Morning All,
Currently 52 with an expected high of 89 under sunny skies.
I have the standard Sunday shift today, open at 10:00 close at 6:00 so will go visit hospital after work.
Waiting for the four #5 Walthers turnouts, and W.S. Track Bed to show up from Walthers, and the four Switch Tenders to come from Micro Mark, then I can do some more work on the layout.
Prayers to all in need.
Paul
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Wait… a Kelvin (K) is a measure ot temperature, o kelvis absolute zero, the like. I think the word you are looking for is Lumens
Morning Folks
Yep Flo, coffee to go.
Sitting here running the trains wondering what kind of day I will have at work? Sure would be nice to get out at closing like last night!
All so pondering Paul’s layout. He was a grade, that sure eats up 14 feet fast. Problem is I don’t know if his vision is the same as mine. I like double main lines, so that is what will make this a little harder.
See you all later
Ken.
Good Morning All!
Not much to report from the land of Buckeyes other then yesterday I changed out couplers on my Spectrum GE 70 Tonner and program it …Now one will need some skill running that engine since I set the acceleration and deceleration momentum.These settings isn’t for the faint of heart or the Casey Jones type…Now,I need to modernized this unit by removing the footboards and and add a strip of ABS plastic along the bottom of the pilot.
My plans for today calls for moseying over to the club this afternoon.
I shall have a cup and look over the forum.
Have a good’un!
Unless he was referring to color temperature. In that instance kelvin would be correct. The lumen is the unit of luminous flux, a measure of the total “amount” of visible light emitted by a source.
Mornin’ everyone…
Yawn! Zoe, I’ll have the french toast, use the 12 grain bread if you would, sausage, and lots of dark roast Seneca Lake Blend coffee this morning. Huh? Yes use my FGLK Mug and leave the NYS Maple Syrup too. Thanks!
Sakel, right you are! [tup] Kelvin is also a color scale used for the relative color index of light called the CCT. For anyone interested look here: http://www.venturelighting.com/techcenter/lamps/color_of_light.htm Lumens is related to but not totally the same as candles in that they both involve the amount of light a source produces. CRI is a rating of how well a light source relates to a black body resonator (ie: the sun) in producing accurate colors. So some CFLs I just bought last week would be as follows: 9w, 5100K, 430 Lumens (about the same as a 40w incandescent), with a CRI of 93. They are considered to be “full Spectrum daylight bulbs”.
It is a very gloomy 51°F under drizzly, rainy skies, with a forecast of light rain, drizzle, rain, clouds, and thunder possible with a bit more drizzle and liquid sunshine all day here in the Finger Lakes! Good day to disappear to the nether regions of the basement and play with trains for a while! If the drizzle stops for a bit, I need to finish bring in the stuff from the NMRA Meet yesterday. Still getting some nice messages about the meet BTW. Nice to have an appreciative group of model railroaders to work with!
Sue, cutting wood? Are you splitting it by hand as well? [tup]&
I guess Barry is still flat out on the floor, after seeing those prices for the “hanging trains”. For a start, you have to cash out about $ 2,000. OK, it is hand crafted, but actually nothing else than good old tin plate trains, nicely done.
I still tinker with my ideas of converting to O scale. That Lenz starter set is just too tempting…
Here is the story behind all ideas:
Hanstedten-West is a BLT set somewhere in northern Germany in the early 1960s. The line is a short one, just connecting the mainline station of Hanstedten with the little town some miles away. Traffic is low on this line, just a daily local freight train, consisting of 3 cars and pulled by one of those infamous Köf Diesel shunters, serving the local trade and industry. Yes, there is some passenger service as well, about a handful of trains, taking kids to school and workers to their work. These trains are usually made up of a “Schienenbus” (rail car), affectionately dubbed “red buzzer” due to the distinct noise it makes. Occasionally, when the rail car is in for maintenance, the train will be a class 64 2-6-2 T, pulling a two old 4-wheeled coaches nicknamed thunder-boxes, and a freight car. More and more traffic is lost to the roads, and the line is earmarked for closure, following Dr. Seebohm´s ideas of improving transport in rural areas by applying the Beeching axe.
Supper time is coming up - I think I´ll go for a big serving of Petra´s Dutch beef stew - that´s chunks of beef, onions, potatoes, carrots and lots of spices all boiled in a broth - delicious together with a glass of [B]!
TTFN!
Afternoon guys
Sitting here watching the Packer’s game. Kind of upset about what happened with three of the girls I was talking to. They all just randomly stop talking to me, and one said “I have a BF , bye” when I asked her if she wanted to hang out. So why did she give me her number last night?
I fiddled with the F-unit’s fuel tanks some more yesterday. I found some .08 square rod and it works nicely for filling in the too-large gap between the frame and battery boxes. Although I’m thinking I should have gotten .08 quarter-round instead of .06 so I could have glued it to the back styrene piece. My saving grace might be that on the prototype photo it looks like the battery box is slightly higher than the fuel tank. I’ll see how it looks when I pick up the quarter-round later this week.
Carwise, I got the intakes swapped. I would have started exhaust swapping but I got off of work late today.
Chris and Jeff, intresting to note about powders being able to explode. I knew grain elevators could, but all that other stuff. Holy cow.
Anyways, I’ll get back to the game. stop in later.
Afternoon Gang! Hope this finds everyone doing well.
Have a quick question for everyone…
Who has bought the MR 75yr Collection on DVD? Also, who is going to buy the Special Issue archives that are on DVD?
If you didn’t, or are not planning on doing so, and it’s NOT because of the prices, why?
Hi,
I didn’t buy it. I am not interested in having 75 years of a magazine of any type around, be it digital or paper. what was true in the 50s may nto be relevent in the 70s, may not be relevent inin the 90s may nto be relevent today!
BUT, what you could do is a “search our community” on the right side page margin for it to find some threads on just that topic, OR you could start your own thread and ask the forum population as a whole, not just those of us who frequent the diner…you’ll likely get more responses.[;)]
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Well, I have spent half that day busy and half of it “resting on my laurels”{hmm wonder where that came form?}. I could do more, but I am “resting on my laurels” now to avoid over taxing my back and being in large amounts of pain.
Things will be busy this week. and hopefully the furnace, at any price will be fixed before next Sunday as it will get into the 30s at night then…making frost a likelihood,and a chill will overtake the trailer. WE DO have an oilfilled heater, a small heater and another small heater that can help and the dehumidifier puts out heat too…but not enough in the right places to keep pipes from freezing if it DOES get colder than that and freezes. Hopefully Tuesday it will be fixed!
Other things to do will be a long list of 'Git ‘er done’ things and some optional things. I can’t wait til the 10th to get the next spinal injections in my back to kill pain for awhile!!!
WEll off later guys
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Been feeling pretty rough today. In fact I’ve felt like crap since I got up this morning. Took a nap around noon and woke up feeling even worse. I did manage to get part of a makeshift structure for the elevator put together. It’s just a few printed wall plates stuck to a box but it at least gives me something to work with.
