Anybody for a chocolate beer?
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Sure Jeff, chocolate beer sounds good to me.
Have you ever tried the Purple Haze from Abita Beer? It is a raspberry wheat beer.
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
David Parks I am the terror that flaps in the night!
Cold tap for me Joe. And set up the house for whoever is left here!
Keep high and dry Jeffrey, and be safe!
So Mike, you are doing some wiring. Sounds like a good plan being able to easily disconnect the feeders. Did you ever find out what was heating up, causing the smoke?
mikesmowers wrote: Morning all cup of coffee Joe, Thanks. I haven't found any burnt wires or anything of the such, but I am not done yet. The power supply I am using will shut down if it even thinks there is a short, Why it didn't the other night is beyond me. I did fry a 12v 1 amp wall wart that was controling the street lights, I think some of them were dim just befor the smoke. I figure a short on the line with the wall wart. So far so good. Mike
Morning All... Cup of coffee this morning. Hope everyone is well.
Mike pardon my language (& ignorance) but what the hell is a wall wart?
Gotta Go. Tons of paperwork to get through.
GUB
jeffrey-wimberly wrote:A traqnsformer that plugs into the wall.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Thanks for the info.
mikesmowers wrote: I just assumed everyone knew what a wall wart was. Sorry I should have explained myself better Mike
That's okay Mike. I'm new in the hobby, recently returning after 35-40 years. I heard the term before but never knew what it meant and not wanting to appear stupid I just never asked the question. But I figure I feel comfortable enough to ask the question hear.
Thanks for the info.
Coffee here too Joe!
Another late night last night, and so I'm not running on all cylinders yet.
Mike, could be the wart's time was up....and there is nothing majorly wrong with the wiring....On the other hand, up-grading and cleaning it up can only be a good thing!! Right??
GUB, glad you feel comfortable! As far as a question....Always feel free to ask away. This MRRing thing is just an ongoing experiment for me, I'm learning something all the time...Sometimes the hard way (shoulda', coulda' asked a question or two first). To quote Red Green "Remember, we're all in this together, I'm pulling for you"
David, be careful not to criticize...When I was in school, I was an experiment on how to teach spelling with out learning phonics....It didn't work!
Gotta' get busy....Have another LONG day ahead!
JB - I'm assuming that Duct Tape is your friend.
Fill 'er up, Joe. Us oil men have a powerful thirst. I'm still fixing up the Burns Fuel and Oil Company, adding some scenery around the tanks and trying to figure out that unloading thing. Somebody pointed me to a reference that makes me think one of the hoses is for the fuel to come out of, and the other is to pump in air to pressurize the tank and push the fuel out. That means I've got to use different colors for those pipes, too.
Rain is due in around midnight, according to the timetable that I've learned not to put much faith in. It was clear blue skies as the sun went down. Still, it will be Saturday, so I suppose we have to get rain. That's OK, I need layout time to paint the cover-ups for the Atlas switch machines. I'm pretty happy with them so far, but now I'm doing an A vs B test of whether I need to coat them with Gypsolite or just paint them. Time will tell, and so will I.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Mike: Check this out! It's a P2K E6 on a Kato drive. I can't even hear the motor running, it's so quiet.
I like lots of pipe runs going all over the place. The Walthers kit came with them, but they're kind of short, so I picked up some styrene rods and I'll extend the runs across the track to the other side, where I'll unload the tank cars. Your building with the shingles looks great. Campbells? Does it have any interior detail, like some of your others? I'm going to put in some 2-dimensional cutouts of Montgomery Burns and Waylon Smithers once I get my building put together.
Maybe a big propane tank with a fence around it for filling up grill tanks? Some of the "bulbs" from sprue ends would work as small tanks, I think.
Have another while you think about it. Harpoon again, Joe.
Jeffrey. I saw the pics on another thread and am impressed. What do you mean exactly about ""Kato Drive?"
Howdy guys....Set um up Joe, and I'll have a tall tap with a couple shots of Mr.T
Mike and Mr. B..I'm not 100% sure, but I think I remember reading something a number of years ago now, about tankers being built with out any appliances (valves, piping...nothing) on the under side, for safety reasons. I the case of any derailment / accident, with everything "top-side" the possibility of catastrophic leakage was somewhat diminished.
I too am looking into the off-loading (the how and why of the piping) of fuel. I will have the Walthers kit that you are doing Mr.B, as a large distribution center, Anchor Gas & Fuel, in one of my larger towns (details to yet be worked out) and a kitbashed Colvin Lumber and Fuel in the small community of Sawbill Junction.
Mike, did I miss a photo of you oil depot on this thread?
One more, once around Joe.....Then I gotta' go.
Well...Maybe just one more Joe. Guess it's just you and me now...Man you work some long hours, hope you get paid well.
I was just thinking about my comment regarding tank cars and the more I thought, the more I remembered....The unloading from the top that I was reading about was in regard to LP tankers! Still don't know about other fuels, but I'm going to be in Aurora a week from tomorrow and I will take the time to check out the "real" Colvin Lumber & Fuel. Maybe they are still served by rail...Or somebody there will remember the old days when they were!
Now I really Gotta' Go....Keep the change Joe, you deserve a good tip!
Hey Chris sorry to hear about your friend. It doesn't seem fair does it? Never is.
I can sympathize with you about shorts deadlines and all. I go through this every week. The paperwork keeps piling up and you never get caught up no matter how many hours thatn you put in. I've got almost 2000 messages in my inbox. Most of them do not need my attention but some of them will. The problem is even if i was to do 30 or 40 each night it will take forever. But now I'm venting.
I keep telling myself things will get better and they will.
Again I'm sorry to hear about your friend. Let my buy you a drink. Whatta you have.
Afternoon All.
I got an idea for my 2nd diorama. Actually it is large enough to be a module for my eventual layout - 30" x 60". I have a basic idea of what I want to do. But I have a couple questions and hopefully those who read this could give me some advise.
The first question is this. Should I use code 83 or code 100 flex track? I was at a local train show recently and talking to one vender who told me that code 100 was the equivalent to rails that would be 14" high in the real world. He went on to say that the code 83 was more realistic and there were plenty of switches or turnouts to match the code 83 and if i wanted to I could use code 55 for sidings and yards. One of the disadvantage (at least to my way of thinking) of going with the code 83 track is the cost. Of course if I was to buy in bulk it would be considerably more economical. I also read somewhere and I cannot remember just where that some of these spectacular layouts we see in magazines use the code 100. Any thoughts on this?
My second questions has to do with the operating system. I want sound and eventually will have accesories on my layout so I'm thinking DCC is the way to go. From what I have seen, read and heard about it appears that Digitrax is the likely choice, unless someone can tell me why not. I would like to have power on this Diarama. But would like to be able to use it on my layout eventually. What system should I buy? Anyone? Any thoughts?
Think I'll have a glass of juice. Too many late nights as of late and I really do not want a drink now. Perhaps later at the party.
Will check back later. Bye for now.
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I've been doing a bit of scenery the last few days. Here's the result of the "buried toxic waste" discussion we had here a while back. It still needs some more paint and a bit of turf cover here and there, but you can get the general idea from this:
Is it just me, are do those guys with the shovels a deep-V necklines look like they're about to break out into a chorus of "YMCA?"