MisterBeasley wrote: To paraphrase the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, "Trains will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no trains."
To paraphrase the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, "Trains will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no trains."
Good one, MrB. That is so true.
George, How about a photo of the Rivarossi Heisler?
I hope that your weather is better than ours. Another 3 inches of snow last night messed up the area. Tonight, the temp should dip down to the low 20's, and into the teens for tomorrow night. The cattle sure eat more to stay warm.
Lisa, We have not heard from you lately.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
AS Requested Miss Sue:
At the Wanamia Storage area
Pictures of the pier at Warrior Run
Big Steam at Ashley Table
Take Care
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Thank you Mister Beasley. The "MUSIC" I am working on comes from this thing.
If this is not singing on the correst note THEN I have a problem. Have and FCA meeting on Saturday and this is our calling card. I have already dumped over 20 shows this year and would like to drop all but can not. The car thing has me burned out after 40+ years of running around.
I will try and sell off my cars so Krysti does not have to worry about what my mom went through when my dad died. He had 28 cars and nobdy had a clue as to what they where worth.
I do not know how my counterpart Barry Maquier does all his live things, I can not anymore.
claycts wrote:
Way cool, George! I was going to send a picture of the motor on the '41 Plymouth, but I could not get to the hood latch because Larry had it parked in with motorcycles. Oh well, maybe some other time. Have a great trip.
Hi everyone,
I caught this week's Tracks Ahead episode on Sunday morning on our local PBS station. They featured the Essex Steam Train in Essex, CT. Anyone ever visit it? It looks like a nice getaway for my wife and me. They offer a few different excursions - you can even get a combination train/steamboat package.
Jim, Is Tracks Ahead aired on the west coast as well? That would be a great program to find.
Lisa, Have you been around? Are you still looking for a steam loco with sound? Sounds like you have had some train shows in your area.
Sue,
Here are stations in Washington that carry Tracks Ahead, at least according to their website:
KWSU Pullman
KSPS Spokane
KCKA Seattle/Tacoma
KBTC Tacoma
KTNW Yakima
I finally finished my backdrop project. Here are the links to all three phases.
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Backdrop looks great Jeff!
And that "Tracks Ahead" program.......we used to get it here in central Indiana, but they took it off the air. Guess they had too much worthless programming that needed air.
Jim, Thanks for the list. None of those stations look familiar. Most of our programing comes out of Tacoma or Seattle. They must be cable or satelite stations. We are lucky to get Thomas.
Jeff, You accomplished a lot over the weekend. I am impressed. Thanks for the photos.
Philip, I will check the diner to see what you are choosing for breakfast.
Jeffrey - Man, that looks really good. I love it when a plan comes together. Thanks for the tutorial.
Sue and others - Tracks Ahead is a nice ½ hour show that covers all aspects of railroading. I'd like to see it go to 1 hour. All 6 seasons are available on DVD from their website http://www.tracksahead.net/ if your local PBS doesn't carry it.
Good Morning everyone, things have been pretty crazy for me lately, I haven't been able to work on the trains,so nothing to report there, winter finally found us here in the NE, big messes to clean up after we had a major ice storm many folks in area still without power and temps around zero or below and I have three boys down with the flu.
Sue, I decided to wait on the steam train for now, hopefully in the next couple of months I'll be getting a check from the sale of my Dad's property. It won't be a lot after paying everything off but my sisters and I will be getting $1,000.00 each, so I'll have some "fun" money. I'll check in again soon.
Lisa and I go to some of the same train shows, and even shop at some of the same LHS's, but she's just a bit north of me. In this case, it was just a bit too far north. We've had nothing but a bit of drizzle and snow flurries, and the roads stayed warm enough to avoid the icing that's been hitting so much of the country. It's cold, or rather it's "seasonable" for this time of year. Kind of unusual, actually, since I think this is the first time all winter that the temperature has not gotten above freezing in the daytime.
I ordered my BLI Hudson from Trainworld yesterday. This is the one with sound for $129. Normally I don't buy on-line, but I couldn't pass up a deal like that. It will be my birthday present in March.
MisterBeasley wrote: I ordered my BLI Hudson from Trainworld yesterday. This is the one with sound for $129. Normally I don't buy on-line, but I couldn't pass up a deal like that. It will be my birthday present in March.
MisterBeasley - I ordered a PCM RDG T1 from Factory Direct Trains over the weekend. I struggled with this a bit because of the issue of undercutting LHS's that carry PCM products. I caved in the end because I really want one since I'm modeling RDG. $252 with sound is just too good to pass up, considering $399 MSRP - at least that logic worked on my wife.
MisterBeasley wrote: I live outside of Boston, and Trainworld is in NYC, and it took less than 24 hours. Plain old UPS standard shipping. The only problem is MY BIRTHDAY ISN'T UNTIL MARCH! Well, Brown did its thing for me, but now how do I speed up the calendar?
MisterBeasley - The planets must be aligned - I ordered the PCM RDG T1 late Friday and my wife called me at noon today to tell me it arrived. It came directly from PCM in Florida and I'm in PA. Same thing - standard UPS ground. On top of that, I programmed it and put it on the tracks tonight......wow.
jblackwelljr wrote: MisterBeasley wrote: I live outside of Boston, and Trainworld is in NYC, and it took less than 24 hours. Plain old UPS standard shipping. The only problem is MY BIRTHDAY ISN'T UNTIL MARCH! Well, Brown did its thing for me, but now how do I speed up the calendar?MisterBeasley - The planets must be aligned - I ordered the PCM RDG T1 late Friday and my wife called me at noon today to tell me it arrived. It came directly from PCM in Florida and I'm in PA. Same thing - standard UPS ground. On top of that, I programmed it and put it on the tracks tonight......wow.
ah, 1) its after Christmas folks. Shippers and retailers are slow now, and can ship faster.
2) when you expect anything you ordered, like, yesterday, it will take weeks to get to you. When you expect it longer, it appears asap. Murphy's laws!
enjoy it and your b-day Mr. Beasley! I have to wait all the way til September for that!
G
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Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
MisterBeasley wrote:Uh, aren't people used to incompetence and delays and stuff? Well, that Hudson showed up on my doorstep today. I live outside of Boston, and Trainworld is in NYC, and it took less than 24 hours. Plain old UPS standard shipping. The only problem is MY BIRTHDAY ISN'T UNTIL MARCH! Well, Brown did its thing for me, but now how do I speed up the calendar?
MrB, When is your birthday? Mine is the 26th. If I ordered it that early, I would come up with something else that I wanted by then. Have fun with your new loco.
Jim, Have fun with your new loco too.
G, Thanks for the tip on Murphy.
Lisa, I hope that you are studying which loco will fit your layout theme. The little 4-4-0 that I got for New Years, has a remote that will let you run the sound on DC. I suspect that most of the sound locos will have that.
Later, Sue
Happy Birthday Mr B Another day older and ? I Forgot!
Well here comes th boss, Krysti, Back to CARS!
My birthday isn't until the 9th of March. Chances are, that day I'll go to work and as soon as I get home we'll load up the minivan and drive up to Sunday River to go skiing. That's fun, too, but I'll have to wait until Sunday night for my visit from the Birthday Elf. (Birthday Bunny? Birthday Fairy? Birthday Groundhog? I dunno.)
By that time, I might have the turntable finished, but I don't think this thing will even fit in the Atlas roundhouse. I know it won't fit on the turntable bridge, but there's a spot right across from the turntable lead track for it.
I went a little crazy today and decided it was time to convert my oldest locomotive to DCC. It's a 30 year old German made Bachmann GP40. The only thing I had to do to isolate the motor from the frame was to break off a metal tab and put down a strip of electrical tape. Now instead of grounding to the frame, the motor grounds to the decoder, as it should. It runs like a champ! Before it had no crawl capability and ran like a scalded ape, now it crawls with the best of them and runs at a believable speed.
MrB, Did you leave the loco in the box? Or did you at least get to exercise it before putting it back in the box? Isn't it hard on the loco to let just sit? I think that there is a self destruct chip if they are not run regularly.
Oh, well. I guess you can just celebrate twice.
Just a Hobo wrote: jeffrey -- great work there ! I always wondered if there was room for the unit and you answered that question . Was it a hair puller or was it fairly easy ?
Lisa, that is Great. Just plan your work and work your plan, NOT LIKE ME!!
Glad to hear from you.
Yea, I figure first things first-1. get the house sold 2-get the move over with 3-finish my New England layout 4- begin my dream layout. I've done some planning already on which sections I want to cover, the track plan will be fairly easy as it's just a straight run up and back, I need to do a little more research as to the stations on each end, I would like to stay as true to the route and era as I can so I've been doing research on the actual route as it was in 1900 or so, I'd like to capture as much realism from when it first began it's run. I may have to switch to N scale in order to fit all that I want into my layout and I may switch to digital control as well, who knows one step at a time.
My sons wanted to share about a gift they received Sunday, some friends gave them an N scale engine, a box car and a logging car, low quality but they where happy about it, I'm just not sure how long the engine will last and I'll need to get them some track nothing big at least until we move.
Another good thing about moving is they have DSL in Exeter so I'll be able to post pics.without waiting all day(the reason I don't post them now). Enough for now, see you all later.
Lisap,
Good luck with your new house and the under-the-weather male members of your household. My wife occasionally observes that the "men" in the house (that's me) always seem to completely lose their ability to function when they get the sniffles, while the "women" (that's her) continue to work the rock pile with multiple broken limbs, fever exceeding 110°, and her water about to break........I think she's exaggerating, after all, you can't have more than four broken limbs.