grayfox1119 wrote: JEFF: A PS that literally burned up, you don't see that too often in PC's, were you at the limit of wattage used per rating? I just replaced a PS in my son's PC, $29 from DELL, 350W unit. You have a bigger one don't you? Any words of advice on repainting the U23B? I still need to purchase the spray gun, I believe you bought yours at Wal-Mart?
JEFF: A PS that literally burned up, you don't see that too often in PC's, were you at the limit of wattage used per rating? I just replaced a PS in my son's PC, $29 from DELL, 350W unit. You have a bigger one don't you? Any words of advice on repainting the U23B? I still need to purchase the spray gun, I believe you bought yours at Wal-Mart?
As far as your repaint goes, I would use 91% alcohol as a stripper. It'll take a while, so have the container outside or in a well ventilated area and have it covered to keep evaporation to a minimum. I use a toothbrush to scrub out the hard to reach places. Yes, I got my airbrush from Wal-Mart. It's an Aztec single action external mix system. It cost about $20.
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Afternoon, Janie - is it safe to come in? I heard Fergie was making raids (on 2-10-2's, on pies,...) I'll have a burger and a root beer float for now, thanks.
Y'know what? I think instead of the float, let me have a custard concrete. Great!
Cederstrand wrote:I know, I keep telling myself I'm strictly steam (and early diesel) these days, but those modern brutes are just so dang cool looking. What am I to do?
I know, I keep telling myself I'm strictly steam (and early diesel) these days, but those modern brutes are just so dang cool looking. What am I to do?
Sounds like you're afflicted with Fergie's "dieseasel" ailment. But hey, Rob, it's your layout, right? You can put whatever kinds of locos on it that you want!
Sue, those stock pens look really good - are you working with a kit, or scratchbuilding it yourself? (And if so, do you have plans that some of us (me) could get a copy of? Hint, hint...)
Ryan, nice video, and that's a pretty long chain of those gons. Looks like you have a good run already built. How much more to go on your benchwork yet?
Dick, glad you were able to get into the Diner finally. Was beginning to think maybe your computer had caught whatever Jeff's computer had.
Talked with my buddy Mark a little before I came to the Diner, and he had to fix some leaks, so he's running behind on getting ready for putting up his drywall today. His house is one that was sort of a pole shed (the original builder was going to build it with hay stacks for the walls - kind of a 'green' building, I think). After Mark bought it, he's framed the walls, put in a stained wood ceiling in the living room, put in most of the work himself, and it's liveable now, with heat, air conditioning, electric, and satelite TV. (He just needs a model railroad...). I may be able to go help him with putting up the drywall tomorrow after church instead. So, that means today I can go by the LHS (in-town) and see what they have in new. Alrighty!
Well, need to finish my concrete and head for the LHS now. Everyone have a fine afternoon of MRR'ing stuff!
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Hey guys and ladies!
Just a quick stop in for me. Need to get a nap in and then do laundry and start packing for my trip back home come Wednesday.
For those that have asked, I have been here since the 25th of June for a Air Force Leadership course that is required for me to get promoted in about 2 yrs or when the slot opens up. I'm hoping sooner, but highly doubtful right now.
As for the Red Sox, good to see Lester is back. Be better if we can get Schill back in excellent form. I'm still doubtful if they can hold the Yanks off though. I have seen rumors that the Yanks my be shopping Damon... Any reason why? I've seen rumors of the Red Sox looking @ Dotel and Wiggington, but again...why?
Well all, time for me to get going. My next stop in will be next weekend when I am back home.
TTYL!
JP
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Hunter - When we met in January of 2000, you were just a 6 week old pup who walked his way into this heart of mine as the only runt in the litter who would come over to me. And today, I sit here and tell you I am sorry we had to put you down. It was the best thing for you and also the right thing to do. May you now rest in peace and comfort. Love, Dad. 8 June 2010
I love you and miss you Mom. Say hi to everyone up there for me. Rest in peace and comfort. Love, John. 29 March 2017
Afternoon all
Good to see you back Ed and sounds like you had a good trip.
Ryan Nothing like seeing that big steam going down the track and I don't know of anyone that would be counting down the time. Layout looks real nice.
JimCG You asked the question so I thought I would mention my plans for today. Bill is taking good care of his wife because he knows what would happen if he doesn't. She might be small but mighty.
Sue Stock pens look good and the video was good also.
Dick Yup, I know what you mean about the Berk and start a campaign to see if you can't get it to come your way. What a sight that would be, big steam on the rails headed out east to the home of its namesake.
Got to meet Garry today and we had a nice talk at lunch and then walked around together for a little bit after that. He had some pics of his layout and I told him he needs to get some of them posted here in the diner,they are well worth looking at. He got to meet Ray as well who also is in the R/C flying club I belong to and he is one of my riding(motorcycles) friends too.
Ok time for some more pics
This one is on the left side of the smokebox
These two were on the right side of the smokebox
One more to go and as Ed said once, I have tried to save the best to last.
Best to all on sick call and those recovering
Talk to you later
Duke
Ok,TOTP so belly up everyone.
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Hey there y'all.
I just got a call from NS a few minutes ago asking if I was planning on attending the recruiting session. That's got me all excited about these jobs. I know it's gonna be hard work, but I can't wait!
Adam: You mean you didn't get the N&W RS-11??? Shame on you! I thought that was pretty neat running into you there. I want to see you get the N scale AT Lines up and running now!
Duke: Those are excellent pictures! That is one beautiful locomotive. Needs a little cleaning around that smokebox though.
Pual & Jim in CG: Thanks for your best wishes on the job.
Okay y'all, I think I'm out.
Scott - Dispatcher, Norfolk Southern
One last cup of to keep me going this evening.
Just posted the below pic of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man (who visited our farm the other day) in that thread regarding train personnel waving. Thought it might help those who forgot how. Now if I can just spot and photograph the ellusive steam loco chugging across the sky!?!
Have a nice evening all. Rob
Cederstrand wrote: Just posted the below pic of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man (who visited our farm the other day) in that thread regarding train personnel waving. Thought it might help those who forgot how. Now if I can just spot and photograph the ellusive steam loco chugging across the sky!?! Have a nice evening all. Rob
Rob; that is awesome! That has got to be one of the greatest cloud sightings I have ever seen. And about that steam loco...I have a seen a cloud that resembled an 0-8-0 switcher with a fairly long tender. I really wish I had my camera for that one. Just keep looking, it is out there my friend!
Evening Gang: We ran live steam today. Our new friend brought his locomotive over and did some running . Unfortunately he had a derailment on his first trip out and knocked the cylinder drain cocks off of the left cylinder. He finished his run and had the locomotive repaired in a couple of hours. He's 80 years old and flew Mesquitos during WW2. He's a very nice guy.
John ran my locomotive and did 6 or so runs. It ran very well and he had no problems. Some of us are going to run again tomorrow so I may take a turn at the throttle. It seems that as I get older I enjoy riding more. I've got to set one of my cars up with a mattres and pillow. It's a great way to take a nape.
Speaking of that I think that I'll call it a night.
Good Night All
Good evening, we had many TS's rool by today, several homes East of us struck by lightening, one guy was just moving into his home when one storm struck, he was plugging in his AC when the bolt hit the house and let him have it right out of the duplex wall outlet. He is OK after a visit to the hospital. Several huge trees uprooted and onto cars, telephone poles and homes.
I have the photos loaded onto the Webshots site listed on the bottom of my page, so if this doesn't work, you can always see all the photos there.
Hello everybody.
I certainly enjoyed meeting "Duke" and his friend Ray at the National Train Show. I must say that Duke is a terrific person, and time with him and Ray was well spent. Duke said he met Dick a while back while in Mass. He explained just how good the real strawberry rhubarb pie real was.
I picked up several items for the layout, but no 2-10-2's. I actually found a few 2-10-2's, but the prices were sky high for them. Dealers were not sure why there was such a shortage of 2-10-2's , but they have heard rumors about a Canadian cornering the market for 2-10-2's. Now nobody here would know about that; correct?
Looks like some interesting posts on the board, but I won't comment on them now. Shelley and I will be southbound in the morning.
Happy Model Railroading.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good Evening ........I have all the photos uploaded to the Webshots site at the bottom of my reply here, so you can go there and see all of them, including the Cog RR and the 0-6-0 through the mountains in New Hampshire's Crawford Notch. I will post a few here so as not to overlaod the Dial-Up Diners.
JEFF: Thanks for the info, I paln to go to Wal-Mart tomorrow and pick up the spray kit and some alcohol. Yes, I have seen caps explode, very nasty with big can caps filled with oil back in the old tube type hi -voltage supplies, scares the hell out of you and takes a year off your life.
Here is a photo of the former CN 0-6-0 yard goat, rebuilt to new FRA standards a year ago at North Conway, NH, and crossing a trellis high up on the side of Crawford Notch. This is a 2.6% grade, and she worked VERY hard pulling 4 passenger cars.
Lets see if this will enlarge as it is supposed to:
Dick, that Cog RR is fascinating. At first I wondered if I was looking at some exceptional model. Would sure love to see that little loco run. I wonder how an N-scaler could kitbash such a thing? Start with 1/2 of an Atlas Mogul perhaps? Probably still to big. Something better left to HO and larger modelers I suppose. Thanks for sharing the photos. Really enjoyed them and will view the rest tomorrow.
Rob
Good morning ! from Indiana.
07-29-07
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
grayfox1119 wrote: Lets see if this will enlarge as it is supposed to:
Loved it Dick. It enlarged just fine on my end. Did you photoshop the smoke?
Jim, The stockyard is totally scratch with a rough drawing. I took the measurement of the space and was originally going to have a chute on each end to load two cars at the same time, but decided that for the small farm operation that there was little chance that they would load simultaneously. I used wood from a bag of railroad ties for all the vertical posts and the cross beams at the gates. All of the other wood including the gates was 2 x 6 scale lumber (2 packages). Lots of little pieces. I can send you better photos if you would like. I made all of the panels and then glued them together. It is not exactly square, but in real life the fence could vary some. If you want to try one I can talk you through it.
Oh, yeah, I would like some coffee please. I want to relax a little before I head out to do my chores. Probably should wait until 8:00 so I don't wake the neighborhood.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Jerry,
Thankyou for the kind remarks. Growing up on a small farm, and exposure to stockyards/saleyards, has given me the idea of how I wanted things to flow.
It is a slow building process. Glue. Wait. Glue. Wait.
Hey Jerry, everyone,
My computer finally bought the farm. I have it rebuilt now though, so now you're stuck with me once again.
Cederstrand wrote: I wonder how an N-scaler could kitbash such a thing? Start with 1/2 of an Atlas Mogul perhaps? Probably still to big. Something better left to HO and larger modelers I suppose.
I wonder how an N-scaler could kitbash such a thing? Start with 1/2 of an Atlas Mogul perhaps? Probably still to big. Something better left to HO and larger modelers I suppose.
It could be done. The Atlas loco might be a good starting point. It all depends on how crazy you are? It took one of the old Bachmann 4-4-0's and made it into a mother hubbard. I'm not done with it (it's a work in progress), but the basics are there and it runs pretty good. Here's a pic or two.
Coffee please & don't spare the beans!
***Paul, running live steam must be a joy. Curious, have you ever heard of any serious misshaps?
***Philip, that is a very unique Mother Hubbard you built there. Love the idea of having some "one-of-a-kind" locos on a layout. Will probably turn my Bachmann 4-4-0 (Jupiter) into an odd looking logging loco, but I need to find a source for replacement traction tires first!?! Has been stored for many years and presently just spins on the rails. No point beginning the project until it is running properly.
***Sue, nice work on the stock yard. Once complete, you need only fill it with people to be loaded for transport to the Soylent Corporation for processing.
***Jerry (anyone else, too) do you have a MOW train that you run to clean tracks or is it always a hands-on process? Just wondering if a variety of enough cleaning cars were strung together and run once a week, if that would be enough to keep rails clean or not?
Afternoon Gang:
Rob: As far as I know there has never been a catasrophic boiler failer in the live steam hobby. We've had an injury or two, The worst I've heard of was a broken ankle during a derailment. My friends wife put her foot out of the car during a derailment. She knows better but did it anyway. Usually the when a boiler goes bad it won't steam. an inspection usually shows a leak in the fire box area. Ether that or a flu leaking. A steam leak will put out the fire in the fire box. Our boilers are very over built. Mine has a boiler shell 3/8 in thick. I just got back from the track. I cleaned up my locomotive and brushed out the flues. I had to go to town and get a new brush as the old one had lost all its bristles. I use a .50 cal bore brush.
I need to get something for lunch so I'll say so long for now.
Philip, I wondered why you were so quiet. Glad you are back.
Paul, You would be my best judge. How did I do with my sagging gates? My stockyard is assembled.
gear-jammer wrote: Philip, I wondered why you were so quiet. Glad you are back.
Am I that much of a blabbermouth?
EDIT: I guess so since I'm on the top of the page.......AGAIN!
OK, what'll it be?
Chloe, Zoe.......get ready! I can feel the ground shaking.....here they come!
Good afternoon everyone....hot and humid here, but no storms "yet"!! Lorraine and I have been picking blueberries for a couple of hours after church this morning, about 2 gallons, and after lunch from the veggie garden ( eat healthy ) we spent the next 3 hours canning 18 pints of blueberries.....hey, these will make nice blueberry pies for Thanksgiving , Christmas, Easter, and on top of ice cream just about any time.
SUE: That is real smoke, no doctoring with Photoshop. That is the Conway Scenic RR's #7470, 0-6-0 yard switcher, built in 1921 in Montreal. It spends 99.9% of it's time pulling passenger from the North Conway RR station to Conway village to the south. It is not designed to haul heavy passenger cars up mountains like these. 20 miles of 2.6% grade from North Conway through the Crawford Notch ( White Mountains ) to Fabyan RR station. This was the original route of the B&M Mountain Division.
ROB: Glad you enjoyed the photos. I am posting a few here in the Diner for the guys who can't get to my website ( Webshots ).
Here is a photo of the Cog Engine that was getting our car into position for passenger loading and the climb up to the top of Mt. Washington, 6288 feet with an average grade of 36%. No mistype...36% !!!
Here is the view at the start of the climb up to Mt Washington peak.
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Here we are about 3/4 of the way up the mountain, and the cold front was fast approaching, clouds were lowering. I was standing in the isle to get this shot, and had to lean forward because I was at nearly a 45 degree lean in the car at this point in the climb. The D70 Nikon did a great job I thought between me moving and the car shaking on the cog gear.
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Nearly to the top off to the right.
Please keep the steam pressure up !! Shovel on more coal, faster.
And here we are at the top, in the clouds at 6,288 feet, when we reboarded 20 minutes later, it was pelting ice pellets and rain with winds over 60 mph, we were absolutely soaked when we got seated, but after a 90 minute ride back down the mountain, we were nearly dry.
OK, who wants to model a Cog RR ? What loco to we start with?
Hey y'all!
Since PC is buying...I think I'll take the bottomless iced tea and some key-lime pie!
We're finally get some rain around here! It's been dry for so long now...All the corn around us is looking absolutely horrible, and my friend's farm missed out on their second cutting. Hopefully this'll help 'em out some.
So I took a drive out today to go over the route which I am going to take Tuesday to get to the MARC station to get to Washington DC for my morning Amtrak interview. I'm not so sure if I'll be able to handle the call-in time though...They give me a two hour call-in time and I'm almost 70 miles away from DC. If there was no traffic, I could do it in an hour and a half...But with traffic it'll take two hours alone. That won't give me anytime to prepare myself or eat breakfast or anything...I'm gonna ask about that on my interview, but NS would be so much more convenient for me.
Okay y'all, I'll be around.
pcarrell wrote: Am I that much of a blabbermouth?
Well, since you are buying, I think that a rootbeer float sounds great for a Sunday evening.
Dick sure has some great photos.
Evening Gang:
Sue that corral and loading chute look good. To many modelers put the chute right into a corral with no alleys or sorting gates. Our corral has a curved crowd pen and chute We need to break up one of the corral pens in two. Right now it's too large. I'd also like to add another pen so we can hold calfs without getting them mixed up with the ones we're working.
Nice pictures of the cog railroad Dick. I wasn't able to get on your two addres's.
Scott: Good luck with the interviews.
PC is back on the top and all is right with the world.
Early to bed tonight.
Chloe, did I hear that PC's buying? Hot doggie! (No, actually, I'll have some ribs, fries, and a bottomless Dr. Pepper...)
Gee, PC, do you know how long we've all been waiting for you? Glad to see you're back in form at the TOP. Good that you got your/a computer working again - wasn't a power supply like Jeff's, was it?
Dick, thanks for posting the Cog RR pics. Those were neat - the top of the run photo reminded me of driving in some clouds (less than the Cog RR has) a while back when I was in Colorado (on my one and only Southwestern vacation, toward the wind-down of the marriage, but that's another story). It seemed strange to be driving with clouds about midway up the hubcaps.
JP, hope you did great on your training, and are on your way to getting back to cool New York weather (or however it is by now).
Scott, I'll be keeping you in mind tomorrow morning and your interview. When's the NS interview, again? I take it from what you wrote that the distance is more manageable to get to the NS job, correct?
Sue, thanks for the more completed pic of your stockyard. What kind of glue are you using - carpenter's or white glue, or something else? I'd think white glue would be tricky in not keeping the stain from getting into the wood grain. Least ways, I've heard ya have to watch out for it.
Helped my buddy Mark this afternoon a couple of hours (well, as much help as one person unskilled with drywall and most construction can be ). I also got the task of breaking some undesired news to him. Mark didn't make the other small group or to our church this a.m., and in the other small group, the woman Mark had dated some (but not long ago they'd broken up) and the new boyfriend announced they are planning to get married next July ('08). Mark was not happy about that (more mad at God than the woman). If you would, pray for his heart to find healing and to be open to the Spirit.
Well, I need to go wash off the sweat from earlier this afternoon. Hope none of you were downwind from me while I was eating my ribs and fries.
I'll see you all in the morning (if you don't beat me into the Diner).
Well I can see that you're all happy that I'm back.......mostly because you get a free meal out of the deal! (It's nice to be loved, even if it is a little warped!)
gear-jammer wrote: pcarrell wrote: Am I that much of a blabbermouth?
I couldn't help but make a mental note that you've avoided the question! Did your mother teach you something about, "If you can't say something nice,........."?
JimRCGMO wrote: Gee, PC, do you know how long we've all been waiting for you? Glad to see you're back in form at the TOP. Good that you got your/a computer working again - wasn't a power supply like Jeff's, was it?
I can see you've ben waiting!
No, I didn't blow a power supply. I wish it had been that simple! My kids decided it would be OK to download some stuff that they didn't know where it came from. They happened to catch me in the middle of some programing and I had no anti-virus or anything operating at the time. I even had my firewall down, all so I could remote program some IP phones on the other side of the state (so I didn't have to drive there!). Long story short, 3 trojans, multiple spyware and tracking devices, an eventual crash, followed by a mad weekend of programing and rebuilding and I'm back! Made some upgrades to the system while I was at it. Had to completely blow away the system (cmd:format C:) and start from scratch. I'm at about 85% right now. I still have to set up my wireless home network and my remote desktop connection to work, but other then that, I'm casual!