Jeffrey´s Trackside Diner - April 2015

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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In memory of

Jeffrey Scott Wimberly

AKA Running Bear, Dr. Frankendiesel, The Spray Can Rembrandt

Volunteer firefighter, exceptional model railroader and friend.

Jeffrey´s Trackside Diner is a meeting place for all who wish to join. We talk on-topic, but also off-topic here, but always within the framework of the forum policy. Talk about your ongoing or future model railroading projects, show us your latest acquisitions or simply share your day. If you need to let off some steam, you can do it here, but beware - Cousin Vinnie, the proprietor, is keeping a close watch on the language and is unforgiving when it comes to violations of the house rule.

The finest foods and beverages are being served here by the staff - that´s the twins Chloe and Zoe, and Janie and Flo. There is a new menu, which now includes Chinese dishes (for you, Todd!) and JSTL - that´s Jeffrey´s special Tabasco lemonade. Other than that, you will fine good ol´ home cooking here.

Come in and enjoy!

I think we all had it with Winter now, so this month´s location is far away from the snw or ran we all had plenty of in the past months. May I suggest the state of Louisiana for this month? We can spend a good time in New Orleans, take a trip to Leesville to pay our respect to our gone frriend.

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Good morning Ulrich. Oh don’t forget Sarah she works for the diner as a dishwasher and sometimes an emergency waitress when the diner gets extra busy.

I haven’t slept yet I’m trying to kill a cockroach in the kitchen and a second attempt to empty the freezer in the laundry room.

Talk to guys later in the morning, good night.

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Ulrich! You almost missed it! I am just half hour behind you in the diner! I almost opened the new one for us! I don’t mind taking turns, but I thought maybe you were asleep at the wheel!

Now, dear friends, although Ulrich makes reference to the “FORUM POLICY” or “RULES”, and although I could see no blatant rule violations, Mr. Steve Otte, our esteemed host’s leader here, has asked we remind every one that there are to be NO POLITICAL discussions or statements made here.

The “simple refresher” for the “Forum Policies” is found on the top of the “general thread page” of this forum.

Here it is in Mr. Otte’s own"handwriting":

[#offtopic]Stay on topic – model train talk only, please (though civil off-topic discussion is tolerated in the Diner thread).

[:(!]Stay away from divisive topics, like graffiti, hoboes, train-hopping, and what makes a “real model railroader.”

[soapbox]Avoid controversial off-topic subjects like race, religion, ethnicity, sex, violence, guns, abortion, politics, and unions, even in signatures. This extends to images, as well.

[banghead]Be civil. No name-calling, insults, or put-downs (including accusing others of “trolling”).

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[color=blueviolet]Here it is!## APRIL FOOLS DAY![/color]## Ain’t no foolin’ here!## [color=maroon]Today’s odd words: [/color]

Inhebetate- Make something dull or blunt. This can be referred to an item, a story, a party, etc

Orcast - Poverty; indigence.

Deipnosophist - A master at the art of dining. Or, a good conservationist at meals. From the Greek word meaning "one learned in the mysteries of the kitchen

Zetetic - (Rare) Means to proceed by inquiry or investigation. From Greek meaning “to seek.”

[color=firebrick]MAKE IT A GREAT DAY![/color]

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Good Morning

Waiting for daylight here…oh, hello…how be all of you?

Had to make a hospital visit, not for me, or my wife, but for a friend of mine who is now undergoing cancer treatments. Would appreciate [angel].

As for other stuff I had some time to go over my tracks to clean them up…and run some trains!!!

Chloe…I’ll have coffee and a toast/jam please…

For the guitarists out there…pay me and I’ll be a compensated nut [:-^]

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Lunchtime!

It´ll be a bowl of spaghetti with tomato sauce and grated cheese “pured” over it - today is our vegetarian day [dinner]

The weather on this April 1st lives up to it´s reputation. We have the whole lot within in 30 minutes - from ran to snw to hail, back to sunshine. Add to that gusts of wind up to 80 mph and it really makes a pleasant day! [|(]

We managed to do a week´s worth of shopping groceries in between two showers. The fridge, the freezer and the cupboard are now loaded with supplies, so we can stay home until after the Easter days. Shops are closed on Friday until Tuesday, but are open on Saturday for a few hours only. I hate to do shopping right before holidays!

Train service has just commenced here on our line. There was not a single train from 8 pm yesterday until 11am today. The overhead wires had come down on quite a few places, not only on this line. This has been quite some storm!

Douglas - there is no rule on who opens the month´s Diner. Any one can (and should) do it. Galaxy and I did most of the times in recent years, as we are the ones to be up first - Galaxy being a somewhat insomniac chap and I due to the time difference.

Well, lunch is ready - CUL, folks!

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Yes, Ulrich has the 6 hours time difference ahead of us in the USA, and I being a person who either doesn’t sleep or gets up early on the East Coast, USA, Are the first ones to usually do it.

For instance, a half hour after Ulrich opened this one, I was up, had had breakfast and just sat down to the 'puter to do it if Ulrich hadn’t. He beat me to it. Besides it was “his turn”.

Since we generally are the ones to do it, Most regulars here in the diner look for us to do it, and a long time ago it was suggested by several we alternate doing it. And thus it has been so since.

Prior to that, it was erradic, and sometiems didn’t get done until a few days after the start of the month. Or someone would jump the gun and do it a day or two early.

So, for consistancy, and by popular “opinion/vote”, Ulrich and I are the ones “choosen” to do the “opening ceremonies”, much like it was “voted” by “popular opinon” to rename the Diner from “Eliot’s Trackside Diner” to “Jeffrey’s Trackside Diner” in honor of, and in rememberance of Jeffrey Wimberly, a fondly thought of member who was well-loved here and passed away recently!

Also there is this:

Since MOH is also a minister, and I would also actually physically light a “prayer candle” and promote “healing energies” {as not everyone is religious and religious items spoken of/fought over/opinions expressed are forbidden due to forum rules} in the direction of the ailing person, So, It is pretty

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Good Morning Diners,

flo, I’ll have my usual gigante cup of coffee with copious amounts of cream, please.

Justa quick note before I’m off to work.

Galaxy: I seem to remember that the B&O museum also has a pretty nice HO layout. I thought it was worth seeing.

I hope everyone is OK, safe, and warm.

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APRILA already? No Fooling!

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Good morning… Happy April, everybody.

Ulrich … Nice job opening the place, and …

Galaxy … Good of you to post the rules.

Barry … Sorry to hear about your friend. Too many people are fighting cancer. Prayers for all of them.

I actually had time for MRR last night, and I built part of the benchwork which will support the stockyard I built recently. I plan to keep adding to the benchwork to support tracks for the stickyard and also continue down the line to a coal mine yet to be built.

If any of you have any model railroading plans for April, I will be interested in hearing about them.

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I only had 4 hours of sleep, waking up to a nose bleed. Unfortunately I didn’t get the cockroach last night. It escaped between the kitchen cabinets and where the dishes are being kept. I wish I had X-Ray vision so I can find it. I’m washing the whole section by hand where I spotted this thing. Dishwasher been broken for two years now.

The last time I spotted a cockroach in the cabinet it was the second shelf and I had dishwasher. That takes 4 cycles to wash everything.

I’ll tell you another story later.

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HELP!

I am taking a POLL:

How big {how many BTUs} is your furnace?

How many square feets do you have?

The reason I am taking this poll, is that the furnace guys and the "experts’ at the Miller furnace dealer in Bingo town, have surmised that the reason we keep replacing parts on a “new” furnace {now 4-5 years old} is that we have an oversized furnace @ 100K BTUs for less than 910 Sqfeet if you allow for the deduction of the 2x6 walls is less than {our “box” is 14x65 {=910 sqft}} so really its 13x64 heated space so 832 sqft really. @ oversized, it is running too hot for it, and thusly burning out parts. It should be about 65K BTUs.

SO, naturally this firm wanst me to buy a new furnace, and we may just do it, with C/A this time. awaiting a call for the set up of the man to come out to give me an estimate.

So , I am asking y’all, so as to compare and see if the theory holds some water, or whether it is as above: they want to sell me a new one? SO: how big {BTus} is your furnace to heat how many sqft???

Just what we need. Just when I thought we might be getting ahead, this happens. More debt. But @ 36 intrest free, is still a car payment to us {About $180/month! assuming it is $6500. Ours was $3600 those years ago without A/c, and we were told A/c was about $3k more}

Dunno.

well that just bummed my day!

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Ulrich: I sent you a PM. Did you get it?

Galaxy: Furnace? What’s a furnace? [;)]

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SAME thing as an Air conditioner, only different, which our next climate control unit will have installed too!
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Wed. 79 Thur. 80

I was the last poster in Feb. and again in March except for Madogs the end post. Is this good luck or bad luck, do I win a prize?

I got the idea Mr Otte wanted a no politics or other contriversal in the thread title. Jeffries Trackside Diner no contriversal topics. On the General Discussion page.

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Some folks out here actually have a single unit that does both. (Not a shared blower unit, single unit.) It is basically a heat exchange unit, sending cold air in one direction and heat in the other. You swap the direction of the flow based on the time of year. They were popular years ago, but the issue is that they use significantly more electricity as a heater than a traditional heater, since you are, in effect, running an air conditioning compressor to create heat.

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Wed. 79 Thur. 80 Were going shooting in a hour, its 7:50 here.

I am in the process of repairing a broken sprinkler pipe. I have sprinklers at the edge of my driveway and have run over them numerious times. If it breaks the pipe its a big job. I must be more careful this is getting to be a pain.

So I dig out the pipe about 4 ft. on each side of the break. Then the idea is to have the new sprinkler and its couplings assembled and you very quickly apply the glue to both the inside and outside of both ends, pull up the two pipe ends and slip the assembly into both pipe ends at the same time. The glue dries fast and if you don’t get it right you have to cut the whole thing out and start again. I have done it before successfully.

This time if I dug up the pipe another 5 ft. then its the end and I can glue it one joint at a time so I did that.

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Galaxy,

Tell that furnace guy he’s full of bs.

Mine is 185,000 BTU’s, with central air. Aside from regular maintenance, filter’s, little oil on the motor, clean the pilot vents, do that every year myself, have nothing gone bad in 15yrs. It’s a Ducane.

Take Care! [:D][:D]

Frank

BTW: Forgot: I live in a Cape Cod, with addition, finished attic, with dormer, that goes over addition. Never did figure square footage. Keep temp’s. set 65/70 all year.

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Galaxy,

I’d get at least three quotes before I did anything. I personally have had nothing but bad luck and dissatisfaction with hvac guys.

Hope it works out. Let us know how you make out.

Derek

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Richard,

I saw your PM and have sent you a reply!

Galaxy - I am no engineer, but I have a hunch that this guy told you a lot of BS. Each component of a furnace should be able to cope with the heat that thing produces, regardless of the sq.ft. you actually employ it for. If your furnaces is designed to heat a bigger area, so what - it only means it heats less sq.ft. in a shorter time. There should be actually less “wear and tear” on the unit.