BATMAN Guitars are a staple in my trainroom, so trains should be a staple in Erv's.
Guitars are a staple in my trainroom, so trains should be a staple in Erv's.
I will show him this post when I bring up the subject. I think it will be a little more persuasive when he sees your 12-string. Those take a bit more to tune I gather. Nice guitar setting, those keyboards look fun too.
Good morning all.
Cool and crisp out this morning here. Fall definitely has its foot in the door. The highs projected to be only in the 50s this week. I'm really okay with that. I have some outside work after the rain clears.
Thanks for the compliment Ray, good to see you.
TF
Good morning. Lots of black coffee this morning. Fall is definitely here -- we are in the low 50s this morning and a low dewpoint of 49°.
Best news I've heard in a long time, from the New York Times:
From the article: "But on Monday, in a remarkable turnabout, an international collaboration of researchers produced a series of analyses concluding that the advice [not to eat meat] , a bedrock of almost all dietary guidelines, in not backed by good scientific evidence."
So on that news, waitresses, I'll have bacon, lots of it, sausages, eggs, and give lion a rare wildebeast.
Have a good day, everyone.
York1 John
I was thinking this morning, The Lion must be back from New York by now.
Welcome home Lion. Fresh rare prime rib wildebeest and eggs on me. Oops... I just seen John already offered that one, Oh well, now you have two plates Hope you're hungry!
Have a good day everybody.
Yay for red meat! At least I can eat steak. With bread and pasta on my prohibited list, along with potatoes and rice, my diet is pretty limited now.
Sadly, the LHS I had planned to go to is gone. The owner retired and the owner of the building wanted it for something else, so another one bites the dust. There is actually an LHS very close by, but it's mostly an O-scale shop, but they do have some HO stuff. I guess I will be forced to shop online from now on. It's only a couple of hours to MB Klein, but that's time and money. Mostly, I will just need track now, anyway.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I feel like having a cup of coffee and a chat with friends! Add a slice of apple crumble pie to my order of coffee, Zoe dear!
Yay for meat as well! Petra has a degree in nutritional science and always tells people, that people who eat vegan are most likely to suffer from severe malnutrition, unless they add quite a bunch of vitamins and minerals to their diet, of which quite a lot are fabricated in pharmaceutical companies. What a nonsense. Meat is a must in a well-balanced diet and beef is certainly the best form of "red" meat! Which reminds me - I haven´t had a decent steak for ages! Too expensive for us! My last really good steak I had in 2008 in Philadelphia in the historic City Tavern - a delight!
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Just when you think you know everything about something... you come across a thing you have never even heard of before.
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I'll bet very few people have ever seen a diesel engine like this one.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Howdy ....
Mr. B ..... E-Commerce is taking over all retailing, not just model railroad items. It is easier for people to click their computer mouses than to drive to a store.
Kevin ..... True, I have not seen that diesel engine before. The S&G boxcar is now in general service on the Heartland Division. It might appear in a future photo.
MLC ..... I thought of you when we were in Paducah Friday afternoon.
Steve O ..... Regarding photos in MR..... Does MR accept photos taken with iPhones ? I remember an article in MR a couple of years ago explaining model railroad photography with and iPhone 7. I have an iPhone 7, and rarely use my older Nikon digital camera anymore.
Everybody .... have a nice afternoon.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
SeeYou190I'll bet very few people have ever seen a diesel engine like this one.
Is it a Wankle marine?
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Garry most professional photography is digital these days. They won't know it's an Iphone.
A B17 carrying sightseers crashed in Connecticut today killing some on board. There aren't too many of those flying anymore. This is the Memphis Belle that my son and I flew on a couple years ago. It was not the one that crashed.
Why is it 98 degrees today? It's supposed to be fall.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
I have been following that crash on FB. I joined the Plane Savers group. Very sad.
We knew the lady very well that owned/owns? the one in Seattle@ the museum there. She was a good friend of my Moms from the dog show world and would stay with Mom when she was up for a dog show. She inherited the plane when her Dad died, I remember her talking about how much work it was to own the plane even though it was in the hands of the museum. Lost touch with her when Mom died and I doubt she is still alive either. Maybe the museum owns it now.
Heartland Division CB&Q The S&G boxcar is now in general service on the Heartland Division. It might appear in a future photo.
Glad to hear it is serving you well. I eagerly await the pictures.
BATMANIs it a Wankle marine?
I think it is a marine application engine based solely on the object on the lower left that resembles a raw water pump.
The engine itself is a design called a "Barrell Diesel", which was not successful.
Internally it is nothing like a Wankle Design engine. The arrangement of internal components looks like a variable displacement hydraulic piston pump.
It is a two stroke design, and is very bizarre. I have no idea what the RPM range of operation would be. Each cylider has two opposed pistons like an old design Fairbanks Morse engine.
I would love to take it apart!
Heartland Division CB&Q Steve O ..... Regarding photos in MR..... Does MR accept photos taken with iPhones ? I remember an article in MR a couple of years ago explaining model railroad photography with and iPhone 7. I have an iPhone 7, and rarely use my older Nikon digital camera anymore.
It depends not on the camera (or phone) used to take the photo, but on the quality of the photo. I get a number of photo submissions taken with an iPhone, and I can always tell by the weird asymmetrical pixilation of the JPG patterns. Those photos can only be used small (2 columns max), which makes them unsuitable for Trackside. But sometimes that's all that's available. If you plan to use your iPhone as your primary layout-shooting camera, I would advise you to look at the app store for an improved camera app, one that can shoot in and save photos in .TIF or Camera-RAW formats. The JPG compression algorithm on the default Apple camera app is no good.
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
OP Diesel
Some were used in the larger fishing boats, They usually started on 2-300 pounds of air. An electronics technician was working in the wheel house on the Old Colony in Boston. The engine was a OP, not very well taken care of, had reached the point that it took 3000 pounds of air on the system to start the engine. When the engine was rolled over to start, it blew a piston--through the deck, and out the overhead, about four feet in back of the tech. He packed up his tools, and promptly left the boat.
OPs, a good engine, had to have the cam adjusted when it became worn .002-3 thousands.
The Northern Lights,140 foot Easter Rig, had a Baldwin direct reversable locomotive engine, and could jog at 3kn. @ 125 RPM, in a 100 Kn. breeeze.
To reverse the boat, the engine had to be stopped, and started in reverse. She ended up in the municipal parking lot in New Bedford one night coming back from a trip to Grand Bank. When they went to reverse, the cam got stuck half-way, and the air was dumped, ergo-no engine start. It was estimated she was doing just under 4 kn. across the parking lot. We used to take the safety shroud off the fly wheel to be able to get a bar into the holes on the flywheel to nuck the engine one way or the other so that it would start.
herrinchoker
Steve O .... Thanks for the thoughtful reply regarding photos in MR.... I have had a few pictures published in MR over the years, and all were taken with my Nikon digital camera.. Recent pictures here in the forum have been from the iPhone. ... It's fun to see my photos published, and I may dust off the Nikon if I try again.
Kevin ..... You might recognize boxcat following the red GP7
Hey all, here's my guitar family. L-R:
Fender acoustic, Original 1967 Fender Mustang. Ovation 12 string Fender Strat Squire.
Hope everyone is well this evening.
I was able to break down and reassemble my first HO scale train tonight on my layout- I still need to wire it for DCC though, That comes next. Eh, small victories though, right?
(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).
hello all,
Greetings from the Southern Command. Mrs MLC has a Blues Conference she is attending, she is on a panel this year.
we had a sucessesful "technical dress rehersal" for the practice we are onboarding, they reopen Friday.
Garry : I went to lunch at BBQ on the river last Friday.I stayed away the rest of the time. The new bridge looks different from underneath than driving over it. I had a hankering for "Taste of the South" this morning. The S&G box car looks right at home on the Heartland division.
Kevin, that is a right strange engine.
That is all for today.
herrinchokerOP Diesel Some were used in the larger fishing boats,
Just guessing, but that OP was probably a Fairbanks-Morse. F-M produced a bunch of OP diesels for various Navy vessels during and after WWII. My FIL's sub, the USS Blueback (581) was the last diesel-electric sub in operational Navy service, power by 3 F-Ms.
Of course, O-P diesels powered the F-M line of locomotives.
Cummins is working on an O-P engine for the Army for more land-locked uses. It's said to have distinct advantages in power and efficiency as the Advanced Combat Engine (ACE). It also has a power density (hp vs volume) that is twice that of more conventional diesels at ratings of around 1,000 hp. They're not saying it's a tank engine, but sounds like it to me. There's some talk out there of replacing the turbine in the M1 Abrams with either a new turbine or a diesel. Sounds like this new Cummins fits the bill of a diesel alternative.
Makes me wonder about a new RR application for OP engines, but given the state of the locomotive market theses days, that will be a hard sell unless it does offer a big leap in performance.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
adly, IMO, the lure of something new, snappy advertising, cheaper fast food, (Yous pays fer what ya get!!) saw MacDonald’s expand to its current 167 restaurants, helping cause the demise of most of the “hole in the wall burger bars.
When I was on the road working and I was pressed for time I have to confess that I visited McDonalds regularly. Recently I have given up on them. I had several bad experiences in a short period of time. I complained and was given the corporate apology and some coupons for more food. I haven't used the coupons. Likely never will.
Dianne and I frequent our local Wimpys fast food restaurant. The food and the service are fantastic! We have gotten to know the owner and the chef very well. I use the term 'chef' despite the fact that 'chefs' aren't usually associated with burger joints. However, Bob the chef is extremely good at what he does! He handles a menu with probably 100 items on it and everything comes out exactly as ordered.
Just for starters, Bob offers several soups every day and they are all superb! The soups are so good that Dianne and I will order soup when it's 90 degrees outside! The turkey is real turkey! He cooks the birds himself! The roast beef is always tender and full of flavour. The 'over easy' eggs are always exactly that! He does burn the toast occasionally. I won't go on because I'm getting hungry!
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
We had a bit of excitement here on the Island yesterday--Jamie Pinkhan was hauling traps in Robinhood Cove when a jet-skier came up behind him to jump his wake--only problem is he mis-judged his speed, and ended nose down in the following sea. The driver got launched into the handle bars, face first, and was knocked out, floating in the water face down. Jamie turned the boat around quick like, and gaffed him in the back of his floation jacket, turned him over, and he, and his helper, got him up over the rail and put him face down on the back deck. They were not far from the local marina, and as luck would have it, there was a doctor and a nurse on a visiting sailboat to provide medical assistance. The driver of the jet-ski was 85 years old, and had one arm. At a certain point in time disgression should start to set in---After my 75th. birthday I quit water skiing. For my 80th. birthday considering giving up adult physical activity--(just kidding)
herrinchokerThe driver of the jet-ski was 85 years old, and had one arm.
Talk about crazy seniors! Gotta admire his spunk! Not his brains though.
Cudos to the guys who saved his life!!!!
Good Morning!
It´s a lovely day here - the sun is out, but it is quite cold - just the way I like it!
Today is a national holiday here. We are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the two post-war Germanys re-uniting again. The change that happened in those 30 years has been a rather dramatic one, unfortunately not to the better in terms of freedom of speech and civil rights. I hope I´ll be able to leave all of that behind me soon!
With JaBear being absent for a few days, I´ll pick up the reigns in his name during that time. Join me in a ride behind a NZR Ka class 4-8-4 to Arthur´s Pass.
Enjoy!
Good Morning, Folks—
Thursday already! I'm headed off to my sister's place to look into why her basement stairway lights are acting up. One switch at the top and one at the bottom of the stairs. Two switches. So the logical name to give them, of course? A Three Way switch
Where's Ken been lately? I hope Dirk Pip isn't giving him a hard time.
An 85 year-old, one-armed jet skier? Good thing he had that flotation vest on! Sounds like the grandpa base jumper I just heard about.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/a-mystery-32-stories-up-is-a-grandfather-68-leaping-off-the-dc-areas-tallest-buildings/2019/10/02/761950e2-ca7d-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.html
Of course, old George Bush was jumping out of airplanes at 90!
Someone on another "thread" was asking about thread to use for model rigging so I took a photo of this crane scene:
Big-Lift by Edmund, on Flickr
I've got to get some better paint on that Alco engine block.
I hope everyone is well ——
Cheers, Ed
the daily Dunedin to Invercargill Railcar, a Vulcan, went past at around quarter to midday, a welcome sign that lunchtime was near!!
Now that's a school after my own desire, Bear. Only 9th grade was that good for me. My mechanical drawing classroom was located right next to the Monon main line in Bloomington, IN. You learned to like Alco sounds, because there was no drowning them out. The school, Monon rails, and the locomotives are all long gone now.
That virtual ride in the RM 50 was a delight. I've always liked railcars and am planning on building a freelance one in HOn3.
I rode a "Uerdingen Railbus" when in Germany in the early 70s. They were homely and noisy, but a fun ride in the Taunus Mountains north of Wiesbaden.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Baureihe_798_752-2.jpg?download
by Thomas Wolf
I also had another interesting ride in a Japanese-built railcar in Nicaragua in 1982. Got a pic around somewhere I need to dig up.
Time for "tea and cake" and brandy punch! Went for a short walk in the sunshine, but had to stop when my back started to hurt like hell. I love the crisp air of a cold autumn day!
mlehmanI rode a "Uerdingen Railbus" when in Germany in the early 70s. They were homely and noisy, but a fun ride in the Taunus Mountains north of Wiesbaden.
Mike, those railbuses were introduced in the early 1950s to make branchline passenger service more efficient. For nearly 5 decades, they did a marvellous job, despite their rather bumpy ride and their distinctive noise which earned them the nickname "Red Hummer". During my university days, I rode them daily to and from the campus, but then they all disappeared quite rapidly. The last unit was retired early 2000, after nearly 50 years of ear wrecking and bone shattering of its passengers. Trix and Piko make nice models of it, including the typical sound.
Good morning. It's a cool 42° here. Beautiful.
I read your comments about the motor, but I know absolutely nothing about what you are talking about. I have no mechanical knowledge at all.
I have no problem with McDonalds. On our car trips, we often stop there. We know the bathrooms will be clean, the coffee good, and when you're not in the mood for adventure, the food is exactly what you know it will be. When not traveling, we very seldom eat there.
By November, our small town will officially have quiet zones at its four crossings. This whole project began 10 years ago when we had over 80 BNSF coal trains a day coming through town. At certain times, all we heard was one long train horn. Now the traffic is down to around 40 trains per day. I am probably the only one in town who will miss the horns.
Hope everyone has a great day.
As a salute to Mikes newly acquired Shay, here’s a couple of NZ geared locomotives.
Thanks, Bear! That first Price looks like someone dumped a piles of parts on the cab floor and it all somehow still runs! The bigger Price looks similar to a Heisler. Neato and thanks for the videos. Happy travels!
Tinplate ToddlerMike, those railbuses were introduced in the early 1950s to make branchline passenger service more efficient. For nearly 5 decades, they did a marvellous job, despite their rather bumpy ride and their distinctive noise which earned them the nickname "Red Hummer". During my university days, I rode them daily to and from the campus, but then they all disappeared quite rapidly.
Ulrich,
Thanks for the personal recollections! And the video. They were noisy, but the ride along the branches I visited was wonderful. But I was riding for pleasure, so I could see how those just wanting to get somewhere would find them a bit archaic. I'm surprised they lasted as long as they did, because they seemed long in tooth already circa 1972.
86 one arm, jumping wakes. Isn't the water cold now? You have to wonder if the missing arm was a "Hold my beer and watch this" moment.
BigDaddyWhy is it 98 degrees today? It's supposed to be fall.
Comme to North Dakota, It is 32 degrees and we have three inches of snsow.
ROAR
PS:
LIOB is Home again, When I develop my film I will post pictures.
PPS well ok when I take them out iof the camera and sort them onto the computer!
Sheesh!
PPPS: It is the quality of the photo that counts, in the past phones did not have enough pixels for publication, now they have plenty. It is easier to hold a camera still or peter yet mount it on a tripod.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Good Morning,
Another cool, rainy day here. Only supposed to get to about 45F for a high.
Well the decoder for my C Liner arrived so I eagerly took it down to the workbench where the loco was waiting only to discover that I ordered a 165 AO, not LO so I now have a spare decoder. I ordered the correct one and should have it in a couple of weeks.
Ken, it is possible Dirk Pip might get over his fear of postal vans. I 'adopted' a 3 year old Afghan Hound many years ago. He was afraid of brooms and young teenage boys, go figure. After about 6 months he got over it. I think because he felt secure in his new home. He always sounded like he wanted to kill anyone who touched the house but once inside he was very friendly.
Ray, great going on your track activities. You have made me feel like I must get back to doing the same. Thanks for the inspiration.
Time to do something.
CN Charlie