. My girlfriend got an offer on her townhouse last week, so we could be moving pretty soon.
That means I can start putting my layout together again!
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Mr B that will be a big relief.
Went to Timonium today. It was as empty as a spring train show. Bought a Wow sound decoder for my Bachmann 4-4-0
Talked to a guy who makes limited runs of custom freight cars. He thinks his 1/4 million dollar worth of tooling is lost. The factory that shut down owes creditors more than a million dollars and the government isn't letting anything leave the factory until someone pays. He thinks some companies are going out of business because of it. A company he did not name has $10 million in tooling sitting in the factory.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
All these cat pictures are making me cat-atonic.........
Got a customer radio finished last night. a 1947 Firestone console.
Got my window unit A/Cs out of the upstairs before it turns supercold.
Evening folks!
Here's the open house photos.
http://imgur.com/a/iLBJZNe
Eveing Diners
Sniff, Sniff, ah Flo you need to clean the litter box it stinks in here.
Good Day Bad Day.
Good Part With going back too work Monday I finally got my Wife to walk Sparkie! She kept saying she could not walking him! Finally with this being last day off it forced her to. She had no problems getting in or out of the house! I feel better about going back to work now. If we did not have Sparkie I would have been back to work 2 weeks ago.
Bad Part Got the PRR M1a button up, back on the RIP track or trash can. Ok, I knew there are 2 towel gears and I gambled it was the easy one to get to (I replaced onces all ready) and lost. What really has me steamed is I now have no headlight!
Not sure if I want to try to repair again. Might be the time to pull the trigger on a Heavy Pacific?
Have to get up early to take wife to therapy before work then see what kind of mess I am walking into.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Good Evening —
Nice, rainy and chilly night. Great weather to do some fun modeling things...
Sorry to hear your M1 is giving you fits, Ken. So far I've been lucky with Broadway Limited gears. Had a pair of PRR I1s that had split axle gears and they sent me two replacements.
How many lucky kids had one of these to play with?
Dashboard_50s by Edmund, on Flickr
Geez, I seem to remember seeing one, was it Kenner? Maybe one of my "better-off" friends had one. Or did I see one in the window of Halle's Department Store?
Sure would be a fun toy! [I did a Google and found it was made by the "Deluxe Reading" Playmobile Co.]
Uncle_Bob The Mrs and I lost our furry daughter about 10 days ago. We're still recovering from that.
I sure understand how you feel, Uncle Bob. Like many here we have had our share of heartache at the loss of a cherished pet.
Well, time for a sip of brandy and then head down stairs.
We wrap-up October this week! My how time flies —
Cheers, Ed
Uncle_Bob Nice cats, guys. The Mrs and I lost our furry daughter about 10 days ago. We're still recovering from that. The pics help, especially little gray cats. Thanks. Last, as a good Jaw-juh fan, I have to say "It's great to be a Gator hater!".
Nice cats, guys. The Mrs and I lost our furry daughter about 10 days ago. We're still recovering from that. The pics help, especially little gray cats. Thanks.
Last, as a good Jaw-juh fan, I have to say "It's great to be a Gator hater!".
Uncle_Bob, I'm sorry for your loss. We lost our eldest, a big brown tabby named Pixel, earlier this year. We just last month adopted a sprightly kitten who's his spitting image. We named her Missabe for the DM&IR, and she's bringing us a lot of joy.
(But if you want help getting back into the website, watch what you say about your moderator's alma mater. )
gmpullman Good Evening — How many lucky kids had one of these to play with? Dashboard_50s by Edmund, on Flickr Geez, I seem to remember seeing one, was it Kenner? Maybe one of my "better-off" friends had one. Or did I see one in the window of Halle's Department Store? Sure would be a fun toy! [I did a Google and found it was made by the "Deluxe Reading" Playmobile Co.]
GMPullman, wow, that's definitely from the days before airbags. Or Ralph Nader, I'm guessing. Lots of nice narrow metal edges ready to meet your forehead in a crash. (Yes, I know it's a toy; I'm talking about the car it's modeled after.)
NWP_SWP, wow, you dodged a bullet there, son.
Track Fiddler, yes, we all know what the phrase means, but let's keep the language clean, before Vinny has do demonstrate where the phrase came from.
Anyway, who's hungry for bagels and lox? I know I am.
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Mornin' folks,
Just got back from Home Depot, had to get some 1x4s for a tin roof were putting up, some being 100!
I've got a busy day again today, between construction, my voice lesson, and getting my truck inspected, I'm going to be running all day!
And yes Mr. Otte, I dodged a bullet, BIG TIME!
Hello folks, MR has finally let me log in again. So,
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Howdy.
Der John ..... I have been wondering where you were. Glad you reconnected to the forum.
Everybody ... Who has suggestions for November Diner location?
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Heartland Division CB&Q Howdy. Everybody ... Who has suggestions for November Diner location?
Always liked Euclid Beach (and now that the Metroparks owns it, hear it's super nice again).
Right down the street from Collinwood Yard too.
-Dan
Builder of Bowser steam! Railimages Site
Heartland Division CB&Q Everybody ... Who has suggestions for November Diner location?
Miami Beach!
November... Thanksgiving... Turkey... Istanbul?
More good news. The ablation procedure to get my heart out of atrial fibrillation and back to normal rhythm is scheduled for November 15. I should feel better and stronger after that.
Terry
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
Ed, that dashboard looks familiar. If I had one, it must have broken in short order, because I don't remember it very well.
Speaking of broken, my grandmother's mantle clock, with beautiful Westminster chimes, has met it's end. We have spent lots of money keeping this thing running. Today I noticed it was stopped. I wound it, it has 3 key holes. The first was still fairly tight. A bad sign, as it is usually the one that runs out first. The next hole caused the minute hand to fall to 6 o'clock, where the key was. When I took the key out, the hand spun like a propeller.
It's ironic that I am a Nascar fan and the prize for the race this weekend was a Grandfather clock.
Turkey? I am sure Ulrich could tell us more about Turkey than any of us gringos know. I didn't like the newest Murder On the Orient Express. The PBS and older versions were better.
Spent a BLI DCC Steam loco worth on Toby the wonder dog with the bad GI tract. In human medicine, labs, doctors, hospitals charge a fortune and hope that insurance will pay some of it. In veternary medicine, they demand the fortune, up front.
Mr B I hope that works. I had AF after my heart valve replacement and am probably at higher risk for it to return. There used to be a procedure to put a basket type device in the heart to trap blood clots, but I can't find that on a google search so they must not do it any more.
When I was a resident, they used to tie off the left atrial appendage to prevent blood clots if AF was a problem later. I asked my surgeon about that and he looked at me like I had 2 heads, so I guess that didn't work either.
wow we just had a high speed chase pass in front of the house. About 10 cop cars doing 90. armed suspect was throwing money out the window later in the persuit. don't know if they got him or not.
Drinks are on you. People are crazier than they used to be.
BigDaddyPeople are crazier than they used to be.
That's not exactly the whole picture, as I see it. Sometime in the late 1950s - early sixties, the general trend was to allow institutionalized people to medicate themselves on an outpatient basis.
The mental hospitals were shut down (cost savings?) and the patients were pretty much allowed to go about freely in society. I believe some of those same patients felt that they were "cured" and subsequently stopped taking their medication. The results weren't always successful.
To think that there are more — or less, people with psychological issues than there were a generation or two past doesn't quite tell the whole story.
Well, that's how I see it anyway...
Back to trains, the great panacea for the idle mind
GTW_3734_edited-1 by Edmund, on Flickr
Afternoon All!
Hobby Front: I am in a very good mood this afternoon. I finally found three bottles of the rare Polly Scale MEC Pine Green that I use for the main color of my protolanced road. The proce the seller wanted wasn't even out of line either. (The silver is generic enough that that color is not a problem.) The bottles should be here next Monday or so.
My custom decals should be here tommorow so that I can get the new passenger cars decaled.
Flo, get the gang and I a please and leave a stein outside for Ulrich.
My rail spike is dragging on the ballast tonight. I was up this morning at 6:15 AM so I could drink my and get ready for work before I took Sue to therapy. She did well today but complaing tonight she hurts. So I guess she is getting better, using stuff she had not been using.
Got to the store, could not find my chair, desk or well any thing I used. Paper work?
Then I decied I dont care! I did not make this mess so I am not going to clean it up!
Later, I dont care Ken
Mornin' everyone!
Coffee and some of that famous sauasge gravy sounds pretty good today.
I got the controller chips for that LED project I'm working on - and hooo-boy were they not kidding when they said "micro". Although when I was drawing up the schematic, I got my model numbers reversed, and ended up with the 0.150" wide (by whatever long) chips, rather than the 0.200" wide ones.
That being said though, 1/8" is still plenty big to work with fairly easily (thank you, Tichy grab irons).
Just waiting on the PCB manufacturer to get done with the boards, so I can get everything put together.
cudaken Got to the store, could not find my chair, desk or well any thing I used. Paper work? Then I decied I dont care! I did not make this mess so I am not going to clean it up!
Sure you were at the right store?
Order up, Dan!
I bought another tire pressure gauge. I can't find the old one. I am driving a lot of miles tomorrow and I want my tires to be right. I would probably just drive, but the tire pressure light is on. Those stupid lights give a lot of false alarms, but I don't want to take any chances.
Speaking of pressure, my cardiologist took me off my blood pressure meds (Losartan) because of possible interactions with my heart meds. Not sure what that will do to my BP, though.
High speed chase update. Guy was being chased out of Illinois into KY then tried to escape though our neighborhood. All the money he was throwing out was counterfit so he was trying to get rid of evidence. They caught him about 15 minutes later.
not much else on the MLC front.
Steve O, In one of the ask MR columns ( Oct I think) I noticed you answered a question about "stripping " magnet wire shelac with a hobby knife or razor blade. There are two more methods. fine sandpaper and I usually burn it off with a lighter or small pencil torch.
moelarrycurly4 Steve O, In one of the ask MR columns ( Oct I think) I noticed you answered a question about "stripping " magnet wire shelac with a hobby knife or razor blade. There are two more methods. fine sandpaper and I usually burn it off with a lighter or small pencil torch.
Yeah, a lot of people sent that tip in. If I didn't have so many tips on other topics to publish, I'd print it.