Elliotts Trackside Diner (est 1-1-07)

[JimRCGMO]

Evening, Chloe. I'm still deciding what to have for dinner, so just a Dr. Pepper for now.

Ryan, enjoy what I've seen of your website so far. I think I may need to do more looking over the weekend, and maybe print some of the info or tutorials out for future reference. Looks great! 

Garry wrote:

Cape Jim.  your club getting ready for the big alyout move?

Thanks for reminding me, Garry! Last Monday we found out the landlord's planning to have the space ready for us around the end of this month(!). The Monday I was gone for my on-call, they got about all of the engines and rolling stock boxed up, and then this past Monday, we got all the structures in boxes. There are two or three buildings that we've not figured how to handle - like the auto plant that takes up the inside of a turn around the peninsula. I think someone said that next week we're supposed to bring our saws for starting to separate sections into movable portions. We also have to take down several cabinets from the walls to move, too. You guys should've seen the dumpster full (second load) out behind where our new space's entrance is (and this is a LARGE commercial dumpster, about 10-12' interior dimensions, I'd guess!).

Well, back to dinner for me, since Jerry's buying. Think I'll have one of those burgers that Jeff had for lunch earlier. Looks big enough for me to have dinner from it. Oh yeah, Chloe, and a root beer float, too, please. Thanks,  Jerry!

 

Blessings and a good evening,

Jim in Cape Girardeau 

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Good afternoon.

Ryan........ good look with the gate.

Alex.......hope you get the train room, but what if "Sis" returns/

Rob ....... You may wish to consider my layout construction strategy.  I build a one or two sections at a time. Each section gets fully built including scenery before going on to the next. I don't like seing just boards and track. Also, I don't get bored. I don't do all the bench work. Do all the track. Do all the wiring. Make all the structures. AND install all the scenery. By rotating its more interesting and fun. I have sectional construction in case I ever need to move the layout.

Duke, if you can get people interested in doing lunch following Saturday morning at the show, that would be fine. My friend will be selling stuff there and we could meet at his table. Let me know. 

Ryan ..... could you show up and do the cooking?

Colby.and Dick need to guard the 0-6-0 in case Fergie sneaks into town.

Cape Jim.  your club getting ready for the big alyout move?

Happy Model Railroading! 

 

 

 

[JimRCGMO]

RT, good luck with the job search, but why the move? I must have missed some of your previous posts, sorry!

(...and Ryan answers his own question... 

Hey, that area is great! We were in the Gatlinburg area in May for a wedding! We visit around there almost every year, rent a cabin and tour the Smoky Mountains, go trout fishing, hiking, horse back riding, or just plain ole hanging around the porch.

Jim in Cape Girardeau 

[ModelTrainLover]

hey guys. Finally got the layout up and running.

And Tuesday my mom and I went to North Conway to do some shopping for a family reunion/ birthday party, while there we went to the Conway RR and gess what was sitting in the station? Canadian Pacific 0-6-0. the one that was menchioned a few pages back, and I was surprised to find one of my friends from the MNGRR (Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad) was the fireman for the day. (It's his summer job to work there), He let me have a look inside the cab. It's a whole lot bigger than the ones at the MNGRR.

[Cederstrand]

Pardon the quick exit...storms are past now. What I was going to say was after looking at the various questions to be answered (or at least considered) before starting to build a layout, I find myself wondering if a larger layout is going to prove too time consuming & costly, even though the open expanses I desire would be impossible on a smaller layout. Now I am considering dumping some earlier ideas, like an open pit mining operation. I suppose the answer may be to plan a smaller layout but include some switches with "track to nowhere" that could later be continued to additonal layout projects if & when time/money/etc permits. Is this a sound approach? I am also less interested (at this point) in serious prototypical operations than in just running some trains through interesting scenery with a few stops here and there. I know that may cause a few of you to shudder in disgust...I just want to be running trains in this lifetime and not simply looking at an idle collection. Any thoughts will be appreciated!

-Rob

[bjdukert]

Afternoon all

Garry

Duke.. you still there? Still thinking of train show there? Anybody else?

Yup,still here in the back booth just sittn' and listn' . I am still planning to go to the train show on Sat and Ray (one of my riding and flying friends) will probably be with me and maybe we could meet some where around lunch time.

For those of you that have been around since the days of the old CS you will remember Bill North. I talked to him last week on the phone and as of now he is planning to be at the show too with one of his boys and grandkids.

Ryan We are looking at about 11wks before the fun begins.

That's about it

Best to all on sick call and those recovering

Talk to you later

Duke

[grayfox1119]

Good afternoon to all...cloudy here now, humid and very uncomfortable outside, so I am restricted to inside maintenance today, and it just started to rain also.

Two decoders arrived today from Tony's along with speakers and enclosures for the two RS-1's I purchased two weeks ago, so I have no shortage of "inside"projects to work on.

JEFF: Here is a PhotoBucket website and address to Leicester FD Album. There was a training session being held in the neighboring town of Auburn. You can relate to all these training shots, my son is the BIG guy in about 15 of the photos. They were suffering in the heat that day as you will see. http://s189.photobucket.com/albums/z222/leicesterfd/

Time to download the photos from North Conway, hopefully the next visit to the Diner will have the pics.

TIFN

[Anonymous]

Hey all.

If you remember me, this will assure you that I'm not dead or gone to college. I have gotten extremely busy, and have not even thought about the forum for a while. (Sorry!) "In other news", I started a go kart which has been eating away at my time. If you guys want to see it so far, here's the address: 

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z51/GoAlterBridge/DCP_4398.jpg http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z51/GoAlterBridge/DCP_4399.jpg                                   http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z51/GoAlterBridge/DCP_4400.jpg

My sister has moved out of the house, so as soon as we move her stuff out, I might be able to have her room as my train (and guitar) room! 

-Alex 

[Cederstrand]

Jerry, I'll have some extra strong please. Not going anywhere right now, as we are under a severe thunderstorm watch (gustys, hail, etc...). Really booming out there as I type. Internet keeps coming and going, and we're on a land line.

Been reading posts on....power flickering...gotta go. -Rob

[SilverSpike]

Hey, PC, did you test out the revised links on my web page yet?

Sure did, and they work great!  I had thought about going with the shelving brackets on my layout be decided not to.  How's it working out for you?

It has been just over a year since I installed the first sections of the brackets,shelving and benchwork system on the east and south walls of the lower deck and I have not had any problems. The shelving is holding up quite well, each stanchion is screwed into every other wall stud, so about every 32" or so and the brackets are rated to hold up to 250 lbs. each.

Now that the shelving bracket benchwork system is completing the full seasonal cycle (east and south sides) it seems to have passed that test. I will have to wait another 6 months or so before the rest of the lower deck meets the complete seasonal cycle. The true watermark will be March 2008 when the swing gate reaches the 1st year, and it has been through the complete summer, fall, winter, spring cycle. Fingers and toes crossed!

 

[pcarrell]

Hey, PC, did you test out the revised links on my web page yet?

Sure did, and they work great!  I had thought about going with the shelving brackets on my layout be decided not to.  How's it working out for you?

[SilverSpike]

Humm.....burgers or tacos........tacos or burgers......

Make it a taco platter Chole!

Thanks!

Hey, PC, did you test out the revised links on my web page yet?

[pcarrell]

[jeffrey-wimberly]

[Cox 47]

Looks like I'm buying...order up but no to goes please......Jerry

[Cox 47]

Howdy All....Gotta cloudy day with rain posta come in this afternoon....Its about dinner time I'll have abig bologna sadwithch with cheese,tomato,lettuce, and a slice of sweet onion some chips and a Diet Coke ...please...Thank You....Messed around cleaning track this morning and then ran trains...Ryan...I am still checking out your web site lots of info and good stuff on there...If you havn't checked it out you oughta....Garry...Tell your IC friend I said hello....Jeff...That road trip isn't gonna include a side trip to a Hobby shop is it?...You all have a good one....Jerry

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Good morning everyone.

RT...I recall we thought that would be a nice area.  long, long, long ago I lived in Oak Ridge TN. Best wishes on job search. There is plenty of tourist activity in the local economy. How about being a country and western singer in Pigeon Forge? I like the song entitled 'City of New Orleans".  You most likely won't do impersonation of Dolly Parton, but how about Elvis?

Good to hear from Dave L.  Sounds like some hogh tech stuff. Nice offer about assisting others. Much appreciated.

Still scheduled to depart for Ohio and Michigan Saturday.

Happy Model Railroading

 

[claymore1977]

Ryan:

I use Dreamweaver for most of my developement with Photoshop as the graphics horsepower.   I keep DW setup to work via LAN to a local webserve so I can do realtime debugging with the PHP/CGI/.NET apps.  I am stronger with .net than I am .php, but I am starting to learn .php a bit more nowadays.  Slowly but surely I am clawing my out of the shadow of Mordor, er Microsoft. ;)

 

Hows about joo?

[pcarrell]

Hey Ryan, love your website, but I can't seem to get the first three pages of your construction photo's to load up.  I get a "page cannot be found" message.  (Probably operator error on me)

Oh, and I'll have the boneless skinless BBQ chicken *** meal please Chloe!  Yeah, Ryan's buying!

Philip, how did I miss that!   Thanks for finding that for me, and glad you like the web site. I fixed the broken links from the Photos page, I had misspelled the link file names on all three of those, and they should all work now! The drop down menu from the Photos button at the top of the page should work too!

GOOD!  I wanted to check those pics out!

And it looks like you are making great strides on your layout too, do you get time to sleep, shower, shave....

Thanks!

And as to your questions.....sometimes, yes, and at least once a week!

[SilverSpike]

Morning folks!

I'll have a bowl of hot steamy oatmeal and some of Ed's fresh OJ please!

Thanks Chloe!

Hey Ryan, love your website, but I can't seem to get the first three pages of your construction photo's to load up.  I get a "page cannot be found" message.  (Probably operator error on me)

Oh, and I'll have the boneless skinless BBQ chicken *** meal please Chloe!  Yeah, Ryan's buying!

Philip, how did I miss that!   Thanks for finding that for me, and glad you like the web site. I fixed the broken links from the Photos page, I had misspelled the link file names on all three of those, and they should all work now! The drop down menu from the Photos button at the top of the page should work too! And it looks like you are making great strides on your layout too, do you get time to sleep, shower, shave....

Dick, thanks for the clarification, and from your recounting of events it appears to have been quite an adventure.  And thanks for the emails you have been sending.

Paul, there is something about the heat and humidity that will zap the energy right out of ya!

RT, good luck with the job search, but why the move? I must have missed some of your previous posts, sorry! Hey, that area is great! We were in the Gatlinburg area in May for a wedding! We visit around there almost every year, rent a cabin and tour the Smoky Mountains, go trout fishing, hiking, horse back riding, or just plain ole hanging around the porch.

Garry, I am amazed at how many of us still have those old Suydam kits sitting around. Have a safe and great trip!

Ditto about Duke! Where you been my friend? I need your assistance with the Fall Apex Live Steam Event countdown!!!

Jim, glad you like the dinner! Looks like breakfast is on me too this morning!

Dave, thanks for the offer for web development, I do the same thing. Started playing around with PHP and DHTML lately, what tools do you use to build your HTML?

See you all later!

Ryan

 

[claymore1977]

Jim,

Thanks for the best wishes!  Just wanted to make sure its understood, however, that I was offering to help anyone here on the forums, not just posting a "lookie me" post :)

[pcarrell]

Morning all!

Looks like everyone has been busy around here.  Dick, I can't wait to see those pics!  I sure do miss New England!

Kinda looks like some New England weather around here today though......periods of rain all day long. 

Well, I started hanging my backdrop last night.  I hung about 30' of it, so I only have another 40'-50' to go.  It's starting to look like a RR in there!  Even my son is finally getting excited.  He saw it last night and after a couple of minutes of looking around he asked, "Which locomotive is mine Dad?"  I told him, "Any one you want."  You know what?  He tried a couple out and picked one he liked.  The boy has good taste.  He picked a Kato Mikado!

Well, gotts run for now.  I'll stop in later.

Bye!

[JimRCGMO]

Good morning, Diners! Zoe, just a go cup of TH coffee, please. Thanks!

400 miles? Yeah, Jeff, that long of a trip would wear me out, too.

Rest up.

RT, that should be beautiful country there. I went to Gatlinsburg and Chattanooga (long while back, though). Will add your job search to my prayers. When do you begin packing...? (oh, packing is such fun... not!)

Hoople, enjoy the DisneyWorld trip - should be fun!

Dave, good to hear from you again, and best wishes with your sideline job.  

Well, I'll just grab one of Bill T.'s twisty donuts to take with me - got to get going!

 

Blessings,

Jim in Cape Girardeau 

[claymore1977]

Morning all!

I figured this was a good as any place to throw out this offer:

I do HTML development as a side job to make a few extra dollars and am more than willing to answer any questions or help any of yall out with any of your websites you may want to build/update.

Blanket offer, open to all!

Whelp, have a good day!

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Jeff, hope you get feeling better soon, preferably by tomorrow at the latest (so you can put back some LHS-shopping money from this round of w**k). 

It won't be today. I just got in a little while from a trip to and from Baton Rouge with a friend of mine, a trip of nearly 400 miles round trip.

[rtraincollector]

 

Moving to Newport, TN. about 40 miles east of Knoxville. smokies foot hill area about 30 miles from Gattlinburg.

 

[wetidlerjr]

Good morning ! from Indiana.

07-19-07

[Hoople]

Evening.

(I need toi do this)

WAAAAAAAAZZZZZZZZZUUUUUUUUUUUPPPP?

Watchin' the game, havin' a bud.

That commercial is stuck in my head.

Anyway,

Garry: In Ohio I'm going to Marion for a family reunion... ugh... Luckily dad is cutting it short to leave for DISNEYWORLD in Florida for 9 days. We do DisneyWorld or Disneyland once a year.

I'll stick around for a bit, Mythbusters is on in 45 minutes.

 

[JimRCGMO]

Good evening, Chloe - how about a nice root beer float, please? It's been warm hot here today, and I'm ready for one.

Oh, if there's any of that shrimp and cashews left that Ryan fixed for dinner, I wouldn't mind a taste of those. Yum! - good job, Ryan!

RT, welcome back! So, what part of Tennessee will you be looking at moving to? Will that be close to family (kids, grandkids, etc.)?

JR and Ryan, can I borrow that scope after you two finish up with using it? I have that same vision problem, even just with Horribly Oversized scale stuff.

Jeff, hope you get feeling better soon, preferably by tomorrow at the latest (so you can put back some LHS-shopping money from this round of w**k). 

Dick - that sounds like a New England Roundup you were on, with all that wildlife you saw. Hate to think what it'd be like if somebody hit a moose with their car. It's bad enough around here when somebody has a deer that walks right in front of their car (usually totals it, and sometimes causes serious damage to the car's occupants, too)!

It was indeed hot and sticky today, and I didn't get out much. only had two clients show up, of the six or seven I was scheduled to see. Good day for writing out assessments, though. One of those I saw really needed referral to another place than ours (and told him so). On an excellent note - I did get news that I'll be getting a raise (not sure how soon it kicks in).

Wish they'd give raises to everyone there, since most everyone is working their (hind end) off, and has been for a while. Maybe if some of the admin. people would take a one percent pay cut, they could do that? Ah, well...

'nuther day and it'll (almost) be Friday (and Saturday will be payday). Yay!

Well, guess I'd better quit rambling and finish this float before the ice cream melts too much. Prayers for those in need, and those in need of rain (or a drying out spell).

 

Blessings and prayers,

Jim in Cape Girardeau 

[Cederstrand]

***Dick, that sounds like quite a memorable trip. Sure would enjoy seeing photos of that old steamer in action when you have time to post them. And speaking of moose, having one on my future layout is a must. One of the coolest critters I have encountered doing field work. Thanks for the interesting read. Rob