Afternoon, i'll have a piece of apple pie and ice cream n doffe, Zoe,
have a warm day going here, and was sunny most the morning, got clouds moving in now.
Been out working in the yard since early this morning, but I'm done with that for now, hurtin bad enough, darn aurther.
No kids todays, even thought about taking Dick suggestion on the rail fanning. But, yard work won. May get some in this evening before dark.
GARRY, I think most us guys on here cook some, I do. I do most my cookin outside though, you'll have ta slip up this way with your camping gear for one of our feeds at campground A. If I remmeber right, we're 4 hours N. of Paduca.
Dick, almost makes me cry to see it like that. I can remember when the coaling tower was still standing. They knock it down in the early 70's, I think.
Think I'll have to pass on the house and G scale. A whole lot of, out of my price range.
Hey RT, good to hear from ya, and the progress on your room.
DER, rock work looks great, wish I was anywhere close to that far along.
SUE, your rock work looks great too.
Glad ya'll liked the round house pics, I'm glad I got'em, don't know how much longer it'll be there.
Think it's nap time, need to resr up my back, I got lids tomorrow
inch
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Good Morning!
Went to the Y last night and worked out on the Arc Trainer, man, that machine will knock you out! Got up to 110 reps/min and 30% resistance, wow, I feel it today! It is less impact than the treadmill though. I did sleep like a baby last night too!
Paul, "Wild Hogs" was great huh! We saw that a few weeks ago. William H. Macy is so funny with his pratfalls... "I'm okay, I'm alright"
Mike, great images of that defunct roundhouse, thanks for sharing once again. It is so nice to have you as our extended "eyes" in the field.
So you like to cook there Garry! I love that Dinner in the Diner cookbook, and I have made some of those recipes myself. Culinary history is great fun, and learning about the railroads old food service traditions is a great thrill. I was in the restaurant business for 18 years and now cooking is a hobby and not a profession, more fun that way.
Dick, yep get them grass cutters a ready, spring is moving up north faster than it did last year. Strange too since we had such a cooler winter; we had temps in the mid 80's this weekend and today supposed to get there again, whew!
And that house for sale with the garden railroad sounds like a great opportunity, but the wife and I have decided that we are not going to be moving again for a long time.
Oh, and Cajun music eh! We love to Cajun dance, and the Jambalaya song...
"Good-bye Joe, me gotta go, me oh my oh Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou My Yvonne, the sweetest one, me oh my oh Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou.."
Hoople, now that is some bad luck on the Dodge Caravan. You certainly got me beat on that one!
RT, thanks for the offer, but I will pass on the Ranger. I have been looking at Toyota Tundra's for my next truck, but hope to wait until 2008....fingers crossed!
Der John, thanks for the compliment on the benchwork. Yes, DCC is the system and I have some Digitrax stationary decoders and circuit breakers to handle the reverse loop sections. Hey, your scenery is really taking shape there, great job!
Sue, the rock formations look great!
Later y'all,
Ryan
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Sue: Thanks for the night-cap, but I'd already gone to sleep! However, brunch is a whole different story....
So, you put wash on wash, while I make up different wash mixes, like my #3 Blue = Blue Haze x2 : Prar Blue x4: Rain Forest Green x2: Black x1.5 : Chocolate Brown x 0.5 . Then I mix only small amounts and apply to raw castings. The next rocks get a different wash number, or I make up the same, but of course the exact measurements vary, so the effect is always changing slightly, just as in nature.
The rust is just that, rust from iron in the ground water. Our lichens tend to the green /white with blacks mixed in. They grow in circular patters , or these merge to form larger patterns, but as far as I can remember, only in wel lit areas. There is another lichen that we get as well, that's the kind used by the scenery companies for trees. It has to be boiled with glycerin to make it supple, and then painted up etc. Getting the tree needles and leaves out is a pain as well.
Moss, well that's a whole other thing, and we have a rainy climate too! The forest floor here is covered in moss, which is why I've a green ground cover, not brown. I'll be dusting on fallen tree detrius (aka the sifted stuff from the bottom of the log basket, and the sweepings from the wood shed floor) before I plant the trees, but the green will be there, as it is all over the forest here.
Things to do. TTFN.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Good morning!
My breakfast......... whole grain grape nuts with apricots on top....w/ coffee. wonderful. just wonderful........ should I share some?
Dick, why could I find a house like that one upon retirement? .......... or why don't you buy it? Price is right? ........ well I'll just have to keep building the layout here. oh well.
Interesting convesration pertaining to rock scenery by der and sue. thanks....
phil ........ high tech ....... impressive!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good morning everyone, a sunny day today, with temps headed for near 70F, it's about time!!It rained hard last night, and with the warmer temps, the snow is almost gone except for the piles at the end of the road. 4 large deer walked through the yard this morning, the winter snows have been so low that the deer are fat from have enough to eat.
DER JOHN: You are really doing an A1 job lad.........very impressive. Some of this warmer air is headed your way so get your garden tools ready John, and hurry up with the layout, you will soon have to spend your daytime hours OUTSIDE. LOL
RYAN: I sent you a website on UTube this morning, a 4 year old boy singing with the Hank Williams Jr. band. He plays the Accordian and sings one of your favorite Cajon tunes, Jambalaya. You should see and listen to this young lad, he is something else.
I can certainly feel your pain with your Chevy truck. My son has a 1996 GMC pickup that has had 3 transmissions ( they just kept failing, and they kept replacing ) and a rear end . Numerous other problems with starter, electrical, etc. I have always bought Ford trucks and never had a problem, well past 100K miles, even the old '72 F350 for hauling wood out of the woods out back in the hollow.
MIKE: Good day for photo shots on the RR's unless the younguns are headed over to the ranch.
Time to get going, see you guys at lunch
Mornin' All!
Morning Chloe! Just a light breakfast for me today, OK? Got any fresh fruit back in the kitchen? Yeah? OK, I'll have that!
Nice lookin' morning out there this morning. I here rain is coming late this afternoon and through the night, but thats OK. It's that time of year, isn't it? Looks good now though. Beautiful sunrise too!
A friend of mine has been hoping up my home computers for the last couple days. This guy is a wizard when it comes to this stuff. He's got my stuff just screaming! My wireless network that never worked at my house is working like I'd never dreamed. He's setting up a VPN for me too! It's pretty cool. And top it off, he told me that he's going to be selling one of his computers and wanted to know if I'd be interested in it. Seems he only want's $100 because it doesn't do much besides operate teaching programs (reading, writing, etc.), teach Bible programs, and surf the internet. I told him that my wife and I home school and that my son is struggling in those areas and he said that it's mine! God is so good! He put us together just at my point of need!
Well, I've got the work thing going on today. Got lots to do.
What's going on with you folks?
BTW, Sue, that rock color is right on! It looks like you nailed it!
Good morning ! from Indiana.
03-27-07
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
der5997 wrote:<>Sue: Looks like we're getting close to the end of the page, so if this goes over, maybe I can front a night-cap? Is this the rust color on the rock that you were refering to? ...that's an interesting colour and texture, what paint mix do you use fro that? The rust I'm trying for shows best on the blue rocks, and seems to have more yellows in it...it's hard to describe, and I haven't yet hit on the right look in test batches. It's not as red as your rust there, but I'd like to try doctoring up some of what you've used. As I said earlier, it's mainly on vertical surfaces where the rock has split, so you get blue rock showing on faces in one direction, and this rust on the faces at right angles to them, all on the same rock.BTW, I'm in Normal Scale. <>
Is this the rust color on the rock that you were refering to?
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der, Maybe this one will be on me.
I was bad. I didn't write the order down. Tempera (black powder paint) was used first to give the rock defination. I used these colors in different orders, raw umber, burnt umber, raw sienna, burnt sienna and sometimes I used mixes with paynes gray.
Does the rust appear in the sun or in the shade? Different lichens grow in different conditions.
The photo is Mt Cruiser in the Olympic mountains I took it on one of my climbing trips.
Have a great evening. Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Good Evening.
der, Great photos. You have been working hard. What scale are you modeling?
For a birthday surprise, Larry took me on motorcycle ride to look at the roundhouse that we are modeling. It was just a quick look on the outside, but wow, I am ready to get back to work on that. Maybe the new airbrush will show up this week.
Well, back to tie painting.
Sue
Good evening Diners: Didn’t get to the computer at all weekend or yesterday until after 8:00 p.m., and then not long enough to come to the diner. Today wasn’t much different. So there is some catching up to be done. However, first let me update you on the scenery painting, where much more rock looks like it’s meant to, and quite a bit of the sawdust ground cover is now more or less vegetation looking. All in all, a successful weekend. Lots of trees and bushes to add, and of course the WS ground foams for the colour variation. (There’s lots of texture built in with the sawdust mix).
OK, so now I’m catching up…Scott, car looks great, and the hat too!
Garry
der......... I'll rub it in (so to speak) ..........I'm washing the vehicles with a hose, bucket, and sponge. You know. Like a normal person.
Luc: Your news on Gloria was posted on the 24th. Sorry I’m only catching it now. You're both in my thoughts a nd prayers.
Sue: Great scratch building! I like the way you’ve been able to get the true to prototype waffle siding effect!
Lichen all over the rocks?...or am I misinterpreting?
CapeJim: You sure are eating well these days! Those last three looked really good!
JR:
Usually I add color to the plaster, but I was too idle this time. I like the look of the colored plaster better than the stain.
Ryan:
I attached the wye - roundtable - roundhouse section and the passenger station section to the benchwork. Just have the main line reverse loop section to attach and then all the lower deck benchwork is DONE!!!! Yea!!!!
RT: Congrats on the train room walls, always a milestone!
TV beckons, gotta go. Prayers for all in need of healing, comfort and peace,
Believe it or not the new walls in my room (trainroom/office/guessroom) are finally up. painting next step then the floor then I can start working on a layout woohoo!!! only 2 years later so far .
Not to much happening here been reading post but not writing much. Bought a new truck to me about a month ago bought a 2004 chevy extended cab silverado. The range was 1 too small no extended cab, 2 didn't trust it for anytrips as it has 201,200 miles on it (1995) good thing I got the new truck the radiator went in the ranger sunday so will need to get a new one I guess then sell it . Its been a good truck for the 3 years I've had it.
Hey silverspike want a good truck
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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SilverSpike wrote: Bad news is it is only 7 ½ years old and has only 82,500 miles on it, I was hoping for at least another 3 years and getting up to 120,000 miles. Oh well!One of Ben's friends visited us last night and brought the DVD Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Funny movie!
Bad news is it is only 7 ½ years old and has only 82,500 miles on it, I was hoping for at least another 3 years and getting up to 120,000 miles. Oh well!
One of Ben's friends visited us last night and brought the DVD Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Funny movie!
Good evening to all, the rains have started, and RI is getting a heavy TS, hard to belive with temps here only 39F, 42F in RI, but the atmosphere is very unstable south of us.
A DEAL: Ok Diner patrons, anyone thinking of moving to New England? Well here is a deal for you. It was shown on the 10pm news last night. A nice ranch style home in the suburbs, a nice lot, nice looking neighborhood in a community north of Boston towards NH. $239,000. Now listen to this.....they showed the back yard. It had one , nice , G scale Garden RR, the nicest I ever saw, and I have seen a few. There were at least 5 trains running that I could see, water features, bridges, all kinds of buildings. The owner has spent $25,000 he estimates on equipment for this Garden RR.
The RR goes with the house!!!! All for $239,000!!!!!!! Man, what a deal !!! The owner is hoping that the new owner/s keep the RR and don't tear it up and sell it on EBay.
RYAN: Cutting grass already????? Good Lord you are only about 600 miles south of me!!! I had better get my equipment serviced for the season !!
Later guys,
Hey All,
Just a quick note- I recieved e-mails from ya and I am greatful. Haven't been able to read the posts and get caught up but the ones I've managed to read just want to say ...THANKS!!!!
Trying to get in to see the Dr. so I'll let ya all know when it happens and the results.
Tired and worn out so I'll see ya all later and thanks soo very much, I really treasure all of you!
Trent
Paul W. Beverung wrote: Man two in a row. PC where are you.
Man two in a row. PC where are you.
Right here....havin' lunch on your tab!
Good afternoon!
I hope everyone is doing well these days. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all in need.
Auto troubles again!
I was driving into work Thursday morning and only about a mile from home when I heard a loud "pop" and then I lost most of the acceleration in the Chevy S10. Turned around and went back home and was only able to go up to 20 MPH. Turns out that the muffler pipe connection to the engine cracked. Had to have it towed to the shop on Friday morning, they determined the issue and said they cannot weld parts, so I had to have it towed to another repair shop. Spent most of the day Friday getting my truck towed all over town. They got it all fixed up on Saturday morning, first tried to weld the original pipe but could not stick. So a new pipe worked just fine, now $216.00 later and I am driving again. I was so ready to throw in the towel on the S10, third time in the past 8 months I have had problems with it. So, one more chance and I am going to have to seriously look into getting a new truck. Bad news is it is only 7 ½ years old and has only 82,500 miles on it, I was hoping for at least another 3 years and getting up to 120,000 miles. Oh well!
...and on the modeling front....
In between all the phone calls with AAA and the repair shops and lining up the tow trucks on Friday I got about 6 hours of work done on the layout. I cut the final sub-roadbed 3/4" plywood for the lower deck of the layout and attached three sections to the benchwork. I attached the wye - roundtable - roundhouse section and the passenger station section to the benchwork. Just have the main line reverse loop section to attach and then all the lower deck benchwork is DONE!!!! Yea!!!!
Then all I have to do is add the roadbed, track, and wire it all up!
What else we did this weekend....
Monique acquired some tickets from a client at work and so Ben and I got to attend the Hurricanes hockey game on Thursday night, they won the game so that was a fun treat.
Hit the yard and mowed the lawn for the first time this growing season. Yes folks, the grass and weeds are starting to grow again, spring has sprung in this neck of the woods!
Saturday Monique and I helped a friend move from his apartment to a new house he just bought. The apartment was on the second floor, must have walked up and down those winding stairs about 30 + times. Ouch! Muscles are really sore....
Ben and I played some racquetball on Sunday at the Y, we are finally at a point where we can actually play a fairly decent game. Great exercise too and it is so fun!
You all have a great day!
Cheers,
Good morning.
JR, What scale? Hmmmmm.
Cape Jim, The Bragdon molds are so realistic. We bought two small and one large, hoping that we would arrange the rock to not look duplicated. The hard shell allows the layout to be hollow. We have cut outs in the benchwork and can reach up to clean the track in the tunnels. Also, you can change the contour as it sets. You have 30 minutes to play with the shape.
Good morning everyone, a cloudy day so far, 39.2F, and rain scheduled for later this afternoon, however, the snow took a big hit overnight as the temps never went below 32. By the end of this week, all the snow should be history....BUT, the weatherforecasters are "hinting" about a big rainstorm changing to SNOW...April 1st!!??? Say it isn't so!! Not another April Fool's Day big storm like a couple of years ago that dumped 34" of snow.
Today, I really have to get my butt in gear and get the darn taxes done. Then, I am going to check out the swing-out idea for the train layout gate to the walk isle. I know that the hinge on left will only allow the gate to swing 90 degrees because of a storage cabinet. The hinge on the right might allow for a great arc, so we have to do some measurements.
GARRY: I like that, send the Cherry pits to PA, then that town becomes Pittsburg in 1723...nice !!!! Actually, no one really knows how this little village received it's name. I could see it being named "Strawberry" Valley because it even had a hill called Strawberry Hill because of all the wild strawberries that the settlers found here. Maybe it had a lot of wild Cherry trees here too, I know I find them in the woods all the time. We may never know. We did have a man named Cary who was the 1st white settler, dating back to 1600's that had quite a story. It seems that when the 1st settlers appeared here, they found out from the native Americans that there was already a white man living here. He was living in a cave on a hill near what is now the center of town, and now called "Cary Hill" of course. It turns out he was a pirate who hid inland with quite a hoard of gold and silver. He left for Boston one day and returned with new cloths fit for a king and a gold studded cane, spent a few days here and then disappeared again never to be seen again.
MIKE: I will check that out, don't forget to wave. BTW, those were great pics. It must really bring a tear to the eye of any old steam engineer still alive who visits the old turntable and house, just to see it fading into history, and the memories of days of yesterday and a life that will never return.
LOOK OUT!!!!!! luige comming up!
*luige comes up and into trash can* ahh *spit* puthhhhh ah.. That's better thanks cloe for gettin the can. I've had this for a while now left over from a sicinec infection.
MNGRR news: end of August the National Narrow Gauge Convetion is comming to the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad! #8 could be running by then if the waiver goes through. #8 has new boiler tubes and techaniclly fit the run under steam.
March 24: I helped with #4 a 0-4-4. I got really dirty and really happy! I got pics.
April 28: Topsham train show www.greatfallsmodelrrclub.org 4 more details
april 14: Sanford train show
www.mngrr.com for steam scedual.
Colby
Good morning. Oatmeal again. Terrific.
I've been wondering what it's like to be in Cherry Valley. Did they send the remains of the eaten cherries to Pennsylvania? That's why they named a town "Pittsburgh"? (it's a joke. get it? pits?........ oh, never mind).
Diclosure: I actually do some of the cooking here. (shhhh. don't tell) In addition to manning the BBQ grill, I (beleive it or not) make stuff using recipes. Sometimes, just for added fun, I use recipes from an old book entitled, "Dinner in the Diner". Good stuff. Of course, some recipes need downsizing. We never serve 45 people at once. One that comes to mind is Illlinois Central's Baked Deviled Crab Meat. It's a bit New Orleans style cooking, and not bad. For beef eaters, the Santa Fe's Roulade of Beef is just incredible. For dessert, SP's french apple pie is good, but it may be outclassed by the stawberry ruubarb pie mentioned earlier in this thread.
Well, time to hustle my caboose.
Happy Model Railroading!
Mornin, coffee Zoe
gonna be a hot one here today, high in the 80's with a 29% chance of a summertime shower or thunderstorm.
DICK, JERRY lives in town, I'm 3 mile to the NE, Bout a half mile N of 40 and the tracks, and little over a mile S of 70. If ya want to find me go to QRZ.com and put in KA9ICE in the spot or 39.332836 and -87.885006, that get ya close. We're the 4'th place W on the S side in the woods
GMT, the round house isn't used any more for any thing. It was leased for awhile by a trucking outfit. I wish some one would save it and the other building thats left, but I don't have much hope in that.
Best get moving, got kids today, but atleast it's nice outside, makes my day easier. Hope ya'll has a gooden
03-26-07
Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446 3/26/2007
Sundown Fire Dept., Station 23 Wind Chill: 63°FHumidity: 91%Dew Point: 60°F So Far TodayHigh: 66°FLow: 63°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 6mph SSE Today High: 78 Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds around 10 mph. Tonight Low: 62 Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Lows in the lower 60s. Southeast winds around 10 mph.
Da Paul die Ehren heute hat, werde ich seine Kreditkarte heute benutzen.
I'll have scrambled eggs today.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Well good morning everyone, rise and shine......ohh oh, it's morning but it's 12:13am, ohh well, the first crew can head to the round house and get the Berk fired up, that means the Fireman first.
J.R.: Leicester, England is a big city, evern has a mayor. The mayor and his wife came to Leicester, Ma back a few years ago when we had our 275th anniversary event.
Time for bed, see you guys in the morning,
Bon Soir mais amis, ( good night my friends )
WOW, everybody......... you sure know how to make me hungry. Reading about strawberry rubbarb pie cause my sweet tooth to vibrate! Everthing else sounds and looks good. ..........Everthing? ......hmmmmmm....... haven't tried that flax seed, though........
LUC.......... you and Gloria remain in our prayers.
Everybody.......... If your interested in seeing pix of my work area I posted on the work bench thread.
BTW........ you may have noted the slogan for my Heartland Division is "Everywhere LOST".... but there is another slogan that I sometimes use. It's "We Hustle our Caboose for You!".
Happy model railroading !
Evening Gang: Thanks Jim for taking the page. Even with vertual money it gets expensive.
Not much going on today. We went to see Wild Hogs tonight. That is one funny movie. It had us laughing out loud several times.
Yesterday while I was working on the fence at the railroad a set of 3 locomotives went by. The 3rd locomotive was the presidents. Unfortunately I didn't get a good look because of the trees,jus enough to id it. Of course no camera.
Well Mary Ann just said that we need to get up early tomorrow so I'll say Good Night All.