Yes Kevin that was a good day, and the breakfast was good there at the "greasy spoon". I keep trying to make excuses to go back to it but with the current conditions I can wait.
I got the black IC engine fixed. I found where insulation had scraped off of the hot wire on one truck and was causing a dead short on that side. I replaced the control board with a 1 kv 35 amp bridge recitifier.( junk box find) It will only go forward direction but that was all we need at the museum anyway. So now I have three engines repaired. now to get track power separated and a control panel so we can run multiple trains.
Back to work on radios before the next on call week and the next wave of radios.
So far the cv has had minimal impact on our hospital.
Heartland Division CB&QMLC and Kevin visited here a few months ago
One of the best days ever! Started out with a relaxing drive to Kentucky, then a great homestyle breakfast at a local restaurant with good conversation.
We toured two beautiful HO scale home layouts. Garry's layout is a true masterpiece, and that is not typical Kevin-style-hyperbole, it is a factual observation.
When I left Garry's home, the sunlight and sky were perfect and I captured some amazing pictures of the area around his Kentucky home. Kentucky is just staggering in the beauty all around.
I ate dinner at a good barbeque place called Triplets, and I don't care what anyone says, good barbeque is the best way to end a great day.
The drive back to Tennessee was easy.
My wife did not mind spending the day without me. We had been travelling together for a couple of weeks, so she took a car ride to a park in Nashville and had a peaceful day reading outdoors in the perfect weather.
York1Time will tell if all the mask-wearing and gallons of hand sanitizers worked.
We started our trip without hand sanitizer. It was impossible to find down here.
When I stopped in the first Menard's of our trip, in Merillville, Indiana, they had plenty of hand sanitizer in stock, AND N-95 Masks, and ... disinfectant wipes!
JACKPOT!
A couple of beautiful homes. One in Michigan and one in Ohio.
The rain is really coming down here right now. I looked at the live radar, and it is just Cape Coral getting heavy rain, the rest of the area is only a light rain.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Good afternoon, thunderstorms north of us caused flooding in Baltimore the last two days. One wizard who videoed a full size transit bus with water just below the side windows and said "There is no telling how deep the water is" As the bus wasn't floating down the street, I think we know exactly how deep the water is.
Taking the legs off the modular layout today. I still hate packing.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Good morning Garry
I haven't been to the Illinois RR Museum. Should have, ...Judy and I would go to the Windy City every early sping just for something fun to do years ago. One time we took Amtrak down there for darn near free. They had round trip train ticket coupons on Wheaties cereal boxes.
The ride down was much more enjoyable. We enjoyed the observation car most the way down but it was a little overrun with a loud and obnoxious younger crowd on the way back.
Apparently I had gas station reversal confusion this morning What's funny is I had it turned the right way when I first posted and then went back in and made corrections to the wrong way What's that saying? "You should never second-guess yourself"
I'm going to make it a point to visit the Illinois RR Museum next time I'm down there. Always have enjoyed a good RR Museum.
TF
Good morning .
TF ..... I'm glad you like the Zephyr. By any chance have you been to the Illinois RR Museum where they have the only surviving Burlington E5 locomotive? They use it to pull their Nebraska Zephyr train. ... Also, the gas station is here on my layout. MLC and Kevin visited here a few montha ago.
MLC ... After seeing your photo, I looked at my gas station, and saw I did have room to move it farther from the road. It may have been out of position for a very long time.
Brent ..... We can CP gets a lot of snow in the winter. That looks like the train is emerging from one of the spiral tunnels.
Everybody ..... Have a nice day.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good Saturday morning, everyone.
Kevin, I hope we are in the same shape after some days. We are just beginning our quarantine. We stayed in the same rooms with at least one person we know had the virus, and we were in some large crowds. We ate at restaurants with outdoor areas, but we used gas stations and public bathrooms. Time will tell if all the mask-wearing and gallons of hand sanitizers worked.
I think today will be another stay-inside, do-nothing day. When working, that sounded like heaven, but now it seems like a jail sentence.
Have a good, healthy day everyone.
Edit: Top of the page -- a cold Bloody Mary on a nice quarantine Saturday for everyone.
York1 John
Heartland Division CB&Q TF ... How are you doing with the Zephyr you purchased?
TF ... How are you doing with the Zephyr you purchased?
Good morning
Great Garry! That Silver Streak passenger set is so unlike any thing else I have as far as locomotives and rolling stock. I've only seen it run back and forth on two pieces of flex track though. I have my PECO track and turnouts ordered and on their way, so that'll change soon.
I liked your Gas Station on MLC's layout. What a nice gift! Does he pay you a franchise royalty percent?
Brent, The goats cracked me up. I wouldn't want to walk through that deep snow either is the understatement of the year Are you sure Canadian Pacific is not affiliated with Great Northern in any way?
Kevin, Glad to hear you and the wife's health is good and you didn't catch anything on your trip
Have a great Saturday everyone
Today was the tenth day of our quarantine since we returned from our trip to Ohio, Michigan, and back.
So far there are no signs that we picked up anything along the way.
Evening all.
It was a decent day today but did very little other than have a good workout. Burned about 1200 calories off on the bike and spent most of the rest of the day with my old dog. I went to do some pushups while I was down on the floor with him and something popped in my shoulder. I have already had one surgery on that shoulder, so I hope it is something minor. I will take it easy for a few days. Situps only.
When the wife and I are on the road she finds deli's to eat at on her phone that have rave reviews and we go there as they will have fresh healthy ingredients that have not been soaked in chemicals. I can't remember the last time we ate at a chain restaurant, we will also go to a better hotel and eat there as the food is so much better. I went to a Dennys about three years ago with a hockey team I was with down in Seattle. I could see in the kitchen from where I was sitting and watched a guy dump a fifty-pound bag of hashbrowns onto the counter. No doubt with lots of chemicals added to keep them fresh. Not exactly appetizing.
Ken, I would forget about the flame thrower, it is asking for trouble.
I keep getting invited to go on a bike ride with this road group. I need to get the Supercourse shipshape but that will be a $500.00 bill and I am not sure how I will hold up with my Arthritis. I prefer to ride alone anyway as I really like to motor and have a workout. I guess I am antisocial. When I mountain bike I enjoy doing that with friends but for some reason when I am on the road bike I like to be by myself. It is amazing how many miles you can peel off once you really get going. I use to do 50 miles just to unwind after work.
There are three movies or TV shows being filmed in the park where we go walk. One is some space thing with lots of big props. Might be Lost In Space as they are always around here. One was Batgirl as we saw her in her costume. They have a lot of catching up to do after being shut down.
Off on a train stood a lonely goat heard HO DA LADY HO DA LADY HO HO HO
I hope posting this pic doesn't violate forum rules showing hobo's.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Good evening ...
Maxman ... Your Dragnet video is hilarious!
MLC. ... Thanks for posting a picture of my gas station. As everybody can see, it is one of my buildings where I did not have enough space for it, but I placed it there anyhow. I recall the gas station was fun to build.
Ray ... That sounds like a good bike ride.
John York 1.... Glad to hear about your good times in CO.
Everybody.... Have a nice evening.
well the williams engine does have a bad motor that is drawing too much current. the 35 amp recitfier I put in it got a bit warm.
The lionel gp9 needed some motor tlc and had a stuck motor brush . The other lionel gp9 needed a lube job. So I got 2 out of the three museum engines up and going.
I found we had boucoups of yellow jacket nests on the house. One had over 50 on it. they are gone now. I have to sweep up the carnage tomorrow.
now for more snacks.
Nifty toy museum in Ohio that occupies an old school building.
Note the little yellow caboose on the front steps near the entrance.
Evenin'Folks!
Well, Ken, just be careful with that weed burner. Before you start make sure your insurance is paid up!!!
I think tomorrow I may be a little bit sore or at least know I hjave some muscles talking to me.... My Lady Firend and I went for a short bike ride alomg the old Erie Canal Trail from Fairport, NY West past Pittford, NY. The canal gets very windy around there but is nice and level basically. At lunch after the ride she checked the distnce on Google.... We rode somewhere between 26 and 28 miles depending how Google calulated our starting and ending points (The ride was out and back). Did it in about 2 hours. Not bad for a pair of old folks in our mid 70's.
Most of the trail is on the roadbed of the Rochester and Eastern Trolley Line that ended up right here in Geneva where I live. No the Canal doesn't come near Geneva.....
Hope all of you are safe and had or are having a great day!
KEN!, Be carefull with the weed burner!! Hear?
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good Evening,
A hot one here today. The humidex is 109F! It is supposed to cool down a bit tomorrow which is a good thing as I don't like this heat and humidity. I couldn't live in the southern U.S.
Lastspikemike, if you want a CP correct Sante Fe you will have to buy brass. Van Hobbies did import a model of CP's Sa2 in the early '80s. Brasstrains just sold one with a nice paint job for $325. I bought my K5a Hudson from them and they were good to deal with. Only thing with a brass Sante Fe is that it will need very broad curves as they have a rigid frame certainly 28" or more. My Hudson barely makes it around 22" at a fairly slow speed.
We did a bbq tonight. Just burgers but what burgers. The patties were made with prime rib and were better than some steak I've had. I washed it down with a glass of Merlot from Ontario.
Not much else going on here. Hopefully I will get my new Hudson back soon. The fellow doing the work has a cottage so he isn't home all the time and he told me he has several projects on the go for customers from B.C. and Ontario. Not surprised given his skill. I still feel guilty spending what I did on that loco. I have decided to sell off a few other N scale pieces and a BLI SW900. I am tempted to sell off all the N scale stuff but am reluctant to do so as I put a lot of effort into my little door layout. I guess 3 locos and 25 pieces of rolling stock isn't too extravagent.
Well have a nice evening,
CN Charlie
MLC's a Post-Hog
My oldest brother had that Illinois Central in HO when we were kids. Always liked that one.
gmpullman
I don't think they are Ed. I don't know about Nationwide but the last one around here closed up many years ago. I don't know what happened to them as they did a pretty good job and it was more healthy than a greasy old Burger.
I too stay away from fast food joints. Once in a blue moon we might go grab a Big Mac or something. It's like splurging for a treat that's bad for you now.
I don't have any fish in the house. I may have to do a grocery run before its time this weekend. We're still pretty stocked up on food around here but now I want some fish
Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a please and Dirk a dog treat.
Dave I missed typed, I was trying to say 20 pound bottle not 2 pound.
Brent The small weed burner would take for ever. Section I want to burn is 8' X 40', all gravel that has been over ran by weeds. Far as buring down the house? Really kind to like that to happen.
1 It get rid of all my wifes junk!
2 Get a new roof!
3 It would fix the floor joist!
Getting rid of her junk would be the best part! I was looking at phots from Christmas 2005 and it looked like real people lived in it. You could sit on the couch with out moving stuff, my command chair (reminds me of Captain Kirk Chair) did not have anything on it. Now it looks like a horders house and none of the stuff is mine!
Later, Ken and Dirk says Woof, Woof!
I hate Rust
gmpullmanI can count the times I've been to a "fast food" joint in the past ten years on one hand
Prior to our recent trip, I do not think I have had fast food in months.
With the Covid concerns, drive-through seemed more responsible.
Burger King really had the "no-touch" system working very well. Better than anyone else from what I saw.
POST HOG 2
POST HOG
Gotta get gas on the way home ( From Garry's layout)
Good afternoon All,
hot humid day here. I am freezing in my office. I am working in this engine today during lunch.
It is a Williams O scale from the Museum It burned out the control board, bought a new control board which burned out. could nto figure out where short was so , motors are good. I have placed a bridge rectifier in it and it will only travel one direction from now on.
gmpullman. . .Hey! Top - O - the page! Have we had any traditional fish and chips yet? . . .
Dang that looks good. That's what always happens with fish and chips--they look great, they taste awesome, and about an hour after eating them I am thinking to myself, "Why did I do that?!" The grease weighs heavy on me.
Today is a "sweet and sour" day for me. The sweet: I am like a small child with my nose pressed against the window watching for the FedEx truck. We decided to invest in some mid-grade recording equipment. Both of us play the piano and have decided to make some quality recordings to leave behind for our children and grandchildren as a legacy of sorts.
The sour: This morning I noticed that the motorcycle is blowing oil. I had it in a couple of weeks ago to get new pipes installed and a Stage 1 upgrade. It looks like the dealer may not have tightened everything back down all the way. It will be going in on Monday to get fixed.
Richard
Good morning, everyone.
Just finished my morning walk, and I am sweating. It was very warm and humid at 6:00 a.m.
After about a week, we came home from Breckenridge a day early. The high altitude bothered my wife, and she didn't really acclimate
The lodge sits at over 10,000 feet (3048 m), with the lifts going up to 12,840 feet (3914 m).
Now it's back to normal. I'm outside, hating cutting my grass.
Track fiddlerKevin, If you found a good Long John Silver's you should go buy a lottery ticket
I can count the times I've been to a "fast food" joint in the past ten years on one hand.
But — I do recall having a halfway decent fish dinner at Arthur Treacher's a few times. Are they even still in business?
Maxman, thanks for that Clapper skit with Herrrrres Johnny.
There was a fellow in Cleveland, (not Claude Cooper) that was burning weeds with a torch last fall. After the fire department left the street was minus two garages and three houses!
Cheers, Ed
It's going to be a hot one today and for the rest of the weekend. It seems everything is in heat index or wind chill anymore. Back in the day they'd give you the actual temperature and leave the rest up to your imagination. After fading in and out of the news this morning to get the weather I only know what the heat index is of 105° but don't know what the actual temperature is going to be
I found some cedar yesterday at Scherer Brothers Lumber in Hopkins. They are one of the few full service lumber yards left. Although they said their supply is depleting as several deliveries did not show up.
4 - 2x6x8's were $96.00. I think Oak is cheaper these days. It's been awhile since I've been to a full-service lumber yard. The guy picked through the pile sighting down the boards and put them on top of my truck for me. No wonder that wood was so expensive there but I ain't paying for it after reimbursement.
It's nice a couple of decent sized inside jobs came in at my building. I don't like working outside in the heat anymore.
Well the $27 I spent at eBay yesterday is spit in the Hat. Finally after 3 years of starting my layout I made a rather large purchase from three different N scale suppliers. Internet shopping and purchasing is obviously saturated. I was not able to get all the items I need from one supplier.
Kevin, If you found a good Long John Silver's you should go buy a lottery ticket I never did find a good one and quit trying after about the third try, ...Mush
Thanks for the compliments on my truck
Have a great day everyone
Steven OtteMy biggest bugaboo, though, especially when typing fast, is that I don't release the shift key fast enough and capitalize the first two letters of a word.
I do that a lot also. My biggest mispelling is I just simply cannot type "SENSOR", I always type "SESNOR" instead. In my working days when I was writing Field Incident Reports our system did not have a spell checker, I used the word "sensor" a lot, and it was embarrasing. Once a report was submitted into the Information Management System it could not be edited.
Track fiddler..Arthur Treacher's used to do a pretty good job but I would drive around the block so I don't even have to look at Long John Silver's. Yuk
My wife and I ate nothing but drive-through on out trip earlier this month. This included two Long John Silver's locations.
The one in Indiana was really good. The second one we stopped at I think was in South Carolina on the way back, and it was not good at all.
BATMANEven with this one, use it after a good rain or things will go South on you real fast.
I haven't managed to set the neighbourhood on fire (yet), but don't use it around dry leaves or grass unless you want to do a fire dance trying to stomp them out! Best to have the hose handy.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
maxmanDid someone say clapper?
Hilarious!! I love how hard they have to work to keep their faces straight!
Thanks maxman!
gmpullmanMost spell-checkers don't recognize coupler and may replace it with clapper or some such similarit
Did someone say clapper?
Ken, a torch like that is what paving crews use. You will burn down the neighbourhood with that one. Not to mention you will go broke with the amount of propane it will use.
This is what you want. A small bottle you use with your plumbing torch last quite a while.
https://www.amazon.ca/Mag-Torch-MT-450-Garden-Torch/dp/B001DSKEP4/ref=asc_df_B001DSKEP4/?tag=googleshopc0c-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=292923635229&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10862268512712582005&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9001504&hvtargid=pla-492967335728&psc=1
Even with this one, use it after a good rain or things will go South on you real fast.
Went to Costco with he wife today and 99.9% had a mask on. Have not been to Costco in a long time and probably won't go til Christmas now.
Bought a new tile saw at the auction for a steal and picked that up as well.
Found a bag of Oreo cookies on the counter and could not behave myself. Sugar is very bad for anyone with chronic pain like my Arthritis so I will be on the pain train tomorrow. It will be like a bad hangover and I will learn my lesson and avoid sugar again for a long time.
I make the same type Os you guys do, however it is a result of a sticky keyboard. A good cleaning fixes it right up.
TF, good job on the truck! I am impressed.
Track fiddler Brent, That's cool your wife looks like Meryl Streep. It's kinda like you're married to a movie star I wonder if she likes Meryl Streep movies?
Having a wife that looks just like Meryl Streep has had some funny moments, especially when we are at airports or down in Las Vegas. My wife gets the short end of the stick though because I look nothing like Robert Redford. I stay in top shape to try and make up for that shortfall and that seems to do the trick. Out Of Africa is my favourite Meryl Streep movie.
Time for a movie.
cudaken Glad you folks where talking about Buring Weeds. One section around the pool has been driving me nuts. Gravel has dirt in it and the weed and gas go nuts. Weed killer, well not has good as it use to be but safer. So I am going to give this a try. https://www.lowes.com/pd/Lincoln-Electric-Torch-Kit/4742120 I wonder how long a 2 pound propane tank will last? Guessing not long.
Hi Ken,
The way I read the specs on that weed burner, it says that it will work with 20 lb., 50 lb. or 100 lb. tanks. The tank connector is not correct for 2 lb. tanks, and it doesn't say anything about using small tanks. You sure as heck don't want to have to haul a 20 lb. tank around to use it. There are lots of models that use the small cylinders and work very well. A small bottle of gas lasts a long time on mine, but I'm not using it for hours at a time. It's actually a pretty quick process.