This heat wave is just down right horrible!!! I have tried to do some railfanning but its just to hot!! 13 people have died in Memphis alone its just to hard to deal with. Is anyone else getting roasted by this heat?
No, it’s not bothering me at all.[:-^]
[banghead][banghead][banghead]
WOW!!! Thats horrible! Im glad i decided to wait until fall to start work on the layout because it will be in a garage!
I knew it was hot in the summer in Alabama but not like the inside of a blast furnace. We’ve had less than a half inch of rain and it has been over 100 everyday in August except one, when it was 99. We had two days in a row of highs of 112 and that was the actual temperature, not the heat index.[:O] Thursday we will break the record set in 1884 of the most days over 100 in a single month. It’s so bad that a lot of the native trees are starting to go dormant and lose their leaves.
I’m lucky to have the layout in an air conditioned basement but my workbench is in the garage. If I get up at 6 am, when the temperature finally gets down to 80 or so, I can get a few hours work in on a model before I have to retreat to the house. It was so bad that a jar a of vaseline I keep on the workbench to coat the threads of paint bottles actually turned to a semi-liquid. It’s 12:25 am as I write this and my weather station says the current temperature is still 86 degrees with a heat index of 89. I’m really sick of this. It’s worse than the cabin fever we’d get in Cleveland during the winter.
Heat? What heat?
The temperature has only been in the low 100’s. Around here, that’s COOL!
Of course, it’s cooler right around sunrise. That’s when I work in the garage railroad room. Thanks to local code (and the presence of a gas-fired hot water heater) there are open vents to the outside - hence no climate control.
To prevent heat buckling, I leave rather large gaps at all of my rail joints. When the temperature is in the 40s (January AM) I leave just under 2mm. At 80, I halve that. At 120 (about a week ago) the gaps aren’t quite closed, so there’s no unwanted stress on the rails.
The moral of the story? Figure out how you’re going to cope with the most extreme temperatures, both plus and minus, that your area will ever experience, and build accordingly.
If your layout space is climate controlled, fine. Air conditioners fail, gas mains and electrical power grids sometimes don’t deliver what they’re supposed to, and that climate controlled space suddenly isn’t!
The Boy Scouts got it right. Be prepared!
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Chuck, many years ago when I was working as a cowhand up in Montana we used to mosey around town on Saturday night; is ‘moseling’ anything like ‘moseying’??? and why is it significant to
The temperature in Phoenix at 10 P.M. was still 101º!!! It had only dropped eight degrees in six hours.
We have fun here in the desert Southwest joking about
but after I saw where they were looking at a temperature of 101º in Birmingham today and knowing what the humility is like down there I emailed my daughter in Cullman, Alabama and told her she needed to move back here where our humility was only 28% - now that’s a
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DRY HE
No heat here in Southeast Minnesota/Western Wisconsin. I’m from western Wisconsin, but go to school in SE Minnesota. At home we had rain and cloudiness. SE Minnesota got pounded by heavy rains and flooding. I’m right in the middle of the flooding. The city I’m in is fine, but the connecting towns are all flooded. I’m sure I’ll be helping with relief efforts at the university once we figure out what needs to be done.
On a lighter note, I did get to see two trains go by. One heading south, another going north. The south bound was a ballast train, two SOO Line’s at the point, the other was a mixed freight, also with two SOO Line’s at the point. The bridge in Minnesota City was washed out by floods. One of my roommates said he passed at least 5 trains stopped on the tracks. I live along the CP main heading south from the Twin Cities.
We are supposed to get some more rain later tonight and tomorrow. Non-stop rain is the forcast. Really humid here. Heat isn’t to bad, 80 degrees isn’t that bad, but add the 85% humidity and 75 degree dew points, makes for an uncomfortable non-AC apartment.
You Go R.T. Yes when i see the 98-95 F. i get excited. Yes im a garage modler as well but boy your right, its getting old.
Carl
Hmm - not even warm in our parts - but then it’s winter here…
9:30am and it’s 90F out already. Another glorious day in the convection oven.[:(] We haven’t had any rain or humidity in 2 months. All the wood in my benchwork dried out and shrank. That’s what caused my kinks. I’ve cut gaps in my rails in the problem spots twice now this summer.[banghead]
Hummm, clear, sunny and 69 in Monterey…life’s a Beach…
Tilden
As Jar Jar would say-“How WUDE!”[;)]
Um, actually, it’s 61 degrees and 57% humidity right now here in Massachusetts. Sure, people all laugh at us during the winter, but at least from time to time our summer’s are nice (and most of us have basements…great for layouts).
Paul A. Cutler III
Weather Or No Go New Haven
Thank God for central air and basements. Apperently it is monsoon season in western Wisconsin. We’ve had record rains in the spring, drought mid summer, and record rains in August. I guess I’ll take humidity over one hundred degree weather. At least we have minus ten degree weather to look forward to in the winter. Sometimes I feel like a farmer. Too wet, too dry, too hot, too cold! I thought my wife was never happy![:)]
HMMM.Al Gore and Mr. Moore must be running there yaps again causing a huge influx of carbon gas to dilute the atomsphere killing the ozone there by causing the polar caps to melt,raising the sea levels,flooding our cost,causing massive humidity with a resulting cloud coverage around the world.With crops failing from lack of sun shine .An eternal Ice age begins …OH MY !We are all going to die ! Run for the hills. Or better yet stick to the throttle of your favorite loco and go out to frozen eternity with your eye on the rail and your hand on the throttle…[xx(]
Got me! One of the wonders of arthritic fingers - sometimes I hit the key next to the one I intended to, then fail to catch it when I proof-read.
Here in Sin City, humidity in the double digits is HIGH!!! OTOH, humility is something unlikely to be found anywhere in the Las Vegas Valley.
Gotcha!
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - in a desert)
We’ve been lucky for the past two weeks or so. Here in Fredericksburg, VA (50 miles south of Washington, DC), we’ve had temps in the upper 70’s & low 80’s with almost no humidity.
Unfortunately our lucky streak is coming to an end on Saturday. They are calling for temps around 100 with the humidity coming back. That’s the same temps we had at the end of July and beginning of August.
The house is climate controlled and my layout is in the basement. I have one problem…my A/C is starting to act up. I had an A/C technician chcek it out. Looks like I have to replace the compressor. That’s suppose to happen Monday. Temps will be in the upper 90’s with high humidy.
Hope this heat wave takes a hike out to sea soon!
Bill
Yup! I love living up here!
Been hitting and breaking records three or times in the last couple weeks or so, hit 104o F a few days ago setting a new record for RDU here in Raleigh, NC.
Train room seems to be holding at around 88o F though, and I have not seen any major flux in the benchwork and track. (Fingers crossed)
Hmmm, 6a.m. this morning it was +1 (C.) that’s @ 33 degrees (F.) in ancient temperature. we had to light the woodstove. We hear humans cannot live or work in a temperature above 100, how can you possibly survive this heat, it must be really fun putting new shingles on a black roof in that heat.