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Good afternoon. While I haven’t said much the last few days I have been here liking things. Labs this morning, a small 1/2 mile walk, vacuumed the upstairs and I will do the cave tomorrow. Feeling better and not getting sick from the drugs. I have had chemo a few times but this crap for Lymes the 1st 2 days was worst then the chemo. Thing is, chemo sucked everytime, this was 2 days and I seem to be adjusting ok to them.

watched the Black Hawks end the season last night. I haven’t purposely been able to stay up past midnight in weeks, I am getting better. Great pictures and good stories. TomO
 
Afternoon All,

Did some pool upkeep this morning, more tomorrow. In the train room I continued testing the RH/TT tracks. I tested them like I did yesterday so each track got 18 uses. I also did 2 complete circles with the bridge. The only issue was when I misaligned the tracks:rolleyes:. I also painted the plaster cloth I laid down yesterday. Later I finished the Walthers Cinder Tower after modifying the base.

Karl- She's a keeper.

Joe- Nice pictures.

Willie- Condolences on the loss of your cousin. I hope your wife can come home. I missed where she was back in the hospital.

Guy- Funny about the goat. Animals have no sense of personal space or decency.:)

Sherrel- We have the same issues with our animals. They are constantly shedding.

Garry- Nice layout scene.

Louis- Congrats on your new box car.

TomO- I'm glad you're feeling better.

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This is a representation of how it will sit.
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I hope everyone has a good night.
 
Good Afternoon Everyone in Model Railroad Land. Sunny and 85 degrees with low humidity here in thei part of Wisconsin. We really need some rain!!!

Came back from the cabin yesterday and it's very dry in the woods. I'm going back on Friday to do some staining on Saturday to get most of the staining done before fall when I have to do some staining on the sheds. One shed door should be replaced and I'll have a local carpenter do the wok and I'll do the staining. The door with its trim pieces weights over 100# and I don't want to tackle that job of hanging the door.

We went to the Indian Casinos on Monday and I lost some money. I've been winning but the luck has changed. On the way home in a Soy Bean field there were at least 40 deer eating the maturing beans and in the next field again over 50 deer. A hunter's dream with archery season starting in less than a month. I have to have a fire lane cut (brush cleared out) in the Coloma woods before the season starts.

Tomorrow, I'll be down in the train room. It's been awhile!

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A slow moving ore train at the crossing near the SOO Yard.

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The recently weathered SOO #4436 moving through the Omro area.

Not much to report in the are of model railroading.

Bye.................

Greg

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PS: Sherrel: Yes, you're correct in an earlier post that I was bitten by a tick. It was a Deer Tick and the bugger gave me Lyme Disease.

Guy- Funny about the goat. Animals have no sense of personal space or decency.:)

We have a restaurant in a popular tourist spot in Door County that has goats living on the sodded roof of the restaurant called Al Johnson's.

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Good evening guys

Just stopping in for a quick snack, got any of those homemade chocolate cookies left Flo?

Willie: Sorry to hear of your cousins passing, finger crossed you can get your wife home tonight.

For all you old tractor buffs (and the younger ones too)
Growing up on my Uncle's farm we had several John Deere's, an Oliver ,a Cat D4 (for cleaning out the barn) and this thing.
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1925 Caterpillar 2 ton crawler. 4 cylinder ohv with 3 speed trans​
Yes, that's me driving with my Grandpop on the back circa 1974. Later in life my Uncle sold the farm, he and Dad retired and left me with mowing the place so we sold everything but a 1967 Cub Cadet and a 1955 John Deere model 40 with a 6 ft Woods finish mower. After Dad passed we sold his place and I kept the tractors and moved to a half acre lot with a house on it in a quiet neighborhood. The Deere was overkill for the lot, but I did have the biggest baddest mower on the street!
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I still have the Cub, but I sold the 40 to a collector from Scranton PA, and took the proceeds and purchased a JD X300 to cut the grass. My Dad would flip if he ever saw it, it has adjustable seat, cup holder and cruise control! :D

The Cub is facing a restoration this fall, more on that later!

We now return you to your regularly scheduled trains! 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃
 
Good Morning All. Clear and 66°, quite cool for August. Managed to do a lot of mowing while it was cool yesterday. Then I ensured that everything in the house was "walker compliant" for today. Checked out the ice water circulator even though they'll most likely give us a new one today and washed down the toilet seat booster and leg elevator.
Today is the big day for my wife's second knee replacement surgery. I am not allowed into the out-patient clinic, so after I drop her off, I will embark on the weekly grocery/beer trek and some other errands. Doctor is supposed to call me around 10:00 with the good news. They won't release her until after most of the anesthesia wears off, after 4:00 if all goes according to plan. Got to remember to take the phone with me!

Thank you to all who passed condolences on the passing of my cousin.
My wife also thanks everybody for your well wishes on her surgery which is today.

Light breakfast today Flo, just a Bear Claw and OJ.

Thanks for the likes and comments on the layout progress yesterday; Sherrel, Patrick, Guy, Tom O, Chad, Louis, Garry, Hughie, Jerome, Joe, Phil, Karl, Tom.

Despite everything else that's happening, I did spend some time in the train shed yesterday. Added brick inserts to the ground floor windows on the tenement facing side of the warehouse that I am making. I also assembled all of he walls.
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I had to kitbash some DPM parts for the cornices on the top of the walls, since Walther's didn't make enough.
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I also shortened the base since I am not making a back to the building and I am just butting it against the backdrop.
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As can be seen, I also added the foundation walls to the base.
Don't know what I will get to today as the whole day will be just spent waiting on phone calls.

Joe -
Boris said:
Not for nothing, Jersey has an exit tax, to penalize you for leaving the state.
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And they wonder why people are leaving to begin with!
Garry - I like the Walther's modular walls as well. They provide a contrast to the DPM walls. It's just their way of marketing them that irritated me. They made far more wall kits without considering how many wall column kits were needed to go with them, unlike DPM who inicludes the columns with the walls. Walther's column kits ran out very early in the production leaving many folks with walls and no way to attach them to one another. Quality control was terrible as well. Check this out:
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The two wall panels on the lower right are a noticeably different color than the others, and the columns don't match either! The difference is more noticeable to the naked eye. It doesn't matter if you intend to paint them anyway as I am. Likewise with the DPM cornices up top.
Hughie - That is what I meant by camera car, camera mounted on a flatcar. Chet has one that works really well.
I also don't post my videos here because I have been unwilling to start a YouTube account.
Tom O - Continued best wishes on your recovery.
Curt -
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I hope your wife can come home. I missed where she was back in the hospital.
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Thanks, you didn't miss anything, but she isn't in the hospital, she's having her knee replacement surgery today in an out-patient clinic and should be released tonight.
Tom - Nice herd, they're much too clean however! ;)

Gotta go now. We leave for the clinic in the big city soon. Everybody have a great day.
 
Morning all,

Supposed to be sunny today with a high of 87*. It should feel like 87 as the humidity is low.
Nothing on the train front yesterday. Once again it will be the weekend before I have time.

Sadly I have a 48" cut 23 HP twin cylinder lawn tractor that is overkill for my yard as well. I bought it after the first knee replacement when I had a half acre lot. I still use it but what is the sad part, is that it takes me longer to mow and trim when I use it than the 21" cut self propelled mower. The smaller mower does a better job, as I can get closer and do less trimming that when I use the bigger machine. The bigger machine is 12 years old and doesn't cut as evenly as I'd like anymore. Lately I've pushed the front and used the tractor to mow the back where nobody really sees it but me.

Willie: Hope all goes well with the wife! I'm also sorry to hear about your cousin. I also have cousins way younger, some even younger than my kids, which is what happens when your the oldest grand kid on one side of the family and 2nd oldest (by 9 months) on the other and have aunts and uncles just a couple of years older.
 
Morning out here from the West! Supposed to be 100 even (officially 102 yesterday) with more normal humidity ... sure hope so because it has been bad, I guess, because of a tropical disturbance off the coast down Mexico way.

Good morning FLO - How about biscuits and gravy this morning with a handful of bacon piled on top! Like a DP to drink with that.

The Spousal Unit continues to improve - struggling to down her 2 ounces of food four times each day; believe it or not - sometimes takes her 25-30 min to get that 2 ounces down.
She is supposed to care for her mom starting today thru Monday. I pray that she will be OK. It's going to be like moving a drugstore with her due to all the special foods and tons of vitamins that she will have to take with her.

Waiting to hear from you, WILLIE - don't keep us in the dark.
Get well TOMO, stay safe.
KARL - Wonderful photos - love the one of you on the CAT. You must have been on cloud 9 running that machine.
CURT - Glad to hear that you got the TT to work - sure gave you a fit!

Back later!
 
Good Morning, Everyone!
A 70% chance of rain today, which I hope comes true. It's 55F as I type this message, with an expected high of 70 to come. This is more to my liking for a comfort zone in summer.

Willie - I hope you're wife does well with the knee procedure. I didn't even know they could replace a knee. - Neat substitute on the cornice. well done!

I'm really happy to see that so many appreciate the pure beauty of a tractor. Absolutely wonderful machines that are so much more useful than the Hyundai people transporters. You can manage without a car, but, you can't do it all without a tractor.

Yesterday, I travelled to the city for lumber. Along the way, I made a stop at the Rochfort Bridge viewpoint to snap a few photos of the rail bridge. That CN rail bridge is so long, that I can't even get it all in a single frame; not from the viewpoint parking lot. Here's how much I can get in a single frame:
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This is the span over Highway 43:
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And this is the span over the Sturgeon River:
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The viewpoint is actually in a bad spot for a viewpoint; I suppose it was just a handy spot to put it there. Also, high noon is the wrong time to be taking photos, and there was no freight train travelling over it. But, I was there at that moment.

Gotta go tear out an old fence and move a couple of apple trees today. So, I had better make a move.
Have a good one, everybody!
 
I had a BMW 528e. It had over 300,000 trouble free miles on it when I got rid of it. The inline 6 still ran great, but the transmission was getting a little sloppy and the original clutch was paper thin. The high cost of the parts to rebuild the transmission was why I got rid of it.
 
Afternoon All,

Started out with pool cleaning then installed the soldering lights. After that I finished building the RH (finally). I fiddled with the doors for 30 minutes before giving up. It's really a poor design for attaching them. In fact I did not have them on the last RH I built. I also notice that the roof pieces are flimsier than before and will probably need some weight glued on them (on the inside). I'm taking off from the layout tomorrow, but I think the next step will be the storage tracks around the TT.

I also got 6 more on/off's for each track which means over the last 3 days each RH track has 44 on/off's without electrical issue. I did have soom poor alignment issues on my part. o_O

Thank you for the likes on my photos yesterday.

Greg- Nice layout pictures.

Karl- Interesting tractors.

Willie- I hope your wife's surgery went well and she'll be coming home tonight.

Guy- Neat bridge.

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I hope everyone has a good night.
 
Good Afternoon. Just got the call from the doctor and it was a successful day with my wife and the orthopedic surgeon today. Knee replacement went well without any issues, except they were 90 minutes late in starting due to complications with his first patient of the day. Something about an anesthesia problem, not his surgical abilities! He took measurements and told me that both legs were now the same length. I am headed out the door to go and pick her up. Should be home by supper time.
Thank you again for all of the well wishes.
 
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