Good Morning!
It´s Sunday, but I won´t behaving my usual big Sunday breakfast. I gave up on it, so it´ll be just a small bowl of cereal and coffee for me, please!
BATMANUlrich, is that a garage on the right end of that house? It looks like a great place and far enough away from the neighbours to make me happy
Yes, it is - and a little shop next to it. I doubt that it has a heater in there, though, so I don´t know whether this could be used for a layout. I am a little reluctant to contact the seller as long as the money is not yet available to actually make a bid on the place and just going there to take a look is quite a long (5 hour) drive! The house is in a rather remote location with very few neighbors around - in fact only two. It is surrounded by fields and meadows, so there should be ample peace and quiet for us.
Here is a short video showing the island of Mors, where the house is located. NArration is in Danish, which will be quite a challenge to learn.
Edit: Top of the page - breakfast is on me!
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Hey! Look who is on top. I can't wait to see what he brings to the table!
ROARING
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Tinplate ToddlerEdit: Top of the page - breakfast is on me!
I'll have some boiled eggs and liverwurst on a roll. And a bloody mary after church.
Family that was here over the holiday are leaving today. Things will calm down a lot by afternoon.
cudaken Cleaned out the right front gutter today and it was a pain. Well the heat and humidity made it feel harder than it should.
That reminds me of my father. At the time he was 85 and lived about an hour away. I went to see him, and he had been on the roof of his fairly tall house, cleaning the gutters. I borrowed his extension ladder, took it home, and never took it back. He asked about it several times, but I always forgot(!) to bring it back to him.
Tinplate Toddleraccording to a number of studies, the Danish are the happiest people around. Txes are high, but they feel the get the value for it. They love their cigar smoking queen and they are proud of their country. That´s a lot more than I can say about my own country.
Ulrich, I don't know how the European Union handles this -- are you able to move from one country to the other without any hassles? Will you have to change your citizenship or legal residence for tax purposes? Is it difficult to do?
Hope everyone has a good Sunday.
York1 John
Ulrich,
Liked the film clip, looks like a place to live for mental health----was interested in some of the boat designs, simular to some of the older ones I remember being used here when I was a pup.
herrinchoker
York1Ulrich, I don't know how the European Union handles this -- are you able to move from one country to the other without any hassles?
Within the European Union, you are free to settle in any member country.
York1Will you have to change your citizenship or legal residence for tax purposes?
I will keep my German citizenship and remain taxable in Germany, which means no taxes for us. I will keep my health insurance, which also works without any issue in Denmark. It´s just like moving to another state within the US. There is a little bit of red tape involved in it, but that´s just a number of forms which have to be filled out.
I think the most difficult part is to learn the language. Most Danish people speak either German or English, but it is nice to be able to communicate with people in their native language. Danish sounds like a mixture of German, English and a stuffed nose, not unlike Dutch, you only have to exchange the stuffed nose for a sore throat.
Tinplate ToddlerDanish sounds like a mixture of German, English and a stuffed nose, not unlike Dutch, you only have to exchange the stuffed nose for a sore throat.
LOL!!! Das ist richtig.
Mornin'! been a few days since I posted, but I have been sitting in the back keeping track of the conversation.
Ulrich, I wish you good luck with the move.
I have been horrendously busy with a bunch of stuff for the past couple weeks. Hoping the remodeling will get finished in the next couple of weeks. I still need to purchase new carpet to be installed when the main job is finished. May try to get that started sometime this coming week in expectation of finishing. Fitbit tells me I have now walked (and run) over 2,060 miles since I bought the Fitbit. Weight is at a plateau of 187lbs. but hoping to get back losing soon. This is the third major plateau I have hit since I started losing, so it doesn't bother me. Hope to lose about 13 more lbs. and then hold the weight steady.
I best get to w*rk doing some needed stuff here and after lunch will be heading out to grocery shop. Actually spent a couple hours working on a background building for the layout yesterday. I have alot of things I need to get done before the layout is on display for the Northeast Region NMRA Convention (Syracuse NY) this fall....
Catch you all later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Somebody put their train on the ground ???
See... If your loco gos on the ground, this is how you are supposed to put it back on. Gives you a taste of reel operations : )
ROAR
So, forget the Berliner and bring us a danish ring.
Afternoon Diners!
Flo, the gang and I will have a please.
Yard Wars. Got the rear yard cut and some weed wacking. Trying Ortho Ground Clear again. Bought some from a Nusery not remembering I all ready had some and did not like it. Well the weeds liked it?
Ed Have you ever taken apart a BLI Heavy Pacific? Walther traction tire blew out that was used on it. So I am going to order some from BLI and hopefully the nut driver I need.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
cudakenEd Have you ever taken apart a BLI Heavy Pacific? Walther traction tire blew out that was used on it. So I am going to order some from BLI and hopefully the nut driver I need.
Yep.
Did you check the box? BLI usually includes the nut driver and a couple of spare tires. The one I sent you isn't the right one? Other than the one tire I replaced thinking it was causing wobbles I've never had a traction tire break, wear out or fall off. I don't know why you're having so much trouble with them?
Ulrich, the wheel ruts in that field behind the house sure make it look like a staging (fiddle) yard built on a big grass mat
Best wishes to all,
Ed
Richard
Good Morning All,
A regular and a blueberry bagel please Zoe. Not much ambition this weekend - too hot and humid even for me. Did do some scenicing and retaining wall construction for the layout though.
Watched the womens soccer game but when the Watkins Glen road race got preempted by the delayed Daytona NASCAR event, I went back to sleep.
Lion, that rerailer looks mighty flimsy. Reminds me of the designer the CFO worked with that designed a new automated milk caser for a local dairy company. When all the suits were assembled and they turned the machine on it took six milk containers and smashed them to bits putting them through a too small apeture. The engineer turned to the management team and told them "I only said I'd design it, I didn't say it would work." Think I might have done a dry run the day before the great unveiling.
Time to pick up tools. Ciao, J.R.
Good Monday Morning.
How about some random scenes, with dubbed sound, of a few western trains to go with your morning coffee or beverage of choice?
There's a few great scenes here. Enjoy!
Regards, Ed
I have a question for the powers that be. The Page 5 Problem has been around for months, if not a year or more. Are these forums running on some home-grown software, or a purchased package? If it is a purchased package, has a defect report been opened? It seems like a fairly annoying bug that should be covered if you are paying for the software.
RideOnRoad I have a question for the powers that be. The Page 5 Problem has been around for months, if not a year or more. Are these forums running on some home-grown software, or a purchased package? If it is a purchased package, has a defect report been opened? It seems like a fairly annoying bug that should be covered if you are paying for the software.
I'll second that!
Ed, thanks for the video. It brings back great memories of 1958. My mother and I rode the UP's City of Portland to Tacoma to see my sick grandfather. I believe the City of Portland was just about exactly the same as the City of Los Angeles trains. I've mentioned before, three things still stick out about that trip:
1. Finger bowls in the diner. I had never seen or heard of such a thing before that.
2. Toilets that, when you flushed them, you could see the the ground rushing under the train. My mother told me not to flush when we were stopped at a station.
3. Walking between cars, you could push a panel on the door, the door would automatically open, and then you could stand on the moving floor.
That trip is the main reason my favorite train on the layout is the Kato City of Los Angeles pulled by the E9 A & B locomotives. I get great memories everytime I run that train.
RideOnRoadI have a question for the powers that be. The Page 5 Problem has been around for months, if not a year or more. Are these forums running on some home-grown software, or a purchased package? If it is a purchased package, has a defect report been opened? It seems like a fairly annoying bug that should be covered if you are paying for the software.
I'll third that!
I have a constant internet speed of 220 to 235 mps, and this site is the slowest to repond of all the places I go on the WWW. Takes forever to get in sometimes. And then, about 2 times a day, it just doesn't respond and can take 15 minutes to change a page.
Rant over, I'll go back out to work.
Mike.
My You Tube
Good Evening!
I´ll be heading for the hay soon. Tried to get into this forum a number if times, but with no luck.
Hope everthing works better tomorrow.
Good night, Everyone!
Ulrich, I'm glad for you getting home finally! My 3-pass was in 1992, and my AAA procedure 8 weeks later. Yesterday was my first night home (except for June 8-10) since May 16. The docs did a revascularization (artery bypass) in my right leg, followed by an amputation of my right big toe. Then to rehab for 11 days, then home for a bit, followed by another bypass in the left leg. Finally then, 20 days in rehab (extended time due to newest incision opening up at the top).
I'm especially happy that you have Petra to come home to; my Kathy passed in 2015.
Gary
I woke up this morning in Atlanta, Georgia to an amazing sunrise.
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Can you imagine how beautiful this would have been over the Atlantic Ocean?
-Kevin
Living the dream.
maxmanThe idea is to walk in backwards.
It's ok .... I threw a LARGE Hearshy bar in the living room.... and while she was "occupied" I ran to my shop !
Rust...... It's a good thing !
Track fiddlerLittle Timmy. Where the heck have you been hiding out? Good to hear from you again
On top of loseing my internet, I also have been putting in a LOT of overtime for the past 6 month's. ( My wife really seem's to enjoy all the money flowing out of my wallet ..... and into the new house ! )
I did mannage to "sneak" a new Model die casting Three truck Shay into the shop while she wasn't looking...
If she can sped $ 5,000 on a stove ( yes... that's right.... I said $5,000 ) then surely I can be "allowed" $45 for a locomotive .... right ??
Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a please and Ed a Crown Royal.
All I did today is cut the front yard and my rail spike is in the drit? Did more running than I wanted afterwards.
Went to see two of my neighbors in a nusing home not far a way. One named Dwight and his house is right next to me and the other one is Joe that lives across the street. It was a short visit because it was lunch time.
Ed To refresh your memory the traction tire's on the B&O Adams where made by Walthers. Had them installed by K-10 Model Trains. They where not the correst traction tires. The Adams could only pull 3 Heavy Weight cars? Thought it was because of the Smoke Fluid so I was running it on a paper towel with alcohol. Got a little carried away and broke a traction tire.
Far as the Nut Driver? I think the person that packed it up for shipping may have been sipped on to many Crown Royal? I will check the other nut drivers I have from the same shipper in just a little bit.
I am all so going to ask BLI about fixing the Chuffer's in both the B&O Presdent Adams and the PRR I1sa. They need to get there stuff togather pretty qucike or there in deep ash pitt. I can live with a silent diesel but not steam!
Later, none smoking Ken 70 days and counting.
Hi Everyone,
Havent posted in awhile.
Timmy: Oh yes, a person can easily spend $5000 on a range, and more. Really high end ranges are around $5-6K for the std 30” wide models 36 to 48“ models can be around $7-8K. May I be so bold as to inquire what brand she got? I’m guessing Thermidor, or Dacor, or maybe a lower end Viking, all superb ranges. Are they worth the expense? Depends on how important it is to someone. But, there is a definite difference between them and the lower priced lines.
Ulrich: glad you’re back with us. Denmark sounds great. Hofentlich, Alles wird gut Gehen. Probably horrific grammar, but hey, I tried.
work front: all up in the air. The company has merged with a couple of people, so now we’ll try retail AND wholesale again. We’re at exactly the same place at the same time this year as we were last year. I see no good coming from any of it. Nuff said!
Hello to everyone, and I do mean everyone, and I hope everyone is OK and safe.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Good evening.
Got my rear drivers side door fixed on my 97 Saturn, yes I drive a 22 year old car.
( cheaper than buying a new one) The latch had broke with the door shut. The only way you can get to latch to repair it, is to take off the outside "skin" off the door. The only way to do that is to have the door open. So the Saturn shop manual says "cut the outer skin, repalce the latch, replace the outer skin" Well I was able to remove the inside door panel and both the inside and outside window weather strip and I had a long skinny screw driver that I was able to push the latch mechanism and open the door. I then removed the latch and had the door bungee corded to hold it shut. I lucked out the U-pull-it junk yard had one Saturn and I got a new latch for $5. I had the door at the junkyard apart and the latch removed in less than 10 mins. ( since I had done that job before. ) I had the new latch in in about 20.
I really like my Saturn and plan to drive it for many more years. I had to fix the A/C on it earlier this year as the clutch coil went bad. I got a new to me JY compressor and it works fine now. ( yes I have all the A/C tools to do my own work)
That is about all from my neck of the woods.
SeeYou190I woke up this morning in Atlanta, Georgia to an amazing sunrise. . Can you imagine how beautiful this would have been over the Atlantic Ocean?
Did it rain in Atlanta today? Red sky in the morning?
Weighmaster Ulrich, I'm glad for you getting home finally! My 3-pass was in 1992, and my AAA procedure 8 weeks later. Yesterday was my first night home (except for June 8-10) since May 16. The docs did a revascularization (artery bypass) in my right leg, followed by an amputation of my right big toe. Then to rehab for 11 days, then home for a bit, followed by another bypass in the left leg. Finally then, 20 days in rehab (extended time due to newest incision opening up at the top). I'm especially happy that you have Petra to come home to; my Kathy passed in 2015. Gary
Gary, I am happy to hear from you. I do hope you are on the road to recovery!
I am starting too feel much better, but without Petra to support me, I don´t think I´d still be around. We will celebrate our 35th anniversary in a few days and I would not want to miss a single day of all these years.
cudakenThought it was because of the Smoke Fluid so I was running it on a paper towel with alcohol. Got a little carried away and broke a traction tire. Far as the Nut Driver? I think the person that packed it up for shipping may have been sipped on to many Crown Royal? I will check the other nut drivers I have from the same shipper in just a little bit.
Sorry, I must have been a little fuzzy-headed. If you are going to send away for more traction tires maybe get a few chuff sensors, too. They are very fragile, though, so be careful if you install them yourself.
I can see where running the engine on paper towel would mess up a traction tire. They will overheat and stretch pretty quickly.
Just when you think you're going to have a good day —
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Good Luck, Ed
Lunchtime!
I´ll have a bowl of Chile and a , please!
The mail person just brought the July and August copy of MR. After leafing through the July edition, my hands were all dirty! No, I don´t have sweaty hands, this is just a cheap print quality, more like news print. The second thing I noticed is, that I don´t like reading the aricles, not for the content, but the print is too small for my ageing eyes. I bet I am not the only one finding it difficult to read the magazine.
It´s a shame!
Well, I´ll be going for a midday nap! See you later!
Howdy ...
We had a great week with family here celebrating the 4th. .... I am trying to get back to normal now.
I hope each of you is doing well.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good morning. A nice breakfast of sausage and eggs after the morning's two-mile walk.
I saw the blue heron fly past. I haven't seen it in a while and thought it may have moved, but it's still here.
UP's Big Boy is coming through Nebraska over the next several days. It will be about 30 miles north of me on Thursday, so I should be able to see it. One advantage I should have is that I don't think there will be many people to block the view. The reason? There are no people living here.