Is anything driving you crazy right now?

[Track fiddler]

Yup  

I was just out at my friend Erv's today.  He knows Judy and I have Mondays off together.  He said come out tomorrow and have Judy play Captain & Drive the Mastercraft all over the lake.  

Sounds like a plan to me.  I know better.  Judy doesn't even own a car and I drive her everywhere she goes.

I don't think this one's going to fly but I'm going to work on it in a few minutes here.......... 

I will try anything just to give that 55 year old woman a little more confidence.  It is really what she needs.

TF

[SeeYou190]

SeeYou190

I just found out Skycraft parts in Orlando is moving from the same location they have occupied for my entire life.

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This was a bit of an over-reaction on my part.

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I went to Skycraft Parts yesterday and found out the move will not take place for about a year, and they intend to keep the retail store open after the move.

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They also intend to keep all the items in stock they have had since the beginning.

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Skycraft Parts is on several "Tem Places you MUST visit in Florida that are not theme parks or beaches" lists. It is something to see if you ever get a chance.

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This is all very good news for me.

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-Kevin

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[rs2mike]

Sorry Ed. Been busy with yard work and have not been on here lately. I unfortunately have not gotten the chance to open it up yet. All I know is it is in the grey and red box. What time I have had has been spent finishing up a painting project on an rs11. Hopefully this week i will get a chance to peekmat it some more.

 

mike

[SeeYou190]

I just found out the Golden Spike Train Show was last weekend in Tampa, and I missed it.

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That is going to drive me crazy for a few months.

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-Kevin

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[SeeYou190]

riogrande5761

What is driving me crazy is now for almost 2 years I haven't been able to work on a layout.  Summer 2017 I tore down my last layout,

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I am in the same situation. I ripped out the "spare bedroom" layout and purged my projects two years ago. I still do not have a lyout room.

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To help and provide therapy, I built a "section" of a layout that will not ever be used for anything, but it sure helped my mental stability.

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-Kevin

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[gmpullman]

Big Four. Period!

 

Big_Four-2 by Edmund, on Flickr

 

Regards, Ed

[NittanyLion]

gmpullman

 

 

tstage

A title is a title; it should not have a period at the end.

 

 

I agree, Tom. The title is not considered a complete sentence.

I have noticed a precedent, though. Many signs I have seen in photos from the late 1800s to maybe 1920s seem to have many superfluous periods painted on them. I wonder how that practice came about?

Cheers, Ed

 

I think they counted even what we'd call a fragment as an actual sentence and felt it needed a period.  It goes back way further than the late 1800s too.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=NKlx0PmyA3cC&dat=17970923&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

The newspaper's title(!) is neatly equipped with a period in 1797.

This one dates to 1788 and has a mix of periods and commas after headlines and titles https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=IEpB_1CIIT4C&dat=17380828&printsec=frontpage&hl=en  The site calls it a 1738 edition, but I suspect it is unlikely that George Washington would appear in their nameplate as an adult when he was six years old.  A keen eye may note that he is referred to as "Geo. Washington Esq" as he was not yet President Washington.

This 1759 newspaper from Scotland https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=sJRvXmEhuqoC&dat=17591008&printsec=frontpage&hl=en also has periods in places we'd consider incorrect.

[riogrande5761]

Back to train related - since this a  train forum...

What is driving me crazy is now for almost 2 years I haven't been able to work on a layout.  Summer 2017 I tore down my last layout, moved to a fixer upper house in Nov 2017.  There were some rehab projects on the main floor and master bath that ate up all of 2018 and did not want to build a layout in an unfinished basement.  End of December basement finishing started in ernest (although some preliminary stuff had been done previous fall, such as outlet wiring and bathroom rough-in plumbing).  Still a couple 2-3 months out from the basement being finished.  So yeah, it seems to be a watched pot never boils syndrome.  Add to that, the guy who does our plumbing and electrical had his mother in law pass away last week and that's delayed things a bit more.  Hope to have the ceiling mostly done in the next couple weeks.  Onward and upward.

[Track fiddler]

I hear you Rio loud and clear.  I'm not going downtown anymore.  I can't deal with the frustration.  

Actually the customer I worked for that day tipped me 40 bucks over and above my invoice.  If I look at it that way, my parking ticket only cost me $5.  ..........?...?

Heck with that!   I would have rather taken the extra 40 and bought a jug

TF

[Midwest Northern R.R]

My favorite YouTuber (Photonicinduction) says hes gonna upload soon (which he hasen't for 2 years), for about two weeks now, And I cant find parts to a couple of TYCO power torque motors.

These have been eating at my head for almost a year now.

[riogrande5761]

Track fiddler

Yes.  I got a parking ticket last week in downtown Minneapolis.  I shouldn't have got the damn parking ticket.  I don't go downtown hardly ever at all

That's why I avoid going into cities like the plague.  I get burned enough that it's once bitten, twice shy.

[Track fiddler]

Yes.  I got a parking ticket last week in downtown Minneapolis.  I shouldn't have got the darn parking ticket.  I don't go downtown hardly ever at all.  I was still in my morning haze when I got there and I looked at the number in front of my truck and paid the pay box.  The number I payed for was for the space in front of my truck.

A parking ticket is no longer 10-12 $15 it's 45.  I don't have time to go downtown and see a hearing officer and show him the receipt that I paid.  I'd probably get another parking ticket while I'm down there waiting for my number to come up to see the hearing officer.  

I'm just going to pay the ticket but the fact of the matter is driving me crazy.  It just ain't right, I paid.

TF

[Bigjim7]

Yea that's a good way to look at it. After messing around today I really like the new area better. I will post pic's tomorrow of the new place in my old thread,

[jjdamnit]

Hello All,

Bigjim7

But 2 weeks of work on the Plant was wasted'...

After seeing your photos and looking at all the responses you got to your questions about this build I would not say it was a waste of time.

Think of it as a construction delay due to relocation!

Hope this helps.

[Bigjim7]

I been going crazy over to make a point to point or make it a loop with a lift out.  I buildt my Ethanol plant in the corner of the 12 by 22 ft room and it would not allow a loop. So after a week of going nuts I decided to move the Ethanol plant and have a Layout where one could go all way around. But 2 weeks of work on the Plant was wasted' but I feel so much better that now I can run trains constant all way around. Plus now I like my new spot for the Ethanol plant better.  I love point to point but having the ability to run trains around the room will make for better action. All my kids and grandkids will like that. I can get another NCE controller and 2 can play easier now. Thanks less crazy now.

[SeeYou190]

I just found out Skycraft parts in Orlando is moving from the same location they have occupied for my entire life.

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This news is driving me crazy.

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-Kevin

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[gmpullman]

rs2mike

I just bought a new walthers sperry inspection loco and the thing won't move. 

Hi, Mike

Is it one of the "re-engineered" Sperry cars or one of the originals?

The original release is belt drive and the later release are geared directly.

SRS_123b by Edmund, on Flickr

This shows the older belt drive above and the gear drive below.

Good luck getting inside  at least the one I tried to pry open was nearly impossible when I decided to put a decoder in. I gave up and bought a later model that was much easier to open. 

Take a look here for some good pics of the belt. It is just an O ring and is easy to change.

https://tcsdcc.com/installation/ho-scale/sperry-rail-car/wow101-diesel

You can have my old one if you need parts, send me a PM.

Cheers, Ed

[rs2mike]

I just bought a new walthers sperry inspection loco and the thing won't move.  The motor runs and the wheels move but it self won't move.  Everything is free and moving on the rear trucks.  This now means a complete teardown to figure out what is going on with this thing.  Not something I wanted to do because I originally had plans to repaint the thing as a home road paint scheme but talked myself out of it.  Now I figure since it will be apart why not.  Like I need another paint project.  I already have 4 alco's torn down in various stages of repainting.

 

 

[ATSFGuy]

Waiting for some Home Shows or Train Shows to pop up so I can run my trains on the Club's "Module Layout", as well as walk around and look at vendor stands. Orange County Modular Railroaders has hit a slow point where less than two/three shows have happened this year. The club normally does nine/ten shows a year, but I pick the ones close to home. Our club cancelled two shows because the parking fares were simply too high.

Although I realize most Moduar Clubs have run into this from time to time, I'm hoping 2020 will be better. The reduction of shows started in 2016 and countiued this year. Both 2017 and 2018 were slow years.

Maybe clubs in other parts of the country are having better luck.

[jjdamnit]

Hello All,

I use a lot of rattle can paints. I do have two airbrushes but for some applications I prefer the cost, ease of use and coverage that rattle cans provide.

For Santa Fe yellow I found a passable match- -Valspar Flat Caramel Honey (86009) that was available at Lowe's.

I just finished my last can of this color on a Gunderson well car scratch build.

Needing to replenish my stock I searched the Lowe's website.

Shock of all shocks this color is no longer manufactured by Velspar!

SeeYou190

What is eating at you right now?

The frustration of finding a color and then having it discontinued!!!

After an internet search I found what might be a replacement match from Krylon. I will need to do a paint match test to determine how close this "new" color matches.

Thanks for letting me vent.

Hope this helps.

Post Script: Yes, I know I am reviving an older thread but frustration has no statute of limitations!
HTH

[Jones1945]

I have been waiting for a de-skirted HO scale PRR S1 for years, I have heard from various sources that BLI want to make it but there is no update since Dec 2018. I have one pro painted full-skirted version by HO NJ Custom Brass (1981 run) though. 

Pre-ordered the Loewy PRR K4s by BLI, but the project is stalling.

If everything goes back on the right track, I am gonna get a full-skirted PRR Q1 for my Raymond Loewy collection (I have a de-skirted version of it)

Still waiting for any manufacturer to make a plastic version of the 1939 PRR Trail Blazer or the Broadway Limited. I don't wanna pay $7000 for something looks as good as plastic. 

I want to custom make a huge display case with lights inside it but it is on hold due to many...... many reasons. 

[SPSOT fan]

Speaking of stuff I’d like in plastic, when can we get a decent Alco C415, some good railroads used those! What about a GE P30CH? Loads of 70s modelers would buy those!

[Overmod]

NHTX

 

 

steemtrayn

 

rrebell

 

 

steemtrayn

We can have this...

this...

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but we can't have this...

 

 

 

You aren't going to like this but just saw one a week or so ago. Looked at it because I admired the work but didn't need it

 

 

 

 

 

Brass, right? I have an A-B-A set, factory painted from Oriental, but I'm waiting for someone to mass produce them in plastic. The excuses  I get don't make sense to me, when those other limited interest units are being made. (Which, by the way, is a good thing.)

The problem here includes the fact that we DID have BP-20s, via the Miracle Castings shells, and for all these years no one has re-offered them or something like them.  Which is really all that is required for many of us enthusiasts who can't spring for a fleet of Oriental masterpieces at thousands a set...

(I bought an Alco Models set with great enthusiasm when they came out in the '70s and had to use the then-cutting-edge-in-MR Clouser epoxy casting methods to make another shell for the A-B-A set ... problem is that by the time you get through the drive replacement, chassis weighting and everything else needed you have eliminated any collector v and done much of the work even a crude but accurately-dimensioned shell and frame set would entail ...

[York1]

Yes!

Our computer printer ran out of colored ink.

The ink cartridge cost more than the price of a new printer.  

[doctorwayne]

tstage

Wayne, Not in the text field; in the subject title field - e.g. like the heading of a newspaper article or name of a book. A title is a title; it should not have a period at the end. A question mark or exclamation point? - Yes. A period? - No....

Ah, yes, I understand now, and agree completely. 

After I had written my original reply, the thought occurred to me that I often use the dots as the "pregnant pause", just before delivering a photo.

Wayne

[tstage]

hon30critter

Yes! My back is driving me nuts again! The small progress that I had two weeks ago after the IMS treatment has been replaced by severe spasms when I try to move around, and now I can't lay down without using pain killers.

To say that I am bugged right now would be a huge understatement.

Dave

Ah, Dave - I feel for you.  I had severe back spasms 30 years ago and it was VERY humbling.  I literally had to crawl to the bathroom.  And just getting out of bed was a 5-min. ordeal.

Tom

[gmpullman]

tstage

A title is a title; it should not have a period at the end.

I agree, Tom. The title is not considered a complete sentence.

I have noticed a precedent, though. Many signs I have seen in photos from the late 1800s to maybe 1920s seem to have many superfluous periods painted on them. I wonder how that practice came about?

Cheers, Ed

[tstage]

doctorwayne

tstage

Folks who place periods in their subject lines...

Tom, the . at the end of a sentence is a period, while these....are simply dots, indicating a pause or a shift in content.  I use them all the time when I'm including photos interspersed between blocks of text, but certainly wasn't trying to drive you crazy.
I also use them when I include a quote, to indicate that I've edited it to just the portion which I wish to address.

Wayne

Wayne,

Not in the text field; in the subject title field - e.g. like the heading of a newspaper article or name of a book.  A title is a title; it should not have a period at the end.  A question mark or exclamation point? - Yes.  A period? - No.

But...small potatos in the whole sceme of things.

gmpullman

Now, about those ampersands that mess up the HTML protocol (here and Flickr are two places I see the problem often occur) can get annoying, too.

Cheers, Ed

Totally agree, Ed.  And if quotation marks are in the subject title and the OP goes back and edits it, it really makes a mess of the title.  I try to fix them if I find them on the forum.

Tom

[gmpullman]

doctorwayne

Tom, the . at the end of a sentence is a period, while these....are simply dots, indicating a pause or a shift in content.

I ocassionally use the ellipsis ... pause.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis

 

Lately, though, I have had a preference for the old printer's "em-dash" by holding the Alt key and entering 0151— or 0150 for an en dash, on the numeric keypad.

Once you get used to the convention — the em-dash can dress up a run-on sentence nicely. The en-dash makes a nice looking "minus" sign for electrical convention, too.

Now, about those ampersands that mess up the HTML protocol (here and Flickr are two places I see the problem often occur) can get annoying, too.

Cheers, Ed

[hon30critter]

Yes! My back is driving me nuts again! The small progress that I had two weeks ago after the IMS treatment has been replaced by severe spasms when I try to move around, and now I can't lay down without using pain killers.

To say that I am bugged right now would be a huge understatement.

Dave