Well, right now today is yesterday for me and tomorrow for you.
Work went well. I shadowed so I didn’t get to do much but try to take in the 140 ways to use the phone system and the 843 ways to use the reservation/check in/check out room assignment program.
It was fairly slow, so I got a lot of sit down time. They have tile up at the desks, but carpet behind it, so stnading on the carpet is ok, but the tile not so much. they also have a mat but the darned edges are turned upwards and I kept tripping on it, I think they need a new one.
I got tired around 8 {my usual bed time} so i had a cup of free coffee, so now I’ll be awake until it’s time to go to work tomorrow, as I don’t drink it much, wonder why?
I’m tired now, though couldn’t sleep, so I’m tire but wide awake.
I won’t bother to tell you what I found MOH was up to whilest I was gone, but I found the evidence laid out like I was supposed to find it. Oh well. I cna be up to tricks myself. nuff siad.
Well, gnite, or good morning as the case may be.
prayers for all in need…
sleep well for those who can…
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Looks like I got tippy top, last call, or breakfast is on me!
I am just back from the usual grocery run and my back hurts like the hot place “downunder”. I have to learn how to go really easy with carrying any weight exceeding a couple of pounds and that´s just not feasible when it comes to hauling the masses of food we need for the week. We have little storage capacities, so it means frequent trips w/o anybody helping to carry the load. It´s carrying the bags from the parking lot to our house and up the flight of stairs what gets me. Today I hard a nasty, crunching sound and that´s no good!
Well, I shouldn´t be complaining, it is what it is.
That´s what I had asked for in my email, but they want to have it sent back for repairs. I hope they do a professional job with the repair!
I just received a message that my first order of catenary masts will be rolling in today - scheduled within the next half hour. Just a few masts to see how installing them will work.
Looks like I forgot my lunch on the kitchen table when I left for work this morning. So I’m going to have to go out for lunch. Such a terrible thing when I’m forced to settle for this… [dinner]
Steven - what a coincidence! We had burgers for lunch today, although the looked a little different. We don´t like those soft burger buns and have regular mini-baguette type rolls instead. No fries, though. Petra seems to get along with that fare, so that´s another step in the right direction!
The Catenary masts arrived in today´s mail - on the predicted minute. I just wonder how they do that, but the German parcels service DPD has a real-time tracking system in place, which is incredibly accurate!
I had spend some time earlier in the day to mark out the correct positioning of the masts, so getting out a drill and drilling the holes was a matter of minutes. The masts are not yet fastened, just pushed into place, as I need to paint them and add the wire hangers and insolators to them before I can mount them permanently. I will glue them and later on fastened them the nut & washer mounting that comes with them. Each mast is about $6, which I think is quite OK. They are made of nickelsilver H-profiles, stamped metal parts and nickelsilver castings. Quite a job!
Here are some pictures:
Another little step forward!
I intended to fasten the first mast with that little nut, but first the nut disappeared into the nirvana of the room´s floor and seconds later, the washer. While I was able to retrieve the nut, the washer seems to be gone for good. Heck, I know it is somewhere, but where?
Yes; or No![:o)] It’s an N3n line, a part of my main N Layout. In my universe it was built to take quarried stone to the site of an eccentric millionaire’s reproduction of Caernarvon Castle (in NW Wales, Google for details), now a Tourist Attraction. The quarrying being over, the line carries tourist traffic to the Attraction, (and vice-versa on “Coach and Train Special Packages”.) Total run about 90-100 inches, single track with return loop. Equipment – mainly the loco – turned on a manually operated turntable at base of grade, where there is a run-around track, and servicing facilities. Majority of track on 3%< grade (Climbs a total of 2 layers of 1” foam)
der5997 - no, the hangers an insulators have to soldered, resp. glued into place. The masts have fitted a screw at the bottom to fasten them to the subroadbed. It´s an DIN M3 nut and washer, meaning the thread has just a diameter of 3mm - too tiny for my big, clumsy and shaking fingers.
Thanks for the lunch idea Steven. I will take a bacon cheeseburger.
YGW- Sorry about your daughter, I hope her recovery will faster than mine.
Ulrich- I like the added caterary system. Will it be hard to rotate the locomotive around with the added wires to be attached?
I was looking at my trains. Researching different railroads. I found out that I’m almost done with the Southern Pacific. I only need a few (SP/SSW) boxcars left. Other railroads are not really finish except for Conrail.
I love the Fox Valley Models GP60s decorated in SSW, SP, and ATSF. But I have one problem they are in a very selective year 1988-1993 if your lucky. Sense the railroad changes the horn to the back and some add ditch lights. Which playing with them very difficult.
Once the wires are up, it´s going to be quite a fiddly job, but I think I will use the hidden part for any such job. There won´t be any catenary in the hidden section (behind the backdrop).
I got a package in the mail yesterday containing Anderson Power Poles. Free-Mo has adopted them as the connector of choice for electrically joining modules. I intend to use them to tie the electrical together on the modular railroad I am constructing. And at some point in the future, I feel like I will be working on Free-Mo modules as well; so it won’t hurt to try them out.
Re-arranging my work schedule so I can get out of town Friday, early enough to make it to Indiana before 5:00 on Saturday to make a run to Hawkins Rail on his last day. I hope to high heaven my son has been packing, because that is the last thing I want to drive 1,000 miles to do. We have to pick up a U haul trailer before six, because the bed of my new pickup is only 5 1/2 feet long; so all of his stuff will not fit in it. Fun, fun, fun…
Zoe - A nice slice of apple pie, and a Coke please. Thanks.
YGW - Being sick is no fun, sorry your daughter is dealing with that.
Ken - Well, yes, but no… I have a layout, but most of it was torb down in preparation of a move, but the move has been pushed out a bit.
Der - Oops! I forgot about your tourist attraction being Narrow gauge N… Glad it came in!
Ulrich - Sorry about the back pain, that is no fun either!
Weather - Warmer today, and will be warmer still tomorrow.
Wk - Ok day today, but am taking a impromptu “road trip” for them tomorrow. I need to run some supplies to a nearby store owned by the same owner, so will be traveling a little while tommorow morning, but will be at wk in the afternoon.
They will handle plenty of power apparently, but they only go down to 20ga wire. I have no experience with them. I just thought it might be handy to have a link to their website.
Steven:
tin can’s post and my post might be better in the Electronics and DCC forum.
Flo, give Ed a Crown Royal if he make it in and I will have a [B] please.
Work Front Seems I am not the only one getting feed up with this company is being ran into the ground. Hum, our Home offices main show room use to have a Ice Skating Ring and Roller Rink. Could that be why this is a Rinky Dink company? [:-^]
Derr I was OK with how Galaxy said it. The dinner is a places to let us vent about what is on our minds.
YGW [angel] for the young one.
Ulrich Are you still going to sale the current layout? It sure does look good!
I may have missed this, but will the catenery be live or just for looks? I know you said it wouldn’t extend into the hidden section of the layout so I’m guessing it’s just for looks.
This is end of April and how come that the night time temperatures dropped way below freezing? Oh, I forgot, this is called global warming, caused by CO2, and that´s why our cars are taxed according to their CO2 emissions, the price for gas now includes an eco-tax, the cost of energy hiked by 20%, like-wise home heating. Now I understand why.
Vinnie - I am off the soapbox now.
Ken - I´ll keep the layout for the time being. It´s not finished yet, and I think I will make a prettier penny selling it, when it is complete.
Just for the looks, Dave. I could make it a live one, but electrical pick-up may be not good enough for a reliable operation.
I have always been enthralled by catenary systems. I bought a Toronto Transit Commission ‘Red Rocket’ street car just out of curiousity a few years ago. I’m not sure of the maker but it had the profiles of passengers painted on frosted windows (I ripped them out because they looked hideous to me), and it has a white plastic pancake motor. I have studied my layout plan many times trying to figure out how to incorporate a trolley loop into the plan but I haven’t figured out how to do it without losing a bunch of other features that are more important to me. I could just run it back and forth but having the trolley pole going backwards half the time doesn’t appeal to me (fussy eh!?). I haven’t given up yet though!
Dave - I never thought of having to turn the trolley pole around when you change directions. I agree that this is a major issue. “Shoving” a trolley pole just does not look right and should not work, either.
I am glad that I don´t have to consider anything like it.
Today is train video time - and of course it has to be videos of my favourite line!
Well, its not just the trolley pole going backwards, but the trolley itself would be going backwards too. However, your wonderful videos have my mind exploring options. What did MacBeth’s witches say… “Cauldron boil and cauldron bubble…”. That’s what my brain is doing now and it is totally distracting! I already have too many projects on the go to even start thinking about this!!! Hmmmm… there has to be a way! I’ll let it simmer for a bit.
Gidday Chloe, a large glass of cool ginger beer, please.
YGW. In NZ slang Biff can be used two ways, 1) biff= hit, as in “a biff behind the ears” 2) or in this context, biff = throw; “quickly biff a banger on the barbie” means quickly throw a sausage on the barbeque.
Amongst other properties, Hydrogen Sulphide is quite corrosive. Before we moved to Rotorua, my wife used to have her grandmothers silver tray out on the dresser, and used to give it a quick polish maybe every 6 months. Here it’s wrapped up and stored in the dresser, because it tarnishes so quickly. Basically, she’d be polishing it every week. Nickel silver track oxidises just as quickly, so we’ve found that regular running with a few John Allen track cleaning cars with their Masonite pads in tow, is certainly beneficial.
“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia”…
Bear … A biff? … Well at least you are not talking about a biffy.
Ulrich … I like watching electric powered locomotives.
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My Main Squeeze and I celebrated her birthday Sunday with dinner at Ruth’s chris and staying overnight at a nice hotel in downtown Nashville. Monday was shopping in Nashville. It is always good to show the wife she is special.
They are indeed - and always very dear to us [:-^]
The famous “Glacier Express” train, connecting St. Moritz (that´s were the rich & famous hide out in Winter) and Zermatt (that´s were the wannabee rich & famous hide out) resumed regular services after having been temporarily suspended in favor of the “Albula Experience” special services. Filmed today as the train passes through Engiadina.
