That's great Link Bear, Thanks! Now I know how a steam generator worked.
OMG! Steven dropped in! Good to hear from you. I still get a smile when I remember how you first parachuted into the forums, your mind a'blazin'
Packer fans are not too keen on the draft this morning. The thought was for a game changing wide receiver, instead of trading up, for the furtue replacement of Rogers.
We need rain here, at least in the south part of the state, it's dry. All we get is little scattered showers now and then.
OK, back to my purging and putting stuff we don't use or need on the various Face Book sale sights in my area of the state.
Have a great day!
TOP! Breakfast on me, and since we are in Canada:
The Great Canadian Breakfast sandwich.
Mike.
My You Tube
Good Morning All,
I'll have what Mike has Zoe! yum! 40F and drizzly this morning. Generally dreary weather but at least it is not s**wing or windy. I'd be happy to send you some rain.
Still plugging away with the backround view block building. I thought I would have it ready for paint last night but I found a couple of weak glue joints from long ago and corrected them so another day at least.
Hope the rest of you are doing well, it was good to hear from Steven. Dave of course has been over on the layout forum figuring out his rotiserrie plan.
Catch Y'all later, J.R.
Good morning, everyone.
It's good to hear from some people who haven't posted in a while.
We replenished our empty TP supply yesterday. Funny that buying TP made us feel so satisfied!
Have a good day.
York1 John
Good morning .
Steven NWP SWP ...... Good to see you ! ! ! Sounds like you have been busy, and that is good.
Brent .... You mentioned steam generators on FP7's, and you said some CP FP7's did not have steam generators. I'm surprised. FP7's were intended to be used on passenger trains, and they have their extra length to accomodate water tanks for the steam generators. I might guess in lator years of service, some units were demoted to freight service, and the shops removed the steam generators.
Mike.... Thank you for the yummy breakfast sandwich.
Everybody ..... Have a nice day.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
CP never bought any F7As, just the longer FP7. Some had a steam generator from the beginning, others had it added later, and a handful never had one at all. In later years quite a few lost their steam generators as passenger operations declined.
In a rather similar vein, many of them were regeared for 90mph operation, getting renumbered from 40xx to 14xx series. Likewise, some later reverted to 65 mph gearing and their original numbers.
On pictures check for the presence of steam generator details on the roof behind the winterization hatch. I believe they all had through steam lines so they could still be used in passenger service behind a steam generator equipped unit.
And going trackside at Golden, if not exactly dining, immediately east of town the main line enters the Kicking Horse Canyon. Access for photography is limited, but worth the effort.
John
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Hey Mike, yea my brain was full of crazy ideas when I first got here.
Sadly that fire has been almost completely extinguished due to the experience I had at the MSMRC, hopefully I will eventually regain interest but it certainly stunted my growth in the hobby.
Ulrich, yes we taxpayers will certainly be bearing the grunt of the cost to "pay back" the money that they're currently giving out, not only in the sense of taxes but due to the government basically firing up the Xerox machines and printing funny money it is going to greatly diminish the value of the USD, that's why alternatives such as hard assets like land and minerals (gold, silver, platinum) and alternative currencies i.e. cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have been rallying of late.
This all has certainly permanently changed our society and hopefully for the better only time will tell.
That's all I'm going to go into on that to avoid getting into a political discussion.
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
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I was bad, I drove across state lines today. You know those jet hand dryers in road stop rest areas? Some people are still using them. Kills the idea of social distancing in the lavatory.
I talked the foreman building my house. Now I am supposed to quarantine for 14 days but I can talk to as many people as I like in my home state.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Good evening all.
Zoe - Lets do a nice big RBF please. Thanks.
Ulrich - Cute kid who likes trains, what's not to like about that video? Everyone should be like that, cute and happy to see a train!
J.R., Mike, Brent, and others I may have missed - Thanks for the vote of confidence that I would do what was right.
Steven NWP - Glad to see you in the diner!
W*^k - Walked out tonight. They were back to not wearing masks, like the orders are to do, and the boss told someone who came in that only ugly people need to wear them. (I know, he was trying to be funny, but royally missed the mark. Big time.)I told the boss that I was no longer able to come in due to the pandemic, effective immediately.
I will not play that type of game. I had warned on Tuesday that I'd walk if things didn't change, and all but begged that we just simply obey the orders made for our (my) protection, as I really enjoyed being there and did not want to have to leave. And now they know I meant it.
I did tell him that I hated doing that, as I really enjoyed being there, but I felt that I no longer had any other choice left.
Now, the ball is in his court.
Trains - Caught a local today, but no pics due to bad sight lines. Models will be getting a bit more love from me for a while now. I have all kinds of time!
Heres a bit of real (ahem) humor - WARNING!!!!!! - Dad type joke to follow!!!!!
Don't say I didn't warn you....
Did you hear that they were outlawing the sale of tea? It is evidently very dangerous to drink, especially in a relaxed setting. It is actually very deadly, after all, it is called a casual tea.
Ok, I will leave now....
Hope all are well, and all have a good night!
Ricky W.
HO scale Proto-freelancer.
My Railroad rules:
1: It's my railroad, my rules.
2: It's for having fun and enjoyment.
3: Any objections, consult above rules.
GMTRacingDave of course has been over on the layout forum figuring out his rotiserrie plan.
Hi J.R.
I have the plan pretty much figured out actually. I have made several minor changes to the original concept but it remains basically the same. I am very frustrated that I can't start building the benchwork and supports until this Covid-19 business is mostly out of the way.
In the mean time, I have several projects on the go. I have to mask the windows on the City Classics Baum Blvd project so I can paint the brick. That will take a few hours because there are 126 window and door openings! Each one has to have a piece of masking tape cut to size. I'm making progress on the signals. I got the unwired 0605 RGY LEDs today so I need to solder the leads onto them. I need 25 LEDs. That's only 100 wires!
I also got the little brass trolley in the mail today. It's cute!
It will take a bit of work. There are some pieces missing and several solder joints are broken. I can't see anything onto which the motor or the wheel wipers would have been mounted. The motor has had some use. The commutators were black. I am contemplating installing a can motor so I can do an interior. The original motor takes up a lot of space. It has a wood roof which doesn't fit very well. I'm not sure if it is an original part because there are no holes in it. I suspect that the trolley poles have never been installed.
I'll put the trolley aside for now while I try to find pictures of assembled trolley drive systems to give me some ideas for how to mount things. Is there a dedicated website(s) for trolley enthusiasts?
Cheers,
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Hello, Folks
Good to hear from you, Steven. I've been wondering about your well-being lately. Glad to hear you're OK.
BATMANEd, your property is beautiful, I don't know why people like to live armpit to armpit when we have such room to spread out on this continent.
Thanks! I adopted the "country" lifestyle back in 1979, Brent, and would never go back to being a city-dweller. I just came across this photo at Wikipedia —
Markham-Ontario by Edmund, on Flickr
This happens to be Markham, home to Rapido, but there are duplicates of this all over North America and elsewhere. I haven't spotted a tree just yet...
Made-from-scratch pizza tonight Now, off to play trains
To those in need —
Regards, Ed
Good Morning!
Yet another nice day! While Petra and I were enjoying our morning coffee, we had a couple of unusual visitors coming by! A pair of red squirrels! One of them was daring enough to jump on the window sill and peek through the open window, less than 4 ft. away from us. The European red squirrel, though a close relative to the North American squirrel, is not known to cause any damage, other than "stealing" nuts. They are protected over here.
Rick - I am sorry to hear you had to walk out on your job!
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Tinplate ToddlerThe European red squirrel, though a close relative to the North American squirrel, is not known to cause any damage, other than "stealing" nuts. They are protected over here.
Hi Ulrich,
I love the ear tufts! You say that they don't cause any damage but the video does show them digging in flower pots. According to my wife Dianne that is grounds for screaming and cursing at our local 'black rats with fuzzy tails'!
Unfortunately our local squirrels have done a lot of damage over the years, and not just to our flower pots. A couple of years ago one of the wee beggars decided that our deck lighting wiring would make good nesting material so they proceeded to tear it into little pieces! If only I had left the power on we could have had fried squirrel for dinner!
Last week we had to chase a squirrel off the deck. She had built a considerable sized nest in one of the crotches for our roof supports without us even noticing. Dianne was pulling the incredible volume of dead leaves and grass out of the crotch when a very young baby squirrel popped out of the debris almost right in her face. I could hear the hollering from the basement! It scared the heck out of her! (She would use other words!!). Eventually momma came and carted the baby off. That is the second time in three years that we have had a baby squirrel born in the roof supports.
We hate the squirrels! On the other hand, we love the chipmonks and they don't seem to do any harm.
Dave, I wouldn´t consider digging in a flower pot to be a damage . As most of our houses are literally rock-solid constructions, the amount of damage a squirrel can cause is quite limited. They are protected, as they are considered to be an endangered species.
Tinplate ToddlerDave, I wouldn´t consider digging in a flower pot to be a damage
Well Ulrich, you are not the person who has spent numerous dollars and numerous hours planting and maintaining the flower pots and window baskets. The squirrels do their best to dig everything up and in the process they make a mess on the deck under the planters and they uproot many of the plants. Dianne is not normally genocidal, but squirrels are a different matter!! Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on your point of view) the squirrels are protected here too. We can trap them but they can only be taken a few hundred meters away from where they were trapped. Even if we could get rid of them their populations are so robust that new squirrels would move into the vacated territories almost immediately. They win! We lose!
We tried using a slingshot a few years ago to disuade them from hanging around. We used dried chick peas instead of metal shot in order to protect the environment. Chick peas are not exactly round so getting them to fire in a straight line is nearly impossible. I'm sure the squirrels were laughing at us because on the very few occassions where we managed to hit the target they barely flinched!
Oh well, it was good for a laugh!
Dave, whatever man (or woman) undertakes to beat Mother Nature, she always wins. We have become so ignorant and arrogant in the past 150 years, that we have actually begun to ignore the fact, that we are part of Mother Nature as well, and certainly not the strongest member of this family. The current ongoings painfully remind us of that, and even in this situation, there are many who think they can beat nature! Well, they can´t, and the sooner we accept that fact, the better for us all!
Tree Rats
I use a .22,or a .410 shtogun on mine, they get invited for lunch afterwards. I had to quit using my 12ga. shotgun, had to re-build too many bird feeders. As it is I have to replace the side rails on two of the feeders from being too low with the .410.
Once upon a time I lived in places where this could not be done---never again!
herrinchoker
Squirrels can cause incredible damage to insulation in attics, garages, and basements, as well as destroy wiring in buildings. They are as bad, if not worse, than quill pigs.!!
herrinchokerI use a .22,or a .410 shtogun on mine, they get invited for lunch afterwards.
Hi herrinchoker,
You have the luxury of living in a rural environment. If I was to use even an air powered pellet gun within the town limits it would cost me if I got caught.
I remember as a kid (maybe 10 or 12 years old) being given a 12 gauge shotgun and told to go kill groundhogs at my grandparents' farm. Inevitably they would come back but we still naively considered every kill to be a victory. I certainly got a rush out of firing the gun and having my shoulder pummelled as a result!
Ultimately Ulrich is right. You can't beat Mother Nature. That still doesn't prevent me from cursing at her!!!!
Cheers!!
Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, wolves are returning to my country. Well, at least we think they are returning, they most likely haven never been gone, but just so small in numbers, that we thought them to be extinct here. German farmers do not undertake anything to protect their herds of sheep, and, naturally, there have been reports on kills. Farmers, and quite a few other ignorant folks are now crying for the government to shoot all the wolves - how ridiculous!
Here is my title for a new movie: "Just when you thought it is safe to go for a walk in the woods - wolfpack 1, the killer behind the tree!
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Ed, thanks for the crossword, I was actually surprised how much I did know without having to rely on the interweb.
Glad you enjoyed it, Bear! I just posted the promised answer key on Brent's Game Page.
I'm glad you're sticking to your principals, Rick. The last time I ventured out, maybe three weeks ago to buy a chain saw, Mrs. Pullman and I both wore masks. We did not see anyone else in a mask and several people looked at us like we were from Mars!
I was always a stickler for hand washing, long before any coroney virus came along. I'm amazed when observing the "unwashed masses" walk out of a public restroom passing right by the wash basin, and sit down and start munching a burger and fries, passing them to their young children? Eeewww
One of my pet-peeves is a server that will pass drinks around a table by holding the glass by the top of the rim.
We raise chickens, ducks and goats. If we don't actively keep the predators at bay there is mayhem. Last fall our entire brace (14) of Welsh Harlequin ducks were wiped out by one little weasel! It went on to kill about ten hens before I finally trapped the sneaky varmit.
Sure, it would be nice to live like Doctor Dolittle. Maybe in the next life?
Happy Saturday!
Ed
Hi JaBear
Yes ANZAC day without the dawn services etc and the two up schools running later in the day is very odd indeed.
Looks like that bird is eyeing off your anzac biscuites
You had better make sure those ingrediants where right or the Aus biscuit police will get you.
Over here there is only one ANZAC biscuit recipe, it is the only one officialy allowed to be called an ANZAC
Try and hijack the name Oh dear not a good look or result and rightly so.
Quarenteen measures are not fun, I can't come and steal your anzac's purely in the interests of proper quality control you understand, (home made ones are allways the best one's) and bludge a coffee while I am at it.
stay safe
regards John
43F and the clouds seem to be lifting a bit today. I'll have a regular and one of those sausage egg and cheese things please Chloe.
I was impressed by the number of memorials both in Australia and New Zealand when I went through there. The U.S. got involved in World War 1 far to late to be of any use in Turkey, but here we lose sight of the fact that Aussies and Kiwis have been side by side with us in the front lines ever since. Recent history has seen things strained but hopefully things will improve again. The whole bread thing can get confusing between potato crisps, crackers, biscuits and scones but it all tastes good. When we were at Hampton Downs in New Zealand Tony Roberts brought around a tin of ANZAC biscuits to share. Is that what you meant John or were you having JaBear on?
Still doing the backround building on the layout (off it actually) and finally got it in base coat last night. Too big to fit into the basement spray booth it got done adjacent to the extractor fan. I am now officially out of Floquil concrete paint.
Working on my Lotus 18 today and the CFO is off to break in the new engine in her 172 Cessna. She needs to do 10 hours break in time orbiting the airport for an hour or so first time up and then within glide distance of an airfield after that just in case. Looks good so far except the carb air temp reads pegged. I myself prefer race cars. If they mess up and stop you can usually just pull off to the side.
Rick I'm sorry it came to that. I would have hoped your boss would have straightened it out for you. For him to particpate in something that puts you at risk is sad. You are right to stand for your rights to good health.
All for now. Off to the shop. Cheers, J.R.
Some guys get to have all the fun!
A tractor, winch and jib-pole? Amazing bit of work
Cheers, Ed
Ed, I don't like heights and that makes me nervous just watching. No safety hat or harness either. Bad enough in storage yesterday having to use the scaffolding. J.R.
Another beautiful day on the plains. These days won't last long -- you can already feel summer coming.
There is a lot of fear in the world now. I was thinking of my mother.
In 1941, my father was stationed at Ft. Lewis in Washington. My mother and he were dating. My father had a one-day pass on Dec. 7, so they decided to drive to Mt. Rainier to see Paradise Inn. They didn't get there; word was passed quickly about the Pearl Harbor attack.
My mother related the fear was unbearable. She said she thought the world was literally coming to an end.
I guess my fears are nothing compared to that.
Hi GMTRacing
ANZAC Australia and New Zealand Army Corps the troops that landed at Galipolie(spelling) early on the morning of the 25 of April 1915.
Anzac biscuits originaly a home made biscuit probably by the Country Womans Asociation and its NZ equivelent
It was a biscuit that kept and traveled well that was sent to the troops as part of comfort packages from home and came to be known as the Anzac biscuit.
They are comercialy made in the lead up to ANZAC day as tins of biscuits the tin has a wartime type design on it to remind people of the significance of the day.
And in Australia they are genuinely held in high regard a national icon almost even to the point of government intervension if anyone does anything that interfears with the biscuit or its quality or reputation because of its association with the ANZAC corps to this day AUS and NZ have a friendly rivalry and comaradery, except when it comes to cricket or rugby or other sport then for the duration of the game its on for young and old.
Yes there is an element of friendly leg pulling in my coments to JaBear.
However not with the serious element of what today means to both our nations.
No dawn service and no ANZAC parade or other activeties that generally take place today it is just plain all wrong.
I know it has to be that way, but it still feels all wrong and some how very disrespectfull to the fallen and those that served or who serve today.
hon30critterWe can trap them but they can only be taken a few hundred meters away from where they were trapped.
A few hundred meters? Ha. What's that supposed to accomplish?
My father-in-law used to trap them and release them 10 miles away. They still managed to get home before he did.
GMTRacingShe needs to do 10 hours break in time orbiting the airport for an hour or so first time up and then within glide distance of an airfield after that just in case.
I presume that social distancing is a little more than 6 feet apart from other pilots doing the same thing.