Well today was no better than yesterday! I no sooner made my morning post than my father calls with things that have to be done before his visitors get here. So I helped him out with that then it was off to town for lunch and a trip Wal-Mart. Lunch was at a Mexican place we frequent. Tell you what, you go there you better bring your appetite! Prices are good and the portions are BIG. then it was on to Wal-Mart. This I didn’t mind too much as he was saving me a drive to town for grocery shopping. I did my shopping right then plus picked up a new flash drive to replace the one that died.
I got back home and discovered I had a couple of packages waiting for me. One contains a little gun store. Looks like maybe an old Woodland Scenics metal building. The box also has a load of grain elevator parts and pieces! Just the thing I need. The other box contains two locos. An Athearn RS-16 with a bum motor and what looks like a Mantua SP F7A dummy unit. Wonder how long it’ll take me to slap a powered chassis into it.
A damp overcast day at 68. Even the house did not feel comfortable. Granny fed me well but not too much, so I can have banilla with the thingy crew tonight…S.J.
Hey all not a lot going on tonight. Packed the Southern F-3’s to send to my repair guy as the power unit front motor is all but froze up so I’m going someone that knows more about it take it apart and clean. Funny thing with just barely trimming one end of the styrophoam on the inside they fit perfectly in Williams F-3’s boxess sso perfect for shipping seeing I have the Williams shipping carton to put them in. [Y]
not much else going on tonight going to call it early tonight haven’t been sleeping well.
Well I tore down the RS16 and it appears the motor isn’t bad after all, just very dirty. I cleaned the brushes and commutator with 91% alcohol. The amount of crud that poured out was significant. Three fingers on my left hand turned black! I rubbed the commutator with an alcohol soaked paper towel until all I could see was clean towel. It runs like a champ now and I consider it worthy of converting to DCC.
On the Mantua F7A I have an F7B body in the closet somewhere. With it and the F7A body I can change a couple of FT’s to F7’s. The FT bodies are on Athearn clone F7 frames with Frankenstein power and drives.
Another long day here, can’t wait for this 3 day weekend coming up [tup] Mike, good luck for the team and hope for a fun ride either way [:)] Prayers for healing, good tests, and for our intentions. Nice chat with SJ tonight. I got an 810 derrick car out of the loot that RT won on ebay for a good price. It showed up today along with most of a searchlight car. The original owner painted them black and it looks like the underlying paint was mostly missing? I’ll fix up the searchlight car and keep them otherwise as-is for a while. Maybe someday I’ll try and restore them? RT - you did a great job packing them, because Fedex crushed the box but the cars were fine - good job, man!
TARDIS is ready, so let’s hit the sky, into the blue!
Mornin’ boys. [st] (or may be the collective teardrops from a certain city 50 miles southwest of here) and 72 in the Mid-Atlantic region.
[swg] Good, huh?
On vacation (again). Grandbaby coming over in a little bit, so my first day off is already decided for me. He’s a little upset with me over the trains not running during the new construction. Gonna have to fix that.
cheapclassics - 35 years? You deserve your train room. I hope my queen (who will be picking out our new home) leaves me a little 13’ x 13’ space for my layout.
66 here and rain again. Rained most o day yesterday so couldn’t do outside stuff. Got PT done now gotta take dog for walk.
MIKE C., hope you had BARRELL ROLLS last nite? I’m good at drowning out the sorrows with the OLD MILs. Just like my CLEVELAND INDIANs, wait til next year.
SPMAN, RAY, remember pace yourself. When on any exercise program, start out slow and progess into it. If you are walking say a half mile, next day add a telephone pole to it and everyday keep on adding until you get to your goal. Tough to start but once your doing it you’ll begin to want more everyday just be consistant and you’ll notice big gains.
Sounds good. I ate at ROUND THE CLOCK Resturant with SIR JAMES< CHARLIE and BRUTUS in the spring, good eats. I’ll have to start a thread later and get a roll call on who will want to eat there. Fast and great food.
Morning. Partly cloudy. Could have showers up to lunch. Hope it does not rain on the postponed ribbon cutting. Getting ready to pack 4 Runner with 6 center fire rifles, ammo, led sled [two are real shoulder banger big cal.] and etc. Will head to the lake house as soon as ribbon cutting and meal is over. Hope to shoot them in this afternoon. Then do final cleaning of house. Wifey and her buds are coming up tomorrow afternoon. I will leave coming back right after noon tomorrow. “Baby sitting” the weekend for her to go up.
Have a good one.
PS: OH NO!!! Jeffrey is a modirator. [;)] Congrats Jeffrey.
Aloha. Sunny and warm today. Looks like it gets 20 degrees colder tomorrow. Brrrr. Not ready for it. The autumn leaves look just spectacular here. Our front yard has bright yellow, orange, purple, and reds!
Going to see the eye doc to get new post-cataract glasses, and take the youngest in to see if his eyes are affecting his ready. Middle boy has his first college hockey home game tomorrow - I hope to leave early to get there even if he doesn’t play. Mike C., congrats on the train room. I feel privileged to have a piece of the basement. It’s fun to have a space. That was a bittersweet end to the season last night, Chuck. Congrats to everything-in-moderation Jeffrey. [;)]
It’s a sunny 61 going into the 70s. May be a long time before we see 70 degrees again. Jeff how could you? another spy on our pot. Having the other one showing off his authority was enough. Granny is outside, yep cleaning windows. I swear the panes of glass are getting thinner. I should take advantage of this warm day to cut the grass but I feel lazy as usual.
