Good evening, just got back from two trips, Canadian Rockies from Calgary to Banff to Lake Louise, Columbia Ice Glacier, Train from Banff to Kamloops, then a derailment postponed the rest of the train trip to Vancouver, we had to take the tour bus Many derailments in BC apparently, the Government is really getting upset with CP and CN.
Then we were home for one day, October 11th, then off to New Hampshires White Mountains for a week. Got to visit one of my favorite LHS in Intervale, NH, took some train pics of the CSRR GP7 on it's way to Bartlett.
Will post some pics of Rockies and shots from the train as soon as I catch up with work around the ranch.
Here's what I'm currently working on.
It's an Athearn GP50 that's being painted for my fictional road, the Midland Gulf Railway (MGRy). It's numbered 471
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Hello everyone: Flashwave said: "6 pack of Rivarossi Clear top undecs. Gonna become a tanning train. Sit in car, get a tan. See stars at night." ............That's funny!
Hello everyone:
Flashwave said: "6 pack of Rivarossi Clear top undecs. Gonna become a tanning train. Sit in car, get a tan. See stars at night." ............That's funny!
That's nothing. Dad and I want to do a train of thought. You know, a Dome Car named Desire, The Joy Observation. And when she derials, it'll be a trainwreck of emotion...
Don't ask about my idea of a "pool" car. It involves A Superliner an 6000 gallons of water...
Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all night. Try the Veal.
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Hey, I gots a problem. I've fallen in love with SP's Kraus Maffei. Teh only maker that I know of is AHM, of which I own. It doesn't move. at all. I wanna revamp it. I've never revamped an engine before. Ever.
-Morgan
Evening Gang: Mary Ann and I went to the airshow today. Our son in law meet us at the CV-22 and we spent the day watching the show and walking around. I got to autograph the Ghost Flights UH-1H. I left my name and dates on the fire wall. If any of you get to see the Huey look in the corner by the left corner of the transmission and the fire wall. Thats were the crew chief rides. I didn't get my ride in the Huey. I guess they shut down because of the wind. The Army now has a demonstartion team using Cobra gun ships. They are called the Sky Solders. They put on a good show. I was instructor rated in the Cobra along time ago. I got to talk to some of our SILs work mates and his Col. I guess he is well respected and liked.
Mary Ann forgave me so I got to sleep in our bed last night. As I've said " She's a good one."
Dick: Good to see you home safe and sound. Sorry to hear that your trip was cut short. Yes the CP and CN are having problems.
Der: Thanks for the pic's of the historic steam.
Well I am going to head for bed. That was alot of walking. The weather was really good except for the wind. The last flyby we saw looked a little odd. There was a F-16 on one wing and a F-15 on the other, in the lead was a prop job. It wasn't until the second flyby that I recognized that the lead aircraft was a P-47 Thunderbolt. It was really a beautiful job indeed.
OK, off to bed.
Good Night All
Well I'm beat.
Paul W. Beverung wrote: Evening Gang: Mary Ann and I went to the airshow today. Our son in law meet us at the CV-22 and we spent the day watching the show and walking around. I got to autograph the Ghost Flights UH-1H. I left my name and dates on the fire wall. If any of you get to see the Huey look in the corner by the left corner of the transmission and the fire wall. Thats were the crew chief rides. I didn't get my ride in the Huey. I guess they shut down because of the wind. The Army now has a demonstartion team using Cobra gun ships. They are called the Sky Solders. They put on a good show. I was instructor rated in the Cobra along time ago. I got to talk to some of our SILs work mates and his Col. I guess he is well respected and liked. Mary Ann forgave me so I got to sleep in our bed last night. As I've said " She's a good one."Dick: Good to see you home safe and sound. Sorry to hear that your trip was cut short. Yes the CP and CN are having problems. Der: Thanks for the pic's of the historic steam. Well I am going to head for bed. That was alot of walking. The weather was really good except for the wind. The last flyby we saw looked a little odd. There was a F-16 on one wing and a F-15 on the other, in the lead was a prop job. It wasn't until the second flyby that I recognized that the lead aircraft was a P-47 Thunderbolt. It was really a beautiful job indeed. OK, off to bed.Good Night AllWell I'm beat.
neat show!
three kings of thier eras flying together.
Evening, Flo, I see most of the crew is gone for the night. Just a cup of hot apple cider, please. Thanks!
Didn't get all the cleaning done that I'd hoped to finish this afternoon. I did get some straightening done, and got a week or two of cash entries put into Quicken. I need that to have an accurate idea of what I need to base the spending plan on, for the rest of the year. Had the deck door open and the windows until after dinner this evening, it was so nice out. Think I need a few boxes to put all the kits I still have yet to assemble (until I get time enough to resume work on them).
I also was looking at one book I bought yesterday, which included in it the Alkali Central layout (anyone else remember that one?). I was trying to figure how to unwrap some of the elements of the layout into additional sections for my layout (i.e., into shelf or around-the-walls arrangement). Think I'll have to study that a bit and maybe get some color copies made to fiddle around with.
Also, after lunch I went over to one of my single friend's house and installed a memory chip in their computer. They have a flat-panel iMac that only had 256MB of memory, so I took one of the 256MB chips that I had and installed it in the iMac. I used another chip I had from my laptp to add in. So now, they have 512MB in theirs and I still have 640MB in my laptop (once I get it back up and running). My PowerMac I got from my brother several months back uses different type of chips, and has 1.25GB of memory in it. Okay, enough geek-talk...
I need to find some lettering decals for my Walthers city water tank. The letters that come with it are too big and blocky for my tastes. I do like the tank, though.
Paul, that sounded like a really neat formation flying by your place. I'm not sure I've ever seen a Thunderbolt in anything other than photos.
And for you Red Sox fans, it looks like they are back on track to the World Series. The St. Louis Rams didn't do well today at all - 33 to 6? C'mon, guys!
Time for me to head for home. See you in the morning!
Blessings and Prayers,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Uh oh! Dick said his train ride was disrupted by a derailment in BC. That's bad news. He missed the leg if the rail trip from Kamloops to Vancouver. I wonder about the pariculars of the derailment. CN and CP tracks are on opposing sides of the river all the way. I would think they could stay on only one side, but what do I know. The part between Calgary and Kamploops is quite spectacular crossing over the divide, etc. But still, who wants to ride on a bus instead of a train?
Looking forward to his pictures.
It was kind of a down day at church. The pastor just had his last day there. he's the one who helped us through the sad time with Shelley losing her sister, and we felt like he was "family".
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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...and talk about timely - after I'd written about the Rams' (non-?)performance this weekend, a friend of mine in St. Louis sent this along:
In light of all the threats in the news these days, I thought you should know about the latest one... St Louis Rams football practice was delayed nearly 2 hours after aplayer reported finding an unknown white powdery substance on thepractice field.Head coach Scott Linehan immediately suspended practice while St Louisand federal investigators were called to investigate.
After a complete analysis, FBI forensic experts determined that thewhite substance unknown to the players was the goal line.Practice was resumed after special agents decided the team was unlikelyto encounter the substance again.
Okay, I'm heading out for the night this time - see you!
MGRy 422 is almost finished.
Morning.
Yesterday I was in Portland. Working on the railroad.
I got up at 7am, then my mom and I drove down to Portland, were I was able to catch the first train out to the worksite. Me and 5 other volinteers jacked up the track using a rail jack, replaced rotten ties, laying new ballast, tamping ballast, drank coffee, ate dounts, and drove spikes into predrilled holes. My back, arms, hands, and neck are still cramped from shoveling, raking, tamping, lifting, and spiking.
Scott- if you ever do anyhting like this it's hard work but it's fun work.
Good morning.Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 10/22/2007 Heat Index: 78°FHumidity: 94%Dew Point: 72°F So Far TodayHigh: 73°FLow: 72°FRain: 0.91"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 12mph SE Today Low: 65 High: 78 Mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms likely. Highs in the upper 70s. Temperatures falling into the mid 60s in the afternoon. South winds up to 15 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
Tonight Low: 48 Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain showers in the evening. Cooler. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
There was a painter named Wayne who was very interested in making a penny where he could, so he often thinned down his paint to make it go a wee bit further. As it happened, he got away with this for some time, but eventually the Baptist Church decided to do a big restoration job on the outside of one of their biggest buildings. Wayne put in a bid, and, because his price was so low, he got the job. So he set about erecting the scaffolding and setting up the planks, and buying the paint and, yes, I am sorry to say, thinning it down with turpentine. Well, Wayne was up on the scaffolding, painting away, the job nearly completed, when suddenly there was a horrendous clap of thunder, the sky opened, and the rain poured down washing the thinned paint from all over the church and knocking Wayne clear off the scaffold to land on the lawn among the gravestones, surrounded by telltale puddles of the thinned and useless paint. Wayne was no fool. He knew this was a judgment from the Almighty, so he got down on his knees and cried:"Oh, God, forgive me; what should I do?" And from the thunder, a mighty voice spoke?....(you're going to love this)........."Repaint! Repaint! And thin no more!"
(Luc running away quickly tru the back door hehehehehehe)
Good morning, very tired this morning, we stayed up until 1 am watching the Red Sox win the ALCS and the aftermath. Where did all those leaves come from in my backyard???? Guess what I'll be doing today?
GARRY: The derailment was about 25 miles west of Kamloops, the tracks are running together in that area, and of course the cars derailed on the "inside" so it tore up both tracks closing the lines for two days. 25 cars of an empty freight derailed. I did a search on the web yesterday and I am amassed at the number of derailments in Canada, especially in the BC province. The Canadian government is really po'd at the RR'ds it would appear, they want the problems fixed.
Welcome to all the new members to the Diner since I was away, and new births as well, congradulations to the new dads and moms and grandparents of course.
JEFF: I see you have been keeping real busy.
RYAN: WOW, we have a photo of that young man now, I wonder if that was Monique's idea??
ED: Are you awake yet or are you and JP still celebrating the Sox win????
DER JOHN: I see you have made great strides on your layout......I like the way your sawdust groundcover looks, great idea!!
FERGIE: I see you are doing deep sea scientific experiments once again off Sable Island, at least the seas are calm. Any MRR projects onboard?
PAUL: Thanks for the welcome home in the Diner, that was real nice to have Blueberry pie and ice cream on our table.
SUE: I tried to get to Olympia, but I could not get the bus driver to take route 2 and head south to your ranch, tsk, tsk, ohh well. Do you have all your projects done outside yet for Winter season? We had snow in Alberta at Lake Louise and all the Cascades were covered, so you might get an early snowfall in the NW this year.
Later,
CPRail modeler wrote: Derrick Moore wrote: My friend Matt has apologised for putting Junk on the forum.As of right now, there are 4 teens looking at modelrailroader.com and laughing like crazy at us AND you guys AND are being exremely rude. 6. I'm a teen too, but I'm not laughing. Who are these guys anyway?Oh, and an ice tea please (haven't ordered in a while)
Derrick Moore wrote: My friend Matt has apologised for putting Junk on the forum.As of right now, there are 4 teens looking at modelrailroader.com and laughing like crazy at us AND you guys AND are being exremely rude.
My friend Matt has apologised for putting Junk on the forum.
As of right now, there are 4 teens looking at modelrailroader.com and laughing like crazy at us AND you guys AND are being exremely rude.
6. I'm a teen too, but I'm not laughing. Who are these guys anyway?
Oh, and an ice tea please (haven't ordered in a while)
Thats the problem..... I don't know them. I get bullied a lot for the way I look, think and act.
My Mom doesn't understand it, especially after I went on Ripley's Believe It Or Not,The Montel Williams show, and the National Enquierer(?spell.) in 1995 after the severe snake attack I suffered when I was 5 years old.
Oh well.
I live life anyway, and I do not care what people think about me. God gave me this life, and I am going to live it.
grayfox1119 wrote: Good morning, very tired this morning, we stayed up until 1 am watching the Red Sox win the ALCS and the aftermath. Where did all those leaves come from in my backyard???? Guess what I'll be doing today?GARRY: The derailment was about 25 miles west of Kamloops, the tracks are running together in that area, and of course the cars derailed on the "inside" so it tore up both tracks closing the lines for two days. 25 cars of an empty freight derailed. I did a search on the web yesterday and I am amassed at the number of derailments in Canada, especially in the BC province. The Canadian government is really po'd at the RR'ds it would appear, they want the problems fixed.Welcome to all the new members to the Diner since I was away, and new births as well, congradulations to the new dads and moms and grandparents of course.JEFF: I see you have been keeping real busy.RYAN: WOW, we have a photo of that young man now, I wonder if that was Monique's idea??ED: Are you awake yet or are you and JP still celebrating the Sox win????DER JOHN: I see you have made great strides on your layout......I like the way your sawdust groundcover looks, great idea!!FERGIE: I see you are doing deep sea scientific experiments once again off Sable Island, at least the seas are calm. Any MRR projects onboard?PAUL: Thanks for the welcome home in the Diner, that was real nice to have Blueberry pie and ice cream on our table.SUE: I tried to get to Olympia, but I could not get the bus driver to take route 2 and head south to your ranch, tsk, tsk, ohh well. Do you have all your projects done outside yet for Winter season? We had snow in Alberta at Lake Louise and all the Cascades were covered, so you might get an early snowfall in the NW this year. Later,
Hey, you got here first.
YOU'RE PAYIN' !!!!
in a Southern mug, please & thank you.
It has been raining much of the morning. Off to check the tanks and feed the critters.
Rob
Morning all!
I enjoyed a beautiful weekend in Indiana with lots of sunshine and temperatures above normal, but now a strong cold front will move through the state late today and tonight producing widespread rain and cooler temperatures. Some areas especially across the southeast half of the state may receive over 1" of rain during the next 36 hours.
Looks like a wet week for us this week!
Well, back to the daily grind!
Anything interesting going on with you all?
Cederstrand wrote: It has been raining much of the morning. Off to check the tanks and feed the critters.
THAT ROCKS!!!! I know you've been needing it!
Luc, I don't know whether to laugh or boo! Good one!
Morning all.
Gonna be another cold one over here in Seattle. Maybe even the typical rain.
Last night my dad told me and my sister he's going to go live with his brother for awhile to deal with some of his health issues. He says he'll come back every now and then to see us and such, but he has to deal with his health issues, so I don't know how long he'll be there. It's fine with me, just as long as he comes to see us every now and then.
Well guys, after the money loss of buying the passenger cars, I now have enough cash for that ol' big boy. Broadway Limited Blueline, #4017. I can't wait, they're supposed to ship on the 30th of November. As for now, it's time to save up for the Puyallup train show, which me and my bud are going to go see again. Sue and Gryphon, are you guys going?
Oops, gotta run.
Mark
grayfox1119 wrote: JEFF: I see you have been keeping real busy.
[Idle hands become tools of the devil,]
"""So can busy hands...Boohaha""" What do you have left to do on the 442?
Mark ............ sorry to learn of your Dad's health issues. Prayers for him.
Dick .... thanks for explaining the derailment. I feel badly for you because you missed out on an interesting part of the Rocky Mountaineer trip. Much of the CN line between Kamloops and Vancouver is built in cliffs and is really quite something.
Lunchtime, I'll have a ham n cheese, coffee n J Bird wants a grilled cheese n chocolate milk.
A friend of ours stopped by and told us summer was officially over now. When ask why "he said because we'd brought the camper home for the winter". He might be right, it's cloudy, damp n gloomy today and temps in the 60's for highs this week.
PC,, did ya get to the fairgrounds for the train show?
J CG,, like the football joke. Da Bears seem to be having the same trouble finding the chalk also this year.
DICK,, sounds like you had a rail trip even with the problems.
I read about a derailment up there and having to bus passengers over on the Train board. Wondered then if that was you folks. Looking forward to the pics.
COBLY,, sounds like ya had fun, even with the hard work. Great grandpa always said hard work never hurt anybody, once you learned how to do it right. Ya just can't to do as much of it when you're old. He was 80 and helping me on the farm.
LUC,, the joke was ok but still a good one.
MARK, hope your dads health gets better soon. We'll be thinking of ya'll
We got up to Charleston yesterday and went by the E.IL. RR small yard and found both their engines there, so got some pics. These were the best I could without really trespassing.
They've been doing a bunch of track work, new ties n such from Charleston to Metcalf, which it needed bad.
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309
inch53 wrote: PC,, did ya get to the fairgrounds for the train show?
Yeah, I picked up three tank cars for $3 each and two 40' wood sheathed BAR boxcars for $4 each.
Cederstrand wrote: [Idle hands become tools of the devil,]"""So can busy hands...Boohaha""" What do you have left to do on the 442? Rob
Diners. I’ll have a nice cup of Russian Caravan tea, and a couple of Voortman’s no-sugar added double chocolate fudge cookies please Chloe.
Dick: Bummer about the interrupted rail trip. We took the VIA eastbound from Vancouver to Edmonton. The worst of that was that the interesting mountain bit you missed, we missed too, because it was at night!
I like the way your sawdust groundcover looks, great idea!!
Also, the glue mix does bleed a little into rock castings, so there can be a colour change. That’s one reason I don’t pre-colour the mix. The natural brown isn’t too bad a mistake on the castings that are affected. However, taken all in all, I’m quite pleased with the result. When the stuff has really dried out, it’s tough as nails, and feather light. It’s easy to work with when wet, and can be adjusted for several hours after application, not that I have had to do much of that. It cuts OK when dry, as well. If you think about it, it’s papier maché without the middleman. The price is definitely right, way cheaper than plaster scenery or plaster cloth. ( got to try that stuff sometime.) Anyway, the New Year’s 2007 resolution to cover the blue desert is possible, with a bit over 2 months to go.
I’m experimenting with ways to stain the loose talus slopes. They are loose broken plaster casting pieces piled at the base of the rock faces, and I can’t glue them in place before staining or the glue will prevent the stain from getting to the plaster. (or am I missing something here? I read about broken plaster as talus, but can’t remember anyone commenting on staining it. Maybe they use pre-stained plaster, but I want to vary my colours. Thoughts anyone?)
For the sake of completeness, here in what I think is close to chronological order are the four remaining photos I have of Steam Expo in Vancouver 1986. Note the show off use of smoke and steam, a sure crowd pleaser. Probably couldn’t do that there now! Again sorry about the focus. It was a really cheap small camera, all we could afford at the time, and I knew squat about photographing trains anyway. So my attempt at “dramatic entry” from that underpass was a dismal failure!(pun intended )
Mark: Hope it works out for your dad, and that he gets the treatments he needs. He’s included in the prayers for healing.
Jeff: As always, your work, especially the loco painting, is an inspiration!
Mike:
Must get back to that staining thing.
TTFN
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Hi folks,
Just stopping in due to lack of motivation. I'm supposed to be revising a manuscript for a journal article, but I never like reading my own writing. So I'm waiting for that bolt of inspiration.
My model railroad website is down for the moment. Whoops! Jerry Britton's Keystone Crossings website, and his on-line hobby shop Merchandise Service, host my webpage for free. It's a great situation since I get to share my work and to be linked to a great Pennsy community of layouts and modelers, while my site has links to Jerry's business and sponsors.Last night I posted a large number of photos, linked directly to my site (on Jerry's server), and the large number of pageloads of those pictures (multiple photos in multiple threads in multiple forums) brought Jerry's comm pipe to its knees. So in order to keep things running, Jerry had to temporarily take my site offline. I hope to be back up tonight.
82F at the Raleigh-Durham Airport today.
Drought persists here in North Carolina, as we head for the hottest October ever on record by several degrees. The national weather pattern has been so "highly amplified" for several years now, with a strong Bermuda ridge in place influencing the eastern US. This has kept the North Atlantic Oscillation in positive phase almost constantly. That's in part why the eastern US and Europe was so warm early last winter and are again this fall. Fortunately, late last winter the pattern shifted, bringing the longwave trough over the eastern US. Long range models are just now signalling the possibility of the longwave trough shifting to the east two weeks from now.
Hopefully this will bring relief from the drought and some more reasonable, cooler weather. It's out there somewhere, dumping snow on Colorado. But here it feels more like summer than fall.
Granted, the 15-day forecast from the 12Z GFS model is wrong more often than right in terms of specifics, but hopefully it's getting the trend right on the planetary scale.
Short term prospects for rain here revolve around the placement of a cut-off low over the lower Mississippi Valley (from the 12Z NAM):
Unfortunately, none of the models agree about the track and speed. The idea is we in the SE US would get flow from the Gulf which would bring us a bunch of rain ahead of that low.
Anyway, I figured I'd share with all you weather fans! Now, back to work (and trains later!).
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
grayfox1119 wrote:ED: Are you awake yet or are you and JP still celebrating the Sox win????
Actually, my absence here is due to loss of ISP connection in our neighborhood since a storm blew through here last Friday evening. Still not sure when we´ll get it back. I´m on a rented computer in town, and just wanted to touch base and say that I haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
Hope they get the line back operating soon....
Fortunately, the cable tv line still works so I got to see both Saturday's and Sunday's games. Great stuff.
Later
Ed
From my friends at Re-enactments. we play a 1770s Britian Native tribe, and the war cry is "mille kappe" Sounds Indian right?
An Indian walks into a cafe with a shotgunin one hand pulling a male buffalo with the other.He says to the waiter: "Want coffee."The waiter says, "Sure, Chief. Coming right up."He gets the Indian a tall mug of coffee.The Indian drinks the coffee down in one gulp,turns and blasts the buffalo with the shotgun,causing parts of the animal to splatter everywhereand then just walks out.The next morning the Indian returns.He has his shotgun in one hand, pullinganother male buffalo with the other.He walks up to the counter and says tothe waiter"Want coffee."The waiter says "Whoa, Tonto!We're still cleaning up your mess from yesterday. What was all that about, anyway?"The Indian smiles and proudly says .."Training for position in United States Congress:Come in, drink coffee, shoot the bull,leave mess for others to clean up,disappear for rest of day.
PS:Mille Kappe means give me coffee in Lenappe