gear-jammer wrote: George, The rain has stopped, at least for a couple of days. He should get home, hopefully before dark. Maybe, when I get home from the rock gym, the roof will be repaired. He is not amused. That must be hard to be that far away, not being able to do anything about the mess. August is a great time of year. Usually warm and dry, high 80's. Where is the meet? Usually when we drive that far, we schedule RR or logging museums along the way. In April, there is a logging-model railroad convention in Senora, CA. We had a great time this year and will probably make it an annual event. Are you home yet? How are your new toys? Visualize rubber boots. Sue
George,
The rain has stopped, at least for a couple of days. He should get home, hopefully before dark. Maybe, when I get home from the rock gym, the roof will be repaired. He is not amused. That must be hard to be that far away, not being able to do anything about the mess.
August is a great time of year. Usually warm and dry, high 80's. Where is the meet? Usually when we drive that far, we schedule RR or logging museums along the way. In April, there is a logging-model railroad convention in Senora, CA. We had a great time this year and will probably make it an annual event.
Are you home yet? How are your new toys?
Visualize rubber boots.
Sue
Yes for another 8 hours then to Tenn. The new toys run great. Had a small ops session Tonight (Tuesday) and the "boys" have a lot to learn. THey put 3 hopper cars on the floor when they ran a turnout the was shown as RED but still went thirugh it. The answer was that "NOBODY LOOKS AT THOSE ANYWAY" mt response was "IF YOU RUN HERE YOU WILL"
This layout is impossible to just look at and run. It is the 1960's type design Mixed with the new tech stuff. If I posted this before, sorry but this the track plan they are trying to run'
Try and follow it. ONE main run is 650 ft. there is 65 ft of hidden track. Squares are 12x12
Stay safe. I will post when I know where we are going in Washington.
Good Moring to all,
PC, That's the great things about this place, you can make friends and go off suject whenever you want, Like we do in the CS and hey is it my fault that Sue and I are the main posters here, it is my thread after all (Ha,Ha)
Sue, glad you didn't lose power but what a mess with the leak, that's one house problem I have yet to encounter. We have had to deal with flooding in the first few years of our marriage (evacuated twice) but now we live on higher ground away from rivers. Your brothers trip sounds like fun, Tom and I dream about that same trip but it may have to wait until retirement ( another 20 years or so) I hope the trains are still running.
Tom and I are taking the boys to our first train show on Sat. It's located in Wilmington, MA(my home town, though it has changed), I can't wait. Talk to everyone later.
Not this weekend! The Wilmington show is the 18th and 19th.
http://gte.ciadvt.com/
I'm gonna try to get to that one, too. It's usually a great show. The snack bar, by the way, is run by the Shriners so at least part of the profits go to a good cause. Food is reasonably good, too.
Look for me. I'm the slightly-overweight guy in his late 50's. No, that won't help much. Suppose I wear an engineer's cap? No...
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
lisap wrote: PC, That's the great things about this place, you can make friends and go off suject whenever you want, Like we do in the CS and hey is it my fault that Sue and I are the main posters here, it is my thread after all (Ha,Ha)
Naw, you can't help it. I was just ribbin' ya! Another CS is a good thing!
Man, that roof problem sounds like a pain! We just had a house built and there was a problem with our roof as they were putting it in. I'm hoping it doesn't cause a problem. I drove a hard bargin though. I made them up the standard 4 year leakproof warrenty to a 10 year one. Anything goes wrong, they replace it free of charge. And what you're going through is the reason. Man, that's got to be disruptive to you lives!
Flooding doesn't sound like much fun either!
Morning all,
PC, I know you were just teasing.
Mr Beasley, Thanks I got my dates mixed up again, I could blame it on age but I'm not that old yet. It would be great to meet you but there will be an lot of people, you could look for a fortish woman with 3 boys (8,6,4) pulling her in three different directions.Of course my husband will be with me as well. Well hope to see you Next Sat. thanks again I would not have been happy to go to Wilington(1 hour away) and find I was wrong.
Lisa, The flooding I know too well. Every time that my dad would go south to Arizona, his place would flood. My brother and I would do the sand bag thing. In 1996, Larry got involved too. We had 3 3/4 ton four-wheel drive pickups parked on the high spot on the property. Mine was the only one that did not have water on the floor.(It was newer so the seals still worked.) We moved everything that we could into the attic and the only upstairs bedroom.
George, I think that you have posted your layout before, but it was great to see it again. It is fun to put the great photos in perspective. I once ran a loco off our first layout. We were not even running anything at the time. I was leaning across the control, working on scenery and bumped the throttle. Larry heard something; turned around; and caught the loco in mid-air. There are disadvantages to being female. We have bumpers on the end of all tracks now.
pcarrell, Yes,we are just past 10 years. Our house has rafters instead of trusses. We suspect that the venting that was required at the top is the major leak. High winds. Rafters look cool with the high ceiling, but they are a pain. It should seal up fine, but we will need to replace some sheetrock and insulation. As soon as I punched a hole, it quit leaking. HaHa. What part of the USA do you live in? Is your area rainy too?
Next weekend must the great train show weekend. We have the Puyullup show, too. I think that it is the best one that we have in Washington. I am anxious to take my new camera. Maybe there will be some good deals. $$$$
Later, Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
pcarrell wrote:Man, you ladies have like your own private thread going here! What a deal, huh?
I think that's perfectly fine. They could even call it 'the 'Sewing Circle" or 'Coffee Clatch' since 'Coffee Shop' is already spoken for.
How about contest for a new name?
'Skirt-Side'? or 'FeMail' P.O.'? (How 'bout 'Kiss 'N Tell'? or 'Chaw 'N Jaw'?).
- "One never knows, do one"? - Thomas F. Waller
Don Gibson wrote: pcarrell wrote:Man, you ladies have like your own private thread going here! What a deal, huh? I think that's perfectly fine. They could even call it 'the 'Sewing Circle" or 'Coffee Clatch' since 'Coffee Shop' is already spoken for. How about contest for a new name? 'Skirt-Side'? or 'FeMail' P.O.'? "One never knows, do one"? - Thomas F. Waller
'Skirt-Side'? or 'FeMail' P.O.'?
"One never knows, do one"? - Thomas F. Waller
I was just ribbin' them. I think it's great too. Model railroading should be about 50% trains and 50% relationships I think.
Sue,
I'm in Indiana, so while we don't get tons of rain, we do get our share. The fun of it is when it starts going round and round about 6 million mph! When a twister comes you pray that a leak is the biggest of your worries!
pcarrell, I will take rain and flooding anyday. You can see it coming. I like it here.
Dick, The mudslides happen with lots of rain. It is not predictable, but the ones that you probably were referring to were on glacial silt near puget sound. It did not affect us. Our place is high and dry. Everything slopes away from the house.
The layout room is on the NE corner of the house away from the weather. Larry and I were discussing that last night. Can you imagine if that room was where the leak was? The trains are high and dry.
There are plenty of guys that have joined us on Lisa's thread. I am sure that they do not consider this a sewing circle.
I started the floor for a scratch-built machine shop today. It will have at least one bay for car repair.
Back to work, Sue
Oh you can see it coming! Hear it and feel it too!
My daughter is up at Monroe,east of Everret. They rivers there were flooding pretty good ,or bad if you want, but her bookstore in downtown Monroe is OK and her house east of Monroe is up high so no problems. Hiway 2 was closed from Index to Sultan, about 20 miles I guess, due to High water but I didn't hear they closed the BNSF which runs parallel to that hiway all the way to Minneapolis.
Just had a funny thought. If your smoke alarm which is mounted on or near the ceiling goes off because of water you may have a real problem. Just ask the folks in N.O.
You tell them Sue, sewing circle indeed(I'm lucky if I can sew a buttom back on). Don't worry I know everyone is just joking ( I hope so any way )and I don't take offence easily. I'm thinking about staring a new thread now that we all know each other but I'm not sure what to call it any sugestions and none of those sissy girly names either, I like having all you guys dropping in so we wouldn't want to embarrass any of you guys with a name like "Pink Ladies Layouts" or something equally silly.
As for train talk I set up the Christmas train but I need to do some work on it the track sits too close to the edge of the table and it's the only table available for a temporary set-up so I need to come up with some type of temp. guard rail to keep my train from falling(it has happened twice).Any briliant(but cheep) ideas??
I thought it was fun to learn how to run the sewing machine when I was a small boy. After all, it was another mechanical contraption that I could learn how to take apart and put together. (One theory is that my parents got me a train set because they kept finding the door locks in pieces, and figured they needed to distract me.) I took textiles in high school, too.
So, who remembers the pink "girls'" locomotive with pastel rolling stock that Lionel put out in the late 50's or early 60's? I actually saw the set at a show sometime in the past year.
I've thought of using something like fishnet or maybe an old badminton net as a safety net around the layout. So far, I've been lucky and nothing has taken the plunge, but I too have tracks too close to the edge.
Mr Beasley, I did try to learn sewing but I never got the hang of it, I too liked taking things apart as a child my favoite was phones which was not apreciated (mostly because those were the days when you rented the phone from the phone co.) I'm afraid I don't remember the pink Lionel trains ( a little before my time) but they sound interesting.
Pc, good sugestions but I'm still thinking about it and I don't think I'm desperate enough for the "Ash Pit".
lisap wrote: As for train talk I set up the Christmas train but I need to do some work on it the track sits too close to the edge of the table and it's the only table available for a temporary set-up so I need to come up with some type of temp. guard rail to keep my train from falling(it has happened twice).Any briliant(but cheep) ideas??
Life is simple - eat, drink, play with trains!
Go Big Red!
PA&ERR "If you think you are doing something stupid, you're probably right!"
Tom, That is a great idea as a matter of fact I can get some clamps at my local dollar store that sould last at least until after Christmas.
I have made a decision about the new thread I think I'll call call it The Whistle Stop. I want to attact more people in that's why I want to change things. So what do you think?
lisap wrote: I have made a decision about the new thread I think I'll call call it The Whistle Stop. I want to attact more people in that's why I want to change things. So what do you think?
GearDrivenSteam wrote:After 12 pages of hoorah, you shouldn't feel alone anymore.
Good point!
The Whistle Stop sounds good!
Lisa, The Whistle Stop is a LHS in portland. It should be easy to remember. Let us know what you decide. We sure have lots of great friends here.
The sun is shining today. Larry patched the roof. Now I am ready for the storm that is coming in tonight.
I started my scratch built machine shop yesterday. The floor is complete with a bay for engine or car repair. I will stain the grime on the floor today.