Hi Gang: I'm just taking a break from working on the portable track sections for the 7 1/2in gauge.
JimCG: That 1/2x1inch stuff is flat steel. I use it for rail for the portable track sections. The thing that I do is cut 2 pieces the same and if it's alittle short that's ok. We did get a few fluries earlier this week but they didn't stay. Today is windy but in the upper 50s. It's supposed to get better and maby in the middle 60s by Wednesday. They predict some rain on Tuesday so I may get hold of my buddy in Ft Worth and do some LHS hopping.
Daisy the Dog wants to go out so I'll see you all later.
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Hokie Smokes Bullwinkle. It's been almost 4hrs since I made this post and nobody else has been in? The girls are getting edgy guys. I had to stop Cloe from turning off the lights and going home. What gives?
Well I got the rest of the rail cut and did some more ties so I'll make up 12 sections of track instead of 10. I found some steel that I had forgotton that I had for the 2 extra. Tomorrow I have to get out and do some work on the place. Maybe.
Oh Yea, I did this as an edit because it's so close to the bottom of the page. Just being careful.
Well I guess I will head for bed.
Good Night All
JimRCGMO wrote: Hoople, I'm sure you are one happy MRR'er now - don't forget to read the manual and directions, though. Enjoy - you've been waiting what probably seemed like an eternity to you.
Hoople, I'm sure you are one happy MRR'er now - don't forget to read the manual and directions, though. Enjoy - you've been waiting what probably seemed like an eternity to you.
Good afternoon, Janie - I'd like a big bowl of the chili with some grated cheese and those oyster crackers, please! Oh yeah, bring me the Beano and a glass of milk, too.
Ken, you're doing it up bigtime - topographic maps and the whole nine yards! Looks good - from your mockup, I'd say you're going a point to point (switching and ops fan), right? Lucky guy, having an accountant in-house to do your taxes (and she'll let you go to Trainmaster with the refund check)! Me, I just sent my return off with TurboTax last Thursday or yesterday, so it'll be a little bit before my refund comes in (doing the direct deposit thing). But my return is simpler (though using TTax did get me thinking on some receipts that I want to be keeping for this year, based on questions it asked and for which I hadn't (systematically, anyway) kept receipts. Like medicines, doctors' visits, gas mileage for work (vs. the rate at which they reimburse me), etc. But it still found me a reasonable total refund. Hey, I'm easy to please sometimes.
Sitting here, looking out the window at our light flurries. We possibly got an 'Inch' or two last night, but it's just been hovering around/above/slightly below freezing today (back down to 29 F now), so most of what came down during the day hasn't been sticking. I think they're still predicting flurries tonight, but warming up to 40 (F) or so tomorrow. I expect that most of whatever snow we get will be gone by the start of the w..kweek.
Inch and Jerry - hope that newly located LHS turns out to be a good one. You never can have too many LHS's around to check out... Hope the Mattoon show goes well and they have a lot of bargains for ya to snap up!
Jeff, are you having a heat wave down there in Louisiana? Oh, sorry - I forgot that the 50's for you all there is fairly cold...
PC, how'd your class go today? Fill us in when you get back.
Anyone heard from Fergie recently? How about it - DerJohn? Luc? Dick? You guys talked with Fergie? Wondering how the remodeling is coming along and how his father's been doing.
Haven't heard lately from Chuck and Kathy - Sue or anyone talked with them?
Well, I've done my share of being nosy this afternoon - guess I need to head back home and see if I can finish up nailing down my track. I got a few more feet fastened down in the last couple of nights. Prayers for healing and rest for everyone in need of 'em (that would likely be most of us, between the two).
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Afternoon folks.
Zoe, I'll have one of those ginger ales please. Make it a tall one, light on the ice. The CFO is doing the taxes (believe it or not she loves it! - of course she's an accountant) so I'm hiding in the office. It's good to see some familiar faces.
Here's a mockup of the general idea of my new layout (you can't get much more general than that). No detail and grossly out of scale but you'll get the idea, especially PC and others familar with the Lewistown area. Boy, I can't wait for the refund. Flex track, turnouts and more. she promised me a trip to Trainmasters in Atlanta. Can't wait.
Later
KJ
It's going to be a busy day today. I have to prepare for the Mardi-Gras parade, which I'm in, then come back home and prepare for the Mardi-Gras ball tonight. That should have me tied up most of the day.
Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 2/17/2007
Sundown Fire Dept., Station 23 Wind Chill: 37°FHumidity: 89%Dew Point: 36°F So Far TodayHigh: 39°FLow: 28°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 12mph WNW High: 57 °FLow: 31 °F
Today High: 58 Mostly sunny. Not as cool. Highs in the upper 50s. Winds becoming northwest around 15 mph. Tonight Low: 32 Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. Northwest winds around 10 mph.
I'll have the french toast today.
And I'll be snacking on some of these throughout the day.
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Mornin all, how bout a short stack an coffee Janie,
Got another snow day here, inch plus on the ground now, a light snow still coming down. Temps been hangin round 22 or 23 all night.. Weather guessers are saying a warm up next week, with highs getting into the upper 30's to low 40's and rain of course, Just have to wait n see.
COGRADS to JERRY and TRENT on their anninversery's and Snoah for getting published.
A WELCOME FUNIT is in order, hope you enjoy your visits here, and WELCOME BACK for KJ, glad to hear things are going well since the move.
PC, nice pics for the cold. Just remember spring is just around the corner, think it'll be bout May or June this year.
JERRY, I was doing some playing on here and found a LHS listed for Robinson. Don't know anything about it, WOLFE Satellite, 544-7476. I think your son lives down that way, he might check it out n let us know how it is.
Things going bout the same round here this week, just kids an chores. Did get some play time and even ran a couple trains when the kids were here [thats a have to now].
Train show's on for tomorrow in Mattoon, going to spend the rest of my burthin day money maybe, if they have any good deals. Daytona 500 later in the afternoon,
Speaking of chores, I best get onto'em,, naw think the snow can wait a spell, play time fur now. Hope ya'll has a good day.
inch
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Mornin' all!
Just stopped in real quick before I head off to school.
Welcome back Ken!
Congrats to Noah are in order too I hear......Congrats man!
Well, off to class! Later!
Good morning
Happy MRRing
Good morning ! from Indiana.
02-17-07
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
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Good evening, Chloe - a cup of coffee and a brownie a la mode, please. Thanks, JP!
And a back, Ken! We have some new folks, but a lot of the same crew (so to speak...) around the Diner as we had in the CS. With the winter weather the past week plus, it's been one ongoing discussion topic, but we still talk about our layouts like before. Good to hear that you have more room for your layout. Will you be able to use much of the old layout in the new room, or do you know just yet? I can send you links to some webpages with plans for bonus rooms (for ideas to start you thinking), but I'm sure you'll come up with your own plan.
Paul - guess you could use 2X2's (ripped 2X4's) in the corners and run your side supports close to the corners, so you could still have 10' sides. Time for a little jury-rigging and re-engineering (which given your former w..k experience, shouldn't be too hard for you). Have you been seeing any flurries out your way? We're supposed to have some snow tonight (maybe 2-4 inches) into tomorrow. Guess we'll see how accurate they are (or aren't)...
C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S to sNoah on getting published (whether it was his photos and/or his article)! Looks like we have a couple of renowned railroad shutterbugs around the place, with sNoah and Inch getting recognition for their work!
About 30 degrees (F) now, with some snow coming into the western part of Cape currently (they showed an outside pic from the TV station's camera in the west side of town). Might be flurries until suppertime Saturday, the weatherguessers are saying. So earlier I went by the store and got milk, salad fixin's, and ice cream (well, I was out of them and needed them anyway...).
The evening sports news is on, so I'll head home and start getting ready for bed. See you all in the morning, and everyone take care and stay warm!
Dang! You take off a few months and they close the place down and move it off to someplace else and give it a new name to boot. Nice decor, though. But I had to search high and low to find you guys.
Thanks for the re-intro, John. I've missed you guys but have been so busy I'm hard put to get the things I need to get done. So I've let some old friends down. I'll try to do better in the latter department, though. Yeah, I bought a bonus room with a house under it. Can you imagine that? Now I have to get the new layout designed. I know what I want to do. It will be an extension of the original Maitland and Vira railroad but with Lewistown, Pa. where it belongs. The M&V will interchange with the PRR at Lewistown, so I should have plenty of action. It will go around three walls with Lewistown at the middle. I have to leave room for Jamie's new layout as well. But oh the bare foamboard.
The new job is going well. I'm still writing software for the DoD and loving it. I just hate the fact that I had to start all over with ZERO leave! Oh well. It'll build up quick enough.
Paul, what do you mean, "The dark side"?
Well I think I'll read a few of the past pages to get a feel for what is happening. I know I've missed a lot so I had better get caught up.
See you guys soon.
Evening Gang:
I got the first rails cut for the track sections. It is amazing what some people think 1/2 of 20ft is. I had burchased some 1/2inx1in flat stock several years ago and had it cut in half to fit in my pick-up. So tonight I set it up to trim and found that some was 9ft11to 9ft10. The others were just as bad the other way. So some of my 10ft long sections will be a tad short.
Thanks Der for passing on KJ's E-mail. I hope that things will settle down for him now. It's too bad he went over to the dark side though.
Well I guess I'll head for bed. Take care everyone.
Good Night
Good evening folks: Early start tomorrow for a museum related meeting, so I shan’t stay long. I heard from KJ today, and he said it was OK to post his email for y’all.
I really need to get back to the Coffee Shop but you would hardly know what I have been through in the past six months. I lost my job, got a new one and lost it! Got another job (a good one), bought a new house, moved and HAD TO DISMANTLE MY MODEL RAILROAD! The good news is that I’m working on a new layout with a much bigger room (23x13) and in N Scale that will go a long way. I didn’t know how hard it would be to design a new layout, especially because my “prototype” almost matches the dimensions of the train room (to scale, of course). I’m hoping to buy a couple of cases of flex track when we get the tax refund. The CFO is good for that! Among other things. Send my regards to everybody. A day doesn’t pass when I don’t wish I had the time for a cup of coffee with you guys. That’s what makes your emails all the more precious. KJ
HAD TO DISMANTLE MY MODEL RAILROAD!
The good news is that I’m working on a new layout with a much bigger room (23x13) and in N Scale that will go a long way. I didn’t know how hard it would be to design a new layout, especially because my “prototype” almost matches the dimensions of the train room (to scale, of course).
I’m hoping to buy a couple of cases of flex track when we get the tax refund. The CFO is good for that! Among other things.
Send my regards to everybody. A day doesn’t pass when I don’t wish I had the time for a cup of coffee with you guys. That’s what makes your emails all the more precious.
Hey Jerry: 1947 was a brutal winter as I recall. Is that why you chose the handle? That sign in runaround is enough to give you a pitn without having one for real to start with. I hope that’s cleared up now. I come in by the back door as a rule, and it avoids the sign in nonsense. That is, I bookmark the current page (or the one I’ve got to with replies, which ever is most useful). Then, when I want to come to the diner I just open the bookmark in my browser, and Presto! Here I am.
JP: That’s great news about Noah.. Don’t know where he’s got to these days, but he’ll go far that lad.
Trent: Did you say Room?
Encouraged by the way the bollards made from FIMO turned out, I’m thinking seagulls are doable. They are quite big, so should work out in N.
Time to call it a day.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
grayfox1119 wrote:RT: I had a 2:15 call with Teffy many moons ago! LOL Does that top Fergie's?
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Well all, please take it easy on my Credit Card tonight since I have TOTP honors. TY!
On the ‘off' MRR front come these items ....
2 of our local Wal-Mart Supercenters are closed due to too much snow on the roofs of those 2 stores. An interesting fact about Wal-Mart store's is they actually have sensors built in place to sense things like this and sound all sorts of alarms to warn the employees.
On a note of a different kind, seems early this morning, there was a horse barn collapse. From the sounds of it, it was due to too much snow. All the horses made it out alive; a few with minor injuries. Prayers for the family and the horses during this harsh weather we're having.
Dick - Seems you forgot another one of our regulars who is a volunteer firefighter in his village in Central NY!
On the MRR front comes this item ...
Please forgive me if someone else made note of this, as I did not see it. While getting my groceries a little bit ago, I happened to pick up a current March 2007 copy of Railfan & Railroad as it has a story on the WSOR. In reading parts of the article, I discovered it was about the Reedsburg Sub. Some of you may already know who I am talking about - yes folks our little SNoah has contributed to this article. I think I have seen some of the photos the author uses, but not sure if they are his or not. But at the end of the article, the author does thank Noah and another person for information contained in it.
Well all, time for dinner!
Take care!
//signed// John Powell President / CEO CNY Transportation Corp (fictional)
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Hunter - When we met in January of 2000, you were just a 6 week old pup who walked his way into this heart of mine as the only runt in the litter who would come over to me. And today, I sit here and tell you I am sorry we had to put you down. It was the best thing for you and also the right thing to do. May you now rest in peace and comfort. Love, Dad. 8 June 2010
I love you and miss you Mom. Say hi to everyone up there for me. Rest in peace and comfort. Love, John. 29 March 2017
Dang it! I had a nice post all set to submit and lost it. Guess I need to go and formulate one in MS Word and do a cut and paste to here. Well, that will have to wait for a little bit, but I will.
jeffrey-wimberly wrote:I was watching CNN this morning and saw an Ohio state patrol car get creamed by a FedEx truck that went out of control on the icy roads. It spun the patrol car around 180 degrees.
Speaking of FedEx - I was watching the Weather Channel this morning and they showed a a similar video from KY that was taken by a dashboard cam in a cop car of a FedEx Truck with a Tandem Trailer and he lost control of the trailer and it took out a car and they both hit the cop car.
Afternoon All:
Jeff that looks good. I do believe it would feed half the crew.
I have about 1/3 of the ties cut for the steel panel track. When they are all cut I'll cut the 1/2x1in flat for the rail and then I'll have to do the wiring for the milling machine. I figure a day for cutting the slots in the ties for the rail. I'll have to make a jig of some sort to hold the ties so I can lay in the rail and weld it to the ties. Oh ya. I have to drill the rail for the rail joiners. Lots of work but it will be nice to have some portable track.
Right now I'm kind of hungrey so I'll grab some lunch and have a seat in the corner booth.
See you all later.
Being that it's coming up on lunch and I worked right through breakfast, I'm thinking about a Dagwood special.
Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 2/16/2007
Sundown Fire Dept., Station 23 Wind Chill: 20°FHumidity: 67%Dew Point: 17°F So Far TodayHigh: 32°FLow: 25°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 11mph NNW High: 48 °FLow: 34 °F
Rest Of Today High: 48 Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 40s. Light and variable winds becoming southwest around 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight Low: 35 Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. South winds around 10 mph.
At the rick of sounding like a weather man....IT WAS 26 THIS MORN AND THE SUN WAS SHINING!!! I can understand if it was dark but down here if the suns out its warm.
Thanks for the well wishes.
Just a quick stop as gotta get busy on the party room. Busy as beavers cause the boss wants it up and major const. done by Mon.
Ya'll stay warm and well.
Trent
Happy, happy Friday! And I am off work on Monday for President's Day, three day weekend....yes!
Chloe, I'll have the Blue Plate Special for lunch today!
Oh, and thanks Funit for picking up the tab today! Oh and Welcome to the Diner!
PC, nice pics from the CSX tracks! What -9 degrees and you can't even get a steady shot! Have you heard of that new invention that came out, it's called a tripod! Just kidding, hee, hee....
Cheers,
Ryan
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Moring guys! Well I'm starting on my 5th tunnel made of paper cardboard and tape. I have a friend who is comming with my to the Great Falls Model Railroad Club opperating session.
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April 28th Topsham, Me there's a train show if any interested.
Well, another cold one to start out today. It's -5 degrees right now. Thats a bit on the "brisk" side if you ask me! Wind chills are in the -10 to -20 range.
Our next weather system will be a clipper moving in from the Northern Plains. This weak storm will produce a band of snow starting after midnight tonight and continuing through Saturday morning. Right now, it looks like most areas will see a 2"-3" snowfall by Saturday afternoon. As always, a couple of spots may approach 4". Next week looks much better though.
Well, I've got school again this weekend and I teach, so my Saturday is going to be a busy one. Sunday looks good though. Maybe I can get something done on the railroad, huh?
Good Morning All,
A chilly 12F out but the suns trying to show up. Still getting the support equipment ready to leave next Tues and the rest of us after that.
Got some time in the train room finally last night putting some mix down on the bare foam in places and paving the road to the gravel operation with cinders over which I'll mix plaster and gray paint to make a road. Plan is for the cinders to poke through like on real macadam and not be too smooth as it's a mainly truck traffic road. Also found the reason my auto reverser was acting up. Seems I left a sliver at the bottom of one of the cuts I made to isolate the section of track with the reverse in it. I filled the gaps with ca but under the right circumstances the rail ends would touch shorting out the reverse loop of the wye in question. Recut the gap and now it works correctly. The key was stopping everything when it happened and going through the possibilities one by one until I found the problem. So much for never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow.
Has anyone built any of the Woodland Scenics metal construction equipment kits? They seem inexpensive enough, but I worry about all those itty bitty parts.
Happy Anniversary Trent (and many more) and welcome in to our newbie. Yes we sometimes discuss trains or models. Gotta go w..k beckons. CUL,J.R.
We are railfans, modelrailroads, and weather people in training.
lol.
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