I'm almost finished with the locomotives for the Midland Gulf Railway. Here they are, pretty much as they sit at the moment.
Here you can see the PA2 and the GP50 and just to the right of the shed you can see the front of the F7-A.
In this shot you can see the SD9.
And here is the GP38-2, beat up and showing it's age.
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Printer: As has been said, there's no in the Diner. Here's an ISS perspective on Cape launches... Thanks for posting those shots you took.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Evening Gang:
PC: Don't worry, He's got your six covered.
I'm tired tonight and really didn't get much done today. After all the usual chasing around I went to the creek crossing and gave it a cleaning. There wasn't much there but I wanted to clean it out anyway.I got my flue shot today so I guess I'll get flu symtoms. Last year I didn't have any symtoms. For that matter I haven't had sy,toms for several years. I guess my luck ran out.
Printer: Great pictures thanks.
I'm going to hit the sack.
Good Night All
[Anyone else have the problem of too many kits and not enough time? Guess this is how you end up spending ten or more years building a layout, no? I just try to stay on task and get the track and scenery done before getting after stuff like detailing rolling stock.]
***JR, you're way ahead of me. Have not even started building a table/module yet. I told myself, "If by age 40 I don't have a layout, I'm going to sell off my trains and forget about it". Now that benchmark is set at 50 and I'm half way there and still no layout. I know I won't live long enough to have a large layout complete with all the details and weathered everything, but I WILL have a smaller one on which I can run some trains darn it.
Rob
Cederstrand wrote: ***Scoot, from that distance could you hear any kind of sound/boom from it? Would be very cool to witness a launch near The Cape.Screwed the lid on the water tank at the barn tonight: "1550 gals worth" Tank at the house leveled off at 1250 gal, so still room for more wet stuff. We're Happy Campers tonight. Rob
***Scoot, from that distance could you hear any kind of sound/boom from it? Would be very cool to witness a launch near The Cape.
Screwed the lid on the water tank at the barn tonight: "1550 gals worth" Tank at the house leveled off at 1250 gal, so still room for more wet stuff. We're Happy Campers tonight.
If not a little soggy. :D
-Morgan
Good Evening All,
I was standing in the paddock at Moroso (West Palm Beach) a couple of years ago when one of the shuttle launches took place. The amount of bright light and smoke is just unbelievable.
Waiting for the Tenax to set on the last backdrop factory window frames so I thought i'd drop in for a slice of blueberry pie ala mode (assuming PC has left any). Dragged an old dresser into the basement for more storage and may use it to support a second yard under the upper level in the workbench area so I can store my freight cars if I ever get around to building them. Anyone else have the problem of too many kits and not enough time? Guess this is how you end up spending ten or more years building a layout, no? I just try to stay on task and get the track and scenery done before getting after stuff like detailing rolling stock.
Onward and upward -the glue is set and I'll check in later. J.R.
Printer, what can I say? Awesome stuff! That is so cool how ou can see it so well from that distance!
Rob, Your water situation has really been in my prayers lately. I couldn't be more pleased with todays events!
Printer wrote:Nice weather here today for the launch of Discovery (STS-120)It's been rainy for quite a spell around here lately. So much so that the county flew tankers over us and aerial sprayed for mosquitoes. They have cases of West Nile in the county.Back to my morning enjoyment. The Cape is 100 miles (160 klicks) down the coast and still the flame and smoke from the launches is breathtaking. My little 37mm objective lens on my POS Kodak doesn't do it justice. But here thy are anyway.Next launch December 6 and I'm packing my Oxygen bottles and fueling up the T-Bird and going down to see Atlantis (STS-122) launchI know... REALLY OFF TOPIC. SO SUE ME!!!Scoot
Sue's out working. She'll get back with ya later. :P
And your in diner. There is no Off Topic
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Hello everybody ...
PC ........ yes, we will be praying. I do admire your faith, and believe you will be rewarded for your faith.
How's everyone else? Anybody hear from RT?
I like the KCS picture, Jeff....
Any pie available in the diner?
"THANK YOU MOTHER NATURE" I'm psyched...while out running errands the sky let loose on the farm. Upon our return, the barn tank is a few inches from FULL & the house tank is up to 1000gal. Can't tell you how good that feels. Now I wish we had an even bigger storage tank to pump the extra into.LOL
Picked up a set of Woodland Scenics HO scale Holstein Cows for the wife. She is really into cows (ALL species), both real & model.
Oh yea, a tallin a Southern mug, plez & thx.
Hope everyone is doing well. Rob
And thanks Rob (and everyone else)!
TO GO, please & thank you!
1000gal in the barn tank, 550gal in the house tank, with decent odds more rain is on the way. YEE HAW! (hope Dave & others in need of some get their share soon)
Not enough time for individual comments today...Gotta run...sending healing thoughts to those in need. (Philip, that is a real tough decision to make).
Philip,
Best of luck to you and your wife, and God bless. That's a tough situation you've got; how easily we can forget how good so many of us have it.
God's also hopefully going to bless the Carolinas with some rain tomorrow through Friday as a broad area of Gulf moisture drifts slowly eastward ahead of a cut-off upper level low...
Looks as if Georgia, also in a critical drought, is also on the way to relief. If this system holds together and continues a slow drift, it may be enough (here's hoping!) to knock many of our counties down from Exceptional Drought down to only Extreme Drought. The city of Raleigh has only a few months left of water. My town, Apex, is faring much better.
Going up to PENN STATE this weekend to watch the #24 Nittany Lions (hopefully) knock down #1 Ohio State. On game day, Beaver Stadium becomes the third largest city in Pennsylvania with a "population" of over 110,000 people! We're actually camping in a state park near campus with our kids. With highs in the 50s and lows near 40, it could be a whole lot worse. I remember a few late October snowfalls as a student at Penn State!
My prayers and condolences to all those who may be affected by the California wildfires. I remember something very similar happening in 1996. This roughly corresponds to the decadal drought cycle.
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
afternoon.
I got a nice shot of this mornings sunrise. I'll get it up later today.
BTW PC I tjhink we are all out of pie ingredients.
Afternoon All,
A couple of chili dogs with cheese and a vanilla shake would do just fine right now. Trying to catch up jobs in the shop today. We just finished up a Renault gearbox and this afternoon I hope to reassemble a Lotus Elite steering rack.
Jerry - I may have one more race this year but we're not certain yet. It'll be Summit Point either the first week of Nov. or Thanksgiving weekend depending on who wants to go and when. I finally took Ders' advice and ordered a bunch of Grandt Line doors and windows through Walthers and also found an HO New Haven heavyweight on sale for half price. Sweet.
Well back to it, jobs are waiting. CUL, J.R.
Good morning diners
Had some tough to take news last night. As many of you know, all the members of my family, save me, have muscular dystrophy. Yesterday my wife went to the doctors and they told her that they have a new knee surgery that has an 80% chance of helping her greatly. My health insurance will foot the entire bill too. The down side is, with her form of the disease, patients who go under for surgery many times aren't able to be revived. This is obviously a major concern. A local anesthetic is not really an option. For those of you that are the praying kind, please pray for wisdom and guidence for us as we make our way through this. Thanks.
And just so you all know, I continue to pray for each and every one of you all the time. We all have needs, and I pray that God sees to those needs and makes it known to us that it's really Him thats providing for us.
Good morning.Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 10/23/2007 Wind Chill: 48°FHumidity: 75%Dew Point: 44°F So Far TodayHigh: 55°FLow: 52°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 30mph NW Today High: 65 Mostly cloudy. Cooler. Highs in the mid 60s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
Tonight Low: 48 Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds around 10 mph in the evening becoming light and variable.
Morning, Zoe - a JR special and one of those twisty donuts that Bill T. brought in. Thanks!
Sounds like everyone else (almost) has been very active lately, either with yard/outside work (Sue, Paul, & I've probably missed some others), or inside workin' on the RR (Jeff, DerJohn, Dave, & the rest). Makes me feel like a slacker! Good pics too, Jeff, DerJohn, Inch! Dave, I'll eventually learn how to read those multi-color weather charts, but I caught the drift of what you were saying about the SE's drought (I think...).
Mark, prayers for your Dad's health problems and for the doctors & nurses and others treating him. Good that you'll be able to see him even while he's taking care of that.
Paperwork continues today, though yesterday I was able to make a (small) dent in it, without all the usual interruptions my days usually have (and I don't mean seeing the clients). Now I need to get going on my morning, so I'll be heading out.
Blessings and prayers (including for rain for the Southeast),
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Good Morning All,
Back from my travels so I thought I'd drop in for a coffee and one of Bills' donuts. I do like the coconut covered ones. It's just getting light out and the weather is dry and feels comfortable already.
I'm stoked - was watching the video of the new BLI New Haven I-5 which I've had on order since ihe day it was announced about a year ago. Hope mine shows up soon. Maybe the release will coincide with the NHRHTA convention Nov 9th & 10th in Hamden. I don't really model steam, but the I-5 was a prime example of the New Havens willingness to do something above and beyond the norm. Pity they were all scrapped, but on my road there is a museum with preserved examples of the New Havens unique power so it will join my EP-5 Jet, E-33, FL-9 and others as I accumulate them. I think the box cab electrics used for passenger and freight service were way ahead of their time and if I ever hit the lottery I'll add those as well (brass really is expensive).
Inch - take care of yourself - we don't want that cold getting worse.
Dick - sorry the trip was cut short - would have been nice if they'd offered a voucher for the rest of it for a future date so you could go back. By the way - have you tried the new gell cell batteries for the mower? We use the same size i think DCS - 33H and get a lot more life with the gell than the old lead/acid type. The wet types were good if they lasted a year and the gell ones go 3-4 years.
Jerry - you and Sallie are in our prayers as are Mark and his dad. Hope the rest of you are doing all right. Not much to report on the MRR front, just trying to catch up with cleaning and chores after the last spate of road trips. Cheers All, J.R.
Mornin, coffee please Zoe,
Still got a cold rain and expecting a high of bout 58, which is about normal here.
DER,, most of Sept and Oct, have been in the upper 70's to around 80 [even a few 90's], almost 15 to 20 degrees above normal, but all good thing will end. So enjoy your Hawaiian shirt while ya can. Liked the stems pics, thanks.
DICK,, no filter on the digital, but the skies were really clear Sunday. Most the crops are out now and there wasn't too many doing field work, so that cut down on the dust.
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Good morning ! from Indiana.
10-23-07
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good evening, errrrr good morning, and I see that I paid for breakfast this morning while Jeff picked up supper. I never got back into the Diner, or even on the PC today.....problems with the 18hp lawn tractor, doggone battery. It seems that these batteries die in a year or two. The smaller 11hp 27 year old wheel horse tractor battery last for 5 years or more!. I was talking with several other guys today, and that had experienced the very same thing....so off we go tomorrow for another new battery.
SUE: The trip is OVER, I wish it was just starting, the Canadian Rockies are beyond description. And I agree with you about the temp. It seems that 70F +/- 5 is very conduscent to great vitality to accomplish work outside.
MIKE: Nice job with photos as usual, the sky was really clear that day for sure, very sharp focus on the photos.Are you using a filter?
ED: Do you think that 9 days off will effect Denver??
DER JOHN, GARRY: I was really disappointed to miss the Kamloops to Vancouver part of the trip. The guide tried to soften the blow by telling us all that it was a lot of dry farmland etc, I said "bull", people who took the trip told me otherwise, and, I went online to check the satellite closeups of that part of the route, it is quite stunning.
Time for bed, making too many typos...see you guys in the morning,
Garry, Liked your weathering on Champion Packing Co.
Dick, Speaking of working outside, I was outside 7:00 to 7:00 today. It was 69 degrees. I got more done that I have in ages. Hope that your trip is great.
Inch, Thanks for sharing your photos.
der, You have been really working on your layout lately. You make me realize how much I need to do. Larry has a deadline, and I am holding him up. He started on his trestle this weekend. I worked on some Aggro trees. They still need the foam part.
Mark, Sorry to hear about your dad. I hope that things get straightened out for him. Yes, Larry and I will be going to Puyallup. I am sure that much of it will be repeat from last year. When I renew MR magazine, I get a free pass. You should look into that.
Well, I am tired from working outside. The calves are adjusting well. They are starting to follow me.
Sue
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