Evenin' Janie, a cup of coffee, please.
Hoople, that's one interesting photo of the diesel-on-flat... Bet the real story might be every bit as interesting as some of the ones you listed, too (or one of 'em)!
PC, isn't it such fun when you're newly moved in? Even more fun when it's an across-town move, and we've just put a bunch of things in a box to get it moved? Oh, yeah, you already found out about that, huh...?
For right now, I'm going to hold off on my wiring until I at least get a second color of the same gauge (stranded) wire as my other main power bus is. As some of you may have noticed, I think I got the numbers backwards on my wire gauges. I told you that electrical stuff isn't my strong suit...
PDragon, I recognized your quote in your signature (think I had it in different order on the words, but it's been a while since I brushed up on my Latin - same idea, though...). I hadn't realized that Standard Hobby was that close to me. I'm used to everything being a while aways from Southeast Missouri and all. Nice to find out one not-so-LHS is just in the next state.
Another beautiful afternoon in Cape Girardeau - opened the door to my deck and let some of the nice air in. This keeps up, I may just break out my short sleeve shirts pretty soon!
From the looks of things in the Diner, I wasn't the only one enjoying the weather. Kind of a slow day. Anyone hear from our Canadian brethren and how the show was this weekend? We have the Boeing Club train show next weekend up in St. Louis area (Queeny Park in South County - email me, any of you who don't have the details and want directions. I'll scan in the map on the flyer they sent me, to make it fairly easy to find.
Hope everyone has had a good weekend. Prayers for (all of us) those in need.
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Howdy All...Where is everbody....Just dropped in to bump the Dinner back to page 1....Jerry
Jerry - Never been to Rock Home. Any better/worse then Urbana?
Inch - Sorry you couldn't First Hobby. It's in an industrial complex. It's the second one in what is a row of offices. They sit on the left side of Federal Drive just past the Naval Reserve Center. Coming from Champaign, I use I-74. Thought this map might help next time. Sorry you and Jerry aren't going to make it to the Urbana show.
See, here's the thing...........
I was going to lay track this weekend, but to do that I needed actual rack, right. So far, so good! I have a bunch of track and handfulls of turnouts, OK? Problem is, they're in boxes from the move. I have all of the boxes, but they're big and I hadn't gone through them yet, so which ones were all the stuff in? Well, I found the flextrack pretty quick, so I was in good shape there. The problem was, no turnouts! I ended up going through each and every box, unpacking and sorting EVERYTHING. I finally found my turnouts, but I don't have enough. And to top it off, I'm exhausted from all of this. I don't even want to lay track now!
I'm going to take a nap!
Chuck & Kathy,
They are called butterfly bushes. The hummingbirds like them too. The ones with the right shape are the purple ones. I also have the orange/yellow ones, but the flowers are round. The ones that you want are cone shaped. Up here, they have become invasive and are on the noxious weed list in some cities. I suspect that most nurseries should have them in stock now or soon. If you water them well the first season, they will grow higher than the eaves of house. If you cut them when they are purple, you will have to hang them upside down when they are wet with hairspray.
Good luck, Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
HI ALL:
Sun. morn and all is well. We have had a good week, Kathy is watching tv again and I'm trying to catch up.We went to groc. store this weekand I found a box in the elec dept where all the DVD's were on sale for 5bucks in the pile was a 3volume set of old ads [shorts] from the 30's, 40's ,and 50's made by quite a few of now old and fallen flag RR. Tried to watch them but not enought time so I get to see a little at a time. Hey!!! these are good and quite interesting.
ALL: Back in the 70's I bought a lot of Bowser engines. Then they all came with open frame motors, the castings needed file work, had to solder the finer parts [I had not found ACC yet]. Had to pay between 50 and 150 bucks each that was with all the added parts. Put most of them together and they ran very good could pull your teeth out.LOL Most of my cars at that time were either metal or wood with cast parts, so they were heavy. But I digress Bowser make a wonderfull kit if you want to take the time to put them together ,I understand that now they are changing over to closed motors and some plastic parts, if that is so they will be easier to put together, And I think as always their castings are great, also the instructions were very good and easy to follow.
JIM@RCGMO
The metal car that I was talking about is ???1/32 ???? or bigger. Weights about 4lbs and is of an older model car without a top, and front and back seats. Still free to anyone that has a need to play around with a lot of work and I don't know if all the parts are there..................
SUE@HOME
Could you please tell me the Real name of that flower and since it grows up there it should grow dowwn here. Same weather..
PAUL@NORTHENOUTPOST
I had a couple of " small " ones and they are no fun just tell Glo that we are always in the hands of the Lord. And she will be added to our friday morning mass...KATHY
LADIES@THEDINER
May I please have 2 cups of mud with choc Kathy is on the other comp and needs to stay awake for lunch. I would also like a dunkin donut on the grill please and thank. We don't have them here OOOOOO please make that 2 Kathy wants one also.
To all those in our nice new diner we have put you on our prayer list.
To all those that are new or returning we welcome you into the diner, Enjoy and ask because we sometimes know the answers and can oftimes are right...LOLLOL
'Till we have time again.........CHUCK and KATHY
Good morning, ladies - a cup of coffee and one of Bill's donuts, please - thanks!
Inch, good pics. What kind of shape was that NYC gondola in? It looked fairly old, but suprisingly good condition in the pic. Oh, I can understand the chores list not always getting done, since you do have other things that take up your time (like grandkids stopping by, your wife - or you - needing to make a run by a store or meeting). Deb sounds like a pretty busy woman! Of course, if my list is at all like yours might be, most of those chores are still waiting when I get back to it - they don't go away or tend to themselves, huh? You might be right on that spring thing - we're now at 40 F and supposed to hit the low-to-mid 60's (F) here today, too.
Paul, good to hear the garden training went well. Hopefully, they might get insurance for next year. Of course, that might mean you'd have to get up at 4:45 in the morning then!.... Hope you got a good rest last night, even with Daylight Savings kicking in.
Scott, you're right about those dumpster trucks being heavy - our apartment building has a dumpster at the lower end (away from the street), and there's various cracks in the concrete parking lot/driveway - from the truck driving down (once a week) to empty it. Good to hear that you'll be looking for places to put the trains once you guys get moved. Started sketching any ideas for a layout yet?
Well, need to go finish up lesson for our small group at church this a.m. (Working our way through a Navigators' study in Romans - going to be a lonnnnggg one...) Everyone enjoy any good weather that you might be getting this afternoon. Dick, any signs of spring up your way yet?
Blessings and prayers,
Mornin, an irish coffee please Janie
Got 31 out now, but headed for a high near 60, and mostly sunny day. Best enjoy while I can, suppose to cool back to a high in the 40's and rain next week. Begining to think spring might be close. We've had a dozen or so robins out in the back yard, and seen several bunchs of geese heading north, high and fast, so maybe, just maybe it's close
SUE, like your trees, my mom has one of those bushes, so I may get some cuttings from her and try'em.
DICK, did cleaning the flue pipe help the stove. I'm going to go ahead and get a new gasket for mine while I can. Their hard to find in the summer.
RYAN, liked your train pics and the swing gate looks like it should work good.
JIMCG, I never get all my chores done, I just try to make a little more progress on them everyday.
Pdragon, is that First hobby your talking bout in Decatur, if so, we were up that way yesterday afternoon and never did find it. Lousy map and directions from Mapquest. Tried to call them and all we got was a recording. Finally gave up and came home.
Know I won't be up your way on Sat. the CFO has an all day meeting, Sun. still up in the air also. You going to try an make the Rockome show next month.
PAUL, glad the show went well, to bad bout the rides though.
When we were up in Paris the other night, I got some pics out at the old NYC yard. First one is and old NYC gondola
This one is an old tie shear
The next two are of the yard.
No big plans for the day, just the normal Sunday stuff and enjoying the nice weather some. I'll catch up to yall laters, have a good one
inch
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Good morning ! from Indiana.
03-11-07
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
ModelTrainLover wrote: pcarrell wrote: Yeah, thanks, you've been helping me dodge that bullet lately! MOXIE?????? THAT STUFF KILLS TASTE BUDDS.
pcarrell wrote: Yeah, thanks, you've been helping me dodge that bullet lately!
Yeah, thanks, you've been helping me dodge that bullet lately!
MOXIE?????? THAT STUFF KILLS TASTE BUDDS.
It's the necter of life!
Evening Gang: Well the train show went well today. We had a good crowd come to our area and we ran several pieces of equipment. I ran my steam locomotive on air and it did very well. Of course we had many requests for rides that we were unable to grant. Next year we maybe able to give rides. The gardens may get insurance to cover the event for rides. I had to get up at 5:45 this morning. That's the earlest I've gotten up since I retired. I don't have to get up as early tomorrow but I'm tired so I'll head for bed.
Good Night All
Howdy.
Yay! Our house cleaning is coming along nicely. Moving is looking very good.
Found out something about driveways and heavy trucks...They don't go together very well. Saw today that the truck that delivered our dumpster cracked our driveway! We have two ruts where the truck's wheels went up...I guess because the ground thoroughly soaked, the driveway wasn't all that stable...
Jim in CG: Yes, hopefully, I'll have some space for a layout. Maybe have a 4 x 8 or something I can roll under the bed. That'd be cool. I'm definitely going to have a loop of O gauge around the ceiling of my room. When tax returns come back, I'll be ordering an MTH Coors Light Silver Bullet.
RT: The new Bachmann Northerns are pretty decent locomotives. Much better than the older runs. They weren't the greatest. I used the chassis of one to build my Steasel. 3 piece axles; the drivers were always unquartered. It took me forever to get the mechanism running reasonably well on the one I have.
Catch y'all later.
Scott - Dispatcher, Norfolk Southern
Good Evening, Janie - since Jeff's buying, I'll have the beef Stroganoff tonight! Yum!
Not lots new - I got some terminal barrier strips and wire connectors today at the other Radio Shack. They were out of the gauge I was looking for, but should get some in in a couple of weeks. So I may start with what I have instead - I have 12 gauge (instead of 16 or 14) solid for the power feeders, and 20 gauge (instead of 22 gauge) for the main power bus lines (stranded). The 20 gauge seems huge in stranded wire to me. I'm hoping the 'solderless' spade ends I got today will fit the stranded 20 gauge and hook up to the terminal strips okay (and stay put). One thing I would like better would be if I had more color coding (the solid is only in red insulation, and the stranded 20 gauge is only in black insulation. Dick, how well do those solderless connectors work (or, can I solder the wire ends into them)? I may just end up ordering online to get color coding to help me separate which wire is for which. I do have some of the LaBelle color coded wire (2-colors and another package of 3-colors), but am not sure what gauge they are, so they'll probably end up (if I use them) being used for accessories and/or switch machine wiring or such.
Jerry, we didn't get any rain today, either, so I'm not sure where it all went! But it was a really nice day - very enjoyable. Oh, I did get a router (Wireless and Ethernet), so if I want to, I can sit out on my deck this spring and surf on over to the Diner. Pretty straightforward to set up - ran an install program and (once I realized I couldn't connect wireless to the router until I'd disconnected the Ethernet cable - and broken that connection first) once I got done with that, worked seamlessly.
Going to go drill those holes for the wires that I didn't get done earlier. As PC said, prayers for all those in need (or just all...).
Blessings on your (one hour shorter - remember to set your clock forward) night,
Oh, and hook me up with a burrito and a Moxie please!
Prayers for all those in need! (Thats everybody!)
dang..... how many times have I paid for every one's lunch? what 6 times?
colby
Oh yes, again!
I'll have bacon and eggs.
Wind Chill: 64°F
Humidity: 79%
Dew Point: 58°F
So Far TodayHigh: 64°FLow: 59°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 6mph NNE
Today High: 78 Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight Low: 55 Increasing clouds. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Light and variable winds.
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
hey guys!
I am planning on going to the MNGRR tomorrow. that April show is getting closer.
Colby
oh come on again???
03-10-07
Good Morning, Janie - looks like (except for Duke over there dozin' in the corner) I'm first in the Diner today. A cup of coffee, scrambled eggs with some bacon and a biscuit.
Oh, do you have some blackberry jelly to go on the biscuit, Janie? Thanks!
TrainFreak409 wrote:We've got ourselves in high gear 'round here. Cleaning the house, making it look presentable...We want to try to put it on the market in a few weeks. We might be moving into a bigger house soon. That'd be cool, I'd have my own room again.
We've got ourselves in high gear 'round here. Cleaning the house, making it look presentable...We want to try to put it on the market in a few weeks. We might be moving into a bigger house soon. That'd be cool, I'd have my own room again.
And maybe have more room for a layout, Scott?...
TrainFreak409 wrote:Jim in CG: I take it you are far-sighted? Can you technically drive without your glasses, since you can see distances? Or would the gauges in the car be blurry than? I've never thought about that before...Hmm...I'm near-sighted, but it isn't too bad at about 20/100 on each eye.
Jim in CG: I take it you are far-sighted? Can you technically drive without your glasses, since you can see distances? Or would the gauges in the car be blurry than? I've never thought about that before...Hmm...I'm near-sighted, but it isn't too bad at about 20/100 on each eye.
I can make out the gauges okay, since the numbers (and general position)are large enough to read without my glasses. Now when I want to write down the mileage, I have to get the glasses out, of course..
Inch, I figured if you weren't in the Diner, you might've had a passle of kids to ride herd over. Did you get your other major chores done yesterday after running the electric line for the shed?
Thinking (after I get laundry done this morning) of going to the Radio Shack (in Jackson, next door to Cape G.) and see about some more wire for the layout. Right now, I have some solid (thinner) wire for the shorter runs, and some (12 gauge, I think) stranded for the main power bus, but it's almost too thick with the strands for fastening - like to a terminal block, etc. Wiring is NOT my favorite subject, nor is it one I am very knowledgeable about. Of course, finding electronics parts and wire isn't a piece of cake nowadays, since hardly anyone carries it locally (and I'm reluctant to order it when I know so little and could end up getting the wrong gauge, etc. and possibly not be able to return it). In the words of Charlie Brown... Aaaaaauggghhhh! Makes me want to go work on a building or a car kit to chill out....[aaahhh...]
Well, better get going for now. Hope everyone has a productive (and fun) day.
Howdy howdy.
French Vanilla tea please Chloe, thank you.
Adam: Welcome back to the Diner man! Even though I see you at school, it's good to see you hangin' round these parts. I'm trying to spend more time here as well.
Mark Hoople: That flower color thing is pretty cool, isn't it? I haven't done that in a while. I think I'll get some white roses and make them blue. If I remember correctly, if you split the stem, and stick each end in a different color; the flower will be half and half. Fun stuff.
Welp, I'll be around. Talk to y'all later.
grayfox1119 wrote: I take it that the Hair spray preserves the base flower so that it doesn't crumble with age?
I take it that the Hair spray preserves the base flower so that it doesn't crumble with age?
Dick, I am hoping that is the case. The preservative that I put on the first batch looked like diluted white glue. Those seem tougher than the later ones. I have just been putting more hairspray on if they shed when bumped. I have been using hairspray to attach the underbrush also. I buy the cheapest that I can find in the pump bottles.
Have fun.
Sue
Evening Gang:
Ryan: That swing gate looks good and solid. Where did you come up with the design?
We got my track set up at the gardens this morning. Everything went together well and no problems. A couple of the guys that do the gardening did a great job of ballasting the track. It looked really good. The locomotive unloaded with no problems. The crew at the garden helped and that made it easy. I charged the boiler with compressed air and made a couple of runs. After we got the gondola on and the two 4 wheel dump cars on the track and coupled up I put the air tank in the gondola and charged up the tank and boiler. Again I made a couple of runs with no problems. So everything is working well and I am looking forward to a great weekend. There is a change of rain Sunday afternoon but we won't mind as we need the rain badly.
Thoughts and prayers to all those in need. I have to get to bed as the gardens opens at 7:30am and I need to get there around 7.
SilverSpike wrote: Hey you all! This is what I did this morning, chased the CSX northbound local freight as it passed through Wake Forest at 9:00 AM.
Hey you all!
This is what I did this morning, chased the CSX northbound local freight as it passed through Wake Forest at 9:00 AM.
That looks like fun!
Then this is what I did this afternoon:Got my swing gate done!
Got my swing gate done!
That's IMPRESSIVE! More power to ya!
Then this is what I did this afternoon:
Check back with you all laters!
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
SUE: Thanks for the quick reply.....your trees look very real, and I love the cost!!! I have tree Butterfly bushes in the yard, so this summer I will clip off the flowers as they turn brown, and try your technique of Hair Spray/ground Foam/Hair Spray. I take it that the Hair spray preserves the base flower so that it doesn't crumble with age?
MIKE: Sue sounds similar to my situation. The door gasket looks tight, bur right after cleaning the doggone glass, it smokes up within a few days again. I am going to cleanout the outside horizontal discharge pipe to see if that is causing the trouble. We have running ours flat out also.
Dinner bell!!! Talk later guys and gals