Good morning and top 'o' the day to all of ye.Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 4/18/2007
Sundown Fire Dept., Station 23 Wind Chill: 54°FHumidity: 92%Dew Point: 54°F So Far TodayHigh: 63°FLow: 55°FRain: 0.20"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 9mph W Today High: 75 Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds around 10 mph.
Tonight Low: 52 Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. North winds around 10 mph in the evening becoming light and variable. The breakfast bar is open.
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grayfox1119 wrote: JEFF: That is going to be quite a hardship on Dave and his mother living so far away from dad still working in CO.
JEFF: That is going to be quite a hardship on Dave and his mother living so far away from dad still working in CO.
Good morning ! from Indiana.
04-18-07
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
It's been so long since I've been in here, navigating around is a bit....well, lets see if this works-
Jeffrey Wimberly and SilverSpike- 1500 pages for the old Coffee Shop? Wow, pretty good for an old diner sitting by the tracks, eh? It was always a fun place to visit, just like this new grubbery looks to be. And as for going to the link and reading it, some day when I have a year to kill, I might just do that. It was a great place.
JimRCGMO- Amyjo and I decided that with our situation being as it is (me 52 and diabetic, her 34 and a lunatic....scratch that, I meant uhhh, a vivacious sweetheart, yeah, thats it), we would try to travel and make as many memories as possible. Anytime we have a chance to go, we do our best to do it. She wants to Amtrak around the USA too, so we need to work that in somehow.
greyfox and Fergie- No, I didn't fall off the ends of the earth, but none of you really, really warned me about that honeydo list. . I would get private mail every now and again from Ed and I'd let him know I was still kicking. Oh, and Fergie, just what DO you know about this end of the earth stuff? Those Flat Earthers really have something, eh? I just knew all along that Roswell thingie was just the tip of the iceberg!
Paul B- Believe it or not, I mentioned you more than once when we were up around Superior. If I remember right, your'e a Boatnerd too? We watched the Roger Blough lock thru downbound at the Soo and I mentioned to Amyjo that you would enjoy this. And thats the neatest part of this forum, we might never meet, but we all still know each other. As much as I snipe at the internet, I have to admit that is neat.
Ed- So how are the oranges and mangos and papayas and papooses all doing? Hope all are doing great.
On the local front, watched an old NS SD-40-2 (high hood, couldn't see it's number ) pull 63 loaded grain hoppers through town today. All by it's old lonesome self. Made me feel younger!
Well, better get back to work, my officer is over in another town helping with a possible stolen car, so fun time is over. Take care all!
Good evening to all, I guess most of the people are in snooze land now except our friends on the West coast, and Jeff who never seems to sleep ..lol. The winds are still howling outside, rain bands come and go as the strong NE winds carry warm moisture from the Atlantic and dump it all on the land mass.
I picked up a piece of 24"X48" 3/4" plywood at HD this afternoon to use for the lift out gate section. It will not be a rectangle, as it will have an angle on one side to allow for larger radius curve track across the bridge gate.
SUE: They showed the town of Raymond, NH on TV again tonight on the news, the town has been hit hard. No telephone service, roads are washed out, rivers over their banks, trees down, etc. I believe that Lisa is still living there, as I have not heard of her husband accepting the job in CT yet. And, I would imagine that they would not move until the kids are out of school in June even if they did accept the new job.
JEFF: That is going to be quite a hardship on Dave and his mother living so far away from dad still working in CO. I can't imagine with all of todays medicine, that the doctors cannot find what is causing her alergy issues. Sometimes they look at weeds, dust, animals, chemicals, molds etc., but they overlook one other key area...drinking water. If they are on artesian well water, they really need to look at the minerals that are in the rock strata leaching into the drinking water, such as Arsenic, which is more common than most people realize. Anything over 10 ppb is not safe.
FERGIE: Be careful when you are applying CA to your models when the ship rolls. BTW, this big storm will move off to the Northeast slowly by Thursday......I hope you are well north of this bad boy.
RT: So what is the news on the Stress test.....yoga classes?
RYAN: Are you dried out yet?
DER JOHN: Those were good photos of the ocean from your house, the sea looked angry, but it could get worse as the storm moves by NS sometime on Thursday and Friday. How are you going to add all those features into the tower? Take off the roof and use tweezers? I don't think I would have the eyes to do that in "N" scale.
My prayers to the families who lost loved ones at Virginia Tech .......may they find comfort and solice from all of us who share their grief. We lost one student from MA and one from RI.
Good night to all,
Good evening, I think that I will have a large milk with the homemade brownies.
I just thought that I would check in. I am dragging today after 2 days of fence building. I'll head to bed early and hope for more energy tomorrow.
I got the cardboard strips in so the next stage will be hard shell around the 2 tunnel portals. Maybe that will happen on Thursday.
Dick, Thanks for the tip on Lisa's town. I hope that they are ok. Weren't they talking about moving?
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Good Evening, Chloe - just a glass of milk for now. Getting ready before long to head for bed, but wanted to drop by. Thanks!
PC wrote: Yeah....sure......I had nothing to do with it.........
Yeah....sure......I had nothing to do with it.........
Uh huh, yeah right, PC. Whatever you say.
Garry, I have an (Overton-type?) old time coach car that I'm going to convert into a diner, and I was figuring on hanging a sign out front to honor the ETD. I may use the DPM Carol's Corner Cafe in my downtown street area and call it the Coffee Shop, too. Now, where can I find some twin waitress figures? Preiser got any of those that you folks know about? Haven't decided if I'll have Vinny there too, or not...
RT's right on Elliott - he was (I have heard) very instrumental in getting the Coffee Shop going originally, allowing people to 'check in', talk about MRR'ing stuff, the weather, etc. and just have a place to hang around.
RT, good to hear that (as we expected) the stress test went well.
Actually, I'm not sure Duke can vouch for what happened on New Year's Eve in the old Coffee Shop or not - wasn't he sleeping through it all?
Robert, you'll have my prayers on getting the job. How'd you do on salvaging the MR magazines that you were rescuing from the old place that had the fire? Did you get many of them that were readable? Watch your email tomorrow.
David (TrainMaster) - back, and stop in as often as you have time and can. Sorry your mother has something out in Colorado she's allergic to. Pretty as the landscape is out there, that's a shame. But better if she doesn't have to sneeze and all that. Remember to stay in touch (either yourself, or through Jeff).
Misting rain here tonight - but nothing like Dick, Ryan and those on the east coast have been getting. Our weather was actually nice for a day or two (until the rain started tonight). Maybe it'll get nice again by the weekend. Hey, I can dream, can't I?
Time for me to get to bed and catch up on some sleep that the neighbor robbed from me last night. Hopefully, he'll stay put in bed tonight.
Blessings and prayers for those needing them (both in Virginia and for those here in the Diner),
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Evening Gang: Nothing to report since this afternoon. I didn't make it to the basement. We had to take care of the animals and by then it was time for supper and a couple of TV shows.
Right now I'm yawning and should head for bed. Let's see the puter says it's 9:37. Yup time for bed.
Good Night All
pcarrell wrote: Check out this cool building in the next town over from us! I'm thinking I might have to model it as a fire station for the layout sometime. I model the late 1920's, so it would be perfect. What do you think?(Warning: Large Pic)http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Prototype%20Train%20Photos/4-16-073.jpg
Check out this cool building in the next town over from us! I'm thinking I might have to model it as a fire station for the layout sometime. I model the late 1920's, so it would be perfect. What do you think?
(Warning: Large Pic)
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Prototype%20Train%20Photos/4-16-073.jpg
rtraincollector wrote: cwclark wrote: I find two problems we face here in the states that could have kept the mass killing at Virginia Tech from happening. (1.) We let too many foreigners into this country and (2.) The government is too tough on gun control laws. If everyone would have been armed, this guy wouldn't have made it past firing the first few bullets before everyone else in the room would have unloaded their clips into that idiot....chuck Yeah thats what we need everyone carring guns to school that would really solve the problem to me the laws we have are about right in fact maybe a little tighter and this nut wouldn't have had a gun but the toss is he'd found a way anyway the bottom line is it wasn't the guns or the gun manurfacture it goes back to the goverment and us not being tougher on our kids and teaching them right and not slapping there hands or telling them to take a time out as punishment if your going to punish and teach them do something that they learn from and I'm not even trying to hint to beat the out of them but back to where they learn by example and proper punishment if it means warming at behind so be it if it means no tv for a week or 2 so be it if it means what ever . I see kids too rude today and no disapline at all. By the way all stress test went fine so wife can relax and stop stressing out
cwclark wrote: I find two problems we face here in the states that could have kept the mass killing at Virginia Tech from happening. (1.) We let too many foreigners into this country and (2.) The government is too tough on gun control laws. If everyone would have been armed, this guy wouldn't have made it past firing the first few bullets before everyone else in the room would have unloaded their clips into that idiot....chuck
Yeah thats what we need everyone carring guns to school that would really solve the problem to me the laws we have are about right in fact maybe a little tighter and this nut wouldn't have had a gun but the toss is he'd found a way anyway the bottom line is it wasn't the guns or the gun manurfacture it goes back to the goverment and us not being tougher on our kids and teaching them right and not slapping there hands or telling them to take a time out as punishment if your going to punish and teach them do something that they learn from and I'm not even trying to hint to beat the out of them but back to where they learn by example and proper punishment if it means warming at behind so be it if it means no tv for a week or 2 so be it if it means what ever . I see kids too rude today and no disapline at all.
By the way all stress test went fine so wife can relax and stop stressing out
I have to agree with the disipline part. My dad and mom had no problem with tak'in me to the woodshed and they would waylay the devil outta me too!...Sure I'm emotionally scarred from the experience, but then again too, I know where that fine line is and don't dare cross over it even now as a middle aged person...made me appreciate my parents later in life.
The gun carrying thing though. I really think everyone should arm themselves if they are of age. (and no..children should not carry guns even if a columbine occurs but it would have been different if the teachers carried them.) A fact of life is that there are going to be crazy people out there that will strike when you least expect it. The schools are now "gun and drug free " places. It's an open invitation for a crazy person to start his own turkey shoot if he so chooses. I don't like it, but it's a cold hard fact and arming one's self even's the odds when the chips are down....chuck
Howdy do all.
I spent 4hrs @ the shop on my day off to finish sanding and getting the party room ready for paint. Our first party for the room is may 5. I've found a new Doc but need to get a copy of my file before I can make a visit possible.
BTW- Didn't Colby's enging look a little PINK? Could've been the quality of the forum, but ya know.. Watch out Fergie! Someone might be trying to show ya up! LOL.
Jeffery- love those pics! You've come a long way & its looking really good.
Colby- All kidding aside I think those shots you took are cool. Keep up the good work.
My 8yr old told us that she wants to be baptised!! That is ssooo great and her grandfather who is a minister wants to do it. We're so proud.
RT-GREAT NEWS!!
SUE- Love the Lab. My 1st dog was a golden lab and she was a GREAT pal! She passed away a couple months after I moved to TX. Left her w/ my daughter in Kansas but I was the one she couldn't live without. Still miss her but when I get a bigger yard I'll get another one.
I rejoice in all your triumphs and am saddened at your trials. My prayers are with you all.
Trent
Evening, I'll have a barley pop please Cleo,
I'm not going to try n catch up with all the post, to many. It's good to hear from Fergie out ta sea, glad things are going ok, and the engine made it ok. I do remmeber some of last years eve, but not the table dancing bit. Must have been napping in the corner.
DER, you were wondering bout the inside of an inter-locking tower, the first two are of an electric powered that was still working till the day they cut the power
Next are of one powered by armstrong
Their of the Springhill and Haley towers, both are still saved in Terre Haute, Ind, if you want more info holler and I'll find the links
RT, glad the test came out ok, I never had much guestion on it otherwise, hope you n your wife enjoy da trip
Need to get going [CFO wants on here] still got some chores to get done, early kids tomorrow
inch
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Hi guys,
Just thought I'd poke my head in Let you know I'm just hangin' around.
No train stuff today--- bummer--- Had to play with some wood and toss some cabinets around today. Got to get back in to the swing of things sometime.
A cup of coffee to go.... please
Later,
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
Here's something I like. Good thing their trailer is still available.
Train Master wrote:mom and me are leaving colorado the day after school lets out for summer and we are goin back to leesville. all ready told jeff and hes happy im comin back. ill drop in when i candavid
david
Afternoon Gang:
Robert: I haven,t said Welcome Back . I've been having problems with my ISP dropping the connection so I try to make my replys quick. I'm sorry to hear about your mom. I will say a prayer for her. So you're after a new job. I'll have a good thought for you on that also.
Well I got the Verison Wireless now I have to up date my XP to sp2. I called my buddy Gary and he has the up date on disc and will bring it over tomorrow. I talked to the Verison tec and he said that on dial up it would take all night to down load the update. I may try it anyway.
No MRRing today so no progress to report.
It's raining now,coming down pretty hard as a mater of fact. I won't complain, we need it. At least the house isn't going up,down and side to side like Fergies doing.
Well I'll head out and see what I can get done else where. Maybe even get to the basement.
Hello everyone. Thanks again for the warm welcome back. Nothing for me, I've done ate.
JimRCGMO wrote: ....Robert, good to see you back, though sorry to hear about how things have been going. I haven't forgotten that matter we discussed, just temporarily delayed. Still will be coming along..... Blessings,Jim in Cape Girardeau
That's alright Jim, didn't think you'd forgotten. I figured you had delays with it.
Well, still no work done on the mrr, yet. Hopefully I'll get started on the design this year.
And, I may have another job. I had a interview at my local Brookshire Brothers grocery store. It might not be a great paying job, but it would provide me with more money. Oh, I'll be a stocker/sacker/bagger if I do get the job. I ask for your prayers with this. As I can use the extra money.
Until next time, Robert
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Howdy,
Rt.............. glad the stress test is okay!
Paul says he's a pack rat. What's that about???? A model railroader .... is also a pack rat? ....... Has that happended to anybody else? .............nah!
...then Fergie talks about memory. I've got a funny story about that topic. I can't recall it now, however.
Jerry....... bet you like those DPM models.
Der ....................wow ..... what a view! ......... that NS coast is just terrific!
Anybody have a trackside diner on their layouts??? I suppose I could put a sign on my restaurant naming it Elliots. Where did that name originate?
Bye
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Vigalinty Justis!!
Colby
grayfox1119 wrote: FERGIE: So you will not be on the FOX anymore? That experiment that you mentioned sounds like they are monitoring the North Atlantic Conveyor. I know that Climatologists are very concerned that with all the glaciers melting at the North Polar region, enormous amounts of fresh water is flooding the polar region and may shut down the Conveyor.....and that is NOT a good thing at all for earth's weather patterns. Salt water is heavier and sinks, fresh water stays at the surface, so enough fresh water can, nad has in the far past, shut down the Conveyor with drastic results. I guess you won't have any great pics of bergs and landscape from the high Arctic anymore huh? And you have a short memory laddie....at last New Year's party in the olde Coffee Shop, it was "you" and "Flip" and "Ed" dancing on top of the tables that really got us all in trouble!!!! Right Ryan, Mike, Paul, PC, RT, Jeff, Duke, Jim, Bill, Sue, Chuck, Kathy, Garry,JP, J.R., Luc and Der John? No Colby, you were not there...you were too young remember?
FERGIE: So you will not be on the FOX anymore? That experiment that you mentioned sounds like they are monitoring the North Atlantic Conveyor. I know that Climatologists are very concerned that with all the glaciers melting at the North Polar region, enormous amounts of fresh water is flooding the polar region and may shut down the Conveyor.....and that is NOT a good thing at all for earth's weather patterns. Salt water is heavier and sinks, fresh water stays at the surface, so enough fresh water can, nad has in the far past, shut down the Conveyor with drastic results. I guess you won't have any great pics of bergs and landscape from the high Arctic anymore huh? And you have a short memory laddie....at last New Year's party in the olde Coffee Shop, it was "you" and "Flip" and "Ed" dancing on top of the tables that really got us all in trouble!!!! Right Ryan, Mike, Paul, PC, RT, Jeff, Duke, Jim, Bill, Sue, Chuck, Kathy, Garry,JP, J.R., Luc and Der John? No Colby, you were not there...you were too young remember?
grayfox1119 wrote: FERGIE: So you will not be on the FOX anymore? That experiment that you mentioned sounds like they are monitoring the North Atlantic Conveyor. I know that Climatologists are very concerned that with all the glaciers melting at the North Polar region, enormous amounts of fresh water is flooding the polar region and may shut down the Conveyor.....and that is NOT a good thing at all for earth's weather patterns. Salt water is heavier and sinks, fresh water stays at the surface, so enough fresh water can, nad has in the far past, shut down the Conveyor with drastic results. I guess you won't have any great pics of bergs and landscape from the high Arctic anymore huh? And you have a short memory laddie....at last New Year's party in the olde Coffee Shop, it was "you" and "Flip" and "Ed" dancing on top of the tables that really got us all in trouble!!!! Right Ryan, Mike, Paul, PC, RT, Jeff, Duke, Jim, Bill, Sue, Chuck, Kathy, Garry,JP, J.R., Luc and Der John? No Colby, you were not there...you were too young remember?Later,
I was there.. I think... though I was half asleep. you probably didn't see me
Fergmiester wrote: grayfox1119 wrote: And you have a short memory laddie....at last New Year's party in the olde Coffee Shop, it was "you" and "Flip" and "Ed" dancing on top of the tables that really got us all in trouble!!!! Right Ryan, Mike, Paul, PC, RT, Jeff, Duke, Jim, Bill, Sue, Chuck, Kathy, Garry,JP, J.R., Luc and Der John? No Colby, you were not there...you were too young remember?Later,Age has nothing to do with my memory I just don't remember what I choose to forget.. so there!Supper so I gtgFergie
grayfox1119 wrote: And you have a short memory laddie....at last New Year's party in the olde Coffee Shop, it was "you" and "Flip" and "Ed" dancing on top of the tables that really got us all in trouble!!!! Right Ryan, Mike, Paul, PC, RT, Jeff, Duke, Jim, Bill, Sue, Chuck, Kathy, Garry,JP, J.R., Luc and Der John? No Colby, you were not there...you were too young remember?Later,
And you have a short memory laddie....at last New Year's party in the olde Coffee Shop, it was "you" and "Flip" and "Ed" dancing on top of the tables that really got us all in trouble!!!! Right Ryan, Mike, Paul, PC, RT, Jeff, Duke, Jim, Bill, Sue, Chuck, Kathy, Garry,JP, J.R., Luc and Der John? No Colby, you were not there...you were too young remember?
Age has nothing to do with my memory I just don't remember what I choose to forget.. so there!
Supper so I gtg
Fergie
mom and me are leaving colorado the day after school lets out for summer and we are goin back to leesville. all ready told jeff and hes happy im comin back. ill drop in when i can
David Parks I am the terror that flaps in the night!
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If one could roll back the hands of time... They would be waiting for the next train into the future. A. H. Francey 1921-2007
Hey, DerJohn, this might give you a starting point:
Although the Faller original (Walthers Part # 272-12011) is in Horribly Oversized and currently not in stock, you probably could fake it fairly well in iNvisible scale...
Good to hear that you & Kris weren't washed away up there.
Hope that helps you figure out something!
Good stormy afternoon Diners! We’ve got a fair breeze of wind, as they say on the Rock. Not very much rain though, we’ve had worse! And NO SNOW!
So, thanks for the concern, Dick, but as I said in my email, I’ve been tied up with scratch building the Interlock Tower from that photo
I had no idea it was going to be so complex a thing to do. Right now I’m building the stairs. I’m wrapping them around the building, having moved the upper door one wall to the right. I don’t want my staff being blown off that long straight one!
BTW, what goes inside an interlock tower? I mean what sort of thing could I model in there. The windows of the model show an empty expanse of floor!
TTFN.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.