I am doing very well today Mike. No dizziness at all today, so the medication must be working. But my blood pressure is acting really weird.
BTW, did that signal information help you any?
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mikesmowers wrote: Thanks Jeffrey that was what I was thinking, Do I need signals for trains going in both directions?
Mornin', Joe. A cup of that high-test coffee, if you would. Scramble two, bacon, and a couple of English muffins.
Well, the scratchbuilt Burns Coal and Oil building is coming along nicely. I went with the sickly mustard yellow instead of the dingey moss green. I got the foundation on a couple of days ago, and tonight I'll glue down the rock wall where the train goes through, and probably start on the Campbell shingle roof. Remember the song "The Railroad Runs Through the Middle of the House" by Vaughn Monroe? Anyone? Well, that's this building. My true-life made-up history says it used to be the station for an old trolley stop, so it spans the track to provide shelter for waiting passengers. Now, old man Burns has removed the benches so there no place for "lazy, good-for-nothing lollygaggers" to sit down and take a break. Thanks to a great deal on Woodland Scenics figures I found at the train show over the weekend, I've got some roofers who will be hard at work on the flat part of the roof that bridges the track.
Jeffrey, glad to hear that things are more-or-less under control. Now we can all relax and have a great Thanksgiving dinner. And thanks again to Trainmaster for keeping us posted. We appreciate it.
Time for another cup before I get back to work. I just heard about another dog-and-pony show I've got to set up. Well, at least I'm not the one who's got to get on an airplane and try to get back to Washington, DC, on the day before Thanksgiving. Have fun on the TSA line, guys.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Mr. Beasley: I appreciate that he let my friends know what was going on, but I think he went a little overboard. I'm still getting Get well soon and Concern emails from over twenty different forums that I attend.
jeffrey-wimberly wrote:Mr. Beasley: I appreciate that he let my friends know what was going on, but I think he went a little overboard. I'm still getting Get well soon and Concern emails from over twenty different forums that I attend.
Well, make sure you tell everyone next time he gets a cold so he can get the same level of sympathy from everyone.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Anyone heard of the "six pack roux". It takes so long to make you judge the time it takes to finish it by drinking a six pack of beer.
And, speaking of "six pack", how about a beer?
...and next time on the Beer Channel...... "Six Pack Chicken" recipe...
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
MisterBeasley wrote: jeffrey-wimberly wrote:Mr. Beasley: I appreciate that he let my friends know what was going on, but I think he went a little overboard. I'm still getting Get well soon and Concern emails from over twenty different forums that I attend. Well, make sure you tell everyone next time he gets a cold so he can get the same level of sympathy from everyone.
David Parks I am the terror that flaps in the night!
Barkeep! A Moxie here please! (Don't mind me, I don't drink alcohol anymore)
jeffrey-wimberly wrote:Yeah, I just forwarded more of it to you. That'll teach ya. LOL
You know, you can set up your Email so that whenever it sees certain words it sends a copy to another address. You could set it for "Get Well" and then forward to him and you'll never have to think of it again. I played that joke on a coworker of mine. My Email labels all spam mail with "Spam:", so I set it so that whenever it sees that he gets a copy. Now he gets all my spam along with his own! My other coworkers thought it was funny as all getout! He didn't see the same humor in it though. It's OK though. We're always playing jokes on each other.
Ah, the wonderful aroma of an oven full of turkey! We're doing squash, praline sweet potatoes and creamed pearl onions (3 separate dishes) this year, so aroma isn't our thing. Our hosts, old college friends, get that bennie every year. But, I did get a chance to snap a few photos of Burns Coal and Oil before I started working on the geological strata below it. Still a bit pink down there, I'm afraid. Here's a front view. It's missing the front steps.
The next view is from the bumper-end of the coal siding. As you can see, the building sits over the tracks, and the trains have to run through it. The building also sits across two geological faults - on both the left and right sides there are lift-offs for accessing the subways below.
And here's the other side, looking up the siding, past the building and at the tops of the oil tanks.
The siding is Evergreen clapboard, the roof is Campbell shingles, and the doors and windows are Tichy. The foundation is cut from a hydrocal casting of a cut stone wall (Dave Frary mold.)
Hey, everyone have a good Thanksgiving, OK? I'm off to mash some squash. Or squash some mash? Gee, a quarter to one. Guess I've got time for a quick one, Joe. Harpoon IPA. And NO, I don't want one of those sissy limes.
Happy Thanksgiving, all.
MrB, Nice job. Thanks for the details. I am always thinking about scratch building projects.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Thanks for the kind words, Sue. I've had a cardstock mock-up of this building on my layout for many months now. I bought the Evergreen sheets for the siding back in July, and I've had the doors and windows since last winter. Somehow, I was always scared to start, but once I got going it went pretty quickly. I spent about one good weekend a while back on this, and ever since then it's been an hour here, an hour there, until I put the hammer down and did the roof last night.
The attic door and I-beam above it were inspired by some photos from a guy at work, who has a real barn with the same stuff up in New Hampshire. I'll send him these pics on Monday - should be interesting to see his reaction.
I'd encourage anyone to try this. I've never done a scratch-built building before, so it was learn-as-you-go all the way. Nothing difficult, though, so I hope everyone takes a crack at it. Not quite as easy as a kit, but in the end nobody can take the credit by you.
Happy Thanksgiving all....Joe, set the place up with whatever we all need!
Ryan, ironically, I had a few Urquell over my stint in the Cities the past two days. Good stuff if you like a pilsner. Bittburger is a good one too!
And thanks Ryan and Chris for all the input at the Dining Car regarding turkey ideas...The 12 pack one is a great idea!!
The State meets went well, I was a stroke and turn judge on the bulkhead for all four meets and had a good time...Then today it was off to the folks for a get together with most of the clan. We ate well, had good visits and a few drinks...All is right in my world.
Mr. Beasley, the oil depot is looking good....You've done a very nice job on it.
I spent a little time in the Trainroom myself this evening, gluing up some of the super-structure for the turntable and also finished up a double crossover for the "helper service" at the top of the hill. I'll see if I can get a picture or two of that progress out to you one of these days...Maybe tomorrow, but I will make NO promise as I seem to have a busy day shaping up!
One more Joe!
Howdy, all. Joe, a round for the house and an Anchor Steam for me.
Haven't been in for a couple of weeks. Had a minor physical problem and the Doc said I should lay off anything alcoholic for a while. Nothing as serious as yours, Jeffery; just some results of being older than I used to be.
Just finished up the framework for the throat on my local freight staging yard (designed to be lifted out and taken to the workbench for tracklaying now and maintenance later.) It looks kind of like a lopsided guitar case. Next comes the fun of building a crossover and a pair of one-way-curve three way turnouts (and now you know why I build them from raw rail! When was the last time you saw a commercial three way turnout with both diverging tracks on the same side?) I really do consider it to be fun, even though it would scare the socks off the sectional track crowd.
Right now I'm winding down from a turkey overdose. I'm afraid to step on the scale - it would probably scream, "Get your (fill in the blank) off me!" Sure tasted good, though.
Got to mosey on home; the Boss is waiting. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Good morning:
Well...I see I ended up at the top of the page last evening, So..Joe, a round of coffee for everybody and throw in a bowl of oatmeal for anybody that wants / needs one too!
Gotta' head into town this morning, but then, it's out to the Trainroom for a little more work on the Sawyer Lumber turntable (and I will try to snap and pic or two also) before heading BACK to town this evening for a bit of singing and dancing. My daughter and I are involved in a short encore performance of "Showboat", opening for the Players, "Babes in Toy Land". I'll give the report...
Latter guys.
Thanks, JB, don't mind if I do. Harpoon, Joe, and DON'T call me Ishmael. (Shirley either.)
How'd everybody do on Turkey Day? We had a great time, although we were short a couple of couples from our usual bunch. So, the table was big enough to accomodate the kids without putting them off at a little card table in the hall. One's in college now, and the rest in high school, so the idea of a kid's table is getting a little old for them.
My girl was also on stage last week. She got to be a Mime, so it was the longest I'd seen her go without talking for quite a spell. Is it true that the cell phone companies invented text messaging so they wouldn't lose out on the lucrative Mime market?
A bit more scenery today. I concentrated on the area around the coal and oil company, but I ended up with too much Gypsolite in my big yogurt container, so I put some more in here and there. Over the course of a day, I've found that I can put down Gypsolite, give it a bit of wash paint, and then later apply some turf and ground foam, all with enough drying time. I won't vacuum off the excess until tomorrow, but it's sure satisfying to go from a pink spot to complete scenery in one day.
Good Morning All;
Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving Day. Unfortunately as a Canadian I had to work. Just a coffee and and a couple slices of rye toast to get me going this morning. It's going to be a very busy, busy day. With just a month before Christmas I gotta get up the Outdoor Lights, Get the Outdoor Tree (now), Get the Indoor Tree (later), put up the Outdoor Tree, which starts the neighbourhood contest as to who leaves their tree up the longest. Ours came down the 3rd week of may. But back to the list of things to do today. Clean the Car, get ready for the Party tonight - 1st Christmas Party of the year, pickup a present and card for the wife, remind her that it is her birthday today - leaving out the part where I remind her how old she is, which usually involes ducking the flying shoe, buy some shrimp for the appetizers, cook the shrimp and prep for the party, have a nap, get up, go to the party, drink, eat etc., etc. etc.
I think I need a nap now just looking at this list makes me tired. Oh well have a great day guys!
BTW Howard Zane's book is Great - well worth the price.
GUB
GUB: It's going to be a very busy, busy day. With just a month before Christmas I gotta get up the Outdoor Lights, Get the Outdoor Tree (now), Get the Indoor Tree (later), put up the Outdoor Tree, which starts the neighbourhood contest as to who leaves their tree up the longest. Ours came down the 3rd week of may. But back to the list of things to do today. Clean the Car, get ready for the Party tonight - 1st Christmas Party of the year, pickup a present and card for the wife, remind her that it is her birthday today - leaving out the part where I remind her how old she is, which usually involes ducking the flying shoe, buy some shrimp for the appetizers, cook the shrimp and prep for the party, have a nap, get up, go to the party, drink, eat etc., etc. etc.
It's going to be a very busy, busy day. With just a month before Christmas I gotta get up the Outdoor Lights, Get the Outdoor Tree (now), Get the Indoor Tree (later), put up the Outdoor Tree, which starts the neighbourhood contest as to who leaves their tree up the longest. Ours came down the 3rd week of may. But back to the list of things to do today. Clean the Car, get ready for the Party tonight - 1st Christmas Party of the year, pickup a present and card for the wife, remind her that it is her birthday today - leaving out the part where I remind her how old she is, which usually involes ducking the flying shoe, buy some shrimp for the appetizers, cook the shrimp and prep for the party, have a nap, get up, go to the party, drink, eat etc., etc. etc.
That sounds like a very busy schedule there guy. Don't try too much at once.
Too many Thanksgiving dinners. Maybe we will stay home tomorrow. We had to get hay today because it is going to start raining again tonight. They said maybe snow by tomorrow evening.
MrB, You gather building materials like I do. A trip to the lumberyard, or windows and doors at the train shows, but are always looking for parts. I started a floor for a engine shop. I got some ground goop down on the top of my mountain, and some moss on the rock so far this week.
Later, Sue
We're just getting started with holiday dinners. I had some turkey last night, about 9 o'clock when I finally got hungry. I'm thinking of throwing the rest of the turkey into a Thai curry and adding some dumplings, peppers and sprouts. But, what do we do with all those sweet potatoes?
Just touch-ups today on the layout. I'm using 1/8 inch square balsa sticks to make railroad-timber retaining walls. These make nice "borders" for the tank farms at the oil company, and I've got a couple of spots where I can use them to hide the boundry on a lift-off section. And then, I'm shopping around for my first diesel sound decoder, for my Alco RS. I've become hooked by sound on my new little steamer, and the quiet engines just don't make it any more.
Good Evening...all..
Set the place up with a round on me, Joe.
Well, I didn't get out to the Trainroom and I didn't snap any pictures...Maybe tomorrow!
I kept myself busy with normal chores and working on the library addition most of the day today. Then it was off to town to sing again. As it has turned out, we (some of the Showboat cast) are singing a few Christmas Carols to open the "Babes in Toyland" show. It's been fun and we've gotten good reviews, so it's all good!
As long as I don't have any pictures of the turntable bashing....Thought I would send a bit of humor your way.