LSWrr wrote:Well I thought it was great to see and meet all these people. Anybody make a New Years Resolution?
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Evening Gang:
I went to work for 1 hr. I got the stuff turned off and checked out and went home. I staid in bed all day and am headed there now. Tomorrow I'll go to the doctor. I do seel somewhat better. Mainly not sick to the stomace. I have a butt of a head ach and plenty of mussal achs.
Well of to bed for me. You all have a good one.
Yup,not to make any resolutions,that way there's nothing to break!
Yeah to do the best I can for the coming year and try to help who I can .
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BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
hey all, just popping in, cya
Well that had to be expected being new and along with it being a long holiday weekend we got bored sitting home staring at the 4 walls so we came here to chat a little with our great freinds that most haven't met some have but hope to meet at sometime.
I got 6 freight cars in today (been waiting scince the 13 of december) and got in a Coke Train set (new in box still has shrink wrap on it ) K-Line yeah I know you buy as is no warnety on it but still they did make some pretty good stuff. I have a K-Line Hershey train set coming in with a alco A&B unit set in it from 1991 I believe and I had one before and wished I never got rid of it it was a great set and the engine was pretty strong that should be here in a couple of days along with 2 coca-cola boxcars and thats about all I have coming in thru ebay I still haven't gotten my MTH Santa - Fe passenger cars in my local hobby shop said it could be tomorrow or it could be april he never knows with mth. Acually any of them wheather there in stock or over in china getting loaded onto a ship. Same story with a Williams Virginian train set (remake of lionels virginian train set from the late 50's with the 2331 Train Master set set. )I still have to pay for that one thou the rest is all paid for at this point. My trains are still growing so I need to put the brakes on I guess for a while as need to try and get this room in order to start working on it (had it about there until huricane christmas came about lol)
Well congratulations everyone!
2,813 views, 211 posts and 5 Star rating in only 72 hours!
That's 39 views every hour. If this keeps up we will wear this diner out before 2008. It's interesting that the posts and visits soared when the announcement came to close the old diner and with the announcement of opening a new place. Look at the new members we picked up and the old friends that wandered back in to see what was going on.
LOL yeah the big 'wheels' are the Main engine throttles. Small one is Astern Steam and the large one is Ahead Steam.
Reel to reel? I think you might be dating yourself Jeff! :)
Dave Loman
My site: The Rusty Spike
"It's a penny for your thoughts, but you have to put your 2 cents in.... hey, someone's making a penny!"
That helps answer a couple of questions. I was wondering what the wheels for. As for the keyboard, it looks similar to one I saw on a UNIVAC computer. The oldest computer I've played around with was a Honeywell Norman, a huge 5 ton monster that had been converted from paper tape to open reel drives using 70mm tape like used on old bank security recorders.
pcarrell wrote:
LOL I laugh EVERY time i see this one. Its not a computer, never was. The printer/keyboard is 'photoshopped' in, you can see the quality difference!
Additionally, the three control panels in back are the (from left to right) Steam Plant Control Panal (SPCP), the Reactor Plant Control Panel (RPCP) and the Electric Plant Control Panel (EPCP). These are the 3 major panels in the Maneuvering Area in side an American nuclear powered submarine (both fast attack and ballistic missile). Of this I am 100% sure because i just spent the last decade standing watch on/taking logs on these panels.
Sorry to dispel any humor surrounding this picture, but to me, its completely retarded and brings back lots of memories of 6+ month deployments watching 450V/60Hz for 6 hour blocks of time!
It's coming up on lunchtime here in Louisiana too. At the moment I'm cooking up some beef stew and rice. After adding a little salt, some pepper, some crushed red pepper and Tony Chachere's seasoning, it'll be just about right. Tobasco sauce will add the final touch.
I'm getting ready to get some layout work done this weekend and get started on the scenery.
Good morning everyone, actually, it's almost lunch time here in the Eastern time zone. Warmer here today, 45F (7C) at 11:28am, and headed into low 50's, near 60 tomorrow, YES this is New England, and YES it "is" January, but NO this not typical at all. I watched a show last night on Global Warming and this is really quite serious. When we have temps in 20's in the far north of Canada THIS time of the winter, you can understand why the Artic sea ice is melting so fast that we will soon have an open sea lane over the top of the world, the Northwest Passage will become a reality very soon.
RYAN: That is one sweet Berkshire locomotive, I love those engines.
DER JOHN: I was watching one of Pentrex's DVD's on the 50KV rail-line that was built in the 80's in BC to the mining areas.....that was one nice DVD!!! Very interesting and GREAT scene shots of the construction. Normally the electrified rails are 25KV, but BC had the power capacity at their coastal power plant, so they decided to go to 50KV, the 1st of it's kind in NA. They also showed the construction of the locomotives in Ontario and the testing. Talk about a wiring harness, WOW these babies are really something else.
PAUL: How are feeling today buddy? I think you should have Yogurt for lunch today, Low Fat type.
I hear the lunch bell, see you guys at the corner table.
Good morning folks, and a bright sunny one it is here on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore. A skiffle of snow as I returned from my walk last night has made things look more wintry. ..but it's all gone now, except for the shaddows.
PC: Those cherries look very tempting. Can I have some butter on my pancakes too, and a medium JR Regular please Zoe? ( Thanks Ryan!)
That Rand forecast is a hoot. Reminds me of first series StarTrek!
soumodler: Good thing the deer didn’t hit further forward, no people were hurt, and the paint wasn’t broken. Looks like a panel beating may fix it. Sick feeling though, isn’t it?
Paul: Kris says she commiserates, she’s been trying to shake a bout of “something she ate” for some days now.
Fargo: That plaster tape sounds like interesting stuff. I'm using foam for my scenery base, and since I'm cheap, mostly sawdust and white glue for the ground cover. This gives an instant texture, is very forgiving in it's drying time (read really long, which is a pain if you are in a hurry), and rock castings can be mounted in it as is, or glued tot he foam first. It's lightweight when dry. That may be of interest to modular modeler's, BTW.
Have to go, wood won’t wander from the shed by itself. Still, the pile I got into the porch lasted over the Christmas and New Years’.
TTFN
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Scott, i feel for you.Good luck with the Insur. co don't let them give you any crap, that is their thing, and their damn good at it. They will try to plan
Der, that was my daughter not girl friend sorry, i'm to old for girl friends anymore? she passed with flying colors. Thank you for asking.
Off the rest of the week, start back in on sat. plan on spending the rest of the day in the basement. Putting in an inbankment behind my papermill, i'm using plastertape its a little pricey but its just so easy to use. Its also clean and you have so much more control with its handling.
I also got a MRC pro.adv.Dcc I know it may not be the best, but for what i want to do, it'll work fine. I have about 15 BWL, P2K, & Psc withsound and they run great on it. I have 3 cabs which is all i need, now i just have to get the jack plates so i can move around. I ordered 4 jack plates and a ex. thottle from Train World last week they said everything was in stock and I should have it this week, while last nite UPS pulls up and i cooly fly out the door to meet him.
I thought the package was alittle on the light side, open it 1 thottle 0 jack platesthe things i needed the most, oh well. Well off to the basement.
pcarrell wrote: Hey everyone, want a good laugh? Check this out!(click to enlarge, because you've got to read the writing!)
Hey everyone, want a good laugh? Check this out!
(click to enlarge, because you've got to read the writing!)
I saw that somewhere else a couple of years ago. It was based on the technology then available. Nobody back then had ANY idea that transistors (about 4 inches high then) could be made so small that 75,000,000 of them could be put on one microprocessor measuring 1 1/2" by 1 1/2".
I'll have the pancakes this morning.
Now for the weather.
Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 1/3/2007
Sundown Fire Dept., Station 23 Wind Chill: 39°FHumidity: 82%Dew Point: 36°F So Far TodayHigh: 41°FLow: 36°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 5mph NNE High: 55 °FLow: 36 °F
Today High: 55 Partly cloudy in the morning...then mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight Low: 48 Showers and thunderstorms. Not as cool. Some thunderstorms may produce gusty winds and heavy rainfall. Lows in the upper 40s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
Mornin' all!
Beautiful morning out there. Too bad I don't have any windows in my office.
Hi Chloe! So you gettin' all settled in the new place? Good!
Oh, I'll have the pancakes this morning.....yeah, the ones with the cherries on top!
SilverSpike wrote: Well, well, well, look what I done did! Breakfast and lunch is on me today, and in the new digs too! Hey, PC, what we cooking today?
Well, well, well, look what I done did!
Breakfast and lunch is on me today, and in the new digs too! Hey, PC, what we cooking today?
What are you askin' me for? This is all you my man!
Thanks guys for the White Rain technique and pointers.
Just be aware that it stays a little tacky for some time afterwards, so it can attract dust.
bjdukert wrote: Since the Diner is stationary we really won't need anything to pull it but if we did,I think a nice looking BERKSHIRE like I have in my Sig would work just fine. Right Dick?? Sounds like a plan! How about a Berkshire like this one, steam locomotive No 759 of the Nickel Plate Road passes East Stroudsburg, Pa. on the Erie Lackawanna tracks back on its last rail fan trip of Aug. 15, 1971. Can I ride up front?
bjdukert wrote: Since the Diner is stationary we really won't need anything to pull it but if we did,I think a nice looking BERKSHIRE like I have in my Sig would work just fine. Right Dick??
Since the Diner is stationary we really won't need anything to pull it but if we did,I think a nice looking BERKSHIRE like I have in my Sig would work just fine. Right Dick??
Sounds like a plan!
How about a Berkshire like this one, steam locomotive No 759 of the Nickel Plate Road passes East Stroudsburg, Pa. on the Erie Lackawanna tracks back on its last rail fan trip of Aug. 15, 1971. Can I ride up front?
Hey, I've got a pic of that loco that I picked up from somewhere......
Good morning, and Chloe, a cup of café latte please!
Scott, sorry about the accident! Hopefully her insurance will cover the cost of repairs. Does it still run okay?
Lynda, Omaha huh! I been there once, way back in 1986, and remember them calling it Oma-ha-ha! Are there still lots of insurance companies out there?
Cheers,
Ryan
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Good morning all!
Paul W. Beverung wrote:Soumodaler; Is there going to be venisinon on the menue tomorrow?
Soumodaler; Is there going to be venisinon on the menue tomorrow?
That was a long time ago, although you might have an idea there. Here it is:
Took out the mirror too, then got a neck massage from the extended cab and bed.
I won't even start on what else is wrong with this thing.
Good morning from Omaha. Toast and coffee only this morning. In two hours, I'll be stuck in an all-day meeting. As such, I may not be on tonight because I will have long since gnawed away my fingers and hands.
Lynda
or these?
Hi Gang: I'm at work but I don't know for how long. I'm trying to eat a bit of breakfast. I'll se how that goes.
I'll be back in later.
Good morning ! from Indiana.
01-03-07
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Mornin, coffee Zoe please, starting to smell more like the old place now
Suppose to have a nice day here, sunny, high round 50. Chance of rain starting tomorrow for 3 or 4 days.
SCOTT,,, bummer bout the car, but it's repairable, deck lid lines look good. Only bout 6-8 hours to pull that dent out, an easy one really. I use to do them like that, not hard. You should be able to find the tail light at a salvage yard cheap enough.
LEE,,,, thanks for the link on miltary discounts. I was looking though it and found a place for model planes. Found one like I was a crew chief on [EC-135, Looking Glass], evan has the right tail #8051,
Don't think the engines are right and I can't tell if this has the TWA pod on not, but it's the best one I've seen. Better be for almost $200. Spent alot of hours with her 30+ years ago.
PAUL,,,hope your feelin better, think your the second or third one I've heard of this week for food poisining.
Best get ta chores, I've got 3 or 4 kids today, fun.
inch
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Scott man, that sucks! I guess you could take one positive out of it, it could have been alot worse, bloody female drivers...
Well it's Wednesday half way to the weekend, it will be good, first game of cricket this sunday, after the x-mas break
I'm hopefully going to the hobby shop on saturday, and on my way home possibly stopping by at the Australian Model Railroaders Assoc. and checking it out.
Anyway, thats me done for now,
Oz
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
OUCH!!!!! Scott- hope you get'er fixed!
Trent