Mornin all, an irish coffee Zoe,
A HAPPY GROUND DAY, to all, A cloudy day here with a high bout 25, so I geuss springs coming early. Super Bowl weekend is suppose to be cold with lows of 5 to 7 and highs round 16 to 18, wind chill below 0. Then turn off even colder next week.
RYAN, you were lucky, both with catching it and the repairs.
Pdragon, like the pics for sharing them.
DER, hope you get the bug worked out on the puter, and yes my back was some better yesterday, but some sore this morning, think I slept wrong or the weathers got arther worked up.
Did get some work done on the wiring yesterday, hoping for some more today, so I can run a train this weekend maybe.
We have to run to Terre Haute tonight and pick up some more 1099 tax form for the county fair. Mother sent them out last week to all the winners they had. Then started getting phone calls that the winnings had been doubled from what they got. When she check it out, it was in the puter program. Some of the winnings showed up twice. She got that fixed now she has to send out new ones. One good thing is, she hadn't sent the copies out to the state or federal, so don't have that mess.
Best get ta chores, if I'm gonna play, Hope yall has a gooden
inch
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Good Morning All,
We've had an exciting week in the diner I see. Glad the back is better Inch - could have been worse as with Ryans' lucky (persistent) find.
Happy Belated Birthday RT. and congrats Paul. Just one more day and then you can transition to ROF.
Der - My sister appreciates the added office space off the plant. She's been promoted from "fishwife" to inspector and now shuttles back and forth from Lockeport to Shelburne and Yarmouth at all hours to meet the boats as they come in and inspect the cargo. Most of the fishery offices are little more than shacks tacked onto the plant.
We feel your pain Gearjammer - utilities here have doubled in one year for electricity and I'm afraid to open the gas bill. Thankfully it's been a mild winter so far.
Dick - I ended up with a 2 level layout for the same reasons you are working through now. The upper level is countryside, the incline to the lower level is mostly hidden, and the lower level is more urban with a city scene and industry (along with sidings) broken into sections by the raised double track (sort of like the New Haven Shoreline route). Between the limitations of what I had for room and what I wanted for ops, I selectively compressed into just a couple of scenes and the "racetrack" up top. I think the trick is to leave most of the big areas to the imagination i.e. the edge of a city (where the tracks usually are), the edge of a farm, the siding end of a gravel company, etc. To do a good job with Crawford Notch how about trying it in the middle with the hills each side of it as a scene divider and work out from there? Instead of a single mountain to divide things, the notch could be an "untunnel" with farms on one side and an urban area the other. Just a thought.
Been AWOL here all week as I scramble around trying to catch up. We definitely need another pair of hands here especially in the unit room as it is tough for me to find the time to concentrate on gearbox work and still supervise the rest of the shop. At least the storm has so far missed us again. Time to pick up tools. CUL,J.R.
Der, you should check with your LHS Revell made a fishing trawler thats just about perfect HO size. Its really detailed I picked one up last year,it would look great at your fish oil plant. Its about 3ins wide and 16 in long.
Inch, count down is on.
Good Groundhog Morning! Zoe, a cup of coffee and a cinnamon raisin bagel, please.
Currently in Cape Girardeau: 25 F (Wind chill of19 F) Cloudy Wind: Variable 5 mph Barometer: 29.90 Sunrise: 7:01 a.m. Sunset: 5:22 p.m. Humidity: 71% Visibility: 10.0 milesCloudy with flurries today, clearing later in morning, then blustery and cold the rest of the day.
JP, sent you an email back. Hope you have fun on your LHS trip, and maybe even a little success finding bargains.
JR, good to hear from you again, and same for fargo - it's been a while since I've seen you in the Diner. What've you been up to?
Not much news on the MR front here. Looked at a couple of apartments last night, and tried using Google SketchUp to draw the apartments' dimensions and to see how I could arrange things (including the layout) in them. Still learning how to use SketchUp, and it seems overly sensitive and hard to draw a line and stop at even feet dimensions. Maybe practice (and a stop at Google's help pages) might help.
Time to start getting ready for work. See everyone later, and stay warm - cold out there!
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Morning Gang: Well wouldn't you know it my last day and we had snow and freezing rain over night. The interstate was a mess and a the normal 45 min drive took me 2 hours. What a way to wrap things up.
Dick I'll get to work on that idea tomorrow. It's going to be messy so except for feeding and picking up the tractor I'll stay inside.
Time to go and get another cup of coffee. I'll see you all later.
hey guys how is every thing?
grayfox1119 wrote:Alright children that's enough , DUKE..show them the door>>>
Out the back, to the left.
Hi Jim, i've been very busy on the layout wife went home to Milwaukee to take care of her sister's two kids, so her sis and hubby could go to Jamica man. So i have stayed home all week on vac. I have finely started on my engine facitly. I am taking a break for some hot chili I made, then its time to cut the hole for the 90ft turntable. I started down there at 4:30 this morning. Funny i am on vac but still can't sleep past 3:00am. I hit grand crossing for about 45 mins this morning it was way to cold to sit there and I didn't want to keep running the motor. I did see one cool train it was a BNSF coal train on the CP (from power plant at Portage Wi.) it had 3 ATSF SD70's red and silver and they were very clean.He was WB and empty and hauling butt. Also saw a EB auto rack train on the CP with one GE, and on the BN there was one WB and one EB stack train. Not bad for little less then a hour.
Yesterday I stopped out there about 2:00pm caught a WB genral fre. on the BNSF with a Ferro Mex GE on it, what a awesome paint job dark green with white and then red stripes, thats the second one I have seen here in the last three weeks. While back to work, can't wait to get the turntable in.
Hi Gang! I am very greatful that the storm passed my house. Deb and I are o.k. Tornado hit just a mile from our home. Many dead and many more hurt. Homes destroyed in the hundreds.
Just stated on news THOUSANDS of homes devestated.
Prayers for all.
Flip
OH,Look, made top of page. Belly-up gang, Ladies first.
Hi Flip: I was woundering about you. I'm happy that the tornado missed you but sad that so many others were hurt. I guess the power is on or you have a gen set. Take care now. I'll let you slide on lunch. My friend and foreman took me out for a steak and very good it was too.
Just 3 hours to go now, but who's counting.
Good afternoon everyone, just got back from grocery shopping with the wife, we always have SuperBowl Sunday at our house for the 5 couples that we socialize with, so you all know what that means. We dodged another bullet with the latest coastal snowstorm, it only grazed the SE coastal towns with 5", we have moonlight last night from the full SNOW moon instead here inland 50 miles. Get ready for some of the coldest weather all Winter......it will only be in the single numbers next week for a daytime HIGH temp!!! Brrrrrrr, with wind chills much lower. To give you some idea of the banked up cold air north of us in Canada, it is -27F (-33C) right now in Churchill, Hudson Bay.
J.R. : You must be reading my mind on the layout design regarding Crawford Notch because I am going to have Vermont on the west side of the notch, the mountains will make a nice seperation.
PAUL: No problem, stay warm, the cold is headed all the way down to your area too.
FLIP: When we heard the news this morning and where the tornado struck, I knew it was very close to your home, we were praying that you and Deb were OK, thank God. Prayers to all those poor families that lost loved ones and those who lost their homes.
HOOPLE: Thank you for your congrats on Grandparents Day, but that is in September. President Carter instituted Grandparents Day in 1978, to be celebrated each year on the 1st Sunday after Labor Day.
Afternoon, I'll have a barley pop Zoe, I'm celebrating,
IT RUNS , Finaly ran my first train in over a year on a main line, not well yet yet. The only engine I could get to run without cleaning is old faithfull, my very first engine, now over 40 year old, a Tyco even.
FARGO,You need to take a camera and get some photos to post when you're out rail fanning like that. We'd luv to see some.
FLIP, glad you'ens is ok. I was wondering bout you this morning. Wish the best for those in the storms pass.
Best get to some chores I put off this morning, afore the CFO gets home
HI ALL;
Just passing through. Letting glue set on sawmill rocks for foundation. Used pencil with earaser taken out then bent slightly pressed hard onto 1/8 inch balsa in ramdom pattern in 3 ft lenghts by 1/2 inch ; gluded to 1/8 inch plexi glass clear then glued to base of mill. Have to wait. Time for Kathy's lunch then off to grocery store for weekend supplies.
GO BEARS I was raised in south Chicago and used to sneak into park and watch games.
GOD BLESS Chuck
Went to Wal-Mart today and picked up some cars in 1:87 scale: 1953 Cadillac Eldorado Pink, 1937 VW-30 red, 1950ish red and white Ford Taurus 17M with camper. The Taurus with camper was under $3 the rest were under $2.
www.malibuinternationaltoys.com
1:87 scale Caterpillar stuff can be found at Wal-mart for under $5.
http://www.norscotmall.com
Not too bad for a guy going in to buy Valentines Day stuff!
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Hi, gang, Sounds like everyone is gearing up for the Super Bowl.
Chuck, It is great to hear some of the history on your end of the S, P, & S line.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Paul: That's great! Now you can join me and the others in the ranks of the retired folks and start to really have some fun. The wife will probably have some extra projects lined up, now that you have all this 'free' time.
Hello everyone. I went to Alexandria today to have castings made of my feet so they can make some shoes for me. $300 a pair! Glad I'm not paying it. That's all Uncle Sam.On the way back, I raided the LHS. Picked a new #6 turnout for the maintenance facility and also picked up a Proto 2000 E7. After I got home, I took care of a few things that needed attention, then started in on the E7. I got an old Bachmann out that has a bad motor, stripped the DCC decoder out of it and transplanted it into the E unit. All I wanted was motor control, so I left the lights hooked up to the light board. This means they'll be on all the time, but I don't care. Got the decoder wired in, put the locomotive on the track, fired up the DCC unit and put the power to it. It runs great! The slow speed performance and crawl is phenomenal. It can crawl at 2 - 3 scale mph with no problem at all. The top speed is a scale 60 mph. I'm gonna pull the decoders from my other Bachmann's as they die off and convert my E6 and E8.
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
Good evening y'all.
Had some time, thought I would drop in. I've been absent for some 50 pages, maybe, yes? Something ridiculous like that.
I've been after school quite a bit rehersing for next week's performance of the Westminster High School winter production. This year, it is five episodes from THE TWILIGHT ZONE. I'm the lead in "Kick-the-Can" and an extra in another skit. I also auditioned and made the ensamble for May's musical production of "The Pajama Game." So I'll be busy doing Drama stuff.
My Grand Marquis is now in the shop getting fixed...I can't wait to get it back.
See y'all later.
Scott - Dispatcher, Norfolk Southern
Hey 409 how you been, great to hear theif fixing your car, I know how much it means to you.
Happy retirement Paul!!!!!! The bad thing is it seems most of the guy's i know that retired said it seems they have less time to work on the railroad then when they were working. I'll find out in 6years i hope.
Well I now have a working turntable, awesome! Something I always wanted on the layout. Still have alot of work to do.
Well its bed time have to work this weekend, mom comes back on Sunday night. So that means when I walk in the door Sunday morning from work I have a little house cleaning to do
Evening Gang: The internet connection seems to be very slow tonight. I'll make this short.
Several of the guys have told me that Fargo. I hope that isn't going to be true for me.
When I left today I put in a CD of Victory At Sea music. I rolled down the windows and played the Guadalcanal march at full volume on the way out. He He He
I'm going to hit the sack. No need to set the alarm. I'll see you all tomorrow.
Good Night All
Good Evening! Chloe, a cup of hot cocoa please, and a brownie a la mode.
Hey Lee, that Malibu International link appears to be dead for me. Are they the folks who make the HO scale autos for WallyWorld? I got some about a week plus ago at W-Mart.
Flip, good to hear that you and Deb were missed by the storm - on the news tonight, they showed the (Lady of Peace?) church which was designed & built to withstand 150 mph winds. Or should I say, the pieces of the church? Sad part was that, due to when the storm came through, a lot of people didn't get much/any warning on it. Our for all those people and their families (many of whom still are awaiting word on those missing).
Jerry, good to hear Sallie's back home again. I'm sure she's happier at home.
Paul - how'd it feel to clock out the last time this afternoon, you ROF? What'll you be doing with your alarm clock, now that you don't need it (as much, at least...)?
Tonight I'm watching the SuperBowl Greatest Commercial show. Funny to see all the different commercials from the past commercials. Now another couple of days to see the new ones.
Well, that brownie was great, Chloe - thanks! Everyone take care and I'll see you tomorrow!
Good evening Trackside Diners: Flip!..That was way too close… Thank God you weren’t hurt. The pictures on TV are appalling.
Well, I guess Paul’s officially a Free Agent now! How does it feel Paul?
It’s turned into a fine clear full moon night after a dreary and rainy day. Surprise on my walk tonight. The gravel road was slippery, and the paved road was ice free. It’s usually the case that I have to walk on the shoulder of the paved road when there’s ice, but can canter on the gravel.
Dick:
DER JOHN: The towns are small, and I believe that I can make this work with space compression, Green and White mountains used to great advantage.
I think you may have missed exactly what Hoople meant when he said Today at my school, it's grandparent's day,…it was his school’s Grandparent’s Day.
Today at my school, it's grandparent's day,
Chuck and Kathy…a garage sale that has lots of mrr stuff? I’d be sure to go the 100 miles for that! Drool! BTW, is there a special reason for the 18th inch clear plexiglass for the balsa “wall”, or is it just what’s to hand in your supplies box?
JR: My sister appreciates the added office space off the plant. She's been promoted from "fishwife" to inspector and now shuttles back and forth from Lockeport to Shelburne and Yarmouth at all hours to meet the boats as they come in and inspect the cargo. Most of the fishery offices are little more than shacks tacked onto the plant.… Puttered at designing the office and lab building today. Fished out a photo of an office building for a feed mill in Truro that I took in the summer, and am using elements of that to help make it more interesting visually. I’ve also decided that I’m going to have to lose a small length of track at the end of the Timesaver spur that is at the very front edge of that part of the layout. Doing that (and I can still just get three 40’ cars past the fouling point) will give me space for an access road of sorts to the front of the building. So, your sister may not even get her shoes dirty!
My sister appreciates the added office space off the plant. She's been promoted from "fishwife" to inspector and now shuttles back and forth from Lockeport to Shelburne and Yarmouth at all hours to meet the boats as they come in and inspect the cargo. Most of the fishery offices are little more than shacks tacked onto the plant.
Fargo:
Der, you should check with your LHS Revell made a fishing trawler thats just about perfect HO size. Its really detailed I picked one up last year, it would look great at your fish oil plant. Its about 3ins wide and 16 in long.
BTW, how did you cut the hole for that TT?
Scott: Good to see you in again, and a “Thespian” yet!
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Time to get some sleep.
Goodnight all, and God Bless. Prayers for all (thinking of those storms victims too) in need of healing, comfort and peace.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Good evening everyone, it's been a ridiculously long time since I was in here. I trust that everyone is well, or as well as you can be.
Flip-I'm glad to hear that you and Deb ar okay,our hearts go out for all those folks that weren't so luckey.
Paul-Congrats on being finally retired, don't do a Luc and get another job LOL. At least you can get more of the layout finished.
Der-Sounds like you folks are having a typical matitime winter. Of interest heather and I will being doing a barnstorming tour of the Maritimes in July. I'll email you closer to the time of our departure. Hopefully we can meet up with you and Luc during our travels.
Rob
Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 2/3/2007 Live Conditions 4:44 AMSundown Fire Dept., Station 23 Wind Chill: 23°FHumidity: 84%Dew Point: 26°F So Far TodayHigh: 32°FLow: 30°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 7mph N
High: 54 °FLow: 27 °F
Today High: 55 Mostly sunny. Not as cool. Highs in the mid 50s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight Low: 32 Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. Light and variable winds.
Good morning. I'll have the scrambled eggs this morning.
Good morning ! from Indiana.
02-03-07
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...