Hey Ken, that’s some nice canyon you’ve got in the process there. [tup]
Dennis
Happy Easter everybody.
We are still busy with granddaughetrs from Cincinnati. They go home tomorrow, and we will meet their Mom & Dad (our son and daughter in law) part way.
Has anyone tried to contact Ulrich?. My old email address for him did not work.
Where is Sue? … and several other MIA’s?
Hope you are not eating too many Easter eggs.
Good Evening…
We are actually getting some sun right now…good day here all told…
Spent the day outside BBQ’ing up some ribs and other such delectibles for the neighbourhood adults while the kiddies were enjoying their easter delights…
My main computer is my 12 core Xeon chipped thingee…with 32 Gb of ram…I use that for my music.[:-^]
Ken…love that canyon!!!
Happy Easter everyone![C):-)]
No thanks Flo, nuttin for me, still stuffed from the in-laws! [:O]
Got up at 6:30 this morning, killed off a coffee pot and some breakfast cheesecake thingy then started painting. Got 2 coats on the walls before we had to shower and leave for the in-laws house, had a nice Easter dinner with turkey and all the trimmings, then watched a movie with them. The entire time my back muscles kept getting tighter and tighter. By the time we got home, I could barely walk straightened up. SWMBO put some muscle cream on my back, the gave me a pill to take. I asked her (after I swallowed it) what it was. Oxycontin with Tylenol . Interesting, save you the trouble of swallowing 2 pills! [:D] But at least I can walk!
Still, no train time today, and tomorrow looks bleak. I’ll paint the crown molding and toe moldings tomorrow. Also I need to cut and install shoe moldings aroud the baseboard units. Previous owner installed new flooring, but left a big gap by the baseboard heaters!! Maybe trains on Tuesday?? Maybe! [;)]
Hopefully, I’ll have the 3 Midland GP9’s done by next weekend. Bodies are 90% finished. So close, yet so far.
Prayers for Ulrich & Petra, that they had a great Easter
Um,where we goin next month??[%-)]
L8ter!
Evening one and all. Ufffffff… still full from a beautiful dinner my sweet wife cooked for us. Thanks Flo, just a Ginger Ale for now, Thanks youse Mam.
Too bad about Jeffrey with his puter going crash big time. [:(] Hope he’s able to find another one. He’s such a major player round here.
Got a variety of things w*rked on down in the train room. Stuff like soldering feeders on a couple of extra sidings, gleaming the new sections. Got a few clouds painted, those still need some fiddling with [^o)].
Stained some tunnel portals, cut up a bunch of cardboard strips on the table saw for scenery and even got a wee start on weaving/gluing some in place. This cardboard webbing is a whole new adventure for me so the jury is still out.
Anyway, an all round semi productive day [swg]
Here’s a picture of some of what got done today…
Cheers to all
Dennis
Felt the same way when I was buying paint for the Me Bf 109G-10. Think I am set with what I have for the Mustang. Will be decorated for the 332nd, the Tuskegee Airmen.
Good evening.
Wasn’t a bad Easter. Went up to grandmother’s today. Red Tails just happened to be on, so I was happy. Got far on my Me Bf 109G-10 model. The only things that soured me today was the fact that the weather wasn’t great and North Korea obviously just doesn’t know when to shut up (don’t mean to start a political war)…
Hope things don’t get too sour on that spit of land.
Anyway, night everyone.
Evening guys
Went out for dinner with my folks to celebrate the end of Lent. My mother gave up eating out (She hasn’t taken my dare to give up fish or rice for lent) and since it’s over now we decided to eat out.
Ken, I thought that was what was with the SD9. If the worm is engaged to the ones in the truck, the wheels can’t be turned by hand. As for motors, most of the ones P2K used we either knock-offs of the Atlas (like the GP38-2 and SD45) or Athearn (GP7-30, SD7/9, BL2s) motors. If you could get the flywheels off of a motor, from say a BL2, and stick the SD7’s flywheels on it, it would work. I tried and failed at that (broke a P2K GP30’s motor trying to get the flywheels off, bent the shaft and jacked up some of the commutators). I had an SD9 motor go bad and I was able to get the next-to-last replacement from Walther’s. The newest run of SD7/9s have can motors now.
Jeff, that sucks. I have an old laptop that I probably ain’t gonna use that I could send with 1GB of RAM (too low for my needs). But it needs a hard drive and it has a rather small (I think 12 to 15 inch) screen. Rebuilt hard drives for this type cost about $40. BTW, if that package gets out Monday, do you think it’d be here by Friday?
Evenin’ folks!
Easter day was busy and enjoyable. Enjoyed Church this morning, then went to a fancy hotel restaurant in Canandaigua that my sister always makes reservation for the family for. They put on a great spread, but the buffet lines were very long and slow moving. The granddaughters were pretty good there considering. Came back home from that and headed out to my son’s house for an evening of games, TV watching, and family fun. The granddaughters and the fiancee of a great Uncle of theirs took on the champ (me) in a game of Bowling (Wii) I easily beat them… Give them a couple more years and I don’t think old granddad’s score will be enough though!
I managed to accumulate way too much candy again so much of it will be out away to be doled out little by little to me by me.
Jeffrey, sorry to hear the 'puter went South on you. I know you will come up with something that will do the trick for you soon!
I see that Sorrycus done made it into the final 4 for the dribble and shoot contest this year… My son is elated about it as he spent a year at Syracuse working on his Bachelors degree. He flunked out as he didn’t know the difference between studying and partying at that point in time.
I do wish we knew what is going on with Ulrich! Miss his posts… Have a great night everyone, and don’t forget to put out a trail of crumbs for us, whoever moves the diner to its new location!
73
yeah , I’m hopefully getting enough paint for more models when I get them. As for NK, they have yet to learn not to poke the hornets nest.
Hello all!
Been a couple of weeks at least since I’ve popped in as I’ve been busy busy busy with my new j*b.
Now the cricket season is over I hope to get back into my layout, as it’s sat pretty stagnant for a couple of months.
I popped into the LHS today and picked up a Hornby Thomas, Annie & Clarabelle as my 2 1/2 yr old niece loves Thomas and friends. I also picked up a Thrall 4000’ cu ft gon in BN paint for my scrap metal service to go along with regular gons.
I’m looking on Model Train Stuff now to maybe get a couple of structures to get me going again.
See you all in the April diner!
Glad to see the other Aussie around!
GOOD MORNING!!!
THIS DINER IS CLOSED!!!
The new Diner is here:
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/216523.aspx
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Good Morning All… Darn cold!
I don’t think any amount of coffee or other liquid will help me this a.m. [xx(]
But top me up anyway thank you!
Garry: The MESS is now a bigger MESS! Started the expansion last month with an additional 50’ of track as the main line is now two main lines, which come together for 1/2 their lengths (60’ x 2) to make a doubled main line. with minimum 30" curves so I can run my 2-10-4’s (2 CPR Selkirks and a CV Texas). Definitely a retirement project in the making!
Phil: unfortunately I ran out of time and never got a hold of Teffy. When you call him you KNOW you’re in for a very long call! Mine usually go for up to 2 hrs!!! I’ll definitely call him this month off.
Howmus: Let’s see now… 120 Ton Steam Wrecking Crane (just need to add grab rails and decals), Boom Car and 40’ bulkhead pulpwood flat car x 2. Also brought along a Walthers undecorated Dynamometer car, 3 40’ panel side hoppers by Accurail (CN, CV, GTW) and a Trainman Boxcar.
The MESS will be getting additional sidings/staging yard once the main line is up and running! Cuz I need them desperately!!!
Anyway Have a good day
Fergie