Just coffee, black for me ,thankyou. Almost lunch time.
OPENED UP A wALTHERS 6-PACK of BNSF coal cars and found, to my dismay, the 4 center cars and one end of the other cars have dummy couplers. BLEEP!!! Now I have to get 5 pairs of KD's to have all with operating couplers. They are silver and black and looks cool having them pulled by a War Bonnet F7A. The silver at the back of the loco matches the silver of the cars.
Yeah- not prototypical but darn nice. [Teffy's rule applies here.] lol
Had an overnight drizzle but only enough to make streets slippery. Every stay safe. Prayers for all.
Flip
Good afternoon everyone, a big welcome to B Gardener. What part of Canada to you live in? We have several guys that frequent the Diner that live in Nova Scotia, some in Ontario, and others in British Columbia and Vancouver Island. And, I am 68 in 12 days, going on 12, so don't feel alone, 9 Grandkids the latest is 11 months old, loves trains too, derails them every chance he gets to see how they are made.
No feezing rain yet, but there is a light mist and the temp is 32F, so it will be causing trouble real soon here. Tonight and tomorrow we have everything coming at us, freezing rain, sleet, then to snow later in the day.......Winter has arrived!!
RYAN: Great game last night, but, that was a bonehead play with 2 minutes remaining. Trying a lateral when you KNOW Philly was doing everything to strip the ball was almost a gimme. Never risk those plays with 2 minutes remaining in the game and you ahead...just run the clock out! Of course Philly was equally dumb by punting the ball away at the end....the season was over if the Saints got one 1st down, which they did....... good game to watch though, not boring at all.
MIKE: That is why we have kids when we are in our 20's, it takes three days to recover in our 60's!!
Here's the progress I've made thus far on my backdrop.
As you'll see in the 1st pic, covered the seams in the poster paper with 1 1/2" wide masking tape.http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h80/jeffrey-wimberly/bdb1.jpg
I continued this all the way down the wall.http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h80/jeffrey-wimberly/bdb2.jpg
Deleted due to change in copyright (01/17/07)
Now for the paint for the backdrop. I use a flat latex paint called 'Nimble Blue' for this. It will dry to a very nice looking sky blue.http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h80/jeffrey-wimberly/bdb8.jpg
The first coat is already on the first sheet of poster board. I'll do the entire length, then put a second coat on. This will fill in any areas the first coat missed and will insure uniformity.http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h80/jeffrey-wimberly/bdb9.jpg
The entire length is now done in two coats. I left one little area unpainted so you can see the difference between what color the poster board was and what color it is now. Quite a difference, isn't it?http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h80/jeffrey-wimberly/bdb10.jpg
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bgardner2: I'm going to wave from the south shore of Lake Erie, let me know if you see me. Funny thing I sent a friend of mine stationed in Texas a picture of a freighter plowing through 20' waves. He asked me where I got the pictures from and I told him up here on the Great Lakes. He still thinks you can swim from one side of Lake Erie to the other, LOL.
Jeff: Looks like you're making great progress on your backdrops.
Slappy: I'm sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for pictures of your new layout.
I stepped outside to see how the new diner is doing and we have 573 posts and 7,911 views. If we keep this up we will need to add a few more booths and a revolving door.
Flip: So you have to keep those cars as one string? For the price of a pack that seems like a rip-off!
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
I'll have a JD and Coke. Put it on Flip's tab.
I feel like tacos today.
I like Forty Creek myself Jeff. Nice oak barrel hint. Taco sounds good though. Backdrop lookiong good. Just about done dropping feeders now. Then I have to hook the to buss wires. 22 guage feedersand 14 guage buss. Seemed to be the norm I read on here. wealth of info.
Thanks for the wave I*,ll catcth it tomorrw at work.I work by the lake. I build boats for a living. We have built some patrol boats for florida and the east coast of the U.S. Pays the mortgae and hobby. Thjanks guys
jeffrey-wimberly wrote:I'll have a JD and Coke. Put it on Flip's tab. I feel like tacos today.
Funny, Jeff - you don't look like one!
Jim in Cape Girardeau (having a little fun there...)
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Jeff- save me a seat and I'll join you. Be right over. Order a Vodka and 7up, please.
Lee- Had a thought re: the couplers. All I have to do is replace one on each car as all my other cars have KD'S or Bach. autocouplers. What bothers me is, I have 4 multi sets of Walthers FEC Ortners and they all have auto couplers.
Cox 47 wrote:Jeff... Man I always learn something from you...Your back drop looks great can't wait to see it with clouds....Where did you find the city you used?
This is the place. .
ok, heres the layout pictures
thorn creek
stormont
underside of benchwork
dont mind the walls, im gona put up paneling that looks like brick
hoppel: i got the idea from you
heres a funny one:
Oil Change Instructions For Women: 1) Pull up to Jiffy Lube when the mileage reaches 3000 miles since the last oil change. 2) Drink a cup of coffee. 3) 15 minutes later write a check and leave with a properly maintained vehicle. Money spent: Oil Change $20.00 Coffee $1.00 Total $21.00 Oil Change Instructions For Men: 1) Wait until Saturday, drive to the auto parts store and buy a case of oil, filter, kitty litter, hand cleaner and a scent tree. write a cheque for $50.00. 2) Stop by the Beer Store and buy a case of beer, write a cheque for $20.00, drive home. 3) Open a beer and drink it. 4) Jack car up. Spend 30 minutes looking for jack stands. 5) Find jack stands under kid's pedal car. 6) In frustration, open another beer and drink it. 7) Place drain pan under engine. 8) Look for 9/16 box end wrench. 9) Give up and use a crescent wrench. 10) Unscrew the drain plug. 11) Drop drain plug in pan of hot oil: splash hot oil on face and arms in process. Cuss. 12) Crawl out from under car to wipe hot oil off of face and arms. Throw kitty litter on spilled oil. 13) Have another beer while watching oil drain. 14) Spend 30 minutes looking for oil filter wrench. 15) Give up; crawl under car and hammer a screwdriver through oil filter and twist off. 16) Crawl out from under car with dripping oil filter splashing oil everywhere from holes. Cleverly hide old oil filter among trash in trash can to avoid environmental penalties. Drink a beer. 17) Buddy shows up; finish case of beer with him. Decide to finish oil change tomorrow so you can go see his new garage door opener work. 18) Sunday: Skip church because "I gotta finish the oil change." Drag pan full of old oil out from underneath car. Cleverly dump oil in hole in backyard instead of taking it to recycle. 19) Throw kitty litter on oil spilled during step 18. 20) Beer. No, drank it all yesterday. 21) Walk to Beer Store; buy beer. 22) Install new oil filter making sure to apply a thin coat of oil to gasket surface. 23) Dump first quart of fresh oil into engine. 24) Remember drain plug from step 11. 25) Hurry to find drain plug in drain pan. 26) Remember that the used oil is buried in a hole in the back yard along with drain plug. 27) Drink beer. 28) Shovel out hole and sift oily mud for drain plug. Re-shovel oily patch of ground and avoid environmental penalties. Wash drain plug in lawn mower gas. 29) Discover that first quart of fresh oil is now on the floor. Throw kitty litter on oil spill. 30) Drink beer. 31) Crawl under car getting kitty litter into eyes. Wipe eyes with oily rag used to clean drain plug. Slip with stupid crescent wrench tightening drain plug and bang knuckles on frame. 32) Bang head on floorboards in reaction to step 31. 33) Begin cussing fit. 34) Throw stupid crescent wrench. 35) Cuss for additional 10 minutes because wrench hit Miss August (2002) in the left ***. 36) Beer. 37) Clean up hands/forehead and bandage as required to stop blood flow. 38) Beer. 39) Beer. 40) Dump in five fresh quarts of oil. 41) Beer. 42) Lower car from jack stands. 43) Accidentally crush the remaining case of new motor oil. 44) Move car back to apply more kitty litter to fresh oil spilled during steps 23-43. 45) Beer. 46) Test drive car. 47) Get pulled over: arrested for driving under the influence. 48) Car gets impounded. 49) Call loving wife, make bail. 50) 12 hours later, get car from impound yard. Money spent: Parts $50.00 DUI $2,500.00 Impound fee $75.00 Bail $1,500.00 Beer $40.00 Total $4,165.00 ...but you know the job was done right
PA, I'm just a little ahead of you on the construction.
Jeff, you inspired me this weekend with your backdrop project. It looks great, and I can't be outdone, sooooooo.............I spent the weekend finishing up all of my crossbraces on my benchwork, then I laid all of the subroadbed for the staging yard. Next is the interchange area, then I can lay some track and run some trains!
I'll take some pics when I get a bit further along.
Pa Belt whose foot is that in the last pic lol
hoople we have an area here called stormont also its about 12 miles down the road from me. it was a small town back when but now its just where we have a area to take your trash and yard trash (Compactors maned by a refuse company) we don't have regular trash pick up here.
Well all have a good day
Sunday 14th Jan
Good early Sunday evening Diner peoples:
No mrr at all yesterday, as the morning was taken up as usual for a Saturday, with M-I-L hair appointment and shopping. After lunch it was off to the city for more shopping and a film in the evening. (Sneak Preview of Miss Beatrix..what can I say, it was delightful, and had a couple of awesome shots of a tall stone rail viaduct with passenger steam on it, in the Lake District of England.. UKMatt could probably tell us where.) Home at 10:45.
This morning, when I started this, I was sitting at the keyboard with an old towel across my lap, hand painting the concrete top of the wharf and catching up on back pages. The keyboard is on a sliding shelf, so it can go out of the way when I paint, or do other modelling. Differences in paint between bouts of reading and typing won’t matter, because I’m after an old concrete blotchy look anyway. Not being used to Normal scenery, I’m wasn’t sure what to do about representing the joints between the squares of concrete the wharf would have been made from. I’ve gone for drawing them on with a pencil after the paint has dried. Scribing them just rips off the acrylic paint and uncovers the bright white of the piece of fascia paneling from which the wharf top is made. I’ve also added three man-hole covers. These are probably just over-size. They are made from those little disks of plastic that you get when putting up new shower curtains. The hooks go into holes punched in the curtain, and these disk things fall out as you add the hooks. If, like me, you size everything up for its mrr potential, then instead of trashing them, you save them in the “odd stuff” medication phial kept for the purpose! Painted dark rust and with a thumb print of plaster dust, they are just the ticket. BTW, use ACC to glue them, if you follow suite, as white glue doesn’t grip the plastic too well.
Just: Welcome to the Diner. I don’t think we’ve met. Our HR division apologizes for the inadvertent hiring of shape shifters as temporary staff. We think that this one wasn’t a salt vampire however.
JR: Good to hear that the paint and gloss mod podge worked out well. I’m likely to have a go at painting the ocean today or tomorrow; (no idle ships on this one though). Yes, I like the way that the sub-surface can be made to get movement into bodies of water in this technique too. For the sea by the wharf I’ve got to build up the wave at one end. I’ll use Flex Paste for that, as I don’t want to risk pouring more plaster at this stage. Then I’ll be ready for painting. Getting to that is taking a while because in thinking about the industry that’s on the wharf, I’ve decided on an Omega 3 Fish oil processing plant. So it needs tanks and such. Not much room for these peripherals on the wharf itself. I’ve constructed a concrete pad a little ways off near the tracks. The tanks can go on that, and pipes can run between the plant and the tank “farm”. (If 3 little tanks can be called a farm)
Chuck and Kathy: West Coast snow. I remember that from Campbell River, Vancouver Island. Didn’t happen much, but when it did it could be impressive, like 3 feet in a single dump.
Jeff: That’s a great tutorial on the back drop. I’ve copied the urls, and the backdropwharehouse one as well, thanks.
Mark:
It's louder than any engine I've ever run
Dick:
Many people feel that Douglas Firs make the best Christmas trees.
On the weather front, we had very light flurries yesterday, but only on the drive home. Temp today is only -5 C, so not the monster that was forecast for you guys.
Flip: Gender specific knees…Oh my!
Bgardner2: Welcome to the Diner. Tomato country! Freezing rain sounded as if it could be Ontario. We had a slight flurry of snow earlier this evening on the eastern shore of Nova Scotia, but only about 1-2 cm. A grandchild who like trains…does it get better than that? CN eh? That’s what we have for class 1 around NS. Cape Bretton and Central Nova and some others, but not the ever- popular CP.
Mike: Congratulations on the soon-to-be-new grandchild!
Time to get Flexpasting that bit of sea so it can dry overnight….Oh no I can’t, I’ve just remembered I wanted to put in some of those groups of pilings at each end of the wharf. Have to make, stain and install those before I can touch up the sea.
TTFN, things to do.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Hey Lee is that F-250 a 6 speed or automatic?
Congrats Mike on the new grandkid.
Not much going on today. I put out a bale of hay and then did some reading in the afternoon. I really needed to get toothe basement but the easy chair book and blanket in front of the fire with Mary Ann were to much to resist. Tomorrow back to work unless the roads really ice up here. I am not going to chance a wreck now after driving 30 years without one. See you all tomorrow.
Good Night All
PA Belt wrote: hoppel: i got the idea from you
my layout i goina have this seane!!
Evening Gents...
This weekend I have a large project planned in between cricket and sunday evening... I'm going to the hardware, buying some new sheets of plywood and timber, and rebuilding my layout. In a twist of fate we changed the garage (layout room) around and now I have space to expand my 'L' shaped layout into a 'U' shaped layout. the two sides of the 'U' will be 8' long and with a middle section of 5' 6'', which will have a suburban station scene on it, which i'm yet to name. The layout will be protolanced, with fictitious names but modelled on real locations, or at least elements of. the layout will feature Narrow gauge (3' 6'' gauge) and also standard gauge. I will post pics sunday some time or early next week of the progress. should be fun. Once the new benchwork etc is completed, i'll order all my track from the hobby shop ( will be a fair bit) and points etc, and get started on that. I'll also start my kit, now that some tools I ordered arrived.
All for now Oz..
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
Good morning ! from Indiana.
01-15-07
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good morning
Happy MRRing
Good morning everyone,
Wet & wetter changing to colder and snow for this afternoon around here. I guess a good day to straighten up the layout room and make room for the curves and maybe put some buildings together.
Lee
Mornin' everyone!
Just headed off to work and thought I'd pop in and say hey.
Hey!
Later!
Good Morning All,
Just a regular to go please Zoe. Spent all my coffee time in the lobby catching up on the postings. 'all have been busy. Nice backdrop Jeff. and the shelving looks good Slappy.
der - if you scribe lines in the fascia / dock before painting it can give you enough tooth to pencil in a line with a contrasting color and no stencil needed. I've got two full coats of gloss Modge Podge down with a little extra paint here and there between coats to add depth (and fix a couple of spots i didn't like). So far so good.
Hope you all have been spared the brunt of the ice storm out in the heartland. Looks nasty. We've had a couple this way that knocked down power for days. One benefit of city life here is that we're on the same grid section as the hospital and the power is never out for long if we keep the line from pole to house free of overhanging limbs (and no I don't trim them myself - seen too many mishaps with lines and branches).
I didn't get to go to Philly after all this weekend, my youngest had all the symptoms of apendicitis so I stayed close to home. The pain was constant but not severe so he stayed out of the emergency room and feels fine now. we'll call the doctors office today and see what they want to do (the joys of managed care - no weekend hours). Did spend time cleaning the house and doing some minor repairs and so got good points when the CFO returned last night.
Besides coating my new water area (still not sure is it a river, tidal pool, inlet?) I ripped out my old river and a concrete block viaduct to add a bridge and make the area of the dam and river a gravel pit and concrete plant withh rail service. This adds track and switching to an area that was previously bare of tracks and gives me an excuse to have more hoppers, covered and open.
Bears and Saints should be good, can't say I have much enthusiasm for the other game - just don't see much in either team. Time to pick up tools. CUL,J.R.