Evening Gang: Not much got done on anything today. We took my son and his wife out for breakfast. It is Dyane's birthday. We gave her a little bear sitting on a birthday cake. She collects the bears. After that we came home and I got to work on the milling machine long enough to get 4 more ties milled out. Then it was off to town again to go to the bank, get the oil changed in the truck, drop off the tax stuff at the CPAs, get a bite to eat and pick up some ice and bottled water. When I got home I went out to the shop and cranked up the mill again. I managed to get 12 more ties milled and got the mill loaded for tomorrow. We ate supper and here I am trying to get into my E-mail. I've got Outlook express turned on in the hopes that it will pick up some or all the mail from PeoplePC. It did get some last night. If I ever get through I'll have a hard time not using some rough language.
Jerry: I hope that Sallie gets to feeling better soon. My thoughts are with the two of you.
Inch: It doesn't sound like a good idea to put $70,000 into a house that only is worth $30,000.
Well I'm going to go and try and get in touch with PeoplePC again. Wish me luck.
Good Night All
Good evening gents, what a day today has been. We received about 2" of snow during the night then it changed to freezing rain. We awoke to 1/2" coating on everything, and the sound of crashing tree limbs in the woods and the street. They didn't cancel school, but there was a 2 hour start delay, so I was on duty to go get the grandkids in two loads to their bus stops.
I had to stop the car to remove a big pine tree limb that was blocking the street completely. Just like PC said about the streams, all ours are at flood stage here also, but receeding tonight.
The police scanner was going non stop all morning and well into the afternoon. We had transformers shorting and catching fire, house basements flooded, tree limbs blocking streets and knocking out power, all three schools for 3 hours, no traffic lights working, the list went on and on all day. All three volunteer fire stations had to be manned, as well as the rescue squads.
As I was working on one problem, the wife told me I had water coming into the new train room. Mind you I live at the TOP of the hill, just about 50 feet from the actually peak. No matter with clay soil, water will leak into the basement even with drainage tiles under certain conditions like today. One quick look outside told be the problem. Water was all along the back wall of the addition, the train room is in the basement under this room. I headed outside in the pouring rain with shovel, and had to shovel snow and break ice jam that blocked the drainage route to a surface drain. No damage to train room other than a wet carpet in 1/3 of the room. This is a garage duty short pile carpet, so being wet does no harm. The furnace is only 10 feet away, so the heat will dry the carpet in a few hours.
Being outside for an hour in the pouring rain did not due my head cold any good either. I would rather have 2 feet of snow than this crap.!!
JEFF: Nice locomotives, did you get a good price? Silly question right?
DUKE: !!!! Glad to see you buddy!!! I thought you had fallen asleep in that far rear seat. BTW, you absolutely have to go see that new movie about the 4 Bikers with John Travolta...you will die laughing...this is one great funny movie !!!!!! All you Bikers in the Diner will love this movie.
COLBY: How much snow did you guys get?
10-4
AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Snow day here! 2nd one in the past 34 days.
Fanitcy Baseball!! I have joined a league on yahoo! called the Mainerslive draft pick set to 8pm today. Layout news: now much except for making a "must by" list for an up comming train show. I need HO rail-joiners, and coulpers, and some more rolling stock, cause my yard is looking like it's hardly being used even with my 12 to 14 pices of rolling stock.
Colby
Afternoon all and Chloe how about a nice cold Pepsi,please.
Stopping in to let everyone know that I am still around and kicking and have been watch'n and listen'n from the wwwaaaayyy back corner booth.
to the new faces since my last post and this is a good place as you have already found out.
Best to all on sick call and those recovering.
That's about it
Talk to you later
Duke
"Don't take a wooden nickel,because it isn't worth a dime" by my Dad
"There are only 3 things you need out of life:A gentle grade,the wind in your face,and cinders in your hair.....But keep an eye on the water glass!" Jack Evans
Hey guys,
Way up here in the east the snow's coming down fast and there's already 5 or 6 inches out there. I guess that's about all i have right now, so see y'all later.
-Alex
Attaboy wrote: Morning everyone. This weather system that is causing so many problems for everyone is actually making it nicer here in central PA.
Morning everyone. This weather system that is causing so many problems for everyone is actually making it nicer here in central PA.
Awww, I wouldn't want you to feel left out! Tell ya what......I'll send some your way, OK?
Morning everyone. This weather system that is causing so many problems for everyone is actually making it nicer here in central PA. It's pulling milder air up from the south. Daytime highs are in the upper 40s with a lot of rain. The only problem is a flood watch for low lying areas due to rain and melting snow.
I'm taking a weeks vacation the week of March 12th. Not going anywhere just taking some time to recharge the batteries. The determining factor was the people are going to install my new water softener on 3/13 so I decided to take the whole week off. Hopefully I can get some time on the layout.
Hope everyone who has been sick is feeling better and those with other problems like fires are recovering. See you later.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
GMTRacing wrote:Jeff - that's quite some roster you're building. Are you using a book to guide you on what power was used on the prototype for the era you're doing? Nosey people want to know.
I don't model any particular era. I just do what I want. I've been known to lash up an 1860's wood burner with an SD40-2. Hey, it's on it way to a railfan trip someplace.
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Mornin' all!
Chilly one this mornin', but at least it stopped raining. All the rivers are at full flood stage because of all the rain the last couple days, so it's good that they'll get a chance to go back down before the next wave hits tomorrow. Right now it's pretty nice out, except for the cold.
Got lots of work to do today. Gotta turn in my final for English Comp 2 tomorrow, so I'll be busy on that in all my spare time today.
Oz James, can't wait to see the pics. I always enjoy some good stuff from down under.
Jerry, take care of Sally. I'm prayin' she gets better soon. Poor girl, she has had a tough time lately!
inch, good idea on the extra apraisers. Sounds like house hunting might be in their near future.
Mornin, an irish coffee Zoe
Missed the rain yesterday, other than a few showers. Even got a little sun, had a high 56, almost spring like. But not a spring like day today with highs in the mid 30's, cloudy, and a high wind advisary [possable gust to 45].
GMT,, that may have been a long train ride, but it sounds like you kinda enjoyed the sites along the way. How did the testing go down south.
JERRY, hope Sally's feeling better today, seems like she's had a time of it lattely.
CHUCK, We're keeping an eye on the contractors and their agent. I told the kids to get a couple estiments of their own. The adjuster had 40,000, contractor 70,000 figured for repairs. The kids and their bank want it torn down, the house is figured worth about 30,000.
DICK,,, turned out to have been eletrical in the gas furnace. the kids have plenty of clothes for now I think. EJ and Heather were going last evening to buy some stuff for themselves
DER,,, it was frighting for them and I'm afraid it's bothering J Bird more than the others now. She keeps talking but not being able to go to her house and her toys burning up and how sorry she is for not picking them up when mommy ask her to.
Best get started on chores, J Birds going to be here for awhile today and she is just to much help some times. Hope ya'll has a good one
inch
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309
Good Mornin All,
Jerry - Our prayers for Sallies speedy recovery. Hows the layout doing? With luck we'll start on the N gage stuff at the museum soon and I'll keep you posted . We have 2/3 of a layout of the Danbury railyard as it was in the fifties - loop track backshop and all, but it needs lots of cleaning and a fair bit of rework on sidings and structures. Shoulld be interesting work as we need to recreate the buildings that were there at the time.
Jeff - that's quite some roster you're building. Are you using a book to guide you on what power was used on the prototype for the era you're doing? Nosey people want to know.
Not much doing on the layout this week. Spent most of my time cleaning and reworking a little drain culvert and stream before I tackle the larger inlet. Time for work, CUL, J.R.
Good morning ! from Indiana.
03-02-07
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
G'day Trackside diners.
I've been away from here for the last week or so because I haven't had much time to get a lengthy post in.
I received some Freight car kits to assemble, completely unpainted and unassembled, they look really good, and I look forward to doing them. I got Three coal hoppers and a Box van and LSR 'shunters' wagon. I'll post some pics sunday night.
Speaking of sunday, I'm chasing the Steam train sunday excursion, with the recently refurbished C17 'Brown Bomber' #974. We now have five Operable steam locomotives in the QR steam heritage fleet, one Diesel Hydraulic, and two steamers in the repair shops, one needing a whole new boiler, and the other (a Garratt) needing a complete refurb. I'll post some pics from sunday, sunday night, too.
all for now,
Oz
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
I got two new locomotives today. An Athearn RTR AC4400 and a Proto 2000 SW9/1200.
I had a problem with the AC4400. It runs around 18" radius curves just fine all day long. The rub was when it came to pulling a train. It did all right through the curves until it came to one to makes an 'S'. At this point it yanked the first car off track. An investigation revealed that because of the long end throw on the locomotive the rigid coupler pocket wouldn't allow the coupler to swing very much. So out came the Dremel with a cut-off disk. I opened up the rear pilot and modified the coupler pocket so the coupler can swin 45 degrees both ways. Now it has no problem pulling a train around the layout. A minor problem was the light weight out of the box. I packed the top of the shell with Rose-Art modeling clay, which increased the weight nicely. No more weight problem.
This is a scanned view of the AC4400This a pic of it on the layout.
And here's a scan of the SW1200. It's being repainted for KCS.
Good evening ! from Indiana.
03-01-07
der5007: I hope tourism picks up there. NS is just beautiful.. .. Another recollection is Lunenburg (if I spelled it right)......... sea food at an old "fish factory" was beyond belief! We did not get to Cape Breton as we wanted, however. Thanks for explaining the Front Range Lights.
Anybody interested in Nova Scotia and wants to learn more should Google Nova Scotia and find their tourist department. Time for a nice trip with your better half.
Paul: Aren’t you glad you are retired now, and no pressure to get things done on time?
Der: That was Mel Brooks in To Be Or Not To Be. " All I want is a little peace. A little peice of Poland, A little peice of France. " A very funny film. I liked the part where Brooks as Hittler opens the door of the pub and asks, " Is this England? "
Mike: Glad the kids are more settled. That’s pretty frightening for them. (and imagine what it’s like for those who are in a war zone!)
Sounds dodgy about the “total loss” then they want to renovate?
Chuck:
…sleeping and watching Perry Mason re-runs
Was at a memorial service on the island here for the 101 year old mother of neighbour friends of ours today. Too crowded in the church to get a seat so stayed outside. Sunshine was great, and 5 minutes before the end the clouds came. Temperature must have dropped 10 degrees straight away! On the way into the Harbour for the tea it was snowing. About an inch down by the time we got there, but when we got back home there wasn’t a trace. Tomorrow night will be a different story. Wind, 2-4 inches of snow, and then rain / freezing rain for Saturday. As to that second storm…we have a don’t ask, don’t tell policy on that one!
Printed off a couple of photos of the Front Range Light I took yesterday. I’d measured various bits I could get at, and from the photo and those measurements hope to be able to work out the proportions I need to build the somewhat taller Rear Range Light for the layout. Surprised to find the thing has a stainless steel door and frame. Makes sense really. Can’t remember if I showed you what the light I’m doing will be modeled after. Mine will be on a cliff ledge about 30 feet above the tracks, with another 70 feet of rock wall behind it….that photo may have to wait because Photobucket is doing maintenance, and it may not upload. No, we are in luck, and here it is
These Range Lights, if you are not familiar with them, are used for guiding boats through shoals and rocks into safe harbour. There are two to a set. They both have that red stripe. In day light you align your boat so that the stripes on the front and rear Range Lights are lined up. Keep them that way as you come in through the shoals or rocks, and there you are. At night of course the lights are lined up instead. In the UK they are called, or used to be, Leading Lights.
I’m using this one on the layout to give a Maritimes flavour, and also as an indicator light to tell me that the “light at the end of the tunnel” (some CS folks may remember that) is on or off.
Garry: That's a story that our tourist people need to hear to chear them up. Numbers have been dropping yearly since 9/11. On the Ocean to Montreal...that's the oldest continuously running train in Canada,and it may vie for those honours in North America. Sadly the Budd coaches are not used on that run except for the domes and observation cars. They've been replaced by sleek looking, but not as comfortable (we're told) used cars out of europe. I finally got to see the entire train in Truro last Sunday. Didn't have the camera, of course, but was first at the grade crossing and had a good view.
Once more time for bed.
Goodnight all, and God Bless. Prayers for all in need of healing, comfort and peace.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Evenin' All,
Zoe, I'll have a ginger ale. Thanks, you're a dream.
Boy, that was a long, slow, freight and it never did stop. I finally had to jump off, otherwise I'd be still riding the rails. Think I twisted an ankle, though.
Been dodging tornados all day and thankfully none hit too close to home. But south of us they took a pasting. Eight people were killed in south Alabama when one hit a high school. Please remember them in your prayers.
The CFO is down with the strep and I've been feeling a bit punky as well. She was supposed to go to Nevada for two weeks to audit Army work. But since she's sick she won't go. That makes me feel better.
PC: It's good to know your wife is feeling better. Our prayers are with her.
Haven't been doing anything about the railroad but think. I do know that Lewistown is in the rightr place. I'm very interested in doing a backdrop with shallow buildings kind of layered. I think I'll be visiting Pennsylvania in a couple of months, so I think I'll got o Lewistown and get a good close look at the station. I have the photos from PC but I'd like to see it myself.
Boy, It's not even eight and I'm ready for bed. Didn't sleep very well last night and it's catching up with me. Lately I have been working so hard I come hope and do very little. I don't even check my email until the following morning. I can't wait for longer days and spring weather. I noticed today that the daffodyls are in bloom behind the house. A good sign.
Well, I'm must be off - at least that's what my wife tells me.
KJ
sunsetbeachry wrote: KATHY[who is now sleeping and watching Perry Mason re-runs]
KATHY[who is now sleeping and watching Perry Mason re-runs]
'splain how that works again?????
grayfox1119 wrote: PHILIP: Ahhhhhh now I understand. With all those youngsters to care for, you are well experienced. It's just that when you get past 65, something happens to our bodies that is hard to explain in words. Your mind says you can do anything, but your body just doesn't get the word. LOL
PHILIP: Ahhhhhh now I understand. With all those youngsters to care for, you are well experienced. It's just that when you get past 65, something happens to our bodies that is hard to explain in words. Your mind says you can do anything, but your body just doesn't get the word. LOL
I'm not quite to 65 yet, but I'm workin' on it. My dad gave me some words of wisdom about growing older a few years back though that might help. He said that there's three things that happen as you get older. The first is that you loose your memory, and he couldn't remember the other two.
Good afternoon everyone.....the wife is feeling better today, I have caught whatever she had, but I have been able to fight it off better, probably because I had just come off anti biotics from dental surgery last week.
Looks like the big storm will hit us tonight with about 3-9" before it changes to rain tomorrow noontime.....the weathermen are having a tough time trying to plot the course and where the rain/snow line will be. Areas that stay all snow...18 -24" forecasted.
J.R. : That was some train ride, but I would have loved it anyways. I just wish the tracks ran through better scenery along the major cities.
GARRY: That was quite an experience. We were in Alaska in August of 2001 and just missed being stranded there by 2 weeks. I would not have minded being stranded in Ak or in NS. NS is a beautiful province, and the people there match their province, top notch people.
MIKE: Any word on what happened to the Furnace? I can see a gas furnace causing a fire if there was a leak, but oil fired furnace fires are pretty rare. Do the kids have enough cloths?
JEFF: Now don't tell me your driving 120 miles to a LHS and coming back home empty handed....NO WAY THAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN !!! FESS UP JEFF !!!
HOOPLE: Remember, every day off from school for snow days means one more day in sunny , warm, beautiful June that you are still in classes!!! hehehehehehhehehehee
COX47: Watch the skies, tornado warning are up.
HI ALL !!!
Back to two hands shoulder and arm are feling better more drugs Dr. said so
INCH;
Glad everything turned out better just watch out for those contractors hired by ins. people , sometimes they are a little ???? .I've had some trouble before .
HOOPLE ;
We are about 300 miles south of you and the coast range had 12in of snow on tues. nite then 6in. on wed. nite so no going over 26 [highway ] to portland ..
ALL ;
MRR room is warm now and Kathy is feeling better so I've got a chance to go out and play there. Got to tear down the rest of old mtn and start to continue to paint the rest of the walls and the ceiling.
Again I was cleaning out parts of old workshop and found a metal car in parts and I remember that one of us has a son or daughter that collects model cars of this type. So I will send this wherever it needs to go , all you have to do is send me an e-mail with adress and the post office will deliver. It's in pretty good shape don't know about all the pieces but I think the instrections are there OK.......
Its so nice to hear the ocean again, last nite was the first time since Christmass that we have been able to open the window at nite. Kathy gets soooooooo cold at nite even with an elec blanket, and its been colder then we are used to at nite. Below30 degrees at nite.
I've read so many pages and forgot to tke notes. Please forgive me , but I remember to say that to ELLIOT get better to Sue I"M BACK ........................and to all prayers and good health comes when you work at it and prayers to all.
CHUCK and KATHY[who is now sleeping and watching Perry Mason re-runs]
Afternoon, just coffee Zoe,
Still waiting on the rain to get here. There's been some all around us [some heavy], but nothing to speak of here yet. We're under a tornado watch till later tonight. Temps 53 with a stiff S. wind.
On the fire at our youngest boys house, they did have insurance, but that part is still up in the air on settlement. The adjuster was there yesterday and told the kids it was a total loss and to get out what they thought could be cleaned and saved. They were having some fancy outfit do the cleaning.
About an hour after that a contractor showed up and said the ajuster had called him to repair the house. the kids were suppose to meet the adjuster, their agent and the contractor this morning, Haven't heard anything yet
The little ones are doing better now. Tuesday night was kinda rough for them and us, but the new toys and clothes seemed to help. J Birds really happy, she likes stuffed monkey and some one gave her a trash bag full. Herman and Jocko's both gotten more than enough toys
The kids and us want to thank ya'll for the thoughts an prayers from every-one here. Thats one of the great hthings about this group.
Their staying in a freinds house that was empty, other than furniture and such for now, so they've got a roof over their heads.
DICK, one thing we don't need is a baby bed, but the thought is appricated.
PAUL, this is a old farming town and the old time spirite seems to be hanging on some how, but I don't know for how much longer with the way the world is around us is.
Best get out here, J Bird was taking a nap and is starting to strirr some. Try n catch with ya'll laters
pcarrell wrote:Anyways, time for some lunch! General Tso's Chicken, here I come!
Philip, It is not quite time for lunch out here, but I will have some anyway.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Hoople wrote: Well guys...Expect a BIG storm on the east. I have 2-3" of the fluffy stuff, but the stuff on the road melted, so I have school.Expect low temps... Again...
Ah, yes, I just noticed that!
Anyways, time for some lunch! General Tso's Chicken, here I come!