Afternoon folks!
I missed you guys, been over 5 days since I made it into the Diner! Hey, Chloe!!!! Got any of that Chicken Fried Steak special left? I'll have some of that for a late munch today!
Been working on the railroad this past weekend, here are a few of the latest photos from the train room:
Roundhouse concrete (styrene) flooring project completed:
Expansion joints scrolled into the styrene:
First section of scenery base foundation added to the layout:
Added what will eventually be a one lane gravel road with a crossing over the track and behind the roundhouse:
Now time to play catch em ups, sorry if my miss anyone!
Cox 47 wrote: Ryan...Thanks for the photos and links ...I spent about an hour yesterday checking them all out...I wish I could get my N scale to look 1/2 as good as Dave's....And Wow that layout at train show takes the cake...
Jerry - Glad you liked the links and thanks for checking out the site too! Dave is a real gentleman and we got to meet his wife this time too! Very nice people!
RT - Hope the recall for the defibrillator works out okay for you, I heard about that wiring issue with the newer models.
JR - Nice pics of the Pennsy steam loco!
Fergmiester wrote: Good Morning All Can't chat as the MiL is moving in today. However I can tell you this...The MESS has added a new Loco to her rosterPictures laterFergie
Good Morning All
Can't chat as the MiL is moving in today. However I can tell you this...
The MESS has added a new Loco to her roster
Pictures later
Fergie
Fergie - So that makes how many locos now?
Welcome to the Diner mfifer (aka Mike)! Nice pics, web site, and hobby shop too!
Chuck and Kathy - Glad to hear from you, and hope that your health gets better soon.
Welcome back Lisa P.
gear-jammer wrote: It is always nice to have Lisa back. She fired me up. It got some hard-shell done on the layout this weekend. I am trying to work on my stream that the cowboys are bathing in. It needs to drop enough to make a reason for Larry's trestle.
It is always nice to have Lisa back. She fired me up. It got some hard-shell done on the layout this weekend. I am trying to work on my stream that the cowboys are bathing in. It needs to drop enough to make a reason for Larry's trestle.
Sue - A full report is supposed to include a few photos too!!! [Hint...hint!] Actually, what method do you use for hard-shell work?
Philip - Congrats on the new camera. Did you break it in yet, don't see any recent pics either! And prayers continue for your wife's procedure.
Paul - Hawaiian Railroads eh! Going to be making any special trips to see the prototype any time soon?
Jim - Chili and a glass of milk! Now I have to agree with Jeffery, that is one combination of flavors..... But I have to say that you do make a hot cup of coffee and a chocolate glazed cake donut look good!
Philnrunt - Now that is a sad story, sounds like Murphy was along for the ride too!
Duke - hope all is well in your neck of the woods!
Later folks,
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
This is one of my older Athearn's. A BB GP38-2. Notice anything unusual?
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It has been brought to my attention here in the Diner, that some of you do not know much about Thanksgiving in general, and next to nothing about Turkeys. So this little test will determine if you qualify to sit at the table next Thursday. And seeing our good friends in Canada have already celebrated their Thanksgiving in early October, this test if also for them for NEXT year. LOL
http://home.aristotle.net/Thanksgiving/trivia.asp
There are 20 questions, I hope you pass, that Turkey dinner in the Diner was fabulous last year, I would not like to see you guys and gals go hungry.
Afternoon, Zoe - how about a custard concrete, please, since I've already had lunch earlier.
Thanks!
SilverSpike wrote: Jim - Chili and a glass of milk! Now I have to agree with Jeffery, that is one combination of flavors..... But I have to say that you do make a hot cup of coffee and a chocolate glazed cake donut look good!
Actually, it makes good sense to me for a couple or three reasons - 1) I like milk. 2) We put cheese on chili dogs, and that's a dairy product, too, right? 3) If I have a bit too many onions and stuff on my chili dog, but have milk with it, I don't get heartburn (or get it as bad). Worst combination I've heard of is beer and chili dogs - about guaranteed to give a person gas (or worse)...
Sue and Mark, you would feel right at home in Cape G. today - drizzly rain and grey, just like the Northwest, huh? Makes for some... interesting driving out.
Well, need to get going - about time to head home.
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Well, on the Thanksgiving quiz I got 12 out of 20 (would've had 13 if I had gone with my gut instinct and picked SC). So I don't get the head of the table, but I can sit at the table, at least!
Jerry beat me to it. Alco trucks, Jeff.
Speaking of (La.) Jeff. We had authentic New Orleans style lunch today. Ryan would be interested, too.
More later.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
in a ATSF mug tonight, please & thank you!
Spent 1 1/2 hours on the phone today with our ISP customer service fool. When the supervisor called me back he immediately agreed with what I said in the first place and sent someone to THEIR substation to hit a switch. (problem solved) Sheesh!
Then it was off to John Deere to pick up our tractor tires. Were they ready yet? No! Figuring out if they should add 2 or 3 quarts of antifreeze per tire was beyond their decision making capabillity. Real live Rocket Scientists, eh? I thought this was something even they could handle, but like every other time I have given them a chance to do something, they failed at it (and this was a different dealer than the nut jobs at the other dealership. At least these folks failed by not doing anything, rather than doing something unrelated to the problem (ie: replacing good parts and ignoring bad parts). OK, rant is over.
Thinking calm thoughts now.LOL Thank God our gool ol' reliable welder fella did a nice job on our loader bucket. Will hook it back up tomorrow while waiting for the JD people to figure out which end of a hose water comes out of.
Hope everyone is doing well. Rob
OK, for all those interested, the Mrs. is going to be OK. Her surgery went pretty well today. She had a bit of trouble there for a while, but she pulled through. The Great Physician (thats God) was really watching out for her today! She had some tendon work done, her kneecap moved, her kneecap scraped and arthritis removed, and they cut part of her femer bone out and moved it to a better postion, drilled it with two holes, and then two titanium screws put in to hold it all together. Needless to say, she was in a lot of pain until the morphine drip kicked in! After that, as long as she stayed still she was a pretty happy, even loopy, camper. She's had dinner and is all tucked in now.
THANK YOU GOD!
No pics with the camera as I've been quite busy with "other" things lately!
Cox 47 wrote:Jeff...Is tha t Puppy running on Alco Trucks? IC used to have some EMD's running on trade-in alco trucks..
Great news PC glad to hear she is going to be okay. My mother had something like that done to her back in 1962, removed knee cap, stretched pulled and rearraigned things because of Arthritis. 30 years later she recieved an artifical knee to go along with the other artificial knee and 2 artificial hips at 83 she still gets around. Anyhow hope she does as well as my mother has.
Rob my JD dealer does a super job can not ask for better service. Only have a lawn tractor but never heard any complaints about there service.
Dick got 12 right can I come to dinner?
Good night all
Kevin
Hello everybody ......
That's really good news about the surgery, PC. I continue to admire your faith. That's extensive surgery you described, and as others have said, the recovery will take some time and a lot of work, too. I can relate to that surgery. (I've had my share of surgeries.) My back is filled with all kinds of metal hardware from back surgery. I recall the morphine they had for me, too. Reason for the surgery was to repair broken vertabrae caused by a drunk driver that hit me. We'll keep praying for Mrs. PC. Please keep us updated.
Jeff, I like the GP38. Non-dynamic brake GP38's were not unusual, but Alco trucks were on them were rare. I remeber seeing GP35's instead of GP38's on Alco trucks on the Ann Arbor Railroad.
Well, JimCG. You are rationalizing the chili/milk combo. Well......... to each his own.
Happy Model Railroading!
pcarrell wrote: OK, for all those interested, the Mrs. is going to be OK. Her surgery went pretty well today. She had a bit of trouble there for a while, but she pulled through. The Great Physician (thats God) was really watching out for her today! She had some tendon work done, her kneecap moved, her kneecap scraped and arthritis removed, and they cut part of her femer bone out and moved it to a better postion, drilled it with two holes, and then two titanium screws put in to hold it all together. Needless to say, she was in a lot of pain until the morphine drip kicked in! After that, as long as she stayed still she was a pretty happy, even loopy, camper. She's had dinner and is all tucked in now.THANK YOU GOD!
Hey, that's great news! Prayer works!
I'll have that pie up on the roof:
Oh, and it looks like I'm picking up the tab...!
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
Good Evening Coffee Clubbers,
And a fine evening it is. Coffee (from the mountains of Veracruz, of course) is good, strong and hot. I've had a small bit of dessert, and now it's back to getting stuff ready for our trip north. You'd think as much as we travel that we'd have the drill down better by now, but no.
Spent most of today trying to do stuff on the 'To Do" list that absolutely had to be done before the trip. Had the front wheel bearings replaced in the car, hopefully nothing more major will go out during the trip.
PC - good to hear that your wife came through the surgery okay. Now on to recovery and physical therapy.
Paul B - Happy Birthday. Many happy returns.
Phil (nrunt) - quite the railfanning story. I'm jealous that you've seen the new KCSdeM retro-Southern Belle scheme units up close and personal. I'm still having to do with online photos. There was a good article on the new boom in ethanol plants and what it might mean for railroads in the August issue of Trains Magazine. Best regards to AmyJo. How's plans for a layout coming along?
Dick - don't worry, I didn't get up on the hopper. Those were the younger (than me) members of the group who climbed up.
Ryan - the roundhouse is really shaping up. I do like the concrete floors. Starting scenery? That's a milestone. Congrats.
Jerry - I'd love to see a photo of the new oil pump when you finish painting it.
Rob - dumb question from someone who knows less than zero about tractors. Why would you put antifreeze in the tires?
That's about it for the moment. Break's over and I need to get back to gathering up all the misc stuff I need to bring on the trip. Tomorrow will be busy as, in addition to packing and last minute purchases, we need to make a last run out to the orange grove.
Don't worry, during the trip the local packers and the FCVN have explicit instructions to keep that juice and fresh fruit headed north to the Diner.
Hasta mañana,
Ed
Hry guys! My new baby!!!
Later all I'm on course for two days
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=5959
If one could roll back the hands of time... They would be waiting for the next train into the future. A. H. Francey 1921-2007
Dick - Got 11 right, so 55%, does that count?
Jim - Thanks for the chili and milk essay! Now I know what you mean about coating the stomach. Ever had Skyway Chili?
Garry - New Orleans lunch...hummmmm....must have been Red Beans and Rice with smoked sausage and ham hocks!
Philip - Glad to hear the wife is okay now! Prayers continue for a speedy recovery.
Dave - As long as you are picking up the tab, that cherry pie sounds like a great idea, set me up Chloe, or Zoë!
Rob - Glad the ISP is all cleared up now, don't you hate having to fight with them folks!
Paul - Happy BD my man!
Ed - Thanks for the update on the orange grove, and yes it is a milestone after 18 months on the layout construction and first scenery starts!
Fergie - Nice acquisition you got there!
Duke - Come on over here and join me in the booth for some of this cherry pie, it's on Dave's tab.
Later folks!
Good Evening All,
I'll have some of Eds' coffee and a slice of pie please. I know there's pie left cause PC's been very busy today. What great news that the ops went well. It's always better when God answers your prayers.
Ryan - the concrete is looking good as is the rest of the round house.
Rob - what temp do you get the tires good to and does the tire pressure lower the freezing point or just the boiling point? Speaking of boiling points why can't these guys calculate the volume of water by measuring the tire and then calculate the amount of antifreeze required from there? And water usually comes out of the end of the hose you're looking down wondering where the water is right? Come on admit it you've done that yourself right?
Feeling pretty good this evening as after three nights trying and a mercy mission to Branford Hobbies for a newer decoder (NCE rules!) the M1A is all good and no longer MIA. I went on every website I could think of and finally had a set of step by step instructions for "older" decoders that did the trick and got both the motor and all those awesome sounds to work. No iNpossible work tonight - I ran trains instead.Here it is up on the mainline hooked to its' consist.
and a closeup with light on
The only glitch left is that I can't change it from address #3 but I'll live with that for now.
Not as impressive as Fergies' collection and layout, but I'm plenty happy. CUL, J.R.
Evening Gang: Well it's now official, I'm 65 years old. I feel like I'm 35 and Mary Ann says I act like I'm 5yrs old. I'm just young at hart.
Fergie: Are you now going to try and corner the 4-8-4 market? Fortunatly I've got 2 of the Milw Rd S-2s.
Who asked about the anti freeze in the tires? When you have the tires on a tractor weighted with water you have to put in anti-freeze to keep the water from freezing in cold weather. Believe me you don't want that water to freeze. Ask me how I know. Around here most folks use calcium cloride in the tires. It aon't freeze and it is heaver. The down side is it gets expensive to have a flat fixed. None of our tractors tires are weighted. I learned my lesson.
No MRRing here today. I did get one of the feeders welded up. The other was too far gone so I just put out the upper half. The cows will just have to make do.
Jeff: The guys beat me to it. The trucks are AAR type B as used by Alco and GE. Milw Rd had some GP-30s on type b trucks from trade in Alcos.
Time for bed so I'll be heading out.
***Philip, that is WONDERFUL news. Sending plenty of healing thoughts her way.
***Ed: water filled tires + Winter Temps (- anti-freeze) = ? I suspect you can figure this one out now.
***Fergie, That is a BEAUTIFUL Locomotive. Enjoy!
***Kevin, we really like JD tractors. It is only the rejects they put in their shops locally that leave me shaking my head. I know next to nothing about working on tractors but still managed to fix both problems they either could not or were too lazy to tackle, even though I was paying them. How about sending some of your Maine mechanics down here to Georgia? They could teach the locals things like: how to ID a broken part, why they should not replace something that is fine, how to install a gasket so it doesn't leak, why they should not spend time on the irrelevant (presumably to run up their hours) while ignoring the necessary, and the list goes on. Kevin, enjoy those you have...you are lucky!
***JR, very nice. Happy the M1A is running good for you....finally! And I don't admit to anything.
Rob
GMTRacing wrote:It's always better when God answers your prayers.
Oh He always anwers prayer.....just not the way you'd think sometimes!
She's fast asleep right now. She gets to come home tomorrow.
I know that it's going to be quite a long recovery. The doc said she can't put ANY weight on it at all for 6 weeks. She won't have any real strength in her leg for about 3 months. The biggest bummer is that once this leg is healed enough (4 months or so), she has to have the same thing done to the other knee. I guess I can just thank God that she doesn't have more knees! Actually, I'm very thankful that medical science is such that something like this is even possible.
Well, I heard someone say something about pie (Hi Dave V. .....buddy!), and I'm in a celebrating mood, so..........
I think I'll just have a little bit of that pie before I hit the hey!
Hello Diners: I’m writing this on Tuesday night. Five power outages in 10 days are now beyond a joke! The latest two were last Sunday and this evening. This time it couldn’t have been weather related, as there is hardly a breath of wind.
I have been able, even in the daylight powerless hours, to do some more layout work. I have made the container dock, and put in the access road. I used a scrap piece of foam core board to see if the height was correct to the rail head or just below. I cut it to fit between the two sets of rail, and it seemed too low. I thought I would bring the level up with spacer cardboard. This I glued down with a waterproof glue, “Liquisilk”. Here’s what it looked like at that stage.
Then the Foam core went on. To my horror I discovered that I had miss-measured on my original sample. It must have been resting on the tieplates instead of the tie ends on the outside of each section of rail, and so the foam core was now too high. The Liquisilk was bonded to the underlying foam, as well as the card, so getting the card spacer pieces up was going to make a worse mess™.
So I adjusted the edges of the foam board where they meet the rail so that they bend down to just below the rail head. Not proto-typical, but seeing as they are consistently that way, it looks as if it could be!
I still have some adjustment to make here and there on those edges, as the cars tend to ride up onto the foam board where the truck journals (?) catch on it. Here’s the unpainted dock. A close examination of the container car will show the rear truck has done just that!
I airbrushed the dock concrete. It has to be detailed and weathered. Ryan, what spacing (scale feet) do you use for your expansion joints on your Roundhouse?
I figure in N I won’t have to actually impress those, just draw them on in black ink. That Roundhouse is looking really great!
I thought that the turnout mechanisms on the dock would be under metal covers, with a low ground throw. Anyone know what actually happens in such installations?
Here’s the access road to the dock, via a station/depot. To the left, beyond camera it enters the scene at a sharp curve uphill away from a river bank. The road is AMI HO width roadbed over more card spacer pieces. I have yet to paint on Woodland Scenics Flex Paste for the pavement, smooth and paint. I was pleasantly surprised to find that I had actually planned ahead, and forgotten I’d done it. Where the road goes past the station there isn’t a lot of room, and the station is a cardboard mock-up. So, I thought that I had better get out the Model Power Malden Station that’s going there to see if its base would fit. I found that not only does it fit, but it fits because I had made the base for the mock-up to the same dimensions as the Malden…on purpose!
Jerry: Great that Sallie got home! Hope the new arrangements mean that she can get about the house OK.
Dick: Please don’t start sending .pps files. Although I have MS Office, this computer resolutely refuses to handle power point.
Colby: We are in the same boat with my wife’s ‘puter being slow. I’m going to have to take it in to be looked at. Don’t think it’s a virus. There’s something just not right, it’s like glue.
IndianaPhil: That’s some tale of woe! How’s the shoulder? Still, as you say, you got to see the new KCS up close and personal.
PC: Great news about your wife. Praise the Lord!
Here’s something vaguely medical to cheer her up when she’s awake.
Cary:
Like an automated way to slow down the cars as they free ride. Any thoughts. Or any idea of what Im talking about?? LOLOL
Colby: That’s one tall table! LOL. Good to get the tracks off the floor though.
Fergie: That is one beautiful looking machine!
Caught up at last! Goodnight all, and god Bless. Prayers for all in need of healing, comfort and peace.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Kevin, Jim , Ed & Ryan, it looks like you guys are at the table, I scored 12 also, I only have one person that scored as high as 15 correct out of 20.
FERGIE: WoW what a nice loco that is, and that freight yard is something to drool over....
RYAN: You are making me homesick for the train room, will I ever get house projects DONE !!!?????
PC: That is gratifying news about your wife, I am sure that you are greatly relieved that all went well, I had the same Surgeon in charge 4 years ago also. We have much to be Thankful for this holiday don't we !!
Bon Soir
Ohh well, time for bed
Hey guys, hope all are well. And I'll have some of that chili, and a big glass of ice cold milk! It's the best!
Silverspike- Loved the pics, so when does the clothespin factory start shipping? For such a simple item, I use them about as much as a Xacto number 11! The floor of the roundhouse looks real good, too!
JeffreyW- See, thats what happens when you only check in here after midnight, everyone else gives the right answer first. I wrote on my little pad here Alco Trucks? then marked it out, the ol' Mk 1 eyeball isn't as sharp as it once was. Darn. On the otherhand, I really like the paint scheme, and I saw in the backround another unit that looked like it had more white on it. Post a few pics of both units.
PhilipC- Great to hear about the wife's progress, hope she takes that 6 weeks advice seriously. Give her our best.
JimCG-I missed the first post about chili and milk, I take it that you liked it and have caught a lot of grief over it. Come on over to our place, thats the ONLY way to eat chili. Or with orange juice, uhhhhh, come to think of it, I've had chili with just about every drink known to man. And a few known to women , too!
Fergie-Now mind you, I'm a diesel kind of guy, I have about 100+ engines and not a one are steam (is steam?- am steam?), but that pic, well, shes a beauty! I always liked the grey boiler with a red cab, a very classy look!
Paul B- A very happy birthday! Hope you got both something you needed and something you wanted!
der5997-Now this is only a suggestion, but when I was in N, I always added expansion joints with a #2 sharp pencil. It also made pretty good oil spill stains that looked like they had been cleaned or were old. I tried black ink, and it was too dark, it made the lines look abour 3 scale inches wide. Just a thought. And as for my shoulder, it actually quit hurting for awhile, but that may have been due to the insane screaming and flailing about going on at the time!
Ed- You be careful NOB, especially Houston. As for the layout, yesterday, some friends and Ajo and I spent the day building a storage building, and it is also part of the grand master scheme to get stuff out of the way and get enough room to set up the plastic table Ajo got me for my B-day. And when it is set up, there, I say THERE, is where the emergency I gotta run a train or I'm gonna go nutz layout will be built! On another subject, I doubt if your tires-tractor or otherwise- ever see temps cold enough to cause problems, eh? The water is for weight, better traction, and like Paul and the others said, the antifreeze is to keep the water , well, water. Ya know, you could always fill yours with OJ, just in case you need a little pick me up while picking THEM up! Awww ratz, I just tried to add emoticons to this, and my pop-up blocker is shutting them off. Oh sure, can't stop Viagara, timeshares ar knock off Rolex's, but it works a hardship on poor old emoticons! I sure do love these computers!
Hang in there guys!
Oh hey- GMTRacing-Just paged back up to be sure I said enough to bore everyone, and I forgot to say waht a great looking building that is, and even though I'm the product of a NYC family, good looking loco too! There, now I'm really done. I think.
Good morning ! from Indiana.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Mornin, coffee please Zoe.
Nice outside for now [61 but when the cold front passes through later, temps will drop into the 40 this afternoon. Lows down in the 30's tonight with a northerly wind.
PC,, good on the wife. We'll keep ya'll in our thoughts for continued success.
DICK,, I'm not a Colts fan, I always root for the other team. And I got 16 out of 20 right on the quiz.
RYAN,, the RH projects looking good.
PHILRUNT,, I've had those kind of railfan trips. Like the time we stopped to get some pics and the batteries were dead. No biggy [I thought], and found none in the case. The kids had juse them on their games and didn't tell anyone.
FERGIE,, new engine looks great how's she pull.
DER,, container dock looks good. Thanks for the pics.
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309
Cederstrand wrote: ***Ed: water filled tires + Winter Temps (- anti-freeze) = ? I suspect you can figure this one out now.
The concept of anti-freeze i understand. Putting water in tires is what i don't understand.
Paul W. Beverung wrote: Who asked about the anti freeze in the tires? When you have the tires on a tractor weighted with water you have to put in anti-freeze to keep the water from freezing in cold weather. Believe me you don't want that water to freeze.
philnrunt wrote: On another subject, I doubt if your tires-tractor or otherwise- ever see temps cold enough to cause problems, eh? The water is for weight, better traction, and like Paul and the others said, the antifreeze is to keep the water , well, water.
Okay, thanks Paul & Phil, now it's a bit clearer.
Off for our morning constitutional. Back later, I hope.
philnrunt wrote: JeffreyW- See, thats what happens when you only check in here after midnight, everyone else gives the right answer first. I wrote on my little pad here Alco Trucks? then marked it out, the ol' Mk 1 eyeball isn't as sharp as it once was. Darn. On the otherhand, I really like the paint scheme, and I saw in the backround another unit that looked like it had more white on it. Post a few pics of both units.
Fergmiester wrote: Hry guys! My new baby!!!Later all I'm on course for two daysFergie
Nice!!!!!! what scale?