Evening Gang: Guess what? No rain here. Yet. There has been rain around Dallas. I spoke too soon. The weather is on now and there is a storm N.W. of us headed our way. The weather guesser just said that it may stall on our door step. Oh well, the life boats are still swung out and ready.
Micheal: It's really good to hear from you. I'm happy that you are hanging in there and getting back to the MRRing. Please say hello to you wife and let us know how the two of you are doing. Yes, we do eat alot here. Espeically when PC is buying.
I got some triming done before it started clouding up and looking really rainey. I decieded to head in before it started to rain since the tractor doesn't even have a roof. Anyway no rain. I guess it will hit tonight. Right now I think I'll head for bed. We do alot of that here to. At least those of us who are ORFs. He He
JimCG: No problem on the slip of the "W" word. I never rub it in that I'm retired, do I ?
Good Night All
Good evening.
Granddaughters & son & DIL are here thru tomoorw. Glad to read comments from Bob, Jerry, and others about the KY Ry Museum photos. Thanks.
Michael, glad you're here. Keep us informed. Regards to your wife too.
Der, Fergie, Luc, and other Canadians. Hope Canada Day was great for you. Tomorrow is the holiday becasue the 1st is Sunday as I understand it. You should therefore have two days of fireworks and BBQ's.
Der ....what's the book about?
Nice photos JR and Bobk.
Back to family now.
Cheers to all.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good evening to all, a very nice day today......this is my 3rd day now with no voice. I had nasal drip issues a few days ago, so I figure it has caused the problems around the voice box region. My grandaughter had the same problem 4 weeks ago, she lost her voice for a week. The CFO loves it, she wins all the arguments, I don't even bother now..LOL
HAPPY CANADA DAY to all our Canadian neighbors, I hope you all had a great day of celebration, and able to go to work tomorrow. I wonder how Fergie celebrates Canada Day 200 miles out to sea?
JEFF: That is one lousy job, lying under an old trailer, in the rain and mud flowing under from the sides, trying to replace piping.....great way to enjoy a Sunday. I hope tou took a hot shower afterwards. I hope you watch out for snakes, they like to stay dry under trailers too, but I guess you know all about that living in the deep South.
J.R. The Atlas Alco RS-1 shell came off easily. I slid the grap irons out of their holes on the cab, then I pinched the sides of the shell a bit and it lifted right off. The light PC board was the only electronics under there, so when folks say " DCC ready" all they mean is that the motor is isolated, and the light board can be removed and a decoder installed in the same spot. I plan to get an NCE decoder soon for this loco.
PC: So Fergie raided the frig AGAIN and took all the ice cream for Canada Day celebration...I suppose all the chocolate, strawberry, and pineapple sauce is all gone too !!!!
CAPE JIM: I think the oscillation in temps here in New England is raising h.. with my sinuses. Several days of near 40F nights, then two days later we have 90F days and 70F at night with AC on. In fact, I told the wife to pull out the AC filter and wash it in hot soapy water, after a year, it could have harmful bacteria growing, and then in blows right into the bedroom where we sleep breathing that air for 8 hours. As for the watering of the garden, compared to what you guys are going through with all that continuous rain and flooding, I'll take the dryer weather, and use my garden hoses to keep the gardens green.
DER JOHN: The bite looked like the classic mosquito bite, and now it gone. Spider bites are a whole different matter, especially those brown wood spiders, they are BAD news. I haven't seen any in the house, and I spray the foundation sill every year to prevent spiders and ants from taking up residence.
PAUL: You mean it FINALLY stopped raining in Texas??? That has to be very depressing, the weather patterns are really strange this Summer so far. What I would worry about is a Hurricane hitting the TX/LA coast after already getting all this rain. Lets all pray that it dries up soon.
BOBK: Yes, it has been great working outside these last couple of days since the Canadian cool front moved through. I get so much more done, and I don't feel all washed out after 6 hours of steady work. I had quite a session with Bob Buck last Thursday at his store. He has so many stories and his knowledge of locomotives that ran in this area is second to none. I could spend hours in that store, but Lorraine is sitting in the car reading, and she can't do that for all day.
Time for bed, see you guys in the morning...
Good morning ! from Indiana.
07-02-07
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
grayfox1119 wrote: PC: So Fergie raided the frig AGAIN and took all the ice cream for Canada Day celebration...I suppose all the chocolate, strawberry, and pineapple sauce is all gone too !!!!
He's like that ya know.........
G'morning all! Besides a few gallons of the desperately needed coffee, what's the morning specialty nowadays?
Looks like its going to be 80 with some clouds and low humidity! Beautiful day here in MD... and I am stuck in the office, lol!
Dave Loman
My site: The Rusty Spike
"It's a penny for your thoughts, but you have to put your 2 cents in.... hey, someone's making a penny!"
Good morning everyone......what? No Jeff or PC in the CS yet??? No John or Fergie? And they are Atlantic time, they should have been in here 3 hours ago, sleeping late I guess.
56F here this morning at 8:30 with a Dew Point of 46F, and this on July 2nd!!! Bright blue sky, man this is nice weather for doing outside chores.
JEFF: Man, after yesterday's work under the trailer, you must really be sacked out !!!! Come on Jeff the bacon and eggs are ready !!!
CAPE JIM: I see that Kansas made the papers this morning as all the flooding has moved north out of Ok and TX, I hope it doesn't move east to your neck of the woods.
MIKE: What have you been up to young man, we haven't heard much from your table lately, Garry, check on Mike, is he asleep in his camper?
BOBK: What's on tap for today big guy ? You might even need a long sleeve shirt this morning.
J.R. : Can you believe this weather in New England for July 2nd??
TIFN
grayfox1119 wrote: Good morning everyone......what? No PC in the CS yet???
Good morning everyone......what? No PC in the CS yet???
Look 2 posts above yours. Been waiting on ya. Where ya been?
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Mornin, coffee please Zoe,
grayfox1119 wrote:MIKE: What have you been up to young man, we haven't heard much from your table lately, Garry, check on Mike, is he asleep in his camper?
I've been slippin in the back door and watchin n listenin from the corner booth, just haven't had much to say, and we were in the camper Saturday night. We fix another big lard kettle of ham n beans, corn bread, and plenty of barley pops, sodas and some old friends came by for the night.
I have enjoyed all the pics posted lately, GARRY, those are some good looking granddaughters [must have taken after grandma, rather than grandpa], and the layout pics from every body. And the updates on every ones project.
MICHAEL, good to hear from ya, and we've all been thinking bout you n yours.
pcarrell wrote:And yes, we mostly eat around here......at least we do when inch hasn't cleaned out the fridge on a midnight raid!
And yes, we mostly eat around here......at least we do when inch hasn't cleaned out the fridge on a midnight raid!
Well, if the icebox got raided Sat or last night, it wasn't me PC, I was still to full of ham n beans.
DICK, the gardens doing good, those rains we had last week did the trick. Plan on having fried green tomaters this week and have a couple cucumbers bout ready too. Every thing else is bloomin n setting crop
Did get a couple pics from the campground, how often to ya see an Arkansas Midland box car.
And a mess of UP's
There's a few more over in rail images from there too. Seems the campgrounds the only rail fanning I get lately, with every thing else going on
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309
Michael:
(by Paul) Right now I think I'll head for bed. We do alot of that here to. At least those of us who are ORFs. He He
Garry:
Tomorrow is the holiday because the 1st is Sunday as I understand it. You should therefore have two days of fireworks and BBQ's.
Dick:
Spider bites are a whole different matter
No John or Fergie? And they are Atlantic time, they should have been in here 3 hours ago, sleeping late I guess.
Got a van to clean..TTFN
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Good morning
Canada Day, eh. Maybe Jim or Ryan can supply some frozen custard as they discussed a few weeks back. Unless Der, Luc, or Fergie have a good Canadian brand of ice cream or frozen custard for us to try.
Sounds like a good book, der. Shelley reads stuff like that here.
Yes, Inch, the grand children look more and more like Grandma each day.
Cheers.
Today High: 92 Mostly cloudy with numerous showers and thunderstorms. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Highs in the lower 90s. Light and variable winds. Chance of precipitation 60 percent. Tonight Low: 72 Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Light and variable winds. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
Good afternoon everyone.......partly sunny skies today and very cool, only 65F and very dry. The 80 and humidity don't return until Wednesday and Thursday. I am still without normal voice today, with the temps in the 90's and humid one day, then in the 60's the next day and 40's at night, it's a wonder I don't have pnemonia. What I need is a good shot of Ginger Brandy.
MIKE: I should have looked at the far corner table, I would have seen you there with your kettle of beans. Our garden is a week or two behind yours. I have zuchinni squash and summer squash ready today, the first ones. Cukes are two weeks away yet, and the tomatoes are still small and green, the nights have been too cool yet, only two nights so far have bee humid and in the 70's. In fact, tonight it may well dip to the upper 40's, that is not normal for July in central NE.
PC: You must have sneaked in the back door while I was ordering breakfast, you fox!!
JOHN: Are you buying a new van, or are you fixing up the old one??
FERGIE: You must be putting into port later this week?
TRAIN QUESTION: Have any of you guys installed a decoder with motor control and sound in an RS-1 switcher?
Hi Zoe, a Dr. Pepper and a grilled cheese sandwich, please. Thanks!
Heartland Division CB&Q wrote:Canada Day, eh. Maybe Jim or Ryan can supply some frozen custard as they discussed a few weeks back. Unless Der, Luc, or Fergie have a good Canadian brand of ice cream or frozen custard for us to try.
Hey, Garry, I'll oblige - do you want those in cones, or concretes?
[edit]: Looks like not only desserts are on me, huh? Zoe, better start my tab - I'll settle up tonight.
Nice day in our part of Missouri, humidity is down, and it's only supposed to reach the mid-80's today. Some high clouds (cirrus, I'd say they look like), but nothing resembling rain today. Though they are talking about possible rain for Wednesday night.
Inch, nice pics - added bonus to getting to camp out! We see some of those UP locos in our area, too, but not always that many in a hitch.
Well, my lunch is about over, so I'd better get my concrete to go. See everyone later.
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Hoople wrote: GAH!Somehow I got the trojanb virus. Two copies, to be exact. Hope that tells you where I've been.
grayfox1119 wrote: PC: You must have sneaked in the back door while I was ordering breakfast, you fox!!
Wanna keep up with me? Gonna have to be quicker then that!
Evening, Zoe - Chloe on her way in yet? I'll have a burger and cheesy fries, and one of those custard concretes, please - chocolate chip. Better make the concrete to go. Thanks!
pcarrell wrote:Wanna keep up with me? Gonna have to be quicker then that!
Gee, PC - where's everybody been since you came by in the middle of the afternoon? Better bump the Diner up to page one again...
Nice afternoon, and I lucked out tonight so far. Got a page from the crisis line, and I have to go assess someone at a local facility, but they told me to take my time, so I can finish my dinner here first.
Hopefully, no calls after this, and I'll get to read my new issue of MR tonight. Everyone stay dry and safe. Jeff, I hope you're on some high ground (and David P. too).
Good Evening All,
Just getting ready to leave the shop for home after another long day.
BobK- We had a crew at Mid Ohio over the weekend but I stayed behind to try to catch up on some of the shop backlog. It's good to work with people you can just send and not worry.
Jim - the backdrop is one of the large pefab pictures on the bottom and one of the Backdrop Warehouse 18" x 144" jobs on top. The only thing I can render in paint is runs so I just bit the bullet and bought prefab. Used carpet tape to hang the backdrops and the fascia as well.
Tonight the plan is to do some stuff for the museum and try to run some of the road for real between the two factories. Still need to finalize placement of the sidings for the two buildings.
Dick - please let us know how the decoder and sound install goes. My Atlas RS is a classic so it's a bit more labor than yours probably is. How about the fuel tank for the speaker location? Not much room otherwise what with all the cast weights.
All for now - out of here to enjoy the last bits of a great weather day then off to the basement. CUL, J.R.
JimRCGMO wrote: Gee, PC - where's everybody been since you came by in the middle of the afternoon?
Gee, PC - where's everybody been since you came by in the middle of the afternoon?
Apparently they're trying to keep up with me!
Good evening gents.....managed to get all the grass cut, that needed it, before one dark cloud cooled me off with frozen rain drops...man they were cold, didn't last long though. It is 60F now at 8:45pm, which means it will hit near low 50's again tonight. Great for sleeping, but tough on the tomato plants.
J.R.: There may be enough room to mount the speaker under the top of the hood. I may have to do some baffling if the sound in muffled too much. The decoder itself will replace the light board that is installed presently. The model that I have "is" the Classic Series in the black and white box. I know that NCE makes a decoder for Atlas RS-1's, but not with sound I don't believe, so I am researching with Tony's to see what he has available.
PC: I guess that is why the guys in the Diner have nicknamed you "The Fox" you are soooo fast and sneaking things out of the ice cream cooler before Fergie even knows there're missing!!! You are good, my knees are too slow to catch up with you.
JEFF: I know what you mean Jeff, we have Cable, and 999 channels. I don't purchase HBO or any of the pay movie channels, then of course we have some Spanish channels that are useless to watch, and a bunch of other channels that I could give two hoots about. We watch about 12 channels total. I wanted the RFD channel, but they don't offer it by my Cable Company here even though I have been requesting it for 4 years. I'm considering installing an antenna, which will get me all the local channels that we watch, which are all network HD channels, and maybe a satellite dish, which DOES carry the RFD channel ( and all those train shows ). Then I will cut back the Cable carrier to just Tier 1.
Just me again.
Dick - I like dealing with Tony's hope they find something good for the RS (then I can order one also and get in on the fun). I've been putting off any more equipment work until I get the layout further along. If it works as normal, I'll get the thing close just about when we move out.
Philosophical question: If I keep the trackage i have now there's not a lot of room for streets or more buildings in my industrial area but operations should be good. Is it better to keep the tracks and sidings closer to prototypical or the scenery? Don't have room for both done properly and I'm just not as good an illusionist as the folks who grace the pages of our favorite magazines. Is there room for a Roman Hruska of model railroaders?(you remember him - he wanted a mediocre seat reserved on the supreme court).
Oh well back to the streets of Norwalk. CUL,J.R.
Hello...
Jim Cape G. thanks for the frozen custard. I hope others enjoyed it, too!
Jeff ....TV can be the greatest time waster.
JR. you're a better "illusionist" than you say based on those great photos. I make buildings, roads, and details smaller as they get closer to backdrop to force perspective.
More later.
Another fantastic afternoon in New England, If it gets any cooler I'll be having hot chocolate!
A nice easy day on the job. Since my last 3 doors aren't delivered yet, I just poked around finishing up some punch list for the moldings. The antique entry door that was stripped and prehung had come in the other day, but the nitwits in the shop didn't know how to rabbit the jamb sides to the teak threshold. The jambs and threshold were both ruined- I wouldn't accept it and it went back. This door will cost the customer close to $2500.00 w/ the entry set. It needs to be right, I don't care how many times it needs to go back. I don't normally use this shop, I'm still working for a fellow contractor, I don't care if his guys get P* off at me, it needs to be right or not at all.
The Caravan is finally back together. That AC evaporator was rather a project. I had more problems w/ the aftermarket remote start/ entry system than putting all the factory wiring and dash components back together. Still installing the new speakers before the dash cover goes on, thought I had some Dynomat and speaker cloth to finish the enclosures. After all this work that AC better spit out ice cubes.
Michael: Glad to see you stop by the diner. I do hope you're feeling better. I keep getting some of those days popping up now and then. Well at least it's just a bad day occasionally, not the bad days and worse days like the first month or so. The real heartache seems to be gone. I know you can relate to this.
So happy to see you modeling again, I just don't seem to be interested yet. It will come.
Dick: I could listen to Bob B. for hours on end. He does know his trains. Sounds like you need to take it easy, good excuse to play with trains.
Inch: You didn't mention that your camp is a "rail fan camp", Nice spot. Reminds me of a feller we bumped into last year railfanning after the B&O Mini-con. We were running the Magnolia Cutoff, just between 2 tunnels we noticed a camper. Just as a CSX freight emerges from the portal this guy jumps out and starts waving at the engineer. We found that he has been coming to this spot for 15 years. Liked the area so much even started buying land and camps along the Potomic even down towards Harper's Ferry.
JR: Now I understand what you're talking about on the 2nd level. Who makes that double track Warren truss in the pic
For that industry dilema, there's no rearranging to gain any real estate. Would mirrors or using cut facard buildings directly on the backdrop help? How many industries are there and could you loose one if not affecting ops too much?
der: I was surprised when emailing Ed, I found that he hasn't really done much work on the layout. Just been too busy. The Caravan is a good choice. I do like mine. Actually I kept my old '98 even after buying the new one for April last year. The 3.8 is far better than the 3.3. My mileage on the '06 w/ 3.8 was 18-26mpg. The '98 at best is 19-20.and has the smaller 3.3. The reason I kept the older one is it is in mint shape and just hit 80K. Grand Caravan Sport w/ all options this one for some reason handles much better than the '07 grand top model.
When April started to fail, I talked to the dealer, they bought the '06 back no problem. Didn't need the hassles of 2 cars and a truck when only 1 person would be driving. Someone got a great vehicle. We only put 9K on it in one year. Do miss some of the fancy gagets, remote this that and power everything else. I've been swearing by Mopars for over 30 years. I swear at Ford all the time. Fords don't do well w/ corrosion. The body may stay intact but undercarriage, suspension components, brake lines and all kinds of other important stuff just rusts like crazy on them. Your problem w/ the Wind-bag-star may have been a bad ground or corrosion.
Philip: You do need to get off that see food diet, you know. You may not be able to fit between the levels of the benchwork, or at least hold off until the helix is done.
Jeff: So when you're not building things like layouts or desks you do some of that mud plumbing. I got some pipes under a dry house for you if you like.
It's getting late, already beat, 5AM comes rather quick.
goodnight to all,
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
Boy am I late tonight. we just got back from picking up our son and DIL at the airport. They have been in Alaska on Kodiak island for the last two weeks. While we were eating a very late supper they told us that we are going to be grandparents again. There first our third. Nice surprise.
I'm going to bed. We both have doctors appointments tomorrow so it may be a good idea to get some sleep.
Good (early) morning ! from Indiana.
07-03-07
Ice Cream! When did we start serving Ice Cream?!?
In that case I'll have two scoops of Puppy Paw Prints in a waffle Cone please!!
Not much on the go as we are on our way in and should make land fall tonight and get tied up for crew change tomorrow.
0-6-0 Eh? Got two of those as well might have to invest in more when I expand the docking facilities.
Anyway I have a Paper trail to blaze today so keep the Ice Cream cold and plentiful.
And Dick! Don't eat all the Apple Cream Pie Ice Cream! Save me some Please and thanks
Later All
Fergie
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