Good morning. Temp 73°, humidity 93%, mostly cloudy, partly cloudy later. High 85°.
First order of business on the layout this morning was to get my rebuilt C420 (Lima, Stewart, Athearn, Life-Like) speed matched with my GP9’s. That took about fifteen minutes. Longest part of the process is moving the loco from the program track to the main and vice versa and making the entries for the CV’s. Got it done and it no longer tries to leave the GP9’s in the dust. I have more ‘KEEP OFF!’ labels to cut out. These are somewhat larger than the ones I cut out yesterday and there’s not as many. Those yesterday are 7/16" by 3/32". These are 9/16" by 2/16". That doesn’t seem like much but it’s a very visible size difference. Later I’ll see if I can get a photo of the two side by side. I have no other plans for today.
Currently 48 with an expected high of 70 with a thunder shower or two.
Opening shift today. One of my daughters is in a community theater play, she gets some type of college credit for it, so I am going to the show after work. Then both daughters and I will go out for something to eat after. Should be a long day. I have this weekend off so not a big deal getting home so late.
Received my package from Walthers yesterday, so tomorrow I will do some track rearranging, and some benchwork rearranging. If the Switch Tender motors show up today, that would be great, but probably not until Monday.
Another fine day here in the Finger Lakes Region of NYS! Currently 56°F outside with a high of 67°F predicted for later today. It is also going to be partly much of the day. Party what? Who knows. Right now it is partly sunny, but earlier it was partly cloudy…
Zoe, can I get a refill on the dark roast coffee please? Thank you.
One of the members of the R&GV RR Museum found an old photo of our LV C-254 Caboose at the Fallen Flags site. I hope to be working on board her this Sunday for opening day out at the Museum.
I do fine wiht allergies until the {hisss snarl} Lilacs in the dooryard bloom! THEN I am in for trouble, and so is MOH who is already miserable with the tree pollen.
listening to the Merrie Monarch KANEHula dances {men’s hula class}.Boy I tell you these guys can move in ways I am not sure I could when i was young and flexible. Of course they do it all thier lives. and practice makes perfect. Pele {the goddess of Hawaii and volcanoes} is/would be proud!
MOH still wnats to learn hula…haven’t heard form the studio in Ithaca. WIll have to call.
WeLl I have ophone calls to make, errrands to run adn such after MOH leaves for work…
JOB Front- MOH got the letter of offer last night for a new job,the one MOH wated to begin with!!! SO HOO-RAY! BUT mOH still has to be fingerprint/background searched first hence one ohone call to make appointement for next week for MOH to do so. SO Prayers continue…Thank YOU!!
well, best get at it, MOH gets nasty if I don’t spend avaialble tiem before MOH leaves for work {MOH misses me while there Isn’t that lovely?}
Well why put off til later what can be done now. Below are samples of the labels I was talking about in my earlier post. On the right are two samples of those that I cut out yesterday and on the left are two samples of those I’m cutting out today. They don’t seem to be so small until you compare to the Kadee coupler box cover on the left.
Graduation weekend is upon us. Our daughter Annie gets her bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience from the University of New England tomorrow. We will be driving up this afternoon. And yes, she has a job, although it’s not a high-paying one. We’re a bit concerned about her living plans, as she expects to rent a place with her still-jobless boyfriend. We’ve told her we’re not going to pick up his rent. But, she’s an adult now and will have to make her own decisions. She’s done OK so far.
As it turns out, I missed the cutoff for this week’s Walthers shipment to my LHS, so that stuff will have to wait. I’ll be away anyway, so another week won’t matter. I’ve learned a lot from this hobby, and patience is certainly part of that.
Guten Morgen, it’s payday and hopefully I get enough I can order my birthday present an N scale version of SP&S #750. they only have the hourglass version left, and only a couple of them too. then I have to get some MTL heavyweight cars and some Kato Smoothsides to repaint and decal with locomotive decals.
Thanks for the compliment. Busy isn’t the word for it. The crew have done met themselves coming and going! That F unit is one of the Frankenstein trio.
I see somebody (JP maybe?) got the new Walthers fire department buildings. Turns out, the prototype for the station and shop is in Des Moines. Useless trivial trivia tid-bit of the day
THAT Editor update: THAT has been in Jamaica for the past week or so. Whoever subbed in the paper putting together dept. laid-out two of the best danged sports pages I’ve seen in my almost five years on-staff. Maybe she’ll take a hint and continue what they started. I get to meet Sliced Bread next week, THAT Editor called-off facetime for today, said she thought she had a conflict. I resisted the urge to say I’ve often thought she was conflicted… I’m sure I’m in for a little butt chewing, I used a source she doesn’t like, for petty political reasons. But, the piece I quoted him in, his opinion was as valid as anybody else in the County, AND he even advocated for an idea by a guy on the opposite side of the poly-tick spectrum from himself. THAT oughta count for something. But, we shall see what we see when we see it.
Thanks again to all who complimented me on the CNW geep! GARRY, I think, commented on the rough track in a photo, THAT was in the ex-Rock Island “North Yard” in Cedar cRapids. CNW put the bucks into the East-West mainline, didn’t worry so much about a yard THAT was primarily a staging area for local industries. IF my plans actually w**k, I’ll have to finger-out a way to replicate THAT wavy up and down trackage. Any ideers on how to do THAT and still have the trains stay on the track?
VINCENT: Yes sir, those BN geeps in the MP-15 picture belonged to the Iowa Northern.
I dropped one of my F7 Frankenstein locos this morning. Busted the body into three pieces, knocked some drive parts out and broke a couple of solder joints! Put the drive back together and test ran it. Everything seems to work fine. The body however is beyond all hope. Looked on Ebay and found a used Athearn F7A body (UP) that’ll make a suitable replacement after the Sundown shops have painted it into the L&A scheme. There goes $11 from the grocery fund. Oh well. It should be here Wednesday. I was going to put the Frankenstein F unit trio in service today but that’ll have to wait unless I put on a Bachmann FT-A body.
I got the large ‘KEEP OFF!’ labels cut out and put into an old pill bottle. That’s what I keep my small model railroad parts in. Old pill bottles. Seems like a good use for them.
In other news I spotted a brown recluse spider crawling across the top of my night stand. The TV users manual came in handy for once and the spider was no more than a greasy smear on the table top!
Hey gang, well my check was terrible. so to counter that I’m selling my Kato Amtrak set and Bachmann led ATSF heavyweight set, they don’t really fit in the era/area I’m modeling respectively.
Been bizzy bizzy bizzy all week! But the chores are done, house is clean, and out of town family guests are arriving soon. Sunday son#4 graduates from college. He’ll work all summer here, then in the fall it’s 2 years of post graduate work in China! Oh and yes,Dad will be getting a Bachmann QJ shipped home! [:D]
But tomorrow, I go to Pittsburg with 4 other friends for a run session on another layout! [;)] Hey,I gotta do what a train nuts gotta do!![(-D]
Hope everyone is doing fine, and I keep watchin my mailbox for a certain German ballot to fill out![;)]
Wednesday was a great day! Daughter called, #1 grandson was accepted into a prestigeous(sp) gifted and talented St. Paul school for next year.Pretty cool! Then, FB’d with PFC Son. He is in Kyrgistan. His flights out of sandbox were delayed. He leaves Kyrgistan monday early am and will be CONUS at Ft. Bliss that afternoon. Said he’d call when boots on the ground, or soon as possible.
VERY happy Dad here![:D]
That’s all for now. Thanks to all of you for your good thoughts and prayers. They DO work.
listening to Hawai’i Aloha {the official anthem of Hawai’i}
I got 3 packages in the mail today…
1} 2 Hawaiian shirts two kinds, but yet matching, one for MOH and one for me,
2} some other items of clothing I ordered and can’t mention
3} A Bachmann EZ Command for MOH’s N scale stuff…going DCC now.MOH sees the benefits form my HO scale use of the B EZC so wants one too…someone was kind enough to pass one on…
4} and one big bill to pay…for stuff ordered…in installments of course…
laundered the new clothes after trial fits, both MOH’s and mine fit, good thing. I had to order one size up as my regular size came and lo, and behold, too small! will pass those onto train nut friend…he will enjoy them. will re-order for me.decided I will only order the cotton shirts now as the rayons are much “prettier”, but also fraught with problems…the cotton ones are lightweight cotton and well made and won’t have the problems the rayons do{coming apart}
Made a bunch of appts for MOH for next week…should make one for myself…my right shoulder is KILLING me.And the mouse doesn’t help.
so dinner was turkey thighs will freeze leftovers to make “bird salad” as MOh calls it, or “Bird soup”. MOH doens’t like much bird, but loves Beef, so I said we have had a LTO of beef lately {been getting it at verynice discounts} so had it a LOT. Have to have my favorite in there somewhere…
well, soon for bed early morning for MOh tomorrow so early to bed.
Special thoughts and prayers for them that need them…
Bad commuter train wreck in Connecticut this evening on national news.
Speaking of CT, where is JR?
Gary … Back at you with this picture I took while we were having dinner in LaGrange, KY a few weeks ago.
Terry… That is a great photo of you, your son, and the dog!
Ksrl … Big congrats to # 4 for graduation and the upcoming trip.
Jeff … Sound like you have a “floor model”.
Chris … I recall the Rock Island was even worse than C&NW regarding maintenace. They used bailing wire to hold together locomotive they “kitbashed” looking a bit like some of Jeff’s creations. The Milwaukee Road was in similar condition. The last time I saw a MILW Erie Built FM passenger locomotive, it was hauling a commuter train, and part of its side panel was made of plywood instead of steel.
