The Coffee Shop (a place to chat) Est. 2004

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Fec - thanks for the refreshments! Mighty tasty after the Top Sirloin Steak I had for dinner.

Jim - Thanks again bud! I really appreciate it!

Well all - here I am. Had a nice enjoyable dinner w/ the folks and the neighbor (neighbor - another story for another time, but not tonight!) I had a 12oz Top Sirloin Steak, done medium, Steak Fries, Chef’s Salad w/ Caeser Dressing, and brocolli. For desert was the Mile High Ice Cream Pie (Mint Choco Chip Ice Cream, in a Oreo Cookie Crust, topped w/ hot fudge sauce and whipped cream). I’m so full, I may be able to forgo breakfast tomorrow morning.

Anyways - time to get going. Shower and all so I can get to bed soon.

Before I forget - Anyone on here been to the Air Museaum in Gander, New Foundland?

Let me know - Have a few questions to ask about it.

Thanks and have a great evening all!
JP

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Duke - The book JimCG is refering to is by Iain Rice…Small, Smart and Pratical is most of the title. I’m sure the other guys will chime in with the full title, unless Jim beats 'em to it.
JP

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Hi All;

Trent thanks for the brew.

Teffy. I’ve got two, a daughter and a son. The daughter lives in New Mexico and the only time we see our son is when he’s hungry.
I think that Trent is looking to buy one Teffy. Here you go and make him drool by telling him that you have 4.

Trent; Keep us posted. I’m pulling for Ya.

Duke; I got to fly flair drop for Puff and it really is awesome to watch. I can only say it’s like watching a hot metal pore at a steel mill.

Jim; That’s a good one.

Ed; Yes that was a buy. I figure that if it doesn’t work out I can get my money out of it by selling it for scrap.

JimCG; Full size 12in to the foot. One of the things about super large scale out door stuff is that it takes real size ballast. I use 1inch screened and washed crushed rock.

Well I’m going to cut out and sit with the wife.

Paul

The Duluth, Superior, & Southeastern

“ The Superior Route “

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Before I forget - Anyone on here been to the Air Museaum in Gander, New Foundland?

Not meaning to double post but isn’t that where Fergie got the Lancaster?

Paul

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Hello everyone, well guys my Bachmann Frontiersman " N " scale train set came in, and yes it’s small… well, little… OK so it’s tiny… At least I can say I own A " N " scale train set. I think my grandson will like it !

Ken, been to Pell City several times , but its been A while. Maybe next time you come down we can get together for A cup of coffee.

TRENT B hope everything goes OK Thursday. I know when I had test run I was scared also, but everything was OK. Last month, one doctor said my wife had kidney cancer. We went and seen A specialist and he said everything was OK. I was more worried than she was. Her doctor was more worried about me than her !! So try not worry, and keep us informed.

Everyone have A great evening!!!

Stan.

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Hi all,Flip thanks for the re-fill,put the legs back under me the Ian Rice book is small smart and practical track plans and has the ref. no 12229 from M.R. books and is listed @ $18.95-hope this helps. if any of you take a little music with your coffee,would recomend “Nighthawks at the diner” by Tom Waits,slinky tunes and clever lyrics. J.P. glad to see youve bought into the healthy eating campaign [(-D][:-,]. at last -after 48 solid hours its finally stopped raining!!!,`night now,be lucky,regards,nick

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Good evening everyone. Just popping in to say hi. Nothing for me tonight Chloe. We’ll go easy on fec’s tab. [:)]

Trent, hope it turns out to be nothing too serious on the 28th. I have to agree with Nick wholeheartedly. I’m a firm believer that attitude can make a big difference with any health issue. I remember my father actually making himself physically sick for two weeks after his 40th birthday. Just because he believed he had become an old man! It can work the other way too.

Not much train work being done with the nice weather. Been getting some outside work done.

Catch you all later.

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Good evening Coffee Shop Clients: The high pressure system over the Maritimes is continuing to give us outstanding weather. The winds however keep backing around northerly, and are brisk enough to rip this temporary bachelor’s washing off the line[V]
I’ll have another Chinese green tea please Chloë, while I attend to the correspondence that I’ve watched building during the day!

Ken:

A hit, a palpable hit! But, “have at thee now”
http://www.fielder-rowe.freeserve.co.uk/480scale.html
Now that’s invisible, and makes Normal look Gianormous[swg]

not as late as it is here my son! Anyway, there’s a real question as to whether Baltimore is really East Coast[:-,]

***:

Yes, both the movie, and the documentary after it.[8D]
As to it happening every 650K years, they did point out that a start point and two other plots don’t make a trend! Nevertheless it’s a scary proposition. A more immediate concern is the probability of another major (would you believe Richter 10) Sumatran quake. The Tsunami from that could have waves 80 metres high.[O:]

Isn’t that on PBS out of Boston?

ArkJim: That carpenter bee (wasp?) has really twitched your wires hasn’t it. Do we detect an Elmer Phud syndrome?
Loved the Peking Duck, thanks for that too. ROTFL would not be in character, but the corners of one ‘s mouth were perceive

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Good late evening gents, just a quick one before laying these overworked bones to bed. One tall OJ please Zoe while Cloe works my back muscles.

Duke: We live about 30 miles south of the New Hampshire border. That is the closest point to either Vermont or Maine, as we are directly south of NH. If you check a road map of the area, we live about a 10 minute ride off I-290, and about 15 minutes north of the Mass Pike, I-90. If you could make it, that would be great!!! We are up in Maine ourselves on June 21st on the seacoast.

Der John: Yes Channel 2 out of Boston (PBS) carried all the reruns, but we have not seen any lately…we roared at this program, never missed it!! The grandkids likes it too, but we had a little explaining to do about Mrs. Scocum’s “ahem” CAT shall we say!!! Grampa, what is so funny about the cat??? I am laughing now just thinking about it.

Bon soir mais amis…

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Good evening everyone. My but you’ve been prolific with the posts the last couple of days.I’m tired out just reading them. Paul the Lanc that Fergie borrowed is at the Canadian Warplane heritage Museum in Hamilton On.Worth a stop if any of you are up this way.They are at the Hamilton international airport so if you fly into hamilton instead of Toronto you can walk accross the property and see the museum.They are a flying museum and their Lanc is one of only two left which are fuully operational.This bomber does all the major and minor ontario airshows been known to fly out west once in a while as well.It’s a beautifull machine.[#welcome]to Stan and Nick glad that you are both aboard.Heather and I had a good weekend at the museum looks like we’ll be ib top for for openning day May 7th. Hope to see some of you there maybe. remember if any of you are travelling to ontario drop me an e-mail and we will try to hook up and give you the grand tour.Well i’m off for now talk to everyone later. Rob

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Good evening, Chloe, I see I just missed *** and TrolleyRob. Guess I really am late coming in if I’m after *** - he usually comes in in the wee hours of the morning! [:)]

ArkJim, cute story - can they film it using that insurance duck? [;)]

Matt, nice models! They look like they are exceptionally made - and I’ll bet Ed won’t need his OptiVisor to see them, either! [}:)][:-^]

Hi, LilRob, Attaboy, and Brian - c’mon back and stay longer next time.

Brian, any word on the job possibility, or did I miss any news on that? Hope things are looking good on the job front for you.

Ken, you have exotic tastes in beverages - cranberry and orange? Pretty wild there… [;)] Good to hear you got your RailImages account up and running.

JP, sounds like dinner was great tonight - made my mouth water just to read your description! [dinner] Hope your move starts great and finishes smoothly and quickly. And it looks like Nick beat me to it for the Rice’s book info. The book is ISBN#0-89024-416-2. About two pages on from the layout you were talking about, he has one about 18 inches by 54, with the three levels - and each level has a passing siding, too![:)]

Noah, I was wondering if those were Details West - I think DW may be the major (only?) manufacturer making those kinds of trackside detail parts. I figure unless I find them on sale, that will be maybe a paycheck of its own when I start getting all the assorted trackside boxes. And hey, all those emails means you’re popular, right? Unless they’re instructors nagging you about assignments coming up…[:O] Hope you get a little more MRR’ing time in this next weekend, for a change.[tup]

Trent, will be praying for your Thursday visit. Slow me [%-)] noticed that your appointment is a week from this Thursday, correct? Hope you get a great [bday] present at your checkup, and good cause to have a nice dinner out, to celebrate afterward![tup]

Hi ***, good

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Good evening all, did a lot of training this weekend and today. Met up with a local train guy I met on the forum, yes there are great guys here. He had a whole lot of brass that used to belong to his father, it looked fantastic.

Cleaned off the dept 56 buildings and made the layout bare again. Getting ready to add more benchwork tomorrow. Ran the trains, and looked at some additional passenger cars, an 11 car set of Santa Fe cars. Looked pretty cool with that many cars.

We didn’t get the drizzle today, but clouds and it wasn’t 85 today. Grass is cut, weeds mostly gone, so maybe summer is close.

I’m going to a train club tomorrow night, all gauges. Should be way cool. No rivet counters, just train people. New store in town, and they actually greeted me as I went in. Almost thought I was in heaven. I didn’t think train store people ever had people skills. They even offered me something to drink, and some homemade cookies. And they don’t sell retail. Rail Baron Hobby in Poway, CA. G, O, HO, and N gauge.

Gotta go watch some wrestling tonight, and relax.

Trent, [bday]

Take care all

Tim

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Too many pages to go back and read, hope all are doing well, keep up the good work.
Welcome to all new folk, and good thoughts to all sick folk.
Sees ya.

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Holy cow, I slip for a couple of days, and I’ve got the equivalent of “War and Peace” to read to catch up.
Well, more bad news from the home front–a good friend of mine passed away the day of Kathleen’s funeral. Marta Belen was a very well-known accompanist and vocal teacher here in the area, and a colleague and a good friend. Lymphoma. No services are being planned, but there will be a memorial concert for her sometime in May. Two friends in one week is a bit much, I’m afraid.

Trent: [bday] and you’re in my prayers. I’ll keep you in our Intentions this weekend, so you know there’s a whole bunch of neat people in Calif. on your side, my friend!

Watched a History Channel special on ‘Electing the Pope’ tonight–it was kind of interesting–included a brief history of some of the–ahem–‘wilder’ guys who held the throne during the Medieval and Renaissance eras. My goodness, I wonder how we muddled through, sometimes, LOL! Also had a segment on John 23, who was quite the ‘papa’. When asked by a reporter how many people worked at the Vatican, he grinned and answered, “About half.” He HAD to be a Franciscan!!

Still putting ‘track-shoes’ on some of my old brass–somehow or other, a few years ago, I picked up a mysterious Southern Pacific AC-9 2-8-8-4 at a swap meet, and wondered when I got home, exactly what I’d gotten–whoever owned it originally decided to take a perfectly respectable Akane and put the motor in the tender, and a long, LONG drive-shaft into the locomotive, which he filled with lead, and to top it off, he double-articulated the thing a-la-Rivarossi, then filed off the all-weather cab extension and lettered it for a private layout, and it was the darndest thing I’d ever seen! Jerked like a mule pulling a conestoga wagon–it would do either 30, 100 smph, or Dead Stop. Obviously, I didn’t pay very much for it. Well, I decided to do some tinkering, so I tinkered with the flat can motor he’d put in the tender, outfitted it with the trusty Tomars,

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Early Morning All [:0]

Trent [:)]

I am adding you to the prayer list. Keep your chin up.

Bro. John [:)]

The caprender bees are trying to build their nest on the front porch. I can’t take the chance of me or the dog being stung by one of them HUGH things. [V] They as as big or bigger than a bumble bee. They are also somewhat aggressive therefore my motto is, “Take no prisoners”. I leave them alone if they are nesting in my shed, which they are, but the front porch is my area not theirs.

I received a rather distasteful (No pun intended) email tonight. It was of a kangaroo being swallowed by a boa ( guess it was a boa). [:(!] There were about 7 photos in the email but after the first one filled out I stopped the download. I like animals too much to see that and I also had a TV dinner in the microwave.

Remember I am mailing a package to Mitchell in Australia, and would accept any donations to send to him. I have received some things already and I am adding some things to the package. Thanks in advance for your donations.

I have an unspoken prayer request. Please add it and me to your prayer lists. Thanks so much.

OK, Guess What Guys [?]

Its Tuesday [^]

One day closer to hump day and for me one day closer to “trash day” lol

Everyone Take Care, Stay Safe, and eat Cheese [;)] [:D]

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Zoe, I’ll have a large coffee, OJ and a vegetarian omelet this morning.

Happy Tuesday morning y’all,

Not much to report on the layout, just added a few more wire leads last night…someday, trains will run on there again…

Trent –

I hear ya, that would definitely wreck my day too! One thing to keep in mind though – nowadays, MDs have to be really careful not to miss anything in this age of runaway malpractice litigation. So hopefully this only sounds worse than it actually is. But I’ll keep you in my prayers for sure, hang in there! BTW- is your birthday on the 28th? If so then I’ll wait another week before I insert the ‘happy Bday’ smiley.

der John –
I looked at my kids’ globe after I read your last post, and sure enough, Baltimore IS quite a bit west of your region. And that link about the 1:240 scale models – [wow] that certainly puts things into perspective! Who would ever want to do anything that small – a neurosurgeon maybe? I concede, at least with N scale I don’t need an electron microscope to see the trains.
A simple pair of binoculars will suffice.

JimCG –
That drink I ordered is merely a Tequilla sunrise, sans Tequilla.

I have several more replies to compose and zero time, since I have to leave for the office. I’ll catch up with the rest of you in an hour or two, see ya…

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Good Morning Zoe, I see Georgia Tom is up early and in here. I’ll just have a coffee to go.

Not lots much more to report here since last night for me. I did look through the Walthers catalog last night to see what kind of trackside details (boxes, phone booths, etc.) that different manufacturers make. As I said last night, Noah, it does look like Details West has the definite edge on anyone else in this detailing department.

I was also looking for some industrial windows, but there don’t appear to be quite the ones I’m trying to find (metal frame type, horizontally laid out, somewhat like those in DPM’s modern industrial modules, but wider than that). Might not find exactly what I’m looking for, unless I go the scratchbuilding windows route. [sigh] I’d like something close to the windows on Alpine Models’ Electronics Plant, or the Walthers (retired) Roberts Printing. Anyone know of a source for windows like that?

Well, I’d better get moving and get headed off to work. Hope everyone has good weather and a great day.

Blessings,

Jim in Cape Girardeau

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Good Mornin’ Everybody,
It’s going to be a beautiful day in the mountains today. They’re calling for rain later in the week, but by then we’ll need it so that’s OK. I’ve got to make a HD run in a little bit for some more weedblock and the “river rock” stones for the asian garden. Getting that done will be the major project for the day. Louise is going to take tomorrow off so we’ll be making another nursery run in the morning. We want to get some more ferns to go around the pond and patio and get one more yellow rhodo for the border of the asian garden. It will make for a fun day.

I did manage to get about half the decals on the lt. mountain yesterday. It’s looking good so far. The striping is all pretty much having to be cut and fitted to the individual panels and it’s a little heavy for my tastes, but it’s OK. I’ve heard that Microscale is going to release a set for Southern steamers in the fall. I actually prefer their decals over Champ’s but there was no way I was going to wait until fall to fini***his loco.

Trent, Happy Bitrthday! Hope you were able to make it a good one. We will keep you in our thoughts and prayers concerning the upcoming tests. The point about docs running lots and lots of tests these days is a very good one. They have to in order to protect themselves.
A positive attitude is one of the best tools available to us. Hang in, we’re all with you. As far as DCC is concerned, there are lots of good systems available, but my choice is Digitrax. I’ve been using their equipment for about ten or eleven years and couldn’t be happier with it. It’s good equipment backed by good people. I’ve had very few problems ( two that I can remember) and they were handled quickly and well.

Noah, good luck with the airbrushing. What kind of brush did you get?

Attaboy, that’s a really good point about clubs and young people. All of us in the hobby need to encourage young people to get involved in the hobby as much as we can.

Ed, no thank

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OK, where was I? Oh yeah, page 416…

Cat-Bridge Tom,
Sorry to hear about the passing of yet another one of your teacher friends, now I see what you meant when you said that was ‘not an easy week’ for you [:(] … But I’m glad you were able to minimize the pain by getting that 2-8-8-4 into top running condition![tup]

Stan –
Thanks for the ‘invite’, I probably won’t be in Alabama this summer, but next year perhaps…

Adam –
That’s certainly an interesting high school research project. I can’t help but wonder though, how would Casey Jones be remembered if his accident had occurred in the present day? Probably anything but a hero….!

Ark-Jim,
Whatever it is, I’ll add your request to my prayer list. Best of luck with that carpenter bee invasion.

JimCG –

Jim, does your window use a ‘grid’ style pane arrangement? I’m wondering if you could get a custom decal service to print up several sheets of that pattern and you could superimpose it onto clear styrene. Also, did you try using the ‘find-it’ feature on the Walthers catalog page for that discontinued Geo. Roberts structure? [ I acquired my bascule bridge kit that way.]

Northern Phil –
I see you’re back, hope your camping trip was a pleasant one!

JP –
Hang in there, I know this isn’t an easy time you’re going thru…

Attaboy –
Since you have that table saw, you c

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Good Morning All:

The MRR’ing has come to almost a halt as it’s so nice to sit on the porch, sip a cup of tea and read. The birds will even comr to the feeder if we’re just a lottle still.

Paul:
I didn’t mean for the statement about the 2-6-2’s to sound like gloating I ment, if he’s interested I’ve got a couple to sell.

Mo Jim:
If you call or e-mail Alpine models he’ll sell you parts to his kits, I’ve bought several windows from him that way.

Ken:
What’s wrong with putting “Y” in the “sex” box on a form??? At my age YAAABA DAAABA DOOOOOO.

Trent:
I sure hope the that doctor is just being carefull as the earlier post suggested about the litagation.

***:
I sure wish I’d known you when I went to see Fergie, John, and all of the others. I came right down I-95 from Portland to Boston (really Salem), I wanted to take Stephanie to the Witch museum and the “House of Seven Gables”. When I do my “senior tour” for the “fall colors” I come down I-93 to Concord and then cut across on 4/202 and go North on I-95 just so we can take our picture at the sign that says “Maine the way life should be”. Then we load up and go to the first exit and turn around and go South. Maine is hard state to get to since it’s in the corner.

The boss is sitting here telling me lets talk so I’ve got to go

Bob