I bought it used so i drove it a few years then stored it away. So yes, she has sat in my garage for 15 years with the exception of taking her off the blocks, pushing her outside, washing and waxing and letting the doors sit open for a while for some fresh air. Keeps the interior soft (velour). I only do that in the summer, so she does get to see sunlight now and then. I do not start it, stored-no fluids.
Good evening…
Mr. B … I think you will like wireless. Also, I hope your wife has a safe trip. I know I get more model railroading accomplished when my Main Squeeze is out of town with me staying home.
Galaxy … I had read the CP was talking about selling the D&H but did not know NS was involved.
PM rail fan. Good to see you in the Diner. Our toy here is a thirty year old Porsche 928S
Todd. I enjoy your Toddland reports. Bummer about the buffet closing. Watch out for the model railroad bug which commonly bites in the winter months.
Ray … Feel free to venture over to Buffalo for rail fanning. There must be some snow plowing on the railroads there.[:D]
Jimmy … Wow… The camera train took a nose dive. That must have stirred up excitement.
CN Charlie. … Interesting your wife learned how to drive with powerful car. No tickets , I hope.
YGW … hope your Thanksgiving week is a good one.
Model railroad progress. … I am pleased to say my two Atlas Silver Series SD24’s now have Soundtraxx Tsunami decoders installed. I am very happy with the results.
Evening Dinners
Flo Beer and give that Buick guy sitting in the corner a [B] as well.
Computer Front. [banghead] Been driving my self crazy reading specks and worrying I might make a mistake. My biggest worry is my old hard ware and software. Will Windoes 7 support my old Words program, HP 720 camera, joy stick and games? [^o)] I have seen a 64 bite XP Pro program, but there is no support, will AVG protect the new Computer?
Think maybe I found the answer, run dual hard drives. One with Windows 7 and the other my XP Pro? Need to read more about it and all so figuer out why I need / want a faster computer! [(-D]
CNCharlie You sure it was a 70 Road Runner? Reason I say that is a 70 Road Runner is stock form did not have a huge air scoop. Now, 1969 had a flat black lift off hood with a big scoop. But, there has been plenty of aftermarket made with the 6 barrel (Plymouth is 6 Barrel, Dodge was 6 Pack) hoods.
YGW Rather have a gutted N&W engine than a decoder eating complete engine! [:-^]
Todd Happy to see you drop by!
PM Railfan I have found many of us train people are all so car people as well. Take Todd, he has owned is 1970 Road Runner for I think 32 years. Comparied to me, he just got it. I got my 68 Road Runner when I was 17, Mom and Dad bought it when I was 12. I have owed her for 43 years. Then there is Blow Out Clyinder he is a old drag racer like me and that is where is screen name came from.
Just because we like trains does not mean it is all we love. That is one of the great things about the dinner. We can talk about trains, stereo’s (Rob and I are Audiophiles) coin collecting (spell check) or our health or lack of it.
Far as your GN sitting, you do know you are not doing it any favors. Drive the darn thing!
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[color=orange]GOOD MORNING DINER![/color]## [color=orange]November 21, 2014![/color]## [color=orange]Gobble gobble gobble![/color]
[color=purple]Today’s fine Quote:[/color]
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do. -Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)
[color=red]MAKE it a GREAT FRIDAY![/color]
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A BIG HEARTY [#welcome] to PM Railfan:
This is the “designated non-train thread”. The only one on this site.
Here we CAN talk about our daily lives and what-not, just not certain, ahem, “flame war topics” or “deviding topics” that people have strong opinons over.
AS long as we stay away form such things,and keep it clean here, the Hosts pretty much leave us alone to talk about the weather, other “hobbies”, our daily hum-drum lives.
SO, Join us more often, and tell us about yourself !
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When I was “young and foolish” I LOOKED at and seriously contemplated a Porsche 944 Turbo. I stopped by to look at and test-drive a new 944. It was Ok. But then they had a 2 year pre-owned {such cars are never “used”!} 944Turbo, and that once became my desire! In red of course!
Problem was, and reason why I didn’t get it, was that I did lawn/garden care at the time nad new fully loaded 4x4 pickup was in the cards as a vehicle I NEEDED rather than the 944Turbo that I WANTED.
I still comb craigslist for them {generally only listed in summer] and dream…I say dream as I dont think I could now get into the darn thing with my cane leading the way!
Other problem is atht the porsche dealer aroudn here has been closed for ahwile, and I would have to take it up to Syracuse to get dealer type servicing…
Ah, to dream, perchance to own…
I still dream…
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Well maybe i just found a new grub shack to tell all my fish stories! Thanks muchly for the welcome folks, always a pleasure to be accepted. I will do my best to keep the convo enlightning.
So lets see, where to begin. I guess what got me here is cars so thats a good spot. Yes, I know, im not doing my GN any favors by letting her sit. Truth be known i DO want to drive it. All the time to be honest. But ya gotta know, those cars are trouble makers. Everywhere i would go there is a Mustang, Vette, or other hopped up heebie jeebie mobile that always want to throw down.
Now dont get me wrong, I certainly love to oblige. As we all do - right? But Im older now. Trying to focus on my first love. No, not my high school honey, but trains. Cars are very expensive! Besides, I made the decision that when my daughter either graduates college, or gets married (which ever comes last!) she will get the car as a gift. Im not giving her my trains!!! So i think my GN needs to be stored. Otherwise, she wont get anything but an old worn out brick, and I will be in jail for all the street racing. Tooo addictive!
I see someone mentioned computers. Maybe I can be of use here. Ive been in computers since before Bill Gates was a household name. So if you need help, please ask.
Sidenote to Cuda Ken - Win7 is capable of doing quite alot of stuff. Including running old programs (down to 16bit stuff, below that and you have to use virtual emmulations such as “XP Mode” which comes buried in Win7. NOTE your computer must be capable of handling virtuals. To find out, just check out your CMOS during the POST cycle. Somewhere in there will be a switch to turn it on or off (default usually is off). If you dont see the switch, your PC cant do it. As an example of Win7’s old program capabilities, i still play Sid Miers “Rails” game from the late 80’s on my Win7x64 machines. HMU Ken and I can walk you through it. Also, LOVED the pic of your “Z Eater”. Especial
Good morning and happy Friday!
Penny’s plane is off the coast of Delaware right now, headed south. And I’m setting up for a week off, costing me only 3 vacation days.
Ken, I am still running XP on my home machine. I bought this computer a few years back, set up to be a good gaming machine. I had to second-source a copy of XP online, since Microsoft was no longer selling it. My problem was that Windows 7 will not support Gameport devices. In fact, I could not even find a Gameport card that would plug into the motherboard on this machine, so I had to get a USB-to-Gameport converter. Even with that, Windows 7 wouldn’t support my flight simulator yoke and pedals, so I would have had to replace those. No thanks. XP works fine for me.
Mornin’ everyone!
Zoe, I’ll have a short stack of Buttermilk Pancakes, Real NYS Maple Syrup (and a pat of real butter too), couple sausage links on the side, and a large pot of Seneca Lake Blend Organic Dark Roast coffee to start the day.
Lake effect is gone now in the Finger Lakes and the big yellow thing is peeking through the clouds at the moment. Current temperature is 22°F with a high this afternoon of 28°F and a low of 18°F tonight. Hoping the solar array will clean itself off and make a bit of electric for me today. I may have to get out the roof rake and help it along. Weather guessers are calling for a major warm up in the next few days so the 7 feet of snow that fell in some places near Buffalo may melt very quickly resulting in some very bad flooding. Death total for the storm in the Buffalo area is now 13 people.
[color=red]Garry[/color], I’m wondering if the old rotary snowplows came out on the CSX in Western NY? It would be great to see those old girls in action, but I really don’t want to be anywhere near Buffalo or Watertown at the moment… [:-^]
[sigh] Still haven’t got everything together for the publishing deadline… That means we will have to do a lot more advertising on our own somehow. Not happy! [sigh]
Weclome aboard, [color=red]Douglas[/color]! You do have a lot of the same interests as many people who hang out in here. I was into cars in my youth, but in a bit different way. I did love to drive my BILs “home modified” hot rods, like a little Jeep that he pulled the 40hp flathead out of and droped a Chevy 283 into. It was great for blowing away that little thing that [color=red]Ken[/color] brags about from stop light to stop light in Canandaigua way back in the 60’s. Think 4 wheel drive and blue smoke rolling off all 4 wheels… [swg] Personally I had a souped up 71’ VW Bug
Evening Dinners
Flo Beer Pleases
Day Off If You Want To Call It That. Did some running and raked the leafs again. [:-^] That in it self is a workout.
Computer Front. Went to Best Buy and bought another stick of DDR 1 Ram. My Dell 3000 now has the Max Ram the mother board can support, which is 2 GB’s. I am really pushing it limts right now. I am doing a high speed AVG scan, on line and running JMRI to control the engines. While it is doing better than when I only had 1.5 GB’s of ram, still not what I want.
Ray so you where / are a VW guy as well. My Dad did not want me to become a Hot Rodder like he was. Has a stell plate in his head from rolling his Supercharged 57 T-Bird. So my first car was a 1963 VW. He all so swore I would never get the 68 Road Runner! [swg] I bought a 67 Engine, installed a 2100 CC Empi Barrel and Piston Kit with a 82MM roller bearing crank and used 68 302 Z-28 rods. More than likey you know the drill so I will not go into details.
Douglas More than likely I will be asking you some Computers Tips. I think a seprate (spell check ) Video Card with it’s own Memeory might help. But after the Hoildays I do want to move up to just old and not real old. From what I have found on line my dell dimension 3000 was made around 1993?
This is a online store that is down the street from where I work a few days a week. http://stores.ebay.com/Executive-Personal-Computers/_i.html?_fsub=7372229&_sc=1&_sop=1
My company buys from them so I should be able to get a discount in person.
I like this model and $ range.
I’ll have the House Dinner Special, please.
***YGW, does coal dust enhance the flavor of the coffee?
***Todd, interesting about the oil. I will be giving this a try in a few days. I expect it will work as well as the three of you car guys have suggested. Then once all cleaned out and with fresh oil, the question will be, did I wait too long and damage anything.[^o)]
Any idea why a tractor (McCormick CT28 w/ diesel engine) cuts out/shuts off for no apparent reason? Makes no difference which gear it is in or how much throttle or what chore I am doing with it, simply shuts off. Starts back up immediately with a turn of the key.
Cheer! [C):-)] Rob
Evenin’ [color=red]Rob[/color]! Just a stab in the drk, but if it has a fuel filter on it, that could cause the problem. I know our 80 tonner out at the museum lost one of the prime movers twice this year due to one of the pair of filters (just like motor oil filters on those). As soon as one of the mechanics showed up and replaced the filters with new ones she started right up and purred like a… ah… not like a kitten, more like a Tiger…[swg]
[color=red]Ken[/color], Back when I was teaching in Waverly, NY, in 1971 I bought the last VW Bug I owned (I think that was #7 and was the only new one. most were 10 or so years old and had well over 100,000 miles on it before I bought it). That was the year of the “Super” Beatle. Came with 60hp behind you pushing… A couple years later when the original high back pressure muffler failed, I replaced it with a glasspack straight through extractor exhaust. That gave the car a significant boost and made it sound, ah, rather more powerfull than it was (about 75hp). In the Intermediate school where I spent most of my time there was a 6th. grade teacher named Chuck Holler who told his 6 graders that no car made can beat a good runner (human type) going between two telephone poles. Yep, he said it was physically impossible to do. His class came down to the music room and told me what he said. Some of them also told the building principal. Chuck and I had a great time for a week or so that spring picking on each other in front of the kids about it. I said My car could beat him running any day. Finally the principal (who was a character and a half and one of the best people I ever worked for) set up a School Event in front of the Building for Mr. Holler, Mr. Howard, and all the 6th. graders to view this science experiment. I did check out the distance carefully one day when I left school to be sure I could
Good evening.
i spent some time with the model railroad today, but not much. I enjoyed running the SD24’s when I had the time. Too much non-model railroad stuff today.
Galaxy. The 944 would have been nice I bet. This 928 has a story to it. We received it in trade for a travel trailer we were trying to sell. The car was in bad shape, and we are slowly restoring it. Problem is there is too little money in the budget for it. The travel trailer was one we helped Shelley’s sister get to live in. Shelley’s sister had lived in Florida and had a number of very serious problems down there. We rescued her basically. She had no money, and Shelley bought her a greyhound bus ticket to Nashville. We drove to Nashville to get her, and all she had was the clothes she was wearing. We tried to help her rebuild, but poor health caught up with her, and she passed away. That is why we had the trailer and ultimately got the Porsche.
I hope to have more time for model railroading tomorrow.
Cheers, everybody.
Scuze’ me, coming through. Putz alert! My goodness did i ever fubar a couple of days ago. Flo?.. gimme a burger, you know… the ones you serve to stupid people!
So im working on this project. Pretty much so involved in it that I completely didnt think we have a DCC and Electronics forum here. Silly me thinking a DCC question went in General Discussion. You ever feel like your having one of those days where the whole world is a tuxedo and you are a pair of brown shoes?
So not only does MR move it (they shoulda just deleted my insanity), but my post has already pretty much been answered. Flo, make that two stupid burgers please!
Oh well, how was everyones day? Better than mine I hope. This is what i get for leaving my front door! lol. Thanks to those above on my welcoming, and pleased to meet you… I apparently am the town idiot. [D)]
Ken - before i recommend a computer i ask what the user plans to do with it. Hate to see you spend $$ and not get a puter that meets your needs. Let me know your use for a puter and I can better judge the T3400 you like. At this moment, I think you can do better.
Your Dell Dimension 3000 came out in 2004. Yes, anytime you can add a video card with its own memory is a help. Having its own memory frees up system memory for other things. Which translates to a faster running computer. The T3400 your looking at is 32 bit. It has to be to run Win7.
Howmus - “It was great for blowing away that little thing that Ken brags about…” [(-D] Was that a gauntlet i heard dropping?
Actually found out we have a Tesla owner here in town. Dang sneaky little things! Came up along side me and never knew he was there until i heard the tire noise. Looked over and “DANG! Its a Tesla!” i exclaimed to my friend riding with me. So I gave the well to do looking driver a positive nod then cupped my hand behind my ear as if to hear something. Next thing i know he just takes off. V
[color=orange]GOOD MORNING DINER![/color]## [color=orange]November 22, 2014![/color]## [color=orange]GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE[/color]
[color=purple]Here is your quote for the day:[/color]
Language is the archives of history. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Here’s one for Jeffrey:
Either I will find a way, or I will make one.Philip Sidney
Oh, I nearly forgot:
[color=green]For those in NEED:## HEALING thoughts and## HEALING ENERGIES your way![/color]
**~Garry:**I am sorry to hear yours has an “attachment” to it. And, OH, the 944 was a NICE car…it has a bit of a story too. I went in to the local Porsche/VW/Mercedes dealer and looked at a brand new 944, the target of my, er, um, “affection”. The 944 WAS desinged to be the “entry level Porche” at the “lowest offered entry price” {like the Mercedes 180} and was $20k. I drove it and was PLEASEd, to say the least, at the age of 22. Then the dealer salesman pointed out for $18k I could have the 2 years pre-owned 944 turbo…so I drove IT. MAN, TO say the least, the TURBO Then became the “object of my affections”!!! IF I was going to buy one, I HAD To HAVE the turbo! The Trbo had POWER - the 944 regular was OK, in that department, BUT the turbo blew the 944 regular away!Both were red. But then I went and looked at a Chevy full sized fully loaded {before “fully loaded” trucks were commonplace} with A/C, cruise, tilt, cloth interior, power everything, 4x4, long box etc. Black with a silver middle pannel. SHarp looking for a truck! It was $17,500 plus everything came to just over $18k. SA I said, I NEEDED the truck for working purposes, and my GMC S-15 pickup was my trade. The full size CHevy loaded truck won out…I looked later a couple years to see about getting a 944 turbo or eve regular once the truck was paid off early, but I decided NOT to buy it, and save the money instead. I don’t hav the money any more, but I MAY still have had the Porsche 944 turbo. NOw I look for funsies, but sigh If we have money and the right one comes along, I MAY…IF I can talk MOH into it,and I can get into the darn thing now. I’d love to have a “fun car”, or else a few other mo
Mornin, an irish coffee and a short stack please Janie. Getting a bit of sun this morning, it pose at be rainin, course we pose the have freezing rain over night night didn’t get it either. Rain will move in later high round 50. A 90% rain tomorrow with high in mid 50’s.
DOUGLAS, welcome to the diner…
RAY, when I was still in school, 6 of us put the coaches bug in the gym lobby, not once but twice.
Trains, well you’d a thought UP owned the tracks instead of CSX. Had 1 W bound UP mixed freight pull into the S passing tracks. Shortly after had 2 E bound UP, 1 mixed and 1 haulin auto racks n containers went through.
Been busy the last couple day with chores, getting ready for company, and with the knee problems Mother’s havin, she not much help. She has an MRI Tue, they’d better find out whats wrong, ur I’ll be upset. Thoughts for all those in need n hope ya’ll has a gooden.
Good morning! Mmmmm…that coffee smells good. The wife is out of town, so I’ll have Jimmy Dean sausage, eggs and English muffins, if you please.
I’m in day 1 of nine days off. Then it’s 2 weeks of work, a couple of stray Mondays and I will be done with work, finished, outathere. Today is the day to risk my credit card’s security at Home Depot and get the lumber for the next benchwork. Tomorrow is a train show, and some football action.
Welcome to the Diner, Douglas. [#welcome] Your project on the DCC forum sounds interesting. I hope we were of help. A number of us over there take great pleasure in solving problems by remote control. No one is born with DCC knowledge pre-loaded, and every one of us has asked questions that we would now classify as “everyone knows that.”
This place seems a bit underpopulated. It’s quiet. Too quiet. Hopefully, our missing brethren will be back soon. Best wishes, gentlemen.
I am perfectly happy with my XP computer. It does all I ask, and it’s still running reliably. We have Windows 7 on our desktops at work, and quite frankly, it strikes me as an inferior product. I did look into workarounds for running Gameport devices on Windows 7, but there didn’t seem to be any. What’s on my machine now will work as long as the machine does. At some point, my browsers will probably age out, they won’t support some features, and no one will make an upgrade for XP. At that point I can get a cheap laptop for browsing, and keep my XP machine for gaming.
Mornin’ everyone!
“We’re havin’ a Heat Wave… Tropical Heat Wave…” Yep! Temp outside is all the way up to freezing this morning here in the Finger Lakes. Currently 32°F under cloudy skies with a high today all the way up to 41°F. Buffalo, NY is about to get rained on!!! Doesn’t that sound like fun with 6 feet of snow laying around…? Should result in a lot of roofs caving in and major flooding in unusual places.
[color=red]Galaxy[[/color], I prefer the great quote, “If at first you don’t suceed, try, try again. Then quit! No sense making a ---- fool of yourself…” W. C. Fields
Personally I’ve never been wrong. I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.
BTW, [color=red]Douglas[/color], sure I’ll throw the guantlet down for [color=red]Ken[/color], but unfortuately both my BIL and all his cars are long gone now. Bernie died of a bone related cancer back a few years ago, and the Jeep? It sat for years next to a workshop he had on his land and ended up being scrapped I think. I did get to drive it for one week when my 1960 VW bug got totalled (Cost me $20 to fix the rear lights and drive it for another 10,000 miles) when I was a Junior at Eastman School of Music. The Bug cost me $3 a week (at 29.9¢ per gallon) to drive from Canandaigua to Rochester and back 5 days a week. The “Jeep” went through $25 worth of petrol to do the same thing and could only do 65 mph with the 283 redlined… Had a bit of torque it did! I almost got arrested when
Sat. 71-49 Sun. 75-49 Mon.80-50 We have Santa Anna winds again make it warm and dry.
PM Railfan whats in the cloud with computers?
My old XP does everything I want except for a while now it freezes up about every other day and I have to turn it off and back on. Is there a way to fix this? I only allow myself a certain amount of time on the computer before I go to bed or have to go someplace and then if it freezes up I am NOT pleased to say the least.