Jeffrey Scott Wimberly
July 07, 1960-December 15, 2014
AKA Running Bear, Dr. Frankendiesel, The Spray Can Rembrandt
Volunteer firefighter, exceptional model railroader
and dear friend to many of us.
Jeffrey´s Trackside Diner was formerly Elliot´s Trac
Good Morning!
While opening this month´s Diner, I noticed that we lost our friend Jeff almost a year ago. I still miss him!
I am still annoyed about the breakdown of my loco. I could send it to the manufacturer for repairs, but that will most likely cost a fortune. A new chassis sells for a little less than a complety new loco. I wouldn´t need a complete chassis, just two new gear boxes, but I doubt that they have them on stock, as the design change took place more than 15 years ago. I guess I´ll have to write off the loco as a loss.
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I discussed the issue of the twisted benchwork in my Swiss narraow gauge modeling forum and it looks as if the use of beech plywood is the culprit, as this type of plywood seems to have a natural tendency to twist. Had I known this earlier! Unfortunately, the comments I received suggest not to continue with the layout but start anew - ouch! Don´t know what I will be doing, I will concentrate on getting the loco up and running again.
I will give the service department a ring this morning to find out whether they still have gearboxes …
Have a good one!
Good morning … I’ll have coffee and apple strudel, please.
Ulrich … Thanks for starting the December Diner thread. … It is hard to beleive it has been nearly a year since we lost Jeffrey. He definately is missed. I sometimes wonder how his surviving family memebrs are doing. I hope they are well.
Also Ulrich … I assume it is only the wood that must be replaced, and the tracks are okay. MEanwhile, I hope you can resolve the gear problem with your locomotive.
The weather guessers say the rain will finally leave us today, and we will have several days of sunny weather beginning tomorrow. Glad for that.
Happy Model Railroading
December 1: The quotes and word of the day.
Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
-Sun Tzu
Every burden is a blessing.
-Walt Kelly
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship-never
-Charles Caleb Colton
Consequential (adjective) \kahn-suh-KWEN-shul\
1: Of the nature of a secondary results: indirect
2: consequent
3: having significant consequences: important
4: self-important
Wake up, wake up it’s the first day of the month.
Good morning diners,
Just wanting to say hi to everybody.
I am having a number of issues with the track as well. Bemo track is manufactured by Shinohara to a level of quality, which is 1970´s, but not 21st century. As the track was a gift, it´ll be not a big loss.
A Swiss MRR friend has a complete spare chassis, which I may get for the cost of shipping - that would make my day!
Okay… I subscribed to the last Diner thread to make sure things didn’t flare up again. Just got done reading through and deleting about 93 e-mail notifications that came in while I was on holiday break. [|)]
Now please keep it cool in here so I don’t have to subscribe to this thread, too. [:D]
Getting back to the cat conversation, we currently have three adopted rescue cats. One from Cincinnati, OH… One from Paducah, KY … and one from Clarksville, TN
It’s our little family so we don’y have an empty nest.
Tue 72 Wed. 78 Thur. 73 its real cold at night.
In the days before digital TV and the new high definition TV when you got a new TV it was just a replacement, not a improvement, you got a new TV because your old one quit.
When I changed from the old fashioned box type 27” TV with a box that converted digital TV signal to analog so my old TV would work to the new technology 49” digital high defination TV I expected from 27” to 49” to be a substantual difference. But I didn’t realise what a big improvement in picture quality, its been a few months now and I’m still amazed.
Mornin’ everyone!
Zoe, I’ll have a short stack of Buckwheat Pancakes and real NYS Maple Syrup, a couple sausage links, and a large pot of Seneca Lake Blend Dark Roast coffee this morning please.
Hi [color=red]Steven[/color], nice of you to stop by… Oh, it was an official visit, I see. It is always good to see you anyway!
I got up this morning to find a message from the vet office on my machine. I put in my hearing aids fearing something terrible with the boys! It said she wanted me to bring “oasidjbvak” in for her to check over this morning… OK, I had a quick breakfast, washed up and got dressed, then called the office to find out which kittie I was to bring over. Turns out she wanted to check out the Syringes I was using to make sure they were the right ones for the boys insulin… They are. Either they were indeed having a very low blood sugar yesterday or her meter is off. (If the strips are old or have been exposed to the air, they can go bad…) Anyway They are getting a bit less insulin for the time being. I’ll be taking them in again in two weeks. Always interesting being deaf!
Have been busy getting a letter to the local schools announcing the 2016 MLK Art and Poetry Contest ready to send. just waiting on the contest chairman’s approval to get them sent out… Need to do some housecleaning and then to some more riveting!
Ended the month of November having the best electric output for November of the 4 years I have had the Solar Panels on the roof. Beat the record by over 20kWh! Won’t get much today… Currently 46°F under heavy clouds and rain showers here in the Finger Lakes.
Have a good one!
73
Garry wrote - Getting back to the cat conversation, we currently have three adopted rescue cats. One from Cincinnati, OH… One from Paducah, KY … and one from Clarksville, TN — Garry how does the southern and Yankee cats get along ? [:-^]
Ulrich - It sure doesnt seem like it has been a year. I am sure they are struggling around the holidays with out Jeff. I sure do miss seeing him here. I loved his how feisty he was. Point blank sometimes especially when it came to his nephew.
Angelob The Sun Tzu qute is dead on. Good one. In every trial or burden I have faced ( there has been many ) I have learned and grown much
V8 Vega - That is so true about TVs. It has gotten so bad in electronics that the company who installs our sound, visual and audio systems in our houses does not even stock anything - know why ? Becasue by the time it is in and on the shelf for one or two weeks it is already out dated !! Thats just nuts. Heck one year into building this subdivision we have already totally revamped our security system. It is not anywhere close to the system we started with.
To all of the rest Hello and I hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful
Steve - It wasnt me this time [:O]
YGW
Morning folks.
It warmed up a little here. I only had a low of 9 degrees last night. 
The weather prognosticators are saying we are heading into the 30 today. I don’t mind a little warm up. Maybe it will finish melting the ice off the front steps…and the roads!
Dennis, I got a chuckle out of your tv post. In the last place we rented, the tv guy came in and was running new cables. He asked if I wanted a jack on the wall for when I get a new tv. I still have an old magnavox with a dvd and vhs player built into it. I laughed. He thought my equipment was antiquated. I had to tell him that there would be no new hi definition flat screen tv until this old one takes it’s final nap. I guess some people expect everyone to join in on the American Commercialism bandwagon and live their lives in constant debt. Sure, the new tv’s are alot cheaper these days, but I have actual debt I would sooner use that money to pay off.
Ray, Do you use all the electric you generate from solar or do you sell to the electric companies? I have heard some people do thhat and wondered if it was worthwhile. I have a friend that went solar in the late 1990’s. He lives in the lake effect snow belt south of Erie, PA. He told me he usually generates more electricity in the winter months due to the leaves being off the trees and the reflection from the snow pack. Are they still putting a lot of wind mills up in NYS? I was shocked at the amount of turbines along 390 the last time I went up through there in 2010.
Well, I think I will get some more stuff moved to the basement before the kiddo wakes up. Have a good day.
But…you’ll miss all the cute cat pictures! And dog pictures, too!
Hi [color=red]P&SLocal[/color]. My panels are sized to provide about 70% of my total electric over the year. They use something called Net Metering. If the panels are producing more than I can use at any given time the power flows into the grid. When they are producing less than I need power flows from the grid into my house. For about 5 months a year I actually may produce more electric than I use that month. On those months I get a credit for the kWhs excess. On the months I need more electricity than I produce I use up the credits. Once a year they "settle up the account. It used to be done on the May bill. At that time I got paid for any excess at the rate of 4¢ a kW… If I use the credit I save about 16¢ per kw. So it is much better to use the excess rather than have them buy them. I now settle up in March when I definately owe them (but save the most in the long run). When you get the most from the panels depends on a lot of conditions. My house faces the right direction and there are only a few trees that ever block the roof. April through September are my high months. If your friend is in the Lake effect belt, I bet he spends a lot of time cleaning the white stuff off the panels and if he is making more during the winter… He has a poor placement for his panels and is getting them blocked! Last January/February the storms dumped do much snow on my roofs that I wasn’t able to clear
YGW …Other than two of them meowing with a Southern accent, they go very well together.
Mr. B … I also have the figure of the elderly man with a cane on my layout.
The benchwork is now complete for my extension. I am hoping to install it during the next week. When it is added, I will have an L-shaped, N-Scale layout that is 14’0" x 11’4". It has loops on both ends with a little over 51’ of mainline (1.5 miles, scale), a 7’ long siding for my station, and a 6-track staging area, with the longest staging track measuring 6’. A key design point was to be able park and run long trains. Originally, the plan was to extend the layout down another wall, but that is no longer an option. We just pulled the trigger (oops, I hope I can say that [;)]) on the purchase of a full-size grand piano, a desire of ours for our entire married life. With the new arrival, we needed a place for our upright piano, so it is going to share the office with the trains. I will be surrounded by the things I tolerate (w*rk) and the things I love.
Good Evening,
Another mild sunny day here in Winterpeg.
Not much new but I am making progress on that N scale industrial building. I have it largely painted except for some of the detail parts that I am doing now. Painting window frames on an N scale building is slow work. Funny that my hands are steadiest in the evening, not morning like you would expect.
Richard, congrats on the piano. What make is it and how large? There has been a grand in our house since we got married 35 years ago. My wife brought her 5’6" Heintzmann along with her but we replaced it with a Baldwin about 20 years ago.
Not much new going on here, a little TV tonight and also play with Robbie. He is waiting for me to get off the computer.
CN Charlie
Hi Steven!
WELCOME [#welcome] to the diner thread…officially!
Can you tell us, beside political posts, what the themes of the 93 were about? so we all know what to watchout for?
Thanks,
and
[#welcome]
again
PS I hope I am not the subject of the 93?
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It is a 6’4" Boston GP-193. It is something we have been saving for for a very long time. Rumor has it, it is now in Arizona, and waiting to be serviced by the technician. It will still be a few weeks before we can take delivery.
I think the 93 emails were notifications anytime anyone posted to last month’s thread. Steve was subscribed to the thread.
Evening Dinners
Flo, Lemande Please.
Personally I think old Walt’s head is up his caboose!
Ulrich When you said the layout has twisted, are you talking about the frame or the top it self? Far as the engine that needs work, I hope you get the need parts.
Surprised I feel as good as I do tonight. At work I got dizzy and saw stars for a few seconds. Not sure if I had a high or low blood sugar attack?
See you all Wednesday
Ken