Good morning noontime everyone.. been so busy with the wood stove and repairs to anemometer up back on the weather station, that the morning just flew by. It was 4F here this morning for a low temperature...way up north in Caribou and Fort Kent, it was -18F. The temp right now is 12.8F, Dew Point is -8F, the wind is 5 mph from the NW gusting to 12 mph, and the wind chill factor is 2F. As I was repairing the weather station up back, 8 deer wandered by about 100 feet away......they saw me and never spooked...too cold I guess......strange to see deer on the move at high noon too.
JEFF: Get a heating pad on your back before it really stiffens up.
Time for lunch!!! I see French meat pie on the menu...
Mornin, ham, eggs, biscuts n gravey, n coffee please Zoe,
Suppose to be partly cloudy today with clouds increasing in the afternoon, high in the low 30's another clold one here.
The Pats are gonna have to play like the old black n blue teams from years past to beat Indy. If they can keep the offense off their rythum, they'll stand a chance to win. I'm sure they can do it.
JERRY, thanks for the info, but you didn't have to call them. I thought maybe you knew already. The Rockome meet is April 21-22 for the spring show.
DICK, One of the bad things bout a quake on the New Madrid, is not olny the area affected, but the fact that 99.9 of the building or infrastrucute are not built to any earth quake standards to speak of. The results would be felt world wide.
PC, thanks for the crane pic. I haven't seen on of those in a spell.
LEE, thanks for the video links. Me and KC liked them.
RT, Thanks for the update on Fergie, sure hope'n things line up betters for'em. We'll be thinking of him.
GMT, Did ya'll get the turn table rebuilt at the museum? I was just wondering. Jetta's had a bad habit of cracking heads, I've worked on two and one thing I learned, don't get a used one. Without taking it and it getting checked.
Best get back to the honey-do's or else, I'll be in deep with the CFO [again]
inch
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Mornin'!
Got my girl with me at work today. She drove me to work for the first time. That was kind of hair raising! She just got her permit and she tackled morning rush hour. Gotta hand it to her though, she's brave! Gotta go to the airport later and she wants to drive there and back. If I don't speak to you all again, it's been nice knowin' ya!
Well, mighty chilly here to start the day!
Sue, I actually had a clue that I might see something good yesterday. I saw a work train the day before go by with ties and a few Hi-Rails in the area. Thats why I grabbed my camera on the way out the door......just in case. I can't believe the pics came out as good as they did as dark as it was.
LSWrr, so far this is the fifth crane I've seen in the area, though two of them are in a museum. Check them out.........
There's yesterdays crane:
There's the crane in Anderson Yard:
The one in Hawthorn Yard that I can't find my pic of.
And then the two at the museum:
Oh hi Chloe! How about Biscuits and Gravy, Scrambled Eggs, Hash Browns, and a cornbread muffin.......and coffee, thanks!
Good Morning All,
A regular and one of Bills donuts please Zoe. It's a balmy 13F here this morning, all the windows in the shop lobby are iced over like privacy glass. I was getting worried winter wouldn't come. I did get the Grinch deflated and put away before he froze his bazutzka off.
Museum work night last evening. We went through all the excess HO to sell off at the Big E along with some O. Mostly old LL and Tyco and Bachman. Lots of Sante Fe - must be the countries most popular road. The N gauge guys haven't shown for a while so nothing going on there so no progress for Jerry. Put some ballast down in the display yard as well but I'll need a technique other than soaking as it's too big an area. Probably I'll switch to brushing on white glue in the bare areas and adding the cinders over that. Since I'm still working at the end farthest away from the viewing area I can experiment a bit, no?
Der - how about some fine white sand in a lower level of water for bubbles? adding some tint between layers is working well but the colors need to be muted even more than usual.
Back to work - waiting on tether hooks to find out if the Jetta head is cracked. We couldn't find anything obvious in the head gasket or oil cooler yesterday and I now hear that the oil supply passages in the head have been known to crack. (Shudder) German parts are not cheap so I'm hoping we're ok but expecting not to be. Hope you all have a goodun" and stay out of the weather. Our prayers for Fergie - he really is having it rough. CUL,J.R.
http://www.pioneercommodities.com/Music/Josh%20Turner%20-%20Long%20Black%20Train.mp3
If you can listen to this..
Good morning. My back is stiff as a board this morning. I guess I pulled a muscle in it yesterday. If that's all it is, I'm lucky. I took a pretty hard fall.
Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 1/17/2007
Sundown Fire Dept., Station 23 Wind Chill: 25°FHumidity: 71%Dew Point: 23°F So Far TodayHigh: 32°FLow: 31°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 10mph NNE High: 43 °FLow: 30 °F
Important Message Winter weather advisory in effect until noon cst today.
Today High: 35 Mostly cloudy. Intermittent light freezing rain or light sleet in the morning...then a chance of rain in the afternoon. No sleet accumulation. Highs in the mid 30s. Northeast winds around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
Tonight Low: 35 Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain. Lows in the mid 30s. Light and variable winds.
I'll have the bacon and eggs this morning.
Good morning everyone,
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good morning ! from Indiana.
01-17-07
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
SUE: You want my pool instead of my snow shovel????? Welllllllllll OK, but there is an inch of ice on it and by morning maybe two inches. In July the water temp is about 80 though......maybe on your vacation east you can stop by, and Lisa only lives about 1.25 hours northeast of me.
JEFF: Hope your back is Ok in the morning.....don't worry about opening the Diner and putting the coffee ON, I think LUC will be here early, or maybe Steve from across the pond.
DER JOHN: The best is yet to come , wait until you see your thermometer in the morning!!!!!!!A two dog night for you tonight, we'll get away with one dog, maybe two tomorrow night.
Bon Soir mais amis
pcarrell wrote:
Philip, I cannot believe that you had you camera. What a stroke of luck. Great pictures. What is for dinner?
Dick, Thanks for the offer for the snow shovel. I will take the pool.
The snow that came today was great to drive on this morning, but the driveway was a bit sloppy tonight. The mail carrier didn't come today either. I am expecting some cowboy figures for the layout. Patience. Patience.
Later all, Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Good evening folks: Colder now than this morning when we were shoveling out the end of the driveway. Going to get much colder too. (Thanks for the heads up Dick)
I phoned Fergie this afternoon. (I hadn’t then seen RT’s note) He’s been very tied up with subcontractor woes, and having his Dad home with the reno incomplete hasn’t made life easier. He didn’t mention it…but belatedly, Fergie…or whoever.
The next phase of my ocean scene is to do the surf. I have Flex Paste, which dries opaque white, and can be brushed into waves, but I want foam as well. I have this idea of whipping the paste to see if it will form a foam like whipped cream, but don’t know the physical chemistry, so I’ll try an experimental batch, and apply whatever results to a test piece. First however I’m going to try a variant of my ground cover sawdust / white glue mix. Since the FP is opaque, I’m going to mix some sawdust with the paste, and see if the resultant fuzz will be workable into surf-like shapes with pointy splashy bits to represent the spray of surf. If that works, I may not have to go the “whipped cream” route.
Jerry, glad your wheels are running better. That’s a long time to wait for a service call.
Paul:
The Soo locks are closed. The last ship down bound was the Reyerson. Another season comes to a close on the lakes.
Just think, in a few weeks you won’t have to care about 4:45 a.m as a time at all!
Well, I’ve tests to run, so I’ll bid thee all a fond adieu. and God Bless. Prayers for all in need of healing, comfort, peace or respite care.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
LSWrr wrote: RT: sorry to hear about your Father, I hope things get better as time goes on. I assume it's YOUR BIRTHDAY?!? Happy Birthday, please fill us in on the cool present's you got.PC: cool pictures, I've never seen a Burro before, the only thing around here is the 250 ton jobs and the 50 ton cranes left abandoned at the docks.John: I sent you pictures of the locomotive/car shop did you get them?
RT: sorry to hear about your Father, I hope things get better as time goes on. I assume it's YOUR BIRTHDAY?!? Happy Birthday, please fill us in on the cool present's you got.
PC: cool pictures, I've never seen a Burro before, the only thing around here is the 250 ton jobs and the 50 ton cranes left abandoned at the docks.
John: I sent you pictures of the locomotive/car shop did you get them?
Need to reread that was about Fergie and the birthday thing was his way of saying he needed a drink
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Hi Gang: No MRR again tonight. We had to go into the feed store right after I got home to get some feed for the horse. She's 32 years old so she gets what ever she wants.
Fergie shows up across the street once in a while. Lee that's his dad in the hospital. By the way that's good advice about the match and the gas fumes. A couple of kids got on a 10,000 gal, storage tank at a well site. They opened the hatch and lighted a piece of paper to see what was in it. One of the boys dropped the paper into the tank and it exploded. The one boy was killed the other got away with minor injuries. We've got three of those tanks on our well.
PC: Good pictures of the Burro crane. I've got video of one on the Wisconsin motoring down the track with a gondola.
Well I think that I'll head for bed. 4:45 am comes early. 16 days
Good Night All
Good evening everyone......I see that there was a bad derailment down south, tankers cars on fire with hazardous material.....road work had just been completed on the tracks, so I am sure that will be scrutinized to the "n"th degree.
JEFF: Good move on what you are having done to front end while CV's are being replaced. Most people try to save money by waiting till other parts fail, but that is not only dangerous but will cause excessive wear to other parts, possibly even the new parts. I can tell you are very preventive maintenance minded, a rare breed these days.
RT: WOW, that is too bad about Fergie, he has had one tough year. The first contractor never gets to the job for months, then tells him certain parts he didn't agree to, so Fergie has to hire another contractor and wait for him to start, he finally does, then his wife gets broken wrist ( both I think), then his dad gets very sick and is in the hospital for months, now the plumber wants to stiff him with a rediculous amount ($$) for the work, and it sounds like more emergencies healthwise has arisen.....man he needs our prayers!!!!
CHUCK, KATHY, SUE: It looks like our northwest contingent of MRR'rs are getting still more snow......maybe you all should consider a layout that incorporates a mountain/woodland scene with SNOW. LOL
Will someone give DUKE a poke over at the corner table...he's asleep and might get soup in his beard. Never mind....Cloe's dog is licking the beard.
Later,
Howdy everbody...Its been a cold day here got a little sunshine and now some snow....I'll have a big bowl of Chili with cheese and a Diet Coke please..Thank You....Its been kinda of a lost day for me weather has me all stoved up spent most of the day in 'ol blue" covered up watching the History channel....Service man came yesterday afternoon replaced the right motorin my power chair he had just put it in the last part of August runs much better now....Inch....I called Becky at Coryville this afternoon she says show in Mattoon is Febuary 17 and 18....says 7 clubs are coming with layouts...I hope I get to go....You all have a good evening.....Jerry
Interesting thing happened today.
I was on my way to work and my drive takes me along the CSX tracks for some distance. In a nearby town is a little used siding.
I happened along there just before sunup and what should I see but a Model 40 Borro and a boom car!
Now I was just talking the other day to someone who was saying they hadn't seen a railroad crane in use for years. He said all that he saw was truck, or at the most, Hi-Rail based cranes. Fortunately, I had my camera. It was quite dark out, and it was snowing, but I got these to show for it.
der5997 wrote: Dick: DER JOHN: Where is FERGIE?????? What has that lad been up to? His seat has been empty for weeks here.…Don’t know, I could give him a phone call, unless Luc sees this and can fill us in. We shop at his local supermarket when we are in town, but have yet to run into him there.
Dick:
DER JOHN: Where is FERGIE?????? What has that lad been up to? His seat has been empty for weeks here.
A couple of days ago he left this at the one across the tracks and down the road abit
Hasn't been a stellar week in my life but I'm still alive... for that matter so is Dad long story and another trip to the ER at 1am. Lets just say my 1st aid skills are being put to the task on a daily basis. Temps hit the high 30's so I was able to take a ride on the bike this morning. Plumbers finally showed up yesterday and lets just say they came... they saw... they went home! Felt the job wasn't worth $1800 and wanted $6K If the contractor can't line up someone else I'll do it myself! $60 an hour my @$$.Anyway It's someones B-day today so I'm gonna celebrate!
Afternoon all, Looking foward to a low of 16F tonight and the snow has been comming off the lake all day. I had some down tipe at work so I wandered around youtube and found some interesting Mrr movies. One of them has a very nice SF 2-10-2 with steam and sound, the steam even comes out of the pistons. Another video has a smoke generator in the stack of the caboose. There is one of how to model grass and stuff. The first link is the search page I went to and the remander are videos I thought were interesting. Enjoy ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyxZPQDAzHI&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djdehj8GkrUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcM9kQTy2Pkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1D4KBB_GC4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo7EgFBxV94http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I6MSOo_DTAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78Mw3h3D_kUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAwMFtSelLohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpVCgtz9VEshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBFjOorCQKchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-AUKX-aUQg
LSWrr wrote: Howdy,Just in case you were never told what not to do around a fuel tank:SUBJ: OPERATIONS SAFETY ADVISORY (OPS-001-07) - DANGERS OF GASOLINE VAPORS 1. PURPOSE: THE PURPOSE OF THIS MESSAGE IS TO REMIND BOAT FORCES UNITS OF THE DANGERS OF GASOLINE VAPORS AROUND BOATS. 2. BACKGROUND: IN JUNE 2006, DURING ROUTINE CHECKS OF A TRAILERED 21 FT RHIB, A CG MEMBER WAS INJURED WHEN THE BOAT EXPLODED. THE EXPLOSION OCCURRED WHILE UNIT PERSONNEL WERE ATTEMPTING TO CHECK THE OIL LEVEL IN THE VARIABLE RATIO OIL (VRO) TANK BY LOOKING THROUGH THE ACCESS PLATE HOLE LOCATED JUST FORWARD OF THE OUTBOARD ENGINE. WITH LIMITED VISIBILITY AND NO FLASHLIGHT READILY AVAILABLE, A CIGARETTE LIGHTER WAS USED. THE LIGHTER IGNITED THE GASOLINE VAPORS IN THE BILGE WHICH RESULTED IN AN EXPLOSION. THEY WERE ABLE TO EXTINGUISH THE FLASH FIRE USING A HAND HELD FIRE EXTINGUISHER. INJURIES INCLUDED SECOND DEGREE BURNS TO ONE MEMBERS FACE, ARM, HAND AND NECK. THE MEMBER WAS HOSPITALIZED FOR SEVERAL DAYS AND RELEASED SIQ. THE RHIB WAS A TOTAL LOSS AND THE TRAILER SEVERELY DAMAGED.
Howdy,
Just in case you were never told what not to do around a fuel tank:
SUBJ: OPERATIONS SAFETY ADVISORY (OPS-001-07) - DANGERS OF GASOLINE VAPORS 1. PURPOSE: THE PURPOSE OF THIS MESSAGE IS TO REMIND BOAT FORCES UNITS OF THE DANGERS OF GASOLINE VAPORS AROUND BOATS. 2. BACKGROUND: IN JUNE 2006, DURING ROUTINE CHECKS OF A TRAILERED 21 FT RHIB, A CG MEMBER WAS INJURED WHEN THE BOAT EXPLODED. THE EXPLOSION OCCURRED WHILE UNIT PERSONNEL WERE ATTEMPTING TO CHECK THE OIL LEVEL IN THE VARIABLE RATIO OIL (VRO) TANK BY LOOKING THROUGH THE ACCESS PLATE HOLE LOCATED JUST FORWARD OF THE OUTBOARD ENGINE. WITH LIMITED VISIBILITY AND NO FLASHLIGHT READILY AVAILABLE, A CIGARETTE LIGHTER WAS USED. THE LIGHTER IGNITED THE GASOLINE VAPORS IN THE BILGE WHICH RESULTED IN AN EXPLOSION. THEY WERE ABLE TO EXTINGUISH THE FLASH FIRE USING A HAND HELD FIRE EXTINGUISHER. INJURIES INCLUDED SECOND DEGREE BURNS TO ONE MEMBERS FACE, ARM, HAND AND NECK. THE MEMBER WAS HOSPITALIZED FOR SEVERAL DAYS AND RELEASED SIQ. THE RHIB WAS A TOTAL LOSS AND THE TRAILER SEVERELY DAMAGED.
Doh!
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Hoople wrote: So much for the weatherman's "Today there will be blue skies at 8:00 am" Well it's 11:00AM and it's snowing like the dickens. I might actually finish the glacier gravel company.
Sounds like you might end up with a glacier!
Brad
EMD - Every Model Different
ALCO - Always Leaking Coolant and Oil
CSX - Coal Spilling eXperts
Hi Gang: 17 and counting.
Just a short note. The ice is gone for the most part. Now it is getting really cold. I think that we had the high for the day early this morning. I've been working on the bar girl for the Mine Trains saloon scene. She is getting the complete rehab. Speaking of which I'd better get back at it.
See you all later.
Grayfox: You don't have to tell me twice, my car has regular road tires on it. Besides which, it's in the shop right now for major front-end work. I'm having the right CV axle, both outer tie rod ends, both strut mounts and the control arm bushings replaced. While it's there, I'm also having the rear shocks replaced.
Since Colby's buying, I'll have the burrito.
IF the Saints make it to the super bowl they'll have to get past the New England Patriots!!
SUPER BOWL cake on me!! GO NEW ENGLAND!!