Good evening everyone,
It's been a rather nice sunny day and the temp has been on the warmer side although the night and morning were rather cold with a fair amount of moisture. What does WW say fdt 10:25 PM? 41.0 °F - Feels Like 36 °F with Humidity of ? it's not being displayed. I'd guess it's around 75% and Wind is from East at 6.8 mph.
For quite a while today I've had a hanker-en for some good pot pie so it's just 6:00 Pm and I going to run up to the store and get some along with some other stuff, I'm leaving. How about that, right in the middle of a post.
>Believe it or not I actually took off to the Grocery store in Oakhurst about 11 miles from where I'm at, one way. It's now 10:00 Pm and I have all the cold or frozen stuff put away and I put a Marie Calenders Chicken pot pie in the Micro-wave and am enjoying it now. Well I'm typing actually but had some of it while it cools and going to finish the rest now. Oh, btw that's a bit of a workout for me so I'm resting now.
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Just another '13'....
That's a very interesting shot alright by Jansweede.
David, I'll have a cup with you this morning. It's 40 at the moment - expected to the 70's with clear sky's. Off to try and see my DR. This morning .. Had severe lower stomach pains all weekend, something's not right.
REALLY have enjoyed all the posts here lately; just wish we could hear from Jeffrey. Don't ever remember him being out of touch this long without some notice beforehand.
MR113.. You have been putting up some nice shots lately ... That last pic of the NP passenger begs me to ask a question.
The rail looks welded? When/ where was the first welded rail used?
Say Sherrel, I'm not sure it your refering to me but I don't mind having some coffee with you.
When you talk about welded rail in the shot MR113 posted, Is that the same thing as what I've heard termed Ribbon Rail?
Here is a little NP action ... plus GN .... On my layout.
Happy model railroading, everybody !
Say Garry: That's a very interesting shot indeed, sure looks like you had some spacing issues to take into account when laying those tracks?
Away for a couple of hours of zzzZZzZZzzz I hope...
Say MR113: Some of the turnouts on the lower right side of the shot sure seem to veer of at quite steep angle, it seems like they would be too sharp for the Loco's anyway?
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I did a bit of fooling around yesterday with an MDC Box Cab Diesel or Climax powered frame I got off ebay. The guy said the motor would run but the the drive wheels did seem to want to move it. So when I started checking it out the first thing I noticed was that the tube coupling between the armature shaft and fly wheel was not grabbing either of the shafts so I set out to fix that. I wasn't sure if I had any tubing that small of an inside diameter and started to try and think where I might be able to find a small piece of tubing. What finally came to mind was to strip a section of the insulation of some 12 gauge wire and try that. It took a slight bit of effort but it fit perfect so now they are connected as they should be. The unit runs fairly smoothly but I noticed that sometimes it still had a problem to get enough traction to move it along the rail as I know it should as I have several other loco's that use this same mechanism and they all work fine. Then it dawned on me that what is probably happening is that the coupling between at least one of the central drive power trucks is slipping on the drive shaft or maybe both are so that's what I have to check next.
Time to call it a night at 11:25 Pm, talk with you tomorrow.