Hello Diner crew, Can only stay for a moment. Cherry coke float, please Chloe.
Our prayers and sympathies to all who have been affected in any way with all the terrible disasters that have ranged at will from one coast to the other. The Scouts who lost their lives in Iowa, really burdens my heart. My wife and I worked in scouting for many years and have four boys as well. Cannot fathom the greif those families must have at this point.
Also in our prayers are Rob and JR. and their families with the loss of their homes. So very glad to hear no one was injured, nor live stock either. Rob, what happened to the little goat the other day??
Rob.That looks like fine armatures for some trees, keep us posted how that works out when you have time. Also how soon are they going to be able to start the re-build??
Jerry: Does that train crew block that crossing often to take a swim in that pond or get a coke from that stand there??
Inch: Give our best to your Deb in regard to her loss and to Amy as well, I’m sure she will need much consolling.
Jeffery: CN Charlie and I still don’t see those trailer spaces for us in that park and you never told us how far the fishing hole is from there. Glad to hear the report on the feet and eyes.
Would someone please post JP’s email address again. I searched for it today but didn’t long enough to come up with it. Thanks in advance.
I have an undecorated GP-40 here and today I bought off E-Bay, a set of Bi-centenial decals for a WP GP-40. Have had pretty good luck in the past painting two GP-20s one orange and one pearlman green. But they were solid colors so this will be a challange getting the red and blue colored stripes on it properly. Any pointers would be appreciated. I hate decal
Rob those all kook like good starts to trees post some photos when you get them done…Johnboy the poor feller in the orange pick up has been waiting for the crossing gates to go up since back in November!!..Jerry
Afternoon, Janie - I’ll have a root beer float, please.
Thanks!
Lee, how’s the vacation going so far? Did you get any rail or bus passes to go do some serious railfanning? Photos to come? Huh, huh, huh? That one boat does look the worse for the wear…
The weather here is not bad today; a little warm and humid, but the front’s gone. (YAY!) I was at a ‘Boys and Their Toys’ rally/food thing Friday, that they put on at church each year (past couple of years, anyway). About 6:30 or so, we’re getting things taken down and moved from the parking lot into the church (no, not the trucks and cars and bikes…) before the main part of the storm gets there from west of town, and one part of the front goes through with a dark, way too sharply-defined line a few thousand feet (maybe more) above, passing over us. Wasn’t sure if my car would have hail dimples when we came back out or not, but fortunately it didn’t. [yeah] That was a dark line of something, all right. From the weather reports on the late news, the worst of the front passed to our south again this time.
Rob, that’s a tough call about the big trees near your home. I like them around for the shade, too, but as you say, if they came down, could be a mess ™, all right. Sorry to hear about your FIL’s trip to the ER again. Sorry to hear about the pigmy goat, too. One good thing for you on the house rebuild might be, the builders and contractors may have more reasonable prices, and you’ll probably get better attention (due to fewer jobs competing fo
Picked up some more twiggies (future trees) on the way back from the mailbox. Should be able to find a couple hundred of them. Still need to figure out what approach to use. Plan on painting them with acrylics first to give them a some strength. Would be great if I could produce a bunch of them on the cheap. But until I have an actual layout to put them on, will set them aside after base-coating them.
Spoke with the builder today and he has the house plan all drawn up. He will have them printed out Monday and ready to submit. That’s pretty quick work.
***Johnboy, we do not know what the goats problem was. It went missing for a few days after we did the “bander” thing and when it returned, it was in a permanent seizure-like state.
Wife is still at the hospital waiting on a GI specialist to see her mom. Sounds like a lot of bleeding (and my wife never exagerates), so this could be something bad. She will be admitted and this will be an all nighter for sure. Dang!
Evening Gang: I’m early because if I don’t get in now I may not be able to later. The daughter and her husband are using the bedroom.
Rob I’m sorry to hear that your MIL is having more trouble. All this has to be rough on Barbara. Please give her my best and it wouldn’t hirt if you gave her a hug. The tree armatures look good. Remember that trees arn’t real dependent on scale like the man made stuff.
Good evening, long hot, humid day today, rains to south, rains to north, rumbles of thunder in the distance, nothing here in central MA …yet! Of course tomorrow the whole family will be here for a cookout as well as my brother from CT, and it doesn’t look like a nice day at all. So the awning is up over the deck and we will make the best of it for Father’s Day.
CN CHARLIE: Many of the older Decoders do not have back EMF, so you get a lot of hum. The newer decoders have emf feature and this makes a big difference. I sent off to Tony’s Trains in VT, a list of all my locomotives and asked them to list what decoder they recommend for QSI and Soundtraxx. I just received a complete list yesterday in email with decoder models and speakers recommended.
LEE: So the little boat tried to take on a freighter huh !!! Not too smart. That is a great idea to get MRR equipment insured. I think I will call “Snoopy” ( Metropolitan ) on Monday to get a rider for our Home Insurance personal belongings for MRR addition. The rider shouldn’t cost too much I would think.
MIKE: I think we saw the same pictures on the TV news here. They have had many TV news photos of the flooding in the Midwest. My wife thought that she read where the grain car idea didn’t work and bridge let go, I hope not !
BOBK: The sun was out here in the central part until about 9am, then it clouded over with a thin hazy sky. No rain yet here though by 7pm.
DUKE: Guess what we had for desert tonight?? That’s right !! Strawberry-Rhubarb pie, both from the garden. AND…French Vanilla ice cream on top, right from the local farm here. Yes, we do still have one nice Dairy farm left here thank God, family run since 1934 with
hello, Got back from South Carolina today after a twi day drive. Yes, I got some time to drive too. We saw the Hunley, and the nearby East Cooper and Berekeley GP something. I’ll get pics up later. It was clean, but they looked like they had or were pulling the track up around it. Next was Patriot’s Point, home of the Yorktown , (Aircraft carrier) and Clagamore, a sub. Not bad, but expect a lot of walking and don;t go in the summer. Everything is big on the aircraft carrier, except the air conditioner. Shockingly, the black boilertube of a sub nearby was actually cooler than the Yorktown. Didn;'t make it into the Coast Guard ship or Destroyer, due to time, and I made it as far as the entracne before hiting a wall of heat. Next day was magnmolia Plantation, (we skipped the house) and Drayton Hall. Fort Sumter was Tuesday and after that we went to Charleston for some walking through Slave’s Market and the Aquarium, and a Ghost Tour. Wednesday was Nathan Russell and Aiken Rhett House, and I got to see the Silver Meteor slip out of North Charleston. That day also gave me Port Utilities Railroad #2001. There is somee train at the Visitor’s Center, part of an old railroad, the first in South Carolina, but for reasons I won’t divulge, I was unable to find out more about the steam loco inside. Don’t know what it was. Will send e-mail and ask. This would be the last train stuff for the day. We rode a carriage tour, then got ready to come home. And here I am!
Inch, neat shots, for all the pain it’s caused. Missed us here, onl;y 4 inches. Heard some places in Indy got 11.5 inches. I was sweating during it.
Rob: Sorry to hear about the fire, I’m noticing a trend, I dun like it. Did your layout, and Barb’s HO trains fair well? Glad to hear your alroght. Who says Superheroes can’t save real life,
Give it time. I have to decide where the road access will be first. I also have to get some signs that are associated with parks. If I can’t find any that are affordable I’ll make some.
Just a suggestion, but if you want to make them stronger (I’m assuming they are a bit brittle?) you might want to consider dipping them in a dilute mix of white glue and water (maybe 50-50) and hanging them on a line to dry. You can paint them later. But I think the dilute glue mix will do more to strengthen them than simply painting.
I’d also consider making the original paint coat a simple rattle can of medium gray paint. You can highlight parts of the trunk with acrylics later if you want some color variation. But since most of the armature will be covered with foliage there’s not too much point in spending a lot of time painting.
Just got back from playing the Fiesta Mass at Christ the King Retreat Center. WHEW!! Outdoors, and a very Gerry-mandered electrical hookup that for some reason kept shorting out the electronic keyboard. Luckily, we had several guitarists that were able to pick up the slack, and a couple of really GOOD Cantors. But all in all, not my most memorable experience–the sky is pretty overcast from that fire to the north of us in Paradise, and since there’s hardly a breeze, it was not really comforatable for me to breathe (darned COPD!) As soon as the Mass was over, I piled in the car and came home–stopping at my local Safeway to grab a rib steak and an artichoke. Just finished steaming the artichoke and will put the rib steak on the grill in a little while. The Retreat Center was having a Mexican barbecue, but as I said, I’m not one for Mexican food–all that Cilantro, YUK!–
Jim: You’re right about the In Nomine–never trust a Franciscan, LOL! Of course I’M not going to say that after Father’s Day Mass, tomorrow, they always gather we dads in the Narthex and have the community pray over us. Let’s face it, sometimes we Dad’s NEED those prayers! [:-^]I’m a Third Order Franciscan Catholic who just retired from a Jesuit high school and plays occasional masses for a Passionist Retreat Center. Kind of the Grand Tour, don’t you think? [:P]
Johnboy–as to the garage–if the door’s down, there’s three INCHES between the door and the front of the layout. Needless to say, the Buttes and Sierra City get trains through when the door is UP! [:)] When I had the door installed, the guy looked at me and said, “You really ought to move the train back.” I pointed to the rest of the layout, which extends to the back of the garage, he just blinked and said, "Oh, forg
Tom: Between Mom and I? only about 1000. (Like I said, we’re getting there) There’s no flooding around me, just high water. Really didn’t see anything coming back, either. The Ohio was up on the way down, but she was back in her banks around Cinncy as of today. We did drive past a small wildfire. I’ve got a Firetrain in design for HO, I have a feeling it would be in use out west and maybe everywhere in real life.
Jim: Come on, give me a break, I said I was just guessing. As for the layout, I will never have hills, because we have to put it away, and I’m not sure what a scenic divider is, so I probably don’t have one. My rolling stock is as follows:
Jim: Come on, give me a break, I said I was just guessing. As for the layout, I will never have hills, because we have to put it away, and I’m not sure what a scenic divider is, so I probably don’t have one. My rolling stock is as follows:
mmmm … mmmm … Sounds great! … Did Dick have vaniila bean ice cream last year? …Of course, Duke, you could supply Irma’s vanilla. That would top them all.
Evening, Chloe - you covering part of Janie’s shift? I’ll have the roast beef dinner special, please, with a nice glass of wine.
Thanks - that looks great![dinner]
Hey, what was that roar and squeal of tires outside? [wow] Oh, just Duke on his bike, heading for Dick’s place before all the strawberry-rhubarb pie is gone. [oops][:-^][:-^]
Rob, I recall reading an article not long ago that said a lot of model trees aren’t big enough (and that real trees often are much taller than the locos), so you probably could use some of those ‘HO’ trees as just bigger N scale ones. Another tip for you - find a piece of good ol’ white foam (one or two inches thick would be good), and as you get the trees painted, stick 'em in the foam. That’ll make it easier to keep them in one place until you get to adding the ‘leaves’ and such, and you can add that, moving more quickly from one tree to the next.
Just saw your post about your MIL - will be lifting the whole family up, Rob. It has to turn for the better the rest of this year, with all the things you’ve had so far.[sigh] Keeping you in [angel][angel]
Lee, that boat getting in the way of the freighter makes about the same sense as those folks who pull out in their car in front of an 18-wheeler[%-)] (or more [banghead], try to cross the tracks in front of a locomotive with a load behind it)
