Italian roast coffee in a SOUTHERN PACIFIC DAYLIGHT mug, please.
I remember seeing a beautiful green loco at The National Museum of History in DC, a Pacific if memory serves me. That was probably close to 30 years ago. Enjoyed all the museums in the area. I could NEVER live in a city though.
The MTH Southern Pacific cars are very nice looking. However, they arrived with close to a dozen loose detail parts (in the factory packaging), including one teeny tiny screw. WHY aren’t such parts glued or better secured in place during the manufacturing process? Another thing, the MTH Daylight loco tender does not come with a coupler pre-mounted. That is (IMO) ridiculous! Lastly, if my passenger train was a real railroad, I would be out of business inside of a week with the occasional uncoupling issues.
One of my barn cats has been missing now for several days. Not a good sign, as he is not a wanderer. I presume he met some ill fate. Keeping an eye out for vultures and my nose to the wind.
Going to see when I can get in to the dentist and have wisdom tooth pulled. Jaw hurts, probably another infection setting in.
Boiler 1 is fully decomissioned, disconnected and not on the insurance policy.
Here the new #3 boiler arrives… (I think I can, I think i can…)
I knew I could do it!
The new boiler has a far greater horse power than the older one, but of course it burns gas, where as the number 2 boiler burns coal. Coal is our primary fuel saving about $200 a day in heating bills over gas. The gas boiler is a back up and is used in the summer time when old number 2 is down for maintenance.
Once upon a time these boilers turned generataors that powered the town.Now they just idle along at 12 psi. But we do have a poer generator, just incase the municipal power goes out.
Mornin’… Ah, yep! Still morning here in the Finger Lakes for a few more minutes.
Currently 36°F under sunny skies. Little wheel down cellar is spinning very nicely so far today!
I have already moved one load of firewood over to my son’s house this morning and taken down more pictures and moved a couple very special lamps out of the living room. The lamps are Alto Horns (similar to a French Horn) that my father made into lamps when he found out their history many years ago. He found them in a used instrument/repair shop on Rochester, NY. When he cleaned up the horns he found something inscribed on the bell of each. It read “Gift to the School of Music University of Rochester by George Eastman”. These were given for the start up of the Eastman School of Music! They are now carefully stored until the living room has been rebuilt.
Hope to get the rest of the pile of firewood I never got stacked last Fall moved over to my Son’s house today and then I need to change clothes and go to a Boy Scout Roundtable this evening. Nice to be retired and have so little to do…
Catch you all later! Oh, [color=red]Ulrich[/color], thanks for moving the diner for us!
Ooooh, I’m sore. Last night Tuesday Night Hockey moved to our summer schedule, starting half an hour earlier on the other rink. But, there was confusion with the schedule, and the ice time for both rinks ended at 10:10. So, we ended up playing an additional half-hour, for a total of 2 straight hours of hockey. We always include Joe the Zamboni guy in our apre-skate festivities and reward him with beer, cheese, crackers and pepperoni, so he gave us the extra time rather than the other guys.
I’m thinking about going up north for another round of skiing. It’s Parrot Head weekend, the traditional end-of-season celebration. After that, they will be shutting down some of the lifts, although they plan to stay open with limited skiing until May 1st.
Nope. Just wanted people in this thread to avoid throwing out political provocations, however general (such as “that [soapbox] President” or “that [soapbox] Senate”), that the other side wouldn’t be allowed to rebut.
Hi, all. Haven’t been here for a long time. Just a couple hot dogs and a coke for me.
Late fall through winter is usually model railroad season for me but this year I got a real late start because I was fixing up the house to maximize the appraisal for a reverse mortgage. That didn’t get closed until mid February so I’ve been making up for lost time. Finally began my first ops session a few days ago. Still have some bugs to iron out both on the layout and in my operating scheme. I’m using car/cards and waybills and I’m going to have to rebalance the destinations so I don’t end up with too many cars going to one place at the same time. I ended up with a 30 car (HO) train going into my staging yard and it wouldn’t quite fit so I had to fiddle a few cars off the layout. I need to replace a number of switch machines. I use Atlas turnouts and components and I have a bad habit of leaning my big belly against the fascia. If you press those turnout controls for too long, you burn out the switch motor. My first indication I’ve done that is the smell of another switch motor being turned to toast. I’m working on intalling a guard rail to prevent that from happening.
Normally golf season signals then end of MR season for me but because the weather in Ohio has been so cold I haven’t even had the desire to get the sticks out. That’s good because it will extend what has been a very short MR season. Every year I promise myself I will spend some time in the train room during the summer and it never happens. This year will be different. Right. And Charlie Brown will finally kick the football.
Actually, while they all want to sell you something, He MAY NOT BE full of excrement.
I found a few online BTU calculators and one, for example comes up with a rating of just 58K and change BTUs needed for our home. Another has a chart for our climate zone and sq ft, the chart says 60K, and other one is a complex complicated formula {i THINK i got through all right} that comes up about 62K btus. SO NO, I don’t think he is full of it. I think the 100K Btu might be a little much for 834 sqft. according to the chart, 100k btus should cover an 1801sqft to a 2500 sqft house!! Even 1801 is almost twice as much house!
I called both my father and FIL and asked {FIL just had a new one put in last year to the tune of $9500 for A/c, heat, filter-cleaner/humidifier unit one.} Neither one could right off hand tell what the BTUs for their much larger homes are, but my father has his running about 24/7 and still he is “freezing cold”. {typical 1950s ranch with extra layers of insulation added to the attic years ago during oil embargo when he/we had oil heat. I was first on up in the morning{shocker there!} as a teen and I was ALLOWED To turn it UP to 58F!!!}. FIL keeps it high too, but he is cold, not freezing as he is always on the second main floor{third-its a split multi-level home}, where heat rises to. In either case I sweat like a stuck pig when i visit either one of them.
IF, and I say IF, I have to buy a new one , it WILL have central a/c in it.And yes, I/we will get 3 estimates, thought I won’t ask the original company who screwed this up{in more ways than one} for one!
They are offering 36month interest free financing through Wells Fargo, how I did the last furnace. It will still be a hefty payment, though, as much I suspect as the last car payment we had {which might be half your car payment, mind you!}, which means for 3 years, I won’t be able to put money into the “car fund” savings acount, which has no money in it anyway, really. oh w
If a furance component fails, you should be able to get it replaced, not the whole unit.
I had it explained to me by an electrican going to put in a couple of baseboard heaters for me that the reason you want the right size is that bigger costs more. Bigger meaning more BTUs. You want enough to heat on the coldest day expected or historically observed in your area, plus a small reserve. A bigger unit costs more to purchase, and cycles on and off more frequently, leaving more residual heat in the fire box to go up the chimmey.
So three quotes, with advice and options to repair/replace from quoter.
Back when Steve Thomas was still the host of This Old House, he made an appearance at the Home and Garden Show in Columbus, Oh. He told the audience that the best way to estimate the cost of a home improvement project was to get three estimates. That will give you a high, a medium, and a low. Add them all together and that will be your total cost.
Afternoon diners, Spring finally appears to have arrived in SE Ohio. I was absolutely beautiful here today. About 64 F with blue sky and gentle breeze. Took Ginger, my airedale for a long walk along the Muskingum River. Lots of people walking, jogging and biking. Saw the girls crew team finishing up practice while walking the dog.
Spiked down some more track this afternoon and placed an order for some pc ties. My feeble mind finally concluded that I have to isolate the track at the switch point throwbar location. Was going to try to fabricate the turnouts without pc ties but decided the throw bar was kind of a necessity.
Galaxy your furnace guy may be right. The unit’s size probably is not the problem but frequent cycling may be. I replaced an ancient old gas furnace in my 1,400 sq ft house 4 years ago. The new high efficiency unit is about a quarter the foot print and an eighth the overall size. It heats great but is a little short on cooling coil capacity. Only problem so far has been with the pump that pumps away excess condensate. It croaked on day that was about zero F two years after only one heating season. Like you, I don’t have a lot of faith in HVAC guys.
Lion, looks like the monestary will be warm this coming winter. I guess with all the new gas wells in ND gas is readily available and probably fairly cheap.
Today the doctor’s office told me restricted speech means no more talking. This is really tough. MOH told me I am getting a chance to experience what someone who’s mind is sound, but whose ability to comminicate is lost feels. At least, for me, it is only temporary.
Yeah, but first off: you live in Canada, while it has been frigid here, you are in a completely other zone according to the chart.
Second: again: how BIG is your house? Ours is only a 832 sqft trailer! YOu might have double that? a basement? 2 floors?
Only because we couldn’t get parts for the old furnace anymore is the only reason we replaced the 27 year old previous model.
Would love to have the money to do lots of things…and costing $3600 for the original furnace, and paying $1900 in repairs in 4 years, and approximately $6000-6500 {or MORE} for a new unit with A/c helps to insure we don’t have the money for a new house, into which we could pour more money too! {ANd get a proper train room to boot???}
ah, a proper train room!
A train room bigger than 8x9’! {into which the offending unit sits}
Janie, just a cup of decaf please… Oh, my FGLK Mug would do well…
[color=red]Richard[/color]! Shhhhh! If you want to get your voice back, be quiet!
Been a busy day around here. Took two PiP loads of firewood over to my son’s house today. Totalled about 1/2 facecord. Have one more load to clear out the driveway. We will worry about the 2 face cords left on my back porch later in the spring when I can drive accross the lawn again, and my son can drive around to his woodpile without getting the tractor stuck… I took down a bunch of pictures (family mostly) that were still hanging on the walls in the living room, moved a large pile of old magazines i hadn’t recycled or saved in a couple years, some more books, and scraped down the sides of the 20 gal aquarium (that should have been done 6 months ago) to get it ready to remove most of the water so my son and I can carry it to the kitchen where the new stand is…
Roofer will be here Saturday and the contractor early next week. Need to get everything done ASAP. I took a couple of the long shelves from the ruined shelving unit and put up a couple of heavy duty brackets for sheving down cellar yesterday and started to fill them with stuff today. Then tonight I had Boy Scout Roundtable to go to.
[color=red]Galaxy[/color], I think my home furnace, (Medium sized Ranch House built in the 1950’s)Trane XT95 is rated at 60,000BTU. IIRC they were going to put in the smallest XT95 Trane (40,000BTU), and the supplier told them to put in the larger one for a bit more redundancy… Same price! I added whole house air a year later so they had set everything up for the airconditioner when they installed the furnace. At 95% efficiency (The old one was around 40% I think) I saw an immediate savings in cost. I should see even more savings when they insulate the ceiling in the living r
It has seemed more like Friday The 13th to me than April fools day. All most the first thing today it seems I clogged up the toilet. [:-^] It took me a good 2 hours to get it to flush right. Went to U Tube and saw a few tricks to try and one did work. [Y] Dish Soap and hot water finally cleared the pipes after I had cleared mine. [swg]
Sues Car Front. [sigh] Her car needed front and rear pads and should have had rotors. Sue never drives over 50 mph and there just where no funds so I had to reuse the old rotors. Her car will all so need outer tie rod ends in the next month or so. Pads front and rear (I did use cermic pads) and was $187.26.
